on barnaby phillips on the scottish island of it's for sale should it belong to the local community or wealthy landowners. syrian warplanes have killed at least twenty people during an offensive on the rebel held province of the monitors said the jets targeted market at a hospital full of people who were injured in the strike it comes as russia is hosting a new round of talks and sochi the main syrian opposition group says it will boycott the negotiations stephanie deca reports from the town of kill us on the turkish syrian border. there's just been incoming from syria into turkey we were actually preparing for a live when we heard a whiz over our heads and we were dropped. and then we saw the smoke london around five hundred metres from our position when the police have now come to inspect the crater this is a reminder of course that this is an act of conflict and there are consequences for these border towns these border cities cholas has had rockets and shells land here before also the honey on the other side of the border the people that residents that we've spoken to here will tel

scotland is a sensitive issue with a very few wealthy people owning half of all private land and as barnaby phillips reports from over the government wants to change all of that. in a distant corner of the british isles i drove through a wild landscape to find an island community that is dying six hundred people lived here on in the nineteenth century now there are only six including the owner has decided to sell it and rebecca whose children are at school on the neighboring island of maui she fears a new owner could force her family to leave a final blow in the long decline of this community my husband grew up here in our whole lives are invested in the. eleven years and in belton of her business and our children are very happy at the local scale and i think it would be devastating for us. is littered with empty houses some long abandoned recently far from jobs and services this is a difficult place to survive but the remaining islanders supported by people all want to buy believing they can repopulate it make it viable backed by scotland's government which has new powers to change the pattern of l

welcome to talk to al-jazeera in the field with me barnaby phillips in the kenyan capital nairobi now this is a city that has played a big part in my life i spent some very happy childhood years here i have vivid memories of although i left when i was only ten years old way back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight i've returned for reporting stint for al-jazeera and it's fascinating for me personally to see the changes nairobi is undergoing these possible. changes in some cases for the better and in some cases for the world to help me understand nairobi's journey i've been talking to some experts kenyans of my generation can help explain where this city has come from and where it might be going. in the one nine hundred seventy s. kenya was celebrated as an african success story newly independent politically stable economically strong nairobi it's proud capital it was caught between two identities i wrote he was founded by the british and that colonial influence was still strong but it was trying to redefine itself as a modern african city in the seventy's just like today it was

welcome to talk to al-jazeera in the field with me barnaby phillips in the kenyan capital nairobi now this is a city that has played a big part in my life i spent some very happy childhood years here i have vivid memories of although i left when i was only ten years old way back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight.

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. an exhibit at the newseum in washington d.c. is currently showcasing the work of a young photographer who spent three days with the u.s. marines at the one thousand nine hundred sixty eight battle of why a lot of. the it no more john olsen star instructor toggle for for the tet offensive tells us about his experience. i'm john also i'm co-founder of a business name three d. photo works this is a series of photographs i made as a young combat photographer in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight during the tet offensive in one thousand sixty seven i was a nineteen year old u.s. army draftee in saigon with incredible job i was the only photographer assigned to the newspaper stars and stripes i'd heard that the battle for a was vicious fighting there i was met by a number of eighteen nineteen twenty year old marine and i spent three days with them they were taken heavy casualties and it was a totally new experience tet is the vietnamese new year that celebrated ever

wants albrecht negotiations to be completed by october there was much to be done correspondent barnaby phillips explains. all the busy holiday. towns deep to the glitch history and one which voted in favor of brics it by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people think about it and whether to reason they can meet the challenges of twenty eight. she. didn't expect this. also. i think the economy i think it's embarrassing. i think. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over. in twenty eighty the realities of what it means will become much more tangible a prime minister to resign may and labor leaders. will struggle to hold their parties together. the prime minister faces a dilemma does she choose a so-called soft breaks it that keeps britain closely aligned to the e.u. to minimise economic disruption. or does she choose a hard breaks it bore divergence from europe both freedom for britain to make its own decisions but also a risk that it becomes a poorer more iso

rather prepares to leave the european union barnaby phillips reports they've been making woollen cloth since seventeen eighty three and the expertise built up over centuries by this very british company in its yorkshire factory is now highly valued by the chinese today much of the focus is on markets in the far east and it exports more textiles and fabrics to china than to any other country. really nowhere else might china where if you think sank you in stagnant relationship next thing and it you and yanks can actually make it and you can see plants they can and actually can you know that. this company's business is interwoven with china but the wider british and chinese economies are not so tightly bound trade has grown sharply in recent years but it's still relatively small the united states is the largest destination for british exports china is only eight exports to china are worth about one fourteenth of those to the e.u. which britain will soon be leaving. but china's growing strength is felt in britain as elsewhere the arrival of the first train from china in london last year a

