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a big political problem the opposition in the mold leaves is filed a motion to impeach senior government figures and the old days impeachment means a strike removal from office sorts of surrounded parliament police have for the crowds and we'll have the latest from on the ground also on the grid a fight over macedonia the name of the hundreds of thousands of people out rallying against the use of the night macedonia they say it implies territorial claims over its own northern region which is called macedonia and an alliance between egypt and israel it seems israeli aircraft has been conducting air strikes in egypt's north sinai the two gives with the approval of egypt's president will be the why how it affects the wider middle east. and i'm we are hurting africa connected by train a us planning to build a rail system from senegal in the west all the way over to djibouti in the east one

hundred ten countries we've been asking you on. i know how this would impact your travel and trade plans we have your responses and more on the railing coming at. you with the news grid in mind on air and streaming online through huge facebook live and it out as the result common there is big political unrest in the mold eaves this sunday where the opposition wants to impeach several senior government officials including the defense minister and the attorney general and is also asking for a no confidence vote against the parliamentary speaker and it all stems from a decision last week when the supreme court ordered the release and retrial of political prisoners judges reinstated twelve m. pays who had been expelled for siding with the opposition what's critical though is that they return to palm and the ruling party will lose its majority tenney general is also warning the courts may be planning to impeach the president there is

a lot going on and unite behind it's been keeping us up to date with it all today he has adjourned least it is independent joining us via skype from mali what's the latest you're hearing particularly responses from those officials. the latest development. from an hour ago and a supreme court issued a statement saying that they had responded to the government's concerns. over the course ruling so the government this goes back to trade and said it is going the gunman said that they had legal concerns that needed to be addressed before that and force the court's ruling so responding to those concerns the supreme court said that the bench of the court had decided that there is no. there's no legal president no legal obstacle for. to preventing the

authorities from. enforcing the court order and also said that. the prosecutor general and state authorities to continue to start. enforcing the. ruling jeanette we're looking at some pictures right now they are from friday but they're showing us some of the armrests that's been on the street what more can you tell us about the mood of the people there because everything else we discuss is really to do with the officials the government the court i'm wondering about the people. so. the supreme court actually issued the ruling deny entry so a lot of celebration especially by the opposition and supporters of the opposition they gathered outside one of the campaign centers of the one of the opposition parties and those hundreds gathered before all this used to guess

and. right equipment to actually disperse the protesters on the celebrity apprentice and since then on friday. said that there will continue the street protests until the government and not order is and force the supreme court ruling and they have continued to do so in fact they know preparing for tonight's protest which is due to start in an hour from now and it has been going on every night. on the sand and i think it's also important to talk about reaction from the ruling party as well on saturday there will impact he had early outside and center that was recently opened for the two thousand eight hundred presidential bid of prison ya mean and outside the center he talked to his supporters and said that he was not going to leave the country he was going to. and

that he will fight. with the. with his supporters against a position attempts to a let's roll him tonight you've been doing a great job for us today keeping us up to date thank you so much from the from mali now. let's expand on this a bit more there are some concerns that president yami now bill guy you may be planning a military takeover to block any attempt to remove him from office which would of course be a full reversal of the democratic gains that began ten years ago that was when the moldings held its first multi-party elections after decades of autocratic rule by the president's half brother the cracks there began to appear in two thousand and thirteen when president your main won the elections beating mohamed nasheed he went on into jail or exile his opponents including the she'd and increase his control over the courts and the police giving was set to run unopposed in the elections

later this year on to little the top court threw out the terrorism conviction of his rival the sheet free from those they will bury in the shade says he will throw his hat in the ring for presidential elections let's get into this more with money i'm sure in the who's the executive director at transparency oldies once again joining us via skype from ali as i lay it all out there. the maltese had made some real progress as far as democratic elections this looks like from the outside at least a backward step or at least the start of a big backward step. yes it looks like it was the all in the past three years down the political situation. in the country has been. quite well in thailand and i'm certain the titans but i think it's a heading to x. the twenty eighteen presidential election it is quite important

