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a historic handshake between north and south korea but the u.s. is keeping its distance prices averted the u.s. government is open for business off to another shutdown most americans probably slept through and egypt launches a massive military operation that she says is targeting terrorists in sinai. and i'm tatiana phantasm doha with all of the sport will have more from enclitic the court of arbitration for sport rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were bidding to be allowed to compete and more later. the winter olympics have officially opened in the south korean city of young chang with a spectacular fireworks display thousands turned out in freezing temperatures to attend the one that he's hoped will bring helped bring about

a diplomatic for of relations between north and south korea for now it looks like the ice has been broken with what's being described as an historic handshake between south korea's leader in and kenya jiang the sister of north korea's leader letter and then reports. a step towards reconciliation for the first time since the korean war more than half a century ago a member of north korea's ruling family is welcomed in the south the arrival of leader kim jong sr is fascinating many south koreans kim jiang has quickly become a power broker in another historic moment south korean president mungy in greeted her at the opening ceremony before she sat near u.s. vice president mike pence the two didn't appear to exchange greetings then the moment many had been waiting for the. north and south korean athletes marched under

a unified flag as a celebration of ethnic nationalism it's the first time they've done that at an international sporting event in eleven years moon said the pyong chang winter olympics offer a meaningful opportunity for a world divided by conflicts to unite critics say the north korean charm offensive is only intended to advance its agenda and norsk any us decided to look nice for a vial of this option if you would use chance chances is that president krom view authorizing me to take a ration bot as a program of ease that made fundamentals have not changed. a deterrent to half of miss i.c.b.m. intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear strike as a continuum for the united states in the run up to the games the north koreans have absorbed much of the spotlight first by agreeing to participate and then by sending

a high level delegation to the south this week american diplomat said they would soon unveil the toughest economic sanctions against north korea yet while also saying a diplomatic solution was the focus. for now this is a moment for south koreans to show the world what a dynamic country they live in during the opening ceremony spectators were taken back in time to show the history of the korean people and what we're going to is called their relentless pursuit of peace. i hope that with north korea not cleats participation this could be peace lympics and i hope we can achieve reunification between the south and the north. the mood here is good as south korea is hosting the olympics and athletes are coming from around the world a good opportunity to promote south korea. and the hope is this will set the stage down only for

a sporting spectacular but historic breakthrough with their northern neighbors this al-jazeera south korea. let's get more on this joining us live now from washington is the north korea analyst keith thanks very much for joining us on to say what do you make of this charm offensive with a north korean sister coming and being part of all the dignitaries at the opening ceremony well in the spirit of the olympics it's quite exciting to see both countries represented together in the opening ceremonies i must say however that i think it's also significant that the leader of north korea sent his sister and at the present united states sent the vice president and mrs pence this is high level attention on the part of both nations the united states and north korea and it also states as to the seriousness of the overall situation on the peninsula today of course this is

a diplomatic story no i think recording it but what happens at the end of the game is does all that in this sort of bond i mean to go out the window would you think this could turn into something more concrete. well we're in new territory now aren't we given the degree to which north and south korea are interacting in the context of the olympics i would imagine that there is there are plans for the north there is probably a hope by leaders in south korea that this will turn into something more substantive as relates to future dialogue having said that there are also the issues between the united states and north korea there is a massive trust deficit between the two countries people in pyongyang are not convinced that any deal with the president would in fact be carried out perhaps the congress would object or perhaps white house witten implement the agreement on the other hand in the united states. there is

a sense of exhaustion in terms of north korea's pattern of provocative actions followed by pauses throughout my my concern is that today i hope the north koreans do not misread the situation involving the united states. we are now at a point in time given the i.c.b.m. capability of north korea we are now at a point in time under this president as we would be under any president that certain serious considerations are are being taken so i'm hopeful especially given the fact that this administration has signaled its willingness to engage in the past i'm hopeful that north korea would actually take some actions that would be tangible that not only united states leaders but the american people could view a serious on the part of north korea for example release of the american detainees there are other things that could happen which in fact would contribute to more substantive dialogue indeed there are some rumblings especially i believe in the us

saying that she south korea's being too trusting in the end though if anything it is to move forward with this south korea doesn't have to sort of accept any kind of hand that north korea stretches out if anything significant departure is going to be. well within south korea today you have a lively debate as to the degree of interaction with north korea in the context of the olympics after lympics and so on i believe that this debate which is healthy will contribute to a testing by the part of south korean leaders in terms of overtures from north korea and they should be tested but they should also be heard because we are at a very serious point in time when change is coming to the korean peninsula hopefully as a result of dialogue as opposed to military or other options very good to get your thoughts on this keep the thanks very much for joining as i'll just ira.

