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hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.s. puts hamas leader ismail haniya on its terror list freezing his financial assets. and to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay. donald trump orders america's controversial prison in cuba to remain open reversing a key obama promise. british prime minister to resign may signs a billion dollar deals and pushes for free trade benefits with china. and i'm peter stammered in go with all your supporters arsenal sign gagne's striker america obama young for a club record seventy nine million dollars that and more transfer deadline news coming up later in the program.

the u.s. state department has put israel the political leader of hamas on the terror list how mouse is the palestinian faction which has the fact of ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven well for more on this let's go straight to rosalynn jordan in the washington d.c. also in the group itself a mouse has been on the u.s. terror list for decades so what is particular about this announcement focusing on his own self. well barbara it apparently comes mr honey and was calling in recent weeks for a new into fatah or uprising against the israeli government because of the u.s. government's decision to recognize your roussillon as the capital of israel and not have its status be set aside for a final status negotiations in peace talks between the palestinians and the israelis nathan sales who is the u.s.

state department's counterterrorism advisor or coordinator happens to be in tel aviv on wednesday and at the end of his remarks at a security conference dealing with counterterrorism he announced that the u.s. government was imposing these sanctions against is nia himself financial sanctions and a travel ban because of his comments calling for that uprising in december as well as for his alleged involvement in the deaths of some eleven americans allegedly at the hand of hamas doesn't join in with the latest there from washington d.c. roles thank you and now let's go to ramallah in the occupied west bank and speak to al-jazeera as imran khan so in mine the story broke about what two hours ago now still very early but have we had any official reaction from hamas itself so far

that's absolutely right we have had now official reaction from hamas two different sources actually both issuing strong but dismissive statements about the us is the mouse spokesman it says is not going to deter us from being a legitimate resistance movement and we've also heard from mahmoud zahar a senior hamas leader let's listen to what he has to say no. it is not. for a beginner. no religion it's for this reason we are considering this statement of is the foolish statement committed by people who know nothing about freedom for. and they were let me just put a point here that i just put to rosalyn jordan a few minutes ago i mean how mass has been on the u.s. and indeed the e.u. and a lot of other countries terrorists for decades so what does this actually mean for the movement itself. well the movement itself will continue as normal nothing's really go to change and then they say they are

a legitimate resistance movement within gaza and they have support within gaza so the u.s. announcement really means very little practically on the ground they say the idea will be able to travel ways under siege ingalls anyway it's very difficult for him to travel any way also means that they going to put him on a list where he can't trade or have any support from the u.s. we doesn't get any support from the u.s. but hamas actually as a movement have been losing power in the gaza strip the gaza strip used to be run by hamas they were the defacto power that's now changed to the palestinian authority there's reconciliation efforts going on between hamas and islamic jihad and i have to remind you that eight members not just a small i mean have been put on this latest terror list these reconciliation efforts going on between islamic jihad hamas and the palestine liberation organization those talks are underway to be interesting to see how the p.l.o.

the palestine liberation organization actually reacts to this is what because they'll have to condemn this move so you'll have somebody who will condemn this move that actually isn't a pause or it hasn't reconciled with hamas and islamic jihad so all of this means for hamas is that nothing really practically changes for them but they say what this is actually quite crucial what they say is that this is internal u.s. politics is for the benefit of the americans it changes nothing practically on the ground for hamas will smell and that they will remain a legitimate resistance movement in my kind of the latest from ramallah and ron thank you. well the european union says it will give an extra fifty three million dollars in aid to palestine following the u.s. decision to withhold funding the e.u.'s foreign policy chief a very chemically made the announcement that a donors meeting in brussels the u.n. has warned that gaza's economy is on the verge of collapse that it has more now

from brussels just before the talks started here in brussels the e.u.'s foreign policy chief frederica more greeny did say you're on the record that this meeting really came about a result of president trumps a recent announcement that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and the angry reaction that provokes a not only among the palestinian leadership but in other countries in the region to know the e.u. is stressing the importance of keeping the u.s. on board as a crucial partner in the so-called peace process which has really been dormant for several years and that was something that was addressed in comments to al-jazeera by the palestinian foreign minister we are not excluding the americans to be party to any peace process we are excluding the exclusivity of the

americans and the monopoly of the americans for the peace process but we are not we are not naïve to see will the americans cannot play a role. we will allow them to play a role but if you know it all as as part of a comprehensive collective at all by many other countries now something that's worrying everybody involved is the threat by the united states to withhold funding to only rule that's the united nations agency that provides crucial services for millions of palestinian civilians notably in the gaza strip where much of the two million population lives in poverty their withholding around one hundred ten million dollars they say they will be contributing this year now we've heard in the last few days that some european nations will be speeding up their payments but that's just the short term solution at the end of the talks the norwegian foreign

