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going on in this country i think it's a disgrace trumpeted reality after allowing the u.s. congress to release a memo that accuses it of abuse of power and its investigations into his presidential campaign the saudi led coalition is accused of the highest number of child deaths in yemen french play sending reinforcements after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants in cali also. the father of three of larry nasser's abuse victims tries to attack the former u.s. agent gnostics dr as he appears in court. on far as smiling doha our top sports story caroline wozniacki crashes back to earth as the world number one suffers her first defeat since winning the australian the.

u.s. congress has released a memo accusing the f.b.i. of abusing its power and its investigations into donald trump's presidential campaign the memo was commissioned by the republican devin newness it's alleges that the f.b.i. admitted that a dossier on trumped compiled by a former british agent was an essential part of an application for surveillance of trump aide cotta page last march the regime agent who compiled the dossier with christopher steele who the memo says told a senior justice department of. mishal that he was desperate for trump not to win the election the white house says the memo raises serious concerns about the integrity of the f.b.i. what democrats say the memo is aimed derailing special counsel robert lowell is investigation into the trunk campaign's alleged links to russia. i think the more 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 in 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 when that schedule official his life is now in washington and let's start with the dossier and the memo says it was politically driven and that the f.b.i. and the justice department as relied on it but what can we really tell from what's in this memo that this investigation was just driven by this supposedly biased document. well we can tell from the actual memo that the investigation into carter page started before the memo was published. and

certainly before that before the court was asked to grant a warrant so that's a problem for the republicans the critics say that this is really just selective that a fight so war goes in front of the court normally is around forty pages what we have here are only four pages and therefore this must have been selectively cherry picked to low the republicans to put forward their case not only that the republicans on the intelligence committee also refused permission for the democrats memo rejecting all of this to be published as well there are those who see that quite simply if someone goes to the f.b.i. and suggests that there has been some wrongdoing then the f.b.i. really have to investigate that and i was speaking to an f.b.i. agent just a few hours ago who said when that happens we never see what are your political leanings we might make it clear to the court if we go to sing a warrant but we never ask that in the first instance we go and see if there's any basis of that and then we start to investigate and certainly that position is

upheld by the f.b.i. agents association you see they are not partisan what they do for the facts to honor their or it seems like an extraordinary decision by the president to release this what was a classified document what kind of reaction has it shrink at. well interestingly enough in washington the reaction is largely part design the democrats think this was a bad decision by the president they think it undermines both the f.b.i. and the justice department while many republicans are very much in favor of the saying that the russian investigation was biased from the very beginning and many people are saying that the militant vesta geisha should be closed down by the end of business on friday but there are two voices that are very interesting to listen to one is john mccain the veteran senator who of course once upon a time was a republican presidential candidate he said that this memo essentially undermines

both the f.b.i. and the justice department all that does is handle when to vladimir putin's russia and another interesting voice tree go to somewhere in the back of your mind you think that name rings a bell he was the congressman that organized and ran a number of inquiries into the assault on the benghazi compound in libya which of course was a big issue for hillary clinton he is a republican he says as far as he can see from this memo it does absolutely nothing to undermine the middle investigation and so there are republicans who think the memo is out the republicans can make a song and dance about it but it still doesn't change the fundamental issue which there is an investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russians and a long way from way you are away from the washington bubble for those of us sitting watching almost feels like they hate getting close to the president from this investigation and that's what's really going on here is that the sense really and there is even suggestion that there will be sacked over this is that what you're

hearing inside that that's what the push is all about when it succeeds. well miller can't be sacked by the president it's got to come from the acting sort of from the deputy attorney general and stein who appointed them rod rosenstein can be sacked by the president and he's certainly mentioned in this memo and that is why there's such a firestorm there are republicans who say there's enough in that memo to suggest that rod rosenstein was acting with impartiality and therefore should be fired how does this all play out well you've got to remember that five of the six people who have been involved for any part of this investigation have been fired or attacked by donald trump there are those who say yes this is getting very close to the president this is all about muddying the waters and part of the partisanship i was telling you about is that republicans and trump supporters will see look we've told you this the sure is that this investigation is flawed this is all about

