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and i am fully bad ti vo this is the news hour live from my headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes french president emmanuel mccall warns the international community time is running out to save the world from climate change a controversial u.s. senate race between a man accused of sexual misconduct and endorsed by donald trump and a little known democratic candidate will tell you why it's important. also this hour a vaccination campaign to knock a day thousands of rohingya who are facing a potentially deadly respiratory disease israeli palestinians hotel guests in tel aviv against donald trump's official recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel.

thank you for joining us french president emanuel micro has delivered a rallying cry to world leaders that more must be done to fight climate change but he told a global summit in paris that they're currently losing the battle the summit is promoting greater worldwide investment in clean energy at the has our report from paris sisson me so one planet samit the french president issued a stark warning telling leaders at the one planet summit in paris the time is running out to save the world from climate change only to one hundred we're in the process of losing the battle and those who came before us they were lucky they could say we didn't know and it was true for twenty years now we have no format one of our manual michael wants europe to take the lead on climate change off to the us his decision to pull out of the paris accord it's why he called for a summit of world leaders bosses and scientists to find new ways to finance green energy those who failed to bet on a green economy we will be living in

a great future of course but it was two years ago in paris that two hundred world leaders promised to limit global warming to less than two degrees celsius the paris accord was an historic moment since then progress has been slow well the purser agreement was excellent the question has to be managed and. obviously sometimes is not as quick. as one could expect or hope we had the force of the decision made by president roh. and we need and that's the aim of this meeting to develop financing i mean public financing and private financing this summit was all about reviving momentum for the paris accord and the have been some big wins the world bank and the world's biggest insurer of access. earth america think that they will scale park their investments in forceful

fuels and focus more on green energy former us secretary of state john kerry said it was a disgrace that there were no high ranking u.s. officials here but for the americans who were present the fight continues. so republican colleagues are going to be given direction we grassroots. states of america. and the people through the american promise corporate leaders who are doing. the u.s. pullout has left a large climate change funding gap but those here say they will do all they can to make up the shortfall and safeguard the planet for future generations natasha al jazeera paris and other world news amnesty international is accusing european governments of knowingly exposing thousands of refugees to torture and abuse in their efforts to curb migration in

a report the rise of says the e.u.'s policy of containment shows little care for migrants and refugees trapped in libya mahmoud absolute has more from tripoli. these images park at outreach around the world african migrants at risk of being sold at auction in libya the accusation of modern day slavery triggered international concern and pledges to address the issue but in a report by the human rights group amnesty international european governments are accused of not only being aware of these abuses but also actively supporting libyan authorities in a stopping sea crossings and preventing the refugees and migrants from leaving what we have in libya is really a hellhole. for it's a lawless country to start with and refugees and migrants are treated like a commodity we heard about the. slave auction just a week or two ago and here we are so essentially any migrant or refugee is pretty

much criminalized italy has been singled out for criticism it's accused of leading e.u. efforts to fund libyan detention camps train libyan coast guard to intercept ships carrying a few g.'s and migrants as we'll as encouraging libyan tribes and armed groups to operate as border guards amnesty also from those prevented from leaving libya face arbitrary detention torture forcedly extortion and even death at the hands of the authorities traffickers as well as armored groups no european government official can claim to be unaware of what the libyan authorities are doing the kind of torture the kind of horrific suffering that people are facing inside libya so i think the approach of the european union is in order to protect their own borders they're ready to push people back at any cost and not respect even the basic rights

of human beings al-jazeera has reached out to the government but it has yet to respond libya is the main transit. point for refugees and migrants trying to reach europe but you see nearly half a million people have made the dangerous crossing across the mediterranean over the past three years according to the ins migration agency in that time close to ten thousand people have died while attempting to make it to europe for whom the provision of ships training and funding from the e.u. and italy to the libyan coast guard amnesty found the number of arrivals to italy filled by nearly seventy percent between july and november compared to the same period last year the number of refugees who died at the sea also refused but that is not clear what awaits is to me to to india thousand migrants and refugees now in overcrowded unsanitary detention centers across libya.

