drawn by women drivers yeah pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers on the river nile is a vital source of sustenance to the countries and flows through this normal thing called on who can lay claim i'm a bit lame but he isn't going to give in because i think we found arete but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country's suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the wreckage transponding see consultation was not up to me political hunters because of something i'm no longer fear of struggle it has been a desire on al-jazeera. a russian fighter jet is shot down in syria's province as the government's battle to retake the rebel held territory continues.

in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up italy's prime minister condemns a drive by shooting targeting african immigrants warning that hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide people. thousands of corsicans march to demand autonomy ahead of a visit from french prime minister next week. and doctors in the u.s. try to manage the worst flu outbreak in a decade. we begin in syria where a russian fighter jet has been shot down an adlib province russia's defense ministry has confirmed the pilot managed to eject himself but was killed in a subsequent ground fight russian planes have been targeting rebel fighters alongside the syrian government since december with more than thirty fighters

killed in high precision strikes on saturday alone the u.n. says some one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the violence stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. well this is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. i mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didn't survive. for these syrian fighters it's a huge symbolic victory. russian the syrian government have intensified their bombardment province over the last two months government forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province under full rebel control. they're inching closer to the city of socket which lies on a strategic road linking the northwest all the way to the capital damascus

territory that is now almost fully under government control. and in syria's complex web of regional and international allegiances some say this offensive has been well planned and has further implications been there are some people who are in fact wondering if there is a tacit agreement between the russians and the turks whereas the russians would actually give a green light for the turks to in against the kurds in exchange for the russians and allies actually to capture parts of this of this. the government offered the means you don't want between the mosques and that there but. that offensive against the kurdish controlled district is now into its third week turkey's backing fighters from the free syrian army against the kurdish people protection units white g. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization even though it's the united states is most effective in fighting

. turkey has been intensely shelling the areas there is a base just right behind us and this is in line with what politicians here are saying the first phase of this operation the. the wipe away from its borders. all along that border a steady stream of military movement vehicles i mean and buses packed with syrian f.s.a. fighters this is a very visible operation but it's also a difficult one the y.p. geno the terrain well and they have been preparing for this it's the latest frontline in a war that year after year simply changes its form and never seems to end. stephanie decker or jazeera on the turkey syria border meanwhile the syrian government has denied allegations that it used chemical weapons against civilians in rebel held eastern ghouta the u.s. made the accusations after a suspected attack on thursday but syrian authorities have responded by calling

them lies without evidence a volunteer rescue group the white helmet says three people were killed in the attack with many more injured now italy's prime minister has condemned a drive by shooting spree targeting african immigrants warning that hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide people in attack happened in the central italian town of mock arrest but he says have arrested a man who was wrapped in an italian flag and doing a fascist salute pizza shop as well. this was a drive by shooting that italian police said was racially motivated firing from this vehicle the lone gunman is said to have targeted foreigners on the streets in a shooting spree that last over two hours. it took place in the central italian city of marker after the mayor said six people wounded all of them block one with life threatening injuries. a twenty eight year old italian name does look

at trani was arrested by military police draped in an italian flag he reportedly wore during the shootings. turny had no previous criminal record and his motive for the shootings is unclear he did stand as a far right candidate for the northern league in recent local elections but received no votes in the count the italian prime minister was quick to condemn the shootings i mean ticket i mean only not for son of a day i'll call them what you want superman all behavior cannot have ideological motivation criminals are criminals will start to set up but to call it meant to serve it over to your state will be particularly severe against whoever thinks of nourishing the spiral of violence let's stop this let's stop this right now for me i'm a little bit of tensions in marker out i had risen this week following the discovery of pamela musto pietro's body she had run away from a drug rehabilitation center on monday and police said she'd met

a nigerian drug dealer the next day he was arrested by police more than six hundred thousand mainly african migrants have reached italy by boat over the past four years and the center right block says the vast majority have no right to asylum and as promised mass expulsions if it takes power peter shop al jazeera thousands of nationals protesters have marched on the island of corsica demanding more autonomy from france saturday's protests comes three days before the french president and one year mark on his journey to visit the island they've changed to has more. nationalists were out in force on the streets of the capital a show of defiance against the description of the island as just at the ministry of region of france and message corsica is a country a nation and the people see the face a very important day for the people of corsica because friends doesn't want to

