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the city of flint. >> maria cut ties with the highest world fame u.s. star ahead of her doping ban. ♪ hello there a warm welcome to the news hour, the u.n. is questioning the legality of an agreement that would see refugees and migrants in europe sent back to turkey. the deal still in early stages was agreed between the eu and turkey and thrashed out in the coming weeks but it could see future migrants arrive from turkey sent back and for each syrian refugee returned a syrian in turkey would be resettled in the eu. our diplomatic editor james base reports now from geneva. >> reporter: the european union has had plans to deal with the refugee crisis before, they have

all failed. this year alone more than 140,000 people have arrived by sea. so eu leaders have now come up with a new proposal that goes much further than anything tried before, for the first time they say those who arrive from turkey will be sent back. it's controversial, already the u.n. refugee agency the unhcr expressed concern and questioned its legality. >> do you fear that currently the proposal in its current form could be illegal under international humanitarian law? >> yes, collective expulsion of foreign news is prohibited under the european convention of human rights, agreement that would be tantamount of return of any foreign news to entry is not consistent with european law, is not consistent with international law. >> reporter: even tougher criticism of the deal which was negotiated until the early hours of the morning in brussels has

come from human rights organizations. >> it's an extraordinary idea, an idea that might sound gook at 1:00 in the morning but in the cold light of day it is fraught with problems. if the eu's idea of taking part in a global responsibility, global sharing of refugees is to make the number of syrian refugees it takes in conditional on the number of syrians prepared to risk their lives in a boat well that is decision making from the heart of a moral abyss. >> reporter: eu leaders meet again in a week's time and u.n. wants clarification by then about the new plan. there are not just potentially legal problems the eu knows the world is watching and pictures of people being forcibly moved there be deeply controversial, james base in geneva. in the aegean sea they are

picking up migrants going to lesbos and we were sent this report. >> reporter: one by one they got off the boat and on to the greek island, men, women and children exhausted but relieved to land on lesbos. there are 100 refugees from syria, iraq and afghanistan rescued from four rub by dinghys by the coast guard patrolling the maritime border with turkey. >> peace is all we seek and war uprooted us from homes and want a future for our children. early afternoon 500 refugees reached lesbos and journey from turkey to greece may be across a short stretch of water but it's a dangerous one. hundreds lost their lives this year when their boats capsized in the aegean see. to try and minimize the loss of life the boats go out to rescue the refugees. >> this significant movement

fall facilitated by smugglers and there are no credible alternatives and lacking pathways to europe. >> reporter: from the port of lesbos they are taken to a center on the edge of the island. here they are registered and given temporary accommodation. the greek government is trying to reduce congestion at the border with macedonia by putting in refugees in camps like this for as long as they can and also stopped giving the refugees special ferries to take them to athens. greece, the first stop in the eu on the route from turkey is now chalked with refugees, in a humanitarian drama that follows five years of nonstop economic crisis. >> my message for the world is open the doors and open your hearts and open your eyes and look around you, open your ears.

listen to people. >> reporter: eu leaders are taking the solution to the refugee crisis on persuading the turkish government to stop letting refugees across the aegean sea to enter greece, it will be a while before the impact is felt here. mohamed al jazeera lesbos, greece. the european council says 34,000 refugees and migrants already on greek territory won't be affected by the deal but for many in that position the future is nonetheless still uncertain. their goal is to move from greece deeper into europe but the way forward remains blocked, earlier on tuesday slovania will refuse the transit of most migrants through its territory and growing concern for the health of 14,000 people camped on the greece-macedonia border one charity says 70% of the children there are ill and respiratory problems and many of the refugees have little more than a tent to shelter them from the rain and cold and the camp

has poor sanitation. and health ministry has a team of disease control experts to the camp of a precaution measure. despite the condition and on going uncertainty the refugees in the camp in greece are determined to continue their journeys rather than returning to the countries they have left behi behind. >> translator: we are going to stay here. it's impossible for us to return back to turkey because we have nothing left there. we will stay here and go forward and hope that either germany or sweden will accept us. >> translator: some people like turkey and some people don't want to go to turkey and some want to stay here and some say that, no, if we stay here we don't want to stay here. they should deport us in afghanistan. >> translator: i appeal to the entire world to come and see us and the conditions that we are in and to have some compassion for us. it's enough, enough. have some compassion for these

