♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the al jazeera news hour i'm live in doha and our top stories the u.s. ambassador to kiev blames russia is fighting intensified in ukraine before a ceasefire is to take effect. bashar al-assad must be part of the solution to end fighting in the country and opposition says he is the problem. also this hour understand of protesters take to the streets in bahrain to mark four years

for the start of the uprising call r for political reforms. and let the fun begin, it's time for brazil's biggest party, the rio carnival. ♪ fighting intensifying in eastern u rain -- ukraine hours but a ceasefire is to take effect pro-russia separatists on the outskirts of the town today, the government has become the main focus of the combat. these images are said to show a build up of russian artillery to the northeast of the rail way junction town and tweeted by the u.s. ambassador to ukraine on friday and said we are confident these are russian military and not separatists. and these are the areas

currently held by the separatist fighters rebel stronghold of donetsk has seen shelling after the ceasefire deal announced and also been reports of shelling and live fire in the rebel held town of lohansk and one of strategic importance is a rail way town linking them to russia and government forces hold it but they are under intense fire. now the peace plan which will kickoff in midnight on saturday in just a few hours is known as minsk two, the two sides have agreed to pull back heavy artillery from the front lines within 14 days. all foreign fighters and their weapons are to leave ukraine. there will be a demititary along agreed front lines and exchange of all prisoners within five days if withdrawal is successful then local elections

will be held in the rebel held donetsk and luhansk regions and have control of the border by the end of 2015 but that is conditional on kiev granting more powers to eastern regions. let's speak to al jazeera's charles stratford joining us on the line from donetsk just running from the front line and charles tell us what you saw just a few hours ago. >> reporter: well we came back across the front line from the area around the city this morning and certainly yesterday and so we were seeing it again today a heavy troup build up there, a lot of ukrainian forces moving forward today. as we came across the front line border and it was relatively quiet. we heard reports here in donetsk from people in donetsk there had been a lot of heavy shelling in the morning but certainly as we came through it was quite quiet, however, that changed around about an hour ago.

we were attending a press conference awaiting for a press conference to start being given by one of the separatist leaders here alexander portshenko and three shells landed progressively closer to that building all of the sudden panic among the few people that were on the streets. and like i say there had been here for a few hours but it seems steadily to be escalating. there was a response around ten minutes after those three attacks by what sounded like artillery and grant rockets being fired from positions which it's difficult to say where exactly but certainly around donetsk. so to say there does seem to be a steady escalation and it's interesting as we came across the checkpoints today the separatists set up more to positions that had not been there only yesterday when we crossed to go over. and ukrainian military also

saying that there are ongoing battles around the southern port city of maripol and not looking good to the schedule of the ceasefire start. >> in light of the events charles, what are prospects of ceasefire actually taking hold? >> well, this is it this is what everybody has been saying. the fighting has got worse since that ceasefire agreement was signed. obviously we had a couple days since then the ceasefire is due to start tonight and it seems as if both sides have tried to consolidate their positions or certainly even take more territory as we are seeing in the city certainly. we spoke to a separatist fighter at a check point going in separatist-controlled area and he said things are going to go crazy tonight. referring to what he said was

superior between night fall and the ceasefire starting around midnight. we have also seen over the last 24 hours acting to ukrainian military 7 soldiers killed and 23 wounded and 3 people reports to be killed last night overnight in ukraine territory and it's not looking good. >> charles stratford in donetsk. and it forced hundreds to go to russia and many are children and families are at a border crossing in the region and some of those forced to leave their homes in eastern ukraine due to constant shelling and we report. >> reporter: it has been seven months since they and their son fled the bombs of eastern ukraine and left behind a house and everything in it now they share one room in a college dormitory, not a spoon or a fork

when they arrived but the family doesn't do much complaining. >> translator: he started working as a builder on a construction site a month ago he got work at the port. a representative from the company came here and said he needed men. several guys from the dorm got jobs there. i work as a shop assistant. >> reporter: the dorm has 53 ukrainian refugees at the moment down from peak of 128, since december first they have been paying their own way after the russian government shut off financial support. thankfully most have picked up work. home may be thousands of kilometers away but these days internet keeps friends and family connected and she is getting news back home. >> translator: why didn't you leave? i didn't get the chance to go. it's because of work she had a job and salary and now we can only work half a day. they want to leave but they can't. you need to get a permit to

