the holy land following at this time on al jazeera world. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. one on one east meets those desperately seeking low anyway they can at this time on al-jazeera. this is zero. and i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. a rare admission and morris military accepts that its soldiers killed ten row hench his bias for found in a mass grave last month a. setback for peace colombia pulls out of talks with the country's second largest

rebel group. is jandali get rid train coming down the hill survivors recall moments of horace mudslides kill over a dozen people in california. and hundreds are arrested in tunisia as protests against rising prices carry on for a fourth day. when morris military has admitted that its soldiers killed ten by henschel muslims captured by buddhist villagers the remains were found in a mass grave in rakhine state last month the army's commander in chief made the statements on his facebook page and posted a picture of the grave he says action will be taken against the members of the security forces found to have carried out the killings it's thought to be the the military spurs public admission of wrongdoing since it launched a crackdown in rakhine in august ms maher's military says four hundred people have

died since then it's described the victims as terrorists but the aid group doctors without borders contest that claim is based on surveys of refugees who have fled the crackdown at least sixty seven hundred road were killed in the violence describes the campaign as a textbook case of ethnic cleansing more than six hundred fifty thousand of them a fled to neighboring bangladesh that wells a senior crisis adviser with amnesty international has been documenting the violence he says there's a mountain of evidence that shows mass killings over head to civilians took place right across rakhine state. it is extremely rare for the military to admit to any sort of wrongdoing and it's a military in which soldiers operate with really near complete impunity no matter the nature of the crimes and crimes are talking about here that the military has said today involve soldiers summarily executing murdering ten engine men who had been captured but i think the one thing to note about the statement on the

commander in chief's facebook page today is what it doesn't admit which is that this incident is not an isolated incident that in fact we had amnesty the un and media outlets around the world have documented how there's a much wider pattern of killings of sexual violence and the burning of over a hundred villages across rakhine state and so we need to see justice and accountability for this enormous range of crimes and not a pretense that there's really just you know one or few isolated incidents but just less than two months ago the military is very different reports that was a complete white washing which they said that all of their soldiers follow the rules of engagement there were no killings of civilians that there is no sexual violence despite the mountain of evidence that has come out again and again showing otherwise i think it's probably too quick to say that there's any sort of shift i think perhaps what we're seeing instead is that there is a lot of pressure growing pressure from countries around the world in response to

the atrocities that have been committed against the range of population and perhaps with the military is trying to do here is you know show that they're they're doing something that they that they're looking at this one particular incident but again this is this is not an isolated incident and so until the military really acknowledges and takes action to in response to the crimes against humanity that have been committed across northern rakhine states and i think there's a you know good reason to be suspicious that there's a real change in the military's actions. i mean my military submission to the killings comes on the same day two reuters journalists who were reporting on violence in rakhine state were formally charged with breaching a secrecy law journal simeon maher has staged a sit in protest against the decision while loaning also were accused of acquiring information illegally to share with foreign media and could face up to fourteen years in prison it's unclear whether they were reporting on the mass grave in the

end in village trial strafford reports. ryssdal december the twelfth. they've been covering the crisis in rakhine state where hundreds of thousands of revenge of muslims have fled a crackdown on the myanmar military thirty one year old while alone and. twenty seven are accused of being given classified documents by two policemen prosecutors have charged him under the country's official secrets act which carries a maximum sentence of fourteen years in jail no i'm not a little this is unacceptable i want to tell you that they are charging us like this to stop us finding their actions are wrong and unfair. is facing heavy international criticism over its treatment of the ranger the latest crackdown was sparked after reading your rebel group attacked police posts killing a number of policemen in august rights groups saying the myanmar army killed nearly

seven thousand men women and children in the following few weeks and more than six hundred fifty cells and ranger have fled into neighboring bangladesh with the un accusing me of ethnic cleansing the government has denied any wrongdoing but refused any independent investigation and banned journalists from going to rakhine state oh i don't want me out we have tried to sting today about the two journalists because we have permission to do this we are here because as you heard why lone shouted from the police car asking us to support him. the case is cast a spotlight on myanmar's difficult transition to democracy after nearly five decades of military rule analysts say it illustrates deteriorating press freedom and the number of cases against journalists have focused attention on the civilian government of nobel prize winner on song suchi her administration shares power with an army that still controls all security policy and other key leaders of government

but she has not personally denounced the action of the army in rakhine japan's foreign minister is expected to raise. the case when he visits myanmar on january the eleventh. the japanese government has conveyed his concern about this matter to the government of myanmar freedom of speech basic human rights and the rule of law are immutable common values shared by the international community and it is important for all nations to safeguard these values. the two reporters have been working for the reuters news agency there will turn to the court on january the twenty third for legal arguments when lawyers will decide whether to accept the case under a legal system described as having changed little since colonial times which is insisted to reporters innocent their families have suggested they were set up and the city international the u.s. and the european union called for their release. al-jazeera.

