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that i'm chilling with all of this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes inside turkey's operation against kurdish fighters we report from inside syria on an offensive that some say could bring to nato powers into direct military conflict. u.s. diplomat bill richardson slams me and mark leader aung san suu kyi for her handling of the refugee crisis he says she's afraid of the military. the place to do business. donald trump sells his america first vision to business elites in dab also takes the opportunity to again class the media. and sport roger federer has an easy going to expect a process called seventh australian open final is last for parliament from chang great song from the much use of blisters.

their warm up and the news hour we begin inside northern syria where al jazeera has travelled alongside the turkish army is they continue their offensive to sweep kurdish fighters from the region president reject tired bored to an earlier war an operation all of branch could push all the way to the east to the front here with iraq well that move risks a possible confrontation with the kurdish y p g militia group of fighters backed by their fellow nato ally the united states stephanie decker and her cameraman gemma bustle of this insight from the city of assess. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army flag that flies high here we're on a media trip into as as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with a y p g the kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region of

africa the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are taking part though i'm not sure that we ask one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. we're fighting the white b.g. because they betrayed us and especially because they took over my city taller thoughts i've been displaced along with many of my neighbors for two years living in the camps there are such bad conditions especially now in the winter. what our target courts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along. which is over. what is clear here on the outskirts of city is how much of a presence they are of course supporting the free syrian army the syrian rebels that are already taking part in this operation that turkey has undertaken again.

while we were here two bullets whizzed overhead. and we're told. for this. they shot at us and are tired. and. pushed out of here in two thousand and fourteen but life remains difficult her has to provide for thirteen members of her family she tells us she is. the norm she says. the shelling and the explosions the young children are still. facing this for a few years now we're not afraid anymore. there is hardly any electricity here generators are the only way to get light or heat in the winter rain has left the streets with. the black paint on this will reads for sale.

it seems some still dream of moving on from here. the landscape in this part of syria is dotted with tents millions of syrians are made homeless in their own country that in the one cup history we've been here for three years in the tent has never been fixed because of the rhine the tent leaks and there are seven people in one tent a situation is terrible. this is a country ripped apart by almost seven years of war millions of syrians have had to leave their lives behind. and as the years go by the war simply seems to change its form the guns seemingly impossible to silence. stephanie decker al-jazeera as ounce syria. looks like a potential cease fire deal has been agreed in the besieged damascus suburb of east and go to and it could begin in the next few hours a spokesman for the second largest opposition faction in goods says they've received an offer from russia with the details still remain unclear russia has

spoken previous agreements russian jets and the syrian army have intensified their bodman at the rebel on tape over the past two months four hundred thousand people live in the area and are suffering from acute food medicine shortages yes president donald trump a second his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business one that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to what he described as unfair trade practices he also used a speech to attack the media our diplomatic editor james bass has more from davos. as the band played president trump stood somewhat quickly beside 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 jabs all around that. trump who has recently is 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 start going off in the back. of trump's capital colleagues seem pleased with the speech but either a great job 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 u.s. his 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 there are unfair to developing countries but to say that they're unfair the united states is unconscionable as president trump left here davos organizers will be breathing a sigh of relief he was scripted and restraint there was though some criticism that there was little new in his speech and no concrete details one veteran davos

attendee told me people don't come here to listen to mar a lago happy talk james pays out zero davos well as we heard there in james bass report whilst also attacked the media he called a report which alleges he come to fire special prosecutor fake news new york times says trump wanted to sack miller in june of last year but he backed down when the top white house lawyer threatened to resign as more. publicly donald trump has often dismissed the investigation into potential collusion between his campaign and russian operatives but there are now reports he ordered the man behind it fired last june but apparently white house attorney dan mcgann threatened to quit in protest so the president backed down trump had his usual response to the news thank you thank. you both for your kind of fake story but here's what we do know trump has seem fixated with the russian investigators and it started on march second of

last year when attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the investigation trump was furious saying sessions was supposed to protect him on march twentieth f.b.i. director james comey admits the agency is investigating potential collusion between the trim campaign and russia may ninth he was fired and the very next day trump told visiting russian diplomats that firing him took the pressure off the russian investigation he said something similar on camera and in fact when i decided to just do it i said to myself i said you know. this rush your thing with trump and russia is a made up story that backfired on may seventeenth the special counsel robert mueller was appointed to lead the investigation and on june eighth komi testified to congress the trumpet asked him for loyalty and to drop the investigation into trump's national security advisor michael flynn that raised the possibility the trouble broke the law by attempting to obstruct justice former federal prosecutor

