including parts of rebel architecture at this time on al jazeera and then reported on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dr evil. five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. this is al jazeera. i know i'm rob matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next

sixty minutes hundreds of people feared dead after a measles outbreak in papua al-jazeera reports from one of the most remote parts of the world villagers say they've been forgotten. this is the only way to bring food and medicine to the people that children have been dying of malnutrition and you see. the first member of donald trump's cabinet has questioned over possible collusion between the u.s. president's campaign and russia. the u.s. and russia clash at the u.n. security council over the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria is a long clave. and fancies the drama the shape of water leads the oscar race with thirteen nominations . i'm. break is fair to have killed hundreds of miles people in indonesia as far

eastern province of pop officials say the crisis has claimed the lives of sixty nine children but church leaders estimate the death toll to be much higher aid is now reaching the us much region but many other communities have yet to receive any help our correspondents step vast in their team games rare access to some of those forgotten villages and one of the world's most remote regions let me show you their journey they took a commercial flight from the capital jakarta to get to to make up a popular province from to me the team took a small plane to get to our guts then travelled by boat through the river and that's into the jungle to get the eye gets to get to us attack so this is their exclusive report the land of spreads across a vast jungle down only reachable by a challenging journey most outsiders prefer to avoid. in us at that settlement in

the middle of dense forest we are welcomed by grieving parents dozens of topless died after their malnourished bodies didn't survive a measles outbreak a doctor has yet to visit the remote village. let me by your giving our lives have become so hard we need a doctor to come here the government in jakarta has to help us because the local government has never visited us a government health department spokesman has said stop are working with very limited resources and they're trying very hard to help the people are threatened by a lack of medical care and address to change in lifestyle to find food they used to spend months in the forest. they used to eat sad go from palm trees and drink natural water but since the government opened district offices here everything has changed instant food and energy drinks entered the area but the us most people don't know these things are bad for them. while some smart women go

through the long process to put prius sagal we find children eating uncooked instant noodles and the baby drinking instant coffee while the children have been dying these are not people are left on their own far away from any doctor or government officials who don't make the effort to make the long and difficult journey only a strong government commitment to reach out to these poor papa once can help to prevent another tragedy. to handle the health crisis catholic church workers are handing out food to young children and give how the vice tomatoes many of them are malnourished as well but the us month can't continue to live on donations of food aid forever to survival depends on their ability to revive traditions and the willingness of the government to really help and guide them step fasten al-jazeera asset that. well earlier we spoke to undress her solo who's in indonesia research or human rights watch he says

outbreaks like these in this part of indonesia are common meanwhile it remains very difficult for n.g.o.s journalists and medical help to get to the area this is not the first case ever if we take a look at church report the u.n. report year after year you can mention name of the named regions of the region see sometimes sixty something seventy children die in a single you up what has the lowest life expectancy in the meanwhile mortality rate for children and mothers. the highest in the nature one problem is that international n.g.o.s foreign journalists united nations official have difficulties to end their pup war every time they want to go to pump water they have to apply for permit very difficult sometimes take years to get into pop up what we think differently and then other parts of indonesia if you want to go to bali for instance you just fly to bali you get fish on rival but if you want to go to pump

water then it is a totally different planet it is so difficult to get a puppet restriction for foreign journalists you and foreign n.g.o.s including those that provide medical services. egyptian military has detained its former chief of stuff just days after he said he would run for president in an election this march some on one being seen as the main challenger to president of the fatah all sisi but he's now called off his campaign homage on june has the latest. just days after he announced his candidacy in his country's upcoming presidential elections egypt's military has arrested former egyptian armed forces chief of staff sami a man. in a televised statement the military said i'm committed violations when he announced his presidential bid without obtaining permits from the armed forces he's also accused of committing forgery to be included in the voter database there are two explanations for this one is that he actually miscalculated the level of support

that he has within the military institution and within the security interests so within the politest to sions the second one is not mistaken a decision he expected this step and this is not the end of the story you told d.c. something account of reaction on his part of the part of his loyalists so it's still too early to tell i'm an announced his intention to run hours after current president of the fatah has sisi declared his plan to seek a second term even before sisi made his candidacy official it wasn't just widely assumed that sisi would prevail in the march elections it was also widely expected that real opposition to sisi was likely to be thin on the ground potential candidates have either already withdrawn or seen their candidacy while. some have blamed an atmosphere of fear to other presidential hopefuls were forced to quit the race earlier this month one of them said that the nephew of former leader anwar

