from. a haunting journey through memories scott by sri lanka's civil war. divisions and mental wounds still run deep. as a once exiled tamil gorilla struggles to comprehend how things went so wrong. demons in paradise a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. above . i think that now i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace. a controversial memo on the campaign in russia has released an across washington both sides claim vindication.

hello i'm down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up dozens of pakistani migrants are feared drowned after the boat capsized off the coast of libya. a new u.n. report lays out the real impact on the country's children. protests in kenya after another arrest over the marking operation of opposition leader. a memo criticizing the f.b.i.'s investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election has been released after being declassified by u.s. president donald trump it was written by republicans and says the f.b.i. and department of justice abused their power and showed bias when investigating the alleged ties between his campaign team and the kremlin well the f.b.i.

had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contain what it called material emissions a fact and a statement the agency's director christopher ray told staff he stood by them democrats say the members aimed at derailing the special counsel robert muller's investigation into the campaign's alleged links to russia white house correspondent can really help it reports. republicans promised a bombshell that would destroy any idea the trump campaign colluded with the russian government during the twenty sixteen presidential election but in the end he did not meet expectations president declassified the memo written by top republicans allowing for its public release even against the advice of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. investigators looking into alleged truck ties to russia hit the fact some of their

research was funded by democratic party sources it also claims the entire investigation was biased against donald trump from the beginning and that some agents expressed views privately and 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 but democrats argue the memo is simply a summary of republican talking points based on an accuracies house democratic leader nancy pelosi says it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert muller and alleged campaign ties to president vladimir putin's government in a statement she said president trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing highly classified and distorted intelligence by not protecting intelligence sources and methods he just sent his

friend putin a bouquet of trump himself made the argument on twitter prior to the memos release that leadership at the f.b.i. and justice department are out to get him some analysts believe that's more evidence trump is actively obstructing the investigation if you look at the words out of mr trump's own mouth the very incriminating he said repeatedly i need somebody in the justice department who will protect me it's doubtful the memos released will change public opinion about the russia investigation still there is now an effort by some democrats and republicans to literally protect the russia probe from what many believe is a white house effort to derail the justice process kimberly held at al-jazeera washington. well alan collins from the university of michigan he says the focus will now shift to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein because of his involvement in securing the warrants that we use to monitor a trump campaign aide brought rosenstein is you know his.

grip on the administration on the investigation you know is certainly hurt by this because he's an appointee and in theory president from could get rid of him at any time and you know the memos put out and it shows that when he had to extend the plans that weren't going to turn a page of kind of undermines that rationale in so you know i don't think that the president trump is going after robert muller directly but rather rosenstein is the boss. of robert muller and so i think he's probably most vulnerable in that if president from tried to install somebody do a head of the investigation so the more favorable for him that that could eventually put them all in the crosshairs and so i think the directly rosenstein who would be most because he had to approve all those lies warrants. the u.s. military says it will modernize its nuclear weapons arsenal in response to concerns

of a russia's expansion of its capability the new strategy unveiled by the pentagon and the obama era push to reduce america's stockpile defense secretary james mattis says the u.s. needs to see the world as it is not as it wishes it to be a defense correspondent particle hain has more from washington. u.s. president donald trump never criticizes russian president vladimir putin but the pentagon is doing just that moscow retains a large stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons and continues to modernize those as well as its strategic systems this report says aggression from russia concerns about china and north korea and potentially iran are the reasons the u.s. needs to modernize its nuclear weapons and it's changing the wording on when it could use them saying the u.s. could use nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the u.s. what's new is they added this line extreme circumstances could include significant

non nuclear strategic attacks the military was asked to clarify what that means it would that also involve the employment of biological weapons against the us population or allies would involve the use of chemical weapons against our people would involve a conventional tack in other parts of the world the context in which an attack occurred on the united states or allies would be how we would evaluate the appropriate response the plan also calls for modernizing the nuclear arsenal that's something the last administration wanted to do and at the time they said it was going to cost more than a trillion dollars over thirty years this plan would undoubtedly be even more expensive and that has not been something that congress has been really willing to fund at this point. the u.s. also wants to build a new kind of weapon a nuclear warhead with less impact but critics say that could make nuclear war more likely they are literally having weapons that give the president more options to

