airborne vehicles harvesting every pick you take everything you make it to everything all the way. but it's time to watch the what. we believe that the deep sleep is the first civilian. and creator of. all. the engineers this time. drilling search for clues begins after a russian plane comment minutes after takeoff killing all seventy one people on board. and we shall carry this is al jazeera life and also coming up

a defiant israeli prime minister valves to continue operations in syria day after one of his warplanes was down. to be honest i'm not sure she really understands the full horror of what has happened here from britain's foreign minister for. the un supervised the return of her him to refugees to me and my bus. was. rather display of harmony and soul that south korea's president strikes a cautious no about an invitation to visit the north. the best hitters in russia say they're looking for all possible clues as the hunt begins and to why a plane crashed soon after takeoff all seventy one people on board were killed the difficulties investigators face can be seen in these pictures from the cat crash site near moscow the wreckage of the plane is lying in fields covered with picks no

debris and human remains are spread over a radius of one kilometer or a challenge has more from moscow. the answer no their line out with sixty five passengers and six crew on board came down four minutes after it took off in bad weather conditions wreckage was scattered across snowy fields near the village of water going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walk to the sea. i saw an explosion on the ground and i called emergency services they asked me many questions i told them there was a fire it was very visible. debris of the plane is spread over radios of at least one kilometer investigators are using modern equipment taking into consideration the large territory there using quite a couple hours to get a view from the air the short hole set a lot of airlines jets took off from moscow's dumb idea of a sunday afternoon on its way to the city of or sq in the urals most of the sixty

five passengers on board were from the region at the airport their family and friends of those on board the flight began to wait for news with little hope that anyone had survived. we have found a breeze from n a n one four eight a plane and the bodies of stupid hymns. the most important thing now is the organized collection of debris in the remains of the big by ministry of emergency situations workers. transport to authorities soon confirmed everyone in the plane had died. russia has suffered two major crashes in recent years in december two thousand and sixteen at t. u. one five four military across crashed into the black sea with the loss of ninety two people it was blamed on pilots era in october two thousand and fifteen a russian air bus crashed in egypt's sinai peninsula killing all two hundred twenty four people on board i still said it placed a bomb in the aircraft. randomly putin has canceled

a trip to sochi which was shut jeweled for monday he was due to meet the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas that now that meeting will now take place in moscow from where putin will monitor the investigation investigators have found a flight recorder from the plane and this will be crucial in determining why this relatively new aircraft came promising out of the sky various causes are being considered including pilots era bad weather conditions well perhaps something else really chalons zero mosque or cave makea is an aviation consultant with mac international he says finding a second black box will be crucial to the investigation into the crash we know that the aircraft wreckage has scattered over a very wide area and this indicates probably impacted. rather flat and broke up on a high rate of aids the pieces were spread out we've heard report that there was

fire on board the aircraft before it crashed we've also heard that the pilot was trying to divert to a nearby airport for an emergency landing but none of these things are really concerned what we're really doing now the investigators will do is they'll attempt to recover both the black box they have won and they'll leave the other one do a complete investigation. well the first thing they're going to want to do is see if the aircraft was partly d.i.'s it's been sitting over night it might have accumulated a great deal of ice if the ice wasn't properly removed that would have been a very bad thing. if the weather was bad presumably there on takeoff and climbing out if ice was a factor engine ice or something like that that should show up in the cockpit voice recorder conversations the digital flight data recorder so that will be important now there were not the thunderstorms obviously in the area so primarily we're going

to be concerned with ice they got airborne so the visibility shouldn't have been an issue so they'll be able to sort through the weather things rather quickly as they conduct the investigation and u.s. president on all trump has question israel's commitment to peace with the palestinians he did this in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire and backer sheldon adelson the us president says israel's settlements in the occupied west bank are complicating the peace process and also threaten again to withhold aid to the palestinians unless they agree to talks israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has promised to continue military operations inside syria after one of its f. sixteen warplanes was shot down by enemy fire israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes on what it says were iranian targets in syria on saturday and yahoo says the operation was a serious blow to iran fossett reports on maestro slim. israeli soldiers collected