listen france has not answered our demands and doesn't want to dialogue. the island is one of the poorest regions in france one in five live below the poverty line and the younger generations are leaving to find jobs and education they cannot afford independence but they want significant changes in. the. nationalism has found a a new voice on the either the. living. will so long ago just singing the course commercial anthem was enough to get you've beaten up by the french police here now the islanders are demanding official status for their language. of course you can roots was rapidly was 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 greater fronts the confrontation then became violent extremely violent very extreme and. 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 supercell to some say they have a bit of a fight about what happened in the election last december was an earthquake it wasn't just the usual renewal of the absolutely the corsican people voted by an absolute in my york city for corsican nationality that's the fact that there are thirty parties have to think about. the long campaign of violence failed to

achieve anything for the separatists but now they have a nationalist majority in the congress and they believe that they can obtain victory for the ballot box many of the young people here feel that their victory could still be stolen from them and they are determined to open a real dialogue with paris corsica was the birthplace of napoleon the man the french president is most often measured against in terms of his use than grand visions will macro choose compromise or will he defend the integrity of france and its language. the chaytor al-jazeera course the u.s. president on outran says the release of a declassified man i totally vindicates him in the russia probe the document which was released on friday came the f.b.i. and the justice department used unsubstantiated evidence to spy on a trunk eight ton ackermann has more from washington. democrats in congress say

that now that the republican memo has been released it's time for their version of events to be released for the president to allow its declassification and so that the public can see just how selective arbitrary the republican version of events was but ultimately the question here is how this will affect the moeller investigation the president was asked point blank whether in fact he will now ask for the firing of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who the republicans accuse of having authorized this continuation of this surveillance under a court order and the president said cryptically you figure that one out subsequently white house officials said no the president is not looking for any changes at the highest levels of the justice department but nevertheless that cloud still hangs over the justice department with the president's continuing tweeds against both the

f.b.i. and his own officials in the justice department when all the developments the u.s. secretary of state is in argentina on the second stop of his five nation tour of latin america rex tillerson is expected to meet his auction time counterparts on sunday is using the told him prove relations between the u.s. and its allies on friday he met mexico's president to ease donald trump's comments on immigration and trade well sanya shot is the director of the schott international consulting firm and a political and especially thing in u.s. and latin american relations she says this toy is all part of an effort to drum up support for washington's tough stance against venezuela's president nicolas maduro . we know that when a swell is going to be one of the strong issues we see that they said it that it taylor some need to be sitting close allies like along be a bit who are again tina mexico ok they there have been some issues seen from

a rife in power especially as you said immigration and trade both with the rest of the congress their relation has been made easy and secondly the deal or some wants to assure these coal interests that the u.s. continues to be a close ally of course when a swell will be one of the mill your issues in the i.j.n. that he's trying to put all the call interests in the same page even though there are some rumors that there are more sanctions could be on the way and oil sought tool to do said this stage because there is no secret that the u.s. is seeking airport a government run see show in minnesota. you're watching out is there a still ahead for you kenya prepares to introduce its first school curriculum in more than three decades but parents not convinced it's going to be enough. we'll tell you why this remote tribe in indonesia is under threat.

hello there we've got a lot of snow around europe at the moment we've seen plenty of heavy snow in finland and also down towards the southwest in parts of spain but now is the southeast corner of spain where we're seeing the wintery weather these pictures from mercia where we all saw snow thirty five years ago and there's also been some wintery weather in alec county am better dorm as well places you normally go to avoid the winter not to see snow now this is the responsible for this one here it's now working its way towards the east still giving us some very wintery weather as it does so there and it looks like it's going to be moscow where we see quite a bit of snow during the day on sunday trading down behind it though is going to be a lot of clouds and some outbreaks of rain as well towards the west of europe and here for many of us the temperatures will be dropping over the next few days the

winds are feeding in from the east dragging in that cooler air so a top temperature in paris just of three degrees that will feel cold down in london only five down in the southwest we've still got yet more wet weather circulating and that's potentially going to bring us yet more snow to parts of spain now some of the unsettled weather over spain and portugal is also affecting us cross the other side of the mediterranean as well we've seen some snow in algeria and from morocco on sunday it's looking rather wait. the palestine national locust was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in twenty time all was very important for me to sing in palestine no musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories. it's like a living in the us poor felt it was the first time to perform using their identity

