dallas here they will gradually ease off into the tasman heading towards d.c. and say increasing cloud already starting to show its hand friday could be rather wet day to western parts of new zealand sunny across the south and sixteen celsius across the table brighten up it'll warm up as we go on into saturday further north well on the cold side for japan as one would expect a little bit of snow over the high ground that will make its way further east. zero. zero zero zero zero maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up

european leaders reaffirmed their backing for the iran nuclear deal as donald trump decides whether to uphold the agreement also. the rape and murder of an eight year old girl shocks pakistan sparking angry protests. deploys the army to crack down on and on rest detaining more than three hundred protesters overnight. and britain's prime minister pay just to eradicate avoidable plastic waste within twenty five years we'll look at what we can do to help. and i'm far as small in doha with top sports stories as murray share public makes a controversial appearance at the drop ceremony for the australian open after missing last year's event due to a drug that. a

low very welcome to the program our top story french president emanuel has told his american counterpart that the iran nuclear deal must be respected by all sides he delivered the message in a phone call as donald trump decides whether to reimpose sanctions on tehran ed of a deadline on friday the foreign ministers of france germany and britain reiterated their backing for the deal after meeting iran's foreign minister in brussels a debugger reports from brussels. a last minute attempt to keep the nuclear deal with iran on track the meeting between the foreign ministers of the three european union nations which signed it and their rainy and counterparts comes ahead of a decision in washington on reapplying sanctions the deal is working it is the living on its main goal which remains keeping the iranian nuclear program in check and i'm going to close the survey against the i.a.e.a. has confirmed in nine hundred more to see that iran is fully complying with the

commitments made under the agreement with us president donald trump has repeatedly threatened to tear up the agreement which he's called the worst deal ever it was signed at a time of heightened tensions across the region some of iran's neighbors have been talking about a possible military strike against the country. to her rounds made no secret of its arsenal of ballistic missiles but some countries including israel claimed it also had an active nuclear weapons program iran insisted its nuclear agenda was purely civilian but under the deal it agreed to end research in return for the partial lifting of sanctions allowing it to access global financial markets and crucially sell its oil. last summer president trump agreed to waive sanctions on iran's oil industry but things could be about to change in october he announced a new iran policy iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal

i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions trump's called for sanctions on iran's revolutionary guard but he also wants to extend time limits on the country's nuclear research and curtail its missile program he's refusing to recertify the deal unless congress passes legislation amending it but democrats say they won't back any changes not supported by european allies who insist any alterations would be in breach of the international agreement it leaves donald trump with two choices rectify the deal and keep it alive or reject it and trigger an international crisis we are discussing with the american american allies and friends that we should separate two things from each other first we want to preserve the jessop u.a.e. the nuclear deal with iran because it's in our all in our interest not to develop to see that nuclear weapons are developed in iran given the strength of feeling

here in europe and warnings in the us itself it's likely president trump will in fact refrain from reapplying those oil sanctions on iran but that certainly doesn't mean he's going to give up trying to change the terms of the nuclear deal and so the uncertainty over the future of iran's nuclear program goes on the team barbara al-jazeera brussels. life press and washington d.c. and allan it takes a brave man to preempt president donald trump that does appear to be what steve is doing what are you hearing about this sanctions session. well we know that donald trump has over the last few days been talking with his national security advisors if we know what happened in the past we can be guaranteed that the likes of rex tillerson his sect of state to mattis is defense minister and also h.r. mcmaster his national security adviser saying look every run is in compliance with

the deal and we really can't blow it up at this point he's also getting calls from the french president who's saying look they're in compliance would be very upset if this fell apart but donald trump really doesn't care that much about what the europeans are saying he does listen to the israelis he listens to the saudis as well and donald trump sees things very much binary towns that if something is good for iran then therefore it can't be very good for the united states and we know he's been highly critical of the deal in the past what is likely to happen we don't know but we expect more nor nuclear sanctions to be announced by donald trump something that was teased by steve minissha who's the treasury secretary when he made a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room in the last couple of hours i am expecting new sanctions on iran we continue to look at them we've rolled them out and i think. you can expect there will be more sanctions coming. so there is the possibility of more and more nuclear sanctions when it comes to the

