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united nations secretary general says it's time to reestablish immediately and strengthen communication channels with north korea and tony the terrorists were speaking at the un security council meeting on pyongyang's ballistic missile program last month pyongyang tested its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile yet in direct defiance of international pressure and u.n. sanctions and the u.s. president said he hoped that russia would help to convince north korea to abandon its nuclear program after speaking on the phone to president vladimir putin. the farmers board was to north korea because we would love to have north korea china itself bring russia is not bring we'd like to have russia itself. mike hanna joins us live from the united nations in new york so we've heard from tennyson what

you think the the main headlines are from the same meeting that i've had today at the u.n. security council well there's agreement it would appear on the need for some form of dialogue the huge differences within the council is exactly how to get there now russia and china are going very strongly as they have done in previous meetings that there should be some kind of three for three scenarios in which the u.s. and south korea and their ongoing joint military exercises and in return north korea a suspends all ends its nuclear missile development program now ricks to listen clarified what has been a slightly dubious u.s. position saying yes there is a precondition for dialogue with north korea and that is that and in his words there is a certified sustainable. pause in it's going to solve development how long that is for we do not know what that period of time is that it

should suspend or end its missile program before the u.s. is willing to talk but this is what the secretary of state had to say. we have been clear that all options remain on the table in the defense of our nation but we do not seek nor do we want war with north korea the united states will use all necessary measures to defend itself against north korean aggression but our hope remains the diplomacy will produce a resolution as i said earlier this week a sustained cessation of north korea's threatening behavior must occur before talks can begin and mike what about the north korean position. well there we had rex tillerson making clear the phrase he used is sustains the sation north korea which is a very king a very rare appearance in the chamber getting permission from the president of the

security council to do so well it's representative argued very strongly that north korea had a sovereign right to the possession of nuclear weapons he accused the us of manipulating the security council as he put it and attempting to create some kind of nuclear monopoly for itself the deeper the dispensable nuclear power or peace the lobbyists that sincerely it's a non put if lucian or really good own human the people or the international the and the put the would put the two or with the noble cause the superbug dingwall the peace in the security and what about the positions from some of the other security council members. well there is a divide as i said russia and china absolutely adamant that sanctions must remain in place yes they say that they are committed to the sanctions regime something

called into question by the u.s. secretary of state however they are arguing that sanctions person not be seen as an end in itself that sanctions are a way to get north korea to the negotiating table the u.s. sees this differently it is the only member who's actually seeing that sanctions are an end in itself the precondition for negotiation must be a sustained sation as it was put of north korea's military nuclear development but most members of the council appearing to side with russia and china on the fact that there must be a multi-pronged process in dealing with this crisis and that there sanctions yes all united within the security council on the number of sanctions that have been passed in recent months and indeed years but all agreeing to that sanctions should be as a way to creating dialogue the u.s. though making very very clear that though it would like to see dialogue rather than war the north korea must first give up or suspend its weapons development program

mike hanna thank you very much indeed for more we're joined now by washington from washington by doug bando who's a senior fellow at the cato institute thank you very much indeed for for being with us on this issue of the kind of needing a sustained to say sion of north korea's threatening behavior is to listen as put it how likely are we now to end up at a position of talks given all given what we've just been discussing so far about the positions of the others on talks. well i think unlikely the first point is what the u.s. is demanding essentially is a freeze on north korea without offering anything itself so in contrast to the china and russia proposal for a freeze for free these where the u.s. suspends military exercises the u.s. is expecting the concession to come from north korea and the second is the secretary reiterated the ultimate objective of the talks has to be a verifiable kind of irreversible denuclearization now that of course is the major

issue to be negotiated so in a sense what the u.s. is demanding is that the d.p. r. k. basically accept america's objective before talks are started i think that's a huge objection because frankly the north would want to know what it gets you know it's not willing to make that commitment ahead of time so it looks to me like we're pretty much still at the impasse you know when the secretary was embarrassed this week it seemed to step away this brings him back towards the white house position what about him president. to have get help he talked about speaking on the phone to russia to china them to help in dealing with north korea and he's also spoken to the chinese how much influence do you think that will have on the situation. well russia's influence is relatively small but they have stepped back into the picture i think part of that is simply vladimir putin wants to be considered he wants to be consulted the major economic player is china and it's the one that can put the most

