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korea for the winter olympics. and people streaming the opening ceremony of pyongyang twenty eighteen years one hour away early of the cold war but ration for school to rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes who were bidding to be allowed to compete. also as we go to a u.s. politicians there are still debating into the early hours as they struggle to end a second shutdown and three weeks. hospitals was on alert for casualties as egypt launches a major operation against armed groups in the sinai peninsula. and a memo months ago to journalists a jailed after uncovering what the government didn't bomb the world to see. so a show of togetherness between north and south korea is happening with just an hours ago before the ceremony opening ceremony of the winter olympics the sister of north

korea's leader has become the first member of her family to step foot in south korea since the two countries went to war in nineteen fifty. is part of the north korean delegations arrived for the pyongyang games south korea's leaders hope the event is a chance to revive meaningful communication after a long period of tension over north korea's nuclear weapons programs these are shots live from pyongyang china there you can see the stadium where that opening ceremony is set to kick off in just about an hour's time and the tasha joins us now live from kong so with just an hour to go natasha the politics aside for a moment is the excitement building. absolutely this is south korea's moment in the international spotlight although critics have complained that it seems in the last few weeks north korea has been hijacking it

but this is the first winter olympics that the south koreans have hosted they're doing so at a cost of five and a half billion dollars when the opening ceremony begins shortly spectators will arrive at young chang olympic stadium to the chimey of bells welcoming them then they'll be treated to a ceremony called peace in motion will be taken back in time given the history of the korean people and their pursuit for peace the executive director of the opening ceremony says even before the north koreans agreed to participate and the pyong chang twenty eight thousand winter olympics were dubbed the peace olympics this topic was settled upon but that the north koreans presence will only make the message more meaningful north and south korean athletes will march under a unified flag and it will be laura the first time they've done so at an international sporting event in eleven years it's a celebration of korean nationalism and we want to state the facts insists that

cameo joan is stealing the headlines what's says she expects it to do. it has been wall to wall coverage here in south korea with south korean media today she is a trusted adviser of her brother kim jong ascended the ranks of the power structure in the north korean government quite rapidly the hope is or the speculation is that she's got the ear of the north korean leader and the trust in the authority to relay messages to the south korean president she will be meeting with president in on saturday south korean media has speculated that perhaps an invitation will be extended to president moon who by the way is very elated laura he views this as an opportunity a possible breakthrough in terms of improving the relationship between the two koreas people here are just very proud and excited to be hosting the olympics.

i hope that with north korean athletes participation this could be pisa lympics and i hope we can achieve reunification between the south and the time. regardless of north korea's participation the olympics should be a festival for the mood here is good to south korea's hosting the olympics and athletes are coming from around the world good opportunity to promote south korea. there are skeptics of the north koreans so-called charm offensive critics say that it's simply a means to advance the north korean agenda get a reprieve from the tensions that have been roiling the korean peninsula for the last year but for now laura president moon and the south koreans are hoping that they will be hosting a memorable and peaceful winter olympics absolutely and i'm sure they will have a moment thanks very much that's our speak to jean lee she's global fellow with the

wilson center at the global issues think tank in washington d.c. and she joins us from seoul so jean ole eyes on kim jong un's sister just how significant is her presence there at these games. very significant as natasha mentioned she's the first member of that ruling kim family of north korea to make an official visit since the korean war we are already seeing some striking images today to see the younger sister of kim jong here in south korea and also we're seeing images from the reception that president when jay and is hosting up in chung chung there's an image of him shaking hands with kim young none the ceremonial head of state certainly powerful political messaging going on here in terms of what he hopes to accomplish this going to have saying is that because the u.s. vice president might pencils again opening ceremony all eyes will be on whether or not there's any interaction in the indications all that there won't be pence is

that he's actually going to take this opportunity to call for toughest starts on north korea i mean that's not really in the spirit of the games and. there's a lot of concern in washington that south korea is moving too quickly with these ties with north korea and he me choose and he said very clearly that he wants to play a different kind of role that he wants to draw attention to counterbalance the propaganda being put out by the north koreans he wants to provide a reminder that north korea remains a provocative actor he made a very pointed visit to a memorial to the china on warship which is a south korean ship that was torpedoed in two thousand and ten forty six south korean sailors were killed very pointed reminder to the world that north korea has engaged in some very provocative acts recently meeting with defectors as well and warning that is that the united states and international bodies are still going to pursue tougher sanctions on north korea but how keen south koreans to see more

