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should the it's good we should live with the. democrats dismissed donald trump denials about his offensive comments which have sparked fury around the world. he also says he'll approve the iran nuclear deal one last time but once it's false must be fixed so now the u.s. will withdraw plus. more violent protests in chin is the over the government's austerity measures on the say two hundred people have now been arrested. and we'll take you to las vegas to find out what's called the biggest star at the consumer electronics show. and i'm far a small be here with all the day's sporting including morocco is getting ready to host the african nations championship as the country's football fortunes are on the rise after their qualification for this year's world cup.

a very warm welcome to this hour of the u.s. president has denied using vulgar and de broglie tree language to describe haiti el salvador and countries in africa donald trump's alleged to have made the comments during a white house meeting on draft immigration legislation now this loads of been widely condemned across american society as racist and offensive our white house correspondent kimberly explains. surrounded by members of the african-american community at a white house ceremony honoring the civil rights icon dr martin luther king donald trump made no apology for his alleged racist comments a day earlier. wright series of early morning tweets donald trump denied media reports that he had called haiti el salvador and african countries shitholes during a meeting with senators on immigration but he did admit the language used was tough

he also denied saying anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled country if we're here to be standing beside the president in the oval office with dr martin luther king jr's nephew later he told al jazeera he believes trump has much to learn about tolerance but is not hateful i honestly don't think the president trump is a racist i think he's racially uninformed we've got time to do with democratic senator dick durbin was at thursday's white house meeting and says trump made the controversy over comments words he calls vial and racist he said these hateful things that he said there were people. tribes comments have stung many in the country including the tens of thousands of haitians who came to the united states

after the devastating twenty ten earthquake it was kind of disturbing you know it was hurtful to my community and my current members of the president's own republican party have distanced themselves from trump's comments calling them problematic as politicians try to come to an agreement on immigration and funding to avoid an imminent government shutdown i read those comments later last night so first thing that came to my mind was there. unfortunately unhelpful it is incomprehensible that these words came out of the mouth of the president of the united states of america a country that was founded on. being free from discrimination the calls for the president to apologize for his remarks are intensifying inside and outside the united states but for now it appears that apology is unlikely kimberly helped at al jazeera washington while the world was quick to react to president obama's comments

from leaders to people on the streets many of them discuss that botswana el salvador and haiti which has been marking the eighth anniversary of its devastating earthquake of all launched official protests to go hate has more. he once said when he was in the oval office america would be respected around the globe that isn't happening just the opposite actually according to polls and that will be even worse now that he has called africa el salvador and haiti shitholes reaction from the united nations was quick these shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states sorry but there's no other work on communities but racist. you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. affluent welcomed the president's muddled denials

not believed by most considering he so often gets caught say blatant lies this remark is being taken personally in haiti marking the eighth anniversary of a deadly earthquake related to value we all have to get together and respond to trying to say as many years since haiti has been a shithole country now we are any merging country we can do things we want our independence in the past in kenya unfortunately the american people elected an individual who's been accused of multiple counts of sexual assault is a proven liar and clearly a racist i don't want to leave my country i love my country it's a beautiful country with beautiful people south africa well what i feel about what donna talked to said right now with this statement that i think i've. got to have made the mistake that people cite and zimbabwe is no proves everything that white supremacist but now when you come up with outright racist i think what you just.

saw. of the woods. from the american people themselves around the globe condemnation disgust even now after so much a sense of shock this is the president of the united states who many now see as an unapologetic races. how to call hain al-jazeera washington let's talk more about this with ok he's the c.e.o. of ok africa media pop on the focuses on african culture and dyess for in the u.s. he joins me now from new york a very warm welcome to the program sir first of all your take on trump's comments and how damaging do you think they are i think trump's remarks are racist racism is pretty much described the racism towards black people is described as you know taking us a period in the white superiority. you know whites are superior and they're

racist i mean we need to call it what it is i think that the president has gotten away with you know apologizing and people you the media apologizing for his words as just locker room talk they're racist. should he apologize i mean i think it's unlikely but should he and would it make any difference i think if the president apologizes that would be. it's necessary because he represents the off the highest office in the land i think it's you know grossly unlikely that he will apologize for these remarks he's never shown any inclination that he. offers any reflection or contrition for the things that he's said over the past. since he's been in office and prior to the time he spent in office. so i don't think that he's ever going to apologize but he should. how indicative do you

