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people killed since monday most of them civilians as syrian and russian planes pound rebel held areas of. armed. rebel training camp was. ready to go into the front line in the battle for our. dangerous but delicate work the rush to rescue survivors after taiwan earthquake buildings teaching towards collapse. one man sentenced to death for thirty others jailed for lynching a student in pakistan we'll speak to the victim's family about their quest for justice. all of the days just two days ahead of the winter olympics forty thousand russian athletes still await a decision either whether they can complete. the death toll has been climbing by the hour in syria since monday asked by

president assad's forces and his alibi russia have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern province many of them were civilians and the majority died in eastern on the edge of damascus both areas are supposed to be deescalation zones but syria and russia have ramped up the air attacks since the russian plane was shot down on saturday so how to reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. civil defense volunteers look for survivors but instead they're pulling out the dead from the rubble of what was once homes children women men dozens of them have been killed in air strikes that are leveling residential buildings. this man just lost his son. god bless you he says clearly still in a state of shock. it's day three of an intensified military campaign. multiple areas of the rebel held damascus suburb of eastern who are coming under

fire people there are saying russian and syrian government aircraft have been carry out one strike after another. people here believe russia is taking revenge after his plane was shot down by the rebels and its pilot was killed it is intense bombardment at least eight hundred people are wounded some of them very seriously and they can't be treated here. there is a lack of medical supplies and doctors eastern huta has been besieged by pro-government forces for years it is both home and the traffic for some four hundred thousand people doctors have put up makeshift health centers but they too are being hit. sort of a center is now out of service it was hit by the planes it was the only medical center in this town and fifteen thousand people the united nations is calling for the fighting throughout syria to stop for a month to allow aid deliveries and evacuations of the sick and wounded at least five hundred are in. the enclave just outside the capital has been heavily

bombarded since mid december but the past few days have been the worst many believe pro-government forces are pushing for a decisive outcome. they want failed. me not fight them anywhere. ready. to fight. and the north. pole. the northwestern province of idlib it is also under the control of the opposition has been hit by dozens of strikes in recent days there are two residential neighborhoods and hospitals are being targeted. government forces have taken ground in the southern edges of in recent weeks recapturing the whole province. but the immediate goals involve securing the north. and lifting the siege on to loyalist towns. in the pro-government forces have been struggling to bring eastern huta under their control for years and now that russia

appears to be honing in on rebel areas syria is once again in the midst of a major escalation especially with no progress on the diplomatic site this will only bring more suffering. he says normal life as a whole because of the. terrible situation. those days. oh. they're. all going to. be hospital this fool. all kinds of my talk that these days that because of. me. to see.

some destroyed a hole which is more than the three or four stories be the. only in two days of a four hour forty eight hours there are more than one hundred fifty. c.d.'s they were from. where they were women. and still some. already i actually wanted to ask you about that because we have seen a mounting death toll in east. can you give us an idea of who has been rushed into hospital are you seeing mainly men women children almost all of. these from their homes. women children and.

men who are working in. doctor i.v. what is your message to the outside world now to the international community of people. suffering for more fight. in the. more pain to her. life. not mine mine. mine life. forces and their allies in the free syrian army say they've captured the town of shaker roos on the road towards a friend a stronghold of the kurdish militia. jamal chair visited a military camp inside syria where turkey has been training the f.s.a. allies. prepared for battle five hundred fighters stand to attention listening

to their final commands before they head off to the front line these are soldiers from the free syrian army is a brigade young and old they hail from all parts of syria. most have been fighting since the revolution turned into world war i in the early days the enemy was gone the regime of bashar assad whose army had killed innocent protestors forcing many of its own soldiers to defect and form the free syrian army now however the war in syria is a quagmire of different armies groups and factions some fighting for land and power others for survival. they're all the same why p.j. are still and the assad regime is the same oppression all of them have killed and tortured our people but. this brigade is being supported by the turkish army who soldiers fight side by side with the f.s.a. in their ongoing offensive in northern syria. it's an attempt to defeat the

