it's unlikely. case of the music. this time. this is zero. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine denis coming up in the next sixty minutes dozens of political and religious groups protesting bashar as pakistan's government faces pressure from the u.s.

to crack down on radical groups. thirty two crew members are missing after an oil tanker collides with a cargo ship in the east china sea. optimism in germany three months after elections chancellor merkel says she's confident she can form a coalition government plus. they may be the biggest creatures on earth but they're still no match for speeding ships meet the scientists trying to develop a warning system for whales. several pakistani groups which are facing pressure from the government of demonstrated the northwestern city. this is the second in a series of protests and initially organized in the wake of the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. the groups include the

dalla the organization that's led by the mumbai attack suspect hafiz saeed come out hyder is a correspondent in the shah. and shore from their dad if i gotta get you on different account for the people of palestine and the people of russia made a bit ago so i'm all for joining you for people across this country who showed it then running against everything that is read by the u.s. president mr rahman a man who thought india ameri corps in india by themselves a terrorist but sadly they apply i mean muslims in pakistan for supporting terrorists despite the fact that muslims all over the world a victims of their brutality and with the blessings of almighty allah we will get rid of them very soon there are get on has already sacrificed far too much i didn't do no more do i think the american then they go sorry mr granger to no one at the government all the things that the americans ever bring the thanking the parents

from guy should have done it on a good note blaming project on failure then i've run it on this particular organization will now be holding rallies across the country my dear shoy that the people of agathon are supporting the president and in oh so they really bred that in and of all for hanging all over the united states president if they're going to trauma this is something the jerusalem decision by the united states president the kashmir issue and of recent tweet by trump compelled us to launch a movement across pakistan to reunite an activate the people against the cruel decisions against muslims and pakistan on. the day large gatherings did not have our first day and that the good thing i did the government of august on which caving on the pressure for the united states which detained on a kept him either. now thirty two people are missing after an oil tanker collided

with a cargo ship off the coast of china the tanker operated by iran's top oil shipping company called far after the collision it happened off shanghai where the young sea river meets the east china sea search teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh rescue is save the twenty one crew of the of the ship involved there's also environmental concern as the tanker was carrying more than one hundred thirty thousand tons of oil products robin wright has more from beijing . the cause of the collision is unknown but it led to a devastating fire on board the tanker that has burned for hours the tanker the senshi carrying one hundred thirty six thousand tons of oil was headed north to a port in south korea the other vessel involved is a bulk carrier that was carrying grain would seem to be heading south to

a port on china's southern coast when the collision occurred some three hundred kilometers east of china's coast of shanghai a big international rescue and recovery effort is underway with vessels being sent by china's maritime or thora t's they've also been helped by the coast guard from south korea sending a vessel and an aircraft in what is an international operation but it is being hampered now by the hours of darkness also stronger seas and winds are not making any easier there are specialized vessels taking part of the are designed for dealing with oil slicks and we do know that there is an amount of oil in the in the seas but it's not known yet just how bad the pollution will be from this but the east china sea is shared by not only china but south korea and some of the islands in the south of japan and all of those countries will be following this closely

clearly concerned about whether there is a growing pollution threat and if there is a slick which way it is heading nigeria is speeding up the process of bringing its citizens home from libya after allegations of exploitation and abuse the foreign minister says two aircraft are being sent to fly eight hundred people home in the next few days and it's part of a plan to return around five thousand refugees to nigeria the repatriation process follows revelations that african migrants trying to reach europe but being sold as slaves in libya. and the italian coast guard says at least eight people have died eighty six others have been rescued from a boat off the coast of libya rescue agencies say many more are still missing the international organization for migration calls the mediterranean sea the world's deadliest border one hundred twenty thousand refugees and migrants arrived in this city by sea last year mahmud up to one hundred has the latest from libya's capital

tripoli. libya's coast guard spokesman says that they have not intervened in that latest risk you operation. it has been all taking care of by italy is coast guard at the spokesman also said that the boat sailed off and go to bali that's a town east of the libyan capital tripoli and the boat capsized around thirty five miles away from a get a bali coast now the reasons why libya's coast guard has not spotted this boat is that usually these boats are very small and libya's coast guard says that they cannot spot such a small boats unless they are reported by one of the patrols of libya's coast guard or they get a call from the migrants on board of of the boat now in some cases smugglers give

