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hello i'm sami say than this is the news out live from coming up in the next sixty minutes fighting in syria as another round of talks resumes to end almost seven years of war planes of mass killings in me and doctors without borders say six thousand seven hundred killed in one month alone thousands rally in gaza city to mark thirty years since the palestinian group hamas was formed plus more entertainment in all this and he says it wants to buy a huge day twenty first century fox. un brokered talks on syria are resuming in geneva after a short break the opposition delegation has already met with the u.n. special envoy staff on the must or a government rep. thieves are also due to hold talks with most tour he's urging

russia's president vladimir putin to convince the syrian government to hold new elections our correspondent david chaytor is in geneva joins us live from there so another round of talks another day is it going anywhere though david. sami i'm afraid not this is the eighth round of talks they've been in the same building that's all one can say but there haven't actually sat around the same table to meet face to face and it looks like once again these attempts to get a peace process going will end in failure now this is semi causing some serious questions to be honest and inside sources i spoke to this morning said that in fact alternative talks are going on at the moment have been for more than a year and this the man who's holding these talks has reached out to regime loyalists senior figures regime loyalists and also figures outside the opposition

to discuss ideas of how to how to revive a five this peace process because the united nations simply is not working at the moment now these figures are simply meeting around the same table they're having discussions this is a process being funded by among others the united kingdom and its acceptance if you like that this is going to go nowhere because this same source said that as far as he was concerned his knowledge was that the syrian delegation will not meet face to face round any table they are determined to stand against the syrian opposition delegation and that will not change so the only real hope is that these are these talks which we have found about found out about only today will succeed in bringing new ideas in there discussing the constitution at the moment but there are much broader base on the two delegations at the moment and this seems like the only way

that they can attempt to break the impasse here how are the russian announcement that its mission accomplished how is that impacting the diplomatic process david. it's having no effect whatsoever in fact the the mission accomplished that awful phrase we've heard before from president bush after iraq and then saw the country descend into chaos the mission accomplished by the russians was simply to ensure that bashar assad survived he was on the point of being over the overthrown but the russian bombs a military hardware and soldiers and boots on the ground have ensured his survival at the mission was never a peace mission it was to increase the russian influence in the middle east and the assad family are the longest standing allies of moscow in the middle east so more than forty years of contacts between them so i don't expect the bombs to stop it anytime soon so i expect that somehow this alternative peace process that's being

discussed with meetings every month as far as i have been told will come up with some fresh ideas and build some sort of consensus but meanwhile the russians know about it the regime in syria knows about it the united states knows about it and of course the european capitals and the hope is that somehow someway they can come up with some fresh ideas to try and revive this peace process but the russians need to talk to the united states and there's no indication that that is going on at the moment that is the crucial thing the united states and russia must talk about this alternative peace process all right david thanks so much the medical aid group doctors without borders estimates at least six thousand seven hundred ring of muslims were killed in the amman the month following the military crackdown which started in august that's in contrast to figures released by me in march gov which says only four hundred were killed the aid groups estimate is based on the accounts

of some six hundred forty six thousand survivors sheltering in refugee camps in bangladesh he says seven hundred thirty children are among those killed. colleen clay do is an emergency coordinator of doctors without borders she says these surveys are the clearest indication of ongoing widespread violence in me and. we have published the most conservative figure we had. and if you look at the surf avi did be interviewed more than twelve thousand people which were randomly sampled from a population of six hundred thousand we could not interview those households which had no surviving adults we could not interview to families in totally didn't make it to bangladesh because we have heard stories of complete families which were killed so we believe that yes this number is what we believe is the lower range and our think it's actually higher in reality we hear from the from the people who talk

to us for we had from the patients retreated from their injuries is that it's a combination some of these atrocities according to the refugees we talked to were committed by military by police by local military forces and combination of dental and we still talk to people who have just arrived in the last few weeks who are still tilting about. affected them in the last two weeks so this is only going not maybe on the same scale but we still hear reports of firelands. least ten people have been killed in a bomb attack on the main police academy in somalia's capital a suicide bomber blew himself up during a police parade inside the training camp in mogadishu officials say he was wearing a police uniform young group has claimed responsibility for the attack hamas one of the main palestinian factions is marking thirty years since its establishment the palestinian political party and its armed group were formed in

