zero. and i'm jane duck and this is the news live from coming up in the next sixty minutes north korea says its athletes will be at the winter olympics in south korea and a military hotlines being restored as

a two nations talk for the first time in two years. the french president visits his chinese counterpart to deepen trade and diplomatic ties and boost his own standing as an e.u. leader on the world stage. french prosecutors launched an investigation into apple over the deliberate slowing down of i phones plus. make seekers' city's new drive to force millions of mergers to take lessons for the first time. south korean media say the military has restored the north has restored a military hotline and yet another sign of improving ties between the two countries they're holding their first official meeting in more than two years and they have been a few breakthroughs pyongyang is sending athletes and a high level delegation to next month's winter olympics in south korea and seoul

says it will consider temporarily lifting sanctions to facilitate the visit has more. until recently the north koreans have refused to even pick up the phone when the south koreans tried to place calls at the border hotline so it was significant to see recently one the man in charge of into korean relations for the government in the north stepping over the border into the southern side of what's known as the truce village at pun one job leading a five member team of high ranking officials into a meeting with his south korean counterpart. in our talks resume after north and south korean ties have been severed for a long time but i believe the first step is have to journey on what is number one we came to this meeting today with a serious and sincere attitude and with the thought of giving our brethren who have high hopes for this dialogue in valuable results as the first presence of the here . is the meeting did produce results and agreement for north korean representatives

to attend next month's winter olympics in pyongyang chung south korean president monday and has dubbed them the peace olympics and its hopes that with its athletes in pyongyang north korea may be less likely to conduct any missile or nuclear tests the united states and south korea have already said they would put off any joint military exercises until after the winter games. south korea also proposed more discussions on reunions for separated family members to coincide with the lunar new year next month as well as military talks to diffuse tensions at the border that talks between the koreans are happening at all is seen by many in the south as a positive step for us i believe these formal diplomatic discussions can result in peace for an a c. the korean peninsula has a dangerous place that's under the constant threat of war and i hope those concerns

don't become a reality. but skeptics are concerned the talks won't do enough to resolve the major issue of north korea's nuclear weapons program south korea says it mentioned denuclearization drawing little response. their nuclear weapon development program is a threat to the regional and international community and the united nations has implemented very strict sanctions so we need to maintain our stance that they need to abide by the resolution as we have been asking them. still japan says it welcomes north korea's change in attitude on attending the winter olympics kathy novak al jazeera seoul joining us now from seoul is say we're in the managing editor of korea exposé very good to have you with us extraordinary isn't just a couple weeks ago there was talk of war now these two sides are sitting together and achieving quite a bit it seems. yeah this is an extraordinary moment because i think only a few months ago nobody could have really predicted the north korea would be making

this gesture let's not forget that since donald trump was a look to the president of america we have seen escalating war a war it's between washington and killing young which has certainly made people in south korea feel very on say and also means a in the current president of south korea came into power on the heels of nine years of conservative administration syrian south korea which really sold deterioration of relations between north and south korea including the closure ok song industrial complex a symbol of into korean reconciliation and that's why i think you get any john berry important moment so the fact that the two sides might be marching alongside each other at the olympics i mean that's pretty significant from a visual point of view isn't it. it is something very significant from a visual point of view but it is also something that we have seen in the past when

the sunshine policy was being pursued by the more liberal administration of south korea so in a way we're returning to the point zero where things used to be much better but of course what we have also seen over the last ten years is that relations can come on there we quickly and hostilities can rise even as we were witnessing this very important meeting today between the two koreas we have seen reports coming from washington they had the white house is still considering military actions against north korea as a possibility so just because there is this handshaking and a lot of goodwill it doesn't mean that tensions are completely dissipating does this give south korea the opportunity to address nuclear consent. well i think the south korea's through they certainly tried to do that they brought up the importance of denuclearizing the korean peninsula but unfortunately the

