Killed in forty eight hours russian and Syrian Government jets hit rebel areas in and eastern cooter. Also rescue crews are searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake hit taiwan. Forced out of kenya a week after standing by our position leader raul loading given his controversial swearing in ceremony a major supporter is deported plus. Three. And liftoff in florida for the worlds most powerful rocket a key turning point for the privatizing of space exploration. Welcome to the news hour its been described as the deadliest day in the rebel held syrian region of eastern cooter in over a month at least seventy one people have been killed by a strikes in the damascus suburb which has been besieged by the government for four years Syrian Government and Russian Forces have ramped up their attacks there as well as the rebel held areas of italy province there are two of the four apparent deescalation zones agreed by iran russia and turkey last year and a total of one hundred thirty eight people have been killed in those areas in the last forty eight hours activists say many of them were civilians including. Children u. N. War crimes experts say the siege of eastern involves crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population and theyre also investigating reports of chlorine gas being used against victims with reports. This is supposed to be a deescalation zone part of the russian lived through stew of the territory held by antigovernment forces in syria. But if anything the bombing is escalating here in eastern guta. The uns head of the International Commission of inquiry on syria says the government siege of the area involves the International Crimes of indiscriminate bombing and deliberate starvation of the civilian population was. There are reports that at least three hospitals have been hit with the help of the Russian Air Force on the rainy and back groups syrias president is pursuing the last major pockets of territory held by his opponents in western syria. The offensive intensified after fighters from one rebel group shot down a russian aircraft and killed its pilot on saturday. Now the syrian army says its deployed add offenses and anti aircraft missiles to its front lines in aleppo and it led to cover northern airspace i had there from the us four hundred or russian and they are controlled by the russian intelligence not the Syrian Regime so this is russia we need to understand there is an direct confrontation between the u. S. And russia that its dangerous because at the same time turkey is trying to force its presence in the area northwestern syria is where turkey is carrying out an operation to push Kurdish Forces out of afrin its using syrian airspace and has got russias agreement to do so but at the same time the Syrian Government has threatened to shoot down turkish jets turkey also wants to wipe e. G. Out of another northern syrian town bitch but there are u. S. Forces there too much to the irritation of the turkish president begin your producer now that you can why are you there go ahead and leave who did you bring there the y. P. G e p k k you took them there and youre still telling us not to come to many of these we would come to manage to deliver the land to its true owners. As ever across syria its civilians who are caught in the middle the un wants fighting across the country to flee suspended for a month to allow the sick and wounded to get out and aid to get in. The un is certainly calling for an immediate pause in fighting in syria is asking for a month long ceasefire to allow aid in many of the besieged areas and to evacuate the sick and wounded. We are trying to reach those most in need first so when we are able to reach those most in need for example if this situation those in beseeched areas who have seen no aid whatsoever for weeks and months east and in for us and can fry it we. We call from the rooftops if you like we are talking about it leap governor rat we have about two Million People of concern. And called it the other day its like one huge refugee camp and that is essentially what it is there are hundreds or thousands of people who are internally internally displaced there on the run extremely vulnerable and they are being they come under attack and under compartment that is completely unacceptable well as it stands is the breakdown of territory controlled by the Syrian Government or the opposition groups there the bombing of russian jets in the northwest provinces supporting a major offensive by Syrian Government forces they want to recapture a strategically important highway between the cities of aleppo and damascus troops have been fighting opposition groups since december now theyre moving northwest trying to cut off a rebel supply line the road between aleppo and damascus connects some of the few remaining opposition held areas in a syria that the im sure heard the as a director of the Forest Center in the Fletcher School at Tufts University he says the Syrian Government no longer take seriously any warnings from the International Community. There has to be a full International Investigation on the war crimes of the regime regardless of what excuses they use to bomb hospitals and civilian population in and the use of chemical weapons i mean the use of chemical weapons is now almost permit to the regime after the United States returned i mean. Did not respect the red line in two thousand and thirteen and this is interpreted as a green light for the regime and for russia and iran that they have a license to kill absolutely and with no destruction and that no and they are confident that nobody will do anything about it in taiwan a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit the east of the island killing at least two people and injuring more than two hundred now these are live shots coming from queen lend as onlookers of course look at the damage in the city. The quake brought down a hotel left several other