leave the city. >> reporter: the winter nights are long here. it's colder. not all the locals are happy with ukrainian refugees taking their jobs and the accommodation is cramped but as the man overseeing their building points out, all of that is preferable to what is going on back home. >> translator: the only motivation for them to stay or go is safety. if it's more safe here they will stay. >> reporter: he is a third grader at a local school and possible he will graduate and start a job and a family and ukraine will be a fading childhood memory rory with al jazeera. the u.n. special envoy to syria clarified an earlier remark that president bashar al-assad must be part of the solution in syria and staffan de mistura says he wasn't talking long-term solution but an effort to end the fighting and gerald tan has more. >> reporter: destruction in

kiev are clear signs that talks have broken down. rebels in hom say they won't accept government demands to lay down arms in exchange for civilian safety so the fighting continues in syria. >> translator: why isn't anyone caring for us and we suffer in silence while the whole world watches. >> reporter: world powers still trying to negotiate an end to the four-year war. after meetings in damascus this week the u.n. social envoy made it clear president bashar al-assad must be a part of the solution. >> it's important dialog we need to have. he is still president of syria. there is a large part of syria which is under the control of the syrian government and i will continue having very important

discussions with him because he is part of the solution. >> reporter: the u.n. envoy has now clarified that he wasn't referring to a long-term political plan involving president assad but a way to stop the violence. his office emphasizes that the geneva community calling for transitional government remains the basis for u.n. proposal to end the war. more than 200,000 people have been killed in this conflict and scenes like these are at duma are a daily reality. people in various cities are marching in solidarity with duma urging the government to stop the bombing campaign and repeated demand that is unchanged since march 2011 and president bashar al-assad must go gerald tan, al jazeera. the iraqi government has reenforcement to bagadi after

forces stormed the town a day after they reported the fall of the area in anbar and five kilometers from the air base where 320 u.s. soldiers are training iraqi forces. the pentagon has confirmed a group of fighters attacked the base on friday. the scandal surrounding argentina's president has deepened and formally investigated over accusations of a cover up of a 1994 bombing of a jewish center in buenos aires and a prosecutor looking into allegations was found dead last month and we report. >> reporter: prosecutors determined that the case against president and foreign minister will not go away. the allegation is they covered up iranian involvement in the 1994 attack on the jewish community center in buenos aires that killed 85 people. the alleged reward was cheap oil

and trade deals. the government has denied the accusations. but the latest move has rocked the political establishment. >> translator: one has to distinguish between judicial and the political aspects, the judicial aspect is highly questionable. while we tend to deny it's having an extraordinary political impact. >> reporter: the allegations were initially made by prosecutor alberto, the day before he was due to speak in a congressional hearing his body was found in his bath a pistol shot to the head. forensic police have returned to his apartment to search for more evidence to help the inquiry into how he died. a month later they are still debating whether it was suicide or murder. some are hailing the latest move as a major advance and others say it's politically motivated and amounts to nothing, the only certainty is this added to the uncertainty and argentina are no

closer to discovered who detonated the bomb in 1994 or how alberto died. meanwhile president has flown to her weekend home in the south for a four-day holiday weekend. she will return to buenos aires next week for a march organized by alberto's former colleagues and only likely to polarize an already divided society, al jazeera, buenos aires. and the chief says accusations against her are biased. >> translator: why is there an active judicial coup? because the complaint which was presented or the judicial steps being put forward are not aiming as a tradition outcome and pursuing a political outcome. >> reporter: coming up on the al jazeera news hour we are in nigeria delta where there are fears that poverty could lead to formal rebel fighters picking up arms again. the multi million dollar business behind the glitz and

