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in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. on the move with nowhere to go thousands of civilians are unable to escape fighting in northern syria. also a gunman stormed the offices of a global aid agency in afghanistan after a suicide bombing at the entrance. and egypt's presidential hopeful withdraws from the election campaign a day after he was detained by the military. i'm going to get your ask out with our top sports story for the first time there will be a career in play in the semifinals of a tennis grand slam dunk chung's next opponent could be but ephedra. gadhafi company all the news are five days of fighting hundred five thousand people are escaping. in the war zone in northern syria now turkey's offensive against

kurdish fighters is showing few signs of actually letting up now many civilians are trying to escape the kurdish controlled city of a freend through therion government held areas to the south they're hoping to get to an enclave inside aleppo city controlled by kurdish forces human rights activists say government forces are blocking their escape turkish forces are targeting y p g kurdish fighters who they call terrorists turkey is to force the wipe out of a free and uncreative thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect the border with syria our correspondent who's following events forces stephanie decker joins me live now from the turkey syria border i mean we are getting an idea of how many people are becoming displaced according to the u.n. and that situation isn't going to get any better while the conflict continues. that's right and it's only day five the numbers that the u.n.

is giving according to their sources on the ground are roughly five thousand people displaced by the fighting particularly along the border so and that is where we are actually very close to syria just behind that mountain i can tell you the military activity here is quite apparent we've had jets in the skies above us is a base a little further along has been helicopters hovering over had and we've heard the good lad sound of heavy artillery so it is an act of battle we know this but certainly when it comes to the civilians it is concerning because they have nowhere to go because of course turkey's borders the shot you have the east of africa and surrounded by free syrian army fighters the south has also got another rebel group and turkish military you have a small pocket out to government controlled areas but we understand from various reports according to the u.n. as well that some people who have managed to make it out have been sent back and reports that the local authorities enough feet have closed all the roads so it is incredibly difficult i can tell you it is also winter it is very cold the people

been displaced it's wet there's nothing that will draw your clothes if you do get caught in a rain shower and it's freezing so it is it's going to be a desperate situation for them going forward we're going to follow the link of the weather a little bit later old stuff because the problem lol so as you say have closed off the borders and checkpoints so politically it's really just a matter of time before the accusations of human shields rears its head. well that's already happened turkey from day one said that the white p.g. was using civilians as human shields you're now getting reports from some of our sources and also the u.n. saying that they were concerned that authorities and block the roads other people will tell you that the y.p. g. wants to make sure civilians don't need because they're afraid that turkey will flatten the city so you have this whole sort of you know accusations pointing at another site that's the problem with covering syria so it's been the problem for years and that is a very active propaganda war whether it is you know things coming out of turkey

things coming out of the white b.g. for example turkey says it's killed over two hundred sixty y. p.g. fighters in the last few days the white p.g. says it's killed over thirty seven turkish soldiers and also you know blew up three armored vehicles these things are impossible to confirm and constant you get the sort of information coming out so it really is a puzzle that through sources you have to sort of weave together and you sort of backtrack it with what the u.n. is hearing to finally get a picture and i think one thing we are clear about is that the civilians are going to be facing the most challenges as this war moves forward leave it. with you through the day thank you. well bad weather has been hampering turkey's fighting it's also led to some tragic deaths in neighboring lebanon over the weekend fifteen syrian refugees were found frozen to death while trying to cross the mountainous. correspondent for us live in the bekaa valley in lebanon i mean the deaths of these

syrians zaina highlights really the desperate situation the displaced are experiencing and the issue of people trafficking abusing the desperate reality that these migrants a facing. and i must mention to nobody. from that area says that team syrian refugees. are used to make their way from syria into the mountains. and there was a fierce snowstorm and these people were on one of the camps where those people used to live and some of the people here are survivors were on that mountain trail it is an hour journey from lebanon to syria and now the question is why did these people go to syria we asked actually fifty three they are going to be living here she told one child with. the money this medically to provide immediate treatment

a lot of. work to. her child and then she had to make her way back here because her family here two young children lost their mother and my sister in law and her father in law. trying to hurt others like you mentioned they make news like these people they charge him a hundred dollars why do you have to take it it's because the lebanese authorities have to order. or do it in that way for for three years now since two thousand and fifteen they do not allow refugees to enter the country anymore looking on says we can't we can't provide assistance for these people we are facing a loss of. you know obstacles and we need money to help these people so the people here are asking for if you please over the border you cannot make changes joining going back and coming back to lebanon we're ready to pay one hundred dollars fee but then you come to. syria. and we have to tell you where are we going to

