global gather to showcase the latest technology at the singapore february al-jazeera. news has never been available but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife for listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. save the children suspends its operations in afghanistan after also gunmen storm its regional office killing three of its staff.

nor until this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. brazil's appeals court upholds a corruption conviction of former president lula da silva of a major impact on his political ambitions. larry nasser the disgraced former doctor of the u.s. gymnastics team is jailed for up to one hundred seventy five years. and we'll tell you about the bollywood film which caused widespread protests in india because of its muslim hindu love story. and who save the children has suspended its programs in afghanistan following an attack on its eastern office in jalalabad three of its staff members were killed in the suicide attack and siege which is now being claimed by eisold should have a glass has more from the capital kabul. i detect began with a car bomb at the door of the stave the children office in jalalabad in eastern

afghanistan the gunman stormed the building for more than eight hours they battled afghan security forces while dozens of save the children staff were trapped inside the building was set on fire eventually afghan police and soldiers killed the attackers and rescued the staff afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for children to be born following decades of war insecurity and poverty for twelve years save the children has worked with afghan communities to help kids arrive but the attack on the agency's office in jalalabad suggest it's becoming increasingly difficult for staff to help afghans without becoming victims of the conflict themselves it's quite possible to save the children that would leave afghanistan and the onus is on the afghan government to provide security for the latest to to stick on aid worker security show that over the last fifteen years their jobs have become much more dangerous in two thousand and sixteen there were one hundred fifty eight attacks on aid organizations around the world in which one hundred to one hundred workers were killed ninety eight wounded and eighty nine kidnapped that's

almost triple the number of attacks in two thousand and three south sudan is the most dangerous country for aid workers followed by afghanistan and syria the u.n. humanitarian coordinator calls afghanistan one of the most challenging and dangerous environments for humanitarians in two thousand and seventeen seventeen aid workers were killed and thirty two injured doctors without borders withdrew from the northern afghan city of could use in two thousand and fifteen after the medical charities hospital was mistakenly destroyed by a u.s. airstrike and last year the international red cross which is operated in afghanistan for more than thirty years close to clinics and limited his operations nationwide after seven staff members were killed and others abducted now we're in a very explosive situation i think where we note the community says communities can no longer guarantee all safety and all roxas and that's now where it's becoming extremely do. to know. who we can rely on and that's that's the challenge today

more so than in the last thirty years afghanistan is dependent on even organizations if gunmen were to drive them out the afghan government can't support the social services programs on which millions of afghans depend save the children says it helps one point four million children in afghanistan and it's committed to its work here the organization would like to restart its programs but it can only do so when it's sure its staff can work safely jennifer glasshouses era kabul. where i'm joined by helena thorning she meant to use the sea save the children and a former prime minister of denmark thank you very much indeed for your time can you give us first one indication of what i think a more detailed picture of what of this attack and what actually happened to your staff first of all is a very very sad day for all of us and save the children we have three such staff members who was killed this this morning in a very violent attacked against our office in jalalabad in afghanistan luckily we

had a very good security in place and we managed to rescue forty seven is a law staff members only for four people were injured they've been treated for those injuries injuries now but it leaves us so sad today that we have lost three people who just came into the office today to do what we have been doing in afghanistan for more than forty years helping children providing health services so they can survive making sure they get educated making sure they get protected these are the kind of things that we do for the most deprived children in afghanistan and of course this is a big setback for our staff to save the children and not least those children and i understand you you've now suspended your whole program in afghanistan what effect will that have. well we have for now suspended our activities but rest assured that we are still committed to helping the afghan people and that sick the children in afghanistan we have been there for so many

years and we know what we do there help millions of children survive be educated be protected so we will continue to do what we are doing in afghanistan this is a setback for sure and we will take us a long time to recover from this and we should never ever accept attacks on aid workers people who are spending their lives helping children the three people who lost today their families when they have three ten children and this is very very sad and we must never accept that aid workers have been attacked in this way. we we heard a moment ago that other aid agencies recently have been targeted how far reaching would you say the threat to the humanitarian side to is these data and is it in the endo i know you say to me it should defect what you do but in the end on you know i have to change the way you operate. well first of all though it is hard not to have that feeling today that aid workers are being deliberately