response it has seen from north korea is simply that the two countries need to aspire to peace so we need to also think back to the fact that when north korea made this gesture and suggested participating in the killing some olympics this was the same speech in which team's own also made clear that he now is in full charge of nuclear capabilities and that the nuclear button in fact sits very much on his desk so all on one hand we're seeing reconciliation but it is coming coupled with these threats so all of us leave the blue houses proceeding with the north small amount of caution good talking to you say. it's day two of the french president's visit to china and a manual knock on is pushing for french companies to have greater access to the world's biggest population china's president xi jinping is due to sign several trade deals with crohn's eyeing export opportunities especially in nuclear power

aerospace and food he's keen to reduce these thirty six billion dollars trade deficit because also pushing for stronger ties between the european union and the asian superpower rob mcbride joins us from beijing rob what have they been able to achieve. well it has been treated very favorably here well received as you might expect in china china likes the optics of world leaders beating a path to its door here in beijing macron is only the latest european leader to do so but it could be said i think jane probably one of the more influential european leaders right now. germany as we know has domestic political problems. britain is very busy with its breck sitting and doesn't count very much it seems as though it's really left to macron to be the standard bearer of the e.u. and as you mentioned they're increasingly an important trading partner in fact the

most important trading partner now the e.u. with china macron really wants to make progress on a number of trade issues has today choose day of being doing the more sort of sightseeing part of the visit saying the kinds of things being seen to do the kinds of things that china likes he has been visiting the forbidden city with his wife bridgette telling reporters that it gives him a small chance to give him a small insight into the depth of chinese culture later today tuesday he's been having meetings on more the business side of this visit with likud chairing the premier and also of course with xi jinping his opposite number hammering out just exactly what the nature of these deals are likely to be and now we're waiting for a joint communique it's expected to come any any time when we can expect to see some of the results of the last couple of days of negotiations other then the

pulling power that china has here i mean what do you think that they are going to achieve what they haven't had in the past considering the relations between the e.u. in front. i think we're likely to see a number of different trade issues sorted out we're also expecting to see progress on the climate front this is very important for both powers both france and china seem to be positioning themselves really as the global leaders the globe global stewards of the environment france of course was the driving force behind the paris climate accord of two years ago that is still reeling from the united states walking away from that and china as the biggest carbon emitter in the world is extremely important france really wants to see china's continued commitment to that and china so far has given every indication that it is willing to commit to

reducing its carbon output to help to reach these limits limits on the temperature rise for the planet so that's also something we're expecting to see in these communiques probably within the next half hour thanks rob an environmental disaster is fed off the coast of china the iranian oil tanker son she has been on fire for the past three days experts fear it may explode and sink it was carrying more than a million barrels of oil or thirty two crew on board are feared dead they haven't been seen since the tanker collided with a cargo ship on saturday its twenty one crew were rescued agent brian has more from near shanghai. the drummer's happening some one hundred sixty nautical miles out in the east china sea it's happening in international waters which is why the response has been international south korea has sent a number of coast guard vessels u.s. military has sent an aircraft to help in the search for the thirty two missing crew

members from that stricken iranian oil tanker now the moment there are two operations taking place one to put out the fire that broke out on the tanker the other of course to find those missing crew members now the tanker was carrying more than a million barrels of ultra light crude oil known as condensate it's very toxic it's also colorless odorless which means it's very very hard to detect the priority now is to prevent the ship exploding and then sinking and of course that would threaten a real environmental catastrophe in the meantime officials in shanghai say there is no evidence that this accident is affecting traffic going into or out of the ports shanghai of course is one of the world's busiest ports officials also say that an exclusion zone is now in force which means that no vessel can sail to within ten kilometers of the accident site and it's possible there is this rescue operation

continue that exclusion zone will be widened. pro-democracy activists in hong kong are in court again over their roles in mass protests in twenty fourteen. the. legal scholar benny tie and eight others are attending a pretrial hearing they face charges of incitement connected with their roles in the so-called umbrella movement demonstrations hundreds of thousands of people demanding democratic reforms took part in protests which included occupying and shutting down several main roads for over eleven weeks. sounds of the fight i believe our courts were giving to political pressure and unfair judgments that's why we will calmly face the long lawsuit today and the next few days we are reviewing what will happen in the trial and the procedures we will be ready. plans go ahead on the news on clearing out simon and parkinson's patients are dealt a blow in the search to find