minister didn't have any figures to announce she did basically say that it's going to be left to subsequent meetings to try and plug that gap he recently through the international community to recommit to common strategy and building the institutions that will ultimately lead to a negotiated two state solution and there is also a need for a comprehensive in supporting and the reception of controls. well in the background there have been warnings from israeli intelligence officials as well as other political figures that the threat of a reduction in funding to the palestinians could have big implications for security not just in israel and the occupied territory but for the whole region and that's why many people really are looking for some sort of quick solution whether it's

a reversal of the u.s. decision or somebody else stepping in particularly from gulf countries to say look this money will be secure because it's in everybody's interests to make sure that it keeps keeps flowing. it's long been symbolic of the grave human rights abuses committed during the so-called war on terror but now u.s. president donald trump has decided to keep the notorious kuantan a military prison open through an executive order former president barack obama had promised to close the facility in cuba within a year after taking office but while many prisoners were indeed released obama was unable to keep his promise to shut down guantanamo altogether in a state of the union address on tuesday trump warned hundreds of dangerous terrorists had been released in the past but this would no longer be allowed to. try to ensure that in the fight against isis and al-qaeda we continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists wherever we chase them down

where ever we find. and in many cases them it will now be one turn in the way. it's good morning from a white house correspondent kimberly how kid kimberly when we think of when guantanamo bay opened i mean it's just a lifetime ago in many ways when you think of how much how much has happened since and also i guess how perceptions have changed in the u.s. in that time in light of that what kind of response has there been to president trump's comments about one third of a bay. well certainly ordinary americans are not talking about it in the same way that human rights activists and politicians are this was an issue that was largely forgotten for most americans who are more focused on sort of the meat and potatoes type issues like making sure that there was a rise in incomes and less taxes so the fact that this was slipped into the speech

was a little bit of a surprise to many certainly we heard this from donald trump on the campaign trail but again this is not something that ordinary americans generally are talking about having said that certainly this is something that registers on the radar for those who are active in the u.s. military because of course as you pointed out in your introduction this is certainly. torie as prison the fact that there are detainees that have been labeled enemy combatants held not just for years but more than a decade often without charge without due process certainly has hurt the effort particularly outside the united states in terms of executing missions because the fact remains that this can sometimes be sort of a rallying cry for those that are already not liking the united states to further intensify that so this is often many have said here in the united states of the political level hurt and even put u.s. lives at risk and certainly bringing this up putting it into the fore is certainly

going to exacerbate that that is the concern for many here in the u.s. as well as outside the u.s. and kimberly president trump made that statement in the state of the union speech that he gave on tuesday what else were the highlights in that speech. well there were an awful lot in terms of the president trying to highlight what he sees the successes this past year he certainly touted the historic unemployment rate that has now hit a new low one not seen in some time as well there of course is the tax reform that he passed which certainly he is marking it is legislative success we should point out his only legislative success so far but what seems to be the biggest challenge for donald trump coming out of that speech was the same one going in and that is this effort to bring about unity at a time of such incredible polarization the president was able to sell the economy

in the economic message but he wasn't able to sell himself you saw democrats sitting there as republicans were rough things and standing ovation after standing ovation applauding at the democrats sitting there stone faced i don't think that he moved the the dial if you will with regard to trying to bridge that gap that exists not just in capitol hill but among ordinary americans can really help get outside the white house kimberly thank you. there's much more to come on the news hour including we're going to look at the scandal surrounding germany's top car makers and their use of monkeys in a mission past as that hits the german parliament just how much did the government know. plus we'll also be looking at an event that only happens once in a super bowl blood moon and the in sport the houston rockets james harden makes and be a mystery peter will tell you more. but

first two british lawyers have submitted a review of human rights in saudi arabia to the un human rights council now the kingdom is accused of arresting political activists and the taming them without charge so now reports. it's a case that has been given little attention given the recent state of affairs in saudi arabia thirty of its citizens detained without charge another thirty one who have apparently simply disappeared no one knows where they have gone or whether they're being held nor have they been charged with any offenses a violation of saudi and international rules say the british lawyers who authored the report into the arrests and are now calling for the un to suspend the government of saudi arabia from the human rights council if they are committed to human rights and the instruments that they signed up to as well as international law then there's no need for the suspension if they put that into practice but.

