when i met daisy it was the best day of my life. and i wish that day could have gone on forever. but my past caught up with me. and made us all pay the price of daisy and knox at this time on al-jazeera you. will. lose. me. hello i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes targeting adlib syria's government steps up attacks on the largest remaining rebel stronghold in the country forcing thousands to flee. living

environmental disaster in the east china sea there are fears an oil tanker that's been burning for more than thirty six hours could explode. they say good things come in small packages we'll tell you about the tiny homes that could solve a big problem in the united states. i'm going to guess you're off to in doha with the day's top stories including freed could teen years signs on to start his new multimillion dollar contract at spanish giants barcelona. syrian government forces backed by russia are advancing on the largest remaining rebel held territory in the country's north forcing thousands of civilians to flee toward the border with turkey in freezing winter temperatures at least twenty four civilians have now been killed in the latest as strikes of the countryside it live

province is home to around two point six million people that includes more than one point one million who were moved there off to fleeing fighting elsewhere in the country opposition activists say assad's forces will target the rebel held airbase of the whore which is on the edge of the province as well as the damascus aleppo road which cuts right through adlib the syrian government is also intensifying attacks on a rebel held damascus suburb of east and they've managed to take back the only military base in the area from rebel fighters who is home till around four hundred thousand people and has been under government siege for more than four years it's now the scene of a humanitarian crisis with shortages of food and medicine. so we're going to have more on what's happening at first an attack and i reports on the developments in and around it lip. a sound all too familiar to many

syrians as the war enters its eighth year the concern in italy province is just how large the scale of the death and devastation could be syrians here remember what happened in two thousand and sixteen when government forces regained control of aleppo once syria's biggest city. i'm not then the mold i was tempted you bashar we will look leave we will die in syria we are all civilians why do they do this then america then the arab league then the security council. is the largest remaining rebel stronghold in syria during peace negotiations it was designated a deescalation zone or safe haven for civilians. has been anything but since the government began its offensive in october to recapture the province civilians have been killed in increasing numbers one of the latest attacks was a car bomb explosion killing at least thirty people. in the last week alone the turkish

human rights group i h h says more than one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes. in this is. the story of this union cut. more when syria its music and more regional agreement on the first one. the syrian observatory for human rights says in the last two weeks the government has regained control of sixty villages in it live including singe are. there but it's just becoming we have liberated singe or fully this is singe our school and these are grain silos senor has been liberated from the gangs of job out on the road. the syrian government is keen to make gains in northern syria the kurds control all but a small area of territory in the north and dream of it becoming their homeland they're also hoping for

a seat at the negotiating table during russian sponsored peace talks later this month the success of those talks is already in jeopardy more than forty rebel groups including previous attendees say they won't be going natasha going to. all this i'm joined by money his a senior research fellow at the london school of economics a very complicated picture in syria now as it has been for some time but a lot of intensifying military activity around in the north of the country is just looking that looking at that in the report will discuss that in a moment but can i ask you about the confusing and contradictory reports around east and tell what's happening there it's really not clear i mean there are voting tense clashes but until now the two sides are reporting two different stories as who is winning who is breaking the seizure around where the cold vehicles administration building which is a very strategic location but to what this confirms that they are very intense

clashes and there's environment and the civilians are old is the victim of all of this it live province in northwest syria on the border with turkey a great deal of activity around there with government as strikes around the countryside as well. what is what precisely is the regime trying to do what is their objective i think their main objective for now is to reach the very strategic air base of the who are which they lost in two thousand and fifteen to bug than just putting nasr and to get there of the house to goo across what is called the east room of the very way that is literally with that kind of cross that region there so they have to go from a torsen job which they did take today towards the who and most likely they will continue towards it which means an entire area has about five hundred villages that is under opposition control is now going to become besieged by the regime and will be taken over by the regime this is causing the use r.d.p.

movement more than one hundred thousand of people have moved from these areas towards the borders with turkey in the last few days right so that they're taking a very specific route to retain control of a strategic base to which you mention five hundred villages along the way you already have displaced. billions in ad lib and now that could be more of a humanitarian crisis how much resistance are there facing it with this area was agreed to be under tribal forces control the sit on their meetings and there was a race as to who actually is going to control the tribes who are going to control this so turkey was claiming that they know who are the right to i believe just take over the regime was naming their own tribal leaders so there was already competition over the area but the plan was not to take it over militarily what stimulated this is lots of leaks and talks from turkey saying they are going to be a number two who are the you know lots of news lately from sources close to turkey saying they're going to have a base of the horse or the regime or

