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of fabricating the crisis to seize his wealth. threatens to kill themselves because of the pressure from. these ones portrayed by saudi arabia allies as an opposition figure to the contrary latest. on the grid no turning back turkey says it has started shelling positions in turkish areas in northwestern syria areas it says the held by terrorists despite the pleas from washington to hold back turkey is vowing to carry on and the u.s. decides to cut more aid to the un's relief agencies the palestinian refugees this time it is a forty five million dollars payment to the food i ate on top of the sixty five dollars in the week. i'm leah harding new zealand prime minister is pregnant she's also unmarried and said her partner will be a stay at home dad three actions some simply said welcome to twenty eight we have the full conversation including people still so. about

a pregnant head of state share your views with us and candidates with ash. you know what the news great to live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and of al-jazeera dot com and seven months into the gulf crisis we are seeing developments that really are quite unexpected al jazeera has obtained an audio recording of a qatari royal family member this is an alley out than e the one who was portrayed by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. as the main opposition figure to the qatari leadership now in this audiotape threatens to take his own life as a result of the pressure he says he was put under by the two countries to go dollars now also accusing saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating the whole jeezy crisis in order to seize cut as well. as all the details now the man saudi arabia and the u.a.e. were presenting as an alternative to qatar leadership stepped up his attacks on the

blockading countries in a new audiotape shake of the lebanon fanny a member of qatar's royal family says the gulf's biggest diplomatic best was triggered by saudi and emirates the crum princes whom he accuses of plotting to take qatar's wealth by force. as well as. this one and. well. in the old you're recording the she says he was under so much pressure from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. that he considered taking his own life he also appeared in

a video posted online on sunday where he says he was detained against his will in the u.a.e. a claim which the night but two days later. he left the u.a.e. this is the only picture taken of him when he arrived in kuwait his family said his health deteriorated during his alleged detention in the u.a.e. he was told that he can leave to saudi arabia but not to. the end of the day he was allowed. to leave. and he has two daughters with him and it was about twelve o'clock at night that. they told him that they have to go to the airport and then the information changed that they are not allowed to go to the u.k. the u.k. refuses your entry and that is false. and that your daughters can live and you must . stay in the. the little known shape became

a central figure during the gulf cooperation council crisis when he was first received by king solomon but of that as he's of saudi arabia media affiliated with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. portrayed him as the head of the opposition to the qatari government but soon the shade was nowhere to be seen except for tweets attributed to him the recent statements of the shed more light on the g.c.c. crisis that started in june when saudi arabia the u.a.e. and it cut off diplomatic ties and imposed a sea land and embargo. the post from shekau the lebanon early support qatar stands the other west is public ated and politically motivated has. you heard a small clip of that report from ash we're going to play you now the full unedited

audio recording. from scott. unless he. and mr them actually. land. here to. tell. us. i. can tell.

i don't. like this one and i thought. one of the. two who will. come on the title but i don't. want to let it's a little too well it. could be sometimes. let's talk to my own bashar about the south senior political analyst joining us from london as i said at the top of the show and this is an unexpected turn seven months into this crisis isn't showing us now that shake up although he was presented by saudi arabia as an opposition to the qatari government that they never actually

walls i'm not sure why you're saying it's a quest it's unexpected although you and i agree often i must disagree with you are correct that i was asian well i guess the way i'm saying that you know i doubt very quickly i will say the way i'm saying that is that i had probably didn't expect to hear of royal family members talking about killing themselves and the like we've known the whole crisis has taken all sorts of twists and turns but this particular one. yes i mean we also heard from him only two or three days ago complaining about him being held hostage you know for lack of a better word in the united arab emirates now back to what i was saying about why i see it not so much as a change or as a twist but rather as part of a pattern and that's what's really important here i mean this gains credibility and it gains importance because there is no order that truck record in riyadh and i would dubey of the so d.n.a.

