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discussions long you can hear weapons will be on the table. but not to belittle what you did to war. insists he still wants the war with mexico but backs a bipartisan solution to help undocumented migrant moultrie may have in mexico city where they're finally getting people to take a driving. and i'm far is small and i'll have all the day's sport news including a great step forward in the olympic spirit that's how the i.o.c. are describing north korea's decision to send our fleets to next month's winter games. there are very warm welcome to the siren news there israeli army has carried out raids on a number of villages close to the occupied west bank town of nablus after thirty five year old israeli was shot dead the army's declared the area to the south west

of nablus now as a military zone there are reports of skirmishes in the villages of tel and samarra and of settlers throwing stones at passing cars in the village of houla and harry fawcett joins me now from west jerusalem hi there harry what else can you tell us. well as you say the man involved in this shooting the victim of the shooting has been confirmed dead he was taken to hospital inside israel near tel aviv and was confirmed dead shortly after arrival he'd been shot in the neck and the chest the israeli military saying that this man this thirty five year old man was shot from a passing vehicle by a gunman or gunmen on route sixty inside the occupied west bank nearby the illegal outpost of gilad it's reported that this man was a rabbi and a more held that is a religious figure who carries out who is qualified to carry out circumcision so he

is someone obviously of some standing within the community he is reported to have been a resident of this illegal outpost and as we as we are reporting he has now been confirmed to have died in this attack the gunman or gunmen police and israeli military appear still to be hunting for them harry can you tell us more about the area which israel has now declared a military zone and what that means. well sure it's just to the southwest of a major occupied west bank town the town of nablus there are a number of israeli settlements and outposts in the region around nablus and that is it is often that this region an area of confrontation between palestinians and israeli settlers there are throughout the occupied west bank military checkpoint sometimes they're staffed sometimes they're not obviously it's very easy for them

to be populated by soldiers at times such as this areas can be shut down extremely quickly given the amount of control that the israeli military has in the occupied west bank they have already raided these two villages of tel and sorrow there were some confrontations in both of those villages it's reported between palestinian youths and the israeli soldiers involved they have withdrawn to some extent there it's been reported they have for example now just sealed off the entrance of sorrow they no longer inside that village but they have raided the israeli military an area of nablus the suburb within nablus which has seen more confrontations israeli military there apparently seizing security cameras as this hunt continues for the two for the shooter or shooters harry do you think that this incident could lead to why they're on risk given the current situation in the west

bank and and elsewhere. it's hard to say i mean the last fatal shooting by a palestinian on israelis took place in september in that case the man in question was a worker within the illegal israeli settlement a palestinian from a nearby village he had permits to go in and out every day for. for whatever reason on one of those days he shot and killed three security forces members at the checkpoint gate he though was shot on sight during the course of that incident so one of the differences here is that they're still hunting for the people or person involved in this attack the other thing is that of course since then that took place in september since then we've had the jerusalem declaration by donald trump we've had weeks of protests and tension already we have had a welcoming at least of this attack by hamas by the military wing of hamas in the

gaza strip saying that this is an opening response presumably to that jerusalem declaration with fire and a reminder of what is to come but at this stage it's too early to say exactly how things will play out in the coming days harry fawcett there live from western somehow we thank you yes state department has praised the outcome of the first high level talks between north and south korea more than two years it's a countries have agreed to hold military discussions but pyongyang's nuclear ambitions will be avoided washington said it would be interested in joining the talks foreign three reports live from seoul. until recently north koreans refused to even pick up the phone when south koreans call the border hotline say with significant to see reese on who's in charge of into korean relations for the north korean government stepping over the border into the south he led a five member team of high ranking diplomats into a meeting with a south korean counterpart in what's known as the truce village at panmunjom.

