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nations labeling donald trump racist he apparently said it in amazing with u.s. senators and it's. discussion as the u.s. president tries to push ahead with his immigration agenda. and i'm leah harding we've been debating if we should even say the word trump used on air we'll explain our decision and have your discussions and reactions to transpersonal connected to the hash tag but also on the grid the iran deal world powers back today in brussels on thursday and now we have to wait to see if the u.s. will recertify the new deal or to impose sanctions on iran again and it looks like your facebook page about to get a lot less news that the social network wants to prioritize posts from friends and family but what will that mean for organizations even like out there use facebook to get the word out to. you with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com it is the story which has got everyone talking and

the u.n. labeling the u.s. president writes just that is don't trump description of haiti salvador and african countries to a group of u.s. senators and fair warning here i am going to quote the base and what the president has apparently said he questioned why the u.s. was quote having all these people from shithole countries come here now as a rule we don't use profane language on air and we've had our own. no debate here about whether we should say it or write it on screen but the decision was that the word is a description which trump uses it's not just random profanity and it is central to the story and we weren't the only ones i tweeted this a little bit earlier today screenshots from the likes of c.n.n. the united states also m a s n b c cable channel there who chose to use the word and from the washington post as well which broke the story i know it is not a decision everyone will be comfortable with and please feel free to share your views with us as you have been throughout the day using the hash tag a.j.

news but there is already been a sharp response from the united nations here is what rupert colleville from the united nations human rights office had to say these shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states sorry but there's no other word one can use but racist. you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. or not welcome and then on friday morning washington time came the response from president trump 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 and then he went on another tweet to say never said anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled country never said take them out and i'm not sure we actually saw any words about taking them out only to check on that one made up by

dems anyway i have a wonderful relationship with haitians probably should record future meetings unfortunately no trust let us not forget though the story behind the controversy that group of us senate is in there meeting with president trump who said they'd reached a compromise with him on immigration reform but we're yet to win his support all the details now on everything we christen 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 races that women 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 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 here's james bays out diplomatic editor at the united nations though everything seeming slightly undiplomatic today james what has been the reaction from some of these countries as i said central africa central american and african countries. well we're not getting a great deal of reaction at this stage and i think that's pretty much what we're

used to when we have outbursts from president trump because everyone may have their own feelings about these things but they want don't want to be too public about it because everyone is worried about the wrath of the united states in these sort of circumstances as you've heard there was a regular scheduled press conference from the u.n. in geneva and the human rights office were asked about this i'm sure that they'll be questions to the spokesman for the secretary general because he said nothing about this you heard of course that the part of the comments were president trump allegedly saying that he wanted more people to come from norway well it just happens that the norwegian foreign minister and attics and soraya there is with the secretary general of the united nations again for a scheduled meeting between the two as she walked into u.n. headquarters she was asked about this and she didn't say anything at all just went straight to the elevator without any comment but it is clear that behind the

scenes this is going to make u.s. diplomacy harder with some of the countries concerned what's your read on the whole situation there james do we do we chalk it up almost to another thing that president trumpet said which and you know people will be outraged but equally some people will agree with him and they will you know his his base will probably possibly agree with him. i think that is how most people will see it diplomats are very guarded with their language language is the current sea of diplomacy carefully chosen new almost words what diplomacy is all about so diplomats won't be saying much but hearing this sort of language off the record i can tell you has made over the last year president trump the bot of jokes i can tell you off record and behind the scenes diplomats do not even if that from countries that are allies of the united states do not hide their contempt for the

occupant of the white house it will make i think in some ways the job of his ambassador here at the u.n. a little harder one example for you there kemal you remember that controversial vote in the general assembly about the status of jerusalem at the end of last year well the u.s. didn't do well in that vote it got knowing that voted with it against the general assembly motion thirty five that abstained we'll look closely at some of which countries well those that abstained and voted against because nikki haley said they were the friends of the u.s. in even invited all the ambassadors to a party one of those countries that abstained was haiti ok james bay is that diplomatic get a thank you for that i'm just saying here on the news wires as well but swan has apparently some of its u.s. ambassador over at the reported slow. where you want to start with this one huh what a day for world news now that our newsroom right right well it's not often that