as urging the government to resume talks the president suspended negotiations after rebel attacks following the expiration of a cease fire ellen leaders say the incident should not to rail the peace process. has more from the it's a historic three months long ceasefire now over and in the worst way as the rebels resumed attacks in colombia many hoped for an extension of a truce which this five violations have been considered a success. but on wednesday colombia's last active rebel group perpetrated four attacks wounding two colombian marines and effecting an important oil pipeline colombian president juan manuel santos spoke forcefully against them. laura the government deplored the airlines decision to restart its terrorist attacks on the general public the armed forces and on parts of the national infrastructure we were

always repeats always ready to extend the ceasefire with the airline and negotiate very quickly a new cycle of talks even it will she have. inexplicably not only rejected this process but chose to restart their terrorist attacks on the very day that they were obliged to initiate the round of negotiations. from quito where peace talks had been expected to resume elaine leaders said they were hopeful the talks could restart but then explain the reasoning behind the attacks let me say that we're going to shooting table was making progress during the cease fire so we maintain the decision to give continuity to what we achieved but we need a new ceasefire that overcomes the difficulties of the first one. president santos immediately recalled to the recently appointed negotiators for consultations experts say the failure to extend the cease fire shows deep divisions among the

leadership this said. we. will win. much. sense is not only the probably what will happen with this cease fire is what will happen with the table and the general process between the government and the. the talks have long been complicated by a lack of confidence between the parties and to tangible results and we can now expect the colombian military to start a bombing campaign in rebels areas a full blown return of the of steely gaze that will make very difficult to resume the talks at least for now listen to. claymore head of the news hour including unable to afford a home the poorest people in brazil's largest city take matters into their own hands. by an embarrassing leak involving his son is forcing the israeli prime

minister to defend himself against corruption allegations. and support the international olympic committee said today to make decisions about north korea's participation and south korea's games. violence has flared again between police and protesters and five nation cities including the capital after a fourth day of demonstrations more than two hundred thirty people have been arrested in the wave of anti austerity rallies demonstrators are angry at the government's planned price and tax hikes the opposition is calling for the two thousand and eighteen budget to be scrapped the nation's prime minister has urged the call i'm saying the economy will improve this year one of the boys in this is we would like to send a message to the protesters no matter what the government undertakes its top priority is improving economic and social conditions and ensuring the trust in the country and its institutions the government wants open dialogue regarding the

demands. at least ninety refugees have drowned after a river boat sank off the coast of libya another three hundred on other boats were rescued from the mediterranean sea on tuesday it marks the first significant mass stranding in two thousand and eighteen the most travel route as from africa north through livia and across the mediterranean sea to italy and two thousand and seventeen more than one hundred nineteen thousand people arrived in italy that a third fewer than the year before but three hundred thousand people drowned or disappeared in the mediterranean most of them off the coast of libya to haul reports. in just the past forty eight hours three boatloads of migrants and refugees have run into trouble off the libyan coast around three hundred people were rescued by the coast guard tired and cold but alive dozens more have perished in the winter waters of the mediterranean but for those who have survived

relief is short lived. the. rights groups say a terrible fate awaits those return to libya a country with a growing slave trade and in which lawless fighting groups have helped create a transit and people smuggling hope it's what's happening to people inside of libya that. where there is a blind eye being turns to this this is horrible industrial scale human rights abuse of individuals there is widespread torture there is massive overcrowding of prisons two thousand people in one large prison cell as it were being detained arbitrarily there needs to be a greater degree of responsibility recognized by europe that they are part of this