marotta leadership holding people hostage whether in the form of the way they held the amateur feet the former. egyptian presidential candidate or the way saudi arabia had sided had eighty the lebanese prime minister or for that matter. the head of the government in yemen and now the thirty exiled. below so all in all this is really a pattern and that by then the seven in part about it is that. you know when there's a stalemate of the kind that we're seeing in the gulf crisis when they really hit a wall when there's no longer anyone including their most formidable ally the united states is not is no longer convinced in fact the americans are everything it did now by the continuation of this gulf crisis so they're creating these little games i mean they would have been funny if they weren't so sad playing with people

and playing with representatives of the likes and holding them hostages and so on so forth so really it shows a high degree of desperation on the part of the united arab emirates specifically perhaps also to some degree saudi arabia in not being able to move forward with this gulf crisis and not being able to walk back there is collation in the gulf shekel dollar went to kuwait he is still in kuwait kuwait is the appointed mediator for the whole gulf crisis do you see kuwait perhaps stepping back in at this point because on the mediation side things seem to have been quite recently yes with the quit is insisting once again along with the united states that that the gulf crisis needs to be resolved but they're all facing a certain degree of stubbornness on the part of the leaders in the united arab

emirates and saudi arabia. the worst part is that this week we've seen this new thing that's happening with. the custody but as well as you know various escalations of incidents between the u.a.e. and qatar where they u.a.e. is basically. confronting or you know creating games in their airspace with you know with certain military. jet fighters violating qatar airspace and then in order to cover that up claiming that qatar is violating its own airspace and so on and so forth so in all of that in this continuous escalation you know there's only the kind of cool headed. countries like kuwait that finds refuge for the for sure how the law and the like but also with real remains to be the only way out of the crisis you need a mediator force for this thing now everyone understands that since much of it was

much of the reasons for this crisis where embroidered you know if you will there were created invented and that there is really no serious reason why this should continue you would expect kuwait to remain for the time being to be the place where if there is any hope it would be from there along with the help of the united states and other global powers where this gulf crisis would be resolved now and whether it's agreeing or disagreeing with you i do enjoy talking to you thank you for joining us remember the latest updates page on the to gulf crisis isn't al-jazeera dot com there are always developments as moments on even outside of these major ones like this one concerning shake a bella and the online team makes sure that they are all there for you if you search for gulf crisis at al-jazeera dot com latest updates is your first port of call there you can get in touch with us as well who has come you contact

details and you're already getting in touch thank you. her son on twitter at a.j. english you can reply to the tweet to who said it's obvious for anyone advises the gulf crisis that it's about the demand of paying money to lift the blockade and certainly that's what shake a bell it seems to be saying that the saudis and the u.a.e. were looking to take up some of the wealth from qatar and a comment from paula who is watching on facebook life facebook dot com slash al-jazeera counter is the jewel of the middle east in saudi arabia the u.a.e. are acting like selfish tyrants my husband teaches here in doha he loves the open accepting people if you want to get in touch with us do all the details of a twitter facebook whatsapp all up and running just make sure you use the hashtag a.j. news grid now turkey's defense minister says there is no turning back from his country's decision to launch an offensive on kurdish areas in northwestern syria the operation started with sporadic shelling on the region by turkey's military kurdish y p g commanders say turkish forces have fired around seventy shills that villages it controls the united states which is of course

a nato ally of turkey has been calling on ancora not to proceed with this sold the wine p.g. considered a terrorist group by turkey but it's commanders have been working alongside the u.s. in the fight against eisel in syria let's tie it all together now with stephanie decker who's following this one from antakya hi stephanie first of all this assault as we call it as i said this seventy shells is there an indication is it owned going is it going to increase what's turkey saying about it. well we do know that there has been shelling that resumed a couple of hours ago in the villages around as you mentioned earlier from midnight last night into the morning the heaviest shelling occurred in the period of the last week or so since turkish president reza tired and said that he was going to do to attack a fleeing and you know there's been a host of other senior turkish officials that joined we also heard from the foreign minister and today the minister of defense saying that it was going to happen that

