the vice president of equitorial guinea embezzled more than one hundred seventy five million dollars from his country's public funds to finance his playboy lifestyle in france the verdict on don't usually introduced legislation to deal with so-called ill gotten gains was hailed by his opponents and described by prosecuting lawyers as an historic decision. is an unprecedented and global message to court is sending to kleptocrats it is to beginning of the end for this rule of impunity and immunity is kleptocrats imagine it was eternal and universal unity of beings father has been president of equitorial guinea for nearly four decades a country made rich by its oil reserves but where nearly two thirds of the population live in squalor and poverty is sun's multi-million dollar mansion in an exclusive suburb of paris has now being confiscated as well as many of the luxuries artworks and antiques inside the former butler of the vice president alleges that

live behind his mansion the walls with one full of whores alcohol and cocaine those days are definitely now over but at the paris courthouse a reminder of what life can be like for opponents who challenge the families grip on their country or to live meanies through our stacia may the minister or the minister himself was giving orders saying do it is do that it happened at the ministry building in equatorial guinea to me so touching me that means did or didn't endear the activists who launched the campaign want to return the embezzled money back to the people it was stolen from but no mechanism is yet in place to do that. investigations have also been launched against the presidents of gabon and the republic of congo but it could be months before they reach the colt david chase al-jazeera paris in january two point six million people across the u.s.

took part in the women's march the biggest national protest in the country's history the movement which followed the election of u.s. president don will trump sparked sister protests around the world now organizes at me again in detroit for the women's convention at some well known speak john hendren is also there and joins us live hi there john so why are these leaders holding the women's convention what what's their goal. this was organized by the women who launched that women's march that you just talked about it it's officially and a political organization but it's no accident that they got together the day after president donald trump was inaugurated it was in many ways a reaction to his presidency and it's an effort to turn that march into an ongoing movement to press forward with women's issues and they want women to get more involved and to have a greater voice in government in the workplace and in society at large and i guess they thought what better place to do that than here in detroit

a city that has transformed itself since emerging from bankruptcy about two years ago there are some high profile speakers you've got the actress rose mcgowan also the actress piper para both rose mcgowan has famously accused harvey weinstein of sexual assault that's the hollywood producer whose name is in the news a lot nowadays but you've also got senator debbie stabenow who is here local state and federal officials are here talking about the kinds of issues that women feel have been under represented by this current administration but also talking about the way women are treated and the way they are listened to so it's really a broad agenda and if i can look through just a couple of of i. here they're talking about raising money for the national resources defense fund and on environmental group there was an opening prayer by a native american. and then there's a restored of yoga class and a shoe box religious service in between all of these things you can pick and choose

of the many events going on right there about five thousand women we are told who are expected to be here today and for the next two days through sunday you mentioned and john the names of some actresses there and i'm just wondering how and the subjects of sexual harassment whether that's playing a particular role at at this conference. it is indeed and it's it's really fortuitous timing that this harvey weinstein scandal has rocked hollywood as this is ongoing it's one of the issues that women here are talking about they're talking about their treatment in the workplace and one of the things that you'll hear them say over and over is enough is enough they want to be treated like men they want to have the same voice that men have in the workplace and they also want to be treated with the kind of respect that they feel of course that they are due in the workplace in government and everywhere else and that weinstein scandal really highlights that rose mcgowan has accused weinstein of sexually

assaulting her. parable another actress is here talking don't know what she'll say but she will likely be asked about that so it's a it's being playing a high profile role here not just in hollywood but also in other contexts john hendren there joining me live from detroit jump banks. australia's government has lost its parliamentary majority after a court expelled the deputy prime minister from the lower house want to be joyce is one of five people who were made to leave their jobs because there were a breach of jew citizenship loss after thomas explains. barnaby joyce liked to crack a cattle within parliament to burnish his old image but on friday australia's high court decided when he was elected he wasn't australian enough to be an m.p. let alone australia's deputy prime minister joyce's father was born in new zealand

and though he says he didn't know it joyce was entitle to new zealand citizenship to know no reason to believe it was a system of any other country but israel was born just there just there and you know i grew up over there and i served in nation's defense forces not reasonably well thinking but as a straight is constitution says no one it's hard to the rights of a citizen of a foreign power can stand for parliament on friday the high court decided ignorance of jewel citizenship was no excuse five m.p.'s have been thrown out of parliament in all but most senators will be replaced by others from their party's barnaby joyce his case was different he was an m.p. in the house of representatives where the government of prime minister malcolm turnbull had until friday a majority of just one without joyce the government is at risk the decision of the court today is clearly not the outcome we were hoping for but the business of government goes on it can for now. time with

