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sixty minutes a russian fighter jet is shot down in a rebel held area in syria's province. italy's prime minister condemns a drive by shooting targeting african immigrants. is it vindication for trump the u.s. president says a republican memo on the russian probe proves he's innocent. changes in the air for kenya's education system but teachers say the new plan doesn't add up. russian warplanes has been shot down over syria's northwestern province russia's defense ministry says the pilot managed to object but he was killed in a subsequent ground fighting near the town of soft head russia has retaliated it says it's killed thirty fighters in the area in dozens of air strikes there's been

heavy fighting in it live for weeks the u.n. says around one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced but there's confusion over who exactly shot down the plane a group formally linked to al qaida says it did it but al-jazeera sources in turkey suggest both the turks and the russians are blaming a moderate group backed by the u.s. 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 of 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 soccer 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 the green light for the turks to act in against the kurds in exchange for the russians and allies actually to capture parts of this of this. the government of a good many of their old between the mosques and that there but for. that offensive against the kurdish controlled district of africa is now into its third week turkey's backing fighters from the free syrian army against the kurdish people

protection units. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization even though it's the united states is most effective in fighting i still turkey has been intensely to 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 post the y.p. g. away from its borders. all along that border a steady stream of military movement vehicles i mean ition and buses packed with syrian f.s.a. fighters this is a very visible operation but it's also a difficult one the wipe e.g. know the terrain well and they have been preparing for this it's the latest frontline in a war that year after year and simply changes its form and never seems to end stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border ok let's take

a closer look at the two groups who could be involved in the downing of the plane hired. ts is an alliance of rebel groups it's claimed responsibility for the attack it's dominated by al qaida is former affiliate in syria which used to be called the front and then there's a jaish which al-jazeera sources understand is being blamed by turkey and russia its name translates as the army of victory and it's linked to the free syrian army the groups being backed by the us well i spoke about this latest incident to russian military and defense analyst pavel felgenhauer and began by asking him whether it was just a matter of time before something like this happened. well actually the russian air force this is the fifth jet officially that russia who lost in action one was shot down by the turks of course one crashed during takeoff a bomber to crash during takeoff from mame in base two fighters were lost by the

soft aircraft carrier that fell into the sea and this will be the fifth jet lost and about apparently five five helicopters were also lost in action but if i understand it correctly this is one of the few aircraft that is actually being shot down by rebels oh for for the it's the first russian jet shot down by rebels yes though of course the rebels have previously shot down number of. assad's air force jets to also you using shoulder launched heat seeking missiles this apparently was also a shoulder one change seeker that's what was obvious from the footage because it took out only one of the jets of the plane but that was enough to take it down to find a standard correctly the rebel fighters very often get these manpads these shoulder launched missiles from material that's already on the ground as opposed to being

supplied by somebody by an outside party is russia going to be looking more closely at where this this particular type of system has come from. they will try to of course there's quite a number of old soviet missiles there still two. or three. that have been supplied to the middle east in actually in soviet times there's no other russian made heat seeking. shoulder launched that have been supplied wait there are of course the. is that the dead breeze of the plane the fell in rebel controlled. zone in the air because to find out what was the mist you have to search the ground there and that's apparently right now not really a vailable so without that you can't know for sure which type of war up and was

used there could be accuse a ship the americans could have supplied them maybe with that this was a sting but again right now without researching the debris you can't fire you don't have a smoking gun given the fact that the rebels have had what they would regard as a success in this incidence how do you think that that is going to. allow them to change their attitude towards the way they're fighting at the moment is it going to make them bold or do you think well yes that of course emboldens and of course we shouldn't forget that the quite an apparently a number of some russian jets were destroyed by mortar fire in the last month in just a month ago that's mainly in base by the rebels so the rebels are hitting back at the russians and there are casualties with the russians of course these are not very serious casualties that would cause that much resentment inside in the russian