there could be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to clear what it calls terrorist groups from its borders or having said all that come all so the political rhetoric is very high you have you know you see on turkish state media constantly tax moving towards the border earlier today you had turkish state media again saying that the russians were pulling their troops out of the significant even though we've managed to confirm that the russians have not yet pulled their troops out but russia holds sway in this area this is why we've seen turkish officials the chief star off the head of intelligence in moscow yesterday and continuing today negotiating because russia also controls the airspace it is very very complicated to come all it's a political negotiating game turkey wants to enter a free and to be honest with all the rhetoric we've been hearing over the last week or so and some of the mage maneuvers it can be very difficult to see how they're going to sort of not do anything at all and what about this collision course that it seems to put washington on corona how serious is that.

well interesting you mention that because just in the last half hour or so there were reports that we just managed to confirm with a turkish security official that around a thousand y p g fighters have been moved into it's now just this is east of the euphrates river is close to the turkish border this area the y.p. g. fighters in this area are part of some of the most of them at least of the s.d.f. the syrian democratic forces these are under the influence of the americans so how do you want to interpret that come all it could be a political message it could be a sign that the americans are not happy also with turkey's reaction to the americans announcing a border force and they said it wasn't a border force it was a force it was going to do with internal security then you had all the other players you know iran moscow damascus ankara saying that this is not a good thing it is so complicated to come all that it's very difficult to see when

you have these sort of talks coming up sochi the i know that is now supposed to be the u.n. once what they're going to be discussing because all of these countries have their own agendas and it really looks like they're all trying to carve out their spheres of influence at the moment goodness very complicated stephanie deca at stephanie decker on twitter if you want to connect with this stephanie with an if remember thank you for that and well the u.n. refugee agency says it's not getting the money it needs to help syrian refugees in lebanon through another harsh winter the u.n.h.c.r. requested two hundred twenty eight million dollars in twenty seventeen it got less than sixty percent of that magazine a club that reports life in the camps that's just getting worse. heavy winds snow lower temperatures lebanon is being hit by a storm making the lives of the nearly one million syrian refugees even more miserable. they face many challenges during the winter months among them the lack

of proper shelter they live in tents that are made from plastic sheeting which does little to protect from the cold and the rain on monday martin and i mean literally we couldn't sleep all night the tent was flooded we stayed up and moved all our belongings outside the conditions of our tents are bad it's the shepley family's sevens winter and displacement since fleeing the conflict in neighboring syria in winter the refugees require more help they need fuel for heating thermal blankets and warm clothes. and we are living in misery we have nothing but pain sickness and suffering we are deprived of everything. families like the abdullah how much can't survive without assistance the father is half blind the youngest child sabrina is mentally challenged the eldest has a heart disease and their mother suffers from asthma and eczema.

i need medicine and i need help we all cannot work we don't have one fuel to keep warm we're living only by god's mercy i may be kicked out of this tent soon because i didn't pay the rent for a long time. the united nations does provide some assistance but a shortfall in funding means not everyone is reached. the united nations doesn't just help the more than five million syrian refugees in neighboring countries it says that thirteen million people need help in syria six million of them are internally displaced and that this placement continues in recent weeks more than two hundred thousand people were forced to leave their homes the war is not over. it may be a while before these refugees can go home the lebanese government doesn't want them to stay that is why it has prevented the united nations from building permanent camps it also doesn't allow any concrete construction but this may not be their last harsh winter in exile center because valley levanon twenty eighteen is only bought nineteen days old but it's already been

a brutal one for the children affected by syria's y.j. plus has this now looking at the toll paid by the wards youngest victims and just a warning some of us may find the images in this video stress.

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is a political solution and so. this year for syria journalist. looks that in this feature posted but last week it was given that by and large the fighting the big fighting in syria has largely stopped but of course there are so many players now looking for their little piece of syria going to find this in the features section about to see what a calm search for syria political solution the united states says it will withhold another payment to the un's relief agency for palestine refugees the forty five million dollars payment which is the amount for food aid had been promised just last month i j passage in with that story.