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. and you can get much more on all those stories we've been following on our web site al jazeera dot com. let's take you through some of those stories now the u.s. president down trump has delivered his first state of the union address to a joint session of congress his speech began with a call to seek out common ground and summon unity among fellow lawmakers the economy trade health care and all of his legislative agenda for the year ahead and the u.s. president pushed for cross party support to solve the issue of so-called dreamers their people who were brought illegally to the u.s. is children my duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend america us to protect their safety their families their communities and their right to the american dream because americans are dreamers too. before his state of the union address told trump signed an executive order to keep the one ton of a bay prison open his move reverses previous adminis

stars and royalty it says it's deeply concerned by the allegations an investigation is under way barnaby phillips al-jazeera may fetch in central london scientists in china have achieved a world first by. cloning to monkeys and when a way are identical twins created using the same process used to clone dolly the sheep more than twenty years ago the technique brings the prospect of cloned human beings even closer. british film the death of stalin was supposed to open in russian cinemas on thursday but the controversial black comedy about former soviet leader joseph stalin has effectively been banned from cinematic release across the country is choice chalons reports. the death of stalin is unsurprisingly considering its source material the blackest of black comedies the profane british satire mocks the panic of talks a view to vishal is following the murderous tyrant stroke in one nine hundred fifty three. shoot. for you get a spike kill it's been acclaimed by western critics but in russia the film is no laughing matter they deny censorship this week the culture ministry revoked the film's distrib

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. the u.s. secretary of state and defense minister had been meeting their counterparts from qatar texas state rex tillerson says the u.s. is came to find a solution to the gulf crisis atika hain has more from washington d.c. . qatar is a strong partner and a longtime friend of the united states a message of support from the u.s. secretary of state to the state of cutter who didn't get the same treatment from rex tillerson boss at the start of the blockade we ask guitar and other nations in the region to do more. and do it faster president donald trump initially sided with the blockading countries but has since called for the sides to settle their disagreements he even promised to help them negotiate but that was last september and not much has changed so now these talks resolving some big sticking points in the relationship guitar airways has agreed to open its books a big demand of u.s. air carriers and the sides have signed an agreement to work together improving

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. again i'm elizabeth bron i'm in dar harbor the headlines on al-jazeera and russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country but the syrian opposition who boycotted the event and sought she says k. demands were ignored and no thermal agreements have been made. u.s. president donald trump the set to deliver his first state of the union address to a joint session of congress in just a couple of hours that's used to outline the president's legislative agenda for the year ahead exits have been released ahead of the address the president will talk up his success with tax reforms and also push for cross party cooperation over immigration secession is forces in yemen have taken control of the southern port city of aden reports say the government of president has he has been confined to the presidential palace of the city that's where the saudi backed leaders government has been basins tw

time and money to match the elders price it's intervention being watched far beyond all the barnaby phillips al-jazeera in the scottish highlands. but terry with us adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera syrian warplanes have killed at least twenty people during an offensive on the rebel held province of it lip wanted to say that the jets targeted the markets and then the hospital full of people who were wounded in the earlier strike it comes russia launches a diplomatic push to end the war hosting a new round of talks in sochi the u.n. is there but the main syrian opposition group says that it will boycott the negotiations the deputy director of the f.b.i. has resigned weeks before his official retirement date the u.s. president has repeatedly criticized andrew mccabe for political bias donald trump is accused mccabe of favoring his rival hillary clinton in the twenty sixteen presidential race the caves resignation comes a week after u.s. media reported that the president wanted him gone but the white house denies any involvement. we've seen numerous ports as all of you ha

