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next sixty minutes what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the president classifies republican memo accusing the f.b.i. of abusing its power as allowing the house intelligence analysts who released it. the u.n. report shows a big rise in the number of yemeni children killed by the saudi led coalition last summer. france and more police to carry layoff to five people shot during clashes between migrants also. the father of three of lowry nassau as abuse victims tries to attack the former usa gymnastics doctor as he appears in court. i'm far is small in doha our top sports story pictures are released of the joint north and south korean hockey team training together ahead of a display of unity at their winter olympic games.

a low our top story a classified republican memo that alleges f.b.i. bias against president trump has been released by the republican led house intelligence panel this after the white house declassify the documents it was commissioned by republican devon una's who heads the house intelligence committee and was part of the trump campaign the memo says an f.b.i. official admitted that a dossier on trunk compiled by a former british agent was an essential part of an application for surveillance of a court of page last march but it wasn't disclosed that the democratic party paid for the dossier democrats say the memo is an attempt to derail special counsel robert well as. best occasion into the trump campaign's links to russia will the u.s. president attack the leadership of the f.b.i. accusing the agency of being biased against him while investigating his alleged

links to russia he tweeted the top leadership investigations of the f.b.i. and the justice department of politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats and against republicans something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago rank and file are great people and i want house correspondent kelly joins me live and so can really we are now getting more and more information about the contents of the memo what have you been hearing about it what's been the reaction there. well the reaction has been so overwhelming marianne that initially many reporters weren't even able to look at the memo when it went live on the house intelligence website essentially it crashed for many including myself and they we relied sort of on one another within the white house briefing room to take a look at it that is the level of intensity and interest in washington and around the united states right now with regard to this memo now some of it we already knew

but there is that sort of one element that many republicans are reacting to saying this is conclusive proof that they believe the obama white house at its highest levels abused u.s. intelligence to weaponize it essentially against a political opponent namely donald trump the element that people seem to be focusing on that you touched on briefly at the start of this so is the revelation by the then deputy director andrew mccabe before the house intelligence committee that in fact when obtaining a surveillance warrant the crux of that evidence for that warrant on carter page a trump aide was in fact a democratic funded dossier that seems to be what most people are focusing on and this is something that just a short time ago the president reacted to in the oval office i think the memo i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do

whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that so i sent it over to congress they will do what they are going to do whatever they do is find it was declassified and let's see what happens. kimberly this the release of this memo throws up many different issues around civil liberties and privacy and the whole process of obtaining conversations between us citizens but fundamentally all goes back to the same thing which is the investigation by special counsel robert muller into alleged links between the campaign and russia what are likely what are we likely to see happen with that now. well democrats are outraged because what they essentially

saying is that this is just been one well orchestrated and what they're saying is a shameful effort to discredit the robert mueller investigation into accusations of not only russian meddling in the twenty six u.s. election but also whether or not there was collusion between the presidential campaign and russia the top democrat on the house intelligence committee points to the fact that they two democrats on that committee authored their own intelligence memo and that it was not permitted to be released by republicans on the house intelligence committee so they're saying when you're talking about bias what about the bias at the committee level they say that this is a transparent effort to suppress the full truth of highly classified information so reaction to this maryam has been very much partisan but democrat or other republicans are arguing that this is a legitimate national security concern the fact that they believe they have conclusive proof that when it comes to the foreign intelligence surveillance act

that in fact what should be a highly nationally secure process was abused and it was abused at the highest levels of government against political opponents and as you say this fierce reaction we see both parties very much trying to seize on the narrative to trump and his supporters it's about there being a vendetta a very personal and vicious conspiracy against him for the democrats it's about the fact that trump is seizing on this to try and discredit what is a legitimate and justified investigation by robot when it is it likely to affect the investigation in any way. oh you know my my personal belief in that is held by a lot of law enforcement officials that this investigation will continue the people conducting it are in fact professionals and we should point out some of this memo references to f.b.i. rather an f.b.i. agent as well as an f.b.i.