think this is a of the why you dare you know u.s. population i'm sure there are many millions of households you know sitting there disgusted today but it's nonetheless deeply frustrating isn't it for a nation that has you know racial divides. i mean america is a land of immigrants you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who isn't an immigrant or isn't the offspring of immigrant parents who are looking for a better opportunity or who you know it was in search of a better opportunity for their lives and their loved ones besides native americans you know none of most of the people that live here are indigenous to this to this land and i think that the media outrage and the public outrage is indicative of how americans feel and are reacting to the remarks of the president and i don't think that the president's remarks are a reflection on the of the american people or the general american populous. but.

nonetheless we need to hold the president accountable for his remarks and the president however many people disagree with him in the u.s. and elsewhere nonetheless is still a very powerful vocal figure and i'm just wondering you know african immigrants around the world poorly treated you know in many corners of the world does does this embolden you know those countries and that sort of treatment. unfortunately it does these type of remarks and this sort of rhetoric bolsters xeno phobic. sentiments you know africans have and continue to suffer a great injustice around the world you know african students are constantly beaten in india there was a report some time in two thousand and thirteen where african women specifically from ethiopia one hundred thirty thousand women were forcibly sterilized you know

you have african immigrants in france who are constantly subject to random identification searches and in some cases you know detained and some of that some of those incidences result in death so you know anyone that has a misconception or or or a negative belief about africans globally this justifies or they will use this to try to justify their sentiments after all the president of the free world believes that africans are from shithole countries and that's just that's just unacceptable i don't know how cool joining me live from new york c.e.o. of ok africa thanks very much thank you. after months of political posturing the u.s. president has decided to extend the suspension of sanctions against iran one last time but

a senior administration official says he wants their own nuclear deal strengthened by washington and its european allies in the next one hundred and twenty days of the u.s. will withdraw now the waiver spot of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal it was brokered by world powers but the u.s. congress requires the president reaffirm the agreement every ninety days and the last deadline in october charm declined to certify iran's compliance but congress didn't act to reimpose sanctions and even a little the president will not sign off on the nuclear deal new sanctions will be imposed on fourteen individuals and entities for human rights abuses and supporting iran's weapons programs when just a moment we'll get reaction from tehran but first let's get more on the answer from alan fischer who is in washington d.c. hi there alan is this for we were expecting from drum. what we didn't know what donald trump was going to do we know his senior advisers have said look iran's in compliance or european neighbors agree that in compliance we really

have to find a way that we can say we don't like the deal but continue to be in the deal donald trump said three months ago he wasn't happy recertifying it one more time this time he said i will recertify it but no more i'm done and that matches up with the promise that he made when he was on the campaign trail he said he hated the iran deal thought it was a terrible deal thought around got too much for too little and he would scrap it so what he's doing now is saying to the european allies look we've got one hundred twenty days i want to come up with a plan i want is to look at ways we can have a supplemental agreement which poses more restrictions on to iran or else i will walk away now just twenty four hours ago the europeans met in brussels and said they believe that iran was in compliance they've agreed a deal they understand some of the other things that donald trump is talking about but they weren't part of the deal so when donald trump and his administration see we're quite far along the road of talking to our european allies about what we

would like to see they probably are they're probably saying to the european allies this is what we would like but there is no indication that the europeans are about to rip up the deal or try and bring in a few supplemental pages it's interesting that donald trump said the negotiations would be with the europeans he has no intention of talking to the iranians at this point alan with sanctions on individuals. that's right these are non-nuclear sanctions no the u.s. has put sanctions on iran for a number of issues this time they're seeing is because of the way the recent demonstrations were suppressed and also ongoing human rights abuses take. the. recent sorry forgot is the head of the head of the judiciary in iran live in journey that's exactly right it's a lot of journey who's the head of the iranian judiciary here is being sanctioned and by doing that of course he is the brother of the speaker of the house in tehran

and they are seeing that this shows that american sanctions are going right to the very top of the really in regime but those sanctions are outside the nuclear deal it's the nuclear deal on the next one hundred twenty days and what happens then that everyone will be focused on alan fischer there live from washington d.c. alan thank you. iran's foreign minister mohammad javits a range has reacted to trump's announcement on twitter he wrote trump's policy in today's announcement amounted to a desperate attempt to undermine a solid multilateral agreement rather than repeating tide rhetoric yes and bang itself into full compliance just like iran let's get more from same bus robbi in tehran hi there is say i'm still same we're seeing that reaction there from serif saying he's basically trump is attempting to undermine a solid multilateral agree with.