breach provisions of international codes should not be allowed to do that and still sit on the council that reviews human rights around the world to double standards should be stopped much may have been made of the recent changes in saudi arabia since the country's exodus thrown mohammed bin salman assumed a wider role women have won the right to drive the last country in the world to have lifted that ban and a high profile corruption crackdown against members of the elite two significant attention around the world but human rights groups say while these actions are part of a determined effort to change saudis troubled image the reality is far removed from that vision of change dissent is silenced calls for change our sense it and even messages on social media can invite imprisonment and punishment the fact that both simple activists. jean according to our accounts and maybe more now that this new report has emerged r.j.

soley for the human rights activism and this is absolutely not acceptable and i mean that the efforts of the crown prince to brand himself as a reformer cannot fly such blatant human rights violations as a member of the un's human rights panel there is much pressure on saudi arabia to fulfill its duties in that capacity one way would be to get key allies such as the u.k. a major exporter of arms to the kingdom to convince them to fulfill the legal obligations . saudi's rulers are expected to visit britain soon but there are concerns as to how much of an effect prime minister theresa may would have on calls to respect the values that meant to uphold as members of the human rights council saudi arabia may be sensitive about his image question is how much will it be prepared to prove that it's willing to accept change within the kingdom. jazeera london. well for more on this some joined now by the world affairs analyst ikhlas minority thank you so much

for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean i suppose it is ironic one would say that this report about the saudi violations of human rights is actually presented to the u.n. human rights council which saudi arabia used to chair i mean it's a member of but it used to a chair do you think it will actually make have any impact on saudi itself i think these measures to relinquish the of membership is too little too late and we know that saudi arabia's ten year old leader will end next year so this is a message for saudi arabia to. focus on the human rights efforts won't change the situation i think in the slightest something that may change the situation and in a dramatic way is of those who trades with the country with the kingdom impose some sort of sign to it if you do not improve your human rights record we will cease trading with you we will impose sanctions on point you for this as we heard and so niggas report i mean obviously this new crown prince mohammed bin some money

certainly tries to present an image of himself as a reformer there's the you know the lifting on on the ban on women driving an you know push against corruption according to him have any steps in the right direction been made in saudi arabia or the prince you asked if you asked the crown prince himself or say loss of sub in may there are plans for policy changes to be introduced will happen if you asked the people who are protesting people who are in prison in the kingdom you're going to go a different story in that regard but we will see what happens with the crown prince when policy gets put into action until that happens then the situation will remain as it is one of the authors of that report again piece says that basically it all boils down to countries putting pressure on saudi arabia but is that likely to be the case when we look at for example the united states very much cozying up with the new saudi is very hard to impose these pressures on the country especially if. the situation in your home country if you have issues within your home country as

well now we can learn even rights it is human rights issues in so many countries who are on the human rights council you could say they also have eighty human rights within their own country you see and go to there you see the democratic republic of china but i was speaking specifically about the united states and sort of i mean presumably that or other countries of the u.k. putting realistic pressure on saudi arabia do you see that happening or how would they go about it especially when they're trading so fiercely and their costs go up so much so with them the needs to be leverage on the u.s. aside to do so to get some sort of to get something back from the saudis in order to do this if that will be the case and i see no reason why they should or how they would go about doing so because when ratty world affairs analyst we can have to leave it there thanks for joining us for much. catherine has defended a u.n. report which condemned the saudi led blockade of the gulf country the report says the embargo amounts to economic warfare but saudi arabia the u.a.e.

bahrain and egypt this missed it as misleading and inaccurate the qatari national human rights committee says the arab countries response is it responsible and then just and should not challenge the reports credibility the statement says the saudi led bloc is refusing to recognize violations against residents and citizens of qatar as a result of the blockade and the unilateral measures taken by the bloc last year the four countries sever ties with cats have after accusing it of supporting terrorism denies the charges. british business leaders have started a sri day trip to china by signing thirteen billion dollars worth of trade deals the british prime minister to resign may is hoping to secure a free trade agreement with beijing for when the u.k. leaves the european union next year adrian brown reports from beijing. britain's relationship with china is complicated by history this is the remains of beijing's old summer palace ransacked and looted by british and french troops more than one

hundred fifty years ago the chinese people are taught not to forget it. we should try every way to get we things back from britain they're all china's national treasures they're ours that britain should return the things they looted from china because they belong to china as she embarks on a three day tour of china to reason may will have larger concerns than historic grievances she's here on a mission to increase british trade with china that need is growing quickly following britain's decision to leave the european union she should have to call this chinese leader that she's ok i love her garment he's ok and he we all she can you know pro white and i mean if it's to have a stable and a smooth spreadsheet. and you specially were doing the. process they were not happy