nuclear deal he's been told by those closest to him as well look you think that sanctions are working well is putting pressure on the iranian regime and that is what's led partly to some of the protests that we've seen in tehran over the last month or so now if you want to keep the pressure on the iranian regime keep the focus on the government you don't start scrapping this nuclear deal because what you give to the iranians then isn't a nationalistic totem that they can rally around and everyone then starts to focus their attention on the united states rather than on the government in tehran so they will be saying look what we need to do is just can things don't say that you're going to introduce these new round of sanctions which are away from the nuclear deal and let congress deal with the idea of recertification or trying to renegotiate the deal the problem they've got there of course is that congress was a signatory to the deal so there may be some way that they can get congress to deal with the the whole nuclear deal in the abstract so donald trump can say put

pressure on congress and they delivered something so he gets the win because we know from the book that we've read in the last week or so and from others that donald trump likes to have the wind so he may well get the wind forcing congress to do something but it won't impact the deal but as you suggested donald trump will decide what he wants to decide when he's ready to decide that ok thank you very much and washington d.c. . the father of an eight year old pakistani girl who was raped and murdered has accused the police of not acting fast enough when his daughter went missing last week zainab and sorry's body was found in a waste dump on tuesday four days after she was reported missing for a second day protests have been taking place in eastern punjab province where she was kidnapped and around pakistan the local police chief has been sacked for negligence police say she is the twelfth girl to be abducted raped and killed in

the region in the last year was a nobbs father attended one of the rallies on thursday and spoke to the media i don't bother. if the culprits in earlier groping murder cases had been caught and punished in this incident would never have happened if they had been given exemplary punishments people's daughters would have been safe today in this area people are too scared to let their children out they are distressed leaving our homes to earn a living britain has become a difficult decision we wonder whether we should go or stay at home to accompany our daughters to their schools. celebrities join thousands of pakistanis around the country to protest the killing. that. cannot come back but the incident needs to be dealt with the best way to do that is to arrest the culprits and give them the punishment they rightly deserve. but this is a short term solution these types of incidents do not stop with hanging

a man or two. i really hope and pray that the culprits are arrested and they are given the severest of punishments i don't know what the punishment will be where they will be given in public or behind closed doors where they will be hanged i do not know but they must be punished i am standing here as a human being as a father as a muslim as a pakistani muslim well as we had earlier as a knob is now the twelfth child to be abducted raped and killed in custer over the last twelve months and across pakistan the numbers a staggering of a seventeen hundred child sexual abuse cases were reported in the first six months of last year and more than twice that number in the year before that's around eleven cases a day sixty two percent of last year's recorded cases were in punjab province where kosovo is located and residents say police are not doing enough to investigate in two thousand and fifteen authorities there uncovered a paedophile ring linked to a prominent family hundreds of children reported he abused but only two people were convicted. all to hear abdullah is

a prominent women's rights activist in pakistan she told al-jazeera that poverty and the growing sex trade a leading to increased sexual violence against children. the figure of child sexual abuse child rape child sodomy child murder has for in the past three to four years in the district of the thought i asked the question yesterday reporter than don't listen to what covering live from the thought i was i was talking to them on the telephone and i asked them why i thought and it seems to me that there is an element of paedophilia gang and drink so that is a bureau that is an international element to this where money is being made something like ten thousand dollars apiece went to the children not bit something like five little dollars for the video videos that they're made so poverty plays a role here the global. gangs and rings play a role here in watching the news hour live from london still to come struggling in

sudan we meet families affected by the price rises since the government cut subsidies. residents start returning to inspect the damage to their neighborhood from the mudslides in southern california. and we'll hear from roger federer as he gets ready to defend his australian open tennis title it's a bit late in sports. now to demonstrate is of burned down a security base near the algerian border this despite the government deploying troops a common way than to austerity rallies more than six hundred people have been arrested since protests began on sunday demonstrations of now spread to several cities as public anger over the price rises continuous. has more from the capital tunis. my there is an atmosphere of fear and fear about the future particularly the

moment. and t. increasing taxes movement has been increasing nationwide calling for the government to take a step back and put an end to the decision it has taken a few days ago about increasing taxes but then when those. protests degenerated into attacks targeting security forces at police stations many trade unions opposition parties are now starting to distance themselves from the movement saying that this is not a legitimate move and they're saying that the only way out of the crisis in tunisia should be through a national dialogue now it remains to be seen whether the government will go ahead with its plan to continue increasing taxes or scrap the whole. tax increase many people are taking to the streets protesters are going to gather to

more nationwide to continue putting pressure on the government they say that there's been. still poverty go into his ear unemployment is on the rise and this government has failed to dizzy and people so seven years after the two thousand and eleven protest movement that inspired millions across the arab world many people here believe that the new political establishment has betrayed the tunisians well turning to protests elsewhere east three people have died in ongoing demonstrations against the rising cost of commodities in sudan bread prices have doubled following the government's decision to cut subsidies there in their twenty eighteen budget it will morgan reports from hard to more on the impact imagines have had on ordinary families. preparing a meal for her family is nothing new. but the portions have changed over the past few days the reason higher prices in the markets. there's an increase in the prices