buildings severely damaged person seeing when is visiting the affected areas earlier on social media she said that rescuers from around taiwan will be taking part in that search efforts to silver has more. This was the scene in sports after the earthquake struck just ten minutes before midnight rescuers making these boats and cranes to get those property what was left of the hotel back to safety. Its believed the occupancy rate was particularly high this time of the its not a very densely populated area as alone the is to a strong coast of taiwan as official to many fish in an agricultural based county and most people there are focused most most with their live in tourism and fish and agriculture at this time of year as we are the chinese new year. To learn new year so there are tourists there so the hotel was as one of their one of the building that many true is would choose to stay search teams from around the island are headed to qualify to help with rescue efforts. So i want fire Agency Reports that five more buildings including a hospital were also damaged as were several roads leading to the city this earthquake followed another one over the weekend off the coast of this earthquake today in the sequence for the last few days has been right in one of the hot spots on the northeast coast of taiwan so its not a surprise its an area where have to sharks are inevitable you know the question is how many big aftershocks will there be in our usual odds are one in ten or one in twenty chance of a big earthquake so they need to be prepared at least for a few days for more action the city lies along the pacific rim of fire known for regular seismic activity from alaska to Southeast Asia which won the silver aljazeera. Became michelle is a member of parliament in taiwan representing the constituency joins me now the phone line from feeling good to have you with us live on aljazeera michelle you have actually i believe been speaking to the president but also please bring us up to speed on your constituency and exactly what the situation is like there in terms of the rescue and recovery operation. Finally and were actually prone to earthquake but never experienced serious right now there are buildings that have collapsed and about one hundred seventy people still unaccounted for but the rescue teams from around the country are involved in immediate search and rescue and they have also read individuals from the rubble. Who had successfully from the building. Not only many times nationals but also some Foreign Tourists but so far there are only two casualties were still working to ensure to make sure we keep those numbers down most of the other injured discharged from the hospital for mild injuries and that also going to. Taiwan is no stranger to quakes of this magnitude and greater but can you give us your impression of how your infrastructure is held up are you surprised that you might say the low number of casualties in this particular scenario. Well as i said earlier the county which is the eastern side of taiwan has had many earthquakes. And so most of the. Earthquakes. But this is the one we just experienced around midnight specially period really unprecedented magnitude we have seen buildings collapse but fortunately as far as we know right now most of the people have managed to escape no one can predict when an earthquake is going to happen anywhere in the world but. Obvious signs you had tremors at the weekend where you all the authorities concerned that Something Big was going to happen. Well of course we are concerned but as mentioned others are unpredictable and after the large earthquake around midnight we have. Maybe about thirty aftershocks so people are still pretty much afraid and many people are camped outside afraid to go back into the taller buildings back to their homes and so were also preparing for further shelter during this period of time in which after quakes or even perhaps larger quakes are expected obviously were seeing pictures of the hotel which is slightly more than slightly angle to one side but the area of your constituency is a very rural area. Perhaps there are a few people in tola buildings that could have been injured by the quake can you just give our viewers an idea of the surrounding countryside or the area that has been affected by the earthquake. Well the county is about three hundred thousand residents but the center of the quake. Slime is actually a more densely populated area of the county with about one hundred twenty thousand residents here and. More densely populated area there were also a number of. Really felt the quake including my own apartment. I think president although we are very accustomed to all types of earthquakes over the decades but still this is a very serious one and i think great thing for further aftershocks and. People are remaining cautious or will keep an eye on things and the pumps the two in the coming hours and days for the moment to became shall thanks so much joining us from taiwan lawyers for the kenyan opposition politician it may make me good to have told al jazeera that hes been deported to canada after being charged with treason but he was arrested after taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony for Opposition Leader rylan. Magruder seen here on the left was next to the last week when he declared himself the peoples president rejecting who can unite us reelection were going to hold both canadian and kenyan past poles. Is an independent african policy analyst he says the instability in kenya is leading to concerns about its impact on the wider region. Might be. A Silver Lining on this because events moving too quickly the government is reacting quickly on the other and mr dean day his support is pretty incensed still about what went on in the in the elections not. Deport him mr me guna. The Silver Lining may be that may be it to allow things to to calm down because the trying to charge him in