engagement especially after being a period of pretty high tensions. that's something that's very important to keep in mind is that south koreans have mixed feelings about all of this you know i was covering the a lympics in two thousand that was when the south koreans in the north koreans walked in to gether for the first time at the olympics under a unified flag eighteen years ago that he that moment ushered in a period called the sunshine era of mourning ties but eighteen years later south koreans are not so easily fooled by this they've seen that those things can start off well they can quickly turn sour and you know it's been a a year of protracted tensions here in this region with missile tests and nuclear tests and so the south koreans a little bit wary about this sudden turn of events so we're certainly seeing that while president mood is in this moment of triumph there's

a significant amount of criticism here in south korea as well people who feel that south korea might be moving too quickly and letting the north koreans hijack these games very interesting indeed thanks very much for joining us there from seoul all of the news coming out of the olympic games a last minute appeal by forty one russian athletes and coaches to take pause has been rejected a court of arbitration for sport dismissed the case the russians appealed against the exclusion by the international of the committee over the twenty four team doping scandal at the sochi games almost one hundred seventy russian athletes have been cleared to compete because their country is banned they'll be flying a neutral olympic flag. well the wedding's will have more on the russian athletes later this hour and we're also bringing you all the early action from the games. now u.s. politicians are debasing into the predawn hours in washington d.c. as they try to end the government's second shutdown in three weeks and we've got

some live pictures from the house of representatives they're looking at legislation that's been approved by the senate which provides stopgap funding for federal agencies as kristen salumi reports congress missed a deadline which would have avoided the latest shutdown midnight came and went sending the us government towards its second shutdown in less than three weeks so everything about this stinks to tell you the truth the vote to keep the government running held up by a single senator republican rand paul he says government spending is out of control everybody's getting more spending. the military the right's getting more military spending the left is getting more welfare spending and you're getting stuck with the bill the late night drama played out for hours we're going to end this madness as soon as we possibly can republican lindsey graham repeatedly called for a vote is there jackson mr president senator from kentucky rand paul stopped it

every time frustrating his fellow senators it makes no sense to me it will not accomplish anything we can right now provide certainty to the thousands and thousands of people that expect government to be open and we can play this game until one am the deal would raise spending caps by roughly three hundred billion dollars over two years more than half going to the military the rest non-defense spending including much needed money for disaster relief programs infrastructure projects and community health clinics fiscally conservative critics like paul say the budget deal will send the deficit soaring to more than a trillion dollars by next year but many democrats aren't happy either the bill does nothing to address immigration and faces an even tougher battle in the house of representatives before it can be signed into law kristen salumi al-jazeera washington d.c. . professor of government at georgetown university joins us here on set good to

have you with us so a possum the senate the big test is clearly the house that the basing it well into the early out as well as to the deficit. they think it's way too much spending they think spending should be held to say there's liberal democrats who think it should protect the dreamer's that has to be included in the deal. it's possible that they could buy off the dreamers by promising a clean vote on the dreamers like you did in the senate so the house will just vote on the dreamers up or down. i don't know what they do to get the conservative republicans on board it just on the on the issue of the dream as a how much of a big a deal is it for publicans that they get this protection for the treatments the children of immigrants and then only half the gains that they get away with this budget because there's a lot of the full the democrats in this budget yeah so it's a tough call and it's a porton constituency it's also an issue they believe in these people better in america for a long time the you know accomplished a lot. for eight hours on the house floor. and being

a long into the day. to just hear how much he cared about the issue but at the end of the day if they're promised an up or down vote i think there are democrats they go along right ok and then as you said getting the conservative republicans on side as well because there are big budget spending increase it's here it's going to increase and the great accomplishment the republicans claimed with obama was setting the ceilings right there blowing the ceiling with this deal yeah and come to us and for that well we just passed the one point five trillion dollars tax cut . good and hard but if there's one hand you know rand paul is on the floor of the senate saying the budget the budget that he voted for the tax cut so the tax cuts what creates the problem not so much the spending the white house seems strangely on alarmed by everything that's going on in the house of representatives in the stands at the moment we don't carry much from. probably. do something but he he