a curse word is the top trend not just in the u.s. but literally all around the world hash tag shit hole racist trump and other choice words are the top conversations in dozens of countries there's been more than a million tweets about it in the last day in the numbers are growing we spoke to many of you online who had this to say about the president of the united states name calling your country. i don't want to leave my country i love my country it's a beautiful country with beautiful people i'm more interested in seeking solutions to the challenges kenya has rather than leaving it behind and going to seek solutions to the challenges that america has when they unite this is president close to i told. me she told you. you know she came as a country really in a city and oh that's nice she told me so when you need to prove when. she told. us our confidence

so we wouldn't expect that from our president from a good as nationally the one that's done that's i mean that's what i imagine the president comes to say about our country we're not tough you don't feel heat it's not to want to talk out maybe to what should be shown the washington post was the first to break the headline but it was also a first for the paper now on reddit they posted saying it's a washington post first to have a curse word in a headline in general we would only publish swear words and rare cases when they are necessary to the understanding of a person or situation such as a prominent official like if the president or pope said a swear word in this case it's the president this is much like our decision to publish trumps words and the access hollywood tape now media outlets around the world they tried to follow suit and have the word in their headlines but a few of them kind of fell short somewhere in the translation news portal of

china's state newspaper people's daily bay tree and slated the word to mean countries that suck taiwan central news agency switched it to mean countries where birds don't lay eggs they must that when they're in the japanese daily opted for word meaning countries that are dirty like toilets. new york daily news didn't even bother with words they thought and the moji it said it all and this is their cover for friday and we want to hear from you if you follow me on twitter you would have seen me asking you if you think al-jazeera should say trump's curse word on air most of you think we should not store here wrote in said when they go low we go high to quote millennia and michelle let us know what you think as always use the hash tag a jane is. thank you laos is just been a surreal day hasn't it my goodness contact details coming for you on screen now lots of you on the live stream at the moment and lots of comments coming in a quick sample windies says he does not represent the usa i live in simon says he's

right but as president he shouldn't have said it interesting one here from africa as well joseph who has said africa should review aid programs with the united states it is the money that the us is giving us that is making them insult us and jill as usual his words are being taken out of context to know the whole subject a whole sentence before and after the only way to determine what his intended comment defined and that is important we must say because the president has come out and sort of denied what state or at least the language was strong and even he said i should record these conversations so there's proof in the end your comments your questions they're coming and they can false we thank you for them the hashtag is. a.j. news grid any second now it's going to anyway you know what that's funny. there it is so let's move on now one of the worst and most one sided transactions the united states has ever entered into so basically not very came that is how president trump described the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal but on the other side of things

those european powers who insist the accord is vital for international security well right now the clock's ticking and the president is facing a deadline to decide how to proceed the white house do usually make an announcement we're hoping to hear today the united states needs to reaffirm the agreement every ninety days but he will amend the deal and impose or should i say will hear him in the deal and impose separate sanctions. or withdraw from it completely just to quickly recap on this agreement between world powers and how we got to this deadline because there's some nuance in there under the original deal which was signed in two thousand and fifteen sanctions were lifted when iran agreed to limit its nuclear fuel production as allowed to resume trading oil and gas and one hundred billion dollars in frozen iranian assets rules are released that's the bass deal the u.s. president is required to renew that twenty fifteen deal every one hundred twenty days but that is separate from what we call the certification of the deal that has to happen every ninety days back in october trump accused iran of not living up to the spirit of the agreement and refused to recertify it the u.s.