the migrants a wireless device or as for your phone to call libya's coast guard in case the boat capsizes now libya's goes gold also says that during these days the are conducting maintenance operations to their vessels and that's one of the reasons why they are not very active as usual spotting boats of illegal migrants in the mediterranean egypt has denied a report by the new york times newspaper that it had asked the media in egypt to play down opposition to president trump's jerusalem decision in leaked frame recordings a senior intelligence officer reportedly told t.v. talk show hosts to influence their view is to back the decision the newspaper quoted intelligence officer captain ashraf al holly asking hosts how is jerusalem different from ramallah which is the current face of the palestinian authority in

the occupied west bank leavers created. saying the host telling the hosts that and intifada would not serve egypt's national security interests egypt state information service says the hosts deny reports of an intelligence officer had even spoken to them it also says the article doesn't provide evidence that our holly is actually an officer with the intelligence service and it reiterated that its central jerusalem has not changed at all meanwhile jordan says the arab league will seek international recognition for a palestinian state after president trumps decision on jerusalem some members of the organization met in amman jordan is protested after the u.s. president recognized jerusalem as the capital of his around. our goal is to overturn the american decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and to assert that it has no legal effect. we have

a specific requests the most important of which is the recognition of the palestinian state with jerusalem as its capital according to the june the fourth nine hundred sixty seven borders. more now from our correspondent mohammed jem june his in ramallah in the occupied west bank. what a report like this does here is it really sort of solidifies in confirms to palestinians on the ground here their worst fears that being that you know there's been a sense. that since donald trump made the decision to recognize drew slim is the capital of israel that there has been far more resoundingly silence from the arab world than would have initially been expected yes there have been public condemnations by arab leaders that's all true but there has been a sense here that behind the scenes many of these arab leaders of any of these governments. realize that this is something that is probably going to go forward

and that they're not going to keep talking about it and keep trying to raise the issue so i expect that in the coming hours we will be hearing more once this report from the new york times in the denial from the egyptian government becomes more widely disseminated. in the occupied west bank this meeting which was held in amman has adjourned and what we expect is that another meeting is going to take place by the full arab league in the coming weeks maybe the next month month and a half and that there will be a more forceful statement coming from there but all of this being said the fact of the matter is it doesn't really change much on the ground here right now there is still much anger in the wake of trump's decision meanwhile in syria the latest government test strikes and shelling of rebel held city mascot that killed at least

seventeen people and that to say. is being bombarded only staley about four hundred thousand people are thought to be trapped there amish depression golden is the advisor to the coalition of medical charities that work in syria he says at least one hundred twenty children in eastern guta urgently need medical treatment. the last. record. tax particular. christmas and new year period we see ten hospitals and. commission in. the last say in live we currently have twenty five children and. teens we absolutely need is a season seriously injured. i mean while in southern syria people who fled the fighting and now facing a battle of

a different kind surviving the bitterly cold winter is need now report. in serious southern province of daraa those displaced by war face a new threat whether. this is a camp one of the largest in the region. robin and her grandchildren arrived here after escaping fierce fighting between syria's armed opposition groups and i saw a water logged field is now home if the rain continues they'll be forced to leave where can they go. then a moment when they left on homes without any possessions you can see the rain water around us you can see for yourself how bad conditions are and we do helpless the complex basic infrastructure there are no paper roads no drainage people feel forgotten. this used to be farmland it was unfit for people to settle in the first

place hasn't been supplied with any of the basic services no one has lent us or will lend a helping hand none of the relief agencies either serious long civil war has triggered one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history eleven million syrians have been displaced by fighting hard for the whole population most around six million are internally displaced. it is a bleak existence. cleaving fifty years on and indigenous my pussy victims of chile's military dictatorship a finally being remembered. so the point is that entire treasury was dropped and their investigation reveals a plot by ukraine's oligarchs to divide the wealth of the ousted president viktor yanukovych and in sports one of the most controversial players on the professional

tennis circuit makes a perfect start to he sees. the u.s. president donald trump has hit back at accusations that he's mentally unfit for office he's described himself as a stable genius his comments were sparked by the publication of a book which questions his abilities it also claims his staff view him as an infant and as john hendren reports from washington trump's latest attacks on the author michael wolff have again overshadowed his policy agenda. and i did a quick interview with him a long time ago having to do with an article this book clearly has donald trump rattled the suggestion in fire and fury that cabinet members and allies to question trump's intelligence and his fitness for office have gotten under the president's skin the book has driven a wedge between trump and his one time closest adviser steve bennett but i don't

