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a direct military aggression for yemen. i really believe that it makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal u.s. president all trying to strikes a moderate tone on what is perhaps the most delicate stop of his asian toll. and where and harare whereas embalmers president robert mugabe has fired his deputy came away from his wife to succeed him. announce on how much with all the sports news including australia's most famous horse race is dominated by one irish family joseph a brand the edges out his father in the thrilling finish to claim the melbourne cup .

saudi arabia has fired another warning shot at iran accusing it of direct military aggression through who see rebels in yemen crown prince mohammed bin solomon was referring to the missile fired riyadh from yemen on saturday saudi arabia pointing the finger at teheran for supplying the weapon to iran for its part has dismissed the accusation as quote contrary to reality meanwhile what appears to be the saudi orchestrated resignation of lebanon's prime minister has thrown the country into political turmoil as a whole day begins our coverage from beirut. it has been three days since lebanese prime minister sato had announced his shock resignation he made his statement in saudi arabia and hasn't returned home since instead he traveled to abu dhabi a saudi ally in the anti iranian camp for talks on an escalating political crisis back home but the crisis extends beyond lebanon's borders saudi arabia has made clear it wants to curb iranian influence not just here but across the region riyadh

is accusing iran of what it called direct military aggression by providing hutu rebels in yemen with rockets used to target the kingdom saudi officials have also said the very presence of hezbollah in the lebanese government amounts to a declaration of war. saudi arabia through a stretch when the lebanese government and people to finish off his blog it's an invitation to civil war there's a new front saudi israel and the us against iran. iran has proxies across the middle east in iraq it controls paramilitary forces that are stronger than the state in yemen saudi arabia is in a quagmire unable to defeat the iranian allied hutus in syria it has revolutionary guards and hezbollah troops supporting the government iran has now secured a land core door stretching from to her on through iraq and syria all the way to

lebanon where saudi arabia hopes it can change the balance of power. saudi arabia has long criticize hezbollah it is even classified as a terrorist organization but now. stronger language and threatening action in the words of the state minister for gulf affairs there will be those who will force hezbollah to return to their caves in southern lebanon. curbing hezbollah's influence and power won't be easy it is not just an armed group it is a political party with strong popular support but as of late it has extended its influence beyond lebanon's borders. hezbollah's arms it's this is a descent troops to fight alongside syrian president bashar assad's forces have long been issues of concern among some lebanese factions but it has long resisted calls to disarm and to withdraw from syria it's not clear what action saudi arabia will take. riyadh has a number of options to restrain his below but those options will just target has

been in the shia sect they will target all the lebanese economic pressures very possible but i don't believe saudi arabia can pressure has a lot militarily calls for unity are growing louder but lebanon is a deeply divided country in a deeply divided region the political crisis is only worsening and any solution will have to be part of a regional deal said. beirut. so let's take a closer look at the sources of tension between riyadh and so they saudi arabia and share iran are backing rival science in a range of conflicts across the middle east the two countries have been fighting a proxy war in yemen since. iran back. in control in the capital while saudi forces are fighting to restore ousted president. they too have a long struggle for influence in lebanon last year they arranged and backed hezbollah and to the coalition government leading to

a cooling of relations with saudi arabia has increasingly taken a leading role in the war. in neighboring syria helping iranian ally president bashar assad in his fight against rebel groups some backed by saudi arabia on top of all this there is iran's growing influence in iraq not least through the powerful shit militias it operates their contribution to saudi arabia sphere but it is increasingly surrounded by states and iranian influence what joined by in block who is a visiting senior fellow at the london school of economics middle east center thanks very much for coming in to al jazeera it does feel like all those sort of proxy groups that we've got used to fighting in the region are unraveling is this a major escalation but it's certainly a verbal escalate escalation from the saudi crown prince to talk about direct military aggression blaming that on iran is of those a very strong words on the other hand from saudi arabia these days we're all

getting used to how drama this isn't over it's course on the external front not the internal front that we've been looking at in particular but of course the resignation of the lebanese prime minister rafik hariri almost certainly saudi instigation or inspiration is another fascinating element in the in the regional dimension of the story the saudi iranian rivalry is a strategic or it seems to be getting worse it seems to have deteriorated particularly since president trump took office in january of this year people will remember the saudi arabia as a present from first foreign visit he was given a very very warm welcome in riyadh the saudis were delighted that he wasn't president obama who they really disliked largely because of the internationally. organized iranian nuclear deal and that is involvement there and possibly changing the status quo when he did arrive on the scene how much is it now down to three