says iranian ballistic missile tests conducted in the past year violated security council resolution and any new sanctions could target iranian businesses and people suspected to be involved in missile tests kimberly haokip white house correspondent let's talk to you about this what's the feeling i guess of the indications if there are any kimberly about the state the united states wants to take next. right we have been working very hard trying to term an exactly what's going to happen but still the white house being very tight lipped what we saw last time because we've passed this deadline three times now before is that the white house tends to be a bit flexible on the dates finding reasons for extending there an announcement we're not sure if that will happen this time but as you point out we are getting indications that the president is likely to stop short of reimposing those strict sanctions on iran that would essentially break up the deal that was negotiated by world powers along with the united states but what we think may happen is that

there could be some targeted sanctions against individual iranian government officials a sign of support if you will to some of the iranian anti-government protesters on the grounds of human rights as well as corruption but the other thing that we expect may happen in all of this too is that the president may in his announcement which essentially would keep this deal intact that there will be this decision or deadline given to not only the u.s. congress but also to european allies to approve the deal or the united states ultimately will pull out so what this sort of pulling back looks like to many here in washington is what the president is doing is essentially laying the groundwork to get out of a deal he has said repeatedly he doesn't like and he thinks should be torn up i guess regardless of what decisions make him believe it's important for president trying to keep it in the headlines to keep iran to especially with what's going on elsewhere in washington making sure that people remember this is one of his signature things that he has always said he will get rid of. this is true but at

the same time the president often as we're seeing at the start of the show with some of his salty comments with regard to different nations around the world often detracts from his end agenda he says is what is important to him is trying to get the work done for the american people he constantly tries to point out the fact that the economy is strong jobs are coming back but it's the president's own off the cuff remarks that are often inflammatory insulting and hurtful the seem to detract from that important message you're right today is a busy day not just the iranian agreement but also the president is having his long awaited physical where he will be going to walter reed medical center very shortly that is something else that is being watched very carefully but at the same time not getting the headlines perhaps that others might watch it too inside the white house because of the president's conduct and actions ok kimberly thank you for that kimberly's our white house correspondent kimberly. i've got three pieces from al jazeera dot com to direct you to on this one first nice and simple what you need to

know about trump and the iran deal there is more background there to how the deal which is actually called as you see that the j c p a what's at risk if it falls apart then you've gone this one which is the sanctions which is what will his committee was talking about possibly happen if the u.s. decides not to go along with the deal any longer that's another one there. iran sanctions what is expected next you can find both of those by searching for iran nuclear sanctions and one more of fuse different. it's a witness documentary actually. and it is called iran the sanctions hotel a five year struggle to turn a historical building into an international boutique hotel wants to run with still dissensions really interesting when you find that in witness the documentary section and i'll just read to come. the united nations says it is concerned about the number of arrests during anti-government protests in tunisia rallies of again taken place in the capital tunis and more than seven hundred seventy people have

been detained in the past week then straight as iran griot austerity plans to raise taxes and the price of basic goods the government's deployed troops to help contain the unrest with the prime minister urging calm some in his government who are blaming the disturbances on what they call quote criminal elements in tunis with more. the build up continues the protesters say that they will continue their movement for as long as it takes until the government scraps the austerity measure there's a sense of anger here and frustration at the government people say that they were hoping that after the two thousand and eleven. revolution living standards for tennesseans would improve and they say that what happened was the totally the opposite of the blame the government for breaking the promises they made on cutting of poverty and employment and improving the living standards for the years by the government faces a delicate task as we speak on one hand in needs sources of revenue this explains

why he has implemented the recall and also installed the new tax system the problem with the taxes is that you increase more resentment among people on the other hand they've been asking international institutions for loans but the international monetary fund for example says that it cannot give money to that it is in government unless it starts reforming its public sector just to give you an idea about how delicate is this situation there are about eight hundred thousand government employees and their wage bill bites into something like twelve percent of the g.d.p. often is you have the government says it will slash that number by the number of employees by twenty thousand but you do if you do that this is exactly what you get people to take into the stories and more process into his ear good just lead to further instability or right let's get

