giving diplomacy a chance libya's warring sides arrive in berlin for an international conference to try to end the conflict. hello again i'm a saucy attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up tear gas and violence in hong kong as thousands defy a police ban on a protest march. the day. that respects as the bodies of the passengers of the airliner mistakenly shot down by iran. plus a novel idea the newest trail in library with an innovative way of lending.

now the warring sides in libya's long running civil war are coming together in berlin for a u.n. backed peace conference leaders and diplomats from 12 countries have been invited to the meeting in the german capital earlier attempts to negotiate a cease fire had failed intuiting a summit in moscow last week we're all here if i have to launched an offensive to try to take the capital tripoli in april turkey which backs the internationally recognized government base there called the in the conference an important step. didn't. the international community has not shown the necessary reaction to have targets attacks until now the actions of half taught and his supporters are an open violation of the un security council's reason lucian's. head is standing by for us in the libyan capital tripoli but 1st let's go to how some of his in as i'm there

on various heads of state in town for this meeting talk us through what's expected to happen today. well some of the bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the conference. are taking place now are underway one of those key moments will be a meeting between the russian president putin but the mere putting of the turkish president that. the 2 leaders took the center stage of the talks here in berlin because ultimately according to many sources the of the ones just shape the future of libya for the simple reason that russia has all it takes to reign in hell if i have to of the warlords operating in the east and the intervention of the turks recently we're sending advisors and saying that they would send troops in the country was instrumental according to libyan diplomats in preventing the fall of tripoli so ultimately they are the ones to have a bigger say in this explains why the europeans are pretty much concerned about

that saying various about time for us to step in the americans are also taking taking part in these talks and we do understand from the final statement which is circulating right now that the conference is going to say the following the women tame the landmark to $1015.00 agreement in morocco as the platform which says that the legitimate government is the one based in tripoli but they do understand at the same time that warlords $101.00 have to control as more than 2 thirds of the territory how to move forward that's going to be the biggest challenge for them to move forward they want to ensure that no one interferes in libya and that no one sells weapons to the warring factions do they have to make them to implement that that's going to be the biggest challenge facing german chancellor angela merkel well have some might also say that some countries have not been invited or not or are not attending so morocco cats are even libya's neighbors might that undermine

chances for a breakthrough here. well the d.n.a. for example has been very critical of the decision not to invite qatar and morocco and they said they wanted to see the 2 countries invited along with in as you have seen as your neighbors libya has not been invited a newcomer has been invited which is algeria which is on the other side of the border with libya and for many people if you don't invade those countries the potential for reaching a comprehensive agreement won't be there because of the same time you're not inviting qatar but you're inviting the united arab emirates and egypt and it's known that the united arab emirates back. after a while qatar and turkey in particular back of the d.n.a. and this is something which is going to further exacerbate put tend to the conflict in libya but i have to say in the it seems that today what we're going to see

during the conference is a feeling of resentment among the you in particular that they are now at the backstage position while the 2 key players the russians and the turks who are definitely going to be the ones to shape the future of. libya if i have to say who are the stars of today definitely putting an ad on. has similar barrel be watching those talks for us in berlin thank you has been. well a draft of that final communique expected to be released later at that conference in berlin calls on all parties also to refrain from hostilities against oil facilities now the latest attacks by forces loyal to have to have forced the closure of 5 of libya's eastern oil exporting ports they are eager bragger ras lanuf and still are libya's national oil company says that will result in a loss of an output of $800000.00 barrels per day well let's go to math but otherwise who joins us now live from libya's capital tripoli with this blockage of

oil ports presumably given the timing this is an attempt by have to improving his bargaining position and balun could it derail the talks there. well it could definitely derail the peace talks in berlin because remember that there is a lot of skepticism doubt here lack of trust between the 2 right you've camps and remember raining on local allies local groups has been and would probably still be the major obstacle on the way to achieve any peaceful settlement to this conflict now n.o.c. has been very concerned that the state oil for here and the chairman of the national oil corporation has sent us a letter to the speaker of the top would be used parliament that's the poor have to parliament urging him to order the military out of the groups blocking the oil turn

