very heavy downpours currently possibile but hey the rain is slightly more mobile it does move slightly further north and south of us while we haven't seen the extreme flooding here having said that it does look very very wet on sunday we could see a little bit of localized flooding in places but further towards the north we will some sunshine here and also some showers but not too many show was at the moment just a couple of them most of them just trickling their way southward across into panama . there with sponsored by qatar airways. this is al jazeera. i know i'm adrian for again this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the

next sixty minutes north korea is accused of putting two hundred million dollars from banned exports including selling weapons to syria and been. i think a man i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace a controversial republican then accuse is the f.b.i. of abusing its powers raising questions about the russian investigation. jets target opposition controlled areas of syria's province as a government offensive intensifies and the. finding the language how corsicans are fighting their voice in nationalist battle. north korea is accused of hurting almost two hundred million dollars last year by breaking u.n. sanctions with help from china and russia at all the country. the allegations are

in a confidential united nations report which also says the north supplied weapons to syria and me and ma both countries deny that the un says the north exported coal to russia china and other asian countries as well as receiving help to set up businesses and bank accounts as a front for illegal activities exports of coal fired lead textiles and seafood are banned by un sanctions they're aimed at limiting funding for north korea's nuclear program into reports. using what's been described as a combination of multiple evasion techniques brute and deceptive tactics north korea ship coal to ports in russia china south korea malaysia and vietnam so says the report to the un security council sanctions committee that also says pyongyang urged nearly two hundred million dollars from the sale of banned exports last year it's not actually surprised in the north korean gauges and sanctions

busting china has allowed poor sanctions to sort of go on that tolerated port sanctions now for several decades the u.n. says evidence of north korean military cooperation with syria and me and mark was also uncovered as well as providing ballistic missiles to the myanmar government investigators say north korea help syrian president bashar al assad to develop chemical weapons between two thousand and twelve and last year it's believed more than forty north korean shipments were sent to companies acting for the research center overseeing syria's chemical weapons program its five years since the syrian government announced it would destroy its chemical weapons program and stockpile following the deaths of more than two hundred eighty people and what experts believe was a sarin gas attack since that attack in ghouta syrian government forces have been accused of carrying repeated chemical weapons attacks syrian government leaders dismissed the allegations that said visiting north korean experts were only involved in sports related activities for young mars and bassett or to the u.n.

has said it has no weapons deals with north korea we know that north koreans have connections with organized crime like the accuser for example in japan on throughout asia and possibly in the middle east or the north koreans again have been grooming these connections since at least the one nine hundred seventy s. it's us u.n. and e.u. sanctions were imposed because of north korea's nuclear and ballistic missiles program a latest u.n. sanctions announced in december were estimated to reduce petrol imports by up to ninety percent however investigators say so. several unnamed multinational oil companies continue to help supply petroleum products to the north and accuse the number of countries including china russia and malaysia but failing to start deal legal exports whatever the case the united states continues to lead the push for more economic sanctions following the north's six nuclear bomb tests last year more than twenty police the missile launch is raising u.s. fears that the mainland could soon be within reach india's al-jazeera

keep calm and tackle hard that's the advice of the head of the f.b.i. it is stuff after the u.s. congress released a memo accusing the bureau of being biased against the president a republican document criticizes the f.b.i. and department of justice it says they abused their power while examining alleged ties between donald trump's campaign team and russia the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying that it had grave concerns the document contained what it called material commissions of fact democrats say the memo is aimed at special counsel robert miller's investigation into the trunk campaign's alleged links to russia following the release the white house said that no changes will be made at the justice department a white house correspondent kimberly how 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 try to declassify 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. 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 five out of washington and i was told as you'd expect opinion on this memo is follow along partisan lines the democrats have written a rebuttal memo is that going to be released what might it say. well the top republican in the house. paul ryan has said that he'd be willing to allow the release of that memo but that of course is also subject to declassification by the president ultimately it would be his decision to allow it to go ahead with or without redactions the democrats as we've said has said that this was such an incomplete and cherry picked accounting of the actual the actual court proceedings which allowed this kind of unmasking and surveillance of