for the political environment to be quick to use it for a free and. free and fair elections but at looking at the current crisis i think even that the government seems to be at loggerheads with the supreme court. facing a question. and the constitution in this country the driven think go ahead. well if. you want to give things that we have behind they thing is that. we'd all. opposition or potential president presidential candidate candidates either in prison or. in. one of the key fundamentals of a free and fair elections do that every party should be able to put forward the candidate of their choice but that is that that condition has not been met but this has been a ruling on first february and if it is implemented full business sheets conditional

on the status which means effectively he should be able to detect twenty eight hundred presidential election but also note that at the supreme court ruling weak states that the ninth well into the prisoners should be retried because in a she may again be convicted and according to law and to be in law if a sentence is longer than one year he will not be eligible to point to the presidential elections but i think at the moment. it's probably too early to comment on the retrial of francis is junaid this mention the government it's does not appear to be too keen on enforcing the. supreme court's ruling just quickly president is he populist amongst the paper alum just want to because again as i pointed out to deny we're talking about a lot of into political rival and then rivalry and then bringing in the supreme court as well i'm wondering how the people actually view their presidents. well

obviously this is not necessarily based on any statistics but we begin to go back to the twenty cokie presidential elections as well where he was only able to. win elections in the annals because of them because of making politicians with other parties but at the moment i think its popularity has been racially. deteriorating and i say that because increasingly seen the coalition that he created it when he came to power his administration or longer exists and. in human rights violation that we've seen and objects like. democracy that we've seen need to talk to say that he lost support in the country maryam thank you so much for your time do appreciate the background you're able to give us in the context there on the story mary i'm sure and it's from transparency movie it's really if you want to pick this one up mt take it yes well i mean what i found out today is that it's such

a tiny little country but in the conversation it is huge it's trending if you look at our map there to see who's talking about what so earlier we spoke to is the former vice president of the maldives he served from two thousand and thirteen until two thousand and fifteen he was also impeached by the parliament and removed from office he says the current government needs to comply with the supreme court total collapse of law and order suffered chaos in the capital of more use as we speak. the government has refused to release all political prisoners and members of the parliament in cumberland order of the supreme court it is very important that both made it pretty and points and law enforcement authorities must accomplish the order of the supreme court right now that a team has many people it and penalize both judiciary and parliament most people online are echoing his sentiment using the hash tag maldives supreme court and

dictator those are trending in the tiny island nation at the moment now we've been asking many of you online to comment on the political situation in the maldives from your perspective but many of you did not want to talk on camera for fear of your safety however several small deviancy who have left the country agreed to speak including these two students. they didn't creasing the looks like the rule of law and the constitution is being replaced by presumed ya means me industry power and the wish to see the reversal of the situation and the return to rule of law unconstitutional normalcy i'm not afraid to go back to the motives but i am very concerned about the safety of my family members as well as my family members of parliament and human rights activists who have on multiple occasions received death threats for voicing concerns about social and political

injustice i'm also very concerned about the safety of many of my friends who've attended multiple protests and have gotten beaten up by police officers who who stand behind righteous. a member of parliament from the opposition party m.p.'s me he had this tweet penned on his profile showing the first democratically elected president of the maldives next to martin luther king jr in the u.s. and he them both being arrested for a cause that they believed in him thea's right on this post saying that it's a story i want to tell my children now many mall divans have a red balloon m o g by their name standing in solidarity with journalist you mean rashid who was stabbed to death last year his last tweet was this of a red balloon starting an online movement to find out who killed him and to bring justice to his death now among thousands of followers from his page is former u.s.