a look at some more international news headlines certain as in the i so. come all turkey's prime minister is warning that syria's increased offensive on rebel held province will trigger a new wave of migration benoliel jim called on russia and iran to rein in their ally the syrian government saying the attacks will only serve to damage the peace process this week rebels launched a counterattack against president assad's forces and their allies in italy they say the recent fighting there has forced around one hundred twenty thousand people to flee to neighboring areas in the past three weeks turkey's foreign ministry has warned its citizens against traveling to the u.s. risking reigniting a long running diplomatic dispute from last year both countries lifted these are restrictions against each other at the end of december they were put in place after the u.s. accused turkey of detaining two of its consulate staff for suspected ties to the failed twenty sixteen crew but turkey is now saying its citizens should revise any

travel plans to the u.s. after a jury there found a turkish banker guilty of helping iran evade sanctions german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with their social democrats rivals to enter formal coalition talks the attempt to revive the power sharing government that's been in power since twenty thirteen must be approved by s.p.d. members next week they would change the reports from berlin. the breakthrough came after an exhausting twenty four hours of negotiations between the parties concluding more than five days of talks the political limbo in germany seems finally to be over it's it it was steve the c.d.u. unanimously approved a paper or the results of the exploratory talks at which many participated and which was based on a broad funday sion and we will recommend our party begin talks on forming a stable government selim accomplish it for five s. the s.p.d.

we have decided unanimously to give the party leadership a mandate to negotiate a coalition the biggest hurdle in the talks was to reach an agreement on refugees and migration the open door policy championed by angela merkel led to more than a million refugees being granted asylum in germany join the years twenty fifteen and sixteen the political price for that decision was the entry of the far right alternative for germany who gained more than one thousand seats in the parliament the border stuck by good numbers will now be kept to two hundred twenty thousand per year and agreement has been recently even more controversial question of how many relatives will be allowed to be reunited with families already in germany one thousand cases will be considered per month with strict conditions attached friday's agreement though has one final hurdle to pass a special conference in bonn later this week of the social democrats will have to give their approval before the coalition tours can formally go ahead. well the

youth of the social democrats is one of the most vocal parts of the party calling for opposition they believe in s.p.d. outside of government would have the opportunity to to reenergize truing re think it's agenda. in a radical shift on german arms exports the party said they would end the siege italy supplying weapons to countries involved in the yemen conflict and tighten guidelines on sales the talks also agreed common ground on strengthening the euro zone in close partnership with france and driving forward with reforms in the european union they also promised to boost germany's contribution to the budget david chaytor al-jazeera belin. the spanish government has dismissed the possibility of former catalan leader colace placed them all ruining the region from self-imposed exile in brussels earlier pushed among members of his pro independence

movement in brussels a pro independence together for catalonia coalition took thirty four seats in last month's election but still finished behind the unionists citizens r.t. on friday some of the new secessionist m.p. third day hopes which demand will be approved for another term after president of the catalan waits in the parliament but the nigerian government says it will contest any attempt in the courts nadine barber has more from brussels. what colors put him on seem to be in a jovial mood here in brussels as he took part in that meeting with people from his party who were elected to the catalan parliament last december and members of the other main problem dependents party he did not actually talk to the press himself it was left to spokespeople from his party who were adamant that he would very soon be sworn in as the catalan president there are a number of obstacles that they face mr pushed him or won't go back to spain and

neither will the deposed ministers that he came to brussels with last year when they were facing a european arrest arrest warrant that's going away but they still refused to go back now mr push them all says that he might make his investiture speech which has to happen by the end of the month via video link some opinion say that would be unconstitutional the spanish government say it would be illegal so do the party which won the most votes in the regional elections sudan us we're waiting to hear from the council on parliament's lawyers as to bear advice but the message here really was the term that's not going to sway things that if in fact the parliament does choose to relax mr push for more regional press. didn't then it would be an affront to democracy if anybody tried to stop but. for the rest of the of the party . chooses. to be their. president