a former campaign adviser that once the public was would be allowed to see all of the underlying facts then it would be clear that this was just a red herring and just meant to distract i think the real question here now is what the implications are for the moeller investigation the president was asked point blank yesterday are you going to ask for the resignation of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who is muller's a direct superior and somebody who is appointed by trump himself and he said you figure that one out but later the white house backed off on that and said that there will be no changes in the justice department but republicans on capitol hill are really. hitting the draw of the drumbeats or are mounting to cut off the investigation to have the president just simply fire moeller and that of course is

what the democrats are warning about saying that that would only precipitate a constitutional crisis where does all of this leave the relationship between the intelligence community that a puppet of justice and the government. well as we heard the f.b.i. director also appointed by president trump basically said to him to his troops just carry on as you were this will not have any any kind of erosion of your authority or your ability to carry out your duties but the question here is whether in fact that down the line this will have some kind of some kind of. resonance in fact some some people do former f.b.i. agents have said that this this really makes makes the ranks the rank and field of the f.b.i. whom the president of course says has done nothing wrong he's only implicated or

accuse the top leadership that that their ability to carry out non political and objective investigations of criminal intent would be effective would definitely be affected we'll see so many thanks to talk about live in washington. the u.s. military is modernizing its nuclear weapons arsenal in response to concerns that russia is expanding its capability the new pentagon strategy and as the obama era push to reduce america's stockpile defense secretary james massa's says the u.s. needs to see the world as it is not as it wishes it to be defense correspondent political hay and reports 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 attack 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 particularly when you 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 political gain al-jazeera washington and it's going to you know from defense for such a grand on weapons questions the motivation of the u.s. for more nuclear weapons. your assumption is that more is better. if you go back to the fundamentals of nuclear weapons and the apollo afterwards more isn't necessarily better you need to have a sufficiently ordinance to create credible deterrence against an atlas in my assessment and a lot of other the opposite of us the ones that criticize the reason. is that the do you want us has a sufficient muscle to establish a relatively robust occurence against the remains of the look of ours including russia and china so i see the concerns about expansion creating wrists miscalculation of actually increasing belligerence if you like an early will

incentivizing us initiation to think about the use of the weapons when actually the fundamental law of the words aligning death threats with things rather than actual deployment so all in all the one still in deficit right now are us. among the proponents or is it your initiative is that the us in relative terms lacks parity or balance if you like with russia as the i meant all non-strategic on lowing yield applicable to weapons which are poised across the divide you are going to get or the russians are the ones about two thousand on non-strategic look towards you for the fall of us. on the american side happening in relatively small number of. you know the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program changes in the air for kenya's education system but teachers there feel that the new plans just

don't add up plus. i'm steadfast reporting about for addition and a rapidly disappearing unique culture of the people. and later in sports le bron james speaks out on reports that he's leaving the cleveland cavaliers. at least four people have been wounded in a drive by shooting in the central italian city of mosul police say all the victims were foreigners a suspect has been detained russian warplanes have a new air strikes on rebel held areas of the province in syria at least seven people were killed when a car was hit in aleppo the opposition in italy have been bombarded for weeks now by syrian government forces and russian allies jets also targeted the rebel on klav of eastern near the capital damascus government forces have besieged the area for

five years some four hundred thousand people are trapped at the bombing by russian jets a deadly provinces supporting a major offensive by syrian government forces aimed at recapturing a strategically important road between the cities of aleppo and damascus troops have been fighting opposition groups now for weeks moving northwest trying to cut off a rebel supply line the road between aleppo and damascus connects some of the few remaining opposition held areas of syria. at least two people have been killed nineteen others injured in attacks on turkish towns near the border with syria. turkey says the rockets were fired from a kurdish enclave inside syria has been more than two weeks of intense fighting in the area turkey launched an offensive to clear the region of syrian kurdish forces known as the y p g which it says is a terrorist group and the free syrian army says that it will investigate allegations that its fighters mutilated the corpse of a female member of the y.