nations who are all involved by various. to greece in that region to calm things down to try and make sure this doesn't stop building into something will well of course words don't necessarily automatically translate into into war georgia will be quite high level but doesn't always magically become conflict i mean it's hard to see who would actually benefit from a conflict hizbollah in lebanon is very much in the sights of the israelis but the imbalance between those two plays is enormous his bond is important because it's been particularly emboldened by its success in backing president assad in syria and contributed a lot to his survival in syria is probably the most important recent battleground in which the saudis and the iranians have been on on on opposite sides so i think the automatic risk of military action but the who's the rebels who are fighting the

saudi led coalition did fire a long range ballistic missile that hit riyadh it that's not something that you can just wish your way somebody supplied them with that missile the saudis accuse the iranians it's probably more likely to have come from his buddah but the the the direction is clear that confrontation is getting worse i mean these two countries don't have diplomatic relations either let's not forget that they were severed in one thousand nine hundred twenty sixteen over the the hanging of a shia cleric and in saudi arabia it's quite a dangerous situation but. do people actually want to turn that into come but i wouldn't assume automatically that that is the case and just for people watching saudi arabia at the moment looking inward looking all over from the saudis a country fighting on currently being aggressive on not just home obviously with

what's going on politically inside the country is the capital blockade that the probably the leading player it and then as you mentioned there's syria there's hezbollah all these different areas and this play was very thin then here i mean what is the thought process really behind all this aggression well i think that i think it's all a by a fundamental rivalry between these two powerful countries which have to be regional leaders now iran is a much bigger country. population terms saudi arabia is undergoing great change the saudis have never shown any appetite for military adventures they've always preferred that other people do that for no it's true with the coalition they're leading against yemen that's a different story but that's very much in their own yard i think that they are encouraged by president trumps really barely closer to towards iran in particular but i think that perhaps i'm speculating here the hope of the others the americans

israelis perhaps will take all. iran's role in the region and try to cut it down to size but that's a big calculation to make but it won't necessarily have to thank you very much and that coming into a senior fellow at the l.s.e. the u.n. has condemned saudi arabia's blockade of yemen after catastrophic and it's along with international aid groups are calling on riyadh to lift it fuel prices in yemen have increased more than sixty percent and cooking gas prices have doubled to saudi arabia announced on monday it will close all at land and sea ports to stop the flow of arms into the country but the move is also stopping aid getting in. the situation is catastrophic in yemen it's the worst food crisis we're looking at in the world today seven million people on the brink of famine millions of people being kept alive by our humanitarian operation so this is

a lifeline that must be continued every single day if the supplies pipeline comes to a halt food insecurity will deepen and we will be confronted with an even greater humanitarian crisis food fuel and medicine imports must continue to enter the country zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has fired his deputy accusing him of being disloyal the decision removed one of the leading contenders to become a successor with speculation the president's preparing his wife to take over instead. reports from harare. by invalid zimbabwe's former vice president gore hasn't spoken or been seen in public since he was sacked on monday but some of his supporters are talking and they are not happy they say president robert mugabe and his wife grace think the country and the ruling party is their own personal property you just weren't people and then what the impact is everyone

is not going to what was going to be up and going to be one individual you don't destroy don't worry because you're going out you need to destroy because of that it's not your own as an individual is the practice of the people firing is former deputy suggested bob is leader maintains a tight grip on power on monday the minister of information explained why president robert mugabe wanted when i got out it did become evident. to his conduct in the discharge office. and. we fuse official responsibility. when god who has been by my god decides since he came to power almost forty years ago he's fought in the struggle for independence from britain he's popular with military generals and war veterans the now seventy five year old once proudly talked of his reputation as a destroyer and killer before becoming a born again christian but he's gradually fallen out with mugabe and his wife grace

reportedly over the question of succession some analysts believe grayson gobby wants to one day take over from her husband. and leave the other provinces or. she wants to see that this is a graph. of the first. becoming the vice president this is not the first time a god has fired a vice president in twenty fourteen was a leader who g.t.s. for allegedly plotting to overthrow magali she has since formed to own opposition party him as a man and may no longer be vice president of zimbabwe but he's still a very influential figure in his army behavior is that he lays a prism of that it may signal sack him from the party. is nicknamed the crocodile because of shrewdness and ruthlessness against rivals the mob is a quietly waiting wondering what his next move is going to be. al jazeera putting.

