because sample drink these ladies are tough and they take their training very seriously who. do feel more confident and feel more energetic they feel more alive. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline and illegally dredged sat and some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business smuggling when they go take the city there in the sand is our fair game you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls at this time on al-jazeera. this is zero.

now that i'm dealing with all of this is the news hour live from london coming up. the united states will use all necessary measures to defend itself against north korean aggression secretary of state to listen addresses the u.n. amid signs the u.s. may be prepared to talk to pyongyang. at least three palestinians have been killed and dozens injured during protests in gaza and the west bank over jerusalem. e.u. leaders say breaks it talks cannot move on but disagreements are opening up within the twenty seventh over migration. and donald trump addresses the f.b.i. after the white house accused the agency of bias against the president. and i was in doha with all the sports news as top of the table manchester city go in search of a sixteenth consecutive english premier league victory when they meet tottenham better more later this news hour.

there one welcome to the news hour north korea has defended its ballistic missile program as self defense at the united nations security council public session was called after pyongyang tested its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile last month but the meeting which was attended by u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson failed to come up with any decisive action to curb activity on the korean peninsula i counted as one hour from the u.n. . the red scarf a reflection of the chilly weather outside and little warmth displayed in the chamber towards north korea was representative listened to condemnation from speaker of the speaker with what appeared to be studied nonchalance. the situation on the korean peninsula is the most tense and dangerous peace and security issue in the world today publicly at least the council has been united in imposing an

extensive series of sanctions but the u.s. secretary of state questions the commitment of russia and china continuing to allow north korean laborers to toil in slave like conditions inside russia in exchange for wages used to fund to clear weapons programs calls into questions russia's dedication as a partner for peace. similarly as chinese crude all flows to north korean refineries the united states questions china's commitment to solving an issue that has serious implications for the security of its own citizens these charges rejected by china and russia which insisted that the ongoing joint military exercises by the u.s. and south korea made any dialogue all but impossible to music you should lean says that only two months of quiet by north korea were answered by washington with unprecedented military exercises and a listing on a tear

a funding list that leads us to question the sincerity of statements that there is a preference for a peaceful solution to the crisis we're going to schools with. and with all eyes on him the north korean representative the period nervous his hands shaking but also unapologetic arguing that his country has a sovereign right to protect itself against what he called us aggression our position of when you clearly have formed words of individuals the third with defense even meijers up with the printer. and the rights of resistance and development from the us the meeting ended with agreement on the desirability of dialogue but division as to how to achieve it the u.s. adamant that there has to be a unilateral freeze on nuclear testing by north korea before any talks can be possible by kana al-jazeera united nations well michael fix is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and joins us now from

washington d.c. michael their warm welcome to the program for you what were the key points and the key takeaways if you like from tell us a speech. well to be honest julie it is a little hard to tell what the key takeaways were because just a couple of days ago we heard secretary of state rex tillerson speak very clearly about the need for diplomacy and what he said was that diplomacy is very much on the table and they look forward to talking with north korea at any time but today what we heard from secretary thompson was backtracking from that previous statement and talking more about the need to ramp up pressure and for more preconditions before talks are ready with north korea and so again unfortunately i think what we're hearing out of the united states right now is a sort of mixed messages on north korea and michael in your view is that because the administration doesn't have a diplomatic strategy. well i think that what it means

is that this administration is deeply divided over how to approach north korea on the one hand we have secretary tillerson who from time to time including this week talks of the need for a diplomatic solution to the threat of north korea which by the way i would add is the only real way to address this threat in an acceptable manner but at the same time we've here heard repeatedly including in the last couple of weeks from others in the administration include national security advisor h.r. mcmaster about how time is supposedly running out on north korea and talking about openly at times the need for a potential military option with north korea and so again i really don't think that they have a coherent and coordinated strategy right now michael today at the meeting russia and china where representative but obviously bear key to any pathway towards progress here can the u.n.