words to lift the blockage immediately there is still a lack of trust between the 2. camps and big government here of national accord so that the fact that have to have to has given green light to his forces to block the major oil terminals in. contrie is not a good sign and it's also indicates that have to himself is not ready for peace remember that the government of national court has been blaming your job the european union for what it calls collaboration with health in his aggression against the capital tripoli remember it have to talk to the aggression this military offensive back in april to take control of the capital tripoli ahead of

a national conference that was due to be held in the city of of the day on the 14th of april and was also in the presence of the head of the united nations security council in the city of one of those you still there is still a lot of trust between sort of margin have to be between the 2 or evil camps and it's invalid there is still a long way to go until a peaceful settlement is being achieved to this conflict mr mayor to go indeed now that i've had there for us in tripoli thank you matthew. in the body is a non resident scholar at the middle east institute and he doesn't have high hopes for this summit. the conference was initially it had agree that was essentially focused on actually tapering interventionism by foreign states and also in forcing the arms embargo unfortunately now it's optics have become really bad and also it seems to have completely altered its goals from what was initially envisioned so

it's no longer about enforcing the arms embargo it's no longer about focusing on tapering interventionism it's actually almost the reset may be able to political landscape that would be essentially legitimizing the status quo and sweeping under the rug the fact that after a lot of this offensive 10 months ago on the u.s. backed government ahead of a national conference in the presence of the secretary general of the united nations i think this has really tanked europe's at the ability at this stage and unfortunately the dynamic is the no one wants the aljunied the u.a.e. the united arab emirates which is the partners main backer and we've seen in statements continuously both public and private everyone is winning back to these trade relationships with turkey which is the fact that the only supporter of the government national accord so with this dynamic in mind it's clear that berlin might not be as productive or they should. all moving on now and there have been

more scenes of violence and hong kong of to pro-democracy demonstrators as attempted to monch through the city in defiance of a back riot police fired tear gas of protest as under arrest in several people thousands had gathered in the center of the city for that demonstration authorities had approved to the rally as long as potus and stayed in one location but police did warn that they would stop anyone attempting to march well out correspondent tara caucus in hong kong and she says the crowds have now launching you just passed well the police looked own which was all around here where we are now in abol to get around central hong kong where that rally away in to haiti it's now just be lifted we've had a all the rot place a pack up a leave it at the p. is the protests is have also added dispersed now early on we had thousands of people gather you china to god and now this particular rallied is gathering at was a prune but there weren't allowed to botch the whoever the purchase is where to get its the the police spanned by defied of that particular decision and i matched any why and they got about 500 me just to where we are now where though blocked why

a large number of brought place to gas his fought a number of rounds of a sponge been eyes he also fought on those crowds as i monch and blocked some of those mine thought our fish is through stench a home cone other we're a number of arrests and some small clashes than some violence between and compose protections between the place and those protesters now this particular rally today it was organized by the civil rights assembly and this particular grip whip pushing their per democracy makes each oh it was polled the these a seizure on the communism and they're also ari speaking out a gets what they say accusations of a police brutality i'm but he was it was a know the weekend to over of some clashes i once again tear gas being fog is he's parchin so now push on it into that ike month of demonstrations now the buddies of 11 ukrainians killed on board a passenger plane which was mistakenly shot down by iran have now been repatriated they have received a minute tree got of on a and kid has attended by president rather me is a lenski authorities and tehran say they're analyzing the front rick orders from

the ukrainian airlines jet iran is under pressure to compensate the families of the $176.00 victims while in contradiction to earlier reports iranian officials now say they have no current plans to send the plane's black boxes overseas for analysis. explains we have heard from the head of the investigation team of the civil aviation authority here in tehran who said that any reports of iran handing over do to block boxes from this flight is simply not true iranian officials are have decided for the time being they will hang on to these 2 black boxes and continue their investigation which is still ongoing of course with the assistance of officials that have come to iran from germany france and canada as well as ukraine they have been here over the past few days to try and assist in this ongoing investigation. for the time being these black boxes will remain in iran chinese health officials say 17 more people have been infected by

