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to fight turkey. russian investigators find two black boxes that could hold clues behind the plane crash that killed all seventy one on board plus. a month ago the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. hello iraq is trying to secure one hundred billion dollars to rebuild cities an infrastructure destroyed in the fight against isis delegates from dozens of countries and potential investors are gathering at a donor conference in kuwait shortly we'll go live to sami dan. but first here's his report. this is what so-called liberation from i sort of looks like to has nally and his family it's been six months since iraq's prime minister declared

nineveh province freed alys house is still in ruins so is much of robbie a town. he used to work as a farmer tilling the soil now he plows the rubble of his home and reaps what others have so in his life i say yes and. we've given up hope in returning home we've been displaced for with three years look at how our house has been destroyed. allen fled when i saw fighters seized the nearby city of mosul four years ago he's not alone more than two and a half million iraqis remain displaced by the rule they have no money to rebuild their lives so they live in tent camps such as south of mosul and. the government should look after us money i need bread when i'm supporting six children my parents and a sick family member these are the people the conference in quite this week must help if it's to succeed ejecting eisel from the third of iraq the fighters once controlled has left a wasteland human rights groups such as amnesty international blame both i saw and

the u.s. led coalition for unnecessary destruction and civilian deaths. the nineveh reconstruction committee says the conflict destroyed three quarters of mosul's roads almost all its bridges and two thirds of the electrical network unicef says three quarters of a million children in mosul region lack access to health services it's unicycles and humanitarian organizations and the government does not get into great friends like you know back. in the. war children will be forced to leave or girls will be forced to marry early we might seem more young. and iraqi officials come to quite looking for investments in over one hundred projects everything from the angle cultural sector to the energy industry is on the table and iraq's prime minister well he says he needs one hundred billion dollars to get the job done. it's

a huge amount of money we know our budget can't cover nor can the nation it's almost impossible that's why we are resorting to investment iraq is counting on outside help to salvage itself into a united and functioning state but when asked what commitments they're ready to make in the quite conference our policy pastor has changed since previous administrations remember we used to be in the whole nation building in the united states government is not doing that any longer that outside interest may determine whether iraqis thirst for a normal life will ever be quenched or sammy's live in kuwait city now outside that donor conference so sami a big task ahead for the erakat government as it tries to secure that funding. indeed it is a big task ahead there are lots of challenges too but i'd start with the task can we say there are commitments thus far not yet and that was the line i just got out of the head of the rocky reconstruction fund dr mustafa hitty told me we're still

working on it basically what can we say at this point well there is attendance representatives from over seventy five countries here and about two thousand representatives of private business companies will that translate though into money that is the big question as you heard from my report there moments ago the signals coming out of the state department is that the u.s. is no longer doing state building big question about whether or not the u.s. will be coming to this conference to give any money i can tell you want locks and stuff and he told me moments ago he said he thinks america should feel some responsibility towards iraq and he'd like to see twenty billion dollars worth of money come his way from washington d.c. . and of course one of the one of the challenges in conferences like this is seeing the pledges of money being made but also

seeing how how they make good on those pledges and getting the money to the people who need it really needed in the country. absolutely and if you talk to people whether they're in alum bar or in some of the displacement camps near mosul that's exactly what you have to demonstrate to them that if any money comes in it's going to go towards them and going towards making their lives better now of course there have been conference is held before to try and help rebuild iraq you remember one in madrid perhaps in two thousand and three where thirty three billion dollars was pledged in terms of a donation that had to be followed up a year later in tokyo though because the organizers of the host said. only a fraction of pledged money had come in fast forward now iraq is perhaps a little bit of a different landscape and what they're asking for now in this conference is more investments not just donations now there's still

a couple of days to go but iraq has to demonstrate that some of the challenges facing this country are not of concern or not so much of a concern to international investors or donors things like transfer corruption. iraq still suffers from a corruption problem according to transparency international is ranked one hundred sixty six out of one hundred seventy six countries there's also the issue of security while the level of violence may have dropped compared to how bad things were back in two thousand and four if you look at some of the figures from the u.n. for civilian deaths in january they're almost double what they were the month before that so violence is still an issue and then of course there's the issue of political stability elections are supposed to be held in may how do you hold elections when over two million people of your country are still displaced and probably won't be able to vote for the majority of them are from sunni areas will