pressure on north korea but russia has some economic relationships and putin also has been very vocal saying the u.s. should not consider military action so i suspect that the president is hoping that maybe the russians will back away from talking in a way that seems to support the north and also will put maximum economic pressure on the north along with china and didn't the news conference sent to us making it clear that. that the u.s. was prepared for military action if anything should go wrong and they should end up at that point what do you think the biggest potential trigger is full of war say between a north korean the u.s. . well what the u.s. has said and most officials have said is they will not allow north korea to have the capacity to attack the united states the problem is it's hard to know when that occurs it's a question of do they have

a missile you know that can actually survive reentry and be targeted on the american city we can guess at that we don't really know and the problem here is if the north believes the u.s. might be preparing to attack north korea would have an incentive to preempt the u.s. so it's a very dangerous situation the u.s. says north korea must not develop nuclear weapons and i.c.b.m.'s north korea says those are essential for its security we need to find a diplomatic resolution to that otherwise we do have a conflict and so what about for instance the idea of a naval blockade in the head north korea warning the u.s. that it would be a dangerous and big step if. it in forced a naval blockade and but that idea had appeared to be sufficient around as a possibility. is that something you think that they would step back from doing and forcing a naval blockade well the challenge of a naval blockade of course is it is an act of war the north might take military

action on the other hand it's not clearly going to have a major effect on the north in the north has some trade and has some ships that go out but it's not a major trading partner this is not likely to change its stance on nuclear weapons it's very hard to imagine the regime will decide to denuclearize simply because of a blockade and it's most important commerce goes with china something like ninety percent of its trade so the all the blockade is a highly symbolic measure it's not clear to me that it would be very effective and if it's not effective then the question is is it worth the risk that bond thank you very much indeed for joining me a foot on that thank you. three people have been killed and scores of others injured in demonstrations in gaza and the west bank against u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jewish name as the capital of israel but just as were blasted by live rounds rubber coated steel bullets and tear gas in response to widespread demonstrations our forces reports from occupied east

jerusalem. on the outskirts of ramallah in the occupied west bank israeli forces are filmed confronting a palestinian man before shooting him three times last as he sat on the street as they approach the troops appear to see something and move quickly away the man was apparently wearing a suicide bomb belt it's unclear whether it was a genuine device or a fake israeli police say he had just stabbed a member of its border force paramedics took him away. they were further clashes after friday prayers in gaza as palestinians again protested against the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel the cross border confrontation bringing more palestinian deaths. earlier tens of thousands had taken to the strips main north south road to march in protest. there was she the palestinian people are expressing that they reject the drums decision and they are holding on to all of jerusalem as the historical capital of the palestinian people

. at the heart of occupied east jerusalem tens of thousands prayed then protested at the al aqsa mosque. through the old city and i had damascus gate exit israeli forces were waiting for them they'd barricaded off the square preventing a repeat of last friday's protests where hundreds gathered on the steps still some tried to stay here and chant but most were pushed quickly away israeli forces have been trying to prevent a repeat of the protests that took place after friday prayers here in the square outside damascus gate last week they've barricaded off there was a group of largely middle aged and some elderly women who've been there chanting for some time they're now being forcefully clear. several arrests were made in these limited scuffles again the protests much smaller here than in gaza and the occupied west bank. public or out in the mosque compound and here at damascus gate but the occupation has a large force as well as private and undercover units. israeli forces are certainly

doing all they can to quell this reaction to the trump declaration but the anger is deeply felt and the protests go on. al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem our correspondent allan. with more on what's been happening there. the ambulance is evidenced by all afternoon ready to treat the injured and the wounded and there have been a number of them you can see the clashes that been going on down close to the border about two hundred meters from where i'm standing the thick smoke is no just clearing that's tires that were set alight to stop the israelis targeting people on the side of the border and this scene has been repeated in seven sports across the gaza strip. we've seen the palestinians throw stones over the border the israelis well they have used bullets and they have used tear gas we've seen several volleys of tear gas come into this field people had to be treated for both for the gunshots and for the tear gas in fact one man i saw being carried into an ambulance and

a bullet wound to the neck i suspect he will be in a critical condition. we saw a massive rally in gaza how nice it can for a million man rally on one street the length of gaza north the size fifty five kilometers long and thousands and thousands of people attended out we saw them from hamas and fatah from a number of political groups and organizations but. this bill how do you said that that proves the donor will trump a united the palestinians over such a controversial decision to say that jerusalem was israel's capital we're expecting the clashes to go on for some time into the night as well and just now i can feel and taste the tear gas which is being fired that's why people are moving away you can actually taste the tear gas is beginning to by my side without i think we're going to move back as well. you're watching the news hour still ahead we meet the displaced syrian children still dreaming of