and if they could to impact on china britain relations thirteen billion dollars worth of trade deals was signed on wednesday significantly the prime minister said in spite of her earlier reported reservations britain would now cooperate with china on its one built one road initiative president xi jinping pet project a joint media conference with china's premier league chunk was dominated by questions about britain's future after brics it where to turn in to ensure that we get the best deal for the united kingdom and that means it is it will be a deal that will ensure that we take that control of our money orders but we're also able to maintain a good trading relationship with the e.u. for the future because that is good for both the united kingdom and for the european union they well when. no matter what changes may happen in the u.k. as relations with other parts of the world china will remain committed in its

policy of developing friendly relations with the u.k. and i have faith in the brighter prospects of china u.k. ties. to reason may won't be going to hong kong the former british colony returned to china more than twenty years ago and where colds are growing for her to address concerns about threats to political reform judicial independence and human rights may said that a so-called golden era in relations but now intensified the outcome of her visit will determine by just how much adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. a rare celestial event and known as a super blue blood moon is gracing the night skies a three part lunar eclipse means the moon appears much bigger brighter and redder than usual now the spectacle spectacle rather can be seen in north america the middle east asia russia india and australia rob reynolds has more now from the griffith observatory in los angeles. large crowds of people gathered here on

a mountain top above los angeles the site of griffith observatory to see a rare and stunning celeste deal of event the total eclipse of the moon as the earth's shadow fell across the moon it dark and people waited anxiously and then there were. gasps of delight as the lunar eclipse reached its point of totality the moon turned a eerie shade of blood red and stayed that way for the better part of an hour now the moon is emerging from the earth's shadow and people are begun to leave the area as the sun comes up but there was a definite energy in the air here this was an unusual conjunction of events a lunar eclipse the turned the moon blood red it was also

a super moon because the moon is much closer to the earth than it usually is because the moon has a kind of elliptical orbit sometimes it's closer sometimes it's farther away that made the moon look larger and it's what's called a blue moon that's not an astronomical term it's a more of a folk term it means that when there's a chew full moons in a single month so that's what happened here on the last day of january and many people said that watching this put them in the mind of putting everything in perspective here seeing political turmoil and division in this country and around the world watching this celeste steal a vent made them realize they said that human affairs are not the be all and end all of existence and that there's a very large universe out there that goes. without us. still to come on the

news hour we join the colombian special forces on night patrol as they look for smuggling gangs on the lawless border with venezuela. the grassroots mobile network that's helping mexico's indigenous communities keep in touch with the rest of the world and the new england patriots star tom brady discusses his injury concerns just a few days away from the super bowl. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia so looking fairly quiet here a recovery in temperatures after some cold and snowy conditions tehran is back up to nine degrees celsius by not too bad at eighty is fine around the eastern side of merde train de pretty good temperatures beirut eighteen degrees on thursday and not

like significant change expected through friday so one of the arabian peninsula what is all looking fine here temperatures still up to thirty degrees from mecca a little bit of cloud around the southern portion the red sea might just be wanted to showers around but nothing of any real concern with a little bit of a breeze blowing down through the gulf area so we've sort temperatures of twenty two here in doha which is very pleasant so let's head across into southern parts of africa where we've still got some heavy showers affects in parts of south africa and you see there on the eastern cape in particular that area of cloud beginning to push away knossos the isolated showers possible for durban but otherwise fine cape town look at highs of twenty four degrees some heavy rain further north into parts of zambia lusaka looks fairly wet and harare in zimbabwe could see some showers also subjects on the eastern side of mother gascon me was to come down through botswana and across namibia where the conditions are looking dry and fine and respects and a high of thirty three degrees celsius in winter. it