response to israel's illegal occupation of the west bank and gaza thousands of gathered at a rally in gaza city to mark the occasion. speak live now to alan fischer joins us from gaza so what's the mood like there. while the the rally has ended ended in the last forty minutes or so ending with a speech from hamas as political director. certainly if you judge the support of a party by the tar note at these rallies and that's how they tend to do it in gaza there were thousands of people here but they suggest perhaps even tens of thousands of people here certainly when we looked over the square you could see people as far as the eye could see in they were determined to turn out on a sunday afternoon in southern gaza to express their support we know that hamas is involved in talks with fatah but that didn't stop them attacking fatah for the position particularly on jerusalem saying that their position had always been the

one against the oslo accords that that position had proven to be correct because of the developments in the last week with donald trump announcing that he would recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. and he said that he would like to see muslim countries organize idea of reads every friday to make sure that people around the world knew their anger at this decision by the americans he also suggested that hamas would never recognize israel particularly because of this and also said that he believed that donald trump's the surgeon had left him his administration on the united states politically isolated because of the condemnation globally that decision. all right fisher there thanks so much. and plenty more still ahead on the news hour including south korean president makes his first visit to china as regional pressure mounts on north korea over its nuclear and missile tests. plus almost two decades on from a global treaty to ban land mines was causing the number of casualties to rise

again i would sport cricket officials play down allegations of spot fixing during this year's ashes series. britain's brags that negotiations are expected to be further complicated by a rebellion within the prime minister's party in a vote in parliament eleven pro european conservative m.p.'s sided with the opposition to defeat by four votes means a parliamentary vote will be needed to approve britain's final deal to leave the e.u. series a may promise what she called a meaningful vote on brakes but oppose findings. well ever since the results of britain's brags that referendum france has been competing with other european countries to welcome companies that plan to relocate from london so far paris is lagging behind germany in attracting big banks of france has become

a major destination for entrepreneurs looking to leave britain with ash explains at this new center for tech startups in paris shout cardoso gets down to business with his team your nine entrepreneur plan to base his latest venture in london but after britain voted to leave the european union he moved to france when we went to oman and could really feel on our skin the brags that environment then certainty around the rules it became obvious to us that it could not be the tries we need to be in coaching and all here are called station f. this is the biggest tech startup pub in the world it's part of france's drive for paris to replace london as europe's business and financial capital after breaks it the government's already cut taxes for high income earners and loosened the rigid work laws and in july paris officials also stepped up their campaign was over to investors disappointed by brick said i'd like to say to you that we are ready to

roll out the read white and blue kaput welcome back to europe welcome back to the paris region the french push for paris seems to be working more than thirty companies have already relocated from london to the french capital and there was celebrations in november when the european banking or thorazine announced that it would place its headquarters here but some experts warn their friends could have more to lose than to gain from britain leaving the e.u. . those here say briggs it will have a negative impact on france's economy i'm afraid it is a bad thing our first customer for france is the u.k. we actually have a twelve billion pounds positive balance between the two countries. anything which will impact the economy in the u.k. will impact our economy. is a new france for many bosses choosing paris isn't only about breaks it it's also about france's new president who sees innovation as the key to economic growth mark

or has done a revolution. and it's a software solution but he is clearly engaged in a very very crude way. it's still more than one year until britain officially exits the e.u. but the uncertainty of what will happen after is likely to see more businesses like this across the english channel natasha butler al-jazeera paris. it's six months since one of the worst fires in modern british history a memorial service is being held in london to mark the deadly fire in grand final tower which killed seventy one people members of the royal family the prime minister and emergency service personnel who worked on the night of june fourteenth fire are attending the service hundreds of families were left homeless after a fire engulfed the twenty four story building many are still living in temporary accommodation. russian president vladimir putin has warned the united states is

