from london.he news hour live coming up. >> the use of starvation. as a weapon of war is a war crime. >> the besieged town of mad die yeah. coordinated apacks in central duke cat that, seven are dead, and five of them are attackers. the world health organization declares the ebola outbreak

over, we meet the men still live manager the shadow of the epidemic. plus. >> star wars gets five nominations for technical oscars but doesn't make the best picture list. >> i will have all the days sport including south africa's had a tough time on the opening day in johannesburg. the united nations secretary general has criticized all sides in the syrian conflict for committed what he called atrocious acts. ban ki-moon said the starvation of tens of millions of people his comments came as a second convoy of aid trucks arrive with desperately needed food and medicine. it comes too late for one boy

that died on thursday. at least eight people have now starved to death there in the last week. james bays has more. more aid is finally delivered a town blockaded by the syrian government. at least 20 ever eight people died from star vase. >> ban ki-moon told the general assembly, this was a war crime. >> the power has been the victim of deliberation starvation. let me be clear. the use of food as a weapon of war is a war crime. all sides including the syrian government, which has the primary responsibility to

protect syrians, are committing atrocious acts prohibited under international humanitarian law. the besiege there -- should be on the agenda that syrian peace talks in agenda are due to start in ten days. >> i think in addition to and in parallel to political negotiation, is how to deliver a humanitarian assistance without any imped cents.

>> caroline malone has been speaking to people who have imagined to escape. >> they have made it to lebanon from zuma, one of the many areas under siege in syria. they share a story of what life has become there and how they escaped. >> we deft zuma, and we walked under drowned in a tunnel. our heart is telling us we are going to get killed inside. when we get out we took a breath of freedom. we beg for a piece of read. i ate like a starving person. >> zuma is under siege by government forces and is frequently the target of air strikes.

beyond all reasonable doubt. >> the last year we got barely anything and what managed to come in was taken by those controlling the area. they set up centers and gave us cards. and they would semithe aid to us. people there are receiving aid this week with months without food and necessities because government forces have blocked out that area too. brother and sister have been smuggled out and into lebanon. but their father was taken to the car by syrian authorities. madaya is urge siege. we would go for three days without food, and then we would get grass to eat it. we would go around to school, but it wasn't really a

school. we wouldn't write or read. all the kids would go stabbing. their head spinning, throwing up, no 180 to write or read. no one comprehending anything. >> as well as 170,000 people held in government areas there were 200,000 people under siege by isil. those who escaped from syria know just how bad it can get when people don't get supplies of food and medicine. at the moment, very few are able to travel to lebanon. the ones that have been able to have escaped from desperate situations, but there are still more than 400,000 syrians living under siege by all sides in the war. al jazeera, on the syria lebanon border. >> isil says it was behind a series of coordinated attacks

which shook the capitol earlier. seven people were killed. five of them were attackers. they struck at the heart of the city. from ducati, stef reports. >> at least six separate explosions and then gunfire. and the popular shopping mall. >> for about ten minutes there was mass killing. >> they have released this picture of a suspect who is carrying a gun. one bomb is known to have gone off near a starbuck's cafe, and the police post was destroyed in one of the blasts. the president cut short a visit to oversee operations. we cannot be afraid, we cannot be defeated and i urge

people to stay calm, because everything is under control. >> isil has now claimed responsibility for this attack, police chief says according to him there's a competition going on, among isil, for control in southeast asia, and that's why this has happened today. the attacks were concentrated. a busy thorough fair, which is close to the u.n. offices. the traffic and people which normally clog these streets are gone, replaced with heavy security. al jazeera. >> more on this i am joined by carrol who is a scholar of islam, and the awe thursday of islam in indonesian, so the police have named someone who they think is behind this attack and they say he is syrian now, tell us more about why that would be significant, and who he is? >> yeah, this individual has

indeed been earmarked now as a key figure, in and i.s. presence, in indonesian, the alleged presence. he himself is probably a present in syria. put there are indications that he has collaborator collan the country. >> what do you think the scale of the presence is? >> well, if they can go on the numbers of indonesian who have gone to syria, which numbers only in the hundreds than in a country with a quarter of a billion people, it seems to be relatively small. it is more difficult to extend the extent of sympathy, and to what extent these people are willing to take that step, and commit violent acts. >> why would isil be interested in being somewhere like end do nearby sha? >> i think both i.s. in syria, and iraq, and the perpetrators in indonesian have every interest in creating this image that on

