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earns a stinging rebuke from the u.n. after being accused of a crude oval office outburst about migrants finally some progress in germany's political deadlock so can it lead to a new government months after knife edge elections also this hour more protests in tunisia over the government's cost cutting measures more than seven hundred people have already been arrested plus. one hundred farmers floating through a jungle in papua new guinea but i'll be explaining how rainforests like this have been decimated i would just the last seven years on the profits from india have been softened abroad. and in sports tennis great billie jean king is demanding a rethink at the australian open she wants the margaret court arena to be renamed due to courts opposition to gay marriage.

outrage is mounting around the world after u.s. president donald trump reportedly used a vulgar word to describe haiti as salvador and african nations is said to have happened during a meeting with senators at the white house to discuss immigration group at colleville from the u.n. human rights office says if true the president's remarks were nothing but racist these are shocking and shameful comments from the president united states i'm sorry but there's no other work on communities but racist. you cannot dismiss the entire countries and continents shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. have for no welcome while the u.s. president has responded to the allegations on twitter implying he didn't use that word he says the language used by me at the dock a meeting was tough but this was not the language used what was really tough was

the outlandish proposal made a big setback for daca white house correspondent kimberly hawk it is standing by in washington d.c. with the very latest reaction live to her in just a moment but first this report from kristin salumi days after president trump called on lawmakers to find a compromise on immigration reforms a small bipartisan group of six senators say they've done just that the agreement was expected to include funding for border security protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children and changes to the way the state department approves visas but in a private meeting a proposal to restore protections to immigrants from haiti el salvador and certain african countries who were until recently protected from deportation reportedly prompted the president to question why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here. he then suggested that the united states should instead bring more people from countries like norway whose prime minister he met on wednesday

that's the racist element norwegians are white they're northern europeans he was referring earlier in his vulgar comment to africans and haitians who are mostly of african descent this is these are racist comments he said things like this before when he talked about nigerians who won't go back to live in huts and talk about the haitians who bring aids to the united states these are all confirmations of what a lot of people have long suspected that he harbors racism republican representative mia love a haitian american responded on twitter saying the president's comments are unkind divisive elitist and fly in the face of our nation's values this behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation they are bringing drugs they're bringing crime they're rapists it's not the first time the president has spoken disparagingly of immigrants and his spokesperson didn't deny the comments certain washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries president trump will

always fight for the american people he said president trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation the president says he wants a merit based immigration system not one based on family connections or a lottery and his comments suggest he's not yet ready to accept the compromise reached by senators kristen salumi al jazeera new york well we've been getting reaction from politicians and people in some of the countries trump is said to have referred to here's what they're saying we know this that it is that the he's a president who's destabilizing a president of all the words who is unacceptable in the name of the haitian people we as part of a patriotic american city that is fighting for real change in haiti we demand that donald trump apologize before the. high african continent as well as before haiti the country whose blood has been used by ancestors who have served with their minds

and bodies to liberate the united states itself from slavery. this is not a shuttle country neither is highty or any other country industries and it is extremely offensive for president trump to make statements about other countries that are really not complimentary of the us is position or policy positions on those countries and it's unfortunate that he makes those statements obviously we're you know position to stop any president from saying anything they wish to say but all we can say is that. developing countries do have difficulties those difficulties are not small matters and it's not as if the united states doesn't have difficulties he's not unexpected from somebody of his nature going to follow. standard procedure so i don't.

know i just think you. know most is when someone like. paul wrote. let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how can we what can we take from translators tweet about this controversy see denying using foul language. i think that this is a very clear denial from the president it was not only on twitter but also in a statement released by the white house the words of the president but certainly there are multiple sources that say the president did characterize these countries in the manner you've described using very salty vulgar language what's interesting in all of this is the reaction here in the united states still early but this has consumed the morning chat shows but what we haven't heard is from those top republicans who were apparently in the white house at the time the president use this language sort of distancing themselves from that that is certainly one thing

