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asks turkey not to take military action in a kurdish controlled district in northern syria. new treaty for a new era britain and france to sign a border agreement and pledge to uphold their historic ties up to bragg's it. pope francis arrives in peru for the second leg of his south america tour. major storm blows through europe killing at least seven people and causing travel disruption. the u.s. state department is urging turkey not to take military action in africa in northern syria turkish forces are massing on the border and they're threatening to attack the kurdish why p.g. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist group but its fighters have been a key ally for the u.s. elsewhere in syria. we would call on certainly on the turks to not take any actions

of that sort we want everyone there to keep their eye i'll go back to something i said we were talking about iraq in the referendum to keep their eye on the ball and the focus needs to be on isis so we don't want them to gauge and violence but we want them to keep focused on isis stephanie decker has more from talking. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area of african for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside africa and thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression how the wealthy and that's the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be a fright. you know we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by a free and treats the why p.g.

. thirteen is one of three autonomy as kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p why do party and its armed wing the y p g turkey sees the y.p. g. as an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the us in europe consider a terrorist organization but the y.p. g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphrates river the americans have never had a presence in africa but the russians do and often has been relatively peaceful throughout this war and it hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced syrians it will let you know after you have been there for quite a long time it's never through like you know was it a serious issue to threats or turkey but there are going to probably need is this kind of nationalistic. you know attentional use its military in order to be able to gain more street. with the upcoming elections in interview so i think

that comes to. be. you know so the start when it comes to child interaction and. tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the u.s. announcement of a so-called border force which will be based east of the euphrates along the border with turkey and iraq and the white b.g. will form its backbone not. the united states and he supports a terrorist organization that threatens their kid can this be acceptable it is unacceptable and inexplicably the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force the u.s. role has been misplaced trade and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is aimed at countering the resurgence of eisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however that's not what others involved in syria's war think ankara teheran moscow and damascus have all boys through opposition to the force once again it highlights the complicated nature of syria's

war isis been pushed out of most of the territory that it once held and so the battlefield is becoming perhaps even more complicated with each side trying to carve out its fear of influence and it seems the syrians are the ones that hold the least sway of what stephanie decker al-jazeera. syria is threatening to throw shoot down turkish jets carrying out attacks in its airspace time here is a senior editor with news it's a turkish english outlet focuses on turkish affairs he says many western countries don't support military action by ankara enough. then we look at offering often is under the russian influence so even turkish ration has been attacking include desire easing us for offering it really not make sense because from the beginning that it had been no american military forces present there and

a couple days ago americans saying that you know this has nothing to do does even though today u.s. state department spokesman came out very strongly and called on turks not thing gage in wireless and not in way of free and very clearly told them not to do that so at this point term fish delegation a general chief of staff and turkish a chief of intelligence in moscow today a kind of a get the russians blessing for this offering operation and we have not heard anything about those meetings yet so for now the president seems to be very angry and wants to take out those elements who he sees them as threat to turkey so far it doesn't look like that turkey has any support from either the russia or u.s. or the western allies turkey's parliament has extended the state of emergency in

the country for another three months it's the sixth extension since the failed coup in twenty sixteen the measures allow the president to bypass parliament by decree they've also made it easier to prosecute fifty thousand people and dismiss another one hundred thousand over alleged links to the coup attempt israel's embassy in jordan is reopening after israel apologized for a shooting incident it was closed in july when an israeli security guard shot dead two jordanians over an alleged attack the guard was allowed to return to israel under diplomatic immunity. the u.n. is calling for the yemeni port of her diet to remain open beyond friday to allow the delivery of lifesaving aid to continue on tuesday the saudi led coalition authorized the ports opening handles about seventy percent of yemen's imports but damage from a twenty fifteen air strike and

a blockade by the saudi led military alliance has severely restricted aid access more than eight million yemenis are on the brink of famine in the country suffering outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria. is the deputy regional director for the international committee of the red cross in yemen he says the aid deliveries are critical for the survival of millions of people on the brink of famine. the yemeni population is dependent on a. ninety percent of the needs of the yemeni people are sustained through imports and as such. the restrictions on imports prevent the. flow of commercial goods and humanitarian aid from reaching the yemeni population so that is where things should be moving on lessening those christmas we need more we need less restrictions on imports fuel is key and essential for the survival of the population in yemen fuel is essential for the running most hospitals in the health system that is faltering only forty five percent of house facilities are