start a nuclear war and that is becoming dangerous piggly we have this president who we all know is impetuous irrational and not always unsound mind recently three high ranking former diplomats went to capitol hill with the warning that the massive destructive force of a nuclear weapon was no longer appreciated or even feared by some but in those days people seem to have an appreciation of what would what would be the result of a nuclear weapon it ever used. i fear people have lost that sense of dread the u.s. under president trump is trying to improve its nuclear arsenal and the potential reasons to use it they say in order to improve the odds it won't have to pay to al-jazeera washington dozens of pakistanis are feared drowned off the coast of libya they were among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off the city of swara only three people are known to have survived they were trying to cross the mediterranean to reach italy and then to dollars from the international organization for migration he says the boat was

probably overloaded. we know that the weather was calm so that's indicating that indicating that the smugglers who are cavalier to say the least how huge lee overloaded this vessel so this is just really what happened and we need to get the word out to people desperate people around the world who think they're coming to a better life and they're reading about it on social media that it's not the case the french government is sending more riot police to the northern port city of kalak after a gun battle between a rival groups of migrants five people have been shot four are in a serious condition after a fight between eritreans and afghans of a food handouts to reports from. the french interior minister met police offices in cali deployed to stop fighting between hundreds of refugees on thursday five eritreans was shot in the violence the situation as you said 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 every train refugee support for nearly two hours only outskirts of the city they were to charity to hand out when gunfire triggered the clashes police asserts. for an afghan man in connection with the shooting in one of the main areas where took her from the interior minister is saying. much of this point there's no doubt when you direct me here what many of the terrorists it is the people smugglers are going to curse and reactive security is how i encounter a 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 the money. to enter dad's

drug or. for the refugees stuck here the conditions are grim. and sloping in the mud here here where we are in him look at him. activists say the difficulties are fuelling tensions the conditions are seriously challenging here and to help refugees and other organizations have spoken repeatedly about this and read 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 each day in the hope of a better life natasha butler al-jazeera kalai at least two people have been killed

and nineteen injured in a barrage of rocket attacks on towns on the turkish border with syria. turkish government says the rockets are fired from a kurdish enclave inside syria two weeks of intense fighting in the area since turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian kurdish forces known as the y.p. jean turkey says they want which is a terrorist group. and the wife g.'s accusing turkish backed fighters of mutilating and filming the corpse of a female kurdish fighter but more the pictures of the victim are circulating on social media she's understood to be a member of the all female kurdish women's protection units footed seen by al-jazeera appears to show free syrian army fighters standing over her body in a village near the turkish border. local media say air and artillery strikes in eastern guta have killed five people including a child further north an airstrike hit a vehicle carrying a family trying to escape the fighting in aleppo southeastern countryside it's

believed seven people were killed some of the children. now a new u.n. report has accused the saudi led coalition in yemen of killing dozens of children in their strikes last year the study focused on the period between july to september says the saudis bear the greatest responsibility for the deaths lama jungle reports. the un report obtained by and 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 our everyone in it's making seventy five percent of the population so our concern is that as long as it 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 and we have twenty two million people in need at west peking to families who are fleeing their

homes because of violence in constructing houses out of plastic bags with a political solution looking unlikely any time soon many worry that already suffering children will be exposed to even more violent and trauma homage and doom and. lots more still to come here on al-jazeera including you know that i can't do that that's how our legal system. the father of three sexually abused girls lunges a convicted predator. and. i'm struck by the reporting from pop law about loss traditions and the rapidly disappearing unique culture of my people. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello the weather slushy set for the middle east over the next few

days it was a little more cloud and two were turkey that will slide its way a little further east words a little bit of cloud just watery sunshine coming into the levant and as we go on through saturday nineteen celsius. celsius for jerusalem elsewhere the sun will be quite brightly twenty celsius to baghdad and also for kuwait city and similar values as we go through sunday by sunday more than possible around casea a little more hope in little less cloud into syria lebanon joy. and cyprus not likely to be back over the next day also with some pleasant sunshine but shot across the radiant peninsula but so on the chilly side just twenty two celsius with that keynsham all winds continuing to blow. twenty two over the next couple of days as the little cloud there just about southern parts of a mom but i think it will stay lassie settled and sunny sunny sunny satele we could do with a rifle cape town no sign of that in the forecast for the forseeable future twenty four celsius here some of the value there for them but a little more cloud still

a chance of some showers creep in the way into that northeastern corner of south africa zimbabwe seeing some showers over the last few days was that over the next few days with rain the mozambique. there with sponsored by qatar and he's. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself he had a story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. the. last.