a cure for their diseases plus the. jungle she saw dorian immigrants in the u.s. are given a deadline to leave for face deportation. i. sport a mixed reaction for donald trump as he takes to the field ahead of the biggest game in college football. the u.n. humanitarian chief is visiting syria for the next three days mark and will discuss how to improve the delivery of aid to besieged areas one of those is eastern go to near the capital damascus which has been under heavy bombardment twenty three people were killed in the latest syrian government and russian air strikes targeting the rebel stronghold on monday government forces really took and military base in the city of harassed or freeing two hundred troops u.k.

based syrian observatory for human rights says as strikes in eastern goods have killed one hundred twenty six people since december. the twenty ninth good has been a target for government forces because of its close proximity to the capital damascus area has been under control by loyalists to the free syrian army which are backed by the u.s. and turkey isn't goes as among for so-called deescalation zones set up earlier last year by russia iran and turkey the four your government siege is said to major humanitarian crisis with severe shortages of food and medicine eleven other rebel stronghold of also weakened in recent weeks with more than sixty thousand people leaving their homes since november the first a spokesman for the un sacred general says civilians are being forced to flee into areas already overcrowded with displaced families the un is deeply concerned for the safety and protection of tens of thousands of people in southern italy in rural hama in northern syria northeastern syria where ongoing hostilities are reportedly calls hundreds of

deaths and injuries of civilians tens of thousands of civilians already in dire circumstances have been recorded is displaced since the first of december due to the fighting with the onset of winter said shelters among the biggest concerns is many families are fleeing into areas that are already at full capacity into communities with depleted resources syria's army says three israeli rockets of targeted its military positions it says the weapons were fired that about forty kilometers east of the capital damascus this is the twenty fourth israeli attack against syrian targets since the war began in twenty thirteen israel hasn't claimed responsibility. egypt is said to hold its presidential election in late march leader of the fact that all sisi has not yet announced if he intends to run for reelection he's main rival has ruled himself out of the race but a new york times report suggests he may have been forced to do so shelve reports.

despite being arguably the most powerful institution in the country egypt'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 suggest 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 becomes 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 shafik 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. but that and we won't attack she feet if he gives up his candidacy any but if you insist on running for president we will attack him strongly and we will show his videos with the muslim brotherhood and you know there are some groups from general intelligence who supports if we will keep an eye on them 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 and doesn't support the palestinian struggle for liberation for others it simply confirms what they've known all along either way it's a reminder that even the most feared security apparatus inside egypt has its weak spots. al-jazeera. french prosecutors are investigating tech giant apple after method last month that deliberately slowed down older phone models the inquiry focuses on a commercial practice forcing consumers to periodical replace products this is

illegal in france apple says the slowdown is intended to extend the lifespan of phones by putting less pressure on aging batteries. joins us now from paris tell us more about what's behind the investigation as. well this all came about because a french consumer group called hope basically filed a complaint back in december against apple now it's alleges two things it says firstly that apple deliberately slowed down the lifespan of some of his older models through software updates and that it timed software updates to coincide with the release of the then new apple i phone the i phone eight now what hope is saying is that apple is trying to make consumers throw away their old phones and then be forced to buy new phones now what's interesting is under french law this is actually

a crime and those who are found guilty can actually be punished with very severe fines very high fines prison sentences and companies can even be forced to pay about five percent of their annual revenues to the state and the response from apple ought to be. what hasn't there hasn't been any response from apple to this case in france so far but last year there were a flurry of similar lawsuits in the united states and what apple was forced to do back then was actually admit that it did in fact deliberately try to slow down some of its devices and it was forced to offer an apology to consumers now what apple was saying in their defense. was that the software updates that it was using to slow down the lifespan of these clones was put into will put in place to try and prove long the lifespan of their phone batteries. excuse me of their phone