president barack obama the u.s. ambassador to the maldives he's also tweeting about this saying that almost all of the media outlets in the island nation have fallen silent due to recent community of legal restrictions on freedom of speech now if you're in the maldives and are able to send us your thoughts you can always do it privately by writing me directly at leo harding a.j. eve you feel you can put your name out there and not be in harms way you can also use your hash tag a.j. news great you can also check out my profile where i've been posting a lot of other soundbites from people i've been talking to throughout the day so thank you for that leo back in twenty sixteen al-jazeera is investigative units put the most days under the microscope with this film called stealing paradise secret documents and an undercover investigation which implicated implicated then government leaders in corrupt deals including the sale of some islands to international businessmen and the laundering of one point five billion dollars it made waves back then it's still

a great wall of stealing paradise the film all the extra content as well as you go further down the supporting documents the proof of everything that was reported is in the investigations menu at al-jazeera dot com maybe you've got a view on that story as leo was saying or any of the ones coming up. that's how you get in touch with us here comes. a newsgroup just like betsy i just had to point hashtag a j news group on twitter we pop a tweet out just before the show goes to where at a.j. english he replies that threaten to use the hash tag as well as we look out for your comments at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera the live stream always up and running with your comments or your ability to comment as you go in the whatsapp number seven four five zero one triple one four nine comments questions contributions anything to help us tell the stories. we're moving on now to a dispute that actually dates back more than twenty six years and at the center of it all is a name. thousands of protesters look at them this is

in athens who want the former yugoslav republic non-owners macedonia to find another name and they have gathered outside parliament in an effort to persuade the greek government not to accept any deal that would allow macedonia to keep its name the two countries have been at odds over that name since the small balkan state broke away from yugoslavia in ninety nine to one here is john psaropoulos following developments from athens looked like the crowds are sort of dispersed a bit there but this was one big protests. that's right the organizers here estimate that as many as one and a half million people may have shown up today we know that hundreds of buses have been chartered from across greece but also this is happening in athens where half of the greek population lives the police have given out an official estimate of one hundred forty thousand the truth probably lies somewhere in between certainly the numbers we've seen with the naked eye from where we're standing in front of

parliament have been in the hundreds of thousands because crowds have extended up to the main avenues leading off of the main square and the one message that we've heard consistently have the most powerful single word that is spoken it's in the fliers dropped on the street is in the speeches being made here by politicians and clerics and even greece's most famous musician and composer make use of the iraqis and also it's in the interviews and he says people give us when we talk to them the word is no no the use of the word macedonia either on its own or even in composite form if it's qualified by something for the neighboring country and the reason people say is that if we recognize a macedonia or a northern macedonia then that people will then claim a piece of greek history that implies ethnicity and ultimately that also implies

territorial frame claims on the greek province of macedonia so it's a shock you know that is the position of the rally here today wind down john as i pointed out this is an argument that's been going on twenty five plus years why is it fired up now. and it's happening now because two weeks ago official negotiations reopened at the highest diplomatic level between the foreign ministers and the prime ministers in athens and the former yugoslavia. only in capital skullcap and this happened for two reasons one is that in the last decade greece has suggested that it's willing to accept a composite name something like slough macedonia and northern macedonia which was not the case back in the ninety's when this dispute first flared up and secondly because in may of twenty seventeen a more moderate government was installed the socialist party took over in skopje

and they suggested that they one of the top priorities of their government would be to reach a compromise solution with greece on their name they want to enter the european union they want to enter nato greece holds veto power over both memberships if this issue isn't settled and so it's of the highest import. this is what happened when yugoslavia broke apart a quarter century ago and its southernmost state claimed independence as the republic of macedonia a million people gathered in the soil and the capital of the greek region of macedonia outraged that a non greek nation should lay claim to ancient greek heritage that is still the dominant view here today. they're trying to inherit all of macedonia and alexander the great this is a farce it's all happening because the americans want them and nato early attempts at compromise came to nothing the government in the former yugoslav macedonian

capital scorpio refused to relinquish the term macedonia and greece rejected the use of even a composite name that included it such as northern or slow of macedonia one hundred countries recognized the new state including many nato and e.u. countries concerned for its stability and survival but greece has cited its own security concerns as a vital part of any agreement the government would be called upon to remove articles in its constitution but implied claims its territory article forty nine talks about protecting macedonian minorities in neighboring countries article three leaves open the possibility of changing the country's borders in two thousand and eight the greeks vetoed former yugoslav macedonia as entry into nato undeterred the government in scope erected statues to ancient king alexander the great and his parents but now there's a more moderate government in scope here willing to compromise over the name and greece's official position has changed to accept

