in the dollars a barrel we examine the drivers behind the rise one of the economic reasons behind the. little closer at the whole stray being between france and china counting the cost this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. this is al-jazeera. hello again i'm adrian finnegan this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes two suicide bombers blew themselves up in

a packed baghdad market killing at least thirty eight people. turkey syria and russia react with fury and concern to the latest u.s. plan for kurdish rebel fighters. a walkway collapses at the indonesians stock exchange building injuring at least seventy five people at a shard of glass and daybreak. i'm tatiana all the day's news including rafael nadal get his australian open campaign on a winning start all the details later in. two suicide bomb blasts during the monday morning rush hour in baghdad have killed at least thirty eight people close to one hundred others were injured more fatalities a feared it's the fourth attack in the iraqi capital in the past forty eight hours some of inch of it reports. bodies were

scattered all over the streets in central baghdad two suicide bombers detonated their explosives during morning rush hour in tehran square dozens were killed and wounded. chocolate bars sold in the busy marketplace were scattered in the debris and blood. it's become a deadly routine as people of the iraqi capital quickly try to resume their lives around square is a busy intersection in eastern baghdad between saddam city and bridge the areas full of laborers on their way to work in the morning. i was here when the blast took place i heard two blasts many people got killed mainly workers the dead and wounded were taken to three nearby hospitals including she. said. we have nine people two of them in the operation theatre and the other seven in the general surgery and fractures departments they'll leave after treatment and we're going to work when the bombs exploded despite his wounds he ran for medical help he's like

many iraqis who don't have faith in their leaders to provide safety. we don't need anyone from this government we need the government to stop the political elite have to stop their disputes for their personal interests and ministerial posts as the people of iraq will be the only victim sure. what can i say to the government nothing and just nothing we have urged the government more than once to take care of us we are poor and so many poor today have lost their lives there was another attack in northeastern baghdad three people were killed including a member of the iraqi ministry of defense. attacks have risen in the last forty eight hours eight people were killed in a suicide bombing on sunday in the area north of baghdad it shows that the minister of interior does not have a real intelligence network that it's supposed to be the data that will be on the table of the responsible persons who are supposed to be working hard to make back that secure last month iraqi prime minister head there led by the declared victory

against eisel saying the war against the group was over but the victory is yet to be translated into an end to attacks the u.n. says last month alone at least sixty nine civilians were killed in violence and conflict highlighting the fragility of iraq's peace as world attention fades after the declared defeat divisive some of and others there. now to syria where significant developments in the country's north are threatening to cause major diplomatic fallout the u.s. has announced that it's supporting the formation of a thirty thousand strong kurdish led border force in rebel controlled areas turkey says that america is playing with fire and syria's government says the plan is a blatant assault on its territory turkey's president of top birder waters described the formation of the fighting force a terror army russia has also reacted suggesting the formation of a zone controlled by u.s. backed rebels could lead to the partition of syria but it would pneumonias through

. american say i so was not completely destroyed in syria but we can now see that the us are not interested in the territorial integrity of syria it announced a new initiative yesterday and they would like to support the democratic forces of syria and as though one of border security which would mean cutting off large territories around turkey's border so this is a difficult area where there is tension between kurds and arabs these territories would be controlled by armed oppositions and u.s. forces it would be very difficult to split syria such an approach is taking place without a u.n. resolution or negotiations in geneva russia iran and turkey expect clarifications from the u.s. more on the correction of this force and the fallout from al-jazeera is very on the whole and. turkish president today chip tayyip erdogan and using a party address to look staunch in the face of a u.s. backed couldst force on his southern border he promised to respond with a show of force saying tikki will launch its own military operation and the

northern syrian city of buffeting not so still a lot of religion that just like we do not let the kurdistan workers party or p.k. open their eyes within our borders we are determined to vanquish them on the other side of fall border god willing in the coming days we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror. turkey has fought kiddish factions within its borders for more than thirty years and doesn't want to see the kurds gain power and neighboring syria the u.s. and the european union say the p.k. k. is a terror group but in northern syria the americans say they're supporting kurdish forces not the p.k. k. specifically the kurds are the most effective fighting force against the islamic state in syria and they've been very successful in that that's the american purpose but the turks regard the kurds and the y. b.g. as a dire threat to u.s. president trump promised iran that he would stop being and training could fight is

