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a suicide bomber strikes gunmen stormed a group's office three people are killed and dozens rescued and emotional trial in the u.s. dozens of gymnast tell how they were sexually assaulted by their olympic team dr larry nasr is facing multiple prison sentences in michigan and an al jazeera exclusive we travel to a remote region in tunisia where it's feared outbreak has killed hundreds of people. and will tell you why there's a decline in people's trust of social media and in making a shift back to traditional. next to show using the hash tag a.j. news greg. here with the news we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and that

dot com. thanks for joining us the international group save the children has suspended operations in afghanistan after an attack on its workers gunmen stormed the agency's compound in the eastern city of jalalabad after a suicide bombing just outside three people have been killed including a policeman jennifer cost joining us from kabul it's been a long day jennifer now that the your operation is over what more do you tell us are emerging. along harrowing day forty seven people trapped inside that that office for more than eight hours while gunmen battle that began security forces into a low level out in eastern afghanistan grenades gunfire explosions the building itself set on fire a very very harrowing ordeal for those who were rescued three people killed twenty five injured those are the figures that we have right now but security sort of forces are going through that building to clear the building as we speak to make

sure there are no more explosives to make sure there's any sort of booby traps left behind and for save the children a terrible day they suspended operations across afghanistan and that is so terrible for those people who when they help here they say they they affect a one point four million children in afghanistan they say they are devastated by this attack they're committed to their work here in afghanistan they'd like to reopen their programs as soon as they possibly can but they say the only do so when know that their workers will be safe and secure what are you hearing about any claim of responsibility. well the taleban explicitly denied responsibility the islamic state on their web site did claim responsibility but we have no way of verifying that there's nobody here who speaks on behalf of the islamic states they do have a stronghold in eastern afghanistan and they have stepped up their attacks in

afghanistan and here in the in the capital kabul and in other other areas perhaps trying to keep up pressure on the government but as i said al-jazeera can't verify that it is actually the islamic state despite their claims of responsibility on their website and jennifer was be organization was save the children be specific target here that is going to be the big question i know aid organizations are trying to find out if they were the specific targets it's really not clear at this moment and we have seen other aid organizations attacked here and in a mistaken way because it was the wrong house or the wrong place they were trying to attack a different route and i know of at least two major attacks on aid organizations where the aid organization wasn't the target the attackers simply had the wrong address that's what the government is going to be invested looking into and aid organizations are to be watching very closely to see if they believe save the

children was the actual target ok jennifer glass reporting from kabul frank you. earlier we spoke to the afghan ambassador to qatar about the security situation in his country. what doesn't get to the news and where 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 well it's not speak to michael semple he's joining us from belfast he's a visiting research professor at the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's university belfast thanks for speaking to us once again on the news grid so we know that aid organizations have been targeted in the past in

afghanistan we're not yet clear as jennifer was saying whether save the children was the specific target of this attack but regardless of that why why are aid organizations being targeted in this way. yes i'm very glad that jennifer made the point that or until some kind of forensic analysis is done you count over three of for certain who carried out the attack and exactly what their thinking was but looking more broadly not just at this attack but of the account of attacks we've seen over some time now they the taliban seem to be acting as if all foreigners the foreign presence is for them somehow or they say that they are attacking the invaders and rather than as you know focusing on military targets they're prepared to go with any any element of the the foreign presence in afghanistan including we saw in the attack over the weekend you know technical staff from a private sector airline there prepared to present

a some part of the invaders and if this is the rationale behind the attack today they're saying that those who are responsible for delivering and relief programs humanitarian assistance to the needy of afghanistan they it seems that they you know the taliban are prepared to treat them as invaders and legitimate targets which amounts to a humanitarian crisis of renunciation of any kind of humanitarian principle and humanitarian crisis for the uk for afghanistan and the people who are trying to work there i'd just like to get your thoughts on what the the ambassador said to us earlier on al-jazeera we played sound a little while ago where he was saying that the security situation in the country has improved your reaction. you know of course i would love i would love to be able to back him up on this but i can say that you know if he had some statistics which would show this to be the case then you know

we will get a very hard job in selling this to the afghan people you know i talk every day to multiple funds they are desperately concerned with the current security situation even those who got no love lost for you know for those who do carry out this kind of attack they feel that the security system the security situation is very alarming they worried when their children go out in the day when they come back and i you know they're feeling desperate and i'm sorry we have to do an awful lot more than just giving you and i could read reassurance over the t.v. inshallah things are ok people are not sure when their children go out in the morning whether the. ok michael semple we thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera well turkey's army says more than two hundred sixty kurdish and eisel fighters have been killed in five days if it's operation in northern syria so the military is trying to force the why p.j.