a composite name that includes the word macedonia but as far as greeks are concerned these are legal niceties that skirts the real issue which is national identity but the. name symbolize something. and we say we're going to have the same surname that means we have the same father and same rights and we're not obliged to give. thank you mr professor funnels daucus agrees that a nation comprised principally of slaves has no historic claim but says charity is in the greek interest we don't like them being called go calling themselves much and only unspent what their skin they call themselves and they need an identity can we convince most of the indians public opinion that giving them a bit of identity from ensign's home history would not hurt places in the us the talks that reopened last month are over the country's name and do not address identity or ethnicity but as both peoples see the two issues as interlinked

reaching an agreement they will accept appears a difficult task. yet john psaropoulos report as he so we had a few tech problems had to roll that a little bit earlier couple of other things to show you here will grayson macedonia and the name dispute this is a strong opinion piece and al-jazeera dot com addressing that it was posted just over a week ago it is by have who is at the atlantic council think tank so you'll find that one in the opinion section oh actually down the bottom i thought there is an embedded video keep scrolling there it is skipped right past it there this is the people in power documentary actually called behind the facade you've also got al-jazeera world film from twenty twelve called macedonia river divide that explores the divide created by the volga river on one side macedonia slavic speaking majority on the other the ethnic albanian minority just for all the context you know where to find it search for macedonia in the documentary section

and i'm just a red dot com. now israeli planes have been carrying out and strikes in northern sinai with the approval of the egyptian president of the fattah el-sisi this is coming from the new york times the region has been under a state of emergency since twenty fourteen when thirty three security forces were killed by an armed group linked to isolate but fighters from across the middle east of also moved into this part of the populated area which borders the gaza strip now in response to that threat egypt demolished houses and is digging a trench to create a buffer zone between egypt and gaza egypt says find is an old sinai being supplied with weapons through tunnels from the strip or some of that is where hamas controlled security crossings between egypt and israel until november of last year also just have a look at this major attacks in egypt why are they fighting in the sinai well this is an interactive graphic from al jazeera dot com which kind of gives you an idea as you aras through the more you see the going back to november. twenty seventeen

the sheer number of attacks that have happened in this area and fact this is going even back even further back from the end of twenty seventeen a lot of problems in this area of northern sinai in egypt so we're going to talk to my good about this he's an egyptian political analyst joining us from zurich via skype nice to have you with us the cooperation between israel and egypt the first thing i thought of the fact well they do have a peace treaty don't they they did normalize relations between the two so is it that surprising that they would have this sort of arrangement or is that the fact that actually for two years has been bombing going on with the egyptians permission and that's unusual. well it's not surprising. at all so the corporation has been a deep meaning and it has been increasing. i mean i would say for

the better part of the past decade so if we think about the. gods on the gate the egyptians played a very critical. role there so it's not surprising i'm not shocked and there were actually kind of. confirmed. reports. regarding this so it's really it's not but the keeping you out but then aged two would historically at least side with the palestinians and the whole israeli palestinian conflict and would be peace process so doesn't this increased cooperation create more friction more of a problem that well i mean egypt's role as i was a. broker and influence or has been banded at very long time ago egypt is no longer able to influence the peace process the way

that it used to be and it's definitely not. neutral that is ever very close. i like i would say how does this work then in the wider middle east with other arab nations on by happy to let egypt have its own relationship with israel when the rest of them are becoming increasingly distance. well the rest of them are not really increasingly distant so there's a very clear sunni. alliance with the israelis now which has been forming for i would say the better part of the past two or three years to face. it off so this is not only. egyptian. phenomenon if i think of the saudis. the.