the courts the minute that he was i rested and brought to court today in kenya tuesday in kenya we know that street protests broke out in kisumu and other parts of western cape you know which is the stronghold of not mr odinga so i am hoping that this will actually lead off some steam i do know that westing capitals are very very worried and behind the scenes they are trying to deescalate the situation. You know is divided and there are tensions between mr odinga. And the Government Support is but beyond kenya is so there is the whole worry some issue of somalia which is rocked by a civil war terror war and then further north across the red sea you have you have. Yemen and therefore this is a very dangerous area western and western countries depend on kenya to help deal with that situation apart from kenyans own importance in its own right so what is happening in kenya has a lot of repercussions and people are worried so im saying that it seems to me people might even say ok we will go out along with some. Moves if we to bring stability and peace and to get the two sides talking to deescalate the situation. Well stay on the continent zimbabwes main Opposition LeaderMorgan Tsvangirai is critically ill in a south african hospital the sixty five year old announced in june that he was having treatment for colon cancer he returned to hospital in johannesburg early last month his abortions have been told to quote brace for the worst well south Africas Parliament has for spode president jacob zuma state of the nation address amid fears that the opposition would disrupt his speech zuma is under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations and also being calls to step down from members of his own party the ruling a. N. C. Has called for a special meeting of its Top Committee to decide resumed his fate. We decided to drop close to the president of the abbey to propose that we postpone that joint committee you are that age warm for establishments imagine more interesting would be to tally up most. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including the trumpet ministrations hope that of expanded air campaign in afghanistan will push back the taliban. Columbias stalled peace accords discussed during a visit from the u. S. Secretary of state. And in sport the netherlands hope that this man can turn around their footballing fortunes more than coming up with tatiana. To the middle east now a palestinian man is being killed during raids by the israeli army in the occupied west bank city of nablus thirty people were wounded as Israeli Forces fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets early on tuesday five of them are in a Critical Condition on monday an israeli settler was stabbed and killed in the any settlement of the out. Israeli Security Forces of also killed a palestinian man who was wanted over the death of a settler last month twenty one year old ammar nasser gerar was shocked that he was accused of killing rabbi. Shared of a chin in an illegal israeli outpost last month imran khan has more from the occupied west bank the Israeli Army Says this is a mature as body theyve been looking for him since general you know he was accused of killing a settler rabbi from an illegal settlement outpost in nablus in the early hours of Tuesday Morning around seventy jeeps and two bulldozers and this village. And focused their attention on this about building. On last night sort of like at exactly four thirty am i heard an explosion and we heard an exchange of gunfire and it quieted down for about five minutes and then they started shouting surrender but there was more shooting and then they brought in a robot that searched the room for about two hours from. The killing is taken on a heightening significance because the settler was a religious leader. After the killing of the rabbi from a nearby settlement the israeli army mounted almost nightly raids and village of game and they eventually found him they say him in the yemen a massive reacted saying the Palestinian Resistance continues. This courageous martyrdom asserts that resistance in the west bank is still going in all its forms led by al qassam military armaments and the resistant and fighting palestinian all the security measures of the Israeli Occupation the security organizations or Israeli Military cannot break the will of resistance and the palestinian youths resisting this intifada will continue the jerusalem intifada will continue the Palestinian People go on to freedom or martyrdom huge crowds are gathered outside of the mothers house and with whom. To believe in. Act but its not just my son hes the son of all of palestine he died his dignity fighting the occupation he has made his people proud. On the seventeenth of january they thought they killed but that turned out to be a case of mistaken identity and an innocent man was killed. The killing of the circular led Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to declare the settlement post legal under israeli law and bring it under official protection the bodies of the two palestinians killed in the israeli raid still havent been handed over to the families iraq on al jazeera village occupied west. Human rights watch has delivered a scathing assessment of australias treatment of prisoners with disabilities the Advocacy Group interviewed two hundred seventy five individuals it estimates half of the people behind bars have a physical intellectual or even cognitive disability and aboriginal australians are massively overrepresented in the prison population the report found that the state of queensland for example has more than seventy percent of them diagnosed with a disability its also documents allegations of physical and Sexual Violence carried out by stuff and fellow inmates well lets bring in chris sharma from sydney shes a Human Rights Watch researcher thanks very much for your time obviously you went into researching this issue knowing that