know this man i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and it was one of those things that's why sloppy steve is now looking for a job as republican leaders met the president to discuss their legislative agenda for twenty eight eighteen trump began his day with a barrage of morning tweets he wrote throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart and he said that winning the presidency qualifies him as not smart but genius in a very stable genius at that in defending himself against the allegations in this book president trump was knocked off message and it steve bannon says he's lost his stuff media mogul rupert murdoch calls him an idiot and staffers describe him as a semi literate four but what the republicans who met with trump on saturday wanted to talk about with their plans for twenty eighteen and immigration reform it was candid it donald trump signature campaign promise and we are building a wall on the southern border we need safety we need cameras and i will have

mexico pay for that wall it turns out he might have that half right the administration's plan for an immigration overhaul would spend eighteen billion dollars over ten years and add five hundred five kilometers to an existing border with mexico and the u.s. congress would pay for the bill is expected to restore some protection for the so-called dreamers children of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the u.s. by their parents trump recently rescinded an obama era rule protecting them but democrats fear the new immigration funds could be used to deport dreamers who registered for the program or their families they don't have resources. the deport eight hundred thousand dreamers and it's not at all clear that the information that the dreamers volunteered to the government to establish their right to be legally work at work and otherwise could be used to identify and detain and then deport the dreamers but immigration was not the top question trump addressed on saturday.

ok let's go live now to john who's in washington d.c. and john let's go back to fire in the fury because the reverberations from this book are continuing to resonate around the world it might have been a mistake martin and for the trumpet ministration to threaten to stop it being published. yeah the president by doing that simply raise the profile of the book he had very little chance under u.s. libel laws to stop the book from being published in fact the publishers jacked up the release date by a few days and for donald trump this has been now several days responding to this book the white house and then yesterday himself personally first on twitter and then in a press conference and this is for the president to have to be addressing the issue of his mental fitness for office not only knocks him off message but it really plays in to the investigation going on right now by the special counsel

investigations on capitol hill it really not only detracts from the message but it raises the one issue that he probably wants to move past and he has a lot to crow about he just passed a major tax cut bill he is moving forward on the immigration legislation mentioned in that story you just saw and that was a centerpiece of his campaign so he should be highlighting those things that are working out for him but instead it seems that the president can't help but respond to the accusations in this book and the accusations in the book so they didn't treat the all the any in culture of the simple facts that actually could put an end to the trump presidency as indeed michael wolff the office suggests. well nothing has so far the worst that could happen out of this likely is that some of the things that are mentioned in the book would be investigated perhaps by the special counsel perhaps by congressional committees although they've been far less

aggressive in doing that and if those were pursued it's possible that something could come out of this but really right now what we have is michael will swerd for it and the lack of denials from a number of people mentioned in that book including the president's former advisor steve ban it and what in just about forty five minutes will say the president's defense team will be taking to the airwaves in the united states what they making appearances across the sunday morning talk shows that's right every sunday on the talk shows the president's surrogates people in the administration will will be addressed you know talking to the hosts of those shows there will be probably a vigorous defense of the president on those shows where there will also be a number of people who will say that they raise the question of his mental fitness those are battle slugged out every week the president himself comes back to the white house after spending the weekend in camp david it's possible that he might

speak or tweet as he often does on these days when he watches those shows so we'll just have to wait and see what happens it's still early in the day so we have very little response here so far all right john hopefully to thank you now the german johnson says she's optimistic about forming a coalition government after only four months of political unrest since the elections in september talks have now resumed between angela merkel's christian democrats and the social democrats a potential sticking point could be the refugees and whether or not to allow the relatives of immigrants to join them in germany. it's gone it's kundalini again i think we can do it we will work very quickly very intensively that's what we set out to do and you always think about what people in germany are expecting all of us who always hope that politics will solve their problems think we the frame let the people to live well in our country i am optimistic about these talks but i also