children, for the women, have compassion for all the single mothers. >> reporter: for more on this i'm joined by steven professor at essex university and welcome to the program and great to have you with us and described as an extraordinary plan what is your take? >> it's potentially going to be a big legal problem, there is no issue in principle sending refugees to another country but has to be a safe country so the big issue is turkey a safe country and a lot of people will go to the greek courts and maybe the eu and the european court of human rights to argue if turkey is a safe country if this plan is actually put into effect. >> so turkey is set to get an increase in the amount of money if this plan goes ahead, how will we know and what will the safeguards go perhaps we don't know the details yet on how that money is going to be spent and is it going to be spent strengthening an already shaky system that exists in turkey

already? >> the money was all meant to be for helping syrian refugees in turkey and it was meant to be spent on individual projects and just approved the first one so with things like hospitals or schools or make work projects to get people employment but i think we have to keep an eye on how it's spent if it's misused or not spent properly. >> in this deal we are still from what we can see going to see people making that desperate journey by sea in order for another syrian and turkey to be resettled somewhere in the eu, i mean that seems incredibly macavalian. >> idea of one for one and won't take people safely from syria unless someone has already jeopardized their lives trying to cross to greece and seems odd, it would be better to say we are going to take a reasonable number of people safely and then if possibly then return people if the turkey is

indeed a safe place to return them but to make that kind of direct link does seem very peculiar. >> we keep talking about the lack of legal roots and the lack of legal solutions that we already have and yet we have this kind of kabuled together idea that came out at 1:00 in the morning which is where the eu seems to be putting its energy, does this just show we really are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of ideas to help at least make a dent in this problem? >> probably. and i think we are always the eu was always going to end up in this position because the only way to really reduce the numbers was to stop people coming on to the territory in the first place and to return them as soon as possible if they did come to the territory. but of course there is a big legal million mole problem with trying to return people to a country where there is a lot of controversy about how safe it actually is which doesn't fully apply to international refugee law. >> does it say anything in what we seen about refugees that are

not syrian and what could potentially happen to them and could we see people being returned to asylum places that have not been properly processed? >> in theory everyone with an asylum claim should be processed but won't be fully processed because they will apply a rule that says they ought to be in turkey and turkey should consider the claims and the refugee law is the problem with the theory and should have applied in turkey and won't consider them as refugees and that will indeed apply not only to syrians but afghans and iraqis and anyone who came from turkey. >> in the weeks and potentially the months ahead with the numbers and increasing with the better weather are we going to see the details of this flushed out, what do you suspect, what kinds of things do you suspect we will see? >> well, i think the crucial question will be how fast they try and process claims from people who do land in greece. the idea i think is also turkey

will try and stop people leaving and boats will have something to do with trying to stop people leaving too and sending them straight back to turkey, those who reach greece is the crucial question how fast can you process a claim and send people back and how successful might the legal challenges be during that time or whether they are really going to try and short circuit the legal process of whether the courts might throw it to stop a lot of this going ahead or not. >> steve thanks very much for joining us from the eu and human rights law at essex university thank you. now a spokesperson for the u.n. special envoy to syria says talks with the syrian government and opposition will begin no later than monday in geneva. meanwhile the syrian army has recaptured a village of aleppo and according to the observatory for human rights the al-nusra took it on monday and quickly pushed out by government forces.

turkish prime minister said i.s.i.l. was behind a deadly rocket attack on the border city and at least one rocket hitting a car and killing a woman and four-year-old boy inside, another boy in the same vehicle was also injured. still to come in this news hour, tunisia says a deadly attack on border was attempt by islamic state to have an emirate there. a somber university two years and the families on board flight mh270 are still searching for answers plus. >> i'm paul rooes in green land where the arctic winter games are bringing sport to some of the world's most isolated communities. ♪ soldiers searching for people who launched assault on the town of ben gardne on monday and attacked in the village and one fighter killed and three others

arrested and the number from the dead is risen to 55 including security force members and 7 civilians and our correspondent has been to meet some grieving relatives in the town of jalow. >> reporter: in the village family and friends are in mourning. her daughter sarah was killed in monday's attack. she was 15 years old. >> translator: she told me i will send you and mother to mecca and become a doctor so i can afford it but now she died and she is a martyr and god willing we will be in even thanks to her. >> reporter: as we prepare to leave there is gunfire in the distance. it gets closer. [gunfire] we take cover inside. villagers were here to pay their respects, now they fear more people will be killed if the gunmen return.

