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retirement home in yemen plus ♪ from rumba we will hear about the democratic republic of congo's symphony orchestra. and i'm joanne in doha with all the sport and looking to keep their hold at the top of the english premier league after two teams behind them had a dramatic draw in north of zimbabwe. ♪ turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets at protesters outside the offices of the country's biggest newspaper and have control of the publication in a crack down and a religious group whose leader of the government is accused of treason the european commission is urging turkey to respect media freedom and carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: police in istanbul

used tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets against people demonstrating for media freedom and taking a stand after police raided the offices of a popular opposition newspaper replacing its editors with state representatives. >> translator: where in the world have you seen this tyrnny before and it did not happen with hitler and the incidents going on in sierra are not much better. >> reporter: tried to block the offices on friday night but riot police pushed through the crowds and by early saturday morning they got into the building. they pushed out journalists covering the story and evicted the editors. >> it has been heavy for the last three, four years that anyone who is speaking against the government forces is facing either court cases or prison or

such control by the government. >> reporter: the police were acting under a court order to replace the management of the newspaper, the daily turkish paper has circulation of 650,000 copies more than any other newspaper. it is run by a u.s. based cleric who was once close to president erdogan but he has been accused of trying to overflow the government and leading what the authorities say leading a terrorist organization and in the past few months businessmen close to him have been arrested and have been taken over by pro-government managers and people in the streets they held up the last newspaper printed before its offices were raided. it reads the constitution is suspended. caroline malone, al jazeera. joining us live from istanbul is a columnist at the

english language edition of the newspaper and sir thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. as we were hearing in that report the turkish government thinks the group that funds you they consider them a terrorist organization that is trying to topple them and have been tensions for a while, why do you think all of this is happening now, why do you think the take over of the newspaper group happened between friday and saturday? >> well, i mean the zaman group and the newspaper in turkish, two days in amman where i am a columnist in news and the news agency are probably the main opposition, the media outlets in this country and the government is far from being happy with this and they have tried a few months ago to take over the zaman group and didn't manage.

apparently they have are adamant nowadays and they went for it on a friday evening, last night. >> reporter: and they are actually, i mean they have not technically closed the publications down there and are running them now, some of your colleges in zaman today and did go to the newsrooms to try to work on saturday, do you have any information about what is actually going on in the newsroom now and what limitations are being put on them? >> well, i think that the most striking news is the editor in chief has been fired. i mean he has been laid off this morning and slowly but surely or rapidly and then surely i think the other columnists and the journalists will be kicked out. i mean this is exactly what they did with two other newspapers a

few months ago. >> turkey has recently had a problem with journalists, there is about 30 journalists in prison, most of them of kurdish origin and it does very badly on any ranking of freedom of the press. now, you will know as well as anyone that the european union and the west needs them for the immigration and war in syria and war on i.s.i.l. and we heard from the eu, do you think it will become stronger than that and do you think the western powers or international community should be strong against the turkish government on this issue? >> i mean when it comes to the ngo, yes, those who are involved in human rights, the freedom house watch and reporters without borders of course they are and japan international they are protesting against what is happening in turkey. as for the governments barbara the problem is that they have only one and only agenda item

regarding turkey. i will just quote you the german interior ministry has said today he said that he was asked about what was happening in zaman and he said we are not and arbitrator when it comes to human rights in turkey, it was crystal clear. >> what comments and the european parliament did tweet and said it was a blow to press freedom and making the right actions and following up on the freedom of press 80-95% of publications are in some way controlled by the government how strong is self censorship and is there any kind of semblance of freedom of the press in turkey? >> with all reliable rankings

turkey is considered as a country where the freedom of press and the freedom of speech are in dire straits. so it's not me but i mean it's all the international rankings are saying this. as you mentioned the europian parliament is teary, the rappoiture is clear and those who deal with turkey are the politicians and are meeting the turkey government in brussels to talk again refugees without taking any, any point with the turkish authorities regarding the basic rights and freedoms in this country. >> and the final point as we are speaking now authorities do effectively control zaman where you work and the mother zaman in