out of the town of free and create a buffer zone on the border a senior kurdish officials says turkey has greatly exaggerated the number of casualties but refuse to give the exact one nearly five thousand people are trying to escape the conflict zone in northern syria stephanie decker joining us from the turkey syria border so claims and counterclaims stephanie over the death toll what are you hearing. yes you mentioned the turkish government to say they've killed over two hundred sixty five inches of the white p.g. the y.p. g. says that they've killed over thirty seven turkish an f.s.a. troops there are various videos and social media during that we cannot simply verify that claim to show bodies of epis a fighter's of y p g fighters of turkish troops it is incredibly difficult to get a real sense a realistic sense of what is happening how many casualties there are because this is also very much a propaganda war what is clear is that it is an act of war it is

a conflict zone we've been hearing it all the days that we spent along the border shelling airstrikes there is ground fighting it's slowed down the ground fighting today somewhat because the weather is so dire visibility very no but still shelling continued so to get a real clear picture as to what's going on in terms of casualties is very very difficult we do know that somebody just were taken by the epa say they then have fallen back into why p.g. hands is well there are making some advances however but yes it is slow going and it is complicated to get a very accurate picture as to specific details and for those who are civilians who are trying to leave stephanie where do they go. well they're not going anywhere at the moment when it comes to leaving the province of oxygene this is pretty much what sources have been telling us throughout the last couple of days and the u.n. issued a report yesterday which seems to corroborate that saying that five thousand civilians left the border areas that are further into the problem that it seems that the

authorities about freedom not allowing people to leave they've cut the roads all this is the new idea why p.g. and that some government checkpoints for a few who have actually managed to leave the province work turned back into africa and so it's a very difficult situation there are no aid agencies inside the province of the that are functional at the moment referring again to the weather it is very very cold it's freezing during it is what it's going to be like this for the next couple of days so it's a dire situation it's an act of conflict so you know as always with this war jury we talk about the politics who took but the military operations but always it's the people that are suffering and that have no way out and u.n. estimates around three hundred thousand people civilians are inside that problems about the i'm just back to the military operation for a second what is turkey saying it and game is not going.

well attending the minute after he did they say is to push the white p.g.a. out to clear its borders it's interesting you mentioned there that thirty kilometer safe zone while the prime minister the foreign minister in fact said that four days ago one day into the offensive that it was going to be in four phases and that their priority was to set up a thirty kilometer safe zone today we've just heard again from the authorities now that secretary of state rex tillerson actually proposed is proposing a thirty kilometer safe zone it's very confusing to the say this before is he saying this now we haven't heard from the americans that that's the case you know the americans are urging restraint you know the americans are also supporting the y.p. g. further east as part of the bigger group called s.d.f. that we're fighting eisel turkey is saying it's going to move further east and clear the why b.g. from that border is very complicated it is you know you don't know how it's going to play out when it comes to getting on everyone's interest when it comes to the u.s. turkey russia iran this is what we're looking at when it comes to syria but certainly

just briefly you have nato allies turkey bombing a group that is the america's best ally in fighting i still on the ground so it's very complicated very murky indeed stephanie decker thank you well germany's government is facing criticism about german made tanks being used in turkey's campaign in northern syria dominic kane following that story for us joining us from berlin so what's the reaction in germany to that news that tanks to turkey are being used in this way dominic. well the thing to soldiering is that there has been condemnation and it's very strong criticism from several prominent politicians some indeed inside angela merkel's own party the christian democrats with with one senior member saying that there can be no question that any upgrades to the tanks that the german government sold to the turkish government could possibly be allowed to proceed that's the thing at issue here the turkish government is keen to have the weapon system the tank system upgraded and that