kurdish militia group to wipe e.g. which ankara considers to be a terrorist organization responsible for numerous rocket attacks on its of killed several of its citizens both the turkish military under free syrian army arkenstone for size the background of these fighters they're made up of kurds fartman and arabs as far as the starkest military is concerned this is a fight against a terrorist organization the y.p. jean far as these fighters are concerned this is a continuation in their long battle for freedom in syria who want to p.g. and its supporters accuse turkey of waging war against them simply because they are kurdish but this fighter from the f.s.a. a kurd himself dismisses that. of the saw the seller son and then of the revolution began kurds demanded freedom but the y.p. g. joined hands with acids army and started attacking the people as kurds were discriminated against by the government and our lands are occupied by the y p g

terrorists but god willing we will be free. it's hard to question the commitment of these fighters in their pursuit for freedom their training and readiness however appears to be amateur the vast majority of them have no formal military training most lead simpler more peaceful lives before this war began their commander tells me that while their immediate target is often seen in defeating the y.p. gee there it is said in his regime who are their main enemy from the y.b. she and i said are two sides of the same coin like i said they have killed sergeant and expelled the people from their homes from assad's army to has been lost fighters to i saw and now the kurdish militia these men have countless battles in search of freedom but freedom has remained elusive the only reality they've seen is death and destruction who knows maybe one day this war will end. al-jazeera as northern syria

a five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the taiwanese city of yen almost twenty four hours after tuesday's earthquake and the seven people in are known to have died after the original six point four magnitude quake and firefighters say several people are trapped in buildings which on the brink of collapse rescue workers are still pulling survivors from the rubble from haiyan from brian reports the port city of four leon is now the scene of an intensive search and rescue operation after the magnitude six earthquake. rescue teams trained in dealing with earthquakes have been brought in from across taiwan. a resort area some of the hotels were first to feel the effects of the shock waves. the lower floors of the marshall hotel caved in leaving the entire building slanting on its side. rescuers moved in with ropes and cranes to get those trapped in what was left of

the hotel back to safety. but at the moment there are still people trapped inside but there's no way for us to confirm their position or number because the people living there are long term residents. taiwan's fire agency reports three more buildings were damaged as well as several roads leading to the city this earthquake followed another one over the weekend off the coast of folly and in wot is an area of high seismic activity today in the sequence for the last few days has been right in one of the hot spots on the northeast coast of taiwan so it's not a surprise oh it's in an area where half the sharks are inevitable you know the question is how many big aftershocks will there be in our usual odds are one in ten or one in twenty chance of a bigger earthquake so they need to be prepared at least for a few days for more action. the rescue effort is now concentrated on this residential and commercial building partly collapsed on its side and held up by

metal props it's here that most of the fifty plus people who are unaccounted for are believed to be this part of folly and has now become the center of this rescue operation as teams work through a second night contending not only with the weather but also with the ever present danger of more aftershocks as they do so this building becomes ever more precarious as is the fate of those feared to be still inside rob mcbride al-jazeera quali and taiwan. but more to come on this hour of news from london including a look at the devastating effects of the war in yemen is having on the country's children. and after more than four months of wrangling germany's conservatives and social democrats finally struck a deal to form a new coalition. for barcelona get ready to travel to valencia with a place in the spanish cup final at stake.

israeli media say police chiefs will recommend israel's prime minister be indicted on corruption charges benjamin netanyahu and his wife are suspected of receiving illicit gifts from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer that and yahoo's also alleged to have been involved in a deal with a major newspaper which would have weakened a rival daily in return for favorable coverage the prime minister denies the allegations and says he's confident the attorney general won't pursue the case. scott from west jerusalem sam run it to now who has a history of being defiant in these circumstances and he's been defending himself already. right not just already but he's been doing this for a very long time he says a lot of these charges simply political. him because he's doing

a good job in his own words he says these were gifts given to him the story is defended he's been very careful not to say anything but his defenders say that the first charges about given to him and gifts of that nature by this hollywood producer were simply just that they were gifts on the second charge he denies them completely he's using his supporters within the media to say that this is actually a witch hunt against him but more important in that the prime minister is using social media and he's long use social media to go after people that disagree with him and he's been defending himself already against these police for. let's just take a look at what he had to say bitter schori our year many of you off what will happen so i want to reassure you they'll be nothing because i know the truth the state of israel is a state of law the law says that the one to determine whether there is evidence against the prime minister is the attorney general and he consults with the state

