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a resolution condemning chemical weapons in syria. u.s. financial markets plunge is it a correction all the start of something bigger. the state of emergency is declared in the political crisis in the mall to use it deepens. and after a week of posturing in washington over a republican memo about the f.b.i. now it's the democrats' turn. russia has blocked a u.n. security council statement condemning the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government the u.s. ambassador nikki haley says there is obvious evidence of recent chlorine gas attacks by the assad regime but russia is accusing the u.s. of waging a propaganda campaign as that debate was taking place at least forty nine people were killed by syrian and russian airstrikes in the province and eastern go to

according to activists outside syria aid agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of displaced syrians are at risk of being forcibly returned to their homes despite the violence continues to talk but on this issue is unable to act the continuing sporadic chemical attacks underlining its weakness and undermining the international consensus against the use of some of the world's most hideous weapons james out of the united nations well as we heard a moment ago aid agencies say the displaced syrians are at risk of being forced to return home despite the fighting a new report says gains by the syrian government are giving a false impression that many areas a stable enough to go back to is in a harder has more from lebanon's bekaa valley. he says sheriff says some of his family members were killed in the war in neighboring syria he has also lost contact

with others who have been displaced lebanon has been his home for six years he is from the opposition held province of idlib and for him going back is not an option . we want to save zone to return to otherwise where do they want us to go back to do they want us to die if we go back will be able bodied there's nowhere safe there's only death. it live is a deescalation zone there is supposed to be a ceasefire here instead civilians are being killed in almost daily airstrikes by syrian and russian planes humanitarian agencies say the violence in some parts of syria means it's still not safe for refugees to return they are warning governments in europe the united states and the region not to force them back we the humanitarian organizations that are on the ground in syria and in the neighboring countries we call this report dangerous grounds for the simple reason that these women children and men have to be informed of the conditions and we have to assure

that it is voluntary when they go back and then we have to assist and protect the return. the u.n. doesn't have exact numbers but the figures available show some seventy thousand refugees returned on their own from neighboring countries last year but aid agencies say for every returning there were three more uli displaced because of the violence since mid december more than two hundred thousand people had to leave their homes because of fighting in the southern edges of it lip province. government forces control the main cities they've recaptured a lot of territory from the opposition i saw has been pushed out of many areas and there are local cease fire agreements in place but the picture is misleading there are many areas where fighting continues it's not just safety there is widespread destruction there are few civilian facilities left of hospitals have been hit mass returns can't be sustainable if these people can't find jobs and if there is no

health care or schools. there are no proper living conditions imagine if i need to take my children to a doctor there are no health centers there is no life there i'm afraid of the day when they kick us out of here lebanon's government says there will be no forced returns and any returns will be coordinated with the united nations but refugees here are still worried so are aid agencies that is why they are warning no one should be forced back to syria without a plan that takes into account their safety and wellbeing. because valley lebannon ok to the u.s. economy now stock markets in new york have suffered big losses on monday with concerns over a possible interest rate rise seen as the main cause the dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark meaning it wiped off all the gains it's made over the last month or so in jordan reports from washington d.c. . if investors weren't spooked by the u.s.

stock market selloff on friday they're almost certainly wishing they'd put in for a three day weekend the dow jones industrial average fell four point six percent on monday and it's down eight point five percent since its high point on january twenty sixth that means stocks are now cheaper but the value of retirement and investment accounts has dropped making americans poorer at least on paper some market watchers fear the u.s. could be on the brink of recession but not everyone agrees in reality it feels that way but it's not really to the point where we can say it's a repeat of one thousand nine hundred eighty seven now i think investors need to be calm i think they have to look at the the whole picture. and and the economic picture remains quite strong while traders dumped everything from energy to finance and tech stocks the u.s.

president donald trump said nothing just last week trump was bragging about the stock market strike but in cincinnati he was celebrating tax cuts and accusing congressional democrats of trying to sabotage the economy somebody is a treasonous i mean just why not now we call that treason why not. i mean they certainly didn't seem to love our country very much but you look at that and it's it's really very very sad later white house aides released a statement downplaying the market turmoil and praising the president's focus on tax cuts and deregulation still barack obama's former press secretary jay carney taunted trump on twitter quote we never boasted about the stock market because we knew two things one the stock market is not the economy and two if you claim the rise you own the fall the stock selloff comes at a time of change at the u.s.