u.s. president has signed off on the spending bill officially ending the government shutdown after just a few hours the stopgap measure will extend the government funding until march twentieth campbell how cuts us more from washington. with the stroke of a pen u.s. president donald trump ended the government shutdown that lasted more than five hours well most americans were asleep everything about this stinks to tell you the truth most of the drama occurred in the u.s. senate as members of congress debated lifting strict limits on government spending the vote to keep the government running held up by a single setter republican rand paul 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 well for spending and you're getting stuck with the bill the late night debate played out for hours of revenge really passing in

the upper chamber but still needing approval in the house of representatives the deal raises spending caps by roughly three hundred billion dollars over two years one hundred sixty five billion will go to the military one hundred thirty one billion going to domestic spending including does that aster relief programs but this also means the deal will send the deficit soaring to more than a trillion dollars by next year and it doesn't include a key democrat demand protection for illegal immigrants known as dreamers brought to the united states as children still without legal status and potentially facing deportation if congress doesn't act but the leading house republican promised immigration can only be addressed once the government is fully funded i'm confident we can bring a bipartisan solution the floor that can get signed into law and solve this problem

ok millie can now join us live from washington is this the end of it can we put this budget crisis to read. well it certainly is in the short term and it lays in place a plan so that there is some sort of ability for the next two years for government agencies to kind of strategize and move forward knowing how much money they're ultimately going to have to spend that's a good thing for people like the defense department who according to the secretary of defense have claimed they've not been able to do that it's actually hurt u.s. interests abroad but in all of this there is some concern about this out of control spending that seems to have occurred as a result of one party being in control of the white house and the u.s. congress at this point it is the republicans typically they've been the fiscal conservatives who have tried to rein in spending we heard that repeatedly throughout barack obama's term and now that all the republicans are in charge they don't seem to care too much so you have the one lone senator there rand paul

essentially calling his own party members of hypocrites because one of the issues that cause the stalemate was because the democrats wanted some sort of resolution with the children of illegal immigrants the usa the doco program without posting the final deal here. it wasn't part of the final deal and that is a really sore point for top democrats like nancy pelosi who stood on the floor of the house of representatives in advance of this a couple of days ago reading letters from so-called dreamers those children brought to the united states illegally by their parents but they've grown up here they don't know any other country the majority of americans according to most polls support legalizing the status of those children not all agree that their parents though should be given that legal status this is really something that needs to be addressed by congress rather urgently given the fact that president trump ended the protections under the president obama of the doc up program as it's often known and

that expires those protections next month so the white house has kicked it over congress to do something about it but there is this feeling that of uncertainty right now given the fact that this is a tight deadline to resolve this issue and illegal immigration has been an issue that members of congress been trying to address for decades without much success for it to torture campbell a complete how can they with the very latest out of washington that's much more to come on this news hour the u.s. on the u.n. demands an investigation after the reuters report that revealed great enjoyment when massacred and berets and mass graves mexico is deploying fountains and extra police to come back to balloon in murder rates were on patrol with some of them on the beaches in cancun tough. on pouring in sweden where five hundred years of history could be on the side of the swedes as they continue that bottle against norway at the winter olympics.

at least one person has been killed at least one hundred twenty two injured after two bombs were detonated during friday prayers at a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi officials say both devices were planted in separate rooms in science. two weeks ago around thirty five people were killed by a twin bombing at a mosque in the same city. the egyptian army has launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula making the announcement in a televised statement an army spokesman said it involves land sea and air forces covering central sinai and areas in egypt now delta and west and hospitals have put on high alert an order to prepare extra beds and stuff to deal with emergencies and medical evacuations earlier we spoke to omar assure who is a professor of security studies at the doha institute he says there is

a political dimension to the new offensive if you saw the pattern from twenty thirteen on words you'll find the scale ations happening with one major political events are coming up so when the coup happened in july twenty third dean you had an escalation following in september and the whole idea part of the coup and the result that of the new regime coming is that security and counterterrorism needs to be implemented partly in sinai but also elsewhere the interesting part about the communique of the armed forces is that they're not talking just about sinai they saying that there's an escalation in central delta and there is in this creation in the western deserts which are the two other areas that you saw some kind of political violence happening in the i think it has to do a lot with the force going presidential elections i think these escalations and the level of. men and arms shipped to sinai is not new but the you know suspending the internet communications blocking roads this is all not