a deadly new virus believed to have originated from an animal market 62 cases have now been confirmed and 2 people have died in the central city of who had british scientists think they could actually be more than 1700 unconfirmed cases that the virus is similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome or saw as that killed nearly 800 people in 20022003. head on out as their. protests turned violent and anger is rising as the economic and political crisis. and the poor rural communities in afghanistan are finding it harder to survive any cold and.

we've got bits and pieces of clown brain and snow pushing towards japan at the moment but some dry weather in between the latest disturbed weather just making its way across honshu want to caught it at the moment through monday will gradually push its way further east was brought to skies coming back in behind sheltered by the mountains tokyo still not doing too badly temperatures here at around 13 degrees celsius 10 degrees colder than a full so getting up to around 5 there in beijing any to see across much of china staying dry and fine if a little on the cool side of the same as we go on through choose dan botches day moving parts of japan will tend to brighten up a little more as well central parts of china on the other hand we'll see increasing cloud and rain that rain making its way into shanghai by the middle part of the day south of that more sunshine coming through hong kong at around 22 degrees celsius the sunshine extends across india china largely fought in dry him much of india fine and dry i stayed with got the the showers some of them of wintry nature of

course just around the higher ground there further south will see some showers started to push their way back into sri lanka monday not quite so bad but as we go on into choose day showers really gathering and it will try to increase the wet through the day. and the skin from some. their hardship on to the world stage as a paralympic champion will be i want to say for now though for the 1500 meters and the bronze for the it under the under desire to work overseas i went knocking on doors like you have a job and was interested in the knowledge of studies that led to international recognition as a global leader in regenerative medicine to inspiring journeys of human endeavor arabs abroad the paralympian in the bone make-a on al-jazeera. form.

hello again i'm hot a reminder of our top stories this hour leaders and diplomats from 12 countries coming together in berlin for a u.n. backed peace conference to try to find a way to end libya's civil war earlier attempts to negotiate a cease fire have failed including at a summit in moscow last week. anti-government demonstrations in hong kong once again have time violent after protesters tried to march through the city in defiance of a riot police fired tear gas at the crowds and arrested several people. in the bodies of 11 ukrainians on board a passenger plane mistakenly shot down by iran have been repatriated tehran is under pressure to provide aunts and compensation to the victims' families but it

says it now has no plans to send the flight recorders overseas. now at least 79 government soldiers have been killed in yemen in a missile strike on the province of marriage dozens more were wounded in the attack on a military training camp yemen's government is accusing who the rebels of being behind the violence well our correspondent mohammed is in yemen's capital sana and he says the death toll is expected to rise father. the attack has involved according to sources 333 missiles one targeting a gathering of the government forces and another one targeted weaponry where we're house. the nobody has so far i claimed responsibility over the attack has targeted this military camp which is. south west of the province of rep it's a little bit far away from the whole fees but. their missiles could reach such

distances even that they have reached over 11000 kilometer when the targeted. targets inside the saudi territories but so far. we are still waiting for whether the whole confirm it or deny their responsibility over the attack. protesters and 11 on preparing for another day of rallies a months of peaceful demonstrations turned violent on saturday night nearly $400.00 people were injured after security forces fired tear gas and water cannon that crowds in the capital and a standoff that lasted several alice demonstrators say they're tired of waiting for the government to try to fix the economic crisis center reports from. rage in the streets of the capital in what might be a new phase in an uprising against lebanon's leadership that is now in its worst months fierce confrontations between anti-riot police and. protesters turned