. summer after the european union prevailed on libya to help stop the seaborne influx he talian television showed libyan border guards apparently firing at rubber dinghies packed with people they're seen forcing survivors ashore at gunpoint but it's done little to discourage those determined to make it to europe i let them i was. after receiving a call from the fishing vessel about the presence of a migrant boat we headed to the site and found the boat dilapidated we found about sixteen people alive unfortunately the rest of them were missing at least three thousand people died last year trying to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean flimsy vessels provided by people smugglers proving no match for the high seas events this week suggest two thousand and eighteen will be no different to jonah al jazeera back to one of our top stories now the setback to peace in colombia for the

government suspended talks with the country's second largest rebel group in l.a. and our national liberation army is a marxist group founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty four to fight inequality september the first ceasefire after fifty three years of fighting was agreed to in return for a degree of rebel immunity the ceasefire expired overnight after a logistical problem stopped the two sides meeting on monday yellen has fifteen hundred members and it is far smaller than far which is now a political party following a story deal just about a year ago. after pearl is a lot america analyst and joins us now from san francisco hector can you hear me hector can you hear me. ok we are going to be here with you wonderful thank you for joining us i'm here ok so let's talk this talk about this this breakdown in the peace talks what what do you think is really at the core of why it broke down

so i think the central issue for the iau lynn is they're watching what's happening with the fark agreement and they're seeing that a good portion of what was agreed to with the fork is not being fulfilled by the government there's been assassinations of human rights activists assassinations of fark members and so they're kind of looking at that situation and saying well if they're going to treat the fark like that and they were far bigger than we are then why are we going to you know put ourselves at that risk in the in such jeopardy and risk you know being attacked when we put our guns down when we left in stone actually let me go let me ask you knit as. well why is that though why do you think that the government is is treating do they have a point is the government treating them differently than fark and if so why.

so it's not necessarily that the government is treating them differently than the fark what the government has is a has a major problem the peace agreement was not from the get go was not very popular right you had the former president. who has a large base of support that was rallying people against the peace process from the get go and so the government is in a precarious situation it doesn't have necessarily all the political capital and maybe some of the resources to really go forward with a lot of the agreements you have other branches of the government you know for instance the. the equivalent of. i guess the district the federal district attorney or the prosecutor attorney general in the united states trying to prosecute you know trying to put roadblocks up for the peace process itself so the colombian government itself and different actors in very powerful

actors in the economic sectors of society are pressuring the government in trying to block a lot of the peace process itself are those the people that are blocking this land are these people that were also against the what happened what farquhar did they support far. you know they were also against it with the fark the difference is that with the lend the ian is even smaller and seen as kind of weaker than the fort and so they're very they don't even want these sectors these right wing radical sectors didn't even want peace with the fork they wanted a punishment they wanted a military defeat they saw a military defeat of the fark and much more so with that yellin they're looking for an outright military defeat of these of the forces so a lot like gets everybody back to the table is there what does it have to take for everyone for this to get back on track these talks.

well it's going to be this is going to be really tough here in a difficult situation from a strategic standpoint i kind of can understand why that yellin decided to take this right so the ceasefire was over technically and so they could have been attacked they could have very easily been attacked themselves and so i think they kind of sent the signal that we're serious we're not you know we're not a defeated force we're here we're going to fight we're willing to fight if you don't meet us seriously at the negotiating table and so i think the colombian government is going to have to save face and they're most likely going to have to respond militarily but i hope and you know i think over the long term for the for the short term it's going to be a significant escalation of violence but hopefully over the long term you know everyone kind of saves phrase comes back to the negotiating table and cooler heads can prevail. thank you very much for your expertise on this way appreciate it

thank you my pleasure the u.s. accusing syrian government forces and its allies of killing at least eighty five civilians in eastern canada and the last ten days alone they are area which was agreed to as a deescalation zone has come under heavy bombardment in recent weeks as government forces try to take back control from rebel fighters at the u.n. says at least thirty children are among those killed in the recent attacks eastern good as homes around four hundred thousand people have been under government siege for more than four years. russia has asked sharky to control armed groups as serious as lead province after a suspected drone attack on one of its bases this comes as turkey's foreign minister accuses iran and russia of undermining agreements to reduce fighting in the so-called deescalation zones bernard smith reports. it live in northern syria is supposed to be one of four so-called deescalation zones set up to reduce fighting if anything battles between government and opposition forces are

intensifying russia turkey and iran agreed last year to be guarantors of cease fires in those mainly opposition held areas now the turkish government says the syrian regime is claiming to attack what it calls terrorists targeting the so-called moderate opposition. ninety five percent of the violations are carried out by the regime or the groups who backed the regime why is the aim to exploit this process to completely wipe out the moderate opposition in the civilians iran and russia should meet their obligations as guarantors and stop the regime this is not about simple airstrikes near the border the regime is advancing toward the inside of it live so here the intention is different. but the syrian government's russian allies disagree saying recent drone attacks on its air and naval bases in syria were launched by opposition groups from italy russia's defense

