ban on books like mining now authorities are taking this not a very seriously they've already started a cleanup operation the military as well as the state oil company is involved and the prime minister himself is visiting the area today. malaysian prosecutors have refused to drop murder charges against the vietnamese woman accused of killing north korean leader kim jong un's off brother the trial had been adjourned till next month vietnam says it regrets the decision and wants a fair trial for murder charges against the code houston indonesian women were dropped earlier this week they had been accused of poisoning. the kuala lumpur airport two years ago. the president of the european council donald tusk says the bloc should be open to granting britain a long delay to its departure the u.k. parliament is set to vote later on thursday on whether to us to european union to extend the braggs the deadline britain is scheduled to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth and on wednesday m.p.'s rejected the prospect of leaving

without a draw agreement. the rescue and recovery efforts are continuing in the nigerian city of lagos. if we storey building collapsed on wednesday killing at least fifty people the building had apartments and a primary school on the top floor. i saw fighters are still holding out against u.s. backed forces in eastern syria who are continuing their bombardment of the armed groups last shred of territory you know the iraqi border on wednesday's syrian democratic forces said as many as two thousand five hundred fighters that surrendered within a twenty four hour period coalition forces resumed a major offensive on sunday well thousands of women and children have fled the fighting there to nearby camps the aid agency says save the children says. more than three thousand five hundred children of more than thirteen nationalities are

living in camps in northeast syria the group says most of the children don't have enough food to eat and are at risk of infectious diseases several of them have reached the camps without their parents or anyone a company. and at least seventy five children have reportedly died of the cold diseases and acute hunger while on their way to the camp at least fifty six thousand people have been displaced in the last three months sonia khush is the syria director at save the children and she says the children shouldn't have to pay the price for the crimes of their parents. well we've seen children and their families arrive in waves and most concerning the the children that are arriving now are in worse condition than the children that arrived a few months ago we're seeing increased rate it's of malnutrition i'm on children so these are children who need to be transferred to a hospital in order to get specialized care we're seeing increased rates of

unaccompanied children so children who have lost their parents. children are right i in the middle of the night having undergone a three hundred kilometer long tyranny they're cold they're wet they're hungry so they're really in pretty bad condition by the time they arrive at the camp we are calling for international governments to take the women and children home you know we have full faith in the desta systems of any of the countries that these women came from when you talk about france and the u.k. and belgium were very confident that if women go back they will face the proper judicial procedures that they may be required to face and most important thing for us is to get children out of these camps and into a place where they're getting proper health care where they able to recover from so much violence that they've grown up with throughout their lives you know living under isis control we want to make sure they're back in school and that they're educated and learning most of the children are coming across have never been to school ever and so it's really important for us that building and are seen as

victims of this conflict they had no role in making the decision to go to syria or to be born in syria and we think they deserve a chance at a healthy and productive life so i had an al-jazeera. holds for justice for tears on one former british soldier to face murder charges for northern ireland's bloody sunday killing. hello it's getting cold again you knew this the cold air still lurk east in siberia so you can check it in every now and again this is a spinning storm as there is there off the coast of how crowded tends to tuck in that cold so the picture then high temperature for the sapporo three invited austar eighteen pyongyang but you're close enough to get a bit of color tucked in there i think it shows of more especially in japan by the

time you get to saturday morning you wake up with a snow on the peaks if you're looking west from tokyo about twelve degrees by day four without the sun shines a party on notice beijing's up to twenty and the air is moving so it's probably going to be feeling quite pleasant to be honest now spring rains i know it's dolls but we've seen them that creeping back from such run slowly eastwards but it means shanghai advance through for john to hong kong the most a granddaughter is a picture of sunshine not particularly high humidity probably feels quite pleasant but the rain showers inland has a greater chance of seeing showers i think in the philippines on the coast of vietnam the gulf of thailand but still the bulk of showers even this time of the year off further south as largely eastern indonesia occasionally if you fall north as coaching but largely singapore in kuala lumpur it looks dry.

