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donald trump takes his america first message to davos declaring the u.s. open for business but he also uses his speech to attack the media. thirty seven dead after a fire sweeps through a hospital in south korea. to expand its operation in a kurdish enclave of syria all the way east to the border with iraq. and why eight years after haiti's earthquake millions are still struggling to access keen water. in sport roger federer has an easier than expected passage in her record seventh australian open final his last four opponents from charmed were torn from their much of list is. welcome to the program our top story u.s.

president donald trump has taken his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business and warn that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices he also used his speech to attack the media this after a report alleges that he was talked out of firing special prosecutor robert muller is investigating claims of collusion between russia and trump's campaign team well in a moment we'll get reaction to that from alan fischer who's in washington d.c. first though let's head to dallas and diplomatic editor james bays and so it was a very k.m.'s from donald trump one that we've certainly heard before in terms of his trade and economic policies but it seems to be much more restrained not the time that we're custom to. yeah absolutely you know what you've heard on the issue of trade from donald trump as a candidate and in the last year of president as president and the world was

watching to see what happened when the president came here to the world economic forum a place devoted to open global trade. as the band played a president trump stood somewhat could leave aside the man who founded the world economic forum klaus schwab his vision for almost half a century open world trade is not at all with the president's america first policy taking the role of salesman in chief trump declared no america first does not mean america alone when the united states grows so does the world american prosperity has created countless. all around the. trump who has recently as this week has been accused of protectionism after slapping terrorists on imports of solar panels and washing machines criticized other nations for their

trading practices we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others we support free trade but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal he was politely received until he lashed out as he always does the media and it was until i became a politician that i realized how nasty how mean how vicious and how fake. the press can be as the cameras are going off in the back. of trump's cabinet colleagues seem pleased with the speech. but nobel prize winning economist professor joseph stiglitz said trumpet got his sums wrong and doesn't realize that the global trading system is already stacked in the us is favor he tried to put a soft spin the fact is the rules of the game have been written by the united

states largely for the united states and now for the united states to say that they are unfair to united states they're unfair to developing countries but to say that they're unfair of the united states is unconscionable. as he left his breathing a sigh of relief president trump has made some of the most disruptive comments about global trade but this meeting though he was on script and restrained. larry interesting to see alongside people like this because many of the business and political elites would have viewed his election his inauguration a year ago as some trepidation and uncertainty how was he received and. well i think people are happy with the state of the stock market people are happy with the tax cuts but i think there's still some on these about president trump what he says what he does the style of what he does i think they'll be pleased here in davos that this was the restraint trump that came here apart from those boos you

heard when he mentioned the media they mainly listened politely to him there was afterwards some criticism that perhaps there was nothing particularly new here and there was no concrete detail one veteran. attendee said people don't come here just to listen to mar a lago happy talk. ok thank you very much a diplomatic editor chang's with all the latest from. well president trump attack on the media was prompted by a report in the new york times that he had tried last year to sack is leading the investigation into allegations of collusion between the trunk campaign team and russia alan fisher is following developments on this from washington d.c. and alan we know that president trying was very frustrated with the russia investigation into the election and robert was appointment as special counsel but how important is it that he went that one step further and ordered him fire ordered

him to be fired last year. it was important to see that the new york times reporting is now been confirmed by another of other organizations we know that back in june last year donald trump sent out a number of surrogates and they were talking openly in the media about whether or not robert miller was compromised whether or not he should be able to conduct this campaign and it looked as if they were preparing the groan for robert mueller to be fired now the white house said it was never discussed never came up donald trump wasn't even thinking about it and now we have this report that says in june last year he wanted robert mueller to be fired and he went to the white house counsel to do that but don't mcgann said i can't do it i'm not going to do it thought would be very bad for the trump presidency and said if you go ahead with this i will resign the donald trump can fire robert mueller directly what he's got to do is to get the department of justice to do it in fact to get rob rosenstein who is the man who appointed him to do it and don't mcgann would be instructed to tell him to do that