glammar of new york fashion week in sport the 2015 cricket world cup underway with action of the opening match between new zeeland and sri lanka later this hour. ♪ but first to yemen where the houthis who took over the government in last friday are in talks with the party of the former president abdullah and negotiations to form a transitional party for the next two years and u.n. criticized take over and is making diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. turkey and emirites shut the embassys in yemen and turkish staff getting ready to be evacuated while all the uae staff members have left the mission. now the family of a yemen activist is accusing houthi rebels of torture and murder. sally was abducted last week

while participating in an anti-houthi protest and his father says houthis are responsible for his son's death and another activist released on friday had this to say about his time at the hands of houthi rebels. >> translator: they kept beating and torturing me for hours and wanted false confessions and things i was never involved in and wanted me to lie and say that figures were paying us to protest against them. and american and british organizations instigating the youth in yemen against them and paying us money to protest against houthis, all lies. >> reporter: al jazeera has covered yemen extensively and joins us here in the studio and let's begin with the talks that are happening between the houthis and the party of the former president abdullah and what is the objective here and what are they trying to achieve? >> basically to agree on how to

move forward for a transitional period of two years and they would like to form a new parliament and they would like to call a transitional parliament that would be the highest authority in terms of creating laws and so on and so forth. they can manage to agree in the coming hours, that would pave the way for other parties to join the deal and according to sources from the u.n. they think this could be a breakthrough and if there is a deal they may move forward. >> why the party of abdullah and accused of having a hand in the houthi take over, the fact they are talking now does that confirm all the suspicions they have been of involvement? >> the houthis last week with the parliament and saying they will run the country on their own face a problem most of them in political factions and mainly sunnis decided to stay away. now the houthis are faced with a

power vacuum and there is no way to run the country on their own because international community does not recognize them so they are trying to expand looking for allies like abdullah and he is too powerful and loyalty of powerful units and why they want to reach out knowing with somebody like him they can at least secure the capitol and surrounding areas. >> tell us more about this u.n. report which of course highly condemned the houthi take over and also criticized outside foreign intervention in yemen. >> well as far as for intervention talk to the houthis and they say the saudis are interfering and they say iran interfering and there is also an issue and strongly condemned actions of houthis and be sieging of the president hadi and the parliament and establishing a government would consulting with other political

parties, it's quite interesting in the report it asks for expanding the mandate of the u.n. special envoy and would like him to be involved in other issues security reform of the political of the military establishment and security of forces and want him to play an aggressive role because of the general consensus of international community if there is no deal no political settlement yemen would just disintegrate. >> interesting what is happening in yemen and complicated situation there and thank you very much in the studio with us. now, one of libya's oil fields is the key oil field there has been closed after a blast at a pipeline. it happened at the oil field outside of tabrook where one of the country rival parliaments is based. gunmen who say they are loyal to i.s.i.l. have taken over a state-run radio station in the libya city of cert and say the radio has been broadcasting

speeches by the i.s.i.l. leader and italy foreign minister says the situation threatens his country only a few hundred nautical miles from cert. in ba range -- bahrain capitol and they have videos with running battles of police in suburbs and say dozens of people have been injured, this video shows arrest of what appears to be a child, demonstrators are mainly shia muslims calling for reenforcement by the royal family. joining us on the line is the human rights campaigner at one of the protests in the bahrain capitol and thank you very much for speaking to us and give us a sense first of the mood on the streets today, four years after the start of the uprising are people able to protest? >> i'm surprised because after

two years in jail i just came out two months ago and it's much more than what i have seen in 2012 which says the protest is increasing on bahrain. i'm in the village out of the village where they are protesting in areas including here. i'm on hundreds of people now men and women, are facing the police. every 5-10 minutes we were shot. the people i'm with were shot with bird shot and we have a lot of people wounded now and in the morning and last night. many of them with serious injuries. unfortunately a lot of them were wounded but we cannot take them to hospital because they are afraid they will be arrested as many of the protesters once they go to jail will be arrested so we have hundreds of protests going on every morning from 6:00 in the morning until now and every village of bahrain including capitol, you have

thousands of police and forces being deployed and thousands of people armed, sif -- civilians in the street on each and every street and each and every corner of the village attacking a protester with shotguns from the armored vehicle and for the first time we see hundreds of armer i mean hundreds of people are there mixed in with the protesters and we have hundreds of people who were arrested from yesterday until today and as i'm talking to you i see hundreds of women in front of me facing police. >> so people are taking to the streets despite being prevented by the police from protesting. and you mentioned yourself you have been arrested several times, you served prison sentences. do you see an improvement in the situation in bahrain at all in these last four years?