batteries and that that was their response from the consumers but they then offered consumers the opportunity to try and buy batteries at a cheaper price at the touch of thanks so that. when the world's major drugs manufacturers is ending its research into alzheimer's and parkinson's disease pfizer says it's reallocating spending to other areas and fisons investors are set for a windfall often donald trump announced the largest corporate tax cut in u.s. history john hendren reports the decision by drug maker finds are to end its expensive high risk research into all timers and parkinson's disease marks a devastating blow for tens of millions of people around the world in a statement pfizer says this was an exercise to reallocate spending across our portfolio to focus on those areas where our pipeline and our scientific expertise is strongest the oldtimers association says it's disappointed that pfizer is ending

its investment in neuroscience research. pharmaceutical companies have long argued that the more money they have available for research the more patients would benefit it was a sales pitch pfizer c.e.o. made in washington last march our responsibility is to produce the best and greatest medicines we can they make the biggest impact on human life this industry needs to have a return that allows it to continue to do its research although president trump answered that call in part with the largest corporate tax cut in u.s. history pfizer like many other companies is not plowing the benefits back into research it's just announced a plan to use the tax break to benefit its investors by buying back ten billion dollars of its own stock pfizer which makes the lucrative pill does say it plans to detail its plans to create a neuro science fund later this year but that's likely to come as cold comfort to the more than seven million people across the globe living with parkinson's in the

forty four million living with alzheimer's john hendren al-jazeera protesters have marched on the white house because two hundred thousand immigrants from el salvador face expulsion from the united states families being torn apart and some of the massive latino community. of persecution from los angeles reports. ricardo escobar makes his living improving the houses of people much wealthier than he now the migrant from el salvador may be expelled from the country where he's lived worked and raised a family for nearly two decades by this is a country that immigrants. all the world has immigrated here he. was in washington demonstrators gathered in front of the white house monday protesting a decision by the trumpet ministration to take away temporary protected status or

t.p.s. for more than two hundred thousand salvadorans they had been permitted to live in the u.s. following disastrous earthquakes that struck their homeland in two thousand and one this issue you know where he wasn't completely unexpected but he's real and he makes me sad i have had members of the union call me. crying because of this decision hired me what are we going to do the trumpet ministration says t.p.s. was never meant to be permanent and that social disruptions caused by the earthquakes no longer exist last year the trumpet ministration stripped temporary protective status from tens of thousands of people from eighty to nicaragua living in the u.s. . el salvador is one of the world's most dangerous places it had the highest murder rate of any country in two thousand and fifteen powerful gangs operate with

near impunity and poverty and unemployment are dire escobar does not want to bring his family there but they you know i worry a lot about my children if my son goes there go force him to join a gang and if you refuses they'll kill him activists say political pressure is needed to reverse the decision and that many children of salvadoran parents were born in the u.s. and thus are american citizens boarded two hundred thousand u.s. citizen children then you have been voting your age so today i'm asking are to be as rogue or families and both immigrants who stay home are u.s. citizens and then a vote you're not there actually kind of vote in twenty eight days ministration has given the salvadoran residents eighteen months to find a way to obtain legal status or leave the u.s. forever in el salvador the foreign minister urged salvadorans in the u.s.

not to become agitated but he made hoping to get. the first thing i want to tell people is they need to remain calm we have another i take months between march this year and september twenty ninth. but it's difficult for people to stay calm when their family's futures are on the one. al-jazeera last. few moments we have the way there was stephy standing by but still ahead on al-jazeera we meet the nigerian migrants forced to return home from libya who aren't giving up their dreams to get to europe. in the birthplace of tango a small city dances to a different choose. its sport a difficult day in the desert for this two time dakar rally champion. through a tranquil rave you can you. do not want to use and it's

a beach going to. hell over well here's something you don't see every day in the desert of that white stuff is no contrast quite nicely against the orange yellow sand certainly doesn't it but it's not actually as rare as you might think we also saw snow in two thousand and five two thousand and twelve and two thousand and sixteen fact it often gets cold enough to snow the difficulty is you don't often get them or here's what gave us all that moisture this huge system that's gradually edging its way eastwards so it's still capable of bringing us a few outbreaks of rain today i don't think we're going to see any more snow in the desert over the next few days that perhaps around the coast of tunisia and maybe into libya you might just squeeze out the odd shower towards the northwest dry for today and are about what we do have more in the way of weather working its way towards us and it's been rather unsettled there over the past few days some rather strong waves there brought in on some rather brisk winds that all of that weather