lawyer who were caught sending back and forth disparaging tacks about donald trump but it is noted that they were reassigned before it even was made public so that's one element of this that many people point to but at the same time it appears that the. necessary protocols within that investigation were followed to ensure the integrity of the investigation so there is all likelihood that this will proceed unaffected still some democrats are calling for there to be bipartisan legislation to ensure that that process maintains the integrity it is protected so that it cannot be harmed by any side politically in terms of advancing their own political interests all right well thank you very much kimberly how it could bring us over the latest on that from the white house on our air as of trying to un report which shows the saudi like coalition but as the greatest responsibility for the

deaths of dozens of children in yemen last summer it says coalition as strikes were responsible for the killing of sixty eight children and the wounding of six others from july to september the report found that would try and teach a coalition raids every day some targeting schools and harms points the finger at rebels blaming them for the deaths of eighteen children and for the wounding of twenty nine. june has this report. the u.n. report obtained by a dizziness says the saudi led coalition was responsible for killing sixty eight children and wounding thirty six others from july to september and found there were at least thirty coalition air raids every day some targeting schools and homes as well as the saudis the u.n. blames truthy rebels for the deaths of eighteen children and wounding twenty nine others the u.n. describes what's going on in yemen as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world and the conflict is making an already dire situation even worse it's not just

affecting to modernise affecting everyone i mean it's affecting seventy five percent of the population center concern is that as long as complete continues we are going to see more and more. secure and also going to see more money needs grants as well. the united nations children's fund also known as unicef says more than five thousand children have been killed or injured in the war an average of five children a day since the conflict escalated in march two thousand and fifteen unicef also says that more than eleven million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and nearly two million children are suffering from acute malnutrition recent outbreaks of diptheria following the world's worst cholera epidemic have further threatened more young lives aid workers say the international community must do more to stop the conflict it is astounding to me that we have a united nations security council that has not commented on yemen in now more than

seven months that the scale of suffering in yemen is incomparable that we have twenty two million people in need at west making to families who are fleeing their homes because of violence and constructing houses out of plastic bags with a political solution looking likely any time soon many worry that already suffering children will be exposed to even more violence and trauma how much does either. the u.s. defense secretary says the syrian government would be ill advised to go back to violating the chemical weapons convention the trump administration is not ruling out military action to deter president assad's forces after a third suspected chlorine attack in fifteen days on duma in eastern guta stephanie decker has movement taqiyya now in southern turkey near the border with syria. or eastern water is one of the so-called deescalation zones but it doesn't feel like it on the ground this is the last rebel held area close to the capital damascus the

siege by government forces for years now allegations of another chlorine gas attack doctors say patients showed symptoms in lloyd with inhalation of the gas. this is renewed aggression by the regime using chlorine gas against a place where people live and do months this is the third chemical attack in fifteen days. the u.s. has reacted concerned about the syrian government's chemical weapons program and capabilities its chemical weapons should have been destroyed after decommissioning deal brokered by russia five years ago that followed what the obama administration said was a red line chemical attack in the same rebel controlled area which killed at least one thousand three hundred people the trumpet ministration has taken a more active approach in reaction to an alleged chemical weapons attack in north eastern syria in april last year the u.s. fired fifty nine tomahawk missiles at a syrian airfield where they believe the attack originated and now the americans are hinting they suspect the syrian government still has chemical weapons. the un

estimates eastern is home to around four hundred thousand syrians starving and malnourished getting aid to these people is fraught with challenges the u.n. special envoy to syria on the egeland says that there is a desperate need for humanitarian pause in eastern guta he added that both the syrian government and the armed opposition are failing hundreds of thousands of civilians who are stuck in these besieged areas it seems almost seven years into this war and despite the political meetings taking place many thousands of kilometers away it is the military option that remains the priority for all sides stephanie decker on jazeera well turning to other developments in syria local media say the latest are in ontario strikes in eastern go to have killed five people including a child further north and as strike has hit a vehicle carrying a family trying to escape the fighting in aleppo southeastern countryside it's believed seven people were killed there some of them also children medical sources

in syria's hamma province meanwhile say a hospital built inside a cave has been destroyed syrian rebels say repeated bombings penetrated through twenty meters of rock protecting the hospital an enclave in hama is still under rebel control but government forces are fighting to retake it along with a larger chunk of rebel to. tree to the north no casualties for reports it's. now dozens of pakistani refugees a fit of drowned off the coast of libya they were among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off the city of samarra pakistan's foreign ministry says it's confirmed the deaths of eleven of its citizens only three people and known to have survived they were trying to cross the mediterranean to. french government to sending in more riot police to the northern port of callaway after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants five people were hospitalized with serious gunshot wounds after ira trains and afghans fought for more than two