would not ordinarily be part of the deal between the two governments but the point to be made here as i say is the level of condemnation that has emerged as a consequence of the uses to which people think the turkish government have put these weapons is something that politicians it don't think that the german government should or should really be trying to to help it and germany itself has made a record amount of sales over the past few years when it comes to the arms industry dominic is that right. yeah that's absolutely right that the movements export industry at least here in germany is very considerable it generates a loss of revenue for germany and many countries are recipients of german systems weapon systems around the world the point to make here is that the saudi government in the past has received weapon systems from germany and then following the use that some of those weapons were put to in yemen germany was placed under

a degree of difficulty about the idea that it could be supplying such weapons and so decided not to do that so that the suggestion being made here is that it is likely that the german government might consider doing exactly the same thing in other words not allowing that upgrade that i was referring to to the tank weapon systems that the turkish government would want to see being installed as it were certainly that's the suggestion here anyway ok dominic thank you for that update from berlin well if you're wondering who the world's biggest arms companies are we have compiled a list on al-jazeera dot com the top ten are either american or european and this is data that's sourced from the stockholm international peace research institute and published in twenty sixteen and show them all based in the u.s. or in europe as you can see as i scroll down that list well as always we'd love to hear your thoughts on this and other stories we're covering on the news grid today i am getting some comments on the turkey story in fact

saying whatever turkey is doing is not cold war it's actually an operation against what he's describing as terrorist groups so a lot of interest in this story do keep your comments coming in to us so we're on twitter at a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup you can also send us a what's up the numbers right there it's plus one seven four five one four nine and just use the hash tag a.j. news grid. now egypt's president on before the house a say has officially filed his papers to run in the presidential election in march the news comes off several other potential candidates have withdrawn or they've been barred from running again facey mohamed jungle reports. president of the fatah has sisi officially launched his bid for a second term in office after announcing his candidacy last week submitting registration documents for his reelection bid in march in a speech to police force members seem determined to project an aura of strings and

. all egyptians must remain alert and some people want to divert our attention from the goals we have been working to achieve i see that as people do not listen to their nonsense talk and stay committed to achieving construction development and prosperity of. the rhetoric was similar in tone to promises made to voters during his first presidential election campaign in two thousand and fourteen which the former military chief of staff won with ninety seven percent of the vote observer said that election fell short of international standards. since then disillusionment with his rule has grown along with a return to the authoritarian security state that prevailed under former president hosni mubarak cc's remarks also came the day after one of his main potential rivals semyonovna was arrested by soldiers army commanders say their former chief of staff committed violations when he announced his presidential bid without obtaining

permits from the armed forces egypt's elections committee says he was removed from the ballot because it's illegal for military commanders to run for political office . former prime minister an air force general as much if you had also announced his interest lawyers say he's also been detained in cairo another would be candidate behind bars as army colonel ahmed a military court sentenced him to six years in prison after announcing plans to run for president human rights lawyer father died he is still attempting to secure enough signatures to challenge sisi and is seen by some as the only viable nonmilitary candidate but he's coming under increasing pressure to boycott the election ali is facing a charge of offending public decency and would ultimately be disqualified from the race if convicted some believe sisi perceives the rivals as a threat to his presidency remember this is a country where presidents don't leave by elections they either die in power like them out of the knesset that either kills like i said it or the ousted by a mass movement like hosni mubarak the problem is for egypt for sisi right now is

he struggling to find a puppet 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 a legitimate amateur if it is not a puppet candidate semi and then is not a puppet candidate they can call they command weight in the social sphere even before c.c. declared his reelection bid it was widely assumed he would win now critics say this election is turning into a farce one more reason why on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the egyptian revolution the brief experiment in democracy that began and to have your square seem so very long ago how does it let's talk about this and speak to muslim but he's an egyptian political analyst joining us via skype from get to have you with us thanks for joining us if we just start out with what. about the in fact we're expecting him to make an announcement the next hour or so about his bid to join or not this presidency what do you think is going to say. well as is very