attorney or the state prosecutor recently said in the knesset that about half of the police's recommendations and with nothing to give. a sermon what is likely to happen next. well firstly there are two things that we think are going to happen next and we see this them self defending himself against any recommendations that the police actually issued to the attorney general and we'll do that like we've just seen on facebook through social media and through the media generally but we let's see what the lead how the legal side of this works and now there are a number of procedural things that have to take place in this if you're the attorney general has to make it official case against the prime minister let's see if it gets that far it might not do because netanyahu and the attorney general are seen as being quite close he's obviously the government's own lawyer so this is one thing that we need to keep an eye on with the attorney general actually brings back

a pace on the recommendations of the police a man called thank you very much a funeral has been held for a palestinian man. who was shot and killed during raids by the israeli army in your prepared west bank twenty two year old. was shot in the chest by israeli soldiers in nablus on tuesday one hundred ten palestinians were injured during confrontations in the city following the raid some of them were shot at with rubber coated steel bullets others were treated for breathing in tear gas. go to pakistan has sentenced one man to death of thirty others to prison for the lynching of a student who'd been falsely accused of blasphemy in april hundreds of students dragged out of his university dorm in the northern city have not done he was beaten before being shot dead and his body mutilated to has more from islamabad. and and it catered them called heading the high profile marshals on lynching case has

sentenced the shooter to a dead while five others were sentenced to twenty five years in prison another twenty five to forty years in prison each and twenty six were acquitted redoubt punishment this was indeed a high profile case and rates were shot of hahn was wrongfully accused of committing blasphemy the people who perpetrated the attack against him on the university campus included political workers students and even employees of that university across pakistan are sent shock waves and there of course would be a sigh of relief when people find out that this was indeed a strong word dake and necessary because in the parts the country blasphemy laws have come into controversy some people are saying that they have been abused and therefore the court setting a precedent and sending a strong signal they must ravi met the family of the majesty and in found out more

about the struggle for justice. his family has kept his room the same as it was the day he left home for the last time a reminder of the kind of man he was. michelle han was studying journalism at abdul ali khan university in march done in april last year he was lynched by two hundred fellow students the mob was spurred by rumors that khan had somehow insulted islam but earlier this year a police investigation found that there was no evidence he ever violated any blasphemy laws. police did find that university officials from hahn had publicly criticized for corruption and incompetence conspired to make false allegations against him and rallied the mob that killed him he was just only going to sidle the system and you allege rothbury and him so i intend to go to a diminished when if these last because if we were not if these rules in these last

promised groups and even not will make these so i think there are more and more michels will be killed in this war more and more much as many as they see naked because this is a very easy blame on someone for his mother losing one child has been so traumatic that she won't let her other children go back to school to afraid of what might happen to them she says when her son's body was brought home he had been so badly beaten she only recognized him from the tips of his fingers and when she kissed him on his toes in the aftermath police were accused of not responding quickly enough to stop the attack and in some cases even facilitating. police say they're reassessing their approach to blasphemy cases come i think that's for me or not is a separate issue the man thing is where there are people in all people to lower their head and can any person or company things any kind of

a crime so my answer is no they will not know any one particular on their heads and can anyone for committing certain act of crime. even in death mush is not safe a police unit guards his grave because of threats from religious hardliners of digging up and burning his body. the final resting place of this young man has become a kind of symbol in this community people with a little more liberal a point of view come here to pay their respects to someone who was beaten to death for thinking a little bit differently. despite the fact that john was innocent of allegations against him in pakistan facts are often ignored in the court of public. eye many people here still believe that what happened to him on the day he died was the right thing. i'll just zero down. because huma she does the national spokesperson for the and idea muslim community usa joins us live from washington

d.c. thanks for being with us so on this case do you think the sentence here will be significant will it have any kind of deterrent effect well i think what we need to look at is that these blasphemy laws are the cancer themselves in the a muslim community as muslims who believe in the messiah and there's a. have faced the brunt of these last meal laws in pakistan for over thirty years and so i can tell you from the experience of our community that simply passing down i harsh sentence is not going to resolve the issue because ultimately these last meal laws radicalize youth they create an environment for terrorists to breed and they promote vigilante justice like what we saw with young michelle han a bright aspiring student of journalism who had a whole future ahead of him destroyed because you have a country that is advocating blasphemy laws that essentially legitimize the type of extremism that michele went through so no i don't think this court verdict will