play some sort of pot to get them both i'm bored. well i think that the role of the u.n. is clearly important here in the rules of china in particular but also russia are very important they need to continue to implement u.n. security council sanctions and resolutions on north korea but at the end of the day the reality is also that cooperation by china and russia is necessary to deal with north korea but not sufficient and what we're going to need to do in addition to getting china and russia on board with these policies is to open a real dialogue with north korea again without that there really is no hope of acceptably dealing with this threat and michael we heard to listen say today you know no preconditions allowed the north korean know the door is open all they have to do is walk through it so like you say mixed signals there are they even good to be able to get to the first step of talks if they're already saying you know you can't bring to us any preconditions before we'll start to talk

well look again i think this is part of the problem that we've got here is that north korea is clearly the party to blame here they are the ones that are pursuing a nuclear and ballistic missile program that threatens the united states and threatens the people of the region including our allies but at the same time the only way we're going to deal with it is through diplomacy and by continually sending mixed messages about whether or not the united states is actually open to diplomacy right now i think that the north koreans don't know what to believe when it comes to the u.s. position here and on the one hand they hear about diplomacy but on the other hand they hear about potential military threats and so again i think for united states needs to get its act together and needs to be sending a single message to pyongyang about the importance of diplomacy. joining me from washington d.c. michael 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 jerusalem as the capital of israel protest has been blasted by live friends but still bullets and tear gas in response to widespread demonstrations are a force that 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 when there was the palestinian people are expressing that they reject strong 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 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 al aqsa 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 harry force at al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem well our correspondent alan fisher is in gaza with more on what's been happening. 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 done 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 the scene has been repeated in seven spots 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 don't trumpet 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. it watching the al-jazeera news hour still ahead families of civilians killed inside sudan's brutal civil war demand justice for their loved ones their sam they want to make america great again this is not making america great. anger in the southern us as a un special rapporteur on extreme poverty finds major issues with housing and sanitation. and in sport peter will be here with action from the skiing world cup in its early. silver you leaders have given the go ahead for breaks it talks to move on to the next stage of negotiations they say they'll now focus on trade after making enough progress on citizens' rights the irish border and how much the u.k.

has to pay to leave the new british prime minister to resign may has hailed the decision as an important step i want to be philips is in brussels where he's been following the negotiations she left early job doc 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 any dramatic early progress if there's no time for in terms of you trying to sell and frustrations and explore the recount which was the u.k. to get more clarity on the a 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 and here are the usual 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 battery phillips al-jazeera brussels. home on the issue of migration and resettlement in europe we can speak to christian priest back he's the secretary general of the danish refugee can for joins us via skype from copenhagen sara very warm welcome to the program how how would you rate the. progress that's being made on this issue whether this says summit they failed but you could say the internal resettlement scheme has inched forward during the past year slowly but steadily the commission proposal is there still based on salute every bit see an

external yes we did also there's been some success in stopping people at the borders but unfortunate but it has been at the expense of the people on the move we have seen hundreds of people stuck in libya and along the route with severe human rights violations along the way so also there we have we if it was tusks a proposal at is that likely day that because more division i would end up becoming an acceptable compromise. when i believe a task is giving up in a sense surveyed way too early and he's giving up where you could actually see the core elements of the solution they are insights because the current deadlock is undermining the european common asylum system in a time where we actually need to strengthen it in state and we need to expanded it beyond the borders off europe also east and south of the european union so we can protect borders but also protect people at the same time and we can protect the

refugees and migrants we can share responsibly did she and we can agree on resettlement schemes to says the only sustainable and stable way to go about a solution and it is within sight so i believe trust is giving up too early and kristen what do you think can bring an end to the deadlock between. the countries that are in favor of cortez and those against. well right now we also need to go sheeting on a global migration compact and a global refugee compact and i strongly believe that these global agreements can actually pave the way to also internal e.u. agreement because we must combine protecting borders and protecting people on the move at the same time and this would mean taking boarders but also responsibility sharing resettlement legal process ways from micron's and refugees and first and foremost significant funding for the countries who today and into future host and

will host significant amounts of refugees and and migrant so these elements should shape a global agreement and they can pave the way for an internal agreement because no country can solve this alone but we do we do we are able to solve it if we work together and this is what should be done at the question i'm wondering about the longer term view also how much thought and energy is being directed to create things helps in development in the countries where refugees are coming from in the first place. when the not enough is the long term solution is exactly it is jobs it is ending conflicts it is combating climate change that wrists pushing yet further into the millions on the move in the next day case we need a significant marshall acknowledge for africa of the middle east and we need to engage