ministry released photos it said was of a downed drone in a statement russia says data for the attacks could only have been obtained from one of the countries that possesses no how in satellite navigation. and we'll know if the kremlin knows the perpetrators russia will increase the shelling bombardments against them but if the attack represents a message from those who are not happy with the russians and want to negotiate with them then russia can slightly change its stands and put some pressure on a damascus regarding active groups around. the syrian army's offensive around it forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the border with turkey turkey's foreign ministry has summoned both the russian and iranian ambassadors to lodge a formal complaint about what's happening there bernard smith al-jazeera. the number of people killed by landslides in southern california has risen to at least fifteen hundred people are trapped in santa barbara county heavy rain started on monday triggering the flow of temporary and in areas recently affected by fires are

going on as far as us live from santa barbara so robert that many people missing this is still very much i assume a search and rescue mission. that's right to rachelle it is and it's because there are so many roads that have been washed out you can see behind me this is highway one o one it's the major coastal artery between a los angeles and santa barbara and san francisco and it's not passable it's closed for for miles for many kilometers the crews are working on trying to get this major highway open but it's it's a tough job considering the amount of debris that has been deposited in the roadways by that torrential storm early tuesday morning now because the roads in this area and many of them in twisting narrow canyons are in such bad shape the

only way that some of those stranded residents can be rescued is by air. there is no way in or out of mudslide devastated areas of montecito except by air the crew of a u.s. coast guard jayhawk helicopter rescued a stranded family including the mother father a newborn baby a young girl and boy and two pet dogs they were one of many families whose houses were overwhelmed and lives up ended by a rampaging flow of water mud boulders and debris and intense rain storm pounded the affluent coastal area in the pre-dawn hours of tuesday morning a centimeter and a half of rain fell in one five minute period alone in addition to more than a dozen people killed by the slides authorities say an undetermined number are missing and several hundred people are stranded roads including major state

highways were overwhelmed by mud highway crews are working to clear them. how deep the mud is. the area is home to many wealthy entertainers oprah winfrey filmed herself slaughtering through the mud and debris that flooded her garden as rescue helicopters flew overhead the slides were more severe officials say due to recent wildfires that scorched the area destroying vegetation that would normally anchor the soil in place and we've been talking to some of the residents in this area they tell terrifying stories of a sound like a thousand freight trains in the middle of the night as boulders rushed down the creek others saying that they barely survived after becoming stuck in the mud and having to be rescued by passers by back to you really scary stuff in santa barbara

thank you. yes president onil trump is insisting that any immigration reform must include funding for a border wall with mexico it comes a day after a federal judge blocked the government from ending protection for illegal immigrants brought to the u.s. as children our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports donald trump was defiant when asked in a joint press conference with the norwegian prime minister whether he would sign an immigration deal that does not include funding for a border wall with mexico. but you know no it's got to include the war we need the wall for security we need the wall for safety we need the wall for stopping the drugs from boring in trouble appears to be giving little ground on finding a compromise to immigration reform i think there needs to be a willingness on both sides it comes one day after signaling he may be willing to yield to demands by democrats to keep in place protections for illegal immigrants

brought to the united states as children but a two state california court ruling blocking truck from ending those protections outrage the president took to twitter suggesting the decision that will likely be challenged is flawed the program commonly known as dhaka allows kids brought to the united states before their sixtieth birthday to remain in the country democrats want to keep it and have threatened to stop funding the government over the issue we cannot wait we cannot tolerate to. delay is a term to employed by those who do not wish to see a deal. in addition to demands for funding a wall to block illegal immigration trump is also tie the current battle over immigration to funding for the u.s. military it's not a point of negotiation we can say oh we're going to give you money for your military but you have to give us money for something that frankly is much less important trump says he wants to work with democrats but time is running out

funding for the government ends in a little more than a week and there is no sign of a resolution can really help get al-jazeera washington from also saying he would examine whether u.s. libel laws can be screened and in response to a new book which questions his mental fitness or current libel laws are a share and a disgrace and do not represent american values or american fairness so we're going to take a strong look at that we want fairness can change things that are false and we false and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account russia says it will back the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal which it says is good for regional stability and solving nuclear weapons issues russian foreign minister sergey lavrov made the comments at a meeting with his iranian counterpart mohammad childhood cirith in moscow it comes

ahead of a brussels meeting on thursday in which european powers are expected to reaffirm their support for the deal that's president on a trial for jack to clean and october are friday he must decide whether to reimpose oil sanctions against iran that were lifted under the teal. so head on al-jazeera homeless and desperate alison's are displaced after a powerful storm hits the east coast a gas car. and secret documents reveal how advisers to the ukrainian president played a role of the seizure of one point five billion dollars we'll have the latest from al-jazeera as investigative unit and sport full time comes early for a former football manager at the time currently.