solve anything i think it will only empower more extremism because in his case he was wrongly accused a best man he lost his life as a result anyway how many what sort of numbers of cases are there when people are accused of blasphemy when in fact that they haven't committed it. well what we know is that the minorities in pakistan even though they're the minority of only maybe ten percent of the country they are accused of nearly fifty percent of all blasphemy cases right now it christian woman named. sits on death row for six years on the mere accusation of blasphemy david mysie was a christian who was acquitted of blasphemy and killed on the courthouse steps so ultimately needs to make a decision are they going to become a modern country with civilized laws and act like civilized people and get rid of these barbaric blasphemy laws because blasphemy is not a crime it's not a crime according to islam it's not

a crime according to the universal declaration of human rights it's only a crime in the minds of terrorists and extremists and we need to be very clear about this when we say these things that well the blasphemy law is being misused and abused we're already legitimizing an extremist mentality we need to get rid of these laws and replace them with laws based on justice and equality once we have justice and equality then we can talk about protecting the rights of minorities right no there's simply no possible way to do that when you're legitimizing extremist ideology and i mean even in this case i mean that quote at the trial of a high security prison because of a threat to the defense lawyers and the government prosecutors. do you think that the government realizes how serious this is now and he's going to do something about it. it's hard to say i mean you know i recall very distinctly in two thousand and ten when the taliban attacked two mosques of the end of the muslim community killing eighty six people the government was warned ahead of time that these amber these are committing blasphemy and we're going to kill

them and they did nothing about it so you know we saw what happened at the push our school a few years ago when children were attacked as well so i don't know what it will take for the government of pakistan to wake up but i hope the people of pakistan who i firmly believe are noble and good people will wake up and realize that they need to hold their leadership accountable they have to protect freedom of speech freedom of expression freedom of religion for all people even those with whom they disagree otherwise they're going to continue to go down this very painful very vicious cycle of extremism and terrorism that no innocent person no person should ever have to deal with because the machine thank you very much indeed for your thoughts as many as seven hundred fifty thousand children in the iraqi city of mosul are struggling to access basic health services the u.n. children's agency says medical facilities a strained beyond capacity and there are critical shortages of lifesaving medicines

years of conflict have devastated the region since he was retaken from i saw in twenty seventeen that my balance has subsided i mean a small number of hospitals and clinics operating fully again in itself is appealing for seventeen million dollars to support rebuilding health facilities for children in iraq in twenty eighteen. and the u.s. health agency says it's releasing more than nine million dollars in emergency funds to provide urgent medical aid to yemen the world health organization says it will help six hundred thirty thousand people in sun and her data the u.n. says more than sixteen million people struggle to access proper health care in yemen one half of whom are in acute need three years of civil war have devastated health services in the country only half its medical facilities a fully operational cholera and diphtheria broken out killing thousands of red cross says thousands more risk dying of kidney failure some the most prominent casualties the children un says around four hundred thousand children under five

will suffer from acute malnutrition this year as the conflict rages on imtiaz tire reports. the intensity of the fighting on the ground in yemen is showing no signs of letting up for the saudi led coalition targets who the rebels in fighting between yemen's political factions has turned city streets into from aunts. after more than three years of war the united nations says the humanitarian crisis here is the worst in the world and its children who are suffering the most at this hospital in western province babies and their mothers are brought here for treatment most suffer from severe malnutrition but with little money and even fewer resources health officials say there isn't much they can do and. most of our patients are suffering from malnourishment especially babies who pray speak from their mothers the number of children that are dying is higher than that of matters

as we are able to cheat severe cases we also are unable to provide proper nutrition to pregnant women the united nations children's charities says at least five thousand children have been killed or injured since the start of the war that means on average five children lose their lives or are maimed every day the u.n. says more than eleven million children nearly every child in yemen need some form of humanitarian assistance to survive. going war has led to despair of war related epidemics such as cholera which broke out in yemen last year this exacerbated the malnutrition crisis and caused the number of cases to double however we'll never know how bad the situation is because many people cannot make it to hospitals or medical centers. saudi arabia says it has sense nearly a billion dollars worth of aid to yemen and plans to spend another one and a half billion but rights groups accuse the saudi military air campaign of