hours over food handouts government says it's now going to take control of food distribution from aid groups hundreds of migrants a gathered near kalai which is the closest town on the european mainland to the united kingdom and sent this update from cali. where the french interior minister was talking about organized gangs early he said that he believed organized gangs were behind some of the policies that we threw in cali on thursday and what he's talking about what many people here have been talking about for many months now and that is the fact that people smugglers and traffickers are increasingly operating in this area targeting the refugees who want to try and reach the u.k. the security is extremely high here in cali so you can pay a looking towards people smugglers and we spoke to refugees who said that they had experienced people smugglers they had met them they knew they were operating now the thing is very alarming to people here is the fact that we are now talking about all and weapons being used on thursday shots were fired by eritrean refugees were

heard and that means that the level of violence has escalated those are the words of the french interior minister and that is a great concern for everybody here. you're watching the news hour live from london much more to tell you about the former president of the maldives says he'll run again after the supreme court orders the release of nine political prisoners. warnings that is heading for a crash is fifty billion dollars is wiped off its value in just a week and then in sport two days out from america's fourth showpiece event the defending super bowl champions dispelling rumors of disharmony. now have been protests in kenya of the government arrested a second lawyer involved in cheese days mock integration of opposition leader writer dangar protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi where lawyer

was taken from his home in a dorm raid it comes after the government defied a court order to reopen the three t.v. stations taken off the afa broadcasting the unofficial swearing in ceremony as katherine sawyer has more from nairobi. it's four days and there's three television stations a steal off despite a court order for resumption of services until a case that has been filed by a human rights activist is hard and determined in the next two weeks we also know that three journalists went to court to block police from arresting them they've gotten some reprieve the court has ordered that they should not be arrested until their case is determined and very early this morning police raided and arrested one of the opposition politicians has called me poor me poor very fiery he says the self declared leader of this national resistance movement which is a movement that was started by the opposition coalition by adding those opposition

coalition a last year to push for a lesser reforms through a peaceful resistance that movement has now been declared by the government as an organized criminal group i'm not a lawyer t.j. drunk who administered this oath who presided over this more inauguration of rye loading on tuesday and was arrested by police and wednesday has been released he set to appear in court next week and will be charged with administering an unlawful oath so all these creating a lot of consigned here in kenya who saltus in statements from the african union we've seen statements from the european union and the u.s. condemning both loading does the swearing in and this media shutdown. a former president of the mall he says he plans to run in elections later this year after a supreme court ruling quashed his conviction for terrorism offenses mohamed nasheed

has been living in exile for his two thousand and sixteen and is calling on the government to respect the ruling which acquits him and his colleagues bonnets meth reports. opposition supporters in the capital mali say the supreme court ruling paid. the way for the multi-verse first democratically elected leader to return from exile and run for president in elections jus this year speaking from colombo mohamed nasheed said he would contest the elections and he said president abdullah you mean should free all political prisoners and democracy activists. the maldives military and the security forces must give safety and security to the judges and i strongly believe that that would happen there is still a small element of. the small element within the military and the police that wants to prop up the dictatorship we should isolate them and we should

inform the police in the military the celebrations in the capital turned violent when police fired tear gas to disperse opposition supporters overnight the chief of police was sacked by the government after the police said they'd implement the court's ruling to free political prisoners pending retrial the situation is very fluid it's still happening and. anywhere either way going forward i think. from the perspective of the opposition really looking at. many many changes that have to be made and. as soon as there's new elections and i have there's a new government president you mean was elected in two thousand and thirteen he was set to run for reelection virtually unopposed with all his rivals either jailed or exiled in its ruling the supreme court also reversed the expulsion of twelve politicians who defected from eumenes party the judge's ruling gives the opposition a majority in parliament bernard smith al jazeera. it was

a brief security scare in shanghai earlier when a van caught fire and plowed into pedestrians cheering the morning rush hour eighteen people were injured in the incident which police say was an accident and not suspicious it believed the driver of the van which was carrying petrol and gas canisters started the fire with a discarded cigarette but is now in a coma and being treated for severe smoke inhalation. the eldest son of the late cuban revolution elite revolutionary leader fidel castro has died and have ana fidel castro diaz balart committed suicide he'd been receiving treatment for depression sixty eight year old was known by his nickname fidel ito or little fidel because of his resemblance to his father he was a nuclear physicist who was trained by the former soviet union. the sentencing of the disgraced american gymnastics doctor larry nassau has been suspended after the father of three of his victims try to attack him now so is the usa gymnastics