hard to tell but there is mounting. pressure for him to quit the race which would make a lot of sense because this is not a race anymore this is this is a. this is not even a force this is a coronation. so i do assume that he will quit the race which would make sense but what else is it is the aim here for sisi not to have any opposition in this election surely that would be difficult for him to pull off because he still does have allies western allies for example which he has to please. well it's very hard to tell what the logic is because it doesn't make a lot of sense meaning that he's not even pretending that there is a process in terms of the western allies i don't see any western or or going to international. condemnation here the west has supported the reteam from

the beginning even though it does committed mess occurs and human has. atrocities so i don't think that the west would actually play a role here i would say it was more of an. internal. calculation more than a. international one how much of a threats are if you look at the three of these three men at my dish if it dolly and sammy are not how much of a threat were they to c.c. in the upcoming election. well with varying degrees so if we think about a man or. they were more of a threat because they could actually fragment the military or the or the elites that was a possibility calidad even though he's the only civilian that can have some legitimacy is not

a real threat but i think the region is completely aware of the collapse of popularity that the c.c. is genuinely actually in joint so they are i'm able to withstand any sort of debate or any sort of opening in the public space so seeing as i manage to fit we're both former military men and they had planned to run in this presidential election does this tell us that there could be a problem within the military some sort of division with some some supporting them it might have been an indication if they were able to pull off the bed but at least the leadership is behind. the scenes so the the. rest of the isle of. man is a very clear indication because he was not just a normal military officer he was the chief of. staff so he

was very high up so the fact that he's now in jail somehow is a strong indicator that the military is basically. stating that they are behind you in a unified form ok we'll leave it there we thank you very much for joining us from zurich thank you thank you much for having well on egypt the author of this opinion piece argues that the presidential elections has been rendered irrelevant she says that in the weeks leading up to the twenty eight thousand elections multiple media reports have suggested that would be opposition candidates were under pressure to drop out of the race so you can read her analysis on the home page of al-jazeera dot com in the u.s. state of michigan the trial off former usa gymnastics team doctor larry nastar is nearing its conclusion so he could be given a sentence later today on multiple accounts of sexual abuse over the past week over

one hundred former gymnast and after leads have been detailing their abuse at his hands larry as a look at you today. i feel nauseous even standing in front of you. like the feeling is being assaulted by you all over again. i never once considered that i could be deceived and manipulated and outsmarted so horrendously that i would willingly drive myself to the office of my abuser time and time again i never once considered that being sexually abused well i still had acupuncture needles in my spine would ever be in action. i never once

considered how much danger i was in when i had originally felt so secure john hendren covered the story joining us from chicago so day seven of victim impact statements john is that unusual. it's extraordinary daryn that it might be unprecedented the judge in this case started out saying that there would be four days a victim impact statements that at that time there were eighty eight women who wanted to talk well every day more women decided they want to talk we are now in day seven and they are still speaking one of the reasons for that is the judge in this case rosemarie aquilina wanted to make sure that every victim got to speak and it has less to do with the sentencing interestingly then with the kind of public catharsis that comes with letting these things out this man larry nassar has already been given a sixty year sentence for related child pornography tarr charges for the picture

used he's taken he's fifty four years old so he is likely never to come out of prison so whatever sentence he's likely to get and that could come down today this was really about giving the victims an opportunity to speak they started out with eighty eight now in day seven i believe we're at victim number one hundred and fifty nine the judge has said that he's going to try to let every victim speak some of been parents of victims some of been the victims themselves speaking on camera these and then some of them have been had their statements read out and another thing that's interesting about this is that he has only pleaded guilty to seven cases so it's unusual that a judge would let a number of people speak after larry nasser has not been convicted in their individual cases but i'm guessing that must have been part of the plea bargain that brought this all about i want to some of the most significant statements that the victim's has said what have what have they been saying. it's extraordinary the victims some of them have talked about how he had befriended them

how they had come to his house how he had molested them under a blanket in front of their parents not with their parents not knowing about it their parents spoke talking about how that caused guilt for them some of them came out saying we forgive you larry nasser and we hope that you find some form of healing more often than not they were much harsher some of them telling him to go straight to hell so it is has been a kind of catharsis by a judge who after every victim's statement has told them things like leave the healing here telling the women that they are heroes and it has become kind of a national spectacle that everybody is watching it this time because it is so extraordinary and possibly unprecedented to have this many victims speaking and story is more painful than the last and how is this all affecting usa gymnastics than as an olympic sponsoring organization in the u.s.

