A strong show of military force in india as the country celebrates its sixty ninth republic day plus. All that money is not going to that unless they sit down and negotiate the tough words from donald trump the palestinians return to peace talks with israel or else. But african nations look to develop a global gateway to bolster economic trade with the rest of the. Fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefighters in the Southern City of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames critically injured survivors have been taken to other hospitals in the city the countrys president is calling for an investigation into president moon j held an emergency meeting. Chief aides a short while ago to discuss the fire at a marian hospital he expressed regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out at sage on hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after a fire in chase youngs and over a death toll that could still increase president moon says the government must prioritize minimizing additional deaths by taking necessary medical measures for the rescued victims more now from the serious kathy novak. This fire broke out at about seven thirty am local time at the at a hospital in near young in the south of south korea it was extinguished by about ten thirty am local time but not before dozens of lives were lost and dozens more people were injured were told there are about one hundred people in the hospital there was also a nursing hospital next door ninety six people were evacuated from that building president is taking the situation extremely seriously he called an emergency meeting and said this is extremely regrettable and is sad investigations are ongoing into the cause of this fire local Authorities Say the majority of people who died suffered from suffocation it was not attributed to the burns that caused those deaths but in fact i did the suggestion is that those people inhaled toxic fumes this fire is the second in as many months twenty nine people were killed last month when a fire broke out in a Fitness Center in another city in the south of the country india has celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a military parade attended by leaders from ten Southeast Asian nations its the first time that that many foreign leaders have attended the event being hosted by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi the day marks the adoption of the Indian Constitution in one nine hundred fifty daily sixty thousand security personnel were deployed in new delhi for the parade or modis decision to invite leaders from all ten Southeast Asian nations that make up the ass and group is being seen as a bold move to try to isolate china as part of its act east strategy is hoping to strengthen political and economic ties with Southeast Asian nations currently india trails behind china in trade with. In the last two years chinas trade with Southeast Asia was more than six times that of india india has just signed a maritime agreement with nations thats in response to recent moves. By china beijing has been giving economic aid for Infrastructure Development under its one belt one Road Initiative that aims to create a giant Economic Zone connecting asia and europe. Is the director of the National Maritime foundation and says that india doesnt need to directly compete with china to get the attention of asean leaders china has an dependency amongst them then our countries which is very very significant some of these countries are indebted to china but what india can do is perhaps to bring a certain amount of compliment daddy and off on an r. Done it option to these countries and that i think has been the primary focus all right mr monti china is making inroads into south asia in a very visible manner but it could only as far as the about it time domain is concerned and as part of the bed or initiative. Today we have china. In the end. Where its traditionally used to be india but as it were indias backyard and i think india is conscious so i think. We as unique you know. Trillion dollars. Worth of options. Us President Donald Trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children but thats only if democrats agree to funding for a mexico border war it would mean one point eight million socalled dreamers would be protected from deportation to their country of birth the white house says the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate. From plant a twenty five billion dollar fund to build that wall which he pledged to do during his Election Campaign in return trump says that around two Million Immigrants who entered the u. S. Without documents when they were children will be eligible for citizenship but that process will take ten to twelve years there have to meet specific criteria for Education Achievement and whats called moral character trump also plans to tighten rules on sponsoring family members and only allow in Young Children and spouses at the moment under eighteen year olds and siblings can be sponsored and trump wants to end the visa lottery system its supporters say that random selection ensures diversity but the president says its dangerous and must be shut down. This framework will fulfill the four agreed upon pillars securing the border and closing legal loopholes indian extended family chain migration cancelling the visa lottery and providing a permanent solution on dhaka after decades of n. A. A. In action by congress its time we Work Together to solve this issue once and for all the u. S. Is urging turkey to stay focused on defeating eisold in syria and not get distracted by its operation against Kurdish Forces near its border to accuse president. Military leaders of the Operations Command center on thursday to launch the offensive to clear the afrin region of kurdish wife p g finances last week it calls them a terrorist group particularly in in a frame operations turkish operations in a frame and all operations in a frame that have the effect of inducing friction into the equation of making it hard to focus on why we are in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid to rally or a negative thing the german governments delaying a decision to upgrade battlefield tanks which are being used by the took a shot me in the world in syria leopard two tanks exported from germany have phasing kodesh forces in efren so he wants the tanks improved to protect against land mines chancellor Angela Merkels can take a government would consider the request until a new Coalition Deal is signed us President Trump has given his First International interview since taking office more than a year ago in the interview on britains i. T. V. Trump was questioned about his posting of empty Muslim Videos on twitter last year in the event but trump retreated three inflammatory videos from the far right Group Britain first britains Prime Minister condemned the retreat calling it wrong i see v. S. P. As morgan trying to say sorry for the posts but he fell short of giving a categorical apology heres the exchange. Just for the retreats of well if youre telling me i need to go a long way heres whats fair if you are telling me that are horrible people horrible racist people horribly i would certainly apologize if youd like me to do that i know nothing about them and we disavow this of a people i dont want to be involved with people are you telling me about this because i know nothing about these people trade across africa is about to get to know a whole with measures aimed at cutting the cost of doing business it so to digital free trade zone will make connecting online easier for export and import companies at a much larger deal covering a whole continent as in the pipeline from either miller reports now from one of the biggest trade ports in east africa or the kenyan coast. With the british families run this Manufacturing Business in mombasa for decades he wants to expand sales of his wooden doors and other products beyond kenyas borders while moody can import the room materials he needs red tape a