go i'm just where these people are we have to remember everything is. destroyed and their house is destroyed there's no livelihood to live here because they get a company united nations about one hundred dollars a month which allows them to survive and they also find. harvest in the agricultural land you can't leave it there for now of course amongst those at least some happy people there those youngsters. in the back of ali thanks and. well to those meteorologists and folks who has been on that to talk about those conditions in syria we've been talking about this weather for the last few days of stuff cold and with richard as well and it seems to be hitting that area pretty hard now i mean how big is the front and and how cold is it going to get. a pretty large system this one a nasty little area of low pressure that's been sitting just across that eastern side of the mediterranean the making its way through it's going to stay pretty miserable over the next few days if you take a look at the satellite picture you can see just how cloudy has been the clouds

been swirling away across a similar area for the past few days worst of the rain really set in last thursday but it did turn to snow overnight. less bad nation we say so is that it will turn somewhat milder as we go on through the next few days so we'll see that the really cold air starting to move out of the of the way but the rain does stay in the forecast over the next few days stays there for the next few days and how long can this particular type of front stay in the area considering what it's made january at the moment and we're not expecting winter such to clear from the area maybe till early march yeah yeah that's right so this particular feature well. actually make its way further eastward show you the forecast charts that we do have that will give us an indication of just when we are seeing the wet weather move out of the way so this is the situation now and bear in mind in the last week we had temperatures in there at around seventeen celsius now we're looking at struggling

to get into double figures so that's an indication of of how cool it has been over on the coast it was a touch milder than that but we had we saw it turning to snow as you went on through the course of the weekend you can see a lot of getting up to around ten celsius there as we go on into thursday the wet weather still very much in place it eases a little further ways we're still seeing snow over the northern flank for sure but we are looking at the snow over the mountains continuing but it's rain for the south it will ease as we go on into the latter part of the weekend as you know as for if you're living in a plastic tent whether it's ten or eleven degrees rain or snow it's still miserable it's still miserable where usually thanks very much over to thank you now elsewhere in syria at least twenty one people have suffered breathing problems after a suspected chemical attack on a rebel held enclave near the capital damascus the syrian observatory for human rights accuses government forces of using chlorine gas in duma on monday the attack prompted warnings from the international community diplomats from twenty nine countries met in paris to push for sanctions and criminal charges against anyone

responsible for similar chemical attacks. the united nations security council has met to discuss the use of chemical weapons in syria christine salumi reports from the un in new york. 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 that meeting took off into formal statements they went on the attack the russians said they are all for accountability in syria when it comes to chemical weapons but past investigations they said were unscientific and politically motivated those past investigations found evidence that syria and ice will both have 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 start a new company this is not seem 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 intend to

hold the government of syria accountable and said focusing. nonstate 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 still plenty ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including a health crisis in indonesia's remote papá province where a missile outbreak is fair to have killed hundreds of people we have an exclusive report. presiding over resource rich but chaotic economies zimbabwe's a new leader seeks earned investment friendly image at the world economic forum. and in sport the bron james hits a scoring milestone in the n.b.a. and he's the youngest person to do it show what happened news in sport.

where gunmen have stormed the office of save the children aid agency in eastern afghanistan the attack began with a suicide bombing in front of the compound in jalalabad two people have been killed including one policeman at least twelve or wounded the taliban has denied any involvement jennifer glass joins us now live from afghanistan our correspondent keeping an eye on the situation and that is the first question what is the situation right now at the location. well so it's still going on five hours after that attack began we have a few more details from the provincial governor spokesman two attackers are already dead one of them detonated his suicide vest another was shot by afghan special forces but the third attacker continues to hold afghan police inside the building at bay they cleared two floors in this three story building but the basement the top floor still problematic the top floor is on fire right now and we know that twelve people were injured in the initial blast nine of them have already been