we have been told to take cover and stay inside. the army is searching for two armed fighters roaming this neighborhood at the moment. clearly this operation isn't over yet. people here blame i.s.i.l. for the insecurity. they are also angry at the tunisia government for closing the border with libya. >> translator: they have told us we can no longer smuggling and won't develop the area so what? do you want us to die? >> reporter: the priority for tunisia army is find the attackers searching every home on the ground with help from the air. army commanders suspect local people may be helping or hiding them and dozens of young men from ben garden are for training and join groups such as i.s.i.l. the challenge for the government

and police now is to track men returning to that tunisia. >> 36 fighters have been killed and 7 more arrested, we have some information of tunisia elements involved but foreigners responsible for this attack, we gathered important information from the terrorists. >> reporter: villagers here are living in fear. until now fighting in libya was something they watched on t.v. news. they never expected the fighting to surround their homes. they feel helpless as they wait for the next attack. al jazeera, jalel southern tunisia. reports that delegates from the houthi movement started talks with saudi arabia in an attempt to end the war in yemen. talks coincide with the fighting on the border between the countries and in saudi-led air strikes on the capitol sanaa and

houthi making a visit to saudi arabia since the war of the two sides began last year. four palestinians have been shot dead by in separate incidents after allegedly trying to kill israelis in occupied jerusalem, in the part city a palestinian killed one man believed to have been an american and stabbed seven israelis and he was then shot and killed by israeli police. the wave of attacks comes as u.s. president joe biden arrived in israel on a two day visit as part of a regional tour of the middle east and al jazeera reports from west jerusalem. >> reporter: these attacks on tuesday are a reminder of the low level but ongoing violence and increase in attacks on individuals which really started in earnest last october in occupied east jerusalem. a palestinian on a motor bike fired shots at a member of the israeli police who was seriously

wounded. he tried to escape but then shot at one of the police who were following him, one of those police officers was injured as well before the palestinian himself was shot dead. just hours before the israeli border police had killed a 50-year-old palestinian woman within the walls of jerusalem's old city, they say she had drawn a knife and attempted to stab one of the police officers, a palestinian eyewitness disputed that version of events but all of this latest violence really comes against a back drop of the israeli palestinian peace process going absolutely no where. >> reporter: obama administration is facing criticism over whether it's abandon its efforts to broker a peace deal between israelis and the palestinians. and roslyn jordan looks at u.s. efforts to restart the process. >> reporter: this was the last time john kerry saw the israeli prime minister and the last time

he met the palestinian authority president. what did not come out of the secretary of state's meetings in late november a resumption of the peace process and obama administration denies it's given up. >> this notion that you know that it's more that we have given it up and that it's something that needs to be kick started would be you know conveys this idea that, you know, that we just have thrown up our hands or we did at some point and that is not the way the secretary looks at this. >> reporter: in the face of more immediate crisis with i.s.i.l., korea, north korea some say president barack obama has given up on the mid east peace process. there have not been face-to-face talks between top negotiators in several years. then secretary of state hillary clinton launched the administration's first effort in 2010. john kerry tried again in 2013. both attempts fell apart and a new effort has not been made.