the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises we don't know as illegally migrant joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda they have devoted our nation what has happened to their attention that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. isn't a religion this is a politics. an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. any watching our desire and years reminder for top stories saudi arabia says those

responsible for the murder of the journalist. have been brought to justice the head of its human rights council made this statement in geneva but he gave no further details. new prime minister has addressed the public for the first time since taking office there recently promoted. forming a government of technocrats open to all he added that the government's mandate will not exceed one year. and i'll just there's obtain these exclusive pictures of the negotiations between the taliban and the u.s. that ended on tuesday the political chief of the armed groups says the taliban will uphold the draft agreement. so congress is moving forward with a resolution to draw u.s. military support for the saudi and amorality led coalition fighting in yemen the senate passed the measure which is now likely to be approved by the house of representatives there's no guarantee though it will become law how do you castro

explains why from washington. on yemen the u.s. senate has spoken again a resolution to end american military assistance to the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen passed the upper chamber fifty four to forty six support for the resolution was again bipartisan this is a victory for progressives this is a victory for conservatives and i hope that not only can we end the war in yemen not only can we provide humanitarian relief to a people who need it so badly but that today marks the beginning. a time when congress understands what its constitutional responsibilities all and takes those responsibilities but if this looks and sounds familiar it's because the senate has gone through these same motions before in december senators passed a similar resolution but it went nowhere in the republican controlled house now that the house has a democratic majority it's expected to sail through the real test is whether

president donald trump will sign the resolution into law but trump has threatened to veto a white house statement argues the resolution which for the first time evokes the war powers resolution would set a bad legal precedent and despite pressure from members of his own party to distance himself from saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin some on trump has doubled down on his support for him that's despite the cia's conclusion that bin salmond directed the killing of u.s. based journalist jamal. khashoggi was killed by government hitmen inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly six months ago since then the outrage over his murder and dismemberment has been a resurgent topic in congress bringing together members of both parties in a divided government but that has not been enough to convince president donald trump to punish saudi arabia and there's no indication he'll do so now heidi joe

castro al-jazeera washington. to mexico now where the government is trying to find asylum seekers who are thought to have been abducted from a bus in the northern border state of us from mexico city david mercer has this report. it was along this stretch of highway in northern mexico that dozens of migrants went missing last week on tuesday mexican officials said a group of hooded gunmen stopped the bus in the middle of the day a few hours drive from the u.s. border. witnesses said the armed men then read out a list of names and took away a group of men from central america is that is that what it said because we left our countries to look for basic things both personally and for our families and to see that other human beings look to hurt others as unfortunate. the incident comes less than two weeks after the kidnapping of at least fifteen men in the same area

and a movie and then i stopped by we came here fleeing our countries and we found ourselves in almost the same situation or worse because we came here fleeing from the criminality that's in our country's. time a leap us is a battleground between competing drug cartels and as one of mexico's most dangerous states in two thousand and ten is that is drug gang kidnapped and killed seventy two migrants was the following year dozens more migrants were abducted and murdered . last year on tuesday mexico's president and this man well lopez obrador said this latest group of migrants were not necessarily abducted. we're investigating to be sure because there's a theory that it's a method that it's used to get yourself into u.s. territory it's not that they disappear but rather that they cross the border that way we've already had two cases like that. in response to the incident mexico's top security official admitted that security is deficient in practically the entire

country and that thousands more police are needed mexico's new president has promised to protect migrants passing to the country on their way to united states but these latest incidents are stark reminder of how vulnerable migrants are and the magnitude of challenges that the country faces david mercer al jazeera in mexico city. ok let's go back to one of our top stories and that's the afghan taliban political chief saying that the armed group will uphold the draft agreement we jaring talks with the u.s. and doha we can now talk to our diplomatic editor james space and our john joins me live on set james you've been following those talks closely what more can you tell us well this is the first statement is actually we have taliban statements came out in fact very cleverly coordinated with the americans at the same time just after the talks finished saying that they were making progress we're now hearing from the person on the taliban side miller brother very. senior figure in the taliban from

