this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teens in. something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes rising from the ruins iraq seeks one hundred billion dollars to rebuild after its devastating war with ice. our joint commitment to defeat

isis is is steadfast u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson begins his middle east tall with a promise to help egypt defeat armed groups. russian investigators swing through snow covered fields to find out why a passenger plane crashed killing all seventy one on board. and school high winds again cause havoc at the when. some riders complained the final was a lottery due to the conditions. but iraq's prime minister declared the war with eisel was over last year it signaled the beginning of efforts to rebuild the devastated country much of it left in ruins the price tag one hundred billion dollars in kuwait a donor conference is on the way to help finance the massive endeavor iraq has

published a list of one hundred fifty seven projects that it's what it wants help to build to provide jobs and you homes for some of the two and a half million people displaced by the fighting it includes hospitals schools businesses and telecommunications iraq says that around one hundred thirty eight thousand homes an apartment blocks were damaged. has more from kuwait city. 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 wreaks what others have selling his life as a. risk giving up hope in returning home we've been displaced or 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 an i.d. act if 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 school or girls will be forced to marry early we might see him more young boys doing fine and iraqi officials come to quite looking for investments and over one hundred projects everything from that great 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. n.g.o.s here at the conference of pledged over three hundred million dollars to various humanitarian projects inside iraq and quite the n.g.o.s say they'll force about a third of that bill now that number still a far cry from the one hundred billion us dollars that iraq's prime minister said he needs in order to rebuild his country but iraqi officials i've been talking to say while the still more time they're hopeful of getting more money in from this conference some of the early signals from some of the countries like the united states of america haven't been all that encouraging you'll recall over the course of this last week also spokes persons for the state department saying things like when already in the business of nation building anymore when i spoke with iraqi officials about that sort of message well they said they hope to hear

a different tune from the u.s. secretary of state when he comes to kuwait. they have to have responsible t.v. about in ark no just to defeat the irish but to rebuild the economy how much money would you like to see listen to listen bring potluck if he is going to get was twenty billion dollars and all the dark is beautiful so happy and very kind they will be very good attitude for. for the outside world to respond more positively to calls like that one made there by dr moustapha. iraq will have to demonstrate to the outside world particularly to the private sector that it is a good destination for investment calling to transparency international iraq stands at one hundred sixty six out of one hundred and seventy six countries when it comes to its corruption index so still some work to be done there sam is a than al-jazeera kuwait the us secretary of state rex tillerson will travel to

cure wait for that conference on tuesday right now though he's in egypt where he says the trumpet ministration group. manes committed to working with the country to defeat i so he discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister sana shokri in cairo at the start of his middle east tool to listen i said to hold talks with president up till fattah el-sisi later he says the u.s. and cairo share the common goal of last peace in the region. but we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on counterterrorism measures including our joint commitment to the defeat of isis in egypt has been a very important member of the defeat isis coalition from the beginning they egypt deals with the threats of isis themselves and are dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai we also discussed the importance of the protection and promotion of human rights in the vital role of civil society in egypt with the

presidential elections planned for the end of march the united states as it does in all countries supports a transparent and credible electoral process. that occurs. with most of the conversation was based on the bilateral relations there was a deep and genuine interest from mr tillotson with the us to continue to work in support egypt and work together to achieve our common interests this is what i reiterated to him egypt is keen on maintaining this positive friendly relationship which will no doubt bring about most ability and security and push forward to achieving lasting peace in the middle east to listens visits to cairo comes as an egyptian military operation is underway against armed groups in the sinai peninsula the military says that it's killed twelve faces of the rest of the ninety people in the assault which was launched on friday four egyptian soldiers have died president of the fatah sisi told the army to use in his words brute force to restore security after more than three hundred people were killed in an attack on