obama's former mid east advisor dennis ross wrote the lack of u.s. focus is hurting and putting a two state solution at risk with the continued building of settlements in the occupied west bank and attacks on israelis and palestinians. ross's solution try one more time to reach a deal but don't put so much pressure on the israelis to stop settlement building right now. laura freedman of americans for peace now which opposes settlement construction calls ross's idea laughable. >> what this really is saying is we want to fundamentally change the entire concept of israeli policy and peace, we want to erase all of the understandings that both sides have agreed on since 1993 and we are going to start over based on the situation today. and we are going to decree that

and the palestinians are just going to have to accept it. >> reporter: in the end some u.s. officials say that until they see a willingness from both palestinians and israelis to return to talks all they can do is wait. roslyn jordan, al jazeera, washington. number of u.s. states are going to the polls on tuesday, michigan and mississippi are both holding their democratic and republican primaries and idaho and hawaii casting vote and michigan is a big prize with hillary clinton and donald trump ahead in the polls there and the state has faced a serious water crisis in the city of flint supply was contaminated with lead and john has our story now from flint. >> reporter: presidential contende contenders at least the democrats have discovered flint. >> what happened in flint is immoral. >> reporter: as they vie against one another hillary clinton and bernie sanders are united on the need to rescue

this former auto town known around the world for the lead tainted water. >> it's my hope american people will look at flint and say never again. >> reporter: they campaigned here, held a debate here, clinton sent her top political advisor. >> frustrating? >> absolutely. things should move faster. i mean if there is anything congress should be working together democrats and republicans it's really about flint. >> reporter: the residents appreciate the attention. >> attention and put pressure on the politicians in d.c. to actually do something for flint. >> reporter: nearly two years after the michigan emergency managers who took over flint's finances switched the water source to save money and flint residents are still bathing in water tainted with lead and line up at five fire stations for daily drinking water and tally the damage to their children. >> during this situation i lost unborn twins, both of my kids tested positive for high levels of lead and i'm just wondering

after this campaign what will mr. bernie do to help the city of flint, in 5-10 years what is going to happen to my kids? >> reporter: flint residents we talked to are glad poll 'tiss are finally paying attentions to the problems that happened when they switched their water source to the corrosive waters of the flint river but to fix the pipes in flint would cost 1.5 billion dollars and so far nobody is offering that. experts say now flint returned to buying its water from detroit simply restoring the anticorrosion chemicals flint's water department should have been using all along will vastly improve water quality. >> the truth is the system through properly adjusting the water chemistry can be restored to the situation where safe water is being delivered. well, that by itself restore confidence, will it? probably not. >> reporter: even if flint residents had confidence in their government flint's

deteriorating pipes have been neglected for decades and residents look to washington and the presidential contenders. in washington the republican led congress is now debating sending as much as 200 million dollars, a drop in flint's tainted bucket. john with al jazeera, flint, michigan. kimberly is in washington d.c. and joins us now, hi there kimberly, so how can the vote change this democrat's standing? >> well, what this vote is likely to do is solidified hillary clinton's lead. she has picked up a substantial number of delegates, three times her main rival bernie sanders in these presidential nominating contests so far. what has been happening is she has not only been accumulating delegates the so called super delegates that really do hold a lot of sway at the party's nominating convention held in the summer time in philadelphia. so as a result of these votes what we have noticed in previous polls is that bernie sanders has

been winning but he has been winning in states that have not a lot of delegates and also tend to be less diverse where hillary clinton scores big is in states with voters of color, latino, african/american, women and also older voters and that is a demographic voting on tuesday so once again we expect hillary clinton to push further in the lead, at some point it's going to be difficult and very, very soon, in fact, for bernie sanders to try and close the gap. >> kimberly the republican party is in turmoil over how to stop trump's lead, what is at stake? >> well, what is at stake is right now they are facing the fact that in the prospect when they couldn't have thought possible about a year ago that donald trump could be the nominee. he is already in presumptive nominee status and the party is nervous. as a result we saw on monday the former republican presidential nominee mitt romney making

telephone calls to voters urging them to support an alternative, more established candidate, rubio and cruz and john kasich the argument being that the polls show right now that donald trump cannot beat hillary clinton, it's looking to the republicans more and more like it's hillary clinton who will be the republican nominee and there is fear and as a result there is really chaos right now as they try to encourage voters but at the same time we have some pretty big contests coming up, not just today with the voting that is happening here in the united states but also on march 15th, that is when some very delegate rich states will be voting, florida, ohio, illinois, if donald trump wins there it will be very difficult to change the trajectory. >> kimberly joining us live from washington d.c., kimberly thank you. ahead on al jazeera south korea slaps unilateral and shuns against the northern neighbor against the rocket test and