but the pentagon never made that official now turkey is furious about reports of a new u.s. backed border force of thirty thousand personnel with the syrian democratic forces a group of largely controlled by the could ish y p g they will reportedly deploy along the border of turkey iraq to the southeast and the euphrates river valley the dividing line with assad's military the american backed could a swipe e.g. posted this online in december purporting to show clashes with teargas forces it's enough rain in northern syria the same could. do one now see. he will launch a military operation in the coming days we'll get there are many kyler despite it all we believe we have common interests with america in the region and hope we can act in concert because the time has come to support turkey and the time to give strategic corporation is do african could be the taste for

a difficult three way relationship between powers in the syrian war tikki the united states and the kurdish fighters so hated by one side and supported by the other media mahommed al-jazeera in another speech delivered just a short time ago turkey's president or the one says that it's important to stand up to the us should it. now the united states has confessed that they are forming a terror army along our border what we have to do is to strangle this terror army on our borders before it is born but suspect that under serious sin and cos the only hussein and taqiyya they have turkey's border with syria said the turkish the turkish president is pretty angry then that u.s. support for the why p.g. and this proposed border defense force but what a result right now. well our green.

president sounds very determined and resoldered about the government's decision to launch this operation in often by the way our friend is just right behind us there are the kurdish villages in off inside here on my left side and you can see the wall that turkish government built to provide security between syria and turkey but the villages are very close to each other so it is also a concern but when we look from turkish perspective despite the u.s. says that this stationing of border security forces is for providing security and stopping the infiltration of radical groups turkey sees it as a threat for itself for its national security and yesterday a presidential spokesman had a written statement delivered mentioning that turkey reserves its right to respond

and in the national threat very rever it has outside or inside turkey and whenever it wants so present and on today also warn that turkey will be drawn thing these groups because turkey sees why p.g. which is the backbone of the syrian democratic forces as an offshoot of p.k. the kurdistan workers' party and it's an alp older than the zation for turkey e.u. and the united states they are listed as terrorist groups so turkey says that as of this united states is directly strengthening and arming k.k. while arming the i.p.g. and ancora says the weapons that the u.s. provides to them will be used against us one day and that's why we should sold this problem immediately we should launch an operation before y p g and p k k. k fires the arms to turkey and this is the turkish disk. course but of course one

major concern was whether russia would ever say que go for turkey because russia has a strong word over a friend but it seems after today it today's statements by love bro that russia also will support turkey in a decision to launch this operation and even the syrian regime sees the united states as a traitor because of this corporation with the. so many thanks indeed seven corsi over there in and attack here an armed group has launched an attack on an airbase in libya's capital tripoli killing at least twelve people security sources say that gunmen stormed the materia airbase and the fighting spilled on to the runway suspending flights it's the only functioning airport in tripoli after the international terminal there was damaged in twenty eight fourteen the base was under the control of the special to terence force which is affiliated

with the un backed government of national accord the u.s. central command in the middle east says that it's received no reports of interceptions of any civilian flights in the gulf in the skies of the gulf it follows reports by the u.a.e. state news agency saying that cattery fighter jets intercepted two m. rotty civilian aircraft qatar's foreign minister has denied the claim the reports come after doha complained to the un security council over two alleged violations of cattery airspace by u.a.e. military aircraft in recent weeks tension between concerned its neighbors have increased since june when the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic and economic ties a walkway has collapsed into the sea a stock exchange building causing widespread panic and injuries at least seventy five people were taken to hospital in jakarta daybreak and rubble fell on to people in the lobby below our correspondent in jakarta steadfastly as the latest. many

here are still shocked that this collapse could take place here in the financial heart. in the middle of. a lot of people were injured because this small bridge here in the second tower of the stock exchange collapsed just before the lunch break the trading had stopped but a lot of students were here from. the building and they were on the small bridge at the level just above the lobby still. footage shows very clearly what happened at the time it's horrifying to see the students on this and then this whole thing collapsed of course a lot of people were injured when they tried to get out of this building as soon as possible students were seen lying outside on the three injuries. to hospitals here in the area to take them to hospital people were brought to hospital but it's a miracle that many of them only light injuries. broken bones and