. it has been nearly disastrous for usa gymnastics first of all their c.e.o. stepped down ten months ago the remaining top three officials resigned on monday and in court those victims were blaming those organizations they blame usa gymnastics they also blame the university of michigan where the doctor also worked when usa gymnastics reported him to the f.b.i. in two thousand and fifteen it was a year later before the university i'm sorry it was michigan state university which actually employed him it was a year later before they say that they found out one of the words usa gymnastics did not tell them well now the national collegiate athletic association as of today is launching an investigation into that organization the president luana simon of michigan state university says she will not step down but because some of those girls said they were haunted by the training center were some of them were molested

the most recent fallout of this is that the texas training center where a lot of this went on is now being closed in ok john hundred thank you well a new study has found people around the world are changing how they feel about social interests and media the findings come from the twenty eight team edelman trust barometer the report looks at how much people trust their countries institutions government media businesses and n.g.o.s regular you have the details yes thanks daryn now as a man did do a survey with with thousand people than twenty eight countries so assess the level of trust in the wild now this is what the c.e.o. had to say about trust in the media but media today is the least trusted institution in the world for the first time and that's really because of loss of confidence in search and social tied to a loss of confidence in the person like yourself. now while trust in media is

down people are actually more trusting of journalism and there is a difference between journalism and platforms and people were asked to define what they thought meijer meant and this at least now eighty nine percent of them think that it's journalists while forty eight percent that it's social now there's also a shift to expert voices and the biggest gain in credibility is journalists with the roi is about twelve points there but the main reason behind this is well fake news and as you can see in this map seven out of ten people around to say that they are worried about fake news being used as a weapon and sixty three percent don't know how to tell the difference between good journalism and rumors now in fact more than a third think that social media is no longer a force for good and this all comes as twitter and facebook are linked to scandals like the russian interference in the u.s. presidential elections and they're also accused of just not doing enough to address

issues like bullying and cyber crime and is also being taken to higher levels governments across the world are implementing new digital policies germany has recently possible that finds a social media companies if they fail to deal with fake news and the u.k. government has just recently announced that they'll be setting up a new unit to combat this information now interestingly it was revealed that even the facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has a limit on how much he uses social media facebook is expected to also change its own algorithm to promote more personal content as well and finally you may recall these adverts by well known media outlets the aim was to rebuild trust in the public and distance from accusations of fake news coming from the trumpet ministration it's also forced networks to reconfigure how they produce quality information so. this was the reaction online to this conversation eric things. it's a great time for the rise of the experts to help people get out of this cave of

disinfo mation but phoenix argues that it sounds like live a said that is not coming to terms with the fact that traditional media has become redundant and won't accept that social media is not going anywhere so tell us what you think connect to the us using the hash tag news grades amazes me directly i'm at my head in the hall that diary room a frank you will be oscar nominations are out this year we're seeing some historic firsts keep the newsgroup going on facebook to find out more about bots and then we travel to a remote village in wideouts in east indonesia after reports that a result outbreak has killed hundreds of people we have an exclusive report for you coming up. i am. in the. hello we still have some rather nasty

weather across the eastern side of the mediterranean areas of cloud and rain sleet and snow continuing to pile into that western side of syria then cross lebanon jordan and we're going to see further spells of heavy downpours as we go on through the next few days as that wet weather there for thursday northern parts over the turkish mountains we are seeing snow coming in once again the freezing conditions that we have seen recently will ease somewhat you can see aleppo getting up to around ten celsius as we go through the day but we are still looking at some pretty poor conditions there eleven degrees as we go through friday the rain still in place when she weather continues across the northern flank of this spell of disturbed weather meanwhile a chance is in play out there just pushing towards kuwait hopes perhaps a few spots of rain coming through as a result of that but it stays far to try to the south of that pleasant sunshine here in doha twenty five or twenty six degrees as we go on through friday will stay

fine and settled in the coming days fred no start of any wet weather still getting back into where cape town the eastern side of south africa has seen some particularly lively downpours recently and further heavy rain in the forecast as we go on through thursday and it stays wet for friday. rio has big plans to turn its largest favelas into spectacles. but inside the favelas because of it has big plans of his own. building since the age of twelve listen trained yet skilled architect has as good a chance as any at seeing his vision come to light. the federal and the mosque to plan out the concluding part of rebel architecture at this time on al-jazeera.