part of a quick recap of the top stories here this hour the f.b.i. director christopher wright has told the staff he stands with them after the u.s. congress released a memo saying the f.b.i. and department of justice have used that power the democrats and the members aimed at derailing the mulla probe into russia's alleged links to the trump camp. and u.s. military. says it will modernize its nuclear arsenal because it's worried about russia's expansion of its weapons capability and new strategy on the battle by the pentagon and see a bomb or a push to reduce the stockpile. of dozens of pakistanis are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya they were among all the ninety people on the boat which capsized the city of only three people amount of survived trying to cross the mediterranean it's. been protests in kenya after the government arrested

a second law involved in tuesday's mock you know gratian of the opposition leader. protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi where lawyers begin to go to was taken from his home in a dawn raid guna stood next to a dingo when he proclaimed himself the people's president to protest last year's election three private t.v. stations that had planned to broadcast the event remain despite a court ruling allowing them to resume operations catherine saw as 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 your position of politicians he's called me very fiery he's a 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 lesser reforms through the peaceful resistance that movement has now been declared by the government as an organized criminal group i'm not a lawyer t.j. could you uncle who administered this oath who presided over this more inauguration of ryan on tuesday and was arrested by police and when stay 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 with salsa since 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

thousands of people in pakistan have held master turns to modern the arrest and execution of a police officer after a male model was shot dead it was a second day of rallies after the killing of twenty seven year old nucky mehsud in an operation on wednesday his family denies the police claim that he was a criminal the officer who led the operation has been relieved of his duties. now a former president of the more deaves will run in elections later this year because a supreme court ruling us quashed his conviction for terrorism offenses amid nasheed as called on the government to respect the ruling which acquits him and his colleagues has been smith. opposition supporters in the capital mali say the supreme court ruling paves the way for the multi-verse first democratically elected leader to return from exile and run for president in elections jew 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 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 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 it will come out 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 is a new government president you mean was elected in twenty 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 a united nations report has accused north korea nearly two hundred million dollars last year exporting banned commodities around the world young i was accused of supplying weapons to syria and me in math exporting called a number of asian countries out of getting help to set up front businesses and bank accounts under un sanctions north korea is forbidden to export coal lead textiles all seafood the sanctions are designed to limit funding for its nuclear program a modern day life is threatening the existence of tribes and every most jungle

region of indonesia people in pop up blaming the government for not doing enough to help them step bassam reports from our guts on the plight of the asthma people. children in this remote part of eastern indonesia are dying of disease and hunger amee cells are break is claiming lives infecting children's bodies week from malnutrition decades ago people were proud and feared worriers well known for had hunting and cannibalism those traditions have now gone and only on this play in museums but the rest of the tribe unique culture is also in danger of being lost with. our culture must not disappear we have abolished back traditions and are focused on the good parts of our culture we still like killing and eating people that was clearly not a good sign of our culture but our sculptures our cultural festivals we need to protect them they can't disappear the bad things have been taken by the winners of

. modern day good stuff replace what nature used to provide in the jungle instant noodles an ice cream are on the menu instead of baked go forests are no longer a source for food city style garbage is seen everywhere here it becomes painfully clear how a unique culture is rapidly disappearing instead of psagot trees plastic waste dominates the habitat of the us my people many say it's a sign that indonesia needs to act fast if it wants to maintain its diversity and preserve this centuries old culture because of the lack of good nutrition diseases spread quickly many children have died because medical post in remote areas are unmanned. church leaders estimate the figure could be in the hundreds. but having gone you know we have to realize that this tragedy is a very important lesson to us it shows how we have failed their brothers and sisters and not managed to bring welfare and health care to them it shows that a lot has to be done. by. church workers provide information to villages about