much more in country crucial lucian and we need to tackle climate change those are the long term solutions and the funding we need for those solutions are significant is significant larger than what we see today and this is open something i hope something that your countries will realize within the process as well chris and ed joining me there from copenhagen christian thank you. thank you. i guess president has given a speech at the f.b.i. national academy in virginia earlier on friday the white house revealed what it described as quote extreme bias against from amongst the senior leadership of the f.b.i. has more now from washington d.c. . after months of disparaging america's top law enforcement agency donald trump told an audience of newly graduated f.b.i. agents with me as your president america's police will have a true friend and loyal champion in the white house but two weeks earlier on social

media the u.s. president criticized the f.b.i. saying its reputation is in tatters his criticism is largely fueled by his belief the f.b.i. did not charge his twenty sixteen presidential opponent hillary clinton with misuse of classified information which used a private e-mail server will secretary of state but many believe his attacks are driven by a desire to discredit the agency vesta gating his campaign's alleged ties to russia during the election he should resign immediately tonight i have filed the resolution to have bob will recuse himself recently many trump supporters have been calling for a special prosecutor robert muller the man in charge of the russia probe to be fired they point to a newly released batch of text messages from two f.b.i. agents as evidence the f.b.i. officials worked on the clinton investigation. and the probe into whether trump's

twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia in the messages turned over to congress by the department of justice agents show preference toward clinton winning the white house and refer to trump repeatedly as an idiot this is not just political opinions this is just gusting on account of what bias and there is no one . that could not affect a person's work the agents have been removed or are no longer investigating russian meddling or potential obstruction of justice by trump speaking recently on capitol hill the deputy attorney general told lawmakers there's nothing inappropriate about f.b.i. officials holding political opinions so long as it doesn't affect their work trump disagrees it is very sad when you look at those documents. how they've done that is really really very the deputy attorney general has resisted any calls to fire

robert mueller has said that there is no person better qualified to lead the investigation kimberly helped get al jazeera washington u.n. investigation into extreme poverty in the u.s. and raise serious issues about the quality of american highways and especially in rural areas special rapporteur philip alston will cover issues of civil rights highways ing and basic sanitation and agalloch ports you were asked to see the may war fly in rural alabama the un's expert on extreme poverty witnessed firsthand what residents have been dealing with the years in the state's blackbelt region many call into for basic sanitation opened pools of rule sewage sit where children play it's often flushed back into people's homes and hook with a power saw 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 come from the united nations this figure out of a solution to a problem that the united states simply have is really really say to me i mean because. there 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 there is there are people in alabama they can solve this problem they get to have the world with me do it we came lock up everybody for things that happened here when there are things that people have no control over as part of his talk of 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 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 un'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. a white supremacist who ramdisk 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 state and u.s.

law the charge usually indicates a premeditated attack thirty two year old heather heyer day died when fields rammed a crowd anti-racism protest. who is congress says move to impeach the president over at. links to a major corruption scandal involving the brazilian construction firm or the brics well egyptians across the divide supported the motion to look at chin ski for moral incapacity documents sent to congress allegedly show that a company owned by kaczynski received hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments from or direct about a decade ago which is key has denied any wrongdoing still to come here on al-jazeera the. zimbabwe's ruling party confirms emerson when an ad was its new leader finalizing the departure of robert mugabe russia's former economy minister is given an eight year jail term and a multi-million dollar bribery case and golf

a separate important rule change that effectively excludes t.v. viewers at home peter will tell you what it's all about in sport. hello european weather's been a bit well cloudy wet snow we recently saw about consolidated seven karen is there is quite a big mess and all this time he represents are the rain or snow is being driven by a big circulation over the low countries and eventually that's going to be a northerly which means everything gets colder so you see snow rather than anything else rain is confined this is during saturday to the sudden asiatics a rupture albania macedonia a line that takes you through hungary and eventually towards moscow back edge snow mainly we're talking about rain but it hasn't used dry weather to italy the still

flooding in northern italy in the flock around and you can see sunshine a northerly reason five degrees in london that's fairly typical cold winter it gets slightly warmer on sunday but that cold is reached right through the mediterranean by this time so it's dried up now through the balkans maybe spinning shero to athens is to eighty degrees would be for culture i think by the time evening comes around and it's not rain west in parts of turkey so all this is proper winter now this side of year but as yet we've got to get there and we're getting there by driving down that cold air with cloud and rain through northern morocco and north korea and northern tunisia. this is a boon for point people right now and technology there is so much going to help people it's phenomenal thanks for calling i read this is there a what are you looking for today we get to the client with their day to day tasks and give them

more independence and this feels like it's a little sure is the tomato exploration process. we have about technology available to us to know this tour onal jazeera. running six continents across the deep. brain the story state. of the. unknown is the one nine hundred ninety s. the sounds. were out the words of the russian count for palestinian. news.