undermining donald trump democrats will say there's absolutely nothing in this and interesting point of view was put to me by an independent who said look if there is nothing in this if there is nothing in these allegations why don't the republicans just step back let the democrats do what they want to do and when nothing is uncovered then the republicans will be handed a huge political when the fact that they're making so much noise certainly disquiets a number of independents who think that this still has some work to play out and that robert miller should be allowed to do its job and the moment it seems that the majority in washington still think robert miller should be allowed to get to the end of his inquiry it would be bad news for donald trump if you put enough pressure in robert miller to resign or to be fired many thanks alan and i'm sure that would have very much have to be careful briefing of what was happening today in washington d.c. . still to come on the al-jazeera news hour the exiled former president of the

multi says he'll run again after the supreme court ordered the release of nine political presidents troop build up in sudan as now countries work to prevent a water wool over africa's biggest hydroelectric dam and in sports we get a rag limits of the joint north and south korean hockey team that will compete in next week's winter olympics. al-jazeera has obtained a un report which says the saudi led coalition has the greatest responsibility for the deaths of dozens of children in yemen last summer it says coalition airstrikes were responsible for the killing of sixty eight children and the wounding of thirty six others from july to september the report found there were twenty to thirty coalition raids every day some targeting schools and homes it also points the finger at her feet rebels blaming them for the deaths of eighteen children and for

wounding twenty nine other. reports. the un report obtained by l. dizzier 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 children it's affecting our everyone i mean it's affecting seventy five percent of the population so our concern is that as long as complete continues we are going to see more and more. secure we're also going to see more and more humanitarian needs and rights 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 beaking 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 chum prime minister nation is not ruling out military action to deter president assad's forces after a third suspected chlorine attack in fifteen days in eastern guta stephanie decker has more from antakya in southern turkey near the border with syria. 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 gas against a place where people lived and duma 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 u.n. 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 says that there is a desperate need for humanitarian pause in eastern gouda 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 of jazeera. and local media says the latest air and artillery strikes any single have killed funny people including a child further north an airstrike has hit a vehicle carrying a family trying to escape the fighting in aleppo as southeastern countryside is believed seven people were killed some of them children but equal sources in syria's hammer province say a hospital built inside a cave has been destroyed syrian rebels say repeated bombings penetrated through twenty meters of rock protecting the hospital and enclave in hama is still under rebel control but government forces are fighting to retake it along with

a larger chunk of rebel territory to the north no casualties were reported at least one thousand migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya when a boat capsized off the city of zora pakistan's foreign ministry says it's confirmed the deaths of eleven of its citizens the international organization for migration says three people survived when a durrell is head of communications at the international organization for migration and joins me now live from geneva thanks very much for talking to us here on al-jazeera i think many people might be surprised that there were pakistani migrants on this boat leaving libya at least off the coast of it what's the route that these migrants are taking to get. but thank you for inviting me we don't really know the route but presumably they flew possibly to a country which has ease of access from pakistan it might have been a flight to sudan for example which adjoins libya we don't know but it's relatively straightforward to do that and the smugglers are willing to put people on any plane

possible if people are willing to pay airlines are also willing to accept a tragedy is that they didn't go into a country where this terrible exploitation taking place because the country's really not stable and they're at the mercy of smugglers who put people even income waters really overcrowd them into what seems to be a rubber dinghy and the tragedy ensues lot a lot of guilty people in this process and just are still with saying that the reason is the pakistanis are coming through libya what is it there that they're heading for leaving do you get a sense as to why that they are making this passage trying to get into europe and there's nothing unique about pakistanis and bangladesh has been supplying lots of people are third in in line guinea comic creator nigeria people from the global south are heading north because of the huge inequalities in income and the and the hope and belief that they will do better when they get to the developed world if they get there a lot of that is fueled by social media because people are able to tell lies in