a lot of them have been released from hospital already cause the building management is now under a lot of pressure to answer questions what actually is the cost of this collapse and why this could happen spain's prime minister mario not a whole has warmed up but drew it will maintain its control of catalonia if deposed regional leader colace push to mount tries to reenter office has been in self-imposed exile in belgium since catalonia succession referendum in october says the push to mount would also need to be present in catalonia to be sworn in as the region's president u.s. president donald trump has denied accusations that he's a racist he's been criticized for allegedly using vulgar language when describing haiti el salvador and several african nations during a recent white house meeting that we call him reports. the big conversation happening in washington and really across the country in the globe right now is

president donald trump in fact a racist this is all coming about after a meeting where a bipartisan group of senators went to the white house and said they had a compromise on immigration reform the president reportedly bristled at it because he said it would allow in countries in africa el salvador in haiti and he described those as undesirable countries although he used a far more explosive expletive to describe those places now the question is is he in fact a racist because in that conversation he said he would rather take in people from countries like norway which are majority white well here's what the president had to say about that. we will leave. you this isn't just a question being bandied about whether or not president donald trump is racist this has an actual impact the republicans need to pass a budget their charge of the house and the senate and funding for the government runs out this coming friday if they can't pass something well then they'll face

a partial government shutdown democrats have unique leverage because they need their votes in order to keep the government going so there are democrats who are saying they're simply not going to vote for it in less they get some sort of immigration deal they see this as their point of leverage and they plan to use it so right now they're basically going to face off for the next five days and either democrats are going to cave and vote for a budget or republicans are going to have to come up with some sort of immigration compromise. here with the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program a video released by boko haram offers a new chilling glimpse of some of the hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped nearly four years ago plus. a protest against pope francis. why. added support the last gasp touchdown that secured a remarkable playoff victory in the n.f.l.

is here with all the details and a little over thirty minutes. we'll find out whether she gets bail after a video of her slapping and hitting israeli soldiers went viral she was arrested a month ago and faces a prison sentence for assault stone throwing at incitement hours before the incident it's causing muhammad was seriously injured when israeli soldiers fired a rubber coated steel bullets at his face amnesty international has called for immediate release meanwhile the palestinian liberation organization central council is holding the second day of meetings in the occupied west bank on sunday palestinian president mahmoud abbas told the council that donald trump's efforts to mediate talks with israel was shameful he says that palestine will no longer

recognize the u.s. as a mediator wants an internationally led process let's speak now to ahmed yousef who's a hamas official who's with us now live from gaza good to have you with us as far as you're concerned is this p.l.o. council session actually achieving anything. actually most of the people based on what we have seen so far and they don't. see that much. fruits coming from this meeting the people who fall. short of. expectations i don't from the lecture that we have heard yesterday from president our best that giving us a lot of optimism that people are still. reluctant to see all the things waiting to see what is going to be the outcomes of these two days meeting and what is going

to be the alternative that prison and the council will offer. when they decided to distance themselves from the american role as sole mediator to the peace process so we just waiting to see maybe after a couple of hours what's going to be the outcomes and that is out of today's meeting even though people are not optimistic so far is the palestinian authority in your opinion doing enough in response to president trump's move on jerusalem. i don't think so the people they're expecting this this kind of meeting to be more serious and to make the president back to make concession to all the palestinian political faction to make sure that all of them will stand behind him otherwise as

frank lincoln to lincoln and have said house divided against itself can't stand how we going to stand against all these kind of major been taking by the americans and israelis and be able to meet that challenge now he will resort to the european we don't know if this is going to be a really. enough substitute and all the europeans will give him enough support to continue it challenging the american position or not we are not still we are not to the mystic surely. declined the invitation to attend this meeting. observer. why is this what is to say about palestinian reconciliation is it still possible. again we hope that all the palestinian faction will participate in this meeting but unfortunately

the there with it treated and dealing with hamas and islamic jihad maybe that is two of the palestinian factions doesn't encourage the people to join the meeting and so they if they thought that we are not going to be there as a false witnessing this so and doing nothing we just did that we should meet. with all the palestinian heads of political faction and decide what's the going to be the agenda and what we could be decided something to be practical to be something that. having all the people to agree upon and then we can go together with the president whatever will it will take but unfortunately he decided to do it alone and he ignoring the other see this is his one of his ways not to to keep the palestinian united he doesn't care about others