the one hand, the tentacles reach far into asia, while the local perpetrators would gain in prestige, by being able to claim to be part of something much bigger. >> do you think the -- i mean do you think they have a presence that's -- are they linked to other groups in the way in some countries they have teamed one other groups, have they done something similar there? >> it is difficult to gauge, but what we have seen in the last ten years is indeed that there has been a string of incidents with long intervals in between, where indeed local islamist organizations have claimed to be linked to orses operating elsewhere, in the muslim world. but to what extent that is coordinated or more a matter of inspiration is difficult to gauge. >> in the past there have been attacked this have had problems of this sort in the past, perhaps more deadly. what do you think the government response is going

to be in the this case? >> i think they will come down very hard on this. in h the past they have been quite successful in gaining sufficient intelligence to pre-empt strikes and stop attacks from actually happening before they got underway. today look as bit like something in between a botched attempt, because the number of people involved in terms of casualties is limited in comparison with other incidents. but of course, it's always bad for security apparatus, if some people slip through. >> thank you very much indeed. >> my pleasure. >> six people have been killed in a bomb blast, kurdish rebels are accusing of targeting a police station where the truck bomb which brought down a nearby building which housed police families. andrew simmons reports. it was an attack on security forces but here civilians who

are asleep in their beds are rescued from what remains of their homes. one adult and two children were killed when this building next door to the police headquarters collapsed. workers has searched looking for survivors. those that escaped were in shock. this woman overcome. daylight shows how devastated the damage has been. this is what remains of the police complex targeted by a pickup truck full of explosives. one officer was killed the wife of another policeman in a residential part of the building died along with her five-month-old baby. the authorities blame the workers party, the p.k.k., the turkish government with a group fell apart last july. now strict curfews are in place, in selected districts of towns and cities across the southeast of turkey.

>> i strongly condemn the attack on a police station in our town, five civilians were killed and a police officer was martyred in the attack. 39 citizens were wounded including six police officers. >> the prime minister says the commitment to what he called counterterrorism remains steadfast. >> this latest devastation, in which 40,000 people have died in the past three decades shows what turkey is still up against. and it comes less than 48 hours after the isil attack right at the heart of the old city. in turkey right now, no one really feels easy. andrew simmons, al jazeera, in istanbul. >> coming up in this news hour, driving ahead in the opinion polls we meet the women hoping to beat taiwan's first female president. plus. >> i am lee wellings where the second part of an independent report has hit more shame on athletics with

russia, at the heart of the doping. real madrid in big trouble over the illegal transfer of underage players. many people are still living in the shadows of the virus, though, as mohammad abdo reports. >> the career tore yum, or what is left of it. it is a place with great reluctance. at the height of the ebola outbreak, and as bodies are piling up, a group of young men did what few had done. , they set fire to their dead.

we just have to live with it. >> many liberians continue to flame other ebola as they are known for cremating the dead. international experts recommended cremation to stop the spread of ebola. indeed, the nation liberia believe the dead will come back to haunt the living but they are not well buried. angry mobs del moished. >> i feel fine. i am out.

the pannishment from the community in what is a terrible time for them. the year of the cremations was tough. their lives remain destroyed. their time is spent drinking alcohol and taking drugs. to get through their macabre task. >> i did that for my country. i did that for my country, if.- >> 22 place they hated so much has become a home of sorts. nowhere else will accept them. al jazeera. >> the parents and supporters of 219 school girls kidnapped by boko haram have been

marching in the capitol. the girls have been missing for nearly two years. nigerian government has ordered a new investigation, it's been criticizing for failing to find them. >> she is one of more than 200 school girls kidnapped. she and the others are still missing. esther and other family members are marching to the president's office in abuja. they are demanding more information about what the government is doing to find them. thursday marked exactly 21 months since they were taken. >> i want to hear something about this. we are working on it, we are working on it. for how long have they been working on it? we are going on two years.