know that there is a lot of work ahead of us in the coming days we are willing to take on the work well our correspondent david chaytor is there in berlin say five days of talks get under way and go to medical herself is indicated it's going to be quite a tough job are we expecting to get a blow by blow account as these as these talks continue over the five days martin no we're not going to get a blow by blow account because they want to make sure there's a media blackout over the next five days nothing raises a journalist hackles more than a media blackout i do suspect they will be successful in that and we will get a lot of leaks coming out from the parties involved but this is the longest journey in post-war politics has been with a caretaker government it does show that the political gravity of the spent of gravity here in germany has changed as was clearly demonstrated in the elections in

september and although we heard from all the people going in from angela merkel she talked about optimism you know martin shields from the social democrats said no red lines and the variance just a party of angela merkel's grouping they said that he was in high spirits so when people start saying that before going into what everybody knows is going to be . all about red lines and all about a lack of optimism for the future or about the danger if they can't in these five days come to any sort of solution that there might be another election in germany you know that something is going very wrong and now we're seeing the results of essentially a huge shift the populism shift that we've seen in other areas that. the president of france wants to fight off but the german chancellor angela merkel has not so there are a lot of issues that divide them and that's why they want the media blackout

because the issues or century raised by the one million immigrants in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen are going to be quotas are they going to let in the families are they going to cut benefits what's going to happen to taxation what's going to happen to the health system all these are going to be thrown into the mix and if you do get constant soundbites about exactly what issues on the contentious issues are then that's not going to help those five days five days is not very long the tool to try and come to some sort of ambiguous wording some phrases which will cover the large gap in in these tools all right david thank you very much indeed whatever it is revealed from berlin david chaytor will bring it for us here it out to sea and now we can talk to nina schick who is a european policy analyst she's in london and talking to us live now and nina these talks are being described as pivotal david chase our correspondents already raise the prospect of what could happen if indeed they fail but angela merkel marcion

shills both seem optimistic. yes i think the first thing to point out is that these are actually the preliminary talks before that if they can find agreement and they will go ahead and start the official coalition talks that this is something that's going to take a while i think there are obviously certain points of contention but this given that coalition building in germany usually takes some time but this is unprecedented because it hasn't been a situation like this before nonetheless i wouldn't go too far the other end and say that this is the worst political crisis that germany has suffered in its post-war history if you actually look at the mainstream parties they're remarkably similar on a variety of issues and the refugee issue although it's very contentious it is not one where the s.p.d. that's the center left party and its. party are hugely different machall is under pressure from her barbarian sister party that has to to to tighten down perhaps on

the numbers of refugees and asylum seekers that are allowed into germany every year as well as the question of family reunification but i think that there's still a lot of potential for these talks to be able to progress and essentially whilst that happens what's going to what it's going to mean there is a caretaker government in germany but big issues on europe or the domestic agenda that's just put on ice until the new government is formed and now the democrats have traditionally have only within the past decade or so been part of what's known as the grand coalition in germany they did particularly badly didn't they the election but why are they so why have they been so resolute against joining another grand coalition. so if you look until americans term she has been in grand coalition with the social democrats that's the center left in the center right coming together to form a coalition and the narrative amongst the social democrats is that because every

time they go into a grand coalition as the junior partner with angela merkel it's who do they basically end up losing because the policies that the center left insist upon kind of merkel takes them and makes them hers so there is a question of what do the social democrats stand for that and of course they suffered their worst worst elec toral defeat in the worst electoral performance in many decades in september thus the narrative amongst the social democrats and this was an idea that is very very popular amongst the party membership is that we need to leave the grand coalition and we need to be the party of opposition because we've always been in the grand coalition therefore people don't know what we stand for anymore however having said that i mean there was one term when uncle americal ruled with the liberal f.d.p. and the s.p.d. was in opposition and it doesn't follow necessarily that if they were in opposition they could kind of remold themselves and revitalize themselves so the reason why

martin schulz the leader of the s.p.d. ruled out a grand coalition was because this idea of not going into government with america was very very popular amongst his party base but given that a majority government could not be formed because the liberals basically walked away from the negotiations martin shorts came under a lot of pressure from other senior members of the s.p.d. party to reconsider and he kind of had to do a u. turn and therefore as these coalition talks progress or we'll see if there will be actual coalition talks marching chill's will have to take his party base along with him every step of the way all right nina shake live for us in london interesting to talk to you thank you. all right take a look at the weather now with news of those sides of the atlantic focusing on the snow across north america of course because it's just been so bad but the good news is that the temperatures are rising changing colors of the twenty four to forty eight hours in the really deep blues as mild air begins to push in but the price

