faints at this time on al jazeera classic one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place we're the world's least we can get to washington d.c. in two hours we can get to on jurists in the rest of central america about the same time but more importantly is where those two cultures north and south america leads us to teach it like it's a very important place for al-jazeera to be. new allegations of abuse against me in mas military is a top u.s. diplomat quits a key advisory panel on the range of crisis. jane

that this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up brazil's former president says he will run in this year's election despite a court upholding a corruption conviction against him. save the children charity suspends its operations in afghanistan following an attack that killed three of its staff plus. i'm andrew symonds in the occupied west bank and i'll be explaining why the palestinians are getting excited about the introduction of cheap all their smartphones it's a ten year old knowledge of. government has received a blow to the credibility of its handling of the raising the refugee crisis off the tip top us diplomat quits an international advisory board meant aimed at resolving the turmoil in rakhine state bill richardson who was once considered a close friend of and son suchi accused them in my leader of lacking moral

leadership on the issue he branded the panel set up by c. chia whitewash calling it a cheerleading operation for the government i was very happy and the stress right down from the reaction to my point this issue of reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly. brought almost an explosion on her part. saying there were issues relating to the official secrecy that this was not my charter as a member of the advisory board and the very heated exchange that we had i don't want to be part of a whitewash. and i felt its best that i resign immediately it comes as bangladesh's prime minister has seen a is to appeal to the united nations general assembly for more help in dealing with

the crisis. this comes as a man my military has been accused of using gang rape as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign against their hanger rights groups say the attacks occurred during a recent crackdown in rakhine state in which seven thousand people author ought to have been killed tall structure reports some quick to prolong refugee camp in bangladesh the sisters fifteen and seventeen years old say myanmar army soldiers tied them to trees and gang raped them the eldest says a sister lost consciousness as the second man began to prove the lies of. the army surrounded our house she says my sister and i were in the bathroom the soldiers burstein and drank this outside seven men raped me she says passers by found them unconscious and still tied to the trees them it was difficult to walk she says but they helped us it took us fifteen days to walk to the bangladesh

border. rights groups say that the myanmar army used gang rape as part of its ethnic cleansing campaign that killed thousands of people and destroyed their homes in rakhine state. they also say the case highlights massive floors in the international criminal justice system and there are questions being asked as to whether the interests of powerful countries like china could jeopardize myanmar ever fully being called to account gathering evidence in myanmar is almost impossible at the moment the myanmar government has banned the un's top human rights investigator from entering the country me and my has made a very big mistake in banning myself and also a fact finding mission and other investigative teams to going in because this is exactly what the world needs to to see and hear from. first hand reports from

persons like myself and others rights groups say the un security council should refer me to the international criminal court in the hague but the i.c.c. only has jurisdiction over crimes committed by states that have signed its founding treaty the rome statute and we is not a signatory getting myanmar an i.c.c. referral in the un security council would likely fail because of china's power of veto china's interests in myanmar a growing these include oil pipelines across rakhine and the construction of a deep water port the girls now live with the woman that found them in the camp four months ago they say they heard gunshots inside their house as they were dragged away. they say their mother father and three siblings were inside is the soldiers look the front door behind them and set their home on fire chance

transferred al-jazeera to the refugee camp and with their. accordant brazil has upheld a conviction against former president enough to silver for corruption and money laundering it's a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insisted he will seek reelection in october that is of all reports on the southern city of port . these people are standing by. their convinced he will be brazil's next president despite a court's ruling that makes it almost impossible for him to run. the risk distance will never die we lost the battle but not the war president twenty eighteen. is an equivalent. in the country.

