every year on. the river nile is a vital source of sustenance to the countries it flows through this normal thing going on who can lay claim to the work isn't going to give them the resources. but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country's suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the record transparency and consultation was not up to me to come to is because of some unknown field struggle over than a desire on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes thousands of people protest in greece over

a decades long naming dispute with the neighbor macedonia. italy's prime minister condemns a shooting rampage by a far right supporter who wounded six african immigrants. a political power play in the mall dave says the opposition tries to impeach senior government figures at a rocky ride to senegal's only passenger train we explore the ambitious plan to link east and west africa. hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating in athens against the use of the name macedonia by the small balkan state the borders greece protesters have gathered outside parliament to dissuade the greek government from allowing the macedonia in any settlement with its neighbor but the countries agreed to step up because the asians this here they put it all over the name since the republic of macedonia broke away from yugoslavia in one thousand. one thousand one will greece

won't allow macedonia to become a member of the of nato all the european union without an agreement on the matter so what's behind greek opposition to the use of the name macedonia well the main argument is that it could imply territorial claims over its own northern region which has the same name both governments of signal that they're willing to compromise but convincing voters may be more difficult let's go live to athens and a series johnson is there john it's obvious that feelings are running pretty high there in athens this isn't the first time we've seen protests like these though why are they flaring up now. no you're right it's not the first time this happened again in one thousand nine hundred two shortly after communism collapsed in eastern europe and you get the former yugoslavia broke up into its constituent states what you're seeing here now in assamese is a replay of those same emotions that we were seeing then and if you if i step aside

slightly and you look behind me the square in front of parliament is now completely full of people but that's only a small part of the demonstration we've seen that the avenues leading into the square in every direction off filled with people as buses have been bringing people in from all parts of greece the church is supporting this demonstration and they have a lot of sway in greek public opinion opposition parties have been supporting it there are people here dressed up in military uniforms from the turn of the century when greece was still an expanding state back in one thousand and thirteen and conquered those parts of northern greece which are today the greek provinces of macedonia and cerise a great sense of not only patches in here but also of greek of modern greek history which shows you the extent to which greeks here believe that the very foundations of their modern state which they began to build in eighteen twenty one and took more than a century to put together from the pieces of the ottoman empire they feel all of

that is at stake here today such as what are the prospects of a set of being resolved. well the official government line since about ten years ago has been the greasers willing to discuss a composite name in other words a name that includes the word macedonia but also a qualifier such as slow macedonia or northern must and that is not the message we're receiving from the greek people but that is the official greek line that is at least for now the basis for negotiations between athens and the capital of former yugoslav macedonia. but whether people will accept whatever agreement is signed by the two sets of diplomats and politicians if they do arrive at an agreement that'll be the hard part whether people here and up in skopje will actually accept the compromises that are being presented to them don't forget greeks have been through eight years of recession of austerity measures of national

humiliation of having their identity doubted in many german particularly media. history is one thing that everyone here has decided is not up for negotiation they are not giving up historic greek identity they see this negotiation as an act of identity theft essentially even though it's mr t. and other aspects of identity and not officially possible because only the name of the state is partially negotiation yet people here interlinked these issues and they've decided that this is in fact tour for a third of what they see as a component of their own sense of nationhood. all right john many thanks indeed al-jazeera chaucer upness there live in athens greek cypriots voting today in a presidential runoff election both candidates say that they can reunify cypress

and boost to the economy president's new costs honest i see it and asked us eat is is hoping for a repeat of his twenty thirteen victory over leftist rival stuff last month us a un administered demilitarized zone has divided greek and turkish areas of cyprus since one nine hundred seventy four most recent efforts to reunify the island broke down in july. germany's chancellor angela merkel has warned that more tough talks lie ahead before a government can be formed her conservative party has to go seating with the social democrats on forming a coalition germany has been without a government since the major parties lost ground to the far right in september's election. one can tell by now how long this will take we worked well yesterday but there are still important points that we haven't geared up so i'm going in with but of course with a certain expectation that we will face difficult negotiations. so.

it is our will as social democrats and we will tell these to our guests who are here today to establish this coalition on the basis of a strong social democratic program if possible and to give to germany this is everybody's wish a stable government lived out of and i was serious paul brown and paul they've been talking for weeks now what on earth is taking so long one of the main sticking points here. well there's a reason why this is called a grand coalition because it spans left to right the divide being the middle ground . is from the center right the s.p.d. of course to center left and finding compromise is proving very difficult i'm hearing from the negotiation team is that they've come to a deal on energy and agriculture but the two big sticking points appear to be health care and health care for example we have a two tier system here in germany there's private health care there's also statutory health care the s.p.d.