himself he's the top taliban representative came to doha for these talks and a positive picture he's presenting i'm very hopeful to god that all problems will be solved afghans should live here together respect each other and have mercy to each other he's also saying in this audiotape recording that's been released by the taliban on twitter we are hoping to have islamic law get our independence and need to leave the foreign force and all the nation will live here like brothers given that there's been such a positive response from the taliban how optimistic should we be or should there americans be about this whole process well the taliban i think are in quite a strong position here because they know president trumps view on afghanistan which he wants to leave anyway so it seems that the first issues that have been dealt with is the idea of foreign forces leaving most of the u.s. troops leaving in a draft agreement and we believe there's also been a draft agreement on taliban links with al qaida and an agreement for the taliban

in the future never to use afghanistan as a base for attacks another missing piece of this of course is you have talks between the u.s. and the taliban but there is actually a sovereign government in kabul and they're not involved in these talks at this stage so the next stage would be getting the afghan government involved they've publicly welcome this program process but i can tell you some of the political thing. is in a somewhat divided even within the government in kabul because you have a chief executive and you have a president who are sort of sharing power there are some who are very very wary about this but it is an important development interesting that ambassador zalmay khalilzad is leaving leading the effort on behalf of the americans a u.s. veteran diplomat of afghan descent he used to be the u.s. ambassador in kabul at the time of george w. bush soon after the american invasion at the time he was in talking about talking to the taliban he said at the time they've been completely defeated how things have

changed again did indeed and at the same time it is in the u.s. interest for this to work i mean they made it very clear that they want to be get out of afghanistan so how much pressure is the u.s. would the u.s. be likely putting on these talks to actually work or be it can become concrete and there's a second round of talks coming so we're going to make all of those i think that for the u.s. this is been not in the same spotlight as the north korea talks there's a real difference that's being conducted personal diplomacy by the president this is being done in a much more traditional building up from a low level process we believe the talks will get started again later in the month we also believe the u.s. secretary of state is in the region later in the month so could it go to a higher level that's not clear at this stage i think the other player in all this that's important is pakistan pakistan we believe at one point had a brother under house arrest they seem to have let him be involved in this pakistan

has had very bad relations with the trumpet ministration in the first two years of this maybe pakistan's effort to rehabilitate themselves interesting thank you very much a diplomatic editor jane space unset the thank you. rights rights groups are calling on man mars government to scrapping your land law that they fear could leave millions of people with nowhere to call home the changes mean that people in some regions must now apply for permission to use the land that they're working or living on lexy o'brien has this report. for walking through and he wants. to instate he says remembers how he lost his family he says that in twenty fifteen and ethnic group offered him about one hundred dollars for it and often he wasn't allowed to refuse. they forced me to take the money with that amount of money we could buy rice and other supplies for a family summer wife took the money and kept it was he wouldn't get anything for

the land this property is now a rubber tree plantation it's just another example of the risks of living in this part of me which has been ravaged by seven decades of war between government forces and various groups the fight for control of the region and its resources has seen hundreds of thousands of hc days of land confiscated and rights groups say a new law could add to that people living in some areas were given until this week to apply for an official permit for land they were all living on the reforms part of government measures to bring investment and development to rural areas. critics like alex all say it's just a legal way to seize land millions of people across the country will become less. they will be focused to leave. or they would then lend would be taken by companies and different business entities and now he's teaching people

a known ty law village about the complexities of the law. here property ownership is often based on traditional rights which means many people have nothing to prove they are in their house and land. mato a bought a house teen years ago but doesn't have any papers she planned to pass her property on to her daughter now she's worried that would be possible. i don't have any hope or weeks peaked in the marie cold i have no idea what i should be doing. the korean national union which controls the area says the law could risk its fragile cease fire with the government the government says using this vacant fellow virgin land management to explain their ministration it to the. woman as issues territories these peaceful scenes hide the community's fear of the victualling or jail for being branded trespasses on their own land brian al jazeera.