our talks resume after north and south korean ties have been severed for a long time but i believe the first step is have the journey with a number indeed we came to this meeting 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 gift of the year on the meeting did produce results north korea says it will send a delegation of athletes and team members to next month's winter olympics in south korea the south says it will consider suspending sanctions if it helps north korea's participation in the games in. both sides have also agreed to hold military talks to prevent accidental clashes and ease tensions as well as conduct other high level exchanges to improve into korea ties but attempts to discuss north korea's nuclear bomb and missiles program got nowhere with the head of the delegation from

pyongyang warning that such discussions could damage relations the north has long maintained that its nuclear arsenal is necessary to deter an invasion by u.s. troops and south korea's proposal for talks on reunions for family members who've been separated for decades met with little response from the north. despite that many in the south see any talks happening at all as a positive step. for us. i believe these formal diplomatic discussions can result in peace for an a c. the korean peninsula is a dangerous place that's under the constant threat of war and i hope those concerns to him become reality and after a year of high tensions on the korean peninsula and in japan and across the pacific including the threat of military action by the u.s. these talks are already being heralded as a breakthrough florance zero seoul well let's get u.s. reaction to those korea talks now danae super joins us live from washington hi

there diane so what's the state department been saying well the state department says that if anything that lessens tensions on the korean polish peninsula it sees as a positive but it also says it would like to see talks on denuclearization but white house says that it's seeing it's hopeful that north korea is going to be participating in the olympics that might encourage north korea to end its isolation and maybe dismantle its nuclear program so sort of a muted response from both the white house and the state department diane is there any sense of optimism if i could use that words about what could be unfolding here . well julie i think it's cautious optimism with emphasis on the word caution keep in mind that these are two countries that have been engaged in a war of words since president trying to office almost a year ago it's been ratcheted up over the last couple of months with the two with

president trump and president. comparing who has the larger button the president president trump has threatened all options saying that military options are on the table so there's a lot of mistrust between these two countries and the president of the white house has indicated that there is some concern that by participating in the a lympics north korea may possibly use this is as a way to skirt u.n. sanctions so i think that they are keeping an eye on things i would say that they're encouraged but this is not a thaw in relations between these two countries to put their joining me from washington d.c. dan thank you well joining us live from washington is tim shorrock he's in north korea analyst and author of spies for high the secret world of intelligence outsourcing it to him a very warm welcome to the program great to have your company and to try launch of

a breakthrough if i can cautiously use that word are these talks. i think it's a very important breakthrough and i think it too to many people surprise here are these these talks were fairly successful in their aim which was to get north korea participating in the olympics and provide a kind of peace stall for the olympic games during that time so i think that was that was very important and plus as your reporters reporters mentioned there is this does an agreement they want to talk further on the military meant to have military to military talks and that's very important i would say that you know little kim jong un made this overtures but this is really a triumph for the president of south korea moon j.n. who after all ran on the on the platform of having dialogue with north korea and defusing the crisis through diplomacy and when he came to office in may the first

thing he proposed was to have military to military talks and also to have red cross talk so the families could reunite families that were divided by the korean war and now both of these issues are on the table and are going to be discussed so i think it shows it's a very very favorable light on president moon and his kind of cautious ins and careful approach in contrast to president trump's you know blustering and threatening approach and until it's interesting you mention trump because he came out today and said you know if i weren't involved they wouldn't even be talking about the olympics right now to be to you know talking or it would be much more. serious so i think in a way he feels like he can take some create and create here rather than in gene. well i think it's rather presumptuous of of trump to say that for one thing you know these it's true that the sanctions have started to cut into south north korea's economy and they're not going to really affect the nuclear program of the

missile program and they haven't really affected those programs but the sanctions are clearly going to hurt ordinary people in the people who live in peeling young who depend on foreign countries for oil for example call in in a lots of other products of the now been cut off so those have had an effect that wasn't just trump though but i think if trump had not blustered and threatened north korea like he has over the past nine months these talks might have happened actually long before this whether there's a double edged sword to what trungpa same untamed watts is. motive what what's the end game for them. well i think for them they want to be recognized as a nuclear state and to end to negotiate sort of a a process of deterrence as opposed to you know giving up their weapons but you know the the i think that's that's basically his medium medium range end game here