social media and invite people to a dream really dream about the route it doesn't exist or if it does they certainly are going to get access to it and just you know because so many are returned home he talked a little bit there on the overcrowding of the boats obviously we're also looking at the weather this time of year what kind of numbers are you currently saying about people trying to make this treacherous crossing still on the scene in the throes of winter well it's curiously the number of pakistanis is now number three in the in the so-called league table of countries trying to reach europe so they've moved up quite a bit but so far you know we've got about. two hundred fifty people so far in this new number it's really tragic and six thousand people have come across to europe so far through the roof so it's really no different to last year and what we're seeing is more tragedies because mothers are willing to try anything they can

to make money or. they're really grateful for your time thanks very much an adorable speak to us from the. good the french government is selling more riot police to the northern port of cali after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants five people were shot with four in a serious condition in hospital after eritreans and afghans for for more than two hours over food handouts natasha buckler has the latest from cali the french interior minister met police officers in cali deployed to stop fighting between hundreds of refugees on thursday five eritreans was shot in the violence the situation is calm so it was unacceptable. we see we've reached a new level of violence an escalation of violence that is becoming completely unbearable for the people of color and for the migrants we can't allow a sense of survival of the fittest in our country so yes we'll do things everywhere

we can police say one hundred afghan and thirty eritrean refugees forte for nearly two hours on the outskirts of the city they were to charity food handouts when gunfire triggered the clashes police are searching for an afghan man in connection with the shooting one of the main areas where. the for the interior minister is saying organized. march of this point there are three groups direct here what many of the. current active. security is high in cali traffickers target refugees who want to cross the english channel and reach the u.k. there are some people there have some power there does their collect the money. to a little bugs drug. for the refugees stuck here the conditions are great. in the mud here and here.

we are in him look. activists say the difficulties are fueling tensions the conditions are seriously challenging here and help refugees and other organizations have spoken repeatedly about this and we want about the the context in which people are living which also has potential for sparking into the kind of situation that we saw yesterday. the french government says it will not allow camps in cali and security will be boosted but for now it seems little can deter the many desperate refugees who continue to arrive here each day in the hope of a better life natasha bottler al-jazeera. the trumpet ministration in the u.s. has announced it will continue much of the obama administration is nuclear weapons policy but it will take a more aggressive stance towards russia it said russia must be persuaded it would face an acceptably dire costs if it were to threaten even

a limited nuclear attack in europe a lot of friends correspondent particle and joins me now live from the pentagon the term administration seems to believe the best way to limit the nuclear danger is by expanding its own capabilities. that's exactly the message they sent here just about a half an hour ago from the podium behind me it was interesting because you know this is president donald trump he simply does not criticize russian president vladimir putin his pentagon took a much different tone they specifically said because of an aggressive aggression from russia because of modernization in china and the developments in north korea and potentially iran that the u.s. needs to modernize its force so they prove they proposed that but there's an even bigger change that i think critics are very concerned about and that says that the u.s. would use nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances well that is what the u.s. has always said but this review goes a little bit further and it goes on to say that those don't have to be necessarily

a nuclear strike that would be met with a nuclear strike that it could be a regular attack on infrastructure or civilians they were asked here at the pentagon could that be something as simple as a cyber attack on the electric grid and they said well it's really going to depend on circumstances the other big changes they want a less powerful nuclear warhead i can tell you with speaking to critics who say that is incredibly dangerous if leaders think that they could have perhaps a nuclear strike that isn't quite as bad as here shima they might be more tempted to use it which of course could lead to all out nuclear war so the big changes here at the pentagon ordered by president trump not exactly clear though if he's going to get his way on this one and what state is the nuclear weapon the nuclear program in in the u.s. would it take a lot to modernize them. it was you know it would in this was to go back to president barack obama when he came into office he first said well what we need to do is get rid of all nuclear weapons he had some success launching a treaty with russia but then it sort of fell apart and so what by the end of his