of basic commodities what i could buy for eighty five dollars in the pasta now cost one hundred seventy dollars even the cost of bread it's gone up and it affects my spending on other things so dense economy has been weakening since the united states impose economic sanctions in my nine hundred ninety seven which were lifted in october last year but there hasn't been much of an improvement since then the government's ten to eighteen fiscal budget has a two point four deficit which has forced it to eliminate some subsidies one of them was for reason so why governing reveals that we used to get a sack of flour for twenty two or twenty four dollars but it was hard to find to know the prices are higher is fifty seven dollars and you can find it but there is a very noticeable increase in the cost i lifting meat subsidies as high prices of bread which led to protests in many parts of the country three people were killed and more than a dozen members of one of the main opposition parties which called for peaceful

protests arrested. protesters the police used tear gas to stop them and the government shut down newspaper publications and confiscated copies that were already in distribution but the price of bread is not the only reason behind the protests sudan currency has been weakening against the dollar for many years in two thousand and five you needed to put me down to get one dollar in two thousand and twelve you needed me now which is a record thirty for just one dollar on the black market with prices of some commodities more than doubling in many find life and affordable. sudan's government lowered the official rate of the currency against the dollar from six point seven to eighteen pounds in january as part of reforms frequented by the international monetary fund but it says the reforms have nothing to do with the hikes in prices and as you know that in libya there have been government efforts to reduce the prices stable consumer goods the rise in prices is not related to the devaluation of efficient exchange rate rather is the result of black market manipulation of

that rate and the ministry and central bank are working to shut down but some analysts say the worsening economy is because of government policies and the budget proposed for this year. the twenty eighteen budget presented to parliament was unrealistic because it was beyond sudan's economic capacity without a vision or identification of the results is to cover the budget the budget may collapse if not in two months then three because the ministry of finance doesn't have the resources for the revenue to cover it to see who doesn't know what the government's next steps will be but she hopes it won't result in more hikes in prices which could force her family to go without some meals he will morgan on to their hearts. a mass burial is taking place in nigeria for seventy one people killed in fighting between felony herdsman and farmers the two communities have been locked in conflict for decades over the use of land to graze their cattle at least fifteen hundred people were killed in violence last year most of them women and children i'm interest was at the funeral and then you say. the nigerian

government has deployed soldiers in addition to hundreds of police officers to be sent to benefit to try to reestablish calm now the bringing in of soldiers it's another i did another dimension to the problem it shows an escalation of this conflict that has been going on for more than fifty years in nigeria doesn't it just kind of escalated in the past twenty years now these are the result of the movement of more hardass from the army north who are trying to have a water and grab all their cattle in the middle of the tickler said men who say the government has a snuggly or other sort of a law banning open grazing and this has gone down well with cattle herders most of them of course coming from outside of nigeria their isolation got a lot in this state but the government benefit told me in an interview that the crisis is escalating because of the movement of additional hundred from now but

nigeria to this particular now one way of doing that one will go doing that meant to be we what we heard from neighboring turned over to understand you can you let me just go away from here to more people have been killed in similar clashes between mamas and cattle rewritten in. the central part of nigeria in the indication that the crisis is about to get worse before it gets any better. funerals have been held for some of the forty five people killed in recent floods in the democratic republic of congo thousands have been left homeless and aid agencies say the disaster is making a major cholera outbreak was a hoax. this was an unceremonious funeral at a local community center mourners gathered somebody to bury the latest victims of the flooding. balance easily the light weight of the child coffin as they lay its body to rest the latest casualty after five days of heavy rains poured through the capital kinshasa last week. we're really very sad today my sister lost five

children because of the rain she's inconsolable we will bury them today we thank everyone who came to support us. away from the crowd these mothers sit together offering some comfort to each other as their children and buried their neighborhood stands in ruins as more fortunate dig through the debris seeking my sister my son dishes like this all i have left are those two chairs that you see over there everything is gone if i had not been at home i would have lost my children but because i was at home i was able to get out with my children. over five thousand people have been left homeless and anger is mounting against the government who they accuse of doing little to protect them from the devastation of. these the floods that brought such misery the trench was coupled with a pool sewage system flush makeshift shanty homes down the city's slopes thora to say most of the deaths were caused by drownings and landslides. kinshasa is the