as much more to come on this al-jazeera news hour sexual harassment scandals ministerial flipped up some stall breck's it talks what's next for britain's embattled government. six ounces of just being locked inside this tent behind me and they won't be coming out for seventy days on retardants in moscow russia to find out what all this has to do with deep space travel. and sport canada's first female olympic marathon champion gets her punishment for failing a drug test. donald trump passed truck a mark on philip terry note towards north korea during a visit to sell the u.s. president is on the second stop of his tour of asia in met with south koreans president in and said he still open to negotiations with the north turnabout reports from cell donald trump arrived in south korea on the second and perhaps

most delicate leg of his asia tour it brought him to within forty eight kilometers of the border with north korea following his war of words with its leader kim jong there were fears president trumps presence would provoke some sort of response he described north korea as a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action but his tone was more measured than in the past and he called for pyongyang to come to the negotiating table he said all available tools would be used short of military action but he also stressed america's military capability as we work together to resolve this problem using all available tools short of military action. the united states stands prepared to defend itself and its allies using the full range of our unmatched military capabilities if need be south korean president moon jay in said the time

was too early to talk to the north but promised a bright future if it gave up its nuclear and missile programs. of the united states has strong sanctions on north korea and i think it will have an effective impact and with china joining the united states it will bring force to the sanctions on north korea with all these international diplomatic policies i think when there are changes being made it will bring north korea back to the negotiating table trump is the first u.s. president in twenty five years to be treated to a state visit with the first since ronald reagan not to visit the demilitarized zone the border with north korea instead he went by helicopter to count home for his the largest u.s. base in south korea he later spoke of the close relationship between the two countries but all that we've built in the decades since our soldiers sacrifice side by side in the struggle for freedom our alliances more important than ever to peace and security on the korean peninsula and across the indoor pacific region.

thousands of pro trump supporters lined the streets of seoul all those who oppose the u.s. president were kept corralled behind police buses south korea's liberal government is pulling out all the stops to make this visit a success they know they can afford to alienate the president and the united states their defense against north korea depends on a good relationship have a joint news conference trump announced that south korea was to buy billions of dollars worth of military equipment from the u.s. which would help offset the trade deficit between the two countries and a five year old free trade agreement will be renegotiated trampin. first lady melania were greeted by children and a korean pop star at the blue house and later what's known as a friendship walk through the gardens with president lula and his wife the day ended with a defiant threat from north korea reaffirming its resolve to strengthen its nuclear

power rhetoric but no action so far so good the trumps first day in south korea to the al-jazeera so. well for more on this let's go to scott snyder in washington he's head of the program on u.s. korea policy at the council on foreign relations thanks very much for joining here joining us here on al-jazeera so a couple more conciliatory tone we're hearing but is this really a change in president chums actually cheered to the whole situation or was this just because he's now surrounded by south koreans who want to hear that will consider it your time well certainly the main thing that the south koreans had been hoping for is that president trump would stay on script. it appears in his first day in seoul that he has done that he delivered i think the most clear support for the broader administration strategy of course of diplomacy toward north korea but i think we've heard from the president himself so far we've always had

from north korea that one of the reasons it is so pro nuclear weapons is because the americans on the south koreans have had these military exercises across the border close do you think there's a risk of that the president comes to visit will exacerbate north korea rather than actually bring him bring them to the table. we have in the past seen demonstrations by the north koreans in terms of short range missile tests that have greeted presidential visits so far we haven't seen any of that instead we saw a hint at openness for dialogue and i hope that the north koreans take note of that and that in fact it's possible to establish some greater dialogue and really crisis communication channels the challenge of actually negotiating a solution to this impasse is going to be enormous and it's going to take a long time but we need better channels of crisis communication north koreans

always said they would just really want to be respected at the top table less than as you describe it is there a chance that can happen or do you think that the americans and the south koreans will always push back on them wanting to be that. this is a really complicated question because essentially what north korea is seeking right now is to even the playing field on the nuclear front and i don't think that the united states is ready to exception or three as a nuclear power as john young so desires but is it possible for the u.s. and north korea to have a dialogue and to manage current tensions as long as north korea stops short of directly threatening the united states i think the answer to that question should be yes and of course the president heading off to china what do you think will be top of the agenda or are we still thinking it's going to be appealing and. you know i do expect that president trump is going to push president xi pretty hard on steps