ignoring information on syrian fighters traveling to iraq the right shin leaders says the u.s. may be sparing some armed forces in the hope they'll join the fight against syrian president bashar al assad's government putin is holding his annual press conference in moscow where results are in questions on a wide range of international and domestic issues. mikel visit assistant professor at moscow state institution of foreign relations he joins us now live from moscow good to have you with us so we were talking about syria there. what clues did you pick up on about the russian policy towards syria especially on whether he's putin is willing to heed that call from the u.n. envoy for more russian pressure on the syrian government was there much sign of that. no there was no sign of that

president putin was actually talking mostly about the role of external players he said that external players who support militant opposition groups they are the main cause of the conflict or and he actually called for the. old told that external players should stop supporting opposition groups and militant groups and yes he was very critical about the u.s. policy towards syria so both things show that russia is continuing is continuing the policy which it pursued for for at least two previous years so there is no change in that he also had some tough words for the u.s. when it came to north korea the u.s. and russian positions policies towards north korea diverging. well they are not divergent but. moscow in sea it's on direct

negotiations between the u.s. and north korea and i think the while moscow is against north korea acquiring nuclear weapons still the emphasis is that the u.s. and their allies are provoking. the north korean leadership to develop nuclear weapons meet president putin spoke a lot about maneuvers the military maneuvers which are taking place near the north korean borders and he said that these maneuvers are really provocation so that's the main point of his speech and he was also very. critical about the edge if you towards russia who is treated as a rogue state but at the same time is asked to facilitate the dialogue to facilitate discussions about the nuclear program program so that's a controversy and he criticized this kind of logic is mr putin mentioned that it

russia he actually said russia is not treated as an equal partner and that's the problem which is also in his speeches we heard the same attitude to previous year right now there was a lot of emphasis in the speech too about domestic issues especially the economy how he's going to run again just to serve and help the russian people i wonder how that sort of message is going down with the russian public. i think this sort of massive will be very welcomed because mr putin is a symbol of stability and economic growth and besides or the opposition is really seen as weak and fractured so in many people don't simply don't trust the opposition while mr putin. for many people became the person who actually helped russia to restore its international influence to restore its prestige and who

managed to stabilize the country after the after a decade of to remodel which we had in the ninety's thanks so much for your analysis on that nicholas sort of cough now the walt disney company says it's reached a deal to buy most of the assets of twenty first century fox a transaction valued at fifty two point four billion dollars the merger still requires approval by regulators and the u.s. justice department if the deal goes through media experts say disney could become a new contender in the realm of streaming online video. joins us live from washington d.c. i'm going to try and say no pun intended kimberly what's the big deal. well the big deal in terms of the media companies is that it will allow both disney and fox to streamline their focus and become more competitive in their respective

landscapes what this really means from a consumer standpoint is the way we've been watching television and more specifically the sort of alla cart options from some of the big tech companies have really captured our attention and that has made it difficult for for fox and particularly its film division to stay competitive so that's really the crux of this it's going to allow through this purchase allow fox to sell off its film division this is a company that's known for releasing the first star wars for marilyn monroe movies even the sound of music big film names what it's going to do is sort of merge this with disney and then allow its news division and sports division to be something separate so essentially what this is doing is responding to consumer demands the impact of companies like amazon and google and really built up their entertainment divisions in recent years it's going to allow for that reshift ing of this media

marketplace and allow the companies to become more competitive it's going to reshow the market was going to do for disney and folks than. well it creates a lot of uncertainty particularly for the employees because any time there's one of these business deals they're shake ups people lose their jobs but as you pointed out of the beginning of the segment it still has to be approved so until that happens a lot of people holding their breath but at the same time from a consumer standpoint what the seems to indicate is there will be advantages for the consumer given the fact that it's very clear that there's a desire to kind of increase the expansion across the global marketplace really increase video traffic and viewing in markets that have not had the sort of access before and that means that in the end of all of this will of course the media companies are making money the consumers could be getting more choice as well if this goes through and is approved. thanks so much kimberly how could that. korea's

president and he's making his first state visit to china for a bilateral summit with president xi jinping the nuclear missile threat from north korea will be high on the agenda during the visit. is also looking to improve the peasant relationship both to china was angered by the u.s. sending a missile defense system to south korea adrian brown reports from beijing. well this is a very difficult visit for president moon his first to china since becoming head of state and the strains in the relationship between china and south korea were i think very evident on thursday afternoon now after the bilateral between president xi jinping and mr moon there was to be no joint statement apparently the two sides are going to wish to separate statements that points to an existing diplomatic impasse over of course china's continued opposition to the anti missile defense system that south korea deployed early this year in response to all that north korea has been doing however there was one area of agreement the two sides did sign