turkish and another news agency what are you and your colleagues going to do, what can you do, if anything? >> well, i have the feeling that that we will go under ground if i may say so in social media and we will use the internet facility at the max so to continue to write and say what we have to say regarding the future and the present of this country. >> reporter: our columnist and we appreciate your time and thank you for sharing your views with us. >> thank you, barbara. now the refugee crisis on the border of greece and macedonia is now so bad that a state of emergency should be declared. that is according to one of greece's regional governors. around 13,000 people are now trapped at the border crossing after the macedonia authorities closed it to syrian and iraqi refugees and the refugees want to travel macedonia and serbia and hungry and most of them are

heading towards germany. european countries and turkey are due to hold talks at an emergency summit on monday and as they try to find yet again a solution to the crisis. >> the rumor and republic needs to open immediately the borders and the european union needs to demand severe actions against the countries that are closing borders today, whether they are members of the european union on candidate members, this is unacceptable what they are doing. >> reporter: we are at the greece-macedonia border and following the journey of those who are arriving at the makeshift camp. >> reporter: state of emergency in this area is indeed declared it would pave the way for funds to be released to improve the living conditions in this camp. these are the latest arrivals and the only place they found to set up their tent is in between the rail tracks.

the money will also go to compensate the local communities here. for example many of the tents are now on private property and the farmers are losing business. now these people have been camped here for the past two days and entered greece on the 18th of february so their turn to go through and be processed should happen soon but the border is more shut than open. because of the chaos and also because of very stringent interviews happening on the other side led by check and australia interrogators along with their interpreter. now at the moment the camp is coordinated by doctors without borders but expanded so quickly that the various aid organizations that are here cannot deal with it. now, this is a cue for the food, people stand here for two, three, four hours and at the end of it they get a sandwich and some fruit simply because there are not enough hot meals for

everyone. now, on this side there is another cue, this is a cue for those going through the registration process all over again because the paper they got when they first landed on one of the greek islands is not valid any more. there are mistakes on it and it's a computer generated paper with a computer generated stamp and signature and macedonia authorities will not accept any more of that so people stand there for a new paper and doesn't mean they will be able to continue their journey. as we mentioned doctors without borders is one of the aid agencies helping refugees on the greece-macedonia border and places beside that and we have the deputy field coordinator there and is live here and thank you so much for joining us on al jazeera and before we discuss the sort of growing humanitarian disaster that is in that area let's just focus on the state of emergency. what if anything do you think that would achieve and do you

think it should be called? >> well, hello, good evening. how can i say i heard your report and today we can talk about the state of emergency, we have 12000 people trapped in a makeshift camp, building and staying in makeshift tents on railroads and they lack many -- they lack many basic things, basic things like shelter, like water and sanitation. the state of emergency i don't know how to say it, i don't know what to say is not a humanitarian aid. we are not here as humanitarian aid actors as doctors without borders we are not here to provide solutions to this crisis that we are facing. we are here to support the refugees but sadly the only solution that can be brought, it's a political solution that comes through european union and

european states. >> i suppose unfortunately that political solution may still be quite a long time in coming and meanwhile thousands of people keep on arriving and it was interesting hearing or correspondent say sometimes people in refugee camps are going up to the journalists asking them if they have food so just give us an idea how difficult is it to feed all these people right now simply because they keep on coming, it must be very difficult for you to get an idea of numbers because the numbers keep on increasing. >> the numbers are indeed increasing on a daily basis. today like today 800 more people arrived with 20 kilometers outside where we are and they came here with intention of reaching here and with the hope of crossing to macedonia. and we are facing many challenges, doing food distribution is one of the big challenges because the number of people that are here are made to wait in lines for hours in rainy

conditions, sunny conditions, according to the weather. today it has been quite hot during the day. there were 30 degrees. we had people who have fainted. our organization which has three people who fainted and one was a pregnant woman. so indeed this condition in which the people are living today are simply unacceptable. >> reporter: and we can see people behind you, i think literally cooking or keeping warm with fires outside their tents now you were actually there last year as we said and the crisis has been going on for a while and perhaps an obvious question but just paint the different pictures between last year and what you found when you came back again a few days ago. >> indeed it was in december of last year and the camp, there

were around 3,000 people present and the border still open, people still crossing and then they were -- the camp was closed. today when i came back there were 12000 people and what struck me the most was the number of women and children present and especially children that according to different estimation is very hard to have real number but according to different estimation there are more than 4,000 children present in this condition and they are facing lack of hygiene, lack of proper food, lack of proper shelter, in a very cold conditions. you saw it behind me. people are trying to warm themselves as best they can with makeshift fires, with blankets that are disputed by others by our organization but this is again unbearable. seeing this situation at the border in europe, seeing the situation of thousands of people