that china can take in order to pressure north korea present if she is really at the top of his powers following the party congress has consolidated his rule and so one would think that he is in a position to deliver whether or not he wants to do what president trump wants him to do i think remains to be seen and then there's also the challenge of unfair trade and a huge trade deficit the u.s. has with china that president trump all so wants to try to close alongside his effort to convince president xi to cooperate on north korea or if the president spoken about china during his campaign all that put aside now do you think relations with china will be very friendly very warm i think the president xi will be a good host to president trump and we'll see a lot of positive optics but i'm not very optimistic about the longer term

relationship at this time because i think there are so many obstacles especially on the economic fronts that are being generated by china's increasing trend towards a kind of protectionist approach and areas where the u.s. perceives that the economic playing field is simply not level at this time many thanks for your thoughts cos neither they're speaking to us from washington. i saw it carried out an attack on a t.v. station in kabul which killed two people gunmen stormed the building after an explosion capital at least twenty of us were injured the attack is widely being seen as an assault on media freedom in afghanistan. to restore electricity food and water services to the man asylum detention center in papua new guinea has been rejected by its supremes court six hundred refugees are refusing to leave the formal australian run facility despite it being closed last week they say

it's not safe for them to move to new accommodation in the local community. the french prime minister has publicly backed the satirical magazine charlie hebdo vowing to punish those who have issued death threats towards the magazine over its latest issue charlie hebdo was attacked in twenty fifteen after publishing cartoons of the prophet mohammed the latest edition features a sexually provocative depiction of tariq ramadan a muslim scholar and professor at oxford university who's taken a leave of absence following allegations of rape. the british government is struggling to contain a series of scandals that threatens to further weaken prime minister is amazing leadership several members of her party have been accused of sexual harassment a top minister is accused of discussing secret deals with israel and the foreign secretary is under fire for comments he made about a british woman currently in jail in iraq unravels it all. the british prime

minister had promised a strong and stable government to lead britain out of europe but recent weeks have been anything bundt teresa mayes battling a string of crises some with grave implications for more than just the government a blunder by the foreign secretary boris johnson could see one british woman imprisoned in iran have her sentence doubled as the deans of garri radcliffe's been jailed for five years accused of spreading propaganda about the regime johnson complicated matters by claiming she'd been teaching journalism in the country so gary radcliffe had worked for the b.b.c. in thomson reuters foundation but assisted her trip to iran had been a family visit to everybody in this house want to see is now the gari. johnson is now planning to travel to iran before the end of the year. another scandal involves international development secretary priti patel she was forced to

apologize after holding twelve secret meetings with a sarabi officials including prime minister benjamin netanyahu all while she was meant to be on a family holiday it's believed she suggested some of britain's aid budget go to the israeli army to help injured syrians being treated in military hospitals the political establishment is also been engulfed in a sexual harassment scandal that forced the resignation of defense secretary michael file and. the deputy prime minister damian green teresa mayes closest allies are also being accused of sexual harassment and of having extreme pornography. on his computer he denies the claims under normal circumstances these areas where the made deliberately or not could be grounds for dismissal for breach of this the ministerial code the governor's m.p.'s conduct and behavior it's currently under review but of course these are normal times to resume a has very few close allies left were ever you look you see political crisis

sometimes it was sexual harassment sometimes it was secret ballots were doing something to do with their own gaffes and ineptitude as to the kind of statements that they put out you were looking at as sort of only scam though that is hitting the government day after day after day and those were looted the reason may already very very few slipping away watching all of this from brussels where breaks it talks are at a standstill the leaders of the e.u. the view from europe's of a british government sinking deeper into turmoil and. london. same with his hair. saving lives. we look at the. wake of the disease that killed thousands. will be n.b.a. points recorded that say the.