can't claim credit for this basically the senate just got together and ignored him and cut a deal and so but i think they will probably someone in the white house is calling some of the republicans to try to pressure him but normally the president is very active in this kind of. second shutdown and three weeks the american public are getting a bit fed up they don't probably even know what's going on hardly but they are of upset with both parties right why are they shutting it down right why if they don't know what's going on well i mean if it if it actually shuts down that well but i mean they're debating into the night that was shut down for one an hour or something if if they cut a deal this morning it will be shut down for monday but we've got a couple of out of left and we have seven am until this federal work has a jew in that office right so the good news is though this is a two year deal so if they cut this deal that we won't have to deal with this crisis diplomacy again for a while ok well we'll keep watching and we will say thanks very much time because.

still has hair on this including what israel is demanding from the family of a palestinian man who was crushed to death under a military vehicle. and aftershocks hampering the search for survivors in taiwan plus. i'm pouring in sweden where five hundred years of history could be on the side of the swedes as they continue. the winter olympics. egyptian army has launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula the army's website announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles in north sinai hospitals have been put on an order to extra beds and nursing staff to deal with emergencies and medical evacuation.

this morning law enforcement forces began implementing the plan a comprehensive confrontation against the terrorist and criminal elements and organizations in north and central sinai and other areas in the delta of egypt in the desert back in the west of the nile valley this comes in addition to training and other operations on all strategic directions and control of the ports of view gyptian state. for a fifth consecutive day bombs have been targeting rebel held on the edge of the capital damascus local aid agencies say government and russian air strikes have killed at least two hundred thirty people rights groups say hospitals have been another targets of strikes including the bombing of a red crescent following a five year government seems the enclave is running desperately on food medicine and medical equipment. as the number of those being killed and the rises by the hour the war is taking its toll on the survivors

a warning some viewers may find this disturbing. and they. think young. girls bathroom. is shelling and destruction every time between turns out there are twenty five explosions you're demolishing the entire country people don't dare to leave the shelters you can leave in the cold is given to us there's nothing in the shelters the people who believe in peace talks and so shiva and then geneva don't see what's happening here on the ground. well syria's accusing the u.s. of committing a war crime by bombing fighters loyal to president bashar al assad and as all province the u.s. led coalition says one hundred fighters loyal to the syrian government died in the airstrikes and says they were in response to what it called an unprovoked attack on the headquarters of his ally the syrian democratic forces but russia which backs

our side says the strikes are part of an effort by washington to control key economic assets in the region our pentagon correspondent. i said at a briefing with secretary of defense jim met us he was off camera but on the record and he called what happened in syria a quote perplexing situation and he said because for years the euphrates river has been a kind of do not cross line that if the u.s. or u.s. backed forces or russian or russian backed forces were going to cross it they talk about it before and he said that didn't happen this time he said u.s. forces were embedded along with the s.d.f. and they saw tanks and artillery start rolling in saying that one shell got within five hundred meters of the s.d.f. headquarters he says that is when they picked up the phone they called their russian counterparts and he says he doesn't think that the group that moved in is actually controlled by russia he called this a great success story because in his words two great powers did not fight each

other still the russian ambassador to the united nations was less than pleased i asked him to remember that the. syria illegally in fact. they would look like the they claim with the. international terrorism but we see that it goes beyond that. to confront. the. decided say is given secretary mabus didn't speculate on how many casualties were caused by the firing from u.s. jets and heavy artillery positions but he did say that they took out two of the incoming tanks and the heavy artillery positions the u.s. is calling this self-defense and warning that that happens again the lect again. has resumed bombing raids over the northern syrian enclave of fame after a five day break cut us media pasted this video showing strikes on the outskirts of

a frame taki began an ad ground offensive last month to. quit because the wife as terrorists. the israeli army is suing the family of a young palestinian man who was crushed to death by one of the army's vehicles they say the twenty one year old damage the jeep before the incident which happened three years ago in one khan reports. the israeli army killed a name in june two thousand and fifteen and now it wants twenty eight thousand dollars for damages to this jeep the crush of the twenty one year old after his death ability family filed a lawsuit against the israeli state the case continues then in january this year the army build the family. this is a copy of the lawsuit given to us by the family lawyer. they reopened their so shameless that they are demanding compensation not because they want the money because they want to make it impossible for us palestinians it's not about