a stop to take over who would be for anyone else and it's going to be terrifying for all the people in the opposition controlled areas if the regime takes this because this is the airport where the regime was attacking the opposition controlled areas and of their pool specially with bomb so to have it back it will create lots of panic and they would be more and more people making their way towards the border in turkey that we've been speaking about the areas that are under bombardment being part of so called the escalation zones i mean even there it's not clear because this was agreed in the us tonight a standard process and i think there was information that wasn't made publicly available so it's very difficult to verify but i guess. much of it is under the control of which is viewed internationally as it is a terrorist group this complicates things. how does the who shop has a presence and it's not necessarily the strongest group it's the one that is fueled the most because of the certain tools they use and they propagate fear around them

but they are not the one that is the strongest or most respected that has voted for to look to just. a true right now many people are accusing them of treason because there are withdrawing from watt's of the villages in certain areas that the regime is moving very quickly. and right now. it's not clear where this is going to go but most likely the machine will reach the pole through the route that it's taken right now so we go to the door and beyond and the whole area that is called east of the railway line will be under siege around four hundred villages but it's unlikely that we continue to the rest of it live because that would be extremely big operation it would generate massive idea people move meant i don't think turkey or russia are going to allow this thank you very much appreciate your analysis. from the london school of economics thank you well now the body of a crew member has been recovered aboard the iranian oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship in the east china sea more than thirty others are still missing the

tank was carrying about a million barrels of oil and there are fears that it could explode and ron can report its concern is growing that the burning tanker could explode and cause an environmental disaster if the ship sinks around a million barrels of oil products could be dumped into the east china sea so far the spills been contained by emergency teams the iranian tanker was sailing from iran to south korea when it collided with a cargo ship off the coast of shanghai late on saturday the twenty one crew of the hong kong registered c. of crystal was soon rescued but most of the crew of the old tanker remain missing and according to iranian authorities only one body has been found china's foreign money she says who's to blame for the collision remains unclear. should we hold on we are currently still investigating the cause of the accident we're also very grateful to other countries who actively participated in the search and rescue work

of this maritime accident. the tank i had one hundred thirty five thousand tons of light crude oil on board based on tonnage the accident has the potential to be the worst environmental disaster since nine hundred ninety one when two hundred sixty thousand tonnes of oil leaked off the coast of angola imran khan. was in south korea. talks in more than two years and ran meetings expected to focus on the north but as a patient in next month's winter olympics in chang the talks and being greeted enthusiastically by so some are questioning whether they will lead to any real progress reports from seoul. this was the last formal face to face meeting between north and south korean officials in december two thousand and fifteen the two sides discussed reunions of families separated by the korean war and economic cooperation. that is make a good start and open the great path to unification. despite the initial optimism

the talks broke down and in the two years since north korea has fired more than fourteen missiles and conducted tests to escalating tensions on the korean peninsula but at the start of this year north korean leader kim jong un unexpectedly proposed dialogue with the. the focus of the discussions due to take place on tuesday at the truce village of panmunjom will be on north korea's participation in the two thousand and eight winter olympics in south korea next month and on improving into korean ties. the last time north korean athletes visited the south was for the asian games in two thousand and fourteen. sporting events have been useful in providing diplomatic openings between the two koreas but ultimately led nowhere and some analysts are skeptical of north korea's true intentions this time. because of the effectiveness of the economic sanctions you

know suddenly fires the value of south korea as an alternative source of our financial relief and using the attention on the korean peninsula as punishment for its nuclear weapons testing north korea has been subject to increasingly tighter sanctions including one that effectively slashes its petrol imports by ninety percent but kim has vowed to continue with his country's nuclear program calling for the mass production and deployment of nuclear warheads and miss else. alternately there is no guarantee that north korea has peace off of will continue northward north korea can easily. change over added after of the end of the peloton when told of became south korean officials are aware of that and preston wingy in has cautioned against expecting too much from the upcoming talks but engagement with north korea remains the best option to easing tensions on the korean peninsula florence looming al-jazeera so. they're watching out of their news

out. sold into slavery for just a few hundred dollars and in exclusive report we speak to the nigerian migrants whose dream of a new life became a nightmare in libya on the challenge answer french president emmanuel mack on begins a three day visit to china. and tennis star annie laurie makes an announcement about his long time hip injury joe will have more on that in sport. al thousands of nigerians who left the country for a better life in europe are being flown back home from libya by the nigerian government most have traveled to libya in the hope of venturing making their way to the european mainland instead they were sold into slavery tortured and abused there is an address travel with the first group of migrants returning from libya tonight