that's notable the other thing that's notable here is a pattern that we've seen with this president that is the president not always being aware of his words and how the ripple effect will be felt for some of the work he's trying to accomplish for example we've seen tweets in salvador by the top diplomat there are sort of trying to distance and clarify there's a real effort that will be underway now at the state department level and all around the world to kind of try and clean up the mass caused by the president the other thing that's interesting in all of this is is trying to remember the language matters i think certainly we've seen this from this president particularly over the summertime when it came to charlottesville and the protests there and the fact that there was a march taking place that really was trying to kind of lift very painful period here in the united states and that is the confederacy trying to when he said that there was equal violence on both sides when there was

a woman killed in those demonstrations that were taking place the president doesn't always seem cognizant of the fact that his language is going to be particularly painful to a number of communities and i think that once again we're seeing this underscored by the language he has used in the last twenty four hours kimberly thank you very much for that can really hold for us in washington meanwhile president. has counseled a planned visit to london there were calls from some politicians for the invitation to be withdrawn and opponents were planning protests if the visit went ahead trump though says he just doesn't want to open the new u.s. embassy in london a volcanic space. well this is the building at the center of donald trump's latest twitter storm it is the u.s. embassy in ones with just south of the river thames you probably see some of the final bits of work taking place some plans going in there or donald trump an extended tweet said i'm not a big fan of the a bomb or administration having sold off perhaps the best located

and finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build this a brand new one for one point two billion dollars deal donald trump ended his tweet with well we're expecting rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state to come here probably as early as next month to cut the ribbon rather than trump himself we've already heard from some u.k. lawmakers including sandy calmed the london man who believe that there's perhaps something else behind trump's decision not to come here in person he said on twitter that he believed the mayor finally got the message from londoners who love america love americans but deplore his policies that run polar opposite to the values of london and london as well the british prime minister to reason may is under mounting criticism to revoke an invitation for trump to come here to the u.k. on a state visit to meet not only the prime minister but also the queen krista the dick the head of london's metropolitan police had warned of perhaps the largest protest

ever should that state visit extra to this potential visit take place well as for the old embassy on grosvenor square where it's been for almost two centuries the latest building completed in the late one nine hundred fifty s. well work there is wrapping up it's being converted slowly for more than one point five billion dollars into a five star hotel but was almost certain is that they won't be a donald trump sign above it. and they're not aware of news turkey's prime minister he's aging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive in the province one of the rebels last. whole spinelli says the army a soldier could force even more people to be displaced one hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks russia and iran backed the forces of syrian president bashar al assad while turkey supports opposition fighters straight to. turkey. the number of people fleeing

syria for turkey always a huge concern for the turkish government isn't it. yes and at the end turkey has established very long concrete walls on its border with syria to stop the illegal crossings but. since this many tarion crisis erupted after mid december in two thousand and sixteen the numbers of the displaced are increasing and it seems we are going to be seeing more many tarion tragedy at our border inside syria according to the n.g.o.s. which we can say actually the opposition government numbers there are one hundred sixty thousand one hundred seventy thousand people who are displaced and who have a right to the camps near by the turkish border like and killed by it and

n.g.o.s again say that across all syria the number of the displaced since december fifteenth has reached up to two hundred seventy five thousand people and fifty thousand of them are families more than eighty thousand of them are children fully and this is actually becoming a drama because there are no places left in these refugee camps because those camps were already being used by the syrian displaced people for many years and having so many numbers arriving in the camps is actually a logistic issue right now we have been talking to n.g.o.s on the ground and we were told by them that until now one thousand five hundred tents were provided for that this place and there are thirty thousand more tents needed to accommodate those people by the way of course there is no infrastructure and there are no

services in the stairs there are some temporary tents that people built by themselves according to with their own. in materials like blankets and everything and the towns are full which is a major issue the n.g.o.s have been raising for the last couple of weeks until now there is no international organization on the ground it's only the local ones but it is a big concern and the end user we have spoken to say that they are expecting thousands more to every ride to the border camps fawley very dire situation there thank you very much for that. you are correspondent in antakya turkey there. leaders in germany have made significant progress towards forming a coalition government after months of uncertainty chancellor angela merkel's christian democratic union and the opposition social democrats have reached an agreement to move forward with negotiations the bodies found common ground on the contentious refugee issue agreeing to limit migrants arrive also around two hundred

