asper orchestra at this time the river nile is a vital source of sustenance to the countries and flows through this normal thing called on who can lay claim to build a wall isn't good given the resources we found voted for it but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country is suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the republicans transponding see the consultation was not up to me political counters because of some fear of struggle over but a desire on al-jazeera. this is zero. caliber angelina donald this is that the news hour live from london coming up

kenya's government ignores a court order suspending the shutdown of three t.v. channels some journalists have been sleeping in the news room to avoid arrest. video messages emerges showing mass graves in me and my rights groups say evidence is growing of a genocide against the range of. us republicans are accused of altering a secret memo which alleges f.b.i. bias against president trump. polish lawmakers israel by approving a bill to fine or jail anyone who suggests poland was complicit in the holocaust. and. top story in sports a lifetime a little big bands of twenty eight russian athletes on the football the court of arbitration for sport this just over a week from the winter of the big games. kenya's

high court has ordered the government to reopen the three t.v. stations it shut down on chewstick the country's top t.v. networks were taken off the air after they tried to broadcast a mall cannot get ration ceremony held by opposition leader raul adiga some journalists have been sleeping in the office fearing arrest if they leave the shutdown provoked an outcry from human rights groups and journalists bots despite the ruling the t.v. stations are still off the air catherine so explains. lunchtime news at n.t.v. one of three t.v. stations switched off by the communications of foreign of kenya on tuesday the news bulletin was only available online cutting off millions of iranians nationwide who can't afford the internet repeatedly was here's why opposition leader right loading or taking an informal oath swearing to be as he called himself the people's president tens of thousands of his supporters rather more gratian the tuesday

government wants t.v. stations against providing live coverage because of security reasons the directive was ignored by some the government allowed the event took place so i don't get the sense of what is legal but is allowed to take place. and then it will be an offense i don't understand the ministers. why they are allowed the event but cannot allow coverage the high court has now ordered the resumption of t.v. services until a challenge to the government ban is had in two weeks the cabinet secretary in charge of security to sit in this office of the president says that tuesday's symbolic swearing in of rollo dinka was an attempt to overthrow the government and a threat to national security he say the t.v. stations that were taken off air while facilitating that illegality. police have

also arrested the lawyer who presided over the whole thing and have declared the national resistance movement an organized criminal in the opposition coalition started the movement last year to push for electoral reforms through peaceful resistance these opposition leaders say plans to intimidate them won't work really for for a long time to leave this country a new constitution and twenty. the new constitution really with all the freedoms that you do. is earned serious talk. but the indices he doesn't recognize who are looking at is president because he won the presidential election last august the result was invalidated by the supreme court it remains unclear what his next steps will be or even what he states will people's president really means catherine soil jazeera nairobi kenya more than a thousand miners in south africa are stuck underground after

a storm not type power the beatrix gold mine is near the city of welcome in central free state the mining company says the workers are being supplied with food and water and are not in immediate danger sixty five people have already been rescued now at least five previously reported mass graves have been uncovered in me in la that's according to the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to those sites when contacted by al-jazeera the me and mark government declined to comment on the latest reports of mass graves where than six hundred ninety thousand were injured have fled me and larson's a military crackdown was launched in august last year scott hyla reports now from the angle. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies are buried may. its investigation

suggest at least five previously unreported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. who ever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by the military which they burnt down using launchers. it's not the massacre took place in rakhine state. a few weeks ago for the first time the military here said that soldiers were involved in civilian deaths it acknowledged one mass grave containing the bodies of ten it's called terrorists the u.n. says reports of more mass graves warrants further investigation. i do not have the details of this particular site or the village that scrapes but it is.