hello there we've been hearing about the mudslides in parts of california and it only takes around ten millimeters of rain in an hour in order to make a deputy flow in an area that has been hit by a wildfire now the showers that we've had with us that brought us our heavy rain is gradually working its way towards the east in behind it it is a lot quieter so i think for most of us as we head through the day on thursday should be any problems with the weather here further north though we are going to have another weather system that's working its way and that's going to be giving us some rain in the northwest in parts of the states and the southwestern parts of canada and that will be turning to stow as you'd expect over the mountains it makes its way eastwards we've also got this weather system with us on thursday this is a very intense area of snow that's gradually sweeping its way eastwards bringing us yet more wintery weather there during the day on friday and ahead of it it's still mild and is still rather wet so for new york will be getting to around thirteen degrees and expect a fair amount of rain during the day too before this was the south and we've been watching this weather system with us for the past week or so it's cool to some very

heavy rains and it's bringing us yet more at the moment mostly to parts of jamaica where we've seen flooding and through cuba on up towards the bahamas more showers are expected here on thursday and are going to stick around as we head into friday with just a few residual showers to it south. when diplomacy fields and fear sweet finn our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's not to take two instead of being an obstacle or tornado wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where every. you're watching al-jazeera and these are the top stories this hour on mars military has admitted its soldiers killed ten right henschel muslims captured by buddhist villagers the remains were found in a mass grave in rakhine state last month it's thought to be the military's first

public admission of wrongdoing since of launched a crackdown in rakhine in august clumpy a c.l.m. rebel group is urging the government to resume talks the president suspended negotiations after rebel attacks after a ceasefire last ellen leader say the incident should not derail the peace process and there's been more violence between police and protesters and by nation cities including the capital tunis after a fourth day of demonstrations more than two hundred thirty people have been arrested and the wave of anti austerity rallies demonstrators are angry of the government's planned price and tax hikes. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is defending himself against corruption allegations after six recording of his son was leaked and the conversation recorded three years ago where netanyahu says his father pushed through a natural gas deal which benefited and israeli business tycoon it comes at a different difficult time for the prime minister who is already under

investigation for corruption and yahoo says the audio link is part of a media which aimed at ousting him you've come to have those you know you didn't know about the gas deals he had no clue about that he didn't know anything and what he said in the recording he said under the influence of alcohol in a tasteless joke with a friend but he had no idea go off and as the chief political correspondent an analyst for a truce on post he says that leak is an embarrassment for the israeli prime minister. it's absolutely disgraceful that the young men went to strip clubs using a car and bodyguard in a driver provided by the state no prime minister before in israel had ever requested security guards for his children these were provided by for security reasons that we can't really understand but there's no reason anybody should be paying for it and people are very much upset about it it won't have any political impact them to know because until now didn't go to

a strip club only his son did and i don't see anybody in his coalition government leaving the government over it but it doesn't leaves a bad taste in our in the mouths of the people of israel who are already upset and it's now for his own criminal probes a funeral has been hell for an israeli settler killed in a drive by shooting in the occupied west bank on tuesday the thirty five year old rabbi was a resident of an illegal israeli settlement near the city of novelists israeli forces are looking for the killer temporary roadblocks of and put out to restrict access to the area. reports of israeli settlers throwing stones at palestinians after the attack. qatar is considering taking further legal action on humanitarian grounds against the blockade imposed by four arab nations saudi arabia the u.a.e. reign and egypt cut ties with doha seven months ago or searching their airspace and banning katerina's from entering a un human rights council investigation found the blockade was having significant impact on kottaras population separating families also said the measures were only

aim but the government but also the people qatar says the findings provide a basis to move forward with international arbitration. world oil prices have hit a three year high with the barrel of crude costing almost seventy u.s. dollars experts are blaming the rise on recent production limits are created by opec in conjunction with falling u.s. reserves stocks and the possibility of more iranian sanctions restricting tehran's exports the price of oil crash between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen the environmental impact from china's hydroelectric dams has dominated talks at the mekong river summit in cambodia leaders of the countries along the mekong met to discuss how to make use of the waterway many are worried chinese power projects will lead to disaster for sixty million people who rely on it downstream reports from bangkok. china wants to play an