very concerned about the gap between the two but how to address that gap is proving a sticking point angle and the s.p.d. wants the private side to be brought down. the angle of medical wants the public sector the statutory health care to be improved you can see that both looking at the same problem through the different ends of the telescope and the other thing is they're looking at refugee policy they're looking at social policy and at the end of the day what the s.p.d. wants is not just to be an afterthought in this they want the policies that are agreed here to have a definitive stamp of s.p.d. center left about them not just to be railroaded into a grand coalition which has none of the hallmarks of s.p.d. policies it's all right so if the two parties can somehow hammer out a negotiation could the membership of either party sink that deal. well yes you're absolutely correct because the s.p.d. the way that their party is constructed they have just over four hundred forty thousand members and effectively they have

a power of veto over this coalition deal if an agreement is made a coalition treaty is drawn up it will then be sent out to each one of those individual s.p.d. members and they have the chance to vote yes or no to it now back in two thousand and thirteen when the last grand coalition was done the s.p.d. membership voted seventy six percent yes so clear majority in favor the indications are very clear indications are that this time around the s.p.d. membership is very much split down the middle it's fifty fifty almost that are not happy about entering another coalition their leader martin schulz said in the elections last september he preferred to stay in opposition so for him to now do an about turn and contemplate entering coalition is a betrayal according to the to the membership it's a very fine line and that the membership could actually talk pito this deal even if a political agreement is made here in berlin all right let's look on the bright side though let's suppose for a moment that a deal is done what happens next well if

a deal is done then angle americal will most likely remain the chancellor she will take go into a fourth term probably that leader martin shultz will become the foreign minister particularly the job that he wants but let's look up pessimistically if a deal isn't done then it's down to the president to untangle the mess he has a largely ceremonial role but a very important constitutional role and he will then have to select a proposed chancellor put it to the bundestag for one perhaps two maybe even three different votes and after that if there's no agreement we could be back to a whole new set of general elections here in germany that's not a very good prospect all right paul many thanks indeed i was it was pulled from the life in berlin. italy's prime minister has condemned a shooting by a far right supporter saying that hatred and violence won't be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central town of musharraf's a suspect is in police custody peter shop reports. 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 mayor 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 tourney 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 known for some of it i'll call them what you

want superman all behavior can all have ideological motivation criminals are criminals will start to set up but you're going to meet this over and 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. will be to tensions in much errata 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 in this promised mass expulsions if it takes power peter shop al-jazeera tancredi palmeri is a journalist based in italy he says the sense of the shooting does not meet the country's threshold for terrorism though it's been charged with.

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or more. up to the low key thing that someone could be charged with the federal reserve. in the pursuit of all that for example but i believe a holder and least being you know getting the job without that meaning get for that then leave them all if it isn't doing a thorough painting or they're doing something for the internet a webpage and thought that is a pretty piccolo you need to leave that there in case that without a booth of this being the can talk about that it is a. political turmoil in the maldives has ramped up in the past several hours the opposition has decided to file a motion to impeach several senior government figures including the defense minister and the attorney general it's also seeking a no confidence vote against the parliamentary speaker troops have surrounded the parliament building after days of unrest police of four with crowds who are rallying in support of the supreme court's order to release political prisoners judges reinstated twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for siding with the opposition if

they return to parliament the ruling party will lose its majority two m.p.'s have since returned from exile have now been arrested at the airport joining us on the line from mali is ibrahim hussain shihab who is the spokesman for the president of the maldives thanks for being with us what's the president's view on these opposition moves to impeach the attorney general of the defense minister among others. as you might be aware parliament is out of session still look. i'm not. you know. it would be possible. if you. could provide me with the. law you chose and how will you know. you know. going about this i think i can. argue it would listen to that one and talk about

whether what the president's view is of the actions of the supreme court in recent days. the administration has said that it will. try the it's possible to. implement the supreme court ruling and. held a press conference this morning in the morning. the a.g. the spoke to the media about how a concert tensions are only going. to jail so his supreme court. justice has been consulted and. the chief justice. prosecutor general to follow procedures and protocols implementing the ruling so there are. procedures and protocols to be fought out in the implementing the rule. we're talking about