it is. you can see it's a pattern that we that i said earlier. you know we had that to not to leave mass but indeed that's where the mass graves were discovered. but when i was talking to some of the refugees amounted to me he had he had buried four hundred in thirty plus bodies before he escaped his town. and i received growing names of people who. are legit killed or missing so this is something that needs to be investigated and this is why we've called for a fact finding mission and human rights watch says there's growing evidence of genocide in rakhine state what is most worrisome about this report beyond obviously the killings is now the effort to cover this up that they discovered. in some

instances acid is being used to burn off the features of the people killed or burned off the fingerprints to try to obstruct any accountability and that shows a degree of pre-planning that will really i think impact the international community's decisions about whether this is constitutes genocide or not you know mars government has previously denied any reports of a massacre it has now cut off access to good up in other than tightly controlled government trip to the area north and with kind state where there was violence has been closed off to the u.n. humanitarian groups and journalists it's got harder al jazeera young gone well r.t. and we spoke to associated press journalists false to clear told us how his team there are five. we found a guy named mohammed. who worked at the kiosk in one of the camps and he had the original cell phone memory card that he had taken in myanmar and he wrapped it up with plastic and tied it to his thigh you know and walked through these checkpoints

and into bangladesh without it getting taken so we had the original footage of these graves now to verify and we asked him numerable questions about what was in these videos how he knew what was in the videos where he was when he took them and then we went to nearly two dozen other people from the village separately to ask them similar questions about those videos and you know pretty much everyone agreed it was good ip that everyone recognized you know things as granular as the placement of banana trees or you know where rice paddies were in relation to you know trees the background of various hills so we felt pretty confident that these videos were authentic we have the actual memory card with the time stamp showing of the date that it was taken at the time and then we have the corroborating evidence

from the people there lots of videos including of a good option but without the time stamp they just have much less weight here and secondly general until may get terrorists is calling for the release of two voices journalist attained to me in law while lonely and quiet so who were arrested in yangon in december whilst covering the war hinge a crisis for the news agency they're accused of violating the official secrets act and faced up to fourteen years in jail earlier a court denied them. israel says it's adamantly opposed to a polish bill that would make it illegal to suggest poland was complicit in the nazi holocaust poland's upper house approved the draft legislation despite objections from both israel and the us harry fawcett reports on the reaction in israel to the live. in the early hours of thursday morning polish senators voted to pass a bill that israel says is designed to hide the truth about poland's role in the

holocaust nazi occupied poland was the second world war site of some of the worst horrors of the holocaust the concentration camp at auschwitz birkenau has become its most potent symbol but poland objects to terms such as polish death camps instead of nazi ones pointing out poles with victims of invasion then occupation is what it will go for we are very sad and surprised our fight for the truth for the dignity of paul's is perceived and interpreted in this way. the bill would punish without the three years' imprisonment anyone accusing the polish nation of complicity in the extermination of the jews the domestic opponents of the proposed law its terms to groove. now for a third of the public discussion should take place without any obstacles it cannot take place under the supervision of the prosecutor after poland's lower house voted the bill through last friday israel's prime minister called it an attempt to rewrite history demanding the proposed legislation be amended the israeli government says it adamantly opposed to this second vote adding that no law can

change historical truth and there are support in the israeli parliament the knesset for a bill here to challenge the polish one by offering protection legally to anyone prosecuted for their views on the holocaust overseas and making it illegal to deny complicity in the holocaust as well as the event itself opposition leader peered his great grandmother was killed in poland is one of the laws sponsors if you see the kind of protests and the senate is the cause for our shared a costco weeks in poland to do this you understand why is it so important for us to be able to maintain the memory of the holocaust is that what really happened during the years of the forty five jews who murder and poles were helping israel's holocaust memorial yad vashem pays tribute to nearly seven thousand poles who didn't save their jewish neighbors at the height of the holocaust but one of israel's leading scholars on the period says many more poles were complicit in

corinth research shows us that many of those jews were killed not because of the german something they were handed to the germans but by poorly citizens by poles who found them to polish government this bill is an effort to stop a defeated occupied nation from being defamed as a partner in the nazi genocide to israelis it seems like an attempt to shield thousands of polish citizens from blame or a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem. palestinian president mahmoud abbas says he'll give away were to us the united nations security council later this month let's get more from our diplomatic edison james bays at the u.n. in new york on the significance of this still pretty rare event shades. very unusual what happens every single month in the u.n. security council as they have a meeting about the situation in the middle east referring to the israeli palestinian conflict that happens every single month there is always the israeli

ambassador and the palestinian ambassador at this meeting well the palestinian president as i appended that fire announcing that rather than his ambassador attending the meeting that's coming up on the twentieth of this month he is going to come in person in effect it is a showdown at the u.n. security council by the palestinian president who is deeply unhappy about the situation unhappy by recent comments from president trump last week in davos unhappy that the funding to the u.n. agency that deals with the palestinians under has been cut by the u.s. administration unhappy with the u.s. administration's recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital remember that president abbas has already said he doesn't now see the u.s. as an honest broker in the conflict and us palestinian relations the worst they've been in years with that backdrop he's coming here in a couple of weeks' time what's not clear is who will also be in the security council chamber at the time i think certainly israel and the u.s.