hello has been raining across the levant across iraq to iran the white top plaids and i where it's still raining are a bit further north of the mountains up in azerbaijan northern iran but the chances are we've got some rain further south into northern side going across iraq not a huge amount this is the first break through the winter rains now when they've gone the temperature can return to about middle twenty's but when it's raining they come down a reasonable amount to what you might actually quite like twenty nine still the forecast in baghdad about twenty two in tehran in the green stuff of course is the showers here which might be as far south as kuwait but probably not it's probably still going to be dry here and further south throughout the arabian peninsula but we've got a quite a good breeze now as the northeast monsoon sets in and following the southwest that

tends to in homs the rain is certainly a good line to socratic than to the somali coast but the whole is edging towards the amount of coast as well as you might get some rain in a month and so on and yemen or these coastal yemen in the next day or so we see is a pretty big shot in south africa and the late spring we've got a few want to close here now but to be honest most the time it's still big blue skies was very few showers around there's the raw or in the east. i'm vicious endeavors to create drought proof crops amazing to think that the plan b. so many that look now looks completely aligned i'm doing to national efforts to combine the pests the breath and so they bring in their samples to show you the infected hops you know just like an adopter write your prescription you're doing the same thing here you're writing a prescription for the farmers off line six polls inspiring your phone since it's

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welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera saudi arabia has fined another warning shot as a round accusing it of direct with a tree aggression through who say rebels in yemen to her and has dismissed the accusation as quote contrary to reality. u.s. president donald trump has struck a more conciliatory note towards north korea on a visit to the south signaling he's still open to negotiations with pyongyang. the u.n. has condemned saudi arabia's blockade of gammon asked catastrophic and is aging we have to lift it so it can deliver urgently needed aid. but increasing attacks on aid workers in conflict zones many agencies are struggling to find space for staff to do the job organizations including the international red cross and red crescent say in syria and elsewhere humanitarian aid is being used as a weapon of war asama binge of aid has more from the turkish city of antalya where

the workers from one hundred ninety countries are trying to find solutions to the challenges they face. when people from conflict zones need to be taken to safety these workers and volunteers to get the job done. this footage was shot from a home for an aid worker who's been volunteering since high school a day in his job in syria means to go shooting with government representatives in armed groups and helping get the wounded to safety. but he says he's understood more about the chaos of war and the importance of being there in moments like this child is pointing to what appears to be a russian drone just. after his whole family had been killed in an airstrike that came from that he thought that it was just a toy or something to get entertained it's what seems to be a noble task is not risk free more than one hundred humanitarian workers have been killed this year in conflicts worldwide syria has been a high risk area for more than six years and the war isn't over the government and

armed groups have abused access to humanitarian aid. limited access to you let me give you a limited medicine. i mean basically it's. this is what is. excess is used as a people and that's one reason why fifteen hundred eight workers from around the world are in turkey delegates are gathered here from one hundred ninety countries to try and figure out the best ways to tackle the challenges that humanitarian workers face and how best to carry out humanitarian work in parts of the this first week of threats in the face not just of the state but non-state actors from across the globe. besides safety there's the constant risk of being manipulated by the different sides in the conflict it's hard question that you are asking but it is also a question which is more than one hundred fifty years old when the i.c.r.c. was founded this was exactly the debate in the nineteenth century the criticism

that we would create an organization which would probably war instead of abolishing war and i think today we are more aware in the situations that you described that. we can't escape the humanitarian imperative of helping people survive in the most difficult circumstances. with an increasingly polarized world an expanding conflict aid workers say their job of making daily tough decisions keeps getting harder. solid job a delta zero and dalia the former catalan president carlos preached a man has made his first public appearance in brussels since spain issued an arrest warrant for him he joined an event held by a group of catalan mayors who travel to belgium to show their support for him and for other form of members of his cabinet which demand addressed the crowd saying

catalonia was fast becoming and alarmingly in europe. we mustn't forget that catalonia is the only part of the european union where the government democratically elected by the people is not actually allowed to govern and it's the only part of the european union where the president of that government is not actually allowed to be the president. supporters and opponents of secession for catalonia have held rallies in brussels that's where they sacked catalan president and four former ministers are hoping to avoid extradition to spain some are calling for european union help in resolving the crisis as nadine barber reports. well one of the catalonia related events happening here in brussels on tuesday was the arrival of around two hundred pro independence mayors from the region they said that they were here to show their strong support for colors put it among the deposed president of the region and his four former colleagues who were

the subject of a european arrest warrant but in the meantime those mayors are saying that they want to get you to do much more to show support for what they say a legal rights called the pro independence movement in catalonia they have bad to start to see up mr high which is a strategy of aggression out of the brush and instead of trying to find a political solution to what is a political problem and the institutions have by this well as those mayors gathered here there was a counter demonstration just up the road by people representing the other side of the story who are against independence for catalonia and who believe that president bush acted illegally and they were backed up by a delegation of business people from catalonia talking to members of the european parliament who've come here to say that they think that over two thousand businesses have already moved their headquarters out of catalonia and the uncertainty is creating real damage. linda abilities but it's very bad