well if there is one thing that the u.s. president in iran is foreign minister have in common is that they both like to use twitter foreign minister gerard zarif wasted very little time within an hour of the trump announcement he took to twitter and as you've read it he called the latest announcement by trump a desperate and now despite the fact that the waiver has been extended in the nuclear deal is technically on the reason that this recall this move desperate is because the iranian authorities have said all along that the nuclear deal is a good one it's multilateral and that they have complied with all of the conditions of the deal they've kept their side of the bargain and many of the analysts and political thinkers that we speak to here as well as lawmakers they say that the trump hatred for the deal really stems from his well his desire to undo in a bomb a. legacy of a deal that was struck under the former u.s. president barack obama's time and that it's really just that kind of dislike of the

previous ministration is playing out on iranian soil the other thing that mr zarif said in his tweet was he referenced specific paragraphs of the nuclear agreement and said that those were paragraphs that were being violated and what he meant by that if you read those sections it really speaks to the spirit of the nuclear agreement that iran says the united states at least under the trump white house has never really lived up to and in that it states that iran will be allowed to benefit financially and really. come out of isolation and rejoin the global marketplace and those things have really not happened in a lot of that is down to the fact that they didn't do the trump administration's rhetoric has according to many people here been as bad as actual sanctions and so we're seeing new sanctions being placed against the iranian people and organizations that the government here has said over and over again that any. sections would be a violation of the good deal having said that they certainly are committed their

european partners are committed so while the words words may get louder. the hope here for a lot of iranians and government as well as the iranian people will be that the nuclear deal stays on now another group that we've had a quick reaction from is a parliamentary commission on national security and they very quickly said that their ballistic missiles program will remain alive and that has been a part of iran's statement there are a policy position that as far as ballistic missiles are concerned that really is a self-defense issue and not one that is part of the nuclear agreement or as has ever been part of the nuclear agreement so any criticisms of iran's so defense capabilities are not on the table and you're right the iranian parliamentary commission quick to reinforce that idea same bus rather than live from tehran same time. meanwhile the u.s. president's been undergoing his first medical checkup since taking office the exam assigned to let people know that the president is fit for duty but it's taken on

added meaning for donald trump amid questions over his mental fitness for the role controversial book that is for months in office raises suggestions from some schools advises that he was quote incapable of functioning in his job and medicals being carried that walter reed military hospital. coming up on the al-jazeera news hour after months of uncertainty a breakthrough in talks to fire on a new coalition government in germany. the deposed president of catalonia is in brussels to lead his newly elected m.p.'s. in sport and road trip to london doesn't throw boston's n.b.a. championship push off course. director. china's in authority have arrested another one hundred fifty people including local opposition leaders on friday in response to the latest demonstrations there also

eight hundred people have now been detained after almost a week of protests over the government's plan to raise taxes and the price of thanks to goods sent this report from chin. i angry crowds denounce the arrests of hundreds of people. the government says those who have been detained were involved in attacks against police stations the protesters on the other hand accused uneasy and authorities of an indiscriminate crackdown look but it was cool and you don't see it is the time when the biggest problem is with those who govern us nothing is changing to this is the same elite the governess the same tactics they claim there are freedoms if you express your views in the streets you end up in jail the police are chasing us. the police have been given strict orders not to use force to disperse the crowds these

are tense times in the country. oh. oh oh protesters are venting their frustration of the government after it introduced was targeted measures and increased taxes officials here say the measures are crucial to eliminate the budget deficit. and improved declining revenues from agriculture mining and tourism to his ears vital economic sectors. not only badly run we want the government to scrap the tax increases many people are suffering because of the price rises particularly important areas like city busied catarina where communities have been grappling with discrimination for decades this is made by the government as against the will of the people. prime minister yousaf has visited some of the areas of the protests he's accused of popular front a coalition of leftist opposition parties of inciting and rast but the opposition