women aren't so it's not only that it's a regional. dynamic out redrawing of the lines as and i thank you so much for your time do appreciate your thoughts mike a member of joining us from zurich. thank you very much this is the news good if you're watching us on facebook live you're about to find out why the french army is turning to the eagles for assistance and then later time's up germany is in its final round of negotiations of the months without a government we're going to look at how this affects your strongest economy and its allies. hello there we've got plenty of clouds piling its way into the middle east at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture working its way through parts of

turkey and then toppling its way down through parts of iraq as well now there's not really a great deal of rain on this system the what's the weather is in the northern parts of turkey that will gradually then retreat its way further towards the northeast this area of cloud they will just sink a bit further towards the south there for tuesday making things a little bit cloudy a there for us in q eight meanwhile for the east fine for many of us we're looking at a top temperature there of only minus ten you know marty i mean further towards the south and here in doha will get to twenty three degrees on monday but it will feel warmer there has been recently as we'll have lost that wind and staying similar temperature wise as we head through into chews day a bit further towards the south and there's plenty of showers here they've been very heavy recently look at these ones here over parts of zimbabwe and into mozambique very heavy downpours here mozambique we've seen over eighty millimeters in places force in the way ninety five millimeters so clearly a lot of what weather there at the moment more still to come as well stretching all the way across into parts of madagascar very heavy showers here further south but

largely fine and dry for now but as we head into tuesday we'll see if you will showers developing. the river nile is a vital source of sustenance to the countries and flows through this normal thing going on who can lay claim under the bed leg but isn't going to give them the resources we found both agreed with with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country is suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the record and transporting the sea consultation was not up to any political hunters because of something along the fear of struggle over the night of this time on al jazeera and monday put it well on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their

days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war.

headlines the down to zero dot com and what's trending as well the mold a story topping the list. today as we wait to see what happens in this dispute between the government the supreme court plenty of other stories and then what do you is china trade war would look like after all with stealing its wealth always variety on the what's trending page out as we've done. nothing more than four months now since germans voted in their national election but since then europe's largest economy has been without a government the country's two major parties have been in discussions to form a coalition government but so far chancellor angela merkel's conservative christian democrats and martin schultz is center left social democrats have been unsuccessful both sides set today sunday as a deadline to complete the negotiations. if you don't

a start coming it's the only song that. one can tell by now how long this will take we worked well yesterday but there are still important points that we haven't to get up so i'm going in with goodwill but of course with a certain expectation that we will face difficult negotiations at today's meeting. chandimal call to ship it is our will is 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. here is paul brennan in berlin covering this one today paul mrs merkel said in that short clip there that there was still some important things . to deal with what are those important things well i mean looks like they've agreed culture and energy policy between them but the outstanding sticking points appear to be things like health policy help for rural affairs people who live in the countryside and also health that the

difference between private health insurance and those around the statutory almost public health insurance there's also labor reform that the two sides center right and center left don't see eye to eye on for example fixed term contracts the sense of. what we won't make them rolling fixed term contracts so that there's a lot of points that they are not seeing eye to eye on yet despite earlier in the week apparently managing to bridge the biggest difference between them and that was refugee policy paul is it simply up to these two leaders to sort of out or does it have to then go back to their parties and is there still potential for a veto at that point. the there is yes you're absolutely right the s.p.d. because of the way that their party is set up it has to put whatever is agreed here to its membership some four hundred forty thousand of them and they have

a simple yes no vote as to whether they agree with what their party leadership martin childes brings back as far as you know that the negotiating stance now last time around two thousand and thirteen when they enter the grand coalition with angela merkel seventy six percent voted yes this time the party took significantly more splits it's very funny divided according to many polls fifty fifty in some cases so it's not a foregone conclusion that even if they do come to an agreement in the building over my shoulder that the party party membership of the s.p.d. will actually sign off on it lovely paul brennan in berlin with the latest on those negotiations thank you paul so having a look at the live all seeing what's happened i can see ali concepts you're up there we're going to talk to him shortly about travel in africa but here news conference going on in south carolina has been a train crash between a freight train and an amtrak passenger plane and there are casualties as well i think mary and we'll have some details of that for us and the rest of the day's international news mariam. yeah that's right come on but actually we begin with the

story from. where police have seized a copy of hitler's mind camps in the home of the gunman responsible for saturday's drive by shooting the attack in a city of much iraq targeted five men and one woman of african descent he's a 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 says six people were wounded all of them black one with life threatening injuries nigerian immigrants as he get young said he was shot without warning i hear first. you know so long ago two hits me and it. goes immediately.