thousand a year the draft also commits funds to bring economic stability to the eurozone and the blueprint outlines plans to immediately end weapons exports to countries involved in the war in yemen both chancellor merkel and martin shores agree the goal of any coalition deal is to strengthen and unite europe. you know i'm in the long side in the long time since the elections we've seen that the world is not waiting for us and as far as europe is concerned we're convinced that we need a new awakening for europe and have developed the corresponding ideas for this so i have no doubt we'll be able to find common solutions and partnership with france the most designers those overcomplicated views of the coalition document is a new start for europe germany will keep it strong position in the bloc if the next german government is going to be built on this document and it is also an answer to the proposals from paris on strengthening europe we are determined to use the

political and economic power of germany to make europe the great project that is. coming up on the al-jazeera news hour as south africa's ruling party moves to speed up the transfer of land to the black majority grass outrage in pakistan over the rape and murder of a six year old girl and in sport a strong start by the whole sad gulfs eurasia cobb andy's here with that story later. kristie knighted nation says it's concerned about the number of a rest during days of anti-government protests in tunisia more than seven hundred seventy people have been detained in nearly a week of sometimes violent demonstrations over plans to raise taxes and the price of basic goods the government has deployed troops to help contain the un rests with the prime minister urging calm some in his government are blaming the disturbances

on criminal elements let's join al jazeera who is in tunis where a big demonstration is planned this friday tell us how things are shaping up are people turning up to protests. show you right now this buildup which continues this is a protest there has been called for by the tunisian opposition by the popular front . which is an umbrella organization of different leftist groups opposed to the government and to the austerity measures so if you can see behind me in this crowd which is chanting the people would like the government to scrap the austerity measures they want those decisions made by the government to be scrapped as soon as possible otherwise they say that they will continue to take to the streets until those measures are put on the. aside this comes as a very quick and more moment for the tunisians and for the government on sunday to his in will commemorate the seventh and adversity of the two thousand and eleven

revolution people say basically that they were hoping to see their lives improve their living standard is much better than the past they say that the government has betrayed them has broken the. the past about cutting unemployment poverty and also building a very strong economy which many people here believe is not the case now there's been a build up of security forces around this area the building there you can see behind me is one of the main headquarters of the police so there's been this buildup of security forces and they would like to ensure that those protests don't just degenerate into any acts of violence because over the last few days we've seen some of those protest movements degenerating into attacks against security forces and setting fire on a police station. in the southern is the southern part of the country there is a big police presence as i can see behind you are hashim more than seven hundred

seventy people arrested over the last week and that's not a keeping people from coming on to the streets and see what are the government's options now what can it do to end this crisis. fully as you know to this is a government that has its own financial constraints this it it's not new which in national resources the main sectors that generate revenues are mining and agriculture and tourism and those sectors have been in decline over the last two years to resume for example took a severe hurt in two thousand and fifteen with terrorist attacks targeting tourism resorts and killing dozens of western tourists in that country particularly in the coastal city of says that led to a sharp decline in revenues in tourism so the government is left with very few options like asking for in full loans from the international community and here is a problem international institutions are asking that it is in government to implement genuine reforms particularly of the public sector they say that these are

such you know way you can give you cash and that cash is just been. going to pay wages for the government employees so the government is saying that he's going to cut all the public. sector slashed twenty thousand jobs in the near future and increase taxes the problem is that the moment you start increasing taxes or talking about a of this is what happens build up of angry people saying that they will continue to take to the streets when you have protests in a country like tin is your the potential for instability and for violence increases this is why the government walks a very tight political tightrope they would like to get different options for many revenues for the government without upsetting the people that you can see standing behind me saying that they will continue the protest movement for as long as it takes until the austerity measures are struck by the government action thank you very much for that hashem had barry porting there live from tunis the capital of

tunisia. a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mumbai bombing has held a rally in the pakistani city of feisal abbas it's one of a series of protests by the u.s. decision to recognize israel slim as israel's capital the demonstrators are also angry at violence in the disputed kashmir region and saying in pakistan where there's widespread outrage about the rape and murder of a six year old girl zeinab ansari authorities are being accused of not doing enough to keep children safe after a series of similar killings diana karim has a story. that. they're calling for justice for zainab a girl whose body was found in a dump on tuesday four days after she went missing in the district some of the horn . protests have since broke out in several cities in pakistan some of them turning violent. there were funerals on thursday for two men killed in the city of pursuer

