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hello i'm maryanne demasi in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up but i tell moyle i'm done rest in the maldives as the opposition files impeachment motions on senior government ficus. struggling to form a government germany's political parties meet for talks for months on from the election. and security has stepped up in minneapolis at one of the biggest sporting events in the united states. come to the program our top story this hour tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in the greek capital offense against use of the night 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 province also called macedonia the protest as angry at suggestions that the greek government is now ready to reach

a compromise. has more from athens. the central message of today's protest in athens has been that there should be no use on any terms of the word macedonia in the name eventually negotiated with the neighboring country the former yugoslav macedonia those talks that have now begun in the last two weeks between athens and the former yugoslav macedonian capital sculpey have started on the basis of the notion that there will be a compromise on the greek side the compromise is that the word macedonia would be included and on the former yugoslav macedonian sides the compromise is that that would would be qualified by something like northern or slow of so that it wouldn't be pure republic of macedonia which was the original position of that country and has been for the last twenty five years but the compromise basis on which those talks have now begun appears to have been thrown into doubt by the fact that twice

now hundreds of thousands of greeks have rallied to say no to any use of that name on any terms the worry among greek people is that the use of the the use of the word macedonia with greek permission would imply a macedonian ethnicity next door individual people would be able to call themselves macedonians and that might then imply that they are the direct descendants of the ancient macedonians whom the greeks consider a part of their own national history and therefore that would eventually they say lead even to territorial claims but even if it doesn't lead to that the greeks resent the fact that a part of their history is being as they see it stolen and they say repeatedly we will not rent out our history we will not allow it to be copied or to be forged this is greek history that we're talking about no other country should be able to lay claim to it they have no basis and so that position. makes it extremely

difficult for the diplomats and politicians on the two sides including the prime ministers who thrown their personal backing into these talks to continue ignoring this point of view was have a proposal they suggest to their two peoples will have to be ratified in parliament and if two thirds majorities cannot be found in parliament they may have to go to referendum in the two countries therefore public opinion is extremely important on this if these talks fail then the former yugoslav macedonia will not receive greek permission to enter nato or to achieve e.u. membership both of which many observers believe are vital for its survival and for its ultimate political orientation towards the west rather than falling prey to other influences. and john brings us this report now on the contentious history of macedonia. this is what happened when you the slovenia 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 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 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 right this is none and we're not obliged to deal with us. professor douglas 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 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 raises interest the talks that reopened last month or 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 jump al-jazeera for us. 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 are now issuing travel advisories to the island nation a shot at us 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 security channel 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 we will look by hundreds of military and police officers in riot gear but somehow we managed to warn you some of the sweet 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 this 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 excess no i feel that i'm

going to be. 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 in maine says he is willing to hold early elections his rival former president as she called it ludicrous tweeting from a president you mean must release and leave now but politics in the tourism hot spot is at a standstill parliament is a recess and was scheduled to reconvene on monday that has been postponed indefinitely. shallop ballasts. very opposition factions in syria saying they

were sponsible for the downing of a russian warplane over a live province this is video from the lead free arming 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 then killed in a ground fire near the town of sarcasm fighting is escalated in and live in recent weeks as government forces try to push out the rebels from their last stronghold. human rights watch says authorities in bahrain of deported at nationals who are stripped of their 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 to iraq their removal follows an appeals court decision to uphold a ruling that ordered their deportation for allegedly damaging state security. the palestine liberation organization has moved to cut ties with israel has met in

ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday they've ordered the palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contact has been growing tension since december when u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital well in all the developments israel is saying that it plans to make the have an outpost in the occupied west bank and official settlement prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his cabinet it's in response to an attack that last month a rabbi was shot and killed by a palestinian since then israeli forces have conducted raids in the west bank in search of the killer all 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 raids carried out by israeli forces one thousand year old man was shot in geneva on saturday another palestinian man was shot dead and several others injured in of the right last month. you without is there are still ahead for you it's a nice racially motivated shooting one man is still in intensive care in the town

of much a rotter. also we take a ride on santa goes out in the passenger train as plans made for a new life running right across africa. 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 there 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 them bob way 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 it stretches 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.

without is there a quick look at the top stories now tens of thousands of greeks are rallied in athens over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former you piss off the public the standoff between the supremes court and the president is continuing

in the mold leaves president abdullah yemeni is refusing to comply with or determine its political prisoners and reinstate dissident lawmakers. and three different opposition factions in syria claimed responsibility for the downing of a russian pool play it province on saturday. now israeli planes have been carrying out as strikes in egypt's northern sinai with the approval of the egyptian president sisi this is according to reports in the new york times it says on monks israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids in egypt over the past two years have been reports of cooperation between egypt and israel before but it's always been denied by both governments from west jerusalem and iran khan has more. 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 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 parts 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 to it 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 asked him why this cooperation 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 all the developments egypt's security forces say are right side on in sinai has killed two policeman they say the pickup truck was just south of the coastal city of irish when the bomb exploded six other people were injured in the attack now on it's claimed that it was behind what happened. the bodies of sixty migrants from sub-saharan africa been recovered by moroccan rescue services in the western mediterranean sea of bodies a fuss spotted by spanish off the coast of the enclave of mania which born just moroccan in north africa. well in italy one man of african descent remains in intensive care after being wounded in what police say was a racially motivated attack five sub-saharan men and one woman was shot at in the town of much of on saturday twenty eight year old luke a trainee has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated attempted murder as