a mosque in november. abdullah is assistant professor of history at georgetown university here in doha he's with me now in the studio the u.s. is suspended some more one hundred ninety five million dollars in military aid to egypt due to concerns over human rights and democracy in the country and egypt remains of a u.s. ally in the fight against extremists of attila's since trying to get a fine line diplomatically in cairo is doing well here's but at the same time the trumpet administration hasn't really demonstrated strong interest in trying to actually hold him to account on a number of these kinds of questions yes they would hold a little bit of that aid a lot of that came specifically from the congress and not so much from the administration and so one of the things that he signaled today is that he's not really interested in questioning the upcoming elections and whether they're going to be free and open as is the u.s. has previously said they want it given that egypt's foreign minister said that he hopes the u.s. will respect the need for quote stability in egypt more or less saying that our

domestic policies are our own and none of your business. egypt's not at all concerned to listen is not giving them the sort of message that would make them concerned about u.s. misgivings over human rights and democracy rights and i think this is this is very much in keeping with past u.s. administrations have never really shown much concern for the human rights situation or the situation with it with democracy in egypt and for the most part they simply see egypt as a tool to maintain stability to be an ally in this war on terrorism both regionally in terms of within sinai but also even beyond that as well egypt's former pains to point out that the u.s. and egypt do agree on on many issues both regionally and internationally except perhaps at the blockade against cata will tell us and be able to make any headway over that particular crisis in his five stop tool well perhaps when dealing with some of the other countries i mean you know facing the fact is that egypt is not

really in control of the situation with the blockade that that. as a secondary actor it's a country that's really just following in the lead of saudi arabia the united arab emirates and bahrain is kind of the senior partners in this blockade and so in that sense he's not going to reach any kind of progress while he's in egypt but as he goes on to some of his other stops especially in kuwait where there's going to be a funder's conference for the reconstruction of iraq that there should be some additional discussions and i think that recently the qatari delegation that went to washington received some some strong assurances that that the u.s. is certainly signaling a shift in its position toward this blockade and as far as that conference is concerned in kuwait how deep is the u.s. going to dig into its pockets to donate to this this fund for reconstruction we surely it has a moral responsibility to do so doesn't it well it has a moral responsibility but this administration hasn't signaled that it's willing to actually uphold that responsibility in fact quite the opposite that it's shirking

many of its responsibilities given for instance what we've seen with the withdrawing withdrawal of funds for the palestinian refugee situation there is a there is a sense that that the trumpet ministration is not interested in actually contributing to these kinds of reconstruction efforts whether in iraq or even to humanitarian causes elsewhere but that rather it's hoping that other countries for the bill for this always gets to too many thanks indeed for being with. russia's government says that u.s. support for diplomatic efforts to stabilize syria has been inadequate earlier turkey's foreign minister announced that relations with washington are at a very critical point over washington support of the kurds the u.s. defense secretary has admitted that some american backed syrian kurdish fighters are helping fellow kurds battle turkish soldiers turkey launched an operation in a free in last month to push kurds out of the border region with syria. arctic.

who don't know what he promises and commitments anymore we want to take concrete steps we're going to evaluate these during the u.s. secretary of state visit because our relations are at a very critical stage in that we will improve ties or these ties puts a breakdown there is no other option will the u.n. says that the syrian civil war has intensified with some of the worst fighting since the conflict began nearly seven years ago it says that hundreds of people have been killed injured or displaced in the past week alone activists in rebel held eastern turning to social media to highlight the suffering of around three hundred fifty thousand people who are trapped in the besieged area of zeros anahata reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. well. appeals for help coming from the children of. god we are being killed by your

silence save us before it is too late mohammad says. opposition activists have launched a campaign on social media to highlight what they describe as the suffering of those trapped in. the intensity of the airstrikes targeting the rebel held area has been unprecedented the bombing relentless. syrian and russian aircraft have stepped up bombardment in recent days in a military operation that began in late december. since then over four hundred people have been killed half in the first week of february alone. according to the syrian observatory for human rights at least one hundred of the casualties were

children since. nowhere is safe the united nations says people are under extreme danger calls for a cease fire have been ignored three health facilities have been hit in the past week the u.n. has been trying to evacuate hundreds of critically ill and wounded patients for months now. eastern who has been encircled by government forces for four years as of late the siege has been tightened and no aid has entered in months the u.n. is appealing for access to provide the people with food fuel and medicine international aid organizations say they cannot imagine the scale of the humanitarian disaster if a cease fire does not take effect the u.n. security council failed to support. a proposal for a truce russia a veto wielding member of the council called it unrealistic saying it's not sure what it called terrorists are in agreement was.