new to been happening since twenty fifteen and probably before twenty fifteen as well so i'm not sure of there's something new or there's a measured saying that you know the strongman is back he's trying to secure the region and therefore mobilize for him in the next presidential elections which is happening next month. the un and the u.s. state department demanding that an investigation be alone it's time for the reuters news agency publish a story about the slaughtering of the hinge of muslims in the am on the dossier lays out the events leading up to the killing of ten will hinge on men and has witness testimonies from buddhist villages as well as security personnel the two journalists behind the investigation have been detained in me i'm on denied bail a warning silva's report contains images some viewers may find distressing. 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 india in in myanmar's northern rakhine state but a little bit about the building when they were taken them away they said do not worry we will send your sons back soon we have taken 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 that. i will not go back there how can i go 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 them 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 while alone and your story who are both myanmar nationals and were detained on december twelfth for allegedly obtaining confidential documents a statement released by the military on january tenth confirms what they were preparing to report ten write in demand had been massacred in that village at least coincided with. big judicial request by prosecutors to charge the two journalists under the official secrets act they've been denied bail and be convicted police up to fourteen years in prison on the silver zero. the mexican government is deploying

fountains of federal police officers across the country to combat a huge surge in the number of murders well in twenty five thousand people were murdered in mexico last year that's the highest number in decades in january farming families and additional police officers were sent to several tourist cities where violence linked to drug cartels and organized crime has been high most of them have been deployed to to you ron which borders san diego in california the rest are in baja california sur along the tourist areas of the pass on last couples can code chill pachinko the states of jalisco as well as the state of colima we can now cross to manuel who is in cancun the authorities are saying in mexico that they've arrested jose maria valen c.-a the alleged leader of the is that his drug cartel what more can you tell us. well that certainly the big news in mexico today is the capture of the leader of one of the country's most violent drug cartels the

same idea he said violence yes he goes by the alias set up forty three has actually been evading authorities since two thousand and fourteen the united states has had a bounty of five million dollars for his arrest in the u.s. is as far as we know has already requested extradition but this is of significant news here in mexico for a number of reasons the first is because federal authorities have said before that there have not been any organized crime or cartel leaders operating out of mexico city this of course goes against those statements by the government and the second reason this is big news is because we're coming out of a year of record homicides two thousand and seventeen saw over twenty five thousand homicides in mexico that is a record number statistics that we have received from the federal government and we're now seeing this deployment of additional federal police troops this is part of a larger strategy that's been going on to to curb back the violence of the country for well over a decade now this is

a paul was put in place by former president felipe because they don't a policy that is continued under president and they kept pena nieto that most security analysts would say is a failed security strategy this militarization of the police force and now they are now requesting in deploying more troops some of the cities as you mentioned before included the one at the state of ghetto and also can't who and where we are now we want to give you an idea of what we've seen and experienced over the course of the last few days here in cancun take a look. police and military forces or holding a routine checkpoint in cancun in response to a homicide rate that has risen three hundred percent in the last fourteen months this driver was detained after officers found a half dozen mobile phones and a handgun in his vehicle but even with the cooperation military state and local police law enforcement agencies are struggling to fight crime. related to organized crime committed by criminal groups competing for control over all

other criminal groups all of it is related to the sale of drugs. we rode along with the division of federal police officers patrolling a popular beach mexico's peak tourism season is fast approaching and the government is dispatching some five thousand federal agents across the country for tourists looking for white sand in turquoise waters however the violence seems far away the slow down i feel very safe i walked around late yesterday and it was very calm and i haven't noticed a lot of bad things happening or anything. can cool draws in billions of dollars from tourism every year once the sun sets bars and nightclubs are packed with party goers but just a short drive away there is another more dangerous side to the city. we're in a residential neighborhood near the center of town and police have blocked off this road behind me after the shooting took place only about one hour ago police tell us

that two people were shot and the gunmen fled sadly this is a scene that plays out on a near daily basis here in cannes khun. the district attorney says there are one to two murders on average every day for civil society groups or you have the recent increase in police hasn't served everyone equally this isn't so for their government are to protect. hotel industry but what about the ones that work in that industry and then return to the areas where crime. and violence prevails walking along tell district the two sides of the city become apparent a nightly patrol by federal police makes foreign tourists feel safe but it also keeps the nearby violence out of sight and out of mind. the federal government in mexico has committed five thousand federal police officers to