have been somewhat wrong footed by this when it's not clear whether they would just be represented as ever by their ambassadors the u.s. ambassador nikki haley and the israeli ambassador danny down on or whether they will send a higher level representation it's worth me telling you that israeli ambassador is a political a titian political figure in his own right and a former cabinet minister israel may decide that he should stay here but of course they could decide to send a higher level figure they could decide to send prime minister netanyahu himself james as their lives that farm the u.n. james thanks. coming up on this news hour from london u.s. secretary of state lawrence that russia's growing presence in latin america is in law arming as c. begins a seven day tour of the region u.s. threatens the syrian government after reports of another chlorine gas attack in former. still has plenty of rice in him we'll explain all later in.

the white house has given its approval to release a controversial memo on the investigation into alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election the republican document claims an abuse of power by the f.b.i. the justice department and the f.b.i. are very unhappy about its release alan fisher has the details from washington d.c. . the memo has dominated talk in washington for days donald trump was even asked about it as he left his state of the union speech three things. that were going to happen that in fact the four page memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee it alleges a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration while investigating the truck campaign during the u.s. election the f.b.i. issued a real statement arguing that there were important details left out which would fundamentally impact the memos accuracy and the justice department says releasing

the document would be extraordinarily reckless it's the president who must make the ultimate decision to declassify and release but no after a national security review the white house is blanked out some parts of the document and sent it back to the committee it can no be published at any time at a gathering of republicans in west virginia the president made no fresh mention of the memo but afterwards speaking to the media republican leadership defended the idea of its release this family's not indictment of the f.b.i. the department of justice it does not impugn the mall or investigation or the deputy attorney general what it is is the congress's legitimate function of oversight democrats have argued the release of the memo over their own objections are all part of a campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the presidential election in fact the leading democrat in the house has called on the

republican chairman of the intelligence committee they have a new ms to be removed in a letter to speaker paul ryan nancy pelosi says congressman is has abused his position to launch a highly unethical and dangerous cover up campaign for the white house congressman nunez deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as chairman and he must be removed immediately from this position the leading democrat on the committee says the row doesn't serve the american people the memo is. seriously misleading because it omits very material information and has deep factual inaccuracy. knew this was part of the trump transition team and last year recused himself from leading the russian investigators now he will decide if he will release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington of course in the old days has ordered the release of former president mohamed nasheed the order comes as the

supreme court dismissed a terrorism conviction against him saying he was jailed following what it called flawed trials the courts also called for the release of several other politicians including the former vice president. twenty eight russian athletes have had their lifetime bans from olympic sport overturned for lack of evidence eight days before the winter games in pyung chang president putin says he's pleased with the decision that leaves the international olympic committee's campaign against doping in disarray voice challenge reports now from law school such a gold medalist alexander led cough silver medalist olga. gold medalist alexander tretiak of just three of the twenty eight russian athletes who have their limping doping bans overturned their results at the last winter olympics in russia four years ago reinstated after their appeals were upheld by the court of arbitration for sport the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that's

an anti-doping rule violation it was committed yet leitz concerned this does not mean that these twenty that leads are declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the abuse of held it's a setback for the case built against russia by the international olympic committee well as anti-doping agency. putin has often said the anti doping allegations against russia are politically motivated even though they are designs to interfere in the upcoming presidential elections well that voice is less than two months away now and so for the kremlin cass's decision is a timely gift it fits neatly into a picture often painted here certainly one regularly offered by the government and state media of russia as a besieged fortress righteously defending itself against a largely hostile world and russia is now pushing for its previously disgraced