who they are the constant and then. in these once we. once we're there is another problem for mr bush the moans group and the several very were actually jailed in spain so there are many unanswered questions about exactly how and when they can start their jobs when they can take power. that's it from a from the it's great now back to come and. we're actually going to stay with catalonia a moment longer because leo would have been finding out about another region had been barnea before to sorry to bania to barnea yeah well neither have a. well if you haven't the it's probably because it's not real so it doesn't exist actually but there is a social media campaign arguing that it should become independent from catalonia and remain in spain it even has its own flag kind of pretty but not don't worry

it's also just a joke to tyranny of the junk the junction of the terra going to and the barcelona regions it's an orange in this map here it's a satirical response to the catalonian independence movement it's supposed to expose its flaws and give secessionists a taste of its own medicine but to barney as creators say that it might become more serious and want to when they're not going to see serious though so tell us is this a joke does it have any serious meaning tell us city of people the idea that when the nose. tell them that it's to borneo it's starting to reach its goal which is to destroy the arguments of the pro independence movement everything to barney has defended has been defended by the session it's. all ok to ring the bell and there's more but if this mirror is not enough to make a session it's back down and realise they're damaging society and we will make the concrete is a nation of to barney

a viable. the creators of the project say that they believe the independence project is deeply negative to the interests of catalonia and its citizen and economic social sport cultural and educational perspective we believe it's not of our interest to be dragged into a situation of rupture with the rest of spain not to barney as twitter page has more than twenty nine thousand followers already and it continues to defend its veracity some major political figures in spain even took the opportunity to join in on the joke albert rivera he's the leader of the so you are bad on the us party he joked saying well if nationalists defend the right to division then anyone can do it and some are taking it for real there's an online petition for an official recognition of to barnea as an autonomous community and it already has more than two hundred forty six thousand signatures to barney even has its own coat of arms it shows a tame dragon often the symbol of catalonia and the latin words. meaning the show

is over the project announced that it would launch its official platform next week which begs the question where does satire and politics where to satire and politics start we want to know what you think as always you can get in touch with us the hashtag agents get on a live that's how i feel about today where does it all start and end thank you for all your comments coming through particularly on the trump comment story and actually you know leo is saying really most of the you a lot of the comments have been saying that we shouldn't say the word on a richard fricker has said news bureaus must report accurately and feed us the even if that means quoting a profanity in context thank you for that graeme smith on twitter in adelaide australia perfectly acceptable you're merely reporting the alleged comments of the president views can make up their minds as to whether it's acceptable or not for him to make the comments and i think that's the way we've looked at it we're trying not to be gratuitous about it and just reporting what. has happened or at least as reported to have been happen at the news grid for those you're watching outs on

facebook live going to see some dramatic video in a moment from california of those terrible mudslides and later on volunteers on the job trying to help refugees evicted months ago from their makeshift guns in france and canada a special. coming up. hello we've got some rain and some snow in the full cost of course northern areas of the middle east at the moment we've got a family of cloud moving through the black sea the caspian sea. levels is beckett's down towards kazakhstan so there will be some heavy snowfall some heavy spells of rain coming through some of those snowy areas could see as much as twenty five centimeters of snow as we go on through the next coming days a fair bit of snow that just around the turkish mountains and this we go on through sunday will see somewhat of weather just making its way towards that eastern side

of the med towards syria lebanon jordan by virtue of around sixty degrees celsius but for many it will be five and dry as is the case across the arabian peninsula. of around twenty five celsius that a bit of a damp weather down towards the southern end of the red sea into the gulf of aden but for most it will be settled at it will be sunny again here in doha around twenty five celsius with some pleasant sunshine as a winds fullbacks and i lifted dust and sand to worry about fog is right to across a good part of southern africa into mozambique into a good part of zimbabwe northern possumus and bake along with northern areas of madagascar could see some very heavy right as we go on through the next couple days it joins up with those flooding rains that we have still continuing across the. coveted beyond wealth thank you very much taken without hesitation.