national team doctor this is his third and final sentencing hearing where he pleaded guilty to molesting three goals randall margrave's arsed to speak after his daughter's gave statements over the years due to oranges and seemed. to grant me five minutes in the water with those demons. i had with him. that is now where. i could you give me one minute. you know that i can't do that that's now our legal. will marguerite's then decided to take matters into his own hands trying to lunge at nassau before being tackled by bailiffs the judge has since said there is quote no way she will punish him now a nasa has already been sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in prison

after nearly one hundred sixty women testified that he had molested them. the current sea bitcoin has fallen thirty percent this week sliding below eight thousand dollars for the first time since november virtual currency has lost more than forty percent of its value since the start of two thousand and eighteen other cryptocurrency have also dropped significantly as regulators voiced concern about them india is planning to ban all crypto currency trading and facebook said it would no longer allow adverts for digital currency is. a year ago on the thirty first of january it was valued at nine hundred two dollars and twenty six cents at its peak on the sixteenth of december last year it stood at nineteen thousand two hundred ten dollars and fifty three cents but by the end of january this year it had fallen more than ten percent leaving it at nine thousand nine hundred sixty two dollars and forty one cents. well let's get more on this now

with me in the studio is not and back attacks a financial analyst at the london bureau chief. of the street thanks very much for coming just a little from i guess the cross tells the story quite in quite nervous way. quite away from its eight thousand now. what does this mean is the bubble busting or has it already it feels like it is a bubble and has the characteristics of the classic bubble it's funny that you showed that chart because it matches over something that we all recognize is the financial bubble of all time and that's the tulip bulb craze in the netherlands from about three or four hundred years ago when the price of two pubs which really have no value whatsoever spiked exorbitantly they were overtaking the economy at one stage and then the market fell completely worthless in a few weeks afterwards it really is the manifestation of hysteria when investments are concerned and many people say that the bubble that we're seeing at the moment except of currencies has very similar characteristics we go from nine hundred as

you say to almost twenty thousand and we touch seven thousand earlier this morning so that's about fifty eight percent down from the all time high no one can exactly describe the reasons why or really understand exactly what's moving in every given day and that is another characteristic of a bubble market that we all get a lot of entertainment from. that is what. it is it difficult i mean we were saying it has lost more than half of its value i think certainly its peak in the week just before christmas but is it easy or fairly obvious to identify the bottom the bottom i have for my money the bottom could be zero and the upward limit of the price could be anything in the trillions if you believe in this as a currency as a real alternative to dollars or to yen or to anything else in the world then you could theoretically say that the price could be infinite because everybody would pile into it they would use that as a prince before of exchange and its value would never stop increasing if you don't

believe the. it doesn't have any worth it all the proprietary technology behind because it isn't any different than what we know in payment systems around the world in fact it's slower it's more cumbersome it eats up tons of energy there are all sorts of issues with this transparency that people have a problem with so from a functional point of view it doesn't have a great amount of value but function doesn't always translate into what people will pay for and so what what is driving the decline in its price we know that policymakers and regulators have been expressing a great deal of concern about the way it's traded about the complete lack of transparency and oversight and then of course who is trading in these guys and we never really know and that's one of the biggest problems bid for next which is one of the biggest platforms in the world is basically domiciled in the british virgin islands but we don't know exactly where it is we don't know much about the company we don't know the finances the back and that's very typical of some of the exchanges that we're seeing all around the world i like to put it into the context of a regular stock let's say that you and i bought a share of apple and we split it between the two of us even if everybody else left

apple as a shareholder you and i would still hold a piece of paper that would give us the right to the future cash flows of the sale of i phones and i pads and all that other good stuff so the fact that everybody left it wouldn't change what we own together you and i bought a big coin to get there let's say we paid nine thousand for it today and everybody else left we wouldn't have anything that's worth nine thousand we'd have something that's worth close to zero and that's the danger in bitcoin that i think a lot of people don't particularly understand it's value increases when more people participate and of course it declines when people exit that's not the same in most other investments and that's why there is so much volatility out there today that's . so well that thank you very. much and back at jack's london bureau chief for the st. el spain is actually right into the united states a man suspected of being one of the world's biggest send as spam emails thirty

seven year old russian. has been linked to a series of computer networks that pump out billions of unwanted mails he was arrested last april on a family holiday in barcelona at the request of the united states of lawyers say the arrest was politically motivated and russia failed in a challenge to the extradition. you know at the news hour much more still ahead for you we'll take you to south sudan where seventy percent of children don't go to school find out what they're trying to do about it and senegal. rising temperatures mean north america's northwest passage is seeing more shipping traffic than ever before and then a bit later in sports south africa rugby parts ways with back cut off to a falling out. at the house.