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reminder of the stop stories on al jazeera, u.n. is questioning the legality of an agreement that could see refugees and migrants in europe sent back to turkey, refugees particularly wants to know more about the safeguards in place to protect them. palestinians and american have been killed after a wave of violence in occupied east jerusalem. number of u.s. states are holding democratic and republic primaries including michigan and faced a serious water crisis and the city of flint was contaminated with lead. let's take a closer look at our top story, the proposal sent to -- to send refugees and migrants back to turkey, at the moment there are around 35,000 refugees

inside greece, they won't be affected by this deal but their numbers are growing and officials say at least 3,000 people on greek shores every single day. if the deal between turkey and eu is finalized each person arriving in greece will be returned to turkey. there are more than 2.7 million registered refugees already living in turkish camps and the deal will see one syrian refugee from those camps granted entry into europe. with the charity save the children which has described the deal as a tit for tat game played with innocent human lives and joins us from greece just ten minutes away and a warm welcome to the program and thanks for being with us and before we talk about this potential deal just tell us what you have been seeing near where you are, what are the conditions like for people? >> well, julie the conditions are deplorable over here and the situation is really critical. i think this is some of the worst we have seen in a very

long time and sometimes it's difficult to imagine that this is europe 2016. we are talking about a facility in an area that was built to host about 2000 people but is now hosting 14,000 people so there is a lot of families, a lot of children sleeping out in the cold and the mud and the fields. they might have a tent, they might have a blanket but mostly sleeping in the cold, temperatures dropped last night for am about negative five and raining for a few hours so this morning we went back to the camp and you could see all the tents were flooded, people had to sleep in their wet clothes so they are hanging them to dry this morning, a lot of children running around because there are a lot of children on the route traveling to europe. they are playing in stagnant water and sewage water. the bathrooms are over flooded so it's a very critical situation here and i think we are continuing to see more people arrive but the border is only open a few hours every day letting 100-200 people through

when there are 2-3,000 people arriving in the islands. >> looking at pictures as we speak of lots of children in the camp, i believe a lot of them are getting sick because of the conditions you described, 70% of children are at risk in the camp, i mean how stretched are aid agencies in being able to help these families? >> aid agencies like save the children, like msf, others were really trying to assist as many people as we can but as i said more people continue to arrive and there is really getting really difficult to assist everyone as they need to be assisted and people arrive in the middle of the night at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning and organize distributions of food or tents if they need any supplies so everyone is working 24 hours a day, seven days a week but if the situation is not resolved in any proper or sustainable way i think we are going to see a massive deterioration particularly in health conditions for children because the current facilities are not child friendly. we have a lot of people burning

plastic to stay warm, burning their clothes to stay warm and a lot of kids inhaling that and a couple of diseases and conditions that were recorded over the past few days and i really think it's only going to get worse if this is not resolved. >> and in terms of this deal that has partly been agreed between the eu and turkey give us your view. >> well, i mean based on what we are hearing and the proposed agreement it seems like at the moment for every syrian returned from greece to turkey the eu has to resettle a syrian from turkey to the eu which in practice when this is going to come into place if it does it's going to mean that for every one person settled from turkey there is going to have to be a person risking their life crossing the aegean and we just thrown out the refugee convention out the window and the eu seems more concerned about protecting its borders than protecting people so there is really a lot to be concerned and all of this is

illegal as the report mentioned earlier. people fleeing war and persecution are entitled to a proper assessment, proper evaluation of their personal conditions and then based on that we can decide if they are entitled to have asylum in a country or not but this categorization and blanket relocation of people based on nationality and citizenship back to turkey is illegal and goes against the eu and international human rights laws. >> from save the children and thanks for joining us thank you. >> thank you, thank you. south korea has unilateral sanctions after a rocket test and rocket launch and accused of being responsible for developing weapons of mass destruction placed on a black list and yesterday north korea warned of nuclear start of military exercises between the united states and south korea. families of the missing passengers from malaysia airlines 370 have been holding a