society but still the rebels are fighting back that will raise their morale and lower maybe the morale of the russian pilots a bit which maybe you will be given instructions to be more careful not to go into to fly over five kilometers high at least to be out of range of a small shoulder launched missiles. the syrian government's dismissed the u.s. accusations it's used chlorine in an attack on rebel held eastern groups as lies without evidence the volunteer rescue group called the white helmets says three people were killed in thursday's attack on the old place and many more were injured if that's true it would be the third time in a month the chlorine is being used by the syrian government the u.s. has accused president bashar al assad's forces of producing and using new kinds of weapons to deliver deadly chemicals italy's prime minister has condemned a racially motivated drive by shooting saying hatred and violence will not be

allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants are being enjoyed in the central italian town of macho dr police arrested a man who drink himself with and how you can fly again had been making a fascist salute peter sharp as more. 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 lasted over two hours. it took place in the central italian city of much errata the mass said six people were wounded all of them black one with life threatening injuries. a twenty eight year old italian name does look at try any was arrested by military police draped in an italian flag he reportedly wore during the shootings twenty 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 it may not be known for so nobody else will know i'm with you it's criminal behavior cannot have ideological motivation criminals are criminals. well 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. tensions in march are out ahead 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. but as you just heard the man arrested for the shootings is a form a mayoral candidate for the right wing northern league you know we spoke to under my morning who studies modern european history who says italy's right wing parties are increasingly highlighting the immigration issue ahead of elections in march they are pushing a lot towards this and the immigrants agenda rhetoric because you tell in any case he's getting and we all know huge influx of immigrants refugees from from africa from libya especially and so on so this is in any case creating tension in the rest of the western globe i mean it's not just an italian story is a why there is a much wider story the point is that since the nine this some of these political forces and the immigrant forces are within the context of and these are power that works in the context of the moderate center right you need to leave and this will

not disappear the rhetoric will not disappear because this case will will make the . tension even stronger i would say did that they've been in power already with silvio berlusconi since the in the ninety s. . they're not of the league has been one of them one of the major part in any case the implemented some tough one team ignorance lowell's so i mean in theory yes they can they can win election i mean if we look at sort of it's today electoral sort of it's the center right is leading but we don't know with a proportional electoral proportional system if they will get a majority or not so things are very unclear now and so far but these parties i've been already influencing italian politics since a very long period now the problem is that for years and probably even today a good part of the italian media as well as never considered them as far right i

refugees in germany have been marching against hate crimes in the eastern city of course it follows two recent knife attacks by syrian teenagers refugees the incidence being used by far right groups to stoke tension in the area members of far right groups also held a demonstration to protest against what they say is rising crime by migrants. plenty more ahead on the news our including rex tillerson kicks off the next leg of his five nation tour hoping to bolster relations with the latin america. thousands rally on the island of corsica calling for greater political autonomy. and also big spending in the january transfer window seem to have paid off immediately fatah's can have all the details in the sport. at least eleven soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern pakistan the soldiers were playing volleyball in kabul all the time in the swat valley thirteen others were injured come on heidrun

has more from islamabad where did it go it's coming out of richard made the case also just about ten kilometers from the main center of swat valley with good means alerted to the attack area check there have been a suicide bomber who penetrated into a ground inside a military camp where the soldiers were playing while they bought it and then dead they're naked and we had gold that it's eleven soldiers including a captain will carry thirty now they're down wounded now i checked the remembered that back in two thousand and eight that some of the pakistani military had driven out that's why the dollar bond from this area is the deadliest since then on the military and they need more love what they're needing that's why you saw the barn and now the overall commander of the city get another one product on there have

altered their convict points a delegate for today the tide. israeli forces have killed a palestinian man during a raid in the occupied west bank israeli police say they were searching for a man in jeanine who killed a rabbi in a drive by shooting in january another palestinian man has been shot dead and several others have been injured during raids last month israel's military have raided homes in the area twice in the past twenty four hours. the u.s. president says a republican classified memo which congress has released clears him in the probe into links between russia and his presidential campaign he says this memo totally vindicates trump in probe but the russian witch hunt goes on and on that was no collusion and there was no obstruction the word now used because after one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing collusion is dead this is an american disgrace all the memo was written by republicans in the house intelligence