are suffering in this condition in europe it is simply and i think shameful and unacceptable. >> from doctors without borders, the organization and the field coordinator where all the thousands of people are gathering at the border and sir thank you so much for your time. >> thank you so much. still more to come on the al jazeera news hour including china warns that it is facing a tough battle to keep economic growth on target. plus 63 years after the death of stalin why some russians are increasingly nostalgic for the soviet years and in sport madrid with four goals breaks more records in spanish futbol. ♪ afghan taliban said it will not participate in direct talks with

the government until all of its conditions have been met. the group is demanding the end of what it calls the occupation by foreign troops. the taliban has also asked for all their prisoners to be released and tony is in kabul with the latest. >> reporter: this has come as a surprise to many people in kabul because there was a mood of growing optimism in the city that these face-to-face talks between the taliban and the afghan government would actually go ahead in pakistan. the preconditions that the taliban are now saying are nothing new and want prisoners released and want leaders taken off the u.n.-u.s. black list and morning forces and also cite that basically american forces are being deployed around afghanistan, they want that to stop. they want u.s. aerial bombardme bombardments to stop and be kept in touch of what is going on and said they are kept out of the loop and this is a surprise to most people because messages both from the afghan government

and from the taliban is there was a meeting of minds, there was a certain consensus that things had to be given and taken and that this was moving in the right direction. pakistan has played a big part in this. it has made promises i think to the main powers in the region and dealing with the u.s. and dealing with china and they need to actually show that they have that kind of power to make things happen. meanwhile the tealiban could be posturing and getting something behind the scenes better and deal maybe and a message for the foot soldiers something they want to hear because if they actually go into talks without getting what they said they always wanted perhaps they would lose face. we are some way away of coming to the end of this terrible terrible war with a lot of negotiations to be done in the meantime. leader of the sudan opposition popular congress party has died. it's thought he had a heart attack after falling unconscious in his office. the party split from the ruling

national congress party in 1999 and he is consider one of the most influential figures in modern sudan politics. the pope has led condemnation of the murder of 16 people at an old people's home in yemen. four nuns among the dead at the home established by mother theresa and we report. >> reporter: from a place of safety and care this home of the elderly is the latest casualty in yemen war and raided the home and killed 16 people including four nuns and witnesses say the attackers surrounded the home in aiden and some asked to be let in to visit their mothers and handcuffed their victims before shooting them at close range. >> translator: they forced the men and women outside with their hands tied, we heard the sound of gunfire and when we came out we saw them all dead in the garden. >> reporter: around 80 people lived at the home set up by a charity by mother theresa and missionaries come under attack in 1998 but members find it hard

to believe defenseless old people could be target of armed groups. >> this news is really shocking. the details that i get is that it happened at 8:30 in the morning local time while the sisters were serving breakfast. >> reporter: in yemen's war aiden has changed hands between houthi rebels and pro-government forces and security within the port city is sketchy and surrounding areas are held by al-qaeda fighters and the war and 6,000 yemeni have been killed either children and the elder will are no exception, al jazeera. turkey and iran say they want to work more closely together to solve problems in the middle east. the turkish prime minister met with the minister in tehran and it's tense because they backed opposing sides on the war in

syria. china's leaders warning of a tough battle to keep economic growth on target and the predicted growth for the coming year is cut between 6 1/2 and 7%, the lowest in a quarter of a century and scott is following events in beijing. >> reporter: he has been selling fruit at the morning market here in beijing since 2010, business is slow. >> translator: who is my boss? the communist party. where did the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business was really bad in the past year. >> reporter: he is not alone, it has been a turbulent year for many people in china, economic growth is at its slowest in 25 years, six kilometers away the most important events on china's political calendar is playing out, china the last major communist nation has changed considerably over the last 30 years but the national people's congress has remained. 3,000 delegates from across the