fought and died for. our defines our. people in power investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the globe. at this time on al-jazeera. as thousands of rogue engines seek refuge in bangladesh a new armed group is taking shape fighting the government and me in my can only have them because they refuse to give us a basic rights as citizens in for the first time a member of the ark just salvation army talks to al-jazeera at this time.

of the headlines from al jazeera dot com when what's trending is well no surprise to say what top of the list today but also trump related news a bit further down. the president calling off his trip to the u.k. apparently the new u.s.

embassy in london something interesting something new for you to have a look out there that is what's trending this friday. facebook is describing it as the biggest shift in its news feed ever according to it see. users will see more posts they quote air about from people they actually know friends and family but that in theory would mean fewer. posts from news organisations all celebrities that you might follow they aim for all of this is to shrink the social media giants role as a major news source remember it's been a interesting year for facebook last year including congressional hearings on how russia used it to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we're going to talk to julian york about this she is the director of international freedom of expression at the electronic frontier foundation in berlin for us always nice to see you julian facebook will of course put a spin on this. i wonder what your view is you know is it sort of like

a big again trying to manipulate the narrative or a way to tell people what they want to say well i think it was an interesting post and i mean he said that he wanted his children to be proud of what he created and that it would be a good thing for the world and i think that for a company that's been so unwilling to take on its role as a as a media entities rather than just simply a tech company this is probably a move in the right direction and bringing facebook sort of back to basics. once you sort of strip back all the talk that he put on there what's your view on the actual way this is been done and there the technicalities of it i guess because it feels like one of the things we want really understand it and know it until it actually is deployed on facebook. yeah well i think it is you know as usual my concern is that this is a private company a centralized company making means decisions without any real input from its users so we saw last year there was an op ed in the new york times from a serbian journalist who was concerned that facebook was doing experiments in his

country and then you know several news pieces after that showing that in fact the company was doing that in serbia bangladesh a few other places and so i think that you know they rolled this out without without like i said without any real user input and it sort of remains to be seen what that black box algorithm is going to do for feeds in the future and i think that ultimately we do need more input and more process here that includes all of the people involved i mean. what would you suggest i mean is it almost like taking a poll on facebook and saying look we actually want to hear from you and at least take your views into consideration in the end they can make their own decision on what they want to do but at least make it some sort of democratic process almost. sure and yeah i think that there's a number of ways they can do it they could pull their users they could take a task like twitter is done twitter has a trust and safety council that's made up of n.g.o.s facebook is really not gotten much input from n.g.o.s they're quite a closed door organization so they can do that they can to have you know sort of

town hall meetings in person meetings as they did when they were trying to roll out free basics in countries like india so that they've got a lot of different options but they generally choose not to follow through with any of them do you think facebook sort of knows what it sees the moment i think about a lot of other social media platforms which are going to these changes twitter's decided to go you know more carrot to is instagram went with the sort of snap chat model of deleting videos and all this is that there's just so much upheaval or is this just what the the industry is constantly evolving. i think about one you know i think that big industry really is constantly evolving and again without much input but at the same time i read mark zuckerberg post as a bit more earnest than usual and so i guess i'm sort of hopeful that this is a move in the right direction he does realize that the users want the facebook that they signed up for not the sort of monster that it's turned into for many of us jillian york joining us from berlin great to get your thoughts thank you so much.

we're going off the grid now to canada in fronts and an example of what you can do as a news grid view a bit of provenance first of all last year we saw alice nicholson appear on an edition of inside story here on al-jazeera she was talking about the refugee situation in cali as someone who goes there as a volunteer she had seen the plight of the migrants there living in squalor as they tried to get across the english channel to the u.k. and just wanted to do something about it so we thought that was worth revisiting yes the jungle remember that huge refugee camp in cali has been demolished by the french government and the refugees have been dispersed across france to other facilities but that hasn't stopped would be migrants going there here is alice's video diary specially for the news good history shows us what the volunteers are trying to do to help. good morning he is that could cost