he just send the letter of invitation and doesn't follow up regarding to be insisting to listen to the other is what really has in mind of a mass and islamic jihad toaster in thinning the unity of the palestinian and we're sure that all of us will stand behind the president but this is only he doesn't care about others and all the time unfortunately he think that he can do it alone without even consulting with of partner political partners could stop somebody thanks data but yourself. pope francis is on his way to chile and then to peru to promote peace and unity but security plans are being reevaluated following attacks on six roman catholic churches in chile as anger in both countries and the alleged cover up of a paedophile priests in america and it's understand human has more from a solo in southern chile. it used to be standing room only inside this cathedral in

southern chile. but these days not many are singing the praises of their bishop one batter us appointed three years ago by pope francis. outside the cathedral other members of the flock demand the resignation of the bishop who is accused of covering up sex abuses by chile's most notorious pedophile priest the pope may be smiling down at these people but they're not smiling back this used to be one of the most faithful catholic cities in all of kili but now these faithful say that they are sad and angry at their pope. accuses him of betraying his promises. the vatican still covers up abusers and to boot in chile it rewards them with promotions and positions abroad the severity we expected from the pope isn't there it's an acceptable that

a bishop like barrows who covered up sex abuses he put in charge of our diocese while the protest continued we caught bishop leaving through the parking lot he has long denied any wrongdoing but they did the questions about the calls for his resignation they moved to him. there are many other people doing charge wark many blessings to you than the. one who calls himself a survivor is one of those who accuse the bishop of facilitating abuses against them by this man father finance. behind these walls abused scores of seminarians while preparing dozens of priests and five bishops including bishop battles we saw when the priest kissed one who watched the people's genitals he was watching there's really the past the monye of how he was present and and till this day the pope doesn't acknowledge that pure talk no action

his zero tolerance is a false there zero tolerance. but just last week ahead of his trip to chile and peru the pope ordered the vatican to take over an elite catholic group in peru after years of charges that its founder seen here sexually and physically abused scores of children and adults athol are until now what we've had a dramatic gestures maneuvers for impact and damage control aimed at improving the church's image that may not be enough to satisfy victims like one could loose and other critics who insist that while the pope is here they'll continue raising their voice to hold the vatican and its leader accountable you see in human al-jazeera southern chile. rebel group boko haram has released a new video that it says shows some of the remaining girls who were kidnapped in the northeast nigerian town of chibok in twenty fourteen originally two hundred

seventy six girls were kidnapped it's believed that one hundred of them a still being held by boko haram. is following this development from a budget. of these girls been identified from from this video what does it show of it. well basically every and the video shows a lot apart from the goes it also displayed some what the book was leader called. what they were able to achieve their victories of of the nigerian military these goes the parents who are trying to teach the western way of life have chosen to be part of them now some of this goes had been identified by campaigners of pressurising or other applying pressure on the nigerian government and the military to rescue those goals and some parents have even identified their daughters despite

the veils on the on the on the heads and traces one particular girl the go was said to be making that marks in the video was identified as the same girl who appeared on a similar views d.v.d.-a before released bible quote on some months ago so basically this goes i've been identified twelve or fourteen of them have been there but there are dozens more were not been accounted for yet and a lot of people feel that this is some kind of mind games being played by the leadership of the koran remember over the last one month or so the united and military has stepped up its operations against the group especially in the lectured area and parts of some of these are saying that it has recorded some victories against the fighters and on its own announced that it is kept of several military hardware that even shot down military aircraft in the region which also could be according to its leadership another sign of victory another sign of success that is

gaining in the northeast of the country alabama thanks i've addressed that and. all right time to get weather update weather steph is here with news of some inclement weather that's on its way to europe otherwise known as storm yeah big storm coming towards europe let's have a look at what's going to happen over the next few days and is quite different from what's going on at the moment because for the majority of europe today it's actually quite quiet weather wise on our two twin panda bears they vienna have had a little taste of snow just a few flurries coming down the course this doesn't have a great deal to do with the weather i just like a few pictures of pandas every now and then but this is really what's happening with the weather is this system out to the northwest it's gradually tracking its way eastwards and that's bringing us some fairly heavy rain and behind that we're seeing some pretty strong winds as well so there's that system as it works its way eastwards turning increasingly wintery as it hits that cold air that is over many parts of central and eastern parts of europe and behind it staying very windy not

only ensuring the day and choose day but also choose day night and into wednesday and it's wednesday night when the weather really turns severe that's when we've got a big system that's making its way across the northwestern parts and i don't usually show i see bar charts but i had to in this case because it shows just how bad the weather is going to be can see that little bull's eye there it's centered over scotland the ice of all it's a really packed very close together and it shows just how severe the weather is going to be we're going to have gusts of wind over many parts of the u.k. around eighty or ninety kilometers per hour and across the north sea that system develops further and looks pretty all adrian hyuk thanks steph still to come here on the news our soul makes public transportation completely free during commuting hours as air pollution reaches emergency levels and it's for venus williams headlines the list of casualties on the opening day of this trading to be right back.

