because through say the people who are looking for you the justice system. at least $23.00 people now killed is a thai soldier goes on a gun rampage but he's have surrounded the shopping mall where he's believed to still be inside. i know i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program a team of global health experts is assembled to investigate the corona virus outbreak in china as the number of deaths edges towards the total killed by salas. a push for aid lip turkey sends in a huge column of reinforcements as syrian government forces take more ground

raising fears of a confrontation. about the brand of live in dublin where voting has just finished in arlen's general election we'll have the exit poll for you shortly . but we continue with our developing story from thailand security forces there of stormed a shopping center after a mass shooting which has left at least 23 people dead that's the latest figure more than 30 others have been wounded after a soldier went on a gun rampage in the city of karachi the army sergeant then took people hostage in a shopping mall in the city center he is still thought to be inside but is not known if people are trapped with him while in head a small. late on a saturday afternoon a shopping mall in thailand came under attack a gunman opened fire at

a time when it would have been at its busiest. here he can be seen firing multiple rounds towards people and passing cars. people found whatever cover they could after he entered the mall panic shoppers ran out the day coming to a terrifying hearing and. the number of casualties is not yet confirmed as the situation is still ongoing we have been trying to bring out whoever we can 1st a minute and we will gradually save others who are still stuck inside this was the heavily armed gunman seeming to walk casually through the mall he had earlier be named by police as jack reponse tamam a 32 year old soldier in the thai army he began his rampage hours earlier by killing a commanding officer on a military base outside the city as he continued his murderous spree he posted updates on social media including this one where he complained that his finger was sore from pulling the trigger so many times gun violence is common in this country

but not on the scale this will be remembered as one of thailand's daucus days. away as been following the story from bangkok what do we know about the situation inside the shopping mall. well 1st piece of news as you mentioned is that the death toll has climbed now according to local hospital officials that death toll now 232 police officers believed to have been killed by the gunman the situation seems to be calm for the moment although in the last few hours we did hear more multiple rounds of gunfire coming from within the moral itself still not clear whether there is anyone still in there we also saw a lot of activity in recent hours outside the mall with some people who had been inside there for hours while the gunman was in there as well coming out of the mall

including some injured who were of course taken by waiting ambulances to hospital so it seems as if the security forces the police and the soldiers who are in there are having trouble bringing this to an end he has done a fairly good job of evading capture he's a trained serving member of the tie our army so will be used to the tactics of the soldiers who are trying to find him clearly he is well trained in using weapons and is believed to have several guns in there with him including automatic weapons so it seems as if like i say they are struggling to bring this to an end this is been dragging on for many many hours now it began at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on saturday and it's now just gone 5 in the morning on sunday and. the struggle to capture the gunman is being. affected somewhat by fear that there

could be civilians inside perhaps the police the security forces taking a more cautious approach and there have been. gunshots automatic gunfire heard but they're trying to take a cautious approach i guess to avoid any further loss of life. yes and the mall at the time when this attack 1st started would have been extremely busy it was a saturday late afternoon early evening also a public holiday in thailand so it would have been adds absolute peak in terms of the number of people inside this mall which is right in the in the central city part of. it's a fairly new mall very attractive to people who live in that area to go to the mall on the weekend for shopping or just as a place to meet friends so it would have been extremely busy we haven't received a number of people who were inside at the time that the attack started those details haven't yet come out from the police are all from local government

officials and there were reports we have to state as well that he was holding a number of people hostage now we're not sure whether that was the case officially the police did say that some were being held hostage or indeed it was simply a case of some people as you mentioned being caught in the area perhaps between the security forces and the gunman himself so there is a chance that they could still be people inside the mall trapped in a place they simply can't get out of the security forces have been thought of being going through we are told floor by floor clearing areas of the mall to ensure people can get out of this safely but also of course trying to hunt the gunman down which again they haven't managed to do so far and as you say the death toll has now risen to 23 that is still alive ongoing situation inside that shopping mall and thailand thank you very much wayne.