nation attend. china's premier league opened the congress with a report on the last year and was mildly critical of the communist party. >> translator: there are still inadequacies in the work of the government, some reforms policies and measures not fully implemented. >> reporter: he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct and that it's not just china's economy that is slowing it's global. >> this is the great hall of the people and what is going to take place in here over the next ten days for the most part is political fear, that is because the most important decisions of how china will be run and governed have been made by top party officials. >> it's mainly a place where they put out the big messages including some new propaganda messages for public consumption and the meeting is actually discussing just merely specifics of how to implement these things or maybe how to tweak it to make it better. >> reporter: high lights of the five-year plan to be released

during the conference and ten million jobs and annual economic growth at 6.5% or above and some economists think that just won't happen. >> there is something of a misnomer and started with the government that somehow this higher level of growth can be maintained again by our analysis the 6.5% that they have indicated they will be aiming for won't be achievable. >> reporter: not good news for people like this man. >> translator: i will definitely go back to my hometown, maybe one or two years and beijing is too expensive and so hard to make money. >> reporter: that is not the direction the communist party wants people going, they want more people in cities working and spending heading to what the president xi jinping calls the china dream, scott with al jazeera, beijing. let's get more on this and joining us live via skype from hong kong is international economic consultant andrew long one of the world's leading authorities on the chinese economy after a 38 year career

and senior positions there and thank you so much for joining us and it's very late where you are and we definitely appreciate it so let's just look at these figures i mean obviously the sort of growth we have seen from china in the past years wasn't really sustainable and always meant to look at more realistic growth rates so in light of that do you think that 6.5 and 7% growth is necessarily such bad news for china? >> well don't forget relatively high growth rate is necessary to have sufficient jobs and to maintain the stability of an economy and to underpin the legitimacy of the communist party. and then the premier refers to as many as ten million jobs a year would need to be created. don't forget the high growth rate in the past of course no longer explainable where the economy has reached a certain

scale, china's economy is the second largest in the year and as the premier said 1% growth now would be equivalent to 1.6% five years ago when the economy was smaller so we have to look at the growth rate in this context. >> it is still created waves around the world and there are worries u i guess, do you think the worries are justified not just when it comes to china but the impact and anything that happens to the chinese economy has right around the world? >> naturally because china sits at the heart of the supply chain. look at the mobile phone you are using, the cars maybe you are using and the clothes you wear, everything, china is embedded in it and this is unlikely to change no matter you know how hard you military repositioning or signing the tpp with china's

neighbors, these things are not likely to change the reality that china is, in fact, embedded in the world supply chain. >> please give us some specific examples of what this would actually mean for the rest of the world. >> well, china's economy is shifting towards more economic consumption and then the masters of the people coming from the countryside would be given household registration with access to healthcare and education for their children so they are likely to boost up the growing internal consumption already during the past five years or so. indeed, services have already overtaken manufacturing as the major contribution to the economy and then the rate of growth or consumption of china,

in fact, exceeds the rate of growth of other developing countries so china is going to ease the tax burden on the consumption and that means there was tremendous opportunities for the import of branded goods from the rest of the world. and of course china's demand for resources is likely to continue to decline and therefore there will be a further and continuing reduction of commodity prices. but only the capitol that is generated by china is seeking investment opportunities all over the world particularly with one road initiative and that is going to bring investments and going to bring a lot of infrastructure development along the countries and the ports and the cities and connecting both europe and the rest of asia to china. and lastly china putting a lot of emphasis on innovation and

high technology and again there will be lots of opportunities for businesses. >> andrew long international economic consultant sir thank you. >> thank you. still to come on the news ho hour. >> i'm lopez in the island in ve vent -- vent what -- venezuela and we have a report from guatemala and languages facing extinction and months after announcing retirement he makes a surprise return. ♪

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afghan taliban is demanding an end to what it calls occupation of the country by foreign troops and boycott talks with the government until its conditions are met. people in slovakia voting in election that is set to give the prime minister a third term in office, and he anti-immigration stance and popular welfare measure can secure him 30% of the vote and opinion poll suggest his party could lose its outright parliamentary majority and will soon take over the rotating presidency giving it a bigger role in eu policy discussions. let's go to u.s. where five more states are delivering their verdicts in republican and democrat presidential contests. republicans donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich are in maine, kansas, kentucky and louisiana and hillary clinton and bernie sanders looking for support in

nebraska, kansas and louisiana and gabrielle is in washington d.c. and not super tuesday but a lot of states voting, what can we expect? >> that is right five more states as you mentioned and should get the first results starting to come in about two hours from now when the polls close in kansas, those will be the first polls to close. i'll be watching this very closely as you mentioned five states overall, a total of 155 delegates on republican side, 126 on the democratic side, that is still going to be way short of what each of the parties current frontrunners need to secure a nomination, donald trump the republican, a frontrunner right now still needs over 900 delegates to reach the threshold of being a nominee so it won't come close to that with the results today and on the democratic side hillary clinton still needs over