you pay for that is the snow and there's a snow developing over parts of the west through towards the great lakes this frontal system is going to get its act together and develop into produce some heavier snow extending up through the mid atlantic through towards the great lakes region so there we are as we stop but from there to monday temperatures subzero in many areas but over the next twenty four hours a whole lot sweeps away quite quickly so that's the worst of that particular weather system gone on the other side of the atlantic martine was saying we have got another area of rain which is caused quite a few problems down in southern parts of spain. grenada region we've seen heavy snowfall we've seen disruption across central northern parts of spain looks lovely but it's caused a lot of problems across the region indeed it is still looking pretty unsettled at the moment today look five degrees in madrid you compare that with nine degrees further north so decidedly chilly there at the moment the snow not going away at the moment but as i move the forecast twenty four. news has never been more

available it's a constant barrage with every day but the messages simply stay. crazy months and misinformation is right. well. part of the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative this time on al-jazeera and then reported on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already here. source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking for water from a dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the.

toughest take a look at the top stories here in the al-jazeera news. several pakistani political groups including some banned by the government have been holding a rally in. it comes days after the u.s. suspended aid to pakistan in an effort to pressure the government to crack down on terrorism and the groups holding the rally the dollar led by the main suspect in the two thousand and eight one buyer tax. and has caught fire and thirty two crew still missing after a collision with a cargo ship off the coast of china search teams are looking for the missing

sailors who come from iran and bangladesh rescuers say the twenty one crew of the of a ship involved. that egypt is denying pressuring t.v. hosts to back the u.s. president's move to name jerusalem as israel's capital the new york times newspaper reported on leaked phone recordings that reveal a senior intelligence officer told the talk show hosts to try to convince their viewers to support the trump decision. all right let's speak to al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashar he joins us live from london milan so we have the new time story is now being vigorously denied by the egyptian authorities what should we make of it well it's another attempt by another arab regime to have. its cake and eat it too on the one hand they're one.

tell their people that they are the guardians of protectors of jerusalem that they are proud nationalists and that they do stand for the common interests of our been muslim people but on the other hand they also want to assure israel and the united states and western public opinion that they are able to change and they are more than happy to appease president trump and his attempts at dictating a new policy to the palestinians on the question of israel palestine and how to move forward and resolving the conflict there and this is something of course that would have been completely unthinkable isn't it some years ago having egypt the arab world's most populous nation concur if you like with a disabled administration decision to to give so jerusalem the status of israeli

capital well let's say that it was old could have been unthinkable fifty or sixty years ago. but the nature of politics in the arab world is that regimes contrary to the darwin theory of evolution they tend to devolve nonstop so it is a process of the value sion martín basically we've seen the at a position. weakening over a number of years indeed the number of decades from side to mubarak on two presidencies see the same in various parts of the arab region from king abdul-aziz of saudi arabia to king solomon basically position of abrasions although there were entry lee ever that robust if you will or sincere or competent in defending their people. rights but at least they were keeping

appearances of it today there are both incompetent and exposed to be treasonous and basically appeasing israeli and american leaders against the very interest of their own people because name them massive the the blast coming from washington do you think it would have been possible for the us administration to have made that kind of controversial declaration without the support of egypt and some would suggest saudi arabia well actually i just finished the michael wolf's book fire and fury about the various the buckles if you will of the trump and ministration over the last year. what is clear to me martin is that while they wanted to have quick wins or huge wins like to call them you know regarding let's say mexico or canada or china the only place where they really made inroads

is in the middle east is with saudi arabia and egypt and some of the utterance some of the lines in the book about how egyptian leader sisi talks to president trump or how the saudis talk to president trump and how he for all practical purposes and intent was able to blackmail them was able to dictate to them policy and was able to throw in their faces controversial decisions like his decision on a ban on muslims entering the united states and of course the question of recognizing jerusalem as governor of israel so all in all i think the only success in foreign policy if one can call it such was president trump's capacity or the bin ity to impose american conditions and dictates on arab regimes that are divided incompetent an obsessed with the question of iran more than anything else and their