this is al-jazeera and these are top stories saudi arabia has said those responsible for the murder of the journalist democracy have been brought to justice but head of its human rights commission made those statements in geneva without giving any details shoji was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october and his body dismembered investigations by the u.n. in turkey have pointed the finger at high ranking saudi officials and the political chief of the taliban has hailed the talks between the group and the united states well lobdell ghani baradar has spoke for the first time since talks ended on tuesday. as obtained these exclusive pictures of the negotiations that took place in the qatari capital doha paula bar there says the taliban will uphold the draft

agreement which was reached during these negotiations the two sides made progress on foreign troop withdrawal and not allowing fighters to operate inside afghanistan . prosecutors in northern ireland have charged a british soldier over the one nine hundred seventy two bloody sunday killings fourteen people died when soldiers fired into crowd of demonstrators eighteen other suspects including sixteen former soldiers and two alleged official ira members were not convicted as the evidence available was deemed insufficient. jarius new prime minister has been addressing the public for the first time since taking office the recently promoted nor the in bed do we says he is forming a government of technocrats that's open to all these added that the government's mandate will not exceed one year and the former interior minister was appointed by the prime minister was appointed prime minister this week after a mass protest forced the ailing president abilities to abandon his bid for

a fifth term or thrice is next. cheap and fast tile plastic is used for everything furniture tools storage containers clothing even tea bags and glitter on birthday cards it's hard to

imagine modern life without it. so much has been created that scientists it calculates the total amount ever made it eight point three billion tons. and most of these items they used for only short periods of time or even just once before being discarded to later land and see. if nothing is done we are heading towards a planet so full of plastic that the health of plants animals and humans alike will be threatened. and yet fossil fuel companies are investing billions of dollars in producing even more of it. we urgently needs rethink how we manage the plastic we use o. find an alternative. actually a shot on the west coast of canada act to meet people dedicated to clearing plastic waste from our oceans. imo marconi for in france where a movement is afoot to river country of oil based plastic.

going to not only in that plastic waste can be found on every beach in the world. from the business beaches to the most isolated and uninhabited islands now no shoreline is untouched by plastic. and if the current rate of global production continues there could be more plastic than fish by weight in our seas by two thousand and fifty. him british columbia people have decided enough is enough and are taking strides to stop the tragic destruction of our ocean. ocean legacy is a local foundation whose aim is to tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution along the twenty five thousand kilometers of coastline here. chloe dubois is one of the founders who got out and soon each year. right the first release for. the british columbia coast is made up of deep inlets and rugged

island shorelines so helicopter travel isn't just a joyride it's essential. today we're headed to the clyde quite sound and one of the forty thousand islands that dot the coastline here. these trains are a bit tricky. it's really hard to tell just how much debris is actually here because of the logs and rocks we could spend years cleaning this island alone and being asked to manage that there's about five point two five trillion piece of property in the ocean right now and a lot of those pieces are free to move wherever they want to on the planet aside from you know the unsightly mess of pollution on the. problem as. possible because when. it turns out little sponges so any chemicals that are in the water will begin to absorb these chemicals in the plants and this is very toxic and very dangerous. every day we're finding

new animal or whale that's been washed ashore with some it's full of atsic. given the amount of plastic here i'm not surprised wildlife is suffering we let it. out for us oh it's a yeah you can tell this is an old refrigerator there's no way we could make a dent cleaning the speech by ourselves fortunately reinforcements are on the way so they gave it our bring more and more volunteers to this remote area to clean up the beans so every two dozen volunteers that. many here come from different local environmental groups overall there are five thousand volunteers to call upon across the region. but with so much coastline to monitor chloe and her team rely on tip offs posted on the ocean legacy website to prioritize the most crucial locations. i found the forty flipflop.

and here bear yaseen these are bear. here in the foam as it. fishing so when it washes up on shore. is searching for food and mistakes the sarah from from being a few. ones collected the plastic is ready for transport back to the mainland i am going to learn how to use slaying our cats one of these super pacs. at the base of the helicopter so i can lift it out of here when you drop so far all around the world can run over to you guys i want to get out. since ocean legacy started the team of collected over five tons of plastic off islands like this. and they're keeping most of it out of landfills too. but what happens to the plastic they collect chloe's invited me back to the recycling center in vancouver to find out. what's the next step in the process we take all of these are random hard

