we went through and it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome of this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shared history. on counting the cost some of the biggest names in check out with recordings but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in what's being called a. look at business relations between the u.k. and china plus another scandal in the german auto industry counting the cost at this time. tens of thousands take to the streets of athens in a dispute with its neighbor over the name macedonia.

hello i'm maryanne demasi and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up political turmoil in our rest in the maldives as the opposition files impeachment motions on senior government figures. struggling to form a government japanese press corps parties meet for talks for months on from the election. and security is stepped up in minneapolis ahead of one of the biggest sporting events in the united states. tens of thousands of people are demonstrating in the greek capital athens against the use of the name macedonia by its neighboring country greece has blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the european union saying its name implies a claim over the greek province also called macedonia protest as angry at suggestions that the greek. is now ready to reach

a compromise. and joins us live now we've been seeing through the day many thousands converging on that main square what is it specifically that they don't like about the compromise. well as you say hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in central athens today many of them on chartered buses from all four corners of greece and their message was no to the use of the term macedonia in the name the official name that will be negotiated with the former yugoslav republic of macedonia they say that the compromise solution on the basis of which both sides have come back to the negotiating table after twenty one and a half year low is not a basis that they are prepared to accept and this obviously complicates matters greatly for the diplomats involved and the two national leaders involved who put their personal backing into these talks now those talks opened up just two weeks

ago when the picture was very different here the too much as the one that took place in athens here today and two weeks ago into selling nikki also attended by at least three or four hundred thousand people have changed to the political calculus of a complicated issue that goes back at least twenty five years. this is what happened when you the slavia broke apart a quarter century ago and its southern most state claimed independence as the republic of macedonia a million people gathered in the cell 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 slav 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 on 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 if i come to her house and we say we're going to have the same surname that means we have the same father and same rights this is none and we're not obliged to get with us. professor dorcas agrees that a nation comprised principally of slavs has no historic claim but says charity is in the greek interest we don't like them being called core calling themselves macedonians bed what else can they call themselves and they need an identity can we convince our macedonians public opinion that giving them a bit of identity from ensign's home history will not raise his interest 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. so clearly there's a great deal of historical pride on both sides john what is your sense from the protesters today how far are they willing to go in voicing their opposition all of these rallies likely to continue. well the buck really stops with them if the greek side and the former yugoslav macedonians come to an agreement they do arrive at some documents that they're willing to present to their respective publics for a referendum or a parliamentary vote these people are going to be the ones who get to decide whether this goes ahead neither the government in athens nor the government. has a two thirds majority in parliament or can command one doesn't appear that they can command one therefore it is highly likely that any solution

would be presented directly to people for a referendum and we've seen in europe in recent years how unpredictable referenda can be so it is very important what's happened here today the people have made their feelings very very clear we didn't see hundreds of thousands of greeks gather in central athens even to protest against the austerity memorandum of understanding with the eurozone and the international monetary fund and there were three of those and there were many many important parliamentary bills that sat between them over a period of eight years that introduced austerity measures to measure and even then the maximum numbers reached here were maybe two hundred thousand this i think cannot be ignored by the government either here in athens or in scope and it may very well change the course of these talks. and what is in terms of the people who are out there protesting can you give us a sense of the. demographics and also the political parties involved

is there a chance to get paid to be hijacked by hardline could that be a descent into violence if the unrest continues. no i think that's one of the interesting aspects of this that golden dawn for example the far right party which claims about seven percent of the vote did try to claim ownership of this cause and wasn't able to in fact in the cellar niki two weeks ago they were ousted from the much and in revenge against that they torched. an anarchist squad. but they weren't able to make them out politically then or today and they they have not managed to make political capital out of this special forces. personnel have also been listed by the organizers of today's protest to make sure that troublemakers and ok so golden dawn or anyone else didn't infiltrate this much