and don't again don't want any part of the and so it seems as if wiser heads prevailed and talked donald trump away from that because they believed it would create a crisis in the same way the jury in the watergate crisis nixon fired his attorney general and his assistant attorney general for refusing to fire the special prosecutor and eventually he managed to get the then solicitor general of the united states promoted him got the special prosecutor fired and we all know how that ended so there were those in the white house are saying this is not a good idea and certainly sure is that the white house when they were saying for so long this never came up it was never discussed that they weren't exactly being entirely forthcoming with the facts right and now the other big development there in washington is trans and a gratian proposal as sort of a pot for citizenship for the the so-called dreamers the young undocumented immigrants what has been the reaction there and how feasible is the plan. well this

is a starting point donald trump said he would come up with a plan for daca john kelly who's his chief of staff apparently didn't go to davos because he was working on the details of this it's no been unveiled department of homeland security secretary has in the last statement saying this is what people on the front line want to see but he's going to have a hard time selling it is going to a hard time selling it to his own base and his supporters because we're hearing on conservative radio just in the last couple of earth people like mark levin saying this is a terrible idea it's an awful idea and will not walk so the republicans don't like it and then we've heard from nancy pelosi who is the leader of the democrats in the house saying this is a plan to make america white again and they don't like either no there is a possibility that somewhere in the middle there are people who are looking at this saying well i could what with the idea of one point eight million dacca representatives being a load into the country given the chance to get citizenship after ten to twelve years eighty six percent of the u.s.

population like the idea of giving back a recipient some sort of citizenship so that might what but there are others who are saying look we don't want to start spending money on a wall this is no more than a starting point but there's got to be discussions and discussions in a very short space of time because you remember this time last week we were talking about will the government close down is that going to happen and it did shut down but in reopen because the democrats got a guarantee that there would be discussions about some sort of bill covering immigration before march the fifth or sixth when the next deadline was up and so we've got a very. small period of about five to six weeks to come up with a deal that both sides will agree it will go through the house of the senate go on to the president's that's going to feel like that that he will sign it but it will be much change from what we're seeing being talked about over the last few hours thank you very much allan in washington actually just one more development to tell you about a united states congress committee is to investigate sexual abuse in sports in the

wake of the scandal in the national gymnastics team on wednesday former gymnastics team doctor larina sentenced to one hundred seventy five years for sexually assaulting young female gymnasts the committee has already written to the u.s. olympic committee michigan state university usa swimming and usa taekwondo. and watching the news hour live from london much more to tell you about looking at why growing numbers of young people have turned up in the french quarter of callaway hoping to cross the channel to the u.k. . we've got creation centers stand and see what's really behind the delays in sending a henge of refugees back to rock island state. and is port royal mcelroy closes in on the lead at the dubai desert classic i will have that and much more right.

now a fire in a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefight is in the southern city of marianne did manage to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames kathy novak reports from seoul. i the fire started in the emergency ward at about seven thirty in the morning it quickly spread to other parts of said john hospital and took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control and another two hours to extinguish. all or should we stop the fire from spreading from the first floor to the second floor during the initial phase and therefore also prevent a difference spreading to the rest of the building. despite the rescue effort patients and medical staff were killed most were suffocated by inhaling toxic fumes about one hundred patients were being treated in the hospital when the blaze broke out about ninety other people in an adjacent nursing unit were safely evacuated

president in ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire. that the president moon expresses regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out a sage long hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in that fire in the southern city of jackson claimed twenty nine lives just last month at the time prime minister in the not beyond promised there would never be a repeat now he says he's ashamed to have to say the same thing questions are once again being asked about fire safety in south korea so john hospital doesn't have water sprinklers because it's a relatively small size the law doesn't require them kathy novak al-jazeera. up to six children have been killed during fighting in the central afghan city of gaza but there are conflicting reports as to who was behind that test city officials

blame the taliban while some locals claim they died in an air strike on security forces. turkey's president says the operation to push kurdish fighters out of northern syria will extend as far as the border with iraq turkish forces have been fighting for a week now to expel the kurdish why peachey militia from the african region the y p g is a key part of the syrian democratic forces backed by the u.s. dozens of people have died in the fighting each side said it's killed hundreds of enemy fight has begun you. will continue to all branch operation which is on its seventh day today until we reach all of our targets after this will cleanse man bids from the terrorists as it has been promised to us nobody should be bothered by this because the real owner of members is not those terrorists but the arab brothers they're after this we'll continue our fight until no terrorist is left out is there a stephanie attack as being inside syria she sent us this report from just east of