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so all those numbers you see there how does it all play out when one con is in the gaza strip for us with a look at how this will affect the families who are already struggling this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts for about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean supply things like this sacks of flour rocks etc it's the basics that they supply now they only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of nine for that long so there's already acute shortages. for sure we have worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food you can't buy you can't work there is no work and they decreased aid what shall we do there's about two million people in

the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u.s. president has said that he wants changes to the way under all price you also once the international community to step up and donates a lot more aid he said that the u.s. is very generous but other countries need to step up whether by withholding it is actually taking food away from people like these. let's talk to ben wyatt author who covers the israeli palestine conflict joining us from london i want to go a little bit bigger picture with you ben because all these events we say things like jerusalem the decision on jerusalem the funding to earn this latest count as well it starts to stack up and you think is this some sort of plan by the u.s. and its allies to basically squeeze the palestinians. almost into submission here or to try to squeeze them into submission. yeah i think there's

a few factors at play here with respect to the recut as well as the big picture they are talking about support not to forget us domestic politics as well and to un anti palestinian measures play well with trump's electoral base amongst the nationalists right amongst the stridently pro israel evangelical christians and also the team that put together to deal with the issue of israel and the palestinians is a team of individuals with long standing pros ready sympathies and respect in response to flee israel as long pushed and and reliance and talking points as a way of evading its responsibility for the creation of the palestinian refugee problem in the first place and its and its perpetuation and in terms of that that pressure and go you're talking about i mean here the u.s. is taking a page out of israel's playbook with respect to using humanitarian leaves of pressure as a way of trying to achieve political results and i think here by targeting owner

the u.s. is could well be sending a message to palestinian president mahmoud abbas and his team in ramallah that first it's owner but the palestinian authority might be next if you don't play ball with our so-called regional plan and deal of the century i'm glad you mentioned that deal of the century because i want to ask you about that the fact you mentioned ramallah as well this idea that is around about this deal that well the palestinian capital could be. they would get more land for the south closer to egypt which would be more desert land it would compensate all these sorts of ideas and again it all seems to go against the roadmap which has been in place for so long now what's your view on that possibly maybe not being executed but you know trying to implement it were trying to take sides down that path. now with this the specific details have been hard to get confirmed as you mention from what we have found out it seems seems pretty clear that individuals like dr kirshner within the trump team along with senior officials inside arabia and egypt have been looking at

draft proposals or batting around ideas that wouldn't come even close to the bare minimum that the palestinians can accept even even a leader like mahmoud abbas who has shown much more willing this the other palestinian leaders past and potentially in the future would to sort of accommodate israeli needs and desires and the contours of any potential plan that how the merge so far are effectively to create a palestinian bond to start a serious palestinian cantons in the gaza strip in the west bank that by no stretch of the imagination by no fair observers reckoning would constitute a state and therefore because the offer is so unpalatable so an example the u.s. is resorting to these blunt measures of punishment just a quick question ben from one of our viewers is watching on facebook live so hale thank you for sending your question who simply asked what justification has the

u.s. provided for causing eight i mean this basically seems to be don't trumpet call that the palestinians don't want to play ball and they want to talk peace is it simple as that. you know that's that's been a confusing line because at the beginning of all of all of this recent focus on under though there was rhetoric coming out of the trump administrator nikki haley and by trump's tweets himself which seemed to indicate or put forward a connection between funding for under a u.n. agency mandated by the general assembly to take care of the needs of part of the refugees and the decisions taken by the palestinian authority in pillow with respect to peace talks and negotiations and in fact the two of you know it's completely separate so the idea of connecting those two that's why i feel it's quite possibly a warning or a threat that thirst is under but next there might be cuts to the palestinian authority itself and in terms of how they justified it the u.s. is talked about as threat of a sort of procedural smokescreen to talk about funds that were promised but not actually sort of necessarily you know hundred percent guaranteed and they've also