polls are now closed in ireland in the general election where prime minister is facing a battle to hang on to power campaigning was dominated by concerns about the cost of living in the. vail ability of housing and its expected island's folk party shin fein will make big gains let's go to paul brennan who is in dublin and also paul they have indeed made some big gains 22.3 percent according to one exit poll for shin fein. yeah the exit polls are used as an early indicator because the counting of the votes takes such a long time on the single transferable vote system and the fact that the counting of the actual ballot papers themselves doesn't even start until 9 am on sunday morning so the expectation and to suppression of this exit poll was enormous bear

in mind going into this election the last couple of days the final opinion polls before polling day had shin fein polling somewhere around 25 percent and because fianna gael party that down well somewhere around 17 percent joining me is lisa keenan she's a lecturer in political science from trinity college if i tell you that lisa gave a little exclamation that could have been painted could have been amusement when the result came out and i tell you that every single that the 3 main parties have each polled 22 percent according to the exit poll they said what do you make of it well i think it's going to be very soon to be making act and of protections about the number of seats on the base that this exit poll and whatever it does tell us 2 things so 1st of all. the search engine paints a point that we did see through the period of the campaign is actually real and historically pain has been better in the polls and then a sort of underperformed going into the election and also it tells us that

generally the polls have been pretty accurate as if you look at the poll of polls and these are sort of these figures are so defining in the middle of what has been asked to made it out there so it's going to make the matter very complicated when it comes to actually forming a government so the transfers are going to be even more important to me start watching the kind tomorrow when you say the transfers for our international viewers the transfers are the 2nd and 3rd choices of voters because each of those papers can be used multiple times in order to try and work out who exactly gets the their vote composition this isn't the finagling fin a foil have both said that they won't go into coalition with sinn fein despite inflames. strong showing here where does that leave them well it leaves the net pretty oakridge position and so 1st of all they've both been very strong as you say in saying that they won't go into coalition with champagne for various reasons they are more have any other kind of policy reasons they're very far apart in policy terms and beautiful has obviously been sort of very keen on playing on sort

of the historic ties of the party with the ira and also concerns around the sort of level of internal democracy in not party and for them it's quite tricky to sort of robock on what they've been saying and i think we're going to have to start looking to the smaller parties to see how they feel about working with sinn fein i think in particular a man ryan of the green party has such that he wants to talk to the smaller lachman parties offer the result to see if they can kind of come to some agreement on a package of policies that they'd be sort of willing to force with one of the larger parties. where as you say that the smaller parties could hold the key if you like to a majority of voters they want to change time and again they said change the other going to get change with a result like this well they're going to have a change in government we do know that the current government to. go in for 4 look how did so for nearly 100 years they're not going to get a different policy sweep in and take probably. well all the issues there is but if

she in pain is the party that they want fame has been a kind of it's similarly we know from the polls that voters have actually been saying that she thing is the party that they least want to go into government so realistically we don't actually know what these results are telling us just right now. but we will find out more as the hours pass a particular as the counting commences on sunday i will be that. show will definitely catch up with the poll in dublin a bit later on but just to give you a clear picture of those exit poll figures the poll was mentioning they have just been released and you can see that the result is extremely close. 2.4 percent of ocean fane have 22.3 percent and then the main opposition phina foyle on 22.2 percent so they are running neck and neck but of course i have been hearing it is quite a lengthy process and it will take some time before we get an accurate idea and just that bit more clarity on what government will take shape and what that

government is going to look like on out the world health organization is sending an expert team to china next week to help beijing cope with the outbreak of the corona virus more than 720 people have been killed by the virus in china while over 34 and a half 1000 people and infected there was at least 288 cases in 24 other countries the w.h.o. says it's fighting not just the virus but also the spread of misinformation while the minus prejudice misinformation makes the job of our heroic cold workers even harder it's diverting the attention of decision makers and it causes confusion and spreads fear to the general public w.h.o. with not just monthly the virus we also battling the trolls sam conspired as he could aspire to secure is just that push misinformation and undermine the outbreak