sadat said last week he wanted to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or arrest another former prime minister and air force general ahmed shafik had also announced his interest in running but he was placed under house arrest before being deported from the united arab emirates where he'd been living in exile according to his lawyers was detained as soon as he landed in cairo. and then there is egyptian army colonel ahmed consul in december he was sentenced by a military court to six years in prison after he announced his plans to run for president leaving many to wonder just how serious a threat the military men may have posed to sisi a former military chief of staff. and is somebody with he's a serious contender he was the former chief of staff the deputy head of the supreme council of the armed forces did winning body after mubarak and he is much senior in terms of the military command in d.c. so he's somebody who is very well connected with the americans very well connected

regionally so he's not someone who was a lightweight anyway during cc's rule which has been marked by a crackdown on freedom of expression human rights groups have been placed under severe restrictions and many critics in the media have been silenced the question now how many more presidential candidates will be added to a seemingly growing list of those being suppressed. well let's have a look at something on his background to became chief of staff of the egyptian military in two thousand and five under former president hosni mubarak in two thousand and eleven and during the egyptian revolution he worked closely with u.s. officials including james mattis the current u.s. defense secretary but just a year later former president mohamed morsy forced him to resign and eventually formed his own political party well telling a suit is a professor at the harvard kennedy school of government and he's also author of the book counting islam religion class and elections in egypt he says someone has been

a well established military figure who understands president sisi and the current political scene. a semi i meant clearly has loyalist supporters within the military establishment it's inconceivable that he would have decided to run for the presidency without having some backers within the military so the question is how will those people respond so i do think that it's too early to say that and then candidacy has been nipped in the bud but we are clearly and it's clear that the regime has indicated its anxiety about i meant candidacy and we'll see now what happens in the coming days in what must be a negotiating process between i and then and the military his candidacy announcement indicated that he thought that ccs policies were bad that the military was being asked to bear too much of the burden of governing egypt that in fact there did need to be a cooperation between the civilian and the military forces so certainly he talked an oppositional game in that brief period where he was allowed to speak but it's

too much to i would say right now to call him an opposition candidate but certainly challengers to see see what opportunities that they see this is a president whose popularity has declined significantly as a result of many of the tough economic decisions that he's made the most notable of which was the floating of the egyptian pound more than about a year ago which saw the pound plummet to something like eight hundred pounds per u.s. dollar and that has certainly been felt by a lot of egyptians particularly middle class egyptians in their pocketbooks in addition c.c. has pared back subsidies and done all kinds of other things that i think were actually necessary for the egyptian economy but did not do him any favors in terms of his popularity. of these twenty seven people have been killed after a car bomb exploded in libya last in the eastern city of benghazi killed worshippers who were leaving the mosque to evening prayers a second car bomb exploded just half an hour later injuring security personnel. the

u.n. says an estimated five thousand people have been displaced by turkey. literally offensive against kurdish fighters in the flame region of syria. the operation which involves shelling and air strikes is set to enter its fifth day it's believed around eight hundred thousand civilians are living there some are said to be too vulnerable to flee activists say at least twenty three civilians have been killed are freeness surrounded by turkish and free syrian army forces to the north east and west and syrian government forces to the south it's believed most of those fleeing are traveling through government held territory to an enclave inside aleppo a city that's controlled by kurdish forces but the syrian observatory for human rights is accusing government forces of blocking them stephanie decker has the latest from an taqiyya near the turkey syria border. the village of how man which is now been announced that the f.s.a.

have taken a significant why because it lies very close to the turkish border in the area just close to where we are just a further east of a hundred and it does play into the narrative that we heard from the turkish prime minister just a few days ago that their plan is to establish what he called up to a thirty kilometer security zone pushing the y.p. g. away from its borders it has been a fluid fight however on the ground there are incidents when villages have been taken by the free syrian army and turkish forces and you know a day or so later retaken by the white b.g. but of course turkey has superiority when it comes to the sky they're flying jets they're bombing from the air and that of course carries with it a huge advantage at least twenty one people suffered breathing problems after an alleged chemical attack on a rebel held on played in syria near the capital damascus the syrian observatory for human rights has accused the government of being behind the attack it says while a small crew was released after syrian forces fired a bottle of rockets into the neighborhood of duma the attack prompted warnings from