debris on sunday at the site where an air force f. sixteen fighter crashed a day earlier while the investigation continues the army told al-jazeera it had confirmed the plane was struck by a syrian anti-aircraft missile the first israeli fighter shot down since one thousand nine hundred two. at the border israeli media reported anti missile batteries have been increased after extensive israeli counterstrikes the day before inside syrian territory. yesterday we landed hard blows in the forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot. we will continue to hit back for every attempt to holler for any blown flick to us this is been our policy and this remain our policy to show the incident began with the downing of what israel says was an iranian drone launched from syria that had crossed into israeli airspace iran continues to deny the charge the secretary of the national security council saying

the allegations by zionists that they hit iranian bases in syria is a lie we are in syria as consultants we don't have the kind of military presence for them to make this allegation the years israel's government has been talking about a mounting iranian threat on its northern borders i don't think we we thought we were not to vulnerable but we certainly didn't expect it to happen this quickly so that's why i'm saying it's a wake up call for the future the army knows how to respond. in a way or want to create an escalation. the only way it will cripple solutions the other side wants in the schoolies and israeli politicians have been praising what they've called a current public reaction to this incident but they're also aware that it highlights increasingly complex and difficult relationship with russia and its role inside syria israel struck targets close to where russian forces are based on saturday. prompting a statement from russia's foreign ministry calling it absolutely unacceptable to

endanger the lives of russian soldiers inside syria. this after months of diplomatic efforts to convince russia to help constrain iranian activity there. but one former senior israeli military intelligence officer the loss of the plane and the extent of the retaliation don't represent a new phase in the conflict rather a reminder of its stakes. in the longer run but look the long the arena presents in syria should come to an end and we expect russia and the united states to make sure that this is going to be that the end result. israel says its military response is now complete but this weekend has put the dangers of the largest scale cross border conflict into sharp focus. out west jerusalem only six civilians including two children have been killed in syrian government airstrikes near the capital damascus tax targeted several towns in the rebel health suburb of eastern ghouta falls within the so-called deescalation zone agreed to by turkey russia and iran syrian

government and russian air strikes have killed more than two hundred forty people in rebel held areas and just last week the un says some of the attacks may be war crimes the u.n. is also calling for an immediate deescalation of fighting in syria to address a worsening humanitarian crisis according to its food agency nine million people need food assistance kern is the syria country director for the world food program and he says any truce needs at least to last for a month at the moment told keep on going to these places to east. to. the fighting the security of all stuff of calls. but also. it's dangerous to to come in and collect for example food if states fighting going on so we need a pause in the fighting and for months. the already houses are full we have to

because. we supposed to million people every day we salute assistance in the country and we can easily she flees. you see have an opening to these areas start the haven't reached full as i say two months no. the british foreign secretary has urged me and maurice later on sun sochi to follow that allow the un rather to surface supervise the return of the hunter refugees forced johnson made the plea after visiting displaced muslim villagers and rakhine state and refugee camps and bangladesh toward an area in myanmar were homes were destroyed in new ones are being built johnston says such he appears to be removed from the reality on the ground i'm not sure she really understands the full horror of what has happened i don't think she's been in a helicopter to see what we have seen today and really what i was trying to get ava to is the importance of her leadership i believe in her and i believe in her

leadership i think she's done incredible things in her life i'm very sad to see what's happening to burma now and to see the direction the country is going i believe she can still make a change and make a difference but to do that she needs to show leave get the agencies in get the refugees back home in a way that is safe and voluntary and and dignified korea's olympic delegations as left seoul leaving the south korean government to consider an offer of a summit and pyongyang the group which included the sister of the north korean leader kim jong il and it's a visit by joining south korean president moon jan and a concert given by a north korean are true they've been holding talks on the sidelines of the winter games on saturday came to young extended a gravitational to president moon to visit pyongyang the tajik uname has more from seoul. even as athletes competed on the snow and ice diplomatic developments continue to steal at least some of the spotlight during what's being called the

peace olympics the last three days have been historic and a high point in interest and relations north korean leader kim jong sister kim jong became the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war she came with an invitation kim jong un is asking the south korean president in to visit pyongyang at a convenient time soon if this meeting transpires it would be the first time that kim jong il has met with the south korean president since taking office in twenty eleven president moon says he'll begin arranging the conditions to make that visit happen but he stresses that any rebuilding of interest korean relations must involve dialogue between the united states and north korea u.s. vice president mike pence sat very close to the north korean delegation during the opening ceremony he m. a north koreans rebuffed president moon's attempts to facilitate