melanie sloan says if in that same month he attempted to also fire moeller that could also be considered against the law of course a loop into the obstruction of justice case he will examine the question of what were the details of when trump was thinking of firing him what had exactly happened was it right on top of other events so it would be part of that pattern of misconduct that bob mueller is looking at the president could get a chance to clarify all of this to moaner him self the president says he expects to sit down for an interview with investigators in the coming weeks but it comes with its own risks lying to them would be a federal offense all on its own. al-jazeera washington well joining me from washington d.c. is ken good he's a senior fellow at the center for american progress kind of a warm welcome to the program what's your initial reaction then to these reports that did in fact try to have my left fired last year. well the president

is in deep deep trouble look this is a bombshell that in some ways is not that surprising because as your viewers just heard trump has been trying to squash this investigation from the very beginning so in some ways it's not surprising that he tried to have the special prosecutor fired but that is a massive massive step and simply the fact that he was unsuccessful does not get him off the hook for this adding to his potential obstruction of justice it clearly goes to his corrupt intent with trying to get this investigation put down trump of course says that he's issued a denial how how credible is that and what's the potential fallout two thing well look this report has now been confirmed by at least four other news outlets so and the white house itself is not really denying it and of course the president

just said fake news he didn't actually deny it so look this is this is something that appears to be very credible and fits the pattern of behavior that this president and this administration has engaged in from the very beginning and we are now rushing towards a real confrontation between the president and the special counsel if and when they actually do sit down for that interview. what about. his questioning because it's some stage of course trying to said he's looking forward to answering those questions from do we expect though that he'll actually follow through. well i think this actually raises grave doubts about whether the president will actually sit down or at least voluntarily submit to that interview with the special counsel because this revelation really puts him in a box because it was also in that story in the new york times that muller has known

this information for several months that it was revealed to him in interviews with other white house officials so he has very credible information that the president tried to have him fired so if he if the president is asked by muller did you try and have the special counsel removed the president has basically three choices he could say yes and that would essentially put the nail in the coffin on the obstruction of justice charge he could say no and then there would be a very credible case for lying to the f.b.i. which of course is itself a criminal offense and the third choice he could do is he could take the fifth amendment but that is not really a politically powerful position for the president of the united states to say that he can't answer a question because it would incriminate him so and so he really is in a very difficult position if he does go and submit voluntarily to this interview so i think we are her chilling towards a confrontation between the president and the special counsel coming up very soon

whether the president will sit down for that voluntary interview my guess is that he won't do it and then we will see whether or not the special counsel issues a subpoena to try and compel him to sit down for the interview so can we got kind of ridiculous situation haven't we where the g.o.p. continues to bat. but it also says that they're putting a lot of energy into kind of negatively trying to discredit the f.b.i. well where does that particular rabbit hole will. well look we're entering a very very difficult phase here in the united states there has long been an understanding that as an organization an institution like the f.b.i. the chief law enforcement agency of the united states was just a measure of respect and if a person of the credibility of bob muller were to present evidence and information the president's wrong doing that that would carry great weight regardless of your

political affiliation but what seems to be happening here in the united states is that republicans have decided that they are going all in for trump they are no longer just going to wait for the evidence and give it a fair hearing that they've rather been engaging in a long effort to undermine the credibility of the f.b.i. and the special counsel's investigation itself to try and concoct an alternate theory of what's been going on and you heard the president say a little bit of it in your lead into this segment where he said this is a made up story while the republicans in congress are trying to put some meat on that very very thin bone by concocting some kind of trump plot within the f.b.i. with secret societies and other insane conspiracy theories that you never would believe that the republican party the party of law and order would say about the f.b.i. so we just really don't know what's going to happen when that cuts down to crunch time and i think we're really getting very close to that deciding line what the

g.o.p. do do they go all in with trump or did they back the republican who has been confirmed unanimously by the congress to be f.b.i. director bob mueller and so it we are at perilous times here in the united states can get this senior fellow at the center for american progress ken thank you. well there's much more to come on the view so. thirty seven dead after a fire sweeps through a hospital in south korea. this trail you remember the day the british fleet arrived hundreds of years ago but critics say it's time to look at history from pete different perspective. coming up in sport worry mcelroy closes in on the lead at the divine desert classic was.