the international community diplomats from twenty nine countries have met in paris to push for sanctions and criminal charges against those responsible for similar attacks meanwhile the united nations security council has met to discuss chemical weapons and the situation in syria as kristen salumi reports. russia called this last minute security council meeting on the issue of chemical weapons in syria to defend itself against attacks coming from the united states alleging that russia was ultimately responsible for ongoing chemical attacks in syria because it had failed to authorize ongoing investigations by the u.n. into those attacks the u.s. and russian ambassador were quite friendly on their way into the meeting but once the meeting took off into formal statements they went on the attack the russians said they are all for accountability in syria when. comes to chemical weapons but past investigations they said were unscientific and politically motivated those

past investigations found evidence that syria and eisel both had used chemical weapons syria of course denies that they have used chemical weapons russia suggested that the recent attack being talked about and eastern ghouta was actually being manufactured or somehow exploited by the west side and you commented this is not seems strange to anybody that this alleged episode the veracity of which is yet to be confirmed or perpetrators yet to be identified for some reasons converges with the meeting in paris in the forthcoming syrian national dialogue in sochi when russia does not like the facts they try and distract the conversation that's because the facts come back over and over again to the truth russia wants to hide that the assad regime continues to use chemical weapons against its own people russia also announced it's putting forward a new proposal to address chemical weapons used in syria but the united kingdom

pointed out in its remarks that past proposals undermine the council's attend to hold the government of syria accountable and said focusing on non-state actors like i saw clearly this will be a problem going forward something that will have to be negotiated the united states for its part said that it would not accept any proposal that undermines its ability to get at the truth bunch more ahead in the news hour including venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ready to seek reelection in april. plus we're at the world economic forum in davos where threats to the global economy and climate change are dominating the agenda. and world number one rafael nadal has to contend with an injury problem at this trillion open touch on his part of the full story later in sport.

the u.s. justice department has confirmed to all jazeera that attorney general just sessions was questioned last week over alleged collusion between donald trump's presidential campaign and russia it's believed to be the first time a member of president trump's cabinet has been questioned in the inquiry our white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports. getting closer to the president the department of justice confirming attorney general jeff sessions has been interviewed by robert mueller steam as a witness in the russia investigation it's the first time a member of donald trump's cabinet has been questioned by the special counsel trump says he's unfazed by what sessions might have told investigators i'm not at all thank you the investigation is probing possible truck campaign ties with russia and whether the united states president tried to obstruct the russian vesta geisha as the head of trump's foreign policy team during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign sessions has unique insights given he was also involved deeply in the

firing of the former f.b.i. director james comey in tweets and publicly trump has complained bitterly that sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigation i am disappointed believing sessions' should have done more to protect him. sessions is one of more than a dozen current and former trump officials to be questioned earlier this month it was revealed one time trump strategist steve bamiyan has also struck a deal with mahler's team to be interviewed. late last year former national security advisor michael flynn and advisor george papadopoulos pled guilty to charges in connection with the probe and are now cooperating as witnesses is suggests muller is ratcheting up pressure on the president who has been cryptic about whether he will speak with the special counsel will see what happens and despite claims by donald trump's lawyer that the russian investigators would wrap

up by the end of last year the questions by the special counsel continue and appear to be intensifying kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington ok let's bring in bruce fein in washington d.c. he's a former u.s. associates deputy attorney general thank you very much for being with us what was more significant do you think the fact that sessions was questioned all the questions that he was aust. well the questions that he was asked this is not the first time that a cabinet ministers undergone questioning i remember during iran contra we had secretary of defense weinberger secretary of state george schultz who were asked questions not only by the congress but by lawrence walsh the independent counsel at that time so that's not what's novel it seemed clear from the questions that mr moller is focusing on obstruction of justice that he would be asking mr sessions about the call that the white house counsel mr mcgann had made over to mr sessions protesting his recusal and insisting that he needed to stay there in the

president's words because he needed to be protected just like other attorneys general protected president obama or president kennedy well if you need protection that suggests you've done something wrong we also know that mr sessions was involved with the decision to fire mr komi and during a senate intelligence committee oversight hearing he refused to answer what communications he had with the president that kind of privilege would not obtain with regard to mr moore and the president himself has indicated that he was firing mr komi not because of ineptitude but because this investigation of possible russians collusion was causing him a big headache well that clearly is obstruction of justice by any any any manner of characterization you're trying to destroy the person who is investigating you not because he's inept but because he's getting closer and irritating you for your own personal worries and we have another element here that comes into play and that is