whatever you found would surprise you but what surprised you most about your findings to be honest our findings were not surprising we expected to find that prisoners with disabilities were at risk and living in problematic conditions of confinement in australian prisons but what was surprising is the extensive use of solitary confinement we found that prisoners with disabilities are overrepresented in solitary confinement spending days weeks months and sometimes even yours in these units locked up for up to twenty two hours a day its cycler thats a isolation is harmful for any prisoner but its particularly damaging for prisoners with disabilities why are there issues of disability not addressed before they were put into isolation. There is no robust screening in australian prisons that weve visited for people with disabilities when a person with a disability first enters the system it is not screened which means that their prisons are very ill equipped to provide the services and cater to their needs and feel even provide the most basic services so have you brought this up with law makers or those that can actually change the situation in the Prison Service in terms of highlighting whats contained in your report. We have raised issues in our report with state governments and even at the federal level what is challenging for prison authorities and which has been the most contentious issue is the issue of solitary confinement at this point the do not acknowledge that prisoners with disabilities are overrepresented in these units and that would be the first step we are calling for a state level and a National Level inquiry into the practice with a view to end it because it is dehumanizing its inhumane what is going on people with disabilities are locked up in conditions where the lightest switched on for twenty four hours a day they are only let out of their cell for two hours their food is slipped through a slot in the door thats how isolated they are theres no real mental health. Care its limited to the distribution of medication and thats it and prison is damaging people with disabilities going in in a certain state but coming up much worse you mentioned the demographics of prison life and thats certain groups such as the Aboriginal Community and even in another report to about young people are also disproportionately represented too is a combination of racism in their ages and more is this just a lack of education within the Prison Service and with those that control the Prison Service that this has. To happen for perhaps far too long. Aboriginal people have fiercest disadvantage and discrimination for decades. Over representation in australian prisons today is a representation of that the their disability is more likely to go undetected unsupported they are less likely to have access to services which places them on a path to incarceration more than the likelihood of even getting a degree from college even though they are incarcerated for relatively minor crimes like theft traffic violations and big fines we find that the in and out of prison caught trapped in a revolving door. Once they are in prison we documented institutional racism against them i was told by prisoners that they were called derogated terms like black cant on a regular basis in fact it is so normal that they dont bother reporting it anymore that is the type of treatment they are facing in prison today or see whether that changes at all in the future for the moment with a sharper which i w thanks so much for joining us still ahead here on the aljazeera news our maldives president orders the arrest of two senior judges forcing the Supreme Court to revoke a true opposition ruling. The World Urban Forum is getting underway in kuala lumpur we look at how old the host city is trying to reach its neighborhoods. And tell us how the worlds best cyclists are fairing on the opening stage of the dubai told. From the sky dome morning. To the fresh autumn breeze in the city. Hello there is mostly dry forest across the southeast and parts of china at the moment the temperatures are recovering a little bit as well so shanghai isnt quite as cold as it was our temperatures should be hovering around six or seven degrees over the next few days as we will cloud over parts of taiwan and for the northern parts of luzon and the rains just trying to sneak across the reason straits there just trying to escape its way towards the west but its not making much headway towards us just yet even further towards the south you can see the showers it mostly over the southern parts of the philippines across borneo and down into java weve had lots of outbreaks of rain here recently we have had reports of flooding on landslips over parts of java and theres more wet weather still to come over the next few days towards the west so its quite different here its largely fine unsettled across many parts of thailand and that stretches all the way down towards k. L. And singapore both those places that you know they should have a drawing day out towards the west and across india theres lots of cloud with us at the moment that actually stretches up through no poor as well but most of it is just been high cloud so not doing too much weather wise its just in the far south where it could be thick enough to give us one or two showers or theyre largely even here its breaking up as we head through the day on thursday so for most of us on thursday it should be dry its over sri lanka they could be one of two rather heavy showers. The weather sponsored by cats are always. News has never been more available its a constant barrage the bit where every day but the message is a simplistic you have the faint good logical rational person the crazy monster and misinformation is right dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narratives at this time on aljazeera. With bureaus spanning Six Continents across the globe. To do. Aljazeera is correspondents live in