. where in the syrian city. this is an area that is part of sort of talking eastern fraud with their operation pretty you know you can feed life is pretty much normal here or was a lot of children in these areas were in the turkish press tour so to speak they're very keen to show us their operations here what is striking is the influence and the presence also when it comes to its military now the f.s.a. the free syrian army fighters they are the ones at the front line coming around this sort of as we've been speaking to some of them that is well they say they're committed to this fight this is the fight in our footy in the fight that turkey says it's targeting the white rich they grew a terrorist organization we've been hearing from our children that we're going to this war with their minds that this remains a very active war. now in vienna a night's round of u.n. led talks to find a solution to the war in syria appears to have reached a dead end little progress has been made in this round or even earlier rounds held

in geneva and the government and opposition still have not met face to face well let's get more from abdul hamid who is following developments for us in vienna tell us what's the latest on these talks. well certainly there have been it's been a very long day i would say for stephon the mistura the u.n. envoy started with a very long meeting with the opposition about five hours during which they discussed this working document that has been put forward by five countries france britain the us saudi and jordan now this document was described to us working document two to discuss mechanism to basically kick start the over revive the peace talks because we keep on saying these are peace talks but what has been going on at least for the last two rounds they're basically trying to find

ways about how to start the substance of negotiation or even talks been very difficult even to in vienna here for the past two days you never had two delegations in this building at the same time you know after the meeting with the opposition then the regime delegation arrived here and that meeting was much shorter a little less than two hours and at the end of that meeting we heard from the syrian ambassador joe of bashar al jaafari and he basically outright rejected that the working document and he said that actually if people are describing it as an attempt to revive the peace talks and it well it did all the opposite he actually called it a conspiracy now just listen to how he put it. lace i mean no sweat for. and yet there's a man and a cook and it's no coincidence that the vienna talks coincide with the leaking more

than intentional distribution of what is called an informal paper about reviving the syrian political process in geneva this was drawn up by representatives of five countries who met in washington then recently in paris they are the us britain france saudi arabia and jordan all of them have participated in the bloodshed of the syrian people this is in fact tantamount to a black comedy in which we live in a new blatant chapter of conspiracy against syria and i guess he didn't know i was expecting a breakthrough in these talks especially if the two sides failed to meet face to face what do we go from here is there any hope of the need seen again. well the opposition delegation just arrived a few minutes ago back here at the u.n. building in vienna to start another round of meeting with the file on them is through as we understand it certainly the attendance of sochi will be high on the agenda of that meeting we do know from some sources that actually the head of the

s.n.c. the opposition delegation nasr had it he had received an invitation to attend this so she meeting which is coming up in the beginning of next week but only on an individual basis and he has rejected that invitation we still haven't heard where do the u.n. is indorsing this so she talks or not the u.n. has said certain conditions for that to happen that actually it was the u.n. secretary general and the new terrorist who spoke out those conditions so we are still a few issues to be discussed there is a little breakthrough if i might call it a big flu in the sense that earlier in the day during the. meeting of the opposition was to find the mr will of the third point the opposition also met the russian delegation and they they reach as ceasefire agreement in eastern huta

that ceasefire should be taking place as of big night tonight followed by an exchange of prisoners now with that be enough of an incentive for the opposition to go to sochi we still don't know that but bear in mind the opposition they are some within that group who do not agree are against attending the meeting and in social and also there are many supporters of the opposition who have been all along against sort of actually even meeting with the russians we were speaking to some of the members of the legation yesterday and they were telling us that not so how did he had come under attack by his supporters for example for going to moscow before coming here to vienna and meeting there with sergei lavrov so certainly it will be very important in the coming hours to figure out whether yes or no both the u.n. and the opposition will go to sochi or not thank you very much and i'm the honeyed indiana. the u.n. says at least thirty refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the

coast of yemen this week the overcrowded boat sank shortly after leading edge and smugglers are reported to have fired on the passengers it was carrying people from somalia and ethiopia back to africa heading for djibouti. is head of communications for the un's international organization for migration joins us now from dallas thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us there we don't often hear about immigrants drowning off the coast of yemen but it's very interesting in this case the refugees who drowned off the coast of aden how unusual is it for them to have emerged from this departure point well i think tragically this is happening more and more as we're just not hearing about it it's not getting on to the media well enough it's very unusual in this case what we're seeing is it seems like