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this. is actually the three space here this is a subject a crossroads and it's quite what we we can see you can look after people sort of small vision thoughts and so the two senses. for this is being in a classroom. so that the natural structure lessons in here well since we can you know it's in vocabulary garma very keen so that the government my age is roughly so . we don't know he's turned away so any age can be a pain i think the oldest the youngest mason is around thirty seven. when this sixteen year old boy is and i will put him up just didn't know if it really did and we came up from nothing. and he just spontaneously started talking me through june . so there was good but there was no my brother had shot trousers and settle down

and he just talked and talked to turn up tonight just listened to too long which is something. and that's something you can't plan follow it's just spontaneous and. hopefully it'll take celtic fans. say to him with soft classmates and fourteen while still think the you dating when you hear him daily basis mostly just called him feel. a lot of these filings broken bones to get a lot of my. lung infection or. i'm going to be almost to the. end of drummers for medical care and you're going to be going to hospital when it's an emergency and when it's not you're just like you do not want to receive you can even get to have to get it into your.

own career you were consistently kind barrowing come around. here and these are going to keep coming nine months or so coming. up. we're going to shoot her. we've got ninety's it's not easy to speak out of this given moment we don't know when you're going to make something and even exist i mean to start telling me that it will mean actually that you have to know that if you. look there she was an adult. and alice nicholson is with us now live in our london studios and let's first of all thank you so that this is what we're looking for on the program viewer contributions i want to move it on a bit from what we've seen with the volunteers and i ask you about the refugees themselves when you go over there where are they now that the job is gone where are

they are they are they in hiding you know that first aid people were talking about continued police violence. yeah absolutely i mean migrant estimate that about ninety five percent of refugees in cali have experienced police brutality so this is a big issue in terms of where they are they are in hiding they are under bridges in the woods anywhere that can provide a little bit of shelter from the elements and also keep them out of view of the police and the author of cities so it's a pretty desperate situation when i was there just before christmas and it was cold it was wet it was muddy really awful do you and the other volunteers feel you're making a difference then the reason i ask is because something like this can feel huge and insurmountable and you know more people just keep coming all the time do you feel you're making your dinner at least making life more comfortable for. absolutely it's not just a dent if there were volunteers i don't know what would happen the volunteers are

driving driving the humanitarian aid effort. currently there's around a thousand refugees estimated to be between. that's hugely reduced from when the jungle was was operating but of those people now. you know they need food they need clothing shelter every day the police are confiscating sleeping bags and tents so for example you've got a refugee kitchen community kitchen and they're providing two thousand seven hundred fifty males hot meals a day without. people be able to eat go to migrant help refugees who operate the warehouse where distributions of donations are sorted and then distributions go out of that warehouse so vital items like coats and blankets and shoes you just saw first aid the first aid support team they're

providing basic and essential health care medicine. they of course do have employed medics but they also have around two thousand volunteers currently working on the ground so you know the list goes on and on and you know without these people i just tell you. what would happen so if someone wanted to join like you did and as i understand you know this was at the height of the crisis you sort of got in your car and drove across. to mean is that what people is that what the charities are looking for people to just jump in. so i think there's so many different ways that people can get involved and i think it's really important that we stand up a society and be counted because the government you know that all the governments are being absolutely useless when it comes to tackling this crisis is not going away and certainly well i visited now five times the situation gets worse and worse

and the numbers go up and down but still people are suffering in the most inhumane conditions so in terms of being able to go and help volunteer yes you can go out and to be in the field as it were so you can go over and volunteer with care for or help refugees and to go and offer some skills maybe you've got a specific skill maybe you can offer some you know maybe your medical paramedics fast you know there are a mixture of nurses and paramedics etc if you're a teacher you go over and work with the school bus project which we just saw but actually anyone actually anyone if you're happy just to go and be in the warehouse and sorting the donations that are coming in without that you know that those called the machine wouldn't work so you can do that but also if you can't get to france there are ways to help in the u.k. so there are in most major towns and cities there are refugee support groups and those people are raising awareness and really collecting items for refugees. so there's lots of ways to help and. make