committee it was released on friday it says the f.b.i. and the justice department abused their powers by using unsubstantiated evidence to spy on a trump aide the f.b.i. it argued against its release saying it had grave concerns that the document contains what it calls material missions of fact democrats on the committee want to release their own memo in response they say the republican memo is aimed at derailing special counsel robert muller's investigation into the trump campaign's alleged links to russia well let's go straight out to gallacher in washington d.c. andy whatever the democrats and the republicans are saying about this memo there's going to be a lot of attention being paid on what the next moves are by the trumpet ministration but also by the miller investigation. i mean if i could predict what this administration was going to do next i probably wouldn't be sitting here it's so hard to say but i think there are a few key questions the thing that worries the democrats the most is that they

believe the president may use this memo as a pretext to fire robert muller the special counsel who is in charge of the rush for investigation of course we know the president wanted to do that back in the summer he didn't do that because a couple of his senior aides senior members of staff threatened to resign and the other key question is what happens to the deputy attorney general broad rosenstein he's the man that oversaw this we heard president trump talking about him in very negative terms within the last few hours and the other key question here is whether the president will let the democrats release their version of what's going on here they have a ten page memo similar to what the republicans raise release which was a four page memo basically saying everything in the original member that's caused all this opera is wrong of course you have to remember that both the justice department and the f.b.i. warned against the release of this memo and it's also worth remembering that this investigation and these key people at the f.b.i.

were put in place by the president himself but the big concern is all of this could cause a constitutional crisis if in fact the president moves against someone like robert mueller and the timing of this is significant particular of the release of the of the memo isn't it because donald trump and the trumpet ministration had said that the president was prepared to appear before the murder investigation of course we also have the midterm elections coming up in november as well. i mean the mid-term elections are a fairly long way off look at what happens with this administration day to day you can never guess what's going to come next what crisis will come next so what could happen between now and the midterm elections is just too soon to say i think of voters at the midterm elections are angry at president trumpy certainly is probably going to give them more to be angry about between now and then i'm not sure if the timing of all this is that significant given where the president trump agrees to meet with robert muller or not but he has repeatedly said this whole thing is

a witch hunt tweeting out this morning that this memo in fact absolves them of any claims that his campaign colluded with the russians which of course it does not the big concern here is that the republicans cherry picked information that worked in their favor and in favor of their president i think what we are watching for over the next few hours and days is where the democrats get to actually see their memo but essentially the important point here is there is really a war between the president and his own intelligence community if you have to go back a long time in the history of this country to find a president who is accusing his own intelligence community the f.b.i. and the justice department of these kinds of malpractises it just hasn't happened since perhaps richard nixon so it is a worrying time but with this administration with this president who knows what will happen next and he thanks very much indeed. the u.s. secretary of state is in argentina on

a second stop of his five nation tour of latin america rex tillerson is going to meet argentina's foreign minister on sunday he's using the tour to improve u.s. relations in the region on friday he's met mexico's president to ease worries over donald trump's comments on immigration and trade he also wants to shore up support for washington is tough stance on venice with its president nicolas maduro robert a lengthy as a latin america reporter for newsweek magazine he's joining us now live from new york thank you very much for being with us what kind of reception do you think rex tillerson is going to receive. well first of all thank you for inviting me to your show well it's going to have a very chilly reception let's just put it the way. we all understand the countries want to have. for of relationships as in all countries interest to maintain healthy bilateral bonds. rex tillerson is not going to have an easy job first of all let's

start with argentina even though president donald trump said that argentina is a fable country for u.s. policies in the region. this president has had differences with argentina he has imposed in the past sanctions against exports argentinean experts such as lemons and pork he did not ease visa restrict restrictions to argentina something that both president obama at the time and modis who machree agreed upon before so it is it's going to be very hard for for tillerson to mend the fences with a region that has seen a very incendiary rhetoric from washington one of the things as i mentioned before that he's intending to to pull together some sort of unity if you like against the government of venezuela given the circumstances given the comments that is boss has been making about latin america do you think he's going to be able to achieve that