a deportation on the seems to be all sorts of abuses going on in which margaret's are being put forcibly effectively back on boats smugglers are being paid to take them and then the smugglers are turning out to kind of rocketeer from the markets themselves in this case it ended tragically for the lives of thirty migrants and there's been a big rescue operation and our colleagues at i.o.m. as well as the units your have been patrolling and trying to bring aid and comfort to those who've been rescued what do you know about the smugglers who operating in the area. i mean it's difficult to say it's hard to know but we fear that there is a degree of connivance. and indeed that this is tantamount to deportation and deportations typically don't happen by independent actors so there's something going on that's not very savory and tragically it has lost cost the lives of these migrants what we're seeing is desperately poor migrants are coming from somalia of

meets the o.p.'s tree and they're trying to seek jobs in the gulf area and as they pass the they typically pay a couple hundred dollars to get across the straits of aid in which the very dangerous the and then as soon as they land they're picked up by smugglers and they're tortured they're put burning plastic bottles on their arm they force them to call their families to get more money so the deeply exploitive culture has grown up in the midst of the tragedy of yemen civil war where so many people have lost their livelihood is a tendency to prey on those who are weaker i think that's what we're seeing right and just to me because it is quite confusing picture what you're saying is that the sort of journey is that you have these refugees and it's happening more and more that are coming from places like somalia and eritrea and ethiopia it's the gulf that they're trying to to get to where you know you have in search of jobs and employment but actually the people smugglers take them to aden in yemen and

basically torture them to get more money that's whether it's become a point for exploitation and abuse i mean it's not necessarily in aden exclusively it's throughout the on both sides of this conflict it's happening there is no there are no there are no angels here and it's also important i think that we bicker feel not to say that they're refugees these are economic migrants typically people trying to make a job get a living pay for pay for their folks back home they may end up needing the protection and the services of the u.n. . refusing to leave because they are they become victims of abuse of course but typically speaking it's a flow of economic migrants seeking work in sync to better their lives and ending up in really bad trouble well thank you so much for shedding some light on something that is complicated here but thank you for helping us understand the story a bit better leonard doyle joining us there from davos. now more than

a year after the demolition of the natori is jungle count has been a sudden rise in the number of young asylum seekers arriving in the french force of callaway the closest point on the european mainland to the u.k. it follows the leaders of france and britain signing a treaty last week and that streamlining the process of dealing with the rivals a sonic egg a report strong a deal seems to given people false hope of reaching the u.k. playing for time in cali's industrials a place where asylum seekers have flocked to in the hope they may escape the limbo they face day in day out while they're here they are trapped many of them been if it's sleeping rough wherever they can go snooping we don't and front. and broad maybe we could be just here because it's just because it's. just disturbs us. this is not life it's not life good living in the

forest we have. so this is the place the location where one of the few just to be sure point was supposed to occur on thursday afternoon as you can see authorities are there and they've stopped it from happening and that's some kind of a lot of anger from those who gathered here to be able to get some food. for months the riot police have been a regular presence here as are the stand offs with my cards desperate to escape. some hope perhaps has been provided by the joint treaty signed by the french president and the british prime minister last week. point but more booked on this and particularly important point of this santos treaty will be the subject of on accompany. this treaty to allow all those in a position to quash the trial to drastically reduce the time limits from six months to thirty days for adults and from six months to twenty five days for an accompanied minus. the treaties intended to improve the management of the

border on both sides of the english channel but there is little evidence as to how it will be done and whether it would expedite urgent asylum cases to reunite them with relatives living in the u k. for those working on the front line of this crisis the expectations have led to rumors that asylum seekers only need to come to cali to get to the u.k. and that's led to large numbers of people turning up here i do feel people have false hope because of this misunderstanding and because there's been no effort to explain any of the changes there's been no effort before on to explain to people what asylum entails and fronts despite the challenges the young the desperate try to find any way they can to reach britain no matter how dangerous the police attempt to stop them climbing on to lorries bound for england but they still take the chance any risk they feel is worth it to leave behind

a life in france that hangs in the balance on a diagonal al-jazeera kalai. and watching the news out much more still ahead reinforcing his model identity india marks the day sixty nine years ago when british colonial rule ended. australia man is the day the bush police arrived hundreds of years ago but critics say it's time to look at history from a different perspective. and majesty nice is new signings involved in a base of a mix up and he has the details and spawn. probably the weather still remains rather unsettled across western parts of the