the money they want us to give in but we say we have the right you won't break because. in june two thousand and fifteen there was a raid by the army and navy that turned violent the israelis say a below three of five all of the jeep which then swerved into him for over three hours the family says the army wouldn't allow medics to treat of dilla as he lay beneath the jeep he eventually played to death the entire village turned out the funeral. lawyers say asking for compensation is part of a new israeli strategy to penalize palestinians for any kind of resistance in. the story honestly we're not used to seeing this sort of claim but if you take it in context where israel is going when it comes to killings fines and bills of votes in the knesset i think they're heading to a level where anyone who utters the word occupation can be harassed arrested and

possibly find that he might be considered to insult the state and its inhabitants al-jazeera reached out to the israeli ministry of defense for comment it says it has submitted a statement of defense to the court stating that the event in which the plaintiffs was killed constitutes wartime activity as defined by the law and therefore the state is immune from. in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the idea of jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail three mother plaintive the ministry has filed a countersuit. remembered very fondly and he's seen as a more to the palestinian cause graffiti of his face adorns the walls of the village people who say they'll never forget about him. the family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and they've named the new after him they say they would rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imran khan how does it go through malik occupied west bank. and

saudi arabia female activists has been detained for seventeen days and what human rights groups are calling a quiet government crackdown on campaigners place and book accused. of advocating women's rights on social media she faces five years in prison if found guilty journalists say he was sentenced to five years in prison on thursday for insulting the royal court forces these agency says it has evidence that ranger men massacred last september is the first time such an account has been backed up by witness statements from but it's villages and security forces themselves the two journalists behind the investigation have been detained in minot and denied bail a warning job report contains images that some viewers may find disturbing. it's a chilling and detailed account of what can only be described as a premeditated massacre the photographs provided to reuters by

a buddhist village elder don't lie the first the news agency says was taken on september first and shows the ten ruhi captives lined up in a row the second taken the day after shows their slain bodies in a mass grave their ages range from seventeen to forty five among them were students fishermen farmers shop owners fathers they were all part of the same community from the village of indian in myanmar's northern rakhine state but a little bit about the building when they were taking them away they said do not worry we will send your sons back soon taking them for me till i die hard on all that you know of indian six thousand rocking chair remained in the village as of october and surprisingly their relatives are reluctant to move back. i will not go back there how can i go and they killed our husbands we have all listened babies how will they survive myanmar's military says the ten men belong to

a group of two hundred terrorists that had attacked the earlier but accounts given to the news agency by both ranger and buddhist witnesses deny such large scale attack ever happens in the village the writer story draws for the first time on interviews with buddhist villagers who confessed to torching rohingya homes bury bodies and killing muslims it also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves the two reporters behind the story wallow in your thought who are both myanmar nationals and were detained on december twelfth for allegedly obtained confidential documents a statement released by the military on january tenth confirmed what they were preparing to report ten write in demand had been massacred in that village at least . sided with a judicial request by prosecutors to charge the two journalists hundreds use the show secrets act has been denied bail and ecliptic did we start to. reason

to wonder still for al-jazeera. antennaes a car scares the waiter's name our bureau chief he says it's the first time this story was flagged by people who are blamed for attacking the henge or the reason why it's different from anything else that we've seen on this crisis until now is because it doesn't the primary sources the sources that first provided this information are not the rohingya muslims who have fled to. bangladesh but indeed the people who have actually carried out some of these actions themselves and therefore we believe that this is a groundbreaking and outstanding piece of work by while on until so and their colleagues they have been accused of breaking official secrets act and. those proceedings are ongoing in myanmar right now what is what what happened today

is we will we can see is that they are not just any journalists but they are outstanding journalists of the highest order who produce this incredible story and have actually if you look back at their work they have been covering not only this particular crisis but myanmar in transition as a whole for many many months. security has ties in and says indian administered kashmir on the anniversary of the execution of a separatist leader eight years ago schools and shops are closed in the kashmir valley to try to prevent protests was hanged for his role in the attack on india's parliament in two thousand and one. rescue operations are starting to wind down in taiwan after a devastating six point four magnitude earthquake aftershocks have been hampering the search for survivors with five people still missing in the port city of quality tuesday's quake killed at least twelve people and injured hundreds well as