system that's going on over the new all the parts of africa is also pushing up into parts of europe as well so for the southeast corner plenty of cloud looking rather gray away here we've also got this other weather system just nipping its way up towards the u.k. and the low countries making its way over parts of france as well the sand in paris very high water levels at the moment it's over spelling on to some of the roads and the walkways don't think they'll be any rain today but maybe the old will shower tomorrow. the weather sponsored by cats on race. zero explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and why bill rees influenced the course of history. the giants of the struggle for civil rights the. hundred. miles over. to oppress. and continue to make rolls. on martin luther king preached to free speech

at this time on al-jazeera we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happened and what happens there matters. watching us is there

a mind of our top stories this hour south korean media say the north has a stored a military hotline and yet another sign of improving ties between the two countries it's one of several diplomatic breakthroughs from their first official meeting in more than two years. and iranian oil tanker that collided with a freighter off china's east coast on saturday is still on fire a dozen rescue boats are spent three days trying to control the blaze rescuers are looking for thirty one. crew members who are still missing. the presidents of france emanuel chrono set to sign erast of deals with china is pushing to gain better access into the chinese market for french companies micron is eyeing opportunities in the nuclear energy space and food say to us. was pushed to secure a bigger presence in china as potentially a lucrative move it comes at a time when china is aggressively increasing its share of global business while the united states is focusing more on its domestic markets trade between france and

china is hugely unbalanced and mccrone is hoping to close the gap and reduce the thirty six billion dollar trade deficit with beijing is hoping to seal deals mostly in the nuclear aerospace and food sectors one agreement that's already going ahead with the chinese online retailer it'll sell more than two billion dollars worth of french drinks on its website joining us now from beijing is beijing is going to have political analyst and economist good to see you again anna it seems potentially for both sides it's a bit of a win win here isn't it when it comes to trade yes. it's been a very good thing i think you can sum it up in words let's make our world great again obviously a good donald trump but a refracts reflects the reality that things are changing what you alluded to earlier saying that b. as the us really tracks there is an opening there and i think micron in turns to

take that opening not only for france but e.u. and that means cooperating with china you touched on donald trump do you think this'll further isolate the united states will it speed it up. well the united states is doing itself what's happening is the vacuum that's being created obviously is being filled and china is as you pointed out aggressively pushing out it wanted on its side france to recognize and be a very vocal proponents of the belt and road initiative its master plan one trillion dollar effort but that effort needs more money it cannot be done by china alone so they're looking for partners europe is obviously the one on the belt and road initiative most of it goes towards europe it's the biggest market for china so therefore it makes a lot of sense micron is doing the right thing by getting their first extracting very good concessions for his economy and also putting himself as

a leader yeah i was wondering does china like what it sees in micron doesn't like what it sees him doing and how he's pushing the e.u. now and i want to wonder what sort of impact this will have full france and the e.u. and it comes to africa and tackling terrorism. well he's he will be broaching the subject of getting more help from china especially in africa they have a five country area previously colonial french areas that they want to try to help with i mean with troops and things like that with the judge booty being on the map now as a base that can supply these types of efforts it's there but yes it is looking he has to have a partner if you can in his book revolution he made it very clear that he's pro globalization he's very concerned about climate warm climate change these types of

things are drawing him closer to china because the u.s. simply is not playing ball and with the latest revelations and the roiling within the u.s. political establishment it becomes clear that he has to find somebody more reliable and that tag and thank you very much iran's supreme leader says he's country prevented attempts by the u.s. and britain to create unrest during recent anti-government protests according to state media. many has accused the west of encouraging violence and criminal behavior bellies in several cities across iran was sparked by government economic policies at least twenty two people were killed and a reformist parliamentary member says at least three thousand seven hundred people arrested. now iran is warning it may reconsider its cooperation with the un's nuclear watchdog unless the us on is the agreement it signed with tehran and international powers in twenty fifteen president donald trump has refused to say to