attacked and as i say we should never tolerate that we should never accept that but you're also right in pointing out that if that this is happening it will of course have an impact for the children that we are trying to help this is very innocent work this is what that all parents would want for children this is work that help children survive and learn and be protected and i had still am completely saddened by the fact that someone would try to stop this in such a violent attack this was very violent is should never happen and of course this is a setback but we remain committed to helping the children afghanistan and all over the world where save the children is working and a thorn in schmidt from say the children thank you very much indeed for taking time to talk to us on jazeera thank you. a brazilian court has upheld a corruption and one ignoring conviction against for president it was in december a popular politician known across the country as news that appealed against a nine and a half year prison sentence last year for money laundering and corruption to his

abode is live for us now in what is the latest from the court. a big storm that's coming here there's like thousands of. orders where i am right now and everyone here is disappointed with the. judges have voted to maintain the convention against former president about one of them is that. but his vote is crucial because if the voting is you know. the possibilities that you'll have to appeal this case becomes much more complicated has left to go to president but for him to be able to run for the prestigious me that's a completely different story of brazilian law already states that those who have been convicted and have been an appeals court cannot run for office and that's why

many here are disappointed as we'll to attribute he says that he remained calm and that he will continue to fight and what are people saying to you where you are. obviously people here are very disappointed that away but they're also telling us that they did not expect anything different that they know about the country about the government in a way the judiciary are against. that that this whole case has been fabricated that there are political motives because they don't want him to run for the presidency he is the most popular politician in the country at this point what many here are asking like. the judiciary going uphill and not go. after the dozens of congress members have been investigated members that have been at other candidates other presidential candidates why are they not being judged or western thought on the fact that so many people here are telling us that this is political and that

obviously they believe it will let me let them tears about thank you very much. a former u.s. gymnastics coach larry nasa has been sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in prison one hundred fifty women and girls came forward to accuse him of sexual abuse among us as victims is one of the most decorated gymnasts in input history john hendren reports it's a me too moment that resonates throughout the world of sport has come to. this staggering sentence mattered less than the statement it made wow. mr. whitehead to. dr larry nasser was already handed a sixty year prison term for related child pornography last month that will keep the fifty four year old away from children for life perhaps you have figured it out by now but little girls don't say little forever to grow into strong women that the

turned to destroy your world he pleaded guilty to molesting seven girls in usa gymnastics in michigan state university through intimate treatments that he told them had therapeutic value and except for apology to all of you it's impossible to write in convey or carry your words with me for the rest of my days he was accused by more than one hundred fifty women and how dare you say sorry about everything you've done and all the lives you've destroyed we all see right through your. you're a pathetic monster that is only sorry you got caught the accusers included gold medalists some own byelaws alley reisman gabby douglas in mckayla maroney who statement was read by a prosecutor dr nasser was not a doctor. he in fact was in forever shall be a child molester a monster of a human being and a story. he abused my trust he abused my body and he left scars on my psyche

that may never go away the victim's anger went beyond nasser this monster was also the architect of policies and procedures that are supposed to protect athletes from sexual abuse for both usa gymnastics and the u.s. o.c. abusers your time is up the survivors are here standing toe and we are not going anywhere on monday three leaders of usa gymnastics the national governing body for the olympic sport resigned under pressure among nasser's latest accuser is byles one of the most decorated gymnast in olympic history on twitter she said she dreaded returning to the training center where she was abused this week usa olympics announced it will close the texas center that haunts are whether the organization can regain the trust of dozens of women who say it failed to protect them remains an open question for. our. want to one hundred not

joins us live from chicago central going tell us more about how events unfolded in court. well lauren before sentencing larry nasser turned around to the dozens of victims in the courtroom and he apologized and he said your words i will carry with me for the rest of my life then the judge in that case ensured that the rest of those days would be spent behind bars by sending its sentencing him to a range of forty to one hundred in seventy five years in prison that is in addition to a sixty year prison sentence he's already serving for child pornography this was a case an unusual case the largest sex abuse case in the history of sports and it was a very unusual court proceeding and he had pleaded guilty to seven cases but that plea agreement allowed other women to come out and speak and they did by the dozens originally the judge was expecting eighty some women to speak and had set aside four days for that by day for nasser was complaining in

a letter to the judge that it was too traumatic for his mental health well that went on for seven days the judge said talk about that with a psychiatry as these women need to be able to air their grievances and in the end one hundred and fifty six women came forward the last one today and the judge told each of them that they were heroes and gave them a kind of therapeutic talk said the whole purpose behind this knowing that he was going to spend his life in prison no matter what happened and the whole purpose was to allow these women to air their grievances and they did and bearing in mind that extent of the abuse they share extent of it why did it take so long from to be brought to justice so. well that's a question that is going to be asked in a number of court rooms now nasser is accused of having molested women women as young as six years of age over the course of decades and there had been cases that had been brought up and dismissed to usa gymnastics finally in twenty two thousand