vigil to mark the second anniversary of the plane's disappearance and we have more on the investigation of the anniversary. >> reporter: the second anniversary of the disappearance of flight mh370 was marked in a rather low-key manner and had a minute of silence in parliament behind me to remember all 239 people who were on board the plane when it disappeared, a team of investigations also issued an interim report, according to the international civil aviation organization a interim report has to be issued on each anniversary of an aviation accident until a final report has been issued so this is the second interim report. unfortunately it does not disclose any new information or information that is not already in the public domain. the prime lister of malaysia said officials are doing all they can to find the plane and

solve what is being described as the biggest civil aviation mystery in history. now two rather encouraging pieces of evidence have been found, two pieces of possibly plane debris were found, one on an island and one on mozambeke and see if it came from the missing 370 and they expect the search operation which is ongoing in the southern indian ocean to come to an end in july, sometime in july this year and at that point three countries, china, australia and malaysia will make a decision whether or not to continue the search operation. >> reporter: venezuela is searching for 28 gold minuters who failed to return home from work. there are conflicting reports but eyewitnesses are saying there was a clash with gang members after a significant gold deposit was found near the town

and so far investigations have failed to find any bodies and al jazeera virginia has more from caracus. >> reporter: vent venezuela are invest gaying that 28 may have been massacred in the southern state. family members of these 28 men took to the streets in a small town in southern venezuela to protest the disappearance of loved ones and said they never came back from work after friday. eyewitness accounts said a scene of carnage where they were shot and dismembered and remains parts of their body was thrown in a truck and driven away. the government initially said the allegations could not be proven but have now moved to send investigators and ombudsman to look in the testimony of the families of these men. this area is very rich in gold and diamonds and has seen not

only legal but rampant illegal mining, illegal mining, has gotten worse in the last couple of years after as many as five criminal gangs took control of the area. the opposition has said that these possibility of this massacre only highlights just how lawless this area is and has even said that these criminal gangs could only work in this area with the cooperation of corrupt military force. the government is looking into the allegations but as of now no official statement has been put forward. tanzania president in the job four months but attacking attention in africa and beyond of corruption and ruling sisi has been in power for 50 years and plenty of skepticism he will be able to stop crumble shun and wasteful public spending and here is malcolm web.

♪ since winning tanzania presidential elections in october last year john has caused a stir. and saw him addressing judges and lawyers in the country. he has declared an unprecedented crack down on corruption and wasteful spending. >> translator: there are people using public money the way they want. very poor people in this country. there are officials who when they decide to sit as a board cannot find a suitable hotel in this country so they opt to go to europe for a board meeting. >> reporter: days after being sworn in november he paid a surprise visit to the main government hospital. he found broken medical machines and patients sleeping on the floor. so he fired the managing director. next came his container port and serves the whole region and the government says it was losing millions of dollars of revenue here every year because of corruption and tax evasion and

he fired top officials an ordered the lost revenue to be recovered and caught the attention of social media users with the trending hash tag what would he do is thousands of jokes about saving money. communications on the list says it also shows a longing for better governance. >> i would like to see his team work along the same lines that he has and that for this momentum to be sustained and i'll be interested to see or have this conversation again in one year and see if you know has it changed into something that we can say is really sincere and genuine because it's managed to outlive the early days of excitement of a new leader. >> reporter: not the first leader in this region to come to power on an anticorruption ticket. and past promises of cleaner government more often left people feeling that nothing has really changed. the people are waiting to find out if this time it will be

different. malcolm web, al jazeera. tuesday marks international women's day. some workplaces have taken the opportunity to celebrate their female workers. and many women themselves have used the opportunity to send empowering messages. [bell rings] a group of women opened the stock exchange and doctors, business leaders and representatives from the women's office rang the bell, the tradition is in its third year marking the role of women in the economy. refugees in nigeria marked international women's day despite being unable to return home, women who fled fighting in western sahara celebrated achievements in the fight for independence and 165,000 refugees live in camps in southwest algeria. in ukraine activists took to the streets of kiev protesting