survival now i'm bashar senior political analyst talking to us live from london thank you have a goodish and miramar say they are ready to go ahead with a plan to take revenge of refugees back to me and now that aid agencies and the u.n. of kopi agreement afaf charles traffic reports. to sleep will begin her husband and three children flit to myanmar military crackdown in the region in late december. she says a boatman demanded seventy dollars for each person before he ferried them across the naff river into bangladesh more than six hundred fifty thousand rangers have fled across the border in recent months rights groups say myanmar's military killed around seven thousand ranger men women and children in the first month off of the crackdown began in late august but the bangladeshi and myanmar government already preparing to offer what they describe as voluntary repacked creation for refugees

who want to return to myanmar. like many refugees says she will not go back. no we want to go back not under these circumstances we've been persecuted in brutalized they took all our possessions our crops and cattle he would rather die here that go back under these circumstances. three petri ation agreement is based on a similar initiative by bangladesh in myanmar after a previous crackdown on the regime in one nine hundred ninety two it involves the myanmar government verifying the identity of refugees who want to return but sales of ranger have never had sufficient identification documents proving their residency. then burma's government stripped them of their citizenship in one thousand nine hundred. nine miles army has destroyed hundreds of range of villages in recent months so the repatriation plan involves putting those returning into

temporary camps dealing kluges a role for the un but in what capacity remains unclear. at the present the situation my mark is not conducive for the battery issue hundreds of thousands of refugees here are. i mean psychosocial support. that is on daily basis even. the bangladeshi government is estimated to be spending around four million dollars a day to help house and feed the refugees and it's signed off on a separate plan to move around one hundred thousand refugees from the camps to temporary shelters on a coastal island that critics say is highly vulnerable to typhoons western governments including the u.s. say myanmar's government is guilty of ethnic cleansing of the predominately muslim ranger they ask who can guarantee the security of the refugees like to sleep and her family if they return to myanmar. and how can they go back when their lack of

citizenship which is made them so vulnerable to violence and persecution for decades has not changed chance trafford al-jazeera al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained secret documents that reveal a plot by eastern european oligarchs to profit from billions thought to have been stolen by victor you had a case of it the ousted ukrainian president was overthrown in twenty fourteen then officials froze one point five billion dollars pretty soon afterward spotters will jordan reports the money is returned to ukraine is far from guaranteed. when he fled ukraine in twenty fourteen victory on a covert to goal that he and his men could carry they headed to russia soon after ukrainian officials found one point five billion dollars stashed offshore and they froze it the day he ran away from the country the entire korean treasury and its

accounts had a few thousand dollars so the point is that entire treasury was rocked. today al-jazeera has discovered the young covert plan is working closely with the russian government we obtained an unsigned copy of a secret deal a plot to sell tens of millions of the frozen money unbelievable. it sounds like an agreement between a criminal busts it kind of sign it with your blood. the document names to all agog says the buyers one wanted in ukraine the other a russian property magnate but the seller is hidden behind an offshore shell company based at this law firm in cyprus. other bank documents and company records eventually led us to moscow and a surrogate. gas tycoon who was young a curvatures money man and the seller of the frozen assets he was given control of a chunk of the gas trade he made a lot of money for himself and then he cut back most of it than to his political

patrons which was you know get a commission letter which is son. wanted in ukraine and sanction in the us and europe he travels under armed guard in a multi car convoy rarely appearing in public. we tracked down his former chauffeurs and they revealed his regular meetings with the russian government we often drive into the ministry of economic development the ministry of natural resources the national space agency also the russian presidential administration and state oil and gas firms. aside from frozen assets ukraine's intelligence agency says good chunk is trading oil gas and coal in the conflict zones of eastern ukraine fueling corruption and conflict in a country that was once his own. go didn't respond to our request for comment will jordan al-jazeera. ecuador has a new vice president

a maria big coup now seen here on the left it replaces jorge glass he started a six year prison sentence for corruption connected to the older brick scandal the brazilian construction company admits paying almost eight hundred million dollars in bribes to secure lucrative contracts across south america. and chile is you to open his first memorial to the members of the met put chain digitas people who were killed by the military dictatorship many activists a vanished during the one nine hundred seventy s. and their remains were never found latin america editor lucien human reports from in central chile native mapuche a historian it non-coding need want the world to know the new government. at the center of this plaza goes through here to the quaid it's a sacred space where only one day a year the sun rays pass directly from one side to the other. it's here surrounded by seven hundred year old trees that the first ever memorial to one