increasingly assertive role in southeast asia and is using hydro diplomacy to get they have this was the second summit for leaders of the lunts young mekong corporation a group started by china three years ago it brings together nations where the mekong river or lunch song as it's known in china runs through we have a five year plan that is one of the key outcome document for the summit and in that five year action plan combined with what we call the creation it's enough to give a good picture of where the make lunch and have come up to now and where we intend to take forward how you can in the next five years the make on runs for almost five thousand kilometers and is a vital source of food and transport for around sixty million people but it's also becoming a resource that governments in the region increasingly want to tap into. china has already dams the upper reaches of the river to generate electricity while laos has

to under construction and at least seven more planned environmentalists worry about the effects the dams will have on the ecosystem the chinese projects have been blamed for problems downstream like severe droughts particularly in vietnam with the mekong comes to an end but some believe china's role in creating the land sung make on cooperation could be positive this can be a great chance for china to take. real leadership with sustainable testing ability and their chairing. with little benefit. beijing also sees the mekong as a key piece of its belts and road infrastructure and transport initiative linking china with the rest of asia and europe. it's pouring billions of dollars into projects in southeast asia like the construction of a high speed rail way when it's completed it'll can make china with laos and thailand developments on the mekong are also moving ahead quickly too quickly for

some the concern is that not enough is known about the potential impacts of so much manmade intervention on one of the world's great waterways wayne hay al jazeera bangkok firefighters and china say a blaze on an iranian oil tanker could burn for another two weeks or up to four weeks it's unknown how much oil has still following a collision with a cargo ship thirty one sailors are still missing but the ship's operator so confident survivors will be found adrian brown reports from those on china's east coast. the stricken iranian tanker adrift in one of asia's most important shipping lanes what remains unclear is the environmental threat posed by its combustible cargo but pictures on chinese state television appear to show the fire is now under control what's less clear is how much oil has so far been spilled that

is a worry for fishing communities along china's eastern coast something here that a large oil slick could poison the waters on which they depend twenty one survivors of the collision all from the hong kong freighter the sea of crystal were brought here after being rescued by local fisherman one of those fishermen told us that their trawler had been close by when the tanker and the cargo ship collided he said we heard a loud bang before the night sky was lit up a short time later he and the other fisherman were helping the crew of the sea of crystal out of a lifeboat it was too dangerous to reach the tank of oh he said. it took us about a half an hour to get there it was a big fire then tourist explosions was still happening in iran the tankers owners still hope some of their crew are alive and then you can sit them

a lot he has this we think that it's likely they will find survivors since the vessels engine room is not directly affected by the fire and it's about fourteen meters under water. on wednesday chinese officials said no large scale oil slick has yet appeared but with environmentalist still unsure how much has actually spilled into the sea a full assessment of the risks is not yet possible adrian brown al jazeera joe shown in eastern china. well asia's government has agreed to pay u.s. space firms seventy million dollars if it can find wreckage or the black box of flight m h three seventy within three months the malaysia airlines boeing seven seven seven that disappeared with two hundred forty nine people on board in two thousand and fourteen the company ocean infinity is expected to began searching a new area in the southern indian ocean in about a week's time malaysia's transport minister says there's an eighty five percent

chance of finding debris in the new search area at least two people have been killed in pakistan during protests against the rape and murder of an eight year old girl dozens of people attacked a police station and a government building in eastern through province on wednesday the violence erupted hours before the funeral of zainab unsorry police say she was kidnapped sexually assaulted and murdered soldiers and every coast have looted weapons from an elite military unit and set its base on fire gunshots and heavy weapons fire was heard in the second largest city block a on tuesday night the soldiers were part of several mutinies last year and have accused the elite unit of spying on them. and madagascar the death toll from tropical cyclone ava has risen to thirty three with another twenty two people still missing every speeds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers an hour when it tore through the east coast over the weekend cutting off roads in displacing thousands

of hama volved reports. it's been a dramatic change in life in less than forty eight hours for people on the east coast of madagascar. was the latest psych load to hit the island it has now subsided but it has left them homeless sick and in desperate need of help. we are six in our family and our house is completely submerged in water my child had a strong fever so we decided to come here from morning the moment you step down from your bed we're forced to walk in water water is everywhere and that is the reason we came here. it's like none of us sped up the east coast of the island on five day before heading out to sea on sunday heavy rains and winds of up to one hundred the ninety kilometers an hour left a trail of destruction dozens died in floods and landslides up to nine hundred thousand fled to temporary shelters hundreds of homes have been destroyed roads submerged schools shut down and towns cut off from one another by the sudden appeal