third most densely populated city in the world and it currently counts twelve million residents aid agencies and warning these floods and mudslides unlikely to antagonize the waterborne and cholera outbreak in the capital and in previous weeks we registered around twenty cases per week on average right now we're getting more than one hundred cases each week in contrast to nearly four hundred fifty have been registered the un says the democratic republic of congo is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak in twenty years the disease has killed over one thousand people over fifty five thousand cases reported across the country since july overcrowding unsanitary conditions and lack of clean drinking water these cases look set to rise . in southern california workers are cleaning up millions of tons of debris from deadly mudslides say seventeen people are known to have died rescue efforts continuing to find eight people who are still missing rob reynolds has the latest

from los angeles. deliverance from above a coast guard helicopter hovered low to rescue a man a child and their dog from the roof of a house surrounded by mud roads in the area have been washed out or are impassable because of mud and debris another coast guard crew landed on a golf course and shepherded eight people and five dogs aboard their jayhawk helicopter officials say five hundred rescuers are combing the hills and canyons using search dogs and thermal imaging equipment crews have to work their way through waist deep mud fallen trees and boulders oh my god mark marco farrel was recording at the moment a torrent of mud and debris came rushing down the street where his parents live. wildfires last month stripped the hillsides of vegetation that usually holds back soil and rock making the mudslides more powerful i've been

a firefighter for twenty six years and for most people that are here on this incident we've never seen an event like this where crews are struggling to clear roads and restore services like electricity telephone gas and water some residents shoveled out their own houses and driveway about one hundred houses were destroyed in tuesday's mudslides it's just my everywhere and completely across six lanes of freeway. and to people's homes down there driveways grateful for the nonstop efforts of rescuers and work crews residents of the area face a long road to full recovery rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. well in other news the u.s. is imposing new measures to crack down on the smuggling of the dangerous synthetic drug fenton il it's one of several opioids responsible for a nationwide epidemic of drug abuse and sylvania is the latest state to declare an

emergency a protocol usually reserved and natural disasters or since an enemy has mall ok president donald trump has signed legislation aimed at preventing opioid drugs from entering the country the measures include allocating nine million dollars for chemical screening devices to be used by customs and border protection agents it comes amid an opioid abuse crisis that has affected swaths of the country in the state of pennsylvania governor tom wolfe declared a disaster emergency citing a skyrocketing number of deaths by drug overdose i don't take this action lightly. we know that this crisis has taken far too many lives has broken for too many families it is decimated far too many communities and it has gone on for too long on the newly released to to stick show a thirty seven percent increase in fatal overdoses in two thousand and sixteen four thousand six hundred forty two in total and initial reports show that number

continued to climb in two thousand and seventeen when overdose related emergency room visits rose eighty two percent through the third quarter this despite state and local efforts to address the problem and clean up areas where drug use is rampant declaring a disaster emergency will allow the state to temporarily reduce regulatory burdens making anti overdose drugs more available and expanding access to treatment the governor is also establishing an opioid operation command center to better coordinate between agencies in south carolina where they've also declared a disaster emergency the governor announced a new public education campaign this is a different kind of spirit it's a silent. scenes through things that are not old fashioned every citizen to take a home they used to say that to this is a society is not

a spectator sport you got to get out of the stands and get down in the game while president trump has resisted calls to officially declare the opiate epidemic a national emergency pennsylvania is now the eighth state to declare a disaster a disaster designation last ninety days but governor wolf left open the possibility of signing another one when this one runs out kristen salumi al-jazeera. ecuador's gone to citizenship to the wiki leaks founder julian assange has been holed up in its london embassy since two thousand and twelve the australian born activist claimed asylum are to seeking refuge to avoid extradition to sweden was wanted there for questioning over a rape investigation which was dropped last year a staunch his extradition to the u.s. where he could face charges of a wiki leaks release of thousands of classified military documents. police in paris say some of the jewel stolen in an armed robbery at the ritz hotel have been recovered the raid happened on wednesday when five people smashed the shop front

window and grab jewelry thought to be worth more than five million dollars three people were arrested at the scene two others escaped on car and motorbike that's lots more still ahead for you. and you report warns that nuclear weapon systems around the wild are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked. the british prime minister says it's time to end the row wake up i'm gonna be put on a recycling center in the west of england looking at the size of the challenge. coming up in sport and local how it creates a rag golfing achievement at the south african open.