the in the people of eastern huta still have their voices they are hoping to be heard but campaigns like this one have been tried in the past they didn't stop the bloodshed. residential areas are being hit buildings are being flattened there is a wide scale destruction and the international community is still silent. about it you have no civil defense volunteers have been overwhelmed since the battle for control of eastern escalated one of them discovered the body of his mother under the rubble there is desperation but little sign that scenes like this will not happen again. beirut. there with the news out from up zero still to come on the program it's crunch time for south africa's ruling party as it decides on president jacob zuma future plus. a surge in violence in india administered kashmir forcing people to run to safety.

and i'm touching on a franchise in doha west several former wild tennis number one prepare for the fast it may just stop after the australian open. investigators looking into the plane crash near the russian capital say there was no explosion on board before the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff all seventy one people were on board on board were killed when the aircraft crashed into a field outside moscow on sunday most of the victims from the city of austin the rural mountains where the plane was to use a land of morals been held there with people laying flowers and attending services for the dead. let's go live now to near the crash site there moscow al-jazeera story challenges there rory are investigators any closer to discovering why this

aircraft crashed. or i think is one of the features of this kind of investigation adrian that information comes out in the immediate aftermath of a disaster and as time progresses some of that information gets discounted erroneous so or off old soul whatever as you say the crew if you're struggling here we are battling over a. enthusiastic tractor with a snowplow here but. yeah we have information coming out like. in the early hours of after a disaster like that the plane with the sky burning and was already in pieces and then as time progresses that kind of information gets to us. counted so yes we are moving towards some kind of conclusion but we're still way off and of course crucial so all of this is the discovery of the black box recorders and we know that

at least one of those black box recorders has been found there is some debate going on about whether the second one has been found but the aviation committee has said in the last few minutes that yes they do you have two and both of them are being analyzed at the moment that will be absolutely vital in working out the cause of this disaster a lot of people there telling you rory about what they heard and saw on sunday. well i mean this is a small village only about eighty kilometers outside of moscow it's a combination of batches that sort of small holiday homes and people living here people are basically just. astounded saddened and amazed by what's happened right in their midst the the crash site is a few hundred meters from where i'm standing at the moment it's out across snowy fields and it's making the investigation on the piecing together of of the crash

site scene very difficult indeed it's it's needy production it's very cold at the moment and we've got hundreds and hundreds of emergency personnel out there basically sifting through the debris sifting through the wreckage it's a grim task i have to say we know that hundreds of body pieces fragments of human remains have been found already and the emergency services are expecting to be here for many days to come have seven days looking for all all the that evidence and the the human remains that they can find it's a it's a grim task and not an easy one considering the the weather conditions. all right lorie many thanks indeed al-jazeera story chalons there the crash site outside moscow senior leaders from south africa's ruling party a meeting to discuss president jacob zuma future they hope to finalize a deal for him to leave office before his term ends next year zuma is under

pressure to resign over corruption allegations african national congress leader several run oppose a says the party leaders will decide on a swift transfer of power. and their leader i see the good news now. we was constantly engaged hungary any discussions on this month usually. a new business is the case. and specifically. result. of that was this isn't this is there and i did not think so. he is a political analyst joins us now live from johannesburg welcome i should all well and good cyril ramaphosa talking about us with transfer of power but is jacob zuma going to be persuaded to step down to meet his term doesn't end for another year. yes that's true but given that the n.s.c.