call i well i'm pleased to say the weather does look settles into ryecroft so much of the middle east over the next comes as a little more cloud just drifting its way into that east the side of the mediterranean i think it may well cloud over but it should stay settle nineteen celsius there in beirut fifteen in the last week getting up into the. for baghdad and also for kuwait city pushed a little further east was again these days last the five and maybe want to see wintry flowers there it is pakistan for autonomy around minus seven celsius but a surplus seven therefore to rattle the air abouts further west a fair amount of cloud maybe for cyprus for good parts of turkey but full syria lebanon jordan the sun will be up by routes twenty celsius as is the case to get to jerusalem in such a woman that since we were doha with a high of twenty two degrees but that came from our way and said to continue over the next few days certainly something of a chill in the for us here across iraq and peninsula meanwhile the state's draw i'm

afraid for the good parts of the western cape into south africa little cloud just sliding its way in here but no significant right in the forecast for cape town i'm afraid the weather weather is over towards eastern side of the country we've seen heavy showers to the zimbabwe. twenty years of china's transformation. through. from. easy. to decades following the development of a life and. rewind returns to the story of k.k. . at this time on al-jazeera. it was or you upon which modern day venezuela was a stop. for over

a century this lucrative resource has the valuable lesson with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its communist leaders we should like them with troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time. i come back you with the news outlets update you on the stories making headlines the u.s. president has to fight a memo which accuses the f.b.i. of bias against him during their investigations of the campaign's alleged links to

russia the republican led house intelligence panel has now released the documents. al-jazeera has obtained a u.n. report which says saudi led coalition as strikes were responsible for the deaths of sixty eight children from july to september it also blames the rebels for killing eighteen children and they have to fend secretary says the syrian government would be ill advised to go back to violating the chemical weapons convention gave the warning off to a third suspected korean attack in duma in fifteen days. or more now top story now joining me live from washington d.c. is julian sanchez a senior fellow at the cato institute think tank who specializes in national security and intelligence surveillance and very much for speaking to us we were speaking to our correspondent a little bit earlier who said the website actually crashed because so many people were rushing to see that the contents of the memo i'm not sure how much you have had a chance to see but what do you make of the revelations so far. as

i have read it it's more or less what i expect of you part of the problem is it's difficult to really assess. what's said in the memo without a lot of contextual information that's not in there. my initial reaction is that. there are a couple of sort of minor missteps that are catalogued there that are you know something that was really worth criticizing by not really anything that remotely gets you to. do worse than watergate claims that were advance and in fact what it seems to do is. make a bunch of claims that seem to insinuate something bad going on without actually saying it so for instance. they talk about the still dossier and say this was cited in an application to wiretap the former trumpet quarter page and then they note that an f.b.i.

director had said well they wouldn't have gotten the pfizer warrant if not for the memo but it doesn't say they didn't have evidence for the warrant without the memo it just says that's what sort of put them on him it talks about other assessments finding the steel dossier as a whole unverified and that would be a problem if they were relying centrally in the warrant application on unverified claims if they had used claims that were uncooperative and that were the heart of iran so what was the wiretap tell me what did you do and what can be read into that you mention that it's your firing here obviously the dossier compiled by british former intelligence officer christopher steele and that it's worrying that this warrant relied very much on that dossier without any proper verification or clarification can you explain that. well that's the claim or at least that's

what spencer publicly claimed but if you read the memo closely it doesn't really say any of that it says the steel dossier was an essential part of the application but it doesn't say that that was the only evidence they had or that it was they essentially didn't have any kind of case without the information from the dossier they say the dossier as a whole was considered unverified but they don't say critical information that was relied on for the application was used without being verified so it's a kind of combination of claims that read to me like they're supposed to look scandalous if you kind of place them together but if you start reading them closely it's not clear at all that you've actually got the kind of level of scandal they've been implying ok so regardless of the republican democrat partisanship over this memo we see each side coming forward with a different narrative on that non the less legitimate concerns about privacy civil

liberties and the way in which law enforcement can access private conversations by u.s. citizens. oh absolutely. i think so want to think there are some minor but real things to find fault with that are described in this memo. but apart from that i think it is worth noting we've been focusing very heavily on the most in a sense overseeing authority and authority where you really do actually have to go through many layers of review and stablished probable cause before a judge before you're able to review someone's communications we haven't really been hearing about all the other tools f.b.i. and n.s.a. have or they wouldn't have had to go through this kind of review they would have been able to issue national security letters to look at someone's telecommunications records without even consulting a judge they would have been able to obtain without showing probable cause all sorts of other more detailed transactional and financial records they would have