wealthy people own half of all private land and the scottish government wants to change that barnaby phillips reports from the island of over. in a distant corner of the british isles i drove through a wild landscape to find an island community that is dying six hundred people lived here on olva in the nineteenth century now there are only six including the owner has decided to sell it and rebecca whose children are at school on the neighboring island of maui she fears a new owner could force her family to leave a final blow in the long decline of this community my husband grew up here in our whole lives are invested in the. system of to live in years and in belton up her business and our children are very happy at the local scale and i think it would be devastating for us. is littered with empty houses some long abandoned recently far from jobs and services this is a difficult place to survive but the remaining islanders supported by people all want to buy believing they can repopulate it make it viable backed by scotland's government which has new powers to change the pattern of land owners

wants all blacks and goshi asians to be completed by october but there is much to be done as barnaby phillips reports. on a busy holiday. a town steeped in english history and one which voted in favor of brecht's it by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people now think about rex it and whether to reason they can meet the challenges of twenty eighteen she needs to toughen up a bit. again she's not all mad a manuever by sight she just rolled over for a supplier interest robert first offered me a use by selling nora didn't expect it to be this will also come quick. i think the economy i think it's embarrassing. i think. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over breaks in twenty eighty the realities of what it means will become much more tangible and prime minister to resign may and labor leader. will struggle to hold their parties together. the prime minister faces a dilemma does she choose a so-called soft breaks it that keeps britain closely aligned to the

and society we're not saying barnaby phillips al-jazeera. let's get a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera the french president emanuel macro has urged donald trump not to cancel the iran nuclear deal head of friday's deadline on whether to really impose sanctions against iran the foreign ministers of france germany and britain also reiterated their backing for the twenty fifteen deal after meeting iran's foreign minister in brussels meanwhile the u.s. president has caused a stir of a profound comments he's reported to have made during an oval office meeting speaking about a proposed protections for immigrants he referred to haiti el salvador and some african nations as quote shitholes there's been a second day of protests in pakistan after the rape and murder of a six year old girl the family's accusing the police of not doing enough to investigate the local police chief has been sacked for negligence. if the culprits in earlier great community cases had been caught and punished then this incident would never have happened if the

his time and money to match the owners price it's intervention being watched far beyond all of barnaby phillips al-jazeera in the scottish highlands. and along is former leader karl as for to monts expected to ask a spanish judge for permission to attend a regional parliamentary session on tuesday say its constitutional court although he must be present to be chosen as the region's president allowing him to form a new government has been in brussels since october and is wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion for spearheading catalunya secession movements on . the open sea and illegally that we have to swear in president and that's what we have to do now and it's a complicated and difficult situation we have seen the last chapter of a process of demolition of the rule of law and spain the attitude of spain's government pushing all kinds of powers while the powers of the separatists are constantly being affected in violated. relations between the u.s. and cuba have deteriorated since donald trump's office has put limits on trade and made it harder for americans to visit the island b

welcome to talk to al-jazeera in the field with me barnaby phillips in the kenyan capital nairobi now this is a city that has played a big part in my life i spent some very happy childhood years here i have vivid memories of.

correspondent barnaby phillips brings us this report. all the busy holiday. towns deep did igloos history and one which voted in favor of brics it by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people will think about brics it and whether to reserve may to meet the challenges of twenty eighteen. inches not over at a moment where would i say you should just roll over for a supplier interest robert de niro used by select in order to excrete trip to this law. i'm pretty good about rick said. i think the economy. i think it's embarrassing. i think. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over breaks it in twenty eighty the realities of what it means will become much more tangible and prime minister to resign may and labor leader jeremy corbett will struggle to hold their parties together. the prime minister faces a dilemma does she choose a so-called soft breaks it that keeps britain closely aligned to the e.u. to victimize economic disrup

blow for the future of the united kingdom and not just its leading politicians a crucial year barnaby phillips al-jazeera countering. now tech firms have admitted a serious carol and chips that pallet billions of computer smartphones around the world so the experts are now scrambling to fix the issue the fourth sensitive information stored on the chips becomes vulnerable to hackers as rob reynolds reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone and server sold in the past twenty years packer's if they are able to install some malicious software on a computer and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in computer chips used in nearly all devices the flaws dubbed specter and meltdown by security experts would allow intruders to steal any data on the systems companies involved including apple microsoft