a bright future as talks to end the seven year civil war reach another pass there sam they want to make america great again this is not making america brave anger in the southern u.s. as a un special rapporteur on extreme poverty finds major issues with housing and sanitation. and talk of preparing for on an enviable task in the english premier league peter will tell us about that in sport. is have given the go ahead for brics it talks to move on to the next stage in negotiations they say they will now focus on trade not to making enough progress on citizens' rights the irish border and how much the u.k. has to pay to leave the e.u. and british prime minister to resign may has hailed the decision as an important step wanna be phillips's in brussels we have been following the negotiations. she left early job it hasn't been easy but europe's leaders say it's time to start

talking about the future relationship with britain after it leaves the e.u. and twenty nine but don't expect batek early progress that it's now time for. relations. with the u.k. to get moral clarity vision. on that basis we should. start negotiations next year none of the other e.u. twenty seven countries wanted breaks it still hope that it can be reversed somehow but they all want a final agreement and so the talks do go on but if on bret's it there is unanimity on the other issues the e.u. remains badly divided. on migration europe is a continent divided poland the czech republic slovakia and hungry will not accept the bodice refugee quotas that the e.u. agreed back in twenty fifteen the talks went on into the early hours to no avail

do you think you should hold off either politically it was a type of political close calm but good news is that we agreed on the so-called external issues of migration protecting our borders and stopping the migrants outside them the bad news is that we still disagree on resettlement and immigration there are still many large forces who don't want to stop migration but want to bring migrants into europe and afterwards distribute them on a compulsory basis. other leaders are furious not least the one who risked her political future by admitting close to a million refugees to her country in twenty fifty. hill said to him after i made very clear that i'm not satisfied with the fact that the rules we have are not working solidarity cannot just apply externally but also must be internal on this we have lots of work to do the positions have not changed but we plan to continue to work on this until june of next year. all they can agree on for now is to spend

more money securing europe's borders keeping refugees out at this summit some of the most difficult issues confronting the continent were discussed but ultimately deferred bonamy phillips al-jazeera brussels. the advocacy director for europe and central asia at human rights watch is in brussels and joins us now as we saw there kind of an east west split almost why do you think it is so difficult for the e.u. to agree of a migration policy what's the problem. right so that's been seen for the past couple of here's a scene the top of the refugee crisis which struck europe and it's really demonstrating the different vision between those countries who who want to bring some responses to a program which is which is rotten to the complex which is rotten and those who don't want to see any very tea with the refugees but also among countries it's been two and a half years now that the us been deciding to launch a so-called relocation isn't which would lead to just over one hundred thousand

refugees who would have the right to greece and italy to be relocated during their consideration of their like claims to other e.u. countries with a view to alleviate pressure on the first countries or for arrival and on the refuses themselves the one full of countries of european countries hungary poland in particular there's a few others from central europe i mean simply refusing to participate in these mechanism and and we think that that probably to should be put at looking at the positive impact of the of this for the occasion and he's in for the benefit from it looking at the resistance of some countries who simply don't want to take their shell so it's a way to failure lies is it in part the kind of the e.u. leadership or actually not being able to kind of get people to agree because a we've had to criticizing the plan is not sufficient do you think that the that the bureaucrats have done enough to sit down and actually bag heads together and come up with an new solution. in fact with human rights watch thing that the european commission hasn't been enough and vicious in the proposition made ahead of

this week's summit we do believe that relocation again is and which would be sustainable and effective we in fact fix some of the problems of dublin's and dublin the dublin system is in fact putting for now all the burden on the countries which are the mountains of europe which aren't europe's about border where there's an unsecure is seeking conflict poverty and war are arriving first and for now it is greece and italy and the only way to fix the problem the core problem of the dublin system is really to ensure that there is a sort of diety that there is responsibility sharing among you countries so that as i am claims are processed you know in a not in a broader number of countries than simply the first countries or for arrival and unfortunately the european commission itself has as like to be from bishan by not you know calling for a mechanism of responsibility sharing which would be permanent we do think that a permanent mechanism would help sustainably sorting some of the flows of fixing