been able to look through a database under an authority called section seven o two of wiretaps of foreigners to see if a page or anyone else on from staff had been communicating with people abroad who are targets that would be required a warrant. it is very odd to me that we have been so focused on a way the part of the pfizer process and the surveillance tool that has the most safeguards when if you thought there were abuse it seems to me that the most likely method for that abuse would be these other tools that have much less rigorous safeguards all right well thanks very much for shedding light on a different dimension of this story but one that's no less important julia julian sanchez from the cato institute thank you thanks. french president emanuel narconon pop star rihanna have joined forces to help get more children into school around the world trying to raise three point one billion dollars

a global partnership for education conference in senegal to help the global pushed have every child in school by twenty thirty the world bank says more than two hundred sixty million children do not go to school around the world and in south sudan seventy percent of children are out of school because of a conflict that more than any other country ever morgan reports now from juba. it's not class time but building says he wishes he could go to school his school however is not like it used to be it's now in a u.n. camp for displaced people where he's been since he fled fighting in his home town in the north of the country. when the fighting took place our schools were destroyed and my brother and i were afraid would be recruited by groups so we ran to the un camps for safety now i miss my old school and friends. bolding is one of more than sixty thousand children receiving education in u.n. camps around south sudan the civil war now in its fifth year has seen thousands of

people killed and millions displaced it's also had a major impact on education with one point eight million or seventy percent of school aged children not getting any the united nations children's agency unicef says one in every three schools have been destroyed or damaged occupied or close at least once during the war and even in those areas where there was no fighting there are still challenges to be faced getting access to education south sudan's constitution provides free education but students have to pay schools for registration and for uniforms and exam fees with the were weakening big kaname many families struggle to find the money and pull their children out of school most of those forced to leave are girls now as one of them i came home. i used to go to school but my father passed away and my mother couldn't afford to pay the registration fees for me and my siblings so no i don't attend classes i don't feel good about that the rest of the kids get to go to school and i can't go the u.n.

says south sudan has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world about three out of every four people and their concerns the world will ensure that craig goes even higher risk for himself he's pretty concerned that. almost a whole generation thirty percent is just about one third of the. population are not going to school and how adverse will that impact the future of this country and for the entire almost entire generation will grow up not having gone to school. for nanticoke am building they know what it is like to sit in a classroom they hope the situation in the country changes and changes soon so they can continue with their education and be part of a brighter future he will morgan al-jazeera juba. a geopolitical crisis is building over who controls the world's longest river the nile on monday the presidents of egypt sudan and ethiopia met in addis ababa to resolve a dispute over

a dam being built on the river in ethiopia a show of unity has been contradicted by the deployment of sudanese troops near the border with eritrea a shallot ballasts explains the. sudanese troops massed on the border with a retrial they responding to reports that eritrean any gyptian soldiers are on the other side. sudan believes egypt sent troops to earth try a month ago a move sparked by a land dispute of what's called the triangle and woman relations between sudan and turkey. we are now confirming that we are ready here in this place and that our forces are ready to do what is asked of them at any time the border closed last month sudan's ambassador in cairo was recalled and now this sudanese troops seem to the border. but the tensions between egypt and sudan didn't start here.

in turkey ethiopia what is planned to be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam is sixty percent complete and designed to revolutionize ethiopia's economy turning it into the continent's largest power generator an exporter. the five billion dollar dam is being built on the blue nile river fifteen kilometers from sudan's border sudan supports the dam because it will regulate floods provide electricity and irrigation but egypt's president. who seeks reelection next month says the dam would disrupt the flow of the nile to almost one hundred million egyptians and potentially cripple the farming industry ethiopia accuses the egyptian ally eritrea of sending rebels to sabotage the dam eritrea denies it sisi says he doesn't want to waste a war with his neighbors the three presidents made on monday an address ababa and a show of unity. you cannot be completely assured in ethiopia in sudan i mean egypt

