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tries to stop the release of a controversial book about donald trump's presidency. a so-called clone sweeps into the eastern part of north america with states bracing for record breaking cold. scrambling to fix a bug found in computer chips tech firms rushed to patch a security flaw which could affect billions of devices worldwide plus. i'm going hey in northern thailand home to many ethnic minority groups many people living in these hills who've lived here generations but still can't officially call thailand home. the white house is threatening legal action over the damning book about u.s. president donald trump the upcoming book fire and fury inside the white house paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office describes a president. mentally unfit for the job diane estabrook has more. president donald

trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash that an author that no one had ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially ban and fired off a tweet saying i won't speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he

later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted president trump to downplay the vitriol at a white house meeting thursday don't really call me great madeleine aside so you know you obviously changes to pretty quick the book is a distraction for a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russia's meddling into the twenty sixteen presidential election author michael wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president's mental fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes he'd repeat word for word and expression for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes the book is prompting speculation that the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution could be used to remove the president from office but former federal prosecutor. sloan says

that he is unlikely to imagine the majority of the cabinet and the vice president of the united states actually sending a letter saying that the president of the united states is mentally incapacitated is very hard to imagine and there are many commentators who believe this could lead to a constitutional crisis sions sloan says impeachment is a more likely scenario but with the congress still controlled by the president's own party that too seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook al jazeera washington well the journalist who interviewed steve bannon for this week's cover story in newsweek magazine is alexandre in the saga and you give us an insight into what he believes steve cohen motives. he is terrified of what robert muller the special counsel is going to come up with and he is pointing to jared questioner and downtime jr specifically in saying these guys are in real trouble he's sending out sort of almost flares maybe even messages to

president trump saying these are the guys you better you have to including your son that they're they could be in real real trouble why do that in a book like this in such explosive language i don't know i don't think steve benen really worries about what he says i don't think he's out there to make friends to make money. he doesn't want the former and he has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve bannon according to steve van and bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he needs what he believes in the country needs to go i think he is a dangerous enemy even more than he's a useful our i i don't think president trump can alienate steve benen fully even if he will no longer embrace him the way he once did. well as diane mentioned in her

report the book's diverting attention away from some of trump's new policies and those that he pushed forward on some of them and the attorney general has reversed an obama era policy on man i want to it's kept federal authorities from cracking down on the drugs trade in states where recreational use is allowed the government's also proposed new rules allowing small businesses and the self-employed to band together to buy health insurance is another attempt to roll back barack obama's signature health care law drums also moving to expand offshore oil drilling under a new five year plan ninety percent of the nation's is would be opened up to private companies including waters off the california coast which have been restricted for decades well shortly we're going to be talking to an expert on oil drilling first let's get reaction to the decision from she's communications director at the sunrise movement it's an organization focused on stopping climate

change she's joining us live via skype from boston thank you very much indeed for your time this is just a draft plan at the moment isn't it logical that a country looking to try and control more of its energy supplies should look at all the options when it's going through that process and this is just part of that. yes absolutely. i mean today as you said donald trump bill the kind of now ninety percent of our stores drilling for oil it's a complete disgrace and it's very clear that this plan is only going to further enrich his wealthy fossil fuel our eyes while committing the rest of the world how destructive climate change threatening local economies into the environment in twenty ten we saw the b.p. oil spill devastate the gulf coast over two hundred million gallons of crude oil into the ocean it ruined by fisherman's livelihoods damaged the coastline and wreaked havoc on the wildlife we depend on and love and those communities are still

recovering and the plant unveiled today will undoubtedly caused more harm and it's not a matter of if it's really a matter of when there's no doubt as you say that the b.p. oil spill was a very significant and deadly incident for much of the ecology surrounding it but in many ways statistically it was an isolated incident it was certainly one of very few incidents how great is the scale do you think of potential danger of something like that happening again when you have this kind of development i'll run the coast . yes well what we're really seeing is that the greatest issue here is that. the effects of climate change that that fossil fuel production like this causes are already here we've seen her big hurricanes this summer that are unprecedented we've seen while fires all up and down the west coast i'm sitting in