i hear it all my rights leg you know so they saw ford i was. 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 attorney 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 now what you want superman all behavior cannot have ideological motivation criminals are criminals will start to side 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. 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 saw him in this promised mass expulsions if it takes power peter shop zero want to bring up to speed then with some details from that train crash in the us state of south carolina where these two people have been killed dozens of others injured in that train accident the amtrak train was traveling from new york to miami when it collided with a freight train about one hundred forty passengers were on board at the time the u.s. transportation safety board is investigating what took place three opposition

factions in syria claim responsibility for downing a russian warplane adlib province well this is video from the army one of the groups that says it took down the fighter jet on saturday russia's defense ministry says the pilot ejected but was then killed in a ground fire in the town of sarka fighting has escalated in adlib in recent weeks as government forces try to push out the rebels from their last remaining stronghold china has criticized the u.s. after washington announced its plans to diversify its nuclear weapons policy the u.s. military says its current nuclear bombs it too big wants to develop a small a nuclear weapon instead china russia and iran have condemned the program the pentagon says nuclear weapons revamp is largely in response to russia's actions in recent years human rights watch says authorities in bahrain of deported eight

nationals who were stripped of their citizenship at the end of january this year they have been posted online showing them saying goodbye to their families four of the deportees have been sent to not cast in iraq their removal follows an appeals court decision to uphold a ruling that ordered that deportation for allegedly damaging state security. costa rica's adding to the polls to elect a new president thirteen candidates are running to replace the outgoing president louise d.m. so nice who's been constitutionally gone from seeking a second consecutive term presidential race has been rocked by an international court ruling saying the country should legalize same sex marriage. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in argentina on his second stop of the five nation tour of latin america is due to hold a fishel meeting with his argentinean counterpart later on sunday a trip is aimed at improving u.s. relations in the region with to listen expected to discuss that is why as economic

and political crisis. that's it from out now more from london coming up a bit later on about twenty minutes let's get back to cologne thank you very much appreciate it now and bush's plans are being drawn up to connect east and west africa by rail the trans african roadway line would run through ten countries trying to increase trade on the continent but could take decades to complete this is the final part of our series looking at global trade routes nicholas hark reports from thais in senegal. on board the five fifteen train from the car to 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. comment on the walkie talkie i get 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 and 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 to mali were bad and because they were too costly to run much to the frustration of commuters and railway unions alike. unfair. privatizing the railway lines was a clear mistake a country cannot grow without developing its roadway system but now we are excited with the steps in to go and other sites are taking the african 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 trams african railway project east set 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. yes senegal. it has been a long time since i spoke to. economist and political commentator joining us via skype from nairobi good to see you ali what do you think about. on paper this looks like a good idea but i wonder about trying to get a railway line through ten different countries and the challenges that might present. i agree it looks fiendishly complex but i think you know that whole theme that mean that africa is not a country this is an opportunity to really connect the eastern economy to the western economy it's largely developed by itself and i think you know this is ambitious project by the ear d.b. and i think it really makes sense the big challenge in africa is interest african trait it's transportation costs i think this address is both and soon it will be all around moving our people mass transit systems which we simply don't add in most

of our countries but as you said it's cost border it's connecting up ten countries but you know africa has a big vision at the moment from our let's to make it a free trade center which connects fifty five so we've got to have these big infrastructure projects that like the plumbing that will meet the constant to get better it would be good to sort the airlines out there first wouldn't it or at least consequently spoken to people and these are people within the industry the airline industry who have literally had to travel to europe just to go and catch a connecting flight somewhere else in africa to get somewhere else and africa is that being addressed as well. well that's a really interesting point and that's particularly the case when you're flying from a francophile in africa like you said you got a flight to paris or you're flying back to brussels it's an extraordinary scenario as i think you know anything that that breaks down that kind of thing that makes it easier that brings us misses closer together that makes it cheaper for us to get