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are no precedents people in power investigates this information and democracy at this time. baccy is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. state department has put the senior political leader of hamas is melania on its terror blacklist his financial assets in the u.s. have been frozen in the years now the subject of a travel. to british lawyers have submitted a review of human rights in saudi arabia to the un human rights council on the growing criticism over a wave of arrests in the country and us president donald trump has signed an executive order to keep the guantanamo military prison open reversing an order by

his predecessor to shut the facility down. well it's almost ten years since the last detainee was brought to guantanamo bay so trans proposal to start sending people there again is a major departure seven hundred eighty people have been held there at different points since two thousand and two many without charge or criminal trial most have since been freed with one hundred ninety seven transferred repatriated or resettled on the president obama however forty one people are still being held they include highly shaikh mohammad the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks who was charged with that two thousand nine hundred and seventy three counts of murder. well i'm joined now by mosen begg a former guantanamo bay detainee he's also a north or and spokesperson for the independent advocacy organization cage prisoners which works with communities impacted by the war on terror thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so i guess first of all i reaction from you

to this announcement by donald trump maybe not a surprise but still now officially in the state of the union speech it seems almost almost like the united states is bipolar when it comes to kuantan him on the one hand obama when he came into power shortly afterward said in an executive order that he ordered to close within one year he couldn't follow through on that and obama and trump has said that he's going to keep it open i think it's easier for him to follow through on his promise than obama could on his and it simply because there's no appetite to close to actually close guantanamo bay and to say the one thing about the prisoners the nobody said and that essentially was that the overwhelming majority of them were innocent because they weren't charged or tried in any open court of law the fact that they remain now in a black hole of legal detention and possibly as trungpa said new prisoners will come from iraq and syria it means that he just press the reset the restart button

on guantanamo i mean i just wanted to pick you up on that the fact that he did just say is not keeping it open but in a way he used phrases like you. the fill it up again i mean the world has changed a lot since two thousand and two when it opened you've been campaigning but when talum a bay and then the issues surrounding it since you were released in two thousand and five you noticed a shift in the mentality both of the public and governments towards guantanamo bay towards for example extraordinary rendition and keeping people there for years and years without charge if you noticed a change well clearly in the beginning there was a kind of appetite i thought that there was within within some aspects of american society something that was written that really regarded guantanamo torture secret detention sites as important and there was a lot of uproar about it i think what's happened now is and because there was no precedent set for the false imprisonment and the torture of cia detainees that was mentioned in the cia tenet senate report. obama didn't prosecute essentially what

was war crimes and that's why. trump can now say i believe torture works i believe war crimes work i believe in waterboarding a medieval torture technique believe kuantan is a viable option option if that hadn't had if if there had been prosecutions he would never be in a position to say this i mean talking about torture it's interesting how even to think about a year ago his defense secretary james mattis had said that torture didn't really work i think the quote is either able to get more information with a beer in a cigarette with a detainee and now we've had a statement coming out of the u.s. military saying enhanced interrogation techniques in other words another phrase for torture absolutely not part of the trump ordered review of u.s. detainee policy i mean ultimately do you think we are getting a clear idea of what the trumpet ministration wants to do regarding this issue i think like with many things would trump says something and people who are his junior will have to say i have to have to carry those orders in one way or the other at a present that they're at odds trying to explain the things that the president says

but just in relation to enhanced interrogation techniques in the past in the bush administration even they would never say that they. believe in torture they would simply return redefine the meaning of torture and say it's enhanced interrogation techniques everybody knows now what torture can lead to when we heard obama say that we tortured some folk and the unintended consequence of our torture led to the rise of isis in iraq and so this is now the full circle where we're at we're torturing people they're becoming quote unquote terrorists and we're putting in the torture centers that creates more terrorists. i mean if we look at the forty one men in there now i mean many you know without charges or any chance of a criminal trial and now i guess kind of stuck in a limbo that could last well certainly as long as trantor is president i mean you spent some years in guantanamo some of these men have been there for fifteen years how do you think they must be feeling i've met with several prisoners as part of my

campaign work since the release and i've met with people of close to some who were there for fourteen years and were released last year the thing that they say consistently is the greatest torture in addition to the physical violations that they've suffered has been the lack of due process the lack of the rule of law the lack of knowing what it is that you will you stand accused of and even as your report mentioned khalid shaikh mohammed the. to be the reason why guantanamo was set up came the in two thousand and seven after he'd been tortured in secret detention sites now why they can't take him on to the u.s. mainland to prosecute them is because you can't enter torture testimony into a u.s. court so it's of massive own goal in catching the one perpetrator who may have been responsible for the greatest atrocity in the united states in recent history because they tortured him wasn't vague former guantanamo detainee thanks so much for sharing your views and expenses with us thank you gift. the french president manuel micron is warning turkey against invading the northern syrian area of

a free turkey has been attacking the kurdish region for more than ten days now a freeness controlled by the y.p. gee that's a syrian kurdish group that turkey considers a terrorist organization stephanie decker has. solidarity with the people of africa in this protest as in the kurdish run area in northeast syria where people say they feel betrayed. for we condemn the turkish state we condemn russia because had it not been for russia giving the green light turkey would not have been able to attack a free russia and turkey your fate and will be at the hands of the heroes of the wipe e.g. just like the end of ice. in africa and funerals are held for fighters from the people's protection units. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization but fighters from the kurdish group across syria make up the backbone of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces crucial and the most effective in the battle