a difference alice nicholson thank you so much as i say for your contribution and keep in touch with us as well if you do head back to get out him i will. india who's shooting for the stars again for the one hundredth time to be exact in its first mission of the new year the indian space research organization successfully launched what's called a polar rocket well there it is with thirty one satellites attached to it the milestone of having send one hundred satellites was praised by prime minister narendra modi once in all but the satellites will help monitor urban and rural applications like road networks and water distribution coming up here on the newsgroup to all your sports news. we're looking at basketball and after the break the n.b.a. stages a regular season game but this is in london the boston celtics against the philadelphia seventy six.

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welcome back far as its old sport american sports in london this is becoming a bit of a thing now right yes indeed kemal it is and it was a glamorous sporting affair on thursday night as n.b.a. players from the u.s. cross the pond to play a regular season game in london boston celtics and the philadelphia seventy six ers were the team's on the show and here's the background on the n.b.a. as a presence around the world the league have been staging matches outside the u.s. and canada since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and not just in london but also in countries like japan and china this is the eighth regular season game to be staged in london since two thousand and eleven the city's o two arena was the venue

and twenty thousand fans packed the arena it was sold out within an hour of tickets becoming available so how the alec has more. seeing the stars of the n.b.a. and everything that comes with that has become a regular treat for fans of the u.k. . the boston celtics facing the philadelphia seventy six ers in london being the eighth regular season game in the country since twenty eleven. and there 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 the crowds does it matter to see who would still be the sixers the seventy six dominated eastern conference leading celtics so much of the first half of the building a lead in excess of twenty points but boston showed just why this serious championship material. their star player kyrie irving who scored twenty points on

the night not sit down arrows helping get him to come back moving here midway into the third quarter the celtics finally seizing the lead. to try to tie us air force to the six over and they didn't give it up any hopes of an upset in london over boston going on to seal it comfortably one fourteen two one zero three for a seventh winner in the sixty's were playing pretty hard to execute. some shot. got off to a good start start something in the decency to more. probably just warner's willing to hope in the beginning you know it's natural 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 while malik. twitter and instagram were blowing out with a hashtag n.b.a.

london the game in london was very much a catwalk of celebrities with two sports colliding football royalty making their courtside present known all over social media but some fans were upset demand for take its was so high many resorted to the resale market adam tweeted corporate greed is the only winner and london so many empty seats in the arena and zero atmosphere over priced tickets has denied this being a successful exercise danny from worthing england agrees saying it works out cheaper for two people to fly to new york next month catch the next verses wizards stay in a hotel and fly home then pay for two n.b.a. london take it will tickets prices aside the n.b.a. promoted the event all over social media this was one of their campaigns and it's nice to know n.b.a. players don't take themselves too seriously have a look. oh don't worry and what are you going.

aker. you know what. i feel like you would be like your elbow right there are. those you. again. i don't just give you a loan i'm good that's all right thank you and you know the reality thank you very broadly. sounds like trolley. with your bro. those are really words. what do you think you can send us your thoughts here on a genius grid but that's it for me for now i'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to kemal thank you far great clip that was fantastic now finally for you a story from popular new guinea. environmentalist say the government is complacent

in the destruction of acres of the country's rain forests the south pacific ocean is just overtaken malaysia to become the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardwood andrew thomas which to me are to see the impact first on. the extremely remote location of this rainforest used to offer 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 just a new year and a new go to be tree or maybe looking at the birds flowing out all the troops but now 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 this 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 in places looking companies have subsidised the local police those trying to stop the locusts 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 illegal there's no question about it and they will be cancelled they will be cancelled and all logging will stop 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 love 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. one of the most beautifully filmed places i've seen here on al-jazeera well done to endure and it's taken aback one but a funny old day hasn't it but thank you for your company we will see you back here at studio fourteen it out zero fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. on saturday.

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