presidency he took a look at the force of the nuclear arsenal he said there's a problem here this needs to be modernized and he came up with the proposal a proposal that was going to be listen to this about one trillion to one point two trillion dollars over thirty years that is a huge amount of money especially for a country that is facing such an enormous debt and deficit so what the trump administration is proposing would be even more expensive than that how much more expensive will somewhat unbelievably very senior officials from the government came out and asked for or asked by reporters so how much they said we don't know yet so congress really has not really been in the mood to fund that sort of an enormous program and even if they do this is years out they said maybe the twenty one thousand budget so don't expect to see any massive modernization anytime soon good to talk in there with the latest from the pentagon. american the olympic gymnastics doctor laurie nasa faces a third sentence in

a series of child molestation cases here are the faces as long as two hundred years in prison after he pleaded guilty to molesting girls while working as the usa gymnastics national team doctor earlier the case was interrupted tough to the father of three of the victims lunged at him in court john hendren reports. a father's fury his target the man who sexually abused his three daughters say oh there's you too as far as a certain thing. to grant me five minutes and a lot of this is the money you know that i can't do that that's not how it will go the american dollar. to meet. the man he wanted to get his hands on is larry nasser former olympic gymnastics doctor in a convicted serial child molester and possibly the last child he will ever assault . nassar was accused of assaulting more than two hundred fifty girls and women

while he's face justice the organizations he's worked for have largely escaped any punishment we need to hold these organizations accountable usa gymnastics united front back in may and ask you they need an independent investigation new allegations less than a week before the start of the twenty eighteen winter games describe how usa gymnastics e-mailed us olympic committee security chief larry boone door detailing sexual misconduct accusations against nasser a year before they were made public they've engaged in a cut a cover up of the worst child molester perhaps in american history brianna randall gay reported nassar to police in two thousand and four eleven years before he was fired from usa gymnastics and very very bright you hear it in terms of where i was going into every new charges filed and all that but. i don't know where this week she received a long awaited apology i want to start first of all of the most important reason

we're here and that's to apologize. on behalf of the community for police department. to you maria we feel we let you down. back at the court randall hargreaves the father who lunged at nasser apologized for his behavior he said he came to court not to up stages three daughters but to help them heal john hendren al-jazeera. still to come on the al-jazeera news outlet us chest stuff and i was asked week in two years and warnings bit calling is heading for a crash as fifty billion dollars is of light topics value in just a week protests in kenya after another arrest every month to your gratian of opposition leader riley ranting. and in sports south africa rugby parts ways with that couch after falling out i won't have the details.

the temperatures afford to go i really quite sharply across western parts of here and now this big every class thinking its way further south was that of every cloud just falling behind where we have got some rather lively showers with some snow in this snow i was actually in the northern parts of spain a good covering here that you can see it has caused some travel disruption tricky conditions due to set to continue for the next couple of days actually those that normally brace them in place there for sas to even cross the pennants high ground in northern england could see a little bit of snow but more the way of rain for many into wales down across southern parts of england western areas of france seeing some lobby sounds and that pushes all the way down to those appearances or again you will see some snow sunny a chance to some a good covering a snow white over the outside of the next day heavy rain there into northern italy

into the balkans not rain really setting in for a good pasta of sas day should clear three by sunday clear a total weather coming back in behind and just will struggle to get around five celsius for london in paris by sunday night as the snow continuing in parts across by madrid will be struggling to get to around nine degrees celsius a disturbed weather actually makes its way across northern parts of africa over the next few days with more rain for a chilly rocket. the rhythm of our vital source of substance to the countries it flows through this is no single who can lay claim it would be isn't good given from sources we found but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country is suspicious of each of those intentions the battle for control of the river transporting soup consultation was not up to me to

