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tens of thousands of people rally in greece over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic. the standoff between the supremes caught on the president deepens as he refuses to release opposition leaders and reinstate dissidents and pains to people die and dozens are injured after a train crash in the u.s. state of south carolina on the u.s. secretary of state increases the pressure on president maduro threatening to restrict the sale of oil from venezuela. and in sport the new england patriots are preparing to face the philadelphia eagles in super bowl fifty two the patriots quarterback tom brady is aiming for a sixth championship title will be live in minneapolis at the gate.

tens of thousands of greeks have staged a mass rally in the capital athens urging the government not to compromise in a festering name raul with neighboring macedonia greece has blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the european union saying its name implies a claim over a greek province also called macedonia johnson office reports from athens. the message was clear macedonians old greeks and other than the greeks should be allowed to use the name macedonia greeks refer to the label by the name of its capital city skopje their opinion is important because the hutu power of veto over its entry to the european union you might give the new name to me again is only one . macedonian is greek greek people will not accept the fact of a name we determined to show that we went out to history under the terms that can be no european prospects copia this was greece's official position until about

a decade ago it has since accepted the use of the composites name such as northern all slavs macedonia and a new government in scope is willing to die you to the countries constitutional name republic of macedonia so the basis for a compromise in theory exists the question is can the two societies accept it the greeks have been through an eight year you cannot make depression they have lost one hundred over their national finances and project vacuum alienation has been compounded by the fact that many european media have denied even that ancient provenance they have now said with one voice that their identity and history probably not up for negotiation most greeks agree that the use of the name by known greeks implies a fictitious ethnicity and a first of part of their own ancient history there but you'd like to the only person in. this know message are any a nation alexander the great was educated doing great by aristotle whenever he won a battle he put up

a monument saying this victory was won by all the greats he didn't differentiate between methadone and singh breaks a generation of kids and scruffy has grown up with this need but that's their problem. some observers say inflated expectations are a greek problem as well many people in greece felt that at some point there would be some kind of ideal solution without the the word macedonia and everything would be solved that way and the fact that diplomacy means eventually some painful decisions over the messages that message was not bust through greek society buyout it means the government in athens is to send its proposals to scupper in the next two weeks the crowds here warn against diplomacy without. yes the people jobs are open most africans. are joining me via skype from athens as yanis baba lassie is a journalist and co-founder of the precarious europe project which aims to document

the perspectives of young people on the continent thanks very much for joining us on al-jazeera a lot of people around the world might be thinking why would people get so heads up about a name what is it the greeks are so upset about and exactly who is pushing this protest about about the use of the word macedonia so the problem begins with the idea that the very use of the name us doing it means that macedonia will lay claim or greek soil. this is a myth that essentially has been propagated by the greek right in the greek far right for many decades now since the problem started in one thousand nine hundred two at the moment the main demand is for the country to you is the word macedonia of course where is is now the name that recent sets fire of include them in macedonia but unfortunately at least with greece. the opposition party new democracy and other like outside golden dawn the far right and

the right wing forces have used this for domestic purposes to drum up and government protests unfortunately as this is the foreign policy issue it's a very responsible thing that is happening and if there was a little bit of history indeed assertions ariana's that is that the heart of this is this something is a nationalist issue and if this was really going on behind the scenes this is a national i stand you meant a political argument rather than this is just about the naming of another country. i'm very much afraid of this is a nationalist argument there is a an idea that's very correct that you shouldn't ever support other people's nationalism which in the case of previous macedonian governments this was the case they were building a nationalist spin or direct descent from the ancient macedonians which is

obviously falls and but the new government the current government is very pragmatic they are very moderate they're trying to come to a solution and at the very moment when both muscles going in greece have these governments who are willing to make the hard choices but the problem requires the domestic audience reverts back to the idea that somehow macedonia can threaten greece now it's just simply. fantasy yeah you represent young people young precarious era project is about the young attitude is there a generational divide hand to the younger people and that is something they're not so worried about that they may be the older generation longer memories do you worry . yes i believe from the makeup of the rally today as well it was because they did that there were a lot of older people and older crowd than you usually just in the demonstration