to be completed by a tobar but there's much to be done before then are you kate correspondent barnaby phillips explains. on a busy holiday. town steep getting lish history and one which voted in favor of bricks hit by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people now think about rex it and whether to reason they can meet the challenges of twenty eighteen she needs to toughen up. again she's not all mad i'm on what i say she's just rolling over for. interest. to me or you spice like you know i didn't expect it to be this. i think the economy i think it's embarrassing. i think it's. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over. in twenty eighty the realities of what it means will become much more tangible a prime minister to resign may and labor leader. will struggle to hold their parties together. the prime minister faces a dilemma does she choose a so-called soft breaks it that keeps britain closely aligned to the e.u. to minimise economic disruption. or does she c

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire the republic of ireland is to hold a referendum in may on relaxing abortion laws which are among the strictest in europe abortion is currently illegal in ireland unless the mother's life is in danger with up to fourteen years in prison for women breaking the law now voters will be asked whether to scrap the constitution's eighth amendment which awards equal rights to a woman and her unborn child if it passes promise to nearby says the government will legislation to allow unrestricted access to abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy although the irish public is strongly catholic opinion polls suggest a majority for reform one there some joined by linda kavanagh who's the spokesperson for the abortion rights campaign she joins us live from dublin this one i wonder what your reaction was when you when you heard the news. we're really really pleased. this has been a long time coming this is decades of activism that have brought to this point really the political

stars and royalty it says it's deeply concerned by the allegations an investigation is under way barnaby phillips al-jazeera may fetch in central london. soldiers are being deployed to evacuate parts of the french capital as. revis well to record levels after weeks of heavy rain there are flood warnings across parts of eastern france while authorities in paris are imposing emergency measures rivers have been rising across the country despite some improvement in the weather. issue i have been here for two days we sleep here and we've received food and coffee in my neighborhood and the floodwaters are high and we came here because we don't know where else we can sleep amazing as outbreak is fair to have killed hundreds of mt people in indonesia's eastern popple province officials say sixty nine children have died but church leaders believe the death toll is much higher our correspondent steps lawson and her team gained rare access to some of those forgotten villages and one of the world's most remote regions they took a commercial flight from the capital jakarta to get to to meet and pop a province

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al jazeera yorkshire germany is among one countries in the european union facing hefty fines of its levels of air pollution france and britain have also been warned that they must reduce their emissions as dominic a report from the german city of start efforts are being made to find new ways of cleaning up europe's air. nestling in a natural bowl of the neck of valley stuttgart is renowned as the cradle of the automobile several famous manufacturers have important bases here but there in lies the problem because with the car comes pollution which often lingers in the air because of the local topography to combat it the city has pollution meters set up in many locations gauging the amount of nitrogen dioxide and minute particles of fine dust in the air a sophisticated alarm system warns people in the levels are too high but local authorities say more needs to be done the federal level needs to spend more money for the for the local level at the moment we have what they call is for prog

stars and royalty it says it's deeply concerned by the allegations an investigation is under way barnaby phillips al-jazeera may fetch in central london. but want to come on the news hour including. business updates. business updates. thank you so much lauren roger federer may be no stranger to an australian open semifinal he's reached there for a fourteenth time but his opponent is something of a surprise and as elise homan reports federer is excited to be in among some exciting up and coming players in the last four. years. it was list semifinal that no one would have predicted the world number fifty eight. both as the ninety seventh ranked tennis sound grinned the latter an american from tennessee had never won a grand slam much before this tournament but he's unlikely run appeared destined to end. chongjin basin novak djokovic john he's way to the quarterfinals of a twenty one year old looked composed as he would tone first straight sets victory he's the first korean to reach the last four of a grad slam we were really surprised because i really don't know i make sammy's have been such a. goo

other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire venezuela's economic and social crisis is fuelling a major increase in crime not just at home but also in neighboring colombia the collapse in venezuela's currency has made cross border smuggling a lucrative business for criminal gangs. he went on night patrol with colombian special forces on the hunt for the smugglers. shots ring out over the cmon believer bridge dividing colombia and venezuela as people died and run for cover. in the last four months at least fourteen gun fights have erupted in the border town of. the gun battles have left forty people dead as colombian in venezuela and crime groups fight for control of the lucrative contraband of goods on this poorest lawless border the mayor says people are terrified. we need the national government to wake up about the venezuela's crisis we are being told we need to prepare for what will come what is not what is already here. since been. shut down the border last year to all but foot traffic violence has incr

countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post sprigs it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. a volcano in the philippines is disrupting traffic and showering nearby villages with ash mounts mayon has been erupting for the last two weeks blowing lava and ash from its crater or an eighty thousand villages have been forced to take cover in emergency shelters . on our developments the government in the philippines is introducing new laws to stop what he calls fake news but opponents say the move is an attack on free speech aimed at punishing journalists and bloggers who criticize president what draco detach say. reports from the capital manila. best antidote to fake news is truth filipino journalists are demanding accountability from president lewdly good it or does government they see journalism has been under siege mostly from doctors to supporters and some members of his government fuels massage rappler an online news site known to be critical of the government had its license revoked over a technicality a few weeks ago thing. in the past the turkey has s

blow for the future of the united kingdom and not just its leading politicians a crucial year barnaby phillips al-jazeera canterbury. and next in our series looking ahead to the big stories to come this year we report from a refugee camp in bangladesh that's not home to hundreds of thousands of rohingya many could soon return to myanmar under the plan the u.n. has labeled a farce you can watch that story here on al-jazeera on saturday and save the children says thousands of pregnant rohingya women and new mothers need urgent care in bangladesh the aid organization says it expects as many as forty thousand babies to be born in refugee camps this year that's more than one hundred thirty women a day giving birth often in unsanitary conditions and without adequate medical help there now more than eight hundred fifty thousand remaining are refugees in bangladesh it's estimated that sixty percent are children and almost five percent off pregnant women. now at least four hundred thousand people in thailand are considered stateless with no registered citizenship the actual number could be more than th

islanders time and money to match the owners price it's intervention being watched far beyond barnaby phillips al-jazeera in the scottish highlands for now andy thank you so much marion well the cleveland indians baseball team as they get rid of a controversial logo from their uniforms many consider the chief or her image to be racist and offensive chief wahoo is a caricature of a native american that first appeared only indians uniforms in one thousand nine hundred forty seven major league baseball say will be removed from next year after the team owners agreed with their view that the logo is no longer appropriate for on field use well earlier i spoke to the native american journalist and activist simon morris smith he says cleveland's ownership need to do more to convince their answers their intentions are sincere. the league put pressure on that team to drop its chief wahoo local from its uniforms in while it's playing but the team itself is still selling the merchandise with the image they're going to continue to do that they haven't changed the name they haven't issued an apology to nati

good politics for the prime minister changing the ways economy and society work not so easy barnaby phillips al-jazeera bristol. well julian kirby is a campaigner with environmental charity friends of the earth he joins me in the studio now thanks very much for coming in to speak to us it's a long term plan a twenty five year plan an ambitious plan what are your thoughts on it is it feasible well there's some great warm words in there and we certainly need an ambitious long term plan but when it comes down to the details of what's what's in it well the details are sorely lacking or a lot of what they're talking about in there has already being consulted on heavily in twenty ten eleven mr gove the environment secretary interest mary's predecessors and colleagues conducted a wholesale what they called the waste review they consulted on many of the things that they're announcing again today and then they did nothing with them one of the will anything immediate change in terms of the government's policy. well rumor has it that michael gove wanted to put targets in and then at the end of the day

islanders time and money to match the old as price it's a diversion big watch to far beyond barnaby phillips al-jazeera in the scottish highlands and fallacious sports news over to and in doha thank you so much learn more russian power athletes who can prove their drug free will be allowed to take part in the upcoming winter paralympics albeit as neutrals the international paralympic committee announcing the concession earlier on this monday means around thirty five russian neutrals will compete that's half the number that were such in four years ago russia was banned from all paralympic events in twenty six days after evidence of state sponsored doping was revealed we often said during our deliberations last saturday can we look in the eyes of the athletes all of them and say that we are doing everything that we can to guarantee a level playing field and yes so yes so we are not rewarding russia but we are allowing athletes that we believe are clean to compete under a neutral flag our sports correspondent says the i.p.c.c. shift in position was expected. well from the noises we've been hear