at least forty seven people and injured ninety others it happened in yon chang in junks who province the coastal area north of shanghai people living nearby say their windows were smashed by the blast adrian brown has more from beijing. well many people have been killed but many more have also been injured the death toll began to rise on friday because rescuers were able to recover bodies from the rubble of the factory where this blast happened the explosion was caused in a part of this fertilizer factory where benzene was being produced it created a huge fireball that according to china's earthquake administration packed the force of a small earthquake now more than six hundred forty people we know have received treatment in hospital in hospitals that have been absolutely overwhelmed they're being treated with things like respiratory problems severe cuts as well as severe

burns the injured include school children there were at least five schools within a five kilometer radius of the site where the explosion happened now investigators of course want to speak to the managers off this plant to find out a bit more about what happened we know according to state controlled media that the bus of this plant himself received a suspended sentence two years ago after being found guilty of breaching regulations really related to waste management as well as air pollution so this is a plant with a poor safety record we also know that in the same area where there are a huge number of plants involved in the processing of chemicals there was another serious explosion twelve years ago an explosion was largely covered up by the authorities this time it's different the media is pumping out updated information almost by the hour but this of course was not china's worst chemical explosion that

was in te engine in northeast china in august two thousand and fifteen when more than one hundred sixty people were killed after an explosion at a facility storing chemicals but it's possible that this could well be on course to become china's second. worst chemical explosion. still ahead on the bulletin we travel to one of the regions hardest hit by side plan a diet my fan base. and the human cost of war we follow the plight of one yemeni family. how i welcome to another look at the international full castillo's in bits and pieces a clout on the right be little bit of snow to just push into parts of the middle east but things trying to quieten down except areas of cloud they're showing up nicely on the satellite picture pushing

a little further eastward it's also the old wintry flurry there in afghanistan some rain too with the northern parts of pakistan but behind that becomes a sun twenty celsius therefore by route twenty four in baghdad similar values as we go on through saturday i sassed i just dived is that right just pushing a little further north was took minus down is back to stop could see some outbreaks of bright little area cloud to into southern parts of iran pushing over towards pakistan in that same area cloud well it stretches across us here around the arabian peninsula much see the old spot of rain but nothing much to to speak of as we go through the next day perhaps the heaviest of that rain pushing down towards the u.a.e. maybe to northern parts of mon still looking at some pockets of heavy rain into mozambique i'm afraid the showers do continue to drive their way in here the eastern cape also seeing one of two showers through friday go on into saturday showers trying to push a little further north of the more than half of mozambique eastern parts of zimbabwe now edging into tents in the.

this undertaker working here is a seven day a week job that's grown with the community my father purchase a black. store to do the funeral and we saw the stock. business partners this. year by the people of the. east and. this is europe on al-jazeera.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories vigils have been held across to see them to mark one week since a gunman attacks two mosques killing fifty people the call to prayer was broadcast on t.v. and radio ahead of two minutes silence. and extension to brett said. as approved by the british parliament that is taking place next week day is before the deadline for the u.k. exit from the blog on march twenty ninth and the visuals being held for at least one hundred people have died in iraq after the ferry there were traveling in capsized in the northern city of mosul was carrying family celebrated the persian new year. u.s. president donald trump says tom his country recognized as well sovereignty over the golan heights which it sees from syria more than fifty years ago mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the closeness of the israeli u.s. relationship and the trumpet ministration emphasized the u.s.

secretary of state becomes the most senior u.s. diplomat to accompany an israeli leader toward jews call the western wall flanking the shereef one of islam's holiest sites might pompei a state department signaling what was to come by referring to israeli control of the golan heights rather than israeli occupation and more than half a century of u.s. policy reversed by one presidential tweet after fifty two years it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights says president trump which is of critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel and regional stability review please grateful for the. unbelievable and unmatchable support for our security and our right to defend ourselves we will redouble our efforts to make sure that we protect all the this

important of it is important it is wrong it is important to america and indeed all that is important to the world some though see this as a dangerous u.s. move in a deeply sensitive region this from a former state department spokesman for crowley who concludes he's not advancing the peace process he's killing it president trance day for mental health international or underpinned by a u.n. charter which specifically states that any territory forcibly occupied can't be met. that is a principle argued by the u.s. and the u.n. with regard to the russian invasion of crimea the contradiction apparently ignored by president trump but welcome by the israeli prime minister who's standing has just received a major boost ahead of next month's elections in israel. mike rogers era washington . it's been almost four years since the sol the and the rotty coalition started its