have some of the demands of the opposition been met? >> unfortunately, not all demands have not been met. but the situation of human rights have deteriorated and a lot of laws since 2011 and have decreased and violated human rights and you cannot put aside government or government people and cannot protest by law for the first time since independence of bahrain we have laws now that does not allow you to protest on the capitol which is considered to by think two years in jail because of protests and i am again in jail last few months and i'm sentenced for six months to summarize the situation of human rights in bahrain, the situation to meet demand of people on democratic and justice and e equality and seen more deterioration in the situation. >> thank you for speaking to us

from bahrain center of human rights and speaking to us on the line whereas he said there have been protests again today on the fourth anniversary of the uprising there and police have been preventing people from taking to the streets, thank you very much indeed. now boko haram fighters have entered the city of gombi in northeastern nigeria, local forces say the men fired heavy guns and calling on residents to boycott next month election and prompted a 24-hour curfew in the area and attacked a town in chad killing at least ten people. now in nigeria's southern delta region an amnesty offered by government and local fighters in 2009 improved security situation but concerned that violence may return because of growing poverty and harry reports. >> reporter: she is still new at this back in 2009 the nigerian government granted amnesty to nearly 30,000

fighters from an armed group called the movement for the emancipation of the delta or mint for short. former fighters like her get a basic monthly allowance of roughly $340 and they are taught a trade. and incentive not to attack oil pipelines and kidnap foreigners but she says she still can't look after her two children desperation could make her go back to a life of violence. >> i don't want to go back. self-employed, not go back to that. >> reporter: these creeks are quiet than they used to be but armed groups still hide out here and mainly disbanded when they accepted the government amnesty offer and paid to keep fighters away from the oil pipelines. the fighters were well armed and often attacked people living in the delta and destroy oil

pipelines and kidnap foreigners. after years of fighting in the creek, former war lord rubin lives a comfortable life largely financed by the amnesty program, one he doesn't want to give up and knows i could happen if president good luck jonathan loses the election in march. >> if for any reason people who are desperate of power win the election and push good luck jonathan out of villa i don't think there will be peace in the delta unless we go back to creek including myself. >> reporter: delta is where 90% of nigeria oil comes from but this is how most people live poverty and frustration could make it easier for former war lords like rubin to find new recruits and believes the government amnesty was only a short-term solution that benefitted only a few. >> so if you didn't carry arms and didn't qualify for amnesty

therefore the question therefore is the people that have potential to carry arms that have not carried arms what do you do with them? they are the ones that are left out. they are the ones that will carry arms in the future. >> reporter: the struggling single mother says if things get worse then she will reluctantly join who offers a way out of poverty, al jazeera in the delta. check only the world weather with richard and another big storm heading to the east coast of the u.s. >> amazing and keeps on comings, two meters of snow in boston so far this winter and a lot more to come from the system trust me and yet i cannot show you very much at the moment because it's all happening right now. if you look at the satellite image you can see things trending along and what we have is a clipper running in from the northwest, across canada and low pressure center but what happens is this low tracks with the jet

stream about 330 kilometers per hour and deepens and really deepens and looking at the weather across the northeast we will see snow developing during the afternoon period on saturday local time. and then i'll run the sequence and we will see the snow moving to the east and as it goes eastward it's going to intensify and all the way we have really cold strong winds so the question is how much snow can we expect for boston and i would suggest 30 centimeters easily and further in new england maine and new burnswick could be 75 centimeters of snow and blizzard conditions across the region and suspect sunday for much of the northeast could be the coldest day for the last 20 years and could be even more snow to come next week. >> richard thank you very much in the u.s. and something is a bit more fun fashion designers across the world showcasing the latest collections at new york