middle east suddenly up towards the levant little area of cloud his circulating away brought some very heavy rainfall some sundried outpolls into television have also brought some flooding has a results of that what's the weather will make its way further east which has been affecting southern israel moving across the gaza strip will push across a good part of iraq some wet weather there into baghdad on saturday then snow further north that snow affecting northern parts of iran as well and again it not just a little further east was tempest and tear on struggling to get to around seven celsius by sunday then we'll see at temperatures struggling here in qatar as we go on through the next day or two twenty seven the high on saturday this system here six for the south was effectively it's a cold front so we will barely get to a high of twenty one on sunday with a chilly breeze blowing across the region meanwhile we say some rather heavy showers blowing across the eastern side off south africa still in place a weak do with the rain in cape town where the ongoing drought does continue twenty

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documentaries debates and discussions as prime minister you do need to be critical of all massage any and all sects is a challenge your perceptions the contours of this story are shaped by the interests of the countries involved only on al-jazeera. welcome back with the news outlets update you on the stories making headlines president donald trump has been pushing his america first message at the world economic forum in davos he said the u.s. is open for business but warned it will no longer tolerate unfair trade practices trump also dismissed his faith use

a report suggesting he ordered the sacking of special prosecutor in june of last year and other top story turkey's president says his forces will sweep u.s. back kurdish fighters from the syrian border and could push all the way east to the iraqi border. well now we turn to haiti where around two million people who live in the capital port au prince are appealing for help to get clean drinking water the devastating earthquake eight years ago wrecked sanitation systems and temporary taps and toilets keep breaking down charlotte ballasts has the story. this is the only source of drinking water in the delmas neighborhood of port au prince twenty leagues a bucket of water costs sixteen since blanchard is one of few haitians who can afford the daily ritual. that would like to get drinking water we'd like them to build a tank so we can get water because his life without it we can't live we need the

state to build a bathroom there's no bathroom here. but those who cannot afford the sixteen cents for clean water come here the water is contaminated but they fill up their containers and drink it anyway despite the threat from water borne cholera more than half a million haitians have had the disease. so. we need water if the people don't have water what will we do this tank doesn't work water is health water is life there are people who don't have that when this tank worked we had water. you know it all flows back to this haiti's devastating earthquake in twenty taney two hundred twenty thousand people died and infrastructure was destroyed and international aid agencies flow wind to build temporary infrastructure including water tanks eight years on they are breaking down as the wait to rebuild infrastructure drags on. listen half of haitians and

rule areas have access to clean water and only a quarter of a toilet. i'm waiting for the international community and for nonprofit organizations to help us only they can make something for us but the international community has been distracted by other disasters the u.n. mission has pulled out and they it has dried up yet hey she remains one of the poorest nations in the world charlotte dallas al-jazeera. of worn this we can speak to jonathan katz a chan liston author of the big truck that went by how the world came to save haiti and left behind a disaster he joins me now from darren and north carolina thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us you have spent years focusing on haiti i know that you with the quake and you were reporting on the story then how is it that eight years later you have a situation when millions are living without water variable to drink.

well infrastructure seven infrastructure don't just come out of nowhere somebody has to build it and it's never been built in eighty it didn't exist before the earthquake it hasn't been built since the earthquake and of course the cholera epidemic that has killed at least ten thousand people in the since the fall of two thousand and ten epidemic that started a couple months after the earthquake and was brought to the country by united nations peacekeepers. in the wake of that there's been a lot of talk about the needs of the water and sanitation of the structure but nobody's ever done it and well given u.n. involvement in the country and the way things are the haitians have suffered as a result of it where would you say that responsibility falls now because it seems as though that is the number one priority right now is to get that infrastructure that wasn't even there before the earthquake but to now get it up and running. brady yeah i mean this is

a hugely important issue and it's been an important issue for a very long time and it's important to understand that the international community has been talking about water and sanitation issues in haiti for a very very long time the united states actually withheld a water and sanitation project in the north of haiti's this is a different part of the country them the part that the earthquake struck for about ten years is as pop. over the conduct of the lettuce which you're not allowed to do that they were doing it for political reasons i'm in of course things have happened since then the earthquake struck the u.n. introduced cholera and i think that it took an issue that had already been extremely important because there were you know children dying every year of diarrhea and other preventable diseases made it turn it into something that was absolutely urgent and it really put the onus on the united nations and its member states who of course are the ones to provide the funding who set the peacekeeping mission who manned the peacekeeping mission who introduced cholera parts of the country it really upped the onus on them to put their money where their mouths were