functioning today in yemen but fuel is also important for water water pumping stations dependent fuel. sewage treatment plants depend on fuel vehicles that collect the garbage depend on fuel and all of this creates a vicious circle were the population being weakened after years of exhausting their resources and not having any more capacity to sustain will only have more to be deming's like diphtheria coming back to them if these conditions are not treated immediately. british prime minister theresa may and french president emanuel have pledged to maintain their nation's close liberation ship they're going to cooperate on security issues how after the u.k. leaves the european union france will also get more funding from britain to deal with a large number of people gathering in ports like to try to reach the u.k. john hall has more from the santos military academy where the two leaders met. we're better to talk defense and security cooperation than britain's world famous

sandhurst military academy the british army may not be the global force it once was but france and britain are still the main e.u. military powers just one of many things in common that these two leaders say they are keen to preserve post breaks it while this summit takes place is the u.k. prepares to leave the e.u. we are and will remain a steadfast partner to our friends and allies and a strong and deep relationship between the united kingdom and france remains in both our interests the president and i agree on the importance of the u.k. france relationship not just to our security but to european security they also share a border on the french side including the sometimes troubled port of callaway and a border agreement that emanuel mccrone initially had said he wanted to tear up instead britain will pay tens of millions of dollars more towards reinforcing it

and helping france deal with the burden of migrants and refugees trying to reach britain it is mr mack rahm's nod in the direction of common interests and continued close future ties. there are two things that cannot be changed history and geography these cannot be impacted by changes in the institution or office we are facing common challenges and we share the same destiny. the two sides also promised to help each other in their foreign military operations british helicopters to help france's fight against eisel and al-qaeda in north africa french assistance in securing the e.u. use eastern borders with russia but the real focus of attention here is as much defense as it is diplomacy it is the u.k. government trying to forge a close future relationship with france inside the e.u. when britain is out as bricks of negotiations enter their most difficult stage

trade talks there may well be more of this sort of treatment of e.u. leaders britain trying to maintain influence while it still can and relevance when it's all over. al-jazeera at sandhurst. plenty more ahead in the news our including a leading opposition figure in zimbabwe dies in a helicopter crash in the u.s. . and as donald trump marks his first year in office we'll look at the chew mulcher this effect of his foreign policy in the middle east plus. was right at the limits . is this period open becoming too hot to handle for some players and he's going to have all the action from mobile. pope francis has arrived in peru on the second leg of his south american tour the

leader of the roman catholic church was welcomed to lima by peruvian president petro public during his trip he's expected to meet indigenous people large parts of their homeland have been destroyed by a gold rush and rain forest montana sanchez is live for us in that lima money on what's the mood there like now i would be watching some pictures of the pope arriving. just a few minutes ago the pope went by. and a lot of people here thousands of peruvians well. as he was heading to the place where he will be spending the night in the next three nights that he will be spending here in the capitol of the room now the pope will be leaving very early on on friday. as you were saying this is a very important trip. because mother the. area that has been

devastated by mining. the pope is a champion of a clean and vironment so he will be traveling to this place and he will be need to indigenous communities who are suffering a lot because many of the indigenous young boys. is unbearable are you working in these illegal mining for many of the younger men are working a process these mines. will be then returning to leave will be going to a northern city and where we he will be holding a mass and on sunday he will be holding a massive convention where more than a million and a half people are expected to hand out here in the month before he parts for roll out of there have been some controllers are around this trip and despite being mostly a region we have seen protests when he's been in chile are there any protests there improve. this this is

a country of. the catholic indeed it is a lot of people love the catholic church on the pope but there has. to be of the vatican and for the leader of a very powerful. a religious organization at least and the father can. sing this man which he allegedly committed to many a sexual abuse against the many young in him and all the of this organization are the vatican not to weep to peru and the pope has come to intervene the organization only last week ahead of this trip so there have been a lot of anger a lot of people saying that they will protest yesterday we saw a protest of women who cut their quilt in front but cathedral apparently there will