a midi skeptics say that this north korean charm offensive is heavy on the symbolism but they doubt that it will result in anything substantive they say this is an attempt by the north koreans to drive a wedge between the united states and the south koreans into an advance their own agenda but for now president moon and many south koreans are encouraged by the prospect that what we've been seeing could be the beginning of a reboot of injury and relations robert kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy at this on national university is skeptical that the past few days diplomacy will lead to a breakthrough. the best thing that the olympics can do right now is sort of for stall the march to war that seemed to be taking place last year as long as the olympics make it look at the north and south are talking to one another then becomes much harder for donald trump and the trump white house to go on t.v. and advocate for for strikes right we know that some people are some pretty seriously thinking about it they just vetoed for example just

a couple weeks ago they vetoed a highly qualified potential ambassador pick for south korea someone who's quite a hawk but apparently wasn't hawkish enough because the trump people are generally considering the strikes well as long as the north and south are talking you know the americans need south korean buy in on the strikes as long as the north and south are talking they won't get it so that's sort of one of the things i think that moon is doing right this gives him time to figure out how to respond to the americans if we can do some small things like cultural events and sports and music and things like that and that kind of generates a few small steps that lead to the largest ups and so on that's great right i mean if this is what it takes to get the north koreans in the room and talking so much the better and i don't particularly mind one way or the other but we've had these kinds of things before they haven't really worked right and i'm not really sure that sort of cultural interaction can actually generate any meaningful concessions on either side the political gaps are pretty big but we should always keep trying right it certainly better than we were a year ago when you know with fire and fury and all that still ahead on al-jazeera a lawsuit filed by new york's attorney general is the latest problem for hollywood

producer harvey weinstein and his former company also. i'm going to go across the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reforestation if it's good provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. through tranquil raveena can you. find it on can stream. and it's unusual going to the. it still doesn't like deep winter in the middle in the science to china temperature in shanghai is seven and hong kong nineteen that's probably about right but you know the day after so we're talking about tuesday the window to change direction or dies out it would have been hong kong's warmed up to a definite in shanghai it is still twelve in showing do with the sun i think and i think a cold start today a fair amount of foreground but it will soon clear then there's a good clear stretch it's that lovely town the year in southeast asia and india china in particular where the sun is out and most of the heavy rain is still down

in borneo salue a c. java and running into the southern philippines that's a tropical cycle on its way through mindanao in the next day or so that's circulation you'll see coming in otherwise the showers are just down here if you're off to thailand or entire normal asia expect it to be fine for the most part even sumatra passing showers is the worst you'll get so it's the southern philippines to watch out for the really heavy rain is likely with that tropical cycle and now where there is more rain developing this cloud is active for northern india northern pakistan the hindu kush it could be rain or snow depending on your height above sea level and it's welcomed from enough good for fruit growers always there are many in this part of the world. the winds are sponsored by qatar and he's. a young so mali refugee thrilled to gain u.s. residency in twenty sixteen. and was told i was unlucky to good. i was

a really really hard to go down suddenly. but with anti immigrant sentiment under the trump presidency al-jazeera well to ask sally was when they use american dream is still alive. in america at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now investigators in russia say they're looking at all possible causes as the hunt for clues began to into why a plane crashed soon after take off from an airport in moscow all seventy one people on board were killed at least six civilians including two children have been

killed in syrian government air strikes and rebel helped east in eastern guta more than two hundred forty people in rebel held areas have died in the strikes by the syrian and russian military in just the last week the u.n. says some of the attacks made the war crimes are crazy olympic delegation has left seoul leaving the south korean government to consider an offer of a summit n.p.r. . the group which included the powerful sister of north korean leader kim jong un ended its visit by joining south korean president moon janet a concert given by a north korean are true. new york state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the weinstein company alleging it failed to protect its employees against disgraced former c.e.o. harvey weinstein. prosecutors say the firm in its co-founder's repeatedly broke laws by the scylla taping weinstein's alleged abuses weinstein was one of hollywood's most influential producers before more than seventy women accused him of sexual misconduct including rape allegations he has denied the lawsuit has

