basically across japan basin pieces of cattle right to come here over the next few days at a touch cooler. everything you do is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured. and it's not just i phones that's almost like things i mean no small things all these days at the moment we are in a state of the universe limits of where it would start and it's something that was growing act i would rather take the risks of democracy than the risks of dictatorship digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera. zero.

hello i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up tense times in zimbabwe zanu p.f. accuses the army chief of treason after he friends to intervene over the president's policy purge. tens of thousands of survivors of the iran iraq of quake face a desperate future as the government scrambles to provide aid. frankly i had no real recollection of this meeting. the u.s. attorney general changes his story but insists he did not lie to congress about contacts between russians and trump's campaign team. and the speed schools taking children off the streets and into education in liberia . and how much with all the sport including its football fans are coming to terms with the idea of a world cup without their team three deeding players have quit the national side

after their playoff defeat to sweden. zimbabwe's ruling party says it will never succumb to pressure from the army and as one the military chief against meddling in politics on monday general consent said the army was prepared to intervene if the purges continue within the zanu p.f. . since then four armored vehicles have been seen on a road outside the zimbabwean capital harare a witness told the reuters news agency that to more or beside the main road from harare to chinoy. described monday a statement by the army general as treasonable conduct well last week mugabe sacked his vice president a man who has close ties to the military many believe mugabe's wife grace is being prime for the presidency on a hoax to reports. some regard it as

a standoff between the old guard and the new on the one side a huge faction daughter grace mugabe the wife of the long time president on the other some of those who fought for the country's independence miniature leaders including general constantine chinwag a scene has been loyal to the ousted vice president and defense minister. you cannot benefit from these one. with the former minister of defense and. the current page which is general chiwenga spoke to reporters twenty four hours warning the military will intervene if the targeting of former war fighters continues. counter-revolutionary elements. in the party must be exposed and fished out. zimbabwe's military leadership is powerful but usually stay silent not this time. the

general spoke out a week after his ally. was sacked as vice president and expelled from the ruling zanu p.f. party it's understood his ousting followed a route with the president's wife grace mugabe. when a gag was removal it's been seen as boosting the first lady's leadership. the faction dispute and the ruling party is nothing new with the ailing president forced to publicly intervene last year when the g forty or generation forty section clashed with the war veterans within the zanu p.f. . this fractured fractured. shattered. mugabi is the world's oldest leader at ninety three years old having been in power for nearly forty years since secure in zimbabwe is independent throughout his time

in office his counsel from the military the army has always maintained it would only support candidates to succeed him who fought in the independence war. crisis fifty two year old wife is not. the latest. in a difficult position ahead of the zanu p.f. conference next month. i'm joined now by the zimbabwean writer. who worked as an advisor to the former prime minister of zimbabwe morgan chang he now teaches law at the university of kent thank you very much for coming in to speak to us we were just mentioning a report by the reuters news agency citing two carriers on the outskirts of harare and there are soldiers who have been deployed there and is this something unusual how what is your reading of what is happening him well the reports coming from zimbabwe certainly indicate that there are high turned tensions in particular

after the very tense and very testy statement made by the commander of the defense forces yesterday and a lot of people have been talking about the escalation of conflict that seems to be taking place now. and but do you see it actually spilling over into conflict tensions a heightened but do you see it developing further when i think a lot of people are watching with keen interest to see how thing this goes there have been a lot of challenges over the last few weeks but this is the first time that we are seeing a really tense situation between the military make a. some very tough communists and threatening to take drastic action although without specifying what drastic action that would be and of cause i think a lot of people are worried there is also a lot of excitement people are really fed up with the government of mr mugabe and they're saying whatever it is that helps them to get rid of the system there will

come in it. president robert mugabe always won the military to stay out of the sex session race how might he respond to this intervention by the country's army chief well here's always warned the military in the last few months but we must not forget also that he's also a beneficiary of the military intervention in politics for a number of years since two thousand and two the military has come out in support of mr mugabe and that's why some of us are saying he's being eaten by a monster that he created. but i suppose the point is he has no problem if they're making public statements in his favor well he doesn't have a problem you're making probably this is in his favor but this is a different ballgame altogether because they're now threatening his presidency they're also threatening the ambitions of his own wife whom he seems to have been promoting over the last few months what does this tell us does robert mugabe have the wholehearted support of the military or well this is going to be judged over