a handful of cities four thousand of those officers have already been deployed that why only a handful of cities will in states like to get a handle which is seen a high incidence of homicides these officers are there to assist local police in controlling what is the production of of poppy that goes into to the production of heroin in states like california in the state if you want to that are deployed because of the proximity that the city has to the southern border of the united states here in can't you and it's to protect economic interests it being such a valuable city in terms of tourism dollars a third of all tourism generated tourism dollars generated in mexico are generated here and can't do it it's a billion it's a twenty billion dollar industry so ultimately this increase in police presence in mexico is to prevent that violence from twenty seven thousand from spilling over into new territories into cities here in mexico thank you manuel i'm in part two of our investigation into violence on the streets of mexico which i want to acapulco on the country's pacific coast my doctors are saying an epidemic of mental illness

caused by constant gangland killings on saturday russia and as they are. now it's the time of year again when kano is getting underway in brazil most people equate it with some rio de janeiro but in fact the most traditional con of all of all is in the northeastern states of bucco al-jazeera has to see in human. i'm in a see for the capital of states where carnival is a multicultural multi news it fair that lasts for five days behind me on the ball nickels these are the giant dolls for which this state is famous they began in the early one nine hundred step pay homage to different personalities past and as you can see present more than eighty will be parading next week and the long time coordinator of the event was kind enough to give us a sneak preview. here and a seafood the festivities got underway overnight. this is called

modern approach caution based music with strong african roots brought here to the seafood by slade's eighteenth century. and there was also the for table and nineteenth century rhythm that big number is famous for its a fusion of martial music a kind of brazilian tango and some african rhythms. carnival is a time for celebration but also for excesses especially of alcohol which is increasingly leading to sex abuses out here on the streets for the second year in a row activist and we're karaoke is taking part in a campaign for women to speak out and to monitor places where abuses are most likely to happen. during carnival there's a culture of permissiveness people think it's normal to grope you to force you to kiss them to have sex with women specially. but even

with millions of brazilians and foreigners have come here to celebrate the preparations are underway for what will be the main event on saturday called the rooster of the dog and that's when this gigantic rooster will lead the world's largest street parade more than a million people taking part and it begins at the early hours of the morning when it ends no one knows. stay with us on the news hour still ahead friday prayers tend to anger as protests continue over the jamming of a former prime minister bangladesh rescuers battle time on hunger the west bank aftershocks as a trying to find survivors in the rubble of a taiwan hotel and in sports the climbing specialists take center stage on day four of them to back to find out what happened in the town and.

how we've got thickening cloud making its way towards the middle east over the next couple days i think it should stylised the driver you can see that already spilling in from the mediterranean so we are going to see some gray skies there into the level of syria lebanon jordan times just getting up to around twenty three celsius the four by route a similar value for jerusalem if anything that cloud just not being a little further east was as we go through sunday so even much of iraq could see a plowed cloudy enough cloud thick enough into afghanistan northwestern parts of pockets down for some right or more especially some snow couple around three degrees celsius on sunday afternoon meanwhile temperatures picking up across the arabian peninsula largely fine and dry particularly on saturday but i think that we have across northern parts will sink a little further southwest twenty six celsius haven't done all thirty degrees celsius in riyadh on sunday and we'll see temp to picking up in doha as we go on into the early part of next week so we'll be approaching the thirty degree mark

already we've got temperatures picking up once again into southern africa particularly across the the a western cape cape town has same some right it has now made its way through dry skies coming in behind ninety degrees celsius on saturday and a high of twenty five by sunday. it's like the wild west they can do anything and the really hard for them to get the powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and a threat somebody ten thousand people at one hundred thousand voices and they distort the debate in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game have changed there are no precedents people and out investigates dissin from asian and democracy part two at this time on al-jazeera. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the

general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. just different places but it's what that gives us that gives us the ability to identify with the other side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength. welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the winter olympics have opened with a historic show of unity between north and south korea athletes from the two countries marched together on the south korean presidential council with cameo jones the