a memorandum of understanding to expand trade the tween the two countries this ceremony was watched over by some of the business executives who are accompanying president moon on his trip to china there was no one discordant moment a south korean photographer was badly beaten up by security guards as he was attending a trade function and now south korean government officials have lodged a formal protest with china that is a reminder in the sense that relations between these two countries remain very strained indeed the tone of this visit is very different to the one for president donald trump who was here of course exactly five weeks ago there's been none of the fanfare that we saw in china is doing just enough to ensure that south korea doesn't lose face while the president is here in china where the number of people killed and injured by land mine is the highest recorded since a world wide band started eighteen years ago the international campaign to ban land

mines recorded eight thousand six hundred five deaths and injuries last year seventy eight percent of the victims were civilians the rising casualties is blamed on fighting in afghanistan libya ukraine in the am and mine clearance work is increasing though two hundred thirty two thousand were destroyed in two thousand and sixteen they continued to be planted in defiance of the treaty ban signed by one hundred sixty three countries the weapons voluntary and group says government forces in miramar and syria used land mines in the past year. there on percy is the victim assistance coordinator from the land mine then class diminishing monitor he says despite the rise in deaths and injuries the truth is still working. and it's certainly the case that there are more casualties in these past two years of land my monitor recording two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen clearly saw increases disturbing increases and tragic loss of life from land mines in those

countries in conflict in the recording has improved though and what that means is that although these have been years with the highest numbers of recorded carriage these scenes early on in the mind since one thousand nine hundred nine in nineteen ninety nine there were estimated to have been many more casualties than were accorded up to twenty or more thousand casualties every year so we still see this treaty as being a success and the life's a success of voting is underway in india's good girard state for the second phase of local elections the economy is slowing as well as the introduction of a new tax structure of some of the issues on the minds of voters the vote is seen as a test of popularity for prime minister narendra modi who spent weeks campaigning in his home state has been controlled by modi is party the b j p for twenty two years

is facing a surprisingly strong challenge from the opposition congress party led by the whole gandee parliament has more from ahmedabad. the b j p has been in charge of this state for over two decades on interrupted so many thought a win for them would be a foregone conclusion but analysts say they got a wake up call in the first phase of these elections on december ninth when turned out amongst the b j p's committed voters was less than expected over the past year there have been rumblings of discontent particularly amongst the rural areas which make up half of the voting bloc many here say that the congress party has managed to launch a campaign that's resonated amongst those who feel like they've been marginalized by the government and its economic policies this phase of voting today will be for hoth of the hundred eighty two seats in the legislative assembly we spoke to some of the voters to find out what issues will be influencing the way they vote as

a businessman economic conditions are very important. to the market condition right now it's very slow for us live this is my first road so i am definitely excited and those issues are like love meant economic the rest of the country's watching these elections closely as the stakes are particularly high for the country's leader narendra modi he was chief minister of goods or outstate for thirteen years before he became prime minister and used his governance here and the economic model he set up here at the heart of his campaign to win over the country in the elections now a loss here for him would be seen as a loss of face for him and a lack of confidence in his policies as for all gandhi he recently was crowned the leader of the congress party a win for him would validate his position also make him a credible opponent for narendra modi and the twenty nineteen national elections.

unlike india's politics its winter weather is not warming up is it no longer the summer monsoon this weather doesn't have a silver lining we've heard this before if you look at the satellite. picture there is nothing really in the sky the move the northeast monsoon does bring some rain dances bottom right hand corner time allowed some time stroll lanka and bits of carola thirty five millimeters there is nothing to write home about this is not particularly useful right it's just been weird to write so most of the new there is clear of cloud and quiet and you know this and you know the result is a quality it's been getting worse and worse delhi three in particular pointed out over the last several weeks it's just very unhealthy it's worse in look now hazardous but i was finding good call to you up until we can go further south even in chennai now it's unhealthy you need to breeze to move this or proper range and none are going to happen so this is this is pretty poor winter weather has occasionally been a chance of improving things up in the northwest because you get these circulations of winter of afghanistan northern pakistan indeed in four days ago temper dropped