plans to begin returning ranger refugees to me in march rakhine state of being delayed by problems with paperwork that's according to bangladesh in a further setback for me and maher u.s. diplomat bill richardson has left an advisory panel on the range of crisis set up by the government just days ago which is and says he resigned fearing a whitewash but the government says he was removed scott hyla has more now from the angle. if you listen to government leaders in myanmar this week was supposed to see a trickle of 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 used 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 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 that 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 the final conclusions this week one member of the kofi anon commission 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 take criticism and 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 and in order to do that the basic fact is that you need people to go to that area but that hasn't happened or kind remains heavily

controlled by the military humanitarian groups the un and media are still not allowed free access to recount so refugees hoping to return have to rely on limited information to make a very important decision got al-jazeera young gone well earlier i spoke to u.s. diplomat bill richardson about the circumstances around his departure from the range of five he says he resigned on his own accord they're making it up that they let me go they were begging me to stay the national security advisor youth on that last night i was there. what they said was that in public statements that i was pursuing my own agenda yeah my own agenda was basically follow the kofi annan recommendations do something about the refugees stop the human rights atrocities release the two journalists that were detained

because freedom of the press is a bedrock of democracy and a kofi anon recommendation of finding out what's going on yeah i was outspoken and on sun suchi my former friend well i still respect or didn't want to hear that this this commission was a whitewash and to further misstatements that she knew was they may expect there but she didn't respect your opinion is that related to i think what's been called a furious response i think those were your words was that regarding calls to free the chair and listen and was that a key step for you for them to move forward yes the fact that she exploded when i gave her frank advice about treating the journalists fairly about an investigation into the mass graves issue she just didn't want to hear bad advice i still like and respect their we've had a thirty year relationship i've invested in me m.r.

in the clinton cabinet i push for sanctions on the military i helped get her out of prison house arrest we've known each other for thirty years but she's developed a cocoon and natta to a bubble where she doesn't want to hear bad advice and i felt that this commission could give or frank advice because they're in a terrible problem with the refugees treating muslims finding this transferred from bangladesh to me amar treating the refugees fairly i agree with the human rights groups they're not ready to send these. refugees over because of the safety issue there have been these atrocities and she didn't want to hear this and the commission met in secret with her without me they didn't want to hear my frank advice so mr myers wrong they met without me

because they didn't want to hear my frank advice with on sun sujit so why isn't she why doesn't she want to hear your your friend i would advice why doesn't she want to hear your frank advice what's going on in the background i mean we've heard a lot haven't we you know the kind of opinion of the international community on this lady has plummeted you know does that affect so what is her chosen opinion behind the scenes on on the written into crisis do you have a sense of what that opinion as well she doesn't want to show more leadership because she's afraid of the military the military has enormous power there. she says there's a separation of constitutional rights between the military and her she doesn't want to offend them she doesn't want to take them on but she should say to the military were in a terrible mess stop these atrocities allow these refugees to move forward don't do mass graves find ways to stop the human rights violations she's unwilling to take

on a very powerful entity and that's the military and she has continuously disparaged human rights groups foreign governments the international media the united nations can help enormously with the transfer of these refugees as monitors there are experts at this and she shuns a united nations she doesn't want to allow any investigations there she's gone from a human rights icon to a politician and she's unwilling to make those tough decisions and the advisors around or don't want to tell her the truth only she can change now i don't think that we should put sanctions on myanmar. because that would hurt the people let's find a way for the west not to lose hope and on some sushi and on sun sushi not they'll lose hope in the west and in human rights groups in the un and governments like the u.s. the european community arab countries that have equities because that we're talking

about a large muslim population you know on this tour that we were going to do in the retired state there were no meetings with muslim groups there was no meetings with some of the displaced persons camps no dialogue with the rakhine leadership it was a whitewash trip and i wasn't going to be part of that so how big a problem then you know is she in fact in trying to get to a solution and what are the night the right next steps if the person who's expected to say you need to show moral leadership won't. well she has to exercise more leadership by telling the military we have to find ways to let these rifty refugees go from bangladesh to me amar number two she's got to guarantee them safe passage citizenship freedom of movement no human rights atrocities and

then and there were a kind state find ways to give these people their a chance to have a normal life to protect their children to have education to have a health care they have some kind of economic development and lastly she should stop hitting her own friends and allies that made her and help there a get out of prison make me a mar democracy lastly she should say to the military hey we have to fix the problems here there are huge enormous genocides going on and we have to stop that together and that's in the interest of the people of myanmar to and then lastly with the international community make the u.n. allies make arab countries allies make the u.s. allies international media instead of shunning them instead of attacking them.