response elsewhere hong kong has started to eat mandatory quarantine for all arrivals from mainland china and then japan thousands of cruise ship passengers remain in quarantine doctors in the port of yokohama have confirmed 64 cases on board katrina you brings us the latest now from beijing. the owners of this luxury cruise ship describe it as a home away from home and for those on board there's now no choice about 3700 people on the diamond princess are being quarantined for at least 2 weeks off of japan's yokohama port that's after more than 60 tested positive for corona virus. we are all instructed to stay in our own cabin. you know that people from the insurer haven't been allowed up there on and they may have had a chance to interact although they've been instructed they have meter of our from each other so it's hard to read. the mood of the other passengers without

a contact with them i see you know some people are very worried on the internet and social media japan is already dealing with cases of the virus and has imposed new border controls to stop it spreading it turned away another cruise ship but it's still from china. the world health organization says there's no need for a lot of those over 3700 people in crew and this is after extensive searching for cases and testing and testing of many many people so if i don't get my month's wrong that's that's less than 2 percent of people so. it's still a bad it's not a great number it does show the virus has spread in the ship but again let's be careful here enough to overreact the outbreak that began in china has spread to at least 25 countries in kazakhstan there were reports of violence between cossacks and the ethnic quake meeting of if he is of coronavirus chinese restaurants and

businesses have reportedly been down to pull has increased its alleged level after new cases of crude if i was not going to previous inspections or travel to china opposed it. people are rushing to supermarkets to stock up on food and essential goods and around the world people are by mosques and what's called protective equipment. pushing up prices and creating shortages the un agency says more than 80 percent of coronavirus cases globally reported can be considered mild and is calling for nations to work together to fight the outbreak in ruhani a 2nd emergency hospital with beds for 1600 coronavirus patients has been opened china's president xi jinping has declared what he calls a people's war on the virus saying no effort is being spread in fighting the epidemic but there is growing criticism over the chinese government's handling of the crisis social media is flooded with complaints of attempts by police and other government officials to new cover up the outbreak than silencing the doctors who

1st sounded the alarm for china's leaders this is increasingly a battle on 2 fronts against the virus itself and the discontent it's blocked katrin e.u. al-jazeera dating. voting ends in a crucial indian state election which is being seen as a referendum on the government's nationalist agenda also. the stories of beit lahia we are told are the most delicious in the world i'm stephanie decker in the gaza strip and we'll have this story coming up. right as cycling damien did big landfall on the coast of western australia near dampier and he's now inland producing a lot of rain probably welcome but not many people live there in contrast in new

south wales a lot of people live here and this rain has been causing well both joy and sorrow is a lot of it so it's sort of ending the drought and putting out a certain number of the remaining 5 as another karoff next couple of days but it's falling in large quantities so flooding is also a problem has been sydney but that looks like it'll be a dry picture come monday as well coles ran into a.c.t and victoria and the remains of the tropical cycling well they're still there actually still producing a lot of rain somewhere in western australia. directly northwards and snow is to affording it's taken a long time to turn winter into winter in japan but these are snow showers they're going to keep falling in that northerly breeze on the north facing slopes of honshu less so it's got probably cold now minus 6 insofar and about 8 in turkey which slowly warms to 11 on monday but beijing is surprisingly warm is too much well when

it should be but still with quiet not very pleasant day. for. the exclusive undercover report that captured a peaceful protest ruthlessly put down by the military they seem to be testing the ministry the standing over there with their guns ready this seems as if the start of the crackdown is now being. lowered the army filmmaker 10 years on what has changed rewind inside me in ma the crackdown on al-jazeera. the lord.

welcome back a look at the headlines now security forces in thailand have stormed a shopping center after a mass shooting left at least 23 people dead a soldier went on a gun rampage in several locations and is now for to be still inside that shopping mall. exit polls have been released in island general election and they show was practically a 3 way tie it means big gains for the republican shin fein party and it looks like a shake up for the political landscape that traditionally dominated by 2 main parties. and the world health organization is sending an expert team to china next week to help it cope with the outbreak of the corona virus more than 720 people have been killed on the chinese mainland. now peace talks between representatives of libya's un recognized government and after it