so fully well a european commission spokesman has said the e.u. is aware of the inhumane and terrible conditions some face and was working to save lives the e.u. statement said we do so by stopping people drowning in the mediterranean evacuating them from disastrous conditions in libya and offering them safe and legal pathways to come to europe the situation is not bad because of the e.u. it is slightly better because the e.u. . now it's a senate election in one american state but one with national consequences polls are going to be closing in on a bomb in just a few hours where voters are electing their new senator it's a close race between republican candidate more who rode his horse to the polling station a controversial republican who's accused of sexual abuse is fit it against democratic candidate doug jones especially in action was called off to jeff sessions vacated

the seat to become the u.s. attorney general why is this election important while alabama is a republican stronghold with a strong conservative base but was different this time is a candidate who's not been bought by many republican leaders roy moore the former chief justice of alabama has been accused of sexual harassment by several women when they were in their teens says he's against gay and transgender rights and one said muslims should not be allowed to serve in the congress but president donald trump has openly endorse more despite these allegations and his controversial views trump says having an additional republican vote in the senate is more important that's because republicans have only a narrow majority in the opportunity one see less would make it harder for them to pass legislation while we have she have a tendency covering this election for us he joins us now live from birmingham where doug jones supporters will be gathering you are with the dr in support of the

democratic candidate the world is very much interested in what's happening in alabama today she have tell us first about the mood where you are and you know just what's been happening throughout the day today in the state. well we keep saying that turnout will be very important for james and ehrlich dirtily we're hearing turnout across the state is higher but there it gets a bit complicated because of turnout is true becomes bad for dogs because that suggests that the republican rule hold land is coming out in droves and there's no way they ever get a vote for it to. we're going to watch those numbers carefully. look it's kind of a middling lead and. he's not going to do terribly well but the exit polls all suggesting that they're getting some good news. massive african-american he needs massive turnout in the cities the affluent suburbs particularly amongst women on african-americans go to realize that and remember we covered this. as

a pioneer in suppressing the african-american vote through voter id laws and all sorts of intimidation tactics we're going to watch out for that too but the initial exit polls might be heartening for democratic turnout high african-american turnout . that's important but the initial exit polls suggest the electorate on those allegations there's still almost fifty fifty as to whether voters believe the sexual misconduct allegations against judge moore and that is supposed to push jones over the top. republican. wins you can imagine donald trump is going to have quite a fun time on twitter you see i could even get an alleged child molester into the senate or something like that i suppose even though actually there's

a great deal of debate here in alabama as to how much impact really has had on this race whether this was mainly about local issues. about judgment. but that's where the republican chair leading might have to end because if it does take his position in the senate almost certainly will face attempts to try to expel him and that will be a great democratic party who as they make the most out of that say they see the republican seat an alleged child molester you know we're really great on women's rights so we would all senators are accused of anything they resign immediately even though we know it's much more complicated in the democratic party. a lot to do themselves in addition it's loss of roy is necessarily great for donald trump's legislative agenda for mitch mcconnell's legislative agenda the senate majority leader they hate each other in fact mcconnell thinks that the said that he believes drudge was accuses he thinks potentially one of his senators is a child molester so it's not clear that he's actually necessarily going to be on board with the republicans lots of agenda by the way if judge moore does win it's

very bad for the democrats because that suggests even with an alleged child molester on the ticket the democrats can't win in the deep south as long as at least all they have to offer is saying we're not trying we're better than the republicans so they haven't yet put together a proper policy platform yet now if judge moore loses as you said a senate majority very very thin for the republicans much more trouble they're much more trouble with that extreme right wing of the republican party who are going to redouble their efforts against the establishment of the republican party they'll say look. judge moore lost because of the republican establishment major embarrassment to doldrum she have a ton to live for us in birmingham and of course we'll continue to follow all those results out of that out of alabama senate race with you she have throughout the evening here on al-jazeera and still plenty more ahead on the news hour including leave the country or go to prison the choice now facing thousands of african asylum seekers in israel process former facebook executives die

a warning about the consequences of being addicted to the social media giant and in sports the first finalist has been decided in football's club world cup the windings will be here to tell us more later in the use of. the leaders of songe arabia and jordan have met in riyadh to discuss donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the meeting comes a day ahead of a summit of muslim leaders called by turkey's president in istanbul but it's unclear if saudi arabia will send its representative to the meeting. and on the ground is spin almost a week of demonstrations in the occupied palestinian territories israeli forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters who pelted stones in ramallah and bethlehem dozens of palestinians have been injured in confrontations with israeli