the central bank on monday jerome powell was sworn in as the federal reserve chairman replacing janet yellen she had been criticized for not raising interest rates quickly enough to curb inflation but now economists will be watching help out keeps the u.s. economy humming and investors from panicking a difficult test in his first days on the job rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington ok let's take a look at how the does being playing out recently over the last five trading days in the drop in the dow jones industrial average has been state but when we compare that to the dow's performance over the past three months the losses of the past few days have only wiped out the markets gains since december when we look back further across a six month period where you can see the dow's overall trend is still increasing making these most recent losses arguably just a normalize ation. well today's trading is well underway across asia stock indices

there are following the dow's q. and they're heading downwards the main stock index in australia open about two and a half percent lower in tokyo where it's approaching a day run about the benchmark nikkei index is down about five percent rajeev bass was the asia pacific chief economist for i.h.s. global insight he's joining us now from singapore via skype i'm also seeing that the hong kong is done by about three point seven seven percent given the fact that the u.s. market has been on this increasing trend for some time now and the usual answer if i understand it correctly is to rack up the interest rates in order to be able to take some of the heat out of the that everybody seems to be reacting as though this is some sort of surprise but is it. well i think the. expectations last year in terms of the outlook for the markets was too

complacent basically the puzzle that confronted the bad throughout twenty seven was that wages in the u.s. have not been really showing any upward momentum even though unemployment well and to four point one percent by the end of last year so i think what we're now seeing is a pullback in rubble markets because we've suddenly seen in the january payrolls numbers that are out of reach are really earnings jumped up to two point nine percent year over year that's quite a big upturn and so i think it's jolted financial markets worldwide out of their complacency about the outlook for inflation in the u.s. because now with the higher average hourly earnings the fear is that the fed is behind the curve and that the fed will now be more aggressive in their training we had expected three rate hikes this year we've now increased up to four rate hikes from the fed this year and so i think what we're seeing in

a shop and in global markets generally is a repricing of assets to meet this new reality. of higher inflation in the u.s. so then of course i'm only in that seeing higher inflation in asia as well sorry to interrupt you there but i just you raise an interesting point in times of the timescale of this are we just seeing that the markets around the world making that readjustment to account for all of the circumstances that you've been talking about in the u.s. or is this the beginning of a period of volatility that's going to last for a while. i think it's a readjustment i think it's a repricing of assets to take into account the increased outlook throat higher inflation in the u.s. but at the moment probably the expectations for higher inflation if they could still be too low and that's the issue that we've already seen bone yields in the u.s. for the ten years getting up to almost three percent and that's

a very rock that is just the feeling of this year and so if we were to see that inflation pressures continue to rise particularly wage costs in the us it could mean more heavy weather for global equity markets i think right now this is a temporary correction to price and the new higher inflation levels that are associated with that wage rise that we're seeing but the reality is u.s. unemployment is only one point one percent on the economy is looking in pretty good shape so although that's good for earnings it also means that wages many start showing some further upward pressure so i think the risks are there that we could see some bump he whether the equity markets the cheekily if we see more evidence that the u.s. labor market is tightening and that wages are moving higher so on the one who wrote

in the global economy it's very positive you know strong growth in the u.s. helped by the time it's also a very strong growth in the euro zone and pretty robust growth in china so on the growth front that's good right but it's but the theory now is that wages in the u.s. are going higher and dots really what's in markets right now so i think at least a temporary adjustment for markets can again work all of the higher earnings expectations. via test global insight we appreciate your time giving us that explanation thank you very much indeed thank you. plenty more ahead in the news hour including new doubts about the future of south africa's president as the a.n.c. calls a special meeting to discuss his fate. we're going to have more on why one of asia's poorest countries could be borrowing too much money from its neighbors and in sports the philadelphia eagles quarterback has been named the super bowl's most