the next. you know few days the military has been a huge bag of garbage over the years he may have people within the really true support him there is no indication that the whole military or security establishment is in support of those who are against mugabe there may be people in there who support him and they will probably defend him in the event that there is a conflict and that would portend some very difficult situation for zimbabwe. so potentially you're looking at internal strife possibly even civil war if you have a military that isn't united in a security establishment that is also odds with one another taking sides that is a risk that is risk and that is why some of us have been saying these side egregious in the countries in the region the countries in africa the a you and countries in the world the international community need to really take

a keen interest in what's happening in zimbabwe because this accession race could turn very very ugly and without exaggerating the events that it taking place right now. is it likely that this will does robert mugabe have to now respond to this statement by the army chief or well today he's part if you didn't respond and they suggested that the army general had commuted treasonous. offenses and the only question now is what are they going to do a lot of people have been arrested for saying lesser things than what the general stayed and saw the test is really on mugabe what's he going to do and a lot of people be watching well alex thank you very much for coming in to speak to us you're most welcome when our other top story this hour thousands of iranians are enjoying a second night sleeping outside in freezing temperatures after their homes were destroyed in sunday's powerful earthquake on the iran iraq border an early report

that five hundred thirty people have been killed has now been revised down to more than four hundred thirty almost all of them in iran and amber of people injured in the seven point three magnitude quake now stands at almost eight thousand they've barker reports. terms line the main road into the city of kermanshah hardest hit in sunday's earthquake more than one hundred aftershocks followed when the survivors now feel safer living in the open with belongings salvaged from their ruined homes. all of a sudden we started to feel shaking we tried to take shelter next but then left our building immediately one of our neighbors died and my brother was injured. when we felt the quake my wife and i to cover we managed to rescue our son but my wife fractured her back the seven point three magnitude quake lasted only four minutes but struck with immense force when it was over hundreds were dead thousands injured

and vast sections of this city destroyed. further afield more than two thousand villages and seven more cities were also hit twelve thousand homes flattened. we lost everything in the earthquake we hope the authorities will live up to their responsibilities and help us. the iranian president hassan rohani arrived in the region promising to support those affected by the earthquake rescue operations are over the dead are being buried and now the daunting task of rebuilding homes and lives begins. when they the quake's epicenter in northern iraq many people say they are afraid to return home only met one family in doubt about the con who must now rebuild from the rubble. people in this mainly kurdish town a slim on a province are trying to recover from disaster for iraqis already suffering from

the fact so poor in a crisis last year were changed by some this earthquake near the border with iraq. fergal and his wife leisure escaped war four years ago back then their home was the mollusc in baghdad now once again they have nothing left besides and dirt from their home. i can still feel the shake it lasted so long i'm still shaking i just can't get over the shock of. the ceiling we just managed to escape officials told us to evacuate the neighborhood for the last two days we have been sleeping in the city parks at night. but a couple thank god they have survived. a few real things call ups today some days quake the ones we talk about that most may end up the say so people are afraid to go there. with the nights becoming colder in iraq aid groups are providing mats

and blankets for those who fear they have no option but to stay outside. al-jazeera. northern iraq still to come for you on this news hour from london accusations of war crimes being carried out in libya by forces loyal to the renegade general who faffed up disinformation and manipulation of social media calls global internet freedom to decline for a seventh year in a row and then a sport football coach he says a drove me about say his team's chances of reaching a well. absent prime minister has tweeted that he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days saad hariri also called for calm and said his family would remain that . the head of lebanon's maronite church in riyadh. is the first lebanese official

to visit the kingdom since harry unexpectedly announced his resignation them more than a week ago after the meeting he said he supported harry reid's reasons for resigning meanwhile lebanon's foreign minister has said harry reid's freedom will only be proven once he returns to beirut and of saudi arabia has an issue with iran it shouldn't punish lebanon. if there are any problems they can be it is solved if they have problems with iran let them have these problems solved with iran iran is not lebanon lebanon is not syria lebanon is not iran we have an independent foreign policy where the end terrorist of lebanon comes first well some news from yemen where a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside a cam used by security forces in the southern part of the country at least six