and after two years. >> there have been many demonstrations like this calling for the government to do more, many thought the new government which came to power last may, would find the girls. during the campaign, he promised to make the rescue the government's top priority if elected. but that has not happened. >> many of these family members and supporters of the missing school girls are angry. they say the president recently admitted that the government has no firm intelligence or information on where the school girls are. they say they are still looking for the girls and have rescued 300 people from boko haram in the last month. >> we want to bring them alive. >> they say eight month since coming to power, not enough has been done. >> if i have to use one word,

i would use the word disappointing. in the sense that we expect much more from this particular administration. one the rescue of the girls. two, while efforts are on doing, until we ensure there's communication and feedback between the government and the people who are the victims of this issue. the parents and the community. communication has been nothing. >> the girls have not been seen or heard since they appeared in this video. many of the family saying they are trying not to lose hope, but with every day that passes mothers like esther become more worried that the girls may never be found. al jazeera, nigeria. >> on saturday, taiwan will go to the polls to elect a new legislature and president. adrian brown looks at how the vote can have an impact on the young nation.

it is only 20 years since taiwan became a democracy, now the landscape could be about to change again. if opinion polls are correct, then she is about to become the first chinese woman in anth thick chinese society. politics has been dominated by men for so long, what difference will it make? >> well, at this -- we get to prove that this is a place where we stress and then we achieve gender equality. >> that has dominated politics here and supports close ties with china. the symbol of the approving relation shopping mall ship, the historic hand shake between the outgoing president and china's president. >> china still regarding

taiwan as a break away province, that will one day p reunited with the mother land, but chances of that happening remote remote. xai insists she wants to maintain a stable relationship. how would you deal with the president? >> well, it is a matter of communication, communication, communication. >> some say she now appears to be moderating her anti-beijing stance. >> maybe she has come to realization that in order to win, you have to be more pragmatic, and also be low key, in terms of particularly those sensitive issues. for many two real issue is the economy, growth of just

1%, wages stagnating. >> i think the economy is a priority for the election. so i don't care who will be elected. >> i hope the new president can promote the economy. >> this could still be a close election, with one opinion poll suggesting up to 25% of voters remain undecided. adrian brown, al jazeera, taiwan. >> north korea's ambassador has defended his country's nuclear program, he told al jazeera that north korea need as strong nuclear deterrent to protect against aggressors like united states. it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb last week. it is our right to conduct this. so we will continuously strengthen the nuclear

difference, as long as the hostile exists, rolled pack, and less the hostile policies against my country. >> athletics world governing body must have been aware of drugs cheating in russia, but did nothing to stop it. that's according to the second part of an anty doping report. reports from munich, the former president also comes out badly. >> part one of this momentum report into doping left russia suspended from athletics with it's reputation severely damaged. after russia can nighs state sponsored doping part two was about collusion between them and the athletics governing body. the report suggests it went to the highest level, with the former president able to call upon the friendship of russian president. how troubled are you considering russia has denied

any state sponsors doping? >> well, it ises troubling to hear that. we don't know whether it is true. it's been said. and there have been some bizarre and potentially troubling contradictions between what he has been saying and in recent weeks and months. >> one of the accused in the report, former russian track federation president responded that the report offers no proof he committed any wrongdoing, only conjecture. the governing body the i.a.a.f. is meant to protect sport, instead it is accomplice sit in the deception of the public. the act has been charged by french prosecutors for active corruption, while he is banned for life, for their part in covering up extortion, while representing the organization. a second son is implicated in production too. the belief that new president has vowed to rebuild trust, yet the corruption happened

during his vice presidency. and the report implied he must have been aware of the embedded extent of doping. >> the changes we can make, are actually taking place now. and can be very swift. the journey to trust will take long. >> i have a job to do, and i will see this job through. >> the german journalist who exposed the leak prompting the investigation, here we talk about integrity of the competition, it means if you allow dopers to compete at the olympics, and take money for that, and then you just manipulate the competition itself. >> the first inspection of russian athletics happen add few days ago, with fears that the task force team will readmit them too easily in time for the olympics in august. the world will be everybody

more skeptical. lee wellings al jazeera, munich. >> still to come this hour. and trial wrapped up of the so called grandpa gang. plus. the british actor has died of cancer at the age of 69. and in sport, how this former south africa international has landed himself in trouble.

