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hello and welcome to the al-jazeera news out of life and. coming up in the next sixty minutes that it has done a lot of what we have to do is to strangle this terror army on our borders before it is born. turkey's president vows to crush u.s. plans to build an army inside syria. paid france's arrives in chile on a visit mired in the controversy of child sex abuse allegations. a little girl a. deadly shootout in caracas in an operation to capture the pilot accused of leading last year's armed rebellion against the government. and gymnastics golden girl from the rio olympics simone biles says she was sexually abused by a former usa team doctor. but first turkey syria and russia have all criticised the u.s.

plan to form a thirty thousand strong border security force in the northern syria the turkish president accuse washington of trying to create a terror army and pledged to quote drown it before it comes into being and the syrian government has vowed to drive the u.s. presence from its territory the u.s. says the force will secure areas along syria's border to the north with turkey and to the east with iraq it will be mostly made up of fighters from the syrian democratic forces the s.c.f. a large part of that armed group is made up of kurdish fighters whom turkey considers terrorists yes yes it is a us back to lives of kurdish and arab fighters which currently controls almost twenty five percent of syrian territory in the north and east we have this report now from rory chalons a mosque here. but russia's foreign minister had a stark rebuke for the u.s.

on monday speaking at a media conference in moscow sergey lavrov said the creation of a zone controlled by a u.s. backed rebels risks serious territorial integrity so. he's president also opposes the plan he's attacking reports of the u.s. backed kurdish border force russia type says turkey will launch its own military operation against the kurds in the northern syrian city of a free shot it didn't exist secure well and 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 turkey has for its kurdish factions inside its borders for decades and doesn't want to see them gaining more power in neighboring syria box in northern syria the americans have long been supporting some kurdish forces this is a predictable turkish escalation against us steps to concretize our military part

of the syrian democratic forces into an enduring stabilisation force that can secure this terrain long term turkey has been crystal clear actually that it regards the syrian democratic forces as a threat to its interests although u.s. president donald trump promised he would stop supporting kurdish fighters the pentagon never made that's official the reported thirty thousand strong u.s. backed border force would primarily come from kurdish led syrian democratic forces and would deploy along the syrian borders with turkey and iraq and along the euphrates river valley the dividing line with syrian government forces one of the syrian war's detectable trends last year was the emerging axis of cooperation between russia and turkey often joining together to criticize steps taken by the united states well if today's developments around the thing to go by that the trend

looks set to continue into two thousand and eighteen will be challenge to zero moscow. all right let's return journey mccarron who is policy analyst at the arab center in washington d.c. he joins us live now from the u.s. capital what do you think is behind this policy decision which of course. it was known would be very unpopular with those main stakeholders in the syrian crisis the syrian government itself russia and of course turkey. yes i mean obviously the u.s. is trying to counter the u. turkish russian. plan and the with the support of iran of course to try to basically have control of those a blip so now you see the u.s. reaction with both the you know what's the end game is the force that are already on the ground there are changing there are there there are men that basically to be a border zone which means if they're going to have a border control they want to stop the progression of those inside syria this is

what is a bit reacting this way but the end game of the of the u.s. france is not clear where they are now also far is they want to finish the fight the guinness's stabilize those are senior and coat iranian influence when they went to congress to yourself or should look to to put forward their policy they will have answers about what's the endgame the most crucial issue that is two thousand and eleven there's no clear strategy for for syria so this might backfire because you don't have on the ground support you have turkey on one side you have syria already on one side and then you have also iran so they are always of the as the if and the u.s. in this the support struggle now in days will indeed do what little as there are we understand around two thousand u.s. military personnel on the ground in syria particularly in this area we understand backing the s.d.f. how likely is it therefore that there could be