get through hunters because of some fear of stroke a little bit of this time on al-jazeera. who reads a little i could read every american. twitter returns to activism with a new mission i sold everything my job trying to build software for social. digital dissidents within the technological from italy to get certain limitations in their field from the capitalists to the record. at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. congress has released a memo accusing the f.b.i. and the justice department of abusing its power as an investigation the president's alleged links to russia al-jazeera has obtained a u.n. report which says saudi led coalition airstrikes were responsible for the death of sixty eight children from july to september it also blames the rebels for killing eighteen children. and the u.s. defense secretary says the syrian government will be ill advised to go back to violating the chemical weapons convention he gave the warning after a third suspect. chlorine attack in duma in fifteen days. now it's been a turbulent week on the world financial markets in the united states the dow jones index has closed down two point six percent its biggest drop since september twenty fifth it ends a week long slide for the dow gabriel alexander is monitoring events for us all more straight and now joins us live from the biggest drops in september twenty

fifteen what's going on behind these falls. yeah there's really two things going on but i got to tell you that this drop in the stock market today is even worse than june two thousand and sixteen you remember what happened then that was breck's it so this market to a correction if you want to call it that has really hit the stock exchange even worse than it did during breck's it in june of two thousand and thirteen two thousand and sixteen now what's really causing this two things number one is inflation concerns by economists the economy's doing very well in the united states they just announced new job numbers of two hundred thousand jobs added to the economy that beats economists predictions by about twenty thousand or so also wages increasing by about three percent all of this very good on main street usa for the workers so to speak however again that is worrisome for economists they think that that could lead to some inflationary pressures and that's primarily what's causing

this drop in the in the dow however there's something else as well and that's the second thing and that's political pressure political crisis here in the united states as well primarily we've seen this being built up for several days if not weeks now but it culminated on friday with the release of this controversial memo by the republican led congress this memo calling out alleged wrongdoing by the f.b.i. essential what's going on here is that wall street does not like uncertainty and they certainly do not like political uncertainty and that's exactly what we're seeing right now with this clash between the trumpet ministration and the f.b.i. so you add all that up together and that's why you're seeing this big drop how big of the wire escape i mean people even uttering the word crash. no not really i mean for it to be a crash it would have to drop twenty percent from

a fifty two week high now is this even a correction it's really not even quite a correction yet because for that to happen it have to drop ten percent over a fifty two week high just today it dropped about two point five percent so you can call it a small correction but a very sharp one day correction if you will a lot of economists are actually saying that this could actually help things because the economy was perhaps overheating a little bit but clearly there is a lot of uncertainty and you're starting to see that now in the markets but president trump and his administration have been really lauding the gains on the stock market they're probably going to say this is not a big deal because and they're right in some ways because in the last year since he took the over the presidency the stock market has gone up more than thirty percent so while this is somewhat of a correction no no indications that this is a crash at least not yet many thanks gary those under that being is the latest from new york staying with financial news the digital currency bitcoin has fallen thirty

percent this week sliding below eight thousand dollars for the first time since november the national currency has lost more than forty percent of its value since the stance of twenty eighteen other cryptocurrency is have also dropped significantly as regulators voice consent about them in various planning to ban all crypto currency trading if it could relate to financial activity and facebook said it would no longer add digital currency is. well a year ago on the thirty first of january big con 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 and 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 we're joined now from washington d.c. by perri and boring founder and president of the chamber of digital commerce thanks

very much for spending some time with us and al-jazeera to try to make sense of this what's behind this latest drop in the value of bitcoin. well if you zoom out into a more macro economic perspective the price of a coin and actually up over the past year or so on january first twenty seventeen the price of decline was hovering around one thousand dollars there has been a big run up at the end of the year so there was a big announcement on october first twenty seventeen the largest derivatives exchange in the world the chicago mercantile exchange and now and said they would start issuing coin futures and that's what caused that big run up at the end of the year so the price was around six thousand dollars in october and it shot up to almost twenty by the end of the year so there was a little bit of irrational exuberance with the excitement that

a very large company was offering a traditional profit product and so now we're seeing a little bit of a correction but overall on a nacro economic perspective the industry is actually and the growth phase and the overall chain ecosystem is up on a year over year basis so has been a bit of a sense that maybe this is a kind of fashionable and and questioning as to whether we could put confidence in these cryptocurrency is cannot be feeding into as well we pop people losing confidence because they're just not quite sure with it being an unknown quantity is so new. i can assure you this is not a fad when i first got into a big box chain over five years ago the price was about thirteen dollars a coin so now the fact that the price is up eight thousand dollars it is a significant indicator of the growth of this and history and even just the past week we've seen a number of major companies and now it's cryptocurrency products that they will be