valuable player after guiding his team to a dramatic victory. the u.s. house intelligence committees voted to release a memo prepared by the committee's democrats as a rebuttal to a controversial republican documents made public on friday that republican memo was declassified by president donald trump and it contained allegations of f.b.i. bias and abuse of power in the way it spied on a trump aide the f.b.i. questioned the accuracy of the republican memo saying it contained a missions of fact the committee's top democrat adam schiff says the president will need to approve the rival papers release i think it's going to be very hard for the white house like it was hard for the republicans on the committee to block release of this i am more concerned that they make political redactions not redactions to

protect sources and methods and that's why we're going to insist that the department of justice and the f.b.i. report to us on what reactions they think are necessary so that we can segregate any political interference from the white house which of goodstein is a democratic political consultant who was a former advisor to president bill clinton he's joining me now from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for being with us what do you think the democrats have thank you for having me what do you think the democrats have had to put in their memo to try to counteract the republican one. well for one thing i think the republican the newness memo on its own frankly if it just sat out there would be kind of the focus that would show how lacking that memo is in force and trying to kind of make the case that somehow or other this investigation should be ended if anything it demonstrated that well before there was any surveillance on anybody connected with the campaign there was already information coming to the f.b.i.

from this fellow george papadopoulos who couldn't quite help himself but talking about how they were interested in getting the dope on hillary clinton i think actually the democrats are going to be very methodical in their memo which will see presumably in showing the ways in which the new nest memo was lacking or distorted the facts that are on the public record without presumably disclosing anything that's classified you know we heard from the shift just a few moments ago saying that the next stage is of course for the president to give his approval to have this released under what circumstances could the president either block this or redact parts of it. you know it's funny rob the fact is i think it's a general belief that the republican memo was allowed into the public domain a week ahead of what even if the white house approves the release of the democratic memo to let the public kind of kind of true on the newness memo to see if it kind

of had any. kind of. kind of feeling that of truth and i think the answer is it has and it's really kind of fallen flat could the president monkey with it he could but i think that frankly look every step in my humble opinion that the president is taking is not consistent with the steps taken by somebody who believes who believes it and is in a sense he's taking steps firing komi firing you know getting rid of the number two man at the f.b.i. became lying about a meeting that his son was involved in with the russians in june of two thousand and sixteen every step he's said and done things that are not consistent with the actions of somebody who's innocent so if you proceed to redact things or withhold it altogether honestly i think that would kind of reinforce the notion that he thinks he's got something to hide given the fact that we're concentrating so much on the to and fro about these two memos does this do you think have any bearing the

toll on the standing of the miller investigation and the direction it's going to take. i don't i don't want one quick thing if i can i actually think there's a possibility that the stock market movement downward starting friday happened to coincide with the release of the newness of the republican memo which was so wanting that i think any investor who thought well maybe this whole investigation of really will go away like the republicans are claiming and when they read it i think people thought this is going to be here for a long time i don't think it's going to be any impact whatsoever on the look i think muller and his team are going to be driven by facts not by either party's spin or take on what the facts are but just by the facts and i think this is not going to end anytime soon i think frankly people who are in the trump orbit are they're all getting a lawyer and i think they're all going to be in for some rough sledding and one of

this implication of this is the wage that has been driven between the trumpet ministration the white house and the intelligence community in the u.s. now in many ways this might put the intelligence community in a difficult position because they are not presumably forced to try to demonstrate that they are bipartisan that they are not in any way allies to any political party and regain trust of the american people how can they do that do you think. you know it's an excellent question i will tell you this is the republican notion that somehow the f.b.i. is in the back pocket of democrats is belied by the fact that during the twenty sixteen campaign it was komi then the head of the f.b.i. who twice when he had an initial press conference about hillary clinton's e-mails and then ten days before the election issued a letter that again drew attention to this that really i think ward's the cause of her undoing if you look at the polls right before that second that komi letter she