repeatedly striking civilian targets including markets and medical facilities and say the coalition's blockade on port sandor who the control has been a major factor in pushing yemen into near starvation whatever the case the war and the humanitarian crisis it's caused is likely to continue for some time. al-jazeera . more to come on this news hour from london including. travel to one of bug area's most polluted towns and why the government best still loves coal. we speak to people from india and administered kashmir who say shells fired by pakistan's army are destroying their villages. on a sport a birthday to remember for the cyclist at the two by tall.

hello wednesday is a very windy day in the western med is that bowl of cloud the originated as a snow bearing bore of kind of a spade now brings rain rain to italy to sardinia and corsica us running away so eastwards and as it goes of the higher ground liberty's snow is a dinar accounts for austrian eventually end up in ukraine to the sas and yes it's been feeding is actually quite warm you got seventy degrees from greece up through turkey and not much less in book arrest which is well above where it should be but what is left behind is clear skies this is of course thursday date on hours for italy and france and spain apart from the notion other we more snow coming in fact northern france looks snowy once again and possibly probably including paris during friday at the same time the wants as well has been knocked back a bit for twelve degrees we still snow falling sporadically in ukraine and probably

better routes that given what was happening in spain with similar cold feet of air bringing rain once again to morocco and algeria but maybe developing more obviously is what happens in tunisia and libya stormy weather for friday. well if we cannot have palestina my government was suddenly not allowed britain to control the french palestine would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for more than a century to come and so. now we can dora. psych speak out lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with

a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being cameraman it's also very important to give journalist you know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global honestly for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks end and what happens here matters. are going to remind of the top stories there are intense syrian government and russian ass trikes have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern libya since monday. a five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the

taiwanese city while you're in the biggest it's choose days a quake which is known to have killed at least seven people. and of course in pakistan has sent its one man to death and thirty others to prison for the lynching of a student they've been falsely accused of blasphemy. germany's two main parties have finally struck a deal to form a coalition and four months after the election the social democrats originally said they wouldn't proper now the government under chancellor. but now agreed they will go into another coalition with the conservatives if party members approve well brennan for some bout it. the negotiating teams emerged blinking into the bright berlin sunlight clearly relieved it was all over three days after the suppose a deadline for agreement it'd take an american twenty four hour session to finally seal the deal it was mid afternoon by the time the party leaders felt ready to

speak if s. those new one i know that millions of germans have been watching us very closely i've a recent wakes they had to justify demands of us firstly place for my government at long last and a stable one and second think of people's real needs and interests i'm convinced that the coalition agreement we've come up with together can do precisely that it's not with us that's what we're doing because it's i think what we've managed to achieve really does bear the stamp of the social democrats the agreements been heavily influenced by us and we're grateful has been able to achieve some concessions that were difficult for the conservatives. for the past five weeks germany's center right c.d.u. and center left s.p.d. have been locked in negotiations over a common position on issues including health care labor reform immigration and housing policy allocating ministerial positions involved more compromise but with

a deal now done those compromises have been bitterly criticized by the right wing a.f.d. party you soft on with i mean reassignment of the ministries shows that the c.d.u. has totally surrendered out of fear of the s.p.d. members the c.d.u. has given up his ideology and now it's giving up in practical terms too because it has none of the main ministries anymore the cd used just an empty shell there is one last hurdle to clear though before the new grand coalition government can be confirmed s.p.d. members now get their votes on the deal and their sentiments appears evenly split. kevin tonight the leader of the s.p.d. young socialist group use oss has been organizing a strong use campaign against another so called grow co the question mind me though whether his appeal especially his and warning straining is representing carry enough weight to convincing all remember which are probably more inclined to be