and to help save lives and they refused to do it so far i think honestly because building water and sanitation of. that's a shame but jonathan katz speaking to us that about the plight of the people in haiti you've been reporting that some two million people in post have friends and living without clean drinking water this some eight years after a devastating earthquake sadly many haitians can't afford to drink clean water a drink contaminated water instead which risks or temple and diseases. well let's move on now to our other big story today plans to begin returning ranger refugees to myanmar's racking state of been delayed by problems with paperwork according to bangladesh in a five a setback for me and my u.s. diplomat bill richardson has left an advisory panel a range of prices set up by the government just days ago he says he resigned

fairing a whitewash but the government says he was removed because of differences of opinion scott hyla has more from young gone. if you listen to government leaders in myanmar this week was supposed to see a trickle of britain's refugees returning to these new repatriation centers in rakhine state they said from tuesday the centers were open and ready to receive but the other country in this equation bangladesh said incomplete paperwork for the refugees is causing a delay no word on just how long some human rights groups think it's much more than paperwork the fundamental problem is that all these operations and set up these plans have been devised these negotiations have been done leaving the refugees outside the door and they haven't been consulted they haven't been talked to and many of the refugees are simply too afraid to go back anywhere near the burmese

military also this week the launch of a new commission to follow up from a group headed by former un secretary general kofi anon members both from myanmar and abroad are supposed to implement recommendations and advise on the range of crisis but even before their first trip to recline the highest profile member bill richardson resigned the former u.s. diplomat described as a friend of leader on song suchi abruptly left after a heated exchange with her on her part richardson said that he left the commission because it was a whitewash and that on song suchi lacked moral leadership while government officials said that they dismissed him because he was here only to pursue his own agenda the remaining member of the commission rebuffed richardson's resignation saying the ma'am our government is both serious and listening to the commission will obviously didn't check with us before he made the statement and i think it's very unfortunate. he didn't join most of the proceedings.

since through the years ago and. in any case it was not the intention. of the advisory board to move for new conclusions this week one member of the cofre your noncommissioned from myanmar gave us his view of richardson's departure and the need for better transparency is a meant to be reckoned with i think this is a little bit of a drawback but we can move on we should pick criticism if there is anything that we need to correct we should do that and if there is nothing wrong we should prove it by facts and figures in order to do that the basic fact is that you need people to go to that area but that hasn't happened rakhine remains heavily controlled by the military humanitarian groups the un and media are still not allowed free access to recommit so refugees hoping to return have to rely on limited information to

make a very important decision got harder al-jazeera gone philippine authorities say they'll remove by force people who refuse to leave a no go zone around an erupting volcano there has been no deaths in the ten days since mount mayon began belching flaming love rocks and ash over seventy five thousand residents have been forced to flee surrounding farms and communities yes our she's a worried people have been leaving the shelters during the day to tend to their farms and livestocks inside the danger zone. the president of the democratic republic of congo has rejected accusations that his security forces used violence to break up protests over his refusal to step down several people died speaking in his first press conference since two thousand and twelve joseph kabila also said the country will go ahead with elections despite the threat of delays. they look to cut into that has already been cut published. is

a very clear. screen in the sense that. you have the time. of elections to feel good. and as soon as those elections organized. and as soon as we have we know what those elections. say's it's very clear. and as wide an opposition leaders have condemned president nicolas maduro after he blocked them from registering in upcoming elections it means that two of venezuela's most popular leaders are unable to ron. is depriving venezuelans of a free and fair election syria but appeal a monument starting tomorrow and on sunday we're going to come out with the move with more will to defend plurality and the political process is going through and that's why we've seen a first just this newsgroup or two tickets at the service agreements where the ins

to defend us in the streets and to defend this as an instrument that can rescue democracy and freedom. the spanish government has formally expelling the venezuelan ambassador this is in response to his spanish equivalent being expelled from caracas on thursday days after the european union and now its new sanctions and then israel an ambassador left the embassy in the trade at the start of the week and returned home. the diplomatic recipe was the principal means giving the same treatment given to a spanish ambassador in this case declaring him persona non grata give you seventy two hours to leave the country as well numbers that has already been recalled by his governments with no in spain. the spanish government is making a legal challenge to karla's pushed amounts bid to make a comeback as leader of catalonia on the grounds that he still faces arrest if he returns to spain good to mountain out of his candidacy earlier this week from belgium he's been in self-imposed exile since october after the spanish government