because they wanted to keep it mainstream they wanted it to be representative and from what we were able to see on the street demographically it was mixed older and younger people families came out no one expected violence no one thought that this was an expression of extremism there was a very very broad range of people and don't forget that because there was such an extensive network of buses and people being brought in from all over the country it was also nationwide it wasn't on the scene in protest so i think that. again the message is that politically it has to be taken into account the government does say that. the opposition particularly the conservative camp which is the main opposition party has tried to make political capital out of this it's true but it's not because the conservatives acted opportunistically i think it's more a case of the case that they have to follow their own demographics public opinion the conservative voters themselves lead the way on this and so it's something that

they will have to the government the left wing government will have to consider very carefully thank you very much john johnson has all nice and clean capital. a political power play is taking place in the maldives the opposition has decided to file a motion to impeach four senior government figures including the defense minister and the attorney general troops have surrounded parliament following days of unrest and more countries and now issuing travel advisories to the island nation. reports . opposition politicians use their phones to record troops messing around parliamentary grounds in the moldavian capital mali. the opposition met at parliament and decided to file impeachment motions against the

defense minister home minister attorney general and secretary general they blame the government officials for failing to recognize a supreme court ruling that called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammed machine. by hundreds of military and police officers in riot gear but somehow we managed to warn you some of us we'd load all of the goods and then out of those two supreme court judges also reinstated twelve pace who were expelled for siding with the opposition opposition politicians say once parliament returns they will have the majority and can legally impeach president you mean. police raided the house of the administrative head of the supreme court on sunday they say they want him for corruption if that is an indication of how things will proceed for example the phone president returns i think that means that he will be arrested and taken back to prison as well.

what was a celebration for the release of political prisoners has morphed into protests the chief of police said he would implement the tax court decision the government for. on saturday his replacement was also fired the opposition says it will continue protests as long as politicians remain in prison or in excel you know what if you know that i'm going to be arrested if you don't. even. notice that. we. really want a spokesman for the president has told zero zero they have nothing to fear and the president has every intention of releasing and retrying the nine political prisoners as mandated but it cannot happen immediately because of what the government calls procedural issues. to come protest as president you mean says he is willing to hold early elections his rival former president as she called it

ludicrous tweeting from a president you mean must relinked and leave now but politics in the tourism hot spot is at a standstill parliament has recess and was scheduled to reconvene on monday that has been postponed indefinitely. shallop ballasts. three opposition factions in syria saying they were responsible for the downing of a russian warplane of edler province this is video from the ad lib free army one of the groups which claims it took down the fighter jet on saturday it's the first time in the nearly seventy a war that three opposition groups have claimed responsibility for the same attack russia's defense ministry says the pilot ejected from the jet but was killed in a ground fight near the town of sarcasm fighting is escalating in adlib in recent weeks as government forces try to push out the rebels from their last stronghold.

human rights watch says authorities in bahrain and deported eight nationals who was stripped of best citizenship at the end of january this year videos have been posted online showing them saying goodbye to their families for the deportees have been sent and not jeff and iraq their removal follows an appeals court decision to uphold a ruling that all did that deportation for allegedly damaging state security. palestine liberation organization has moved to cut ties with israel p.l.o. leaders met in ramallah west bank on saturday they've ordered the palestinian government to draft a plan to casals political economic and security contacts has been growing tensions since december when u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital or in other developments israel is saying that it plans to make the have an outpost in the occupied west bank an official settlement prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his cabinet it's in response to an attack that last month where a rabbi was shot and killed by a palestinian since then israeli forces of conducting raids in the west bank in

search of the killer or israeli west bank settlements are illegal under international law. meanwhile a funeral has been held for a teenager who was killed in one of those rights carried out by israeli forces and i'd seen your old man was shot in june on saturday another palestinian man was shot dead and several others injured in other rights last month. and watching al-jazeera still ahead its unease racially motivated shooting one man is still in intensive care in the town of much errata. and take a ride on senegal's only passenger train us and made a new line running right across africa. hello there is still rather cold for many of us in the southeastern parts of china