and fifteen usa gymnastics decided that they had enough information that they would go to the f.b.i. and fire nassar but what they didn't do was tell michigan state university which also was hiring so michigan state university in two thousand and sixteen decided it had enough information to charge him with child molestation in this in this case and here we are in two thousand and eighteen when he has finally been convicted in those cases there are also a number of civil cases that are going to go forward but meanwhile usa gymnastics had its c.e.o. resigned ten months ago three top officials resigned just on monday and now the national collegiate athletic association is looking into michigan state university there is pressure on the president there to resign and she says she will not do so but you can bet there will be more pressure on that and there will be many many civil suits on this john hendren thank you very much indeed. still to come on the

program. as fighting intensifies between kaddish and turkish forces in northern syria the u.n. says civilians are being blocked from escaping. and an uneasy truce allows families to return home in the democratic rank of congo but can the peace last. how the real cold winter air in europe is in the east in fact is going over into western russia as this gray stuff is slow moving cloud that's way feels like it should do but further west this a reasonable thing like winter is when the smile to contains lots of rain in the forecast now could be a problem so waltz we have got for thursday's forecast max when temperatures subzero for book rest in kiev the sun might be up for the be fog around as well and

in turkey it's snowing as it is indeed in finland if you look through germany and france and even spain and portugal were up to double figures we've got right now this rain is falling on top of snow a vast amount of snow in the alps so we've already had something in the way of too much water flooding on the rise in the run for example on the smaller rivers in switzerland and now are about to top it up with more melt is there and then add some snow on top come friday so it's going to be a bit of a dangerous mess not just avalanches but flood and mudslide risk now what's happening on the european mainland which means most of the drain is finds and most of north africa is looking fine twenty one degrees now jena's but the some i'm sure breeze for egypt and you can see quite obvious circulation to cyprus and turkey.

i. it's the school election and the candidates are pulling out all the stops. to make you have to leave him. out it's a sad time in his telling me as a society take. a good solid vote at this time on al-jazeera. one in our top stories here on the aid agencies save the children has suspended its operations in afghanistan after three people were killed in an armed attack on its

offices. the majority of brazil's appeals court has upheld former president rescind you're not a suitable corruption conviction which could have a major impact on his political comeback head of this october's election. the former u.s. gymnastics coach has been sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in prison for sexually assaulting women and girls. yes but fighters in the northern syrian town of members have been deployed to the front lines to confront a possible assault by turkish forces to his president has promised to expand operations towards the town to confront the threat posed by the kurdish y p g fighters which ankara sees as a threat to security the move risks a possible confrontation between the nato allies. hopefully starting from we will continue by thwarting this game along our borders and we will completely wipe out this trouble from our reach him. turkey has already launched an

air and ground operation a nearby city of freedom because of the p.g. presence there at least five thousand people have been displaced in five days of fighting and croats to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border with syria he says some two hundred sixty eight fighters have been neutralized in operation or have brunch so far a kurdish commander says that's an exaggeration he didn't give an alternative number seventy deca has more from the turkey syria border we are very close to the syrian border here of syria is just behind that mountain and we've been hearing all day really that we've been hearing the sound of artillery it ebbs and flows but it has been very heavy at times and that's because this remains a very after front line complier western border of a free in that turkey has with the province now there's also a turkish base just a little further that way the turkish military really doesn't want any media near its operations what we've seen we've seen helicopters hovering overhead there are

tanks and of course that constant sound of outgoing artillery along the border that's been going on for the last couple of days and of course the united nations now giving numbers around five thousand people have fled these border villages further inside to flee the fighting and they say what they're really concerned about is it seems that they have nowhere safe to go hundreds of thousands of people are returning to their homes in democratic republic of congo after spending months in hiding well three thousand people have been killed since fighting broke out between the army and rebels in the cast iron region eighteen months ago and as current story reports from people are worried that a fragile peace deal could collapse at any time. these former child soldiers relax at a rehabilitation center in concise central you off fight his supporters kook's 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 fighter my festival was burning houses when we attacked then i was promoted to money in the old block i was for and then i rested and spent six months in jail before i was rescued by the un 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 terrorized them for three days before the military came. to some but she says her husband was killed by a government soldier has signed by militias double digit about uniform and 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 cities. i ordered for peace to come back because it is the government and the president who are not ready for peace addition set out in the peace talks have not been met whatever happens will not be on me. the military and police deployed to this area remain on high a lot guarding the airport and other facilities they've also been accused of human rights abuses in. the government and no reason to

attack civilians who did not create the conflict or intimidation they come on runs up on the motive. many people in the countryside where the conflict was at its worst our families 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 saw al jazeera a sigh central of the democratic republic of congo egypt's president. has officially filed his papers to run in the presidential election in march comes as potential rival has withdrawn from the race saying conditions did not allow for a fair contest. president either but that 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 strength in