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on the most popular articles right now on our website. the party. to have killed hundreds of people in. a province sixty nine children that's according to officials have died but church leaders believe the death toll is much higher our correspondent and her team gained rare access to some of those forgotten villages in one of the world's most remote regions stuff to church and i gotz

that's being used as an emergency clinic and this is her exclusive reports. well we found heartbreaking scenes in the senate at the top where many children had died at one of the hardest hit villages twenty seven children were reported that because of malnutrition of course of their we products they were very vulnerable to disease like measles and chicken pox and likely found is that none of the children had actually had proper section nations and also no doctors had visited this area for over a year but people told us they are striking also was not only the among the skinny children and babies but also their models are in very bad condition so many of these babies are already born malnourished and then they won't have a good chance to survive to the first try to arrest the people who are really struggling that they will actually loan they were calling on the government

especially the central government in charge taxes to help them they have no space in the regional government they think they don't care about us they never visited us so it's a very very challenging situation and also very remote as you can see in our report . the land of the smart spread across a vast jungle delta only reachable by boat 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 stuff 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. and 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 entered the area but the us people don't know these things are bad for them. while some 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 smart 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 wants 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 smart cons continue to live on donations of food aid forever disinvite all 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 it is a top priority consisting of police and military the military is here now go into the villages all together with how to work us from the house the common interest that they go through this village just trying to save the children's lives bring the workstations to this church basically. this is an emergency hospital right now because the rest of the hospital the clinic is already over full so the children of the and taken care of right here and we got this very rare access and a lot of people here the fast ones are very worried that journalists are going at

all to these medical emergency things are gone that the estimate will be left to themselves again so they will have to go back to their villages still and who will take care of them down that will step fastens exclusive report while the un's food and agricultural organization says there are an estimated three hundred seventy million indigenous people living in one to countries across the globe they constitute about five percent of the world's population and account for about fifteen percent of the world's poor there with least five thousand different indigenous peoples groups and most of them are located in asia. let me show you what's going on at the world economic forum that's taking place right now in davos so it's holding a panel discussion on strategic security right now that's happening and also if we pull up our reuters video feed that we're getting here at al-jazeera there it is more awfully it's a recounting harrowing stories of sexual abuse in the sentencing phase off dr larry

nasir who was hired to treat us gymnast's so over to the in london with more of the international news and more on davos in fact. as right we'll be checking in with the team at davos very shortly first the news from libya where at least thirty three people have been killed after two car bombs went off in the city of benghazi the first explosion took place as worshipers left a mosque after evening pres on tuesday a second bomb detonated just half an hour later wounding and killing emergency crews forty seven others were injured in the attacks no group has claimed responsibility well in other developments five people accused of torturing sudanese refugees have been arrested in libya the libyan army freed the men who were being abused and held captive by human trafficking gangs in now been taken to hospital and are expected to be sent back to sudan a brazilian court is expected to shortly on former president louise and to sylvia's

appeal against a corruption conviction which could have a major impact on his conduct political comeback the popular politician and known as was given a nine and a half year prison sentence last year for money laundering and corruption biller is leading the polls for october's presidential election and has been drawing massive crowds to his rallies. well now i'm going to merkel has been defending international cooperation and multilateralism in her speech the world economic forum in davos the german chancellor said constantly pursuing nationalist solutions could lead to a dangerous spiral in international relations well our diplomatic editor james bays is live for us now in davos and james merkel was almost philosophical in her message of the need to build bridges and not walls yes i wonder who she was addressing those comments to the theme of divorce this year is