its most famous for its annual country music festival but under some of the second will be a byelection here in which joyce is now we're announcing his news even citizenship will try to win back his old seat but even if he does there are other problems if joyce wasn't properly elected as an m.p. he wasn't properly a minister either decisions he made as one could now be challenged in court when it came to the point where he realised that he might not be a minister when it was referred to the high court when there were doubts about it it might well be. those decisions are vulnerable the has already been a more immediate consequence australia's prime minister was supposed to be travelling to israel on saturday leaving barnaby joyce in charge here at home malcolm turnbull has now been laid back trim indefinitely under promise out as there are six. cuts hose in the air has said he's worried about chaos in the middle

east if the gulf crisis continues to escalate speaking to the us television program sixty minutes shake time and been hammered pani said the us president told him washington could not let the crisis continue saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt of bahrain cut ties with qatar in june and imposed a land sea and air blockade i'm fearful that if anything happens and a military act happens this will be chaos i met with the president when i was in new york few weeks ago for the united nations the united nation and the president showed that he is committed to find an end to this crisis so yes it is true here he suggested that we come and i told him straight away mr president we are very ready i've been asking for dialogue from day one and what did the other countries say it was supposed to be very soon this meeting but i don't have any response a prisoner in gehman has spoken exclusively to al-jazeera about alleged torture methods used in secret jails run by the united arab emirates and its allies dozens

of detainees have gone on hunger strike in the city of aden saying they're being abused victoria gate and reports. human rights watch says there are at least eighteen secret prisons run by you a forces in southern yemen they include bare akhmed prison in aden al jazeera has obtained a voice recording of one detainee he says prisoners are regularly to watch it. there are various methods such as the electric shock waterboarding as well as forcing detainees to strip naked this is how they torture and different prisons they use different methods human rights watch says other detainees at the prison have begun a hunger strike in response to mistreatment it wants the u.a.e. and its allies to take action to stop the alleged abuse in a statement it said detainees should not have to refuse food to be treated humanely

and free from abuse the u.a.e. and the yemeni proxy should stop denying responsibility for mistreatment and investigate and act on the complaints. the u.a.e. is part of a saudi led coalition helping the yemeni government might hit the rebels who have taken control of northern and central yemen including the capital sana'a more than ten thousand yemenis have been killed and almost forty thousand injured since twenty fifteen. eighty percent of the population is in need of humanitarian aid human rights watch says the u.a.e. has been arming and training yemeni special forces to fight local branches of al qaida and eisel it's documented dozens of cases of people including children who were detained by those horses and may have been subjected to torture the denies the allegations. lawyers though say nearly two thousand men have disappeared in

southern yemen family members have been demonstrating for the release of their relatives for months victoria gate and be al jazeera. al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mark with hussein who's now been in a gyptian prison for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos claims he and al-jazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december was visiting his family two white south african men have been sentenced to a total of twenty five years in prison after they were found guilty of trying to force a black man into a coffin and threatened to burn him alive three or martin's jackson and. were convicted of attempted murder assault and kidnapping both had pleaded not guilty claiming they only intended to scare victim a lot in last year's incident jackson was jailed for nineteen years and even for

sixteen had five years suspended from their terms. the end human rights chief has described the syrian government's siege of the capital suburbs as quote an eye wage and aid must be allowed to reach civilians there zaid radical hussein says residents in eastern guta are facing a humanitarian emergency despite a truce negotiated in april to facilitate relief the u.n. says at least twelve hundred children are suffering from malnutrition and another fifteen hundred at risk used in goods has been under siege since twenty thirty with at least three hundred fifty times and people trapped there. well the syrian opposition wants three main rebel factions in northern syria to reunite as one army president assad's forces are on the move retaking more territory while the rebels are retreating six years after the start of the uprising in syria the rebels have a choice to rebuild