as thousands of rogue engines seek refuge in bangladesh. a new group is taking shape fighting the government and me in my only attack with them because they refuse to give us basic rights as citizens for the first time a member of the ira can run hengist salvation army talks to al-jazeera at this time .

good to have you with us adrian for the good here in doha the top stories on the news the two suicide bomb blasts in baghdad have killed at least thirty eight people it happened during the morning rush hour nearly one hundred of those injured . at least seventy five people have been taken to hospital after a walkway collapsed at the end of days in stock exchanges show a day brianne to people in the lobby below and investigations underway into what happened but an explosion has been ruled out. the u.s. president on trump's been fighting off accusations that he's

a racist following reports that he allegedly used vulgar language to describe el salvador haiti and several african nations responding to the widespread condemnation trop insists that he is the least racist. returning that's one of our top stories this hour the u.s. central command in the middle east says it's received no reports of interceptions of any civilian flights in airspace over the gulf it follows reports by the u.a.e. state news agency saying cattery fighter jets intercepted two emma rotty civilian planes cost us foreign ministry has denied the claim even him for had his associate professor at the institute he joins me now live in the studio we still don't know what exactly happened today it may be nothing if it may be something certainly media in the united arab emirates thinks that something's going on here it's. there's wall to wall coverage they're making a very big deal of it what do you make of what's really going on here well first of

all as you said i mean it's still very early to talk about like really confirmed knows about what really happened but here's the simple report saying that they received no reports actually of the interception that happened here is an independent party that's watching the news and then they are part of the of the developments in the region so you can definitely actually think this interest has been so they should be very it's very difficult to believe that the u.s. centcom which is based in doha wouldn't have an idea of what is going on on the skies in within its vicinity and it must have seen something if there was something there of course i mean this is i mean it's important. from centcom for several reasons one is that it's an independent party it's a. friends of both parties the u.a.e. and qatar saudi have not taking sides so far and one and two this is a credible source i mean this coming from centcom or has military strong military presence in the gulf region and watching the like nonstop so to say that they have

not received any reports confederate event assumption i think this this statement needs to be considered or let's put this into context this economic and political blockade that egypt the u.a.e. saudi arabia and bahrain have put into place against castro has been going on since june carter has very recently complained to the u.n. security council about fighter jets coming into its airspace hasn't it could this be linked this complaint from the u.a.e. that they say that this category fighter jets of intercepted a passenger plane could that be could but could they be linked we definitely need to take a look at this in the context which is the context that two. violations that happened so far in the past week by. fighter jets that are of the space of cutter and there are actually reports about. this this happened and work up

a complaint to the security council and all of that so to hear that this is now happening with one party denying that this does happen actually this might indicate that there is probably a policy in players or a decision or some sort of a strategy to deal with this sort of to enter into this area and also because this is not a military airplane we're talking about a civilian airplane which is which makes it particularly important that that's one bubble two fighter jets and all of that so that we have to remember all of this began back in june last year with a false news report emanating out of the well it came from the cancer a news agency which had been hacked by it was subsequently found by a source in the u.a.e. i mean i mean could could this be a whole lot of hot air here about about fake news well i'm afraid that actually we're seeing a pattern being developed here is that we that was the beginning of the crisis all

happened when you know the cut in those agents who was. you know reported that you know for saying some of this there's been a lot of false news about cattle hasn't there coming out of the u.a.e. ever since june i mean when you look at some that u.a.e. and saudi arabian media takes your breath away what they're actually saying about what goes on in cancer a lot of it is false because also the first incident when this all started actually it was confirmed also by. americans of the time as well that actually the emir will never made these statements that when it was clear that the covenant was agency reported and so this probably reminded us of a similar thing going players which probably we still don't lawyer might be something on the way ok coming as a result of this so we should actually think this is my view as i said is here to say that this does nothing to ease the tension as a solution not. is this on the on the political front fake news or not or whether whether something actually happened this year this puts the whole situation onto