fashion week and gabrielle reports on how this event has become an important platform for new designers. >> reporter: the glitz, the glammar, the week of the high fashion cat walk in the big apple when the world top fashion designers show up wrapping the collection around the young and beautiful, the by annual fashion week for young designers to get noticed it's the biggest week of the year. >> big deal and epicenter where fashion happens and where it all starts so the buzz in the air during fashion week and it's a really huge energetic event. >> reporter: fueled not just by energy but by economics. new york fashion week actually happens twice every year and combined it generates more than $900 million in economic activity. that's more than the new york city marathon last year's superbowl or even the u.s. open.

more than 230,000 people flock to the city during the fashion week some to watch the runway shows, others to be seen and of course there is always shopping in a city long known for some of the world's most reknown brands. but behind the scenes tens of thousands of jobs created with all the people involved in making sure that the shows happen smoothly. >> think about creating a runway show and all of the marketing and the executive expertise and then you have to have a venue and a place and people who run that and the lighting and the crews that are involved in it and the people who transport the crews and the people who feed the crews and then the after parties and before parties and the during parties and the press that comes in from all over the country, it's a big event to a lot of people. >> reporter: and now more than ever a lot of money too. gabrielle with al jazeera, new york. still ahead on the al jazeera news hour.

>> in the occupied west bank with the story of a palestinian couple and how israel stands in the way of their romance. >> reporter: and youtube tens ten and look at how the video sharing site has changed the internet over the last decade plus. >> i'm daniel lack and canada yukon territory and looking how scientists are studying the amazing athletes in this ultra endurance race the yukon ultra to learn how conditions might be for humans in space. ♪

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welcome back you are watching the al jazeera news hour with me and reminder of our top stories now fighting intensifying in eastern ukraine before a ceasefire is due to start and separatists and army are battling in the town. u.n. special envoy to syria clarified an earlier remark that assad must be part of the solution and staffan de mistura says he wasn't talking long-term political solution but instead efforts to end the fighting and hundreds of protesters in bahrain are marking four years since upraising began and dozens of people have been injured. now al jazeera journalist mohamed and fahmy are spending their first full day with families after being released on friday and free on bail after spending 412 days in detention and as richard martin reports their retrial on charges of colluding with the out lawed

muslim brotherhood to resume on february 23. >> after 411 days after too much time alone in prison it's like a dream come true. >> reporter: al jazeera producer mohamed enjoys the first moments of his new found freedom, a day to celebrate with his wife and three children. >> i'm very proud of every single moment i spent in prison for the sake of freedom of expression. i'm really proud about it. if i were to go back i would choose the same experience and i know the case is still there and i will continue and i will continue to fight for expression and that is all. >> reporter: he and his colleague fahmy were granted bail by a judge on thursday. it has come as a huge relief. they have been in prison in egypt since december 2013. and judicial fight for mohamed and fahmy will continue until the charges are dropped.

baja was initially sentenced ten years and fahmy seven years in prison, that decision was recently overturned. egypt's highest court of appeals has challenged the evidence presented by the prosecution. it says proceedings were flawed, ordered a retrial. [cheering] earlier this month another al jazeera journalist peter greste, was deported to australia after 400 days in detention. fahmy who is an egyptian canadian was told by authorities his only way to freedom was to renounce his egyptian citizenship which he has done. the three al jazeera journalists fahmy and greste had been wrongly accused of promoting the banned muslim brotherhood and their trial widely condemned by the international community and by human rights organizations. six other colleagues from al jazeera were sentenced to ten years in prison. al jazeera continues to call on

egypt to have all of its journalists exonerated. richard martin al jazeera. jailing of opposition leader has provoked more protests in malaysia and students in kuala-lumpar demanded release and serving five years after appeal against sodomy conviction was earlier this week and supporters say the charges are politically motivated. india anticorruption activists has been sworn in as deli new chief minister during his inauguration speech he promised to make deli india's first corruption free state and tens of thousands of people attended the ceremony and the common man party won state elections last week. to mexico where u.n. committee urging the government to carry out more investigations into the case of 43 missing students.