there whether children there obviously there were young children but it wasn't the sort of twenty's thirty's crowd you would get in a demonstration usually and if there seems to be a divide in how much people not people people don't care but i don't think people younger generations who have been a brawl who have a much more international perspective of things feel threatened by macedonia which anyway it's the name that is now widely accepted across the world everybody calls them macedonian except greeks and it's i think people realized it's much more dangerous to allow macedonia to spin out of this family that has been out of nato out of the view when it's perspective when it when think that should happen is for them to be welcomed into this community and i think young people understand that it's much more dangerous to have a country that's being destabilized because of domestic politics in greece indeed

very good to get your thoughts janice pamela thanks very much for spending our time talking to us and al-jazeera having me. now a standoff between the maldives supreme court and the leader is deepening president abdullah i mean if you think to comply with last week's court order to release political prisoners and reinstate twelve dissident lawmakers and on sunday he received crucial backing from the attorney general he says any attempt to unseat him is unconstitutional shelob ls 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 police officers in riot gear but some of you managed to warn you some of the sweet load. 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

fired him on saturday his replacement was also fired the opposition says it will contain. new protests as long as politicians remain in prison or in excel. a spokesman for the president has told al jazeera 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 excel president you mean him us real ain't and leave now but politics in the tourism hot spot is at

a standstill parliament is in recess and was scheduled to reconvene on monday that has been postponed indefinitely. shallop ballasts. we have plenty more still to come on the sound is there a news hour sixteen more bodies found off the coast of morocco more than two hundred people have drowned in the mediterranean since the start of the year more than four months after the election germany's political parties are still struggling to form a government and lindsey vonn heads to the winter olympics on a winning note our own will have the details coming up in sport. china as christie signs the u.s. off to washington announced its plans to diversify its nuclear weapons policy the u.s. military says it wants to develop smaller atomic bombs as it's concerned moscow sees its current nuclear weapons as too big to be used china russia and the wrong have

condemned the program joining me now from washington d.c. is adam oun te's the director of the defense posture project at the federation of american scientists very much for coming on to al-jazeera to talk about this china is really it seems painting after the pentagon this new nuclear posture review painting the americans as the the kind of world's nuclear aggressor is off a fair position for them today. no not entirely this is standard chinese propaganda to try to paint their nuclear nuclear policies as fully responsible and the united states is being wildly irresponsible that having been said the trumpet ministrations nuclear posture review does smell of the cold war it revitalizes certain cold war theories so for example it proposes to new nuclear weapons. one is a lower yield option for

a sea launched ballistic missile the other is a new cruise missile the case for both of these requires that you believe that a low yield weapon could be used in a limited conflict so a small war. the united states is not planning you know immediately to use one of the weapons but it's alarming thinking it's almost a full house now i think of all the come to new countries that have come back and criticize this review is there a fear that the posture that the u.s. has taken could escalate the situation i think that's a very valid fear the new nuclear posture review raises concerns about. misattribution or mistakes it makes an accidental war more likely but at the same time we also have to remember that these programs are justified by russian and chinese nuclear buildups themselves the chinese are building new ballistic missile

submarines they're building new i.c.b.m.'s the russians have a whole suite of new nuclear weapons programs those are alarming so we're really in a reciprocal arms race it's not just the united states driving this we're all doing it together unfortunately if there are no tentative that these countries including the u.s. should be taken in will turn that nuclear pulse a. well i'm disappointed in in the american administration. approach to this rather than charting a new course and working to reduce russian and chinese reliance on nuclear weapons they've simply accepted the same kind of logic that they've criticized so they're really buying into this arms race and embracing it the better way forward would be to insist that the united states its nuclear arsenal has all the capabilities that we need to deter aggression something u.s. leaders have said consistently and instead place more emphasis on our conventional forces and place our scarce money there that would help not escalate this arms race

faster than it needs to other mt very good to get your thoughts on this thanks very much for joining us on al-jazeera north korea is sending a senior officials to south korea this week as the neighbors continue that ray report ahead of this month's winter olympics impugned chang kim young the ceremonial head of state will lead a twenty two member delegation to the south korean games after this from the two koreas will march on the one flag at the opening ceremony. three opposition factions in syria are saying they were responsible for the downing of a russian warplane over italy a province. this is video from the free army one of the groups which claims it shot down the final jet on saturday it's the first time in the nearly seven year war that three opposition groups who claim 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 samarra can find thing has escalated in it live in recent weeks as government forces try to push out the rebels from their last stronghold. at least two people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a train crash in the u.s. state of how south carolina the amtrak train collided with a freight train overnight in what is the third fatal crash in two months to come and reports. the train bound from new york and headed to miami carried one hundred forty eight passengers and crew it collided in the middle of the night with a freight train derailing its locomotive and the first car the two dead were crew members it's a horrible thing to see to understand the forces involved the engine of the the first engine of the freight train and coast was torn up and the the single engine of the passenger train the amtrak train continued south was barely recognizable first reports indicated the freight train was parked on