persuaded by the older board which is going to rally in favor of joining the coalition the s.p.d. postal vote will take about two weeks to produce a result the coalition is not a done deal yet paul brennan al-jazeera the lead. is facing mounting criticism of its environmental standards its car it taking its turn holding the presidency of the european union but it's the box poorest member and it's reliance on coal is it odds with europe's drive to find cleaner ways of producing energy learned the reports from panic in west are very welcome suppose nick europe's most polluted town the coal fired power station dominates it's owned by one of bulgaria as richest men. pernik sits in a valley on a still winter's day the smoke a sits over the town. it reveals his true color when he wipe it off this stuff

has consequences galina lives here with her family they all have longer chest problems like others here she assumes life will be short in their family are not. really. home the fingers the. people's they say i'm big can strong and. is really young people the truth is that the people here in the early people who complain about the dust that blows off the slag heap so the open calls mines which scal the land safely children doesn't want to know that told over and over that there is no problem so the big on their own tests to try to prove they're being poisoned. people don't trust the authorities this is this is the definitely the case in bulgaria and we've seen so many times that basically the authorities are providing. replied to to the

civil demand for information like sorry you don't have the knowledge to interbred the data that would give you the minor to store the colon underground bunkers. owns this house above one it's begun to see ground she was refused compensation by the local authority and the mine owners so in the last two months this is some kind of move. this is the family if you haven't been here be careful. come in because we know the whole house could just collapse into the ground. on every level it appears cole is harming the town campaigners say it's a metaphor for a much wider problem as a political bloc the european union is trying to show its unity and commitment to tackling climate change and defending the paris accords particularly given the hostility of donald trump you do wonder therefore how helpful it is to the e.u. that the current president's is bold garia

a country which is in the case that it wants to continue to use coal as its primary power source into the indefinite future the environment minister who refused to speak to us is a noted mire of trump the climate change deniers. other voices in government happily defend bulgaria's love of coal need be able to see bruises shouldn't be any rush to implement restrictions on coal otherwise we will risk the energy balance of europe and it should be discussed at the highest levels of the european council and country should decide for themselves what they want to do. to make things worse for the european union bulgaria has said it will support poland in trying to water down the existing e.u. rules on toxic emissions perhaps the biggest irony is that this country enjoys more than three hundred days of sunshine a year they could heat every home with a solar panel but instead is going the other way in time. lawrence li al-jazeera

panic bulgaria. people living in indian administered kashmir say their villages have been destroyed by shells fired by the pakistani army cross border firing has forced many to leave their homes and close dozens of schools dora gave a report. this is what's left of two hundred sixty one homes in jura farm a remote village in indian administered kashmir is less than three hundred meters from the so-called line of control the unofficial buddhist separating regions of kashmir run by india and pakistan people here say the pakistani army shouldn't target civilian areas. a lot of damage has been done we are left with nothing no cattle no food or clothes everything is gone and we just want peace. to move it one hundred people have fled the violence they are now living in this makeshift camp where resources are scarce let us not allow. our entire villages being destroyed and it's been a fortnight now since we migrated we are facing immense difficulties we are short

of food others dealing with grief as well as hunger. but the shelling started at six thirty in the morning two shells landed inside a house my wife was killed and me and my somewhat injured the fire hit us inside our home. kashmir has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven and remains a hotly disputed territory analysts say incidents of cross border firing along the line of control are increasing and there are several reasons for this predictions coming up what is not you're not getting. your insights he won. that is really leading. the shelling has led to the closure of at least eighty four schools impacting a new generation that only have a known hostilities hostilities that threaten the fragile cease fire implemented

fifteen years ago victory gates and be al-jazeera. in south africa the leader of the governing african national congress party says he is in direct discussions with president jacob zuma over a possible transition zero or impose a scene here on the right says he's holding talks relating to zoom is position as president zuma has been under mounting pressure to resign over allegations of corruption since his deputy ram opposer replaced him as leader of the a.n.c. in december and is where it is government says a power outage which left large parts of caracas in the dark on tuesday was an act of sabotage commuters were among the worst affected by the blackout which was at least ten railway stations to close and turned off traffic lights in the capital government critics say the outages another sign of crumbling infrastructure and mismanagement of energy resources in brazil the supreme court has given the green