a real confrontation between turkish forces and u.s. forces. we didn't get to this point but we approach to give the was the typical tends to which in the issue no is the us social relations are very complicated no we saw a lot of. mutual criticism of the last two weeks the us turkish relations by that really is not good so the problem is in the last few years with the us was the biggest tool to provide the support for the as the earth and call siltation was russia if no there is no recall of course of course alteration and there is really confront the issue between turkish and kurdish groups the u.s. has to be involved but at the same time there is no support in congress for any u.s. expansion of of influence so the decision for the us though is whether to keep it civil war syria or basically try to explain that the more and change them up on the grown but on both sides the options of it in that sense all right jay mccarroll

talking to us live from washington d.c. thank you very much now pain francis has arrived in chile on the first stop of a visit to south america the pontiff has landed in the capital santiago but there have been tense scenes ahead of his visit with five churches vandalized in recent days and protests are expected against the alleged cover up of sexual abuse in the catholic church security for the papal visit has been ramped up as a result you see and human is a latin america editor she is live for us in santiago so i guess the question then is is this controversy about the alleged cover up of child sexual abuse in the church likely to overshadow pay francis's visit. martin i think it's already casting a shadow on this visit in a country that used to be considered one of the world's most staunchly catholic nations and where confidence trust in the church has been to the point where now

less than half of the chileans believe or could say that they consider themselves catholic anymore now behind me are as you can see there are people waiting for the pope is to come by here he's expected any moment now but there are people holding up signs as you can see behind me they're all protesting about the fact that the pope named a bishop in the city of assad to a bishop who has been widely accused of covering up sexual abuses against minors in the church and to my left here you can see we are just loads and loads of riot police because this whole area has been cordoned off by security forces so that nobody here including us can move from this area when the pope arrives in fact the pope might be a was supposed to come by here but they've located it about fifty meters ahead past these guards and to see now so that he will not have to drive by in the pope a bill and see these signs this is just one of the examples of the of the the anger

really that many people are feeling because they are choosing the pope of not practicing what he preaches when he promised years ago to the creator of that to carry out a zero tolerance policy against sex abuse and in this country at least there are many many priests even a nun who has been widely accused of having carried out sex is abuses and they're still in the ministry. and the know how representative would you say then all these people the this vociferously group behind you how representative all the over the population as a whole. they're extremely they're extremely represented and that's the point in the pope knows that he knows that the chilean catholic church is in a deep crisis and that is why we're told certainly by the organizers that's a reason why he has come to speak to them to hear their problems to hear what they feel in fact we are hearing that he may even address this issue really quite head

on in his mass on tuesday because as i said this country thirty years ago when pope john paul came here more than a million people came out to see the pope and that is no longer the case this is a very small turnout certainly by latin american standards martine here in human life in santiago thank you very much now a number of people have been killed during a shootout between venezuelan special forces a members linked to a former police pilot accused of leading last year's armed rebellion against the government the pilot has been on the run for more than six months oscar perez has posted videos of himself on social media showing his injuries in the fighting in june last year perez used a stolen helicopter to throw grenades and shoot at government buildings in caracas we go live to our correspondent today's abode who's been monitoring developments from miss arias in today's a you were there in caracas when this incident happened

this weird incident of all scripture as stealing a government helicopter and then bombarding government buildings from the air. well that's correct we were there that night and it was a very very strange night people were wondering how was it possible that a member of the police have pilot stole a helicopter from a very big minute terry base in caracas and was able to make it to where the presidential palace is to where the supreme court is and actually throw a grenade what it is did after that is he flew that helicopter towards the beach he landed it and since then he's been venezuela's most wanted man a fugitive until this monday when he was surrounded by of venezuela special forces who is accusing him of that incident of that specific incident since then creative has been in hiding but also he's been showing up during several demonstrations anti-government demonstration asking the military to rise against the government

last mughal what we know right now is that that operation happened up the government was targeting what they say is a terrorist cell that is linked to paris two police officers died during that operation five other people were detained but it's not clear yet what happened to the pilot tossed out of creative ok so we're not sure we're seeing some of the pictures of these posted on social media so we're not sure as it is now whether indeed he survived. well nobody really knows there are some rumors that he might have been killed you were in the shootout that happened in that house we could see brad is saying that he was trying to negotiate with the security forces but he was saying about the police of a are did not want to negotiate he said they wanted to kill all of us we also we were all were able to see a video of space mothers pleading for her son's life at this point there are