syria here's his exclusive report. a cramped office in the center of tripoli is the only decent police these larger and teenagers of seniors left with promises of a life of opportunity and comfort nothing prepared them for what followed. joy is not her real name she says she was sold for one thousand one hundred dollars . to buy her freedom she needed to pay at around two thousand five hundred dollars last week she and her friend saw a chance to escape from there by air and they took. her to guest reference so at nights we decided to run with jones for his very high friends as ninth's so we ran around iran. simulates keeps iran libya she told us many like car have been killed for the flimsiest of reasons someone who was sold for less

than two hundred dollars in libyan sleep markets this if ten year old was promised a job as a tailor in a fashion house in italy. on reaching a transit destination in libya she ended up as a domestic servant why she says she was abused by her employers and what we did the white people people the much treated me dig didn't give me my salary even seized my passport says everything about me it would be people dad brought me he had been admitted me libyan security forces say these nigerian woman who's been living in libya for seven years is a people trafficker she was alleged to have kept more than eighty goals as sex slaves but officers say as well as nigerian traffickers there are also libyans and some europeans in the trade the nigerian government team on a fact finding mission in libya say they are shocked at what they saw and heard it talked about the various abuse systematic endemic and exploitation of all

kinds a challenge to the senior officials as to the discrepancy between the numbers you know they came up with all kinds of not very convincing excuses this played into a narrative that we had been. told about that indeed. there are obviously interests that wanted to keep as many of them there as possible because they were commodities the delegation was told there are fourteen detention centers in libya other reports suggest they may be as many as thirty holding as many as forty thousand nigeria's the nigerian government is preparing for an influx of returning. the first government report christian flights to go from tripoli carrying five hundred nigerians the few over the mediterranean and the sahara desert tracing the route where hundreds of travel companions died in their terms to reach. for most of the migrants on this flight it's

a mixed feeling of being free at last and that of disappointment that been through so much over the past years they left with such promise but how to enjoy a lot of pain indignities of slavery torture and rape yet despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians are sure to attempt a judge in europe and beyond hammad interest with nigerian migrants in the skies over the. u.s. government has decided it will terminate a temporary protective status of more than two hundred sixty thousand and the grants from el salvador they've been allowed to live and work in the u.s. since two thousand and one when el salvador was hit by two major earthquakes but to call in has more on this now from washington d.c. and so patty just that is obviously something that's going to affect many thousands of people why have they made this decision now. well they say the earthquake damage has been repaired now people point out that al salvador is one of the most

economically depressed countries it is one of the most violent countries in the hemisphere but department of homeland security officials say that was simply not one of the criteria that the program is allowed for so therefore they've decided to send them home now let's keep in mind this is more than a quarter of a million people that are allowed to work legally in this country they're protected from deportation department of homeland security couldn't even say how many kids are going to be impacted by this because it's likely that many of these people are parents to american born children therefore they are american citizens that even have that number but the term administration has decided that again they no longer fit the criteria they don't never mind the violence or what they could come home to they say in eighteen months they are going to be sent back. again they're going to be allowed to work for those eighteen months but after that they will likely lose their jobs and if they are caught by immigration authorities they will be sent back to el salvador these are people who've been here for fifteen sixteen years they've built lives here trump administration though despite the fact that past republican

and democratic presidents have extended this program say they will rip it up in eighteen months they're putting it out there that congress could of course do something about it they could legalize the program they could change it this i think is just going to go into the bigger debate about immigration reform another possibly use this is another pressure point to try and get democrats to compromise as you know president says he really wants to build that wall on the southern border or talks about mexico paying for it but is seeking eight hundred billion dollars to do that dems are not likely to go along with that this will have a huge impact on the economy in el salvador an estimated twenty percent of their economy is from money that people here in the u.s. send back home. but i like you say patty the decision here very much consistent with the administration's position on immigration what's the why do reaction there likely to be. well i think we've saw this earlier when he stopped the

program for haitians who had been living legally in this country you're going to see this further fire up the democratic base and further confirm to his base his relatively shrinking base that he is keeping his promises remember he came to office in america first and that meant cracking down on immigration and so he's done that not only with immigration but with the we're number of refugees allowed into this country this is a broader point is right now as the congress needs to take up the issue of immigration and so they are going back and forth they're trying to find some common ground the president is insisting if he's going to let the dreamers as they're called these are kids who were brought to the country at a very young age by their parents they were here illegally president obama gave them status so they could stay in this country president trump threw that out said congress fix it well they're coming up against a march deadline now they'll be taking up the el salvador issue and the haitian issue so i think this just further complicates what is already going to be a very complicated situation for the members of congress from washington d.c.