again on wednesday an appeals court upheld his conviction for corruption and money laundering even increase the sentence to twelve years and one month one of the judges said there is no doubt that the former president was involved in a corruption scheme. i looked at these questions one by one reaffirming specifically that the issue of culpability is the largest vector for the sentence and i considered culpability to be extremely high in this case. it happened in the city of port city where extreme security measures were taken to prevent clashes between supporters and those who backed the court's decision. in sao paolo brazil's economic capital many celebrated. thinks he shouldn't be investigated because he's god all his companions are behind bars and are

incriminating him we want justice should be arrested he must be convicted. he's now seventy two he was prisons first working class president and is credited with lifting millions out of poverty. the court's judgment complicate his chances of making it to this year's presidential race but lula remains defiant. for me the school ruling is an opportunity to travel through brazil and have a dialogue with the brazilian people now i can see that everything that they're doing is to close the door to my candidacy as provocation is so shameful but now i want to be counted for the presidency of the republic brazilian law bans candidates who have been convicted from running for office there are two legal moves and make to avoid prison and to fight to be allowed to run in october's election. but for

many that will now be tougher than his supporters would like to what makes. the case how will. the terror is the director of the brazil institute at the woodrow wilson center he says his chances of running for the presidency are looking bleak. it was a very bad day for lou. everyone most everyone expected the ruling would go against him but not this strongly i mean it was a three to zero unanimous result from the three appeals court judges and they're actually increased the jail sentence from nine years to twelve years and while it's still possible that he you know may escape jail he has many potential you know opportunities to see injunctions and stays ahead of him but i think it's going to be a hard road for to still be a candidate in october for the next presidential election as he said is his intention brazilian law does say that if you if you commit

a crime you're not allowed to run for the presidency or other other political office and so you know it looks pretty bleak for him though after what happened today because even a two one result would have opened up. more avenues for appeal than this three zero result did well people still have very good memories of lewis presidency which of course was from two thousand and three to two thousand and ten those were boom years for brazil's economy and they were years that also saw a massive growth in the middle class and reduction in poverty the equation in people's minds the reason why lula is running first currently and virtually every poll for the october election is a lot of people sort of make this calculation in their minds and they say ok well look you know all of these politicians are corrupt but lou is the only one who ever did anything for me. global charity save the children has suspended its operations

in afghanistan after a deadly attack on its jalalabad office forty six people in the building were rescued a soldier and three staff members were killed in the siege several others were wounded eisel has claimed responsibility jennifer goss has more from the capital kabul i attack began with a car bomb at the door of the state of 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 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 aide 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 closed 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 also fifty an hour access and that's now where it's becoming extremely difficult 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 aid organizations have 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 short staffed can work safely jennifer glass al jazeera kabul. still ahead on. the truth i just find your death warrant. under the seventy five years in jail for the u.s.

gymnastics doctor who sexually abused girls and a woman in his cab. i'm james bays where president trump is expected in the coming hours will he be accepted by the global elite to gather here . from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. we're going to a winter storm is churning through the eastern med turkey and therefore the levant it's not quite as cold or as windy as the one that came through the end of last week but is there with the same i guess your forecast picture them about ten degrees and aleppo a bit better in beirut the breeze picks up and the cloud be full of rain the snow is over the high ground of turkey. mainly as you can see and ahead of it we juice

once again quite a strong wind which means it lifts in baghdad but lift the dust in the sand as well the real cold air is still up here in el monte manas sixteen that is the daytime high temperature now as us to storm revolves you've got about i think thirty six to forty eight hours worth of rubbish weather in the levant through northern syria to turkey and beyond but the snows stays over the higher ground joiners attempts have very very much is just is going to feel fairly rubbish eventually that snow will come down soon all in iran the tension by god backs off a bit as the wind changes direction in the immediate future not what should be felt the science of that you've got the juiced southerlies awards in riyadh at twenty seven but twenty five in doha then that wind eases a little bit no immediate change temperatures for us suggest office comes through it will get colder. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always

possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that then are choosing between buying medication and eating they say is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. are they watching us them out of our top stories this hour a veteran u.s. diplomat has quit an international advisory panel tackling the rank of crisis calling it a whitewash bill richardson. if the group as it was making its first trip to

minimize rakhine state comes as myanmar's military faces new accusations of using gang rape as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign against the ruling. the brazilian court has upheld the conviction against former president louis enough eluded a silver for corruption and money laundering but speaking to supporters he insisted he will seek reelection in october. the global charity save the children has suspended its operations in afghanistan after a deadly attack on its jalalabad office a soldier and three staff members were killed in the siege. turkish media are questioning the us version of a telephone conversation between the turkish president and president trump the pair spoke on the phone about syria but turkey denies that the us commander in chief raised his concerns of escalating violence in northern syria turkey is launching their own ground operation in the city of the why presence there the turkish