several more us that are saying that pages could have been killed box there's also some impersonation that many of those who were with him also those who were detained were taken to a military base at this point precedent nicola smuggler is giving his state of the union speech he has that we fair he's talking about the economic warfare against venezuela and everything that venezuela has been cured during a two thousand and seventeen when we saw those massive protests by the opposition on the streets but so far the government is not confirming that status is dead or right today's a. thank you. in this. greeks protest outside parliament the government approves even more painful austerity measures. here in rural kentucky far away from the big cities many people still support president donald trump we came here to find out why.

that story. at. the australian open for american women in business williams and eight others crush out in the first round we'll have the details of. that. struck during the morning rush hour in the iraqi capital baghdad at least thirty eight people with killed more than one hundred others were wounded in the attack on a busy street market in the. square now this is the fourth attack in the capital within the past forty eight hours some of inge of a triple. 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 the city and bridge 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. 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 isis 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

armed conflict highlighting the fragility of iraq's peace as well detention fades after the declared defeat divisive some of and others there. now thirteen children in paris california are now in hospital after being found mound naish and shackled at the home that parents have been jailed reynolds joins us now live from los angeles mall to know about this extraordinary case well martin this this horrific case comes to us from riverside county california which is east of here in los angeles began on sunday when a seventeen year old girl managed to obtain a cell phone from within her home and then escaped from the house called the police and said that heard twelve brothers and sisters were being held inside the home some of them bound and shackled and chained with padlocks police arrived they found

the girl they said that the girl appeared emaciated looked more like a ten year old than a seventeen year old police and sheriff's deputies quickly entered the house and found twelve children ranging in age children and young adults i should say ranging in age from two years to twenty nine years they said the house was in a filthy condition foul smelling the children and young adults were malnourished and very dirty according to the police the victims were were taken to a medical for medical treatment and the two parents fifty seven year old david terp and forty nine year old louise turban are now in jail on child endangerment charges with bond set for nine million dollars each it's extraordinary case especially given the fact that the age of the victims martine indeed any indication as to how

long these children and adults had been kept in this condition. we don't have any of that information from the authorities at this point but if there were adults. twenty nine year old in there as well as the teenagers the seventeen year old and younger children who had not been able to leave the house and talk about the conditions or report the conditions just sort of seems like common sense that they were or have been kept in there for a very very long time. live in los angeles for now thank you very much. now three years since president donald trump took the oath of office most polls show his approval rating stand at around the thirty percent mark in the first of

a five part series we asked who is most ardent fans and what is it about the president saying quote america first policy is that attracts supposes al-jazeera is gabriel elizondo has been to kentucky to find out. that sound skin tattoo shop there are plenty of people getting their skin. business is good and the expectation of people here is that it's about to get even better thanks to president donald trump the president promised his tax cut legislation money in the hands of millions of americans and that is one of the many reasons the owner of the shop has no doubt about this president i fully support president from when i was getting the support president from a last president trying to go off the wall and doesn't crazy but i mean i don't see that happening i think he's a very smart man that's a common sentiment in this small quiet town of mount sterling kentucky where nearly

seventy percent of the residents voted for trump most say they would do again. on the outskirts of town signs at the manufacturing plants to provide jobs thirty five percent of the local employment base after one major plant closed down last year trumps america first call to keep manufacturing jobs in the u.s. resonated even more we'd like to retain those jobs here and the white is in the money here in our country here trump is still seen as the best hope to do just that well clearly many people here in mount sterling still support president not everybody does particularly african-americans a group that trump has directly challenged during the campaign you're living in poverty you schools are no good you have no jobs fifty eight percent of your youth is unemployed what hell do you have to lose.