sister of the north korean leader kim jong un u.s. president donald trump a signed off on a spending bill and being the seven second the government shutdown this year after a deal to extend funding was agreed by congress and the egyptian army has lowish what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula and always spokesman said it involves land sea and air forces. the charge to deny the allegations that it trying to cover up or to aid workers pay for sex while on a mission to haiti was part of a massive international relief efforts in haiti after the devastating earthquake in port-au prince and twenty ten the times newspaper here in the u.k. alleges that the charity was tipped off by a whistleblower about some of his senior staff that using prostitutes some of whom could have been under ange well in a statement some said its primary i was always to root out on take action against

those involved it says we publicly announced including to media both the investigation and the action we took out as a result the organization said four members of staff were dismissed as a result of the investigation and three including the country director resigned before the end of the investigation it says allegations that underage girls may have been involved were not proven well jonathan. as a journalist for the associated press in haiti after the earthquake is also the author of a book called haiti the big truck that went by he joins me now via skype from durham in north carolina thanks very much for coming on to al-jazeera said to about this festival still the first time we've heard of some sort of sexual abuse scandal in haiti post a disaster remember the u.n. peacekeepers situation is well documented what is it about this disaster zone that is causing people to take advantage of those those who are most vulnerable it's a question of poverty it's

a question of differences in power i mean basically foreigners can come into a country like haiti and do essentially whatever they want without any kind of accountability and sometimes that involves running it projects badly and sometimes that involves actual predatory behavior and we are behaving from the charity commission who are saying we. we see the allegations they risk they risk undermining the public charities the public trust rather than charities and we waited for oxfam to provide assurances it's learned its lesson and is taking necessary steps what kind of sex should be taking. well i mean i think one interesting question to ask there is which public's trust they're concerned about regaining i think a lot of times and we have these conversations and in wealthier countries we assume that the people whose trust needs to be recovered for charities for non-government organizations is the public who donates money to those you know so americans britons people in the wealthier countries i think

a bigger question and one that i'm not sure people are asking is what oxfam and frankly the aid apparatus the entire humanitarian aid industry as a whole is going to do to try to recover the trust that's been broken with haiti not just in this case but in case after case after case over over the last couple of decades indeed and they can point and what about in haiti what can they be doing to protect the most fun to play in this situation because after all that they have to rely on n.g.o.s they have to rely on peacekeepers coming in to cha and help them recover from the. it's a really really hard question i mean for you know individual haitians who are just trying to do everything they can to survive it's not surprising that some people would find themselves women in some cases possibly obviously we don't know specifically in this case but in other cases underage women in a position where they have to they feel like they have to do these kinds of things to survive i mean the thing that's most important in haiti is to help people build their own lives to help people get money and build their own incomes and then help

create a state that's capable of holding people accountable when they commit crimes like this really grateful famous trying to get us to understand this jonathan katz thanks very much for joining us my pleasure thank you. syrian government war planes are continuing to bomb the rebel held area of eastern ghouta in what's been the deadliest week says twenty fifteen will and two hundred and thirty people have been killed in the last four days aid agencies say they are unable to help the estimated four hundred thousand people who live in the besieged enclave the area just outside of the capital damascus is running desperately low on food medicine and medical equipment. and the syrian government is also carrying out a major offensive in provinces in the northwest of the country the white helmets say one of their senses in coon was targeted by the u.n. has renewed its appeal for a month long humanitarian choice to allow aid to be delivered to go to and it live

. iraqi forces say they're making advances in their operation to secure northern areas near the border with the wrong if i say i'm a head cold white flags who are believed to have ties with i sell the area as a proposed truck route for all deliveries for train iran and iraq so some of been 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 remnants of isis and the 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 and then

the soldiers say they made steady gains despite booby traps left for them to seal them and we found so many improvised explosive devices or i.e.d. on the main roads planted by the enemy before their withdrawal to hinder our advance. the hungry mountains in how huge a region was a smuggling route even before i still captured the area iraqi forces have talked since last year about controlling the border town of two score a month to the seizing areas include two problems from goodish mirka fighters 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 crude oil from group to can munch 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 scottish 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 want to go on i can safely say that 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 got a very smooth like 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 they're rarely as 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 it job others there . rescue workers in taiwan have pulled out two more bodies from the flattened remains of a hotel in wylie and the number of people killed and choose day six point four