creating a shared future in a fractured world she was talking about global values global trade of course just hours after the u.s. put on new trade tariffs on solar panels and washing machines and of course this is a divorce that in the coming hours is going to see the president the arrival of president trump with his america first agenda here the first time a u.s. president has been here for eighteen years i think you need to bat us in mind when you listen to the german chancellor of of the in the earth is not sonali we know that there are national egotism is we see populism on the rise we see in many states a polarizing atmosphere many people seem to worry where the multilateralism will actually find an answer that mankind has in a fair and equitable way about stuff in the garden but let me tell you germany wishes to be a country that will lend its contribution also in future to solve the problems of it all together we think that shutting ourselves off against the rest of the world isolating ourselves will not lead us into

a good future protectionism is not the proper answer. well speaking of polarization james the man who is her polar opposite is preparing for his began trance on thursday. german chancellor will be gone by then so will the french president but yes donald trump is arriving here on thursday everyone watching that very closely the white house making it clear that it's meric america first but not america alone so i think they'll be watching the message very closely that comes from the u.s. president here at this status as i say it's pretty rare for a u.s. president to come here the first time since bill clinton was here in the year two thousand we'll have to watch closely what is in the speech that will be made here of friday off to some meetings that the u.s. president will have after arriving here on thursday i can tell you that the treasury's state secretary stephen mission came possibly earlier on said the mood

here in davos ahead of trump's arrival was excellent and just moments ago the security detail containing the energy secretary rick perry came past very fast pass to russia what we expect from president trump speech he said it's going to be all some i have to say many here in davos will be listening to that very closely whether they find it or soon we will we will tell you ok looking forward to it will get more from davos probably in about half an hour's time also more from london coming up in fifteen minutes time that's get back to terry now marion thank you well one of the hot topics in davos this year is immigration so just how much do immigrants contribute to their host countries economies let's bring in regular for they actually contribute quite a lot during the spot what many politicians claim according to a new report released on wednesday now seventy percent of immigrants are employed

and their g.d.p. contributions average around seven percent and then aggression has little impact on double the chances for native born workers so why do some countries keep pushing the narrative such as. taking our jobs well the report says is that it's pretty simple this is about mis information now in the u.s. for example president trump said that immigrants from some developing countries such as haiti should be bought but in fact these workers expand the u.s. economy by four thousand dollars per month and are crucial in many industries. so it's not just the googles and the harvard of the country they're benefiting. immigrants or industries like construction manufacturing agriculture and hospitality creating jobs for americans on this issue that we are not in this country so maybe we listen we're trying to send is that you cannot speak about

haitians any way and just to be going to take back and take it for many years because we have to realize that the haitians has contribution to this country as well so it's not a burden not a bunch of losers we're not a bunch of good for nothing. that just this monday haitians protest against trump's remarks and his decision to end a program that gave temporary legal status of thousands of haitians in the country . and in fact all of the forty three u.s. space companies at the top of fortune's most admired list forty two percent was started by an immigrant or a child of an immigrant and that's just one of many ways that foreigners can enrich their host countries and you want to hear from you what do you think about immigration tell us your stories or your experiences using the hash tag a.j. news good well just one more thing on davos because back in zimbabwe there are mixed feelings about the president's first trip abroad he's heading to davos and a reporter her with also looks at what people are saying or what issues are most

important to them in this article she's written you'll find it under the reporter's notebook tab on al-jazeera dot com. so china will be joining us in a moment on the news to tell us why the new manager of. twitter and why his appointment has created. a look at the world weather.

hello again christiane is here to tell us all about the sports news thank you so much terrain england announced the new courage of their women's national football team the lionesses but it's a decision that stood a lot of online debate and controversy for manchester united football of phil neville was appointed on a deal three to two thousand and twenty one he's been insisting carried out his former club along with valencia and the england under twenty one team but has never been involved in women's football nor managed a team in his own right and it's also his tweets that have upset a lot of people within two hours of the appointment people started sharing tweets like this one from two thousand and eleven just back to the wife feel better now