some of the for the dublin system there are a number of voices calling for such permanence that either to make an ism not something which would be triggered on me in case of of crises the european parliament made a very good proposition that position is now on the table some you member states support that approach and it's time therefore i think you leaders in particular from big european countries to ensure that that responsibility is for for and by everybody getting there's a risk that there's partly the fact that the numbers have fallen because because of some of the the efforts to kind of stem the flow of people coming do you think that's actually taking the pressure off people to come up with new ideas. well i think in fact the so-called refugee crisis from yana had for go brought some good ideas on the table i think you're right by saying that the fact that there are less people now coming from turkey to greece or from the central med to to the. people of the teachers of the hook but in fact that should be an opportunity

because migration will be one of tomorrow's big debates one of the big international problem to to address and now is the moment when you either should learn from the lessons from and learn from the failure of the management of of the knowledge number of arrivals from from yana help for go and do set up mccann is a must now that would work you know for europe to morrow and not challenge the. system that europe is instructing to set up that europe is in trying to set up from the human rights watch thank you very much indeed for joining us is president all trump has given a speech at the f.b.i. national academy in virginia he just hundreds of law enforcement personnel who just completed their training earlier on friday the white house revealed what it is scribed as extreme bias against trump among the senior leadership of the f.b.i. let's get more now from our white house correspondent can really help it so it can be what's the president been saying this time. classic donald trump he was all

smiles praising the f.b.i. saying that with me as your president you have a loyal champion the white house and they'll never let you down but contrast that to comments he made about the f.b.i. questioning its impartiality its integrity as he was leaving the white house for that speech but also his very public statements just two weeks ago on social media where he said that the f.b.i. is reputation was in tatters is standing is the worst in history now why is he saying all of this he's been saying for some time because of course he's for a long time complained on the campaign trail as an adult as president about the f.b.i.'s investigation into his former presidential contender hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server of the she was not charged by the f.b.i. to the disappointment of donald trump but as well to just this week new revelations have to ask the i agents working on that case and also into the probe into potential russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and possible collusion between trump's campaign and rather and also

potential obstruction of justice concerns by donald trump and these agents in private text messages that have been made public to congressional members refer repeatedly to the president as an idiot so this is certainly concerning to donald trump he says it's further evidence of what he said all along that the f.b.i. needs some cleaning up. well it's a more sanford with here we are. going to rebuild their p.r. you will be bigger better than ever but it is very sad when you look at those documents. that is really really disgraceful and you have a lot of very angry people getting your very serious thing to watch here will tell you that and coming out as the criticism of the f.b.i. from coming from republicans and claims of investigation is tainted if it to me wanted to rush a probe by the special counsel. right well there are there are multiple

investigations going on not just with the special counsel but also the congressional level many house republicans are concerned potentially even suggesting that these investigations should be shut down there are also questions about holding robert muller the special counsel accountable for his subordinates actions and even the president could use that as leverage to try and ause robert mueller from his role out of doing that investigation but at the same time the department of justice the deputy attorney general rosenstein this week in fact saying that just because these f.b.i. agents have been dismissed doesn't mean that f.b.i. agents can't hold their own independent political opinions and that certainly does not impact in his view their ability to do their job as professionals can really help thank you very much. still to come on out of there are. celebrations as nicole's left wing alliance claims a big win in general election as we look at what it means for the country's future . russia's for making ministers given an eighteen year jail term in

a multi-million dollar bribery case. and bad weather disrupt the winter olympics warm up event that story coming up with featuring sports. however there are iron grey sky over the northeast of iraq just touching took my stand as well this cloud is just that it is cloud is part of a system that's been producing steady snow in the mountains north of kabul now lying on the ground about fifty two centimeters twenty four of which fell in the last twenty four hours so there is significant snow in this general area but to the west of that it's a much quieter picture a lot of cloud around and if anything the weather's changing to what it feels like early spring in turkey yonkers temperature from big subzero going up to the low teens the next day or so we're hovering around the twenty mark of the coastal event

beirut's up to twenty one that is course come sunday otherwise things are quiet except in the southern part of iraq this is a development that i think will start to bring rain cities the iranian coast but probably the eastern side of amman u.a.e. and maybe even qatar and both saturday and sunday that but rain isn't moving anywhere could be quite substantial further inland for across the financier courses generally fine it's still much warmer in mecca forecasts of thirty three rather pleasant degrees in southern africa well south africa's largely free of cloud and showers but if you want rain tanzania's your price along with zimbabwe. they live in a country plagued by poverty but for india's billionaires life is all about glamour luxury and pristine. wonder when east meets the new maharajah at this time