has met several times in the last few weeks that the state state of the nation address has been postponed by parliament it looks like we're now coming to a crunch and there are two possible outcomes of the meeting that's just started at two o'clock today it looks as though the first option will be that mr zuma will agree to go provided he is he gets some guarantees that the a plea bargain where he'll turn state witness in the state capture a case where he's family will be granted some form of in indemnity and security etc the second option of course is if you refuses to go then the a.n.c. is now in a position to actually instruct problem of its members of parliament to actually vote against him in a no contest confidence vote and that is possibly the next step that will happen the big stumbling block of course has been firstly that there are members of the a.n.c. it's a split any ca national executive council at the moment because there are members

of that council who could will very well be taken down themselves if mr zuma doesn't go quietly and exposes their wrongdoing as well also of course the major leagues of the a.n.c. are also divided on this issue the women's league is behind him the veterans' league wants him to go and the youth league appears to be divided which do you think is the most likely of the two options you've outlined there who's going to blink first. well we've seen that mr them or is a very very good poker player and he is unlikely to go quietly and lift he gets adequate guarantees both with regard to possible prosecution in the capture as well as with regard to indemnity on any further prosecution and indemnity than the curity guarantee for himself and his family members so i think it's a very tough one to call but we're hoping that he will agree to step down and

impose a talking about a swift transfer of power once president zuma has. relinquished his his post one of the mean by that would by swift about a matter of days and who would take over as president it would most likely be mr rem oppose the president of the a and b. unless of course that different agreement is reached within the anything which is not out of the realm but it is improbable to most likely it will be. the but you will have noticed me speech yesterday he was very careful as to the words he used he's been very very thin not actually naming mr zoom up by name talking about a transition regarding the president of the republic as the two are in order to bring the president of the sea and the president of the country into one off it really gets to you i said many thanks. in china's.

fighters of open fire near a military camp in indian administered kashmir least one soldier has been killed the attack follows a two day gun battle at another camp that killed five soldiers and a civilian in test reports. smoke rises above a paramilitary camp in indian administered kashmir is largest city police say two fighters started shooting from a nearby location several buildings were evacuated and the area has been cleared of all civilians investigators say they are in control of the situation to then going to start their own one third rule they have been for not for the congress will think what is in them but it will be all the expected to be to continue doing anything even if they do you really want to see how we do on these injured you are to be gone confronts among the families just hours earlier government troops under the gun battle inside another military camp in the regions jumbo area of these

three fighters were killed and in the attack that began at dawn on saturday because fear has suffered a rest for years several of the armed groups have been fighting for independence since the late one nine hundred eighty s. the himalayan region is divided between india and its rival back his son both claim because beer in its entirety. around seventy thousand people have been killed in indian administered kashmir in the nearly three decade uprising india accuses pakistan of supplying weapons and training to the armed groups a charge islamabad denies and al-jazeera the us vice president says that washington and seoul of a great further diplomatic engagement 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 fence made the comments as he returned for south korea where he avoided direct contact with the north korean delegation attending the winter

olympics. u.s. president donald trump has questioned israel's commitment to making peace with the palestinians he made the comments of an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire trump backer sheldon adelson it's a rare rebuke of the israeli leadership the u.s. president says he isn't necessarily sure they're looking to make peace he warns that israeli settlements are quote something that a very very much complicates and always have complicated making peace he urges israel to be very careful with the settlements but also repeats what he's been saying about the palestinian leadership he says they're not looking to make peace either and threatens to withhold aid unless they agree to talks will phyllis bennis is the author of understanding the palestinian israeli conflict she doubts the trumps comments represent a 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 and sensually 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. now a state of emergency has been declared in as the pacific island braces for tropical cyclone mckelway meteorologist here with the latest this is a bad what is it what it looks like it's not quite a category five is a high for this walk across at the moment as far as i know there's a power blackout so you got nothing coming out but looking down from space it looks it let me walk you through it it's an interesting storm is that two days ago went