energy to sing to the industry as well including samsung who announced just earlier this week that they are going to start issuing a sick crypto miners also cheeto mobile which is a company in china is going to issue a crypto currency wallet product as well as square so there's a lot of other indicators out there beyond just the price that show confidence in this industry and growth in the block chain ecosystem so far and you talked about sort of measuring out of the market if you had to put on it should people be putting that money back into. well i'm not licensed to give investment advice but i can tell you that a significant portion of my personal net worth is in decline. boring thanks very much for joining. thank you a former president of the multi says he plans to run in elections later this year

after a supremes ruling conviction for terrorism offenses him how my job has been living in exile since twenty sixteen and he's calling on the government to respect the ruling which acquits him and his colleagues from the smith reports. position supporters in the capital say the supreme court ruling paves the way for the. democratically elected leader to return from exile and run for president in elections due 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 motives military and security forces must give safety and security to the judges and i strongly believe that that would happen there is still a small elite meant of a small element within the military and the police that wants to prop up the

dictatorship we should isolate them and we should reform 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 developing and . anyway 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 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 but at smith al jazeera. have been protests in kenya after the government arrested a second lawyer involved in cheers days knocking operation of opposition leader raul or a dingo protest has clashed with police in the capital nairobi where a lawyer me going to make was taken from his home in a door ain't it comes after the government defined a court order to reopen three television stations taken off the air for broadcasting the unofficial swearing in ceremony catherine soit 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 hired 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 very fiery he says the self declared the del 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 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. . administered this oath who presided over this more inauguration of ryan 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 all this creating a lot of consigned here in kenya with 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 shut down. more than nine hundred miners trapped underground for more than a day in south africa are now back on the surface they left the gold mine in free state or disabled for thirty two hours after a storm caused a power outage they said banya 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 evacuation plan. i'm relieved because for about two hours of being on the ground without the defense or not working so if the thing was not working but to calm down all the employees saw i think. the management of beatrix my old still order must make sure that for the next time something like this must not happen turkish place of confirm that an explosion that

took place an anchor on thursday was caused by a bomb the blast was initially thought to be the result of a gas leak as it came from the gas boiler room of a tax office in the city eight people have been detained in connection with the bomb a ninth was killed in the operation to round up the gang to cash authorities say the suspect who was killed and to the country illegally and received training from syrian kurdish p.y.t. militants 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 daryl's born was sentenced after being convicted of murder and attempted murder on thursday one man died and twelve others were injured three seriously outside the mosque in finsbury 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 . factories in germany at a standstill as part of a third day of

a twenty four hour strike by the metal workers union plans owned by the same piece porsche and b.m.w. have been close by workers from the the metal union the largest industrial union in europe they want to pay rise and the right to shorter hours for workers who are parents the union is ready to vote on extended industrial action with many workers unhappy not seeing the benefits from germany's current industrial strength. the geopolitical crisis is building over who controls the world's longest river the nile on monday egypt sudan and ethiopians presidents met in at is about to resolve a dispute over building a dam on the river in ethiopia the show of unity has been contradicted asked pitches image of sudanese troops nic a seller in the border with eritrea shelob alice explained. oh.