from one part of the continent the other is going to make a lot of sense that concerned with the railways of which we've seen a huge increase in railway lines particularly funded by china is the amount that's being paid in some cases these railways look all fairly expensive very difficult. to find a return on investment so the question is to look at it also from that point of view we can in these small countries with enormous debt loads which they simply can't afford so they look at the economics as well but the result debt from an economic point of view is it's a slam dunk. always a pleasure nice to see you again thank you for your time it's you to come out later what has the news great audience had to say about this one well i have a. very ambitious plan how i would say and a lot of our folks online are quite skeptical of it to be honest we've been talking to many of you mainly on twitter this is what one of our viewers had to say every

way from t.v. to cynic novelists and ignited you to your very beautiful idea the only issue is that our free. governments do not want to allow free movement how is this going to be. handled i hope to think about that because it's creating real we would to difficulties we have we would move men from one country to the under would not be a solution. we received a lot more messages on whatsapp and on twitter from all across the continent shadi here from nigeria says that they are still struggling with corruption she tweeted saying that i hope this works so it will boost the nigerian economy which keeps dwindling emanuel he says that he thinks is actually a good plan but he is worried about financing this project saying the new railway in his country in kenya has been constructed at a significant cost and the effect is immense he says another user is concerned

about the possible environmental impact but says that this could signal the beginning of africa's long overdue transition to a true global power if you're from one of these ten countries from the all the way over to the west do let us know what you think of this project and how it could help you if you think it would at all you can tweet me directly eliot harding a.j.c. or user hash tag a jane is great thank you leah and outside africa correspondent on your page looked at this issue from the. angle of the air recently as a common i was talking about amazing of african union delegates in ethiopia who were trying to unify african a space to try to do away with those expensive sometimes unsafe long journeys across the continent if you just look up and i'm tanya page that is our correspondent is one of the most recent video reports and her profile at al jazeera dot com. so it's good to get all the comments coming in from people about the africa train story we've had plenty of impassioned comments as well about the situation and the mole days david say the movies deserve the liberties of ozone

hole. or what the government wants to do i'm sorry and that abraham has said what's happening in the maldives now is about the democratic legitimacy of the government this is about and these are his words a despotic regime consolidating old powers backed by police and military this has to end we will be keeping a close eye on that one sure it's going to develop more throughout the rest of sunday and into monday coming up for you all the news began at the super bowl we will look at how sports and politics of collided drop this n.f.l. season quick look at some international weather.

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they tell. you see are a clue did world news. get back on the grid to talk sport with sana and to talk about and i say this quite purposely for the big game because i learned today some of that a lot of advertisers in the states concert super bowl. because of copyright issues and i got to say you know pizza for the big game was there in something as well well people are betting on who's going to win the game but they're betting a donald trump who is he going to attack this time and all he thought is he's going to tweet to buy a game. in excess of one hundred sixty million viewers will soon be settling into

what super bowl fifty two the climax of the n.f.l. season will see the new england patriots taking on the philadelphia eagles patriots quarterback tom brady is the star attraction the forty year old has the chance to become the oldest call to backup to win the title the eagles are making their third super bowl appearance having beaten the minnesota vikings in the n.f.c. championship game. well brady and patriots coach bill belichick i have been is seven the super bowls and together all of the contests have been settled by less than the seven points so expect a tight game the patriots are aiming for super bowl championship but number six while the eagles have never won it well the last time they reached the title goes quarterback nick foles has fallen a full sixty one touchdowns over his whole n.f.l. korea brady has sixty eight touchdowns in the playoffs. well how do 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 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 and down momento be you know it's just you know super bowl so. i know the only time i feel it are in that moment so i'm excited to just run out of time with my teammates super bowl sunday and play a game i have no idea what i feel i know to be a lot of excitement but i look forward to that moment. office ical protest may come to define the season as the movement started by former player con cover nick gathered pace some players have chosen the to kneel during the pre-game and national anthem to protest against racial injustice donald trump isn't