the temperatures we're trying to recover i think we'll get up to around five in shanghai on monday but then the winds pick up a little bit once more and this time of temperatures will only be topping at around three still cool for the south as well so hong kong struggling to get to around fourteen it is mild a force in hanoi our temperatures about eighteen out towards the west and there's a lot of cloud that's building here at the moment so we're going to see lots of grey weather as we head through monday and into chewstick so swathe of it not a great deal of rain on the fifth i'm just a little bit there in the foothills of the himalayas but elsewhere is just make going to make the fun trying to roll the milky america at times so lots of cloud there as we head out towards the west though here in doha not a great deal of cloud at the moment but it has been very windy those winds easing off now though so as we head through monday twenty three degrees will be our maximum and it will feel a bit milder than it has been as we've lost that wind there is cloud is working its way steadily towards us but again not a great deal of what weather on this just a fair amount of murky weather towards the south staying dry and fine for many of

us twenty three there is a maximum temperature fourth in muscat as usual though it is mild the force insula zero temperatures will be making it to around twenty seven or twenty eight. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one. is giving them a home when i when you speak of the children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time when al jazeera. where ever you.

come back with al-jazeera a quick look at the stories making headlines tens of thousands of greeks have rallied in athens of the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic. the standoff between the supreme court and the president is continuing in the maldives president abdullah yemeni is refusing to comply with a court order to release political prisoners and reinstate dissident lawmakers. and three different opposition factions in syria have claimed responsibility for the downing of a russian warplanes of ethnic problems on saturday. israeli planes have been carrying out as strikes in egypt signals in sinai with the approval of egyptian president abdel fatah sisi that's according to reports in the new york times it says on mosques israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids

in egypt over the last two years i've been reports on cooperation between egypt and israel before result has been denied by both governments from west jerusalem and iran khan has will. so his the original report in sunday's new york times they'll have to say the reporting is all from british and american former security officials who spoke to the new york times none of it's actually come from either israel or egypt and we reached out to the israeli army for comment they say they weren't going to comment on this case but clearly it's a very big story both in the hebrew language and the english language post now take a look at this this horace they're reporting fairly similar things israel conducted over one hundred strikes on isis in egypt using the new york times as a base the jerusalem post here as well just take a look at this israel struck over one hundred targets in sinai with caro's ok now this is going to be controversial for both countries there's

a hard right in israel that says it doesn't want any cooperation with its arab neighbors particularly when it comes to military that the israeli army should be completely independent also in egypt it's going to be controversial as well particular within the t.v. stations are very critical of any cooperation with israel when it comes to military matters now i did speak to a former israeli military official and i asked him why this corporation might be taking place he says simply they're very worried about groups like arsenal massing on their borders so it makes sense for something like this to take place and hit security forces say a roadside bomb in sinai has killed two policeman they say the pickup truck carrying it was set just south of the coastal city of irish when the bomb exploded six other people were injured in the attack has been no claim of responsibility. in a city our man remains in intensive care after being wounded in what police say was

a racially motivated shooting on saturday a total of six people all originally from africa were injured by the gunman in the town of much iraq the 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 mass says six people were wounded all of them black one with life threatening injuries nigerian immigrants as he said he was shot without warning i hear first. so long ago to his me and it would. immediately. i hear it all my right leg you know so they saw for i was.

a twenty eight year old italian name does look at trani was arrested by military police draped in an italian flag he reportedly wore during the shootings 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 so nobody else will know what you what's rimmel behavior can all have ideological motivation criminals are criminals. it will start to set up but the government to serve it over to your state will be particularly severe against whether things have 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 p.s. rose 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. at least two people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a train crash in the us state of south carolina the amtrak train was traveling from new york to miami when it collided with a freight train one hundred thirty nine passengers were on board at the time countries transportation safety board is now investigating the incident. now travel within africa can be challenging at times but now an ambitious plan is being drawn up to connect the east and west by rail senegal's president macky sall pushed for that project that's being paid for by the chinese government and supported by the

african union those behind it hope it will increase trade on the continent the railway line will run through ten countries from senegal in the west egypt 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 but fares are not cheap and the final part of our series looking at you global trade routes nicholas hat reports from 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 just directions. remember that i'm 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 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 abandoned because they were too costly to run much to the frustration of commuters and railway unions alike. and. privatizing the railway lines was a clear mistake a country cannot grow without developing its roadways 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 that 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 to between the car in 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 trunks 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 because hawk