a demolishing dangerous buildings left badly damaged by the quake but pride has more from. the rescue teams are now working down into more inaccessible parts of this building basically the lower floors especially at the front of the building that were crushed when this building toppled over and in particular concentrating on an area where they have found these signs of life now the rescuers are not being overly optimistic they say the signals the signs of life of very weak but they are in the area where they believe that one of the people who is unaccounted for could have been so while there's a possibility of someone being alive they have to continue the search it is a factor in their decision making about how they deal with this site in other buildings around this city that have been badly damaged heavy equipment is now being brought in to demolish those structures to make the area safe again clearly while there's a possibility at least of someone being found alive they have to put off that

decision and the search continues in just a few moments. and then still ahead here on al-jazeera. talking trash in colombia why wackos decided to strike leaving thousands of tons to rot on the streets. and why a massive lump of fat has made its way out. the london film is an intern easy at. buffalo delf it comes out of philly the super bowl champions pizza will have that story and sports agent. from the neon lights invasion. to the city that never sleeps. we have a nice spell of quotes where the pushing into western russia following on from our recent spell of very very heavy snow the chance to clear up just

a sweep in the snow off the rooftops we will see settle weather coming in over the next couple days temperatures going up around minus six celsius which is pretty good for the time if you also got some good covering a snow still in place across parts of central and northern france this is the while valley where you can see a little dusting of snow still in place and more snow to come over the next couple of days but rather more on the usual is the recent spell of snow that was seen over the beaches of barcelona really don't expect to see this kind of situation happening in that northeastern corner of spain it will time out as we go on through the next couple of days the moderate is making its way across the northwest behind this weather system this is going to continue driving its way further a switch as that model red that wes around makes its way into the cold air you can see we have another area snow just making its way in across paris little push up towards belgium continues to just drift a little further eastward so temperatures getting up to just three degrees celsius

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solving problems they're challenging systems and shaping. creative thinkers shaping the continent's future innovate africa at this time. again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour within the next half hour they're opening ceremonies will kick off the winter olympics in china high level north korean delegation will be in attendance which includes the north's leader kim jong il kim . jong. egyptian army has launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the sinai

peninsula the army's web sites announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles in north sinai. and the u.s. house of representatives has voted to pass a bill ending a second shutdown in two weeks after just five hours the bill massively increase his spending on domestic programs and the military. but even before that shutdown happened it was another very bad day on wall street the dow jones punished by more than a thousand points for the second time this ever happened and one day after large gains in early january share prices are trading around ten percent lower investors are worried that higher wages will eat away at corporate profits and prompt the federal reserve to raise interest rates foster. has more on this. make no mistake about it this was a huge stocks plunge the big question is what's causing it now there are

a whole host of reasons but most economists and traders are pointing to three key things number one concerns over rising deficit spending the federal budget that's being negotiated right now in washington is expected to add at least three hundred billion dollars in deficit spending over the next two years add that with one point five trillion in deficit spending for the new taxed overhaul plan that trump and the republicans pushed through late last year and you're seeing these huge amounts of money that is added to the deficit and that is really concerning wall street the second reason is inflationary concern and rising interest rates and the third being political uncertainty in washington with the trump administration's continued fights public battles with the f.b.i. and the continuing russia investigation leaving the markets uncertain about the

political future of the administration and how they're going to navigate all of this markets don't like any uncertainty and they don't like political uncertainty either. well following those major falls on wall street billions of dollars have been wiped off the value of the stock market shares in asia china suffered one of its worst days in two years a four percent fall on the leading shanghai composite index and a nervy day and take it in the neck a losing more than two percent of its value and. iraqi forces say they're making advances in the operation secure northern areas near the border with iran mainly kurdish group called the white flags who are believed to have ties with eisel the area is a truck route for oil deliveries pain iran and iraq. reports. just before sunrise iraqi soldiers prepare for their latest offensive after pushing out isis from northern iraq they're securing the border from other armed groups and smugglers. this drive is aimed at defeating the remnants of isis and their