he clearly wants to end the sanctions i think and you know move past that but. the last missile test you know he's he he and his government have repeatedly said that they have completed their state nuclear force and they're now ready to turn to the economy and so he thinks he has the deterrence to protect north korea from a u.s. attack and now wants to proceed to put resources into expanding is he's economy and making making the economy work for the people of north korea and so in that sense that the sanctions in an ending or terminate you know scaling down the sanctions could make a great deal of difference but you know i could clearly think that you know that's what he does want to be recognized as a nuclear state and the united states does not want to recognize them and sat where us and in terms of negotiation the south koreans want to take

a more step by to spend step approach and deal with kind of one issue at a time while in the long range keeping in focus than the nuclear issue but the u.s. has basically been saying that unless they commit to denuclearizing the u.s. isn't going to talk to them in a bilateral way and so i think it's going to be very difficult for that to happen if they u.s. keeps insisting on that tim sarik joining me now live from washington d.c. ten funky. u.s. president donald trump has reiterated his desire for a border wall part of immigration reform the president says that lawmakers need to find a bipartisan solution to protect thousands of young so-called dream or immigrants but he says any agreement must include funding for border with mexico canada how good is following events in washington d.c. . well certainly there has been repeated speculation about the president's mental fitness when it comes to his presidency those accusations intensifying in the past

week but that may have been countered by a spontaneous press conference by the president a bipartisan appearance of both democratic and republican lawmakers here at the white house that appeared to run in front of the press real time negotiations on a thorny issue that has been under resolvable in the united states for years and that is the issue of illegal immigration as well as border security the president showing that he not only despite accusations to the contrary was engaged in new the issues but he also seemed to signal that there was a willingness to work with his critics particularly when it comes to issues like border security and something known as doc our deferred action on childhood arrivals essentially what to do about thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the united states living here for years but brought here as children many now adults we don't have six months for the doctor. because if you're going to

negotiate i mean you will agree admit we won't i mean you know it's possible we're not going to agree with you when it's possible but this should be no reason for us not to get to start a joke i will say when this group comes back hopefully with that agreement this group and others from the senate from the house comes back with an agreement i'm shouting at me i will be signing now the issue of immigration is key to a looming deadline and that is funding the u.s. government that deadline a little more than a week away may have something to do with the. fact that republicans democrats along with the president working together in a bipartisan fashion the president is still insisting that he wants funding for his border wall along with southern u.s. border with mexico but seems to be striking a more conciliatory tone with his political opponents that may have something to do with the fact that this is an election year congressional elections are set to be held in november u.s.

president on tom's former chief adviser steve bannon has stepped down from his post as executive chairman of news bannon's been making headlines show in the past week over a marks made in a book that criticized trump and his family for being treasonous and unpatriotic in a meeting with russian officials it was criticized by trump who called him sloppy steve suggests that he's lost his mind. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour the beginning of a beautiful friendship perhaps french president manuel back home hails his paan ship to china following the signing of several lucrative trade deal. cracking down on crime online though we look at why a new law combating hate speech germany is facing quite so much criticism and in sport it's an early end to the dakar rally for the defending motorbike. turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the ambassadors of iran and russia to

protest against what it regards as the violation of a so-called deescalation zone in syria turkey is reportedly accusing syrian troops of breaking the agreement in their push to retake a position held areas of prominence russia iran and turkey agreed on for deescalation zones last may in an effort to wind down the seven year war russia and iran support the government of syrian president bashar al assad while turkey backs off position groups well at least twenty people have died in airstrikes and shelling in the serious eastern suburbs the rebel held area which was agreed as a deescalation zone has come under heavy bombardment in recent days and as the winter sets in hundreds of thousands of civilians already struggling to survive without enough food or medicine will face huge challenges natasha going to has the story. the fog of dust from buildings reduced to rubble was still thick as people began transporting the injured and pulling out the dead twenty three people

were killed in iraq strikes in eastern guta on monday night. no you made the day to be the warplanes didn't stop day and night they shell only civilians and tall good residential neighborhoods and markets eastern ghouta is a short drive to the capital damascus which is remained relatively calm throughout the war but the lives of the four hundred thousand people here are very different the never ending stream of bombs has created shortages of everything from food to fuel. the last two weeks have been especially intense one hundred twenty six people are estimated to have been killed since december twenty ninth. the new i five a man on the video we demand the international community stops the shelling of innocent civilians we don't have any food or mates in here and use kuta we under siege for a long time and we hope god will help us. syrians contemplating leaving their homes