was running way ahead and then proceeded to drop at the same time that the f.b.i. knew that the russians were trying to mettle to help donald trump and said nothing to the american public i think that again the f.b.i. has to be committed to playing this straight they can't be trying to kind of one way or the other for fear of a perception they've just got to go with the facts and i think frankly the facts all to me will be pretty painful for the president and people in his immediate circle which are good scenes democrat political consultant he was also former adviser to president bill clinton we really appreciate your time for giving us your views thank you very much and. thank you so much for having me. that is various former usa gymnastics doctor has been sentenced to an additional forty one hundred twenty five years in prison for sexually assaulting young female athletes the verdict follows weeks of testimony from nearly two hundred victims it's already

been sentenced to more than two hundred years for abusing girls working in the national gymnastics team doctor and he's also been convicted on child pornography charges. the standoff between the maldives president and its supreme court is deepening two of the courts judges and an opposition leader have been arrested hours after president abdullah i mean declared a fifteen day state of emergency yeah i mean was angered by an order from the court last week to release and nine leading opposition figures shala bellus has the latest. opposition politicians film outside malays criminal court waiting to hear the fate of the colleagues ill have made and do listen and they were arrested and charged with bribery upon arriving in the country on sunday a judge dropped the charges and release them they are two of nearly twenty politicians affected by a supreme court ruling that has created a political crisis in the island nation. of ian celebrations on

thursday when their top court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammad machine and the judges reinstated twelve employees who had lost their seats for siding with the opposition but one day of celebration soon turned into four nights of protests when president abdullah you mean refused to comply with the rule. aliment was scheduled to reconvene after recess on monday but the president said it would be closed indefinitely and imposed a state of emergency for fifteen days the mall devean parliament is now under military control opposition politicians want to get inside parliament to file impeachment motions against four top officials in the president's administration for not freeing the colleagues.

by me. i don't know what function and the spin function at the moment police targeted the administrative head of the supreme court on sunday writing his house the court issued a statement ruling police didn't have enough evidence to arrest a judicial executive president in maine has asked the court to reconsider the arist warrant ruling he said he told reporters prosecuting attorney needs more legal direction before he can release any political prisoners the president says his people need to be patient critics heavily say i don't need. to be an event. that has been directly. that even not really any of. the office ition thinks they can turn a domestic support into international pressure they want foreign intervention but the president and the supreme court are unified against this janet dallas and she's

. able to hear her saying she harbors a spokesman for the mall devean president says that normal life will continue despite the political unrest. carvery we are in a state of emergency but there are no less daily life will go on as usual schools will remain open businesses will. travel within the country actually from the country will be unimpeded and. life will go on as usual but. because of the supreme court ruling also on february. and then the constitutional implications that that was lifted we are now a state of. unrest in terms of how local politics is interacting with the separation of powers. it's been just over twenty

years since the asian financial crisis it started with the collapse of thailand's currency and the bought and spread across east asia one of the contributing factors was high public debt in the affected countries including laos now there are similar warnings about governments in the region borrowing too much money when he reports in the lotion capital. the coffee industry in laos is one of the fastest growing in asia its output is still small compared with regional leaders like vietnam and indonesia but fuelled by increasing demand from neighboring china production grew by more than eight percent last year ro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities he must have financing but despite it being one of the few lao explored products is no sign the government is willing to help their thing all right he is. wrong on regard projects on

hydropower on mining on tory right no small are not enough supporters. indeed the government has big plans to shake off the tag of one of asia's poorest countries it wants to graduate from the united nations least developed country status in the next twelve years and it's turned to china to help fund big projects like this economic zone just outside the capital. which is being built in anticipation of the city expanding quickly and a six billion dollar high speed train line that are run from southern china. but the amount of money the lao government is borrowing for the projects is causing concern. public debt is estimated at around sixty eight percent of g.d.p. and almost half of the money is being borrowed from one source china too much on

financial sources. to be risky because. this country really be exposed through this business. of a trainer the lao government says big investment is vital if it's to improve the livelihood of its people one priority is health care which like many aspects of laos society has fallen into disrepair through poor governance and neglect the main hospital in the capital was built by the french in one thousand nine hundred three and as head few improvements since but as part of the government's health care reforms work will soon begin on a new hospital to be built on the same size built with chinese money wayne hay al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera the e.u.'s brags that negotiator warns the u.k. that the time has come for it to make some hard choices. what goes up must come down the time that's passed since the berlin wall fell is no longer than the time