they disappeared in september in the southern state of guerrero and we report from mexico city. >> reporter: a national problem, that is how a u.n. committee described disappearances in mexico. the panel urged mexico to further investigate the case of 43 students who went missing in september. >> contrast to the thousands of forced disappears we do not have the numbers precisely and there have been exactly six persons put to trial and sentenced for this crime. >> reporter: the u.n. also called on mexico to create a special prosecutors office to investigate such crimes. >> translator: parents and classmates of missing students gathered in the capitol on friday and welcomed the u.n. report. >> translator: we have to look abroad to ask them to demand the

government does the job correctly and do a proper investigation. >> reporter: the army was there, they harassed us and repressed us and took our cell phones and forced us on the ground. >> reporter: there is no concrete evidence yet the army was involved. investigators have arrested dozens of local police. last week the mexican government told the u.n. committee that more than 11,000 people were missing in the country. amnesty international says more than 22000 people have disappeared in the past 8 years. in resent years videos like this have emerged of police kidnapping people sometimes in broad daylight other times under the cover of night. forced disappearances by authorities appears to be epidemic and the students went missing on september 26 this video allegedly shows some of them being hauled off by local police. >> translator: mexico attorney generally repeatedly said corrupt police handed the students over to a drug gang who

killed them and then burned their bodies. he called that a quote historic truth. last week a group of forensic experts said there were flaws in investigation, a claim the government rejects. only the remains of one student have been identified. meanwhile another international organization the inter-american commission on human rights says it's sending a team to mexico to launch a new investigation in disappearances and all this international attention may make that impossible adam with al jazeera, mexico city. u.s. president barack obama says technology companies must do more to protect all of us from cyber attacks. he was speaking at a cyber security summit in silicon valley california home to some of the biggest computer companies but the chief executives of facebook google and yahoo stayed away and rob reynolds has more. >> reporter: president barack

obama came here to campus of stanford university the home of many technology breakthroughs to call for a new partnership between government and the technology industry in combatting cyber crime and data breaches. he noted 100 million accounts belonging to american individuals or business interests had been hacked in the past year. he also referred to the well-known hack of sony pictures which the government here has links to the government of north korea. with many companies in the tech field like google yahoo and facebook still outraged over what they see as the u.s. spy agencies penetration of their customer accounts a lot of the tech industry is weary of such a new partnership. obama himself referred to this saying that it's not an easy matter to arrange. >> with how government protects the american people from adverse

events while at the same time making sure the government itself is not abusing its capabilities is hard. the cyber world is sort of the wild wild west. and to some degree we are asked to be the sheriff. >> reporter: cyber security experts say industry has legitimate concerns about government intrusion. >> from the industry perspective i think, you know people want to protect their customers, right? i mean if you are a business and you have customers at the end of the day your goal is to be to protect them so you will put in every measure you can and goes back to the discussion we have to have about where is the balance about me protecting my customers and all of us collectively protecting the country together and how do we do that. >> reporter: several of the biggest conline companies working on encryption so advanced that spy agencies could not crack it, the government is

opposed to that move but there is little they can do legally to stop it. now on this day ten years ago three young americans registered a website with the idea of sharing videos. they called it youtube. this 18-second video was the first me at the zoo by founder and a billion users later 300 hours of videos are uploaded every minute. personal moments are now going viral some with hundreds of millions of views. and it has made some people very famous and korean singer sy is the biggest of all time with 2.24 billion views and youtube also gave direct access to activists and protesters to the outside world and this is especially true in syria. how that kind of content boasted particularly when it's violent opened up a new debate over

regulation. thomas crampton is the global director of the agency of the matter and says youtube has changed the way people share online. >> youtube has really risen from an idea that nobody really thought would work has changed the world of politics culture and businesses around the world. >> one element of it is there is a lot more sharing going on and when it was launched it was an era of broadcast and large organizations could reach out only. now you don't have to be a south korean pop star you can be a parent uploading pictures of your children and suddenly you can have a global audience and it has brought a change in the pathway to celebrity. it used to be very much controlled by gate keepers and the gate keepers would be the ones deciding who becomes famous what song gets played and what video gets seen but with youtube you have the ability of audiences to decide