downtown beirut into a war zone this is the epicenter of a protest movement that until a few days ago was relatively peaceful running battles began with demonstrators who want the political class they blame for mismanagement and corruption to leave power try to storm parliament building security forces responded with tear gas i feel like the message is for protesters to back off and that they can't win and i think that the message of everybody here is that the more violence they face the more of an issue in return lebanon's economy has been in turmoil for months a proposal to tax what's up calls which should be a free service triggered the protests in mid october unemployment was rising and the lebanese local currency was losing value we are in an economy to grow says everybody's going to everybody's going to need to do this. i don't have to convince

anybody about what's happening today it's clear what's happening who can get their money in the banks we lost the job finally everything that says. it is an amazing they took everything. this is our only option is to go down on the street and. before the year the government. there is anger at banks which imposed caps on the troubles there is a shortage of dollars anti-riot police have been using excessive amounts of tear gas to disperse the crowd but anti-establishment protesters 2 are defiant the wounded were in the dozens both protesters and security forces were taken to hospitals there is a political vacuum many lebanese are growing impatient with politicians who are there fusing to form an independent government free of the influence of political

parties instead they are bickering among themselves for ministerial posts in the next cabinet this new government alleges technocrats that was really just a smokescreen for the old ruling oligarchies elite so the protesters were really upset this is the 3rd night of violence since tuesday when activists said they planned to revive the momentum of the protest movement after a brief they announced what they called a week of rage they seem to be living up to that promise the united nations has already described events in lebanon as dangerous chaos it is what comes next that many fear. beirut. now an eruption warning remains in place for the taal volcano in the philippines but some fishermen and villages living in the area have ignored it and gone home all back to what has been.

the philippines coast guard he's making this early morning patrol every day at the moment there's still a restriction in force on anyone going to the island it's simply too dangerous to go there and this is part of that. just as we were approaching the island we saw boats also coming to the island and also we see people on the shoreline here people still have fish farms here so they come out very early morning to tend to their fish farms despite warnings that they should be staying away. so they've been telling the fishing boats they can't stay here they have to leave and some of them have left but we still have these guys on the shoreline here who are determined to stay and there's not much the coast guard it seems can do about that. we're urging them to leave the island and those we see trying to come across we stop that because it's still a level 4 and we've got to think about safety and as we've been driving around here we see just over the hillside huge billowing clouds of steam and dust coming from

the volcano having said that it does seem as though the emissions have dropped in the past few days or so it seems a lot more peaceful so it's hard trying to tell people that they can come out here people say look we have livelihoods we're going to make a living we have to come out and tend to our fish farms or come out and fish what else are we going to do there are villages dotted all around the coastline of this volcanic island as we've been going along with been seeing boats at all of them and people happily at work as though life is getting back to normal and seemingly impervious to the warnings from the coast guard. it seems risky enough just visiting here seems inconceivable that anyone would want to spend any time here but the people left they left behind livestock also left behind domestic. the animals were just noticed there was a dog on the shoreline the coast guard here just made an attempt to rescue it put it in the boat but it doesn't seem to want to leave her. the coast guard will be out again tomorrow morning to do the same warning people to

stay away and that this is still a very dangerous volcano but what also annoys them they tell us is that while other people are putting their lives at risk by coming out here so what the coast guard by coming out and trying to tell them to stay away heavy snowfall and parts of afghanistan has killed dozens of people in recent weeks went to herald province in the west where people facing hawse conditions are appealing for help. in villages all over the country afghans live in much the same way they have for centuries there are no gas or electricity lines people still collect the wood they burn to stay warm in winter. that's how 18 year old mother died. his father said he walked to a nearby forest to gather brush for a fire to keep the family warm through the night but he never came up a lot of the lot of them were all of them young god it's what we thought that he