onto a more dangerous footing doesn't it exactly i mean the three incidents are reported incidents and are kept in this in one week which probably again that we didn't get passed on he added that probably said just think that there is a policy in place that is a decision and players that could actually takes us back to the like with the fears the of the crisis and if this proves to be the case we still don't know yet actually we should be very concerned about what could happen in the coming days even for heads always good to see so many things until. north korea has agreed to send an orchestra and an art troupe to perform in south korea's winter olympics seoul says the performance will the group will cross the border by foot that's the latest development of the delegations from both sides met again to discuss the north's involvement in the olympics the talks were held at the time of john true spillages which is inside the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries

last week they held their first direct talks in two years with south korea made public transportation free during the peak hours of monday due to an air pollution crisis there the favorite waiver is part of emergency measures to tackle a poor air quality the concentration of fine particles in the air in so reached dangerous levels on sunday al-jazeera kathy novak has been talking to commuters in seoul. people may welcome a free ride but in terms of public reaction to this move by the soul city government there's quite a bit of cynicism about whether it will really work first of all souls' public transportation is already quite affordable it costs an average of about a dollar per ride and also people are blaming their pollution problems mostly on china. were all the main cause of the fine dust issue comes from china so i don't think that's effective the issue should be fixed in china first. if public

transportation is free when we have high levels of fine dust for people who drive and it will help lessen the pollution or to be good no more coming from china but if we can do something about it like having fewer cars it will hope china is taking steps to curb pollution and actually the air quality here in south korea this winter has been a little bit better than it had been in previous years last year a joint study between a korean research institute and the u.s. space agency nasa found that between may and june actually only about a third of air pollution in south korea came from china that may have been a little bit different if readings had been taken around this time of year still this move by seoul city government is an example of a far to use in south korea trying to take control of pollution that is created domestically most of that comes from vehicles so they really want to take more cars off the road. construction of ethiopia's controversial grand renee's on stem is

powering ahead at a cost of five billion dollars if your peers hoping the dam will change its fortunes it helping to create electricity but tensions with egypt aren't dying down cairo believes that the dam is a threat to its own water security on the nile if the o.p.'s prime minister is setting out for four days of talks in egypt to try to smooth the situation over those bomb involve reports. work on the ground each open and they saw saddam started in two thousand and eleven it was the idea of the late prime minister who wanted to make ethiopia the largest producer of hydroelectric power in africa. now the government says it's getting close to that goal as the six thousand megawatt dummy is completion it's one point eight kilometer world straddles the blue nile in a deep gorge where the north an ethiopian mountains slope downwards to words the sudanese border it says would have the capacity to hold up to seventy four billion cubic meters of water and it spans an area of one thousand six hundred eighty

square kilometers ethiopian officials say the sole purpose of the dam is to generate electricity but egypt the major downstream benefit of the nile water is deeply concerned it says ethiopia is trying to control the flow of the nile which could threaten its water security in the. other one usually work and cooperate to avoid any kind of tension and there are some issues that should be taken away and separated from others and i think the water issue for egypt sudan ethiopia should bring us together in union because it's the issue related to the future and the interest of the three countries. egypt is concerned about filling up of the reservoir could drastically reduce the flow of water from the blue nile ethiopia has not said how long it will take to fill that as a walk how of ethiopia's immediate downstream aid. sudan has expressed satisfaction

with the project saying it's going to preserve part of its water that used to flow into egypt egypt refers to a colonial era treaty that gave it a seventy eight percent share of the nile which it sees as a historic right but other nile basin countries including if you were not part of the deal and have since signed their own agreement. this is not going to bring any significant harm upon the egyptian side and we are working on this we're trying to be very transparent. there are reports ethiopia has increased security measures are around the dam and put in place a no fly zone in the area this is a sensitive region last week sudan closed its border with eritrea and sent thousands of troops to the area after reports of possible troop deployment from egypt and the united arab emirates insight eritrea meanwhile if your peers prime minister is visiting khartoum and egypt for crucial discussions on the dam with

hopes of finding a way forward mohamed al dizzier. let's look at all of this in a little more detail now with who's with me in the studio he's a research associate at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london good to have you with us. this is interesting we've not only got. egypt and ethiopia rowing about this dam but we've got egypt and sudan currently employed embroiled in a diplomatic route and the row about the dam with ethiopia threatens to spill over into that route too so you've got this three way argument going on what's going on between egypt and sudan first of all actually there's a lot actually agreement between egypt and sudan actually. the issue of. i think one of the main issues actually appeared in the disagreement between the two countries and then the issue of immunity that actually sudan supports she would be opposed to show but it clearly and often the issue of what of the muslim brotherhood because actually sudan is government. you know leader of the.