what we have to. respect. what we have to lose with dignity roy reed is a local city councilman who says it's often forgotten that one of the population in rural america are minorities who he says have been let down by trump made a lot of promises. the war on not one that benefits this community. but back at the tattoo shop trump is seen much differently their support remains permanent just like the under the skin gabriel's onto. sterling kentucky all right now we can speak to matthew dickinson who is a professor of political science at middlebury college and the author of base a. presidential power and the growth of the presidential branch he joins us live

now from battling to in vermont thank you for joining us very much how would you characterize the first year of the trump era. well it's been an even year i think he has started out with high promise but from a weak political position i think people forget that he took office with less than fifty percent of the popular vote in fact he lost the popular vote he ran behind most of the members of his party in congress so he didn't start off with a very weak very strong political position but he weakened that through a series of missteps very early on beginning with the effort to ban immigrants from largely muslim nations to firing the director of the f.b.i. which sort of i think took a lot of the wind out of his sails so the beginning was rough it's always rough the president's job it is not easily. taken on and that a lot of it is learning on the job i think he's beginning to learn he had some successes of lately with the passage of the tax bill but it's still

a long way from being what we might deem a successful presidency indeed so his approval ratings are around the thirty percent mark i mean that's pretty much been consistent throughout the whole year we've just had a look at a report from a small town in kentucky where people are still very thankful for the trump presidency insofar as their manufacturing jobs have been retained and they're doing all right the economy is doing all right so where's the beef why why is he attracting still such a loss of a program from other sectors of the population in the u.s. . well partly it's again the focus of the media has been on the controversies the missteps his use of social media some of the rhetorical excesses and that is taking away the focus on sort of the bread and butter issues like the economy which as you point out is actually doing quite well at least in terms of unemployment and g.d.p. growth now that growth is a little uneven

a lot of those manufacturing jobs haven't come back and tyrolese but his base that thirty percent is still willing to stick with him where he's had trouble is the moderate voters the independents who are not so much voting for him as against eight years of what they thought was stagnant wage growth and they took a flyer on him and it's that fifteen to twenty percent that he's struggling to maintain support from but his thirty percent base is pretty solid and does you in the united states mark martin luther king day of course a day in which you celebrate a man who devoted his life to racial equality and known how would you assess the state of into communal relations in america today. well you know part of the issue here is that trump's base support is predominately white voters there are voters that have been trending republican particularly middle and lower education middle and lower income away from the democratic party for forty to forty

years and trump basically rode that wave into a surprise victory but the african-american population has been strongly in the democratic party since really the early one nine hundred sixty s. when the democrats embraced civil rights so you know this we have a racially polarized community with or without donald trump is president partisan wise african-americans and. minorities in general tend to vote democratic but trumps exacerbated that with of course his rhetorical excesses most recently of course characterizing some other nations as well you can even use the term here that has sort of fed into the perception among many african-americans that he does not stand for what they stand for which is inclusion into the american mainstream. and as much as he proclaims himself as not a racist. they're not buying that particularly when these private comments leak out in their inflamed social media and democratic politicians are willing to. make this

a point as well to distinguish the republicans from the democrats so his presidency like it or not is viewed in racial tones i think more than typical republican presidents are although the republican presidents in general do not get strong support among african-americans all right matthew chance is in thank you very much good to get your thanks a lot less common this house here in news hour including and you know you have to sit down and none of the new video of nigeria's chipotles still held high but only for you is after their abduction. dramatic images emerge of them a little stroll through that is indeed. his stock exchange for the seventy people injured. and the last gasp touchdown that secured a place in the n.f.l. now for details coming up in school.

welcome to look at the weather in the americas now we've got somebody cold out digging its way down across north america still dallas there minus two are some ice and there is this front here looks a fairly weak affair but the still cold out to get in behind it so atlanta georgia will see temperatures dropping away are some minus one all the way down into georgia so only the florida peninsula we're hanging on to go to be mild conditions across more western areas well again we've got another weather system pushing into or specific northwest but least through the bulk of wednesday seattle in washington state should be dry and fine and it's likely be dry for san francisco and los angeles as you head down into central parts of america we still got some heavy rain showing up across honduras nicaragua through costa rica and down towards panama further north wanted to share as perhaps the yucatan peninsula but otherwise fine