green the stories they tell. Us about it. Aljazeera fluent in world news. Welcome back to the news hour im so whole rob there are a binder of our top headlines syrias a rebel held region of Eastern Ghouta hers and jawed its deadliest day in more than above russia the Syrian Government air raids killed at least seventy one people level tuesday and estimated one hundred thirty eight have been killed in eastern guta i did live province in the last forty eight hours also in taiwan a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit the east of the island killing at least two people and injuring more than two hundred in the ball city of play unless the. The quake brought down the hotel and left several other buildings the villi damage the president is sighing when he is visiting the affected areas also lawyers for the kenyan opposition politician that have been good to be good and have told her that hes been deported to canada after being charged with treason seen here on the left he was arrested after taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony for Opposition Leader rollo digger. Holds both canadian and kenyan passports. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson has held talks with the colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and bachata tillerson says the u. S. Shares the responsibility in combat in colombias drug trade and will continue to support its efforts u. S. President donald trump had previously threatened to decertify colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the nation the reverse is a surge in cocaine production and the standard m. P. s he has the latest from bottle. This was the second to last stop for the u. S. Secretary of state in what has been a quite challenging latin american trip again Drug Trafficking and the escalating crisis in venezuela where front and center in the meeting the hell do with the colombian president Juan Manuel Santos there were big expectations here to hear what killer son had to say about colombias efforts to try and reduce the amount of cocacola to be asian in the country especially after the u. S. President donald trump essentially tretton to cut aid to and specified countries that were and according to him not doing enough to fight Drug Trafficking to listen said he was encouraged from what he heard from president santos and that he was expecting to see some real figures that showed that reduction in this well everybody seems to worry about the crises whats missing here. What to do to move forward its clear that theres no united front in that tillerson wasnt really able to move much forward in that direction which also prompted the venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro to essentially describe to listen trip as a failure finally on wednesday the u. S. Secretary the secretary of state will travel to jamaica which also has been increasingly turning in a major Drug Trafficking hub. Now the u. S. Led Coalition Says expanded its Bombing Campaign in. The number of missions have been increasing under the trumpet ministration in the last few days taliban positions near the Afghan Border with china into g. Can stand have been targeted particle hate has more from washington d. C. Closer to the secure part of kabul the scene of mass casualties. A luxury hotel targeted and now in the u. S. Capital new questions about whether President Donald Trump strategy in afghanistan is working the attacks last month were a real shock thats a state Department Official touting the new policy and hearing these kinds of criticisms maybe its time we have a frank discussion congress whether or not there is a military solution in afghanistan were spending fifty billion dollars a year that could be better spent why do the taliban want to political settlement they now control more terry torie than they controlled since two thousand and one theyre gaining ground. Theyre creating chaos that was the big question here what is the Long Term Strategy the administration has long said they want to negotiate a settlement with the taliban that is until President Trump said the opposite theres no talking to the taliban we dont want to talk to the taliban were going to finish what we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish were going to be able to do it the explanation now he was simply upset i think what president President Trump was expressing was a reaction to. The terrorist activities of the horrible terrorist activities last month in kabul significant elements of the taliban are not prepared to negotiate and it may take a long time before they are willing to negotiate. To get them there the Administration Says they need to turn the tide on the battlefield the Coalition Just announced that theyve expanded the Bombing Campaign to the north in just over the last four days dropping twenty four bombs on what they say were taliban targets the most ever from a b. Fifty two bomber the air campaign has dramatically increased under President Trump according to data from the u. S. Military they dropped more than forty three hundred bombs in two thousand and seventeen thats up from around Thirteen Hundred the year before secretary of Defense James Mattis was also asked to defend the strategy on capitol hill in fact what were doing to earn the trust of the American People are doing sure another nine eleven at out of there does not happen during our watch making it clear recent events will not change the strategy after more than sixteen years more troops more bombing with the hope that eventually leads to peace. Paddy klein aljazeera washington. The International Community faces an even more difficult challenge in containing eisel than when the group was at its peak that sea assessment of a new report for the un Second Security council which says the fight against is entering a new phase according to the report i saw has lost its focus on conquering and Holding Territory and is prioritizing less