magnitude earthquake now stands at twelve five chinese nationals who were staying at the hotel are still missing and rescue workers say they're racing against time to try to find them or efforts have been hampered by more than two hundred aftershocks from proprieties in wiley and has the latest. on 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 the area where they have found these signs of life now that the rescuers are not being overly optimistic they say the signals the signs of life of very weak but they are in that 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 supporters of bangladesh's former prime minister khaleda zia are continuing to protest after she was jailed for five years on corruption charges the same to two year old was in president first say for embezzling around two hundred fifty thousand dollars in donations meant for known french herald sun for aides who are given ten year sentences and support to say the verdict is politically motivated. reports from dhaka. thousands of people came out of the city's biggest mosque by the look around to protest against former prime minister color the. heavy presence of riot police in the straight a lot of this protesters gathered near the party central office but they've been

discretions because of the police all eyes are on the high court now bangladesh nationalist party wants to appeal her friday. courts are heavily influenced by the government critics and opposition are saying the bangladesh court is nowhere near term special in the lord called their influence by the government and about it was politically motivated we have yet to see what the high court roddick will be to exult case never the last bangladesh nationalist party saying it will still run for the election even if their leader is behind the bar that other leaders to give them guidelines including khaled as he our son who is in london but the protest across the country's continuing critics annexed by their saying was a major concern for instability in the country unless the major national party takes pride in the election otherwise the country will go into political uncertainty down the road the prime minister has announced election to be somewhere

around december of this year we have yet to see how the political fallout is down the road the european union's chief negotiator has warned plans for a period of transition to ease person's withdrawal from the flow could be at risk michelle bonnie he says substantial disagreements with christian jeopardizing london's plans for a transition period from two years after a formal e.c.u. in two thousand and change he also rejected criticism from britain's bracks it minister david davis described proposals to sanction russian if it breached e.u. rules join the transition as discussed here. but will pay two hundred forty five million dollars of its own shares to the cell driving car technology company way mo secular legal dispute over trade secrets why most started the legal action last year claiming one of its former engineers who became chief of self driving car project took sounds of confidential documents with him as a comment is also said to include an agreement which ensures none of the

confidential information is incorporated in this hardware and software. the soviet union put the first satellite the first man and the first woman into space but this week's astounding developments in the push for commercial space exploration has been in russia worried for a challenge reports from moscow on how a low musk's gain may be russia's loss. pitches and the achievement amazed millions of people around the world but space x. is falcon heavy rocket launch with its gracefully landing boosters didn't seem to impress russia's state space agency roscoe's most they dismissed it as little more than a p.r. stunt for iran musk's tesla electric cars if you have noticed ross cosmo said on a russian radio station this launch went up not with some empty dummy or a load which he wouldn't regret losing in a failure but with one specific car. there's some truth in what ross cosmo says

ilan musk is among other things a master of promoting his various products but it's russ christmas also seems to be covering its eyes to the main point space x. is a space technology game changer and it's a game some russians fear they're likely to lose the world. reveal his success is in fact that he made the process less expensive he's workers are to be used multiple times therefore he doesn't have to build a new rocket every time and the price is lot he can take a satellite into orbit cheaper and we'll lose it in this competition because our kids can be used only once igor corage and go is one of a number of deeply concerned russian defense and space analysts he's concerned for russia's share of the space market and concerned space x. will benefit the u.s. military the workhorses of russia's state space program like this so you see i

suddenly feel like aging remnants from a different era which they are really so used first launched in one thousand nine hundred sixty six a new cosmodrome called rostock germany and russia's far east has brought some modernization but millions of dollars have gone missing from the accounts because my dreams corruption scandals highlight the country's problem with self sabotage even on projects of national priority with russia's illustrious history of space exploration is still a few thoughts of national prize but as the dawn breaks on a new era one of commercial space travel russia will have to match innovative nimble relatively cheap operators like space x. if it's to stay competitive that's a huge political and technological challenge and one the country is only just waking up to rory chalons al-jazeera moscow.