a strong army or fierce defeat hold our reports from gaziantep on turkey's border syria. safe is the commander of an elite free syrian army unit the f.s.a. once the pride of the syrian opposition is backed by turkey the u.s. and many european and gulf countries it has paid crucial roles in recent military operations against i sit in northern syria. but it has been weakened by divisions and is outnumbered by rival groups syria's opposition is now turning to commanders like from the brigade to unite all the armed groups and build a new army that. will have a transitional authority a new army that will run the country when bush ariel assad is a victor power but we need weapons and logistical support the syrian opposition is expected to appoint

a minister of defense and chief. but rebel commanders are yet to overcome differences about the structure of the new army and the groups that will be allowed to join the f.s.a. has disintegrated into disparate factions mohamed commands a free syrian army unit in. an area in homs besieged by government forces. some factions have acted selfishly never cared about the others they still weapons but never share them with those constantly on the front lines this is created resentment among many factions. other commanders like a mensch a band blame the opposition's main regional backers for undermining the. it's no secret our backers are the ones who dictate when and where to start a fight they are manipulating the rebels had it not been for their interference we would have toppled as had a long time ago. powerful armed factions like station islam and hate

at the head of a coalition led by a former al-qaeda affiliate well to be part of the new army the to operate independently and reject handing over their territory to the f.s.a. the rebels may not be able to stand against the syrian army which has the support of russia and iran but it is still this feeling among opposition command that rebirthing athens. it's never too late confident that the fight is far from over and that with international support able to run syria in the future. still ahead on the program it's harvest time in the occupied west bank palestinian farmers i guess increase in time. and on a mission the u.n. chief. visit to central african republic all that more.

in colombia transforming. into building blocks. of the west blasting the war we can finish. in just ten years and in singapore fredricka farms and living building anything you do on land on the ground doesn't make sense to do that on the building and we might have not just decorative biologically productive earthrise discovers cutting edge solutions for sustainable city at this time. in the most heavily armed country in the world if there's any country that would be experiencing p.t.s.d. it would be a nation that's been war for for generations al-jazeera explores the reason those drones are there. the innocent civilians they exist in off of drawing even they're not firing is them frightening because any moment they can bomb living beneath the

drone. this time al-jazeera. russian president vladimir putin has taken part in a major new chair military drill personally oversee the test firing of four intercontinental ballistic missiles the drills included the use of nuclear submarines strategic bombers and a land based launcher the kremlin has described the exercises as routine the palestinian group hamas says its security chief in the gaza strip has been wouldn't it in what is described as a failed assassination attempt orchestrated by israel tuffy. was slightly injured in the car bombing on friday outside

a mosque in gaza hamas did not provide any evidence of israeli involvement the israeli military says it does not comment foreign reporters prepare list informers have been injured as they tried to harvest their own lives when they were confronted by israeli settlers the latest incident in a harvest season beset by harassment around illegal settlements where palestinian pharmacy had special military permission to reach their land spent the day with one group of the village of self it just in the occupied west bank in the pre-dawn light a handful of farmers gathered for the chance to get to their for a few minutes israeli soldiers. id papers are taken. and they go from being locked out to locked in they were tossed fitting the branch isn't good for the trees but it's quick which helps when you have a six week old baby to tend to as well. each family has just

a few days not only to harvest their lives but to carry out maintenance work that would normally be done throughout the year but. the trees don't get the trimming or fertilizing they need the land doesn't get plowed or maintained so the production goes. the restrictions of the result of a separation barrier and military road that cordon off the nearby illegal settlement of. the palestinian agriculture ministry says of eleven million olive trees five hundred thousand cut off in this way requiring coordination with the israeli military to farm a recent un report said those trees were sixty five percent less productive than those that are regularly tended less than twenty kilometers away near nablus another group of palestinian farmers was confronted by israeli settlers three were injured earlier this month by an illegal israeli outpost in the same area settlers simply help themselves back in south we find and rummy's harvesting some of the nearly two hundred family trees they say they get two days access to do two weeks

worth of work in february and seventeen days now at harvest time. at their mercy it all happens quickly as if we're stealing time we come a don't sometimes we wait until eight or eight thirty we wait in the cold sometimes they come late sometimes they come early it's the same when we leave ten hours after they first opened the gates unlocked once again the pharmacy expect another week or so of this restricted harvest season from then until late winter the locks will stay in place are a force that al-jazeera south feet in the occupied west bank. the u.n. secretary general has wrapped up his four day visit to central african republic violence within muslim and christian groups has been escalating there and. his trip to call on militia groups to put down their weapons has more now on how muslims in one neighborhood of the capital are too scared to leave their place.