patty call hanging thank you the french president ammonia lachlan has vowed to move here as punish it with china into the twenty first century in his first state visit to the wilds most populous country met the chinese president xi jinping in beijing often starting his trip in the ancient capital of ch'an he wants china and the huge what together to share the benefits of increased trade and find ways to meet the challenge of global warming. you know a lot. and it's up to europe in asia to france and china to define and come up with the rules of a game where we could all win or lose i have come here to tell china that i am determined to move the euro china partnership into the twenty first century so that it fits in this new framework that we need to define together europe will embrace this new strategy because it is now aware of its role and its place in this century it will get involved on all of the main topics yes my friends what i have also come here to say is that europe is back. there to gallery as

a director of the china national association of international studies he says relations between france and china are becoming even more important now that the u.k. has voted to leave the. traditionally china has attached a lot of importance not only to u.k. but also to france and germany in europe and china french relations have always been very important fault in terms of trade and economic relations but also in terms of political relations the two countries share actually of many similar views on international relations both france and china are permanent member states of the security council of the united nations and the two countries have been courted it he led positions are many important international issues for years and i hope with bret's it happening as we speak china french relations will remain very strong

arm and will take on new time measures going forward because france and germany for example remain the two most important e.u. member states as far as china is concerned. israel says it has restored full power supply to the gaza strip part of the palestinian authority agreed to resume tricity payments are listening president mahmoud abbas withdrew payment guarantees in april last year in an attempt to loosen the grip of the ruling hamas party it left gaza's two million residents with only a few hours of electricity a day move could raise power delivery now to six hours a day. we are very happy about the news because we can't finish any jobs we currently receive electricity around two hours a day and there is not enough time to finish any jobs we can't finish baking all washing clothes we can't finish anything just over four years ago detroit became the biggest city in american history to file for bankruptcy today it's undergoing a renaissance but not everyone is sharing in this newfound prosperity thousands are

homeless and that's a problem across the united states but in detroit in a few other cities there is an experiment with a surprisingly simple solution john hendren explains. detroit is a city of many ironies the streets of the motor city are largely empty what was once the fourth largest city in the u.s. could fit boston san francisco and manhattan into its footprint but no longer makes the top twenty in population and since more than half of its two million residents fled after the one nine hundred fifty s. it is a city of both thousands of abandoned homes and an epic level of homelessness but a faith based charity here has a small solution to one of detroit's biggest problems tiny houses a reverend fittingly named faith has written the book on them if you could leave your children the way my parents left to me the sky's the limit i mean you really could become middle class that's the happily ever after that. right now in august

detroit's cast foundation built the first seven homes from bungalows to frank lloyd wright style to tutors that low income buyers can pay off at a rate of two hundred fifty to four hundred dollars a month in just seven years for keith who spent twelve years in prison home means a fresh start and. twenty more tiny homes like his are going up here this year across the u.s. homelessness is concentrated areas like detroit but now there's a movement with cities from san francisco to new york building tiny homes like these to give a little piece of the american dream to many who have stopped dreaming since motown came roaring out of bankruptcy downtown glitters and rents are high but here and across the u.s. homeownership is at a fifty year low detroit doesn't have. a housing shortage problem.

so far diminutive. play only a small role in solving a colossal problem. there . but for those now living in close quarters all the room it's a big deal john hendren zero detroit and watching the news hour live from london still ahead protesters take to the streets of sudan after an increase in the price of bread. and remaining gentlemen. a light hearted look back on a year that changed the hollywood landscape we have the key moments from the golden globes. and sydney's famous opera house lights up to celebrate australia's ashes when.

hello there the weather is mostly fine across many parts of the middle east at the moment a lot of this grayness on the satellite is just the satellite misinterpreting the cold weather but this area of cloud here that's real clout and it's gradually sinking its way towards the south and it is bringing us a fair amount of rain and a fair amount of snow too so do expect quite a bit of heavy snow there in the northern part as we head through the next day or say that system then gradually edges its way eastward strong winds on it as well as we head through wednesday further south they're fine and settled here twenty degrees the maximum in kuwait and further west beirut will be at a pleasant eighteen but for the towards the south is just the tail end of a system making its way across doha so i could just squeeze out an old shower but i think it's highly unlikely that it will get to around twenty two or twenty three degrees over the next few days will be dropping down to around fourteen or fifteen