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time for this for now tatiana is in doha with all the latest from sean cho. thank you so much so as we've seen earlier the twenty third winter olympic games in pyongyang have been declared officially open the opening ceremony took place at the lympics stadium on friday setting the scene for the three thousand athletes to compete in fifteen sports over the next seventeen days. russian athletes took part in the ceremony without team uniforms all the russian flag one hundred sixty eight to competing as a specially named olympic athlete from russia team as a result of doping functions just hours before they walked into the olympic stadium the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the a pail of a further forty seven the wanted to compete at the games lee wellings has 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. from the top down how did we get to this position where four years ago putin grand plan for sports to succeed in russia around their home olympics the very expensive saatchi winter olympics the allegations it was shown by investigation that there'd been systematic doping in wash so 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. court of arbitration for sport overturned. by sight but 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 saying no we're still not inviting them so the russians appeal again and it goes back to the court of arbitration for

sport by staring and it goes through the day the goings actually begin. today the iraq division of the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the application filed by thirty two russian athletes against the international olympic committee it has also dismissed the applications filed yesterday by fifty at least and coaches against the use so the cast decision is very good news for the international olympic committee who have been fighting the legal and political battles for months even years over the russian voting 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 guns being decided in five events one of the events is speed skating there were plenty of korean interest in that but most interest of course in the unified women's hockey team

from korea by mike has to be their first guy against switzerland. another athlete who won't be taking part in the the olympics is twenty fourteen snowboard halfpipe champion i love a potluck trick of the russian born swiss stuff and a bad fall and broke his nose while competing at the x. games last month the twenty nine year old whose nickname is i pod traveled to china and trained on friday but after announcing he wasn't fit enough to defend his title . when the first medal event start on saturday you can expect to see plenty of gold around the necks of sweden's athletes the country is traditionally one of the best performers in the winter olympics for more than half of their medals have come in cross country skiing paul race reports on the culture behind their 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 skiing is very good for the body itself. but back like a symbol to see him that we are all going to count very sweden's twenty nine cross country olympic gold medals second in the world only to there we just because of this next door now for sweden at the olympics cross-country skiing is all about the 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 led to victory against the danes in fallen and four hundred years later it led to voss

a 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 go star vasa but the race name for the king has become more a part of swedish d.n.a. than the royal history even if norwegians sometimes when it and 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 and it's just really i mean i get really psyched up and i want to do it sober and it's just really amazing the pull of the race for swedes leads many to high official vos a lot but coach is 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 wasilla perseus the race by their own and it's really good. for the cross-country skiing in sweden or also 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 east al-jazeera followed sweden. if you go to our website you can find a dedicated section on the china lympics hads al-jazeera dot com for the flash twenty eighteen on a stroll in an impact javelin thrower has been found dead in the netherlands starred bannister finished sixth that the beijing olympics in two thousand and eight and one gold at the twenty two thousand and ten commonwealth games the thirty three year old had been living in training in holland it's believed tade 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 copa del rey on thursday because he knew scored his first goal for the club since is one hundred ninety eight million dollars move from liverpool event rocketed also scored in a two no winner over the lengthy a bastable meets the veer in the final. over the rebels and we have done a very good job in the cockpit already we have beaten big teams like to spend. one of our main rivals i'm very happy for myself employed barcelona who have been to a lot of finals is my second final as a coach and i hope this time we luckier look first on. italy will take the lead into the final day of the dubai tour as friday's penultimate stage was won by another italian sunny called but early on after three stages favoring sprint specialists that was the climbers who took center stage on stage for brandon mcnulty made

a bid for home with twelve of the one hundred seventy two kilometer course remaining but the american was eventually caught in flight of the line and it was called barely got the wind really on the retained as a two second lead at the top of the overall standings. and those were the four for now back to london thank you tatiana now independent artists have taken over an abandoned lever factory in the indian capital delhi creating an alternative space to show their work they are hoping it opens a dialogue with their own that transcends preconceived ideas about our galleries we spoke to the organizer of the show dubbed delhi's and. my name isn't on the loser i'm the creative leader brit's to reduce. the phone of the regulars i first this is the best post and god it's not a and b r it's fair and you want to be representing them or not is that already out there brad 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 r.c. and thus we create an 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 will. be transformed into an art space and of course 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 land is to move into the city then not just metropolitan cities where there is called for so much additional i. did this in delhi because the home down 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. the city. but. it's much more of the day's news thanks very much for watching. what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding the distortion isn't what free speech is supposed to be

about the context is hugely important level right to publish it. to be offensive or provoke that's about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. t.v. stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera on counting the cost of wild swings for stock markets look at what's going on and why it matters how women twenty eighteen are still fighting for equal rights in the workplace bus us sheryl is defying expectations but will it make life difficult for counting the cost at this time. from satellite technology to three d.

printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems challenging systems and shaping you want. creative thinkers shaping continents future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. the vice president of the united states gives north korea a wide berth at the winter olympics but there's a historic handshake between kim jong un sr and the president of south korea. tell them to.