it stood. on paul reese and the netherlands the home of speedskating where the dutch plotting another history making performance at the winter olympics. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. i know there is still very chilly for many of us in the southeast parts of china the temperatures in shanghai will still be struggling on choose they are maximum just four degrees but they do get a bit better as we head through wednesday this time up to seven so certainly not warm by any stretch of the imagination but a lot better than they have been the temperatures also rising elsewhere as well hong kong back to sixty one hundred nineteen there is a little bit of what weather though but for the south that's over parts of blues are mostly in the north and we've also got more wet weather in the southern half of

the philippines as well and that's stretching down through borneo and down towards java and this is the region where we're expecting the wettest of the weather as we head through the next couple of days towards the west it's generally a lot drier for many of us here have a k.l. and singapore that should be plenty of dry weather during the day the temperatures generally hovering around about thirty degrees for india we see lots of cloud here that stretches all the way up through into paul as well generally just thin high cloud so not really doing a great deal weather wise but may just squeeze out the odd shower there for the himalayas further south and it's over sri lanka where we've seen some particularly wet weather recently might be some rather more shop showers as we head through wednesday and on wednesday it looks like that we pushing a bit further north as well so in the southern parts of india will season showers to. the with sponsored by qatar race. the palestine national locust was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but it's had to be revived in twenty ten all was very important for me to sing in

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour russia has blocked a u.n. security council statement condemning the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government u.s. ambassador nikki haley says there's obvious evidence president assad's forces recently used chlorine gas in rebel held areas syria has always denied using chemical weapons. global stock markets have suffered serious losses on monday after the u.s. the dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark wiping out all the gains it made over the past month a possible interest rate rise is seen as the main cause for the drop. the u.s. house intelligence committee has voted to make public a memo prepared by the committee's democrats as a rebuttal to a controversial republican document released on friday democrats say the memo

undermines allegations by president trump that the f.b.i. abused its powers when investigating his campaign. ok more now on our top story the u.n. security council's response to alleged chemical attacks in syria document dr ahmed tajik he is the president of the syrian american medical society he's joining us now via skype from fresno california thank you very much indeed for your time so i understand that you're in touch with teams on the ground what are you hearing from them about the attacks thank you for hosting us the underground as diverse did this time as you know the recent chemical attack actually coincided with other attacks targeting medical facilities throughout libya northwestern syria the attack right now on an old count civil society counts the number one hundred ninety six since the conflict erupted in syria or it must be

a few years and still at this time there's no mechanism to attribute investigate or a senate count ability or those attacks where we've seen some terrible pictures coming out as a result of these attacks and others can you describe to our audience what it is like to be caught in one of these attacks. just to describe what is going on right now and that area soraya and in the area there has been many attacks on medical facilities over the last few weeks we know that the medical system at this time in. suburban hama is completely paralyzed with those attacks be destroying the ability of the first responders and medics to respond to these at the next now those chemical attacks are terrifying the civilians we know that chlorine might cause symptoms of retaliation shortness of breath education in which people are not able to grasp their breath and they're struggling with that those

symptoms can be treated the concentration that people were exposed to are little but still they're terrified there are no medical facilities that are functional close to them the medical facilities are already overwhelmed with the traumas and injuries and the regular health needs of the civilians in those areas now those attacks come in people come in they might not even not even be able to find oxygen or not realize or to improve their breathing and that is what's going on in that area where people feel that those chemical weapons are being used to displace people out of their towns and scared them to the point where they would leave and maybe secret shoot somewhere out of syria i know that your organization like some others have been attempting to build stronger facilities in order to try to withstand some of the attacks that have been going on but we saw recently there was an attack on a hospital in a cave which essentially destroyed it and i luckily there were no no injuries in

that but hope hope to you have of being able to continue to provide medical facilities under these circumstances. over the last few years we hope that movie some of those hospitals to save locations underground or in kids would be will allow us to provide services to the people in those areas and unfortunately we've proven wrong we've seen that it's a variety of missiles are being able to destroy any infrastructure that we can build to serve the people at this time or looking towards accountability or the least of it is to freeze dic the conflict to deescalate to the point where for example ground in the air force that's the one that's been using chlorine and chemical weapons against civilians if dest that's achieved deescalation the escalations achieved at least civil means will feel that this injuries can be achieved by using chemical weapons and other weapons that been used in syria that cluster bombs or so on short of that we are committed to serve the people in need