hundred seventy one my put a big tim's of chile's former military dictatorship will soon be formally opened up here. shortly after the one nine hundred seventy three military coup goody needs twenty three year old brother nelson a left wing university student was detained by soldiers and never seen again but he made iris within the center of this pause there goes through here to the choir. it's a sacred space where only one day a year the sun rays passes directly from one side to the other it took twenty years for nelson quoting needs family. that had been dead and thrown his body into this river to this day only scores who disappeared during that period who her main ever found. thousands of chileans were executed or disappeared during the pinochet dictatorship but the fate of the indigenous my putsch victims has until now

received little attention in a country where they have long been discriminated. remembers how secret police referred to her father a teacher and a poet as the indian she says they were all vilified for being. found my father was vomiting blood and urinating blood from the beatings he received when they brought him back from prison hours later they took him away again and he disappeared forever we've never been able to accept his death. and the other survivors welcome the opening of the soon to be finished memorial park in the hope that it will help chile see that them up which is we're not just victims of a dictatorship but of a society that never acknowledged their suffering. you see in human i'll just call the u.s. government allegations that its diplomats in cuba targeted by possibly a sonic weapon attack are being dismissed by a leading republican senator jeff flake says there's no evidence based on

classified intelligence staff of the u.s. embassy in havana were ordered home after some of them apparently suffered permanent hearing loss and brain injury two years ago. now off the west coast of the united states the largest animals on the planet and giant ships are on a collision course dozens of blue whales are killed every year in shipping lanes off the coast of california scientists are now looking at ways to develop a warning system the ship screws up reynolds reports from santa barbara. the blue whale is an all inspiring creature the largest animal that has ever lived they can weigh one hundred thirty six thousand kilos and stretch one hundred thirty three meters from nose to tail i mean live from eighty to one hundred in ten years but in the santa barbara channel even blue whales are no match for giant cargo ships when ships hit whales whales die there are about eighty endangered whales

that are killed every year ago along the coast of north western north america and that's a lot of whales for some of these whales that are quite rare in these populations we really think that that road kill is inhibiting the recovery of slowing down the recovery of these whales commercial whaling reduced blue whales to about one percent of their or original number before killing them was banned by an international agreement in one nine hundred sixty six whales population is increasing worldwide but given their slow reproductive cycle scientists and government officials are concerned about their survival we're at a point now where we have a chance to bring blue whales back from the brink of extinction we need to find the ways to slow ships down along the california coast researchers with the university of california and the buying off ocean initiative are working on a technologically sophisticated new way old warning system and a rate of visual surveillance hydrophones thermal imaging and data crunching all

that information comes together to be alert that says hey ship's watch out today is a bad day for whales please slow down if the ships build in two to four hours of their transit to accommodate for slower the slow speeds and to protect the whales then we can achieve what we're trying to without regulation the government agency responsible has asked shipping companies to voluntarily cut their speed and even offered modest cash rewards for those who will do so but nevertheless ninety percent of all. ships that transit these whale rich waters go full speed ahead in shipping like any other business time is money no vessel master wants to hit a well it's a tragic thing when it does happen and we do take steps to try and avoid it but the industry opposes mandatory speed limits in blue whale territory what we would like to see is the continuance of voluntary programs in order to collect the necessary

data to inform that decision making process what's known already is this unless the ship slow down more of these magnificent animals will become roadkill rob reynolds al-jazeera santa barbara. all right it's time for the school's news that his thank you very much martina one of the most controversial characters on the professional tennis circuit has started his ear in the best of fashion it kerry also in the brisbane international that's his first tournament on home soil the twenty two year old is known for his board talent and to make temperament as well but the australian could best form against ryan carson he beat the american in straight sets six four six two with the final goal carious the a.t.p. tour title since two thousand and sixteen and put him in a good position ahead of next week's australian open. coming here you know i feel good all wake up the right of you guys ever tell us that you gave me such great

support. and you know i love playing for you guys even though sometimes it may not say that way but i do. thank you. while the number two car line goes the uk he was beaten in the final of the i speak for me when he went down and he's you know extended her winning streak to fourteen matches six four seven six was the final score this is the first time in nine attempts that the german has won this title. in the spanish league and the next couple of hours bolstered by the news of philip casino signing botha revealed a deal had been done with liverpool on social media because he never joins on a five and a half year deal and one hundred ninety two million dollars he becomes the most expensive player in history behind p.s.g. is neymar and kilian him back pay. now the opening weekend of the n.f.l. playoffs continues with two games on sunday the atlanta falcons beat the los