discharged from hospital three of them are critical and this so going on for five hours now and save the children has issued a statement saying that they are very devastated by the news of this attack that their primary concern is the safety and security of their staff members it's not clear how many if any staff members are trapped inside that building and so another devastating attack for afghanistan just five days after an attack here in kabul due to the talk about of issued a statement saying they're not responsible if the who all the likely suspects jennifer well the most likely culprit would be i saw all the islamic state or days shows the afghans call and they have a very big stronghold in eastern afghanistan and usually if it's not the taliban it's i saw or it's the haqqani network a taliban affiliated pakistan based organization who were accused of being. involved in the planning of the attack on the intercontinental hotel here on

saturday and sunday to kill twenty two people so really the main culprits would be i saw in that kind of network before the bridge if i will leave it. in kabul. is the afghan ambassador to qatar to as we know here in the studio to talk with us thank you could just be good to be here thank you can we just begin with your reaction to the attack in jalalabad. will unfortunately these kind of a occur from time time to. this one unfortunately was against an aid agency that is working in afghanistan providing services for mother and children so there's pretty. good an agency that is not involved in war but is providing help to the very poor of all over afghanistan the unicef the work if i can supplement that by saying we know how important these are to afghanistan in its

current situation what protection is your government offering to aid agencies not just in jalalabad but also in kabul that all the wider areas quite a bit our government is trying to share security information with them often the government is involved to go in look at the environment see where they're living and they train the the guards the usually in addition to the the government provides additional guards to make sure that they are not there but from time to time it happens. but the situation afghanistan security wise is much much improved now we have better security now in terms of trained individuals train police and also they're better equipped and better experience now that mr bassett it doesn't seem to stop the ongoing attacks that do you might say give your country the reputation of being in secure and unstable i mean just if you look at the attack at

the weekend on a major hotel in kabul the security of that was given to a private operator obviously there's an investigation ongoing but your president continues to promise the international community that he can keep afghans safe and we've seen time and time again december last year fifty dead at a cultural center in kabul last october two shia mosques attacked for thirty dead forty five injured assurer in september sixth at a shia center it doesn't seem that you were able to secure the country regardless of what kabul it's a. what doesn't get to the news in the world the international community doesn't know how many how many potential attacks are prevented by our security force that is very important that information is with us and with our government but unfortunately those who are trying to destabilize the country their. attacks and their activity has also increased but overall i'm sharing with you our security

situation has improved and hopefully it will get much better do you also think that there is a scenario where you may as a government blame other agencies or even your neighbors as being part of the problem within afghanistan but afghans themselves are very. would it be correct they are very in secure about the way kabul is ensuring their safety they have no confidence in the government even in areas where you say you are in charge. well unfortunately in a war situation people do worry the feeling of security in security comes there but our people also know that the situation has improved considerably they know how many police we used to have and how many we have how many helicopters it's rather that we had before and how many we have now and also there is something very important current that is very hopeful over those words so we'll leave it there but a cocker to catarrh from afghanistan thank you very much for joining us here on q.

of the studio because i think. in egypt another challenger to president of the c.c. has cancelled his election campaign after being arrested something unknown was detained by soldiers on tuesday after announcing that he was a candidate for the presidential election in march egypt's elections committee says the former army chief of staff was removed from the ballot because it's illegal for military commanders to run for political office several other presidential hopefuls have dropped out of the election over the past few weeks. and worse that the nephew of former leader anwar sadat ended his campaign last week he said it's to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or unrest the former prime minister amateur feet also tweeted that his withdrawal from the race is going to happen two weeks ago that was after he was deported from the united arab emirates where he was living in exile chics lawyers say that he was arrested as soon as he landed in

cairo and human rights work early is still securing enough signatures to challenge sisi but he's facing a charge of offending public decency if the verdict is upheld in march he will be disqualified from the election and then there's an army colonel that consol why he was sentenced by a military court last month to six years in prison after announcing his plans to run for the presidency some he had the is a middle east analyst and he joins me now from our london studio good to have you with us i mean it's interesting that some in a would actually. enter the competition throw his hat into the ring knowing that he may well be disqualified or arrested he must have had a knowledge that there is some sort of ground support within the military services or with the public at large that sees him as a potential candidate. i think that's very true i think what this demonstrates is