. well that's another catch twenty two rex tillerson is going to find himself in before he was discussing the possibility of the venezuelan military to turn against my will and that is a very delicate point to touch upon because given the region's history of the you know dictatorships. and governments being overthrown by military so that's a very and firefighters in newark new jersey forced to take on this massive blaze in the middle of the night flames jumping from house to house fire i'm sorry about that we seem to have lost arlington you try and get it back later on in the program in the meantime let me tell you about argentina's once booming a biofuels industry which is suffering after its main market the u.s. imposed a seventy two percent tariff on imports the move is part of the trump administration's america first policy to ensure u.s. producers don't lose out to fall in imports that he said boat has been speaking to

people in the rosado in argentina who've been hit hard by the u.s. tariffs. six years ago this factory was producing sixteen thousand tons. now it's down to about six thousand in. the industry there is 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 trumps america first approach to foreign trade the us announced a seventy two percent tariff on imports of its biodiesel american officials accuse argentina of a fairly subsidizing the country's biodiesel industry at the expense of u.s. producers. the 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 of the world's top soybean producers and bio diesel 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 not 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 that so you have the entire areas of the country's forest have been destroyed to grow what is known 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. i didn't tina 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 if they are to save their industry and precious jobs. as. i didn't. mexican police have arrested three people in suspicion of human trafficking after rescuing about three hundred central american migrants in two separate states as they were

being transported in dangerous conditions almost two hundred people from guatemala honduras and el salvador have been found crammed into tractor trailers without food water or proper ventilation in tama lupus which borders the u.s. and in vera cruz state more than one hundred people have been found inside containers showing signs of dehydration and suffocation. the president of the moldy dog has signaled his willingness to hold early elections unrest has gripped the country since the supreme court ordered the release and retrial of political prisoners the ruling also reinstates twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for siding with the opposition once they return the ruling party will lose its majority the opening of parliament was meant to happen on monday but it's been postponed indefinitely. still ahead of knowledge as you know north korea is accused of earning two hundred million dollars from bond exports including weapons to syria and miramar calls for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist

a detained in egypt. and maybe as teenagers make history of the under nineteen the world cup god is going to have all the details in the sports. hello there the clowns are all gathering across north america this week thing their way eastwards and as they do say they're bringing a fair amount of rain and some snow as well so wet weather here for the southern parts of our shot and further north that's where we're expecting the snow and some of that snow really will be very heavy that system though isn't sticking around for too long it's marching its way eastwards should be well away for most of us as we head through the day on monday still just clinging on to the east and parts of canada behind it it won't be that will be looking at five in new york further west another weather system working in from the pacific will be bringing

a snow there as it makes its way across the rockies the further towards the south and for many of us across the central americas plenty of sunshine not really a great deal of cherry activity atoll at the moment just a couple making their way towards the coastline a bit further towards the south though and here there certainly has been very heavy rain in bolivia we've got a lot of flooding and that flooding is now raging its way down the wall right down the rivers and this is what we're seeing in the northern parts of argentina there's a car that if we wait a little bit longer we can see a lorry there being brought down by that floodwater more showers still to come as we head through the next few days gradually they are pushing their way northwards but some of them again on sunday could be very heavy. it's like the wild west they can do anything and the really hard for them to get the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and a threat somebody who controls ten thousand people at home sold one hundred