on al-jazeera when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announcing my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullies my life when people need to be heard a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just have played ethnic cleansing and mean more for bangladesh al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. counting the cost the mouse wins over the fox we'll look at disney's acquisition of twenty first century fox impact on media landscape also net neutrality and where the changes will affect how we view. and making the most of the greeks. counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

among the top stories. general and terrorist says it's time to restore and strengthen communication channels with north korea at a meeting on. program. three people have been killed in demonstrations in gaza and the west. as the capital of israel. and. britain can now move on to trade after progress was made. and how much the u.k. has to pay to leave the e.u. . millions of syrians living under siege or in camps face a bleak winter of the latest round of un backed peace talks and no progress towards ending the civil war all sides are blaming each other for the past so i've been

reports from the camp in northern syria syrian children made homeless in their own country struggle to understand why they have to live in tents of the six and a half million displaced syrians almost three million are boys and girls. remembers going to school before his leg was blown off in an airstrike he blamed the assad government. his scars are a painful reminder of the surgery and shrapnel that hit his leg he tires easily these days and misses going out to play football. it's too hard for me to go to the toilet we go to the caravan used by everyone else i want to proceed to clegg i dream of becoming a driver maybe a pilot or i could study to become a doctor. syrians in zora camp were forced to leave their homes in homs city after a three year siege the government told them they could survive if they surrendered their homes five and a half thousand came to this camp but basic facilities

a plastic sheet is what separates the people in sight from the really cold wind that you can feel out in this camp and you can see the conditions because this is what they have for sewage there because charities are providing help but it's not enough the refugees put on layers of clothes to stay warm during the harsh winter because there is no heating the monitors of the camps are just sending more read is not a long term solution to bringing us aid boxes or heating doesn't solve our problem the problem is the regime solve that and the people will return home we do such as arms they have more urgent needs. my child has a blood disease and he needs medicine i'm the wife of the martyr and have four orphans i lost my husband and there's no one to help i don't want anything i want just a medicine her story resonates with the syrians forced from their homes and more are becoming homeless as the war enters its third and winter they fear the world doesn't care anymore but it's hoped when the children such as noor aren't giving up

despite being told not to run he wants to show the world he's still capable and still have a chance of a better future from a big job it out of the euro zone. a white supremacist who rammed his car into a crowd during a rally in the u.s. state of virginia has had his murder charge upgraded james fields jr is now accused of first degree murder which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment in that in that state and us nor the charge usually indicates a premeditated attack thirty two year old heather hired died when fields round a crowd of anti-racism protesters. a u.n. investigation into exchange poverty in the u.s. has raised serious issues about the quality of american housing especially in rural areas especially repertoire philip asked austin's report will cover issues of civil rights housing and basic sanitation and he got a report you actually see the mayor warr fly in rural alabama the un's expert on

extreme poverty witnessed firsthand what residents have been dealing with the years in the states black belt region many can't afford basic sanitation open pools of rule sewage that where children play it's often flushed back into people's homes and hookworm a parasite normally found in sub-saharan africa has been reported in shocking numbers residents have asked for help instead campaigners say some of being threatened with criminal charges now they may at least get recognition for some might have to come from the united nations just figure out of a solution to a problem that the united states says we have is really really say to me i mean because. they're want they're saying they want to make america great again this is not making america great again philip alston spent two weeks visiting some of the u.s. is most vulnerable people activists say his presence is cause for national shame

it's embarrassing that i had to go outside of alabama to get help to deal with this that's embarrassing i think that there is there are people in alabama they can solve this problem they get to have the world with me do it we came to lock up everybody for things that happen here when there are things that people have no control over as part of his tour philip olsen came here to washington d.c. where poor neighborhoods can be found within streets of the capitol building in past reports alston's pulled no punches but this may be his most sensitive mission yet investigating poverty in the world's richest nation will mean nothing if the current administration chooses to ignore his findings officially more than forty million americans live in poverty some put that figure much higher alston's already called what he's seen in the u.s. shocking he says in many places basic needs are not being met it's then up to the government to try to explain why it's not being met because they could afford to do it so that would mean that taking a political decision just to exclude certain people and not put resources into