mexico city seeing the reason that brightness now for the caribbean islands gerry not looking too bad still a fair amount of cloud across the bahamas nassau may see a few showers during the day but for kingston jamaica it should be quite a fine day for south america we still have plenty of showers affecting parts of peru down through into bolivia some rain still for parts of paraguay and showers likely for rio de janeiro it should be a fine day in santiago in chile and find around the river plates with highs of twenty eight and when azeris. this was a foundation. i tried to do something different when i met daisy it was the best day of my life. i wish that day could have gone on forever. but my past caught up with me. and made

us all pay the price daisy nvax at this time on al-jazeera until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was a cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not well how can people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go anyway five and a half months of demanding it when education system that was introduced to. latin america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. at

the top stories here on. the turkish president on his condemned to u.s. plan to form a thirty thousand strong border security force in northern syria which contain kurdish forces that he considers to be terrorists pope francis is arrived in chile where the tent cities ahead of this is it at least five churches have been vandalized and protests are expected. cover up of sexual abuse in the catholic church. a number of people have been killed during a shootout between venezuelan special forces and members links to a form of police accused of leading. government has been on the run for more than six months. the greek protests as have fought police outside palm and as politicians voted to approve more measures twenty thousand people marched in

anti-government rallies in the capital and sprayed police with red paint they responded with pepper spray despite the protests the reforms passed and they include cuts in family benefits and tougher conditions for union strikes. from the greek capital. alexandrov work as a translator of german dried up six years ago she couldn't pay her five hundred dollars monthly mortgage and nearly lost her house the reason she isn't homeless is that she now rents out her for repugnant and uses the proceeds to pay the bank but she still has a lot of debt she cannot pay off. my original critic of three or four thousand euros shot up to ten thousand and today is around for. forty thousand in the interest was highway robbery i recently asked the bank to write some of it off but they refused and. buffalo is one of thousands

of greeks who fear they will lose their homes because they haven't got enough work income the new law allows banks to foreclose on his properties and auction them off online instead of going through the law courts protests like this one will no longer have any effect in deterring auctions and banks plan to sell off thirteen billion dollars worth of property this year and next this form a series of politicians says the government is allowing banks to profit from taxpayers if that happens the banks have acted like thieves they've been leaking three times the last time cost the taxpayer forty billion euros it's compensated banks to seventy to eighty percent of their non-performing loans so these loans should have been written off but it's not just the banks that are being given the green light to seize property the state will also claim it earlier allstars the laws have already given the greek taxman the power to draw all but

a few hundred euros from tax debtors bank accounts the new law will also allow the government to sell their homes online for tax debt of as little as six hundred dollars and cities as new law is also digging up what the left considers hallowed ground demanding that at least fifty percent of workers be present in any vote to go on strike unions here say this will effectively make strikes impossible the government says these measures are an unpleasant but necessary step on the path to graduating from its economic oversight by the eurozone in august but even if the economy is given a clean bill of health this year many greeks believe the pain of austerity measures will be felt for decades to come jumpstart ople us al-jazeera athens. palestinian leaders have recommended that the palestine liberation organization suspend its recognition of israel they've been taking part in a meeting of the central council focusing on the american recognition of jerusalem

as israel's capital al-jazeera zimmermann come has more from the occupied west bank . late on monday night the palestinian leadership issued a statement that could have far reaching consequences for the peace process the statement includes the call to suspend recognition of israel suspend security coordination with it and unite the palestinian factions through reconciliation the statement comes from the central council of the p.l.o. after two days of meetings it will be discussed further by the p.l.o. executive committee and it's up to that committee to implement most policy at some point in the future. the statement also said that the u.s. is no longer a partner for peace and that the palestinians want international involvement but given that the us is perhaps the only country that can put pressure on israel will this work. we have to utilize different forms or back on to believe before it has