an enraged crowd stormed a police station. officers responded by firing live rounds on demonstrators law enforcement is being blamed here zena father says the police did not act fast enough when his daughter went missing last week the local police chief has been sacked for negligence related to the case. if the culprits in earlier cases had been caught and punished than this incident would never have happened if they had been given exemplary punishments people's daughters would have been safer today eleven other child murders have been reported in the area in recent months and in two thousand and fifteen or district was at the center of a child sexual abuse scandal a number of suspects were arrested accused of blackmailing scores of children into making sex videos the figure of child sexual abuse child rape sodomy child murders has ford in the past three to four years in the district and it.

to me that there is an element all. gangs and ring police say they're still investigating leads in zaineb murder and have interrogated two hundred twenty seven people in connection with the case the number one suspect the man seen here on the security camera with xena it's the last time she was seen alive diana kerim al jazeera the chinese government says foreign companies operating in china must respect his sovereignty the warning comes after the marriott hotel chain apologize for referring to debate to de baets taiwan hong kong and macau as separate countries brown has a story from beijing. well marriott's customer loyalty program has found itself at the center of a sovereignty route with china's government its blunder was to categorize tibet taiwan hong kong and macau as countries this happened in

a customer survey and of course the inevitable firestorm has now happened on social media the gaffe was identified by chinese netizens and some of those medicines and are calling on people to boycott the marriott hotel chain one newspaper in central china even says that marriott should be kicked out of the country now the hotel has apologized repeatedly it says that an investigation has now begun and it denies supporting separatist sentiment in china but the company is still being punished the marriott website and chinese up has been closed for a week to make matters worse the friends of tibet group put a post on twitter praising marriott for recognizing tibet as a country and that posed received a like from someone in the marriott group now on friday china's foreign ministry waded into the round it said that it was important that foreign companies operating in china obeyed chinese laws and respected the feelings of chinese people you can

be sure that many other foreign firms in china and are studying their websites and apps to make sure this blunder is not repeated and of course this all happens at a time of growing concern that we could be on the verge of a trade war between china and the united states. right time now for an update on the wild weather here is at a ten and some snow in the u.s. and yeah that's most normal for foley we're looking at something of a big dumping of snow we've got something of a rapid thaw and then we've also got a flash freeze a lot's going on none of it good i'm afraid you can see this line of cloud on the satellite picture which is pumping up some relatively mild air up the eastern seaboard of the u.s. into that eastern side of kind of this boundary between the the milder air and the much colder air which will tuck in behind so there are changes going on at the moment about nine celsius in ottawa thirteen there for new york going up to nineteen in d.c. not too bad as whole as we go on through the next couple of days you will see some

noticeable changes so i'm not in ottawa at that becomes minus twelve we're still getting up into double figures there for new york and also for washington d.c. but take a look at sunday along that eastern coast and minus four in new york and just minus three for d.c. say hence we're looking at something of a a flash freeze coming through at the moment is that mild air coming through there's the snow a fair bit of it a long line of snow right up the appalachians and that's driving its way eastwards big dumping snow certainly on the cards it's not going anywhere too quickly as we go on through the next day or so certainly for the far northeast through new england into that eastern side of canada and then we go on into sunday we've got colder crisp whether that probably. everton thank you very much twenty five years after the end of apartheid land remains one of the most divisive issues in south africa the vast majority of the best land is still owned by white farmers now the governing african national congress wants to change this but it would require

contentious amendments to the constitution tanya pay shows us why from johannesburg . these men are surveying a site they manage they think of themselves as property developers sots this is what they call phase one of the land invasion more than ten thousand shacks they say they're tired of waiting for the a.n.c. to give them land there was a pause when taking over from a bunch of government. but they never bonded but there were keeping on promising promising promising but not. enough is enough one of the main reasons the mc was formed in one thousand nine hundred twelve was because black africans were losing their land often being forcibly removed from it more than a century later most of the best land in south africa remains in the hands of a few thousand mostly white commercial farmers. after twenty three years in