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're 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 three presidents made on monday an address abba and a show of unity. we can all be completely assured in ethiopia in sudan and in egypt as responsible leaders we met we spoke and we agreed and there will be no damages on anyone 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 not 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 ballasts al jazeera. so to come on this al-jazeera news hour. are in the pots where the city's shoeshine boys. stigmatised are emerging from the shadows on a school with fire and the australian team proving he's on i mean and it's. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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the shoeshine boy. or a feature of the city iconic has its streets and indigenous culture but it hasn't been a feature of the city embraced always proud of its. lived in the shadows the victims of stigma and discrimination but as daniel the reports from the 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 close ignacio is one of the many to enter the or me going to go 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 help build up my sofa steam. and since few know the stories in hidden corners of the past as well as boys like fernando they now also give tourists 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 banks of 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. for nando's 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. flu study borders all shoeshine boys are an intrinsic part of life here in la paz 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. lobos founded the project eleven years ago when he was twenty. at the head is this whole business but because of that we have to protect these youngsters and show that their work is dignified in 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 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. all this for with far and over. sue thank you so much caroline wozniacki has come back down to earth after winning her first tennis grounds at the australian open the dane was beaten in straight

sets by a twenty year old russian dari kids in the quarterfinals of the w.c. event in st petersburg it was a new world number one's first a feat since winning that trophy in. your time wimbledon champion petra convicted showed glimpses of her best to she advanced to the last four in st peters the czech crushed last year's french open winner go in just fifty eight minutes sixty six two was. the best male players meanwhile are scattered across the globe playing in the davis cup team terminus tournaments cameron nori put in the performance of the day for great britain the world number one hundred fourteen came back from two sets down to beat the. same level or tied one one. and it's all square also between australia and germany in brisbane australia as rising teenage star alex dimon our last out in five sets to alexander's of where

it's been that curio span levelled for the home team beating it. straight sets the winners of the specified tie will advance into the quarter finals. english premier league football club west ham united have sops their director of player recruitment following allegations of racial discrimination tony henry was suspended after claims he told agents he wanted to limit the number of african players in their squad saying they have a bad attitude and cause mayhem when they're in the team in a statement west ham said they had acted swiftly due to the serious nature of these claims. it's one week to go until the winter olympics begin m.p.r. chang and the hockey team that will make history has been talking tactics south korea's olympic bosses have released rare footage of the women squad that will include players so north and south korea the team's canadian coach sara marie will be in overall charge of the team and young chang at least three north korean

players will you selected for each game will take on sweden and a friendly on sunday i'll take it for the two of the joint teams matches are sold out and some people are speculating about the women's competition may track to more interest than the men's could also be explained by the fact that n.h.l. players will not be featuring at the games for the first time since one thousand nine hundred four it was a decision made by the league's commissioner gary bettman who would have been forced to hold the league for several weeks money players been critical of the decision as has a jaeger who's one of the game's great. really going to look for good players and the sense you know of course everybody the players in the tournament so. i always believed that all of these should be discussed within the law it's just. it's just very plain completing that is 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 with the. 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 where playoff points that really form the idea of stopping the game and the season in the middle of the year doesn't really sit well with you to tell me more and better than as said that you can't possibly 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. and when begin the defense of their six nations championship title against italy in rome on sunday it's the biggest rugby competition in the northern hemisphere head coach eddie jones has picked center bend hero in the starting line up the thirty one year old who has been out since october with an ankle injury hasn't played for england in over a year a side are beating to become the first team to win the competition three times in a row and land have never lost to italy before. the twenty eight hundred championship kicks off on saturday with wales hosting scotland in cardiff wales are on a run of eight consecutive home wins against scotland later france take on ireland who are seen as the others have a favorites ireland are on a seven game winning streak while fat france are without a win in six games allister could see it is ill fate faded stint at south africa's

rugby coach has come to an end after two years could see a one just eleven it was twenty five games in charge she'd recently written to the south african rugby or claim he'd been set up to fail the two time world champions lost argentina and italy for the first time during his reign. she's in the deans adem has brushed away speculation that taught him a manager more at seo party cino is being lined up as his replacement team are the reigning spanish and european champions but are injuring a disappointing domestic season or our fourth in the league nineteen points behind leaders barcelona they play live on tape on saturday. i don't care about what's happening next year only think about what i'm doing now and as you say to prepare for league matches because at the end all of you are saying the league is already decided but i don't think it's wrapped up just yet so going to keep on working and trying to win all matches. and that's all your sport

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