thousand voices and they distort the debate in the echo chamber world of fake and use in cyberspace the rules of the game have changed there are no precedents people out investigate disinclination and democracy part two at this time on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know is that it turns out in the particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. with the people who believe to tell the real stories just mended used to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour a russian jets being shot down by rebels over syria's northwestern province russia's defense ministry says the pilot managed to reject but was later killed near the town of. prime minister has condemned a drive by shooting targeting african immigrants warning hatred of violence will not be allowed to divide people police have arrested a man who'd been making a fascist salute after six people were shot in my shed after. i base eleven soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern pakistan the soldiers were playing volleyball in a town in the swat valley thirteen others were injured. qatar's 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 been muhammad has told the washington post the gulf neighbors have in his words tried everything to destabilize the country saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain have cut ties with qatar and imposed a blockade after accusing it of supporting terrorism strongly denies the allegations. are un human rights bodies calling for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist from jail in egypt saying his imprisonment violates international laws saying was jailed almost fourteen months ago for broadcasting false news to spread chaos both he and al-jazeera deny the accusations hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment while in prison elizabeth wurtzel is with the committee to protect journalists she says many countries are using vaguely 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 in terms of the presidents that we've documented worldwide. so in that sense we're seeing. it it's an extremely precarious time to be a journalist particularly if you're a local journalist and. 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 seeing high numbers of journalists killed you know last year we did record a small drop in in numbers a journalist killed and journalist murdered this is a welcome development but this is also a drop following years of historical highs in that area as well ok let's go back to our story that i was talking about earlier on the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in argentina all on the second stop of his five

nation tour to luck in america we were talking to a robot valencia he's lucky american journalist he's a specialist from newsweek and thank you very much indeed for joining us i'm sorry we lost the signal there on we were talking about the fact that rex tillerson was attempting to try and drum up some support for a unity among american countries against the model government in venezuela you would explaining to us what you thought the circumstances surrounding that would be . correct so it's a very difficult circumstance for secretary tillerson for one reason or countries in implementing sanctions against venezuelan officials obviously it's not in the u.s. interest to establish economic sanctions for the country as a whole and obviously tillerson was talked out of the idea of suggesting that. venezuela militaries will actually turn against my little because of the history of

governments being overthrown in latin america for decades one of the things that i wanted to point out is twelve hours ago we've heard president trump saying that he would consider cutting funds to countries that poorer drugs in the united states obviously we're talking about colombia and tillerson is going to colombia so he's not going to have an easy job to explain what trump just said moments ago and colombia is a very important south american now only ally if not the most important ally in south america because israel is just right next to venezuela so it's very important for for tillerson to give a great explanation to president juan manuel santos and all colombians who basically expect funds to fight drug scene colombia but at the same time a country that has been able to. in a way retain the populist wave from coming from this whether another we have

elections in colombia so that's plays out very well so i what i mean is that tillerson is not going to have a very easy job no the trump made the comments moments ago at the office of border of customs and border protection in northern virginia. around the world in most countries politics is about pragmatism and what can be achieved so it's kind of working on two levels isn't it it's there's the kind of response to donald trump's rhetoric that we've talked about but also there's the fact that the u.s. is sitting still a significant investor in locking american certain parts a lot and. because you mentioned but also it's a big market for latin american countries as well given all of the how do you think the people within the locking american countries are going to react to this visit by rex tillerson when he's trying to persuade their governments to. make these changes and to address these points at the same time is faith is faced with or backed up by the rhetoric of his own president. you mention

a very important word here is pragmatism. all the rhetoric that we've heard that we keep hearing from president trump many of these countries understand that the friendship and the economic ties to the united states goes beyond any government beyond any administration let's just say president trump well just that four years or a years maximum in power and relationship should remain and they think that's what a lot of presidents in latin america understand from mexico from mexico to peru to colombia and argentina i think the most important thing here is to for former president trump is to really show that he has an interest for the region a remains to be seen whether president travel show up at the summit of the americas in peru next april i think that will be the ultimate rite of passage for trump but again

all the rhetoric all the the intern the come as a he has made ever since he kicked off his presidential bid it won't be easy but pragmatism is the key war between the united states and the rest of the hemisphere the role of a lens is a lot an american reporter for newsweek magazine we appreciate you sticking around after technical problems to give us those answers thanks very much indeed. judge in brazil has ordered the return of former president lula da silva his passport that was confiscated last week just before he was about to board a flight to ethiopia for a un conference there were fears he would seek asylum abroad it was taken after a court upheld his conviction for corruption and increased his jail term to twelve years he's likely to be barred from running in and told his election but his party insists he will be its candidate thousands of nationalist protesters have marched on the french island of corsica demanding more autonomy from paris saturday's protest comes three days before printing french president emmanuel merkel is due to