giving them a decent standard of living the u.s. final report will be published in the spring of two thousand and eighteen early indications are that alston's findings could make for uncomfortable reading for the world's biggest economy and gallacher al-jazeera award has been ordered to pay ten million dollars in compensation to child soldiers in the democratic republic of congo to mr banta was convicted of war crimes five years ago but the international criminal court has any now put a figure on it but how will the victims get the compensation under simmons has more . thomas lubanga was jailed for fourteen years at the international criminal court in twenty twelve convicted of abducting children and forcing them to join his militia with a fourteen year jail sentence came a ruling that low bangle was personally liable for compensating his victims it's taken five years to put some sort of value on the trauma and suffering along with the loss of childhoods and education. the judges identified four hundred twenty

five child victims all under fifteen years old but the presiding judge said there were hundreds possibly thousands of additional victims many of the girls were forced repeatedly to have sex with their captors and faced stigmatise ation and rejection when they finally returned home butler banga says he has no money at all so how will his victims get compensation but we're looking at huge numbers so money will always be a shortfall and what will be important is what kind of support what kind of reparations are we giving because collective recreations that will be the main issue to look at and it needs to be can stay can textually. adapted it needs to be based on what these children in their communities some of them who are adults now what they need now this is the type of collective compensation planned here

a rehabilitation center for former child soldiers the independent trust fund for victims which will administer i.c.c. reparations wants to go much further than this project it has a three year plan that would include schooling for all ages along with medical and psychological treatment it's meant to be funded by one a quarter million dollars set aside in the low banga case but it's likely the i.c.c. will be looking to its member states for much of the funding and lou bangar may appeal against the compensation award his lawyer says his client is becoming a scapegoat for all child soldiers and drew simmons al-jazeera. zimbabwe's ruling party has finalized robert mugabe's removal as president at a special congress and harare new leader. has been confirmed as the candidate for next year's election he told zanu p.f. members the vote must be credible free and fair he was inaugurated last month after

a military takeover and has more from the special conference in harare where celebrations of kicked off. they. it is. easy. to take that lightly that is why when the president that day. in. something evil. they want to buy it. even. with everyone in that it. means that he lets me in except when he or says it's that's him it's me and that's it yeah anything that's again about the mistakes. we make enemies because of the policy to get it up to the. way. he told me that you know that would need to get to sleep if it bygones be bygones it.

could be. that one right now people here are going to break. the thing and they're having to listen to. that and it takes years to make. politicians in mexico considering adopting a controversial security law that critics say poses a risk to human rights in the country the u.n. high commission on human rights says the noise deeply worrying and is urging the government to reject the proposal that sicko spent years trying to curb drug related violence and murder on your reports from mexico city. mexico will close out two thousand and seventeen as its most violent year on record faced with the staggering murder rate mexican lawmakers are pushing for a new what's become a controversial national security law one that would normalize military presence across the country. senator in the us says this action however drastic is

desperately needed to curb back the violence. they list. is that the number one commitment to mexican government is to guarantee security to the population and maintain their personal safety and this is what we intend to do in three inch areas security belongs there. other mexican lawmakers like senator one girl middle hicks don't agree with this is sussman because it goes against human rights it does not give legal certainty and also there are many issues from civil society that are not being resolved. one such issue is a general lack of confidence in state and federal police forces the proposed legislation could result in less funding and less training for local law enforcement. however the bill has faced widespread criticisms in mexico you learn the more down is one of those voices her son went missing eight years ago six members of the military were eventually charged in connection with his disappearance. we're still afraid the people are still afraid there is

still kidnappings by the military we don't feel safer because of the militarization would pose a danger to the population. over the years mexican military forces have been implicated in a number of murders and disappearances last year mounting allegations of human rights violations prompted the head of mexico's armed forces to publicly apologize . most lawmakers in mexico will agree that rising levels of violence must be met with new policies but critics say the current proposal normalizes a military presence on city streets instead of assessing the impact of more than ten years of failed security strategy. mexico city. within the last few minutes lawmakers in peru have initiated impeachment proceedings against the president putin ski he has been resisting demands to resign despite alleged links to a major latin american idol corruption scandal

a document sent to congress is said to show that a company owned by. payments totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the brazilian construction firm or debate. has denied any wrongdoing. the force communist party is claiming a landslide victory in the country's general elections the left alliance says it's one hundred thirteen out of a total one hundred sixty five parliamentary seats she'd been shuster reports from katmandu. the post so-called left alliance has painted the country red after what's being seen as a momentous picture of both parliamentary then provincial elections observers were surprised by the electoral marriage between his former fighters and the polish communist party or unified marxist leninist their union paid off handsomely at the polls nepali congress the oldest democratic party lost badly the left alliance