visible that works of more autonomous individuals and cells theyre focused on carrying out external attacks and in some cases are willing to work with al qaeda to achieve their objectives the report warns countries need to improve intelligence sharing and cooperation to deal with the renewed threat it also says the threat to mysel linked groups is quickly spreading across the libya west and east africa and central asia now Richard Ponzi is director of the just security twenty twenty program at the Stimson Center think tank it says humanitarian groups also have a role to play in combat in the eisel threat. As has shown over several decades other extremist groups prior to the arrival of the Islamic State all you need is a good sense of Organization Funding but a set of ideas ideas that will rally a militant group of terrorist fighters then you can bring about great damage and spread tambour terror not just within regions such as the middle east that have been the brunt of most of these attacks but in nearby regions and central in southwest asia the report highlights one to four thousand isis fighters exist in afghanistan today they are threatening countries such as russia they are threatening the whole of europe which has a problem of foreign return fighters from these theaters such as syria and iraq today they have cited in the report that there are identity and travel documents that have been illegally stolen its going to be very difficult to differentiate refugees from militants associated with the Islamic State this problem will be around for some time to come its important though that its not treated as strictly a law and order Intelligence Response type of question but one that involves Development Humanitarian organizations this is where organizations such as the un can help take an integrated approach to addressing the causes of extremist violence niceties for a bit instance theres a real risk of us will find his returning to europe only boats used by monks to cross the mediterranean and follow was speaking at a conference hes hosting in rome to discuss migration and security representatives from several african countries with as well as from the e. U. The United Nations to hold the latest from rome. So fourteen nations at least forty nations in gauge here at the Italian Foreign ministry in rome in what is an ongoing conversation between the countries in africa that actors countries of origin and transit for the many many thousands of people trying to make their way to europe and the socalled host countries in europe that receive them which of course italy is a prime one the conference heard that the numbers had been decreasing quite encouraging really over the two thousand and sixteen seventeen period in large part of they havent said it here because of italian methods of dealing with the libyan coast guard encouraging them to turn people back but in fact turning them back to camps that have been described by aid groups and activists as prison camps and Detention Centers where Smuggling Networks are rife and exploitation right as well that will have to be dealt with here in terms of protecting the human rights of those involved in this migration and as well as that as outlined by the Italian Foreign minister defeating the socalled Business Model of smugglers but he said finance terrorism and looking out for the return of fighters i still fighters coming back to their countries of origin in europe using these routes its all about human rights its all about protecting and saving lives its all about bringing together many many countries in a common cause common and difficult cause with multiple competing interests. The Supreme Court of the whole deaves has revoked its earlier order to release several imprisoned Opposition Leaders a day after the president declared a state of emergency and arrested two of its judges you mean are you accusing them of being part of a plot to overthrow him hes also ordered the arrest of a former president whos his half brother a suburb of its reports. Just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent Opposition Leader to the countrys main jail on a Remote Island the. Moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. His family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. In this police came to arrest me im going with them i dont even know why they are arresting me ive done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people of multipath to be strong and stand with us we will win. With the arrested but two judges for the deepening the political crisis. It all began on thursday when the Supreme Court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president Mohammed Nasheed just also reinstated twelve m. P. s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president of the yemeni refused to comply with the ruling and celebrations turned into protests. Yeah i mean also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the Parliament Building for an indefinite period. I dont know what and this is. In addition to the do judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the Supreme Court the court says police didnt have enough evidence to arrest the judicial executive president yemi who happens to be the half brother of arrested leader abdul gayoom came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after police and army overthrew president Mohamed Nasheed but in a shaky democracy president yeah i mean has faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt his government insists that despite the state of emergency nonfunctioning Supreme Court and military posted outside parliament its business as usual for citizens and tourists that the Supreme Court was expected to do favorably on a petition to impeach i mean Opposition Leaders allege the president s loyalists made it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. For now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the jobs