sports men and women to be readmitted to the winter olympics starting next week in south korea because just. the court of arbitration for sport confirmed athletes are clean and earned the right to take part in the olympics so the russian olympic committee will send a letter to the international olympic committee suggesting they allow athletes to compete in the olympic games. despite what russia's sports minister says the international olympic committee notes cass's point i lack of evidence doesn't prove the innocence of those athletes for now the i.o.c. seems reluctant to readmit them to compete in p.r. . the result of the caste decision does not mean that it's from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games not being sanctioned does not automatically confer the privilege of an invitation still provided it's not overturned on appeal the caste decision means russia has the legal momentum in

a country where sports and politics often march together that's a boon for its athletes and the kremlin will reach alan's how does iraq moscow. the north korean athletes who will compete in china who arrive sides of the border ahead of those games ten stairs and skates has arrived in a red direct flight between north and south korea and agreement was reached last month between the two countries to allow a delegation of athletes from the north to compete the two teams will walk together under a unification flag at the opening ceremony the head of the friendship day rejoined law tullus has admitted that it may have been producing salmonella tainted baby milk since two thousand and five well than twelve million baby milk products were recalled last month after it was revealed that thirty eight babies have been contaminated by formula product project ducks tell us factory in western france the company's chief executive has told a french newspaper the same strain of salmonella was responsible for another i

break in two thousand and five in the factory may have been the source. a man who drove his van into a crowd outside a london mosque last year has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder one person was killed and nine people were injured when davening was born rammed his van into worshippers and since be part prosecutors says those born was influenced by far right ideology and motivated by hatred of muslims are u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips reports. daryl's born in a pub in wales days before the attack the police call him a hate filled with a history of violence drug and alcohol abuse in the pub he wrote a letter which was found in the van he used for the attack a letter so full of hatred for muslims say the police that it's too offensive to release he rents the van to drive to london police say to find muslim targets he says he wanted to kill opposition labor leader jeremy corbin he drove all over london arriving at the muslim welfare house in finsbury park after midnight where

people were leaving after ramadan prayers and one man happened to fall ill on the street c.c.t.v. footage shows the van moments before it drove into the crowd on the left of the screen down all the corner drove down this road the seven sisters road into this little cul de sac where a crowd of people were trying to help who by coincidence had fallen ill just a few moments before he plowed into the crowd as he got out of his vial i wouldn't think court said that he was smiling the local eman protected him from the crowd until the police arrived moments later the crew say that this was an attack on all londoners why do you know why the police have released a call from someone who asks for help for macro is he conscious. then. we hear the attack. are already come out of people are

going to. the police told me darron osborne acted alone but right wing extremism is a growing threat in britain we have arrested more individuals than we've ever done in relation to domestic extremism related activity. we've seen three groups described by the government the government was also appointed a new extremist commission which is welcomed. and we are pushing more people through our prevent and channel program relevant to again this category of people this diverse community has suffered i spoke to the who protected daryl's born from the angry crowd there are lost in. scars and wounds and those immediately affected and then there is a last thing fear. and concern in the air. what's to say the van or that car coming speeding in our direction isn't the next

down osborne. the troubled individual who turned into a politically motivated killer bobby phillips al-jazeera finsbury park in north london tensions are rising in south africa's drive hit city take time where residents are in the middle of a severe water shortage one person was arrested after a fight broke out in the natural spring where residents have been collecting water new restrictions were introduced on thursday in a man's time to avoid daisy will the day in april and they may have to turn off most taps people are being asked to use no more than fifty metres of water a day this week we've been coming here for the past five years the only now having a plane been here for more than ten years this has been getting it out has been happening full told on the only planting now. and this is my first experience with these new rules that's been put into place it's tough but what can you do we all need the water it's the live shows. and we just go with

a pro so to come this hour wind agreement on reuniting refugee families could also bring unity to germany's political parties a comedian faces charges for a joke about the saudi king campaigners say press freedom is on the thread in that manner and inspire the new england patriots and philadelphia eagles at the training ground as the countdown to the soap super bowl continues. however the weather though looking a little on several across western parts of that it's right over the next couple of days ago this large band of cloud here that's been sinking this way down across from the bright skies from all the members paris started to the see a few showers but much much draw brighter than all of like this out west of weather though to the south of france so that western side of the but it's right is

disturbed weather to more than areas by. portugal has become one through friday some wintry weather there cross the peronist bitrate of around nine celsius just a season seven seven london in paris to see a little bit of when she weather that just around. easing down into that east the side of france but the real wet weather is down across southern most parts of us will positively have the possibility of snow stretching right the way up to moscow moscow st thomas getting up to freezing warming up on recent valleys was started gets monocytes over the last couple of days to say house is a possibility on sas the name of some really wet weather there just around the balkan snow in the northern flank that into the austrian alps it's possible hungary it's a possibility of some snow to have the high aground off and in scotland as we go on through sas they come for the self-esteem a little bit of a wintry mix of course northern parts of africa recently spawning and they have rain over the next few days thirteen.