to know that this occupation this form of brutal colonialism can no longer be accepted and therefore we have to go to the international criminal court we have to go to international court of justice we have to join an organization. accede to charters and conventions that would protect us on the one hand count the u.s. president donald trump has said he will cut u.s. aid to the palestinians if that happens there will be an economic impact this factory produces extractable of leave tablets and he's part of a multimillion dollar project to encourage enterprise in jericho the occupied west bank the factory was set up in this industrial zone with japanese investment without it it wouldn't have been successful for the operations manager here it shows that there are alternatives to the u.s. for example this year for me is the sum of the interest in helping the students are going to meet their options once is complete and this japanese funded industrial

zone will house around five thousand workers and that's going to have a positive impact not just here locally but across the palestinian territories now if you speak to palestinians what they'll tell you is oftentimes foreign aid unlike u.s. aid comes without strings and preconditions. but it's not just economics politics also plays a key role according to one analyst palestinian president mahmoud abbas has options he's trying to tell the international community that i will be going to the united nations. and he said to say that i will have i will be patient i will stop. looking for. solutions if you are not ready for it if. you put the despite palestinian confidence that there is no alternative to u.s. involvement in the peace process how the international community will react is key at some point the israelis and the palestinians will need some sort of framework

for talks without the u.s. well that will look like is currently in line imraan khan how does their occupied west bank bill her arm has released a new video which purports to show some of the schoolgirls kidnapped in chibok in two hundred fourteen in the twenty one minute video some of the girls say they don't want to be rescued amid reports from the nigerian capital abuja. the video shows some of the girls with babies this girl says they are happy where they are and that. we are the chibok girls you have been crying that we should be released but by the grace of allah we will not return home but some analysts believe the timing of the release and the intent is clear. the common effort to form a good solutions. you know what can tell. through selling or what is. the trouble girls who are taken in twenty forty two hundred and

seventy six abducted from their boarding school. in may twenty seventeen h two girls were released after intense negotiations all in all more than one hundred have been reunited with their families over the years. although the government didn't admit to paying a ransom many nigerians believe money changed hands some believe paying the fighters will help them rearm and carry on their all professions the nigerian government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others held by but while this is going on the country's military has continued to operations i guess the fighters in the northeast something that could jeopardize their release parents and campaigners have identified some of the goes in the new video saying it's prove the government needs to do more to bring them home as far as we're concerned we hold on to what they were released say they said that most of our friends asked still

a life if any number of to get that up top really was such an instant you know it was it was less number than the kind of numbers that people had said where dead despite government claims of victory but what i'm continues to induct its losses targeting isolated communities transport convoys and public places nearly four years on from the kidnap more than one hundred tribal girls and hundreds of other captives are still being held by boko haram the parents left waiting and desperate to see them again armitage grease al-jazeera a border. the several students have been injured after a walkway collapsed suddenly whilst they were on a tour of indonesia's stock exchange at least seventy five people were taken to hospital in jakarta but police say none of the injuries are life threatening severson reports. the collapse happened just before lunch break

a group of students from south america studied to work on the mezzanine level bridge which connects different parts of the building. most of the injured were students luckily the ground level below was nearly empty as bodies and debris rained down on top of their local the roof of the first floor collapsed onto the ground floor there must be a few people who were injured like the receptionist and people who hung out in the starbucks. police say no one suffered severe injuries five of. the injured suffered a breach and minor injuries on their feet and hands and they have been taken to the hospital hundreds of employees in the thirty one story tower were immediately evacuated the sudden collapse of the bridge here at the financial heart in chicago has caused widespread panic the building houses offices of dozens of international

companies and police escort and off the building management is under a lot of pressure to explain the cost of the collapse police confirmed it was not an attack as some had feared a car bomb explosion in two thousand killed fifteen people following this incident at the stock exchange financial trading was postponed for a while but continued in the afternoon that france and al-jazeera after. the manufacturers are exhibiting the very latest technology at the north american international auto show in detroit in the race to capture the electric car market proved to be one of the major focal point of the show is also a and as sparing interest in trucks and sports utility vehicles which remain the biggest sellers in the united states let's go live that n.b.c.'s jay gray who's at the show and jay what is the first a major auto show of the year got to on show. well