talked about these vague reforms quote unquote the need to implement and that again is a not too israeli government talking points including the current government under israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who put forward ideas that palestinian refugees a so-called fictitious or fake the idea that the children or the grandchildren of palestinians expelled by israel in one hundred forty eight somehow not really refugees alone toddled to return home of those the reforms quote unquote that the trump administration is talking about changing the very definition of a palestinian refugee and remember of course the palestinian struggle itself was at its very beginning the struggle of a refugees to return home it's been really interesting talking to you thank you for your time ben white joining us from london. so this is interesting ramsey but it is a columnist and author wrote a piece for al-jazeera dot com called was is next for palestine and in it he speaks to fourteen independent palestinian intellectuals as they as he puts it and they

suggest everything from rallying the people resurrecting the payload to even a third intifada it is fascinating reading from people in the know what is next for palestine is in the opinion section at al-jazeera dot com and just a reminder as per a suggestion from one of our view is yesterday you sent in a message with the hash tag age and use grid we will be providing links to all of those articles which i bring up throughout the show they will be tweeted out from my account at kemal a.j. immediately after the show and me are social media producers putting them out on the live feed it down to zero facebook dot com slash al-jazeera as well just so we can keep up to date with all the other content from al-jazeera dot com this is the news grid search for a facebook live view is we're going to see the story of how the social networking giant facebook has systematically removed content from palestinians for reasons the company describes as incitement and then later on unicef's new boss travels to south sudan reveals more than this is incredible two hundred fifty thousand

children are at imminent risk of death simply because they don't have enough food we can look at the roots of the crisis and what food security is a manmade problem. hell i was being cold enough recently for the weather sweeping through the event to produce cold rain or even snow for a while in lebanon in syria and in iraq so what talk loud and yet represents proper winter is on its way through nice are following it the breeze will change direction the sun will come out such that on saturday you've got a little bit of snow left in azerbaijan northern parts are round and rain further sides just on the iranian side of the gulf temperatures behind of probably dropped a bit try and rise the following day by sunday more cloud seems likely by this time in lebanon sudden turkey cyprus even the northeast of egypt suddenly breeze for

a while it'll make little difference i think the high things feel so dry pictures throughout the arabian peninsula that northwesterly breeze will drop ten g.'s in q eight bahrain and i think you can cut out about twenty two by sunday comes around and see much else happens in the sky there the wet weather in africa has shown a bit of promise around the western cape especially wet here the main rain is still where it should be my go to three malawi those in zambia towards the south tanzania and northern mozambique we've seen some particularly heavy rain here recently the same is true in northern madagascar as a tropical cyclone that's now happily see. and this is me again. it's business and meet young river traders congress is. the commander. but they know their place it's

very dangerous to. gamble with their and they'll do anything just to earn and risking it all to destroy one al-jazeera and. now he's here i mean you could see it going to keep going to get kind of i still and afghanistan to some taliban fighters a new call to arms for taliban leaders a threat to their authority. just seeing the also childhood as that is all for that neighborhood south into the heart of the islam they were only that little less. unprecedented access i still and the taliban at this time on al jazeera.

the headline from al-jazeera dot com and what's trending is well that story was actually trending number one this time yesterday must be a good one why i quit new york for a crime is about to step in systemic racism also as i said the latest on the gulf crisis is they're back in the trending section and is the u.s. government about to shut down we are going to be talking about that very soon with

that is what's trending. by. tomorrow saturday one year since president donald trump took the oath of office becoming the forty fifth president of the united states and as far as this part of the world goes the middle east it has been one of the more tumultuous diplomatic years spent smith looks at how his presidency has affected the middle east. it was the first time that saudi arabia had been chosen by u.s. president for his debut overseas trip donald trump and the saudi leadership wanted to reset relations a strange under the obama administration particularly over iran the u.s. and the saudis are traditional allies but it's clearly a new relationship at least between the leaderships that he has closely and brace but haven't been so bad in saudi arabia and he has literally tweeted the king a train prince of saudi arabia enjoy his confidence so he has essentially given them a diplomatic blank check and that is why many believe saudi arabia along with the