light for the privatisation of the country's giant state owned it tricity company the government hopes foreign investment in electro brus can power future hydroelectric dam projects but i do see you in reports from santorum activists fear the plans would have a devastating ecological ecological impact on the entire amazon basin. this is the river it's crystal clear waters and where it joins the murkier amazon river in sand that him. in this port city tons of brazilian soybeans are shipped out each day but on this day it's not the increasing deforestation of the amazon for soiling cattle grazing that's brought environmental activists here. in the mining and energy ministry has posted plans for several large electric dams in the amazon. river. hydro energy is brazil's main source of electricity and before year's end the government is set to privatized a little brass latin america's largest power company inviting foreign investors to

play a major role in expansion efforts. local priest that takes us to an indigenous community along the river. and his wife maria live from what nature gives them nothing goes to waste not even the feathers from tropical birds so their head dresses and snakes backbones used to making this necklace in. the damsel destroy the river it will destroy nature what will happen to the trees that produce fruit for the fish to eat we will suffer the consequences energy expert see the top a not only as the next frontier in hydroelectric production but also as an example of so-called multiple water usage local communities and conservationists believe that the end game is to turn this the top five also river into an aquatic superhighway this would significantly reduce the time and the cost of shipping

brazil's number one cask cops oil to this country's number one market china but to do that dams would have to be built up river in order to raise the water levels enough to allow large ships the sail through. this is in fact the c.e.o. of brazil's energy research office applauds the idea and dismisses recent reports that the era of large hydroelectric power plants is over. but he says future projects can no longer ignore social and environmental concerns those projects should be following an inclusive we sold everybody can be on the benefits can be properly sheer but in the amazon where critics say there's no such thing as a harmless spam communities like this one are already preparing to resist as best they can you see in human i'll just see some thought him brazil. still to come this

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. thank you. thank you thousands of urban planners have gathered in kuala lumpur for the world urban forum to discuss how to improve city life at least four billion people that's more than half of the world's population currently live in

urban areas you know today she says that will jump to six billion by twenty fifty or one hundred thousand cities a home to one billion people who live in urban slums and informal settlements that number is expected to triple by twenty thirty the world's urban poor in dire need of clean water energy food and health services in kuala lumpur they're starting by rejuvenating old neighborhoods that's for explains. the confluence of to reverse this is where quanah began more than one hundred sixty years ago the name means muddy estuary in the middle a language but as the city expanded what used to be the administrative and commercial hub soon lost its importance to new or shiny a buildings parts of the old downtown area fell into disuse but there are plans to revive this part of the city as more people move in cities there's a growing demand for species in cities and the challenges it is then regenerate

existing urban areas as opposed to expanding and eventually result. in. negative outcomes like the illusion extracted we think city and urban regeneration body owned by malaysia's sovereign wealth fund believes one way to revitalize the city is by making existing spaces more inclusive that includes turning parking spots into small gardens some temporary at this permanent then we'll let them but there are many places around here where one can stop to reste so this is great when you're tired you can sit down here for a bright. there's also a plan to introduce the concept of micro housing and communal living this house is a prototype built as part of a showcase for the ninth world open forum taking place in. actually a lack of housing choice in the city for young people who want to be here by

using this sort of. communal living last record housing model and hopefully the young people want to come back built on the space measuring five by five natives the footprint of each house is just the size of two parking spots clever designs and just space is not wasted these shelves and steps. and once you're up in the bedroom. and it becomes part of the flow. the house lacks a dining room because that's meant to be a shared area over the next few weeks those behind this project will gauge public reaction to this type of housing model but what's clear is the drive to inject new life into the city has begun florence lee al-jazeera reporter the whole nation sports news over to touch on a in doha thanks so much lauren tara days out from the start of the winter olympics

forty seven russians still fighting for the right to compete herring started on wednesday at the court of arbitration for sport. an additional fifteen athlete has joined the list of thirty two who appealed a day earlier after being barred by the international olympic committee due to doping claims last week the court had overturned the lifetime of them pick bands of twenty eight russians but the i.o.c. still wouldn't allow them to take part the privilege to be invited requires more than just the absence of essential. so we have not been right. in this way. we want to do justice to have needs regardless of their past. the right to believe in russian housemaids envy ambassadors of a new generation. they can be the new remove those for