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turn these vans have been marking five years. he was the first ruler to fall in what came to be known as the arab spring. sparked by national neurory about poverty and corruption. on whether those problems have been solved. five years ago, the square would have been packed with people, the streets with us the focal point of the mass protests that started the arab spring. since then, every january the 14th, thousands converge here, to commemorate the anniversary of the revolution. but tunisia remains politically divided. the youth are kit lewises. >> people my age are disenchanted with politics. we don't care, and it is sad, because we are the ones that should take over and lead the nation.

dub these a is led by the conservative party. but many left this party accused the governing coalition of failing to implement genuine political reforms. in every corner of the streets, youth disgruntled retirees and angry activists say that their dreams of a better tunisia were hijacked. >> this is where five years ago, thousands of activists took to the streets denouncing democracy and pauling for reform. the movement soon galvanized the country, and protests spread, forcing the resignation, and his government. >> but they insist this is should be a day of joy. the hope is to see his grandchildren, grow up, in a pros rouse and stable tunisia.

>> i was young when tunisia took independence. and we were passionate and ambitious, and i look at people on the street, they seem far less ambition than they were 60 years ago. >> security is tight in h the capitol. police have been deployed in large numbers to deploy the main streets. there are concerns over possible attacks by isil, or other armed groups affiliated with al quaida, dozens of people mostly british tourists were killed last year when a gunman attack add popular beach resort. al jazeera. aid workers say the french authorities are preparing to dismantle a third of the camp. jackie roland reports. >> a sense of urgency has

spread through the waves of the jungle. volunteers are helping-joes to move their homes. people have heard that the local authorities want to tear away hundreds of tents and clear away the land used by the camp. >> the residents of the camp, yeah, it is very up in the air, there is no idea, we always want to move as fast as we can so we aren't wasting time. >>hese refugees are among those effected. they took down their home, moves it a few hundred meters and now they are in the process of transferring their stuff. the police two days ago, and you must moving your house. and we say okay.

there's no choice for me. >> the local effort thats are encouraging people to leave their tents many of which are sinking into the mud, and to move instead into new accommodations. but some afraid, they think it looks like a detention center. we are given a guided tour. 125 containers with heating and electricity, designed to provide shelter for about 1500 people. the center opened on monday, and the first people have started moving in. the containers are still being fitted out, and the authorities hope more people will choose to move in as the word spreads. >> this dorm story is kitted out to accommodate 12 men, there's a separate area in the container park, for women children and families. but many are not convinced each person needs to register

a palm print in order to get an access code, later they fear can be used to control or even deport them. so despite the rain, mud, and freezing cold, hundreds of people prefer to stay in the tents. free to take the chance at jumping on a freight train, and making their way to the united kingdom. al jazeera. charged with putting the girls life in danger, the 49-year-old father of four was given a suspended fine by a french court. they have plunged more than 20% wiping out 5 billion-dollars from the market value. that's after a union official said the company's offices

researched last week. britain's biggest ever burglary, and it was led by a group of pensioners. in april last year, $20 million worth of valuables were stolen from the jewelry district. and now the trial of those involved has ended in a guilty verdict, the full story can be told. paul brennen reports. >> both shocking and amazing. the wall of the safe deposit vault concrete more than a meter thick, has been drilled clean through. and from the ransacked boxes inside, around $20 million worth of valuables have been snatched. c.c. t.v. clearly showed the particulars going about their crime, disguised as workman, the gang had entered the building not twice, but on two consecutive nights.

leaving no fingerprints it looks like the perfect crime. embarrassingly police admitted that the gang had tripped an alarm, but that officers had failed to respond. the crime doesn't pay. and six weeks later the police swooped and the story took a new twist. three of the ring leaders were well passed retirement age, brian rieder is 76, telly perkins, 67, kenny collins is 74. of the other four gang members the the youngest was 48. the details of the heist, particularly the advance ages certainly captured the imagination of the british public. this was an old school burglary, reminisce september of a by goner rah albeiten oa particularly grand scale. as one defense lawyer said in court, it has the potential to make it as a movie, the title he suggested might be bad grandpas. >> is and the mystery lingers

pause only around $6 million of the stolen loot has been recovered. $14 million remained untraced. >> it is the most significant burglary in english legal history, and when you look at the planning they were doing internet searches about the drill they would need to get into the vault as early as 2012. >> there was one gang member that has not been caught, nicknamed bass zillion it was him that let the gang into the building. a movie seems likely, but there will be no hollywood ending for those now facing their twilight years in jail. al jazeera, london. >> british actor allen rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. he was best known for playing snape in the harry potter films. a look back at his career. >> he was better known for playing villains but allen