united arab emirates bahrain and egypt miscalculated when they imposed an sea and land blockade on cata seven months ago katsa denies accusations of backing terrorist organizations trump initially supported the blockade before the white house shifted its position has to 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 meant terms of messages between hamas 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 as more than one showed a lack of knowledge not just about u.s. interests while meeting lebanon's prime minister saad hariri he seemed confused about the role of hezbollah in lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against isis al-qaeda and hizbollah. hezbollah is part of the government

it's also backed by iran iran has been the common denominator between the trump administration the saudis and the israelis but so far there doesn't seem to be a clear strategy on how to confront iran they are. there in iraq and in syria after. has been. very very good. of a parent an american military presence. but it is likely that iran is going to maintain the major influence there. u.s. troops were deployed in the mainly kurdish region in northeast syria to assist in the fight against isis the u.s. led coalition says the american personnel will stay and help create a border security force of thirty thousand mainly kurdish troops the u.s. policy is to contain iran and it's using its only leverage in syria the kurds to try to do that. the trump doesn't have

a new policy for syria he inherited his policy of direct military intervention but he doesn't want the russians iranian regime to declare victory the u.s. is not in a position to confront but it wants to postpone addict a ration of victory what he didn't perspiring however was his campaign pledge 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. al-jazeera. meanwhile at home leah far more pressing issues a possible shutdown of the u.s. government right wolf you live in the u.s. you're probably sick of hearing the story because it's all over the media there so a spending bill to keep the u.s. government operating has passed the house of representatives looks promising you

know the legislation though will now be debating in the senate so the criticism this time is that trump should have no excuse to close the government with a party majority in the house the senate and in the white house so what is really on the table here so republicans are trying to pass the budget that includes a plan to fund the government until next month republicans are also demanding money for president trump's border wall with mexico along with funding to rebuild the u.s. military it does not however include funding for the so-called dreamers or children whose parents had them illegally in the u.s. a lack of funding would make it easier for them to get deported it does include also a six year extension of the chip program to fund child health care now the children's health insurance program also called chip as i was saying has been added to the budget package to try to encourage democrats to vote for it if chip is cut nine

million low income children would lose health care now donald trump he tweeted he was saying here that ship should be part of a long term solution not a thirty day or shirt short term extension democratic leader nancy pelosi she responded saying it's not every day i agree with donald trump but i couldn't agree more with the idea that we need to address chip in the dedicated way it deserves not part of this republican ploy she found she's followed that statement by saying let's be clear democrats want a ten year reauthorization of chip so our children don't face another health care crisis like what the republicans put them through over the last four months now the last time the government shutdown was in two thousand and thirteen. it was closed for sixteen days that time as you may remember was under president barack obama but it's hard to forget about last may when president donald trump tweeted this saying the country could use a good shutdown to fix the mess will know by friday night if there is

a shutdown or not yeah thanks lee if you want to know what it's like reporting on this administration strange and surreal is how our white house producer chris sheridan puts it he's written the script reporter's notebook i really do recommend radio because if it all feels a little odd to you from the outside imagine being on the inside as he says that nothing is normal reporter's notebooks are in the more menu at al-jazeera dot com and be sure to join leader and i on saturday at seven hundred g.m.t. want to have a one hour after news grid and one year to the very minute since donald trump's inauguration began in washington d.c. we will dissect the policy with our guests and correspondents plus live coverage from the u.s. from some of the protests and events which are expected trump's first year as an al-jazeera special broadcast seven hundred g.m.t. tomorrow saturday and just like news grid streaming on youtube. we're going to busy day coming up tomorrow now the united nations children's agency unicef is warning that hundreds of thousands of children in south sudan may die if emergency action

isn't taken to boost food security ongoing fighting between forces loyal to the president and rival fighters loyal to his deputy continue to devastate the country millions have been displaced is the numbers unicef says two point four million children have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began and twenty thirteen more than two thousand children have been killed nineteen thousand have been recruited into armed groups and with at least one in three schools damage will close you've got more than seventy percent of children not even getting an education and on top of all that you've got to think about famine and it is not just a few parts of the country have a look at this map here from al jazeera dot com showing all the areas this darker area here is we're talking about either all out famine or an emergency level but all these darker orange areas i mean we're basically talking the whole country here is what's considered a crisis level it is very very serious this famine in south sudan well here is