a very intense snowstorm right now and today climate change has been affected vast areas already and affected millions of people instead of hearing the heeding the warnings about climate change from biz irresponsibly working to open our shores to fossil fuel companies whose bottom line is all about burning these polluting about polluted burning including hard that is contributing to climate change. so i think that trumps planet is not really going to do anything more than lock us into i mean just feet which will render my life and the lives of billions of others at risk for generations to come ok well let me bring in he's a senior fellow at the center for american progress is joining us via skype from washington d.c. now interior secretary has said when he made this announcement that responsible development of offshore energy resources will boost jobs and economic security well

it absolutely boosts jobs or is it just going to create posts for people already in the oil and gas industry. well what we're really talking about here is very prospective plans that would take ten fifteen twenty years down the road to actually develop there is no real infrastructure off the atlantic coast in the united states or in the arctic ocean in most parts of the pacific and so if oil drilling is to go up forward off the u.s. coast in those areas a lot of infrastructure would have to be developed as a previous guest mention that there are high risks associated with development in these trying to or areas moreover the u.s. energy mix is shifting very quickly toward renewable sources and so this is really a plan that is rooted in the past past u.s. energy policies instead of looking to the future how concerned should we be though given the time scales that we're talking about this is only a draft plan and as you say this is going to say several years to actually put into place. how concerned we should be that this is actually going to happen how much

more likely is that this is perhaps the trumpet ministration ticking a box effectively for the oil and gas industry with which it is had links in the past. and i think there are two kinds of challenges ahead for the trumpet ministration the first is political right governors of many coastal states today came out including republican governors governor rick scott of florida and said no way not on our watch are we going to put oil rigs off the coast of florida same with governors of pacific states so it's made remains to be seen whether this plan will weather the political firestorm that it is experiencing today and will extend for months to come and secondly there are huge technological barriers and big safety risks associated with development off these in these areas. it's worth noting as well in the last few days the trip to ministration has weakened safety

regulations for offshore drilling so going back to predict water horizon safety stand. so the risks for offshore drilling are simultaneously going up as the trump the ministrations trying to push into areas that are undeveloped into secretaries and did say that this was part of a consultation process if there are people who are against this what action can they take that's right this is to follow now when there will be environmental reviews and scientific analysis that will be done there will be opportunity for public comment opportunity for members of congress and governors to weigh in this is not the first time united states has gone through an offshore drilling planning process it happens every five years the obama administration went through a similar planning process and the word they got back from the public and from coastal states in particular up and down the atlantic and pacific coast was we don't want drilling here now the other important fact to keep in mind is the oil

industry itself has tried to go into arctic waters in the united states and has come back saying it with a big boondoggle shell spent several billion dollars trying to drill in the arctic just a few years ago and walked away with its tail between its legs and so you know this is the start of a long process i think there will be a large public outcry against it and hopefully reason will prevail at the end of the day madly actually is a senior fellow at the center for american progress thank you very much for joining us thank you. plenty more ahead on the news including a show of force by pro-government supporters in iran as the u.n. security council plans to meet after days of unrest. carnage in south africa after a packed passenger train collides with a truck. and in sport he might be thirty six but watch a federal showing no signs of slowing down the head of the it's truly an open.

an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others eisel has claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel the blast happened as police were carrying out an operation searching for people who were suspected of selling alcohol illegally. has more from kabul. a suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd of protesters on thursday now the protesters were demanding their business is to be open afghan police have been greeting businesses in shops in kabul. area where these shops are reputed to be selling illicit substances like alcohol which is banned in afghanistan these shop owners were demanding their shops being opened the afghan police try to stop these protestors clashes broke among the

protestors and afghan police and in these clashes number of protesters and also police wounded now taking the advantage a suicide bomber detonated his explosive among the crowd of police and in the protestors. and it turned the whole protest into a blood shed by killing number of people and dozens of people wounded the u.s. has confirmed suspending security aid to pakistan there blames islamabad failure to take decisive action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had foolishly given pakistan billions of dollars in aid with he said nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan's government rejects the accusations saying it's made huge sacrifices to help the u.s. fight the so-called war on terror also in jordan has more from washington d.c.