. all egyptians must remain a learned some people want to divert our attention from the goals we have been working to achieve i see that as gyptian people do not listen to their nonsense talk and stay committed to achieving construction development and prosperity. 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 and 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 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 killed like on or 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's candid 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 can do that they can call they command weight in the social sphere even

before sisi 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 seems so very long ago how much does either al-jazeera is demanding the release of its genesis one hussein who's been in prison in egypt for four hundred days hussein is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and strongly deny he's repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail in india they've been growing protests by right wing hindu groups against the release of a controversial bollywood film demonstrators say the pattern of that film which portrays a muslim as the lover of the hindu queen is an insult to their religion and cultural heritage the fokker report. protests are intensifying across several indian states

in how close of the capital delhi right wing hindu groups blockaded roads and in the city of bhopal police arrested several demonstrators after they set a car on fire a number of cinemas across the country have also been vandalized on choose day hundreds of rioters descended on a mall in the western state of good to rant torching vehicles and damaging shops the escalation came hours after india's supreme court rejected bids to allow some states to ban the controversial film cleared for release nationwide on thursday. is the patrol of a fourteenth century hindi queen a member of the high raj peut cast of the muslim mogul conqueror. the film depicts a romance between the two characters seen as a step too far for these demonstrators ready for the hardline raj hindu group sriracha. they say the relationship between a hindu and a muslim is a distortion of fact and are determined to defend the culture. of the raj boot

community lives only to protect the country the religion and one's self respect. can be noticed in a crowd he's disciplined never flees a battle and is always ready to die. a story and say the queen's very existence is very likely a legend a character in a sci fi epic poem this is the study it's an epic with. it's not a mania started and it is that in fifteen forty and the study is supposed to be set in the thirteenth century because i doubt they'll hit it was the ruling in the thirteenth century so people forget that this is not a piece of history it's an epic written by a selfie using a lot of. the film's director sanjay leela bhansali to nice the movie disrespects the hindi queen he's had to contend with vandalize sets a little later the original release state hard line hindu ism is on the rise in india emboldened believe many by the country's prime minister and hindu nationalist

the render modi police have boosted security in all theaters screaming the film but many cinemas are reluctant to take the risk the park or al-jazeera. he uses find us chip making. one point two billion dollars for exclusive deals with apple says the contract violated antitrust laws and harmed competition and innovation in the phone chip market an inquiry was open in twenty fifteen over concerns that qualcomm pay significant amounts to a major smartphone manufacturer on condition that its chips were used exclusively quit on monday has catch up any time on our website. dot com. take another look at the top stories making news here are zero the agency save the children has suspended its operations in afghanistan after an attack on its offices

gunman stormed their compound in the eastern city of jalalabad after a suicide bombing outside three of its start members were killed in the attack and resulting siege which is now being claimed by eisel this is work that helped children survive and learn and be protected and i have still ever completely saddened by the fact that someone would try to stop this in such a violent attack this was very violent should never happen and of course or if this is a setback but we remain committed to helping the children in afghanistan the majority of brazil's appeals court has upheld former president luis in us your do not assume is corruption conviction which could have a major impact on his political comeback a popular politician known across the country as lula has been leading the polls for a presidential election the former u.s. gymnastics team dr larry nasser has been sentenced to one hundred seventy five years in prison for sexually assaulting women and girls also predict guilty after

being accused by more than one hundred thirty women including several u.s. and pick gold medalists u.s. backed fighters in the northern syrian town of man beach have been deployed to confront a possible assault by turkish forces take as president has promised to expand operations towards the town to confront the threat posed by the kurdish y p g fighters. hopefully starting from n.b.c. we will continue by thwarting this game along our borders and we will completely wipe out this trouble from our regional. turkey has already launched on an errand ground operation in the nearby city of afridi because of the y.p. g. presence there at least five thousand people have been displaced in five days of fighting turkey wants to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border with syria egypt's president has officially filed his papers to run in the presidential election in march it comes as potential rival holly delhi has withdrawn from the race saying

conditions did not allow for a fair contest that's over now the stream is next coming live from the sundance film festival in the united states i'll see you after that. and you're in the stream today as part of aspect from the sundance film festival. mind set to change the world their stories are part of a new documentary.