military offensive against healthy rebels in yemen the war has devastated the lives of millions of yemenis many are on the brink of starvation priyanka got the fall of the journey of one girl and her family's efforts to keep her alive. after is ten years old and weighs just nine kilos that's a third of what a girl of her age should weigh lack of food has taken its toll afa can no longer go to school she's too weak she's also had to fight hepatitis probably through drinking dirty water. mask and home and the water are too vital factors for health over the next couple of days not even weeks or months after found a family live in a remote mountain village and how just provinces me emmons northwest it's controlled by the who think it's after father hussein heard sheep for other people

he barely makes enough to feed his family of seven the regular visits to distant hospitals are more than he can afford but for his daughter's sake he tries. to sort of that. we don't get full like before i leave the food while i'm still hungry when i find there's little food left and the kids are still eating i leave the food to them so they're not hungry i'm able to deal with the hunger but they can't while we are still poor the u.n. says two million yemeni children need food aid to survive there is food in the markets but the price of these vegetables for instance has sold out of reach for most models we used to get five killers of rice for fifteen hundred reals before the war and now we get them for thirty five hundred rails and sugar we used to get a pack for two thousand reals and now we get it for five to five thousand five hundred and the price of wheat is going up to nine to ten thousand there are many

more children like are far from yemen today so many nourished making them easy prey for diseases like cholera. doctors in this and a hospital struggle to cope more than hundred suspected cases have turned up in just one day. and the lives of so many depend upon peace especially here in the vital port of who they are eighty percent of yemen's food in need comes into the sport there is supposed to be a truce between the hooty rebels and the yemeni government forces backed by the u.a.e. and saudi arabia but fighters have not withdrawn from the city so relief for our farm and the millions like her still seems a long way off. on two zero. now a trail of death damage and flooding as devastating southern africa one week after cycle on a dime barreled through was m.b. zimbabwe and malawi have been hit hard as more than one point seven million people

are affected two hundred forty two have died in mozambique alone and that number is expected to rise the government says fifteen thousand people many of them ill need to be rescued and zimbabwe the death toll has jumped to one hundred thirty nine and the rain is still falling roads and bridges have collapsed making humanitarian operations difficult the u.n. says two hundred thousand people urgently need food aid for three moms fifty six people have died in malawi eighty two thousand people are displaced there are now fears of disease marcum weber's travelling through one of the worst head regions these sort of district and western was m b. cyclamen i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. so i would journey from barrow. began in small boat made of tree bark. then a few kilometers down the road another broken bridge. the cyclamen split central

mozambique into islands cut off from road access. we met machree on a sire who hasn't seen our husbands in for a storm mobile networks are cut off and made the crossing to find him. but let's show see do we if. i. say something that is happy. being us actually helping us to cross. people need to cross to reach loved ones or food so they find whatever ways they can often reach broken bridge we paid to ride in more type of vehicles we could find most people here don't have the means to travel far like this is when we reach low lying plains that the storm damage is worst this river burst its banks. there is total devastation homes have been destroyed crops. by the wind and rain

field off the field of them completely destroyed so a lot of people here will be very hungry. more than three quarters of mozambicans live on less than two dollars a day many people here subsistence farmers. left in the field with their food for the year ahead. they need help. you know any sign of it helicopter makes one circle and flies off possibly an aid agency taking a survey people can only hope they'll soon bring food and shelter. but with so much damage to the roads it'll have to come by air. the last broken bridge just before to morrow has been made possible with some blown down cables and trying to reach the town check on his family hundreds of died. i'm

a survivor but i've suffered too much not just physically but also psychologically traumatized is the first time i've seen a cycle. now people can travel a little families are trying to reunite many people are still missing it will take a long time for mozambique to recover from cyclonic die malcolm webb al-jazeera in suspending the district brazil's former president bush has been arrested as part of a wide anti corruption investigation that inch finally reports. dramatic scenes outside michel home and he was arrested he was then flown to nero where an investigating judge accused him of being the head of a criminal organization that had been receiving payments of millions of dollars for more than twenty years. several of his former aides are also facing charges including his ex mines and energy minister wellington moreira frank all the charges

are in connection with the construction of a multi-million dollar nuclear power plant now there's anger three within an hour of the arrest the stock exchange plunged dramatically on the brazilian currency the one point two percent against the dollar. the arrests of the latest in a five year long investigation dubbed operation or car wash into widespread bribery and corruption in brazilian business and politics more than one hundred fifty people have already been jailed they include the former president. who was imprisoned last year for corruption. over as president in two thousand and sixteen after his predecessor. was impeached for financial irregularities them always denied previous charges of corruption and this president enjoyed immunity from prosecution that ended when on january the first he handed the presidential sash. much of his popularity grew with a promise to fight political corruption which is long been widespread in brazil.