fire the deal which lifted sanctions in return for iran scaling back its nuclear program. has more from tehran. 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 them that the u.s. is orchestrating artificial conflicts in the middle east to create perpetual war

and a maybe. 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. to his prime minister's promise that twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship years of child made the comments on radio after

anti-government protests on monday a demonstrator was killed in the town of the interior ministry denied he was run over by a police car protests spread to other towns as to his inns criticize higher prices for basic goods and tax rises. the head of nigeria's immigration service is urging more international cooperation in the fight against people trafficking the government ordered the immediate evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture just as i did just as a six case report. was these first time nigerian migrants heading home from the schooling facility in tripoli i worried that the plane will leave without them. the only thing on their mind now is to get on with it when you people leave here they're taking us back to that prison and i don't want to continue we should help us by only. but many others here have been through this routine before

for their personal or ceratin vincent says his destiny allies in europe and he will make another attempt to get there so almost everything after a bucket is joining. all like like you like a month month not limited just this attitude has surprised even the experts who say as many as forty five percent of deported migrants from libya attempt to go back. as a human being you are assuming that. i would my most important goal in life is to preserve my life and knowing that i come so close. to to to what i've seen i wouldn't go but you know survival is also important to to a person. if you are in a place you don't see a future then that pushes you government officials in western. mean that their vast porous borders makes it difficult to stop what they call irregular migration i most

times border police feel powerless to make arrests because of an existing pact that govern cheese freedom of movement of goods and people. it's that same agreement traffickers and illegal migrants exploit but the challenges go beyond that is frustrated that we as country when working together including europe it takes more than returning it takes more than public city to do this we need to walk together what's sauce class in this nation going to do with a clean medical. for now african countries continue to evacuate citizens from libya preventing those citizens from attempting to reach europe again is proving difficult regardless of what happens to them in transit. hommage agrees al-jazeera . friends of media personality and business woman oprah winfrey say she is considering a run for the u.s. presidency in twenty twenty has tag twenty twenty began trending on twitter on

sunday after harassing speech at the global golden globe awards in hollywood ellen fisher reports the new day is all. she's best known for a talk show which made her billions of dollars know the talk is of oprah running for president 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. the comments at the golden globe awards in hollywood and several standing ovations was described as inspiring by those in attendance and brought the hashtag oprah twenty twenty trending on twitter but while the idea has growing support the media giant has already said she doesn't want to run for office during if you've narrowed down your shortlist of b.p. candidates. and how she's lost her mind. from

a hugely popular reality t.v. show to the presidency his star power in name recognition his brand helped significantly several democrats have been named as possible candidates for twenty twenty. cory booker joe biden elizabeth warren and kiersten jill a brand of just a few of the names being thrown around none are as well known as oprah but one political analyst strikes a note of caution i think that's a very huge and tremendously for someone who has operated as a media personality moving into the space of governing we are we're already seeing how that hasn't worked out as many people had hoped it would oprah has done nothing to them don't speculation of a presidential run but there's still two years before the race for the white house starts to get really serious. alan fischer al-jazeera washington it's a special day for catholics in the philippines one million of them are gathering for a religious procession in the capital they happen to touch a seventeenth century statue of jesus christ they believe can perform miracles. and

has more from in the. every year these have become a familiar scenes around the million filipinos camped out for the annual procession of the black. more than ninety percent of them come from the poorest communities with hopes and prayers they come here longing for a respite from the harshness of their daily lives and the reason i became deaf with the ease i used to be unable to walk when i got healed i devoted myself to the. my understanding it leaves you with a light feeling. that's nothing if you can bear it for those who do not believe in the wonder of something rather. beautiful not something that is over the interest by the fire of the room i know that the search in the past few nights and days for that. little over the world we

are living. for your little one it will be. one of the world's largest cities where you don't have to take a test to get a driving license on the roads of mexico city three people are killed on average every day and thousands of traffic accidents reported not riches drivers on the government pressure to stay away from bad habits of advice or reports. it's a typical tuesday morning in mexico city and parents drop their children off at school it's a chaotic scene on the prize make up in her rearview mirror another leaves her car in the middle of the street an argument breaks out after a man backs into a vehicle that's been double parked. mexico city is one of the world's most populated metropolises every day more than five million vehicles clogged streets.