a side rail off the main trunk line this was the third fatal crash in two months involving amtrak america's only national passenger rail service last week an amtrak train carrying republican members of congress hit a trash truck killing a passenger in the vehicle and in december a train in washington state hit a curve at more than one hundred kilometers per hour twice the permitted speed that train was not equipped with an automatic braking system which might have prevented the accident that killed three and then just about one hundred others the government subsidized amtrak system has been heavily criticized by president donald trump he's pointed to his accident record as reason to push for more spending to refit the network of roads rails and airports united i'm calling on congress to produce a bill that generates at least one point five trillion dollars for the new infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs but trumps

a budget proposal to congress to be submitted this week calls for slashing amtrak's operating budget and rail investment grants by almost half tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. the palestine liberation organization has moved to cut ties with israel p.l.o. leader has made the decision chairing that meeting in ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday a vote of the palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contacts that's been growing tension since december when u.s. president recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. and israel says it plans to make they have a gilad outpost in the occupied west bank and official settlement prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his cabinet the move is in response to an attack that last month when 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 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 raids carried out by israeli forces a nineteen year old was shot in janine on saturday another palestinian man was shot dead and several others injured in other raids last month. israeli planes have been carrying out asterix in egypt's northern sinai with the approval of president abdel fattah el-sisi that's according to reports in the new york times it says unmarked israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids in egypt over the past two years. of cooperation between egypt and israel before but it has always been denied by both governments from west jerusalem imran 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 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 here 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 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. we're getting reports that eleven people have been killed in syria in what is thought to have been russian and syrian asked the strikes hit the northwestern province of idlib causing extensive damage to buildings including a hospital syrian government and russian jets have been targeting the province since late december as a push to regain one of the last rebel held strongholds. human rights watch says buffer a now has deported eight people to a war torn iraq revoking their citizenship and making them state s. video with have been posted online showing them saying goodbye to their families the eight deportees were among fair to one activists and human rights lawyers their citizenship was revoked in twenty twelve on the grounds of damaging national security secretary of state rex tillerson says they and i said states is

considering restricting the sale of oil from venezuela to listen made the comments in argentina which she is visiting as part of his first latin american tour and it's improving u.s. ties with the region to listen said u.s. officials are analyzing the impact of potential oil sanctions on business interests and also called on argentina to play a stronger role in promoting democracy in venezuela the u.s. argued time relationship is is really growing stronger every day as we work together to build a more secure more prosperous you mr argentina has a truly important role to play and i don't know the leadership the president mockery argentina has reemerged as a strong advocate for democracy and the rule of law and we have particular welcome argentina's leadership to promote democracy including in particular in venezuela we must continue to work to fulfill the requirements of the iter american

democratic charter we simply cannot allow in stand idly by to see a total destruction of democracy in venezuela the villas where people deserve better. and over in venezuela there have been celebrations to mark the anniversary of a failed military uprising by former president hugo chavez president nicolas maduro has been leading the celebrations which is taking place a day after he confirmed the date for april's elections let's go now to turn you in buenos aires daniel rex tillerson is clearly using this chip to rally the regional leaders against major as ru paul is getting a sympathetic ear. well he certainly is in a way that he wouldn't have done just a few years ago a few years ago you had a left of center government here in argentina in neighboring brazil in chile they were broadly sympathetic to the then venezuelan president hugo chavez all of that

has changed one of the most critics of the venezuelan the current venezuelan government is the arjun sign president maurice your mockery they also agree pretty well pretty broadly on economic and ideological foundations as well rex tillerson here talking about the origin time democracy the economy opening up to outside investors outside investors praising it's all stare at the measures so he's pretty much speaking as one voice with the president but it's your mockery he's also off to peru colombia after this trip where he's likely to also find a sympathetic hearing to try to find a regional solution to these severe problems currently in venezuela the current u.s. administration has not made their words against what might the u.s. fail to do unilaterally against the venezuelans. well he's talked about the. administration is talking about possible sanctions the truth is