visit the area corsica's seen the violent separatist campaigns in the past but recently nationalists have joined mainstream politics to push their case david chaytor has more. nationalists were out in force on the streets of the capital a show of defiance against the description of that island as just at the ministry of region of france and message corsica is a country a nation and the people. are very important day for the people of corsica because france 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 renewed force on the either the live. 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 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 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. is some say you know very terrified about what happened in the election last december was an earthquake it wasn't just the usual renewal of their simply the course people voted lie an absolute in my york city four corsica nationality that's the fact that there are thirty six parties have to think about as you talk about a 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 from the ballot box many of the young people here feel that their victory could still be stolen from them and they're 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. chaytor zero course the us confidential un report has found north korea violated sanctions last year earning about two hundred million dollars from exporting bandwidth areas such as coal iron and steel it also says showing sold weapons to the governments of syria and me and mark let me give you a warning you might find some images in support disturbing. 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 the 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 it's 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 in 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 won't be on 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 who is a 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 late his 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 of 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 through clear bomb tests last

year and more than twenty ballistic missile launches raising u.s. fears that the mainland could soon be within reach india's i'll just hear. a new school curriculums to be rolled out in kenya for the first time in thirty two years but some parents say the new teaching methods are too ambitious and expensive critics say the government also needs to focus on building more schools employing more teachers and buying more books 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 next. 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 for four but also ambitious and expensive for its not to fill the government in need to consult even the donors

because as you have seen. finances and does 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 scions 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 are books so many parents who cannot find space in government schools or afford expensive private ones bring their children to even more crowded. community schools like this one in one of nairobi slums our salary scale or are we just we are still low because this is a complimentary school whatever we get to be our school fees is not enough to cut out for the teachers and maybe i would say we begin by telling them that we only issue i talking here. that 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 money to do the run more i think in the face and was asked to decide to have the room down and out was there was a new right so they. expand the express and this director of a child education rights group shows us findings of research done last year 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. are the best yet there are many thirty cannot so you keep hitting the twenty every day you're moving one room a clinton their ideas quoting others and then left

a way behind they're not catching on and there is a problem i was. back at work when your primary students prepare for their final exam at the end of this year. that teaches dallas they're all trying their best with a little catherine saw al-jazeera nairobi kenya. and still ahead on al-jazeera 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. when we managed the financial system between one nine hundred forty five one thousand nine hundred seventy one it was not a single financial crisis anywhere in the world and then in one thousand seven hundred the bank has lobbied and they said no no no we don't need controls you know the market will discipline us banks love to make loans to sufferance why because

behind the sovereign a millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalization fight just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be updating it already is ugly in many parts of the world where people are saying if my government when took off tonight interest then i will look for a stronger if he's a fascist i don't care if he promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will vote for him i think that's where we're heading and i don't think our leaders have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face.

there is sort of the sports here is far. thanks very much arsenal's move to break their transfer fee record on deadline days seems to have paid off they thrashed everton five one in the english premier league on saturday a record signing pierre emerick a balmy ng found the back of the net but aaron ramsey was the real star of the day the welshman helped himself to a hat trick as arsenal stablished a three no leave inside the first twenty minutes ramsey's performance in this match impressed as manager arsene wenger i feel doris might give between ten and fifteen goals at least. he didn't do it don't you know because. i think you watch sometimes his finishing looks much kind the real only difference i see he doesn't rush and you know. that's why he may be but the secret to be efficient earlier manchester city took