the collusion itself where mr sessions was present when mr papadopoulos was raising the issue of having mr trump meet with president putin of russia during the campaign so it's obviously they'll try to determine whether or not maybe approaches were made even if they didn't succeed and having mr putin and directly or indirectly being assisting the campaign and that's something that mr sessions being head of the that would being at the top of the food chain if you will in the camp. strategy and having spoken to the russian ambassador on many occasions would know about that my own experience in washington means that i think the obstruction of justice is the greater vulnerability of mr trump as we know it's his attitude he sneezed to strike back and seek retribution against anybody who's upset in him and that could leave him off a cliff because this isn't the only piece of evidence that suggests that he was obstructing justice he had communicated with his son donald jr about what kind of explanation he should provide that was misleading about the meeting last june with

the russians who promised in advance of the meeting to hand over information adverse to hillary clinton and that also would indicate that he was participating in an effort to my to mislead what perhaps the evidence showed with regard to collusion so it's a very important interview that was had and i think it clearly is looking towards mr moeller asking to interview and speak with mr trump himself mr fein let me just interrupt very briefly because there is an interesting point i mean also given the fact that donald trump has said that he's not bothered by the fact that mrs sessions has appeared in front of mr miller in the investigation but relations between the sessions and trump of not being good should the president be worried briefly. yes he should be because he is criticized or ridiculed mr sessions in public mr sessions and he was once so disappointed he offered his resignation so mr trump cannot expect that mr sessions are going to fall on his

sword with him and he will in my judgment protect himself and characterize the communications in the intent in a way that will exonerate mr sessions even if it implicates mr trump and that's is the problem that mr trump has i think elsewhere he's alienated so many including mr bannon and others that they have no incentive where you have some ambiguity to interpret them in a way that's favorable to the president that could come back to haunt him very much bruce fein thank you very much indeed for your time the u.s. senate has approved president donald trump's nominee jerome palled to be the next chairman of the federal reserve paul have support from republicans and democrats to lead the nation's central bank the lawyer and former investment banker bill starts next month he succeeds jonathan yellen who was the first woman to leave the federal reserve. a coalition of more than a dozen latin american countries has rejected venezuela's call for early elections

saying it contradicts democratic principles the pro-government constituent assembly in caracas is calling for polls by the end of april president nicolas maduro says he's willing to seek another term in office latin america tennessee and human reports from santiago. foreign ministers from latin america and canada who gathered in chile to discuss the crisis in venezuela totally off guard decision to hold snap presidential elections from which most opposition parties have been banned. for this decision by the bin civilian government which we impeach the realization of democratic transparent and credible elections. one of venezuela's best known government opponents is here asking for more two months ago the former mayor. escaped from house arrest and fled the country. this summer is asking latin american nations to follow the example of the united states and the european union

by imposing sanctions on high ranking venezuelan government officials but he is going much much further saying here what most opposition leaders who are still inside venezuela dare not ask for in public. live this month tells al-jazeera venezuela needs what he described as humanitarian intervention which he concedes could mean the use of force. the. venezuelan needs to be liberated from this dictatorship and. we're already invaded by the cubans venezuela needs a humanitarian intervention by the un or whatever international organization we don't want the world to come later and give us its condolences when democracy is already dead in. regional leaders are increasingly frustrated with efforts to convince them israel as president. to restore basic democratic freedoms and accept transparent supervised elections which would take at least six months to prepare.

venezuela's foreign minister who was in some earlier regional gathering reacted angrily to the meeting of his peers. the same an aerialist who instructed the european union to sanction venezuela they instructed. governments to attack venezuela. some speculate president moved up the election date as a show of force ahead of a new round of negotiations between government and opposition leaders from monday but if caracas insists on moving ahead with what some see as a further power grab some could be persuaded to do more than just shake hands with those who argue that the time for talking is over. you see in human i just see that santiago. the resilient city of san paolo has closed its zoo and its potential gardens as the government grapples with an outbreak of yellow fever that's caused seventy deaths across three states the facilities were closed after a wild monkey died from the disease almost one hundred fifty human cases are being

confirmed in misc ice so apollo and rio de janeiro the governments rushing to vaccinate twenty million people against the fever which causes muscle pain and nausea hundreds of kenyans have marched through nairobi demanding action after allegations of sexual assault at a flagship hospital in the capital dozens of women many of the mothers say they were sexually violated by male stuff during this stay it can be at a national hospital the government is older than investigation and the hospital is reported to have hardened more private security guards. the man known as the father of south african jazz has died. you master can i was famous for his distinctive afro jazz his career spanned more than five decades he gained international recognition through hits such as so what old blues song that became synonymous with anti-apartheid movement in south africa