stalled the planned sale of the company for five hundred million dollars i can't is following the story from washington d.c. . well the new york attorney general eric schneiderman has filed suit in the new york county supreme court not only against harvey weinstein personally but also against his brother and the company as a whole now the reason for this as the attorney general is because of what he believed was an imminent sale of the company this could result he was concerned in victims not getting sufficient compensation in those within the company who empowered harvey weinstein in what i described his predatory actions maintaining their positions and getting some financial benefit out of the sale of the suit details very very closely numerous allegations against harvey weinstein in particular but also against the company as a whole for various contraventions of new york code and new york business practices

it makes very clear that there were layers within the weinstein company that will well aware of the activities of the principal shareholder and in fact in polity and in his activities the h.r. department for example received numerous complaints over the past four or five years not a single one of these complaints were acted upon the attorney general also found that senior members of the board well well aware of harvey weinstein using tipple to use and they did nothing about it so the suit filed in the supreme court already in one body who was going to be attempting to buy the company has withdrawn the offer to buy of needed to be in the wake of this particular suit so the attorney general's apparent wish that the sale of this company will not go ahead until all those within it are held accountable and are held responsible for their role in

facilitating the activities of harvey weinstein himself. a human rights activist known as the iron lady of pakistan has died. suffered a heart attack in the eastern city of lahore late on sunday and died a few hours later she was a fierce defender of women and minorities that openly criticize the pakistani military intelligence and right right ring religious parties to former un special for tour was also chair of pakistan's human rights commission and have served as president of the supreme court's bar association or was sixty six years old that of south africa's ruling african national congress says party leaders are preparing to finalize a deal that will result in president jacob zuma leaving office so as under increasing pressure to leave over corruption allegations a.n.c. leader cyril ramaphosa says leaders meeting on monday will decide on a swift transfer of power south africa's opposition has criticised the private

talks between suman a.n.c. leaders saying he should get immunity from prosecution in exchange for leaving a muggle tongue in a is a political commentator for talk radio seven o two and johannesburg she thinks from a post doesn't have many options over when president zuma might step down. the defining moment came at the agency's national conference last year in december where president wit currently now similar on my post i was elected as president of the a.n.c. which is the ruling party and the conversation started coming up about a balance of power and the a.n.c. right now is facing an election in twenty nineteen and jacob zuma hasn't really been that good for the agencies the perception of the public opinion around jacob zuma is that he is a corrupt man he has seven hundred eighty three counts of corruption record tearing and money laundering just to make tomorrow's vote special any see me saying we

definitely hope to hear from them opposite to say yes the president will be stepping down yes we need to we need to confirm a date for the state of the nation address you'll remember that the official opening of parliament has still been on hold because of these discussions that are happening so we really need to have you know a clear idea of what is president jacob zuma fuchsia will he be stepping down and what are his conditions because we do know that part of these long discussions are about how he will step down and what his future will be oxfam asay singh new allegations that it's down fuz prostitutes in the african nation of chad in two thousand and six a follows growing criticism for the way it handled accusations of sexual misconduct by its workers in haiti for the charity was working in the aftermath of the two thousand and ten earthquake it's on of us to cation lead to four people being fired and the resignation of three others u.k. government is now threatening to withdraw funding from oxfam. colombia's military

has blamed alun rebels for two attacks on saturday group was holding a three day national blockade to protest against the government's decision to suspend peace negotiations two bombs went off at a bridge which connects the country's atlantic coast with its inland areas there have been no reported deaths or injuries the ellen had warned colombians against traveling during the blockade. forests around the world are under growing threat of destruction and the world wildlife fund says an area called one to twenty seven football fields is being lost to logon agriculture and development every minute but in costa rica environmental activists are fighting back and gallagher has our story . few places in the world can boast the kind of biodiversity found in costa rica's forests you'll find unique species and unique climates but deforestation is taking its toll over the last seventy years about eighty percent of costa rica's forest