you know illegal illegitimate actually leader because overthrow the mohamed morsi who is also a muslim brotherhood or something or other and they have an issue also the you can they the original issue i think is very very important actually between the two countries that's why it is very difficult actually for the. two leaders actually to have to get out even to reconcile their differences so critical because in the back of their mind that that enemy actually. egypt feeling that it's being ganged up on by both sudan and the the o.p.'s over that that the quiz that you wish and actually this for the first time in the history of who she asian or deviation over the issue of. water or something like that that's actually distant civil action and took a different position from the age of some position because now you can and the problem that you can this is that you know so that is supporting youth who would support support support because for a long time that gibson has taken actually sudan for for granted that it was

support their position. what can i know you. as we heard in that report they're all that they're making very nice egypt and ethiopia are making pleasant noises to one another these the opium leaders going to be there for what four days of talks and negotiations are going to be over iran this out in four days or does it threaten to boil over and become something else assessment. of the conflict as well and. also is actually impacted station negatively because it's stupid and so that they are actually to qatar who. actually that you know take a different position that they're going to position of saudi arabia and you also u.a.e. are some silat of this is actually by you or another such pit in the conflict actually so it's not just the issue of the dam you know not always out here it's almost like a it's almost a complete reset of relations they going to get over it in especially with the crisis and the other issue also the the international access and alliances as well because actually socially played into buy or another or something like that because

the super fourteen president you see that he's a water port you know for him to exploit the support of the good international division and then having actually said it was one of the you know gulf crisis parties or something like that to mean to commit any kind of style who say election again is we're going to say to people even against our egypt's fears unfounded is it's water security threatened by this term they saw the security issues there's no question about that but actually they need actually they need to negotiate with this with the stupina and actually by the way they sign a declaration declaration of principle that was two thousand and fifteen and that's by the leaders leaders of the two countries for thursday said prime minister if you keep it that it is a matter of a sheet and according to that declaration of principles that actually you know he has a right to stop and i think also they have like some sort of mechanism if there is any kind of difference or something like that so they've got to stick to that

declaration of principles because there is no way other than negotiations article submission and peace or any kind of illusion this difference is really good to talk to so many things to do thankless. that evacuation order has been shelters more now from al-jazeera general allen duggan who's in manila at least six thousand people have already been evacuated from at least three towns near the volcano now this is something that local officials say as escalated over the weekend they fear that they may have to increase the alert level in the coming hours depending on how the volcano develops now there are at least twenty active volcanoes all across the country there are two others now on alert level one now local officials from legazpi and by provinces are saying that they are all prepared should the volcano erupts this is a region largely dependent on that we culture for their livelihood but at least

thirty thousand people are expected to be affected whether my young volcano erupts or not in the coming days a french dairy company is promising compensation payouts to the parents of babies poisoned by milk infected with salmonella or telus has recalled twelve million boxes of the powdered milk and eighty three countries at least thirty in france in france a load of poisons the french government has ordered the shutdown of the milk factory we're told this is accused of trying to cover up the outbreak it is facing hundreds of lawsuits. just ahead here a comeback. has the details. stand.

alone. adrian it's been quite the opening day for the fast at the grand slam tennis tournament off the thieves in the australian open full venus williams knocked out in what was a bad day for american women while the men while the one on a doll put aside any doubts i've had fitness as the progressive into round two. a report. with no woman up tournament before the first slam of the season rafael nadal's performance in melbourne was a good one to the day we were with a need injury which hampered the end of his two thousand and seventeen campaign was nowhere to be seen nadella answering fitness doubts as he answered every pull from