plastic items and we're going to shred them up. the fragments will then be sold on to companies who will breathe new life into that styrofoam will become picture frames and picnic benches while bits of old tires will hit the road again as new tires ocean legacy is even starting to engage high street companies such as lush cosmetics who are using recycled plastic for their signature packaging. so in order to make the pots we needed to turn this material basically into something that looks like this. so it's still a very small project but we're looking now in our own isolation to grow this much larger to engage more industry and more cleanup groups so that we can help create an economic value for these materials they're organized as a nonprofit foundation which means that all their profits get funneled into research education and more clean up nothing goes to waste here. so why are we

turning this into what's the next step to make us. what that's. how are you turning this into fuel. it's a clever solution plastic is made from fossil fuels after all. to learn more chloe is taking me to the boat where they have a prototype of the machine they're developing on a larger scale. we've set our parameters and the machine is essentially heating up and will start to vaporize the plastic. the plastic is converted into fuel through a process of thermal decomposition called pyrolysis the machine is air tight and oxygen free so that the plastic doesn't burn as the temperature heats up to four hundred ten degrees celsius it melts to become a liquid and then a gas this passes through a tube into a container filled with cool water where it condenses and forms oil. so who could obtain a machine like us the larger scale technology that we're looking to develop would

be ideal for remote coastal or even island communities that don't have readily accessible fuel sources that are and are also inundated with classic pollution everywhere it makes sense that these remote communities can use that plastic as a resource to write something that will benefit the community. the machine will take three hours to turn the plastic into fuel in the meantime i'm off to check out another praja. act less focus on recycling and more on changing mindsets it's an artist and author douglas copeland studio on the other side of town. what are you looking at here are the signs all of these are just big global head dogs there's a twentieth century twentieth century way of looking at plastic or something shiny and feel great then there's a reality in a world where we're just into that and so these guys here plastic boy plastic girl

they will be representing the future these figures are part of douglas's installation at the vancouver aquarium and i'm getting them ready for their debut. to like you know only he says. oh look at that. douglas is using eleven tons of ocean plastic in his show. what inspired jared to create this installation piece this place called queen charlotte islands four years ago i was up there and plastic bottles recently washing up on my sacred beach and really it was like an evangelizer moment for me so i thought well let's make an image of the trash one which has been motional untangled. copeland isn't pretending to offer solutions but he is hoping to engage audiences who ordinarily wouldn't stop to think about the problem and ultimately he's hoping we can turn things around before it's too late. i'm heartened by the energy british

columbia is putting into tackling the problem of plastic pollution before i leave i want to return to the ocean legacy both to see how much fuel the machine has produced. something different color. separating into different. yeah so what's going to coming out of this machine is a mixed oil and in that oil we can separate into cursing oil and petroleum products so you can record tricity from it power your lawn mower heat your home how are you using this you currently we're not making enough of the fuel to use it in a practical application so this is just our small pilot we've really got the world's interest rate now in launching these units worldwide. the fuel will emit greenhouse gases and other pollutants but at least it takes plastic out of circulation and reduces the need for fossil fuel extraction. so can we use it in

the shed. let's do it ok. ready. ocean legacy are planning to roll out these machines starting in british columbia in one year's time they aren't the first organization to try to turn plastic into fuel or to recycle it. but what impresses me about chloe and her team is the determination which drives them to take a multi-pronged approach to tackling plastic pollution is a problem that won't go away if we continue to use and discard such huge amounts of plastic. but what i've seen here gives me hope that if other groups around the world were to work in similar ways it could be possible to make a real difference. around the world more than

forty countries have imposed laws to cut down on plastics. in two thousand and two bangladesh was the first to prohibit than plastic bags after they clocked storm drains during devastating floods. and in malaysia's federal territories a recent ban has been imposed on plastic bags in favor of biodegradable income possible bags and food containers. while in kenya it's become illegal to produce sell and use plastic bags with the penalty of up to four years in jail or a forty thousand dollars fine. but is it too little too late plastics may be being banned on land but they've already made their way into the sea. floating between california and hawaii is a massive comfort trash known as the great pacific garbage patch it's the size of texas and still growing.