that the army is losing its ability to keep its ranks in order i remember is also part of the army and served as prime minister and he was he disobeyed the army and then i was his intention to run for presidency and likewise i think semi and then even in the days when sisi took over power in his military coup there were rumors that semi and then did not necessarily like the prospect that semi and then was for reconciliation with the muslim brotherhood and he's always been touted as a potential conciliatory candidate for the presidency of egypt of course don't forget that semi and then was also very brazen in his approach to the president's presidential candidacy he appointed he shamed going into the former top auditor who was ousted by sisi after claiming that more than seventy five billion dollars was being lost in corruption and then in his speech and mounting his presidential candidacy accuse the army of mismanagement of egypt it was very brazen this is why i don't necessarily think that it's a surprise ok because also to remember those want to get in there it's not so much

of a surprise if we can just talk in broad terms now how much of a threat are there and these candidates who throw their hat into the ring and then they are either dismissed barred or arrested they must be a threat to sisi in some shape or form. i think they are a threat remember this is a country where presidents don't leave by elections they either die in power of the nuts or they're either killed like i said it or they're ousted by a mass movement like hosni mubarak the problem is for egypt for cease right now is he struggling to find a puppet's candide it he's struggling to find somebody that when he wins ninety five ninety six percent of the votes everybody can say oh that's ok that's legitimate it is not a puppet candid it is not a puppet candide it they can call the command weight in the social sphere these other liberal candidates what they command puppets so you need somebody like one of these media personalities or one of these businessmen who are proceed who will put themselves up for a candidacy and then lose by a sweeping margin c.c.

is struggling to find that candid it and that's why there's a need to imprison all of these people and what is interesting is there is a wall was a draft law issued i've got that got the paperwork here in two thousand and fourteen which basically to cut it because a long story short says that if no candidate is found and c.c. runs this election to its obvious conclusion all he has to get is five percent of the vote and he's won the presidency is he trying to actually push all these candidates away as this is another theory push all the candidates out the way so that you can win the election with just five percent. i think that's a last resort for c. c. c. c. does not want to be shown as the sole candidate in the presidential election remember despite his dictatorial brutal regime and the like he needs to keep up the show to europe to the us to the rest of the world that there is some semblance of a democracy even though he's going to win by ninety four ninety three percent if an election does pass he needs some sort of fake contest fate competition he desperately needs a puppet otherwise there he has no propaganda line to use so i think with c.c.

that's a last resort that nor is there just in case that he's unable to find a puppet but i think that there are some candidates who are suitable to play as puppet candidates and we'll hear about them in the coming future the problem is however the likes of me and then come on support from the muslim brotherhood from segments of the army from segments of the why the liberal population because semi imam has exposed a willingness to tackle some of the corruption but what is really really interesting is this the fact that we have now have two former military officials on the rebel list ready to go against sisi suggest that the military is losing control the military is unable to keep its ranks in file with this is just this some sort of problem going on within the army we've never seen this before in egypt we've never seen such a public this agreement between military officials and i think sisi will be very concerned that the likes of sami and then a former chief of staff a man who's fortan all of egypt's wars where sisi has it was brazen enough to come out in public and challenge his will which is what does happen as we lead up to the

election in march for the moment thanks for joining us from london. well a few moments we'll have the weather with everyone but still ahead here on al-jazeera is news are south korea shows off its security measures ahead of next month's people trying to fix also families in the democratic republic of congo returned home but fear bullfighting could break out. and installed from the n.b.a. to the oscars find out which basketball great has been nominated for a film. from the clear blue sky of the doha moon. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city. where we were talking about the stormy weather across the southeastern corner of europe earlier on but it's up towards the northwest we've got another area of stormy weather pushing its way for you can see to the south that it's not looking

too bad at least at the moment but a complicated system of weather fronts making their way through and it's a perrier flow pressure this precious been named a storm georgina that's making its way across the british isles bringing some very lively conditions in the process further south with that complicated system of weather fronts making its way through is heading towards northern parts of france and this is the same in paris of the mind of the same again has burst its banks we are looking at something reminiscent of the kind of conditions that we saw here just a couple of years ago so at present we got the wetter weather just pushing across a good part of england and wales and that will just hate its way down across the breast peninsula continue pushing further south was thirteen self's in london twelve in paris so it's mild air that's coming through but it's still looking pretty miserable and by thursday see that wet weather makes its way across northern parts of france and exacerbating those floods that we have in paris the wet weather continues to extend its way down across the northern parts of spain and portugal