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al-jazeera. the mind of our top stories here on al-jazeera kenya's government has ignored a court order to reopen three t.v. stations which were shut down on tuesday after they tried to broadcast a mock inauguration ceremony opposition leader by letting go of these five previously unreported mass graves of range of muslims have been uncovered in indian law that's according to the associated press news agency. i mean f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo which accuses the agency of appeasing its surveillance powers to target the trump campaign during the twenty sixteen presidential

elections. well the u.s. secretary of state says russia's growing presence in latin america is alarming he also predicted that there will be a change in venezuela rex tillerson was giving a speech at the university of texas before setting off on a weeklong tour of latin america. russia's growing presence in the region is alarming as well as he continues to sell arms and military equipment to unfriendly regimes who do not share or respect democratic values our region must be deliberate diligent to guard against faraway powers who do not reflect the fundamental values shared in this region well the first stop on to listen to is mexico so let's go live to mexico city now where we can speak to make a sun is says a former mexican ambassador to the united states or a very warm welcome to the program great to have your company tell us and didn't say too much today in his speech were guarding mexico but what are you expecting

from his visit and what is mexico expecting. well secretary dealers only say very well there are certain ormonde problems. of the u.s. and he has been a good friend of mexico and pension down here is that conversation with him will be good but of course as you know the president probably not always. so we will have to wait and see so are you expecting a scenario where perhaps to listen will say all the right things and then in a couple of days we'll see some tweets from donald trump that suggests otherwise. on his visit last year as. general kelly were here in mexico they were having a very good conversation with their mexican counterparts i'm almost thinking of the president from was then i mean what they were saying and was contradicting what

they were saying so that is of course something that is very much in the back of the mind of mexicans or piece of them here the president probably not going to do the thing but of course after one year of listening president from the things about mexico and about mexicans but nothing really happening we are kind of getting used to a lot of noise very little. from president from i wonder if you can the select for a second we heard and to listen and mention today that he expects some changes in venezuela and he also talks about russian influence in the region what do you make of those comments and what do you think the u.s. policy towards the whole region could look like or maybe should let life. well there has been a lot of information on that and as you know the f.b.i.

used very much looking into what was the involvement of the russian agents being through the u.s. election and of course the white house price to say that there was not but now that they're paying attention to the potential involvement in the future of mexican elections these year. and any county should be concerned about that i'm mexico he's concerned about that i'm not sure how much that was but i want i do know is that the mexicans come through our network of the u.s. which is the largest consular network in the world was very much a target in their work of the russian agencies in two thousand and sixteen when the american elections took place and make well just going back for a second to mexico you know what do you think the two countries should be working on together obviously there are issues with cross border crime what should the

focus of the relationship be the positive focus of the relationship. apologizing to our viewers there i think we've lost our connection there with the son is a former mexican ambassador to the united states so when government air strikes have killed at least twenty eight people in villages and times across it to someone countryside according to the syrian observatory for human rights it's part of an offensive to retake adlib province which is controlled by tahir all sham dominated by the formerly al qaida no strike front syrian government troops have now advanced to within one miles of the rebels break a stronghold and it they're heading toward sada cave and are also aiming to take a key highway to the city's east that stretches from aleppo side where it's towards hama homes and damascus at least three women have been injured after a suspected chlorine gas attack and do money are serious capital the u.s.