al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra at this time. back in with al-jazeera let's update you on the stories making headlines a russian fighter jet has been shot down in and live province with the pilot killed in a subsequent ground fight russian planes have been targeting rebel fighters alongside syrian government troops with more than thirty fighters killed in high precision strikes on saturday alone. italy's prime minister has condemned a drive by shooting spree targeting african immigrants warning that hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide people the attack happened in the central

italian town of la correcta. and thousands of nationals protesters in corsica's capital have taken to the streets calling for more autonomy just days before the french president is to arrive on the island. now the country defense minister says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates had intentions to invade his country last june at the beginning of the gulf diplomatic crisis. told the washington post that council's gulf neighbors have in his words tried everything to destabilize the country saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with cattle and imposed a blockade after accusing it of supporting terrorism catchall strongly deny the allegations. the leaders of the palestine liberation organization a meeting to discuss ending the oslo accords and suspending their recognition of israel the palestinian president declared last month that the peace agreements of one thousand nine hundred three in one thousand nine hundred five would dead

mahmoud abbas vowed to reject u.s. mediation after donald trump's decision in december to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. emanuel macron has been speaking at a conference on education in senegal french president says universal education is the most important way for a country to ensure security and progress it's part of the global pushed have every child in school by the twenty thirty but as nicholas hack now reports from dakka only half the money needed to fill that goal has been pledged. they came to the conference of beats hoping donor countries would take the right steps and pledge more money to children's education because two hundred thirty four million children worldwide are out of school half of them are young girls. guillard is a former australian prime minister she heads the global education partnership a platform to mobilize funds to get children back to school she says funding from

door to countries has stagnated in some areas of africa it's dropped here we are trying to get the world community to side let's solve the global learning process let's get the quarter of a billion children. in school into school and let's lift the quality of education for hundreds of millions more who are in schooling but don't learn to read or write or do any math because the quality currently. world and african leaders came to the stage promising to make education a priority in the audience are children affected by the education deficit here and their advocates among them visually impaired from south africa she says these are all empty promises. the same situation where they are. very early or they are not given the opportunity to wear the same situation again which are with disabilities be excluded from

a dictation they won't have to change enough trained teachers to fifteen the last throes of the teachers. the good. well education partnership's goal was to raise four billion dollars for the next three years with a commitment of two point three billion dollars the pledges have increased but they're still short of the target. big promises like these have been made before but have been left on for films now african and other developing countries are stepping in to ensure that their children can go to school. more than fifty developing countries announced they would increase their public expenditure for education to one hundred ten billion dollars. this is an unprecedented move developing countries are increasingly less dependent on western donor agencies and this for many at this conference is worth celebrating nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. well it will soon be all change for school children in kenya

a new curriculum is planned for the first time in thirty two years but some parents say the new teaching methods are both ambitious and expensive critics say the government also needs to build more schools buy more books and employ more teachers catherine so 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 next year it focuses more on life skills technology natural talent and less on final exams many parents and teachers say it's a welcome change from the old one called eight four four but also ambitious and expensive for. the government to need to consult even the donuts because it has. a nonsense and does the same with it for four started with the horrors of

a good system because we had worked ships students who had to be trained. on things that they can do with the 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 oh it is. because these are complimentary schools whatever we get to be our school fees is not enough to cut off addicted says i maybe i would say we begin by telling them that we only issue i talking here . that can is just about a hundred and fifty dollars a month at the highest the teachers here are more fortunate than in the other schools which pay much less for more work. this is one of the men with the latest world the most i think in the face of the country to decide to leave the room

and out of their panel. right so they. span. us and this director of a child education rights group shows us findings of research done middle school pupils in dozens of government schools nationwide were tested on literacy and comprehension most were below average you had to where you have maybe fifty children twenty of them come this year to very many not so you keep getting that wind every day you're moving one room a clinton there the idea that's going to. their left way behind them you know and that is a problem the in the back of your primary students prepare for their