. the state department spokesperson heather nauert says it should not come as a surprise to officials in islam abad that the trumpet ministration the suspending security assistance to pakistan she explains why suspended at this time does not mean that it will be suspended forever to stand has the ability to get this money back if you will in the future but they have to take decisive action they have to take decisive steps people have long asked you know why don't you do more about pakistan and i think this sort of answers that question obviously pakistan is important an important relationship to the united states because together we can work hard to combat terrorism perhaps no other country has suffered more from terrorism than pakistan and many other countries in that part of the region they understand that but still they aren't taking the steps that they need to take in order to fight terrorism it's not clear yet how much more money is at risk already

more than two hundred fifty five million dollars that is supposed to be used to buy military equipment has been put into an escrow account so that once pakistan improves it's behavior on bringing in members of the hakani network the talabani and other groups to the u.s. to satisfaction it can once again gain access to that money however there is some concern among some al was here in washington that the pakistanis might decide to retaliate by closing off the border pass from its seaport it in order to get u.s. military equipment inside afghanistan the last time that happened back in two thousand and twelve there was a significant impact on the u.s. military's ability to equip its troops who have been trying to stabilize afghanistan for you some time now the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran over its ballistic missile program there were set

in motion before the on. when protests in iran but donald trump is warning that there could be more sanctions to come the new measures target five very rainy and entities involved in the development of the missiles many international sanctions on iran have been lifted since the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal but the latest u.s. action is being taken unilaterally protests currently taking place in iran but initially sponsored by the struggling economy which the government blames on the sanctions when the un security council set to meet on friday to discuss those demonstrations iran's army chief says the protests are over but insists his troops are ready to intervene if needed and these twenty two people have died in the weeklong on rest rallies in support of the government have been held for a second day reports from. the size of these pro-government rallies is a message to iran's critics at home and abroad. iran's government has plenty of public support and is here to stay speaking to

a crowd in the northern city of mush even a political rival of iran's president in the last election said the predictions by foreign foes of an imminent overthrow of the government was a miscalculation. that. this crowd is glorious and meaningful when iranian people felt the footprint of the enemy they came to the scene and declared their hatred of america's zionist and all the arrogant powers. rallies in recent days would suggest that a majority of iranians are in favor of maintaining iran's way of government especially in the face of violent instability. but they don't necessarily support president hassan rouhani policies the economic problems that sparked the now waning anti-government demonstrations in the first place are still a challenge for the rouhani administration. the main issue for the papal is currently inflation and the economy economic problems have resulted in corruption and moral issues in society economic stability is very important everyone who takes

office makes some promises but they can't fulfill them at. the recent protests were because of high prices things shouldn't be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because officials didn't care about the people the cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic boost draw honey promised with his reelection has yet to materialize despite the partial lifting of economic sanctions following the nuclear deal in two thousand and fifteen government supporters are calling for all iranians to be a part of solving the country's problems. the government should adhere to its promises the promises talked about during the election and be accountable the whole country can help solve the economic and political problems here for now public support for the government appears to have ended a violent week of anti establishment protests what comes next will depend largely on how iran's leaders deal with the country's economy and what even if they are the legitimate grievances of their own people. north korea has accepted the

south's proposal for talks on tuesday that meetings going to be held inside the demilitarized zone the area between the two countries earlier this week cross border communications between pyongyang and so were reopened for the first time since twenty sixteen can jong un offer the talks during his new year address said to concentrate on north korea taking part in next month's winter olympics in the south. the u.s. says there won't be any military exercises with south korea during next month's winter olympics so it was concerned that if the drills go ahead it won't have enough forces to provide security for the games president donald trump spoke with his counterpart in by phone on thursday hopes good results will come from planned meetings between pyongyang and sold. large parts of eastern u.s. are in the grip of a historical winter storm system being called up ballroom cyc loan this map shows