ended without any agreement senior officers from the warring sides met at united nations in geneva told talks in an attempt to ease the hostilities despite initial signs of progress though including on a permanent cease fire neither side to come to a settlement the next round of negotiations will now be held in just over a week earlier at the african union summit in ethiopia the general antonio terrorists criticized foreign interference in the libyan conflict. goes to libya it's evident the crisis has been seriously aggravated by the presence of forces and equipment from many other countries in clear violation of the mandate of the security council i think we have to reestablish the sovereignty of international law and the conditions in which the decisions of the security council could be implemented and that countries should understand that they're engaged to promote certain conflicts increases the potential for action by terrorist groups. elsewhere turkey has sent hundreds of military there. calls into syria's northwest and province and has threatened to attack if syrian government forces don't pull

back it comes as officials from turkey and russia met to discuss the fighting in syria's last rebel stronghold of course both countries support opposing sides in the war this week syrian regime forces supported by russia took control of a strategic town close to it let's capital all sorry is the place that we're talking about it gives the government forces access to 2 major highways the m 4 and the m 5 which could open a direct route to rebel positions on the western outskirts of aleppo and into the city of ed lib the advance of government forces and capture of seroquel now means for new turkish observation posts around sarika aat surrounded washington is following a story from istanbul and says that turkey is losing patience with russia and its syrian allies the turkish government has been frustrated over way described as lack of corporation from the russian government says that. russia has not been able

to raid the president abbas and his troops who have taken over and seem to be determined to move forward towards the city of live this meeting is more about the need to see whether. the russians will be able to convince. syrian troops to back away from sort and the military the turkish military outpost that were operating a roadside are also on the outskirts of it live that's very crucial for tokyo this explains why they have been so do more reinforcement. however if you look at the situation of the ground you have the syrian army sending more troops all the way towards some sort arco or they could potentially move towards the her must bomb or to to move ahead to words to words. this explains why the turkish army is setting up new outposts in those years and the turkish military has said

its troops are equipped enough and ready to retaliate if the syrian government decides to go ahead another story we've been following closely u.s. and afghan forces have come under attack in eastern afghanistan the soldiers were taking part in a joint operation in nangarhar province when they were engaged by direct fire the pentagon has not commented on any casualties but says it is investigating whether it was an insider attack by people in afghan uniforms. millions of people voted in india's capital new delhi in a key regional election it's being seen as a test for the national government after weeks of often violent protests against any citizenship role which excludes muslims elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi. determined to have this same millions of india's capital region headed to polling stations after a big campaign. from the very old to 1st time voters they told al jazeera what

matters to them i think. from. that. board put up by. talking about an. issue. of who they are to be prime minister that in their modi and has bought at the ajanta party of b j p have campaigned to end weeks of widespread protests against the citizenship including in the shooting bog neighborhood to be j.p. politicians were banned from campaigning after comparing protesters to rapists and murderers saying the demonstrators were determined to make india a muslim country. another politician said protestors should be shot they were 2 shooting incidents against protesters in one week after those comments were made a b j p election candidate said protest is a disrupting every day life yet every year. on risk you know we want peace you

want to harmony because. if there is entirely peace in your city and your country. the 2 time chief minister arvind kejriwal from the common man party focused its campaign on development education and health care which. i'm hopeful that the delhi public will vote on the work that we've done about the common man party can form the government here for the 3rd time analysts say the alternative could lead to more protests but the fear is that if the b.b. comes to power in delhi the protest and the protests in different parts of the country would be approved so what we are stating is some. more tension in the coming days so let's see how it plays out. the election result is due to be announced on tuesday that the j.p. hasn't been in power in delhi for 22 years the result will indicate whether its nationalist campaign has paid off or if voters are giving the activist arvind

kejriwal a 3rd term in office elizabeth 4 on al-jazeera. australia's southeast is being pounded by heavy rain with some areas soaked by the heaviest rainfall in almost 20 years number of rescue operations has more than doubled in the state of new south wales since friday the state's bushfire crisis which has ravaged the region for months could be eased because of the down calls a combination of fire and rain a spot new problems with deborah from the fine is being swept into rivers that supply drinking water. well with its ice and snow antarctica is fame for being the coldest and most inhospitable place in the world but it looks as if the continent has set a new record the heat and reading of 18.3 degrees celsius was taken at an argentine research base and is nearly a full degree warmer than the previous record record will still need to be verified by the wealth nature logical organization on now it's strawberry harvest time for