and suddenly you have these celebrities having a tremendously engaged relationship with their audiences in a way that movie stars and old-style celebrities never had before. animal lovers in new zealand trying to keep dozens of whales alive, nearly 200 pilot whales strangled themselves on the beach in the worst incident there for 15 years. dozens have already died. rescuers pouring water on the whales to keep them alive before the tide comes in again. sports news is coming up next including there is no place like home for australia and notches up a big score against england in the cricket world. do stay with us. ♪

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♪ welcome back as millions of couples around the world celebrate valentine's day one palestinian couple cannot be together. despite being engaged israel won't allow her to travel from her home in the gaza strip to the occupied west bank where her fiancee lives and we have the story. >> reporter: it's become something of a routine for russias nearly every morning they log on to their computers and video chat with each other for at least an hour. they have been doing this for almost four years after a meeting at a conference in jordan where they quickly fell in love and soon after decided to get engaged. >> translator: she is so

affection and kind and want her to be the mother of my children so she can teach them to be like her. >> reporter: she lives in the occupied west bank and he lives in the gaza strip which means they need israeli travel permits in order to see each other and more importantly for them so they can get married, a request that has been denied. >> thanks for talking to us. >> reporter: after nearly four years of trying to but noted, i asked her if she ever feels like giving up. >> translator: at times i get depressed. i feel like i don't want to go on. i think to myself why did i throw myself in the tornado, when will it be over when will the humiliation end? >> reporter: the separation of gaza and the west bank affects thousands of palestinian families according to human rights groups israel routinely prevents them from passing through whether it's for wedding, funerals or other

social reasons. a policy rights group described as unbearable for families split between the two areas. >> the israel officials with the policy and say for security reasons but of course one cannot accept this argument. it's a very swift argument saying all people are security threat. >> reporter: friends of theirs have started a facebook campaign saying deliver the bride to the groom and hoping it attracts the attention of palestinian president abas who they believe can help which is way she remains optimistic. >> love is stronger than politics and we will make our dream come true and live together forever. >> reporter: but until that happens they will have to settle for moments like this. al jazeera, the occupied west bank. what a sweet story and time for sports with jo.

>> 2015 cricket world cup has begun and a good opening day for both the hosts and new zealand bet church and old rivals in england and richard reports. >> reporter: redeveloped 2011 earthquake the christ church hosted opening match of the cricket world cup and captain and martin had 111 new zealand against sri lanka and will be called out by mendez scoring 65 from 49 balls. and williamson 57 for the black cats and 13th half century in the one-day internationals and corey anderson from 46 balls and finished 331-6 from 50 overs. despite 65 from here sri lanka never got close to the target.

captain matthews were four short of a half century when he was called out by daniel. sri lanka out for 233 giving new zealand 98 run victory. >> excited for the win and know it's early stages of the tournament as well and it's our first game and must have been a long road to go before we look at starting to make the quarters as well. >> reporter: there was also a big opening day win for the other hosts australia and melbourne after being dropped on his second ball aaron finch went on to score 135 runs against england on his home ground. glen max well added a half century. steven finn the first english lan to take a world cup hat trick but too late as australia had 342-9 and troubles continued, england captain got

the fourth duck in the last five matches and like finn marsh to take five wickets. steve smith diving catch to remove butler 92-6. james taylor tried to keep the visitors in the game. he was on 98 when australia saw he was lbw for the final wicket. a decision was reversed on review. but then james anderson run out on the same delivery. england all out on 231, australia winning by 111 runs richard par with al jazeera. bolt says he will retire after the 2017 world athletic championship in london and he is 28 and already been considering hanging up his spikes after next year's olympics in rio and told