people were killed several others were injured in the attack which happened in the four city of aden i still has prime responsibility for the attack yemeni officials say the saudi led coalition meanwhile has bombed the airport in the capital sanaa which is controlled by the who see rebels who fees say the runway and ground navigation tower were damaged but the united nations is saying most of the airport is intact and can receive aid shipments if saudi arabia loosens a blockade imposed on the country eight days ago well the conflict in yemen has caused thousands of people to flee the country seeking safety in neighboring in djibouti but poor conditions at some refugee camps means basic needs are not being met i'm going to die as one camp in the port town of our book. because the company in the town of djibouti is home to one thousand two hundred yemeni refugees just last year six thousand refugees lived here most of them have moved out of the come due to what they call harsh conditions here and have rented accommodation either in

the tunnels or in the capital djibouti now it's only the poorest of the poor those who cannot afford to live outside the company have been left to complaining of issues such as shortage of food they say they do not receive enough food russians but us still thankful for the security they have here in the past few days the dilution motional refugee agency reduced that a dozens of refugees who have come from different parts of yemen particularly in the south now we spoke to a family of five thought the town of which is under the control of the fighters and they say they were forced to sleep due to a most of insecurity and also a shortage of fuel food and medical supplies the u.s. attorney general is facing a congressional committee made allegations he misled congress on his knowledge of trunk campaign contacts with russia in october jeff sessions testified he was not

aware of any contact between the campaign and russia in the run up to the election on tuesday he modified that story but still denied any wrongdoing she had her chance to afford. it's raise your right hand. swear that this isn't the first time the attorney general has been accused of not being honest with congress but jeff sessions was adamant i don't think i'm is right there me doing something wrong i had no participation in any wrongdoing at issue sessions previous testimony that there were no contacts between members of the trump campaign and russians claiming to represent the kremlin since his last congressional appearance to trump campaign staffers have testified that they told sessions they were in contact with what they thought were russian officials and that's sessions memory i do now recall that the march twenty sixteen meeting at the drop out tail that mr papadopoulos attended but i have no clear recollection of the details of what he

said at that meeting after reading his account into the best of my recollection i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he would not authorize to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other foreign government for that matter democrats on the committee working to pursue another issue as well it's emerged that the department of justice it's evaluating whether to appoint a special counsel into hillary clinton into among other issues lingering questions about clinton's foundation donations and government policy while she was secretary of state for example republicans welcomed the prospect but were impatient what's it going to take to get a special council democrats were less enthusiastic in a functioning democracy is it common for the leader of the country to order the criminal justice system to retaliate against is a political opponents they department of justice can never be used to retaliate

politically against opponents and that would be wrong however sessions reiterated his. commitments made during his confirmation hearing that were there to be an investigation into clinton he would recuse himself she had returned see washington . the russian defense ministry has been accused of lying after releasing what it called evidence that the u.s. is working alongside i.c.l. in syria turns out the footage which showed u.s. forces covering for an i still convoy was in fact screenshots taken from a mobile phone game or a challenge is in moscow with mall when russia's ministry of defense accused the united states on tuesday of affectively collaborating with i still in syria it wasn't the first time that it had made such accusations but this time it said it had irrefutable proof photos which were put out on the ministry of defense as facebook and twitter accounts grainy drone images apparently of

a convoy being left alone by u.s. forces but it didn't take too long for eagle eyed observers on social media organizations like the citizen journalists belling katz and conflicts intelligence team to see that they had noticed these images before and actually they weren't what they were trained they had come from what he was one of them from a mobile phone computer game called the a c one thirty gunship simulator others from this collection of images had come from a two thousand and sixteen video put out by iraqi forces showing them attacking a convoy leaving for leadership it didn't take long after that for the minister of defense to delete them although they stood by their original accusations they have since subsequently admitted that this was a mistake and they're blaming it on a civilian employee at the ministry of defense and say they're launching an investigation. the advocacy group freedom house says this information campaigns and

manipulation of social media resulted in a global decline in internet freedom for the seventh year in a row the organization says elections in eighteen countries suffered from those tactics including the united states itself governments around the world are increasingly resorting to social media manipulation venezuela the philippines and turkey are among thirty countries employing social media opinion shapers to spread pro-government news and opinions other countries like china and ethiopia resorted to blocking mobile internet service particularly in areas with religious or ethnic minorities like tibet jake award has more from san francisco. roughly half the planet is connected to the internet using it to learn new skills find work and to coordinate and organize political action information as the saying goes wants to be free but a new report suggests that governments around the world are attempting to strangle the free internet well unfortunately for the seventh consecutive year our study