for us as entrepreneurs because the independence movement is living in a fiction that the reality is that we will soon see jobs disappear the you should focus on that the risk of an economic recession in catalonia. when it comes to the legal case of colors pushed him and his former colleagues here in brussels the government is able to say that's purely a matter for the courts to deal with they're probably quite relieved that's the situation but the demands on the european union institutions based here from either side of the catalonia independence debate are getting louder and louder. iraqi forces with the help of shia militia have retaken most of the disputed territory is controlled by the kurds says i pushed i sell out in twenty fourteen a cease fire is in place as kurdish officials on the central baghdad government try to agree on how to move forward but a few towns and in every province remain under kurdish control stephanie decker

reports. nestled into the mountain on the northern end of the plains lies. a small christian town with a rich history it's been here for almost three thousand years the the the mass is a time for reflection for prayer for solace a time when the community comes together the. christians are a minority in iraq and over the years through wars attacks and most recently isis advances more and more have left the country and now yet again a different kind of conflict iraqi forces and the kurdish peshmerga turn their guns on each other. we just want safety either from this side or the other that's all we need what have our children done to deserve this they can't sleep at night for fear of being attacked what sins have we committed. we're told

that of course is one of three towns in the disputed territories that they're ok forces didn't retake in the recent operations now talks are ongoing between dad in erbil to try and figure out how to move forward but certainly there is a feeling of unease here people don't know how things are going to play out. laurie yousif is a cautious mayor and part of the kurdish ruling k.g.b. party she tells us the only way to solve this is through dialogue he said was the when it's to bella to now that i saw has gone but what is happening now is confusion instability and also fear especially from the share militias who are fighting with the iraqi army if you want to talk publicly about the tensions between baghdad and our bill and those who do say the same thing. we are not part of this conflict we are the victims we don't care if it's a bill or baghdad we are fine with the k r g is very good and before the fall of saddam hussein iraqi federal forces were here this is an issue between baghdad and

curtis stone there has been bloodshed over this land for centuries and carved into the mountain above all course the seventh century robin hermes monastery it's been attacked by both arabs and kurds throughout history one elderly gentleman tells us off camera these are critical times and no one can talk freely because no one knows what will happen the biggest victims are we the minorities he tells us we just want peace we're just a residue he says the residue of all our families who have already fled this land stephanie decker. in the nineveh plains. two years after it was first officially declared free of sierra leone still bassa scars of the deadly disease more than eleven thousand people died in west africa in the worst outbreak in history nina dobrev looks at what's changed since then. the in freetown sierra leone's capital streets are bustling again as people go about their daily

lives for ebola survivor juliana says say it's a different story. like many a bullet survivors says a twenty two suffers from after effects from the disease mainly vision problems she says every time she goes to health clinics no one has time to see here she says she's not the only one we asked. so many out we. see on the own has more than four thousand ebola survivors and the ministry of health and sanitation has set up a specific program for them with free health care but there are challenges during the apollo crisis eleven doctors and almost three hundred health care workers died from the disease and seriously are making an already weak health care system even weaker syrians chief medical officer admits there is still a lack of resources we do not have adequate numbers. if you don't. you know she's. over there.

he adds there have been improvements to such as fast response teams and emergency operation centers. the and health care workers are now better trained in i.p.c. or infection prevention and control. we emphasize more on how you achieve. what you do what they really value what you want to do you do your hand washing before and after liberia along with guinea and syrah leone are also recovering from accusations of fraud a recent investigation by the red cross says two point four million dollars disappeared during the crisis. but there are signs of hope there are plans to tour in this area just outside freetown where inable the treatment center once was into a five hundred bed hospital good news for people here who currently have to travel to another town for treatment others are just thinking about what the country endured from evil or. to never ever.