could see some showers along the spells of fright and yet more snow for the alps. there with sponsored by the time and place. february on al-jazeera south korea has the twenty eighteen winter olympics can records be broken down to zero we'll bring you the latest from pyong china the big picture examines the present day crisis in venezuela by exploring the divisions rooted in its past senior officials will meet to discuss the biggest security china. his facing. will be live from the munich security conference partition borders of blood looks at the troubled legacy of the events that shaped the indian subcontinent am's top aerospace companies from around the globe will gather to showcase the latest technology at the singapore february on al-jazeera. ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans satisfied with the state of their

economy this is easily a slow news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back to the al-jazeera news our i'm still romney a reminder of our top stories the u.n. says about five thousand people have fled the african region in northern syria since turkey began its cross border offensive against kurdish fighters five days ago activists say at least twenty three civilians have been killed. gunmen of also killed two people including an afghan police officer as they stormed the save the

children agency in jalalabad now it began with a suicide bombing at the compound interests and in egypt another challenger to president of the for the r.c.c. has counseled his election campaign after being arrested the elections committee says sami and i believe former army chief of staff was removed from the ballot because it's illegal for military commanders to run for political office. brazil's president michel tabor is urging investors to return to his country saying brazil is back in business for sale had been suffering from its worst recession on record the economy shrank by nearly eight percent over the past two years is among seventy heads of state gathered at the swiss resort of devil sounds the world economic forum enters its second day in. brazil has come out of the crisis in a stronger position and is back on track for development and now at this point in time as the world's largest economies are receiving growth we are in a position to provide input and contribution brazil is back in business and for

that same reason we wish to invite you all to take part in this new chapter in our history do invest in brazil and you shall not regret it. our correspondent. joins me now there was a keynote speech from the indian prime minister on tuesday we've already heard from the brazilian who else is on the podium on wednesday jonah. the big speakers today will be emmanuel macron and mater merkel from germany the german chancellor mr macron those are the young french president fresh from his stunning election victory last year with his brand new centrist party probably the rising star of the two he's seen as the reformist face not just of france but of the whole european union and he would indeed have had top billing here at davos this year had it not been for the late announcement of the arrival of donald trump and really so much of the politics here now being framed around this trump visit and merkel being seen as two leaders who will form a sort of european counterpoint if you like to trump's america first agenda they

will stand up separately they're not speaking together but they will stand up generally for the strength and unity of the european union for reforms in the european union for a union overcoming its challenges via core values of democracy and free trade and really there is slowly not so slowly really a sort of empty trump. front growing here because as you say on tuesday there in india warned that protectionism was threatening globalization that was a good trump clearly and also on tuesday justin trudeau the can the canadian prime minister announced a brand new asia pacific trade pact eleven countries involved in that but not the united states of course as you just touched upon the fact that issues around protectionism are the big talking point whether it's nafta or whether it's the t p p when asia pacific these are all issues very dear to the heart of president trump so perhaps all eyes and ears on what he has to say when he arrives.

and undoubtedly everything is sort of building to that point on friday when trump gives his closing address and as i say it's likely to be an address that moves very much in in the opposite direction to much of the things we'll be hearing in the days ahead he's likely to promote that america first agenda he's likely to promote that the economic policy of nationalism and protectionism indeed just this week donald trump and his administration announced tariffs on imports particularly from china and south korea fridges and solar panels and so on angering those two countries and it really is a perfect illustration of the sort of economic policy he may be hearing from promoting and that sort of protectionism of course anathema in a place like this among the leaders who be gathered there to watch him speak. with you and our correspondents there endeavors for the moment joe thank you. ways new leader is also in davos he's looking to use the world economic forum as

a platform to show the international community how he'll be different from his predecessor robert mugabe and his harem of tasso reports all eyes will be on how much tackles the country's most pressing issues. claimants my dad and i used to work in a big battery he says it closed down when zimbabwe's economy collapsed almost twenty years ago. to survive the capital makes in a neighborhood compound he wants the international community to economic isolation now that robert mugabe is no longer president. we want investors so our business can grow and they can only improve when they come and see what we have and what we can do there will encourage others to invest. the new president in a seminar gaga says he isn't davos to hear from world leaders and potential investors on what they're once a bubble to do to convince them the country is ready for change reassure the number