rickman was also one of the best loved british actors of the past 30 years. he brought a culture to many cinematic baddies. fame isn't everything, is it mr. potter? >> the author led tributes on social pead yeah, tweeting there are no words to express how shocked and devastated i am. he was a magnificent actor and a terrific man. i do not want my heros to die, allen is dead and he was another hero. allen thank you for being with us, we are sorry you had to go. and rickman's fellow actor posted what desperately sad news about allen, a man of such talent, wicked charm and stunning screen and stage presence. he will be sorely missed. he first claimed claim in die

hard. the story goes that he was offered the role two days after arriving in los angeles, it was the start of a long hollywood career. he won a golden globe award and an emmy for his lead role in the 1995 film. his turn in robin hood, prince of thieves earned him a factor award in the u.k. >> and call off christmas. >> but baddies weren't all he could turn his hand too. ♪ . >> in the 2003 film, love actually, he played a conflicted husband attracted to his new secretary. like many british accused fors he started out on the stage, graduated from drama school, and he returns to roles throughout his career.

he was always modest about himself, but ambitious about his work. actors of agents of change, a book, can make a difference, kit change the world. he died surrounded by family and friends, he was 69 years old. nadine barber, al jazeera. >> the contenders for this year's oscars has been announced. it is the remnant that is leading the race. well into award season, and we know who sup for what at the big ones. now there are loads of categories, 24 to be exact, but these are the ones that are going to get the most attention. best director, actor, actress, and of course best film. so first of all, let's take a look at best director. adam mckay is up for that, alejandro also back in the oscars again, he won for

birdman last year, will it be two years running? george miller from mad max, fury road, and lenny abrameson, for this, this is room. >> for five years you made life in that small room, that person as nurturing and normal as you could. >> mom you are five. >> you are so old now. >> you know what we are going to do today. >> what? >> we are going to bake a birthday cake. >> and then there is best actor up for his pore frail of the late apple founder. for his role and again matt damon, he survived being stranded on mars. and they are up against two very strong contenders you have leonardo dicaprio, he is seen as the one to peat. will the danish girl bring him more success? >> surgery has never been

attempted before. >> it could kill you. >> it is my only hope. this is not my body. i have to let it go. >> so to best actress, for 45 years, jennifer lawrence back at the oscars once again. but keep your comply on this one, this is cate blanchette, not just up for carrol, now an oscar as well. >> would you like me to come visit. >> yes. this is strange girl you are. >> why? >> plum out of space. >> and then there is best film, this is the big one. some familiar names we have seen in other categories but

there are two that are getting critics extra excited. they are bridge of spies and the remnant, this is the one to watch. ♪ so the count count is underway, and there are just six robin, long weeks to late. and a lot of predictionses and excitement still to come. >> perfect, as a film critic joins us now to give us her opinion. which nomination surprised you? >> there were a few surprises. i think carrol not getting in h the best picture category was a real surprise to me. mainly because it's been the big awards front runner throughout all of the speculation about what would happen. and to not see it up there,

has been quite interesting. also mad max, fury road. fantastic film but it has ten nominations. the second in the risk, which i think is brilliant. what about the marchand? >> i thought it was brilliant. it has been really positive for it. >> was lobbying quite a lot to get scott a best director, but he didn't get one in this. yes and no. i think we have thought the senior academies now and then, some good films, we have seen the lord of rings trilogy, titanic, that was a huge blockbuster, and it is nice that every now and then we do see that mix through to the ones that are very commercially successful as well.

>> not only do they finally pick up that oscar which he has been doing. but in terms of how it is created in terms of director alejandro, he won best director last year, he is back again, using a very similar style in terms of how he is shooting this and it just looks spectacular, and that's really the film to beat this year. >> name like cate blanchette out there who is the front runner. it is done incredibly at box

office, in terms of pushing it forward, it is not really doing that, not like an avatar, or a gravity that we saw recently, i think the big thing is the nostalgic element. it has opened a new fan base, and brought back something to those that love star wars. >> it barely even fits in this museum, and gabriel in new york, that story coming up. >> in sport, the defending champion makes a late surge in the final stages of the drakkar rally.