power b. and c. is only managed to return a fraction of the land to black people the latest research suggests about twenty percent that makes land a defining issue and one the n.c. things that may be able to solve it changes the constitution allowing it to take land without giving compensation to the n.c. says it won't go ahead with the change if it will hurt the food supply dan craig can't see how that's possible he's been representing farmers and talks with the a.n.c. and says many people like him are committed to returning land to black people and we want to work with government and we have funding models and we extend property rights to new farmers we can actually make much much faster progress if we work together. i've not lost hope in terms of land reform in any way but from an economic point of view there are concerns over how changes to the constitution will impact farmers if you compensation they would not be able to see all that

practically all the directly seventy five percent of the through the value of the land so that they would default on those. loans that they have with the banks but these men believe the date owed to them and their people is far more important the n.c. government may have been too slow to help them but if it speeds up the transfer of land into the hands of black people it could dramatically change the face of land ownership in south africa tony page al-jazeera johannesburg. ahead in the second half of this news hour we'll look at whether the exiled leader of spain's catalonia region could lead from abroad ross hopes frayed for any survivors days after california's devastating mudslide and in sport a road trip to london doesn't throw boston is n.b.a. championship push off course.

to leave for duty in something very strange to communicate get someone an ambitious young artist from the mean streets of mozambique to sit down to reveal the unseen truth about his country digital music beatles the enclosure to see this year he did because he didn't make it to the college chingy to. the new african photography mario must be at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every year.

welcome back this is the news hour on al-jazeera our top story tonight a nation spokesman on human rights has described reported remarks by donald trump about immigration is racist trump apparently use a swear word to describe a.t.f. salvador enough in countries during a meeting on immigration but he now tonight's using foul language the european union is welcoming progress in germany towards a new governing coalition and turkey's prime minister is urging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive admittedly a province one of the rebels last strongholds one hundred twenty thousand people

have fled in the past three weeks. we're now on our top story and we want to hear some african perspective on donald trump's reported comments joining us now is money you know i was in africa affairs analyst and chair of the africa international media group she's via skype from yeah one day in cameroon thank you very much for being with us donald trump now implies that he didn't use those derogatory comments to describe el salvador and african countries what's still reaction to the denial is it too little too late is the damage done already. being that no the first time. sam expresses this kind of. just finds or any grounds for after friends or i would say even for women this is not the first time he sort of a distinctive sign a mark of mr trump and that is really the american people have a problem so. it's up to them to do to them to show the world that

that they don't have the president they deserve that it's not where they want to project their democracy this is not the way they want to be to relate to other countries because we still trump is resenting them and it's always a shock you see appears he appears to be an endless and i mean and. where the problem is that america the us have a huge leverage on international issues so he's also our problem exactly or let me let me come to that in specifically talk about the relationship with africa or lack thereof i mean some would say there is no trump africa policy as there was a bush africa policy on obama africa policy where does this new administration leave what how what is a relationship africa and this new administration is concerned where is it headed

is there one. of course not you know even on other issues people laugh at me in trying to figure out what the vision of mr trump is on any issue except that he keeps repeating america. slogans but asked to act with every weekend saying that. he sent troops to me share so i could get a prius to be. a security issue first for him and also an immigration issue and it's. a place you have to push away because africans at the program he has it does not reject him sent me to a constructive relationship and asia and all africa policy at all i mean what we can expect in that always remark that we are conscious lack of people coming from

chad i am not allowed to. go to the us mostly a man not allowed to go to some mostly because it was i'm not allowed this and that so is only rejection and you see not being constructive but my all should be no i what do you say to those who say that perhaps african leaders have a responsibility. in the way that the new american president is disrespecting africa and africans today when he's making these comments allegedly anyway he's denying them for the time being but we've seen at the g. seven summit for instance that there was no interest in what african leaders were were saying during that summit from the us president what do you say to those who say that african leaders in a way have a responsibility because they have let this happen. you know what it's like telling women that they are. responsibility in the way mr trump is that is portrayed in their you know way in he's relating to them in