headlines up our top stories here on al-jazeera the un secretary general antonio taylor says it's time to establish and strengthen the communication channels with north korea at a meeting on pyongyang's ballistic missile program three people have been killed in demonstration thing gaza and the west bank against u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. a year leaders say breaks in negotiations with britain can now move on to trade after sufficient progress is made on citizens' rights the irish border and how much the u.k. has to pay to leave you. some of the. new presidents emerson managua has been endorses the rulings than a p.f. party's presidential candidate for next year's election but then i got to go over for robert mugabe last month after the military intervened and forced his

resignation and says the interests of black zimbabweans will be protected haram a task that has more now from harare. after weeks of people wondering with this the new government would scrap some of robert mugabe's black economic empowerment policies president made his position clear on land reform a policy that saw land sea strong white farmers and given to black zimbabweans the principles ripples this. could not. rest. men and women. in a. liberal. is . that our group reacts bullis instruments are put in place surfboards. promise when i go is promising to tackle

corruption create jobs improve cash shortages increase productivity of farms and encourage foreign direct investment by making government policies more investor friendly probably has to be very democratic. leadership style and approach from his predecessor and he definitely has to be an economic performer if he wants to win the election in twenty states and the ruling party says managua is their presidential candidates it makes his election zimbabwe's leader. credible free fair peaceful and transparent some zimbabweans are skeptical things are going to change they say the only thing different about. is no longer in charge but the same faces are still around president is under pressure to prove his critics wrong was. asked international community to lift all political and economic sanctions unconditionally sanctions were imposed in the early two thousand human rights

abuses some accused the main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai a pushing for sanctions to stage an allegation opposition. ms deny the m.d.c. is not calling for the imposition of sanctions on zimbabwe we are calling for these to implement this enough electoral reforms that will enable the holding of free and fair elections in about six or eight months time from now another no one seemed to be patient as government and the ruling party try to improve the struggling economy . al-jazeera. warlord has been ordered to pay ten million dollars in compensation to child soldiers in the democratic republic of congo it's almost a bang go was convicted of war crimes five years ago the international criminal court is only now but a figure on it but how will the victims get their compensation under simmons explains thomas we bangor 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 bangle was personally liable for compensating his victims has 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 but lubanga 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 with these collective preparations that will be the main

issue to look at and it needs to be can stay contextually. 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 treatments but it's meant to be funded by one a quarter million dollars set aside in the low bank a 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 the u.n.

commission for human rights says the some civilians inside sudan are being targeted for murder and rape based on their ethnicity fighting began shortly after the country gained independence in twenty thirteen fines of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes have been morgan visited one un camp and said this report from juba. a few cloths and cooking pots are all violent only has other displaced people at the u.n. camp in juba donated them when she arrived in september after fleeing her hometown one of our i woke up or i into our house was burnt my husband was inside we came here with only the clothes on our back we had no way to go but this un camp the soldiers burnt our houses her mother in law who was injured escaping her burning home fled with her that was when everyone was running to the bush i was injured when i was trying to flee when the house was on fire i came here with my daughter because we needed shelter and i needed treatment fighting started in december

twenty third team less than three years after independence was gained from sudan south sudan's president salva kiir accused his former vice president riek machar of plotting a coup to oust him since then fighting has largely been across ethnic lines and spread to the capital last year when a peace agreement failed four years of war has not only resulted in the deaths of thousands of south sudanese almost four million of the twelve million population have been displaced from their homes and the un says all warring sides have committed grave atrocities in nearly every part of the country the un also says that sexual violence targeted killing and displacement and control of how it is delivered is being used to hurt civilians the head of the u.s. commission of human rights in south sudan says many attacks could amount to work rhymes and crimes against humanity you have a particular way of beginning to look at whether or not something constitutes a war crime or a crime against humanity but on the face of it yes these crimes seem to have taken