are faced with a dilemma for example the displaced who sought refuge in opposition held in lib are in danger again it is the largest rebel stronghold and government forces are in the midst of an offensive to regain control tens of thousands of civilians already in dire circumstances have been recorded as displaced since the first of december due to the fighting with the onset of winter save shelters among the biggest concerns as many families are fleeing into areas that are already at full capacity into communities with depleted resources people in eastern guta fear if they leave their homes they'll never be allowed to return the un is accusing the syrian government of implementing a policy of force displacement to radically alter the demographic makeup of areas previously controlled by the opposition natasha going to aim al-jazeera. well for more on this so we're joined from washington by which you by it's

a way to the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute richard a very warm welcome to the program good to have your company is always how significant is turkey calling on the russian and they're waiting and i'm bassett. for now it's not very significant we've had turkey at various points criticize russia iran and especially the syrian government already we've also had them criticize u.s. policy and others so for now it's just a warning of what might happen it could become more significant if turkey were actually to break the size of lead with russia and iran which has been if they've been working together in various peace proposals but it's not yet it's maybe significant for now nothing new is occurred richard as far as turkey's involvement is concerned people saying reasonably often you know turkey is not the right country to take the lead here but nonetheless it does have significant interests in

the outcome but i understand the turkish concerns i mean the most obvious as your package point out is that if the fighting continues and quickly as it moves northward it's just going to drive more refugees into turkey there turkey has as i mentioned been participating in peace efforts with russia and iran and if this fighting continues if it looks as it looks that the syrian government is violating that the escalation agreements then that pretty much ruins the prospects for any near term peace deal so i understand the turkish concerns but you know whether they can actually do anything it's not clear i think they're just warning the russians the syrians trying to change their behavior where is the u.s. administration focus on this conflict right now richard. as you as was mentioned in their beginning of the broadcast the focus of u.s. attention is on other issues around north korea and so on it's always the

presidential level but syria is being looked at and it and being taken under dick great care by both the state department and frankly the fence department so the the people in charge of the u.s. military operation in syria have said the u.s. will continue to remain a presence will continue to fight to keep isis from storing the strength and so on so decision making up from now appears to be made at the cabinet level within the mostly department of defense and i and seems to be pretty going fairly well everything considered in the sense that given the limited u.s. stake in terms of number of troops and someone involved they seem to be having i mean only use that little leverage. effectively to please keep it to have some impact on the vents on the ground but you i said joining me live from washington d.c. richard as always thank you. fired tear gas it demonstrates is in the capital who

stormed a supermarket during an anti-government protest demonstrations have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten times against the government's planned price and tax hikes it says the measures are necessary to reduce its demeaning deficit and satisfy international lenders the chin is prime minister use of childhood says twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship. and egypt's more than three hundred seventy people have received jail sentences for taking part in the deadly sit in protest four years ago they were charged excuse me with causing the deaths of two policemen and all the counts of attempted murder taking prague in the protest in support of stood president mohamed morsy twenty thirteen dozens were killed after egyptian security forces stormed the square. united nations have approved the largest ever emergency relief allocation of fifty million dollars for yemen un's describe the humanitarian crisis there as the worst in the world seventy five percent of the population is in need of aid

hundreds of thousands of people are displaced by the fighting and they're trying to survive in camps without basic health and sanitation bernard smith reports this family will get just a few minutes warm from the fire here in merritt province yemenis who've lost their homes in the civil war are beyond the reach of even the most basic relief that aid groups can provide people here are escaping either who three fighters who control the capital some or they're escaping airstrikes and attacks by a coalition of countries like by saudi arabia two million yemenis have been displaced since fighting began in september twenty fourth teen as it should do head over to me should we lift our homes because of the war we found ourselves here without anything we have nothing here but are low we don't have food and the weather is very cold. four hundred sixty thousand displaced people are in camps like these in mara province they don't get any humanitarian assistance part of the