road accidents are common more than a thousand people die in crashes every year traffic accidents are now. the leading cause of death for children between five and fourteen years old the government says this must stop as much as wanted to traffic related that's unacceptable because they can be prevented we can do this in steps through new regulations infrastructure that knowledge use and training. officials have already reduced speed limits and install traffic cameras now efforts to change driving culture are focused here this is one of the government offices in mexico city where people come to get their driver's licenses or maybe i should say where people come to buy their licenses because all you need to bring here is a piece of government id a utility bill and pay the equivalent of forty dollars and within five minutes you're walking out with a license to drive it's just that easy. but this is changing starting in two thousand and eighteen drivers will have to take driving courses run by

internationally credited schools before applying for a license it's a big change but one that many residents say is necessary but. they still feel a little bit nervous even though i try to control it but i feel a lot safer to can this course will help me avoid getting into accidents when changing the habits of millions of drivers will take generations but in one of the world's biggest cities the cost of doing nothing is simply too high david mercer mexico city. that's emanuel sitting next to hang in beijing they've been talking about it's well the interesting particularly trade we know they're talking about security man you must really is pushing the agenda that as well as want to get benefits for france they've been holding talks for two days we're waiting for a communique to be signed with more details about what's in it and walked both

sides will be getting from this and obviously. this meeting comes at a time when that is a void created by the united states and in the e.u. hoping to fill that void in its listen and hear. broad they just signing we believe and no speeches say if we hear anything coming from that office he will. still ahead on al-jazeera. installed the figure skater is helping to bring about a diplomatic so ahead of the winter olympics. it's

summertime in argentina and dozens of cultural festivals are in full swing organizers say one of them is unique as it is about reports the madame bovary festival reflects the hearts of argentina's traditions where men train for years with the dream of becoming dons champion. the small city of level of being in the central province of the court of the law is transformed every year by my lab or. danced exclusively by men who train for years to be able to compete here. as a way of life it is choosing a lifestyle it's not a job it's a passion. for him with the with the. dancers from argentina's twenty three provinces traveled to the most important competition in the country it took choir skill strength and

a lot of speed. the dancers are dressed like they got their traditional horse men but once roamed the land. that money did come along and be crazy about the way they came out to eat and fight. with one another back in the seventy's and eighty's and stated that the blame of. my life will be paid for these people as a way of preserving argentina tradition. he said teacher from the southern province of nokia and this is his first time at the competition. it is very difficult for us to be here especially. you don't have a lot of financial support only your family sometimes you want to abandon it all we need. he explained that two different style that they need to excel at if they want to win the biggest price what's unique about the competition is that the winner

cannot compete ever again in the same category. i was champion seven years ago he started to dance when he was ten years old one of the lol. when you win you also have some sadness because you want to continue competing but at the same time being a winner means so much is like retiring and being champion all in the same night look at the only thing you know. is a symbol of masculinity and then like other argentine dances like tangle women have yet to join in with a lot of women who want to dance and verse some categories where they can like in couples dancing but they're not allowed in the main competition. character and style as crucial as the dance itself and even though it has changed over the decades it has not lost the spirit of the girl joss that helped forge arjan time cultural heritage. i didn't tina.

it's time for sports and thank you so much jane was wearing hearing north korea will have its aim at next month's winter olympics in south korea the countries have been holding official talks for the first time since twenty fifteen and after months of uncertainty and rising tensions between the countries north korea's confirmed it will send athletes fans and journalists on chang the country has taken part in previous olympics but not in south korea north korea boycotted the nine hundred eighty eight summit games which were held in seoul. i was in london at the moment i'll be covering those games for al-jazeera and some of their sporting what's nor sort of north korean same we're going to see in pyongyang. one thing not to expect from the north korea winter olympics is any kind of medal washoe gold rush or many competitors are told it largely revolves around to figure skaters that's really arc and can do sic very good partnership of be trying in