that amount to some kind of political exclusion in the eyes of some iraqis and will that can. tribute to a sort of stable political environment these are some of the questions you really have to tackle and well if you're going to present your country to the world is the place that's a fight for more investment as and. indeed sammy said then life first there in kuwait sank his watch. now the u.s. admits that some u.s. backed syrian kurdish fighters are going to the town of afrin to help fellow kurds battle turkish soldiers defense secretary james mattis says around half the fighters from the rebel syrian defense forces may have moved to the area turkey launched an operation in africa last month to push kurds out of the border region with syria america's support of syrian kurds fighting eisel has strained relations with turkey and nato ally has the latest from the turkish city of gaziantep near

the border with syria. on sunday the turkish army together with the free syrian army made further gains in their push towards capturing this city of five three and that is the stronghold of the kurdish militia group why p.g. they did manage to take the town of. as well as other positions the significance of which opened up a route for that alliance of the turkish army and the f.s.a. from western opposed to a western front your point towards free and now other developments that have taken place away from the battlefield there was a meeting between senior u.s. officials and turkish officials general mcmaster from the united states like the national security advisor in the trumpet ministration met with one of the senior advisers of president project tell you to run in istanbul late on sunday now there were no minced words that were left between the two in fact take he made it very clear that it's outrage that the united states continues to support

a group which it sees akin to ice or the turks believe the y.p. g. is just another terrorist organization that's continues to kill talkers civilians and threatens the turkish national security of the u.s. however obviously sees them as a key ally because they've actually helped them in terms of ensuring that the u.s. has some sort of a stake inside syria now these discussions obviously are still preliminary true. it will be a bigger discussions between the two in the u.s. secretary of state for extremism is expected to come to turkey later on in the week and your meets his counterparts on the ground progress has been made in terms of militarily speaking as far as the talks are concerned diplomatically however very little progress indeed. now egypt's army says is killed twelve fighters and arrested more than one thousand people in a major assault against armed groups in the sinai peninsula the army navy and air force operation began last week four egyptian soldiers have been killed president

of the fact that his sisi told the army to use in his words brute force to restore security after more than three hundred people killed in an attack on a mosque in november. investigators in russia have found two flight recorders which could help them work out why a passenger plane crashed soon after takeoff killing all seventy one people on board and all the possible causes are being considered for sunday's crash including human error a bad weather and a technical fault challenge reports from moscow. the answer nor 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 going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walk to the scene. 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 and the debris of the plane is spread over radios of at least one kilometer investigators are using modern equipment taking into consideration the large territory they're 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 domodedovo airport early sunday afternoon on its way to the city of war sc 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. a little confusing or to some we have flown degrees from an a n one for a plane and bodies of two hundred times. in some way lonely she's just the most important thing now is to organize the collection of debris and remains of the victims by ministry of emergency situations workers transport to authorities soon

confirmed everyone in the plane had died russia has suffered two major air crashes in recent years in december two thousand and sixteen a t u one five four military aircraft crashed into the black sea with the loss of ninety two people it was blamed on pilot error 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. putin was supposed to be traveling to sochi on monday to meet with the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas that meeting will now take place in moscow so the president can stay in the capital and monitor the investigation various causes are being considered including pilot error bad weather conditions or perhaps something else really chalons al-jazeera moscow. all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back president criticizes israeli settlements but is his

administration really changing direction. trading guns for books now former child soldiers in south sudan are getting a chance to lead a normal life. had the wet season officially still in indonesia not in malaysia but we're still in tropical cyclone season and there's one developing to come through sudden pass the philippines probably does southern edge of it so it's mindanao the odd and in question take a lot of the energy out of the atmosphere and obviously produce a lot of wind more especially rain for the southern and central philippines which means that further south you go day off in sulawesi good part of borneo it still looks fairly wet for java including jakarta the still flooding here and it'll be topped up but time to get to wednesday the site only just moving west of the

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witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. and again you're watching edge there are mind of our top stories this hour iraq is trying to secure one hundred billion dollars at a donor conference in kuwait to fund the reconstruction after its war with eyesore the government says it needs to rebuild cities an infrastructure destroyed in this three a conflict. the u.s.