we'll continue what we can do but does all going to be burned down and destroyed as chemical weapons and other weapons being used inside syria and you talk to us about the impact of these attacks on the people in the area the civilians in the area but there must surely be an impact if nothing else psychologically on the medical teams that are trying to help these people tell us a little bit about the what's motivating those teams to stay there when the dangerous so great over the last few years we've lost hundreds of a medical workers and says syria and over two years we order realized that we are deliberately targeted as medical workers we felt as we've seen in a lip when other places that the medical workers are the backbone of the civil society at this time and in every single town. destroying the medical facilities led to the collapse of the town so that's why the physicians and nurses and

ambulance drivers and everybody is committed to support the people in that area we have seen how people have lost their lives as mid exposing their lives as a train to risk to others including exposure to chemical weapons as you see in the fresh example but still people are committed to medics are committed to do people to do our own communities and they will continue to soar and we as an organization are committed to serve the people in need dr todd actually thank you very much indeed for joining our visitor today thank you for the opportunity the humanitarian crisis caused by yemen's civil war is growing more desperate every day the u.n. says forty seven thousand people have been displaced and the possible alone for humanitarian access is improving there are still king shortages of food and water or how many times you have reports with the only available drinking water located miles away the children carry what they can collect on the backs of donkeys but the

rough terrain makes an already difficult situation even more arduous violence caused these families to flee their homes in the village of your yes in southern yemen is of daughter governorate another reminder of how the conflict in yemen is deepening what the u.n. calls the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world. who have said we're now living in caves as a result of the will we are facing harsh living conditions especially the ferocious cold our homes have been destroyed. hardship has become the norm for these yemenis the adults worry the children will suffer the worst and in this makeshift camp hope is dwindling as temperatures drop that i get a little bit on the other i said hey that this year's winter is the worst in years the temperature is hit minus five degrees the displaced families are living through harsh conditions that most of them took shelter and it is a humanitarian crisis they need immediate shelter and relief aid in

a country where children have been at higher risk of contracting cholera and diptheria this boy is suffering from severe pneumonia and hoping the hospital will have enough medication to help him recover. even the internally displaced who managed to escape to a nearby town are still living in extremely harsh conditions constantly searching for water and always seeking warmth from. south africa's ruling party has called an urgent meeting to discuss the president's future as pressure grows on jacob zuma to step down rival factions faced off during demonstrations outside the headquarters of the african national congress in johannesburg zuma has become increasingly unpopular over a series of corruption scandals from other miller has more from johannesburg. the african national congress is continuing to grapple with what it calls a transitional period after sil remark was i was named president of the party while jacob zuma remains president of south africa and that's amid intensifying calls for

zuma to step down this of course relates back to allegations of corruption and his relationship with a prominent family in south africa who are accused of influencing president zuma as well as a government policy and appointments now that sillerman was a is president of the a.n.c. would appear that zuma has position has weakened to some extent and they all polls from within the party and also from outside for the president to step down now unconfirmed reports indicate that zuma has said he won't resign that he's done nothing wrong and that he will indeed make the state of the nation address later this week opposition parties have requested the speaker of parliament to perspire own the address and if they don't have an answer any time soon they say they will approach the courts to have the sadrist perspired until after a motion of no confidence in parliament scheduled for the twenty second of february

zuma appears to be facing increased pressure to step down to leave office. but he appears to be standing and that's despite what appears to be an increasing rift within the net and within the party. two going in television stations are back on air after being shut down by the government six days ago three stations were closed because they were broadcasting a mock inauguration of opposition leader raila odinga police in nairobi fired tear gas during protests against the government's decision to forcibly halt a live coverage of the mock swearing in n.t.v. and katie and news have both resumed broadcasting but citizen television is still off air. the european union's chief brags its negotiator has warned the u.k. urgently needs to clarify what relationship it once with europe after leaving the e.u. michel bonnie is making his first official visit to the united kingdom since negotiations

began bonnie's been speaking to the u.k. brags that secretary david davis and prime minister theresa may at downing street has warned the time has come for the u.k. to make a choice over the nature of its future trade. customs union. for the. market. to trade on goods and services. another. time. choice. has been following the events in london. we're entering the critical next stage of bricks in negotiations focusing on the to be a transition period when britain formally leaves the european union on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen it is a two year period of adjustment as proposed by the british prime minister reason may in her government to allow companies businesses and investors to get used to the new reality of life outside the e.u.