as you talked about martina good to talk to you the trucks and s.u.v.s are the big sellers here and it's a fleet of those behind me as you can see it's something that's really prominent in the show but the focus and the growth in this industry a lot of people are saying is an electric or hybrid as well as autonomous or self driving vehicles and you see a lot of that on display here in fact and second generation electrics and electrics from manufacturers like cadillac who we haven't seen strong him put from in the past they've got a new electric and hybrid that they believe is going to capture a share of the market and that's what they've got to do at this point is grow that market but consumers want electrics that will last longer as far as the battery is concerned so they can go further different distances and cars that have the same appointments as traditional vehicles the same luxuries that the same type of high tech that you find in cars across the board these days and we're seeing that at this show certainly interesting to see how that plays out in the coming years for

sales are concerned the auto industry really on a three year high more than seventeen million vehicles sold in the u.s. every year for the past three years and that's the strongest three year stretch in the history of the auto industry here so really this is an industry that is in the fast lane and wants to keep it moving that way autonomous so those self driving vehicles a lot of those are electric or hybrids and really a lot of the analysts here believe that in the coming year we're going to see that the find we're going to see where those go from concept in test vehicles to mainstream and main street so be interesting to see how that plays out as well martine a lot unfolding in the auto industry and a lot of want to put on display here in what they call motor city detroit michigan interesting times thanks very much indeed jay gray. now event taking place across the united states to my. the birthday of the civil rights leader martin luther king jr in washington d.c.

everything is laid at a monument dedicated to him known as the stone of hope king for for racial equality in the u.s. until he was assassinated in one nine hundred sixty eight. when his son address an event criticizing donald trump's as a cue to immigrants and said it is damaging american spirit we are here today because the american dream is decidedly a nightmare for too many citizens and people have had enough let me say it again the dream has become a nightmare for too many american citizens only the last and the right and they've had enough they've had enough of the viciousness and the virtually all seen from the statehouse to the white house. the united arab emirates has accused cattery air force jets of intercepting two civilian air off the aircraft on their way to bahrain covers foreign ministry has denied the allegation and u.s.

central command in the middle east says it hasn't received any reports of civilian flights being intercepted in the skies above the gulf that reports. and amorality passenger plane takes off from dubai on monday the civil aviation authority of the united arab emirates said to qatari jets had intercepted a plane like this bound for hurricane but in international airspace later u.a.e. state media reported a second battery inbound plane had been intercepted by qatari jets qatar totally denies the claims we are used to such false claims. the. national. agency the national agency. the small i'd. go through for the normal people but. for countries. and high tech and they have radar image and it's will be obvious for them that this is. bahrain's foreign

ministry issued a statement saying the ministry of foreign affairs affirms that this hostile behavior by qatar against civil aircraft has become frequent in recent times and jeopardizes the safety of civil aviation and poses a threat to the lives of civilians. u.s. air force central command based in qatar declined to comment but the timing here is interesting over the weekend qatar farda new complaint with the united nations over what it called the second violation of qatari as base by m r r t jets in recent weeks what's clear is the air blockade imposed on qatar since last june has highlighted issues around how much airspace each country has qatar for example are left with very little air space and therefore they are relying on the overflights the firings and space to be able to fly in and out of the states so it's definitely the spotlight on a potential problem that i'm sure could be addressed and in the outcome of this stuff crisis this latest round of claim and counterclaim comes as part of defense minister is in london to meet his u.k. counterparts recently caught up placed an order worth nearly seven billion dollars

with britain's be a systems for twenty four fighter jets it's a reminder that despite the blockade carter still has our eyes and spending power. in a phone call with the emir of qatar on monday president trump praise the nation's efforts to fight terrorism something welcomed by the defense minister this is another to prove to the you know the quartet's the embargo. all the clear the thirteen so-called false this is approved by friends and over a day something in you comes up prove that. lying to their people. it's.