p.g. but in the body is understood to have been a member of the all female kurdish women's protection unit video seen by al jazeera appears to show free syrian army fighters standing over her body in a village near the turkish border more now from al-jazeera is stephanie deca. turkey's been focusing on pushing the y. p.g. away from its border areas with footy and there's been heavy outgoing artillery not just now as you can hear but really throughout the two week period that this offensive is now carrying on its nor any easy flight the f.s.a. those of the free syrian army fighters they've been pushing along these borders as well along with turkish soldiers they've taken some areas but there are still certainly pockets of why p.g. along these border areas and just briefly also particular when it comes to the civilians inside these areas we understand that from those villages most of them

have fled farther inside to syria to seek safety but very very difficult for them because no aid can get in to are freed and as you can hear along these villages along the border it is a very ongoing campaign leaders of the palestine liberation organization will meet in a few hours to discuss ending the oslo accords and suspending the recognition of israel the palestinian president declared last month that the peace agreements of nine hundred ninety three and ninety five dead mahmoud abbas valid to reject u.s. mediation after donald trump's decision in december to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. a u.n. human rights body is calling for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist from prison in egypt saying this imprisonment violates international law for the same was jailed almost fourteen months ago for what prosecutors said was broadcasting false news to spread chaos both he and al jazeera deny the accusations hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment while in prison elizabeth

witchell is the impurity campaign consultant of the committee to protect journalists she says that many countries are using vaguely worded worded anti state laws to imprison journalists. when it comes to imprisonment we're seeing those numbers rise over the last few years and two thousand and seventeen was a historical high terms of the presidents that we've documented worldwide so it so in that sense we're seeing. it it's a it's an extremely precarious time to be a journalist particularly if you're a local journalist. you're you're covering you know your local communities your you know her. from the countries where we see repressive tactics. in terms of violence we're still seeing journalists attacked routinely and we're seeing still think high numbers of journalists killed last year we did record a small drop in in numbers of journalist killed and journalists murdered this is

a welcome development but this is also a drop following years of historical highs in that area as well. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is heading to argentina on the next leg of his five nation tour of latin america on friday he met mexico's president in an effort to ease worries of a president donald trump's comments on immigration and trade to listeners using his tour to soothe the relations with the u.s. and its allies he's looking he's also looking to drum up support for washington's tough stance on the government of venezuela's president nicolas maduro well the u.s. decision to impose a seventy two percent tariff on imports of biofuels is causing argentina's once booming industry to soften up zero stories about reports now from results on the auction ties who say that they're victims of donald trump's america first policy. six years ago this factory was producing sixteen thousand tonnes of bio diesel fuel a month now it's down to about six thousand and. the industry will grow there's no

investment it worries us that the united states will stop importing or bio diesel the interest it was created to export not only to fulfill internal needs. some say factories located in the province of santa fe argentina's first victims of donald trump's america first approach to following trade the us announced a seventy two percent tariff on imports of its biodiesel american officials accuse argentina of fairly subsidizing the country's biodiesel industry at the expense of u.s. producers even if. their decision is arbitrary unjustified and illegal they discarded all the arguments presented by argentina argentina has an export tax on the story of being in a different one for bio diesel it is not a subsidy this is one of mr trump's protectionist policies. almost ninety percent of argentina's biodiesel is directed to the united states cutting that flow has

impacted almost thirty companies here and pull jobs at risk argentina is one. the world's top soybean producers and biodiesel here is also produced with this crop it is a crucial source of income for argentina because it provides the u.s. dollars but be economy desperately needs dollars that help keep the trade balance in check since taking office president has been trying to open up argentina's economy in the us that that argentina is trying to open its economy in bio diesel is one of the products that exports the most by losing its main means we will have to look elsewhere argentina cannot afford to lose markets if it wants to get its economy back on track environmentalist have long questioned the cost of argentina's reliance on the. entire areas of the country's forests have been destroyed to grow what is known here as green gold experts say bio diesel is different in.