. still ahead on al-jazeera pakistani police make an arrest over the murder of seven year old is zainab and sorry. uncertified in hong kong coming up why the city famous for its neon signs and glittering skyline may be under pressure to keep the lights and switch off and in sports russia's unofficial the olympic team one fails there look from pyong chang. from the waves of the sails. to the contours of the east. welcome back the weather across much of central southern china really quiet at the moment little bit of rain around but you know to shanghai struggling with temperature just four degrees and cold air is pushing further towards the south of

us those two masses mix we're going to see quite extensive snow fall along the young sea river valley during the course of thursday for the south flow still southerly so hong kong is looking dry fine twenty one degrees pretty warm in hanoi in mysore twenty five across much of the rest of indo china the weather condition is looking fine also into southeast asia nothing special here so if the northern part of the philippines is looking fine manila enjoying a nice day to come for the south are some showers much as you'd expect but there's nothing here which stands out the saying goes as we head on through into thursday singapore and kuala lumpur kelly where some bright weather at times a few showers around the gulf of thailand. south asia i would have an area of low pressure given some rain for delhi some thunderstorms too but is now beginning to clear away but still misty murky conditions of course of the world and pakistan india through towards bangladesh which come from the south where the conditions looking pleasant enough bangalore are there with a maximum of twenty nine degrees fine here in the arabian peninsula but in

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story are shaped by the interests of the countries involved only on al-jazeera. you're watching our visitor a reminder of our top stories this hour al-jazeera has gained access to one of the most remote areas in the world where hundreds are feared dead due to a measles outbreak officials said the crisis in indonesia's eastern province of papa has claimed the lives of sixty nine children however church leaders estimate the death toll to be much higher. the egyptian military has detained its former chief of staff just days after he said he would run in the presidential election in march sami on and was seen as the main challenger to president sisi called office

election campaign. the united nations security council has held a meeting and continued chemical attacks in syria russia has called for the new inquiry into who's to blame a move the u.s. has branded a distraction. israel has again accused the un human rights council of unfair treatment during a meeting in geneva at a review of the country's rights record many states urged it to end all but three detentions and the torture of palestinian prisoners that he has got more from geneva. well the last time israel's human rights record was under review here that was five years ago the israelis actually boycotted the session well on tuesday there was an israeli delegation here and they pointed out several areas in which they said there had been improvements in the human rights situation in israel for example increasing access to legal aid for the country's bedouin arab population

setting up an action plan to combat racism against people of ethiopian origin and fighting human trafficking but what many countries talked about was the country got to get a sions to protect the human rights of palestinians living in the occupied palestinian territory so east jerusalem the west bank and gaza israel is the only state in the world that can be called an apartheid state we remain deeply concerned at the denial of the right of self-determination to the palestinian people in the absence of which no other human rights can be exercised or enjoyed in this regard south africa is of the view that the issue of east jerusalem and the two state solution are fundamental to the right to self-determination of the palestinian people well that brought a protest from israel about inappropriate language and after the session israel's ambassador here suggested that her delegation hadn't got a fair hearing we came to the p.r.

with the hope of having a constructive exchange the many recriminations and comments that have been made by member states will be carefully reviewed. unfortunately is is i've mentioned in my concluding remarks some representatives have decided once again to raise this opportunity to wage a political campaign against israel and its try today exerted discussion to lead to the do not belong to the human rights agenda with the un report on israel's human rights situation is due to be adopted here later this week but in the past israel has not allowed un reporters to carry out their own investigations so the mistrust between israel and some of the member states of the human rights council is likely to continue for some time indian prime minister narendra modi has warned against threats to global civilization in his opening address to the world economic forum in switzerland at the center of this year's summit is the debate over the growing

gap between rich and poor u.s. president donald trump will close the gathering of seventy world leaders on thursday jonah hall has more from davos. it's gridlock in vos just as the world economic forum's annual meeting hots up high in the swiss alps a huge jump of snow has brought things to a standstill it doesn't matter how important you are there's little to do but wait . know i never seen anything like this before i think so i like it but it's a bit of a struggle does not only a small. because i had a graphic the last time the snowdrifts were this high dive oss was coincidentally also the last time a us president visited davos that was bill clinton as well with an avalanche warning in place this year also bracing for the arrival of donald j.