went to his sister's house on the other side of the woods finding our next to not work at night so we went there the next day we found his body in the snow our next years father said his son probably became tired walking in the heavy snow and with no one to help him fell asleep and froze to death conditions are miserable for people in other a scone district one man in this village said here in the forgotten corners of afghanistan people are all living waiting to die. snowfall was so heavy this year the roof of my johns mud house collapsed in the middle of the night her family was sleeping when it happened. i ran out of the room and my husband was screaming for help it was only able to pull my children out of doing things my husband was trapped and died under develop will when the neighbors came they removed his body buried him. even before the storm she did not have much now a widow sitting outside her broken home she seems completely lost though tragic

local officials say the overall death toll in this area has been low but village elders say they are in serious need of help weather related illnesses and injuries have affected nearly every one of the 700 homes in this community. the people we met said that the winters in this part of the country have been getting increasingly more and more extreme but the cold is more severe going to have ever experienced in the past and we are expecting 2 more months of snow fall and are already worried about the next disaster when the snow across the room melts and floods their homes even if people wanted to leave their ancestral lands they say they have nowhere else to go. if they don't get help soon elders here worry out of work young men could join armed groups like the taliban more as a matter of survival than ideology. i got these people are jobless and they do not have anything to eat if these men commit rogueries or join insurgents it is the

right. the biggest complaint we heard was that people here need a medical clinic the nearest one is in district headquarters on the other side of snow covered hills one woman said people have no choice but to walk while they still can before the next storm it seems desperate but they may be the lucky ones deeper in the mountains where the roads are still covered in snow district officials say many villages remain inaccessible and the true scale of human suffering still out of sight unseen bus ravi other risk on district herat province afghanistan. well libraries around the wilds are constantly looking for ways to keep up in the digital age and in a strangely at one initiative has proven especially popular and it's gaining traction andrew thomas has more on how one small change has helped to bring people back to the library. it's a brand new library with a new way of lending borrowing a book has been the same for decades people read them for

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more on our website including updates on the critical libyan peace conference in berlin to go to al jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines the warring sides in libya's long running civil war are coming together in berlin for u.n. backed peace conference leaders and diplomats from 12 countries have been invited to the meeting in the german capital earlier attempts to negotiate a cease fire have failed and tooting at a summit in moscow last week were all clear to have to launched an offensive to take the capital tripoli in april some of our has more from ballad well some of the by lots will be teams on the sidelines of the conference. taking place now underway one of those key moments will be a meeting between the russian president putin for the reporting of the turkish

president because of. the 2 leaders took the center stage of the talks here in berlin because ultimately according to many sources the of the ones to shape the future of libya there have been more scenes of violence in hong kong after pro-democracy demonstrators attempted to march through the city in defiance of a ban riot police fired tear gas of protesters and arrested several people thousands have gathered in the center of the city for that demonstration authorities had approved the rally as long as participants stayed in the one location and police had warned that they would stop anyone attempting to launch. the bodies of 11 ukrainians killed on board a passenger plane which was mistakenly shot down by iran have now been repatriated or thirty's in tehran the say they're analyzing the flight recorders from the ukrainian airlines jet and currently have no plans to actually send the black boxes or of disease iran is under pressure to compensate the families of the $176.00

victims. chinese health officials say 17 more people have been infected by deadly new virus believed to have originated from an animal market 62 cases have now been confirmed and 2 people have died in the central city of will have british scientists think there could be actually more than $1701.00 confirmed cases at least $79.00 government soldiers have been killed in yemen in a missile strike on the province of mahdi and dozens more were wounded in the attack on a military training camp yemen's government is accusing truthy rebels of being behind the violence well those are the headlines the news continues here off the inside story stay with us.

the u.k. puts the squeeze on lebanon's hezbollah the entire group political and military is on the ukase terrorist blacklist and all of its assets oh now frozen but why now is iran the real target is a complicated already tense situation in the middle east this is inside story. by michele kerry and welcome to the program the u.k. has added lebanon's entire has movement to its blacklist of what it terms terrorist organizations and now it's freezing house assets and will prosecute anyone in the u.k. who continues to have accounts or financial services connected to the group it was in march of last year when the british government said it could no longer distinguish between the.