a change of culture in russian schools. the winter olympics is an event that pits countries with a warm climate at a distinct a disadvantage including australia but one unlikely pair are getting ready to make their debut n.p.r. home reports. it's one of the boys picture rest sports at a winter olympics yet this is a rare sight and a strongly in figure skating job getting ready for the game. catarina alexandrescu and holly windsor make an unlikely pairing russian born alexandra was granted a strongly in citizenship just four months ago while wins are from western sydney is set to become the country's first indigenous winter olympian that has really completely sank in yet i feel like i'm sinking a bit more want to bring to the games and actually represented but you know i can i can wear like a badge of honor you know and i hope that i can sort of

a role model for other indigenous people move towards winter sports. while many countries hold beastly competitive olympic trials to select the biggest skating teams just having an aussie pair on the ice is an achievement of the twelve winter olympic medals ever won by australia only two of them have come on ice and boy team speed skating there are only two dozen established rinks nation wide making for a difficult part to success i didn't figure skating purely by accident my mom and i were driving. on saturday but years old and we took a wrong turn and i saw back to an ice rink so i asked if i could go in and just i went in a skate around the public session and i really liked it so. i like the next week and the next week and everything kind of took off and. wins i had little luck finding the right pairing in australia so when like twenty fifteen travel to moscow

in search of a partner that's where he been fifteen year old. carly come to brock to us and there was this tall guy. and. he stole his or sliced. the russian skating federation officially released her and that's been a peasant's twenty six team though crown junior world champions last season securing their place in chang and with russian athletes banned from the games county has even more reason to embrace her new nation through a visit of sterling because my partner for australia. to pyong chang via moscow and sydney a pair proving that there's many ways to the top elites homan al-jazeera. meanwhile a north korean delegation has crossed the land border with the south head of the start of the games the group included two hundred twenty nine members of the state

trained chairing group as well as officials journalists and a taekwondo demonstration team north and south korean awfully good will walk together under the unification flag at friday's opening ceremony a joint team will also compete in women's hockey. a group of united states senators of called for an investigation into the u.s. in the pic committee and u.s. aged nothe takes in the wake of the sentencing of former team doctor laurie nasa nasa is set to spend the rest of his life in prison for abusing young female gym nothe in his care over two decades the reprehensible actions of the so-called doctor have been exposed. yet there are still so many questions that remain why was this disgusting man allowed near our young female athletes when there are reports that the use our leadership knew about the sexual abuse allegations legally does boss alone to travel to valencia on thursday bidding

to pick a place in the final of the spanish cup the defending champions have a one no advantage heading into the second leg of the semifinal in the unbeaten in the last five outings off a lengthier have suffered five straight defeats possible at a nest of better there isn't taking anything for granted by a useful should know. if it's a little deficit they are difficult team to beat and they are quick on the counter-attack but as we are leading them after the first leg they will try to be more aggressive now they are told and they will use defense approach to their advantage cricket now and india have become only the second team after australia to win three consecutive one day internationals against south africa and south africa the hosts that won the toss and elected to bowl in cape town but were left to ring that decision off to iraq early made one hundred sixty not out as india set a target for three hundred three south africa ended one hundred twenty four runs short of india now have a three no lead in the six match series we're really proud of ourselves as

a team but the job is not even half done yet that's the kind of thinking they've all always had and even if you're winning we want to keep up our intensity even more than the last game and i think that's been the biggest plus part of the city. we've not been good enough in understanding of yes we have game plans but unfortunately they've bowled well enough not to give us the balls to play you know game plan and we've got to come up with different ways of of countering how good they've been you know you've got to be jammed up and say they've just been they've been too good for us they've outplayed us in all departments and finally there were double celebrations for italian cyclists and you have a vianney on wednesday is the one stage two off the divide on his twenty ninth birthday stage one when adele and get out of a can carried a four second overall lead into the second stage which the right has travel one hundred eighty kilometers outside of device but despite a late surge from the dutchman that the power went to the front inside the final

half a kilometer to the oval when you now moves into second place in the standings just two seconds behind granted. and that is over us both now it's fact summoned and that's how i thank you very much indeed plenty more for you any time on our website address about his. dot com. that's it for made our entire life there's news out of it back in a minute with another full round of the day's news thanks so much for watching dana bash.

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