the united states and europe request a sustainability test so that the story of being used for bio diesel can be checked argentina has been certified and credited for this. argentina says it will file a complaint against the united states at the world trade organization in the meantime factories here will have to find new overseas markets even there to save the industry and precious jobs. argentina. journalist specializing in latin america he joins us now live from new york what sort of reception is to listen going to get it argentina given the fact that trump has raised these tariffs on bio diesel. well first of all thank you for inviting me to your show well definitely tillerson is very likely to receive a chilly reception even though president donald trump once said that argentina is

very pivotal for u.s. policies in latin america the truth is that donald trump hasn't had a friendly approach to argentina not only on the economic side they have actually imposed some hurdles for argentinians to come to the united states they you know a country that has been accustomed to. religious ations in terms of. documents and paperwork for argentina as a country united states but there are not having the privilege anymore despite the fact that the market ministration and the obama administration this cuz the possibility of letting argentinians come to united states in an easier way to say the least but in terms of interest of the economy the emerge of. the feeling we've lost many apologies. i'll tell you what let's

go and check out the weather for you know if we were talking about argentina it's been very wet a lot of people have been moved to safety from their homes after a river broke its bank and caused a whole lot of flooding is tell us more but you always just where the staff problems all started in bolivia and you think that's what happened let's take a look at them what's happening in bolivia first because that is where the issues or began so bolivia then had quite a bit of flooding seven out of the nine departments here saw the flooding and this is what it looked like in quite a lot of the places really over the past few days the rains have just stuck around for days now this is a quick moving event now all the water on the ground there has to drain out through the rivers so there's one of the river that actually forms the border between the north of argentina paraguayan and that river then eventually drains down into the paranoia and works all the way down towards one of those ari's that's a quick geography lesson then now you know why all the water is heading down from bolivia and into argentina so this is what it looks like insulter at the moment

rivers over burst its banks these bits of wood they're actually parts of people's homes there's a car and there's a lorry so it gives you an idea of just how fast moving in the force of this water as it rushes through people's villages so they obviously has been a lot of rain there and unfortunately there's more still to come here's the satellite picture then and it shows some rain over bolivia but also it bends back around just through into brazil now we often have this area of rain in the eastern parts of brazil but fortunately she caught mobile moving up and down the coast that's why the flooding this year has been over bolivia whereas in the east we've had heavy rain over brazil but not the flooding that we've seen elsewhere adrian. you can follow the actual weather staff on twitter with an e.s.l. still to come on the program will be live in corsica with calls for more autonomy a growing louder plus. i'm wayne hay in the town of la where we'll tell you about

a chinese mega project that's causing through here that the lao government hopes will help open this landlocked country. at its core destroy the open champion carolina was the key is brought back down to us. we have your zip data we know the products you can buy and everything that you're doing that's really where the power of the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and the threat do you believe that any of your companies have adana fide the full scope of russian active measures on your platform in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game left changed there are no precedents people in power investigates this information and democracy at this time. we hear indigenous can be covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of internet to recover includes that we don't dip in and out of the story we

have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. it is good to have you with us adrian for going to here in doha but the news out from al-jazeera our top stories a confidential united nations report says that north korea earned almost two hundred million dollars last year by violating u.n. sanctions the report says north korea supplied weapons to syria and men and shipped

coal to countries including russia and china. russian warplanes have review their strikes on rebel held areas of the province in syria at least seven people were killed when a car was hit in a lap of the opposition and it led put been bombarded for weeks now by syrian government forces and the russian allies and the head of the f.b.i. is urging staff to keep calm and tackle hard following accusations of bias against the president the u.s. congress released a memo declassified by donald trump alleging abuse of power on investigation russian meddling in his election. a worldwide push to ensure that all children receive a basic education has been given a boost but international conference in senegal donors pledged more than two billion dollars over the next three years towards efforts to get primary school aged children into the classroom the un has set a goal of having all children in full time education by the year twenty thirty the