several cases they're talking about several individuals. of different sentences different stages so. we need to be very fine as to how best to the men the ruling. procedures that have to follow the rules will if the president concerned that he himself could be impeached. one of the bridges is not concerned that he himself. what about that the release of these political prisoners that the supreme court ordered was the president's view on that well. these individuals should be retried and that's what the supreme court has right. ok one final question will before the president of the maldives nasheed will he be

allowed to compete in the next presidential election. any candidate who's legal. able to contest will be able to contest. none of those are going to be. able to compete in the elections so yes all right good to talk to somebody thanks dana perino st she had that the spokesman for the president of the maldives. here with the news on al-jazeera still to come on the program an american disgraced donald trump lashes out at the russia investigation calling it a witch hunt. bahrain faces renewed criticism from human rights campaigners after a new round of deportations in the name of national security. and in sport the history making hockey team play their first competitive game in readiness for the

winter olympics. a roadside bomb a struck a vehicle in egypt's sinai peninsula killing two soldiers the pickup truck which was carrying egyptian security forces was just south of the coastal city of calories when the bomb went off six people were injured in the attack there's been no claim of responsibility israeli planes have been carrying out air strikes in northern sinai with the approval of egyptian president. that's according to the new york times it says that unmarked israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids in egypt over the past two years egyptian forces have been fighting isolating armed groups which have launched attacks in the region have been reports on the cooperation between egypt and israel before but it's always been denied by both governments have a subway is a research and writer on sun and he joins us now live from istanbul what are we to

make of these reports in the new york times it merely confirming what's been an open secret really. thank you very much for having me it's actually the new york times report yesterday is actually confirming or a rather really confirming something that many of my colleagues and i personally have reported before and what about extensively either in my book on the sinai peninsula or in other reports for think tanks whatsoever so it's nothing new but the new aspect is that there are sources currently willing to speak to international media to a platform as major as the new york times and say very clearly and straightforwardly that yes israel has carried more than one hundred year strikes over the past two years we all know what we've all seen the first israeli air force attack in the sinai on august twenty third team as a matter of fact and back of them until today israel has never denied with all due

respect to what you said earlier israel has never denied the fact that it carried out attacks in the sinai the fact did not did not claim it and did not say clearly that yes we are carrying air force attacks in the sinai does not mean that it's denying it's simply avoiding an embarrassing situation or rather putting the c.c. regime in an embarrassing situation with fellow arab countries in the regional powers or at one of the news is one of the truly one of the implications of this then for president sisi. of course the military and cesium self are now in a very public embarrassing situation because they continually deny the collaboration with israel although it's the denial is a part of the peace the camp david peace accords and that egypt has signed with israel is considered one of the one of the biggest piece. in the history of the middle east but it's a very embarrassing situation for a military that continues to claim successes and unprecedented successes in

a continuing won't work in terror and then all over a sudden comes a report saying that no you are not really successful to the extent that you were actually using israeli air force to carry out attacks for you. and again it's a very it's a very critical situation i'm sorry for saying this it's a very a critical situation for them in front of the public opinion who start asking now given proper in a logical explanation for what is happening in the sinai that is blacked out and no one knows what happens in all right let's talk about the relationship itself what what sort of relationship is it i mean these are two once former foes who's in the driving seat here. i wanted i wanted saying someone is in the driving seat but i would i would use i would quote israeli top officials and american and egyptian top officials who sometimes on the record sometimes off the record say

clearly that the military collaboration in the security coordination between egypt and israel has reached an unprecedented level in the history of the relations in two countries and through interviews that i have conduct the personally in egypt the gaza strip israel and other countries i have been told that since sisi came to power rather since sisi became the strongman of egypt after over four mohammed morsi in twenty fifteen this has taken the egyptian israeli security and military collaboration level literally unprecedented in the history of the two countries we talked about how this is for egypt's president sisi what about israel what about. the implications for its role in middle east peace. there are two parts for israel here and how it feels about this about the reports yesterday from the new york times or the entire situation today and continuing in

the future there is the military side which basically does not does not care that much were given a lot of attention to to to newspaper articles or to the public opinion better or embarrassment or not. really military will continue to to to execute and to put down strategies that it sees or are helpful and protecting of the israeli borders and also useful for the egyptian war in paris right outside of right on the borders in the sinai peninsula as for the israel the israeli government. at the time where it doesn't really care about the embarrassment in the middle east or iraq or rather how how effective the public opinion is it does care sometimes about how it how its neighbors and collaborators are embarrassed by whatever comes out of it sources either off the record their own on the record there will be of course some better some political repercussions to this in new york times article yesterday which