unicef's director henrietta for who is currently visiting south sudan. islands has meant that many of the farmers have run away from their fields their trade to do the farming and as a result there is just not food in the markets we've just ended the harvest season we're now into the dry period and the lean period and it means that there is just less food less water to be found we are very worried that a quarter of a million children are going to be facing death that it's here before the next harvest in july so it is a serious male nutrition problem yesterday we were up in some of the camps where the mothers and children are coming to see if there's no nutrition and the acute sense of fear now you tradition is it's growing stronger so it's a continuing crisis and it's one the world needs to think about and to do something

about it's it's serious here in south sudan really is there are a lot of excellent al-jazeera documentaries about south sudan i've chosen this one south sudan country of dreams it goes right back traces the origins of south sudan and asks why a country born of so much promise has turned out this way it is an addition of fault lines which you will find in the documentary section at al jazeera dot com pope francis is visiting paris in the midst of a domestic political crisis and a sexual abuse scandal involving the catholic church and it is the second and final leg of his south american to peruse leader has appealed to the pontiff to help resolve a political crisis following the pardon given to the former president alberto fujimori pope francis is also expected to address the vatican's handling all by sexual abuse case involving the leader of a powerful catholic organization in peru so we're going to talk to money on asuncion street is in lima will first i want to ask you about is what pope francis

is up to i believe he's actually making a trip into the amazon. that's right come out of pope francis is now in new york he is this is a very important thing part of his trip here because mother the else is in the amazon jungle why is this so important because the pope has once to make a call of his papacy if you will the. the protection of the environment in. the letter called the in cyclical that they see in two thousand and fifteen he called for. humans to protect the stop the where they should on the planet so he's gone to this place and it's very important for him because here in the amazon there is the largest devastated area by legal gold mining he will be meeting indigenous communities members of indigenous

communities i was a few days ago talking to members of these communities and they said that they wanted to ask the pope to pressure of forty's to help them clean the reverse because they cannot eat their fish everything is contaminated with chemicals and met tolls and people suffer and they get very sick and also they want of course the pope to help them with their land rights so this is an important visit for the pope he will be he is with the precedent president at a public which inskeep but he will be meeting. later on as well here at the presidential palace with palace when he returns from other the us later on today thank you marianna son says live in lima on the parts visit thank you for that. back to lia when i woke up this morning leo my fellow is all the people of color i should say in new zealand have flooded my timeline with something to do with the prime minister of the supreme it's taking over the country do you want to say it or

can i look i'll let you announces she's pregnant she's having a baby just send art and she announced the good news on her twitter page saying she'll be joining the many parents who wear two hats she says she'll be a prime minister and mom while her partner clarke gave for it will be a stay at home dad i am not the food woman. i'm not the first woman to and have a baby i know you will soon but they will be many women who will have done this well before i have similar to twitter feed the internet loved it this user says that new zealand prime minister is having a baby with a man she's not married to and he's going to be a stay at home dad while she runs the country welcome to twenty eighteen journalist nadine higgins said that this was also an incredible example for future generations that you can do things your way and helpful for other thirty somethings like me wondering how to balance career and family she said the australian prime minister

also had a congratulations tweet for her saying that she sounds more excited than she did when she won the election at thirty seven just send art and is the youngest prime minister of new zealand and her electoral victory was seen as a huge success as she was only named leader of her party six weeks before the general elections one of the highlights of her campaign is this interview deemed sexist after she was asked about her plans to be a mum. if you're an employee of the company you need to know that type of thing from the woman that your employer legal you know legally you have to give the materials he makes in the field the question is is it ok for him to take maternity leave and an appropriate question for me because i open myself up to it but. on the woman it is totally unacceptable in two thousand and seventeen to say that women should have to answer that question in the week like was the last time this happened was almost thirty years ago when pakistan's prime minister benazir bhutto