canada we're always very hopeful of competing that always been the suggestion they would compete in pyongyang and now i can do that would be a huge relief to them and they have the possibility of a medal they're that good they're also of course be a big spotlight on them throughout the games because they might be the only competitors the window still open for other north koreans to qualify but obviously time is running out with that there isn't a lot of strength in winter olympic sport in north korea so it's more about the symbolism and of course it's not just competitors it's also the journalists the officials the delegation from north korea and the possibility of teams marching together that still exists goes way beyond sport. from the international olympic committee's perspective they must be breathing a huge sigh of relief today. this is a huge relief for them they were worried about a boycott involving russia originally with the huge doping problem they've been

worried about the potential of a boycott like ninety eight they're worried about the tensions in the region i mean those worries don't completely go away but the easing of the tension is a huge boost for an organization that has had one problem after another when the actual action starts it will be brilliant for the i.o.c. as well because people will be concentrating on some great sport there's been so many problems starting from the such a twenty four games and the doping issue that continues there is still people are happy that russia will be there but now that russia are there in some capacity with the athletes competing under a neutral flag now there will be at least it looks like north korean competitors actually there is a sense of relief running through the i.o.c. they were ling's as ever thank you so much for that only hours after it reiterating his criticism of athletes who knew ahead of football games donald trump appeared at the biggest game in the college season. somewhat

mixed reaction there before the champs a game between our bama and georgia in atlanta some and fell players nailed during the pre-game national anthems protest against racial injustice but in college football players only take the field after the anthem is being played trump watched alabama win the title from the seclusion there of a profit box. affleck catania i says he can't thank liverpool fans enough for their support during his time at the club but that playing for barcelona is his dream after five years in the english premier league the brazilian is settling into his new life with the spanish league leaders tatiana sanchez reports. signed field and delivered felipe pitino is the bath followed 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

posset president just that muddy up at a presentation at the nou camp it came just days after his move from liverpool was announced. going to. this for the. likes of 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 gordon who understood what i was doing my dream and they tried very hard to convince me to stay to the fans who shared five years with me think you. found showed up at the nou camp to welcome the star of catania offered a hint of some of the skills he can offer is the most important. the decision was easy because this is a barcelona it is the best team in the world with the best players many big idols of my plate 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 pathan 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 al-jazeera. around the ryder is the man tasked with reviving the fortunes of chile's national team writer has quit his post with president cup flamenco to take on the job his contract runs and sleep end of south american qualifying for the twenty twenty two world cup the hopper america champions missed out on a place in this year's finals in russia. manchester city's efforts and saying they're close to perfect season continues later on this tuesday same place second say bristol city in the semi's of the english league cup city unbeaten in the premier league stilling with a chance of winning four trophies. and the difficulties of winning the dakar rally were brought into sharp focus by the abrupt end of a suit sime champions involvement on the roma has won the desert rally on

a bike and in a car and it's a vicious addition the spine is suffering head and neck injuries during this crash in perth having chapel stuff and has a hand so as the overall reisling. sports thanks very much for that and they were going to love the show came out in a couple minutes. to . cut.

down of edna's one of the most polluted places in the occupied west bank truckloads of electronic waste make their way here every day the vast majority coming from israel to surrounding illegal jewish settlements each item is taken apart the bars then are sold back to israel but its valuable materials such as copper wire deductables profitable. a good chunk of this waste gets burnt illegally because it's simply cheaper and easier to extract copper and this way usually happens on the hill surrounding the town but this is agriculture love a look at what's left behind ashes and metals that. ms back is furious which each fire more of his crops are destroyed on on on it's like a cancer that no one can walk here anymore yes suffocating even the sheep can't be here they're not breathing anymore look at the my all in threes isn't the debt as

she. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men. one on one east meets those desperately seeking low anyway they can at this time on al-jazeera. i'm. not you know. somebody like. north korea says its athletes will be at the winter olympics in south korea and a military hotline to be restored as the two nations talk for the first time in two years. i'm jane doesn't this is al jazeera live from doha we're going to beijing now the

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