final exam at the end of this year their teachers they're all trying their best with a little they have catherine sorry al-jazeera nairobi kenya the indonesian government is coming under increasing pressure to help a remote jungle tribe the asked matt people from the eastern part of province lead relatively undisturbed until midway through the last century now the encroachment of modern life is threatening their way of life rest at vassar reports from the last month town of guts they're still keen to move on from some parts of the history. children in this remote part of eastern indonesia are dying of disease and hunger. 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 tribes 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. 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 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. 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 effective 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 joke 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 for us and al-jazeera our guts. a judge's order that the passports of brazil's former president lula da silva be returned to him it was taken last week just before he was about to board a flight ethiopia for a un conference there were fears he would seek asylum abroad to civil as convicted of corruption last year and sentenced to twelve years in prison. doctors in the us are trying to manage the worst flu outbreak in a decade fifty three children have died this winter and flu related hospital admissions are it's an all time high christen salumi has this report. hospital

emergency rooms across the country are inundated with sneezing coughing sniffling patients in atlanta georgia grady memorial hospital opened a temporary mobile emergency room and closed in plastic tents to handle a twenty five percent increase in visits in the month of january the flu this year has been dangerous our volume in muncie department has reached such a critical number and not only us but our inpatient colleagues we really need to bring in an additional resource the very old in the very young are the group that tend to be in the most danger from catching the flu is a cesspool of flu a cesspool of funky flu at the e.r. right now in florida one tired nurse posted this now viral video after working a twelve hour shift as watch this i'm going to teach elementary trick it's. her advice is simple cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough wash your hands and

avoid bringing healthy people to the emergency room the u.s. centers for disease control says the hospitalization rate for flu is at an all time high this year with forty nine of the fifty us states reporting widespread flu activity still the scale of this outbreak is dwarfed by one which occurred one hundred years ago this month one of the deadliest in history in one nine hundred eighteen spanish influenza spread around the globe in the aftermath of world war one over a period of two years it killed tens of millions of people globally including six hundred seventy five thousand in the united states alone this flu strain may not be as deadly but the national institute of health is still advising americans to get a vaccine even though a canadian study found it was less than twenty percent effective we should point out that even though the vaccine is less than optimal it's efficacy that the small to moderate amounts of protection you get against influenza by getting vaccinated is always better than no protection at all by not getting vaccinated

that's very clear with as many as ten more weeks left to this flu season u.s. health care workers are looking for all the help they can get kristen salumi al-jazeera. archaeologists in egypt have announced the discovery of the tomb of a priestess which is thought to be more than four thousand years old the discovery was made on the keys a plateau around twenty kilometers south of the capital cairo experts say is the tomb of bet a prominent priestess and the fifth dynasty in the twenty fifth century b.c. too has some rare and well preserved or paintings. of his more in everything right here al-jazeera dot com. quick look at the top stories for you know a russian fighter jet has been shot down an adlib province with the pilot killed in

a subsequent ground fight russian planes have been targeting rebel fighters with more than thirty fighters killed in high precision strikes on saturday alone jets also targeted the rebel on site of eastern ghouta the other capital damascus italy's prime minister has condemned a drive by shooting spree targeting african immigrants warning that hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide people atack happened in the central italian town of ma corretja police have arrested a man who was wrapped in an italian flag and doing a fascist salute thousands of nationalist protesters in corsica's capital at jackson have taken to the streets calling for more autonomy corsicans were fighting for independence from france twenty years ago before their leader was assassinated in one thousand nine hundred eight nationalise have now taken control of the island's regional assembly david asman from corsica. where essentially what the nationalists want to do now they have control of the courtroom is make

a very clear message to approach the marker on whose do through arrive here on the island next week on that message was that this is not just the administrative region of progs course it is a country called secure is a nation of course is a people. the u.s. secretary of state is in argentina on the second stop of his five nation tour of latin america to listen is expected to meet as arjan time counterpart on sunday is using the tour to improve relations between the u.s. and its allies on friday he met mexico's president to ease worries of a doll trump's comments on immigration and trade he's also looking to drum up support for washington's tough stance on venezuela's president nicolas maduro. the country defense minister says saudi arabia in the united arab emirates had intentions to invade his country last june at the beginning of the gulf diplomatic crisis saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with cattle and imposed

a blockade after accusing it of supporting terrorism cattle has strongly tonight the allegations are up to date with all of our top stories the listening post starts now in about twenty five minutes. russian case officer. on. the phone is getting a lot of shouting call this on the back of my job is to try to get my kids to be chopped off or forced forced into.