declared the catalan independence referendum illegal. the regional parliament is scheduled to debate his reinstatement on tuesday and italian prosecutors says a graduate student who was murdered in cairo two years ago is killed because of his research into egyptian trade unions judea regina he was studying for a doctorate at u.k.'s cambridge university when he disappeared in two thousand and fifteen rome's chief prosecutor giuseppe a.p. now tony says regina had been under surveillance by the egyptian authorities he also said material seized earlier this month from the computer and phone of regina's cambridge tutor was proving useful the inmates of france's overcrowded prisons are on the brink of a new sydney after two weeks of industrial action by wardens this is according to an independent on but it's been the wardens are showing no signs of backing down clashing with riot police earlier in the week and demanding more money and improvements to safety but the strikes are increasing tensions with the prison is.

india has been celebrating its sixty night for public day with a parade in delhi the country is marking the date the indian call situation was adopted and the country was declared a sovereign state ending british colonial rule ten heads of state would guess of on or from the countries on hoaxed as will. india's pride and ambition shone through the fog on the sixty ninth republic day. showcase the military might for domestic audience a fly past by the indian air force including an eye in the sky surveillance plane. the aerial display followed a procession of tanks missiles military hardware rolling down the russia promenade in india's capital all seemingly designed to reinforce the message of india stature as a growing power tributes were also paid to india's founding father mahatma gandhi prime

minister and the hendra modi hosted along the guest list i think it's a very strategically important guest list india has an act based policy where it's trying to focus building ties with southeast asian countries. this was the first republic parade attended by ten leaders new association of southeast asian nations on the twenty fifth anniversary of india joining the a c. and regional group the indian government is promoting its act east policy aimed at strengthening economic and political ties with its neighbors as china continues to will huge influence today we have china's float in the end dark south asian region which traditionally used to be india. as it was india's backyard and i think india is conscious but at the same time the contradictory got it listed is that china is india's largest trading partner. and the parade highlighted the

diverse skills of than one billion three hundred million indians kind of hoax there . are millions of australians have turned out to celebrate the country's national day january twenty sixth marks the day two hundred thirty years ago and british navy ship sailed into what is now a but indigenous australians and others a morning what they say was the colonial invasion of their lands many refer to it as invasion day and there are calls for the day to be changed after thomas was at an alternative australia day rally in sydney. there is certainly momentum behind the change but i am kind of been covering australia day events for a few years now and every year the protests grow the marches and alternative events like this one but people aboriginal i'm not i'm personally who don't like australia day being on the twenty sixth of january i want to train but it's that has to be said people here are still

a minority most australians i know why australia day to celebrate some twenty six atoll and just like dogs they use the day off what's a crop barbecues parties to go to boston enjoy themselves not many commemoration reflect in this right amount is built on it if you have some people here don't change their rights but a partially changed the nature of the day make it almost obligatory in the morning of australia day to commemorate to reflect on the suffering that the twenty sixth of january seven eighty eight began the indigenous people in australia and then only in the opening shift the mood and make it a celebration of what a strain that's become. russian police have raided a mosque a cinema that's been screening the film death of stalin in defiance of a government ban the art house pioneer cinema went ahead with the shah and despite the culture ministry withdrawing the film's license saying that bush made comedy lot russia soviet history six policemen reportedly arrived at the cinema after the

afternoon screening and questions staff members and management. the actor casey affleck says he won't be presenting the award for best actress. affleck who won best actor last year his performance in manchester by the sea is facing allegations of sex sexual harassment by female crew members his agent has confirmed he won't be attending a ceremony in march hollywood has been hit by revelations about widespread sexual misconduct in the industry which because of the hash tag me to movement. watch want to tell you about the program still all the sports winter olympics preparations are all going so well that this scare gangs and you will have much more. and scuffles break out in supermarkets across. the talent.