vick to the love who goes with confidence and determination even if deep down the world number one was apprehensive before his six one six one six one victory we were handed out to be cos you can cause you are not to our advantage because you have respect for you are born and because you have respect for the game and he because you don't see that yourself. and labelled good the man who does have plenty of self-confidence is australian mick carey else who came into this tournament off the back of a win in brisbane in typical curious fashion he collected a code violation for swearing at the crowd but other than match the number seventeen seed had a little trouble raising hospitals were gerry or duke or silva in just eighty seven minutes and three seconds. in the women's tournament second only busch yaquis continues to search for her first grand slams crown she comfortably got past romania's we pay the bills in this case. but the same can be said of fifth see

venus williams who was stunned by swiss star belinda benn church six three seven five forward with her sister serena sitting this tournament out talk to having a baby venus is lost marks the first time in twenty one years that the australian open has been without a williams in the second round. and that was just the start of a rough day for american women in melbourne ten seed kokoda banda white tumbled out so to us open champion sloane stephens whose campaign ended at the hands of zhang shway of china. in all those nine american women exited on monday a day to forget for the country's players joining us roster. the minnesota vikings just one came away from playing in a home super bowl off to a remarkable playoff victory over the new orleans fane have a look at what happened on the final play of the game.

steps so. i know. that from day the man with the sixty one yard touchdown the minnesota came back from a seventeen point deficit to win twenty nine twenty four they advance to the end of see championship game when fact and they'll become the first team to ever host a super bowl which rotates fifty eight feet and. you guys know their words and they do describe that moment but i just. couldn't believe it at the time when i was i was looking for. what the jacksonville drug us reach there fast the a.f.c. championship game in eighteen years of rookie running back leonard form it scored three touchdowns as they stunned the more favored pittsburgh steelers forty five to forty two was the final school. far from thirty two teams were down to just four in

the n.f.l. both conference championship games being played next sunday defending super bowl champions the new england patriots host the jag it was the vikings will need to get past the philadelphia eagles of that to play in that time super bowl. barcelona had to come from behind to keep that unbeaten run and really going well for faded went to nil up in the first half which then left polynya to get things going for botha with the opening goal that we suarez adding another two billion on messi topping things off for a forty finish off line are now nineteen points ahead of defending champions real madrid the last time the gap between the two without much was back in the one nine hundred ninety eight ninety one season. where but i want to go get a goal get complement of combos well we can lose points in many stadiums just a little our intention is to create a feeling that we are a very tough team to play against the other teams and it is good we won here because if the palace a learner hasn't won here for a very long time and in

a difficult situation with a good outcome that somebody. but a few adult men were held to a goal of straw with both but after leaving l.p.m. record bohmian from the squad for disciplinary reasons after apparently missing a key team meeting it may have had an impact on the results as well as dortmund missed out on the chance to go second in the table on instead they drop a place into full goodman did have some chances in the game alexander isaac hit the post in the fast off and andre young malenko missed an open goal after that and i things couldn't get any worse sanchez struck the post as well. to have a french football referee has been suspended after his incredible behavior during a league on match referee tony shepherd accidentally collided with a diego ca loss in injury time between paris and an unarmed but instead of apologizing to one another ship on kicked the brazilian and followed up by sending

him off to shop not only those in the stadium but also fans watching on t.v. as well p.s.g. won the match one nil the french football federation as they should probably will face a disciplinary committee to also for his actions. in the n.b.a. the minnesota timberwolves topped the portland trail blazers i'm funday for a fifth straight win the timberwolves had a comfortable fourteen point lead by hard time jimmy butler gestes and paul anthony towns confined to sixty six points on the night to help them to one hundred twenty to one hundred and three. gulf non patented because iowa has become the first of multiple went to on the p.g.a. tour this year the american entered the final day of the sony open in hawaii a shot of the lead but he then carded a two under par sixty eight putting him tied at the top of the leaderboard with

james had it took six sudden death holes in a play off before because i thought. finally prevailed. they deny and of the dakar rally has been cooled off on face the ground heavy rains with scheduled for the near eight hundred kilometer track between bolivia and argentina competitors had to deal with muddy conditions on sunday but frenchman stephan pet the have all revived his campaign with victory and stage eight this seven time champion in the car category luck to the overall weight of the mechanical problems just the day earlier and clawed his way back a little bit of ground on a leader colophon. that's for the full now more like today at many thanks indeed that is just about to set for this news out of getting step today with the all the latest news that each side just by heading to al-jazeera dot com will be back in just a couple of leavitt's to update you on all the day's top stories i'll see you get in a couple but. you

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