of new lakes region of. four hundred kilometers south of the cups and on the river was worst affected among we asked the state to come and see what we are going through and to look at our situation and find a solution to clear out the water but it is stagnant and we don't know where to put our children. it is not the first lethal storm to hit madagascar in the last twelve months in march cycling you know killed at least seventy eight people and destroyed a lot of crops rescue workers are struggling to cope with the phenomena. we have a contingent plan that contains three scenarios of floods and psych loans the first one is currently in progress and the expenses so far are no less than twenty million dollars. and as the cycle of natural disasters returns to strike madagascar the financial cost as well as the human cost continues to rise powerful storms on

poverty combined to deadly effect of disease. and brazil a cry for help over the lack of affordable housing in south america's largest city is growing louder the people without fear camp and sao paulo was started by a land reform group five months ago it's now home to eight thousand families and home and met some of them. on the first day there were five hundred families now there's a tent city on the outskirts of sound paolo it's a land occupation organized like many others to pressure the government into providing a food bill housing. some here are homeless others live in overcrowded often irregular dwellings like how to deanna she says a two bedroom house with her three children parents and siblings was the scene most i want to house for my kids where they can be raised in safety and quiet our own house city house prices is so high that those are minimum wage would have to say

for food two years to buy one would have the possibility of a food your own house. it's impossible she says. but until recently a pioneering government program was making the impossible possible mean you can so many of either which means my house my life help millions to get subsidized homes it's been drastically cut mean your custom in the of either has accounted for three quarters of all homes built over the last decade it's been a tremendous lifeline for the working class but it's also helped leave the brazilian government broke now work has slowed down or stopped from developments like this one the housing deficit is growing again the problem may be resurfacing now but high open land prices have been a problem for decades was about to come down the housing expert says this is an opportunity for most sustainable solution to be found last year was the government should use its power to buy tracts of land and then sell them to developers to

build moderately priced housing that way it can make a bit of money provide housing and regulate the system to reduce the price of land . but for now the only method that brianna and many others have used to gain and put pressure on a struggling government provide don't homan. so. al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained a confidential ukrainian court document detailing how former president victory in a covert stole one point five billion dollars the document also reveals that the advisers to the current president played a role in the scheme the money was seized in may of last year but the court order remained a court order that has remained a secret until now well jordan reports twenty thirteen and thousands protested in ukraine's independence square the uprising led to the overthrow of the government of then president. by june twenty fourth teen officials in the new government had

traced him frozen one point five billion dollars that they claim to been siphoned off shore by the ousted president and his clan but they have to prove the money was stolen and that yanick cove it had stolen it returning us is always complicated it requires cooperation across multiple jurisdictions it requires very long elaborate legal processes and you are fighting against very very rich defendants who are going to hire the best lawyers to defend themselves briefly there's robbery in may last year the prosecutor general suddenly announced the government had seized the one point five billion dollars but how they done it was a mystery because he declared a state secret. it is shocking that rather than being something which is open in which ukrainian people should know. who and what has been taken from them by whom instead of that it or kept secret al-jazeera investigations

has obtained this exclusive copy of the ruling. this ruling clearly identifies investment capital ukraine acting as a brokerage firm for some of the companies involved in the honor code which is corruption it's embarrassing for the government because at the time i see you was led by the current head of ukraine's central bank the lariat going to reva and it has advised president petro poroshenko here seen with his predecessor viktor janak overage in twenty twelve our colleagues in kiev want to see a government that is committed to transparency a government whose actions in tackling corruption today i am from past eras are subject to public scrutiny so that people can have confidence. now campaigners are asking tough questions why has the not been investigated for its role in a multi-million dollar fraud and why four years on has nobody from the unit covert

clam face justice will jordan which is zero president poroshenko told al-jazeera he strongly supports efforts to fight corruption in ukraine and that i see you are no longer his financial advisors i see you in the area gunter of us said that the firm's transactions fully comply with the law and that the transactions have been found by law enforcement bodies and market regulators to be above board i see this role was limited to that hit the can watch al-jazeera is full investigation the elec arcs at twenty. on thursday. still ahead on al-jazeera the record breaking cyclists who's decided it's time to retire at the age of one hundred six. the latest news as it breaks the government of mali so maggie has pushed to have as

a result of laws that it says will make argentina's economy more competitive with detailed coverage in two thousand and sixteen when the government stops it doesn't rub salt the cost of polluted jumped by sixty percent the queues disappear at least for a year from around the world the military and the establishment in the capital bangkok know that it's very difficult for them to win support in parts of thailand like this. i mean this was different not just whether someone's going for someone who's very rich but it does matter when you meet street i think it's how you approach an individual and that's it is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject a story and try out.