forces since last week and israeli arabs are also protesting outside the u.s. embassy in tel aviv the protesters are calling trump's move dangerous to israel stability and security. i israeli authorities have reduced gaza's fishing zone from nine nautical miles down to six palestinian fishermen are criticizing the decision saying it leaves them with a very limited area to catch anything at all but a smith spoke to some of them. so when gaza's fishermen go out again this afternoon they'll be restricted back to a maximum of eleven kilometers offshore for the last six weeks or so they've been allowed to go out to sixteen kilometers the israelis say that allows them to take advantage of seasonal changes in fish stocks but of course the fisherman would really like to be able to sail out up to thirty seven kilometers into the mediterranean to allow them to take advantage of the bigger fish that are there and

that was the limit suggested by the oslo accords but israel has never allowed garza's fisherman out that far. if they go back to the oslo accord to allow that zone then of course the fishing industry will improve one hundred percent the further out we go the more fish we get and it's seasonal every season we need access to specific zones for example now we need twenty to twenty seven kilometers to get this season's fish including sea bass which is very expensive a sort of history only sixteen kilometers at least there are lots of rocks where we can find lots of different fish at eleven kilometers it's empty we're wasting our time when we go fishing if they open up to thirty seven kilometers they'll be a significant difference there we find all these expensive fish then we'd make a lot of money high unemployment in gaza has pushed more men to look for work in the fishing industry they're trying to find a job where they can at least try and make ends meet so there are now about four thousand fisherman and a thousand fishing boats that's far too many for these crowded waters it's led of

course to fishing depletion of fish stocks and of depletion of breeding grounds and there's no indication from the israeli border is that when they are likely to extend again the fishing so it's for garza's fish. the first set of russian troops to withdraw from syria have arrived home on monday russia's president vladimir putin claimed military victory in syria and announced a partial pullout but as in a harder reports from beirut many say putin's announcement is more about sending a political message. there are pointers of syria where the war rages on but russia's military intervention has given the government the upper hand on the ground and it has given moscow an influential voice in deciding syria's future president vladimir putin is claiming military victory on monday he announced a troop drawdown while visiting a russian base in syria it wasn't the first announcement of its kind and in the

past military operations didn't stop. this is not a withdrawal is keeping its naval bases. if terrorists will strike them so that means russia's military strength is still present in syria. many have downplayed the military significance of putin's announcement some believe it was a message to the united states which recently suggested that american troops could stay in syria after the fight against. there are an estimated two thousand troops there and the u.s. administration now talks about a new goal saying that those forces could help set conditions for a diplomatic solution. this is a political decision it's. the international community to pressure the united states to withdraw its troops from syria russia is bothered by what it sees as the presence of u.s. troops. the syrian government has accused the us of coming up with excuses to the

presence of the kurdish controlled north east. the us. military presence on the ground leverage in future negotiations but russia. the united nations it wants to host what is known as the syrian people that will bring together the government and the opposition early next year. but there are some who believe putin's with announcement was also a message to his own ally russia is being pressured by the u.s. and israel to curb iran's growing influence in syria. the message to iran is that there is no need for you to stay permanently in syria there's no need to further expand your presence the big military operations are over it's time for a political solution. military operations are winding down but the battle for syria is not over. beirut. al jazeera continues to demand

the release. ms mahmoud hussein has been in any gyptian prison for nearly a year hussein is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and zero strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the twentieth of december last year while visiting family. italy has declared a state of emergency for energy supplies after an explosion and fire at one of europe's main gas distribution hubs in austria one person was killed and twenty one others were injured in the blast at baumgarten on tuesday the entire facility has been shut down significantly destructing gas supplies from russia into europe paul brennan has more. the explosion sent flames shooting hundreds of feet into the sky and the blast was heard more than forty kilometers away this photograph taken from neighboring slovakia baumgarten is one of europe's main gas distribution hubs

handling four hundred billion cubic meters of gas annually fire crews were quickly on the scene. when the first units arrived here there were already huge shooting flames it became clear very quickly that this had to be a gas explosion because the enormous heat six for the buildings caught fire they were completely aflame that's why two hundred fifty firefighters were needed to bring this fire under control the bound garden gas hub is the main entry point for russian gas into austria and onward to italy slovenia and croatia more than one hundred million cubic meters of gas every day is distributed through baumgarten and it's sudden closure has caused an immediate and significant price rise in wholesale gas prices with implications right across europe i also the glass is being described simply as a technical fault but the consequences for europe's gas consumers are significant and complex italy has declared