the is that going to see the worst of the record breaking low temperatures according to the national weather service heavy snow how it can force winds and tidal flooding expected on to late friday when the storm will move towards canada they extreme weather is caused travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled leaving many travelers stranded in airports as all the reports from new york. a large chunk of north america was already in a deep freeze now the northeast coast is being hit particularly hard from a winter blizzard massachusetts bearing the brunt of it blowing snow made printer white out conditions along the coastal regions of the state there was icy flooding . in the seaside town of scituate massachusetts boats were seen floating in icy waters all of the northeast of the u.s. was hit with what meteorologists were loosely calling a snow hurricane it closed many schools and government offices in new york heavy

snow and particularly high winds nearly brought the city to a halt and by afternoon most businesses had closed up for the day the mayor declared a winter storm emergency and has to residents to stay indoors. this is a serious serious storm between the very low temperature the strong winds the driving snow everyone should take this one very seriously and take precautions that conditions brought airports to a standstill thousands of flights canceled in the northeast leaving travelers either queuing up to rebook or stranded unsure of when they might be able to fly after that was canceled and we never got any information it would be canceled. we didn't name and we're not sure if we're going to. see further south than george. jeff water bottles were no match for the cold the rare site with temperatures this low are highly unusual this is the first time this out of five years i've seen snow

even cold in ice as much. but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse overnight the governor of massachusetts saying friday likely won't be any better if a foot of snow wasn't enough the forecast predicts single digit temperatures to move in on friday the storm hit hard with temperatures now expected to dip down again to minus twenty degrees celsius and below there seems little chance of much melting away gave rosendo z.-a new york. henson's a weather and climate blogger for weather underground is joining us now via skype from austin texas bob thanks very much indeed for your time those of us in the media are flying around this phrase a ball the ball cycle and it is signs dramatic what does it actually mean well the phrase bombsite clone kind of enter your parlance this week on explosively you see it seem to be seeing it everywhere but in fact the term bomber meterological bomb

has been around for more than thirty years in the weather community so someone is just essentially out of the word cycling that immunological on is a cycle and i'm not a tropical cyclone but a mid-latitude winter storm site won't and it the definition is that it's a storm that evens by a certain amount in twenty four hours in other words the central pressure of the storm drops by twenty four millibars which is about three quarters of an inch now this one is actually my call it a double because it actually deepened by twice that minimum criteria so no matter how you slice it it's for nearly a powerful and best developing storm what is it that's actually caused this what circumstances. that makes this happen. well this is an extreme example but of course we don't need lengthy storms out east coast of the u.s. and canada all the time every winter this is a particularly strong one large part because of a dip in the jet stream that's delivered a lot of cold air that's because in the last few days moving on top of the warm

waters and back and usually warm this time you're just off the east coast so it's contrasts between the cold air aloft and the war water below it leads to the dynamics of the atmosphere being spun up and generating this very very strong cycle own the air rushing into it produces a very high when the intensity of these the situation is likely to be used on both sides i'm guessing of the debate on on climate change is it too much to link it to that or is this just a natural phenomenon that disheartens to be severe this year well it's certainly happening in a climate that's changing it's much more easy or straightforward to show climate change when you look at every day advance for example or record highs daily record highs you know thousands and thousands of those a day or a year rather it's easy to show in many spots around the globe that when it rains hard it's raining a little harder so it's a little more difficult when you're looking at very unusual events like this one

because there's just not many of them to make a case with that said there are a few studies suggesting that intense nor'easters are you know u.s. east coast where storms may be becoming a little stronger over time but you know ultimately this is a very rare event and we don't expect to see a whole lot of these in any sort of. good to talk about thank you very much indeed thank you and china at least three airports have been shut and nine others are experiencing delays because of heavy snow fall the weather alerts greenways to its second highest level of parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow. and still ahead on al-jazeera a group struggling to cope with a range of refugee crisis with tens of thousands of new arrivals expected this year . and sailing against the passage of time efforts to save the ancient dowd's in oman. and its port world's football rich list is that we're going to tell you that