at night for the south is a bit cooler than it has been for since the lala now will be getting to around twenty five which is seventy seven in fahrenheit for the southern parts of africa we've had some very very active weather here mostly thanks to a storm of that's gradually waking making its way towards the south it's given us torrentially heavy downpours in the eastern parts of madagascar has given us flooding here but it's clearing away and there's just a few residual showers force on tuesday. zero explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how one of the reasons influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil war the merc over hundreds of e-mails over a veritable who knew a person. who can continue to make rules to be different but what you mean by. a mortar leaf who came to fix the stone on known jazeera al-jazeera is there what

else do we brits but it's also the to see what happens next iteration on put it wired by the barriers for a model barricade of all seventy three that lead to hear the movies now it's been all about change people have gone all still here the area the mission of the national army is due to the entire complex and al-jazeera stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. matts update on the top stories now government forces in syria stepping up their

offensive against opposition fighters in the largest remaining opposition stronghold in the country. there are fears an oil tanker that's burning in the east china sea could explode the vessel collided with a cargo ship one body has been recovered so far but more than first the crew members are still missing and the trump administration is to terminate the temporary protected status of more than two hundred sixty thousand and the grants from el salvador but allowed to live and work in the u.s. since two thousand and one. now iran is warning that it will reconsider whether to cooperate with the un's nuclear watchdog if the u.s. doesn't stick to a deal is signed with to iran and western powers and twenty fifteen president donald trump has refused to certify the deal which soar lifting of sanctions in return for iran scaling back its nuclear program same bus ravi has more from tat run. that in just leaders in iran are again gearing up to defend the nuclear deal

finally signed in two thousand and fifteen after years of delays on monday president hassan rouhani had this reminder donald trump has failed every time the white house has tried to confront iran. and the foreign ministry warned washington not to do anything it might regret. only we have to wait for their decision as for iran stance we've made all the necessary predictions about any scenario and all options for different situations are on the table depending on what the united states decides to do. at a security conference in tehran attended by foreign dignitaries and regional allies iran's defense minister told us that the u.s. is orchestrating artificial conflicts in the middle east to create perpetual war and they've usually catch and we understand well why do us especially the us are pursuing iran of hope this is a total american story that says for the progress of america's economy staging wars is inevitable so from their perspective it's necessary to produce permanent war

intention to sell weapons then it will be done but. iran's foreign minister zarif is scheduled to meet his european union counterpart later this week in brussels the e.u. has been a vocal supporter of the nuclear deal and talks are expected to focus on how to save it from collapse in the face of u.s. threats there is broad international support for all sides to remain committed to keeping iran from restarting its nuclear enrichment program but the fact that it would only take a few days to do so will no doubt be on the minds of iran's enemies as well as its allies same bus route all just here at different. now at least two people have been killed after protests broke out across sudan over the rising price of bread one of the dead was a high school student who was killed during protests in the city of kenya police have arrested a prominent opposition leader and confiscated newspapers in a plate bid to clamp down on the unrest demonstrations began in the southeastern

city of center on saturday after a bride price is that doubled the price hike comes after government subsidies were caught in an attempt to improve the economy. but joining me now in the studio is africa analyst and commentator joseph chana thanks very much for coming in place of areas and to tell us more about what's driving these protests in sudan is it is the main factor the rising cost of bread which of course is a staple that that many families rely on bread being the staple food of course the mood if only to where but generally cost of living and cost of living includes the fact that a country like sudan if you haue of the burdens that hard and then privatized education and make sure that the cost of education cost of basic health the three take in the west for granted goes up means that for that generally people are going to get the feel and to get the feel considering how sudan had been wrapped around for the last several years with sanctions and sanctions normally the benefits the

elite and the vast majority of the people suffer so quite clearly maybe this is just about a symptom of it really but the economic problems particularly around the rising cost of living education health care food all those costs suddenly rising now has this been a problem that has done it has been cumulative it's interesting because many people because the sanctions were lifted just a few months ago many people are very likely to do that with now the site has been lifted maybe you're going to have a magic one for which it was lifted yes then to the you are conditions actually change which is not missile the case but of course that is politics also this government continues to be rather repressive you know what is the. the closedown up to six publications detained a number of position leaders but the position leaders were talking about the more those ones who'd been detained over a long period of time and those of us who are actually in exam so clearly. this is basically a symptom of something which has happened community and now we're talking about rather we're talking about this protest but western sanctions really indeed