kurdish allies who called themselves the white banners or white flags all sections of iraq's security forces are involved. we are here in co on camp in the fifth brigade of the federal police operations have started by the army popular mobilization forces and federal police to clean up all of the region and clean up all of tuesday as well as the participation of the rapid response forces. soldier said they made steady gains despite booby traps left for them so. we found so many improvised explosive devices or. on the main roads planted by the enemy before their withdrawal to hinder our advance. the hungry mountains and region with the smuggling route even before i said captured the area iraqi forces have talked since last year about controlling the border town of two score a month to after seizing areas in province from goodish mirka fighters discriminant who is in a strategic position because it straddles the oil rich border between iran and iraq

as well as the iraqi province of dean. the area is a proposed transit route for trucks carrying oil iraq's government agreed in december to transport them to can munch a refinery in iran in return up to sixty thousand barrels per day of rain in oil will be trucked to sit in iraq government leaders in baghdad have been reluctant to use the oil infrastructure of northern iraq is kurdish regional government. in the last few days the iraqi troops say their operation help secure some villages despite losing control of the area the kurdish regional government supports the offensive and says iranian not iraqi kurds and members of the white flags. i can safely say that come out to is now safe and we will continue helping the displaced to return to their areas there is good coordination with the peshmerga that's why thank god the operations have gone very smoothly. shia militias who are now part of the iraqi security force have been accused of causing demographic shifts and of

stopping people from returning home and in the areas iraqi army commanders say to scream out who is being secured to allow displaced people to return critics however say the well being of the people of iraq seems to be a lower priority than the focus on oil and its profits some of and others there the final two remaining british fighters from an eyesore syria known as the basal have been captured kurdish forces seized a pen a taurus for pairing and i saw propaganda and beheading videos the leader of the former jihadi jong strike three years ago. riot police in the maltese are being deployed to a protest outside the headquarters of a of the ruling party opposition supporters continue to demonstrate against an ongoing political crackdown by president. this week he ordered the arrest of two supreme court judges after they overturned criminal convictions against government opponents has also declared a state of emergency using the court of supporting

a coup. colombians are holding their noses in the capital bogota where rubbish collectors are on strike thousands of tons of garbage are rossing in the streets workers walked out because they fear mass redundancies when new contracts are awarded as underground p.s.e. has more. for a week now more than half of colombia's capital has been inundated by collected garbage left to rot on street corners and parks the crisis started with treats housing employees of a public service called i was the answer to strike the mayor and we continue to be clear the only environmental emergency allowing private sanitation workers to help with the collection the residents say the situation keeps getting and fear health consequences this has to it's a disaster such neglect and disregard for the community the smell is unbearable people are getting see the garbage tax like everybody else so what is the may doing

the workers of the building or afraid they'll lose their job due to changes in the way garbage contracts were awarded in past days they clashed with the police and damaged a number of garbage trucks on tuesday residents of one of the worst affected neighborhoods garbage and blocked main roads with rubbish bags the mayor is playing his predecessor to change the rubbish collection system and was temporarily suspended for allegedly nice man if you get. but it will be difficult for the mayor to avoid the responsibility he's now being investigated by control tory he even as he's promising to end the crisis in the next three days something the people have definitely are hoping for. flooding in northern argentina is making life even tougher for many already struggling to make a living a river has burst its banks forcing thousands from their homes insulter province

it's home to several indigenous communities and their reports from santa victoria. when the waters rise they do so rapidly and they're ruthless there's just time to save what's essential a place of it. i saved much enough but then i couldn't get back seven kilometers from i haven't heard anything from my sister more than one hundred members of the indigenous community left everything behind when they fled center victoria evacuated to this school in the nearby town about what i they're being fed they want to go home. we're ready to go back but we're scared the water is filtered through losing our things would be very we spent our lives there our children grew up there carlos is one of the few who risk staying behind you know not a little but i'm going to and there's nothing to eat today it's been two days since we last eight carlos is waiting for his neighbors to return which they will when

this you know you rode into town is repaired. the water is a subsiding these defenses and constant vigilance saved santa victoria this time but life here for the mostly indigenous communities is precarious they're returning home but wondering when the floods will come again these talks were not so lucky their community. flooded and is now reachable but they were rescued by the provincial civil defense force blocking police the army and the red cross so that when the bailout. it's not about preventing emergencies any more emergencies come by themselves there's no way of stopping them well we've got to do is reduce the risk determine what the risk is and be there. it's a plan that works well prepared for disaster is one way to deal with ever more frequent flooding and forest fires song of other ideas. the river is