halibut of them claim we leave here in despair we have kidney problems my kids are also sick i have nothing and i can do nothing we are all countries and international organizations to pay attention to us. disease is rife as well as the world's worst cholera epidemic to peer is on the increase and following the killing of ten thousand people in the fighting the u.n. says eight million yemenis are on the verge of famine bernat smith al jazeera al-jazeera has condemned the closure of its bureau in yemen the office is based in the southern city of thais this footage shows security authorities entering the building al-jazeera calls on tice authorities to reverse the decision and allow its journalists to carry out their professional duties. still to come on the. bad weather and toxic gases complicate the search for thirty one missing sailors off the coast of china yes tech giant apple's being investigated in france over its

admission that it deliberately stone down its the i phone. and in sport an argentinian football legend returns to childhood team after a disastrous stint in china. hello and welcome to international weather forecast the weather is quite across europe at the moment after a very unsettled spell we saw some heavy rain across parts of italy through into the balkans quarter further towards the east temperatures around the freezing mark across much of russia mulled over ukraine western areas seeing some showers in temperatures but average really hate snow and something like that still the cool side for madrid there are nine degrees and some rain pushing its way in across parts of the iberian peninsula the risk of snow a high elevations of a head on through into thursday on the other side of the mediterranean sea east of

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minds are now on the top stories here on around to see a israeli army's carried out raids on a number of villages close to the occupied west bank town of nablus after a thirty five year old israeli was shot dead the armies to clear the area to the side west of nablus a military zone. north and south korea have agreed to hold balloting talks after their first high level meeting in two years bazza pyongyang's nuclear ambitions will be avoided. u.s. president donald trump says lawmakers need to find a bipartisan solution to protect thousands of young so-called dreamer immigrants but he says any agreement austin could funding for border war with mexico. french president emmanuel mccall is hailing his visit to china as the beginning of a historic partnership he's been overseeing the signing of several trade deals with

china's president xi jinping a ground's been pushing for french companies to have greater access to the world's biggest population especially nuclear power aerospace could well mcbride has more now from beijing china and france are hailing this visit as a new era for strategic partners xi jinping and emanuel mccraw all signing multi-billion dollar trade deals from aerospace to nuclear energy projects and reaching what they say is common consensus on a range of issues from climate change to international security. we have made an agreement to improve global issues we are faced with climate change and terrorism china will be working together with france so we can have a win win situation and develop a new strategy that helps everyone in the world we have both agreed to have open and deep communications. macross says his visit is

a recognition of china's role on the world stage and she's preeminent position as chinese leader this is micron's first state visit to china as president and he wants the trip to become an annual event to highlight the deepening relationship between china and europe are growing stronger as their respective relations with the united states become more unpredictable and strained and i think. it is time for european leaders including the french president my prob to really balance off their releases against the united states with their relations with china macron began his visit in the ancient city of shan one of the starting points of the ancient silk road his full support for what president xi calls his belton road initiative of new road and rail links seen as the modern day equivalent of

connecting east with west is popular here mark rome will also take away from beijing a recommitment to the paris climate agreement seen as crucial after the united states walked away from it in doing so france and china are positioning themselves as global environmental leaders setting an example for the world to follow robin briard al-jazeera beijing thiessen germany and italy have announced a major maffia bus the resting on hundred sixty nine members of the taurus organized crime gang and sixty million dollars worth of assets were also seized in the joint multinational operation the for all american color clan base in southern italy and infiltrated businesses in southern and central germany getting wind food refuse collection and funeral services a number of public officials are suspected of corruption. if you believe. the relationship between mafia and politics changed completely many times we

documented how politicians deal with mafia bosses to get vote packages in exchange for future contracts and putting the public administration at the service of the in drunk so that they handle it directly we have seen on many occasions how many inside the criminal organization handle the public administration these two people have died and thousands of fled their homes following mudslides in southern california heavy rain and flash flooding sent month crashing into homes across major roads seven thousand residents have been ordered to evacuate and another twenty three thousand are being urged to do so last month's wildfires burn through thousands of hectares of bushland even hillsides vulnerable to slips bad weather and toxic gases are complicating the search for thirty one missing sailors off the coast of china they were onboard an iranian oil tanker which collided with a cargo ship on saturday far has been burning on board for three days and is preventing crews from getting a closer look at the time care the vessel was carrying more than