insists the rallies are legitimate expressions of frustration over a government they say has betrayed its own people army units have been deployed in many cities to protect government buildings and prevent it descent into chaos this is a delicate issue for the government to be better for us all the tax increases the budget deficit will continue to strain the state's finances but if it goes ahead with the austerity measures public anger might lead to further instability. sonus. demonstrations have taken place in the palestinian territories after fatah hamas and other groups called for another day of rage over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel israeli forces are still maintaining blocks and conduct raids on palestinian villages in the occupied west bank as they look for the killer of an israeli settler eighteen palestinians have been arrested so far on thursday two palestinian teenagers were killed during

scuffles israeli troops. case in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas to disperse church course mourning seven people who died in recent protests security forces killed at least seven people in the capital kinshasa on new year's eve the demonstrations on friday were organized by catholic activists who've been protesting against president come b.s. refusal to step down from office. government officials in pakistan's punjab province a d.n.a. tests show that six girls were raped and killed by the person who murdered eight she will save up on sorry or been angry protests across the country since a nabs body was found in a rubbish dump on shoes day the testers say the authorities must do more to catch the perpetrator is the local government says the merger will be. a lot of work said similar to the secret only aim is to catch a slimy and dirty killer they should be arrested and peace should be brought to this town we all have children today we cannot play politics with this case camillo

enough to play politics with it because everyone has daughters. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with their social democrat rivals to enter into coalition talks the attempt to try to revive the power sharing government has been in power since twenty thirteen must be approved by s.p.d. members next week david chaytor reports. 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 the 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 fund ation and we will recommend our party begin talks on forming a stable government. as 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 during 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 reached on 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 these are the sort of democrats is one of the most vocal parts of the party are calling for

opposition they believe in s.p.d. outside of government would have the opportunity to to reenergize true we think it's a gender. in a radical shift on german arms exports the party said they would end the be gently 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 and 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 berlin. the spanish government has dismissed the possibility of the former kaplan leader karl who's most willing the region from self-imposed exile in brussels earlier push well met members of his point depend this movement in the belgian capital friday some of the news the session has them he said they hope push one would be approved for another term as president of the

catalan regional parliament but the madrid government says it will contest any attempt in the courts. chrysler has announced a recall of one hundred sixty two thousand minivans because of a software glitch the car giants admitted that the problem could cause vehicles to stall there have been consumer complaints for some time of the twenty seventeen percent to come model some drivers say the cause of lost power or stalled while driving and when stationary. still to come this hour we'll show you the impact of impact and you can. this is just profoundly depressing. i mean just look at it. this. morning syria's increased attacks will spark a new wave of migration as government plans continue to bomb deescalation. and

sport the skier stays on course for a maiden olympic gold medal details coming up. there is a. hello but you've southeast europe is still cold and grey the satellite picture shows the gray it also picks up the cold to some degree because that's. what the climate is so all of this ten single figures to a large degree not much fording out of the sky disappointing not particularly foggy most of the time but it's true bright enough in poland then to the south of that we've got the cold air of a warm water surveying goes through greece into turkey but of a gap but the next lots already ready coming through portugal despite its rain for the most part but much of spain of course is along whether sea levels will be snow possibly even in madrid for time on saturday night is to be cold on sunday seven

degrees at best you might get for a little while a bit of snow in the south of france nice or charm maybe the french alps one thing not to the north of that it looks like brighter skies six to eight degrees is where it should be this time here for london and for paris the rain that was falling into news here has spun away and that circulation now the one that for me the rain the jian will also bring rains in the gulf of sidra hit parts of libya the temperatures come up analogies two days quite considerably as you can see that it warms even more to a quite remarkable seventeen by the time we get to sunday which is equivalent to the sunny skies of benghazi. when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps then the borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to do a good job least it became another obstacle to peace in

a four part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera. and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to for dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the you're.