of issues which include the international isolation i pin the targeted sanctions also some of the property rights issues would naturally come from the world and i'm quite sure that the president is stuff that zimbabwe is not right for business the . opposition leaders however are warning the international community to be wary of managua whose nickname is the crocodile he replaced longtime leader robert mugabe after a military intervention you must remember what you remember. for fifty years what is sure as your cue cards are you is should. go so far as showing that is a program and the market is responding and that's the challenge is the state owned railway company has struggled financially for decades resuscitate ing it and creating jobs needs direct foreign investment but investors will want to know when the well will be very different from as peter says investors want guarantees it

won't be more of the same in zimbabwe some of those conditions include compensating white farmers whose land was seized during land reform and the holding of internationally acceptable election equipment and infrastructure is old and falling apart when that god is under pressure to deliver. zimbabweans say they are expecting him to come back from davos with realistic timeframes of when zimbabwe's economy can start moving again how to al-jazeera how to. i mean brake is said to have killed hundreds of miles no if people in indonesia's eastern purple province official say sixty nine children have died but church leaders believe the death toll is much higher our correspondent step bason and her team gained rare access to some of those forgotten villages in one of the world's most remote regions now they took a commercial flight from the capital jakarta to get to be in power province to make or the team took a small plane to get to again then they travel by boat through the river inlets in

through the jungle to get from i got to at a time that bassam is in a church in a gas that's being used as an emergency clinic this is her exclusive report well we found heartbreaking scenes in the senate where many children have died it's one of the hardest hit villages twenty seven children were reported that because of malnutrition of course of their we are responsible for using just like measles and chicken pox and likely found is that none of the children had actually had proper vaccinations and no doctors had visited this area for over a year but people told us striking also was not only the longer skinny children and babies but also their modest entirely bad conditions so many of these babies are already born malnourished and they won't have a good chance to survive the first five years the people who are really struggling

that they were left alone they were calling on the government actually the central government in taxes to help them they have no space in the regional government those things they don't care about are they never places they are so well it's a very very challenging situation and also very remote and you can see in our report. the land of the smart spread across a vast jungle delta only reachable by boat a challenge in journey most outsiders prefer to avoid. assert that a 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. i mean by 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 is changed instant food and energy drinks entity area but the us people don't know these things are bad for them. while some are smart women go through the long process to put prius psagot 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. well the government has declared this a medical emergency and what's happening now is that there's a task force consisting of police and military the military is here now go into the villages also together with help workers from the how big farm and interact they go to this village just trying to save children's lives bring the worst patients to this church basically and i got this is an emergency hospital right now because the rest of the hospital the clinic is already over full so the children of being taken care of right here and we got this very rare access and a lot of people here the power plants are very worried that if journalists are gone

that also these medical emergency things are gone that the us much will be left to themselves again so they will have to go back to their villages still and who will take care of them then. hundreds of thousands of people who are returning home in the democratic republic of congo after months in hiding fighting between the army and rebels from the kasai region broke out in august twenty sixth seen killing more than three thousand people now suffering reports from cosign people are worried a fragile peace could end at any time. these former child soldiers relax at a rehab center in concise central they will fight his supporters cooks of come in and supple a rebel group that has been fighting government forces since twenty sixteen mark is seventeen years old he joined the group to avoid the consequences of not joining his in his friends get beaten up or even killed for insisting he was also afraid of

government soldiers. i joined as a titan my fist alone was burning houses when we attacked then i was promoted to money good luck i was fine then i rested and spent six months in jail before i was rescued by u.s. forces. fighting increased after police killed a traditional chief who was critical of president joseph kabila as government in the mineral rich region with a history of political and territorial tension the violence spread fast these house belongs to a police commander and when the rebels came to this area back in august they banned him alive inside the house people here also told us they terrorize them for three days before the military came. to some but she says her husband was killed by a government soldier son by militias who did a lot more for mine i blame them all i never imagined my home which has always been peaceful would become so violent so quickly and i pray never to see that happen

again the violence has significantly reduced after an easy peace deal between the states and their grief a community of sample kinda it was negotiated by this man the community spiritual leader but he says the government has not or not their green meant and accuses its forces of widespread across the t.'s. i ordered for peace to come back because it is the government and the president who are not ready for peace conditions set out in the peace talks have not been met whatever happens will not be on mine. the military and police deployed to this area remain on high alert guarding the airport and other facilities they've also been accused of human rights abuses but. the government and no reason to attack civilians did not create the conflict or intimidation has become one runs up all on the motive and many people in the