al-jazeera senegal well that was the last in our series on global trade routes over the past four days we visited trade routes in north america and thailand and laos you can watch all of those reports on al-jazeera as you tube channel that you tube dot com forward slash al-jazeera english the bodies of sixteen migrants from sub-saharan africa have been recovered by american rescue services in the western mediterranean sea the bodies were first spotted by a spanish boat off the coast of the melia which borders in north africa. in germany there's been no agreement yet in talks about forming a government when it is now expected to continue into monday chancellor angela merkel's conservatives any guy shouting with the social democrats ackles been on able to form a coalition since the election held last september and i think passes last st paul

brennan has more from by then. given the differences between these two sides sensor writes i'm glad michael c.d.u. and center left martin childress b.d.'s perhaps not surprising that they're finding it quite difficult to tie down the final details of this coalition treaty it looks like they've agreed things like energy and agriculture policy but in the matter of labor reform health policy and housing policy there's still some distance apart from each other and we heard it when the two leaders went in that they sounded sort of they were making the right noises but preparing people for a long night ahead and so it's proved the indications that we're getting from those talks are that it's not going to be concluded by sunday night it's going to go into monday and no surprises realistically there and the reason really is because the s.p.d. the center left needs to have a deal on the table that they can actually sell to them membership because it's the membership of the s.p.d. who will have effectively a veto on this if they come out with an agreement the can't be sold so the center

left voters and frankly it's dead in the water. cyprus's incumbent president make us honest. ahead in the first exit poll voting ended in the country's runoff election a short time ago he is expected to win comfortably with between fifty four and sixty percent his leftist rival stubbornness is trailing at least ten percentage points behind of a could determine the pace of any resumption of peace talks on the african split on an ethnically split island a un administered demilitarized zone running through the capital nicosia is divided north and south cyprus since one thousand nine hundred seventy four. costa ricans have begun voting to choose a new president polling stations open to on sunday for the first round of voting candidates running to replace the outgoing president. so nice who's been constitutionally barred from seeking a second consecutive top security has been stepped up in minneapolis ahead of the

fifty second super bowl the final of the n.f.l. season an american football showpiece event which will be watched by millions of people around the world justin timberlake will be performing cheering the hof time show new england patriots will be looking to defend their title against the philadelphia eagles. not be as excited as ever played 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 play the best game of the year if we can. well look at the stories making headlines now tens of thousands of people have rallied in the greek capital athens over the use of the name macedonia by the

neighboring former yugoslav republic greece why and allow macedonia to become a member of nato or the european union without an agreement on the matter the protesters are angry at suggestions that the greek government is now ready to reach a compromise john psaropoulos has mall. if the greek side and the former yugoslav macedonians come to an agreement arrive at some documents that they're willing to present to their respective publics for a referendum or a problem and to revert these people are going to be the ones who get to decide whether this goes ahead neither the government in athens nor the government in scope has a two thirds majority in parliament or can come and work or doesn't appear that they can come and work therefore it is highly likely that any solution would be presented directly to people for referendum the standoff between the supreme court and president is continuing in the maldives president abdullah yemeni

is refusing to comply with a court order to release political prisoners and reinstate twelve dissident thought lawmakers who are sacked for defecting from his party i mean has ordered the police and troops to resist any attempts to arrest him. three different opposition factions in syria have claimed responsibility for the downing of a russian war plane over in the province on saturday russia's defense ministry says the pilot ejected from the jet but was killed in a ground fight in the town of sarka human rights watch says bahrain has deported eight people to war torn iraq after a vocal messages and ship and making them stateless. among says he won activists and human rights lawyers his citizenship was revoked in two thousand and twelve on the grounds of damaging national security. and the palestine liberation organization has moved to cut ties with israel p.l.o. leaders met in ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday they have ordered the

palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contacts the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's one i want to east. the they're the children with nowhere to go and no one to care for their. own in china the sons and daughters of jailed criminals are often left shocked and alone for some.