state department says it's monitoring reports of the attack which is the third suspect to use of chemical weapons in a month it follows white house briefings that washington could use military force to deter the syrian government. we are watching very carefully and the united states is an extremely concerned about yet another report of the use of chlorine gas by syria the syrian regime to terrorize innocent civilians in the east good of syria outside of damascus if confirmed the attack is the third reported instance in the past thirty days in the east ghouta we take the allegations of chemical weapons use very seriously and are working with our partners on the ground to investigate the reports we will continue to seek accountability through all of ailill diplomatic mechanisms including the united nations security council and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons for the confirmed use of chemical weapons by any party we call on the international community to hold the perpetrators of these attacks accountable and will speak with

a united voice in condemnation if we fail to uphold the principles set forth in the many international agreements related to chemical weapons we undermined their fundamental principles and we failed the innocent they were created to protect so was jordan was at that briefing and she joins us now from the state department hi there was can you tell us a bit more about what was said in the briefing. well essentially the point is this heather nauert to the state department spokesperson also said that the situation is happening not just because of the assad regime willingness to attack innocent civilians for the purpose of trying to stay in power but she also cast the blame on russia for not using its influence with the assad government in order to get it to comply not just with international protocols governing the use or banning the use of certain chemical weapons but also from refraining from doing such things as

using chlorine gas against civilian populations chlorine is not classified we should let our viewers know as an outlawed substance that could be used in times of war but there is a very widespread condemnation of its use because it is so highly irritating and a poisonous substance of the i've also heard from another state department official who indicates that the situation involving the use of sarin gas. apparently the material that was used in that attack matches a sample from of the weapons stores which syria turned over during the obama administration in order to avoid some sort of military response for its use of chemical weapons against rebel fighters and civilian targets so even though officials on don't want to telegraph what they want to do against the assad regime

they are very much trying to raise international awareness that the u.s. for one does not approve of the situation was to thank you know any further in the briefing than sort of general disapproval did they talk about what they might be prepared to do about what they perceive as this threat from these kinds of weapons in syria. well remember that at the u.n. security council there had been created by the united states and russia this entity called the joint investigative mechanism better known as jim well it needed to be renewed at the end of last year in order to continue with the work even though the people who made up that investigative team were very often denied access to sites where syria had been accused of using chemical weapons against civilian targets well russia which is perhaps syria's closest ally on the security council

basically stood the way of that bodies were new will and so right now there is no international body that can have this sort of authority to not just investigate but bring evidence to the security council so that it could try to perhaps impose new sanctions against the assad regime the u.s. is trying to see if there is a way to perhaps stand up a new kind of investigative body that would have that kind of legal have to but it is still very early days in that effort and they're already running into strong resistance from moscow on that effort was jordan there live from washington d.c. votes thank you the turkish foreign minister has given an exclusive interview jounces a red cross border offensive in northern syria madlib have a solo says his country has no interest in an exchange syria if there is a threat other side of the border and international law and the u.n. charter is and has allusions security council resolution actually give right to

that country to eliminate that threat so this is what the riyadh doing there to eliminate the terrorist organization we are not targeting to curt's not syrians i mean the syrians not our ups not to mention. we have no interest in serious territory and three or purport this is. our aim is to defeat this terrorist organization and actually through defeating. terrorist organization or cleaning this area from the terror ria supporting. the country's territory interact with it and you can see the full interview with the turkish foreign minister on talk to al-jazeera that's on saturday at four thirty g. it will also be broadcast on sunday at eight thirty in the morning and one thousand thirty g.m.t.

. the number of child victims of the war in gammon is increasing with saudi led coalition airstrikes responsible for most of those elite u.n. report seen by al-jazeera found that ninety seven children were killed in yemen in the third quarter of twenty seventeen that's up from sixty seven in the second quarter coalition airstrikes were the main cause killing sixty eight children between june and september with eighteen killed in incidents attributed to hooty rebels u.n. find there was a fall in the overall number of incidents involving children but with a higher fatality rate well saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are trying to end a standoff between government forces and secessionist finds this in the yemeni port city of aden the southern city was overrun by separatists armed by the u.a.e. to control the size of bad governments headquarters on sunday it's opened up a new front in yemen's war preventing much needed aid from reaching civilians saudi and amorality envoys have met with both sides arching them to abide by