won around two thirds of the seats in the lower house yes much destroys the input ends up coming together as communist we hope that the noncommunist will also form alliances and the country once fought the system for five years will work closely with people and we will dare leave our promise of economic development. in their election campaign the left alliance promised stability and economic development unstable coalitions have meant the party has had nine governments in the past ten years this month's election was the first since the new constitution was drafted in two thousand and fifteen a major step towards transforming the party into a federal republic following abolishing of the monarchy the new federal system means state governments in seven different provinces but state politics didn't get

much attention during the election campaign and it's not clear that many of these fully understand what federalism means some speculate whether the victory of the left alliance could mean that the party is headed towards a communist state but analysts say that both think you have out of the maoist abnormal also communist ideologies and out mainstream democratic parties many even hesitate to call them left parties some analysts think democratic freedoms could be threatened although the. very well in these elections you know there are still other parties in parliament they're quite powerful and there would be a massive outcry if they tried to turn the country into a state or even rigged elections in the future having said that i think that if the left alliance consolidate his power for a long period of time then it's possible that they will try to curtail some democratic freedoms such as by trying to control civil society or the media or

supporters of the alliance the new political equation maybe an even greater change than the publication of the latest constitution nepalis space serious problems including corruption and the politicize ation of institutions in the months ahead we will see how the election winners use their power to be distressed or al-jazeera that meant. a low cost european airline ryanair has reversed its longstanding position not to recognize trade unions the decision was made to try to stop pilots and cabin crew from carrying out planned strikes in the lead up to christmas the airline was recently forced to cancel twenty thousand flights to just offshore to jews. a russian court has sentenced a former economy minister to eight years in prison unlike say if has been found guilty of corruption after accepting a two million dollars bribe from an oil giant he says he was framed so i'm going to go has more from moscow. but. he was once russia's economy minister now alexiou

ukiah is an ex politician with a conviction for bribery and his fall from grace has been a stark reminder that not even government officials can escape the unpredictable nature of the country's justice system was sent to prison for eight years and fined for accepting a two million dollars bribe. the sentence which was announced today is a representation of the supremacy of the law and the inevitability of punishment for any individual who violates the law irrespective of their position it was last november when problems began during a meeting with the c.e.o. of russia's mainstay to oil company he was presented with a heavy bag was arrested shortly after and accused of accepting a cash bribe of two million dollars we have said he believed that the bag contained bottles of wine and accused of setting him up the case has generated a lot of interest in just how much influence mr putin's inner circle has for

example mr surgeon is not only the head of russia's oil giant these headquarters situated just a bit but he's also a long time close ally of mr freeze in the direct line to the kremlin and apparently not about to cross such an oar summoned as a witness in the case four times but he failed to show up saying he was an able because of work commitments a legal irregularity but not one that seem to bother the president. as far as i understand it i have of course paid some attention because i saw the public reaction to it and there was no violation of law in that case. according to investigation there was enough material gathered with you reading test least bisection himself but i agree with you that searching could have come to the court what's bad about it he would repeat everything that he said during the preliminary investigation and questioning the target this should be such a high ranking official this is a signal to civil servants in russia that are all trolls or rules or

informal rules no longer work in the way he can feel secure mr all you can have says he intends to appeal against the verdict he had maintained his innocence throughout the trial but this case also exposed the infighting in russia's elites as well as the strength of putin's allies. moscow. so i had. an amazing shot thanks.

time for supporting his peter. brown thank you so much have suffered a major collapse as they fight to save the ashes trophy from returning to australian hands in perth the tourists lost six wickets for just thirty five runs on day two of the third test match at the weka that include a dog who was dismissed for one hundred forty england were all out for four hundred three it's a stray who lead the best of five series to know and they can clinch the ashes with victory in the taste in reply to england's first innings total the aussies close down day two on two hundred three for three captain steve smith is just a trend short of a century. batting fourth is. always the hardest part about chasing runs but places like gavin the walk i guess it's it's been done chasing chases have been done before but for us i guess is trying about as well as we can this first innings and