a fan in october two thousand and seventeen he said on twitter the n.f.l. has decided that it will not force play is to stand for the playing of our national anthem total disrespect for our great country while the hash tag n.f.l. boycott has trended all season with some fans agreeing with trump's opinion of former republican congressman joe walsh saying i'll be boycotting the super bowl tomorrow and until the untitled grateful players in the n.f.l. learn to respect our flag our national anthem and the men and women who died defending everything they represent i'll continue to boycott the and i felt well share here and some fans are boycotting the n.f.l. as a way of supporting the plays who have chosen to use the hash tag and process of racial injustice she has just tweeted here saying while cupper neck is no longer employed

by the n.f.l. as long as is not a personal choice i will not watch one game thank lose the super bowl hash tag luck lives matter well this talk now to have some post reporter travis waldron who is in washington right now to us thank you very much for joining us if you look at what ever way you look at this argument you can see that the n.f.l. it's bad news for the n.f.l. isn't it. well they've had it's been all season now that this is been going on and even back into last year and i think the n.f.l. is kind of struggled to deal with it and struggled to respond the right way to it because you have as you mentioned on one side you have people saying the boycott as long as the players and the ill and on the other you have fans say in the boycott as long as collin cabernets not back in the n.f.l. . you know when you look the n.f.l. now has an agreement with some of the players to fund social justice campaigns we haven't seen what that will mean yet but yeah i think no matter what the n.f.l. is really struggled to deal with this offseason do you think these protests have

impalas the players i definitely think they've shown the power of the players the n.f.l. n.f.l. players haven't been as quick to assert that power as players here in baseball or in the n.b.a. but i think they felt now that they they have the power to force the n.f.l. to make some changes and argue on behalf of them the you know the causes they believe in so i think they've they've shown that they can stand up for themselves and for other people and and the issues in the causes they care about let's talk about the super bowl sunday all of the big game tonight are we likely to see these protests almost certainly we won't the new england patriots players none of them have really protested all season and malcolm jenkins who was the most vocal of the eagles players was among those who cut the deal with the n.f.l. to fund racial and social justice campaigns he's quit protesting since they reached

that deal so it's unlikely that we'll see any of them protest tonight but you know we'll have we'll have to see if it's certainly possible still what about kong cupper nick are we likely to see him playing again. i wouldn't guess i wouldn't guess collin cabinet will be back in the n.f.l. any time soon now that he filed his collusion complaint against the league i think they're all you know that he probably doesn't have a chance of getting back into football until that's at least settled and as we've seen in the past with players who have alleged collusion against the n.f.l. and other leagues it's often it's often the end of their careers or travis hold on hold they haven't posted in washington thank you very much for them thank you. for those who don't make it inside the stadium of for the game with tens of thousands of verging into the city and many fan activities will be taking place outside temperatures are expected to drop to around minus twenty degrees celsius

will make the manifolds that super bowl the oldest on the red court problems inside the playing venue which is covered and heated. of course i'll be back with more at eighteen g.m.t. for now i'll hand you back to come oh thank you santa minus twenty it was thirteen degrees on the school run this morning and i was freezing now ready for that ok for this newsgroup if you want to get in touch with the sun has already shown you the hash tag but whatever platform you use it might be twitter at i.j.a. englishman and so we put the tweet out there you can reply to that trade and if you want to facebook dot com slash on to the rest of our string the whatsapp numbers plus nine hundred seventy four five zero one triple one four nine and as i always say don't just send in your questions first there you are the story maybe when the rally in athens today you know you're in the mold the soul or anything like this make macedonia the other side of the story use your phone take a video film

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live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum malika a wall here is the driving force behind sars partition museum it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening and nine eleven museum was there and they are now numerous holocaust museum this is not beautiful a museum so countries around the world have walked to memorialize these events that have shaped them by dition is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really

important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shared history. on counting the cost some of the biggest names in tech out with record earnings but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in what's being told at the sec clash look at business relations between the u.k. and china plus another scandal in the german auto industry counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. i am. tens of thousands take to the streets of athens in a dispute with its neighbor over the name macedonia.