a one nil lead against burnley thanks to dan yellow but burnley caused a surprise result with an eighty second minute equaliser cities still lead the league standings by thirteen points though i'm delighted with the way we play again simulate the last game against was room and recent past but. in the top level. you know we have to score goals into they were not able to the games we were able to they know that way we've got to put elsewhere alexy sanchez scored his first goal for manchester united to help his new team to victory over huddersfield bournemouth victory moves them into the top ten and southampton are out of the relegation zone . arlin scored a last second drop goal to beat france fifteen thirteen in paris as the twenty eight hundred six nations rugby championship kicked off on saturday and wales are off to a flying start after they crushed scotland thirty four seven in cardiff tries a davis staffer evans and lee halfpenny help the welsh blow the scots away and in

what has become known as the cardiff curse scotland of failed to win in the welsh capital since two thousand and two two time wimbledon champion patrick a bit of a has reached her first final of the season in st petersburg the wild card was made to work hard by to see julia shores but to give it outlasted her german opponents seven five four six six two to advance bidding for her twenty first career title will face defending champions of it and from a final. 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 would meet with golden state in the offseason if they opened up sufficient space to land him a bronze cleeland side lost to the warriors in last season's finals and have been

under par this season they do have the third best record in the east but i've lost twenty out of fifty games. compensation story all the other conversation. because right now is to try to figure out how we can. be a family before champs here everything old. is not about this team when asked about this team are you sure good better. play for us this is no. earlier i spoke to the scores and news editor victorian huge and she told us why this rumor transfer has got everybody talking and i think people are really wound up just because of the names involved we're talking about the best player in the game and lebron james joining the best team in the league in the golden state warriors so everyone knows or people think that that's not really fair and you know that would just create one huge powerhouse that nobody can defeat so there's that

it's the names and also the history between these two sides obviously le bron has met the warriors in three consecutive n.b.a. finals winning in twenty sixteen but losing in the other two so i think the rivalries there and you know nobody. like it just the optics of joining a rival i think are also another reason why people are like no don't do that and you have won the under nineteen cricket world cup for a record fourth time after beating australia in the final the australians batted first some were all out for two hundred and sixteen jonathan manalo seventy six was the top score is the indian bowlers share the wickets among themselves india's chase was relatively easy mangold colorado had an unbeaten one hundred and one to help his country to victory with eleven point one overs to spare the next under one thousand role cup is scheduled to take place in south africa in twenty twenty three . now there's just

a few days to go until the winter olympics and chang and you'll expect to see scandinavian countries perform well but there is one odd one out and that's denmark they have just one winter medal to their name paul reese reports from copenhagen. denmark in the winter olympics 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 killings olympic debut twenty. is ago gave denmark that only place on the podium we have one medal and it was in ninety eight 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 when the for 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 recasts trains most of the year at speed skating rinks in holland to norway. the best danish cross country skier martin mullet 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 this still one of the only danes to outdo their scandinavian neighbors in the winter games when we won the medal we were higher in the middle statistics than sweden was four hundred twenty four hours and that was very special. it's

a great feeling but of course we hope every time there is a new in the winter olympics that 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 of. all race al-jazeera copenhagen and we've been given a bit of a glimpse of the main contenders for the women's olympic downhill event on the slopes in germany american lindsey vonn edged rival for fear of italy by two hundredth of a second to clinch the eightieth world cup win of her career on saturday it was vons second straight downhill when after course here to italy two weeks ago the thirty three year old is chasing her second gold after winning at the bank. and that's all you sport for now more later. not until in the lympics of an entirely different sort the rural games in the indian state of punjab there you can

find competitors lifting bricks with their teeth and towing cars with their hair thousands of people attended the alternative sports event which was founded in one thousand nine hundred thirty three is a way to encourage children to take part in heritage activities other events include tractor racing handstands on glass bottles and sword spinning. and that's it for me right about this and for this news hour i'll be back in a moment with more.

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get through counters because of some unknown fear of struggle over the nile but this time on al-jazeera more than seven decades ago a country was split into rebated with dick cheney and now at the time come. to dean off the bench all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled its seventh who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent but of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. a russian fighter jet is shot down in a rebel held area in syria's province.