i think year later he would use a thing we need to get a last innings but. be interesting to see how big it was as he day to. day far still seems a long way oh isiah be interesting to see what happens you can look at it both ways and say look it was a fantastic recovery from being a hundred four and we've got four hundred on the board or you can look at it and go yeah we'll we've we've let the position slip but at the same time our job now when we come back in the morning is a case of right well we've got the capability to take in five six wickets in a session we shown that previously so there's no reason why we can't now in english premier league it's taught them hotspur who face the name be able to ask for taking on match the city on saturday said he have won a record fifteen straight league matches and are eleven points clear at the top of the table tottenham have enjoyed a good run of form of late to winning on their last three are things in all competitions but even if murray c.e.o. patino side were to inflict a first league defeat of the season on thirty eight still the fifteen points behind

them in the standings i thin we are going to play for me. the best team. today in europe no only in england in this. because in. form and of course it always is so exciting you must challenge is this type of challenge that you want always to have the pursuit to do to tough. also in football prosecutors in rio de janeiro have launched a probe into family violence surrounding the copper suit amerikana final clashes took place before during and after wednesday's match at the american are stadium between local side of flamingo and argentina's independent entity who won the game vandalism was reported inside the stadium with more than fifty flamingo fans arrested over two days the brazilian football federation and south american

football's governing body kahneman bowl will be questioned as part of the investigation. gulf is introducing an important rule change that will prevent television viewers from calling in to report violations back in april lexi thompson was penalized four strokes after a viewer spotted an infringement it ultimately cost her the chance to win their tournament earlier i spoke to thomas paygo he's the senior director of the rules of golf at the u.s. golf association who says it's all about simplifying the game. this started back in the early the late eighty's you'd have situations where players would be on the golf course playing that they were unsure that they breached a rule we don't have referees following every group so the referees had no idea that a player had breached the rule but somebody at home saw it and when you have a game that you have a field of players all playing against each other really at a fairness the committee has to go back in and add that penalty so at the end of the tournaments you can compare scores across the field so again it was

unintentional but it's something that's been happening for several decades forseen was really and an uncomfortable trend where this was happening more and more and you can you can. have you can see that as a result of technology at the at home your experience continued to increase people were able to see things at home that frankly you couldn't see on the golf course and so we've announced a number of changes over the last year and the changes this week where we've said no more of your call ins is really the next step and it was leadership of our organizations coming together and saying we need to eliminate these distractions and really ensure that the plane of the competition the outcome of the competition is put back in the hands of the players and those responsible for running the event golf is such a great game i mean it's a game that's enjoyed by millions of players throughout the world at all levels and we all play by a single set of rules so when you're playing the game you're expected to know the rules and what we're finding is that over time as we've gone in and revised rules they have really become way too complex and so back in march we announced what we

call a rule modernization initiative where we're going to go in and we're going to simplify the rules we're going to make them easier to understand and easier to apply for golfers everywhere. with just fifty five days to go until the winter olympics in kyung chan the world's based skiers have been fine tuning their preparations on the slopes in italy they'll be hoping for better conditions in south korea this means super g. race involved out of them on thursday was plagued by fog yourself first still got the better of the weather bird to become the first german to win a world cup speed event in thirteen years it was called off after only thirty eight of the eighty competitors had completed the course but first all were still awarded the win. the national hockey league is gearing up to celebrate its one hundred year anniversary on saturday they also were senators will host the montreal canadiens in an outdoor game called the n.h.l. one hundred classic the canadiens have warmed up for that by snapping a three game losing streak thomas plekanec each school one minute and fifty two

seconds into overtime as they beat the new jersey devils to one in the n.f.l. the denver broncos seem to slowly be getting themselves back on track of their recent run of eight or losses they won their second straight game on thursday against the indianapolis colts quarterback brokaw's wyler helped them to victory with his best passing performance in two years he threw for one hundred ninety four yards and had three touchdowns twenty five thirteen was the score. le bron james got his fifty ninth korea triple double to help with even cavaliers to a one hundred twenty one one hundred twelve victory of the los angeles lakers in the n.b.a. on thursday meanwhile the city rivalry took place on thursday as well in the new york knicks came out on top as they beat the brooklyn nets quickly leave school a game high twenty seven points for the knicks as they ran out of one hundred eleven one hundred four when is. that when you think boss alona and real madrid it's usually football that springs to mind but both clubs also have basketball

franchises who competes in the europa league and they made it in their very own el classico real madrid's look at the entry showed some skills that even christiane or another couldn't match the haiti new road civilian nailed this twenty one was a basket israel won eighty seven seventy five footballs classico is coming up next saturday. and that's all the sport for me for now back to you in london. thank you very much and that's it for main are entirely for this news hour but judy macdonald will be here to manage with another full round of the day's news thanks for watching passionate.

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