world bank estimates that two hundred sixty million kids are not in school but in kenya teachers are getting a new curricula killam for the first time in thirty two years but critics say that the government also needs to build more schools buy more books and employ more teachers catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. there's a new way of teaching in this public school classroom. class to children on the outskirts of the capital are part of a pilot program for the new curriculum to be rolled out. it will cost is more in life skills technology natural talent and less on final exams many parents and teachers states a welcome change. from the old one called eight for four but also ambitious and expensive for israel to feel the government a need to consult even the donors because as you have seen. they do need a little finances and just the same without it for four started with the horrors of

a good system because we had walked ships students who had to be trained on home science on things that they can do with their own hands but then a defeat of the because of lack of funds primary and secondary education in public schools is free but they are crowded and there's not enough teachers or books so many parents who cannot find space in government schools or afford expensive private ones bring their children to even more crowded cheap community schools like this one in one of nairobi slums skin or are we just we are still low because these are complimentary schools whatever we get to be our school fees is not enough to cut off for the teachers and maybe i would say we begin by telling them that we only issue i talking here. that talk can is just about a hundred and fifty dollars a month at the highest the teachers here are more fortunate than in their the schools which pay much less for more work this is one of the men with the money to

do it if there were more i think in the face of thank you to decide to have the roof on down and out of you to do them for you cannot offer you right even so they . expand if it is expressed in these direct of a child education rights group shows us findings of research done last middle school pupils in dozens of government schools nationwide were tested on literacy and comprehension most were below average you had it in a class where you have maybe fifty children twenty of them can. see it there are many cannot. so you keep getting that windy and rainy day you're moving one minute and they have that i guess it's going to. the left way behind them. and that is the. back of my students prepare for their final exam at the end of this. they teach

a class they're all trying their best with a little they have kathleen saw al jazeera now can you. answer an innocent is director of the global education monitoring report which is published every year by the un's cultural body unesco he joins us now live from dakar in senegal manas thanks for being with us what's the key to increasing access to quality primary education does it simply come down to money. well it's through the global education morning telling reports that scoundrelly no income countries only one in two children complete primary school but the got in the dictation agenda is not limited to primary education it extends to secondary education in these countries only thirteen percent of children complete secondary school and if you look at the poorest go only two percent do so so to achieve

higher taxes of course the key constraint is poverty. and that is the major constraint but countries also need capacity and that's where financing comes to play a major role and that includes financing by donors by the international community and that's why there was a gathering here in the car to extend and increase the pledges to finance international education so one of the hurdles to expanding the reach of education throughout the world is it corruption mismanagement two or more simple lack of funding and poverty as you say. well funding is really very important especially in countries the contribution of aid to the occasion can be very very significant now some people do question whether in fact these issues that have to do with the politics and how budgets are managed in the last global education money to report focused on accountability and so that there

are serious issues in some cases however the main source for overcoming the constraints in countries is domestic financing and here countries have very weak tax bases but these are the theme up especially in this conference is that in order for countries to be able to increase the resources they themselves raise the major corruption case actually comes often from abroad illegal illicit financing flows have not been curbed over the years the president of ghana said that fifty billion dollars could be recovered if only these rich countries could help curb illicit financing flows and very interesting you know way which was one of the biggest. maybe one of the biggest engagement the biggest pledges in the conference yesterday also committed to support countries to increase their domestic revenues. many thanks steve for being with us here. cause for more autonomy on the french island of corsica a growing ever louder nationalist supporters are demonstrating in the capital

president of audio macron is expected to visit next week we'll be speaking to our correspondent david chaser who is there in just a moment but first here's his report. the full independence may still be a distant dream but nationalism has found a renewed force on this island the. yeah. not so long ago just seen a corsican national anthem was enough to get beaten up by the french police here now the islanders are demanding official status for their language. of course you can roots was rapidly merge with the expression of political demands so the singing became hard for the political authorities to accept and not only the french but also some corsicans were supporters of great affronts the confrontation then became violent extremely violent very external.