every way it's how they're making their money. from the clear blue sky. to the french autumn breeze in the city. and over the rains beginning to pep up for some of us and china as we head through the day on friday there's just a few bits and pieces of cloud and a few showers around but then those showers really begin to get going as we head through into saturday in the northern part of the map as you might expect a lot of that is turning to snow but further south we'll just see some heavy rain and it will be very very heavy at times before the towards the south and here we see some shop showers as well mostly in the western parts of our shot head we've seen some very sharp showers over k.l. and across singapore and there's likely to be a fair few more of those as we head through the day on friday as we head into saturday doesn't like to draw

a picture here but elsewhere they'll still be some shop showers particularly across the philippines and forcing job educators looking fairly wet if we had across towards india and pakistan here the weather is mostly dry unsettled at the moment but that is giving us a problem with the air quality no improvement really as we head through the next couple of days new delhi not that woman the moment only around nineteen or twenty degrees of course it is mild a force in colombo but hid there is the risk of a shower here in doha what our winds will be picking up over the next few days and not just yet so twenty four degrees will be our maximum on friday on saturday will see it's a little bit milder we get up to around twenty six so we're day. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. in russia many cuddy's migrant black. grazing. echoing an increasing need for many a global trend. yes labor force. to exploitation and

xenophobia. people in power investigate. little pakistan. at this time. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support for terrorism the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the usa they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we weren't able to see the secret other than we were able to tell it in a two part series on al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land falling at this time on al-jazeera.

you're watching i'll just hear a reminder of our top stories this hour the white house is threatening legal action over an upcoming book about u.s. president donald trump paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office describes a president mentally unfit for the job. an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel. north korea has accepted the south's proposal for talks on tuesday meetings going to be held inside the demilitarized zone the area between the two countries can join on offer the talks during his new year's day address. eighteen people have been killed and more than two hundred injured in a train crash in south africa many of the victims had been on their way home after the holidays when a truck smashed into the carriages at

a railway crossing on your page reports from johannesburg. the shosholoza main is a popular train for families during the busy holiday season it was hearing from the beaches of port elizabeth to johannesburg but cyril hours south of the city it collided with a truck and trailer at a level crossing officials say the driver had tried to reach the train across the track he walked away with minor injuries you can see for yourself that the truck driver was taking turns and we thought that he was going to pass through a little bit you know that the train was going to hit the doubt has caused a lot of lives. half of the carriages were to read old and burst into flames the train was carrying about seven hundred people tourists families and workers here just said goodbye to loved ones hitting back to their jobs after the christmas

holiday stunned travelers waited by the road for buses to complete their journey conscious that for many families there will be no happy homecoming tunney a page out zero johannesburg the president of togo has broken his silence following months of protests against his rule forty nothing day has. called for dialogue was all position weekly demonstrations have been taking place since august with more than a dozen deaths reported protesters want a new rules limiting presidents to two terms in office and i sing very and his father before him have ruled the west african nation since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the president reached out to his opponents and his new year message should come back to its. dialogue must remain the preferred way of resolving disagreements between political activists that. recently our culture of shared life of courtesy and brotherhood have often been affected by

attitudes positions and behaviors that to die metrically opposed to our values the situation is in tol'able and is detrimental to our common ploy to act egyptian wing of ice soul is calling for attacks on the palestinian group hamas it's released a video asking its followers to attack the gaza based group before showing the execution of a man it said was a collaborator i suppose claimed responsibility for recent killings in egypt the latest saw nine people shot dead outside a church in cairo a new i saw video blamed hamas is failure to prevent the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and the palestinian groups crack down on the groups in gaza as reasons for attacking hamas. tech firms have admitted a serious flaw in chips that power billions of computers servers and smartphones around the world experts are now scrambling to fix the issue before sensitive

information stored in the chips becomes vulnerable to hackers rogue reynolds reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone in server sold in the past twenty years packers if they are able to install some malicious software on a. there and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in computer chips used in nearly all devices the flaws dubbed specter and meltdown by security experts would allow intruders to steal any data on the systems companies involved including apple microsoft and google the flawed chips are made by intel a r m a m d google's project zero security team