is responsible leaders we met we spoke and we agreed and there will be no damages on anyone and what's in the interest of ethiopia is in the interest of egypt in the interest of saddam is in the interest of egypt and what's in egypt's interest is also in that of ethiopia we are speaking as one nation not three nations with one voice. that image however contradicted by these latest pictures from the sudanese border the question of who controls the nile the world's longest river and the region's most valuable resource is threatening military confrontation shallop bellus al jazeera more than nine hundred miners trapped underground for more than a day in south africa and now back on the surface they left at a gold mine in freestate were disabled for thirty two hours after a storm caused a power outage stillwater mine company say the miners were given food and water supplies and will receive medical aid and counseling but mine unions are not happy

that there was no backup evacuation plan. i'm relieved because for about two hours of being on the ground without the defense so if the thing was not working but the money is to go all the employees saw i think. the management of people it's my or disabuse did order let's make sure that for the next time something like this must not have been thousands of people in pakistan are demanding a police officer be arrested or executed for shooting dead a male model it's the second day of mass rallies after twenty seven year old massoud was killed in an operation on wednesday his family denies the police's suggestion that he was a criminal the officer who led the operation has been relieved of his duty s. . a van driver who deliberately drove into a crowd outside a u.k. mosque last year has been jailed for at least forty three years darren osborne was

sentenced after being convicted of murder and attempted murder on thursday one man died and twelve others were injured two seriously outside the mosque and fans of three park in north london prosecutors say forty eight year old osborne was motivated by a hatred of muslims he told the court he wanted to kill as many people as possible as rising temperatures in the arctic melt ice that used to cover the region or year ships are beginning to make their way through waters that will once dangerous and impassable now as traffic increases there are calls for tough a shipping rules as part of our series on global trade routes than your lack looks at north america's northwest passage. why. would. it immortalized in folk songs poetry and popular history the northwest passage was fascinated canadians for centuries once

explorers and adventurers now shipping lines and cruise ship passengers all have sought the northwest passage until two thousand and seven canada's arctic was ice bound all year but rising temperatures are melting sea ice at an alarming rate leaving open water for at least part of each year since then cargo and passenger ships from europe the u.s. canada even china have sailed through here traffic is expected to double by two thousand and twenty the arctic is an incredibly large remote and extreme region it's a hazardous place to navigate at the best of times and the remote means that there's no search and rescue capacity located anywhere close to the northwest passage other concerns are environmental and oil spill in these now pristine waters would be devastating to fish and wildlife that local people need for survival the rules governing shipping have to change say experts putting the rules in place that

benefit communities and protect wildlife it includes regulations on the discharge of pollutants like grey water and sewage includes phasing out or banning some of the most toxic fuels like heavy fuel oil it it also includes restraints on emissions and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping for thousands of years the indigenous people of the north the in wheat have roamed the ice water and land thanks to land claims agreements they now have a real say in how the northwest passage will be developed as well as tough environmental standards the people of the north are demanding a share of economic benefits and jobs. that may come when international shipping begins using the passage regularly because we don't have or along our coastline we need. to get that their evil are but kind of industry and i think there's an opportunity there that

knowledge of the land. temperatures in the north are rising faster than anywhere else now even recreational sailors from faraway can come here and find an ice free northwest passage that is alluded so many for so long daniel lak al jazeera cambridge bay in canada's north. of for the next story in our series wayne hay went to laos where the government is investing billions of dollars in high speed rail with the help of china to link up with the rest of asia europe and beyond so don't miss that on al-jazeera on saturday. can have all of us including the. incoming and the stars. where the boys. stigmatised are emerging from the shadows.

marion thank you so much it's one week to go until the winter olympics begin in pyong chang the hockey team that will make history has been talking tactics south korea's the olympic bosses have released rare footage of the women's squad that will include players from north and south korea the team's canadian coach sara murray will be in overall charge of the team and young chang at least three north korean players will be selected for each game they'll take on sweden in

a friendly on sunday all tickets for the two of the joint teams matches are sold out and some people are speculating that the women's competition may attract more interest than the men's could also be explained by the fact that n.h.l. players will not be playing at the games for the first time since one thousand nine hundred four was a decision made by the league's commissioner gary bettman who would have been forced to hopefully for several weeks and many players have been critical of the decision as. jaeger who's one of the game's screams. really going to look for good players and the sense you know of course everybody the players in the tournament. i always believed that it should be the best players in the world. it's just very competing against the best. earlier we spoke to mike straw he's the n.h.l.