the situation in venezuela at the moment is so severe when i was last there in december and they were then we were seeing hundreds of people crossing the border every day looking for food looking for a better life in neighboring countries crime was was on the rise inflation was rampant i mean inflation this year according to the i.m.f. is likely to hit something around thirteen thousand percent and that's an almost inconceivable figure on what is thirteen thousand percent inflation but it makes life daily lives very very difficult for ordinary venezuelans so i think the general view is that sanctions against the government which would hit very difficult economy even harder probably wouldn't change things very much only to perhaps to make things even harder for ordinary venezuelans people have here strongly critical of nicolas maduro his plans to call the election before the end of march talking about. the fact that the opposition and not taking part they've

got there either boycotting it or been prohibited from running so really there's really looking around now for a regional plan to try to solve this problem in venezuela because of course the worse things get there isn't over spill people are leaving venezuela a massive rate into neighboring countries there are refugee camps growing there are people in cities all over latin america so i think certainly the regional leaders are very keen to find a solution and if they can have u.s. help then all the better many thanks janice wyman there bringing us the very latest on the situation where it's. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour democrats and republicans say trump was wrong to claim to declassify the memo clears him of collusion with russia. italy in shock after the drive by shootings and that left six people dead. and in court i return to winning ways but it's time you stop. farah but having to tell us later on.

how i would come over i cold weather across western parts of europe but the cold mobley blast driving its way across the british isles down across that western side of france down into the iberian peninsula a fair amount of snow in the forecast over the next few days at a fair amount of snow recently across the balkans to stick behind a cloud that's been the position that wintry weather will continue to make its way further a swift sclera co-direct coming into moscow to minus ten celsius in the heat of the die central parts of europe looking pretty quiet three degrees celsius there through vienna place else is that say for a paris london will struggle to get top to around five degrees celsius that's the sort of value we can expect him a trade and here we are going to see further spells of snow that snow stretching

across southern parts of france into the alps it all makes its way little further east was as we go through a cheese day we're hanging on to that cold mold late last be some more wintry weather there to scotland into northern england it took a posse of wells up and count out the southeast of england as well as the london would be four degrees celsius with that cold air continue to dive its way down across much of spain and portugal and they will filter into the north of iraq only thirteen celsius and repat snow over the atlas mountains and temperatures for the better just eleven degrees celsius in out is. our. own the benefit of saddam people. so bad to see being bald and all these.

witnesses documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. and then reported on the. us 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 dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera tens of thousands of breaks have rallied in athens over the use of the name macedonia i mean neighboring filming yugoslav the public. we're getting reports that eleven people have been killed in syria in what is thought to have been russian and syrian as trying the strikes at the northwestern province of idlib causing extensive damage to buildings including a hospital. moldavian president i believe your main is refusing to comply with a supreme court order to release political prisoners and reinstate dissidents lawmakers. sixteen bodies have been recovered off the coast of morocco according to the international organization for migration well over two hundred people have died or gone missing in the mediterranean so far this year catherine stanko reports. this is becoming the new routes to europe for would be migrants more than a dozen bodies were pulled out of these waters near malea

a spanish enclave bordering morocco most of them were from north africa trying to get europe fired the so-called western mediterranean route as opposed to arriving in greece or italy twenty eighteen may have only just begun but it's already proving to be a deadly year for those trying to seek a better life in europe on wednesday more than one hundred migrants were rescued from rubber boats off the coast of tripoli. and on friday it's believed ninety people were on a boat that sank off the coast of libya the sole survivor told authorities that many were from pakistan he along with thirty of the pakistanis were brought to the world that will be in the sea off the coast of. these people were being illegally transported. in the ridge was in a bad shape this was being done by human smugglers. the international organization

for migration has issued another warning about the dangers of trying to reach europe we think there's about two hundred sixty have died so far this year alone so here you're adding another ninety to the two it's a really significant episode at a time when people continue to try to get to europe they're lured there by social media they get onto a phone they promised older rado they think life is going to be great and before they know what they're getting into the hands of awful criminal extorting people the migrants that do survive usually end up in detention centers many of which are already filled to capacity. protests were held last week by hundreds of north african migrants at this facility in libya many of them saying they've been held for months in living conditions which are quickly deteriorating catherine stansell al jazeera costa ricans have begun voting to choose their new president polling