how i would get some slightly quiets whether pushing into western europe over the next cloud right will return as we head on into the weekend having said that already have a firm ounce of clouds and rain into central parts of year up but just around the central med just pushing across italy that will ease its way over into the bowl because you can clearly see that circulation swirling away for the northeast generally funny quite a few little of the cool side temperatures around six celsius there for london in paris which is about where we ship it only four degrees there is here and any nine celsius there for madrid they start out of the rain that will make its way in as we go on through friday into saturday so coming into arland into wales pushing into that western side as coffin stretches way right across the bay of biscay and it does make its way across the spanish plain so betrayed struggling to get to six degrees celsius chances of snow over the high ground here meanwhile clear skies come back into italy i just wet or whether they're just pushing back across the apostle the balkans easing across greece that will make its way towards turkey so

that same area of low pressure will of course affects northern parts of algeria maybe pushing across a good part of to need here as well so thirteen celsius for tunis and algiers east of that is ten we fine and dry but we have got increasing clouds brings in all the possible rock and. 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. it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billions trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government to real people. out is the right explores prominent figures of the twentieth century

and how and why buildings influence the course of history the salt the t.v. did not get enough credit for it in the book and it will be a big historical figure but he was not below the biggest part of the world the prisoner and the prison who came together to end up apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face at this time on al-jazeera. a comeback you're watching the news out at update you on the stories making headlines germany france and britain of u.s. president donald trump to back the iran nuclear deal a day before he's expected to sup to decide on whether to reimpose sanctions.

has been a second day of angry protests around pakistan after the rape and murder of an eight year old girl zainab and sorry's father has accused the police of not acting quickly enough. and tunisian demonstrators have burned down a security. based near the algerian border more than six hundred people have been arrested during five nights of protest with the army now deployed in several cities so for more on this story i'm joined on the line from tunis by lina ben and me she is an activist who's been taking part in the protests and a blogger behind a tunisian girl thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us what can you tell us about your plans right now are they going to be more protests in the coming days and weeks. or more of. a big run from

one and if they've organized by. one. or. or there are more. and can you explain who is out on the streets i know that you have been taking part in the protests tell us more about others who are involved in terms of their age and their background. ok earth who i'm sending my arms and so forth there's actually the most very small bulk of. the first goal of where my by saying what the fourth calls for peaceful demonstration during the day. when people from different movements started to exist or of yourself why are some of them hard to get arrested by bullets and. they went public with what the police violence and

this is how the culture of. god when we have more. girls movements. troublemaker advantage of us and i think this is what happened in silesia. well i mean all the theories are not my thing i'm so very very young people. were throwing rocks at me and i so burdened. with all that so. i just stared i think that there are two concepts people that. write and. tell us more about what you want to see from the government there are deep rooted economic problems in tunisia that have been for many years what do people want to see from the government now. well all. let me say that people are very unfamiliar for. what the government wants this

final final act of seeing these guys whereas the experience seems so real economic problems like sound on the news or i see and this is life people are just as. i think of the governments who are first of all. it's something that scares most bosses would be so i was only only always hearing about the damp down about farmers or a down process or all of that but i've also think about this is the solution government's to the revise this finance so it shows the serious emotional that they have to say since otherwise people are literally just beyond moving and process again and again then it will be too we'll well but i will thank you very much for being patient with us we appreciate getting your thoughts

apologies for the quality of your hear that but. honey activist and blogger giving us a sense of the frustration that many people in tunisia facing as they coal for the government to reverse price and tax rises that are a part of the budget thank you dana. now two palestinian teenagers have been killed in fighting with israeli soldiers palestine's health ministry says both of the victims was sixteen year old boys one was shot in the chest near the border fence in gaza the other shot dead in the occupied west bank near nablus has been fighting in the town after the killing of an israeli settler on tuesday israeli army is investigating. well israel has approved the building of more than eleven hundred new settlement units across the occupied west bank their approval could further strain relations between israel and palestine following the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital all settlements are illegal under international law are a force that has more from west jerusalem. well these announcements often contain

a very complex series of numbers and this one is no different seven hundred seventy of these new settlement units are being announced at one stage of this lengthy complex layered process of planning approvals the remainder at the next stage of the process and there are more stages the process after that so it's often hard to get a real handle on exactly what is being announced at any one time and that can serve the israeli government because it has to satisfy right wing coalition members that the process of the groups more generally so being able to make these announcements several times a year as they do can be politically expedient it's never clear exactly how many are entirely new how many are being rian out but the the activist group peace now which monitors settlement construction in the occupied west bank says that there are eleven hundred twenty two of these units being announced across the west bank and more than half of them well away from the zone between israel proper and the occupied west bank where any future land swaps are most likely in any possible two