place in south sudan government leaders in south sudan say they are not willing to potential war crimes those who do attack civilians will be held accountable we have . that. thing happen. but they happen with the individual taking the law into their own lesson as they come to you know. to the. southwest they are always you know taken to book for viola pony no amount of accountability will bring back her husband or their brains out but she says justice will bring her some closure so she can move on with her life and raise her kids you know morgan al-jazeera juba a russian court has sentenced a former economy minister to eight years in prison alexiou you have been found guilty of corruption after accepting a two million dollars bribe from an oil giant but he says he was framed song as

warner from moscow. he was once russia's economy minister now alexy all you cry of 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 well you have 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 main state oil company he was presented with a heavy bag he was arrested shortly after and accused of accepting a cash bribe of two million dollars we have said he believed that the back contained bottles of wine and the q section 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 cross where he's head of course is situated just a bit but he's also a long time close ally of this difference 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 seemed 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 and according to investigation there was enough material gathered with you pleading testimonies 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 the dawn. should be such a high ranking official this is a signal to civil servants in russia about our old roles or roles or informal roles no longer work and nobody can feel secure mr yukari of 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 a far right to political party in chile a is expected to play a key role in determining the winner of sunday's presidential runoff if they don't want to surprising eight percent of the votes in the first round and is now supporting former president sebastian pinera a latin america to listen human reports from santiago. it's early morning as. that prepares to get in the saddle and then. this finance director of an upscale

real estate company is passionate about chilean rodeo and it's as traditional as his political views. but it's one that represents what many see as the reemergence of a hard line conservative faction. a segment of chileans who voted for this man in last month's first round presidential election so simple no cast win a surprising eight percent of votes guarded as an extreme right winger he boasted that former military dictator augusto pinochet would have voted for him while he's still alive you know bill young phonebook i voted for the man who best represented mean for example social values with i'm against abortion and same sex marriage i don't think same sex couples should be allowed to adopt children. cast has asked supporters to back center right presidential candidates. in sunday's highly competitive runoff but at what price a former president assured al jazeera that he's made no deals with the hard line.

who consider him too liberal. i have received jose antonio cast support with no conditions i won't swing further right or left but many have their doubts this is a business center sound after manhattan what i like in most developed countries where the rich and powerful are more or less politically here in chile ninety percent of the business elite is conservative and wields a huge amount of political influence. many of them like cast want to reduce corporate taxes and reverse social reforms that are the hallmarks of the current left wing government. which raises the question of what role the new right could play in the next government if a billionaire businessman returns to the presidential palace you see in human objects sent out to. politicians in mexico are considering adopting

a controversial security law that critics say poses a risk to human rights in the country and high commissioner on human rights says the law is deeply worrying and is urging the government to reject the proposal mexico spent years trying to curb drug related violence and murder and well reports now from mexico city mexico will close out two thousand and seventeen as its most violent year on record with a staggering murder rate mexican lawmakers are pushing for a new what's become a controversial national security one that would normalize military presence across the country. senator. 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 my personal safety and this is what we intend to do in the green cherry and security

lol. other mexican lawmakers like senator one catalyst committal 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 motown 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 are 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 read up a little. mexico city austria as conservative as he has reached a coalition deal with the far right freedom party it gave him and said to make austria the only country in western europe where the far right party in government the freedom party won twenty six percent of the vote in up to his election on a strong anti immigration form. catalonians are preparing to go to the polls in regional elections next thursday almost three months after the region votes is a break away from spain in

a referendum well despite the many see little reason to become independent pen hall spoke to locals in the remote hour in valley near the border with friends. hi in the pyrenees is the hour and valley. the snow is coming little early this year so as the next election. it will be so humid when it's quite you have it we've always been part of a spain so why do we need to go changing that now it seems the katana just want to order a thorough and the maps show that this mountain enclave is part of catalonia villagers born and bred in the stone houses in house and tell a different story. how are we going to be cattle land if we don't even speak the same language. issue in the local language called ox attain in the

shepherds explain how old customs of fading sheep flocks a dwindling in the people leaving the shepherds have no patience for catalonia as b. had to break away from spain. but if they want independence let them have that in catalonia why would we want independence. his friend why is in full agreement. with some pro independence leaders in jail and others in self exile to these three it seems like a political comedy. cattle and president ran off the day he set foot back on spanish soil they'll grab him more. if that it's shameful what is happening in catalonia. this tunnel wasn't dug through the pyrenees mountains into the air and valley until the late one nine hundred forty s. in the old days the valley people felt much more connected to france because it just a few kilometers walked down here to the border even today it will take you four