admits that some american backed syrian kurdish fighters are helping fellow kurds battle turkish soldiers in africa u.s. support of the syrian kurds in the fight against a strained relations with turkey a nato ally. investigators in russia have found two flight data recorders as they look for clues behind sunday's plane crash outside moscow all seventy one people on board were killed on the side of airlines flight plunged into a field shortly after takeoff. now u.s. president donald trump has questioned israel's commitment to making peace with the palestinians he made the comments in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire and trump backers sheldon adelson the us president says he isn't necessarily sure they are in his words looking to make peace he warns israeli settlements are quote something that very much complicates and always have complicated making peace he urges israel to be very careful with the settlements

but trump also repeats what he's been saying about the palestinian leadership he says they're not looking to make peace and threatens to with hold aid unless they agree to talks or phyllis bennis is the author of understanding the palestinian israeli conflict she doubts trump's comments represent a real policy shift by the u.s. what president trump spoke of was the idea of a quote peace deal that's very different than peace peace requires at least a modicum of justice that was not on the agenda here a deal implies ending resistance essentially to israeli power that is not on the palestinians agenda that's been the position recently of the palestinian leadership bringing it closer to matching the position of a wide majority of palestinian. civil society so i think what we're seeing here is certainly not the end of the u.s. role as a as an honest broker because it never was an honest broker this is simply

a clear acknowledgement of that reality the u.s. vice president says washington and seoul have agreed on terms for further talks on north with north korea mike pence told the washington post that could possibly lead to direct talks without preconditions between the u.s. and north korea france made the comments as he returned from south korea. persons. french foreign secretary says me and myles leader isn't fully aware of what he called the horror in northern ohio state forest johnson visited muslim villages there as well as refugee camps in bangladesh they're housing some of the seven hundred thousand people who fled a military crackdown the u.n. says maybe a genocide. reports. the u.k. foreign secretary came to see the situation with his own eyes boris johnson to a door hinge of refugee camps and bangladesh and met with villagers who remain and were kind statement he thinks myanmar leader aung sun suu kyi does not fully

understand the crisis i don't think she's been in a helicopter to see what we have seen today i don't think it has come through to how the full extent of the horror of what has happened the horror johnson is talking about is what the u.s. calls ethnic cleansing and the u.n. says it may be genocide seven hundred thousand muslim or hinge on have fled to bangladesh and a mass exodus since august that's when the military of the buddhist majority country began its latest crackdown. there will hinge accuse the myanmar army of mass killings rape and the torching of their villages. few know each city but there are advantages yes. and then. there is a deck for most of the villages west of. me and maher says its military operations were a counter offensive to attacks. it's not known how many people have died in these

operations since august but doctors without borders us to mates at least six thousand seven hundred were murdered in the first month of violence i've seen nothing like it in my life the hundreds hundreds of villages torched it's absolutely devastating and i think that what is needed now is is some leadership some calm but some leadership working with the u.n. agencies for johnson is calling on me in march to work with the u.n. and repatriate the refugees dr rakhine state but under u.n. supervision me and more has so far blocked un investigators from the region and a high ranking u.s. diplomat recently quit an advisory board saying he feared the panel would whitewash the crisis new reports and photos of mass graves are increasing international pressure on sochi under a government i believe she can still make a change and make a difference but to do that she needs to show get the agencies in get the refugees

back home in a way that is safe and voluntary and and dignified. what remains to be seen is if she can live up to her nine hundred ninety one nobel peace prize and put a stop to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that continue paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. a senior leaders of south africa's ruling party are hoping to finalize a deal that will see president jacob zuma leave office their meeting in the next few hours assume is under pressure to resign over corruption allegations the opposition is warning zuma should not be offered immunity in exchange for stepping down african the african national congress leader still ramaphosa says party leaders will decide on a swift transfer of power. i believe that she did this now. we i confidently eight hundred eight is conscious i'm the transition to

a new business the nation and specifically. result. of that was this isn't this is. not the sort of. how monday marks international day against the use of child soldiers according to the u.n. the number of children recruited is still rising more than two thousand took up arms in the past three years alone now former young soldiers in south sudan are being given a chance to lead a normal life but some are struggling to reintegrate into their communities here at morgan reports from young you. these moves are not need to john he's been taught how to carry them out for the past two years since he was fifteen he didn't learn the drills willingly johns' one of at least seven hundred children forcibly recruited by the south sudan's national liberation movement. is moving away and they're going to be there. to do godly play or who want to go alone

or if you take using that you want the world you don't need that said it would define you and do that day cool again by force. the civil war in south sudan now into its fifth year has killed thousands and displaced millions many vulnerable kids were recruited by armed groups to fight both boys and girls so just thirteen year old sarah. i was wounded in two angles to this people and only one started to van cleef i wanted to make for a long line and i still don't know this it's a move that is put on to do nothing didn't said to. mr raymond. right groups they nearly all armed groups to critic children to fight the south sudan's national liberation movement has recently released more than three hundred children but that they were not really forced by the condition to buy and then