not even the worst of all even to war through course unity. but on this anniversary for sassing her feeling is only frustration needed to freeze al-jazeera freetown sierra leone. pollution in india's capital new delhi is hitting dangerous levels with some reading is going off the air quality scale schools for young children will be closed on wednesday and older children will not be allowed to play outdoors the president of the indian medical association is calling it a pollution epidemic. world leaders on scientists are in germany for the annual united nations climate change conference and the countries are already feeling the effects of rising sea levels extreme weather and flooding as one of the lowest lying nations in the world the netherlands was forced to address these issues many years ago lawrence lee reports from a lot of them. a city which at its lowest lies six meters below sea level

has for centuries had to work out how to keep the people dry if you didn't know how they do it nowadays you wouldn't even notice the wall at the end of the bridge is actually a levee against flooding the road raised above the level of the houses to keep the water from the other side the spaces they used as basketball courts and open air theaters but they're also huge basins to capture rainwater the thing they figured out is how to make flood defenses work for cities we must add quality to the city. and that can be done in an integrated way so you can choose for a concrete wall but you also can choose for. a landscape in the shape of a levee with cycling on top of it and that's that's an end in quality but it's also creating more flexibility. to meet the netherlands was forced to address his geographic weakness in one nine hundred fifty three when a huge storm pushed the north sea inland nearly two thousand people died they realized they had to do something enormous to protect the entire dutch seaboard

this giant barrier is the first line of defense for rotterdam it's the dutch a full forty years after the great flood of nine hundred fifty three to complete the infrastructure necessary to keep the north sea out of the netherlands and of course river in rotterdam every day some of the projects are going on of course it's all underpinned by a belief that you have to work with the water rather than against it and of course the political will to make it happen. in rotterdam the chinese are visiting being shown a pretty open space it's actually a flood basin they're impressed and want to copy it. it's carefully designed we could use some of it in china we have already implemented and we are hoping to work with the midlands much more they are the only ones there the amsterdam was a conference thirty global mayors listening to the mayor of rotterdam tell them spending on prevention is fine. cheaper than having to evacuate the cities but if you do the math and you see the amount of money that you pay off in the aftermath

to repair the damage there will be i think more money than we spent at prevention. building a resilient system of water defense. in a year when hoost and found itself in the water and the us president disavowed the powers claim it's a cold the overarching message is this even if you don't believe in climate change think of flood defense as a business opportunity. we will die but the moment we embrace the opportunities also climate change brings us and we can see the value for our environment our people but also. to many people the evidence of twenty seventeen is that the terrifying prospect of the sea taking over is beginning to come true the better news is that the dutch figured out at least some of the answers and very many others are listening to lawrence lee al jazeera well today. still ahead on this news hour why some in china. has echoes of the brutal years of the cultural

revolution. i will tell you about the battle taking place to concho one of the most dynamic streets. sometimes pictures of the only way to truly tell a story and. some of the latest camera gear and technology to make sure these images are innovative could be if you don't manage it it's not just sitting behind it's giving. with the theme whenever needed. political refugees i've been aware of different kinds of stories in different kinds of sensitivity.

china has released an online talk team which aims to prepare young people for what the government says is a growing espionage threat some have criticised the cartoon calling it a throwback to china's controversial cultural revolution adrian brown has more from beijing. well on the face of it this appears to be quite a sinister development national security now part of a child's education in china a pilot scheme has been operating in several cities including beijing in which children are being encouraged to do their bit for national security in one video

a child watches as his father attempts to email photographs of chinese warships to an overseas magazine just as the grandfather charges in ranting and raving about foreign spies what are spies as a child spies says the grandfather of people who were sent to collect information on us in times of peace they can harm china's development in times of war they can lead to our compatriots dying it is a reminder of a similar campaign that took place a year ago when posters appeared all over beijing showing a foreign man trying to seduce a chinese woman to persuade her to spy for him now online there's been quite a bit of chatter about this some people say this latest campaign is a throwback to the cultural revolution when friends and relatives were encouraged to spy on people they believed to be counter revolutionaries it is a further reminder that under she jingping national security remains

a priority. now time for sports is in doha thank you very much kenyan a limpet math and champion to minors from down there has been handed a four year suspension for doping he thirty two year old tested positive for the banned blood boost a.p.o. in an out of competition test in april just days before she was due to defend her london mathen title some one called at the twenty six in rio games making her the first kenyan woman to win an olympic mathen title. well the international olympic committee has suspended frankie fredericks after being charged in a french investigation of the twenty sixteen elim pick hosting vote while the full time olympic silver medalist was accused of accepting a bribe from the son of former either president i mean when a real won the right to host the twenty sixteen games the fifty year old claims the