down to freezing we've now got snow coming out of the sky in jammu and kashmir which was actually quite modern sunny you know just a few days ago but this doesn't necessarily change things as far south even the. delhi and the nothing much in the sky over here but there is a little bit further size rain is heading for this part of arabia sammy. thanks so much still al jazeera gang raped by men in police uniform kenyan women speak out about presidential election attacks. plus facing long lines for basic necessities cash strapped venezuelan government turns to crypto currencies and of resiliency mob staged on home soil as dogs and indian rivals clench one of the biggest prizes in south american football. will have all the details means.

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you're watching out zero time to recap our headlines this hour now u.n. brokered talks in syria have resumed in geneva the opposition delegation has already met with the u.n. special envoy staff and the government representatives are also due to hold talks with the most thorough. russian president vladimir putin to convince the syrian government to hold new elections medical volunteer group doctors without borders says more than six thousand seven hundred killed in the first month after violence broke out in the group's number is based on

a survey done among the survivors of violence government official figure is only four hundred. thousands of gathered as a rally in gaza city to mark thirty years since the formation of hamas the palestinian political party with an armed group formed in one nine hundred eighty seven. the group was born out of the first palestinian uprising or intifada was in response to his roles illegal occupation of west bank and gaza strip hamas went on to gain popularity winning a surprise victory in the two thousand and six palestinian elections but tensions with rival faction further heightened resulting in a major power struggle the two sides signed a landmark reconciliation deal in october it's yet to be fully implemented and there are fears it may be further complicated by the u.s. decision on jerusalem status let's bring in our mimi in the jordanian capital amman he's the author of the book. the un written chapters good to have you with us so

after seventy years in power is handing over of thora t. in gaza as part of that deal the formation of a unity government is it seen by the palestinian street as a defeat for us. not really not a defeat for him us all palestinians realize that hamas has come under. siege as well as outside gaza and the rating humanitarian situation inside gaza is what prompted hamas to accept a deal which it would not have accepted under better circumstances because it is in a sense humiliating deal but it's accepting it for the sake of the starving people of gaza. now at the same time. the u.s. has of course taken a position on jerusalem recognizing as the capital of israel has that boosted the

popularity of hamas least in terms of it as being a resistance group rather than a government well i expect that it would have boosted hamas popularity because what. trump has done is to prove hamas' point of view that the peace process was not taking us anywhere it's not going to give us back our rights. now is being completely handed over to the zionists from hamas point of view as well as from the palestinians point of view and therefore this is vindicating from as proving it to be right. we did see a process didn't we were hamas seem to be. revising its charter revising some of its positions. hinting at least excepting the one nine hundred sixty seven borders

is all of that likely to change now because of the sort of factors you've been talking about with the us position on jerusalem. i've personally i'm not really happy with the changes hamas has made although i in my book criticize the charter of the old charter and ask for a new charter i think the document hamas came up with was simply to appease an international community and arabs. system that was. pressuring it to see what it said in the new document and. change if they feel that they've got nothing in return for appeasing an international community. exactly they've got nothing at all and they were warned by people like me that this is not the way to do it you should come up with a new charter because the old charter was wrong not because you are being pressured because tony blair made promises and. such nonsense and that's why i think hamas

lost a little bit of its credibility as a result thanks so much as i am to me now in yemen violence is further escalated after the killing of former president saleh on the some of the fourth his death at the hands of iran backed the rebels for a deal with saudi arabia shocked yemenis with a power vacuum is now led to a competition for power saudi crown prince and the crown prince of abu dhabi met the head of the al islam party in riyadh on wednesday the party is one of the largest opposition groups in yemen and has strong links to the muslim brotherhood movement saudi arabia and the u.a.e. oppose or the meeting comes as the saudi lion says stepped up attacks in the capital sana'a which is controlled by the rebels and those of us who are in this meeting was in the saudi crown prince on the one hand and we've got the. senior u.s. official as well and the head of the party is this