be other protests but already the government has said that protests are banned because it's a bad image for the country and anyone who protests against the pope will risk being arrested for now thank you very much indeed. a leading zimbabwean opposition politician has died in a helicopter crash in the united states roy bennett was one of five people killed in a remote mountain area in the state of new mexico than it was the treasurer general of the m.d.c. dashti party and a strong critic of former president robert mugabe on the equity is an independent african policy analyst is joining me now from washington d.c. give us some context here what kind of a man was bennett well you know. in terms of rays and because the history was in bob when race raised plays a role he was a white farmer he was sixty sixty years old he had in the east empowered old

zimbabwe. and you know mr former president mugabe had taken learn from. this mr bennett and his reputation are generally was that his neighborhood where he had these five the poor people there black people loved him he he paid school fees for people he saw him as the champion in the lookout should not along with a given men need name weeks means one of us saw he had to have babies but of cause he clashed heads with mr mr mugabe's government because he was a prominent member of the m.d.c. the opposition and so his death comes i say i say shock and the american authorities are looking into it but i think it will have an impact on board the opposition and the new government in zimbabwe what do you think that

impact on the politics in zimbabwe is going to be and how do you think zimbabweans themselves are going to react to this news. you know when i saw the news i was shocked and you know the headline that i first saw it did not see it was in the u.s. i think the fact that it was in the u.s. at least is my my suspicions a little bit because the american authorities are going to do a very thorough. investigation into what happened they they are pretty competent at that also is not clear that for him politically he's come be organizing the u.s. if it had been another african country i would have said this is this is suspicious so i think the suspicions low but we have to look at what the american authorities find in terms of zimbabweans i think you know especially the many critics of the mugabe government even the new government headed by

a president went on gaga there are people who say is still the mugabe party they are so special and so they are going to be looking at this on the other hand i think you turns international attention on the m.d.c. itself i don't mind telling you that the m.d.c. is seen as a better alternative in setting what is in this country but at the same time people have been disappointed and when they lose such a prominent member i think is going to put pressure on them to clean up the ag because elections will be held within the next year in zimbabwe and it is important. i thank you very much good to talk to you. my pleasure thank you. yes i'm i said it to the u.n. nikki haley's met a group of african diplomats it follows president donald trump's derogatory remarks

on immigration from the continent of diplomatic editor james bays is at the u.n. headquarters in new york james do we know how nikki haley's approach this meeting. well this is the highest level meeting between a representative of the trump administration and african nation since that comment last week and clearly nikki haley who is the ambassador to the u.n. and a member of president trumps cabinet was in damage limitation mode bartz it's pretty clear to that she did not apologize our colleague here at the united nations from south african broadcasting s.a.b.c. obtained the minutes of the meeting and the ambassador told her african colleagues that she doesn't know what was said in the meeting that took place in the white house she said she wanted to stress the longstanding ties between the

continent and the united states for example she said the u.s. had invested some sixty six billion dollars in the continent to fight hiv aids since the year two thousand and she stressed the importance of the continuing relation between african nations and the united states on those comments she simply said she regretted the political drama regarding what had been said in the meeting now at the african embassy bassett as listen to this very carefully remember that only a few days ago they were asking for president trump to come out publicly to retract my comments and to apologize they thanked her for her contribution but they also made it clear that it was not just african ambassadors who'd been offended by this but the african people and african leaders had been offended and they told the haley that of course their fricken union has one of its two annual meetings taking

place in the next couple of weeks in added saba and she said it would be all they said to her it would be useful if president trunk was to address the african leaders who will be. meeting there at african union headquarters in reply to that i'm told that ambassador hayley said that she's actually on the whole way in the next twenty four hours to washington d.c. to see president trump and she would relay the message james from the people that you've been speaking to there is there any sense that this matter is beginning to come to an end given what you were saying about the possibility of the requests for donald trump to be addressing the african union meeting or is this likely to go on well certainly it's something that i think both sides would like to see an end to they don't none of the african nations particularly want a long war with the u.s.