there. Has left parts of the venezuelan capital in the dark caracas commuters were among the worst affected the blackout force at least ten train stations to close shut down traffic lights and disrupted phone services the government is blaming saboteurs for the outage even as such incidents becoming increasingly frequent across the crisis hit country. More than four billion people around the world now live in urban areas and that number set to grow over the next over to six billion by twenty fifty making those areas more livable i mean theme in the ninth session of the world and for him thats Florence Louis reports the host city kuala lumpur is exploring ways to rejuvenate its neighborhoods. The confluence of to reverse this is where quanah began more than one hundred sixty years ago the name means muddy estuary in the middle a language but as the city expanded what used to be the administrative and commercial hub soon lost its importance to new or shiny a buildings parts of the old downtown area fell into disuse but there are plans to revive this part of the city as more people move in cities theres a growing demand for spaces in cities and the challenge of cities then regenerate existing urban areas as opposed to expanding and eventually result. In. Negative outcomes like the illusion extracting the sink city and urban regeneration body owned by malaysias Sovereign Wealth Fund believes one way to revitalize the city is by making existing spaces more inclusive that includes turning parking spots into small gardens some temporary Office Permanent any of them but there arent many places around here where one can stop to reste so this is great when youre tired you can sit down here for a bright. Theres also a plan to introduce the concept of micro housing and communal living this house is a prototype built as part of a showcase for the ninth and Forum Taking Place in. Actually a lack of housing choice in the city. Young people who want to be here by using this sort of. Communal living last record housing and hopefully the young people want to come back built on the space measuring five by five need to the footprint of each house is just the size of two parking spots clear the designs and just space is not wasted these shelves and steps. And once youre in the bedroom. And it becomes part of. The house lacks a dining room because thats meant to be a shed area over the next few weeks behind this project will gauge public reaction to this type of housing model but whats clear is the drive to inject new life into the city has begun florence slowly. The new. Scotland which is the traditional. Expose. Welcome back billionaire entrepreneur alone musks ambition plans to colonize mars have taken another step forward now his Company Space x. Has successfully launched its most powerful rocket yet the twenty three story falcon heavy blasted off from Kennedy Space center of florida with a tesla sports car inside rob reynolds reports. With its twenty seven rocket engines roaring the space x. Falcon heavy soared into the florida sky its the most powerful rocket on earth with a thrust equal to eighteen seven forty seven jumbo jets working simultaneously at full power the successful launch gives a powerful boost to billionaire entrepreneur elon musks company which wants lucrative contracts with nasa the u. S. Military and Satellite Companies on board the unmanned ship musks own cherry red tesla roadster from his electric car company with the space suit a dummy in the seat and a stereo playing the late david bowies space oddity on repeat the rockets side boosters separated from the main body and flew back to earth touching down in a perfectly choreographed double landing the boosters will eventually be reused on another mission another booster was designed to land of board a ship at sea musk says falcon to have these payload will go into an elliptical orbit of the sun that extends as far out as the orbit of mars and will continue circling for hundreds of millions of years robert oulds al jazeera now one hundred fourteen north korean musicians are in south korea had a rapper folman says that the people in china Winter Olympics the orchestra disembark from the fairing a day after survived in the south korean pulled off. Taking advantage of a thorn in relations between yang and so ill be playing called since going on thursday and in the south korean capital on sunday that sits across the border in nearly sixteen minutes. But its time to support his tatyana. Thank you very much with just three days left until the Winter Olympics begin in p. R. A number of russians banned due to doping on giving up the fight to compete thirty two have appealed to the court of arbitration for sport including champion speed skater victor an airing will be likely held on wednesday it follows a decision last week to overturn the lifetime doping bans of twenty eight russians one hundred sixty nine have been cleared to compete in chinas neutrals also known as a limp dick athletes from russia the issue was central as a meeting of the International Olympic committee on tuesday your huge amount of work has gone into making sure that we can ensure that it will be a clean power a pass a clean athletes from russia to compete in these games here so i think we await the decision as everyone else does but with the most important we are very confident of opposition some of the russian athletes care to take part of already touched down in south korea including these the mens ice hockey players they were greeted by fans at the airport but no russian flags will be allowed to be displayed when they start competing as neutral team next week. When the games get underway one of the strangest sports to look out for will be curling where giant stones a swept along the ice britain is strong and men and womens curling and the secret of their success lies in the sports history in scotland wellings reports. While some prepare for a Winter Olympics by hurtling