welcome back time after you spoke with andy. thank you so much myron well defending champion roger federer had an easier than expected passage into a record seventh australian open final the thirty six year old taking the first set here against south korea's showing on friday six one in just over thirty minutes and there's to be no comeback from his twenty one year old opponent secrets retire when five two down in the second set due to blisters and a repeat of last year's wimbledon final federer will now take on croatia in chile

which is in sight but twentieth grand slams. thought process is not like what would have been better i'm just happy i'm in the finals to be honest that was that was the goal before the match today and i was able to get there not under the circumstances i was hoping to or not planning with but you know i played a good match and he struggled clearly with his movement i was able to take advantage of that so for me clearly it was all good but i wish him a good recovery. i think. because. for very bad thing the for no good for all the phones and all of those were both lip to make. friends they're. going to be next year jamie donaldson has resigned the latest the second day of the dubai desert classic the welshman shooting a three and a power round of sixty nine he's one shot out of the rest of the field former world

number one rory macrorie is infertile contention as well he's three shots off the pace but only played eleven holes of his second round morning fog causing a three hour delays at the start of the plight. yeah i've got some chances come in but i just have to stay patient and some tough calls as well. as the first all day tomorrow of the twelve which i'll be playing quite long. so yeah hopefully i'll take advantage of the par fives and get myself in one of the last couple of years. well arsenal manager arsene wenger has admitted his club is a fall for strike alexy sanchez's missed drugs test the incident occurred on the same day he was sold to manchester united and sanchez's transfer was finalized on monday i was meant to have had the drugs test last summer also says his club have nothing to hide. i think it's a special. special event for him to miss a drug test because you want to newbies you somewhere which is age and war has been

tested so many times that. it is no no worry for me but years in doping probably just. the day for him to be tested one of the biggest flops in u.s. sporting history set to make a return the excess fell which was an off season alternative to the n.f.l. it sets a real launch in twenty twenty nearly two decades on from being scrapped that's just one season the legal feature eight seems and is again being backed by w w e chairman of vince mcmahon fewer rules and more aggressive play were among the original fell selling points but it was criticized for poor quality games and failed to gain a big enough odeon split man says he'll avoid gimmicks for the reasons and doesn't want to say political protests from the players. it is an opportunity for me to say that as far as our league is concerned it will have nothing to do with politics absolutely nothing and nothing to do with social issues either read or to play

football we want really good football and i think that's what fans want to as well when they tune in and i don't know that i want to be dealing with political issues and things about major they want good football that's what we're going to learn well earlier i spoke to brett forrest all three of the long bomb how the exit fell became t.v.'s biggest for nascar he says this time around the n.f.l. could be more vulnerable to rival leak. what make man is is betting on is the fact that over the past number of years the n.f.l. has had a lot of problems when you talk about. the way that some players have behaved off the field the unpopularity of the commissioner roger goodell and of course over the past two years led by con capper nick the protests of the national anthem and i think all of these taken together really have someone like mcmahon salivating saying there's real disaffection for the n.f.l. right now while at the same time people do love football so maybe there's an opportunity here to carve out

a space for us when i covered the acts of many years ago. the problem that i saw what was pretty clear and that was this was minor league football. these were guys who who couldn't make an n.f.l. roster when you look back at the u.s.f.l. in the eighty's that did very well it did well because it was able to attract some of the best players coming out of the college ranks who were just entering professional football they attracted them away from the n.f.l. because of higher salaries they are able to provide the problem with the ex that fell is just the football was a very good and unless this time around vince mcmahon is able to attract better talent he's probably going to face the same problem with less than two weeks to go and silly winter olympics beginning in chiang snowboarder estimate that scott has underlined her credentials as a gold medal favorites the czech is one every world cup john slalom event she started this seed season including this one of bulgaria on friday leads the world

cup standings by almost two thousand points. a familiar face convict from the men's event to forty two year old canadian jason j. anderson the twenty third of the champion set to take part in its sixth consecutive games and. not such good news though for olympic medal concerned aren't going kate the american was the defending champion in the men's ski super bowl likely exchange in colorado but that full saw him finish down one third twenty fourteen of the champion david wise instead taking that's. ok sorry sorry sport is looking for now let's get back to mary i'm in london andy thank you well now violence has broken out in supermarkets across france with customers battling to get hold of heavily discounted chocolate spread the out of mush a supermarket chain slashed the price of not teleports by a whopping seventy percent police were forced to step in to control desperate shoppers in one more than french town says it's nothing to do with the company as

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