from two thousand and twelve he tweeted this one when i said morning man i thought the women would have been busy preparing breakfast getting kids ready making the beds also from that year this one reads you women always wanted equality except until it comes to paying bills talk to pick. or phone levels responds well he deleted his account and his one point six million followers in the past few hours he's issued an apology though saying the comments aren't a true and genuine reflection off his character or of his beliefs staring sexism concerns a little more now the appointment was actually announced on the twitter account of the men's national team at england rather than the women's account lionesses well twitter issues aside a lot of people are questioning his skill set to actually do the job as well this graphic compared to the experience with mon molly the woman who has been interim manager pointing out the she has a lot more experience than he does decades of experience in the women's game

compared to no experience in the women's game for example we can speak now to our sports correspondent lee wellings in london thanks for joining us les a film level is being appointed in the first place as a replacement for a previous manager who was accused of behaving badly towards the my football is there a lot of issues here it's been a huge mess for the british this is another chapter in our volatile a this is all happened at a time when the english women's football team of been excellent on the world level we're talking about world cup semifinalists we're talking about europeans have the finest i play excellent football women's football in england is never been a better house health the f.a. here put a lot of money and attention into it but at the coaching level the management has been appalling and in fact the mark sampson affair who was eventually starts. actually went up to government level there was a full inquiry as to why it took so long to act over vices and allegations they

were fiercely denied but there's still a poison around the women set up because of that case and because of the accusations against mark sampson and other staff and eventually he wasn't sacked because of that it was because of historic allegations against him bristol academy of inappropriate behavior the forty eight hours haven't even come out about that and the mess continues do you think that the f.a. the english f i would be very careful in who they appointed you think they would give proper consideration to what as coaches they're not what i wanted to on the other you're thinking but action once that's i want to decide to interrupt you is there a belief then that the english football association isn't adequately dealing with the issues affecting them. oh absolutely isn't i mean we get past the extent where they're rather pathetic it was debated that in the inquiry they know they haven't done a good job and yet here comes phil neville there are so many ironies around this

because actually my belief here my gut feeling and also with my head is that phil neville talked his way into the job he's got the reputation he is a very confident very popular man those tweets that over earlier don't fit in with the idea of phil neville being a really nice family guy and there's very little to contradict that image of himself that he would present it to the f.b.i. those tweets do not make good reading and you would think how would the eff i dare to appoint someone in this situation other top level in governance there have not been women on the often criticized f.a. board have a rubber roberts was the exception she is a brilliant leader of people and she no longer works for the organization so they more women they admit that that level this was a great opportunity to pick a strong women's coach because they do exist in the english game they should be more. women in coaching bowls in women's football has a strong leg go now but actually there are some excellent ones they could have

chosen from as have been discussed widely on social media to go to phil neville a man with very little experience it's strongly controversial thank you very much. well on the fame of deleting tweets if you watched our show yesterday we discussed the american tennis player tennis sand who wiped his account after a number of tweets indicating far right political views were highlighted while his journey at the australian open came to an end on wednesday he was beaten by south korean held chung in straight sets in the quarterfinals but only after staring a fair bit of to say among his tweets that the screen shot to the fore he closed his account said disgusting in response to a video of serena screaming towards an opponent he also tweeted once that he wanted her to lose and serena was she of course responded while he was on court tweeting simply turned china and if that was a little vague this one from a couple of hours ago wasn't she tweeted him directly saying i don't need or want

one but there's an entire group of people that deserves an apology didn't apologize but offered a message for his media for the media off to his loss seek to put people in these little boxes so that you can order the world in your already assumed preconceived ideas you strip away and in the individuality for the sake of demonizing by way of the collective with a handful of olives and some likes on twitter my fate has been sealed in your minds to write an edgy story to create sensations coverage their feelings she would go to to mark me as a man you desperately want me to be well you can get in touch with me on twitter i'm available at i am tatiana gives that hash tag a.j. news great as well i'll be back with more support in the eighteen hundred g.m.t. news hour but for now during it's likely it. thank you well finally you might expect botox you know the drug used to remove wrinkles to feature in a regular beauty contest but not a beauty contest for camels well

a dozen camels have been disqualified from this year's saudi arabian camel beauty contest that's because their handlers used botox to make them more handsome and judges rate the beasts by the size of their lips their cheeks heads and knees and top camels can fetch millions in prize money thanks for watching news great we'll see you back here on thursday keep in touch with us and use the hash tag agent.

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