gave birth in one nine hundred ninety she also had a child while campaigning in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight arden joins a long list of women in power who not only have children but embrace motherhood in elected office take for example senators and p.s. from iceland australian the u.k. just to name a few who breastfed their babies during public hearings but also created quite a twitter storm if your mom in the workplace write us and tell us about your experience has motherhood been embraced by your employer or is it seen as a bit of a nuisance you can write me directly at leo harding age or use the hash tag. and did you know is own new zealand the first country in the world to give women the vote. very progressive down there during the break thank you. at the university of alabama come on the fire off to one of its members was expelled for posting. a story coming up on facebook live. here on the high temperature. to dangerous heat.

i. welcome back and is here to talk sport gets hot and we know that but courtside in australia my goodness you know when you think about the debates the idea of a hot football will be called exactly what happens every year australian open organizers have been defending their decision not to suspend play after a second straight day of extreme heat in melbourne top players including another jock richards said conditions are right on the limits with on court surface temperatures of close to seventy degrees being recorded so how mark reports.

when does hot weather become dangerous for athlete is the question again being asked by players an organizer that the australian open. temperatures have been hitting forty degrees centigrade in melbourne croatia's petra markets that she had to take painkillers after the reflected from the playing surface gave her blisters . alys a corner he had her blood pressure checked during her loss against marty the french player wants the events extreme weather rules to be reviewed playing in this condition is of course very dangerous for the health of the players. the limits of not playing the matches is really high it's like it needs to be above forty five degrees and and. so i think this limits should be a little bit lower torment officials admit the conditions are tough they came close to suspending play button fifth safeguards in place are appropriate. tournament director craig tiley saying these are professional athletes we are at the end of

the day an outdoor event we want to stay in outdoor event as long as possible but at the same time ensuring that the health and well being of players is taken care of. britain's college of and had to enjoy a three and a half hour match in the heat of the day was but he won his much against nick especially and since dealing with the conditions it's part of being an elite athlete i mean if people do start to become ill then it won't be a concern as far as a way of just getting through the weather hasn't knocked the world number one out of his stride rafael nadal has opted to play in a sleeveless t. shirt throughout the tournament a smart move he's into the last sixteen playing tennis every bit as hot as the weather so al-jazeera. so let's have a look at what it would actually take for plates be stopped in melbourne it's autumn an extreme heat policy isn't based on a maximum heat instead it uses a white's bold global temperature which apparently looks at

a range of factors including temperature humidity and wind speed at last kicked in in twenty fourteen when temperatures top forty degrees for three straight days matches are open courts can be suspended and organizers can also close the rooms on show courts on first date the host broadcaster recorded an on court surface temperature of sixty nine degrees that prompted french delmon face to say he felt like he was dying on courts or officials are said they will look at their hate policy at the end of the tournament as part of a normal review process not everyone convince this system is working out though this from christopher christopher clary even on switzer the tennis rights if the new york times given his view from the press box extraordinary stuff in melbourne on courts where they are frying professional tennis players australian sports rights a greg davis adding what's it going to take someone dying in that extreme heat at the australian open get them off course shut the roof whatever it's crazy irresponsible dangerous to keep them out there in that hates one interesting

footnote a player not being affected too much by the high temperatures defending champion roger federer who on saturday will play his third straight match after dark and under the lights this from carol in melbourne i love roger federer but i do feel there is a lot of biased scheduling he is the greatest of all time no doubt about that but you have other champions in the draw as well respect or players or a lot of those guys must be dreaming of of a bit of cool weather plenty of that in italy right now where a skiing champion here signed off her career in some style four time olympic medalist julia mancuso completing her final professional run dressed as wonder woman that the thirty three year old missed ounce of qualifying for next month's olympics vote. will retire as the most successful american female scare in olympic history get in touch with those using the hash tag a.j. news grid or tweet me directly and be our underscore sports more for me in the

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