healthy food proper education facilities are seriously lacking we visited a school with only one teacher present the head of the school had not shown up for work for four years the government admits its approach has failed. in what we found is that the services we provided were not enough they did not reach the right people and were not affective or it was the wrong approach altogether now we are discussing with several ministries to see what is the best approach to suit their culture at that level of development when the president jokingly dodo suggested relocating the more than one hundred thousand members of the tribe to a town but that was immediately rejected the government now says it aims to preserve the culture and provide the medical care and assistance needed for the people to survive on the land they have always known step fastened al-jazeera i

gotz what about ten thousand people have been told to leave their homes in argentina due to heavy rains and flooding the deluge sent a wall of mud and daybreak down the river insulter that's in the northwest forcing some residents to be plucked to safety officials say the river rose six meters and is expected to continue rising over the coming days. and in bolivia at least six people have died falling severe flooding in santa cruz the authorities there say at least fifty thousand people have been left homeless after days of heavy rain in the hardest hit areas on the southern border with. argentina. mexico's foreign minister says his country's relationship with the u.s. is closer under president trump than with previous administrations at least for the get a was speaking alongside his u.s. and canadian counterparts he said that despite the u.s. and mexico as well known disagreements that working relationship had improved he also called on venezuelans to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing political crisis the day after u.s.

secretary of state rex tillerson raise the prospect of a military uprising a father distraught over the sexual abuse of his three daughters has disrupted a court hearing for us dr laurie nasr random ah graves lunged at nasa has already facing up to two hundred years in prison for abusing girls are working at the docks for the usa gymnastics team john hendren reports to me. a father's fury his target the man who sexually abused his three daughters say i would dare you to as far as a certain thing. to grant me five minutes in the locker room there's a demon you know that i can't do that that's not how i live the american. dream to meet. the man he wanted to get his hands on his larry nasser former olympic gymnastics doctor in a convicted serial child molester i'm 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 that committee and as you say need an independent investigation new allegations less than a week before the start of the twenty eight thousand winter games describe how usa gymnastics e-mailed us olympic committee security chief larry 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 nasser to police in two thousand and four eleven years before he was fired from usa gymnastics and everybody you hear it comes over. every no 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 the most important reason we're here and that's to apologize. on behalf of the community for her police department. to you maria we failed you. 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. although of course on our website there it is on his screen the address al jazeera dot com. let's get a quick check of the headlines here the f.b.i. director christopher rain has told his staff he stands with them after the u.s.

congress released a memo saying the f.b.i. and department of justice both abuse their power democrats say the memos aimed at derailing the probe into russia's alleged links to the campaign the u.s. military says it will modernize its nuclear arsenal because it's worried about russia's expansion of its weapons capability the new nuclear strategy unveiled by the pentagon ends the obama era push to reduce america's stock by dozens of pakistanis are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya they were among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off the city of. only three people are known to have survived they were trying to cross the mediterranean to get tickets and. at least two people have been killed and nine hundred injured in a barrage of rocket attacks on towns on the turkish border with syria. turkey's government says the rockets were fired from

a kurdish enclave inside syria in more than two weeks of intense fighting in the area since turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian kurdish forces known as the white turkey says the wife is a terrorist group al jazeera has obtained a un report which accuses the coalition in yemen of killing dozens of children air strikes last year the study focused on the period between july to september as the saudis bear the greatest responsibility for the deaths. they've been protests in kenya after the government arrest of second no emboldened tuesday's mock inauguration of opposition leader. protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi mcgoohan in the guna was taken from his home in a dorm raid three private t.v. stations are planned to broadcast the event remain off the air despite a court ruling allowing them to resume operations and thousands of people in pakistan have held mass citizens demanding their rest and the execution of a police officer after a male model was shot dead

a second day of rallies after the killing of twenty seven year old lucky masood in an operation on wednesday his family denies the police claim that he was a criminal but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the talked about is there such and so much of. this is really only itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. you. see. geopolitically plays between. hugely important strategic role in many of the regions crises in conflicts not to mention developments around the world. this recall the speaker.