said it found the flaws some time last year the company announced details of how it is working to protect users of google cloud and android devices it says a new version of the chrome browser debuting later this month will include fixes microsoft is also developed an emergency patch that will automatically be applied to all devices running on windows ten apple has not publicly disclosed any fixes for its operating systems those patches will address the meltdown bug but they could significantly slow down device performance in some cases by as much as thirty percent if i have news for both if you go out to buy things will become more vulnerable to hackers if you go to a new device it may slow down if it's got an intel chip inside it the other flaw called specter is harder to fix and will ultimately require a redesign of the chips themselves rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. for the

latest report in our series looking ahead to what we think will be some of the biggest stories of the year we had to canterbury in england the european union says it wants all bragg's that negotiations to be completed by a tobar but there's much to be done before then are you kate correspondent barnaby phillips explains. on a busy holiday. town steep getting lish history and one which voted in favor of bricks hit by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people now think about rex it and whether to reason they can meet the challenges of twenty eighteen she needs to toughen up. again she's not all mad i'm on what i say she's just rolling over for. interest. to me or you spice like you know i didn't expect it to be this.

i think the economy i think it's embarrassing. i think it's. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over. in twenty eighty the realities of what it means will become much more tangible a prime minister to resign may and labor leader. will struggle to hold their parties together. the prime minister faces a dilemma does she choose a so-called soft breaks it that keeps britain closely aligned to the e.u. to minimise economic disruption. or does she choose a hard breaks it bore divergence from europe both freedom for britain to make its

own decisions but also a risk that it becomes a poorer more isolated country. is seen by his supporters as the prime minister in waiting but he too has dodged the most difficult decisions on bracks it if he wants to lead the country labor's ambiguous some say confused position will have to become much clearer in twenty eighteen. scottish nationalists and their leader nicholas sturgeon had a disappointing twenty seventeen support for independents dropping but if bracks it talks flounder they will sense opportunity so which way will the political winds blow for the future of the united kingdom and not just its leading politicians a crucial year to be phillip's al-jazeera countering. our next report in the series is from a crowded refugee camp in bangladesh that's not home to hundreds of thousands of

twenty eighteen could see some returning to neighboring me in ma under the volunteer repatriation plan you can see that story here on al-jazeera on saturday save the children says thousands of pregnant woman a new mothers in the hinge of refugee camps in bangladesh are urgently in the care it organization says it expects as many as forty eight thousand babies to be born in the camps in twenty eighteen that's more than one hundred thirty women a day giving birth often in unsanitary conditions without adequate medical help there are no more than eight hundred fifty thousand range of refugees in bangladesh it's estimated that sixty percent are children and almost five percent are pregnant woman. case of conflict and humanitarian advocacy advisor to save the children and he says there are limits to what aid agencies can do. it is six hundred fifty thousand refugees who came irene the space of just

a couple of months into an area that wasn't really prepared to say except them in terms of the conditions the size of these camps the sheer scale of it is like nothing i've witnessed was work as an aid worker and their shoes issues now they're in these camps and just the die a living conditions that agencies i save the children are trying sure these vulnerable women vulnerable children dying perish from completely preventable causes it is just so many people who are desperate and completely in need of humanitarian support and there is only so much that agencies can do to to meet those needs and in fact on my my last day in the camps just before i came home we had a very young child probably the smallest baby i have a say in coming to one of our health centers. by on and she'd been born prematurely about three hundred meters away from the health center in and literally on the

bamboo on the top when. it was already too late and yet we were able to rescue that child and they perished and unfortunately that was a real haim jaime's tragic you know when you're working on these responses that actually is only so much you can do and die situation now is that even the children who do survive those who are born who are healthy the conditions are so bad that there's a real very large chance you know they'll be set for disease to money attrition and that they might not reach their fifth birthday well as the world focuses on the plight of the. million more neighboring thailand is working towards its goal of the queue to stick listless by twenty twenty for more than four hundred thousand people without citizenship registered with the thai government but the actual figures thought to be more than three million that is when he reports returning many are ethnic minorities living in border areas. in the hills of northern thailand there