a brutal i mean no expression in abuse and all this counting they're not it's not their responsibility as the responsibility of mr trump but of course if the head of states african leaders would come up with clear voice and see we don't accept the police we deserve respect our country's our people deserve respect or course i'm sure even you might be might make a little difference but not change i don't think so though we. didn't you see the way the relates to europe what he sate about what is see the about recent mankell and you know other pulp readers so even if in this case i mean the at places like immigration or african guy in the media tyranny and and african leaving and being. treated in other countries where we were

isis of can lead we missed but now we have a character we have the person we. could be used to be a problem for even full of america because we should not forget that the majority of it did not ok and that he's a less and less popular there right now he said as chris wade what less so or not a matter of. a leader is doing something actually ok let's say that i thank you so much for talking to us money joining us there from yale and on camera thank you for your time. donald trump is certainly dominating the news agenda today later on is expected to reluctantly extend sanctions relief save on the waivers part of the twenty fifteen iran. nuclear deal it was brokered by world powers but the us congress requires the president reaffirm the agreement every ninety days during the last deadline in october trant declined to certify rance compliance that congress

didn't act to re-impose sanctions and while the president is expected to sign off on the nuclear deal on friday his treasury secretary says new u.s. sanctions are being considered so while champ is expected to sign off on the sanctions waiver under that deal he may impose separate u.s. sanctions alan fischer has more from washington well we know the donald trump has been meeting is national security team in an don't leave the whole around deal is probably on the agenda we know that in the past rex tillerson who is the secretary of state h.r. mcmaster his national security advisor and to mattis who is the defense secretary they have been suggesting that they do want to step this deal they don't want to blow it up what the united states should do is to with to try and amend it while working with the international partners but there is the possibility that will be no one nuclear related sanctions and that's certainly something that treasury sector steve munition suggested when he made

a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room. 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 now we know that donald trump speaks to a lot of people before he makes these decisions he has had from president mark or france who said the international community doesn't want to see this deal being abandoned horses for him to the israelis and the saudis and we know that donald trump tends to see these things very much in binary terms that any win for iran in any sort of level is a defeat for the united states but what people will be saying to him for to kill it after the protests in iran over the last month is what we want to do is keep pressure on the iranian government and you do that with no one nuclear related sanctions rather than dismantling this whole deal if you do that and it keeps pressure on the iranian government and but if you blow up the deal then that gives

them some sort of nationalistic totem to rally people around and the focus moves off them and more on the relationship with the united states and the international community and that could strengthen their position so donald trump has a big decision to make in the next twenty four hours he will listen to all sides and then donald trump being donald trump will make the decision he wants to make when he's ready to make the decision. qatar sent an airspace violation complaint to the un security council against the united arab emirates it alleges an en route he fighter jet illegally crossed into qatari territory on december twenty first the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain any chipped close airspace to kataria craft in june after cutting diplomatic ties his qatar is supporting terrorism which qatar denies. the deposed leader of spain's catalan region callous and is meeting his newly elected m.p.'s in brussels they're discussing the composition of a castle and parliament body that would elect the region's next president with the

hope of restoring put to monetise leader but demand has been in brussels since being forced out as leader and threatened with arrest by spain's central government after declaring that catalonia would break away from spain let's go to nadeem in brussels for us what's the latest on this meeting the demon how important is this. will fully as you said colors push him on himself is the talks in the building behind me involving members deputies of his own party together for catalonia and the other main problem dependents party the democratic left of republican left story of cuts aloon year he appeared at a photo session just down the road with some of those people who were elected in those december elections he hasn't been speaking but two spokespeople for his party have been addressing the press and they've been outlining what happens next let's

remind our viewers that of course the reason they're here is as you were saying mr push for more and several of his deposed ministers came here several months ago and they're you won't go back to spain because they face arrest today but his spokespeople were saying that they're clear that next wednesday when there's the first session of the new council on parliament they expect. the boards of parliament and the speaker of parliament parliament to be elected the speaker will then be charged with going around the political parties and getting a nomination for who will be the regional president the people here are saying it's clear it will be colors put them up there's no doubt about that but there are some obstacles in their way still that they face so what options then do these pendants parties have left. well look fully the thing is that colors put them on at the moment will not go back he's suggesting that he can make