a state of emergency more than thirty percent of its gas supplies come via baumgarten and the timing could scarcely be worse if you were to describe a worst case scenario for the european gas markets today this would be it we have this huge explosion about gotten which is cut off all gas supply from russia to austria and italy we have a closure of two very. the fields in the u.k. north sea because of a pipeline leak which is is really putting pressure on the u.k. gust system on top of that in norway there's a incident at the troll field which is europe's biggest gas producing field and all of this on top of the first real cold snap of this winter in europe so you couldn't have actually described a more difficult time for all of this to have happened on the markets the gas prices spiked sharply upwards in italy more than double the price at the previous day austrian authorities say the flames are now out of the damage assessment to pound garden will happen as soon as the site is safe they promise to resume

supplies as soon as possible but that could take several weeks and in the meantime europe faces energy uncertainty paul brennan al jazeera. and more than a thousand people have been evacuated from a town in northern italy after a river bursts it back its banks flooding homes and businesses a helicopter and boat said being used to help residents leave the town of lean to go any most of its lee has been hit by rain snow and freezing temperatures now as it is debate the best way forward on climate change in paris one canadian community is trying to manage its effect on polar bears the town of churchill on the banks of the hudson bay is known as the polar bear capital of the world but melting sea ice there has forced the bass to spend more time for aging near human settlements endangering humans danny loch reports some churchill in manitoba.

in all terrain buses known as tundra buggies you can see polar bears where they live on the gusty snow covered permafrost of northern canada these expeditions aren't cheap but for those prepared to pay and brave the cold a sighting of these magnificent creatures is almost a sure thing so these vehicles have gathered in front of male birds that look to be getting ready to do something called again now what they actually do is get themselves in here by mock fighting where they spend the winter out on the ice and hudson's bay i think. is the term lords of the arctic and the largest carnivore that exists in north america they're big they're majestic and they live in an extreme environment and they're bred to do it and they do very well though they mostly prey on seals just off shore polar bears are increasingly attracted to what humans throw into garbage dumps the also attack pets and

occasionally people bear patrols are part of life and here you resort to the shotgun raba cottages or this one is a part of a repeating riot as a critically endangered species bears can't be killed communities have to find ways to frighten them away when they stray too close your options to get ahead of the are there in terms of managing the waste and the sources of organic smiles that always be potent as a few polar bears coming up to the back porch when they're really desperate and that's where you need to patrol back up guys with graduated responses managing the risk of encounters between humans and bears is never easy and it's getting harder as the northern climate warms up melting sea ice and keeping bears on shore and hungry for the think the polar bears out down over the. what's really needed say researchers is international act. against climate change

without controlling greenhouse gas emissions and halting the rise in the concentration of c o two and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere the polar bears are going to disappear as will the jobs income an awareness of the impacts of climate change that come from the ten thousand or more visitors every year to this unique northern landscape and you lack al-jazeera churchill manitoba. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour i'm serious i want you when i say it is i'm going to tell you the story of this elaborate story that is working to find the baby started were born two women held in columbus turned attention centers during the dictatorship in argentina in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and in sports with less than two months before the start of the winter remembering why south korea is taking no chances.

hello there there's still a few more pockets of snow here and there across north america the latest system is edging its way eastwards across the northeastern parts of north america and it looks like it's still clinging on to the eastern parts of canada as we head through wednesday behind it there's only a small break for the next system is working its way and that's going to bring a few flurries there to chicago the heaviest snow just to the north and then sweeps its way down towards new york there as we head through into thursday behind it it certainly won't feel that warm chicago is the maximum just minus one for us in dallas on maximum would be down to fourteen if we had a bit further towards the south that's quite a bit of cloud to that stretches down through parts of haiti through jamaica and down towards the southwest in force in costa rica still looks very wet there for wednesday and for thursday as well further north the temperatures have now recovered force in havana so we'll get to around twenty four degrees which is

seventy five in foreign high if we had a bit further towards the south plenty of showers here very heavy downpours stretching all the way to the eastern parts of brazil to the south of that though it's generally looking fine still hot in ascension of thirty eight degrees not exactly cool for say one of the worries this area of rain pushes its way northward as we head into fitting. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when myth was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world while the chinese are not that stupid things guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time on the jersey of. al-jazeera