state solution so peace now is saying that this further hampers the prospects of a two state solution in the future as well as that the israeli defense minister who's in charge of this process he's talking about two thousand five hundred nearly further new units being put up for promotion six hundred fifty tenders for those units and amounts that's seen as the first tranche of that on thursday morning and this really does tally with what we saw last year when the nearly seven thousand units announced in some stage or another during the course of the year that was several thousand more than we saw in the previous two years and so far in these early days of twenty eighteen this year seems to be keeping pace with that. a report released in the u.k. once that nuclear weapon systems around the world are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked whether by states or other groups chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attackers could interfere with nuclear message health in the paying. out of action or perhaps even

causing them to be launched their book called on governments to work with the private sector to stay at the cutting edge of technological developments with this or backward johnson is an anti nuclear weapons campaigner who founded the acronym institute for disarmament diplomacy she says the only way to make the weapons safe is to eliminate them entirely take the u.k.'s nuclear weapons which are dependent on wind a customized version of windows x p where we know now that the hackers have been able to to. paralyze systems that have that particular form of of electronics and you know we're seeing the i mean essentially nuclear weapons are a twentieth century technology but a very very dangerous technology a weapon of mass destruction intended for by and large the the kind of wars of the twentieth century in a situation now where because of electronic and technological advance and particularly cyber advances that iraq and non-state actors small group of people in

their bedrooms virtually can devise ways to get into those systems and either paralyze them or possibly even turn them against. the holders of those nuclear weapons. british prime minister terry's amaze announced plans to eliminate avoidable pass it wastes in the u.k. within twenty five years she also proposed a plastic free aisle in supermarkets as part of environmental action plan millions of tons of plastics and to the oceans every year and some take hundreds of years to biodegrade our u.k. course one of bonnie philips reports from a waste collection center in the west of england. this is the cost of consumer culture we don't like to think about the waste we make but we're all responsible for it this plant in the west of england processes hundreds of tons every day the paper the glass above all the plastic we throw away and as the british prime

minister says it's the planet that pays in years to come i think people will be shocked at how today we allow so much plastic to be produced needlessly this plastic is ingested by dozens of species of marine animals and over one hundred species of sea birds causing immense suffering to individual creatures and degrading vital habitats. the prime minister says she wants to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste by twenty forty two but that's a long way off and anyway what does that even mean environmental groups say we need liberals suna to tackle of waste at this said to they say give the prime minister a chops twenty five years same got along so i'm going to be like we want action now we've got more rain later we've got we've got a planet to protect transition like why we quote from the government in recent

weeks and months that look at the positive return they want to incentivize or so i think they want to make a quality all of those things without reducing plastic impact on the planet changing our throw away health show won't be easy to jail of the problem can be daunting but countries like these are part of the problem that part of the funding is in still very recently oversold if material only last a lifetime i'm not so recently dumped in a landfill now with new technology it's kind of a new ide again and again and again. but how far and how fast are we the consumer is prepared to go. in britain as in so many other countries the public use millions of disposable throwaway coffee cups some companies now off the cheaper coffee if you break your ode be usable copper so commuters need to change their habits. back at the recycling center another concern it till

recently britain sent huge amounts of recycled material to china now china says it has too much and won't take more so the onus is on british industry to start reducing more of the waste it creates talking greed may be good politics for the prime minister changing the ways economy and society work not so easy barnaby phillips al-jazeera bristol. well julian kirby is a campaigner with environmental charity friends of the earth he joins me in the studio now thanks very much for coming in to speak to us it's a long term plan a twenty five year plan an ambitious plan what are your thoughts on it is it feasible well there's some great warm words in there and we certainly need an ambitious long term plan but when it comes down to the details of what's what's in it well the details are sorely lacking or a lot of what they're talking about in there has already being consulted on heavily

in twenty ten eleven mr gove the environment secretary interest mary's predecessors and colleagues conducted a wholesale what they called the waste review they consulted on many of the things that they're announcing again today and then they did nothing with them one of the will anything immediate change in terms of the government's policy. well rumor has it that michael gove wanted to put targets in and then at the end of the day the targets were taken out again so i think what we what we're seeing here is actually a bit of a backlash against what the want to resign may and colleagues of the hope would be a really good sort of rebranding and a good endeavor for the conservatives with this twenty five year environment plan it hasn't worked out that way because there's been such a backlash hopefully that will realise that they need to actually put some details into the plan quickly and then maybe that will make a difference and maybe you can help us fill in some of these blanks give us an idea of the details currently in the u.k. you have a five p. charge on plastic bags that you use to take on your shopping from the supermarket