a million barrels of oil sparking fears of an environmental disaster in the east china sea well the chinese government says it hasn't found a large scale oil leak jim brown has more now 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 postcard vessels u.s. military sense an aircraft to help in the search for the thirty two missing crew members from that iranian oil tank but now the moment there are two operations taking place one to put out the fire broke out on the tanker the other of course to find those missing crew members now the tanker was carrying pulled in a million barrels of ultra light crude oil known as pond and say 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 of course that would threaten a real environmental catastrophe in the meantime officials in shanghai say there is no evidence that this act is affecting traffic going into or out of the ports shanghai of course is one of the world's busiest port officials also say that an exclusion zone is now in force which means that no vessel can sail within ten kilometers of the accident site and it's possible business rescue operation continues that exclusion zone will be white women two hundred people have been injured in the train crash in johannes thank the second crash in the south african city in less than a week came in to train hit the back of another train stuck in the station after a mechanical failure of africa's railway delays for a training human error following a signal failure it comes just five days after eighteen people were killed when

a train had a truck on a level crossing. prosecutors in france are investigating the u.s. tech giant apple after it admits it slowing down older models of its i phone last month and the inquiry focuses on accusations that they've broken french consumer law by attempting to force existing customers to buy new phones but there is more from paris. in france one in five smartphone users owns an i phone each new model causes much excitement but not everyone is happy with the u.s. manufacturer a french consumer watchdog has filed a legal complaint saying apple deliberately slows down older i phone models to encourage customers to buy new ones where they they're doing what we call planned obsolescence two or two in the purpose for people to buy a new one if it's a marketing strategy. didn't care about three have enough proof to make this.

hope says apple uses software updates to slow down its phones the watchdog says recent updates coming sided with the release of the i phone eight in france such a practice is illegal under french law it is a crime to deliberately shorten the lifespan of a product in order to try and force consumers to buy new ones those found guilty can be punished with a prison sentence a large fine and companies can be forced to pay up to five percent of their annual earnings in paris some apple customers welcomed the investigation to see. if will work it's important to know what's going on because we are all hostages of multinationals meritage and looking once i bought a new find that i have to charge all the time and the updates make it slower i think it's done on purpose even though it's illegal here after a flurry of similar lawsuits in the u.s. last year apple admitted to intentionally slowing down its old phones saying it was

done to help prolong battery life some analysts say the. company should have been more transparent everyone knows that their phone starts to lose power after a certain time and this is actually quite a clever way of dealing with it was interesting is how it's been presented in rather a negative light i think that's apple's fault for not communicating better that they were doing this to help use al-jazeera contacted apple in france for comment but has not received a reply faced with a criminal investigation though the stakes here for the take giant are high natasha butler i'll just sirrah paris well joining me in the studio is some shade he's the senior technology reporter at business insider and sam we've just been suggesting haven't we about apple and it seems to be coming one of these organizations that people love the products but it's a relatively secretive company and we've seen lawsuits of various companies the european commission are after them and the feeling is that not being as transparent as they should be yes i agree they probably are going to have to change the way

they behave going going forward otherwise they're going to find themselves in trouble with with regulators they may have to pay large fines so they need to open up and be less secretive and do we need to demand as consumers you know because they're in their pockets are so deep that these billion dollar fines i mean yes of course they make a dent but do we need to to push them to be more responsible and transparent i think we should. i think that's hard for consumers to do there are so many people that love apple that love the products it makes so as consumers i think people are going to carry on buying apple's devices i think the regulators people like the people of the european commission they are the ones that have the power to force change apple and i think we'll see in the coming years. apple facing some some serious scrutiny do you think that the way that people consume these products now particularly i'm thinking you know generation said millennial is that you know they want the sort of you know company that's responsible that's transparent do you

think that to my. force them in a different direction yes potentially i mean as these companies gain more and more power apple google amazon and facebook people especially the younger generation are going to start to challenge what they do they're going to want to see exactly what these companies have planned for their data they're going to want to see where they make their products and how they make their products so i think it will be a younger generation and a more likely to lean on on these big tech companies than the older generations so the point that's being made particularly in france is that. by this play on battery life and slowing down phones with updates and so on is effectively forcing people to make their products obsolete before their time and the other point there of course is about the pondering of of resources continually and how hard we have to think about that every time we buy something new so just fans have a point there that this is something we really need to start to think about i think