a fisherman and we live now she's give you the signal telling us children think of your future so we'll meet and decide whether to move away from here for the future of our children and grandchildren this is a harsh infertile region eking out a living keeping the community together is in secure and predictable the floods have made that challenge a whole lot more difficult than. santa victoria northern argentina. people visit museums mostly to see great art sculpture and amazing pieces of history but how about a big lump of fat from a so in london saying so-called fat up place will make visitors have second thoughts but what they flushed down the loo if parker went to take a look. historians often say that you could judge a civilization not from what it builds before it gets rid of which is why the museum of london has a brand new exhibit on display an extraordinary strange brace yourself.

latin name cumulus some of called it the beast of white chapel after it was found blocking up an east london sewer to us though it's a far burg and this is just the tip of it in its entirety it was two hundred fifty meters long the length of two football pitches and weighed a hundred and thirty tons sixteen african elephants. so what's it made of well as you can probably imagine a vast amount of fat that a sprinkling of human excrement and then all the cities indigestible things like summer detailed wet wipes cotton buds things that can easily be broken up on the ground and it smells apparently like the rotting meat of the dirtiest toilet you can imagine it's also highly toxic this case scenario if you handle that they've been correctly it's down through something like policies we thought about whether

we should pick lids or freeze it put in freetown but instead what we decided is to add try and that has we achieved some of the wrists around the city. but it's not all over for the big east of white chapel although most of it has been carefully destroyed some of it was so rich in fact that it was also rich in energy it's been transferred into bio fuel to power london's number twenty four bus but like all good stories this is a cautionary warm because thames water the looks after the drains for. more than a million a whole month. and most of. so if there's a lesson to learn from all of this it's become poor down the drain because you flush. the peer. had.

some washing off lights was finally resolved and the sport is properly on the one.

really. that's almost here the winter olympics are about to officially begin peter what's happening corduroy glory they are almost there the winter olympic games formally

getting underway in just a matter of minutes actually these are live pictures from pyongyang in south korea where the opening ceremony is just about to start thousands of athletes will be competing for the next seventeen days across fifteen different sports. hours earlier the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the appeal of forty seven russian athletes and coaches who wanted to participate in pyung chang they were banned by the international olympic committee due to doping claims the willing says more the russian doping scandal is arguably the most murky sad story in the history of sport and yes i spent years covering the fee for scandal but this involves the public being completely cheated metals being involved a nice thing to be poisoned from the top down how did we get to this position well four years ago putin's grand plan for sports or succeed in russia around the home olympics the very expensive saatchi winter olympics and of the allegations it was

shown by investigation but there'd been systematic doping in washington for the international olympic committee banned forty three russian competitors for life. fast forward a couple of years of politics and then we get into a situation where the ultimate coach in sport a court of arbitration for sport overturned those lifetime bans by say they're not clearing the dopers completely but there's not enough evidence for lifetime bonds so the russians want to compete here twenty eight of them supposedly allowed to compete in the international olympic committee so i know we're still not inviting them so the russians appeal again and it goes back to the court of arbitration for sport bystander in pyongyang and it goes to the guy in the goings on actually begin today the division of the court of arbitration for sport this missed the application filed by thirty two russian athletes against the international olympic committee it has also dismissed fired yesterday by fifty actually it's in coaches

against you you see so the cast decision is very good news for the international olympic committee have been fighting the legal and political battles for months even years over the russian doping scandal. afterwards he said we welcome this decision which supports the fight against doping and brings clarity for all athletes like all of us i just want to get on with the sport now and that sport is in full flow throughout saturday with the first meadows of the games being decided in five events one of the events is plenty of korean interest in not but most interest of course in the unified women's hockey team from korea by mike has to be their first guy against switzerland. now even though the opening ceremony has not yet started some of the sports are already in action in pyongyang this includes figure skating canada are in the lead in the team event which sees the world's top ten countries compete in short programs of all four skating disciplines a strong performance by meagan duhamel and eric redford to help to place the