has been lost. the bridge nature reserve researches and volunteers of fighting back we've got to remember that in just a few short years they've replanted and we grown large parts of this rain forest and the result a promising when we finally captured a jaguar on the camera trap he was very big cat that was a huge step for us when we walked through the areas that we've planted in and you see the tree is large enough to make it on its own in the forest is changing. that's a huge step easy. to get there like biologists from around the world now come here to study what this kind of regeneration can achieve the return of species once lost to agriculture and logging is for many i don't forget a bill experience i'm sure there is you know success stories in other countries and other places but having been able to experience it firsthand here for so long for sure it's going to be something that i look back on tell people about you know it

works and i the tower bridge reserve is now an example of what simple techniques patience and preservation can achieve a country wide shoot progress is being made it's astounding to see what fifteen years if we growth can look like and according to the united nations reforestation is the best way to combine climate change and it's something costa rica's done very effectively through various incentives a government program. they've managed to reclaim almost a quarter of what was lost. costa rica's rich natural heritage has long been a draw for students and tourists alike this nation's reforestation if its stand as a testament to what can be achieved at a time when the environment faces its greatest challenges and together. at the cloud bridge reserve in costa rica an estimated two hundred thousand senior citizens in britain have not had a conversation with a friend or relative and more than a month and more than half of those over the age of seventy five live alone or

correspondent barnaby phillips has a story my wife died about two and a half years ago and i miss her. but we are another has to get on with love john who is ninety had felt increasingly isolated the death of his wife left a void we've been married for sixty five years so obviously companionship and friendship important to me. the solution arranged by a charity was for john to give a room to poppy a twenty one year old student she helps with shopping cooking going for walks it's mutually beneficial most importantly they like each other in simplest terms i probably won't be able to afford to live where i am if i wasn't working and living with john as a young person or the conversations we have i come out learning something new he's had such an interesting life. loneliness is subjective individuals and societies

feel it in different ways but says this expert its impact on health can be measured having predisposed health conditions so there's been a matter that looked at showed that it was bad for your health. today people that are more likely to get heart disease and start. their early onset of dementia. many mental health issues amateur depression suicide. cocktails in care an unlikely mixture but another simple idea bringing young people into care homes for the elderly in britain three quarters of older people say they feel lonely almost half say t.v. is their main companion but on these evenings everyone reaches out to everyone else .

and. make. light of loneliness itself the benefits of a scheme like this very hard to quantify but gauging in conversation between generations makes almost all of us feel good it creates understanding it strengthens the ties which holds society to get. lonely often comes with feelings of shame but it is part of the human condition and on evenings like these some people discover that they have more in common than the thought of the phillips al-jazeera london. recap the headlines on al-jazeera investigators in russia say they're looking at all possible causes as the hunt for clues began and to why a plane crashed soon after takeoff from an airport in moscow all seventy one people

on board were killed at least six civilians including two children have died in syrian government airstrikes in rebel held eastern more than two hundred forty people in rebel held areas have been killed in strikes by syrian and russian military in just the last week the u.n. says some of the attacks may be war crimes. delegation has left seoul leaving the south korean government to consider an offer of a summit and pyongyang the group which included the sister of north korean leader kim jong un ended its visit by joining south korean president and at a concert given by and north korean arch for the british foreign secretary has urged manned mars later on sponsored shade to allow the u.n. to supervise the return of a hand to refugees forced johnson made the pally after visiting displaced muslim villagers in rakhine state and refugee camps and bangladesh to be honest i'm not sure she really understands the full horror of what has happened i don't think she's been in a helicopter to see what we have seen today and really what i was trying to get eva

to is the importance of leadership i believe in god i believe in her leadership i think she's done incredible things in her life i'm very sad to see what's happening to them and i want to see the direction the country is going ahead of south africa's ruling african national congress as party leaders are preparing to finalize a deal that will result in president jacob zuma leaving office so most under increasing pressure to leave over corruption allegations and to later cyril ram a post says says leaders meeting on monday will decide on the swift transfer of power. new york state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the weinstein company alleging it failed to protect its employees against a former c.e.o. harvey weinstein i'm seen as one of hollywood's most influential producers before more than seventy women accused him of sexual misconduct including rape allegations he denied a loss in his stall the plan sale of the company for five hundred million dollars

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