it's him talking to me earlier now save us all menus are still ahead on the program why growing numbers of young people have turned up in the french port of cali oping to cross the channel in the u.k. . on diplomatic standoff spain expelled venezuela's ambassador in response to a similar move by comeback yes. and in sport the snowboarding to be ted a name to the winter olympics and they will tell us some of our mates. how i'm pleased to say we have got dry weather now moving across northern parts of france the heavy rain that is sinking its way further south with with this brand of cloud and they go that's where the the main rain band now lies and notice how it does also bring some very lively showers into that western side of the mediterranean this is the same in paris river levels remaining high and it looks

like saturday when those waters are expected to pay not as high as they were in nineteen ten but still plenty high enough at around six point one meter is we are looking at clear skies that as we go on into sas day there you go nine celsius last fine and dry more rain does make its way into the united kingdom down across the low countries as we go on through the weekend but the worst of that will avoid the northern parts of france and that will push its way down to wards the baltic sea further south we have got to clear skies now but some showers there just around that western side of the med fine enjoy the showers that have across the eastern side of the med now in the process of proceeding so we've got some better weather to come full events over the next few days so that eastern side of a chip should be lousy fondant dries a different story across the northwest of africa we've got some wet weather making its way through here over the next couple of days.

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oh might of our top stories here on al-jazeera al-jazeera travel to northern syria alongside the turkish army as they continue their offensive to speak kurdish fighters from the region. president been pushing his america first message at the world economic forum and he said the u.s. is open for business but warned it will no longer tolerate unfair trade practices. u.s. diplomat bill which. of the million mark government is lying when it says he was fired from an advisory panel on the range of prices. on sunset ci of failing to

show political leadership. 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 firefighters in the southern city of mary managed to rescue dozens of others who were trapped by the flames kathy novak explains that from seoul. 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 of we stop the fire from spreading from the first floor to the second floor during the initial phase and therefore also prevent a different 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 safe zone 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 and the naacp yawn 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 if it's a relatively small size the law doesn't require them kathy novak al-jazeera sole the spanish government is formally spelling the venezuelan ambassador it's in response to this bama should quit being expelled from caracas on thursday days

after the european union and new sanctions while the venezuelan ambassador left the embassy in madrid at the start of the week and returned home well i think that no one has ira's hi there daniel so another ambassador expelled why. well i think it's going to sway his increasing isolation not just in latin america but right across the world the venezuelan the authorities the president nicolas maduro accuse the spanish. interfering in venezuela is internal affairs of the spanish government has. said they will continue to criticize to comment on what is going on in venezuela that has not unduly interfered in a so it's really a question of interpretation and then we get this. expulsions and as you mentioned the european union has already sanctions have been leading venezuelan officials has given them a charter travel ban of frozen and all this follows from

a similar situation a similar conflict with both brazil and canada last month or so they say but this way they're increasingly isolated often criticized by the neighboring the president of neighboring colombia president santos and we've always elections throughout latin america which you see right of center governments moving in in argentina in chile where a venezuela could previously count on friends in the region and daniel airlink presidential elections being called amidst this dreadful economic climate the juror blames this on what he calls the imperialists. well he's always blamed source's united states neighboring countries the undermining of the venezuelan or venezuelan economy let's not forget one of the richest potentially richest countries in the region with its huge all wealth but the country really struggling financially the international monetary fund earlier this week saying