everyone must be responsible for their actions just a surprise to everyone jim a left office with an approval rating of around two percent after implementing tough austerity measures and freezing public spending for twenty years he'll have little support from the brazilian public but he was at the center of power is a many of those he associated with will be anxious about what he might reveal in exchange for lighter treatments another president implicated in this investigation is far from over. brazil. to thailand now appears people in the north for their turn out and big numbers the sunday is general election it is the first polls and the military coup five years ago removed a government that had massive support in the north florence let me reports from chiang mai. its support like this that

must worry thailand's military generals through courts and crews have tried repeatedly to destroy the opposition and silence dissent despite being removed in the last crew in two thousand and fourteen per thai party is still alive and saying people in that stronghold of the rural north will send a clear message on election day. saying the people are telling me stories of their suffering i have been working in politics for twenty seven years this is the first election where people come to me crying and asking me to come back and help them that we must form the government money thanks largely to support in poor agricultural communities per time or its predecessors have won every election in thailand since two thousand and one but they've had those victories taken away leaving a large section of the population feeling like they've been shut out when we get

any better we want the economy to get better because families bury it did we don't want to military rule because we can do anything we have to be careful when we say or do things we want them ocracy and people that we represent like in the path. the past if they dream off is when former prime minister taksin shinawatra was in power he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile avoiding jail for corruption but still in control of the purge thai party types in china what came to power on the back of populist policies in areas like this in doing so he spoke to communities that have long felt neglected or treated as second class by the elite in the capital bangkok he still enjoys a lot of support here and the odds of his party winning the popular vote again are good but forming the government will be difficult the military will hand pick two

hundred fifty feet in the upper house of parliament. that means a big head start for the military backed party it may struggle to enthuse crowds in the north of the country but one of the main candidates here believes toxin is no longer a factor people are only concerned about how they're going to support the family when i go out and campaign people say they've moved on from the past they want to stay in the present. but at the per time rally they're looking in all directions remembering what's been taken away in the past while enjoying the present and the opportunity to have their political voices heard again and the only future they'll accept is a truly democratic one out without military involvement. florence italy al-jazeera chiang mai tais. now again i'm elizabeth problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the

islamic court a prayer has been broadcast across new zealand followed by two minutes of silence marking awake since a gunman shot and killed fifty people at two mosques in the city of christchurch. the. prime minister just joined thousands of people at a vigil held office at the mosque where the killing began. he. to believe it is. communication and simply i just write one already. we will leave the heart of the body suffers the whole body feels prime you zealand mourns with

you. we are one. the european union will grant bush an extension to brick said bought only of tory's amazed as approved by the british parliament first that while it has taken place next week just days before the deadline for the u.k.'s exit from the blog on march twenty ninth president donald trump says he'll recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights an area seized from syria and one nine hundred sixty seven israel's prime minister has praised the move but under international law the golan heights is syrian territory under israeli occupation. an explosion at a chemical factory in eastern china has killed at least forty seven people it happened in yon chang in junks who province a coastal area north of shanghai facebook has admitted that its employees were able to read hundreds of millions of views a password for years passwords stored in plain text instead of being scrambled or encrypted social media john says there is no evidence any employees abuse their

access to the dottle stored on internal service last year facebook admitted user data had been illegally harvested by a political consultancy firm well those are the headlines on al-jazeera this is europe is coming up next. against the odds and in place of the devastating loss of their loved ones and their homes women from crucial had shown enormous resilience fighting against the odds to keep going in the absence of their beloved brothers fathers. twentieth is off to the casa viable al-jazeera while tells the story of female courage in the village the last team of its. women of clear shot on al-jazeera.