clearly put another confirmation to do to what used to be unconfirmed reports were rumors will have to wait and see this but i think the majority of the rougher questions especially the negative ones are going to be affecting egypt the c.c. regime and the egyptian military's reputation within egypt. being with us. u.s. president donald trump says that a declassified memo written by republican congressman this clears him in the probe into links between russia and his presidential campaign he says quote this memo totally vindicates trump in probe but the russian witch hunt goes on and on there 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 he said well the memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee which is chaired by devin nooners who was a member of trump's transition team it was released on friday it says the f.b.i.

the justice department abused their power as by using ups unsubstantiated evidence to spy on a trump aide the f.b.i. it argued against its release saying that it had grave concerns that the document contains what it calls material emissions of fact democrats on the committee want to release their own memo in response they say the republican memo is aimed at the railing special counsel robert well as investigation into the trunk campaign's alleged links to russia let's go live out of washington now to serious tom ackerman is the so as we were saying democrats got their own tom what is theirs going to show. well that's conditional if we get to see it it's conditional on the republicans allowing it to be released last week they blocked its release can coincident with the republican memo and it may also be conditional on approval of declassification approval by the president himself the report the

democratic rebuttal first of all contends that contrary to the republican claim that this was all instigated by a dossier by a former british spy which has been partly debunked that actually the f.b.i. began its probe based on reports from an australian diplomat that a former foreign policy adviser to trump during the campaign had bragged about how sanctions would be lifted and that that man george papadopoulos who was subsequently polluted pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and is believed to be a cooperating witness now to the muller investigation that it was that evidence that actually triggered the surveillance the surveillance warrants secondly the the man who supposedly who is a civil liberties were were lined by the f.b.i. carter page another former advisor who had contacts with the russians that he had

actually while the republicans said that he had that that the f.b.i. had begun this probe. in the campaign actually he had been under monitoring by the f.b.i. for several years because of his suspicious contacts with the russians and finally the court was according to the republicans was was not informed that there was a political motivation by the f.b.i. and by that former spy british spy in beginning this surveillance what in the fact the. court warrants said that in fact the court was actually quite aware that there was political motivation and that was irrelevant to whether the whether or not the f.b.i. had probable cause to continue the investigation and to continue this surveillance told very briefly if you can how firm is republican support for trump's position

that that he's been totally vindicated well there's been rebuttal even on the republican side john mccain said that the investigation the mahler investigation should be continued unimpeded and that was echoed by a member of the intelligence committee a republican a prominent republican member of the committee himself trey gowdy who said that this really had no relevance the actual issue of the memo had no relevance to the mall or investigation and that it too it should be continued without obstruction by the president or somebody thinks did i was there was told i couldn't live in washington actress added her name to the list of women accused accusing hollywood producer harvey weinstein of sexual assault thurman told the new york times that weinstein assaulted her in a hotel room in the one nine hundred ninety s. after the pair worked together on the movie pulp fiction that accused weinstein of

pushing her down and attempting to expose himself weinstein's lawyer says the producer bits to making it all quite possible it was stunned and saddened by the allegations a passenger trains collided with a freight train in the us state of south carolina at least two people have died the passenger service was carrying around one hundred forty people when it hit the freight train near the town of k.c. at least seventy people were injured in the crash that are being treated in hospital. yes there was a train collision into relman near charleston highway and pine ridge drive between a freight train and a passenger train when we arrived on scene. we began assisting passengers off of that train at this time there are no passengers on the train it's very important point that out. there were about seventy passengers that were transported to local area hospitals for various injuries there were two faint holidays according to the

election county sheriff our election county coroner's office that has been confirmed. a lot of us here in doha to cross the middle east will be staying up all night tonight to work super bowl at least we won't have to put up with a cold that you have to put up with if you're actually going to attend the match yourself it's tell us more is where the stuff could be the coldest one record in fact if we have a look at what it's like there at the moment certainly very chilly the coldest one so far was nine hundred eighty two and that was minus sixteen but this could be down to minus seventeen very very cold that's one in foreign height cold enough ice sculptures and cold enough really to wear some gloves perhaps someone get that child some gloves now fortunately elsewhere is not quite so cold but we do have a lot of wintry weather and a lot of very active weather with us at the moment but this area of cloud here and that topping the moisture from the gulf of mexico and so we are seeing some very heavy downpours and a lot of heavy snow on that as it gradually runs its way eastwards but fortunately is moving through pretty quickly so we won't see any severe flooding or any really