because many of them depend on the u.s. for many things and have economic time with the united states from the u.s. side just here in the united nations they know how powerful a bloc the african union is there are fricken members on the u.n. security council but more importantly when things have to get done through the general assembly the african union is an important part of the membership of that world body james thanks very much indeed saturday marks one years since president donald trump took the oath of office becoming the forty fifth president of the united states it's being read old with scandals investigations and foreign policy mishaps is in a harder looks at how his presidency has impacted the middle east. it was the first time that saudi arabia had been chosen by a u.s. president for his do overseas trip donald trump in the saudi leadership wanted to

reset relations is strange to under the obama administration particularly over iran the u.s. and the saudis are traditional allies but it's clearly a new relationship that he has closely a grace but haven't been so bad in saudi arabia and he has literally tweeted. a trade prince of saudi arabia enjoy his twin so he has essentially given them a diplomatic blank check and that is why many believe saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates battering in egypt miscalculated when they imposed an air sea and land blockade on qatar seven months ago qatar denies accusations of backing terrorist organizations trump and initially supported the blockade before the white house shifted its position very much on the side of saudi arabia and i think. he has simply gone ahead with whatever his son in law. transmitted to him terms of messages between. him and himself and at the beginning he demonstrated that

he knew very little as to the strategic importance of qatar to the united states trump has more than once shown a lack of knowledge not just about u.s. interests while meeting lebanon's prime minister saad d.d. he seemed confused about the role of has been lost on the front lines in the fight against isis al-qaeda and hezbollah hezbollah is a part of the government it's also backed by iran iran has been the common denominator between the trumpet ministration the saudis and the israelis but so far there doesn't seem to be a clear strategy on how to confront iran they are. still there in iraq and in syria as. has been pushed back already last year but how they do it is very very clear talk at the moment of a parent an american military presence on a small scale in syria but it is overwhelmingly likely that iraq is going to maintain a major influence there. u.s.

troops were deployed in the kurdish region in syria to assist in the fight against iso the u.s. led coalition says the american personnel will stay and help create a border security force of thirty thousand kurdish troops the u.s. policy is to contain iran and it is using its only leverage in syria the kurds to try to do that they sell and. the trump doesn't have a new policy for syria he inherited his predecessor a policy of nor direct military intervention but he doesn't want the russians iranians the syrian regime and hezbollah to declare victory the u.s. is not in a position to confront what it wants to postpone addict a ration of victory what he didn't postpone however was his campaign pledge but today we finally acknowledge the obvious that jerusalem is israel's capital with this highly controversial move trump overturned decades of u.s.

foreign policy in the middle east but one year in what this administration thinks its policies in the region will ultimately achieve remains unclear. beirut. ford is a former u.s. ambassador to syria and a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington he's joining us now from greenville thanks very much indeed for being with us is there a word or a short phrase that you could use to sum up the first year of middle east policy of the trumpet ministration. the shortest expression would be slow to take off. in terms of being slow to take off what have been the highlights or the key points that you would say have marked this first year of middle east policy. well when i say slow for example the administration has said that it is going to put on the table a trump administration plan for middle east peace but we haven't seen such

a plan yet. seen an announcement about recognition of jerusalem officially as israel's capital but it's an isolated announcement it's not part of a larger package part of a larger plan. with respect to syria the other big crisis going on now in the middle east just yesterday secretary for tillerson by made laid out a plan as your report just noted and with respect to iran basically the president has not walked out of the diaries criticized it better. but he has not walked out of it and he keeps threatening to do something farther down the road given the rhetoric of donald trump during his presidential campaign is there an argument to suggest that governments in the middle east have misunderstood or underestimated what donald trump was going to do or attempt to do

and his administration when they got into office. trump really only talked about two things with respect to the middle east during the campaign and he pledged to heavily on. isis and they did do that civilian casualties in syria skyrocketed under the trump administration's bombing and the only other thing he promised to do was to be a good friend israel and i think there is certainly a warped. to the relationship between the president the united states and the israeli prime minister that frankly was absent during the latter part of the obama administration. but we haven't seen the trumpet administration really deeply engage on a variety of middle east issues whether it be tensions within gulf cooperation