1300 delegates and a long way to go in this election but we will be watching closely the republican side particularly two things. numb number one this will be the first time since the attacks against donald trump by the gop establishment voters will be going back to the polls and remember that just last week mitt romney came out attaching donald trump urging republicans not to vote for him and at the debate a few nights ago as well both marco rubio and ted cruz attacking donald trump as well and number one we are watching to see if those attacks are having any sort of affect in the voters who go to the polls today. number two, we will be looking at ben carson's voters, he is the candidate that was polling very low, well below 10% and nevertheless he pulled out just yesterday and so we will be seeing where his voters go as well. that could be very key and we will be watching that closely

particularly on this republican side, donald trump leading most of the polls in the states that are voting today but also we are seeing ted cruz hoping to have a good performance as well. again first results from kansas should be coming in the next couple hours or so. >> definitely be interesting and i guess everyone is just waiting for some clarity to understand who are actually going to be the nominees for both the republicans and the democrats. apparently march 15th is quite a key date, why is that? >> yeah, this is really the calm before the storm, march 15th is the day everybody is looking at and that is when five big states will all go to vote including two key ones, florida and ohio, ohio key because a lot of delegates at stake there but it's john kasich's home state, he is a governor of ohio and if he doesn't win ohio he will consider pulling out and that is very important. florida 99 delegates at stake there.

that is marco rubio's home state and marco rubio's only won one of the 15 states that have voted so far and he must win florida for him to continue, most likely or have any shot of the nomination but donald trump and ted cruz both campaigning very hard in florida, everyone wants to win florida but it's going to be very key particularly for marco rubio. he must win florida to have any shot at this. so essentially march 15th key for the republicans particularly because you could have two of the candidates really facing an almost insurmountable up hill battle the they don't win their home states on march 15. >> with the latest from washington d.c. gabe thank you. now the 6 third anniversary of joseph stalin's death has been marked in moscow. members of the communist party joined with loyalests to mark the passing of the leader and the ceremony takes place each year at the grave in red square

and led the soviet union from the late 20s until his death in 1953. some russians say that a worsening economy has left them feeling somewhat nostalgic for the soviet days and with apparel menry election moving prospect or resurging the party is starting to worry the kremlin and rory challenge reports from moscow. >> reporter: it's often one of the first things newcomers notice in moscow hammers, sickles, stars everywhere communist is a part of russia's history and the collective psychology too. resent polls suggest half of all russians still think they were actually better off under the soviet system. and moscow exhibition of stalin era art the curator told me the pride people feel for past glor glorys. >> translator: interest in stalin is increasing. it is understandable. we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of world war ii and

we should not forget who was at the helm of the country and under whose leadership the victory was achieved. >> nostalgia is looking for the past and days of soviet union are gone but the communist party never went away as a political force and in the 21st century they consistently are second in elections and putin's kremlin always thought that was a manageable situation but with elections approaching again there are signs the kremlin is worried about a possible communist resurging. united russia headed by the prime minister is the party and at the 2016 convention he singled out the communists as its main electoral threat and putin surprised many recently with a rare attack on lennon and said the revolution planted and atomic bomb under russia with the way he stitched the soviet union together. ultimately russia's parliament

is a tightly managed body with almost no room for genuine opposition but political analysts nickolay mladenov still thinks russia's poor economic situation can hurt united russia. >> the plan is not to make any changes, not to take any risk, to keep very old fashions party system including communists who are pretty loyal to the kremlin but not to let them to get too many rules which will make them more autonomous. >> reporter: told me the kremlin has learned lessons from 2011's parliamentary elections when obvious vote rigging kick started months of mass protests and said putin would rather loose a few seats than to go through that again. so the questions are can the communists really dent united russia's grip on parliament and if they do what will the consequences be, we will have to