the brutal struggle for corsican independence lasted for four decades before weapons were finally surrendered three years ago the political fight to the ballot box is proving much more successful. a coalition of nationalists now commands forty one out of the sixty three seats in the corsican assembly one of their key demands is for the return an amnesty of what they call their political prisoners held in jails across france sixty percent of the some say. what happened in the election last december was an earthquake it wasn't just the usual renewal of the acidly the corsican people voted by an absolute in my yard for corsica nationality that's the fact there are thirty some parties have to think about. the nationalists have already served notice on president macron warning him that unless he starts listening to them then hard and conflicting times lie ahead for paris and corsica

course was the birthplace of napoleon the man macro is most often measured against in terms of his youth and grand visions the french president is due on the island next week will he choose a compromise will he defend the integrity of france and its language they would say to joins us now live from. david three days ahead of president micron's visit what are the demands right now of course of competing. i think gaijin the most important demand is of course for corsican didn't made the official language of this island this is really a motive issue but of course it's a very difficult one for president macro because the constitution article two of the french constitution says that the republic only has one language and that is french and it requires something like a three fifth's majority in the national assembly bus passes through the senate to

get that altered so that's a lot for the present mccrone to mull over but the other demand is even more difficult and that is for the so-called political prisoners as the nationalists call them the people who were jailed across france for the forty forty years of struggle here to to gain independence of course ago now they're between eight and twenty of them still imprisoned and what they want is for them to be amnestied and returned to the island and perhaps return to the island to serve the remaining sentences here near their families because it's very difficult for their families very expensive for their families to get over and see them discussed in some like seven hundred euros every time they go across and they barely get to see them for about half an hour in the fridge to help them to serve and also an important demand is the fact that they want the property law changed here in corsica the very worried about the rich walsh who are families in in paris and the rest of france

buying their holiday homes here and only coming down in the summer is pushing prices up and the island with of course kills themselves and they feel that down there and that must be changed a lot for prez american to mull over before he comes on to the island next week david can we compare what's happening in costco to what happened in catalonia corsicans looking for independence from france. you can come. but i don't think it's an accurate comparison because catalonia is a very separate. resourceful economy within spain and also has a great deal of autonomy already so yes looking here at what the corsicans want i don't think there is a majority according to all the polls we've seen for full independence but that talking about them is more measured. on a means to increase the autonomy of the island they say this is not just the

ministers area france is a country it's a nation it's a people and that paris must start listening to them but the polity here is the story one in five people live below the poverty line and the exodus of the young is extraordinary as well most young people are leaving the islands and heading towards the education systems in france and jobs from so most of all i think what the national coalition wants from france is a recognition that their demands of the just a minute and that they must give much more help to establish the economy of that of course before they even push towards that distant dream of independence david many thanks al jazeera stated chaser then attacks you corsica now to a remote region of indonesia where traditional tribal food is being replaced by instant noodles and ice cream the arrival of all sorts of modern things threatens the azmat people and their age old ways in papua correspondent stepped into

a long journey to our guts where village just blame the government for not doing enough to help them. children in this remote part of eastern indonesia are dying of disease and hunger a measles outbreak is claiming lives infecting children's bodies week from malnutrition decades ago people were proud and feared worriers well known for head 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 bad 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.

that modern day goods have replace what nature used to provide in the jungle instant noodles and ice cream are on the menu instead of baked 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 have been going in 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. church workers provide information to villages about healthy

food but 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 all together now we are discussing with several ministries to see what is the best approach that suits their culture at the level of development president jokingly doto 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 people to survive on the land they have always known step for us and al-jazeera.