government considers the y. p g a terrorist group however the u.s. sees the kurdish fighters as allies helping in its fight against eisel on wednesday trump warned turkey to curtail its military operation in northern syria or risk conflict with u.s. forces syrians who survived a deadly snowstorm along the country's mountainous border are calling on the lebanese government to open its doors to refugees last week seventeen people froze to death while illegally crossing into lebanon along a well known people smuggling route santa has more from the bekaa valley. but survived but she watched her father in law and sister in law freeze to death syrian refugees were caught in a fear snowstorm as people smugglers tracked them across mountains to reach seventy people died including children said they asked the smugglers for help but instead they abandoned. we asked the smuggler to help us go back he wanted money he kept

threatening us with guns we had no choice but to comply my father in law was old and needed to go back and my children needed and i had to go back the smuggling route is an eight hour journey through difficult terrain and on that particular day weather conditions were very bad the rescue and search effort lasted for days and is from the city of rekha she went back to syria because she couldn't afford to treat her sick child in lebanon's bekaa valley her one month old girl died in syria and had to return to her family in lebanon syrians like her can't use government run border crossings if they don't want to lose their status with the united nations it's not just that. the lebanese authorities to open the border. money to those who want to cross illegally. and that costs hundreds of. hundred dollars we go to the government.

lebanon just like syria's other neighbors jordan and turkey no longer accept refugees at the start of the syrian conflict more than one of million syrian refugees entered lebanon soon after the lebanese government said it was unable to cope with the vast numbers in two thousand and fifteen it imposed new restrictions ending its open door policy program. some lebanese politicians have been calling for refugees to return at least to areas where the war has ended and calm has returned but the u.n. and the international committee of the red cross don't consider syria safe yet for many refugees safety is not their only concern. if we go back to syria we can't survive our homes are destroyed and so are our livelihoods there are no jobs so how do we live there. the girls need to go back to syria to be raised by their grandmother but because they entered lebanon legally the only way back is through the mountains. because lebannon egypt's last main opposition

candidate for an upcoming presidential election has withdrawn from the race khaled ali made the announcement just as president of the fact that all says he filed his nomination papers it comes a day after former army chief of staff of ten and gen sami anon was detained after saying he will contest the race human rights lawyer was the first to announce in november that he will run against sisi former u.s. gymnastics team doctor has been sentenced for sexually assaulting female athletes and patients for decades there in the us it was given a prison term of two hundred seventy five years the president of michigan state university where i worked resigned after the sentence was given john hendren has more. this staggering sentence mattered less than the statement it made oh wow. mr. whitehead through 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 see little forever they grow into strong women that return 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 two thousand and nine. she took her own life. because it couldn't do with pain anymore but 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 bull now you're a pathetic monster that is only sorry you got caught the accusers included gold medalist simone byelaws alley reisman gabby douglas and 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. abuser's 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 the limbic 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 john hendren al jazeera u.s. president donald trump says he is willing to be interviewed by investigators looking into alleged collusion between his presidential campaign and russia. after for. president trump told reporters he would speak under oath to special counsel robert miller who's looting the investigation what trump has there for the world economic forum in davos where he'll address but his business leaders and other dignitaries senior u.s. officials have had back again suggestions that donald trump's america first agenda is hurting globalization and trade many of the form say there is some skepticism over what he can bring to the table james bays has more from davos. high in the swiss alps this is the ultimate annual gathering of the global elite captains

of industry business commas and finance how to talk fest every year here in davos see you might think the u.s. is first a businessman president in decades would fit right in these are powerful people but they mostly do business in a sober and polite manner unlike trump they are the richest people and represent the most wealthy companies on earth but they tend to take a global view unlike trump the motto of the world economic forum is working together in a fractured world in and so he is he's not really a representative of that philosophy the idea of america first is is the antithesis of that it's the idea of you know raising one nation one community above those of all others and i think that's really what's. challenging to this community