they're talking about a charge on plastic containers that you might use for takeaways but also a plastic free aisle in the supermarket i mean what how how does something like that work well that's actually an idea that some campaigners called plastic planet put together fronted by ben fogle the explorer e.m.i. no and that's a great campaign idea for the government to say that what they're going to do is encourage supermarkets to adopt the plastic free aisle well they're acting like campaign groups and we've got that covered so what we would like to see is the government doing what government can do which is set rules just subsidies regimes tax regimes and so on now some of what you've talked about they're extending the charge on single use plastic bags for example now that's something that's worked really well but the single use plastic bag charge or levy is in most jurisdictions most countries where it's used applies to. bags given out in all shops this for reasons best known to them they decided only to apply it to the largest supermarkets and now they're going to extend it more widely that's great but what

we need is more emphasis on the people who make and market and create ultimately this plastic pollution in the first place and that's the producers and the retailers and less pressure on consumers and shoppers that's all very well you say that the private sector has to make adjustments that. to be charges and targets and a watchdog coming from the government but ultimately this is about the every day habits of consumers they give us an idea of where people can change their habits to use less plastic to be more environmentally friendly there's a lot we can do as individuals we can we can start buying or accepting at the bar plastic straws or the cotton cleaning birds with the plastic stem in them used cod ones instead instead of your laundry detergent coming in a plastic bottle you can use what's called such nuts plenty more these are on our blog if you look at the friend underscore earth or even mine julian underscore kirby twitter feed you can see some of those but what i would encourage people to

think about when they're adopting those sorts of of of changes in personal behavior is actually what you're doing is you're showing that we don't need plastic and plastic is toxic for life so we need to completely change how we think about plastic radically reduce how much of it we've got in our society so when you do those things be sending that message and be pressuring government and companies to be reducing how much press stick we are using consuming and producing i would love to find out more about those so nuts us read about that. we thank you very much thank you well now a leading figure in the campaign for britain to leave the e.u. has raised eyebrows by saying he'd consider a supporting a second referendum on this issue nigel farage believes the lever would win by a wider margin a second time he says the result would silence those campaigning to remain in the e.u. like the former prime minister tony blair. just maybe i'm reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on because in a lot of e.u. membership the whole thing yes of course of course unless you want to have

a multiple choice right now no i mean i think if we had a second referendum an e.u. membership would kill it off for a generation the percentage that would vote to leave next i would be very much bigger than it was last i'm right i always may just finish the whole thing off black and disappear off to a total obscurity. cambodia's carrying out for a general election a tissue rights groups a white it won't be free of fat the government has dissolved the main opposition party and restricted non-governmental organizations as part of our series looking ahead to the may just tories for twenty eighteen or mcbride reports from phnom penh . twenty eighteen twenty five years since the united nations organized election meant to set cambodia on the path to democracy after years of civil war. today critics say it is starting to resemble a one party state dominated by prime minister. he has been in power for more

than thirty years could be virtually unopposed at the next election in july we don't have a democracy some call flawed the market. it will survive better for the marquis cambodia's democratic journey has been deeply troubled political intrigue and then fighting sometimes leading to by law and clashes between factions but the country has generally held to the democratic vision planned for it until that is the latter part of twenty seventeen. the opposition leader was arrested at the beginning of september for allegedly plotting with foreigners to overthrow the government the supreme court then used that allegation to dissolve his party the c.n.r. p. the government says the party was a threat to democracy not the other way round to see an r.p.

of a problem and then they never listen to a king they never listen to the state that's the question they are a bit of for. the political crackdown was accompanied by what rights groups say was a clampdown on civil society with the closure of a leading newspaper and restrictions on the activities of non-government organizations all allegedly smoothing the way to the election most of the earth expect the the crackdown and the tensions to happen right before the election that's not the case is usually happen in the middle of the in the middle of the of the of the term and then it's. i mean to actually call me before the election as twenty eighteen starts who can send those the protests from abroad will mostly be forgotten and the changing skyline in phnom penh is a reminder of the chinese investment which now protects him from the risk of the u.s. and europe withdrawing funding allowing him to consolidate power with an election

victory seen as a stamp of legitimacy. bride al-jazeera phnom penh. you tube has cut business ties with one of its most famous stars after controversy over a video where he posed with the body of a dead man logan paul has apologized over the footage filmed in japan which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim hanging from a tree the ragas access to the premium service provided by the video giant google has been removed and some of his upcoming projects aspirant. so lad. the most successful in history. of the winter olympics will have that story and much more in sport also we're going to tell you how social media and unique. this japanese gangsta in jail.