bad outbreaks of snow and that system marches away so by monday is just clinging on to the eastern parts of canada behind it it should be a lot brighter a lot brighter but still very cold new york as a maximum temperature getting to around five a force in atlanta only noise in force in chicago minus seven those are our maximum temperatures behind it with one of the weather feature that's working in from the pacific at the moment and that's working its way across the plains there is bringing us a fair amount of snow moving. through fairly quickly to the south we've got more rain beginning to. follow al-jazeera mutual just stepped on twitter at where the staff there with still to come on the program. three opposition groups in syria say they shot down a russian warplanes. clamping down on illicit wealth the u.k. introduces new measures to tackle body laundering. and in sport will be at the golf

talk about where players compete with the crowd for attention. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy months and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives 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 it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live

to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. hello again adrian finnegan here in doha with the news out from al-jazeera our top stories this hour tens of thousands of people arriving right balance athens against the use of the name macedonia by the balkan state the borders greece the greek government argues that using the term could imply territorial claims of its own northern region of the same day. the opposition in the multi of says that it will

file a motion to impeach several top government figures troops have surrounded parliament after days of unrest rallies have been held in support of the supreme court's decision to release opposition leaders at the new york times says that israeli planes have been carrying out and strikes in northern sinai with the approval of egypt's president a bill for the c.c. it says that unmarked israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids over the past two years will always a senior research at the center for middle eastern north african politics at the free university of berlin he says the revelations are an embarrassment for egypt's president. the open secret has always been that there is very close security cooperation between egypt and israel in the sinai and what i find puzzling in this report is that the egyptian air force after after the agreement after get into this raid is allowed to operate freely all over sinai so it's not clear why is there

a need why was there a need for the egyptian air force to strike in sinai the problem of the egyptian military has never been its striking capability but rather is intelligence gathering capability anyway if the information is correct and this of course would be healed really embarrassing for the egyptian government for one simple reason because it indicates that the egyptian military is no longer able to protect its own territory and to do this it has to rely on its own folks israel because the regime has been building its legitimacy on protecting its capacity to protect it from terrorists now when you ship sions wake up to realize that the regime is doing this with the cooperation of israel and israeli air strikes in sinai is a sensitive issue for many egyptians because they would perceive it as an infringement on egyptian sovereignty. human rights watch is urging bahrain to stop arbitrarily

stripping nationals of their citizenship it says that eight people have been made stateless and deported to iraq in the past week videos appear to show online some of them saying goodbye to their families two weeks ago an appeals court upheld a decision to deport them for damaging state security will according to human rights watch since twenty twelve bahrain has stripped five hundred seventy eight nationals of their citizenship leaving many of them stateless just last week on january thirty first bahrain stripped forty seven people of their citizenship on terrorism related charges and three days ago on february first a further twenty five people lost their citizenship. three opposition factions in syria say they were behind the downing of a russian warplane of the province. but here from the it live army one of the groups that says it took down the fighter jets on saturday russia's defense ministry says the pilot ejected but was killed in

a ground fight near the town of saka fighting has escalated in adlib in recent weeks as government forces try to push out the rebels from their last stronghold al jazeera stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. 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 in a 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 sirte archive 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 adlib meaning adored between the mosques and that there by. that offensive against the kurdish controlled district of africa is now into its third week turkey's backing fighters from the free syrian army again. 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 talking. 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 aim of the post to 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. g. know 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 al-jazeera on the turkey syria border a suicide bombing in pakistan's northwest and swat valley has killed eleven soldiers and wounded thirteen others the attacker targeted an area in kabul used by troops for exercises the taliban says that it was by in the blast the armed group

controlled the region between two thousand and seven and two thousand and nine more now from the islamabad. where did it go it's coming are. also just about ten kilometer from the center of swat valley with good names alerted to the attack area that could have been a suicide bomber who penetrated into a ground inside a military camp where they were playing while they bought it and then dead there naked and we had gold that eleven soldiers including a captain located thirteen wounded now i checked their member dead back in two thousand and eight some of the pakistani military has been now that's what the dollar bond from. the get the. sense there and on the military and they.