a game changer in terms of the alliances with in yemen now. it could be a game changer because a list a very powerful group that has been largely kept after the conflict they kept their arms of their power intact they participated slightly with the the government and the official government of yemen and with the coalition forces but they were very clever not to get too involved because there was an issue with this law given their links to the brotherhood the moralities in particular didn't want to engage with a list of the saudis wanted to do so it seems that now with the shifting politics in yemen there looks like they're desperate the saudis and the u.a.e. to try and find a breakthrough in yemen they try to do that perhaps a valid domicile there but i didn't work so is is this the next best alternative sort of thing i think so and i think also fellas for islam they need to find some

kind of for the condition as well and they find that with the coalition there is that kind of condition because they don't want to be shut aside and not be involved in the future of yemen but it seems that the saudis and the a morality is. planned has failed with the. murder and it seems that also the g.p.c. the general. party. has has basically disintegrated into three different factions and it's no longer a party that they can rely on so the only best alternative now for them is the it would be too much of a stretch to imagine that this sort of policy could be. could become a broader pop softening of u.a.e. and saudi policy towards the muslim brotherhood in other countries and they say well why do we need to make an enemy out of this kind of group if our ultimate goal

is to try and can. into iranian influence in the region absolutely the logic says that if you want to confront iran and if you want to confront. persian influence in the region then you've got a very strong sunni group that is the brotherhood that is across most of the middle east in egypt and syria but also within the gulf states and to make this group that is powerful that has a very strong grassroot in. an enemy it doesn't really add anything to you it basically weakens you and it seems that maybe they are a rican sailing themselves with the with the fact that they are also are being the anti against iran and they want to see that you know they're involving other sunni factions and the brotherhood is a very powerful group of the woman that they can ally with all right interesting thanks so much for coming in to analyze i mean kenya dozens of women have told

human rights investigators how they were gang raped during the recent presidential election campaigns some men made similar complaints against attackers often wearing police uniforms kenya's inspector general of police says the allegations of propaganda though lack evidence catherine soy has more from nairobi. we're not identifying her for privacy reasons but she shows us police and hospital documents she's held since august she says she was raped by a man whose face is known to have at the height of kenya's recent election tension in a nairobi shanty town she's one of sixty eight women from the city and western kenya who spoke to human rights watch about their ordeal. one held a knife to me then they took me to a bush told me to take off my clothes then they beat me and one ripped me i report by the rights body says that while some women like the one we interviewed criminal gangs are those accused security forces of carrying out the abuses we would like

their governments to create i need. to look at their practices around period including any involvement in sexual violence about half of the women interviewed by human rights watch say they were raped by men in uniform some did not report to the police or go to hospital because of fear and stigma in a statement to al-jazeera the inspector general of police dismissed part of the report accusing government forces as force. full of propaganda and lacks married and evidence. community workers say while rape in slums like this is common they have received increased reports from women who say they were sexually validated between the presidential election and their repeat paul in october.

people are just so emotional because of the political guns from different communities were attacking anyone and particularly women that's why there was an increase in group cases in that period this of a tells us higher tackle was not a policeman but a man who lives in her neighborhood and is still walking free she's not hopeful that their level be justice for. nairobi. the u.n. is warning more than four hundred thousand children around the age of five in the democratic republic of congo could die within months without an emergency intervention eighteen months of violence and the displacement of one point four million people in the region is lead to severe food shortages the u.n. says many children are acutely malnourished surging the international community to get behind an emergency response to the crisis or risk a human can castro feel next year. it's five years since a man massacred twenty six people including twenty schoolchildren in the u.s.