it's predicting that inflation hyperinflation this year will run to thirteen thousand percent i mean it's inconceivable i mean it's really we were in venezuela covering when you support the elections last month and really there's a shortage of hard cash people having to use credit cards those who have credit cards even if people have money in the bank and an able to use it there is severe food shortages medicine the hospital is in a terrible state and also hundreds of people are leaving the country for other places in latin america for europe almost every day so the country is in a dark state but nicolas maduro the president continues to blame outside sources it's not clear how many venezuelans still believe that still take that line certainly a severe situation and venezuela losing friends in latin america and elsewhere just one of their life. now in haiti 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 on breaking down. the story. this is the only source of drinking water in the neighborhood of port au prince a twenty leagues a bucket of water costs sixteen since blanchard is one of few haitians who can afford the daily ritual and. 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 waterborne 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. 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 in rule areas have access to clean water and only a quarter of a tortoise. 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. the canadian aircraft manufacturer boeing body has won its appeal after the us slapped huge tariffs on imports jump administration impose tariffs of two hundred ninety two percent after the u.s. airline delta ordered several one body a c. series planes boeing its american rival accused bombarding of dumping planes on the u.s. market on friday the u.s. international trade commission says that wasn't the case the body or shouldn't have have to pay such high tariffs the president of the democrats who proposed remake of congo says the country will go ahead with elections despite the threats of delays it was joseph could be his first press conference since twenty twelve they look to go into that doesn't really been covered that bush. is very clear. it's creating the sense that. you have the time you know. the legends to feel good.

and as soon as those elections organize. and as soon as we have we know it is a bitch and. then. she is very. german chancellor angela merkel is calling for a quick end to the latest round of negotiations over forming a coalition government a party sets a deadline to form a grand coalition by next sunday if they fail marcos twelve your rule of europe's leading economy could be over dominant kate has more from berlin. so now we know that the christian democrats and the social democrats and the christian social union will spend over the course of the next few days between now and the fourth of february seven days of negotiations with each other trying to hammer out what will form the in the blueprint as it were for another grand coalition government they have time to go through all the areas of policy on which they agree and perhaps

disagree with each other in the aim of trying to provide stable government to germany for the next nearly four years but the point to say here is just because a daily deal may emerge on the fourth of every doesn't mean that it's signed and sealed a map will be the shape of the new government first it would have to be approved by the four hundred forty odd files in social democrat party members and if and if the conference that was held last sunday trying to hammer out the social democrat position is anything to go by there's no guarantee that will get through the party membership we know that certain elements of the party are agitating to try to get new members to join to try to vote down any deal that emerges so although it's clear the timetable for these negotiations is now clear the question must still be will a deal that emerges actually end up forming a coalition government and we'll know that in the weeks to come more than a year after the demolition of the notorious jungle camp there's been a sudden rise in the number of young asylum seekers arriving in the french port of

cali 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 distribute process dealing with arrivals sonia gago reports from cali the deal seems to have given people false hope of reaching big u.k. . playing for time in cali's industrial zone 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 here for months sleeping rough wherever they can and go snooping without any front end and there are to me because it is fear because distant because it is. just the best of us. that this is not life it's not life a good living in the forest it's 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 and cut 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 standoffs with my kurds 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 back to your more booked on this and particularly important point of this santos treaty will be the subject of on accompany. this treaty to allow for all those in a position to cross the channel 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 to england but they still take the chance and the risk they feel is worth it to leave behind a life in france that hangs in the balance on

a diagonal al-jazeera kalai violence has broken out in supermarkets in france with customers backing to get hold of heavily discounted chocolate spread the answer marsh a supermarket chain slashed the price slashed the price rather than the teleports by a whopping seventy percent people went bonkers pleas for forced to step in to control desperate shoppers in this one northern french turn to tell us distanced itself from the whole story saying the supermarket launched the promotion itself. and philippine authorities say they were moved by force people who refused to leave a no go zone around an erupting volcano there were no deaths in the ten days since mailmen began belching flaming lava rocks and ash over seventy five thousand residents have been forced to flee dorothy's are worried some people have been leaving the shelters during the day to tend to their farms and livestock inside the danger zone. still ahead on the news hour reinforcing its modern identity india marks the day sixty nine years ago it became a cell phone state. and