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 mass said six people were wounded all of them black one with life threatening injuries nigerian immigrant said he was shot without warning i hear first. then or so of who hits me and it would. go. immediately. i hear it all my mom. so they saw ford 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 turney 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 to could mean only not for some of the middle school now i'm with you it's remedial behavior cannot have ideological motivation criminals are criminals. well stocks are set up but to call it meant 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 saw him in this promised mass expulsions if it takes power peter shop al-jazeera cyprus's state run broadcaster is reporting that the country's incumbent president has won the runoff election off his rival conceded defeat nicolas anastasio this was predicted to win comfortably in the first exit poll had him in a k. lead of his challenger malice the vote could determine the pace of any resumption of peace talks on the ethnic split island you have been a city militarized zone running through the capital nicosia has divided north and south cyprus since nine hundred seventy four. costa rica's have started voting to choose their new president polling stations opened on sunday for the first round of voting thirteen candidates are running to replace the outgoing president and risky

am so nice who has been constitutional constitutionally barred from seeking a second consecutive term 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 the two people killed when i'm track employees the country's transportation safety board is investigating a crash. well governor of south carolina says that it appears the passenger train was on the wrong track when it hit the freight train operated by the company c s x was saying it appears to me to do. the c. a six was on the the track that it was supposed to be. and that appears to be a loading track over a switch trying to move the peace to the c. of six train was on the right but for the c.s. i've been on the road with such sorry m.m.

for it was on it weren't supposed to be meeting right there by the bridge clearly. in the maybe time factor but that's what it appears to me that i defer to those who are experts in that and do have the correct nobody uses them for example room for. in mexico three hundred one central american migrants have been found in cramped conditions hiding in two trucks heading for the us one vehicle with one hundred ninety eight people inside was stopped and state in the northeast of the country the other truck was carrying one hundred three guatemalans on durance and salvadorans had no proper ventilation and was stopped by authorities in vera cruz state. now moving to germany with has no agreement yet in talks about forming a government litigations expected to continue into monday chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are in talks with the social democrats unable to form

a coalition since the election held last september when both the main parties last seen o'bannon has more from. given the differences between these two sides sensorites i'm glad michael c.d.u. and center left martin shields this p.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 in the matter of labor reform health policy and housing policy 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 their 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 to the center left voters and frankly it's dead in the water. china has criticized the u.s. off to washington announced its plans to diversify its nuclear weapons policy the u.s. military says its current nuclear bombs are too big and when they want to develop smaller nuclear weapons instead china russia and iran have condemned the program the pentagon says nuclear weapons revamp is largely respond in response to russia's actions in recent years. the us secretary of state rex tillerson is in the argentine capital when his iris where he's held official talks with the country's foreign minister this is the second stop on a tour of latin america the trip is aimed at improving u.s. relations in the region with telus and expected to discuss venezuela's economic crisis

now allow thousands of people taken part in opposition protests against togo's president. they want to restrict president to to hear terms sing day is against the proposal and has been in office since two thousand and five he took over from his father who ruled the country for some thirty eight years talks on constitutional reforms are going to take place later this month. well now travel within africa can be challenging at times but now an ambitious plan has been drawn up to connect the east and west by rail senegal's president macky sall pushed for the project that's being paid for by the chinese government and supported by the african union those behind the i hope it will increase trade on the continent the why while the line will run through ten countries from senegal in the west to east cartney it takes at least five days to travel by road from the senegalese capital dakar to the capital of djibouti flights between east and west

africa opening up but fares are not cheap so in the final part of our series looking at new global trade routes nicholas hack 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 so has learned to enjoy this moment free from distractions. remember i'm 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 ports 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. privatizing the roadway laws 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 states 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. 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 well that was the last in our series on global trade routes over the past four days we visit trade routes in north america thailand and laos you can watch all of those reports on al-jazeera channel that.

al-jazeera english. al security has been stepped up and minneapolis at the fifty second super bowl as the grand final of the n.f.l. season an american football showpiece event which should be watched by millions of people around the wilds justin timberlake will be performing cheering the halftime show and union patriots will be looking to defend their title against the philadelphia eagles. how can you 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.

have quite a look at the stories making headlines now tens of thousands of people have rallied in the capital athens over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic grace allow macedonia to become a member of nato or the e.u. without an agreement on the matter of protest as angry at suggestions that the greek government is now ready to reach a compromise less has more from athens. 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 henri paul mentary 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 in scope has a two thirds majority in parliament or can command one doesn't appear that they can come on to and therefore it is highly likely that any solution would be presented directly to people for referendum. the standoff between the

supreme court and the president is continuing in the maltese president abdullah yemenis refusing to comply with a court order to release political prisoners and reinstate twelve dissident lawmakers who was sacked for defecting from his party i mean has ordered the police and the troops to resist any attempts to arrest him three different opposition factions in syria on its ability for the downing of a russian warplane over in the province on saturday russia's defense ministry says the pilot ejected from the jet but was killed in a ground fighting in the town of sarka human rights watch says bahrain has deported eight people to war torn iraq after a vote knesset isn't chip and making them stateless the eight deportivo are among thirty one activists and human rights lawyers his citizenship was revoked in two thousand and twelve on the grounds of damaging national security. the palestine

liberation organization has moved to cut ties with israel p.l.o. leaders met in the occupied west bank on saturday ordering the palestinian government to drop to plant the cuttle for the school economic and security contacts i have the news hour twenty five minutes. seven turkish soldiers are killed in the northern syrian district of offscreen turkey says the operation is crucial to defeat what it calls terrorists and establish a buffer zone but how much of a challenge is that and could this lead to a quagmire for this is inside still.