a mind of the top stories here on out as they are present trump a strong condemnation from around the world for his alleged use of offensive language to describe painting el salvador and african nations to deny for making those comments. he's also decided to waive sanctions against iran one last time but officials say he once they were any good clear deal strengthened with the follow on agreement and hundred twenty days saw the u.s. withdrawal. well let's talk more about this now with. his director of the iran observer project at the middle east institute in washington sorry very warm welcome to the program are you surprised by. you know i'm not surprised because this is the same stance the president took three months ago when he do certify the iran nuclear deal and it was in october and the

president told the u.s. congress and also european allies that they should fix the loopholes within the deal out of the if he were terminated on he reiterated the same position today and basically acquirements that the president set out or iran's ballistic missile program should be also part of this deal also he has called for an end to the sunset provisions which removes some of the restrictions on the wrong nuclear activities and advocate he has also expressed concern about iran street now activities. and also he wants a very robust. picture regime against. iran's military installations so these requirements i think that they are nonstarter for iran and also did a piano allies are not supporting them and i want it's interesting to think that

when obama negotiated this deal that there was criticism from both sides but now that criticism seems to be against tampering if i can use that word with the deal that's been negotiated. now you're absolutely right because when president obama on the go share that this deal with the iranians had also outer. five other parties of the deal there were bipartisan criticism of the deal because this deal after all is not a perfect deal it does have certain shortcomings but today even the very strong critics of the iran deal don't want prison and try to counsel deal because they believe that that would isolate washington more done to her on because the european allies have made it clear that they want to very strict enforcement of the deal they don't want washington to cancel it what about the sanctions element to this.

is that the right way to go well if you if we look back and see that the reason that iran came to the negotiating table data was the result of a very robust international sanctions that crippled the iranian economy so now if president trump unilaterally withdraw from the deal. likely to side with little on china and russia that are too signatories of the deal so the impact of unilateral sanctions would not be significant enough on iran on the iranian economy to force the wrong to make more concessions so no that would not be very effective joining me there. from washington d.c. thank you thanks for having me donald trump's council to visit to london to open the new u.s. embassy he says it's because he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the building even though the decision to move the embassy was announced before obama

was even elected from london explains. the building at the center of a new trump twitter storm finishing touches it being made to the u.s. embassy south of the river thames away from the heart of the city but the american president's not happy the reason i canceled my trip to london he wrote is that i'm not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build a new one for one point two billion dollars deal the embassies now expected to be opened by u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson next month from the street like many other u.s. embassies around the world it's a giant forty five box this one happens to be surrounded by a moat is also somewhat different it's apparently very green topped with solar panels and the screens that designed to aid climate control is also taking shape in an area of urban regeneration that according to some is

a little bit more evocative of the previous u.s. administration than the present war and that could be the problem the bearer of london sadique khan drew his own conclusions trumps decision many londoners have made it clear he tweeted that donald trump is not welcome here while he is pursuing such a divisive agenda it wasn't long before the u.k. spahn secretary boyce johnson intervened saying we will not allow u.s. u.k. relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in city hall on a visit to washington last year prime minister theresa may invited trump on a separate state visit to the u.k. but no dates being sent a petition against the plan gained more than a million signatures following trump's crackdown on immigration from majority muslim countries as for the old embassy in grosvenor square one of the most expensive addresses in the world it's been bought by qatar and the money used to build the new embassy america's association with the square goes back two hundred years is now destined to be turned into a luxury hotel but hang on

a minute could it be is it. well most alone full blooded works work museum swords. may be unwilling to come to the u.k. himself but there is a rather suspicious look alike. let me call him mr president. the al-jazeera. u.s. embassy in london has taken the rear step of defending its move saying it was done to ensure security and safety standards and to meet its budget separately the us ambassador to panama says he's resigning his bills because he can no longer serve the us president john feely is a career diplomat former marine corps helicopter pilot the state department says his departure is not a response to trying to use a vulgar language to refer to certain countries turkey's foreign ministry has warned its citizens against traveling to the u.s. risking league night in a long running diplomatic dispute from last year both countries lifted visa