a cease fire and refocus they were tensions on fighting. in the north. cause us foreign minister has told an audience in washington d.c. washington d.c. that the ongoing blockade of his country is undermining the fight against terrorism while had been abdulrahman our funny was speaking to the american enterprise institute. the illegal to block it started last year again it's thought that it is one of many instruments of seven tell each intended to be my country into submission the world is discovering that the blockading states would stop at nothing illegal market manipulation different kind of going to sions humanitarian assaults silencing dissenters weaponize in public and and undermining the global fight against terrorism german politicians have voted to allow refugees to start bringing their closest relatives into the country later this year a decision it so will end the nation's political deadlock issues spend

a major hurdle in ongoing talks to form a new government holbein and has more now from berlin. the refugee protest outside the german parliament looked as for long as the hopes of the thousands of families across germany wanting their loved ones to be re-united even before the vote inside the bundestag a deal had already been agreed in principle the price of a new coalition government is tight new immigration controls you have you have no income for us in the c.d.u. it was important that we have a legal regulation for migrant family reunifications and for the s.p.d. it was important that family reunifications are possible in general so here is our commitment what's called the right of reunification was suspended in two thousand and sixteen meaning refugees who had reached germany were prevented from bringing their immediate family to join them. was an experienced engineer in syria before fleeing the war and reached germany with her two sons she tried six times to have

her husband who's also an engineer join the mall in berlin in the end she succeeded through a refugee sponsorship scheme vitamin money and lying but my husband was alone and say on this it is very dangerous we are apart for two years and my children had to grow up alone but in the end i had to chance through it is one of the organization that my husband was able to come and i think the law is impossible and inhumane but i don't think you can tear families apart ones rights campaigners say they're deeply concerned the original ban on reunifications had been due to expire in march and many families had made applications in anticipation of that date their hopes of now been dashed until late summer at the earliest plus the figure of one thousand a month is a maximum number and in reality depending on the criteria the real figure could be

much smaller there's been a huge and very ugly debate on numbers and guessing of how many persons will come in fact the rest. serious studies they talk about sixty thousand people will come. right in the human rights law you can tear families apart and that's why we think it is one of the only legal and safe routes for refugees to come to a safe place. the bundestag vote appears to address the largest obstacle preventing a new coalition government being formed but the debate over the use of quotas to regulate refugee numbers is far from over here brennan al-jazeera. a former russian regional governor and high profile office issued fixture has been jailed for corruption the key to a barricade was convicted of taking almost two hundred thousand dollars in cash from the owner of a timber farm and twenty sixteen he was the governor of the kiddo of region for seven years up to his arrest they can't deny the charges and his supporters say the

conviction is politically motivated. the host of a lebanese talk show has become the latest media figure to be caught up in a crackdown on freedom of speech comedian hitchen hard that is accused of defaming the crown prince of saudi arabia by making jokes about him on t.v. press freedom groups say the case is part of a campaign in lebanon designed to intimidate the media said huldah has more now from beirut. it's a comedy show but the host has sham had dad is being indicted for what he says was a joke. his show featured a fortune teller who advised the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man not to eat fast food for his health had dad then gave his own advice. he should stop fast arrests fast politics fast military strikes what do i care if he gains weight or has a belly or cholesterol. he's the second t.v. presenter to face charges by the public prosecutor in two months i understood that

i myself was summoned for questioning not because of comments he made but comments made by two saudi journalists who criticize lebanon's president on a political talk show its host says his case is aimed at intimidating the media. and the list. i'm not a criminal or a drug dealer i'm not a terrorist belonging to weisel my identity is well known i'm a journalist that has been struggling for more than twenty five years to defend freedom freedom of expression and human rights the judiciary is accused of political interference in the court cases digit dish very denies that the minister of justice belongs to a political party affiliated with the president lebanon's constitution guarantees freedom of expression and them and they need to be reformed for example journalists can be imprisoned for criticizing a public official rights group say the media in lebanon is being pressured and the space for free expression is shrinking.

political. strange. political message. as if they're saying you can't say what you want and. if you don't look like. jail. the. freedom of speech. is just ahead on. business updates to you by. going places to get.