anywhere in it and we've seen protests concentrated in cities in the southwest and southeastern part of the country also reports that they've now been charting is there reason to do with i don't know that political governing structures of the local economy that protest should be concentrated in the south i'm not quite sure whether that is necessarily symbolic except you can argue that in the place like a quarter of fun states darfur which we know slightly much more bond you know repression has taken place there much longer in fact of the legalistic provisions that are required to secure it to solve this is i think there's a legislation in the afternoon two thousand and ten which is the draconian which give the secured with order to security forces the right to to do this so which particularly in those two southern states so if it is the case and actually it would be picked up and go to it may simply be that those are the guys who would mean the organization to be able to start it up but generally across the done it

could start from in a way after an including good to the problem is the opposition is divided many of them have been compromised and right now i think it could be argued that it is just run it's the rising cost of living has been building up for some time countries been affected by sanctions even though the sanction relief now might take time for the relief to actually come through but really it seems that the turning point for sudan was when south sudan broke away and took with it its oil revenues and twenty eleven how much of an uphill struggle is it going to be for saddam to restructure and we build its economy after that the fact. so there was actually talk about education and health as actually talk about an attempt to restructure which actually the government is trying to do remember sanctions all of the government is trying to reach are to the regional leaders including their name is them seven of uganda americans but the bottom line is it doesn't take time you are right actually that most of the old went to south sudan and like a sudanese friend suggested earlier today that the oil went down solved they got

the gold but the gold is now hope find for the hands of the leads who still control the oil of the time what does it mean to me that the vast majority of the sudanese people continue to basically be the balls to be played you know thank you very much joseph for. giving us some context to that story and having me egypt's former prime minister ahmed shafik has ruled himself out of this year's presidential election just six weeks after announcing his candidacy jeff it was widely seen as a serious challenge at the present sisi and he'll times report says sheffield could have been influenced by the government to withdraw from the race it's the latest in a series of leaks as reports despite being arguably the most powerful institution in the country europe's military intelligence appears to have its weaknesses on sunday the new york times said it had received older recordings of phone calls made by a military intelligence officer the leaks are just how the army tightly controls

and directs media outlets in egypt. in the recordings an officer named a chauffeur who really makes a number of calls to talk show hosts and other famous president ologies instructing them on what they must say in the wake of president donald trump's controversial decision to recognize drucilla as the capital of israel by beloved dog and i'm letting you know the position of egypt's national security regarding the issue of declaring jerusalem the capital of israel there have to be compromises if you reach a point where jerusalem becomes the capital of israel and ramallah because the capital of palestine in order to end the war and avoid more death and we could probably do that aside from showing how egypt under president opted for the has c.c. is apparently willing to accept and supports israel's illegal occupation of jerusalem the leaks also demonstrate just how little media freedom there is transcripts of a second set of audiotapes were published in the new york times on monday this time focusing on the upcoming presidential elections in egypt in these clips the same

intelligence officers heard talking about former prime minister ahmed shafiq who had announced his intention to run for president suffix desire for the top job led him to be placed under house arrest and then deported from the united arab emirates where he'd been living in exile his lawyers say he was detained as soon as he landed in cairo coincidentally on sunday evening shift tweeted that he was withdrawing his candidacy just twenty four hours before egypt's electoral commission was due to publicize the timeline for the twenty eight thousand election this isn't the first time leaks of emerge from deep inside egypt's military intelligence in two thousand and fourteen polls involving sisi himself were made public including recordings of how the united arab emirates funded and orchestrated the protests which paved the way for the military coup in egypt five years ago. for some the recordings further prove how cc's egypt controls the media doesn't support the palestinian struggle for liberation for others it simply confirms what live

normal along either way it's a reminder that even the most feared security apparatus inside you dropped has its weak spot. or gary and police are investigating the killing of a prominent businessman in broad daylight better her staff was shot outside his company's office in an upmarket district of the capital severe forty nine year old on one of the country's biggest dairy businesses you also had ties to bulgaria's ruling center right party authorities pledged to clamp down on corruption and criminal gangs when it took over the european union's rotating presidency last week our heavy rain and melting snow have forced the closure of one of europe's most important shipping routes rhine river and western germany has risen to dangerous levels between the cities of cologne just sold off and on and is expected to peak on tuesday the rhine is a key shipping route for coal oil and minerals as well as agricultural products

meanwhile flooding in paris has closed roads and walkways along the river saying a police woman is still missing after being swept away in the swollen river during a training exercise on friday it remains well below its june twenty sixth in peak went to rancho rainbow or west flooding to the french capital in thirty years the seven month long blockade imposed on cash are is being discussed at a two day gulf cooperation council summit in coates in his address the american way nations to settle their differences chefs about the tests of us said there has been some progress to settle the dispute between cast on the four blockading countries but didn't provide any details. or a pause from kuwait city. face to face gathering of diplomats from the gulf cooperation council. but the d.c.s. face saving show of unity failed to make a breakthrough in its worst political crisis for decades it started seven months