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 could turkey is now saying it's this is and should provide any travel plans to the u.s. after a jury there found a turkish banker guilty of helping iran if they'd sanctions turkey's prime minister is urging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's of fence of an province one of the rebels last stronghold in ali galle droom says the army assault could force even more people to be displaced on driven 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. the united nations has expressed its concern over this latest escalation in fighting with a warning that deliberate attacks on civilians could be considered war crimes in just one damascus suburb with an eighty five people killed in just twelve days of

reports. this has become the norm in eastern good. day to civilian casualties as the syrian government steps up its attacks and flushing out rebels in the damascus suburb was this is the last rebel held enclave and regime forces backed by russian strikes have been intensifying attacks in recent months russia has rejected accusations it's been targeting civilians are you having a go. turkish president spoke to his russian counterpart putin on thursday stressing the strikes needed to stop for peace talks to succeed an unnamed turkish source said ankara had summoned iranian and russian ambassadors syrian president assad's backers to express its discomfort those airstrikes are in what was meant to be a deescalation. and the un's envoy voiced his concern over the level of violence

and go to while things are now. in the country where many people live. and finding continues in other areas. right now and she said about facing the siege. this was loquats first mission to syria since his appointment last year. the more russia is due to host the syrian national dialogue congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meaningful dialogue to end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. puppa new guinea's logging industry is booming it's just overtaken malaysia as the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardware but it's coming at a cost environmental groups are accusing the pacific nations government of sitting back and doing nothing while it's rain forests are systematically destroyed and thomas has been to one of the main logging areas to look at the impact firsthand.

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've been here two years ago we were just a new year and a new go to be true or maybe looking at the birds flown out all the troops but no look at this so we would have been in the middle of the forest yes we would be in the middle of the forest. 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 their reports substitute. this 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 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 subsidized 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 is a deal's 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 have just been in 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. do you like reading a story to your children in the evening i love reading to lie but do you find that sometimes you just don't have the time well the answer can be find of the annual c.s. technology show in las vegas a big i will look like well what need look to do exactly that read a bedtime story it's one of the thousands of smart gadgets and oss official intelligence devices being exhibited at the fed so reynolds is live in las vegas

for us hi there rob so what are the hottest trends that are showing up. well julie one of them is artificial excuse me is. this virtual reality is going to say artificial intelligence but it's my intelligence is limited at this point in the day anyway artificial reality it is expected that the stillmore of stuff of items sold in individual units sold will rise by twenty five percent this year through a total of nearly four billion dollars a lot of of virtual reality sets being chilled while way that the company is one of the leaders in this technology and while ways andrew bongiorno is going to give me a little demonstration right now into what do we got here ok so why was just released the new wave two and so the v o one was originally like a

a cell phone that would sit in the front so it was mounted this one has its own l.c.d. screen so it's a much higher resolution which helps with obviously clarity of vision and that sort of thing so yes three k. is ricky a little let's give it a try she always gets all right ok i'm getting on the bike here and i guess in through. what you say yeah good way to go yeah i'm ready to go i guess i'm i'm taking a take right it's a right in it's right we're going to put you in a tank you know if you want to move that thing for you there you go you just pedal you need to reverse you just pedal backwards if you need to assume you put your you to shoulder and like this yeah it'll tilt it will tilt the headpiece that way go over here yes that's right we're going to have to just pull that trigger right there or what and what should i shoot a will eventually there's going to be some enemy tanks coming up oh my goodness really i don't know how you know there's one right there. i got him it's you know i didn't get him there i got on are

a good right through that box because that's special power that's going to be invincibility right invisibility for me. ok well i'm going to quit while i'm ahead i'll turn it off. so you've been doing this for a while. compared with say last year or two years ago. what's changed in. the show others a couple of things one is going to be the weight of the headsets and the comfort that they sit on your head. one specifically has a very very nice little hondas there that sits at the base of the aisle a so it doesn't follow because a lot of the ones used to fold down in noise and put so much pressure another one is obviously not that clarity of vision i was saying that's three k. resolution and also the ninety hertz refresh rate which is going to help you play games like this and see the vision much clearer without any sort of static movement it's going to be very smooth and the ultimate goal eventually is to make it almost indistinguishable from the experience of eyes and brain right yeah

absolutely i mean that would be yeah that's that's the way it's headed and we're very excited about the direction it's headed as you said as it's raising twenty five percent in this coming year is a projected number and we're giving a very competitive price point to this one a lot of competitors a charging at above three hundred closer to four hundred dollars and we're trying to keep this under three hundred to maybe between two to three its commercial for a while way there i think you know thanks a lot for the opportunity to blow up a tank which is something i've never done in any form of reality julie roll great to see i kept wanting to shout rob it's behind us behind you over and over by by thing you did very well thanks well. all. the host of one of the biggest. continents nations championship trophy.