was there when i was doing things but it's also there to see what happens next iteration of them on a wired budget that we're square model barricaded all seven streets that we need to hear the middle east now is we were about change people have gone hospital here the area the mission of the national army is the sixteen tie up the oil company x. and i'm just a are stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. you're watching the news on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories french president emanuel micro has warned world leaders that they are losing the battle on tackling climate change is when speaking

at a global summit on promoting renewable energy and paris amnesty international has accused the european union of being complicit in the abuse of refugees in libya in a report the rights group says the e.u. turns a blind eye to what he calls brutal tactics used by libya's coast guard and detention facilities the e.u. though says the situation is slightly better because of the bronx actions. and voters in the u.s. state of alabama are choosing their next senator in a high stakes race republican candidate boy moore who's accused of sexual abuse is fitted against democratic rival don jones moore has been endorsed by president trying despite the many controversies surrounding him. now the united nations says hundreds of rohingya refugees living in crowded camps in bangladesh are suspected to have contracted diphtheria a vaccination campaign has begun to knock eight thousands of others from the

potentially fatal respiratory disease for has more from kali refugee camp in bangladesh. there's another health emergency in the refugee refugee camps close to the. back of the sheet government coolish the families to come for urgent solution we can stoop syria. unicef says at least four hundred twenty refugees are suspected of having contractions a highly infectious and potentially lethal response to treat disease at least six people have reportedly died. sixty percent of the approximate six hundred forty thousand range are refugees who have arrived here in recent months are children and many of them are suffering from severe acute malnutrition which weakens their immunity but our mother in the back of the litter. in may and we didn't have any health care if someone got sick we had to take him to doctors

a long way away and it cost a lot of money most ranger would never inoculated against a syria and other contagious diseases in myanmar since the myanmar government withdrew their citizenship thirty five years ago they had limited access to medical care. there are fifty defense bakshi nation centers like this that have been set up across the camps more than two hundred fifty people have been trained to give the injection over the last couple of days the government and the un are describing this and he didn't fear it dr now as a top priority the government is working with the un and international aid organizations to tackle the outbreak definitely out of solution have every chance to get an infection but if they are all that interested this is this is that from medical side this is the truth but we have started our campaign as as our less plausible solution given to the one thing we can. hopefully. around seven hundred

thousand really refugees have been inoculated against cholera and after an outbreak of measles at least three hundred fifty thousand refugees have been vaccinated against that contagious disease eight groups in the bangladesh government were already struggling to meet the basic health needs of these people. syria break has meet the challenge even hold a trial starts at zero zero problem kohli refugee camp bunker the. i returning now to one of our top stories on this news hour and a key u.s. senate race in the state of alabama that will have a national impact the republican candidate will be more those accused of sexual abuse is pitted against democratic rival don jones moore has refused to step aside despite the repeated claims against him and his being indorsed by president trump joining us now for more on this story is josh morn who is a columnist at the alabama reporter his live from montgomery thank you very much for being with us you know the world may be discovering more now but he has been

controversial for many years even without the claims of child molestation which he denies war and war is an extreme candidate even by the standards of conservative evangelical southern politicians so it is explained to our international audience why so many out of binion's are still sticking by him. it has to do a lot with the religion here in this state you know the christian religion primarily you know roy moore has used that to his advantage now for going on thirty years says started out with a. separation of church and state here in this he trying to put a take mamet's plaque in his courtroom when he was a circuit court judge in a county here in alabama and continued on to when he put a monument in the in the four year of the judicial building here and was removed from office on from our state supreme court and then diff then defied

a supreme court order here and was removed a second time that went over gay marriage and so and all of it has been kind of rooted in this biblical image that he's portrayed and he has made a lot of money off of and he has made himself into this kind of almost a cult leader among people here in alabama how important is an issue like abortion for the people of on a bomb. it is at this point pretty much singularly the only issue that's keeping roy moore alive in this race without the abortion issue with doug jones then there would be only post no reason at all for people to vote for roy moore but the belief that cindy and doug jones in the u.s. senate would in some way impact the legality of abortions in america has kept a number of people own roy moore so despite their allegations against him and some of them some people here actually say even if those allegations are true they would

still vote for oil more that is quite interesting i mean so he stands on issues like abortion making an exception and people willing to forget about the allegations and the child molestation claims against him because of his stance on abortion. absolutely yeah it's there have been some some questions asked around the state even if you had definitive proof of these allegations being true would you still vote for roy moore and there have been people who answered yes and the reasoning behind their answer was almost singularly the abortion issue you know this race is a fascinating indication for people around the world of the state of american politics today and i have read the article you wrote a few weeks ago about alabama specifically how do you see this race no matter