i'm bored with araa. thanks very much the international olympic committee has set a date of january twentieth for a meeting between north and south korean officials at their headquarters in los suns president's home a spark will chair the gathering to discuss the participation of north korean athletes at next month's winter olympics and kyung chang the north's i.o.c. representative chang was in lowes and on wednesday twenty four hours earlier government officials announced they would send athletes fans and journalists to the games in neighboring south korea followed a high level talks between the two countries at this meeting they'll discuss how many north korean athletes will attend only to figure skating pair have qualified but the i.o.c. will likely bend the rules as a goodwill gesture it's possible the two nations will march together during the opening ceremony this last happened at the two thousand and six winter olympics in

turin issues relating to the flag national anthem and team uniforms will also be discussed all north korea have tried to remain part of the sporting arena even while isolated largely from the international community due to the advancement of their nuclear program the north korean under twenty three football team beat thailand one nil in their opening game at the asian championships in china on wednesday chelsea and arsenal played to a stalemate in their first leg of their english league cup semifinal while blues have had the better of the chances at stamford bridge neither side was able to convert as it finished nil nil the second leg will be played in two weeks time. now back jock itch says he's thrilled with his comeback and intends to play in the australian open the former world number one made a winning return to competitive tennis after more than six months out with injury wearing a full arm sleeve to protect his troublesome elbow the surgeon the world number

five dominic team at the two young african melbourne jock a bitch was forced to pull out of last week's counter open to fourteen in the world rankings but he came through this match six one six for the australian open starts on monday. rafa nadal has also taken a big step forward as he tries to build fitness for next week's tournaments the spaniard showed glimpses of his best in an event called the tie break times in melbourne eight players took part in a first a ten points contest and made it to the final where he was beaten by czech thomas burdick who won the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars first prize. a former football manager is dakar rally debut was cut short while a nine time world rally championship winner was forced out of the race during stage five in pru talked him and chelsea boss andre withdrew after suffering from back

pains when his car crashed he was airlifted out and taken to hospital sebastian loeb was forced to abandon the race after his copilot was injured when their vehicle hit a crater in the sand dunes lopes persia teammates had a handful won the fifth stage to extend his overall lead. now one of the world's most well known athletes will start a new chapter in his career on friday mohammad formerly mo far is in katter for his first road running events and stepping away from the track so how malik reports. he's not about to become a professional footballer but most far is in the process of changing careers after winning six world titles and four olympic gold medals on the track he's in qatar to run the doha half marathon but first it towards his new goal of the olympic marathon gold in my name is to go to tokyo twenty twenty see how it depends on my body just work i've got to look after stay injury free stay focused stay hungry and

keep doing doing and i am enjoying it i got this is my most far as a center of attention here in doha he's won so many championships and gold medals worldwide he's going to go down as a legend on the track the question is now whether he can achieve the same success as a marathon runner to emphasize his change of direction britain's most decorated athlete now wants to go by his full name mohammed again distancing himself from his former glories although it may take some adjusting to you know people think mo is a great trait my nose going to go where those can be doing in the in america of the questions i like guys leave every gun. on the track that way limo and asked are going to slowly chapter. is journey to the top hasn't come without controversy. his relationship with alberto salazar has generated unwanted headlines far as former coach is being investigated by the u.s. anti-doping agency for what's called unlawful conduct. and the somali born muslim

has been vocal politically criticizing don't trump the u.s. ban on travel through a number of predominately muslim countries he says athletes need to stand up for what they believe is right close important because they're trying to metrix and we do stand up for the right what things you know for me a song knew when i was spoke about don't know tom it affected me and my family and so many members of people who are in the same positions me. and the tracking says long distance success on the road is the only story he wants to be the focus of in the year ahead. so he'll malik al-jazeera doha. and the world's oldest competitors cyclists has decided it's time to retire at the age of one hundred and six a year ago are aware marshalls set day a world record in one hour track cycling and the over one hundred five age group the freshman says that while he will no longer be aiming for titles help carry on

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