showcases that internet freedom has been on the client we have identified several other trends that are quite worrisome one being that more and more governments are increasingly using internet shutdowns around elections or around anti-government protests to stiffle the the scent they've also seen a dramatic increase in the number of people who are being attacked for just posting their anti-government views online the tactics for controlling our online behavior are growing more sophisticated in china where the web is heavily censored a new social credit system called sesame credit rewards and punishes citizens for what they do and what their friends do on social media around the world governments pay for positive commentary online and surveillance is rampant. in the us companies like facebook here in california have created a perfectly addictive product by appealing to our emotions and our circle of

friends but in the process they've also inadvertently created a way for geo political enemies to reach across to each other citizens using some of the most advanced marketing tactics in the world unfortunately it does are the same tactics that advertisers use to help people like their products and now we see actually governments using the same methods to spread their own pro-government messages and to keep themselves in power the internet seems like a place of freedom but groups like freedom house say until we learn how to protect transparency and factual information and clearly identify censorship and propaganda it will remain. in a global battleground jacob or al jazeera soon francisco i'm joined now by social media journalist alistair read from the press association thanks very much for coming in to speak to us so this is a big challenge for global media misinformation and the manipulation of what is out there but it's really a challenge for everyone whether you're

a journalist don't know how do you sort through all the junk that is out there well for one thing when it comes to journalists and producers that this kind of information i mean if you're going to be trusted if you're going to show yourself as trustworthy then referencing where that information comes from is highly important if it's completely made up then people won't be able to reference where it came from because it is from their minds in terms of the consumers in terms of this is all of us as well when we read news is looking for those markers looking for signs that this information is trustworthy on where it's come from and following that line to to where it came from and russia's efforts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election have been widely documented and reported on but the u.s. isn't the only country that has seen this type of interference what else does the this report reveal well it's something which in a number of different countries political events have been influenced by people who go political or social agenda to push and that includes russia includes domestic

elements within those countries as well who are basically gaming social media understanding how it works and what draws people to for getting their information on social media to spread misinformation or more likely dissin from a sham that is purposefully fabricated things that aren't true and this is something which as a society across the board we're going to have to fight figure out way to challenge and deal with and countries like venezuela the philippines turkey are among some thirty countries employing social media opinion shapers tell us more about that what what our opinion shape who are they and what precisely are they doing to mislead us so these are people who understand exactly. how social media works which is using very emotionally driven information to tap into people's beliefs and to slip into that things which aren't true thing we're as individuals as human beings we're more predisposed to believe things which confirm our believes. this is how these particular opinion shapers are essentially gaming social media to spread

mistruths which fits in with how we already understand the world's ability to be to push a particular agenda so this is very problematic and to combat a sort of thing because i know that you don't like this phrase but fake news is. then it's easier for people to believe if it confirms the views and opinions that they already have yes and that's that's the inherent problem around it i mean the issue with the phrase fake news is that over the last year it's been weaponized by politicians the world over. reporting information that i don't like in terms of how we challenge that both the phrase and the topic as a whole i think being more and more critical about the information that we that we read and we see online taking a second to think especially if that gives you that wow factor if it makes you angry and triggers a strong emotional response to think is this actually true and how can i check this out all right well thanks for helping us to make sense that all alistair read from

press association thank you. in watching still to come a credit rating agency declares venezuela's economy is in default after. the payment deadline. tackling issues of sexual harassment in the highest echelons of u.s. power how u.s. taxpayers are paying millions of dollars to settle claims. and explore why. isn't good news. around the world right. how i was there were plenty of storms banging away across central parts of the mediterranean this area a cloud has been swirling here for the last few days it brought a fair amount of snow over the alps this sunk a little bit further southwards in some big and heavy downpours and to come. as we

go on through the next couple of days in venice eighty seven millimeters of rain in twenty four hours to the west of whether it's sinking further south was you make your way out into work or food where we had ninety millimeters of rain in between that the rain has been even heaviest still with some snow they'll be some snow there over the couch as we go on through wednesday carissa could see a little bit of wintry weather quite stiff winds still very much in place you see the heavy right still there and some of that wet weather even latching on to the far north coast of africa further north it is generally clear and drive a single figures getting up to around thirty degrees celsius in london and paris as we go on through the next day old saber for central areas the cool weather clear weather will continue down towards the south i'm afraid we are going to see further heavy showers and longer spells of writing as some of that weather will affect the north coast of africa pushing down into some heavy rain along with libya.