trump i was the protests have already begun ahead of his arrival on thursday this was the scenes europe and in davos itself president trump may not get the warmest welcome the u.s. announced new import tariffs this week angering china and south korea and illustrating trumps america first policy of economic nationalism and protectionism anathema in a global club that believes in free trade as the indian prime minister pointed out in his opening address bar set some are darvish many societies and countries are becoming more and more focused on themselves it feels like the opposite of globalization the negative impact of this kind of mindset cannot be considered less dangerous than climate change or terrorism that was a thinly veiled slight by the leader of the world's fastest growing economy aimed at the leader of the world's largest economy. trump's response on friday is the

week's most anticipated event jonah how al-jazeera davos well china and south korea have condemned that u.s. decision to impose steep tariffs for more let's go to adrian bryant who's joining us live now from beijing adrian donald trump really hasn't made much secret of the fact that he doesn't like trade when it relates to china is this much of a surprise to the chinese. no rob i don't think it is i think the chinese have been anticipating something like this jury really the past few days because president from a lot about the need to punish china particularly in the area of the washing machines it produces as well as the solar panels it produces and what china is saying is basically american consumers are now going have to pay an awful lot more for their washing machines and solar panels and that it's accuse the united states of really misusing trade laws but i think that you know while washing machines and

solar panels are important industries they are not the biggest export industries for china china i think is watching much more closely the outcome of an investigation the president from ordered under the three zero one trade act in the united states now this investigation has specifically been targeting areas like semiconductors and also the telecom sector and now these industries generate billions of dollars in earnings for china and if trump is now going to go after these two industries then i think china will be worried so it's going to be studying very closely what president trump has to say in davos what he has to stay in his state of the union address at the end of the month for clues and perhaps any more warning signs of of what action he's planning to take against china and of course rob it was only ten weeks ago the president front was here in china signing deals with his chinese hose deals worth in excess of two hundred fifty billion

dollars and what china seems to be saying today is this do you really want to put all of that in jeopardy we hope not. adrian i mean you are talking about that invested investigation that donald trump has commissioned and obviously we still have to wait for the outcome of that but in the meantime there has to be one would guess some sort of face saving exercise for for china in this is there any way that china can react and at the same time not jeopardize the deals that it signed with the u.s. . yes i think that's the big question isn't it is china going to retaliate and if so how will it retaliate you know china has big investments in the united states it's one of the biggest investors in the u.s. economy and of course the united states has major investments here in china boeing starbucks general motors so there is i think an acceptance by experts that you

speak to here in china that in a sense neither country can afford to have a full blown trade war because their economies are so mutually dependent on one another what you are going to see i think in the coming weeks months and years ahead is increased trade friction area brown live for us in beijing adrian thank you very much indeed. police say d.n.a. samples of a man suspected of the rape and murder of a seven year old girl are a match up on salaries murder triggered mass protests over alleged police incompetence i don't know holland has more. police had rounded up more than a thousand mean a wide sweep to track down the killer of the child whose death had caused outrage in pakistan in the end the search narrowed to the neighborhood where the girl lived punjab province is most senior official shaba shetty for says the d.n.a. of twenty four year old emraan is a match he alleges confessed to him into and seven others and while al is yet to

stand trial or into a formal plea shadi called for him to be hanged zana. killer has been arrested his name is imran his a resident of course or he's twenty four years old he is a serial killer. zeinab and said he was last seen alive in this grainy c.c.t.v. footage holding the hand of an unknown man and being led away his parents were on pilgrimage in saudi arabia at the time they accused the police of doing little when they reported him missing. she was found dead four days later in the city of customers raped and strangled to death and discarded and a rubbish dump the. use of her death ignited simmering frustration on social media and on the streets of a number of cities a perceived police in action and the government's failure to protect children and

family last year police in short did a suspect in the killing of another child as he allegedly tried to escape they still investigating with a he was innocent but in the months that followed they were reportedly twelve other child mood is in custer district including zeinab. the hash tag justice the zeinab printed in pakistan. demonstrations turned violent and two people were killed local reports say the suspect is known to the family zeinab father mohammed amin has denied rumors he's a relative and. his voice to cool it was a neighbor's killer to be hanging on your body well today during the committee meeting i demanded the accused behinds publicly since there's no provision for that in the constitution they moved an amendment process. because sergio international attention two years ago when police arrested several suspects in a child six simple no graffiti ring hundreds of videos of child molestation