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with the sport. marion thank you so much australian open organizers have defended their decision to invite her to appear at the draw ceremony for the year's first grand slam share public miss the event last year because she was serving a fifteen month suspension having failed a drug test in melbourne two years ago the tournament director said as a former champion the thirty year old russian deserve the opportunity. when i was younger and i was a teenager i had never thought that i would play past thirty years old. you know

maybe from like a family perspective my mother was an only child my mother had me when she was very young and so i just had a family vision in my mind that i would maybe one day when a few tournaments and then have a family and raise children and normal atmosphere globe trotting around the world and here i am and i feel like i still have so much to give to the sport because it's given me so much so i don't know i hope to continue to do it five time champion roger federer was a less controversial figure out the draw he'll start his australian open title defense against a better name of slovenia. this is not usually going to because they freak me out. just seeing the sheet at the end of my first round opponent is but what a pleasure it is to be back to read actually that this is what i came to after winning last year and showed the trophy to the people who actually watched the big

screens and here it was. an amazing amazing moment for me in my life and it's great to be back here federer is in the tougher half of the draw alongside of it she will face america's donald young in the opening draw top men seed rafa nadal begins his campaign against victory. from the dominican republic simona halep is the top women's. twenty sixteen australian open champion actually kerber has continued her strong start to the season the german advancing to the sydney international semifinals with a straight sets win over dominika kerber has been drawn to play compassionate man in melbourne. the same event has seen one of the rising stars of the men's game continue with his flying start running in australia teenager alex the men are. in straight sets to reach the semi finals in sydney the eighteen year old world number one hundred sixty seven has also been. around over to this year the place

nineteen seed thomas in the first round of the australian open. barcelona are cruising into the quarter finals of copa del rey their leading celta vigo for now in the second leg of their round of sixteen tie on there so half an hour to play the first leg was a tighter affair one one little messi has scored two jordi alba luis suarez also on the score sheet carlos sainz has won stage six of the dakar rally as the race crossed borders on thursday the persian driver navigated the race with ease as the route entered into bolivia defending champion stefan petter hensel who was chasing a record for thirteen fourteen title finished second in the stage but remains the overall race leader while qatar was third the race will conclude in argentina on january twentieth kevin durant's has become the second youngest player to reach twenty thousand points in the n.b.a. the twenty nine year old effort only bettered by le bron james who did it at twenty

eight. it was cool move is where you know it is no. problem for me is a team game so many players of course but for the most part you know it's been fun to. get to this point in my career a little food to keep pushing and thanks for little support. twenty thousand series of n.f.l. games in london will talk kick off the top names new stadium the oakland raiders will face the seattle seahawks at the new sixty one thousand seater stadium which is still under construction near the site white hart lane the club have a ten year deal with the n.f.l. to stage two games a season and a fall games have been playing regular season games and london since two thousand and seven that most golfers would settle for one a go on any given day brendan gray's scored three touring the opening round of the south africa open on thursday made for a pretty impressive score for card for the world number thirty he also carded three

birdies in a seven under par round of sixty five and shares a lead with american cheese called. going to move in last or if they thought he was in around but there was fun i was a little bit rusty with some of the way shots and things like that but all in all very pleased with with the outcome and i think you know pretty much got the most out of the ground so that a great start goes though to do thousand and eighteen and then obviously you know three days to go it's just twenty seven days until the start of the winter olympics in pyongyang chang but the world's best mogul skier has already made history canadian kingsbury posted his forty seven career victory in the most ever by moguls world cup competitor when india valued how was his twelfth in a row. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to marion and london. now fugitive has been arrested in thailand off the pictures of his tattoos and missing the full finger went viral on social media picture of him sitting at

a checkers table was shared more than ten thousand times leading to him being identified by his gang tattoos type police say she gets. has been on the run for fourteen years confessed to being part of the yamaguchi gumi gang the seventy four year old is accused of being involved in the murder of a rival leader in japan in two thousand and three. some more news coming up in a couple of minutes and now the bullets and on the way.

it's unlikely the band has to travel to the birthplace of the music they know and share a stage with election day challenge. after all this time. the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several building museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day. to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things about nooses forward to me the great thing is

it's not just about museums about forming a new life is a part of life it's culture when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to the 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. european deed as president donald trump to back the iran nuclear deal a day before he decides on reimposing sanctions.