wait until september election to find out but the russia power elites are worried about rory challenge al jazeera moscow. let's go to venezuela where it's larger than life leader chazez leader died three years ago and many thought would be a long lasting legacy seems instead to be fading fast and the country is in recession and being exacerbated by the sharp drop in oil prices and al jazeera's lopez reports now from the island. >> reporter: the island in western looks peaceful and even sleepy from a far but a lack of all basic services means it is anything background that. in many ways it's a micro cuasm of all venezuela's problems. for four days they have waited here, demanding that tanker trucks what are supposed to be regular visits to their home to

deliver water. >> translator: they stopped water supply on friday, saturday, sunday, monday. there are some trucks now but it might not be enough for everyone. >> reporter: a retired teacher says the situation is nothing short of calamity, a double bind where a lack of water piles on top a declining health system and makes basic life a matter of survival. the list of problems they have is endless and no electricity, no running water and brief organization they could have offered is no longer available after criminals vandalized the installations. a few kilometers away another group has had enough. blocking a road to protest as a total decline in their quality of life. >> translator: before we had water we had boats that worked, this so called progress is only taking us backwards. >> reporter: analysts warned that the collapse in public

services like those here could increase the threat of social unrest as the economic crisis continues to deepen and yet people including he have learned to live with less with only enough water for five days he is down to a bucket to shower and just a cup to brush his teeth and wash his face. >> translator: in the end all we can do is pray to god for a solution because all the state institutions are controlled by the executives. >> reporter: a view many in the country share because at least for a time being venezuela's present government is struggling to find one, al jazeera, island venezuela. guatemala is the birth place of the mian people and one of the largest populations of indigenous people in the americas besides the official language of spanish, there are 23 officially recognized languages spoken in the central american nation and david mercer

reports some languages are at risk of disappearing. >> reporter: garcia is determined to save his people's language from oblivian and his people number more than 200,000 but just a handful of elders speak the shinka language fluently and he hopes to change that and he is starting by teaching the teachers. >> translator: if i die what is going to happen with this knowledge? it will be lost. but if i share it in the schools with the teachers and with friends it will flourish. >> reporter: since the arrival of the spanish five centuries ago racism and discrimination have chipped away at guatemala's indigenous cultures and with that their languages and now account for 40% of guatemala's population still large enough a block to force the government into action. in 2002 they passed a law officially recognizing 23

indigenous languages and required the government funds be made available to languages that are in danger of disappearing. in spite of that promise the production of dictionaries and other educational material in indigenous languages have largely fallen to private groups and says the government should meet their obligations. >> translator: the government's role is minimal and not made the indigenous communities a priority and think they don't need help and live and will always live the same way. >> reporter: isabella sanchez believes pride in one culture is central and the 26-year-old was never taught shinka growing um but shares what he learns with his students in this private school. >> translator: i want my students at least to learn the foundations of the language. i know that participating in their cultural will open them up to many things in the future and they can share this knowledge

with their family. >> shinka a language hanging on by a thread kept alive by those who treasure what it means to them and hope what it will mean to the generations that follow, david mercer, al jazeera in guatemala. and coming up, in part four of our series on dying languages the efforts to save the hoopa language used by native americans deep in the red wood forests of northern california. but here on the news hour coming up, in sport how competitors at the women's giant slolom were blown away. plus how scientists stumbled upon a new species of octopus after finding this pale marine creature in the sea. ♪ find fantasy shows.

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♪ music is the lifeline for many in the democratic republican of congo and now a group of self-taught young musicians is taking center stage and catherine soy has the story of central africa's most dedicated symphony orchestra. it's in the neighborhood where the symphony is rehearse and most do not have a steady income and they do what they must for their daily hustle. we find them rehearsing the composition a story of

tribulations and how they overcome them and he created the orchestra back in 1992 then only had three instruments in his father's church. ♪ things have changed and years ago and now we see more congolese but there is still much to do. ♪ in downtown local music dominates the night scene. people come out to listen and dance to songs by some of the continent's greatest artists. they have a rich music culture and we are listening to most popular kind of music in the country, getting people here to appreciate classical music has been difficult. ♪ the band tries out a classic tune.