what about the tenth man who died in the fundamental history is with us she sent us in that part of this is because when we're going to be able to follow these to you live when you stretch we bury him to more thirty four or so weeks of work and still working here is a twenty four hour a day seven days a week job and you get the amount of stress that we experience sometimes is immense i can still hope that maybe all of these balls. will confront. i'm glad i'm a muslim funeral director here in london. i've now

part torn and i'm letting the young people take over. so what will happen now is we have to take and this fund in front of the most place this is silent in his coffin. and we have another fuel up any day so after the prayers finish move will take the deceased down to the money i'm sometimes body of such as that tall one full building at the back of the most concrete jungle once the germans over will take you down into the muddy him sometime and one of the rooms will do a great if you look at this as soon as you're ready to take it to the us ok. the lady sister who passed away was mostly in the. nephew and the people that came to that all feel that they're christian. i believe that a bit vague in terms of what happens in the muslim funeral as in a sonic muslim as

a basic and simple in that sense but bloom and cough to the man explain what's happening. right now my grandson in college so i know he's coming in the last six months and we hope that we can train him to take over for me to carry on to do shrooms to carry on the service for the people who are you know under his. moment i'm. going to. do what do me i

want. to be judged on my dad and mom my dad and i. like it and. other stuff. as you said it was this will give it. my whole family's for a member who is really going and has sort of been overwhelmed. the idea of death and death is an everyday thing. that's. carrying on my family's legacy. one to walk up to three knowing. my mom dad she went into the

company was my great grandfather wonder a little bit help so sure for we can then he turned the years and she just carried on. but she decided she wanted to go back to teaching. i was quite surprised you wanted to do this and i didn't know whether it was just because it was an easy option because you don't. want to go. you really want to do it to. really enjoy doing. it so my dad's a big character and it's really difficult because for twenty years over twenty years we struck we saw a stopping father and daughter and became business partners which challenge to stomach lay how i was dealing with him and talking to him and there's this very much disrespect thing. and we deal with things very very differently i was in partnership with my dad only up until recently.

who know was here for twenty years and she decided to achieve would stand back for a while because maybe she wanted to direct her to trust him to nose and i was standing in her way we have women come here their husbands have died and they can relate to a woman better than they can a man especially with asian women so we need a woman's touch here and i think it will be coming back. we have about thirty thousand plus muslim population here in the white chapel east london area and this is always been the kind of melting pot of southern england. you know them lovely play polo visit the mosque every now and name and not only did i go. to the extent the mosque to cause trouble that bit of a turn over the islands. lovely little towns and causing crap but

it's. they came here that day was the. concern although i don't think it was it was the. temperature leading to for what brits first was privileged to be in london i was speech you might arrive in belfast is someone that isn't and you always assume it's because the kids in fact incidentally working quite straight was closed off because you had to find the same time i'm sure it was no friend. and you know i don't live in your area. or something. momenta like the it's a pretty you know there and if you engage me we work together we go on to give a what. i want to for some even the many well what we all respect one another's views yeah to a point of we disagree sometimes but we don't ram as you spend people shrug.

the way i do you can't be fearful just in case you as you know that. when the downy i'm not ok and think we're going to happen is it going to happen yeah especially when you've got the kates. what i could. to get to your original question yes you have to give them the original green certificate last year which is slowing this country you have to have the greens a difficult original ok i do problems give me a ring but i think you're going by. you only bury somebody once and people remember things when they go wrong weddings and funerals and if you do it right the way my dad used to do it then that's good and if you do it wrong those people will never forget you and will always curse you. too. this is the picture of dad and me. yeah when i was about five years of age because

my father that wasn't very happy about having photographs taken when mothers in the sari and i'm sure this was about nineteen fifty six this was taken. around about the mid sixty's when there was an influx of muslim people arriving here in east london mainly bangladeshis or at that time it was east pakistan. the need for a funeral service grew so my father purchased a black ambulance van and started to do the funerals here in london. tasneem army was only seventeen is anyone he deputized his forty's father was away on pilgrimage to mecca i grew up here in this area and we had this phenomena called bashing we had right when the groups coming along looking for asians to beat up

just for the sake of it. my father was beaten up and. it wasn't a wasn't a good time in east end of london. my mum was welsh she converted to islam too in the second world war with my father she was a coal miner's daughter can you imagine the stigma of a white lady marrying a dark person but she didn't care but i'm also proud to be a bangladeshi as well. oh yeah that's my dad that's my dad roughly. four weeks before he died and is now when he graduated and muna when she graduated she sees the world in a different way because being younger than me she can maybe project forward where i

don't that's why i think politicians shouldn't be allowed to be politicians after sixty five that some young blood for us away because they've got better ideas and see things better than we do we're always thinking in the past and they're thinking in the future and it's important so i do miss her yes.