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al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. welcome back with the news out of they all the stories making headlines. are rising in zimbabwe with the ruling zanu p.f. party accusing the army chief of treason after he threatened to intervene of the president's. been declared a national day of mourning in iran for the more than four hundred thirty people killed in sunday's earthquake. and lebanon's absent prime minister says he'll return home from saudi arabia in the coming days of a meeting between saad hariri and the head of lebanon's maronite church in riyadh.

now venezuela is not only facing. a humanitarian crisis that suffering a debt crisis the writing agency standard and poor's has declared the nation in selective default after it failed to make a two hundred million dollars payment for global. and as well as lead to say u.s. sanctions are making it impossible to refinance its debt john hendren reports then israel is in default with apparently little hope of paying off its creditors the declaration by the ratings agency standard and poor's comes after venezuela with sixty billion dollars in debt in just nine point six billion in its bank accounts missed the second deadline on a debt payment the red carpet was rolled out for a few foreign investors who might be willing to keep the country afloat at a price that as well as vice president tariq ali seamy said the country is the victim of an economic war being waged by the us and foreign lenders.

this is salt of the us government has made jointly with the venezuelan opposition today venezuela is limited to seek financing find in ourselves faced with the need to consider a new formulas to get out of this complexity. critics say then as well as leaders have prioritized clearing debt over a growing humanitarian crisis that has left many of its people hungry and children dying in hospitals with medical shortages venezuelan president nicolas maduro blames the u.s. for his country's crisis so he's turning to his traditional rivals a compromise that i'm not sure not a whole lot i pulled a couple international agreements with the people's republic of china a working perfectly and will continue to go that way i can announce that we have reached a renegotiation refinancing agreement with the russian federation. in spite of president new duros plans u.s. firms still own much of venezuela's debt and the trumpet ministration wary of providing an economic lifeline to his administration has blocked americans from

preaches abating in any debt restructuring talks with diminishing cash revenues venezuela's financial problems are likely to get even worse john hendren al-jazeera . international criminal court has been presented with evidence alleging that the run again libyan general who for have to is responsible for war crimes the i.c.c. is already seeking the arrest of commanders affiliated with have but the new evidence relating to crimes including murder and torture alleges have to has direct responsibility for burning reports from the hague. libya has been in turmoil since the two thousand and eleven popular uprising toppled the country's leader colonel gadhafi and the conduct of the rival militia groups has provoked grave international concern this video shows militia commander mahmud ali hearing to summarily shoot prisoners the family is already wanted by the i.c.c. chief prosecutor. now attention is turning to

a fairly superior the renegade general after the court has enough evidence to prove that have is the commander the superior of warfare. and that's what the said in her statement before the security council when she had to have to go to a rest that were fairly and hand them over to the libyan authorities so he can be handed over to the court so. without with video or without video it's proven that he is the superior. does the doctrine of command there's a possibility he will be held responsible after us forces have been accused of committing atrocities on numerous occasions since twenty fourteen the evidence presented to the i.c.c. on tuesday relates to two specific attacks in twenty fourteen and one atrocity in early twenty seventy. it's been gathered by lawyers from going to thirty seven chambers. individual witness accounts interview who would direct and indirect

victims it summarises evidence that we have obtained through speeches that through emotional after another individuals have given in relation to the attacks that we consider in our report have to has been supported by regional and international powers including egypt in the united arab emirates four months ago he was even welcomed by the french president to manuel macron at the peace summit outside paris but many libyans say have to international friends must not shield him from international justice. the case against the renegade general and his other commanders would appear to be building strength and although the prospect of them being arrested does not look imminent the prosecutors here in the hague have very long memories remember it took thirteen years from the indictment of the serbian war criminal radovan candidates to his arrest in two thousand and eight justice will be served paul brennan al-jazeera and the hague. the u.s.

will make as a shining ally on the issue of sexual harassment with the focus now on congress over the last two decades u.s. taxpayers have paid more than fifteen million to settle what price violations on capitol hill and most believe that's just a fraction of what should have been paid to call he reports from washington d.c. . it's well known but until now not really talked about congress has a sexual harassment problem and those who have been impacted say here in these halls it is uniquely bad i think it's huge these are incredibly hard fought jobs it's very competitive and once you're here you kind of do everything you can to. you know keep your mouth shut if something's making you uncomfortable she was one of fifteen hundred former staffers who sent this letter saying congress needs to change the way it handles complaints it's a unique process congress has exempted itself from the laws on sexual harassment