state of connecticut since the sandy hook elementary school several mass shootings have taken place in the u.s. there's been no congressional action on restricting guns have returned see looks at the ongoing debate over gun ownership. just what is the national rifle association saying here they use their media to assassinate news they use their schools to teach children that their president is another hitler they use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows in award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again to many it seemed like a cool for violence civil war or perhaps it was a sign that the n.r.a. was worried about historical trends and tell the truth that more guns are purchased often during democratic ministrations gun sales soared under president obama under president trump gun manufacturers have reported large drops in revenues you are the true friend and share in the white house so although that may be so. presidency has

been bad for business which may explain the n.r.a. switch from gun advocacy to a far right wing agitator but this is ministration and congress are potentially good for the n.r.a. legislative goals it's already spent more this year than it did in all of twenty sixteen lobbying congress some four point one million dollars it's key aims are to convince legislators to deregulate the sale of silences and make sure all states recognize each other's concealed carry licenses the right of a gun owner to carry their weapon covertly in public but the n.r.a. faces a complex demographic challenge the polls show consistent majorities for gun control and safety measures nonetheless gun ownership has held steady for years at around a quarter of adults. it's young people who are a particular challenge for the n.r.a. . the polls show they support concealed weapons under sold weapons sales they're

least likely to own a gun they support sales restrictions and a national gun registry and have the least regard for the n.r.a. different beliefs about. the case they've lived in a world with concealed carry for their place in their entire life throughout most of the nation and they also live in a world with a lot of mass shootings. violence in our cities as we talked a lot about in the in the early ninety's. the n.r.a. however appears to have decided it's best course is to appeal to the extreme right wing nationalistic and socially conservative impulses of people. because hope this is precisely the wrong strategy to win over a new generation of gun owners. she ever turns the al-jazeera al-jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalist mahmoud hussain he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly deny saying has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail was arrested on the

twentieth of december last year while visiting family in egypt ecuador's vice president has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty in a corruption scandal. was convicted for except in roughly thirteen point five million dollars in bribes from the brazilian construction giant. to win business contracts five others including glasses were given similar sentences. many of us have heard of new crypto currency such as bait coins now comes the petro being launched by the president of venezuela to try and alleviate the economic crisis and food shortages. the reports from caracas. some of these people have been queuing since three am not always sure what is available or what it will cost they're hoping to find basics like rice powdered milk and toilet paper to get a look at where you take what you can but there's not much variety one day the

might of any be flour or rice oil or toothpaste. prices rise almost daily inflation in the vendor was nearly fifty seven percent the accumulated rise this year is one thousand three hundred seventy percent this coffee cost fifteen thousand body about is four and a half dollars at the official exchange rate which almost no venezuelans can afford to use or about fifteen cents on the black market which almost everybody is forced to use if they can find enough of these almost worthless banknotes. they're in short supply russian by the bank machines which emits only enough the small purchases those venice whalers with bank accounts use plastic cards but the fragile infrastructure means the system is often down some use because then there's this you can honestly on the petro i'm going to call it the petro venezuela's own cryptocurrency venezuela's economic sovereignty and help defeat the economic

blockade against us the streets of venice wailin be the president said it'll be backed by his country's ample oil gas gold and diamond but the economists say such a system needs the confidence of investors and even on the street there's not much of that about it the day. it's very sad it's even more sad when you lived well and reached my age and you've gotten. and no way of solving anything. thousands have left the country and thousands more planning to. mismanaging the economy for the country with abundant natural resources. such economic misery. if this weather is lucky or with the power of its citizens it can. then venezuela could recharge its economy and limit the damage in the next few years but if these process continues it's going to be generations to come. but we risk.

meanwhile many even. finding enough to eat and if they do away with paying for it. i had an al-jazeera. this is only a very different case this is more positive test. in spalled the champion plays down the drug tests one rival is suggesting double standards.

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thank you all right sports fans a lot to catch up with on the copper so the medicare law right absolutely right you did indeed very well actually thank you very much brazil's most popular football club have been upstaged at home in the final of the copper suit amerikana they were beaten by argentinian side independent take home and reports. the mungo have an estimated fanbase of dirty three million people worldwide but just sixty three thousand could pack into radio de janeiro's famous maracana stadium for the final of south america's second biggest club competition tensions were high before the game as they faced argentinian side independent who had ten thousand travelling fans from one of silence not the sound of the us they call us racists but the manga fans were inciting violence telling us you were going to die you have to run and i don't think anything of it i don't like this atmosphere in football football's a sport if you go to other countries up north this wouldn't happen it only happens