against. this is said to be video that is an area close to the border with turkey that has been heavily targeted sources have told al-jazeera that most people in these areas have fled due to the heavy bombardment. and the u.n. estimates around fifteen thousand are now displaced inside the region of africa and we're also told there been civilian casualties after random shelling in turkey denies this and says it only targets white peachy positions turkey's offensive is now well into its second week the village with the smoke coming from it is inside syria now turkey has been shelling these border areas on a daily basis there is also supported on the ground by free syrian army fighters this is the syrian rebels that turkey supports and they have a presence here in turkey along the border. we spot a few free syrian army fighters on the side of the road there rarely seen this openly in turkey turkey's. brought many of these f.s.a. fighters from syria and they are now waiting along the border for orders to advance

we managed to speak to one of them who tells us the battle won't be easy record that. we're facing quite a few challenges first the weather didn't help us as it was foggy and raining second the y.p. g. has advanced snipers that's why we are taking it slow and trying to control these mountains first. turkey is a with the moment is to secure its border area with after the. air strikes and artillery can be heard all along this area but we're told that the y.p. g a well prepared and know the terrain this could be a long and difficult fight stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border folks supervisory board has called for an immediate inquiry into who commissioned tests in which monkeys and humans were exposed to toxic these all fuse folks feigin suspended its chief lobbyist on tuesday following the controversy and dein lawyer has suspended a board member over the scandal that a monkey experiment took place in new mexico in two thousand and fourteen and it

was funded by v.w. dime lawyer and b.m.w. dominic aim has more now from berlin. this unfolding scandal involving three of germany's largest car manufacturers daimler b.m.w. and fox fagen has profound implications not just for the motor industry but also the closeness of the relationship between the german government and the motor manufacturers let's remember the importance of the german car industry the automotive industry to the german economy very important generates a great deal of revenue every year creates many many jobs in this country which explains why the governments successive governments have sought to have a close relationship the point also to make here is the motive manufacturers have tried to distance themselves from the tests that are taken place of deprecates them condemn them so that that could never happen again but underlying all of this as i say is the perception of what is happening in the motor industry let's be clear ethics certainly raised its head regarding the diesel gate scandal of the devices

the defeat devices that were created to to allow the cars artificially to pass emissions tests well those have not faded from people's minds now the question people are asking is will how far does this idea of trying to get around rules doing things that might not be ethical how far does that extend and also there are some environmental lobby saying well we think that the government successive governments are too closely aligned with car firms and they want some kind of of breakup of that some kind of distancing to go ahead with a final point to make here is this is the last thing that the current acting government wanted to happen given the fact that there is no as the as it stands future coalition government agreed yet they're still talking and one of the buildings behind me they're still talking trying to thrash out a new deal. a u.s. judge says more than two hundred and sixty five people have come forward to say that they were victims of convicted sports dr larry nasser who is back in court to be sentenced for more sexual abuse charges around sixty people are expected to have

their statements read in court over allegations that nassar abused them at an elite club in the u.s. state of michigan that's who was sentenced to up to one hundred and seventy five years in jail earlier this month for assaulting over one hundred fifty women and girls during his time as a doctor for the u.s. gymnastics team well among his victims were olympic medalists including the u.s. gymnast simone biles who won four golds and a bronze in the two thousand and sixteen rio games i think it's very hard for someone to go through what i've gone through recently and it's very hard to talk about. but even that i think they did is my hero just because she gave it to him and did they let him get any power over any of the girls in letting the girls go and speak was very powerful it can't hurt you anymore you know he. can.

venezuela's economic collapse has led to a surge in crime not just at home but also in neighboring colombia criminal gangs are finding it increasingly lucrative to smuggle goods across the border selling them for as much as three times the price. went all night patrol with colombian special forces along the venezuelan border. shots ringing out over to see mom believe or bridge the boat in colombia and venezuela as people dodge and run for cover. in the last four months at least fourteen gunfights have erupted in the border town of. the gun battles have left forty people dead as colombian in venezuela and crime groups fight for control of the lucrative contraband of goods on this porous lawless border. the mayor says people are terrified. we need the national government to wake up about the effects of venezuela's crisis we are being told we need to prepare for what will come what is not what will come it's already here. since been president shut down the border last year to