surfaced an official told al-jazeera it had been taken in for questioning in the initial sweeps but was released because of a lack of evidence. for police say they believe zainab killer is now in custody given the reaction to her death it will likely take more than a single arist to restore confidence medium to hunt. me maher says it's ready to start a long range of muslims back into the country even though bangladesh has said on monday it wanted to delay the process that agreed to allow the return of around three hundred revenge a day seven hundred thousand father crossed the border since mia mars military began a crackdown in iraq and stays in august described by the un as ethnic cleansing. the philippines while a volcano is continuing to spew most fountains of lava and clouds of ash into the air more than fifty six thousand villagers have been forced to take shelter in

evacuation centers after the volcano started erupting more than a week ago it exploded at least five more times in the last two days hong kong may be famous for its bright neon lights and glittering skyline but it's also on the title of one of the worst cities in the world for light pollution and many of its residents have called for authorities to flick the switch on those infamous lights sarah clarke reports from hong kong. when the sun sets in hong kong the city skyline comes alive billboards and neon lights aluminite the crowded streets the glow from the densely packed skyscrapers is one of the city's main attractions oh my god the lights were so on. and. so nice but this appreciation is not shared by everyone in hong kong last year the government reported a record number of complaints the curtains may be drawn but residents argue the

glare outside is hard to a skype we receive some complaints about the light pollution they get in the sauna or they have. to stop that from the light outside the building to. their home scientists at the university of hong kong spent eighteen months studying levels of light pollution collecting more than five million measurements they found hong kong one of the world's worst offenders the light pollution condition in hong kong was extremely severe in particular in the urban regions you know the lights night sky brightness which is what we measure is on average a few hundred times over the level off that night sky without light pollution in cities such as seoul london shanghai i'm sorry billboard lighting and signage is regulated and there are penalties. but in hong kong there are no laws a voluntary charging card just businesses to switch off between eleven pm and seven

am the critics say it's not enough to make a difference. the government says four thousand eight hundred properties have signed up to the charges so far and it's satisfied that it's working we are doing our utmost to address this puppy concerned we we attach importance to the voting to extend life and just taking the fact if they don't everyone is convinced and some residents. upon themselves to act. to have a commercial building. to eventually turn back on. but. for now it seems. to. al-jazeera.

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oscar nominations have been announced with a wide open field for best picture that have been signs that the entertainment industry is taking heat of some recent scandals and controversies rob runnels reports from last sunday's elections to all the nominees the academy award nominations inch toward greater racial and gender diversity reflecting the era of

the meat to end black lives manner movements they can probably be fairly happy that they've come up with a respectable sense of nominees but i don't think that's going to be too much shock and horror i think it's been such an incredible year for four women in film both female director granik gerwig was nominated for lady bird the fifth woman ever nominated in that category which has been won by a woman only once in two thousand and nine my daughter was murdered seven months ago see nominated for best female actor in three billboards outside adding missouri frances mcdormand character epitomizes an indomitable and unstoppable woman demanding the truth and justice i don't think those billboards is very fair to the film focuses on timely issues of violence against women and corrupt abusive policing i have. my own side of this story notably absent from

a best actor nomination was the disaster artist star james franco who was recently accused of sexual harassment and i think that for my son he has cost him a nomination. to do you know a black chick nominated for best picture get out is a horror film satirizing race relations its director jordan peele became the fifth black best director nominee in history get out star daniel color is now in the running for best male actor. as is denzel washington for roman j. israel esquire he just come to have two african-americans mary j. blige and octavia spencer received best supporting female actor nominations. in other nonce to diversity the gay romance called me by your name was nominated

for best picture and mexican director guillermo del toro's the shape of water one the most nominations with thirteen including best picture and best director i would say now that these nominations are come three a sip of water as for any problem even if it's so front runner but it's not way ahead of the pack could the story of a tender love affair between a mute cleaning woman and an amphibian humanoid creature really wins the film wins top prize. territory stranger things have happened. hollywood's elite will have an opportunity to make more comments on issues of social and cultural importance during the awards ceremony itself which this year will take place on march fourth robert oulds al jazeera los angeles now has time for the sports heroes tatyana. thank you very much well number one refound the dolls'