from king kong to gad school la, one important difference, it did exist albeit some 100 million years ago. it is even larger than fellow dinosaurs t rex. gabriel went to have a look. >> unveiled to the public for the first time, one of the biggest dinosaurs ever discovered. this dinosaur is so long, it can't even fit all the way in the museum gallery, so the head sticks out the door, it is a first of it's kind, ever discovered scientists don't have an official name for it yet, until then they are

calling tut titanous sore. they are not even sure if it is male or female, what they do know when it roamed the earth, it weighed 70 tons with the egive lent of ten african elephants. >> i am a pretty tall guy, as you can see, i only come up to the knee of this dinosaur. it gives you a sense of how big it was, but the chriss say part is, they believe when this dinosaur died it was only an adolescent, not even a full grown adult. >> a complete skeleton to

start to understand these animals as living organisms and this is what we can do now. with this highly complete skeleton, we can for the first time, we will be able to answer those questions. >> some of the remains were sent to a laboratory, where a cast of the entire dinosaur was made. a team of workers at the american museum of natural history in new york, then put the dinosaur back tot, and arduous task unlike anything the museum has ever undertaken. the giant is now on display for young and old to gaze at and admire, now opening a unique window in unopened questions on how the biggest of the big lived and eventually died. >> now with sport. >> lauren thank you so much. the world anti-doping agency says it is alarmed by the level of wrongdoing at the world governing body, the

i.a.a.f., the findings were revealed in the second part of an independent report commissioned. it claimed that the i.a.a.f. council could not have been unaware of the extent of doping so the court also said corruption was embedded in the organization. >> we are -- every time we give the report, we get documents, from saying dicing and slicing and say well, offense then't -- just a few rogue individuals that were doing this, it wasn't the i.a.a.f., which is consist, nothing but loyal servants blah blah blah blah. this started with the president. a sports writer for the huffington post. it won't solve all the

problems that the i.a.a.f. >> the real damming aspect of it. deep rooted the knowledge of doping it really called into question whether the i.a.a.f. is really taking this problem seriously. i think we know a lot of problems with drug testing and how easy it is for athletes to get these, but when owe sue how high up it went, it starts to raise questions that have been asked of other organizations in the past. is all of your regime simply a facade for the public. but it was interesting the way that the version of events sort of contradicted the report. i think it is hard to know because obviously if the report is correct, he should have known. he should have had knowledge, they came to that conclusion. at the same time this seems to go deeper, they probably

need to go on a full scale re-evaluation of what they are doing. >> they had a tough start to the third test in johannesburg. including former captain. england reducing the host to one inability five for five at one stage. although they lost a couple more, south africa avoidedded total collapse finishes on 267 for seven on the close. they did play in the tournament and have been confirmed. correct currently awaiting the response to the charges will be played two o.d.i.s and for his country.

they have wong stage 11 of the rally, they finished almost since minutes ahead of world time. it is the second stage win for the minidriver who is now second overall. the rallies all time most successful competitor maintains the overall lead by nearly 52 minutes. it means that both spanish clubs are pack from taking part in the next few windows. the new coach and athletic boss, won't be able to synanon players until jell 2017. they are currently third and first in the league respectively both clubs have the right to appeal. >> the spots in the football tournament are up for grabs but the asian under 23 champions in qatar, australia got their campaign started

with a loss against you that nighted emirates. giancarlo was the player to score 1-nil. >> service just 3 points from one game. hopefully we will be success nfl the upcoming games to qualify. we still have two group games and those 3 points are nothing if we want to qualify we still have two games. >> and jordan has got off to a winning start, they beat vietnam earlier, taking a lead in the first half. jordanian added two more on rout to the 3-1 win. the top three teams will qualify for the 2016 olympics. and that's all your sport for now, it is now back to lauren in london. >> thank you very much been london has been lit up tonight for the lue mere festival. a show of lights. a key feature is a worn sculpture held up by four buildings based on the

earthquake that hit japan in 2011. it is one of several lighting based artworks to be installed in around 30 locations around london for the four day festival. when art makes us see in a new or french way, by bringing our eyes up to the sky. in the patterns of wind, rippling through the sculpture, then it makes us more alive. and that's my goal as an artist. and the sport, of course, on the website, you can also watch us live by clicking on the watch now icon. >> that's it for me lauren taylor, this news hour, back in another moment with another full round out the days news, thank you for watching.

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crime.ng starvation is a war >> ban ki-moon blasts all sides of the conflict. as the second aid convey reefs the town of madaya. ♪ . >> lauren taylor this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up. isil claims responsibility for coordinated attacks in central duke cat that. seven of them are dead, five attackers.