hours to drive down to bosler. at the other end of the hour and barely the blockade a better a resort is a magnet for skiers in spain france and elsewhere in europe tourism makes up three quarters of the region's income local government leaders have made it clear independence and the risk of closed borders would be for the business. any more political the political climate good effect but we are a tourist resort and we don't mind where our clients come from and we will give them all the same welcome. back in time to light a fire against evening chill. and here far from everywhere old friends are adamant they have no need for independence. cult pen or al-jazeera in the air and valley spain. so i had. a functioning their

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business updates. going places together. with. a record breaking fifteen match winning streak in the english premier league but manager pep has played down the idea that they could go the entire season with losing a game. city go into the clash with top of heart upon saturday with an eleven point lead at the top of the standings but despite the side success guardiola has ruled

out a repeat of arsenal's unbeaten season in two thousand and four which led to them being labelled the invincibles that belongs to us and they get amazing arsenal in two thousand. we're going to the group. today is completely different the intensity the lot of games that is going to have so now would happen is the new exception. so he's opponents tottenham have enjoyed a good run of form of late to winning on their last three outings in all competitions but even if. side were to inflict a first league defeat of the season on thirty eight still be fifteen points behind them in the standings i thin we are going to play you for me. the best team. today in europe normally in england in this in because it's in. the. form and of course which is so exciting

you must challenge these disabled challenged that you want always to do to have the pursuit to do to to cuff there are seven premier league games in total on saturday third place chelsea host southampton surprise team of the season burnley are currently in sixth place in the table and they travel to brighton while arsenal will be looking to make a point on the top six when they play struggling newcastle the fee for world cup is some six months away and one of its previous winners and biggest names spain are potentially in danger of missing out the spanish football federation are preparing for presidential elections this month but people are unhappy at the spanish government's national sports council making contact with the football federation over the lection fever has a very low tolerance for political meddling in their sport and spain's place at russia twenty eighteen could come up for debate. the 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 for strokes after a viewer spotted an infringement it out and 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 he 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 out of fairness the committee has to go back in and add that penalties 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 or seen was really and uncomfortable trend where this was happening more and more and you can you can.

have you can see that as a result of technology is the at home your experience continued to increase people were able to see things that 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 is really the next step it's 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 had gone in and revised rules we had really become way too complex and so back in march we announced what we call our rules 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 just ten days off to russia was banned from the upcoming winter games full state sponsored doping

a russian athlete has controversially claimed the european skeleton title in november russia's a lennon nicotine was stripped of her bronze medal from saatchi and received a lifetime ban from the international olympic committee but skillets and this governing body have allowed me to continue competing leading into her victory in in spoke on friday she's one of twenty two russians appealing they i.o.c. bans through the court of arbitration for sport only clean russian athletes can compete at the upcoming winter olympics as new truths. the winter sports season really is in full swing ahead of kung chang twenty eight team and for their fleet there is double the preparations ahead is building to become the first athlete to compete in both snowboarding and skiing at the olympics well the czech snowboarding form continued to impress on friday as she won a parallel giant slalom world cup event in italy despite very foggy conditions to contend with on the slopes beat salina you're in the final of her second victory

you know as many days she now leads the german by nearly one thousand points in the world cup standings that means competition was won by austria's alexander polya. i feel great he was a great race a really enjoyed every run. i have to say that my team had also making awesome job today especially right to go with the board because it was very fast on the flats in that it's what i needed today and it was a nice race i really enjoyed. just across the mountains it was skiing taking center stage and this super g. race was for hampered by the bog yourself first got the better of the weather to become the first german skeer to win a world cup speed event in thirteen years the race was then called off after only thirty eight of the eighty competitors had completed the course but first all were still awarded the women. and that's all the sport for now back to london pisa thank

you before we go we can bring you this sporting star the future they see you as a toddler his best selling it snowboarding evidently has proven that you're never too young to hit the slopes going for her first run in either hole this week two days before her first birthday no word yet on washy has planned for. her. you can find much more about the stories we're following on our website including that one you can find all at al-jazeera.

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