they are safe here but this act of faith is too dangerous to perform in some neighborhoods of bank. at the height of the ethnic violence in four years ago. it was chased down by a christian a vigilante group lynched because he was muslim the family home destroyed fled to the muslim district of p.k. five. they're hunting a stone that will run so we have to hoard our religion otherwise they will cut us into places. that disguises his faith whenever he leaves his neighborhood he shaved his beard and changes his clothes. he even changes his name. becomes. he's not alone many muslims in the capital disguises themselves as christians to avoid attack in areas outside the capital controlled by muslim rebel groups christians do the same on a visit to central african republic the united nations secretary-general called for

armed groups to design an engaging in political dialogue. for decades religious leaders and politicians have been for mentoring hatred and divisions in this community bringing this country to the edge of civil war it's now up to the recently elected president and his newly appointed government to bring back dialogue instability to this country president says he will bring peace. we want to build a safer c.a.r. where the population lives in peace in mutual respect so that we work together to build a dignified nation. some question his decision. has appointed former leaders of christian militia groups to his government he also wants the weapons embargo imposed on his country to be removed so he can arm his soldiers but this is a country already overflowing with weapons at

a food relieved distribution point a man pulls a grenade sending the crowd into panic christian and muslim men with guns continue to run this country this is as far as music can go they call it the bridge of death on one side are muslims and the other are christians who says home is on the other side across an invisible border built on hate now tearing the central african republic apart nicholas hawk al-jazeera p.k. five. and once common sight of yelling at one another on the trading floor closer to becoming a thing of the past with yet another one shutting up shop on kong stock exchange closes trading floor on friday joins other stock market giants london tokyo and singapore in the technology ports.

with the bang and much enthusiasm goal rise of china based logistics company debuts in hong kong stock market initial public offerings from chinese firms are becoming more frequent with more than a thousand companies from across the border trading their shares on the hang seng index you have only with hong kong within greater china this large equity market place that basically is accessible as long as you're a qualified company so without government interference you can easily come here with a size of china's economy that just pushes more of these quality companies to the listing opportunity here chinese entities account for about half the number of companies on the hong kong exchange compared with five percent in one thousand nine hundred seven on the territory transition from a british colony to a special administrative region of china hong kong has always been a financial hub but over the past two decades the nature of the city's markets have changed drastically along with china's economy chinese companies and investors looking for international exposure are now is huge part of the financial system but

there is a nother big change y.p. taking place in the city stock markets. the news that hong kong stock exchange is shutting down its trading floor by the end of the month has caught many by surprise despite the fact that it's used by only a few brokers now online technology and trading back in pewter have made this place redundant before you. get to so many friends action news. reader exchanged. information the exchange has shrunk over the years but has always remained an important symbol. in the early ninety's a popular t.v. series captured the excitement on the exchange floor and the lives of traders in the red vests you think you're cool and i was proud. and very sad i don't think. so so i suppose that now that places like this when other arab although the. are those who are less sentimental i think they're close because i

think that they know working in there anymore because everyone is if the internet it's the end of an era for you can have spent thirty years here but i can use the wonder of well financed or center is unbelievable with how computer financial treating whole from next month the trading floor becomes a part of a museum dedicated to the stock market making it yet another piece of hong kong's unique identity relegated to history. hong kong that's all from us for the moment we'll be back in just a sec with much more thanks to company. provoking debate the corporate tax has not hurt job growth from the brock obama the only draw to that and that's not true tackling the tough issues restrictions on media freedom of a tree killing torture maybe you giving the world pigment if we wrap challenging the

established line every single one of the three and a half thousand people who is killed with a drug dealer yes how do we know that you didn't try them didn't prosecute them you didn't charge him a shot the man saw him join what he has done for up front at this time on al-jazeera. on counting the cost of italy's wealthy northern region say seeds of more autonomy but who are the forces reshaping european politics how might china's new leadership lineup affect the economy plus why trade is the hong kong stock exchange is saying bye bye to the back country the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera the nature of news as it breaks because you can see there in the distance of shia militia vehicles to the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga telling us are actually tanks with detailed coverage when the mine closed in one thousand nine hundred for many people lost their job scavenging is outside making money from around the world this is supposed to last for a month but people tell us that it only lasts for eight days if you look around this is the only ford available in this household.

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