archaeologists in egypt have announced the discovery of an ancient tomb near the pyramids of giza they say the four thousand year old fault was made for at he bet a prominent priestess who lives during ancient egypt fifth in the city. is investing billions of dollars in a high speed rail line being built by a chinese company that will run from you not in southern china to a large capital the n.t.n. before eventually connecting with another line being built in thailand. in the latest installment of our series of reports global trunk global trade routes where you hail reports from one of. these normally quiet previously untouched hills of northern laos and they are filled with the sights and sounds of heavy construction around the turn of the one providing rapid progress is being made on a chinese built high speed train line it will cut through here and cross the mekong river on its way from southern china to the lao capital vienna. the communist

government of laos says it wants the landlocked country to become land linking beijing sees this project as a key part of its belt and road infrastructure plan linking china with the rest of asia europe and beyond when this line is completed it will run for more than four hundred kilometers more than sixty percent of which will consist of bridges and tunnels that makes it a very expensive project one that some say laos can't afford experts worry it will add to the government's already heavy debt loads the cost of the project is six billion dollars with most of the money coming from chinese grants and loans this is significant because. it is only. in ford in billion so close to fifty percent of. this project would be in five years time so that in we can expect. of public

investment just for those prosser. one of the stops will be just outside long providing which is a unesco listed town for its unique lao and french architecture there is concern the new project will attract too many tourists putting a strain on the town's facilities and infrastructure. but many people in small businesses here survive off the tourism industry so the prospect of more visitors spending money is welcomed. about three years ago there were more tourists but now there aren't as many so we are earning less money so we're looking forward to the train happening with. some studies have found that china will receive most of the economic benefits from the large projects involved in around the region laos is one of asia's poorest countries so when the railway is finished by late two thousand and twenty one it will be hoping its begin this mint

will start paying off straight away wayne hay al jazeera long providing laos. well a final report on global trade routes will look at the planned trans african railway line which will connect west africa with the east and you can see that throughout the day on sunday. just ahead in the sports on paul race in copenhagen where the danes are hoping to bring home only the second winter olympics medal twenty years after winning the first. the river nile is a vital source of substance to the countries it flows through this is no longer single on who can lay claim to the big name isn't going to give them the resources we found but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the record comes from spotting through consultation was not

often included hunters because of some unknown fear struck a little bit but this time on al-jazeera. discover a wealth of home would winning programming from around the world. come to make it challenge your perceptions if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better platform than facebook. documentaries debates and discussions this country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point al-jazeera.

again type of sport his tatiana thank you very much adrian three time n.b.a. champion le bron james has denied reports that he's going to ditch the cleveland cavaliers to join arch rivals the golden state warriors the cavs forward who can opt out of his current contract this summer spoke out following reports on e.s.p.n. the us network claiming he'd meet with golden state in the offseason if they opened up sufficient salary space to land him a bronze cleveland's side lost to the warriors in last season's finals and have been on the path a season they do have the third best record in the east dodds have lost twenty out of fifty games. we're going to stay. conversation the non-story on the other conversation the non-story oh my focus right now is to be trying to figure out how we can get back to work and be a family before champs here everything else. is not about this team you want to ask me about this team i came for a good better i was the place for us to sit down at the bottom the no no no the.

while one team the brown is highly unlikely to ever consider joining is indiana with pain he had a face rivalry when he played for miami they lost to eastern conference counterparts the charlotte hornets kemba walker hitting forty one points as the hornets won one hundred thirty three to one hundred thirty six. the twenty eight hundred six nations championship kicks off on saturday with wales hosting scotland in cardiff that much well thought shortly while they're on a run of eight consecutive home wins against scotland and later on a france will take on ireland to a scene of the other title favorites islander won a seven game winning streak while france without a win in six games were england the reigning champions and begin their defense of a title against italy in rome on sunday head coach eddie jones has picked center ben taylor in the starting line up the thirty one year old who's been out since october with an ankle injury hasn't played for england in ivory year the side