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we have to reason in the place of danger millions defines and resistance at this new time it's means not for tonight and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al-jazeera. india has been celebrating its sixty ninth republic day with a parade in delhi the country's marking the date the indian constitution was adopted and the country was declared a sovereign state and british colonial will have a hoax to has more. india's pride and ambition shone through the fog on the sixty

ninth republic day. say k.c. 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's stature as a growing power tributes were also paid to india's founding father mahatma gandhi prime minister and the hendra modi hosted a long guest list i think it's a very strategically important guest list india has an act east 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 flow rate in the end our south asian region which traditionally used to be india. as it well india has 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 is one thing and three hundred million indians kind of folks is there. that was champions are supposed to be doing something they do very well partying for a stroll a day but a growing number of them are refusing to celebrate a day marking the anniversary of british colonise ation back in seven hundred eighty eight that's because for indigenous australia. this was the beginning of masochists oppression and marginalize ation which has left

a legacy of severe disadvantage many instead regard a steady day as invasion day and while the national celebration moved to another date and it almost went to one such protest rally and said. there is certainly momentum behind the change but i am trying i've 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 for it you know who don't like australia day being on the twenty sixth of january i want to train but it's what has to be said people here are still a minority most australians i know while study day to celebrate some twenty six. just like. they use the day off what's a hot barbecues parties to go to bars to enjoy themselves not many commemoration reflects in this right amount is built and it's a view of some people here don't change the dates but surely change 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 seventh and eighth yates began the indigenous people in australia and then only in the afternoon shift the mood and make it a celebration of what a strange it's become. let's get all the day's sports news that with andy thank you so much julie well alexi sanchez has made a winning start to his manchester united career you know it's it facing forced to yeovil town in the english f.a. cup sanchez's debut coming after his move from austin earlier on in the week which i instructed didn't school based saying through its around five after four when. defending champion roger federer had an easier than expected passage into a record seventh australian open final the thirty six year old took the first set against south korea's winning choking six one just over thirty minutes and it was to be no comeback for his twenty one year old opponent he has retired went five to

down in the second set due to blisters in europe eight of last year's wimbledon final letter it will now take on crisis man church on sunday which by its bidding for a twentieth grand slam title. the thought process is not like what would have been better i'm just happy i'm in the finals to be honest that was there was a goal before the match today and i was able to get there not under circumstances i was hoping to or not planning with but you know i played a good match and he struggled clearly with his movement and i was able to take advantage of that so for me clearly it was all good but i wish him a good recovery but i think the right thing because. for a very bad thing the court is no good for all the fans and all your friends who are really up to make so many in friends and i want to be very strong next year. jamie don't send house retain the lead after the second day of the dubai desert

classic the welshman shooting a three and a power round of sixty nine to stay one shot ahead of the failed former world number one rory mcilroy also in title contention he's three shots off the pace but i'm quite eleven holes of his second round after morning folk at close to three hour delay to the start of the climb. yeah i've got some chances common but i just have to stay patient there's some tough holes as well. as the first all the dates more 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. and one of the biggest flop seen in u.s. sporting history is set to make a return of the excess fail which was an off season alternative to the n.f.l. is set serino nj in twenty twenty nearly two decades on from being scraps after just one season the legal feature eight teams and is again being backed by w w a chairman vince mcmahon fewer rules and more aggressive play were among the original

x.l. selling points but was criticised for poor quality games and fail to gain much of an audience mcmahon says he'll avoid gimmicks for the rebates and doesn't want to see political protests from the play is. it is an opportunity for me to say that is for 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 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 deliver earlier i spoke to brett forrest author of the long bomb how the acts of hell became t.v.'s biggest fiasco he says this time around the n.f.l. could be more vulnerable to a 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 collin 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 ex 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're all 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 c. weeks to go until the winter olympics begin impune chang a snowboarder estell it has underlined her credentials as a gold medal favorites the czech has won every world cup johnstone event she started this season including this one in bulgaria on friday she leaves the world cup standings by almost two thousand points a familiar face claiming victory in the men's events a forty two year old canadian j c j on the same becoming the oldest winner in world cup history the twenty tenement big champion set to take part in these six consecutive games in south korea. not such good news for olympic medal contender on blank the american was the defending champion in the men's ski super private jets game in colorado but that full saw him finish down an eight twenty fourteen olympic champion david wise instead taking the title. five time defending world running

champion sebastian o'shea hits a rare bits of trouble at the opening rice of the new season the frenchman losing a big chunk of his overnight lead after this mistake on day two of the month's colorado you. did a skype and he still has a fifteen second advantage over his closest rival rice will finish on sunday ok that is i suppose looking let's get back to julie in london andy thank you that's it for me in the team on this and be back in just a second there with much more of the day's.

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