are millions of people whose lives have been hanging in the balance for years people in this village in chiang mai province belong to the ethnic group whose ancestors migrated around the region centuries ago facing persecution along the way . those living here now have been in thailand for generations but many still don't have type paperwork the village chief says he was the last person here to be granted citizenship sixteen years ago. and in the past i only had a car that identified me as a highlander but now i have a tiny nationality car i'm very happy when i have money i can buy everything i want i can buy a house a car i'm glad those things remain a dream for so many others like hmong tong d who was born in thailand to parents from me and my eight years ago he won a paper plane throwing competition and was granted a temporary passport to represent thailand at a competition in japan the government at the time promised he would be granted

permanent status upon his return he's now twenty and is still stateless he works part time in a drone shop and teaches stateless children how to fly them. i feel very sad because people promised they would give me time nationality they were senior people and had promised me when i was just a little boy but they broke their promise. last year the military government valid to grant time nationality to another eighty thousand people but that would still leave hundreds of thousands if not more waiting there are many challenges facing stateless people in thailand they have to ask for permission before leaving their village they have difficulty accessing proper education or employment and can often become victims of corrupt government officials trying to take advantage of their vulnerability. paid bribes. at the government. corrupt.

the government. to resolve the problems but those. corruption we have to be careful. it's a matter of dignity. they're

having gulf has a rich maritime heritage but the construction of the traditional dial boats is under threat charles stratford met boat builders and their money port of sore trying to keep the ancient walkman ship alive. history books say dallas have been sailing the warm waters of the gulf for more than two thousand years but exactly who invented this ancient type of vessel is lost in time. on scholars believe they could have originated in china around six hundred b.c. . the sails have been replaced by an engine but they are still used for trade fishing and tourism along the coasts of the united arab emirates saudi arabia yemen . on nasri has been sailing tourists along the coast the twenty years. i live in create on the sea

the sea is everything to me it's a type of therapy i've spent my life on the ocean on boats like these which are so important as symbols of our heritage. the historic pulte of sue a situation in eastern oman was once home to a fleet of hundreds of dals the portuguese that the british hold their boats in these waters over the centuries all keen to benefit from its ideal trading location . it takes only five days to sail to india from here. maritime trade started flourishing here in the seventeenth century with places aspire afield offensive all india and africa and so also became a major center for the ship building industry a tradition steeped in history and culture but is now struggling to survive.

this is the only dal building yard in sulu and now. this boat is being built for a country owner when it's finished it will cost more than three hundred thousand dollars and that's without the engine. in keeping with tradition it's being constructed almost entirely from a cd and. originally these boats were literally lashed together using rope. and even now little metal is used as in the past the wood is imported from asia and africa alys family have been building dallas for more than three hundred years the had. main challenge we face is the introduction of fiberglass fiberglass dhows are easier to build and they are cheaper but wooden boats last much longer fifty to sixty years of course this is our heritage and we must protect it people must know their traditions and protect them without our traditions. many of

these predominantly indian fishermen spend weeks at a time at sea many of their fathers also sailed fishing and trading down to and from india they are reliant on their dals the name of which is actually a swahili would originating in east africa the arabs simply call them meaning ships a testament to the commercial and cultural impact they've had over centuries in the gulf and well beyond a tradition that people such as captain taliep say they are determined to preserve . and time now for sports. thanks very much and gyptian football star muhammad has been named african football's player of the year at a ceremony and gonna celebrate his liverpool team in saudi i'm on a pier emerick

a balmy yang to the top prize which was partially decided by a fan vote salah played a big role in egypt's qualification for the world cup and has already scored twenty three goals for liverpool this season but he says it's just the beginning since i came as a professional in my mind i want to be the best player ever in egypt in history so i know what i want i know how to do it i'm working hard every day improving myself so that's what i want so i think i'm going well i'm doing we'll at the moment so i'm going to see even in the future this one the next one and it's one liverpool manager you're going to coopt gave fallon fabiani permission to fly to ghana just twenty four hours before their team plays everton in the third round of the f.a. cup still coopt insists he is still taking the competition seriously line up to be lined up with. shows all the respect for the f.a.