who wins it changing the way i have been eons vote in the future changing the social perhaps. i think it has a tremendous impact here in the way that a spotlight has been shown on this state that has not been here in a long long time this is the first really competitive race statewide race in alabama in quite some time so i think a lot of people have gotten a real look now at what we believe what we think how how things are working here in this state and i think it has motivated a number of people here to get out and vote and to get out and try to make some changes in alabama that that they don't necessarily like what they see when they see it on national t.v. and they don't like what they see from their neighbors and there are people out there who are or who are being presented as the real alabamians right now and they want people to know that we're better than that and i think that you are you do see

a movement out of a lot of good people in this state to try to change that image thank you very much for speaking to us josh malone and not about the political reporter joining us there from montgomery thank you for your time we appreciate it. now the u.s. secretary of state says washington is ready to hold talks with north korea without preconditions rex tillerson says present donald trump endorses this position though the two have spoken in different voices in the recent past trump had tweeted in october that negotiating was a waste of time i mean while north korea's state media says its leader kim jong un is aiming to make pyongyang the wall strongest nuclear power we've we've said from the diplomatic side we're ready to talk anytime north korea would like to talk and we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition let's just make unless we talk about the weather if you will talk about whether it's going to be

a square table or round table that's what you're excited about. but can we at least sit down and see each other face to face and then we can begin to lay out a map a road map of what we might be willing to work toward as he tossed a department correspondent was in jordan in washington d.c. roz just clarify this u.s. position now is it changing has a u.s. position softened on north korea. well you might want to say fully that what this is is perhaps a little more insight into what the trumpet ministration is going to try to do on trying to denuclearize the korean peninsula because at the end of the day that is what the u.s. wants even though you're hearing rex tillerson say well let's only talk about the shape of the table and how many people might sit at the table and what the weather

is like that it seems a little musing at first but it's really just a way to acknowledge something that the secretary also said during his remarks at the atlantic council on to this day afternoon which is this that no one in the u.s. government really knows kim jong un people had a better sense of his father kim jong il they had a better sense of his grandfather the founder of north korea or d p r k so they don't know what kind of person they're dealing with they don't know what kind of politician they don't know what kind of described leader kim jong un is and so by saying that they want to focus on very what might seem to be very trivial things this is a way of trying to actually build connections now this isn't something that the state department has been trying to do all along but certainly this is really the first time i think that people are hearing in a very public forum that the u.s.

is trying to find a way to at least get to the bargaining table but at the end of the day rex tillerson is adamant that the united states is not going to tolerate north korea having a nuclear weapons program he said containment of a nuclear north korea is not an option and he says that just as important both chinese officials and russian officials agree with the trumpet ministration on this point thank you very much for that vase and jordan i for a sane washington. at least one hundred seventy people are not confirmed to have been killed in intercom fighting in south sudan's great lakes region clashes broke out in my county last week between the rock and a calm clans the revenge attacks have displaced almost eighteen hundred people the government has declared a three month state of emergency in the region and the military has been deployed staying in africa liberia's electoral commission has said the presidential runoff

vote for december twenty sixth ball star george where faces vice president joseph of the ruling unity party in this runoff by various supreme court postponed the poll a day before it was scheduled last month over allegations of voter fraud of a peace prize recipient president johnson sirleaf is stepping down after twelve years in office. not to argentina where d.n.a. technology is helping thousands of families reunite with their missing relatives some thirty thousand people were killed by government forces in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's during the so-called dirty war many of their young children were put up for adoption or lied to about their biological parents forty years on efforts are being made to address the issue series of boy experience now from when osiris. site is laboratory the site of what amounts to being a forensic examination of the consequences of argentina's violent past it's where families torn apart by dictatorship i really knighted at least in part that are

from a form of media there is a study we work here with incomplete families we are working with a missing generation we have the grandparents and we try to focus on the mother's side because it is more consistent but if that is not enough we try everything else . thousands of people were killed during the military rule in argentina many of them pregnant women whose babies were born in this time detention centers the babies were put up for adoption many of them to those in the security forces their blood grandparents have been trying to find them ever since more than one hundred twenty have been found so far but human rights groups insist that there are still over three hundred children and i counted four. people here tell us that they treat each case like a battle where they have to match the d.n.a. taken from samples or from bone samples like the ones that you can see here between