about about donald trump i think if he reads the queen the lines of what it takes to bring everybody together diversity of thought and all of the turn that it creates is part of the process and i hope that that he takes a new account here this week trump will be the first president to address stabbed us since bill clinton eighteen years ago those who wish to roll back the forces of globalization because they ferret's disruptive consequences i believe are plainly wrong fifty years of experience shows that greater economic integration and political cooperation. or positive forces. that message was countered at the time by repeated protests around the world by antiglobalization congress now nearly two decades on the voice questioning expansion of global trade is the president himself from this day forward

it's going to be only america first president made his name and his money signing people up to his golf clubs and condos he is the guest here at davos but he remains a guest and not a member of this club james byrd's al-jazeera davos switzerland sciences and china have achieved a world first by cloning two monkeys on the way away are identical twins created using the same process used to clone dolly the sheep more than twenty years ago the technique brings the prospect of cloned human beings even closer. palestinians in the occupied west bank and finally gained access to three g. cell service after israel left to the ban on the technology but the infrastructure upgrade wasn't allowed in gaza where users are stuck on slower networks and recent as more from ramallah in the occupied west bank it's been

a long haul for everyone in the cell phone business here but now the big switch on has happened. intense competition between two palestinian companies joe wow and what an ear to give their customers are three g. service old technology maybe but it's a first here it's a good for the economy finally our customers have a choice to get data services to get connectivity. they've rolled out the promotions the marketing campaigns and t.v. adverts until now the internet in palestine has only been available from wife i hope spots or at home to everyone's frustration their ten years behind the rest of the world. whatever the commercial rights but there's a cold reality about most things that go on in the occupied west bank that's because israel has a handle on whatever comes in and whatever goes out even the technology inside the

palestinians smartphone the green spots marked thousands of cellphone mosques but the bare patches show areas see as sprawl of land in the occupied west bank where israel imposes tougher restrictions the companies do their best to improve the cell phone range but they're also up against israeli signals available in some places and these services are thirty percent cheaper nevertheless some people believe there will be loyalty to the palestinian companies. until this moment they choose sometimes to choose some products over the israeli products even that the israeli products and maybe better quality because they still try to make that conscious decision of not supporting the israeli occupation but what the cell phone uses think that is that the world stopped using three g. and we have just started i just hope we can catch up to the technology. i think it was only through international pressure that give us. it was outside political

pressure some of it from the united states that got cell phone companies this fall and they just want to be on a level playing field sooner rather than later and so slow progress maybe but palestinians aren't giving up with their demands for human rights and it's time rights and drew simmons al-jazeera ramallah in the occupied west bank. the top stories on algis there are veteran a u.s. diplomat has quit and international advisory panel tackling the range of crisis calling it a whitewash bill richardson left the group as it was making its first trip to minimize rakhine state comes as men miles military faces new accusations of using gang rape as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign against the rangar. a brazilian court has upheld the conviction against former president louis enough air learned

a silver for corruption and money laundering to major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but speaking to supporters he insisted he will seek reelection in october. it will be for me this court ruling is an opportunity to travel through brazil and have a dialogue with the brazilian people about what they have about what they are losing and what i will have again in the future that well. now i can see that everything that they are doing is to close the door to my candidacy was probably cation is so shameful but now i want to be candidate for the presidency of the republic. the charity save the children has suspended its operations in afghanistan after a deadly attack on its jalalabad office soldier and three staff members were killed in the c h i c has claimed responsibility for the attack. the us president says he's willing to be interviewed by investigators looking into alleged collusion

between his presidential campaign and russia donald trump told reporters he was looking forward to speaking under oath to special counsel robert mueller who is leading the investigation. a former u.s. gymnastics doctor has been sentenced for sexually assaulting female athletes and patients for decades under the guise of medical treatment larry nasser pleaded guilty of to being accused by more than one hundred fifty women including several u.s. olympic gold medalists. egypt's last main opposition candidate for an upcoming presidential election has withdrawn from the race hello dolly made the announcement just as president of the fact that all sisi filed his nomination papers. scientists in china have achieved a world first by cloning two monkeys in a quiet way were created using the same process used to clone dolly the sheep more than twenty years ago those are the headlines the news continues but first it is

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