cup. you know the people. don't respect cup competition and stuff like that enough but that's not the truth so maybe we have to make it a bit more obvious. which will bust. blue zones different from the premier league less pressure. to glory game and you can go out and seek the glory and try and try and win it you've got to get through we have to be living through. tottenham has cemented fifth in the english premier league table but they had to settle for a draw against west ham spurs had twenty shots on goal to west ham zero before pager all the ngs scored with one of the strikes of the season that but west ham won no lap in the seventieth minutes but spurs struck late to secure a point spanish lead legal leaders barcelona were held to a one one draw at celta vigo in the first leg of their copa del rey round of

sixteen tie the match which was missing messi and suarez saw the return of barr says record signing dem belly but he failed to score elsewhere around madrid scored two penalties and their three nil victory over and you meant see at all the world's biggest football clubs are getting ready to spend millions of dollars on new players in the transfer window which clubs have the most financial influence a new list has just been published by football marketing companies soccer rocks teams from the world's most watched domestic competition the english premier league dominated the high end of the table manchester city are at the top and are one of five e.p.l. teams in the top ten more on expected is the team at number four seven time chinese champions ever grand nine chinese clubs are ranked in the top one hundred the index also highlights the growing prominence of the game in the united states spot in the top thirty clubs are from major league soccer and while around madrid are in six

plays barcelona don't even make the top ten they're down in thirteen well earlier i spoke to football financial expert rob wilson from sheffield hallam university he told us what soccer based their results on. it was an interesting this is no nothing in your piece those talks about how surprising is were some of the clubs and the methodology really that sokrates you so unlike how the firm deloitte measure financial performance and the amount of money that each club house at its disposal what this list does is puts together all of its assets the amount of wealth a club's owners can potentially bring to the table to give this financial power rating so what it's intended to do is see just how powerful a club might be in the football mark and that's what we've seen entrants from from china at number four of course two of the world's wealthiest companies backing up particular football team and they look a likes a percentage amount of manchester city so that personal wealth and the ownership structure is certainly influencing these these findings today the final of the gulf

cup will be held on friday with a man facing the united arab emirates it's a tenement that's demonstrated the region's complex politics mixed with its love of football fan amish reports from kuwait. there's no doubt about mines passion for football or its fans love of the national team thousands of omani supporters have flown to kuwait to watch their side play in the final of the gulf cup as you. well yeah after a surprise semifinal win against but the two thousand and nine champions have just three days to refocus for the title decider against united arab emirates the tournament may lack a global punch but it's a huge regional importance if you're in the final you want to be in the final. specially because it's the gold cup everybody it's all b.s. the world cup for middle east. and they are all desperate to take the cup back to.

their one team no history isn't on their side they face the u.a.e. here ten years ago in the final of this competition but they came up short this time they are confident the outcome will be different. our confidence is really high ahead of the final on friday and with our huge supporters behind us we've determined to return to oman with the cop the a team event has also had the political dimension because of the blockade imposed on qatar by four arab countries the u.a.e. saudi arabia and bahrain only agreed to take part when the event was moved from qatar to kuwait the m.r.i. team refused to answer questions from al jazeera journalists covering the competition during their pre-match news conference to. the group for promotions for the two thousand and. with the two countries do have in common

is a desire to build competitive teams for home tournaments. while qatar is building up for the twenty twenty two world cup the u.a.e. will host the asian cup next here you can look at the future the team is made a lot of progress ahead of the gulf cup they have been one of the best teams in the tournament and have played at a strong level or ambitions are very high the players embrace the responsibility of delivering success ahead of the asia cup the third gulf cup title could be the perfect launch pad for the crew and he and his team. all just zero kuwait the tennis career of former world number one andy murray appears to be in limbo with the britain has withdrawn from the upcoming australian open with a long term hip injury where he hasn't played competitively since being knocked out of wimbledon last july the thirty year old had hoped to make his return at this week's brisbane international but withdrew forty eight hours before his first match

he announced in a statement that he'll be returning to london to quote a fast all options thirty six year old roger federer is heading into the melbourne tournaments full of fitness and form the defending australian open champion saw in two sets at the hartley her paired with belinda bennett chip switzerland to beat the usa three no in their high and are going to saturday's. and that's all your support for now more later. elizabeth put on those here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories on robots by.

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