against the discrimination of women, many wore costumes and masks that resembled protest groups. in britain one group is in the push for gender equality and women's rights and a new force in british politics called the women's equality party and the goals are clear, more women in politics and equal pay and jessica went to find out more. >> reporter: grass roots politics doesn't get much more local. dozens of women gathered on a rainy england in a school gym, the equality party is choosing its candidate for london mayor and speeches yes but similarities with traditional politics ends, no smoke filled back rooms but plays where women want to campaign and cannot afford a baby sitter. >> they want to keep women out of politics altogether and it's a game that basically favors

people with time and money and people have less time. >> reporter: the party is entirely crowd funded. the money comes from the 45,000 members they attracted in the last six months. sophie walker is visiting young entrepreneurs as she campaigns to be the next mayor of london and like many her motivation is frustration in lack of progress and getting more women in positions of power. >> we see an approach that says this is really hard, it's terribly hard and terribly complicated, we will get to it when we don't have anything else just wait another 50 years that is not good enough. >> reporter: the party has a simple message equal pay and equal opportunities and don't mind if the more traditional parties take that issue over. >> what they want to do is if they are invited to participate and lead debates and invited for hostings it's to force the other candidates to address these

issues as well and not just about getting elected, it's about shaping the agenda. >> reporter: for more than 40 years there have been laws on the books of this country protecting the equality of women, that is fine in theory but in practice it doesn't work like that. women earn far less than men, a handful of women run the big companies and in parliament only a third of the lawmakers are women. britain has one of the oldest elected assemblies in the world. but the lack of women inside parliament, the lack of voices being heard challenges the country's claim to true democracy. jessica baldwin, al jazeera, london. still ahead this news hour, could you out smart a computer? we introduce you to the south korean who is trying to do exactly that. and a new look for afghanistan's women's football team andy will have details coming up, in sport. ♪

♪ south korea making final preparations to host a battle that will put man against machine and see the world's best professional player of the chinese board game go take on an artificial intelligence system created by google and harry faucet explains. >> reporter: prefight hype goes it was hardly las vegas caliber and the current champ did not sound too aggressive but if the style was low key the substance was a match for any big named boxer. >> translator: i won't let my guard down but given the time constraints i think i'm better,

i don't think it will end up 3-2 or nothing. my prediction is either 5-nil or 4-1. >> reporter: from south korea is the dominant figure in the ancient chinese game of go, the best of five tournament worth more than a million dollars is alfa an artificial intelligence system developed by the google project named deep mind and beat the european champion last year 5-0 and designers want to learn by playing the game's greatest and want no arguments once they beat him. >> we chose him because we think this is going to be a very historic match so we wanted a legendary historic player, somebody who has been at the top of the game and acknowledged as the greatest player of the last decade. >> reporter: the game is simple, black versus white, equal value pieces placed turn by term, complexity for a computer lies in the sheer number of options open to each player and how to determine what

makes a good move. to win a game of go you want to try to control the maximum amount of territory you can on the board so you choose the intersection of the lines to place your pieces strategically trying to avoid at all costs them being surrounded by your opponent because at that point they vanish. among these young enthusiasts no doubt about the likely winner. >> translator: i think he knows more about technical moves. >> translator: i think they will win because when it comes to go humans are more intelligent than computers. >> reporter: deep mind designers tried to find a way to combat human intuition rather than every move and slips the choices and evaluates them on scenarios where one is winning and what if alfa go wins? >> if he can do that, it can be

kind of a different paradigm of a computation so really human like. >> reporter: says this will be a historic match, the people of deep mine are hoping lit be a historic moment in the document of artificial intelligence, harry faucet, al jazeera, seoul. now over to andy in doha for all of the day's sports news. >> thank you so much julie and maria sharapova is starting to count the cost of her failed drug test, the tennis star is facing an uncertain future in sport but has found support from her biggest rival and a lealeas reports. >> reporter: a fallen star or so it seems maria sharapova has been the highest earning athlete on the planet but a day after announcing that she failed a drug test at the australia open they announced they were cutting ties with the five time grand slam champion. >> that is a sensible strategy