families who are trying to find their grandchildren and women who were disappeared by the dictatorship. those who were babies are now about forty years old when we go inside basis one of them she's not sure where he was born but he does know when his mother was killed what assess the army and the police attacked the house with over forty men with gases and heavy artillery and my mother was executed but she saved my life i was five months old she had me in a closet i was taken to a hospital and left in police custody and then i was given up for adoption when will never met his grandparents until he was twenty years old and now he's working to help others located there's. we also use a lot of investigation and documentation and approach people that are now old enough to go and take a test and many of them are willing it is difficult in a way it helps your life to make sense again and much of the work is done here a place that receives around one hundred twenty people every month who come to find

out they're all regions. in the past we had time because the grandmothers were young when we finally grown tired the first thing i think is is the grandmother alive this is aside from science it's about changing people's lives now we have a few grandmothers left and we are working against time it's more than thirty years since the end of the dictatorship in argentina but the consequences of what happened then is still being felt by this country and so many families will want to cite us. yemen now and russia says it's fold all its embassy staff out of yemen as a conflict between the government and hope the rebels gets worse than a nine thousand people have been chaos and. join the fight against a healthy twenty fifteen that triggered what the un has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis in reports on the situation and one of them and hospitals as you know. in yemen the children's cries get louder.

and the medical supplies continue to do window as the world's worst humanitarian crisis deepens it's here in a facility meant to ease suffering where the anguish is so very apparent. this hospital is in the city of her data home to one of the country's most vital ports with mounting international pressure saudi arabia began to allow some humanitarian aid to enter yemen in the last week of november but aid workers say the continuing saudi led blockade which began in october in response to a missile fired by the who these towards the old is limiting supplies of fuel food and medicine doctors are worried. that. there is a big shortage in medications and equipment and also there's a lack of specialist doctors that means we have to refer some urgent cases to sign up and in most cases they die on their way. in

a country experiencing the worst cholera outbreak on record and where millions are on the verge of famine hospital staff say they're also seeing cases of severe acute malnutrition diptheria and more and i'm sure that for the. most recently we've noticed malaria cases of malaria have started appearing we've also started seeing cases of doing a fever as well it's no wonder parents are having so much trouble comforting their children tell us what we said is how you said this i will ask that when he was sick he had diarrhea continuously in the end it was a tradition and from then on we've been here to give him emergency care. pharmacies sit nearly empty and supply rooms like this one or close to beer but it's hope for parents children patients and doctors that may be hard to find. and. now former facebook executives now say is social media is ripping society upon its

jamaat probably happy to who headed facebook's user growth expressed regret over his part in building tools that he said are destroying the social fabric of how society works he recommended people take a hard break from social media saying addiction to it is a global problem in an unusual move facebook responded directly to its former employee it said in a statement has not been at facebook for over six is when jamaat was at facebook we were focused on building new social media experiences and growing facebook around the world facebook was a very different company back then and as we have grown we have realized how our responsibilities have grown to more and more on this story as speak to david weinberger who's a senior researcher at berkman klein center for internet and society at harvard university and is the author of too big to know his eyes cut from boston very good to have you with us what do you make first of all of this statement by this former

executive is that a fair description of what facebook is today well sure experiment according to some very very real dangers issues and problems. but we've been hearing a lot of i think it tends to obscure some of the other side i want to want to downplay the problems but that's not all that's going on with these walk and with all this but how big is a problem how does facebook really change the way we communicate the way we behave and you know we we talk about this very often but is it has has it been that drastic of a change. yes i think it is in some ways quite a drastic change because it is liberated relationships from from geography used to be that you you knew the people who were near you and when you moved or they moved you lost track of them. that allows people to reactivate themselves around

relationships that otherwise would have been forgotten so you were on your old high school friends and you moved away till until the internet you never saw those people again now all of your social relationships stay with you forever that by itself is a huge change it also enables people to gather around shared interests not just around share geography and that is that those are ethical changes that have both some very very bad things but also i think we are starting to forget just how good some of those changes are as well and so how is facebook adapted to these changes i mean they stay near statement to what their former employee has said that they have grown and realized their responsibilities set every sponsibility have grown as well but what have they changed what have they done to address these changes i think they're beginning to address these changes i think it's coming home to them just how. the ways in which the remarkable changes that facebook and other social media

have introduced can be misused and could have been wanted a fix they were beginning to take that more seriously particularly around. trying to ensure that the news that is shared is actual new was not a bunch of lies coming from either corporations or from state sponsored attempts at some version. thank you very much for speaking to us david weinberg a senior researcher at bragman tined center at harvard university thank you for your time we appreciate it. director i still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour breaking the glass ceiling the first ever female chief executive in wow de broglie union he has all the details coming up after this very short break. al-jazeera as award winning programs take you on