council partners or how to engage more seriously on issues such as yemen or countries in north africa egypt libya they're still sort of getting their plan together i think the tom administration continues to get its plan together how do you think power and influence in the middle east region is going to develop and change as the trumpet ministration works towards finding some sort of policy. well your question is a good one because the world and the middle east don't sit still while the americans think and what we have seen over the past year is first the russians have consolidated their military presence in syria they now have two bases there they used to just have one day so small they built the syllabi on the syrian coast and they have a very active air force and military intelligence complex

in northwestern syria. in addition iran has continued to consolidate its presence in countries like lebanon we've seen hizbollah in lebanon and solidify its position there the iranians solidify their position in syria and their influence in their prop in iraq i'm sorry in iraq is also very strong so the world doesn't sit still and we can see in particular that russia and iran are steadily gaining it. really good to get your opinion on this robert ford is a former u.s. ambassador to syria and a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington thank you very much for your time now we've been broadcasting special reports on donald trump's first year in office on a friday we're going to look at the global impact of his decisions on climate change and the environment. still ahead on al-jazeera on air bus

receives a lifeline for the world's biggest possums or plane but find out why the a three eighty still faces stormy skies ahead plus after fashion deila in kenya imports of second time clones fall out of favor. and in sports the n.h.l. is first black player is on and sixteen years on from the day he broke through the game's color barrier. how i would after a recent post that we've got temperatures bouncing back nicely now across northern parts of the u.s. added to the east the sort of canada as well i guess was the northwestern corner we have got a fair amount of cloud of rain which will make its way across the pacific northwest ease a little further east with some snow over the rockies will be some snow north of

the border to into web b.c. comes out the south of san francisco seventeen in l.a. on the cold side maybe a little colder here's a go on through the next few days but all the other side of the country those temperatures are recovering so three celsius in new york i celsius there full of d.c. and we ship pick up a few notches as we go on through sas day there's just some snow that went to the east the side of canada still a little bit of rain a stone to west deposit kind of joining up with that wet and rather windy weather that we have coming into washington state and perhaps into already into a little bit more snow there coming in across the rockies and that will make its way further east as we go through the next few days meanwhile we say some very heavy rain into the western side of the caribbean big area of cloud but you see some heavy downpours into pushing across into nicaragua costa rica and panama down post for much of the reason as we go on through friday into colombia as well and the side of the saturday.

i am doing this on the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see the importance of the outcry. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. we hear to jews can be covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to give journalists who know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the onus for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks have to end and

what happens here matters. you're watching out is either a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. state department is urging turkey not to intervene against kurdish forces in affan in syria turkish government says it may attack in the coming days but it's seeking approval from russia first. british prime minister tony snow may i'm french president emmanuel mccall have pledged to maintain their nation's close relationship they'll cooperate on security issues after the u.k. leaves the european union. leading zimbabwean opposition politician has died in

a helicopter crash in the united states bennett and his wife but among five people killed in a rowboat monk. in area in the state of new mexico. a spending bill to keep the u.s. government operating beyond friday has cleared a hurdle in the house of representatives the lower house approved the rules for debating legislation that would fund federal agencies until the middle of next month the measure still has to be approved by the house and the senate the government faces the prospect of being shut down if the money isn't approved when the democrats say they won't support a bill in less than a guarantees that young migrants who entered the country without documents will be protected our white house correspondent kimberly hauck it reports. i don't know how did i know i have called carlos roll was brought to the united states from venezuela illegally by his parents at the age of two as university educated and now lives in chicago but is spending his vacation in washington to plead his case

before lawmakers now we're all here to support the dream act i've been senator i wanted to check in with you about your support for the dream act roe needs congressional support to pass a law so he can stay in the united states legally under a program called daca i don't see anything it's fair that they're playing politics with our lives i mean it's really problematic and the fact that you know we are you know we are real people we are support you know we are contributors economy like my employers you know our employers are concerned about the political what's politically at stake duggar recipients like rola have become central in the debate over funding that could shut down the u.s. government at midnight friday within required twenty eighteen government funding legislation democrats are demanding protections for doctor recipients they also want money for health insurance for low income children republicans are demanding money for president trump's border wall along the southern border with mexico to stop illegal immigration they also want funding to rebuild the u.s.