because these stories have a habit of developing and unfolding over a long period of time and becoming rapidly worse. so lance armstrong is the classic example of that. it just can lead to months and months of negative headlines surrounding the athlete and brands that sponsor him. >> i made a huge mistake and i let my fans down. i let the sport down. >> reporter: the drug in question is meldonium and maria sharapova said she had it prescribed for the past ten years for health issues and it aids oxygen up take and endurance is used with patients with heart conditions. >> it was added to the 2016 prohibited list which took effect on the first of january this year and last year it was on what we call a monitoring program which is a program whereby we track substances that might eventually be added to the list. we look for patterns of misuse and got evidence last year this was, in fact, being used to enhance performance of athletes and it was added to the ban

list. >> reporter: the russian attracted sympathy from our rival on the women's tennis circuit. >> she said she is ready to take full responsibility, i think that showed a lot of courage and a lot of heart and i think she has always showed courage and heart in everything she has done and this is no different. >> reporter: maria sharapova will be provisionally suspended on march the 12, a decision on her final penalty rests with the international tennis federation. >> we are used to maria sharapova being a fighter on court and that is the way she is in her personal life so i think that we will find that maria sharapova will do whatever is handed down. >> costly mistake how you look at it, al jazeera. given the perfect response to his critics in the stands and scored the opening goal for royal madrid against roma and progressed in the champion league quarter finals and booed

in the last game after criticizing his team mates. and rodriguez with a 2-nil win and 4-nil on the other game tonight, wallsburg beating 1-nil and 4-2 on aggregate. and calls for a third straight fa cup title in england and they booked a place in the quarter finals and french international got the first two ending a 11-game goal. could gold strike twice? in the next round eases the pressure who has seen the start of premier league challenge in balsa in resent weeks, afghanistan cricket made a start after the t20 world cup in india and beat scotland in the first game, this is the tournament's group phase besides aiming to qualify for the main draw and

top themes for the competition, afghanistan here scoring 117-20 overs and out there hitting a rapid 61. unrestricted scotland to 156 for 5 and won by 14 runs. now the arctic winter games wasted little time in living up to their name and snowstorms keeping athletes away from the event in green land, around a thousand competitors flown in to take part and as paul reese reports it's building bridges between isolated arctic communities. >> reporter: transport options are limited in a country that is 81% ice. green land has no national road system so helicopters, planes or boats are the only way to get between towns or tiny outposts like this. just 56,000 people live in this vast country, a third of them in nuke the world's smallest

capitol now hosting green land's biggest sporting event. from up here you really see how isolated and inhospitable it is and smaller than india and people from the arctic to come together to meet in one place. that is where the arctic winter games come in. metals competed in sports from the summer and winter olympics as well as traditional sports rarely seen outside the arctic circle. but the real victory is bringing together young people who share the same culture but who live thousands of miles apart. in places like canada and russia and the scandanavia, a hard fought victory with the storm coming and stranding athletes before the first day of

competition. >> we were supposed to come here three days ago and stuck three days at home. >> we are in the arctic and need to be somewhere where it's the arctic to experience arctic winter games. >> reporter: metalist tommy carries green land's hopes and carries green landers, his job as a pilot vital in getting athletes to the game. >> not like denmark or country you drive a car two, three hours and here we need to spend a lot of money just to see this and when you get to see the other people from alaska and canada and we are isolated and think it's only us in the north but we are not. >> reporter: the games finish on friday and he will have the job of getting competitors home but only if the weather decides to play ball, paul reese, nuke, green land. >> afghanistan's women's football team have a new kit to allow players to compete following their faith and women in the majority country choose

to cover their bodies and heads and this has a head scarf and also comes with legings and falls in line with fifa rules and lived the ban on head covers back in 2014. okay that is all your sports for now and back to julie in london. >> andy thank you, scientists in switzerland have created a bionic finger tip where you can feel the difference between rough and smooth surfaces and researchers implanted electrodes in the arm of amputee dennis sorenson and generated an electrical signal that mimicked the nervous system for him to feel textures on his index finger despite missing his left hand, how cool is that? now you can find out much more on our website, all the stories we are following there plus plenty of on demand comment and analysis, that is all on al jazeera.com. be back in just a second with much more of the day's news.

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