stations open on sunday for the first round of voting thirteen candidates are running to replace outgoing president luis salis who has been constitutionally barred from seeking a second consecutive term the presidential race has been rocked by an international court's ruling saying the country should legalize same sex marriage. now in the united states the fallout over a controversial memo claiming the f.b.i. abused its power in spying on an aide to president charles continuing democrats on the house intelligence committee says he's worried that donald trump could censor the democratic republic will to the republican memo however the republican say the inquiry into possible links between the trump campaign and russia would continue in spite of the memos released and gallagher is live for us in washington d.c. now the decision on whether the democrat rebuttal will be cleared for release is being made i think a monday who is pushing for this to happen on the. well the democrats are pushing

very hard because they have deep concerns about the original republican memo that was released on friday they accused the republicans of essentially cherry picking certain information to make it look as if the f.b.i. and the justice department were using people who had certain political motives to put forward the argument the rush for investigation is seriously flawed of course the democrats say that is entirely untrue they want to release their own ten page memo that would be essentially a rebuttal the vote on that will happen on monday evening by the intelligence committee if it is then approved and that's a big if because the republicans dominate that committee at the moment then president trump would have five days in which to make a decision whether to release that or not one republican one democrat i should say says he's already worried that the the u.s. government the trump of ministration would redact certain information from that memo essentially making it useless but there is another point in all of this and that's one about national security because what you've got here is

a president at war with his own intelligence community and let's listen to the senior democrat on the intelligence committee adam schiff talking about the repercussions for u.s. national security sources are going to dry up because of what the republicans on this committee are doing now there's a compact between our committee in the intelligence community you give us your deepest held secrets we will hold them in good confidence we want to use them. they're going to share a lot less with us now and other sources of nation are going to decide not to share with the f.b.i. because they can't rely on our committee not to be partisan in the handling of that information and that's a deep disservice which ultimately makes the country less safe now of course the president's already said that this republican vindicated him but some republicans are actually backing the intelligence community and indeed the russian investigation ali. they are what you have to remember is every time something like

this happens president trump tweets out that this is a hoax and a witch hunt and the republicans argument is that the investigation was based in part on a dossier that was paid for by the democrats but there are splits within the republican party itself because for a president a sitting president to accuse intelligence community of these kinds of things is almost unprecedented we haven't seen this since the days of richard nixon but trey gowdy who's actually on the intelligence committee says none of this has anything to do with that he thinks that despite this dossier in this current argument the russian investigation needs to go on and he's looking at a far bigger picture let's listen to what he has to say you still have a russia investigation even without it so. i don't know how many other republicans feel that we're. and on record as saying i support bob muller one hundred percent i think you would have a russia and russia trying to interfere with our election in twenty sixteen with or without a dossier now of course most americans are not paying much attention to

this today it is after all super bowl sunday most people are tuning in to watch american football but this will unfold in the days and weeks ahead it is something being watched very closely with the essential point to take away from all this is that many people see the intelligence committee is now compromised because it's become mired in politics and less so about national security in the protection of the american people great starter and they only get to go there with the very latest from washington d.c. . to germany where there's been no agreement yet in talks about forming a government when negotiation is expected to continue into monday chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are in talks with the social democrats michel's been unable to form a coalition since the election held last september and both the main parties lost seats paul brennan has more from bell and. given the differences between these two sides sensor writes i know michael c.d.u. and center left martin short as it's pretty it'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 for 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 were 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 need 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. cyprus's incumbent president has won the runoff election there with fifty six percent of the vote they cost

anastasia's to east comfortably beat his challenger stab ross malice can determine the pace of any result of peace talks on the ethnically split island a un administers demilitarized zone running through the capital nicosia has divided north and south cyprus since one nine hundred seventy four. and i gerry a community leader in italy says he fears they'll be further attacks after a series of drive by shootings on saturday left six west african migrants injured five men and one woman were wounded by the gunmen in the town of match or alter in the east of the country peter shot reports. the lone gunman took two hours to target his victims in an attack that police said was racially motivated firing from the front seat of his car he shot six people as he drove through the streets all of them were black and thought to be asylum seekers