military if for any reason the judge down the worst thing is what happens to our military but democrats say dr recipients are the real victims in this battle if protections aren't put in place. some protesting in the u.s. congress were even arrested for advocating on behalf of illegal immigrants without status it's possible a short term funding deal could keep the government open allowing time for bigger issues to be addressed the last time there was a government shutdown was nearly five years ago and it could happen again if democrats and republicans are able to overcome their differences. kimberly help al-jazeera washington at least nine people have been killed by a violent storm that swept across europe belgium the netherlands and germany faced gale force winds that knocked down trees and left thousands without power catherine

stansell reports. the storm pummeled western europe with hurricane like force here the wind rips a roof off of a building in the netherlands and peels off the side of a house with severe weather alerts were issued in the netherlands as gale force winds reached one hundred forty kilometers an hour people were urged to stay home for their own safety. and those who did venture outdoors were struggling to keep their feet on the ground but it didn't deter this daredevil who saw the high winds as an opportunity to go for the ultimate kite surfing experience the storm is causing travel chaos hundreds of flights were grounded and in germany all long distance rail services were suspended. there is a danger that trees will fall onto the overhead wires and there's a danger that trees will block lutes we know from past experience with extreme weather conditions that it's better to keep the trains in some stations where we

can but to take care of passengers in between stations power outages hits tens of thousands of people in germany belgium and another lands and roads were blocked by fallen trees and debris high winds and heavy snow also hit parts of the u.k. scotland is dealing with power outages and dangerously icy roads but the storm isn't losing strength it's moving across the continent with eastern europe in its sights happenstance all al-jazeera. are playing that skidded off a runway in turkey is being lifted from the edge of a cliff the pegasus airlines boeing seven hundred seven plunged down towards the black sea and got stuck in the mud last saturday it lay nose down on a slope for twenty minutes before all passengers and crew were safely evacuated the pilot and copilot said there was a sudden surge of speed from the plane's engine. emirates has thrown a lifeline to the world's largest passenger jets the dubai based airline has ordered twenty eight three eighty s.

with the option to buy sixteen more it's the first order for the super jumbo in three years airbus had previously warned it would have to stop production of the double decker planes if the deal fell through the head of aviation at the university of west london on your ponderous says airbus and needs a substantial number of orders to make its money back for the airlines it's fairly difficult to fill an aircraft five hundred to six hundred passably it's also a fairly large aircraft and so many airports around the world simply don't have the infrastructure with the ability to handle such a large aircraft i mean even heathrow airport for example has special restrictions but it is quite an expensive project and it's estimated to cost a bus about twenty five billion u.s. dollars and that's you know research development costs production costs etc and that money back requires a fairly large and substantial number of orders several east african countries have agreed to ban imports of second time clothes by next year rwanda tanzania and

uganda have already started taxing them more heavily it's part of a move to try to boost local manufacturing but in kenya many people don't want to ban this farm animal that explains across nairobi there are many street markets like this one we shop is rummage through piles of secondhand clothes bargaining for a good deal here at tory market phyllis ten ten years been selling used clothes for two months with prices ranging from as little as a dollar to about five dollars an item she says business is good yeah. we are fond of secondhand clothes new clothes today are sometimes made from cheap material but we rely on second hand clothes because we know it's affordable and the quality is good. government figures show that in twenty fourteen secondhand clothing contributed ninety five million dollars to the kenyan economy that grew to

one hundred twenty eight million dollars by twenty sixteen oxfam says that in twenty fifteen east africa imported more than one hundred fifty million dollars worth of secondhand clothes and shoes mostly from the u.s. and europe but cheap imported clothing hasn't made it easy for the local textile industry to grow already struggling with poor facilities and a lack of money. they are however a few exceptions one of them is this factory which produces mostly high end clothing owner just wind up bt says this is necessary to ensure his business survives in a market where used clothes are so cheap so we would largely do business where each of the less would have less impact off of an employee for example the business that we're going to in the region will be corporate with uniforms you can expect the police uniform to be second and it has to be brand new so we follow our own pockets