that it passed for everyone else if a staffer makes a claim that they have been sexually harassed they have to go through counseling for thirty days then they have to sign a non-disclosure agreement enter into mandatory mediation if that doesn't settle it they have to wait another thirty days and what is called a cooling off period then they can sue or get an administrative hearing if they do get a financial settlement the harasser doesn't pay it u.s. taxpayers do and the person responsible the amount well that's kept a secret congresswoman jackie spear says the system is further steps against the accuser the harasser and the members office are represented by house of representatives council. now listen how does that compute they are provided free legal counsel the victim is not and that only applies to staffers the youngest women on the hill interns and fellows are excluded from even that process. this

discussion is happening as roy moore tries to win a senate seat the republican candidate from alabama is facing multiple allegations that he assaulted teenage girls a few decades ago and every day it seems another famous man is facing harassment or salt allegations from hollywood to television celebrities and people in power are losing their jobs at a record pace a long standing american problem now laid bare. and women who marched when donald trump was elected president are marching again. now demanding that widespread harassment in every walk of life and now congress says they'll consider demanding its workers receive sexual harassment training but that may not be enough for these women who are collectively saying they've had enough to call him washington. the ass and summit has continued in manila with

a final leaders meeting chaired by the philippines president what are you going to tatay regional issues including the south china sea and north korea were discussed but human rights groups are concerned the random refugee crisis and the philippines controversial war on drugs were not given a fair hearing but mcbride has more from manila. featuring prominently at this session as indeed at other sessions over the past couple of days has been the threat of north korea and its missile program at a news conference later on deter spoke about the need to be very careful now with north korea how a holocaust would be absolutely devastating for the world due to a has faced criticism from some of the visiting delegates and world leaders here especially people like justin trudeau of canada criticizing due to human rights record for his war on drugs that has claimed thousands of lives getting such criticism here on his home turf deter responded in characteristic fashion it

is. that way you'll hear of me driving down if you think it's because me when you. if. you're not exactly what is happening in this country do tertius also pointed up some of the successes of this summit such as an agreement by the as he and members to work towards a code of conduct for settling territorial disputes in the south china sea it is an agreement that has a boast importantly the backing of china it has been a long time in coming some fifteen years to get to this stage but the delegates are leaving here hoping it will provide long term solutions. mammals military is committed itself of any atrocities against a range a minority in an internal investigation which rights groups have branded

a whitewash refugees accuse me i'm a security forces of massacres right villages and state and claims have been backed by the united nations which describe the violence that is ethnic cleansing. down has four small and six hundred thousand people to flee to bangladesh. capitol hill. released on the myanmar commander in chief's facebook page late on monday the investigation an internal investigation carried out by the military here on its actions in the rakhine state over the last couple of months has exonerated itself saying that those who carried out this operation this anti-terrorist operation as they coined it in the western rakhine state say that they had of themselves within the rules of engagement now this is was met by human rights activists around the world as a white washing of what took place over the last several months in rakhine state that sent over six hundred thousand range into neighboring bangladesh now it's

interesting that they say you know detailed that they didn't carry out any killings murders of innocent civilians no rapes and no torching of villages again this goes directly against what eyewitnesses have been saying in neighboring bangladesh those who have fled now it'll be on wednesday rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state will be visiting here in april or the capital will be meeting with top military officials rex tillerson already met on the sidelines of down in the philippines with song suchi the civilian leader of this nation rex tillerson tomorrow on wednesday with meeting with the military leaders will be interesting to hear what comes out of that if anything we really haven't heard any schedule we haven't been notified of any public statements to come out of those meetings. well here the parliament is debating the content of its so-called bricks it bill the laws which will govern the nation's withdrawal from the european union legislation will repeal the one nine hundred seventy two act which initially took the u.k. into the e.u. but also moved many e.u. rules and regulations into domestic law a process which is expected to cater to and these are put down almost five hundred

amendments to the proposed text of the bill environmental pressure group greenpeace is launching an ambitious legal challenge to norway's oil industry have gone to court in the capital oslo aiming to prove in court the granting of government licenses to drill for oil in the arctic is unconstitutional they're arguing it violates the norwegian constitution because the government signed up to the paris accords which aims to stop the use of fossil fuels before the end of the century. is to get the court to invalidate. the government just how long. it's very important for. a moment to damage a government is allowed to do. this. now u.s. regulators approved the first digital pill which will allow doctors to track if patients are taking their medication properly medicine is a version of the established drug abilify used to treat schizophrenia bipolar