in south america. independent anti held a two one lead from the first leg of that tie but the my go well for the fight as they i'm for their first continental title since nineteen and she won i lukas parkhead to strike in the thirtieth minute level to tied one one but the arjun times restored their advantage just before half time was all the pressure rested on the hosts and they came close on a couple of occasions. i would independent and held on for three to look at the jury or say i'm ok then your machinery we knew that we had a rival with a very big history in a mythical stadium one of the cathedrals. football would be very tough i'm very

proud of this group of players i trusted the decisions made by my technical stuff medical crew and the entire club which were focused on trying to achieve. it to the argentinian second time so let me see competition the party will continue back in one of cyrus illust home an al-jazeera manchester city made in premier league history on wednesday becoming the first team to win fifteen straight games they extended their streak with a four nil when i was a bottom side swung at silva scored two on the night with kevin durant and sergio aguero are also on the scoresheet they leave the table by eleven points. the records are there to be very good but of course the first time in english with one team make fifteen wins in a row. today in that level is so competitor like managers the players that i know is the no absolutely everything. for all teams and. that means we are strong in

german bundesliga leaders by and munich have opened up a nine point gap at the top of the table robert lewandowski scored his fifteenth goal from sixteen league games as they beat bottom side cologne one nil to polish international has scored in all but four of by include matches this season and twenty one goals in all competitions shocker up to second in germany after a dramatic game against old sped off to going to nil up the game was then tied it to two late in the second half when this happened but that penalty was followed by another this time in shelters favor which daniel calgary converted successfully for a three two win. the international cricket council have dismissed reports of spot fixing in the third ashes test between australia and england that's underway in perth right now a british newspaper reported that two indian men were trying to manipulate aspects of the match to benefit through the betting market the chief executive of cricket

australia says they take the claims very seriously but want aren't able to substantiate them. what we heard from alex marshall the head of the r.c.c. at the corruption unit is that there's no evidence or justification by store on the information the r.c.c. has received from the newsletter. the news outlet by store on. intelligence from previous investigations there's no substance to these allegations or justification to suspect that this test match or in the ashes series as a whole is subject to corrupt activities while on the field england have taken the upper hand from day one of the third ashes test against australia at the waca modern score to the maiden test hundred as they closed on three hundred five for australia lead the ferries to nothing and can clinch the series with a victory in the test tomorrow the first though is crucial for us you know if we

give them any sniff to morrow morning that first with the with the second year. in a city get them into right back to them so you know we're going to have to be quite ruthless in the way we play tomorrow morning put them under pressure and get some more of this in the legs. i thought my point really where we let one of them off light they got caught from that awful event really well inside us spies how you have to apply so for now we can if you do this there's lots of runs that russian president vladimir putin has accused the united states government agencies of drugging the man who exposed a state sponsored doping program in the country in the lead up to the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi great chunk of his the former director of moscow's anti doping in a bar a tree and his testimony ultimately led to the international olympic committee banning russia from taking part in the upcoming winter games impale john putin believes the doping scandal is being used to smear his government ahead of russian

elections in march the most vulnerable and a good chunk of his working under the control of american special services what are they doing with him what kind of substance is he given so that he says what is required it's ridiculous and thirdly it is all written in his diaries so what where was that written how had he written that nobody knows one of the press frames rivals is claiming double standards off to the british cyclists escaped in the media suspension following a failed drug test of this is tour of spain the four time tour de france champion is continuing to train in spain despite the announcement that a test from september double the allowed amount of legal after the medication cycling governing body to use the eye is investigating. i can understand a lot of people's reactions especially given the history of the sport but i think this is this is obviously a very different case this is not a positive test. as it stands the u.c.i.

have asked me for more information regarding my use of a sub buttes more which is a very common medicine used in treating us my thing or. where. the small is. and obviously only been too happy to try and try and help the u.c.i. . sit in the blanks but top german ride attorney martin posted a message in german on his facebook page has been translated other athletes are immediately suspended after a positive sample deferment his team enjoy a special status of credibility is at stake. in the n.b.a. the houston rockets have extended their winning streak to eleven games meanwhile there was a scare for the los angeles clippers as one of their players exited with concussion austin rivers who scored a vis dunk a will miss friday's game due to the n.b.a.'s forty eight hour concussion rules but despite the setback lou williams called thirty one points to help lead the clippers

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