dreams of becoming only the third man to win each tennis grand slam at least twice over at least for now the hip injury got the better of him on tuesday in the australian open quarter finals and he wasn't the irony high profile exit of peter sem it reports. marion chile which was the latest food before rafa in the dough in the number one's quest to win a second australian open title. nato had been in good form in melbourne in twenty eighteen and took the first set six three but the sixth seed hit back by the same school on the second the spaniard was back in front with a tie break of victory in the third set but it would not be too much longer before a hip injury would flare up he required a medical timeout and would be back on court but was never quite the same again. when the fourth set six two and when leading to love in the fifth could no longer bear the pain and retired injured. high on the leg but. i don't want to

lie you know. we want to communicate what's going on after the m.r.i. but. you know it's not the moment that was going are not going on because where were they don't know when the dogs are where they don't know for me big focus is to continue with my own game you know i cannot influence he much on the other across the net but going to try to kid take care of my things in one of my things and part on my part of the court and hopefully i'm going to have another great match. the crow at will meet great britain's kyle edmund in the semifinals edmund took care of third seed grigor dimitrov in a surprise result britain is ranked forty ninth in the world and has never reached a grand slam semifinal chile each will be looking for a second slam title after taking the twenty four u.s. open. on the women's side belgium's will number thirty seven he leads merton's produced an equally surprising result when she met ukrainian fourth seed eagerness

with alina the belgian is playing in her first ever main draw at the australian open and is putting on a show of note burton's charged past six four and six love in any seventy three minutes. if merton's is to advance to the final she'll need to take care of another of the world's highest ranked players second seed caroline wozniacki needed three sets to get past spain's carlos waters novato the dane winning six six seven and six two she is also searching for a first ever grand slam title and will no doubt be hoping to come out on top down under peter al-jazeera. olympic officials have sent out a list of russian athletes they'll be inviting to take part at the winter games in pyongyang but there are some pretty big names left off of that list the biathlon olympic champion in the cross country while champions of and six time ellen pick short track champion victor have all been left off the russian olympic committee

has called the decision on grounded and absurd since none of those athletes have been implicated in the doping scandal fecht in the country russia is banned from competing as a team because of a systematic program of doping some of it athletes will be able to take part neutrals. such a decision is not founded to upset think it up wasn't to us so we're waiting for the i.o.c. explanations of why our athletes who are the leaders of not just in russia but worldwide didn't make it to their preliminary list because they participated in the competitions this year and even know mckayla shifrin remains on top in the overall world cups rankings that us despite losing her lead in the giant slalom standings the american slid out on her first run in the latest event in italy from platts on tuesday but opened the door to french women tessa wally to take the g.s. lead but it was germany's victoria weapons burkett clinched her third giant slalom

victory of the season with the fastest combined time from both of her run. here's a sight for sore eyes christiane or an elder has been seen sporting a big black eye. training of a rail madrid the portuguese style got a bit to the face during rails a seven one thrashing of deportivo in the league but he got back to work at training on tuesday preparing for his team's cup is over a quarter final with. there are very few football players who can lay claim to having broken record set by the great argentine diego maradona but his mark hampshire is one of them a few weeks ago one hundred six the past the record goals tally set by merit donna at a tally and not pally and on tuesday he was on it at the national archaeological museum in naples by having his jersey inducted married on a one syria twice with not play and although hum chicas yet to win

a title with the team that carly the league leaders in italy. they were the most important certainly it is a great achievement for me i'm happy i was able to beat the great diego miller donna and this will certainly be part of napoli's history i never thought i would have donated my jersey to museum really happy about that. manchester city are through to the english league cup after a three two win over bristol city in their semifinal second leg on tuesday city won the first leg two one is well and go through five three on aggregate well australia's cricket team already have some top players in their side as we saw in the ashes demolition of england and it seems that more amazing bowlers are coming through the ranks as they proved at the under nineteen world cup in new zealand england were cruising to victory before eighteen year old likes been annoyed pope stepped up it's just an incredible eight for thirty five us the best a bowling figures that have ever been recorded at an under nineteen world cup match

australia winning by thirty one runs in the end they'll now get to play for a place in the final not surprisingly pope got the player off the much award. the spot for now more later and falling back to go will be here in a couple of minutes with the latest on all the stories i wrote about this and thanks for being with me by foot. the scene for us whether online what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's been out of business has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

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