disorder and depression it will have an ingestible sensor embedded in the tablet which will cause it the medication has been taken aback sure worn by the patient transmits this information to their smartphone. an exaggerated learning program is helping thousands of children in africa and the victims of conflict and disasters to get an education the school run by a nonprofit foundation in liberia has so far taken more than three thousand children off the streets and into the classrooms. reports from town. it's a start of a new day in school for these children on the outskirts of monrovia. many of them impacted by liberia's civil war and the recent report. fourteen year old daniel scott is in class learning basic mathematics alongside full and five year olds is part of an intensive program given children who missed

out on school another chance. instead of the child like six years to complete brummer educational with. ten months to completely different grades and then at the end of the ten most wanted child perform better on what people would be for free with then. with good grades these children will jump three levels in school next year one thousand and disadvantaged children and ruled. school for all the basic education is officially free in liberia it would of course their parents a lot of money to qualify them for admission into a public school a place many of them have never been through before because they were displaced by conflict and disease. the program is not only helping poor families but the government as well which is running short of money we have a lot of limitations many parents do not have the resources to put their children

in school so this fills that gap we want this type of program to grow to be able to reach off fifteen subdivisions of the republic of liberia because. in the rural communities you see the need is even more. back at home danielle's mother whose education was also cut short by liberia's conflict has big dreams like child. than either one of us when. i want him to get to do something for himself and the family i expect him to take me how to read and write when i'll just taking care of the rent and food bills. that about three hundred thousand children walk out of the school system many of them orphaned by conflict and disasters unless they get help cost many here say that could add to liberia's problems hundred greece al-jazeera manga liberia and watching the news out want to come.

on down there in bolivia like despite strong efforts to wipe it out child labor is a reality is legal. and in sport a twisting tale. in courage. business update brought to you by a always going places together. business

update brought to you by always going places together. bolivia is the only nation in the world where child labor is legal in two thousand and fourteen the working age in the south american nation was lowered from fourteen to just ten years old the idea was to regulate and safeguard children in and out of

control labor market in which twenty percent of children or workers but the legislation has been condemned both at home and abroad three years on dial has been to the eastern region of santa cruz to examine the effects. there are so many child workers in bolivia selling on the streets of mixed heavy traffic or hidden in these markets but they've blend in with the practice appears almost normal. is one of those striving to ensure that child labor is not excepted does not become normal. if a child wants to work having sugarcane like their parents when they grow up that's fine but they should have the opportunity to choose because they've had an education they want to be an architect they could be an architect we shouldn't deny them the dream of being something else she's helped create spaces like this one my children working in the santa cruz markets come to study in play come to be children and the regional government with unicef backing is building schools in

rural areas where most of believe he is child laborers work many of them cutting sugarcane they are mostly from migrant families in low paid and seasonal work man now twenty started work when he was thirteen. kids in the countryside have always worked to help themselves or they work when their parents a sick so they can eat. it can be difficult to get the children to school and the teachers are ms or says to the children. sometimes we have to go and get them and bring them back here for their classes is difficult because they often don't have the books or pens so we have to do what we can to improvise with these children while but now they also study that every child should receive an education is the most a fundamental right is basic it is complicated here in bolivia by many things by prejudice by tradition and by poverty. poor families need the extra income their

children bring in forth or it is a reluctant to in their forces want to keep wages down the consumers demand low prices. somehow i do see the benefits of eradicating child labor. these children will be educated they'll live in better conditions with better health schooling and food without sacrificing themselves physically but to live their lives as they should as children. it's a message taking root in santa cruz that poverty in bolivia should not make child labor inevitable that children should be able to study in play to be children in an often harsh world. santa cruz believe in sport now with santa thank you very much mary and all denmark have qualified for the football world cup but for the fifth time and their history they comfortably beat the republic of ireland and their playoff ireland took an early lead in dublin

a but too quick fire goals on the hall mocked and the game decisively in denmark's favor cristian eriksson scored a hat trick as the game finished five one to denmark after the goalless first leg in copenhagen that was more than enough for the danes to take their place at next year's finals in russia. argentina strike a seizure guerra was taken to hospital at half time during his team's a four two friendly defeat against nigeria where has scored a jury in the first half of the game that was played in russia but fainted in the changing rooms during the interval football association said the manchester city player went to hospital for precautionary checks. two thousand and eighteen host russia hell spain to draw in the friendly petersburg russia have never made it beyond the group stages at a world cup but they came back from two goals down against