lengthy cross border processes make exports difficult. Buying through the agency because the amount of paperwork required and the taxation changing every now and then was the date now is were talking. Big pictures and policy between. I think one of the models for now the other thing the brain but this year the Regional Economic bloc komisar the Common Market for Eastern Southern Africa plans to roll out a digital free trade area which would benefit traffic hubs like mombasa as its east africas largest port and serves as the main gate to wait for trade for kenya and its neighbors the east Africa Community has already adopted and integrated regional system if for example congo is cleared here in mombasa on the kenyan coast can be tracked in neighboring uganda now the commis a free trade zone. Would ideally bring together more african countries beyond this region to enjoy seem less important export new technology would be used to connect the chain of people governments and agencies involved in the import and export of goods the move away from manual paperwork would be a first for africa allowing war goods to move through the region faster the east and Southern African zone has still to be finalized while a larger Continental Free Trade Area covering all of africa is also looking for political backing this year it covers a Single Market of one point two billion people and a combined g. D. P. Of more than a three trillion dollars its thought the agreement could increase trade by at least fifty percent but the reality is there are challenges across african borders we look collected as a continent where by real by roald the structure is poor. So that poses a challenge because it will continue to impact on the cost and time it takes to do to do business within the continent other barriers are a i for see is the fear of loss of revenue for the government because when you free up of a region you the government will effectively been doing itself customs and duties and taxes that they receive from exports and from imports theres also concern that while the political will maybe there duplicate regional and continental efforts will take a long time to implement adding to worries that the continents private sector may not have a Strong Enough voice to drive africas dreams for me to miller aljazeera on bus support kenya were going to weather update next here on aljazeera then. Go deal with people you know that. Are high sometimes you know sleeping rough in the u. K. The number of homeless reaches a record high. At a stray. Its national day but not everyone is celebrating well tell you why. From a fresh coast to breeze. To watching the sunset on the australian outback. How in places say we have got some dry weather now pushing across northern parts of france you can see the area of cloud here that has been producing the fairy heavy rain sinking a little further south was this is the weather system where the heaviest rain now lies we have a levels will of course remain high right through the weekend you can see slightly clear skies started to push their way into where paris for example as we go on through friday nine degrees celsius not celsius to insert some heavy rain coming in here into southern parts of france and also affecting a good part of eastern and Northern Spain elsewhere across europe we got some lively showers still in place just a rather decent side of the med these will clear through and by the time becomes a sad day as you can see it will be clear dry and sunny at long last for paris but wet weather not too far away thats going to make its way across england and wales in grassy sing for the south was going to be wet weather just around the western side of the maddened that area a cloud also affecting the fall northwest all of africa such a possibility of some down weather coming through forests i maybe even some snow have the high ground in a northern algeria algiers will have a high of around eleven celsius slightly modified fourteen degrees therefore were back we getting up to eighteen in the sunshine in a southerly wind that soon s. And a high of seventy four kyra. The weather sponsored by cattle and race. The scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. Again the top stories this hour on aljazeera fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefighters in the Southern City of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames the countrys president is calling for an investigation and a review of safety procedures. India has celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a parade which was attended by leaders from ten Southeast Asian nations events being seen as an attempt by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to isolate and counter china. And u. S. President donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to the only two million undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children but in return he wants government funding to build a wall along the border with mexico and and some types of family sponsored immigration. Bill the u. S. President is threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel donald trump may. At the comments of the World Economic forum in davos where he also reaffirmed his commitment to recognizing jerusalem as israels capital his statements were condemned by the palestinian leadership and renewed debate about whether the u. S. Can fairly mediate future peace negotiations from davos our diplomatic editor james bays reports. The us president seemed in upbeat mood as he arrived here. And prosperity between israelis and palestinians that seems further away than ever you might think that when youve alienated one side in a negotiation in this case the palestinians you might reach out to the flank by use really Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu the author of the art of the deal showed thats not his way when they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great Vice President to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in. Tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that moneys not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace because i can tell you that israel does want to make peace and theyre going to have to want to make peace or were going to have nothing to do with. Of course the reason the president pence on his visit was shunned by the palestinian president and heckled by palestinian members of the Israeli Parliament the knesset was the controversial u. S. Decision late last year to recognize jerusalem as israels capital something again praised down force by Prime Minister netanyahu this is the core group. That will be for the market for generations to come we took jerusalem off the table so we dont talk about they never got past seriously we took it off the table. Hard to talk about. One one point and youll give up two points later on the negotiation if it ever takes place i dont know that it ever will take place that seems to be a complete misreading of the situation the president is suggesting that hes removing the stumbling block of jerusalem from the negotiations in fact most believe hes making it an even more divisive issue previous us administrations knew the recognition card was one they needed to keep and not use to maintain leverage with the israelis a two state solution requires pressure on the israelis to give up illegal settlements they built on land that should form a palestinian nation great honor to be for the trumpet ministration israel seems to get only praise and never pressure james pays zero s. The Us Ambassador to the Un Nikki Haley has told a Security Council meeting the palestinian leadership lacks the courage needed for a peace deal the accusations been rejected by a palestinian counterpart kristen salumi as more from the un. The United States and palestinians exchanged accusations during the Security Councils monthly debate on the middle east Palestinian Ambassador riyad monsoor spoke passionately about how his people had been demonized and dehumanizing and accused of dis