ago when saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt cut off diplomatic ties with qatar and impose an air sea and land blockade the qatari government deny accusations of supporting extremism the emir of kuwait who has led mediation efforts to heal the rift is warning of the long term impact. realities around us are deteriorating which poses a huge challenge for us we need to show a united starts we must meeting cooperate because we won't be able to tackle the problems we face individually despite the arguments kuwait managed to host the annual d.c.c. summit last month but leaders of the blockade in countries refuse to go saudi arabia and its allies say qatar must meet a list of demands including shutting down the al-jazeera media network closing

a turkish military base and downgrading ties with iran qatar's leaders with jacked their demands as an acceptable infringements on sovereignty. the gulf dispute is being widely discussed at local gatherings in kuwait known as. to talk about a wide range of issues ranging from society religion and politics. the dispute among neighboring gulf countries is something no one here can ignore this is a crisis that is affecting us politically economically and socially we need to solve it now but if it drags on it will have far more serious consequences. fear a prolonged crisis will do more than undermine a long tradition of tribal and family connections they worry about more uncertainty and instability if the gulf cooperation council disintegrates. there's no

indication the gulf disputes may be solved anytime soon u.s. diplomats are concerned by the impasse the war and the failure to settle the dispute may hamper the fight i sent on the groups often. as well as counter iran's influence in the middle east. to a. one tennis star takes a head to head a few years first grand slam joel have that story and much more.

the latest news as it breaks the government of mali still market has pushed to have a series of laws that it says will make argentina's economy more competitive with detailed coverage in two thousand and sixteen when the government steps up the doesn't ruffle the cost of college or jumped by sixty percent the clues disappear at least for you from around the world the military and the establishment in the capital bangkok know that it's very difficult for them to win support in parts of

thailand like this. education with a difference in the interpretation of his law is absolutely different from mine as a muslim woman a taliban school for girls in afghanistan reveals a way of life rarely seen. go to not only tell them about their bills and regulations that teach them about them but. an exclusive documentary gains access to the ghosts of the taliban. at this time on al-jazeera.

blacc hollywood stars came out for the golden globe awards ceremony on sunday with at this year's event has been all song but cations of widespread sexual harassment in the industry oprah winfrey who won an award for lifetime achievement used her acceptance speech to plead for social justice and inclusion how hawke's to has long been. the red carpet at the annual golden globes and when you look noticeably different this year wearing black seems to have been the dress code in a display of support for the me to movement. forward in a somber mood this year's attack was racial and gender inequality as well as facing allegations of sexual misconduct by leading actors and executives late night t.v. host seth meyers was the master of ceremonies good evening ladies and remaining gentleman. i said myers and our bureaus today welcome to the seventy fifth annual golden globes in a happy new year hollywood. is two

thousand eighteen marijuana is finally allowed in sexual harassment finally isn't. looting to studio boss harvey vines thing oscar winner kevin spacey and the from a retard who was fired after allegations of repeated sex abuse him thermistor from roles confronting sexism powerful men dominated the winners frances mcdormand won best actress in a drama for her role as a mother seeking justice for her daughter. me god here are. the co-captain was another best actress winner for the t.v. series big little ice how character gives up a successful career to become a mother who's frequently beaten up by her husband costar alexander scars god took home an award for his portrayal of the abusive husband gary oldman one best actor for playing winston churchill in the series darkest hour and the how maids tell

about a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property scooped two awards in the drama category b. oprah winfrey became the first black woman to be awarded a golden globe for lifetime achievement the actress philanthropist and cable channel chief executive one the cecille b. de mille award for too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men but their time is up she also went on to praise women for sharing their stories of sexual abuse and declared a new day is on the horizon the golden globes are judged by the hollywood foreign press association and normally an indicator of who will win oscars at the academy later this month. there is joe williams for. i am thank you for getting there has been officially unveiled as a boss line apply it completes one of the most expensive transfers in football

history fans will read to white before seeing him in action tatiana sanchez reports it's signed sealed and delivered fully pitino is a boss alone a player. joins the spanish giants on a five and a half year contract for a fee of one hundred ninety two million dollars that's the third most expensive transfer of all time it's a move that was months in the making if not longer and the brazilian was joined by pass the president just said about de mayo at a presentation at the nou camp he came just days after his move from liverpool was announced going to. like to think the president oversee barcelona the directors who had so much patience i would like to think liverpool for the five years i had there and the directors my god who understood what i was doing my dream and they tried very hard to convince me to stay to the fans showed five years with me think you.