nigerian immigrant as get him said he was shot without warning i hear first. in all so long. and it. goes immediately i hear. i hear it. right. off the head surgeon it much at a hospital said they'd all been very lucky. at 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 but he was scalded to prison early on sunday morning cerrone had no previous criminal record overnight italian police sealed off his apartment and later released video of the inside of his home it showed a copy of adult hitler's mind comfort and other right wing flags and symbols joni stood as

a far right candidate for the northern league and recent local elections but was said to receive no votes in the count. the italian prime minister was quick to condemn the shootings i meant to mean only not for so nobody i'll call numb what you want soon a criminal behavior cannot have ideological motivation criminals are criminals the state will be particularly severe against whoever thinks of nourishing the spiral violence let's stop this let's stop this right now with the arrival of more than six hundred thousand migrants over the past four years the events of the last few days come amid a he says election campaign in italy where anti foreign a sentiment has become a key theme peter shop al-jazeera. still to come on this al-jazeera news hour well we take a ride on something all the only passenger train as fans are made friend new line running right across africa and in sports snowboarding action as athletes care up for the winter olympics has that just ahead.

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i. travel within africa it can be challenging at times but now when i'm bishop's plan it's been joined up to connect the east and west by rail saddles president barchi sole pushed for the project that's pocket being paid for by the chinese government and supported by the african union the rowel i'm a one through ten countries from senegal in the in the west to djibouti in the east it currently takes at least five days to charge the bar road from the senate capital dhaka to the capital of djibouti flights between east and west africa are

opening up but f.x. are not cheap in the final part of our series looking at new global trade routes nicholas haq reports from t.s. 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 just directions. remember 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 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 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 in 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 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 tracks has got many excited and hopeful abound in train station we 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 yes senegal. well that was the last in our series on global trade over the past four days we visited trade groups in north america thailand and laos and you can watch all of those reports on al-jazeera as you change channel you tube dot com for slash al-jazeera english as for now i was half hour in doha.

sue thank you so much super bowl fifty two kicks off in less than two hours time defending champions the new england patriots face the philadelphia eagles in minneapolis the patriots tom brady at forty years old will have the chance to become the oldest quarterback to win that title the eagles are making their third super bowl appearance having beaten the minnesota vikings in the n.f.c. championship game. brady and patriots coach bill belichick have been in seven super bowls together all of the contests have been settled by less than seven points so expect a tight game the patriots are aiming for super bowl championship number six the eagles have never won it the last time they reached the title game was in two thousand and four when they were beaten by brady the patriots while eagles quarterback nick foles has thrown for sixty one touchdowns over his whole n.f.l.

career brady has sixty eight touchdowns in the playoffs alone so how do you not be as excited as ever played in a game like this you know everybody's watching you're playing for the championship you worked hard to get to this point 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 this is 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 and i know damn a major would be knows no super bowl so. i know that the one time i threw her in that moment so i'm excited is right now this time with my teammates this sunday and play a game no idea what a few i know to be a lot of excitement but i look forward to that moment let's go now to n.b.c. news is jay gray he's live for us from minneapolis let's talk first about tom brady if the patriots were to win today has become the oldest quarterback to win the

title whoa what's been the key to his longevity. yeah a lot of people will tell you and i think most in agreement at this point that he is perhaps the greatest football player of all time the key to his performance and his longevity here he will tell you it's his bestial diet a highly sensitive diet as well as his stretching and exercise routine he believes that's what's kept him from andrea in what is a very violent sport he's very end tune he says with his body what it needs to perform at its peak in in the biggest games of the year and so that's what he's done he says so into his regimen that this year he introduced a book that teaches others how to live and train the way he has t.v. twelve tom brady and it's number twelve and it's been a bestseller a lot of people very interested in how he's done this and how he continues to beat other teams quarterbacks who are half his age that is interesting

or the philadelphia eagles have been said to be a huge underdogs going into this. is there any way they can pull off a windy thank you. you know there is tom brady if there's one thing that's difficult for him it's when he gets a lot of pressure and when he gets that pressure from the front for if they can get through and rush the quarterback and be strong about that throughout the game without having to use extra players in the defensive backfield that will give the eagles a chance but they've got to get pressure on brady early and often they've got to contain what is a strong running game of new england and then their quarterback who has a perpetual backup and who is was a second string quarterback coming and to this season has to manage the game no turnovers it's interesting because the patriots are eighteen and no in the preseason in the postseason rather when they win the turnover battle so the eagles can give them extra chances they've got to hold on to the ball score when they can