a two thousand and ten champions to draw this game three. is it a manager jim carroll ventura has apologised for his side's failure to call it for next year's world cup in russia it's the first time in six decades that the four time champions have missed out on football's biggest event. it's been described in the italian media as a national tragedy even an apocalypse failure to reach the world cup finals for the first time since nine hundred fifty eight has hit italy hard. needed to overturn a one deficit against sweden in the second leg of their play off in milan but a night of frustration ended with a goal is to draw a delimit nation for the fourth time champions of the world as more of the match did not make sense bonjour had a team that didn't deserve to be on the pitch the team could have done much much better than us yes. if it doesn't show the hunger the will to win everybody was

saying that we were strong but it's not true sweden is going through and we're going home. it's disgusting the world cup context without italy it just context. here. yes absolutely apologize for the result but not for the effort we put in our desire to win for the result absolutely yes and that's the main thing that counts i know. despite having a contract until twenty twenty frenchie was position looked instantly untenable with a wave of criticism for his failure to make the changes that would bring italy the gold i desperately needed he hangs on to his job for now. and there will need to be a new era for italian football but experienced players now with charlie mainly the hugely respected guy. whose international career is over after an extraordinary one hundred seventy five appearances over twenty years he lifted the world cup in two thousand and six but the class of twenty seventeen does not possess that quality

the president of the time for racially seventy four because it didn't get them into a seventy nine before. basically keeping the world but he still thirty nine the average. age of the team was thirty one so i think there is now a windows of opportunity for for every new while while sweden celebrates its earlier not the only significant casualties of a brutal world cup qualifying campaign the usa chile and netherlands are among those who point being russia but italy had the highest expectations they always expect to mount a serious challenge for the trifle this time that we mere spectators. al-jazeera. honduras coach jorge luis pinto has accused australia of espionage ahead of their world cup qualifier pintos has australia used to draw on to film his team's training sessions ahead of the first leg also as football federation denied any

involvement tundras face the socceroos on wednesday in the siding of their intercontinental play off the schools are level at nil nil. the incident is an embarrassment to such an advanced country when australia came to one juror they checked every bathroom every box at the stadium where they trained the video show more than anything a drone can show and it takes some of the merits away from the fans place on the sporting event was jus to be held. australia had been boosted by news that veteran striker tim cahill will be fit to start the game in sydney the seventy year old south house the first leg with an ankle injury socceroos all time leading scorer has hit the net fifty times in the more than one hundred international appearances . he's limping is doing it in the. same. way you could go as far as. to say not only. every once in a viable liberal longing to start which is. who are the favorites to progress and

their playoff with new zealand on wednesday locals are leaving nothing to chance though they perform rituals outside the stadium and the peruvian capital lima will stay believe it will help the home team south americans are tense in the world rankings more than one hundred places above their opponents first that finished in a goal a stroll. in the nine a month round the world ocean races could be forgiven for losing this sanity while this though is apparently normal treatment for any crew member across in their hotel for the first time the maritime tradition sees sailors being punished in the court of king neptune seven boats are taken apart and this thirty is it this end of the race which will finish in the netherlands next june. and that's it for mandy back to maria only thank you santa on out bobbie is that turney says for us his job

wearing character next year the doll will be based on the and then pick. mohammed a thirty one year old sports woman made history at the twenty sixteen olympics in rio as the first u.s. olympian to represent her country wearing a head job bobby will be part of the company's new shiro line which will recognize women who break the boundaries to inspire the next generation of. its story is in. the news hour but i'll be back in a moment with much more of the day's news quiz everything you need to know just a couple minutes time.

tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the movement where we humanized that nothing was first wrote the enquiry the devastating impact to save the bank means also to save the deposit simple ordinary citizens and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders of the people who needed to learn a less gora from democracy to the markets at this time on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks vehicles 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 my clothes in one thousand nine hundred for many people lost their job scavenging is i thought making money from around the world this is supposed to last for a month but people tell us that it only lasts for a day if you look around this is the only food available in this household.

violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by molly. but it's leading star is throwing his weight behind the cause. of each of the casualties and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. the snake charmers comic con witness at this time on and does either. we al jazeera has eyes and ears on the ground in southern africa identifying the crucially important stories for the body as that incredibly diverse. kind of. tense times in zimbabwe zanu p.f. accuses the army chief.