. local industry leaders say well curbing the secondhand clothing market could help the domestic industry grow the local textile industry has to fuse skilled workers under it's also impacted by illegal imports from asia and the middle east some say a ban on the secondhand clothing market is not the solution the market driven policies are what a bit of what we would really make a difference for the textile industry is if we actually drove competitiveness competitiveness in the in this area look at if you look at india if you look at china you look at vietnam bangladesh the textile markets a huge. those like the lister who make a living from selling used clothes say any sort of ban would mean thousands of people would lose their jobs while others argue that as africa's spending power increases the lure of secondhand clothes will likely decline. al-jazeera nairobi.

the average temperature on earth last year was hot enough to make twenty seven thousand among the three warmest years on record the u.s. government space and atmospheric agencies have published their annual global temperature report showing a continuing trend of long term warming temperatures heat released from the oceans may also have played a role in boosting the readings. has more. you've probably heard that planet earth is getting hotter maybe where you live you've seen warmer weather or seen some of fx of climate change it is true weather patterns change year to year some years hotter some years colder than others but the long term trends appear clear planet earth is getting warmer. two of the leading climate and scientific agencies in the world have released new data nasa says last year was the second warmest on record after two thousand and sixteen in a different analysis of weather trends the national oceanic and atmospheric

administration or noah as it's called concluded the past three years were the warmest since eight hundred eighty one record keeping began scientists say this is leading to climate change and they point to the arctic which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet and melting sea ice in other parts of the world it's causing coastal flooding as well but behind the statistics are people being affected there are estimates that say millions of people are climate refugees forcibly displaced by sudden weather related hazards the international community has felt pressure to act adopted the two thousand and sixteen paris climate accord and to tackle global temperatures but one of the world's biggest polluters remains and committed us president donald trump withdrew the united states from the deal saying it was bad for the country's economy without the u.s. other countries will be hard pressed to meet the targets outlined in the accord but

is the latest data shows earth continues to heat up and dealing with it is now more important than ever. and still ahead an al-jazeera in sports rory mcilroy is looking good on his return from injury and he's here with that story.

the sundance film festival is opened in the u.s. state of utah and the annual event is going to showcase one hundred ten movies in the include films on sexual abuse gender equality and

a star studded rally for respect will rob reynolds is there he is joining us live from park city rob of course the entertainment industry there has been going through a rigorous time with harvey weinstein allegations in the tag me two campaign how's that playing out at sundance. well that is definitely you know something that is almost nearly drowned out the conversation about films it's the films themselves and there are a lot of films here that address these themes in one way or another for example there's a documentary that's a biography of the attorney gloria all read who for several decades has campaigned for a women in l b g t rights there is it by a bio pic also of a ruth bader ginsburg current supreme court justice and about a third of the films at this festival are actually made by women filmmakers so let's talk to a woman filmmaker sure read a bold and you from atlanta georgia and you've come here as an aspiring filmmaker

to take in the sights what are you hoping to hear and see here in park city when i'm hoping to see and hear like panels speaking more about independent filmmaking has to get the process going you know in what ways so that we have a film here one day as well just listening to filmmakers that danny and has gone before and means i'm excited to see that and that's that's really what part of what should sundance is all about as a learning experience the other part this year this entire sexual misconduct scandal or repeated scandals in many industries including entertainment how are you hoping that this festival and the people at it will will handle that what are you hoping to hear from them i'm actually hoping to hear some solutions i think we know the problem and i'm excited to hear of like from them what we can do to make it better so that up and coming from acre site me don't have to make decisions i have to go to these problems i'm all about change in so hopefully what we're speaking about now is not just the problem but what we can do to make it better and you

think that the me too movement in in all that span of a stations that's really gotten people's and especially men with power has gotten their attention yes it's definitely got a new teaching and i think what happens is that when we come to the table with an idea or a pitch people are. taking a seriously and not just looking at all she's cute she's deceased dead but they're really looking it would to see have to say because they and they are building it themselves in their own motives and stuff now so i i think this is bringing a forefront for everyone involved and just real quick if you experience that kind of discrimination in your own career as an aspiring filmmaker well i haven't experienced it to the degree of a lot of women but i do see the subtle parts to have been my we try to have a conversation and you feel like somebody saw it with you too much which are really serious about trying to progress in your career and if you deny or decline any you know actions or any kind of sexual conduct in kind of backfired on you that deal's off the table so treat i'm going to have to leave it there thanks very much for