first today and now all of us to get up to stay so in fact we did not dent over the years that they may be a needed me to fight does well you see we have decided also as we are now in tones of that the best sort of we decided to release them so that they can go to school. communities. nearly two thousand children have been demobilization the past five years but they are being replaced according to unicef the number of tell soldiers in armed groups and on forces has been on the rise since the war in december to fifteen that despite all were inside agreeing to stop recruiting tough soldiers and releasing those already enlisted but even for those who have been demobilized life is a challenge. many children who've been released have no idea where their families are for others fighting has become a way of life that the biggest challenge is reintegration it's a process that takes time to two three years for that child to go back home and

resettle we still have more kids to be released so access big thing that we need more kids to be released all real concern is the reintegration of these children so that they don't get recruited again john and sara say they don't want to return to the battlefield but they also feel what lies ahead after their past experiences and wonder if they may be forced to fight again he will mourn al-jazeera young south sudan. liberia's former president ellen johnson sirleaf has become the first woman to win them over to whom prize for african leadership sirleaf was rich recognized for her efforts to rebuild her country after two civil wars she was africa's first elected female head of state and served two terms as liberia's president the coveted five million dollar prize is only handed out if there is deemed to be a worthy candidate oxfam is facing new allegations that its staff use prostitutes

this time 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 aid workers in haiti where the charity was working after the twenty ten earthquake its investigation led to the dismissal of four people and the resignation of three others the u.k. government is now threatening to withdraw funding from the organization. of human rights activists known as the iron lady of pakistan will be buried on tuesday usma john geer suffered a heart attack and died in lahore on saturday she was sixty six years old john geer faced death threats for criticizing the government and defending minority rights and was placed under house arrest twice she co-founded pakistan's human rights commission and served as a un special rapporteur our forests across the world are under growing threat of destruction that's according to the world wildlife fund which says an

area acquittal and to twenty seven football fields is lost every minute to logging agriculture and farming but in costa rica environmental activists are fighting back and gallagher has their 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 clough 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 hired by big cat that was a huge step for us when we walk through the areas that we planted in and you see the tree is large enough to make it on its own in the forest is changing and 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 in the cloud bridge reserve is now an example of what simple techniques patience and preservation can achieve a country wide shoot to progress is being made it's astounding to see what fifteen years of we growth can look like and according to the united nations report station is the best way to combine climate change and it's something costa rica's done very effectively to various incentives and government programs 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 but this nation's reforestation if it's stand is a testament to what can be achieved at a time when the environment faces its greatest challenges and a gallica al-jazeera at the cloud bridge reserve in costa rica. drivers near the chinese capital beijing had a lucky escape after a liquefied natural gas tanker overturned on a highway dash cam footage shows a car driving over the spilled fuel and igniting it creating a wall of flames on the road one driver tried to escape quickly jumped back inside before flames engulfed the car two people were seriously burned the highway is a major route for trucks carrying coal and liquefied gas. this is al jazeera let's get a roundup of the top stories now iraq is trying to secure one hundred billion dollars or international donor conference in kuwait to fund reconstruction after

its war with eisel the government says it needs the money to rebuild cities and infrastructure destroyed in a three year conflict the u.n. is estimating forty thousand homes were damaged in the worst hit city of mosul. this plenty of attendance here representatives of over sixty five countries the host say have shown up today as well as around two thousand almost two thousand representatives of private businesses from all around the world was the big question is will that translate into money some critics might say we've been here before as a conference to help pledge money for iraq a big pledges are made but not always does the money all come in all the u.s. admits there's some american back syrian kurdish fighters are helping fellow kurds battle turkish soldiers in africa turkey launched an operation last month to push kurds out of the border region with syria america's support for syrian kurds

fighting i saw has strained relations with turkey a nato ally. investigators in russia have found the two flight data recorders from sunday's plane crash outside moscow hoping the recorders will reveal clues over how the sabotage airlines flight plunged into a field shortly after takeoff killing all seventy one people on board u.s. president donald trump has questioned israel's commitment to peace with the palestinians in a rare criticism he told an israeli newspaper in an interview he says israel's settlements in the occupied west bank are complicating the process britain's foreign secretary says myanmar's leader is out of touch with what he called a horror in northern ohio and start state johnson visited muslim refugees there as well as refugee camps in neighboring bangladesh seven hundred thousand people have fled a military crackdown and the u.n. says maybe a genocide. those are the headlines today

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