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business updates. going places. chile thank you so much morocco is getting ready to host the fifth edition of the african nations championship but country softball fortunes are on the rise after their qualification for this year's world cup and as someone who reports morocco has ambitions to one day stage football's biggest event this is where many moroccan youngsters learn their football the beach doubles as an improvised training ground

fans here i have a lot to look forward to oracle has qualified for the world cup for the first time in twenty years and the country is about to welcome many of africa's best players the city of gaza blunk is due to host the african nations championship the country hasn't hosted a senior continental competition since the africa cup of nations in the nineteen eighty eight moral codes due to stage the twenty fifteen cup of nations but pulled out due to concerns about the spread of the ebola virus the african nations championship so has been around for a decade but is still trying to establish itself the sixteen team event is soley for players based in their domestic league but with the decision to expand the flagship a cup of nations to twenty four teams and extra world cup places awarded to the african continent from twenty to twenty six some are questioning its value the man in charge of african football is this its future is secure.

with regards to the position the competition takes at a continental level it's very important because if we look at the number of participants in qualifying matches increases day by day it means that the federations and the players develop a taste for it and profited little from this opportunity. morrocco is hoping that by successfully stage in this tournament they could be given another chance to host the cup of nations with their own bishes don't stop there with a country challenging a dog bid from the u.s. canada and mexico to host the twenty twenty six fifa world cup which we historically evidence for for us four of american football. because last last year. our first team qualified for the world cup and we warn the champion champions league of and we are we are

we want inside let's continue with this. good moment and then i've known from where we've been preparing for this competition for some time i think we have good players can make our country proud morrocco kickoff this event against mauritania close to forty five thousand spectators will be at the renovated muhamad the fifth stadium home fans hoping they'll be back at the same stadium in early february to see their team play in the final sun of al-jazeera has a blanka morrocco. english premier league champions chelsea will be in action on saturday they face last turn will be hoping to make up ground on the runaway illegal eaters of manchester city and other matches the relegation battle will be highlighted with six of the bottom eight teams all in action only three points separate twelfth place brighton from stoke who were in the bottom three in the late

match tottenham who were second last season host everton spurs are currently in fifth position. no i think the good play is if it's if player that. but if you do so makes it over to him. to. play with games. and school. is going to be tough to play canada's mikhail kingsbury kept up his outstanding recent form with a thirteenth straight world cup victory very was in action at the men's moguls event valley utah where he won both of us the canadian has now won all six moguls events in the current season he also won seven in a row last season kingsbury has a total of forty eight career wins which itself is

a world cup record is not won an olympic gold medal but on current form will be seen as a favorite in china. britain's mohamed far was forced to pull out of the doha marathon because of a tight achilles tendon the four time olympic champion was due to compete in the half marathon but withdrew after feeling discomfort during the warm up. the thirty four year old was still the star attraction at the event even though he opted to run in the children's race instead. kenya's alex mann half marathon. on the boston celtics to 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 hours at a game played in london so home ports. 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 is 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 question. whether we can make it work it looked those on hand in london in for a shock result right across crowds does it seem to be the sixers. dominated eastern conference leading celtic so much of the first half empty building a lead in excess of twenty points. boston showed just why this series championship material. who scored twenty points on the night not suited. helping getting to come back moving. midway into the third quarter the celtics

finally seizing the lead four for. two a crowded price airports that is it their way and they didn't give it up with any hopes of an upset in london that was over boston going on to seal it comfortably one fourteen to one of three for a seventh win in a row with a sixty two point executed. making some shots. you got out of your start started something of the difference a little bit more and for us we. probably just one is willing to hope in the beginning you know it's natural that while british fans would have to wait a year to see be n.b.a. at home again it's possible they've already seen this season's champions in action so we'll malik al-jazeera. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to chile and london. fara thank you now more than four hundred rail travel less in western japan were trapped on a crowded commuter train overnight when it got stuck after heavy snow fall the train left the city of nigger on thursday night but had to stop when its wheels

were brought by snow well workers decided it was too risky to evacuate because the train was in a remote area they eventually got it moving after fifteen hours some passengers had to stand tire time of course you can follow the stories we're following here on out is there on our web site the address is al-jazeera dot com we'll be back in just a sec with much more. the

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