his investiture speech via video link and he could even perhaps continue to. exercise his role from here in brussels people from the party which won the most votes in those elections sudan or switch or anti secession say that would be anti constitutional we're waiting to hear advice from the council on parliament's lawyers but the representatives of the parties here say that's not going to stop us we will either get mr push them all to make that speech remotely or perhaps although they didn't specifically say this appoint a proxy to make that speech in person bay said imagine what would be the reaction of the world if we decided who should be our regional president and then someone in spain said they didn't like is dissolved under those special powers that the spanish government triggered there's a lot of anger about that but there's also

a lot of worry about what will happen next amongst the european institutions based here in brussels if in fact there is some kind of clash again between the and the the regional assembly and the government of spain thank you for that ninety madam babel life forcing brussels. there's a large cleanup effort underway in southern california after a devastating mudslide but local police say it's unlikely they'll find any more survivors seventeen people were killed when storms sent a wall of mud crashing through homes and washing away cars reynolds has the latest from asuncion this. 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 reporting 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 yeah for most people that are here on this incident we've never seen a band like this work 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. into people's homes down there driveways grateful for the nonstop efforts of rescuers and work crews residents of the area they say a long road to full recovery rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. more than four hundred people in western japan have spent a night stuck on a train because of heavy snowfall left the city of me got on thursday night and how to have to stop when its wheels were brock's by piles of snow on the trying where workers decided it was too risky to evacuate the train because it was stranded in every military continued its journey fifteen. the environmental groups are accusing papua new guinea's government of sitting back while the country's rain forests are destroyed the pacific nation has just overtaken malaysia to become the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardwood andrew thomas went to

palm ear to have a look at the at. the exhaust really remote location of this rainforest used to operate its protection but recently that changed. the forests around palmy zero are disappearing fast as they have been right around papua new guinea we have lost everything. we have been here two years ago we would lose to new york or new to ruby tree or maybe looking at the birds flowing out all the troops but no look at this so we would have the middle of the forest yes we would be in the middle of forest. school. papua new guinea has more of asia pacific remaining rainforest than any other country but special agricultural business leases or a.b.l. threatened them they were supposed to be issued to agricultural companies to clear land they intended to farm on but most s.a.b.

else which now cover more than ten percent of papua new guinea's in thailand a mass were issued often corruptly to logging companies the timber is processed in china and sold on around the world as kitchen flooring palm oil plantations are eventually planted but there are reports substitute. is supposed to avoid emotion and reports like this but this scene is just profoundly depressing when i first took my breath away i mean just look at it this is a landscape that's being scarred. logging companies say they brought jobs services and roads to poor parts of papua new guinea and paid landowners but this satellite imagery with pictures taken in twenty thirteen and again this year shows in just one area the extent of what's been lost. john powell rear helped the malaysian company to negotiate its access but he quickly felt locals were being pressured

into sunny onesided agreements i feel embarrassed i say i must tell you we were looking for. this is why without considering all the simplifications we offered to bring him and we were in in places looking companies have subsidised the local police those trying to stop the loggers say they've been beaten by them held in shipping containers and threatened with arrest hours given. some on my farm and by a policeman in uniform carrying a gun and in the night. in papua new guinea's capital two politicians and officials have been accused of being too close to the logging companies and of taking bribes to help deals go through the country's new lands minister doesn't deny that but says he is part of the solution it's a deals is a disaster it's

a disgrace there's definitely some that are legal there's no question about it and they will be cancelled they will be cancelled and all logging will start but it's not stopping we're just painting these new britain the logging is devastating you're right it is not stopping because of the fact that we still have to go for the process there's a legal process lot of the east but it's going to stop it will stop in many places logging companies are appealing the cancellation of their licenses but while court cases drag on the trees keep falling under thomas al-jazeera pommy oh papa new guinea. all this. heading for my head of a yes response time.