all but foot traffic violence has increased tenfold. inflation is too profitable a temptation for the gangs. in two years the colombian peyser has increased forty times in value over diminished. across borders smuggling once limited to petrol now extends to scrap metal fruits meat or anything that can fetch three times its price in venezuela. response has been increasing police presence on the ground. so we're going to look for trucks full of contraband in this area probably informants already warned the smugglers of our presence so the trucks can be hidden in one of the trails. in pitch darkness in complete silence the officers patrol true a maze like collection of ever expanding trails but it's like finding a needle in a haystack at this. colombia special forces are on the lookout here on the river

toci which divides bin it's from colombia this is just one of over one hundred forty known crossings that smugglers use to move goods into colombe and of course it's practically impossible to control all of them despite the police best efforts but experts say the fight is also undermined by the lack of collaboration between the two countries and exacerbated by persistent corruption there's no doubt that the border is being sold to the highest bidder this area is in the hands of criminal enterprises dedicated to drug trafficking large scale smuggling extortion kidnapping human trafficking and it has been activated by the closure of the border the rising crime is just another side of be increasing economic and social crisis and been a swale and that has no end in sight alison that the. still to come on the program for. the fiftieth.

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a grassroots mobile phone network built in rural mexico has become a lifeline between indigenous communities and the rest of the world but authorities say that the ultra low cost service could be breaking the law and whether apollo

has more now from what haka. healed reese is paying his mobile phone bill forty or roughly three dollars for unlimited calls for the money as a municipal employee in the town of something ness in southern mexico that is his most valuable tool for coordinating public works up until a few years ago however something this population seven hundred fifty was just one of countless areas left in the dark by telecom companies that was until a nonprofit group called the indigenous communities telecommunications network came to town. it has helped a lot not only for this community but for the people of two or three neighboring towns who come here to use the service has been a big help. for years the police had gone out to sell service providers to expand their coverage but without a profit incentive telecom companies aren't known for making investments in rural villages some estimates suggest that more than forty percent of mexicans live in

areas outside of cellphone reach. but with the installation of two when tenets and a single call routing system half the population of something else isn't how connected at a price they can afford there is a problem however the mexican government has charged the nonprofit group who built the network nearly one million pesos about fifty two thousand dollars to operate. said to me that you can make a thousand calls in a month and it won't generate any cost it's only going to cost me to call long distance so i don't think it's far but as we say the government is the government and they're always trying to apply their titles. through the mobile phone network to what the people of something is can finally contact emergency services make long distance calls or simply order a cab members of low income communities invest their own money to create the network locally sourcing materials to build an entire communications infrastructure the result is mobile phone and internet services and almost ninety eight percent.

lower cost than other providers in mexico. the network is still new and far from perfect but locals seem thrilled to have any service at all you have your public workers like that we'll the user own network is about more than just cannae to be it means the members of his community are being better served by little up on the. block in mexico. can't stand to get all the sports news here speech. barbara thank you so much one of the most highly anticipated deals of the january transfer window has been completed arsenal have signed america obama young from the received order and for seventy nine million dollars the gabbin international comes to the english premier league with an impressive scoring record he netted ninety eight times in one hundred forty four bundesliga games he was also the twenty fifteen african footballer of the year sixth placed arsenal could do with him after

a three one loss to relegation threatened swanzy on tuesday mesut ozil has signed a new contract at arsenal making him one of the biggest owners the german world cup winner penned a three year deal and will pocket just under half a million dollars per week and morocco are attempting to reach the final of the african nations championship a biannual tournament for footballers that are based in africa exclusively it's into extra time against libya morocco currently in the lead there the second samy will see sudan take on i.j. area in merrick h. . russian president vladimir putin has apologized to the russian athletes who won't be heading to pyongyang for the winter olympics in december the i.o.c. issued a baron to russia for systematic manipulation at the twenty fourteen winter games of the anti doping system however the door is open for the country's athletes who participate under the banner of a limbic athletes from russia. has added that he believes the reasons for the band

went beyond sport when your solution you are going to sport it is twice as difficult when sport is nearer the sun events which are definitely unusual and strange to sport so with superficial circumstances politics or anything else. couldn't protect you from that but you and all sport fans should not have any doubt the russia will always stand for as it is always done the idea of clean sport we're just four days away from super bowl fifty two when the new england patriots will face the philadelphia eagles and patriots star quarterback tom brady is still trying to brush aside concerns over an injured throwing hand the forty year old of you will appear super bowl has given little away about the injury but n.f.l. media reports say he's had twelve stitches removed my hand it's getting better i mean it's not quite where i want to be. so i'm just trying to protect it the best