and otherwise play the field position game ok well political protests are fair i guess there could be i would be surprised if we saw players kneeling before the super bowl i think this is a a chance that some of them will never get again and they are very focused on the issue at hand and on trying to win a super bowl championship here i think that you will see a unified team on both sides and i'm sure it's something they've discussed in their locker rooms but to see someone neal would be a surprise it wouldn't shock me but it would certainly be something that would be surprising ok well it's going to it's going to be a great game looking forward to it jake ray reporting live from minneapolis we'll talk to you soon yeah. a rugby six nations tournament in line got their title defense off to a winning start against italy on sunday they ran in seven tries in a forty six fifteen victory in rome it's a thirteenth consecutive defeat in the tournament for the is how he and england are bidding for and historic consecutive championship. and the english premier league

liverpool and tottenham drew two two in a thrilling game at anfield two of the goals came in injury time with no cell adding his second of the game in the ninety first minute but it wasn't enough to fill the when after hurricane missed one penalty he scored another to earn the point for tottenham it was his one hundredth goal in the premier league the result means liverpool stay third in the table but tottenham are just two points behind them in fifth place. on dusty. begin a team that is so difficult when they are. in the school. and i think the control room was amazing on that but for most amazing and i think the feeling know in the changing room from the team is still we do two points sometimes in life you need a little bit of help people don't get that it's difficult it's always said they were really good but we were good as well and because of the business how the game

developed and because a few other circumstances they were like they were more dominant the second half in spain barcelona remain unbeaten so far in the league this season by only just a late equaliser from gerard piqué rescued them a draw at espanyol as when you had taken the lead through gerrard more and you know midway through the second half but piquet level things up with just eight minutes of the match remaining or sloane are now on a club record twenty two match unbeaten streak in the league. didon wimbledon champion patrick of it ever has won her twenty first tour title at the st petersburg ladies' trophy which i produced a dominant displayed to defeat defending champion christina wide an overage six one six two in sunday's final it's just give it a rest second tournaments win since returning to the tour last june following a knife attack in her home at the end of twenty six so moved back out to twenty one in the rankings on monday with no points to defend until the french open in may.

the president of the international olympic committee says the decision by the court of arbitration for sport to overturn the life bans of twenty eight russian athletes is extremely disappointing thomas bach was speaking in pyongyang ahead of the winter olympics which start there on friday a decision on whether the athletes involved can now take part in the games will be taken later this week the r.u.c. executive board. not satisfied is all with the approach or the bike us. we have discussed this situation at length yesterday and today. we feel. this decision shows

the urgent need. for reform. in the internal structure because. a more optimistic story surrounding these games involves the combined north and south korean women's hockey team they played their first warm up game against sweden earlier finished three one to sweden at least three players from north korea will participate in each match in the olympics as well as the joint hockey team the two koreas will march together under a unified flag at the games hoping the sound. of skiing superstar lindsey vonn will head to the olympics on a winning note after claiming victory in the final downhill event before pyong chang on sunday american completed this court course in germany in one minute thirty seven point nine seconds for her thirteen seconds of triumph in the display and more now has eighty one world cup race wins to her name and she's just five

short of the all time best mark set in the one nine hundred eighty s. eight time world. downhill world cup champion the thirty three year old is bidding for just a second olympic title. elsewhere in germany there was a second world cup win of the season for the reigning snowboard cross olympic champion pierre viaux here he pipped in the show good denio to the line for a twenty second career win the final race before pyong chang twenty two year old mckayla while the italy won the women's race underlying her status as a gold medal favorite in what will be her second olympic games. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to see you in london. thank you fire research as in guatemala have discovered new buildings and structures dating from the mayan civilization the discoveries include launch agricultural fields and arrogating can owls and tens of thousands of homes and buildings and mayans control huge swathes

of central and north america until the spanish took over starting in the sixteenth century scientists used high tech area lapping techniques to find the remains in the middle of the dense jungle of quarter mile and a ten region. that's it for me for this news hour but i'll be back and i will with more of the day's. conservation ease helping kyrgyzstan to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at touch

camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty slowed efforts as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected and the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. for the nomadic jack outright survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry on never be able to get the top of the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. is dangerous to the ice and then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life a little bit longer sometimes luser cattle there with the cold war because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. the most memorable moment of al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the

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