farmers in gaza with most of the berries heading to consumers in the occupied west bank but israel's blockade means getting them there while they're still fresh is a challenge stephanie decker reports now from beit lahiya in the northern gaza strip. it's warmer in here than outside on this crisp february morning the sweet smell of ripe strawberries fills the green house abu sami's family has been farming this land for generations this is because they're here. and 82 years old abu sami doesn't only have a lifetime of farming knowledge but he is also witness the constant change of this political landscape goodman well so when. we used to sell our product in israel when we were under israeli occupation but says 2006 what hamas took over and israeli imposed the blockade we can't sell in the israeli market so farmers income has decreased a lot now the main market for gods the store breezes the occupied west bank around

an hour's drive from here before the guillotine for the rio issue in filmy year israeli products compete with us even in the west bank because my product digs days to good as it has to follow certain look to procedures while israeli produce takes just a few hours to reach the markets the client prefers freshly picked rather than mine loses 20 percent of quality along the store. this. certain fertilizes a ban by israel citing security reasons and that too we're told is affecting the quality of the strawberries but despite that things are moving forward now this is a relatively new way of growing stories they started having them around 3 years ago and farmers are telling us that they get around 3 times more strawberries using this technique rather than just keeping them in the ground and there's less grist of disease because they're protected by the greenhouse and also for from the ground

this hanging method also maximizes the use of space and it's also pretty while we're filming a group of visitors arrive but i have not heard that silvo are those sort of where you are i think selfies individuals and i will upload them to social media i did not know that we have these problems they're fantastic and i don't think many people know about it i think we should publicize this and increase awareness of the good things we have. but the restrictions of the blockade are felt in every layer of this farming process and there is the never ending cycle of escalation between israel and the various armed groups here. that are. the darkest period in our lives after 2006 the siege is really tough and it's meant all our movements it affects every part of our lives and our fortunately things are getting worse you simply cannot predict today what will happen tomorrow. perhaps a small response it is the reliable cycle of nature the changing seasons and the

harvest they bring and if you managed to drown out the constant buzzing of the israeli drone in the sky you could just about imagine a very different reality stephanie decker all jazeera and distribute fields of beit lahia northern gaza. quick recap of the headlines for you security forces in thailand have stormed the shopping center after a mass shooting which has left at least 23 people dead more than 30 people have been wounded after a soldier went on a gun rampage in the city of korra at the army sergeant then took people hostage in a shopping mall in the city center where he is still still thought to be inside though it's not known if there are people still trapped with him when haye has mall . it seems like the situation is still happening at the more with the gunman somewhere inside this seemingly with several people being held hostage or either

trapped inside parts of that mall over the past few hours what we have seen is the security forces both police and military going inside the mall in quite large numbers to try obviously to find where the gunman is exactly to try to get people out of the more also we have seen many many people is well over the past few hours coming out of that more after being trapped inside their. voting is finished in islands general election and the exit poll shows what is practically a 3 way tie between the 3 main parties in a gale shin fein and phina for oil all on just over 22 percent of the vote. is now facing a major struggle to hold on to power also means big gains for republican shin pape chin fame party at the expense of the 2 traditional parties or world health organization is sending an expert team to china next week to help beijing cope with

the outbreak of the corona virus in the past few minutes officials from china's hu bay province where the outbreak 1st started of reported 81 further deaths in the past 24 hours which brings the total number of deaths in the region to $780.00 and peace talks between representatives of libya's un recognized government and generally 5 to have ended without any agreement senior officers from the warring sides gathered at the united nations european headquarters in geneva to hold talks in an attempt to ease hostilities they have committed to another round of negotiations about a week's time rewind is coming up next going back to 2007 when al-jazeera went on the cover with protesters in main. because backing it. is it all about the oil. what does it mean for one of the worst performing. on al-jazeera.

hello and welcome to rewind here at doha as museum of islamic one of the 1st story was the 1000000 mile government's brutal crackdown on peacefully protesting monks news reaching the outside world with guess i'll just there a correspondent tony was able to film the unfolding events whilst working undercover as one of the few international journalists on the ground that time from 2007 has.