but the truth is nobody really knows what that reality looks like there are some key sticking points regarding how this two year period will play out hardline break cities within two reason may own party and government a worry that it will simply just mean a continuation of the status quo michel barnier the east chief negotiator has hinted that the e.u. will indeed continue to run the show during that two year period. also demanded that any e.u. nationals arriving in the u.k. during that two year period be given the same rights as e.u. citizens or live arrived in the u.k. before breaks it something to reason may refuse to let happen one of a number of sticking points that need to be hammered out before there's any chance of moving on to the next key stage in brics it talks about trade crucial to britain's future economy outside the e.u. a conservative evangelical singer and a left wing fiction writer i said to face off in costa rica's presidential election

runoff in april the issue of same sex marriage dominated the campaign leading up to sunday's first round vote fabrizio alvarado who got the most votes is fiercely opposed to the idea the marilyn wall the barrier the divided the german city during the cold war era has now been done for as long as it was up the wall was built by communist east germany and completely encircled the western parts of berlin from one of the historic crossing points paul brennan reports. these days the famous checkpoint charlie is a magnet for tourists the colville of going hot stuff for vividly remembers the cold war years it was just seventeen when the war was built and he devoted the next twenty eight years of his life to campaigning and demonstrating against it when. i was seventeen years old and i just cried i couldn't believe it when they told us after the war in one thousand nine hundred five that injustice was meant to be over

that people would never again be violently imprisoned and be the victim of political powers and then they put a wall into a world city in my hometown. from the thirteenth of august one thousand nine hundred sixty one berlin was a city divided russian and american troops faced each other in a militarized standoff desperate civilians who tried to cross the so-called death strip risked being shot as traitors by east german border guards. when the war finally fell on nov ninth one thousand nine hundred nine it stood for ten thousand three hundred sixteen days monday marks the point that it has now been down for ten thousand three hundred sixteen days. for twenty eight years two months and twenty seven days the berlin wall stood for division now twenty

eight years two months and twenty seven days after it fell the remaining parts of it stand for something altogether more positive. the new exhibition to mark the date is a collection of private photographs previously unseen glimpses of life in the divided city there are snapshots taken in the east where such photographs really got this one taken by a teenager plotting his escape route he succeeded a few weeks later the curator of the collection says the wall is as relevant today as it was then but what we can learn from the nineteen eighty nine the. urge for freedom by people in the end so strong that it made them war fell and this is something you cannot solve problems was what's today the roots of the berlin wall is still visible in a line of couples marking its former location in the modern day tarmac and tourists come from all over the world to see the stretch of wall still standing as a reminder of those twenty eight years of division. it has now been down for as

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thanks very much she went toe to toe against one the best quarterbacks in n.f.l. history but it was nick foles who guided the philadelphia eagles to their first

super bowl title beating tom brady and the new england patriots the championship crown eagles quarterback has since been named the super bowl m.v.p. the twenty nine year old nearly retired after an underwhelming twenty fifteen season while he was with the st louis rams and although there is still doubt about foles remaining a starting eagles quarterback is just savoring the moment right now it goes back to every last point i want to individual and i'm fortunate to be them because game but as you've seen this year we've had so many m.v.p.'s throughout the course is two different guys stepping up and you know it's just a great honor to be up here to accept this and half of the children for us and we're unfortunate be a part of a great team you know what we're just going to enjoy this moment and say right now we're going to enjoy it we're going to get on this plane go back to philadelphia we're going to celebrate with our fans back in philly we got a long off season now really a short offseason now. we're just get enjoy this moment you know i'm happy for nick