will what they're meeting this what we thought the barn is now the overall commander of the city good on that one progress on there have also taken that point the delegate board today that died britain's government is to introduce new rules to tackle money laundering the times newspaper says the measures will give the government the power to seize what it sees as suspicious assets u.k. security minister ben wallace told the paper that the government will investigate foreign nationals with more than seventy thousand dollars in assets if they can't adequately explain how they got the money london's banking on property markets propped up by hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign money investigators suspect some of that cash is illegal robert barrington is the executive director of the global anti-corruption organization transparency international he says that money laundering in the u.k. is widespread. there is an interesting figures around the u.k.'s national crime agency says that the round one hundred billion dollars. of dirty money that comes

through london stays in london every year so you can scale we also know that there are at least forty thousand properties in london whose owners the simply aren't there so there is certainly hundreds probably thousands of people this will apply to when the national crime agency or other similar rules or. see that somebody's property whether it's physical property like a house or other types of property that seems to be in excess of what they could have legitimately acquired in terms that wealth the national crime agency can also call to freeze the assets and then the person who owns the house will be asked to prove where they got the money from thousands of people have taken part in opposition protest against togo as president for nothing day they want to restrict presidents to two years to five year terms the same base against the proposal he's been in office since two thousand and five and took over from his father who ruled togo for thirty eight years talks on constitutional reform will take place later

this month. now for the first time in thirty two years a new school curriculum is to be rolled out in kenya but some parents say the new teaching methods are too ambitious and too expensive critics say the government 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 year it will cost is more in life skills technology natural talent and less on final exams many parents and teachers say to welcome change from the old one called for four but also ambitious and expensive for its not to feel the government a need to consult even the. don't mess because as you have sea. level finances and just the same without it for four started it's a horse 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 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 off for the teachers and maybe i would say we begin by telling them that we only issue i talking here. that whole 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 moment when you need

to see who would do it if there were more i think in the face of thank you to decide to have no fun down and out could be if they didn't pan out for you right now even so they. expand if it is exposed and this director 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 i say to the press here today there are many not so you keep getting the twenty every day you're moving one room and twenty there i guess that's going to. and then left a way behind them you know. and there is a problem with. the. back of your primary students prepare for their

final exam at the end of this. they teach they're all trying their best with a little katherine saw al jazeera can you travel within africa can be challenging at the best of times but now an ambitious plan is being drawn up to connect east and west africa by rail so the goals president macky sall pushed for the project that's being paid for by the chinese government and supported by the african union those behind it hope that it will increase trade on the continent the railway line will run through ten countries from senegal in the west to djibouti in the east it currently takes at least five days to travel by road from the senegalese capital dhaka to the capital of djibouti flights between east and west africa are opening up and first are certainly not cheap in the last of our reports on global trade routes nicholas hawk reports now from senegal. on board the five fifteen train from jakarta chess most passengers are on their way home after

a long day of work in the city. the fifteen minute journey home always seems a bit longer than the morning commute. after years writing this train was fun so has learned to enjoy this moment free from distractions. remember the walking talking a good time for myself here if i drive to work it would take me at least four hours and i'd be stuck in traffic trains are still the quickest safest in cheapest way to travel. they call it the little blue train the locomotive was bought from pakistan the wagons from india. the parts were brought to senegal and refurbished in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's the only passenger train left in senegal all the other lines including the historic train tamale were abandoned because they were too costly to run much to the frustration of commuters and railway unions alike. privatizing the railway lines was a clear mistake a country cannot grow without developing its railway system but now we are excited

with the steps in to go another states are taking. union has an ambitious plan to connect the port of the car in the west to the port of djibouti in eastern africa linking ten countries many of them landlocked it's called the trans african railway project just said there are seven thousand eight hundred kilometers of unfinished railway tracks alone will cost thirteen billion dollars to build. it's an enormous amount each country is tasked with finding its own financing for their part of the railway. chinese companies have signed deals to rebuild the former colonial rail lines that were bounded by the french both in the car and in djibouti it's the start of an epic engineering project that will take years to build and promises thousands of jobs across the continent. there are no roads or highways connecting the west of africa to the east nor is there a direct flight between the car and djibouti in fact no one has ever tried to connect both coasts of africa neither the french nor the british the former

colonial powers. construction hasn't started yet but the prospect of reopening the century old tracks has got many excited and hopeful abound in train station may get a new lease on life and for the many passengers like so who use this every day. it may not be the end of the line for the five fifteen train from the car nicholas hawk al-jazeera yes senegal. just ahead on the news out in the sports we'll hear from the a limping president who says that sports highest course is frustrating his fight against doping.