showed up at the nou camp to welcome the star and getting you off a hint of some of the skills he can offer is the first. the decision was easy because this is a barcelona it is the best team in the world with the best players many big idol might play for this club big idols of mine are playing here right now. but fans will have to wait a little longer to see the new signing in action despite passing his medical tests confirm the twenty five year old has a fine injury he won't be able to make his debut for at least another three weeks the new camp will be waiting tatyana sanchez al-jazeera. and aries announce that he has successfully undergone surgery on a hip injury in melbourne the former tennis world number one hasn't played since wimbledon in july and withdrew from last week's brisbane international thirty year old insists he isn't done yet and hopes to recover in time for the cross-court season later this year. former champion victoria as

a rank has also join the list of players who won't feature at the australian open which starts on monday she's been given a wild card to compete but is having to continue a legal battle over the custody of her son the belorussian hasn't played since wimbledon twenty seventy. day after winning the title in brisbane mick ariel's experience what it's like to lose again it was only an expression game in sydney this time he teamed up with lleyton hewitt after both lost their singles matches hoping to save face unfortunately for kerio he got a ball to the face instead that's what you get for standing too close to the net. and after a sympathetic couple from alexander is very curious picked himself up dusted off his bruised ego and here and here it beats verifying grigor dimitrov in the doubles it was pretty good practice to hear it who's coming out of retirement at the age of thirty six to compete at your straight open in the men's doubles.

now the path to the super bowl is clear after the first weekend of the n.f.l. playoffs in sunday's wild card games the jacksonville jackie was one their first playoff game since two thousand and eight they beat the buffalo bills ten to three in the a.f.c. playoff and in the n.f.c. division the carolina panthers were beaten thirty one to twenty six by the new orleans saints from twelve teams we dropped down to eight with the divisional championship scheduled for next weekend in the n.f.c. reigning super bowl champions the new england patriots face the tennessee titans the jacksonville jaguars are pittsburgh and in the n.f.c. the atlanta falcons face philadelphia while the new orleans saints visit the vikings cricket's ashes series between australia and england concluded on monday as the second most attended in the long history of the contest a total of eight hundred sixty seven thousand spectators saw at least part of australia's four nil series victory they won the fifth and final test on monday by an innings and one hundred twenty three runs sydney's famous opera house little bit

sails in green and gold to celebrate the victory. there's a lot of guys in the dressing room all the guys in the us you know who. i'm sure there is which is it does that that feeling that you get should make you determined to try and win the ashes back in two thousand one hundred south africa beat india in a tense first test in cape town eighteen wickets fell on day four and india was set just two hundred eight victory but proteus bowler in for london took career best figures of six for forty two as india were bowled out seventy two runs short of the victory talk it. now while wrestling features at the olympic games in asia its part of the national identity the african countries top competitors have been facing off for that ultimate price at least holman reports the third in asia the second largest cities into an event that's as much about culture and pride as it is

competition this is the national championships of traditional wrestling held once every year was a team's representing each of nation as a provinces have come together to compete in front of thousands of fans for the good stuff this traditional sport dates back to harvesting seasons in villages used to fight after collecting their crops if your rival of the military council in one nine hundred seventy five he thought the wrestling would be the sport that plays all the youths together in the national competition was introduced. to fifteen wrestlers are helped by their coaches and to some this sorcerer is the role of the sorceress is to write a play spells will never slows and perform rituals pry it to each fight but different competitors have their own theories on how to best achieve success was a sport requires physical strength good training and a mexican cleric some luck is needed to see those as some wrestlers rely on

sorcerers who resort to black magic engine but we rely totally on the holy koran which is the laws of worldly secrets was very low for those who can make it to the stadium this is very much a television event as well. was the boy's view is on spectators sawhorse province into when this is titled after basing the defending champions was has prime minister brushy recently on hand to present the victors sword along with the twenty thousand dollars check was. and from there it was time to celebrate with the people of santa and start planning on how to wrestle back the title again next year at least home and al-jazeera. looks like a lot of fun well that is all the sport for me finale i have more for you later but for now it's back to mary i'm in london joe thanks very much or moment as always

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unlikely for band members to travel to the birthplace of the music they love and share a stage with a legend they cherish. but did not. offer this time i'll just. say when government forces ramp up their offensive to take back it live a province declared a deescalation zone. of their own chilling macdonald this is al jazeera live from.