and tell us it's not something that would grow too much. >> translator: our music is so popular because it is our language. these young people today just want to play and listen to foreign music. ♪ back at the church the children's turn to rehearse and they get to hit the notes that are passionate and practice everyday. he plays his violin and keeps him grounded, he is in secondary school and plans to join the main orchestra group and one day he also plans to compose and conduct his own music. >> translator: i want to go abroad. >> reporter: the young musician and his dad have to go home before it's too dark.

they live in a more dangerous part of the neighborhood. his older siblings are also in the orchestra and help where they can. they say the music is a perfect example of breaking barriers and overcoming the odds. catherine soy, al jazeera. great story and time for sports now and here is joe >> thank you very much and with the top three english premier leagues on saturday it was considered a crucial day in deciding who will win this season's title and had a chance to go top in the north and two goals in two minutes have given spurs 2-1 lead here after ramsey scored for arsenal in the first half. gunners were down to ten men and sanchez equalized with 14 minutes to clinch a draw for them. >> i'm happy and proud of our performance and it was a game

and we have big regrets because i think i couldn't see how they dropped points today. >> it's not about maturity or character or nothing, this is all our topic because i can show you or can give a lot of example with a big collapse with the player and concede goal in the last-minute and today was in the open and can create a good chance and unlucky. >> five points clear and are in action right now and they are away to them and have taken a lead with the scorer. moving to manchester city and in the title with 4-0 over villa and scored late equalizer 1-1 draw with chelsea and new castle stay in the relegation zone and

the second highest goal scorer in the history of the spanish league and scored four times in the second half of royal madrid 7-1 victory and he has 252la-league goals and 36th la-league hat trick moving ahead of messi on the all-time list as well and this shows royal madrid in third and one point behind atletico on sunday and eight points clear at the top will also be in action and the cat lands will be a way to extend their unbeaten streak even further and have 35 goals without loss and all competitions that a spanish record and a chance to get a trophy this season and millions around the globe are looking at the top teams in actions and voting in a number of changes in the way the game is plate and futbol association board approved video technology also

used to review so called game changing situations and means goal penalty decisions red cards and mistaken identity and conducted in private over 18 months before a live trial phase begins the start of the 2017 season. 13 leagues have expressed an interest in hosting the trials. >> we don't have to be afraid of doing everything we can to protect futbol and means also and it does mean also to see whether technology can help create really without affecting the game then we have to and we are obliged to test to experiment and then to rule the conclusions from there. >> defending champions great britain tin ahead in a tie and murray won a singles match on froth and teamed up with brother jamie for the title and won in 79 years in 2015 and lived up to

the champion with a straight set win to hand britain a 2-1 lead into sunday's reverse singles. but world number one djokovic showed he can be out played on a rare occasion and lost the kazakhstan pairing of alexander in straight sets, kazakhstan leads the tie 2-1, less than two months after announcing his retirement from tennis and australia against usa in melbourne and captain replacing nick in the double. hewitt and john pierce took the experienced brothers to five sets and in the end it was usa who prevailed and lead 2-1. pakistan will send a delegation to india to access security before allowing cricket team to compete in the world 2020 tournaments and qualifiers for

the competition get underway this week and could fly on wednesday if given go ahead and pakistan and india scheduled to play a high profile game on march 9 and play bangladesh on the sunday and india are unbeaten in the tournament and looking to live up to the world t20 favorites. >> treat it as another game and why think it's a final and approach every game like you approached in this tournament, for us every game is a knock out and approached it in that fashion and approach tomorrow's game in no different manner. >> remains on course to be crowned the best over all skier in the world for a fifth straight season and retained his world cup in slovania saturday with one race to spare and beating friday's winner and also leads the slolom standing for the tenth world cup title on

sunday. meanwhile the women's giant slolom had to be postponed because of bad weather and strong winds mean the competitors could barely see the course which was eventually deemed unraceable. that is all the sport for now and more a little bit later barbara. >> joe thank you and before we go scientists have discovered what they think might be a new species of pocket octopus discovered on the pacific ocean floor near hawaii by a remote control submarine and unusually this octopus has all of its suckers in a single row along each arm, it has no fins and somehow living four kilometers below the surface which presumably why it's so pale and more on that and everything else we have been covering on the news hour on the website. there it is one of our top stories there is the state of emergency that is being urged that the greece-macedonia border where more than 10,000 people have now gathered.

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