speaking with us so it's about it's about power and entertainment and sex back to you rob thanks very much indeed now it's time for sport here's andy thank you very much well six time champion of a joke which said conditions were right on the limits of safety on a scorching day the australian open with temperatures hitting forty degrees in melbourne rich was just one player fading the hate trying to reports play is safety in the brutal heat at melbourne park has been something of a regular discussion over the years and with temperatures topping forty degrees celsius on thursday it was no surprise to hear the question whether the place should have been suspended. said he felt like he was dying on court and suffered dizziness and his match with novak djokovic who feast needed a doctor in the second set and he continued to battle but eventually lost in who said to joe could. you kind of work and train hard to be able to

sustain this kind of conditions and be tough. but i think there is. there is a limit and it is a level of i guess tolerance between being being fit and being. i think in danger in terms of health. defending champion roger federer had easy a condition to his night match against german opponent again struck despite being taken to a tie breaking third set federer prevailed to reach the third round to play rashad cascade to get organizers to give him another night match well there's maybe sixty guys asking for stuff so i'm one of those guys yes do you think you have more leverage than some. possibly but i it's not my call it's their call women's top seed simona halep was also spared the worst of the conditions and

was able to cruise into the third round with a six two six two win over canada's usually bouchard. earlier in the day the former world number one maria sharp appeared to be in a hurry to get through her match with ana stars is the best about she won the first set in just twenty three minutes and dominated the tie break in the second to win. but wimbledon champion got to be good also will play no further part at this tournament after being given her marching orders in a straight sets loss to taiwan's shay's to wait the world number eighty eight dumping out the third seed and turning up the heat in the race for the women's title i joined as roster al-jazeera. all sixty years ago today a young hockey player called willie a remade n.h.l. history he became the league's first black pirate pairing for the boston bruins in a win over the montreal canadiens six decades on a reef back on the ice here in boston for

a member that night in one nine hundred fifty eight the canadiens spent a total of twenty one years in pro hockey and now works as a diversity ambassador for the n.h.l. . the sponsor raise prices n.h.l. history the league still faces criticism for its inability to spread the word that hockey is for everyone the ice is still. overwhelmingly whites when it comes to top level play is research in twenty fifteen found that just five percent savannah shell stars all black components the n.b.a. were part players make up more than three quarters of the league and i fell not far behind either another study in the u.s. last year found that ninety two percent of the n.h.l. fun base is want the n.b.a. the only big north american league with a majority of african american fans well earlier on we spoke to the us. he says it's becoming a commercial as well as a social imperative for the game it's a pale now that the league is getting less popular among their core group of white

males it's more imperative than ever and it's not just about diversity within the u.s. it's also about diversity around the world look at where hockey is popular elsewhere in the world and it's also white majority countries like in northern europe and in russia so i think there are a lot of reasons why they have to look to expand their fan base beyond white majority populations not just in the u.s. i think p.k. subban is an excellent example of a black canadian player who is a he's a role model he in every way embodies what you want a sports star to be but the league hasn't put very much energy into promoting him instead they stick with promoting the same type of you know young white canadian faces that we've always seen the league kind of lean on like the sidney crosby's and even the patrick kane if you're going to american players so i do think it's very fair to say the league should be doing more to promote the minority players

who have come up and are stars in the league really mockery might a stronger it's an suv competitive go five to three months out with a rib injury my career shoots in a bogey free round of sixty nine on day one of the championship. he is three shots behind and defending champion tommy fleetwood the fourth time major winner has slipped eleventh in the world rankings i. sort of knew what i was expecting out there but at the same time you never really know. your first competitive draw and then over one hundred days so it's a little bit different but i did well i stayed patient i gave myself a load of chances and started the day with eleven strip bar so i was trying to stay as patient as possible so it was nice to. vary three of the last seven there and get in and under seventy with two stages left of fishes duck already cost science is closing in on victory the spaniards lead was cut down to forty four minutes

after he made a bit of a mistake on the route to san juan in argentina but that's still a big advantage of a second place stephan pat's a handsome so it's is nice to see it when so on so when his third stage all theists rice. exposed looking for now more light and that's it for me for this news hour i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news and some of them by. of

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