countryside where the conflict was at its worst are farmers they've been unable to plant crops for three seasons and though they say it's time to rebuild their lives they still fear they may have to run again catherine saif al jazeera a sigh central at the democratic republic of congo. now five people accused of torturing sudanese refugees have been arrested in libya the army freed the refugees who were being held captive and tortured by human trafficking gangs they're now in hospital and are expected to be deported to sudan in the soldiers accused of trying to overthrow the president of gone on trial the attempted coup against president the hammer do is a food was foiled two years ago troll soldiers three customs officers and a dozen civilians were arrested. a delegation from the south korean government is on a rare three day visit to north korea they're inspecting training venues athletes

in the joint korean team will use before the winter games in south korea next month but despite the planned display of korean unity a massive security operation is being arranged in peel chang coffee never reports from the olympic venue. a gunman holds two hostages in this police demonstration in young china a swat team bursts in takes down the attacker and frees the victims it's a drill just one of the scenarios police are preparing for with hundreds of thousands of visitors about to arrive before north korea agreed to send a delegation one of the biggest worries was it might disrupt the games now police say they are more concerned about so-called lone wolf terrorist threats involving attackers from other countries bomb detection robots that can identify and destroy suspicious items are among the tools available to protect against that threat.

we've got to move to prevent a terrorist attack in collaboration with intelligence agencies around the world over the past year we have banned the perrys from entering the country. more than thirty thousand people considered to be a security threat have been blacklisted though police say they are not aware of any specific plots one of the major tasks for police will be providing security for the north korean delegation some south koreans may want to express their displeasure that the two koreas will be marching together under a unified flag for the opening ceremony and that there is a joint women's hockey team olympic organizers hope just as many people will welcome the show of unity trip a lot on an opening ceremonies based on a theme of peace i believe north korea's participation presents a good opportunity to. emphasize that message. the day before the games begin another spectacle is planned north of the border north korea's jus to celebrate

army building day on february eighth troops and equipment are reported to have already been mobilized suggesting the north is planning a military parade they're known to be impressively choreographed affairs. but south korean police officers have moves of their own and they're not afraid to show them off either. but you know that al jazeera pm jang south korea. a new search for the malaysia airlines flight with vanished with two hundred thirty nine people on board almost four years ago has begun. with high tech underwater drones as arrived in the search area in the indian ocean is using eight drones equipped with sonar and cameras that will scour the waters for wreckage and could operate in depths of up to six thousand meters the new search zone is an area of about twenty five thousand kilometers in the southern indian ocean north of the former search site. the european union's ambassador to

china is calling for the immediate release of the hong kong based author and publisher the chinese foreign ministry denies having any information on bin hey his daughter says police seized him from a train at the weekend while he was travelling with swedish diplomats the first disappeared from hong kong more than two years ago along with four other publishers who sold books on politics which were banned in china john farm close reading and family chinese and swedish sides have very open communication channels if there are any problems from one or both sides they can be raised both sides can conduct timely and effective dialogue this is no problem at all but as for the swedish foreign ministry statement i have already said as to the specific issue i do not have any information at hand at this moment and you have to ask the relevant department in china. in the philippines tens of thousands of villagers are surviving on food handouts as a shelter from an erupting volcano vulcanologists have expanded the no go zone

around the violent volcano emergency shelters are packed and the red cross says it could be months before filipinos are allowed to return home. well still all the al-jazeera news. has an unexpected didn't feel straight open job a hot story in school straight off to the bright.