angeles rams in the fast n.f.c. wild card game on saturday the falcons of bidding for super bowl redemption after being devastated by the new england patriots last year they'll face the philadelphia eagles next. in the a of c. the tennessee titans beat the kansas city chiefs for their first playoff win in fourteen years coming up later the jacksonville jaguars are at home or to the buffalo bills while the new orleans saints face that carolina panthers. pending state of the dakar rally in peru it's the wild biggest annual off. the start of its fortieth edition in lima. the first hours of a journey more than three hundred pilots are on their way in one of the toughest. in the world they will be negotiating hills dunes and rocks high altitude and steep cliffs than one thousand kilometer. leave yet and argentina has found escorting

competitors along the way. we've travelled by road from our company our pilots are very happy to be here six of the fourteen stages will be completed before competitors move into the rally first held from paris to senegal its capital the car in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine has taken place in south america for a decade it's the third time in but not everyone here is cheering government spends six million. worried. it was the answer to. the first dakar in peru was a disaster archaeological site subject lips in the southern region that on signposts that have been irreversibly damaged. government has the limited important

sites organizers say it will be an eco friendly rally. one of the toughest parts of the race statistics say only fifteen percent of the vehicles reach the finish line that is greatest hope the thirty four year old took us for a drive for a feel of the terrain the former t.v. news anchor is the first female peruvian pilot she says driving is just part of the competition and. i've driven a lot of the. junes which is the most difficult part i've learned mechanics and also trained my mind because you will lose if you get tired seven years ago she didn't even know how to drive now she says she already feels like a winner when the girls a lot of the moment i start i would have proven that dreams big dreams can come true when the rally ends in the city of course in northern argentina but carol says she already crossed the victoria line many innocent just.

tension on the north korean the korean peninsula had cost an early chill over preparations for the winter olympics next month but as host south korea get ready for talks with north korea on tuesday many are hoping for a foreign relations before the games and the next part in our series looking ahead to the stories set to make headlines this year florence lowy reports from pyongyang the mountain town of p.r. the site of south korea's first ski resort and it's preparing for another achievement to host the country's first olympic and paralympic winter games some of these slopes will be closed later this month for the event across town finishing touches are being made and people are looking forward to the opening ceremony in february. i'm excited and a bit nervous that i'll be able to watch such a big event taking place here. it's been such

a long time since south korea hosted an olympics event it's a good opportunity to promote the country and especially this area. it could also be a chance to improve into korea relations north korea has recently said it may send its athletes to take part in the event something south korea says it welcomes but security concerns over the north's nuclear weapons development remain organizers however say this isn't the first time a huge sporting event is held against the backdrop of heightened tensions but of course again safety and security are part of all of the olympic games and so it's a part of our preparations that we do but every other olympic committee has also had the same measures in place so we're working to ensure that everything is in place in time for the games. but an even more unpredictable factor is mother nature for costa temperatures on the day of the opening ceremony could make it one of the coldest in thirty years and the stadium has no roof a deliberate design to save time and money officials say to counter the cold

they're installing when she and will give out hot packs and blankets to spectators . this is a hot topic a pocket sized portable heater to give it a good shake the chemicals inside react this packing generates heat the last for at least ten hours put in your pocket you hands out warm and toasty. for those willing to brave the cold it's now easy to get to the venue with a new high speed train from seoul to p.r. china. south korea also plans to use the upcoming on the pics to showcase what it says will be the most technologically advanced games which i mentioned. there's a camera placed on the helmet to competitors and spectators can watch the event from athlete perspective in real time on this tablet which uses five g. technology. no efforts being spread to make the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics and paralympics a success florence li al-jazeera south korea. mckayla shifrin will be one of

the stars to beat and chang the americans hot start of the season has continued she posted her fortieth wild cup korea win with a victory in the women's fallen in fla venier on sunday she's now one of many while cup victory as a sweden's great income off denmark before the age of twenty three the american won by one a point six four seconds different have now won seven of her last eight races. thanks very much tatiana well that's over tatiana for now she'll be back later with more of the sports news that's all from this out of their news hour don't go anywhere because i'll be back in about a three minute with more news. all dizzy right explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how my bill

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