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gold medalist simone biles has admitted she too was abused by former usa gymnastics team doctor larry nasser biles who was the u.s.a.'s golden girl of the twenty sixteen rio olympics says she was securely abused by nasser biles joins one hundred forty women who have accused nasser of abuse including fellow u.s. gymnastics stars allie ray's men gabby douglas and mckayla maroney massa will be sentenced on seven sexual assault charges this week and is expected to receive life in prison it's been quite the opening day for the first grand slam tennis tournament of the season the australian open saw venus williams knocked out on what was a bad day for american women while the men's world number one rafa nadal put aside any doubts over he's fitness as he progressed into round two joanna geyser of school reports. with no will mark tournament before the first slam of the season rafael nadal's performance in melbourne was a hard one to take. the need injury which hampered the end of his two thousand and

seventeen campaign was nowhere to be seen the dow answering fitness doubts as he answered every bull from vick to the love bluegrass with confidence and determination i even if deep down the world number one was apprehensive before his six one six one six one victory. and down to be cautious because you are not to our advantage because you have respect for you upon and because you have respect for the game. thank you because you don't see that yourself. and label good a man who does have plenty of self-confidence is australian nick 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 the other match the number seventeen seed had a little trouble raising hospitals were jerry orbach or silva just eighty seven minutes and three seconds. in the women's tournament second only busch jackie

continues to search for her first grand slams crown she comfortably got past romania's me hey noble said mr. but the same can be said of fifth see venus williams who was stunned by swiss star belinda benn church six three seven five thanks 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 cokehead and a white tumbled out and so to u.s. open champion sloane stephens whose campaign ended at the hands of jenks way of china. in all nine american women exited on monday the day to begin for the countries. joining us roster just as. they calling up the

minnesota miracle a moment that put the vikings one game away from a home super bowl it happened in their playoff victory of the new orleans saints in the last play of the game take a look that was. still so sad. i think. stefan de exe the man with a sixty one yard touchdown is minnesota one twenty nine twenty four in the dying seconds bad dance to the n.f.c. championship game with that they'll become the first team to ever host a super bowl which rotates cities each season. i mean you guys know better words and i do describe that moment but i just. i couldn't believe it at the time i was i was looking for love. the jacksonville jaguars stunned the favored pittsburgh

steelers to reach their first a.f.c. championship game in eighteen years rookie running back leonard of form it scored three touchdowns as they won forty five forty two just four teams remain in the running for the top prize in the n.f.l. and that will go down to two next sunday defending super bowl champions the new england patriots host the jaguars the vikings will need to get past the philadelphia eagles if they play in that home super bowl manchester united to close the gap on english premier league leaders manchester city they beat stoke city three no man said he remember were beaten by liverpool on sunday and this is what the table looks like now that gap at the top of the standings is still substantial as you can see now one of united's former stars ryan giggs has been appointed as the new manager of wales giggs has signed a four year contract for his first major managerial role only other experience of

being in charge was a four game stint in twenty fourteen as interim manager of united of the david moyes was sacked the forty four year old takes over the role from chris coleman giggs is first a game in charge will be at the china cup tournament starting on the twenty second of march so many times it's been said you know if you've got a good career as a player doesn't necessarily mean you can be a good manager but. i think that's down to the individual i'll do exactly what i did when i was a player professional give it my all and enjoy it and then morocco at the african nations championship it was a winning start for twenty four team champions libya they saw equitorial guinea three nil in the late match in group c. nigeria drew nil nil with rwanda and a french football referee has been suspended after these incredible behavior during

a. league match referee tony shack wrongly accidentally collided with diego carlos in injury time between paris st germain and gnomes but instead of apologizing to beach other chaperon kick to the brazilian and fomented up by sending off that shock not only those in the stadium but also fans watching the game on t.v. p.s.u. won the match won no french football federation says chaperone will face and disciplinary committee two for his actions and that's all the sport will have another update for you again later on. lots more to come in just a little while so don't go away.

joining. us. and then reported on the. u.s. 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 their days looking forward to for the 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 are. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter the man maher government calls you a gringo all the terrorist hear their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time . russia joined thirteen denouncing the u.s. plan to form a border security force in syria.