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now here's peter out with all the things sports news pieces julie thank you so much with the pyung chang winter games a week away russia has received a huge boost the court of arbitration for sport has overturned a decision to ban twenty eight russian athletes from the limbic sport for life due to accusations of doping the court ruled there was not sufficient evidence to penalize the athletes the decision also sees their results from the saatchi twenty fourteen games reinstated meaning russia return to the top of the medals table for those games and additional eleven will be allowed to compete again after the games but russian lawyers are now looking to get these partial bans fully lifted this

does not mean that these twenty that leads are declared innocent but in that case due to insufficient evidence the appearance of held the sanctions and the old and their individual results achieved in such reinstated. hours before their decision russian athletes who will computers and neutrals arrived in south korea the nation was also banned from kyung due to accusations of states doping at the international olympic committee has allowed one hundred sixty nine athletes to take part in wearing white uniforms that specify a limbic athlete from russia the national anthem and flag will also not be allowed though they receive the same dough from russia's president vladimir putin our sports correspondent leigh willing says they're the way the matter between the international olympic committee and court of arbitration for sport and the russian olympic committee has transpired is rather shambolic. it is such

a mess twenty eight of them up including you can see that the international olympic committee doesn't think they're clean and doesn't want them there they really resisting it they said look we haven't invited them they are not invited to these games now russia hasn't come out yet and said well you really need to have these twenty athletes there are further eleven of course you are not even able to cast this is it to try and get to them but we're talking about being eight or nine days away from competition and the i.o.c. are trying to sort out a terrible mess and of course the situation with the reputation of the olympics and where the public is i keep talking about to the public trust in who's winning gold silver and bronze because nobody's saying that because of they will claim that's not what they're saying there wasn't enough evidence for a lifetime ban from and then pick news to football now and english team west ham united have suspended their director of player recruitment following a lidgerwood discriminatory remarks about african players the club which has only

one african player in its first team squad according to its website punished tony hey mary saying it does not accept any type of discrimination henry. reportedly told the newspaper that african players cause mayhem and can have a bad attitude after they approached him following an email they obscene in which henry told an agent he did not want any more africans at his club the english f.a. are investigating the incident and according to one of africa's most distinguished football journalists gary al smith they are taking the matter seriously even enough at least to not impact the african fanbase i think that they have stopped dead in the right way because they spoke space and. the f.a.a. is investigating them. also been suspended henry pending any

i think that everybody's taking it seriously like you said issued a statement saying that it included discrimination. into training people they need equality and. so i think that any african dance with. one person and not the club in general because i mean you have to be quite really to take african story when it comes to the english premier league it will be no english premier league and their success without the african input so i do think that this is a problem until former president sepp blatter is considering legal action against the governing body of all of world football in a bid to clear his name the eighty one year old is currently serving a six year ban for ethics violations which was prompted by the fief a corruption scandal that erupted in twenty fifteen the swiss confirmed he's legal team all working on a potential case he has already lost an appeal against the ban at the court of all

patrician for sport that's ahead feet first from nineteen ninety eight until twenty fifteen. the new england patriots and philadelphia eagles have hit the training pad ok head of sunday's super bowl in minneapolis the patriots are looking for the third title in four years and six the overall while the eagles are yet to learn the vince lombardi trophy but the n.f.l. commissioner roger goodell has still been answering questions about us president donald trump he's been critical of players who have knelt throughout the season to protest racial injustice will there be any consideration to keeping the teams in the locker room while the anthem is played and also as a follow up have you spoken at all to president roh about his frequent criticism of players who do protest during the anthem the answer to your second question is no

the answer to your first question is i don't know however what will consider in the offseason i'm still trying to get to. its advantage in india after a victory in durban in the first of six one day internationals against south africa as a captain faf duplicity had won twenty to help his team post to sixty nine for eight in their fifty overs but indian skipper virat kohli hit one hundred twelve as the tourists won with four overs to spare. and that's all the sport more later could say thank you now this week's flooding in northern france is called massive disruption with one hundred fifty people evacuated from one town in normandy and metro stations closed in paris but it's not been bad news for everybody to paris teenagers look at this have been taking advantage of the flooded streets to intel's their hobby of way ordering the setting up a cable bury bill to wait board all the way to their front door water have of course receded so it looks like it'll be pretty short lived through so many make to the relief of their neighbors. you can buy that much more about the stories that we

are following you can see our sent a story in the middle of the page there about the situation in the maldives it's updated with content from our correspondents around the globe that's it for me jamie macdonald up be back in just to say though with much more.

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