i'm happy for the team it's not about one guy you know it's about the team and and you know i can say we're going to we're going to enjoy we enjoy these next next few days. this was largely regarded as the highlight of sunday's game in minneapolis foles is trick play here ensured philadelphia would lead at half time and make him the first player ever to throw and catch a touchdown at super bowl. the patriots star quarterback tom brady tried to get his team back into the game but it wasn't to be another fairytale comeback for the forty year old who was going for his sixth championship title the eagles reclaim the lead and clinched a historic forty one to thirty three victory. it's estimated around one hundred and eleven million people in the united states alone sat down to watch the super bowl on t.v. earlier we spoke to n.f.l. broadcaster michael carlson he says the game was one of the most exciting and recent history it's we've had

a run of good super bowls lately and they used to be they were like a cup finals where the hype overpowers the event and the game turns out not to be very good but we've had a run a very good games and this was one of the greatest it wasn't perfect football if you're a purist you know and you like defense no but if you like scoring and if you like nonstop sort of back and forth action this game had a lot of that philadelphia is a city with a big chip on his shoulder as we say it's the it's could be called the rockies syndrome if you remember the movie and they like to see themselves as underdogs especially to the big city new york which is you know just up the road from them hundred miles or so and they were they were underdogs in this game but they probably should have been as as big an underdog as they were because they were very good the difference was the border backs new england have to has tom brady they had

nick foles who started the season as their backup and only was playing because their starting quarterback got hurt in december but they only lost three games all year there are really strong defense. over in the english premier league defending champions chelsea lost four one at what furred watford scored three of their goals within the space of ten minutes in the second have chelsea's loss means they stay fourth in the table just one point ahead of tottenham all the international olympic committee has formally rejected a request from thirteen more russian athletes to be allowed to compete at the upcoming winter games in pyongyang the astley's had their lifetime bans from a limp explorer doping overturned by the court of arbitration for sport last week that decision was criticised by the i.o.c. president thomas bach one hundred and sixty nine russian athletes will be taking part at the olympics under a neutral flag. we are going right this procedure of the

extremely disappointing decisions up holding. for pete's. the privilege to be invited requires more than just the absence of essential. so we have not the right. now the white landscape of the netherlands makes it an unlikely place for excellence in winter sports but the twenty fourteen olympics in sochi saw the dutch finish near the top of the overall rankings thanks to their performances in speed skating and more successes being predicted for the dutch in south korea all research reports from here in vain. when it comes to speed skating but he does expect the dutch the netherlands medal tally of the last winter olympics was the best point any nation in any single sport in the history of the games and put them fifth in the overall table despite not winning any medals outside of skating. it has left rivals

norway the u.s. and canada desperately trying to catch up before pyong chang twenty eight chair you know if he or she. doesn't feel good for anybody we're trying to. always keep step ahead of the rest of the world and sometimes previous goal because you know everybody learns from mistakes and it's so important here so deep into the culture that everybody grows up with speed skating specially when there's no surprise and frozen outside and everybody so getting crazy how i think that's the biggest reason why we have success and. speed skaters are professional stars in the netherlands the work that makes them champions is done here at the t. health arena in the small town of hebron vein famed as the fastest ice in the world it's home to pensioners and school children at the same time as world champions but the success of the sport has its roots in the dutch landscape the dutch have been

getting their skates on the centuries as the many canals over in winter this is the traditional finish of the health state and talked a two hundred kilometer race across the frozen waterways and it's not been cold enough to hold it for twenty years now making it something that holds some dutch dreams even more than olympic gold if you win that race it will be a legend you know. it's incredible how many people are truly at race and it's even bigger than the olympics i guess. the netherlands has dozens of professional skaters with this single team presentation including several potential olympic champions a show of power united with tradition that could be impossible to resist in p.r. . paul reese al-jazeera here in the bay. and that's all your sport for now more later. martin dennis is up next to rob matheson but for now.

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hard. enough. and then reported on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. in twenty twelve al-jazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq could turn into

a battleground between the mighty army and the americans six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on all g.c. . russia blocked the un statement condemning the use of chemical weapons by syria's government. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm nineteen dennis also coming out.