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homes have been destroyed in the fire which has burned almost a thousand square kilometers of law and our time not to catch up on sports history weddings thank you the russian olympic committee have officially sanctioned their off that it's to compete under a neutral fly next year's winter games in south korea it follows a decision by the international olympic committee last week to remove the russian flag and anthem in response to claims of state sponsored doping in the home of the ports. members of russia's ice hockey team probably wore team uniforms to a meeting of russia's a limp a committee in moscow that colors the point likely be cited in pyongyang in february after a decision by the international olympic committee to allow russian competitors as neutral athletes only it means that flags team uniforms and the national at them won't be permitted over the things let's see if we are russian athletes so it's

quite clear they can take over the flag of the anthem but they can't take away the honor of the concert patriotism and love for our country is in our heart so no one can take it away from us so we must go there and fight with double energy at the conclusion of the meeting the time for russia's a libyan president was a collie defiance as the committee decided to commit their athletes to take part it's a move sanctioned by the kremlin your ship was the opinion of all who spoke was united and all sportsmen should go to korea should compete and gain victories to glorify russia to glorify our motherland with the announcement last week by the irish sea was in response to claims of state sponsored dumping in russia particularly at the twenty four tane winter olympics in salt she after a yearlong investigation twenty five russian athletes from those games have been banned for life with eleven medal stripped and they'll be strict eligibility checks based on docking records to any wishing to can pay to chang still rusher is

refusing to admit any wrongdoing or she's just watch me on the workers at a stroke at the russian athletes express they really missed to participate in the olympic games despite extremely difficult conditions and the decision by the i.o.c. which is undoubtedly unfair in many ways. on the same day in south korea a number of security drills were held in front of the main stadium for the pyong chuang games just eighty kilometers away from the north korean border this is in a limited build up by north mains troublefree so we now. no the russian athletes will be a month oh is that it forces will be protecting heelys home an al-jazeera. south american football champions gremio of brazil or the first team for it to the fun of the face for club world cup in the united arab emirates they beat mexican side but your power one nil off the edge of time after what ninety minutes the winning goal the school bus strike ever since was five minutes into the first period but to raise hopes of becoming the first half side so might the final suffered

a further blow when victor goes momos sent off in the final minute gremio will play the winners of the second seven final that's where the majority of zero in saturday's from. the earlier match a powerful fifth place was actually far more entertaining asian champions while red diamonds of japan a walkover that casablanca the african champions three two on the highlight was not standing out in golf from the red diamonds brazilian storm risk and time so good day for the brazilians at the outcome. former world heavyweight boxing champion tyson fury is free to go back into the ring the british fighter has been given a two year ban for doping but because it's back dated he's creates a resume his boxing career straightaway fury had elevated levels of nandrolone urine samples provided after fights in february twenty fifth day he denied deliberately doping was not fought since beating vladimir critch go in november

twenty fifth into a w b i b f w b i bouts that result still stands australian rugby union has named its first ever female chief executive she is the new zealander valley castle who was previously in charge of new zealand netball and australian rugby league with the cancer free bulldogs carso is the first female late to across all my generational bodies involved bugbee and reportedly baseball the same hundred candidates for the job. the reality is and here's jeanne let me quickly end it was this people i'm from bars really delivering to create grassroots level so i don't think it's an enormous step to him a favor chief executive of exxon. they really watch golf or no longer be allowed to report wool violations as possible charges. this year when american golf alexy thompson was controversially given a four stroke penalty all leading a women's major in california a t.v. viewer had spotted an error she made and told officials she went on so lose that's

when one of surfing's greatest ever champions is back in competitive action for the first time in five months eleven time world champion kelly slater finished top of the opening heat of the world softly pipe masters in hawaii site of his vikings comeback from a severe blow to injury and that's all the sport bikes here leave thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us we're back in just a few minutes with well. al

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