thanks for says andy thank you so much folly while the boston celtics didn't allow a road trip to throw their championship push off course the celtics are leading the way in the n.b.a. eastern conference and they beat the philadelphia seventy six ers at a game played in london so how microphone's. seeing the stars of the n.b.a. and everything that comes with them has become a regular treat for fans in the u.k. the boston celtics facing the philadelphia seventy six in london being the eighth regular season game in the country since twenty eleven and they could be many more coming up in the future. the demand is there and the interest is there it's really more a question of our schedule and whether we can make it work it looked early on that

those on hand in london were in for a shock result right across balance does it matter to see point still be the sixers the seventy six is dominated the eastern conference leading celtics so much of the first half empty building a lead in excess of twenty points but boston showed just why this serious championship material seeder their star player kyrie irving who scored twenty points on the night not sit down i helping get him to come back moving here. midway into the third quarter the celtics finally seizing the lead horford. through a crowded price they're forced to take the weight and they didn't give it up any hopes of an upset in london over boston going on to seal it comfortably one fourteen to one of three for a seventh win in iraq in the sixty's were playing pretty hard to executed very highly making some shots and. we got off to a good start start something the difference

a little bit more than for us we. probably just one is willing to hope in the beginning you know it's natural while british fans will have to wait a year to see the n.b.a. at home again it's possible they've already seen this season's champions in action so hell malik al-jazeera for some problems for bron james and the cleveland cavaliers even losing one thirty three to ninety nine against it's wrong to run says that's six losses in eight games for the defending eastern conference champions were in a funk more severely by to begin to see them. really go find a way to get out of. it was going to start the no budget debates were drawing we're going to go ball but are so fragile i mean i don't know where in the kind of world what happened to kind of the switch went back but we're going to try to put a bag of are funny. a lot american sport is also playing a part in the plan of the new stadium being built by premier league football team tottenham this year's series of n.f.l.

games in london will start there in october the oakland raiders will face the seattle seahawks at the new sixty one thousand seat stadium which right now is still in the construction site and have signed a ten year deal with the n.f.l. regular season games have been held in london since two thousand and seven. or you know we're bringing two global fools together we wanted not just to raise the profile of. to raise the profile of told them it's an area we want this stadium to leave the regeneration of of told them it's a very poor area we need to help. twelve time grand slam when a billy jean king believes the australian opens margaret court arena should be renamed courts is a vocal opponents of gay marriage the seventy five year old australian won a record breaking twenty four grand slam tournament during her career and the venue at melbourne park was named after her in two thousand and three king says that while she refused to play in the rain if she was appearing at this year's tournament she won't be encouraging other players it's

a boy cos it's i just like she's gotten really derogatory and but you talk about children of transgenders being from the double that put me over the edge i must say because we are all god's children and we're all be the best we can be and i think it's really important to be authentic self it took me a long time with my own sexuality it took me until i was fifty one to feel comfortable in my own skin and shame based things are very difficult and so that's the last thing we need. this year's australian open starts on monday with angelica kirby hitting form at just the right time the twenty sixteen champion picked up her eighth straight win at twenty eight saying the german beating camilla georgia here in straight sets to reach the final of the sydney international. the german or play ashley bazzi for that title barty becoming the first australian finest event since two thousand and five she'll be compared should govern lova in three sets in their

semi final. another australian is enjoying a stellar starts of the year in the men's draw of the sydney event eighteen year old alex damon ours moved within sight of his first career title france's ben war pair in their semi women are has won eleven of his last twelve matches including victories over the likes of minutes raw image and out of asco and lopez reply russia's medvedev in saturday's five. three time major winner jordan spaeth is five shots off the pace after the first round of the sony open in honolulu the open champion's round of sixty nine included eight birdies but was undermined somewhat by a quadruple bogey on the eight sole chris kirk and zach johnson of the joint leaders on seven under par. the hosts of might a strong start in the right cup which is being held in malaysia asia hold a one point lead over in europe after the first day of this team event it's the

third edition of the tournament with europe the reigning champions. ok that is high schools looking for andy thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour stay with us plenty more world news coming up after this special break. travel often. by trying to use. forests near prague liberal. talks of knowledge. land. valleys and scotland's. live for adventure. discover it. because faraway places closer to going since together with cats are always. gang life this was our foundation.

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