down a ski slope others give a gentle throw a watch a giant slab of granite like its why a lot less what used to be known as house work. And then a giant stone settles closest to the center scoring points this is curling and scotland is home to some of the worlds best colors eve new head is the skipper of the multi medal winning british womens to bronze medalists in such a four years ago the mia heads are calling family his sheep brothers thomas and glamour in the mens team who won silver in such a father competed in the sport before it became an official Olympic Event in one nine hundred ninety eight one of the advantages and he was i was a couple disappointed as well of being a follow up to the intense competition because i guess i love advantages its like running and support each other and were there for each other and do whatever for each team and i think whats really been the scandal has been going really well theres this family members going i was going to monkeys you know a few locals are going out to see their faces when we go there to culling is traditionally an outdoor sport but the ice has to be thick enough and siphon off on that last top and hair like of went south in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine and i kind the ground watch this legendary in scotland the great thing about curling is not so much the actual game of the imagist weeping that always accompanies the goings popularity having been part of life in scotland for hundreds of years is about to get another push for the Winter Olympics and the precious stones come from an island off the west coast of scotland by the name of. Grant it would. Mean the house of cards to be used. The World Curling Federation prevail. As their use for all World Championships and Olympic Games heavens yes this. Is certainly. But its in this for a modest Paisley Abbey nick glasgow that evidence of colleagues origins could be found. The piers that in the early part of the sixteenth century. A monk from the abbey here settled a wager by throwing a stone on ice. Doesnt call it curling but to all intents and purposes it involved ice and throwing stones so that sounds very like a basic form of curving nearly five hundred years later the british team will love history on its side to join canada sweden and switzerland just some of the teams who might provide formidable opposition as they gently nudge their way to what they hope will be god the wellings aljazeera standing. Ronald koeman has been appointed the manager of the netherlands as they try and rebuild after failing to qualify for the twenty eighteen world cup the former everton boss will take charge for the first time in a friendly against england in march Seventy Eight netherlands cups as a player and help them win euro nine hundred eighty eight he replaces Dick Advocaat he resigned after the World Cup Qualifying Campaign we are not qualifying food. We did not qualifying for the large europeans and but we have still good players and we have still a lot of talent full players and im really positive about the future of the National Team south africas cricket team have it all to do in the six the match one Day International series against india going into wednesdays third much in capetown the hosts all ready to nail down and theyve also been hit by injuries to several of their key players but they have a good record in cape town winning twenty eight of their thirty three o. D. I. Played. The most important things for us to stay positive and not really. Seek too many questions or too many answers rather only winning you dont ask yourself any on any questions its all great. So you just have to stay positive. Keep trying to change the momentum. I dont think so the guy is going to come visit. Its big cities for us was sort of to go played very well and as you saw the leg to go as hard as possible. To win. Whatever games coming up. Dub cyclist dylan gran of again won the opening stage of the de by top on tuesday granted they can hit the front of the pack with one hundred fifty meters the one hundred sixty seven kilometer course remaining beating magnus court nielson and viviana to the line those three finishing well clear of the other sprinters wednesday second stage will see riders head out across the huey. The eagles have landed back in philadelphia after their first ever super bowl when dozens of fans gathered outside Philadelphia Airport to see the teams return from minneapolis they beat the new England Patriots forty one to thirty three on sunday to celebrate every parade will be held in philadelphia on thursday. One man missing with eagles quarterback nick foles the super bowl m. V. P. Was at disney world in florida instead were prorate was thrown in his honor. And finally the role of the wild card has been taking place in manchester over the last three days with thirty eight teams and thousands of spectators in attendance this ball could be described as a combination of roller skating and wrestling this was the first time the event was staged outside of north america the United States based australia in the final and after the aussies took the lead the americans fought back to edge in front and since the players are all women the cheerleaders may as well have been men right following the halftime show at the usa would go on to kill the title. And also the sport for now more later thanks to a study of you have been watching i was there and you saw it with me its a whole rubber ball team tennis is up with the full half hour on the other side of the break until i go away to see the few minutes. 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Facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter while it is activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself here theyre stored on talk to aljazeera at this time. Over one hundred thirty people are killed in just forty eight hours is russian and syrian jets hit rebel areas in the Eastern Ghouta