canadians ahead of the united states and japan on friday but it was not the ideal start to the day for patrick chan he would later blame an early morning start for use shaky showing in pyongyang would recover to lie in third place in the men's short program though after this. meantime u.s. speed skater shani davis says he won't attain the opening ceremony after losing a coin toss to carry the american flag he called the decision to hold the coin toss dishonorable of the lose slider aaron hamlin was given the role in stayed when the first middle even start on saturday you can expect to see plenty of golds around the necks of swedes the country is traditionally one of the best performers in winter olympics and more than half of their medals have come in cross country skiing pool restrict courts on the culture behind the success. go down to the woods today in sweden county and you may well be

a cross-country skier. for thousands of years skis were how you traveled traded and survived in this part of the world now cross country is a national pursuit that is also responsible for most of sweden success at the winter games. cross-country skis are very good for the body itself for the knees put back like a symbol to see him that we are all going to count. sweden's twenty nine cross country olympic gold medals second in the world only to their cousins next door not for sweden not the olympics cross-country skiing is all about my rivalry with norway but it means much more than that back home where they have skiing partially to thank for swedish independence that revolutionary king. this region on skis in the sixteenth century drumming up support for his rebellion it led to victory against the danes in fallen and four hundred years later it led to vasa lump it.

you know all told begun in one thousand nine hundred twenty two vasa law puts all the vasa race is the biggest in the world ninety kilometers long and with sixteen thousand competitors the route is based on one supposedly taken by costar vasa but the race name for the king has become more a part of swedish d.n.a. than there royal history even if norwegians sometimes when it i did seven hours and twenty minutes and i think that's a really good time for the first first try i think credible i can't really imagine that there's ten thousand people lining up to to do this crazy thing i mean it's just really i mean i get really psyched up i want to do it so great and it's just really amazing the pull of the race for swedes leads many to high official vos a lot but coaches to be glorious for this very swedish rite of passage the olympics

sort of like fifty k. the longest distance in the olympics and it's i think also pretty so race by their own and it's a really good engine for cross-country skiing in sweden or also in in the world twelve years have gone by since sweden last topped the olympic cross-country table now hope the time until the next coronation isn't measured in centuries polar al-jazeera followed sweden and australian olympic champion thrower has been found dead in the netherlands jared bannister finished sixth at the beijing olympics in two thousand and eight and one gold at the twenty ten commonwealth games the thirty three year old had been living and training in holland it's believed he took his own life. barcelona are the runaway leaders in the spanish league and now they have also reached the final of the spanish cup or kopper del rey on thursday philip continuos scored he's first goal for the club since he's one hundred ninety eight million dollars move from liverpool even the

record set she also scored in a two no win over valencia bossa will meet in the final philadelphia eagles fans lined the streets of their city on thursday to celebrate their team's super bowl triumph over the new england patriots it was the first time the eagles won the vince lombardi trophy schools and government offices were shut down for the celebrations and so was the city's zoos the eight kilometer route finished with the rally on the steps of the art museum which you might recognize from the rocky for us. i don't think words can really describe what is going on here today. and so many people in one spot so gritty in unity one thing to do for the philadelphia eagles you bore these guys when the greatest things i've ever done in my life is honor for us to bring you. we finally did it were super bowl champs.

and most of all for me in the thirty eight hundred g.m.t. including chang twenty eighteen will of course she will we look forward to thanks very much peter. now independent artists have taken over and abandoned leather factually in the indian capital delhi creating an alternative space to show their work hoping it opens a dialogue with an audience that transcends preconceived ideas they spoke to the organizer of the show delis and he ott. my name isn't on the hoosier i'm the creative leader bridge studios and the phone of the regulars after this is a guest post and the art is not and the art it's and the art fair and orderly representing the more topics that already are there prior to the big brands people are buying their work anyway you want to get it get out of the white boxes we wanted to have a proper good representation of the independent artists and the contemporary art scenes and thus we create a little economy for these artists. this place was actually.

a good stacked product. and we got the opportunity to make this place up as a venue and leave you transformed into an office space and it was about this area in general is actually an extension of the village village and when people see these kind of things happening around them they want to know more they're excited about the fact that there is something happening in their surroundings and not in a fancy reality where you know they'd be shy about. entering. even think about going there in the first place i've learned is to move a different city than not just metropolitan cities where there is called for so much additional i. did this in delhi because the home down to the hall door it was easy for us to find a venue to get things rolling but i think the next step is the next six months to figure out a big good and a better plan to take this to a total city. and that's from maine or for this in new south this path will be back

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