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well i get time to support his son thank you very much adrian while new england patriots quarterback tom brady has been named the n.f.l.'s most valuable player for a third time at forty he is the oldest winner of the price brady and the patriots are just hours away from taking on the philadelphia eagles in super bowl fifty two . encounter will give brady the chance to become the oldest quarterback to win that title the eagles are making their third super bowl appearance and having beaten the minnesota vikings in the n.f.c. championship game brady and patriots coach bill belichick have been in seven super bowls together all of the contests have been settled by less than seven points so expect a tight game patriots are aiming for super bowl championship number six the eagles

have never won it while eagles' a quarterback nick foles has thrown out for sixty one touchdowns over his whole n.f.l. career brady has sixty eight touchdowns in the playoffs alone. how can you not be as excited as ever played in a game like this there's you know everybody's watching you're playing for the championship you worked hard to get to this point you know and you know you never know if you're going to get back again so you relish these experiences you take it in you but you understand why we're here to you know this is again a big event there's a lot to do but ultimately it's about us playing a football game and playing the best game of the year if we can. i don't know what the feelings of be like i know damn omega a b. knows of no super bowl so i know the only time i feel it or in that moment so i'm excited is rather soon with my team mates super bowl sunday employer game i have no idea what off you are know to be a lot of excitement but i look forward to that moment. spare

a thought for those who don't make it is side the stadium for the game with the tens of thousands of fans converging on the city many activities will be taking place outside where temperatures are expected to drop to run minus ten twenty degrees celsius it will make the minneapolis super bowl the coldest on record of problems inside the playing venue which is covered and heated in a big present thomas back says the decision to overturn the law if a band of twenty eight russian athlete is extremely disappointing the german says the court involved in needs to be reformed last week at the court of arbitration of sport to overturn the doping suspensions about well speaking in south korea ahead of the games which starts on fi there at the session on whether the athletes involved cannot take part in these and then picks will be taken this week the how you see executive board. not satisfied is all

with the approach of the bike us. we have discussed this situation had links yesterday and today. we feel. this decision shows the urgent need. for reforms in the internal structure of cars. well the mall to mystic stories surrounding these games involves the combined north and south korean women's hockey team never before have the two countries a corporation like this as an olympics and the team have just played sweden in their first warm up game the cells that have the strongest squad but at least three north koreans will start again this encounter finished in a three one win for sweden also south korea agreed to field this team and marched

together under one flag at the opening ceremony after political talks last month. well madrid's legal misery continued as they dropped more points after a two two draw at live on to synergy as a down side conceded a last minute equaliser against a team fighting to avoid relegation the defending champions are fourth in the table eighteen points behind leaders of barcelona noise. we will see that we can win it and to leaned yes it's a lot of points and these were two that we dropped despite controlling large parts of the game we were looking to get a good win in a row but we couldn't keep it. barcelona taking on espanyol later this sunday and their survival of this side to have the chance to break a club record if they avoid defeat to the league leaders could extend their unbeaten start to the season to twenty two games england's rugby players are set to

begin their campaign to win an unprecedented third straight six nations title england play in italy in rome or indeed their opening game of the biggest international competition northern hemisphere rugby england have earned twenty three wins from their last twenty four games and they are up to second in the world rankings behind new zealand. every time when you're not watching the trial there is no changing to get better we just want to get better kate getting better you know going to be the best in the world itself a change in the everyday to get better and i think that's an attack of the phoenix open has broken its own record to attract the largest one day crowd in golf history more than two hundred sixteen thousand fans witnessed a day three action in arizona it's all ricky followed birdie the last three holes to take a one shot tournament in. india as a sub sharma hit a final round of sixty two two when the maybank championship in malaysia the world

number one hundred ninety three as a final day if it included ten birdies as he won by two shots a sharma second european tour title and that's a four hundred back to adrian so many thanks to that are just about it for this news hour but stand by your beds i'll be back with the latest on the day's top stories in just a few moments. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one beijing shelter is giving them a home when he meets the children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time on al-jazeera february on al-jazeera south korea hosts the twenty eighteen winter olympics cam records be broken down to zero bring you the latest from pyongyang child the big picture examines the present day crisis in venezuela by

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