so i mean you know there's only so much tin and zinc and everything magnesium in the world apple can extract and apple does have recycling programs in place. but they're not perfect and you know for every bit of zinc that you use in a phone you can get every bit darker and recycle if actively so. i think that you know companies like apple need to be thinking more about resources and how we exploit them let's hope they do some cheap thank you thank you. now internet activists and opposition politicians in germany are outraged at a new law aimed at combat saying a rising tide of online hate speech facebook twitter and other social media sites are being forced to move offensive content of face fines of up to sixty million dollars david chase reports that from berlin. well the first victim of the new law is no less than the deputy leader of the extreme right alternative for germany party beatrix one stork responded to

a new year's eve greeting by police in cologne posted in arabic on twitter the city was the scene two years ago of mass sexual assaults during celebrations both of the suspects were described as being of north african and arab origin in a post on twitter and facebook she asked what the hell is happening in this country do you think it's to appease the barbaric gang raping hordes of muslim men stalks accounts were temporarily suspended on the ground she had violated the new hate speech law party said legitimate political opinions had been censored not about censorship but of course this law does give politicians like mrs one star the opportunity to claim that there is political censorship in germany and to portray herself as a martyr and i think this is one of the biggest political mistakes in passing the end i hate speech law because it helps parties like the if the to transport their narratives into the population and gain greater popularity the justice minister

marx who introduced the legislation said it will prevent calls to murder hate speech and holocaust denial which he described as attacks on other people's freedom of expression but opposition is mounting. the green party is leading the charge for changes in the law. it's a very sensitive area and the question of where freedom of speech ends and the protection of personal rights begins has been determined to the very highest judicial levels in germany for decades the law now is too abrasive and gives too much power to the companies facebook says the legislation is fundamentally new it's unique in the world because of its complexity is a challenge for all involved even a german satirical magazine on the internet has become a victim of the new laws twitter suspended their account after the use of frayed

barbaric horde while poking fun at the control over sea i spoke to their editor in frankfurt over skype just. like we'll have to keep watching this because funny talk is ambivalent and we know that real people struggle with it how are a bunch of what's going to distinguish german courts struggle as well the magazine is now back online its latest issue has a cartoon of president donald trump asking his secretary of state how they can restore some safety rex tillerson replies stop all this tweeting you idiot david chaytor al jazeera berlin clothing retailer each name is facing growing criticism after the band use an image of a black child wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan coolest monkey in the jungle n.b.a. star le bron james said to social media to condemn the move posting a modified version of the original by placing the words with king of the world

canadian singer that we can have a cold in line with the company that has cut his ties singing shocked and embarrassed back repeatedly also hit out on twitter its name has apologized and removed the image. thailand's foreign minister has confirmed the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been in london since september photos reporting to show yet she posted on social media she's seen polls and with a woman outside london's harrods department store the former prime minister less time and her voice being jailed over a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars but thirteen thousand people have been snowed in at a swiss alpine ski resort after heavy snow on a power outage the snowfall closed minds and lifts in ski runs as well as train services in and out of the village of zermatt the avalanche risk around the resort near the italian border is currently its highest level but sickle city is taking steps to change its reckless driving culture which leads to thousands of accidents

and an average of three deaths a day the site being one of the world's biggest busiest cities drivers currently don't have to take any test to get their license david marise explains that from mexico city. it's a typical tuesday morning in mexico city and parents drop their children off at school it's a chaotic scene a woman applies makeup 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 what it does traffic related that's unacceptable