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a few people and roger federer has just booked his place in the semifinals of the australian open the one thousand time grand slam champion had been taking on czech thomas byrd a him as you can say is pretty easy the nine hundred seat well he just kind of fell apart really because federer winning it seven six six three six four now he'll face south korea's healing chung elise homan looks at wednesday's quarter finals. it was the semifinal but no one would have predicted the world number fifty eight he shouldn't shown both as the ninety seven to rank tennis said grant the last time an american from tennessee had never won a grand slam much before this tournament but he's unlikely run appeared destined to end. we've thank chongjin basin novak djokovic john he's white of the quarterfinals and the twenty one year old looked composed as he went on first straight sets victory he's the first korean to reach the last four of

a grad slam with the how will this approach because i really don't know if i make sammy's i've been such a no vote. good player and i never thing second to getting grants the only surprise was so i'm going couldn't escape control to see him defeat he had wiped his twitter account after a number of tweets suggesting far right u.s. political views were highlighted and he had a message to read to the media you seek to put people in these little boxes so that you can order the world in your already assumed preconceived ideas you strip away any individuality for the sake of demonizing by way of the collective with a handful of followers and some likes on twitter my face has been sealed in your minds. in the women's draw well the one similar to how opposed the came a slow start to advance to the last four she trailed six they'd karolyn a place called the three love in the first set the rape of the first six three six

two victories. halep will face german and julie covering the semifinals kober crushed american medicine keys in just fifty one minutes as she looks to add to her twenty sixteen title in melbourne i release colin al-jazeera. we're going back to that game you saw there between the chung and tennis sangar and it was actually delayed for a short while after an announcement on the stadiums p.a. system have a look at this. just this video uses the weight of it so seventy times what does that mean this is a gentleman we're just finding out from the internal office what that message mean

. ladies and gents things patients. all right well serino williams is due to return tickets to tennis next month for the first time since the birth of her daughter in september the twenty three time grand slam winner has been named to the united states fed cup squad for their first round tie against the netherlands williams withdrew from the australian open saying she was not yet ready to compete. le bron james has become the youngest basketball player to reach thirty thousand points in the n.b.a. james became the seventh member of the thirty k. called scored twenty eight points for the cleveland cavaliers against the san antonio spurs on monday his milestone why isn't sufficient to stop the cavs from dropping their tenth came out of thirteen the spurs one hundred fourteen to one hundred to win as the still love for the broad. never fully appreciate what i do

any time our conversation the matter for the winner a loss you know i've always told you jason told our guys back home looking forward to the moment when i'm. very sick and be done with the game and i can sit back with my family and my friends because sit back drink some wine talk about all the companies that i had in fees that i'll be able to accomplish. le bron's of past kobe bryant to become the youngest to reach thirty thousand points for bryant had his own reason to celebrate on tuesday survive time and champion has been nominated for an oscar for this animated short film he helped to produce titled dave asked paul it's based on a poem he wrote upon his retirement from basketball in two thousand and fifty. tiger woods will make his return to golf speciate off for the first time in almost a year on thursday woods practiced at the torrey pines course in san diego ahead of the first round of the farmers insurance open the fourteen time major winner has won the tournament a record seven times in months another comeback for the former world number one

he's been plagued by back and need injuries and personal problems over the last eight years. the governing body of college sports in the united states the n.c. double a has launched an investigation into how michigan state university handled the case of laurie nasser the doctor who sexually abused hundreds of female athletes the abuse happened at the medical center as well as the usa gymnastics training camp and his own private practice nasser is expected to be sentenced later following the testimony of more than one hundred fifty of his victims one of those victims told the court on tuesday the nasa had failed to diagnose her broken leg while he was abusing her you were never a real doctor. you did not hear me you only hurt me the n.f.l. season started with control to see over players needling during the anthem and it looks like it might finish that way to the league has rejected an ad for the official super bowl program asking players to please stand the one page advert was for donations to an american veterans organization in f.l.

say that the super bowl isn't the place to make a political statement while having said all of that the league's commissioner admits that the protests have brought the players and officials closer together. our players we're all trying to do what's in the best interests of communities that they live in that they care about and trying to improve them and i and i admire that a great deal i wish all our players are standing for the national anthem i always did and i always told them that. but i i also we really took the time to understand and i think we could use a little bit more of that in our society. well the man who started that protest to draw attention to police brutality and racial inequality was former san francisco forty nine ers quarterback calling captain ik he hasn't played in over a year but has been shortlisted for the players associations award for community m.v.p. in two thousand and sixteen kappa nick pledged one million dollars to organizations working in oppressed communities and is making good on that he's also right to top sports stars like serena williams and steph curry. and that at least for now i have

more feel a to say hail thanks very much chad well you have been watching the al-jazeera news out with me the whole robin liss of for on is next for the full half hour from each other on the rest of the team thanks for your time and your company.

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