way i can i was obviously a very important. part of my body for a quarterback so i just wanted to be as healthy as possible for the game on sunday so. it's an arm or just made for me. it's a great glove it's got a lot of recovery in it and that's what i need this time despite brady's injury status the philadelphia eagles head coach is still very wary of the competition as they are their first ever super bowl title. our guys just go about their business every single day we know we know what we're faced against we know the opponent we're going against a lot of respect for them obviously and what they've done and what they've accomplished and. you know it's about what we do. you know how our players handle this week in a limited distractions and and eliminate the noise and. how well they prepare and get themselves ready to go ahead of their game u.s. president ronald trump has thirty reiterated his criticism of n.f.l.

players who chose to kneel during the national anthem to protest racial inequalities he sponsored political and social debate at the start of the season with those views trump was making his first state of the union address in washington d.c. on tuesday he was praising a twelve year old who places flags on the graves of u.s. veterans when he added these comments. i brushed and reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag why we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance and why we proudly stand for the national anthem. south africa will be looking through put the squeeze on india in the six match one day international cricket series starting in durban on thursday the south africans are looking to defend a proud home record against the indians south africa have only lost five times in

twenty nine home o.d.i. as against india since one thousand nine hundred two and captain fifty plus see says he's bowlers are already targeting weaknesses they detected in the indian batting line up in the test series they just won two one. the good thing i suppose that we can tell you the wonder is that. from a batting point of view they still have a few fewer eyes we can make we feel like we've got some we had some good plans in the test match to certain that is. just if you can keep you think you guys quiet those guys quiet in the early doors of the series you feel like you couldn't as a batting unit if you keep in mind the pressure. look real obviously we're going to win every seat is that people are. thinking of doing something which hasn't been done before. is not something that you would think of before achieving it. just adds extra pressure which is not needed the use the rockets james harden has

become the first ever player in n.b.a. history to post a sixty point triple double that means sixty points ten rebounds and eleven assists this achievement taking on the orlando magic eclipsed calvin murphy's fifty seven on the franchise is all time list the record murphy posted back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight and hard in big sur with a three point zero in the final minute of the game used and went on to be told no one hundred fourteen one hundred m. simmons. that's all the sport back to london thank you that vietnam is marking fifty years since the battle that ultimately forced the united states that end its war there as vietnamese prepared to celebrate the lunar new year also known as tet communist forces from the north launched a wave of attacks in more than one hundred cities when he reports now on the legacy of the tet offensive. government and communist party leaders gathered in her city

to remember the tet offensive it was a celebration in a city that used to be called side gone the capital of south vietnam that was defended by southern troops and the united states allies during the vietnam war. but fifty years ago as vietnamese were preparing to celebrate the lunar new year communist soldiers from the north launched a surprise attack on saigon and other cities in the south the timing wasn't a coincidence many south vietnamese soldiers had gone home to visit family for the tet holiday the north saw an opportunity to defeat the enemy and spark an uprising in saigon that it hoped would result in the overthrow of the u.s. backed government in the show. the attempt failed and the north soldiers were forced to retreat minus around fifty eight thousand who were killed but ultimately the tet offensive was seen as a turning point in a long and costly war in the united states it fueled antiwar sentiment the year after the tet offensive the u.s. began a gradual withdrawal from the there was completed in one thousand nine hundred eighty

three despite the signing of a cease fire and peace accords the war continued and only ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy five when the north took saigon. today vietnam remains unified under a communist government it views the anniversary of the tet offensive as a mark of heroism not because of what it did or didn't achieve initially but with the victory that it led to wane hey al-jazeera. that's it for me more news in a few minutes from the clarke but i. hate the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is

always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. training starts lightly but the pace picks up quickly as these grannies work out a long lifetime of frustration. at eighty five years. sold intombi sold what trains as hard as anyone and. i feel so good i feel fresh i punch this side and this side like this and like that. i don't like things like soccer because i think these ladies are tough and they take their training very seriously you. know you feel

a. little more energetic you feel like. the rhythm of our lives are vital source of substance to the countries it flows through this nor the single on who can lay claim it would be a decent god given the resources we found both agreed with with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the river and transporting sea consultation was not often included hunters because of some unknown fear of stroke a little bit of this time on al-jazeera. the u.s. state department does ignites hamas leader ismail haniyeh a global terrorist and announce sanctions against them. this is the e.u. steps up with an extra fifty three million dollars of aid for palestine after the

u.s. decision to.