editor of real sports he told us that the n.h.l. not playing at the olympics could be the permanent reality of future games. it comes down to the fact that gary bettman and the n.h.l. couldn't agree on a deal. they didn't like the idea of having to postpone their league for two two and a half weeks especially as it gets down to the crunch time we're playing for it's not really for me yet you have stopping a game and a season in the middle of the year doesn't really sit well with you more and better than as said that you can't believe even going back to the beijing games in two thousand and twenty two so granted that's still four years away but we all know discussions will start right away so we don't know how steadfast that means and the n.h.l. is going to be on allowing their players in the future or if they're going to stick with players we don't want to break in or in our season really doesn't matter what

the players want we do have players who did not sign contracts with hopes of playing in the olympics this year. we're two days out from the showpiece event in american sport the super bowl and new england patriots coach bill belichick has been stressing the value of his quarterback tom brady the pair will be aiming for their six title against the philadelphia eagles the states the st vincent will do much to put a lid on speculation about a fracturing and they do is working relationship very brady's patriots are the defending champions and of won two of the last three super bowls last year new england recovered from a twenty five point deficit to overcome the atlanta falcons i think in some ways i'm more relaxed when we're losing because if you don't do anything you're you know what the outcome is going to be so i always look at it is you know a great opportunity and i think man if we come back to win this this is what this is what people are going to remember is what people are going to really want to see

. so both. situations. and last year's game mr situations are. different players on the. world to get as much role. could see is ill fated stint at south africa's rugby coach has come to an end after two years. just eleven of his twenty five games in charge she'd recently written to the south african rugby poured claiming he been set up to fail the two time world champions last argentina and italy for the first time during his reign. caroline wozniacki has come back down to earth after winning her first tennis grand slam at the australian open the dane was beaten in straight sets by a twenty year old russian daria in the quarter finals of the event in st petersburg . show glimpses of her best to she advanced to the last four in st petersburg the

two time wimbledon champion crushed last year's french open winner yelling awesome penco in just fifty eight minutes six six two points for. and it's all square in the davis cup encounter between australia and germany australia is rising teenage star alex dimon our last out in five sets to alexander's of robin has been that curios then levelled for the home team beating young leonard strong straight sets the winners of this best of five tie will advance to the quarterfinals. and that's all you sport for now it's now back to merriam in london thank you well the shoeshine boys of bolivia's capital of earth feature of the city almost as iconic as its steep mountain streets and indigenous culture but it isn't a feature the city's embraced or has been proud of instead the mall street workers have lived in the shadows the victims of stigma and discrimination but as daniel shawn reports from the that's now changing. they wear mosques

to hide their identity no one wants to admit to being a shoeshine boy part of an army of men boys and sometimes girls doing a job which here carries a badge of shame but the men and it's all there is. it's getting this. it was because of discrimination i was in college and my friend would say hey he's a shoeshine boy but now with the newspaper the mask is a way of identifying myself of saying who we are close ignacio is one of the many to enter the order me going to model project writing producing and selling their own newspaper it provides a financial boost gives them a voice and helps them to inform the residents of the pass. on the street you don't know so i said maybe i should study so into this organization and they spoke to me helped build up my self-esteem. and since few know the stories in hidden corners of the past as well as boys like fernando they now also give juries

guided tours of the city. it's helped me a lot i was very shy i didn't speak but now i can talk to people interact and thanks to the extra here i'm about to finish college industrial mechanics and hopefully in one maybe two years i'll be able to stop polishing shoes. and then started shining shoes when he was eleven he's now twenty and he's looking forward to the day when he can take off his mosque. boustany borders or shoeshine boys are an intrinsic part of life here in la so who could be better qualified to tell the city's many fascinating stories while bringing their own problems and challenges out of the shadows. founded the project eleven years ago when he was twenty eight people of the haters those who are with us but because of that we have to protect these youngsters and show that their work is dignified and not a negative impact on us because we have to protect them not just the obvious their

health the police violence but also from the aggression shown by society is the stigma the newspaper cost for believe yarnell is about fifty seven cents the profits don't just pay for health coverage and scholarships they provide hote and an alternative to life on the street than a shrine there are to see it or lump us. that's it for myself and for this news out of my colleague sue turton will be with you in just a couple of minutes so stay with us. the sky should be no borders up here. only horizons. as an airline we don't believe in boundaries we believe in bringing people together the world's better that way. it is a rowing football of us to go where we need to go to feel the things we want to

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what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique this is really an attack on the truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important to have a wife to publish it the other to be offensive will provoke the thought of it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace donald trump attacks the f.b.i. after allowing the u.s. congress to release a memo that's accuses its of abuse of power and its investigation into his

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