a british newspaper sponsors convinced him to go on for another year although he says he will be focusing just on the 100 meters in his last meeting. rugby nations continues saturday to make 2 wins for 2 taking on france in dublin and beat them 22-20 in the final game of lost year's six nations to clinch the title and three of top players back on the side following return of jonathan and jamie and shaun o'brien but irish know france can be unpredictable to play against. >> we are trying to prepare for you know the best line up and best performance and best moral performance and trying to prepare for the unpredictability of having an attack and good kicking game and you know it's not you know that is what we looked at when we trained on the pitch, that is what the ladies

have lads set up to do. >> reporter: hosted england with impressive 21-16 over whales last week and named an unchanged team hoping to do exactly the same on saturday. and the season looks to be taking a turn for the better and they are in the zone after beating them and royce scored second goal and then set up the striker and rick for number three, 4-2 is the final score. canada frozen north is playing host to one of the world's coldest and toughest races and takes competitors over 690 kilometers and only about a dozen left after 11 dropped out because of the extreme cold. daniel lack reports the race is also providing scientists with a chance to study how people cope in such harsh conditions.

>> reporter: racers in the yukon ultra spend days weeks even crossing landscapes like this. seemingly endless expanses temperatures that can freeze exposed skin and staying on the move taking food and water, managing. and the long winter's nights and colder and alone and you have to choose do you keep going and get fatigued or sleep and risk hypothermia, it's a constant challenge and it frightens even frontrunners. >> it's tremendously cold it was about minus 51 52 and i was freezing and i kept going at a high speed but i didn't get warm at all, impossible. >> reporter: after that horrible night the current race leader is tested by a scientist for berlin center for space medicine and heart rate and sleep pattern and body weight measured and fills in a questionnaire about his state of

mind three others are taking part as well. >> the basic idea is to increase mankind's knowledge to put us in a broader perspective about the human physiology adaptability of the human body and shows us what is possible. >> reporter: isolation, endurance and extreme conditions, the cold, all of these are relevant to greater understanding of the human body and finding out what it might be like for human beings in space. a yukon winter at the worst is not as severe as what is beyond earth's atmosphere it's a handy proving ground for techniques and technology that might won't day be part of space exploration and crucially the return of those space explorers to their home planet. >> they are required to do survival courses and survival training and, you know it's quite possible it's my hope that the study might help to increase the chances of survival

should they end up in an environment like this one. >> reporter: for most runners this is a race against time weather and other competitors. for scientists a chance to explore something little known, how fragile human bodys can and do survive extreme stress. daniel lack al jazeera, near carmax in the yukon. more sport on our website, for all the latest check out al jazeera.com/sport, we have blogs and videos from correspondents from around the world and all the sport for now. >> thank you very much indeed. now brazil's biggest party of the year has officially kicked off in rio de janeiro, more than 900,000 visitors expected for the five-day carnival now in the 25th year and as we report the city is now in the hands of a new king. >> reporter: the king is about to make his entrance. the moment millions of brazil

people have been waiting for when the king receives the keys to the city of rio de janeiro. >> translator: i declare the festivities of carnival in rio de janeiro open! . >> reporter: the king is officially in charge of the city for a week and even the mayor is at his feet. >> translator: from this moment on you will have to deal with the city's bills and complaints and you will have to deal with traffic and other problems of rio. >> reporter: but these are not the king's priority it's animating what is known as the biggest party on earth with his queen and two princesses but his side an 82-year-old tradition. but who is the man with so much responsibility? earlier this week we visited 28-year-old wilson nettle as he went for his final costume fitting, the working class neighborhood he lives.

wilson had compete of wearing the crown, a contest he has won for two consecutives years. >> i took stage lessons and helped loosen me up and control my facial expressions when i'm dancing and learned more about the history of carnival and my personal experience with carnival also helped a lot. >> reporter: he began parading in the school when he was eight. somba and carnival are obviously in his blood. from now until next wednesday wilson nettle will reign supreme in rio after that he will return to his normal less farry tale life as event promoter hoping and praying next year he will get back the keys to the throne. i'm with al jazeera, rio de janeiro. more news coming up shortly and i hope you do stay with us. ♪

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