because they can be prevented we can do this in steps through new regulations infrastructure that knowledge is some trainings. officials have already reduced speed limits and installed 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 and 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. i still feel a little bit nervous even though i try to control it but i feel a lot safer by taking 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 al-jazeera mexico city still to come on. a new season of similar resting in japan for the sport is grappling with a scandal. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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international olympic committee has described north korea's decision to send athletes to next month's winter games as a great step forward in the olympic spirit to delegation of athletes fans and journalists will be sent to pyongyang chang in neighboring south korea the countries have been holding official talks for the first time since two thousand and fifteen after months of rising tensions the i.o.c. says it's now awaiting details before deciding which north korean athletes can compete our sports correspondent lee wellings says this is a rare piece of good news for the committee. this is a huge relief for them they were worried about a boycott involving russia or a vigil with the puget doping problem they've been worried about the potential of a boycott like ninety eight they're worried about the tensions in the region among those worries don't completely go away but the easing of the tension is a huge boost for an organization that is how 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 one thing not to expect from the north korean winter olympics is any kind of medal washougal washoe many competitors are tall it largely revolves around to figure skaters that that's really all i can do sic very good partnership of been training in canada was very hopeful of completing that always been the suggestion they would compete in pyongyang and now i can do that will be a huge relief to them and they have the possibility of a medal they're that good then also of course be a big spotlight on them throughout the games because they might be the only competitors the window still open for the 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 and here's

a look at the history of the two countries at the olympics north korea boycotted the last olympics in south korea that was the one nine hundred eighty eight summer games and so all twelve years later at the two thousand sydney olympics athletes from the two countries walked together under a unification flag for the first time in an olympic opening ceremony four years later they walked together again in athens but the two thousand and six winter games in turn was the last time the two countries did that at an olympics. the i.o.c. has other big how to date had it before pyong chang has been the involvement of russian athletes in november they ruled that athletes would only be permitted to compete as neutrals after accusations of state sponsored doping before the two russian competitors have formally appealed their lifetime olympic bans the court of arbitration for sport the court says the final decision on each case will be made by january thirty first a week before the games begin deputy russian prime minister vitaly but cole is also

appealing his bam manchester city's near almost flawless season has been tested in the english league cup bristol city took a surprise first half lead from the penalty spot in the first leg of their semifinal but kevin de bruyn levelled the score for the home side in the fifty fifth minute and that was followed by a ninety second minute goal from sergio guerra city skate with a two one victory. argentinian football legend carlos tevis is back training with his old club book of juniors and he seems to be feeling right at home which isn't too much of a surprise as it's his third time joining the side to have his was officially unveiled as a book of player on choose day the move comes after shanghai shannon why ended his contract a year earlier the thirty three year old striker played just sixteen games and scored only four goals in the chinese super league to have as began his career at boca juniors in two thousand and one

a former champion has been forced out of the dakar rally for a second straight days sam sutherland crashed in peru zico desert while leading the bike category during the four stage the british defending champion had to be airlifted out with a back injury and is being treated in the capital lima. two time champion in the car category had crashed out of the race twenty four hours earlier stefan better hansell is top of the overall standings. world number nine you're on a concert has hit trouble ahead of the upcoming australian open concert was beaten in the opening round of city international by. the defending champion losing in straight sets the year's first grand slam starts in melbourne next monday. twenty sixteen australian open champion actually kerber looks to be heading a form in time for another title till the german is in this year and picked up another women's city against the williams curb are coming from a set down to beat williams who reached last year's final in melbourne. that was

sporting a sumo wrestling has been grappling with controversy ahead of the new season three of japan's top ranked rustlers performed and you all knew your ring entering ceremony in tokyo on choose day the year's first term it begins on sunday but the image of the country's national sport has been tainted after an incident at a bar last october a former grand champion at a young rival over the head with the remote control of a karaoke machine he was fined four and a half thousand dollars last week sumo is supposed to be about hierarchy and discipline. it is ok to be strict but only if it's for the sake of the other person and as long as that leadership isn't bicycle only on your emotions that's the game i was really shocked when i first heard about this case for foreigners sumo is a sport that represents japan and the sport is highly respected by japanese citizens too i didn't expect something like this to happen. and that's all your

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i wish that day could have gone on forever. but my past caught up with. a made us all pay the price daisy and box at this time on al-jazeera. a thirty five year old israeli is shot dead in the west bank the israeli army raids a number of villages. and i'm sure they would all this is al jazeera live from london also coming up north and south korea agreed to hold.