a bidding to become the first team to win the competition three times in a row. i just i well like everything every time when you're not watching the track there is no changing to get better we just want to get better getting better and going to the best in the world is up the chain the everyday to get better that's that's attacking. a man that knows a thing or two about beating the new england patriots says the philadelphia eagles can pull off an upset against the defending super bowl champions in sunday's showpiece match new york giants star eli manning is the only quarterback to be to tom brady led patriots team having done so and by two thousand and eight and twenty twelve i do not think that they have to make up them very deep it's a project getting pressure on the board back you know they're up and they run the ball well they do know that they're quarterbacks playing at a high level in their game so i think they have the ingredients now to put it all together on game day. he's playing at a high level and you know but the best way to slow down the quarterback to get

pressure on him and make him the borrower earlier. that he wants to and so i think they have the talent where they can get some pressure that is going to do it top of the table manchester city have the chance to go eighteen points clear at the top of the english premier league for a while the one note off against burnley at the moment in the second hoff all of the match there are eight games in total in the p.l. on saturday second place meant to see united have the chance to bounce back off the midweek loss to talk united face huddersfield and also will have eight points off a top four champions league place can make up some ground they take on everton. caroline wozniak e has come back down to earth after winning her first tennis grand slam of the australian open the dane was beaten in straight sets by twenty year old russian duddy a couple kena in the quarterfinals of the w.t. a event in st petersburg it was the new world number one first defeat since winning

about privacy in melbourne. and i shall now on defending stanley cup champions the pittsburgh penguins have extended their winning streak to four games with a win over the washington capitals on friday the penguins got off to an early lead but the capitals managed to break even late on in the middle period as the game moments after the head washington once again leveled off to alex ovechkin got his thirty second goal of the season but no more goals would come from the capitals of the penguins scored three goals in less than four minutes to secure a seven four victory. there were six days to go until the winter olympics in china and undoubtedly expect to see the scandinavian countries before well but there's one odd one out and that denmark handicapped by their relatively flat landscape they have just one win to medal to their name poor research reports from prep and i can. put denmark in the winter olympics curling is the undisputed champion among

sports poles apart from the skiing and ice hockey cultures of its scandinavian neighbors here in copenhagen medal hopes are made of stone. after curling olympic debut twenty years ago gave denmark that only place on the podium we had one medal it wasn't. and it was. very proud of that no one has been able to do medal in any way this boy every family so that's why it's very special. it's special as more than just a memory in the era before nine hundred ninety eight danish curl is how to play and skating rinks that medal may have been a hard act to follow but it did what in danish terms was a winter sports revolution the creation of this club after nine hundred ninety eight men the first time at least some danish winter olympians to train for the

games in their home country curling remains the exception denmark's top medal prospect elena regress trains most of the year at speed skating rinks in holland to know why the best danish cross-country skier lives in greenland i'm a great alpine hope christopher followed up far away in norway. trina christe won silver with the curling team twenty years ago and distil one of the only danes to outdo their scandinavian neighbors in the winter games when we wanted a medal we were higher. than sweden was for twenty four hours and that was very special. it's a great feeling but of course we hope every time there is a winter olympics there will be more of us denmark has slipped down the rankings since the heady days of ninety eight but when

a single medal means so much every olympics is a brush with destiny it was. all race al-jazeera copenhagen. ok about all those balls and i'll more like to touch on a many thanks to top stories out of syria dot com is the catalyst for this minister says that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. intended to invade at the start of the blockade in june i'll be back with that story and much more in just a few moments. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides

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more than seven decades ago a country was split into really big good we didn't do anything and now i want to die and i'm going to been going to go to being my age all it took was a pan a mop and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these new clear maybe as partition borders of blood at this time. i'm. north korea's accused of earning two hundred million dollars from banned exports including selling weapons to syria and be him.