money it was a legitimate payment for consultancy work maybe and i had also been a member of the either the i.o.c. says frederick's is damaging to their reputation. australia's most famous horse race turned into a contest between a father and a son the form arland the one hundred fifty seventh cup was won by a rekindling be trained by a young irish trayner joseph of rain well known as the race that stops a nation the event is the world's richest two mile handicap and is worth close to five million dollars we can live just edged out your highness a very me which is trained by shows have father adan mark stand in my to finish making it a two one two three four arash trained horses a green is the youngest ever trained to win the race while this was a second victory for australian talkee corey brown. mostly speechless i honestly

can't believe that markets to drink even just roaring the runs for the coming and we need again it's just termites the way almost always on the scene also works. champion jockey. didn't get to ride in the race after suffering a big four earlier in the day more escaped serious injury but his horse. died following the incident. saying n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors beat the miami heat ninety seven to eighty in a rare low scoring outing while the andy brooklyn nets and it a four game losing streak with a win over the phoenix suns the suns devon booker pos free thousand korea points during the game but couldn't prevent his team losing one hundred eight to ninety. one of the world's most dynamic streets sports has become the subject of a legal battle rival groups are claiming they are the rightful governing body of

a park or the sport began in france and is a discipline though where athletes run climb and pull off acrobatic moves the first of a park or world cup event has just finished in time it was organized by the international gymnastics federation who won the sport to become part of the olympics but in opposing a group called say they represent it's true values and are against the idea of parco becoming an olympic sport or the international gymnastics federation hope parco will be at the paris twenty twenty four games and have responded to critics who claim they shouldn't be over volved him paul cool. wants to respond to the aspirations of those starting with the founders of park over consider the building bridges it with a well established olympic international federation maybe to reaching a new tears for development strategy while complying with the philosophy and

culture of. well the two groups imad to switzerland this tuesday to try and agree on a way forward it was spoke to gina minogue of park he says that park who doesn't belong in the olympics. is a sport but it's not just a sport it's much much more than that. is a discipline is a philosophy for some people in terms of that and as an example the sport park or the park merrily noncompetitive practice of the sport park or has been recognised in the united kingdom as a sport its own right and our member national federation park u.k. has been recognised by the various sports councils and the government as the national federation for that sport so it's very clear that. and i use that term collectively for park or for going in and out of deployment as it may be known in various parts of the world. is a separate sovereign sport in its own right that's been very clear from the

communications that's come out from earth member federations and also from various parts of the international community that have received letters of support for pocket position and also letters. stating that they have concerns fundamental legitimate and substantiate concerns around figgs encroachment intercompany separate sports. federations for the upcoming ashes series in australia have suffered the setback with fast bowler seethen already on his way home well thin is out of the five match series due to a knee injury in the end they have two more warm up matches ahead of the first test in brisbane. and that's it for me back to say thank you santa six scientists are spending the next seventeen days locked inside a giant metal box in russia's capital it's part of an experiment to test the psychological effects of a mission into deep space and that's where we challenge reports it could be a significant step towards a manned mission to mars. thank you for these six scientists the world is about to

get very small for a while the five russians and one german are test subjects in the first of a series of experiments on deep space travel they're not going to space though they'll be isolated in a pod inside a moscow medical research facility for seventeen days. a month. this is a team of professionals indeed each of them is a professional in his own failed altogether way like part of a mosaic that creates a team which you know earth research mission will accomplish all the tasks that we face. after the press briefing it was down to the whole housing the mock spacecraft it will be there how you mandel of oratory for at least fifty different experiments directed at how humans might cope on flights to mars and beyond and limited contact with earth final ways and in

through the hatch sirius seventeen will be followed by a four month mission next year eight months in two thousand and nineteen and a full year in two thousand and twenty. you may think it's a bit strange looking a bunch of people inside a tin can here on earth and running tests on them when there's actually a space station orbiting the planet and has been for decades seemingly much more suitable for these sorts of experiments but there are actually key reasons why this works. it's not that the international space station isn't being used to simulate tests it is but earth based analogue much safer cheaper and in some ways can better mimic the space travel wasn't often designed to be in an isolation environment it does i mean here you are isolated but more and more you know crewmembers how about you know a cell phone in their pocket they can call their friends there's a requirement there's or there are many thousands of commands and get sent from mission control to the vehicle every day with nasa russia and the european space

agency old working together this experiment is also another reminder of the truly cooperative nature of space exploration rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. it will be with you any if much more on the day's news don't go away. the sky. should be no borders up here. only horizons. as an

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