through some other than american samoa across the dateline and then came back again so it's course has been wondering in this general direction but it picked up a category one when it hit samoa and it caused a lot of damage largely through flooding not through wind i think wind might be the major problem so it picked up about the biggest strength when it went south american samoa misty island just there you can see it is heading towards tonga now a category four storm is a big one but one below the marks of however we're talking about a small unprepared are during daylight hours is the best i could do now i'm showing you this largely because it's not concrete structures hotels be largely fine but if you live in a wooden structure like this then this sort of wind speed is damaging dangerous to say we don't happening now it's middle ninety's dark but the wind speeds two hundred fifteen kilometers per. gusting mold that the waves that we're going to back on the shore the nine meters i say i think the damage for this is going to come from the strength and the gusting winds it looks that's right on the top of

tonga at the moment it is going to go slowly west woods a much just catch to far south of fiji but tom was there at the moment in the past . rob many things still to come here on that he was out trading guns for books out child soldiers in south sudan to be given a chance to lead a normal life plus. a man to go across the cloud bridge projects in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. at a sports arena williams has a new fan watching on as the former world number one makes her return to competitive to.

the finals. al-jazeera. you have for your.

hello again adrian for getting here into how with the news hour from now to zero our top stories this hour long governmental organizations are pledging more than three hundred billion dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with eisel it's well short of the one hundred billion dollars that the iraqi government is trying to secure but a donor conference in kuwait. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says the trumpet ministration remains committed to working with egypt to defeat eisel he's discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister in cairo at the start of his middle east tool of the syrian civil war is seeing some of the worst fighting since the conflict began nearly seventy years ago the u.n. says that hundreds of people have been killed injured or displaced in the past week it's calling for a ceasefire to allow aid in to help those affected by the fighting.

the newly elected co-leader of turkey's pro kurdish opposition party is being accused of speaking out against offensive in syria irvin was elected to the h d p party leadership on sunday turkey's state news agency says that she's under investigation for engaging in what it called terror propaganda during her victory speech well dan was elected to replace former co-leader so i had seen them it's us who's been in prison since twenty sixteen facing tara charges. one of our top story this hour the conference raising money to rebuild iraq after its war with i saw people in iraq's largest province of vowing to take revenge on the families of i saw fighters if they return. was one of the last places to be freed from the group shun a palace reports ramadi was once a thriving city of hundreds of thousands of people after i sold was pushed out

rebel lines warehouses once stored and is a tribal province where people often take justice into their own hands tribesmen have warned the families of isis fight is not to return to the area. we don't want to go back to square one we're totally against that if they come back the blood will flow and neither tribes nor military operations will be able to stop it. but now they've destroyed the homes of i still remember as a tech to isolate itself has used in the past see armed groups whipped into a province in two thousand and thirteen the cities of fallujah ramadi and al kut and soon became urban battle fields civilians enjoyed it all in ramadi alone some ten thousand people were killed according to forty counts tribesmen warned families of i saw fighters will pay if they return now the whole is what we are not against

them or tourney but the timing is bad and would risk provoking unrest in a return to bloodshed in the streets. i saw once enjoyed support in the region some sunni tribesmen helped to take control of fallujah and twenty thirteen they legs had to end against the armed group a lot of. the fighters think that families of vyas group matter should be in a camp under the supervision of iraqi government and expert such as clerics professors and intellectuals they should receive a daily training session. around three hundred eighty families of isis fighters including women and children are already detained in two camps across the province they remain out costs in cities charlotte ballasts. britain's foreign minister believes that. isn't fully aware of what he called the horror in northern rakhine 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 un says maybe a genocide pull out of g.m. reports. the u.k. foreign secretary came to see the situation with his own eyes boris johnson two door hinge a refugee camps and bangladesh and met with villagers who remain in me and were kind statement he thinks myanmar leader aung san 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. you know he said it but there are advantages yes. and then. there is a deck for most of the violence with. 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 estimates 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. on al-jazeera. monday is international day against the use of child soldiers u.n. figures show that more than five thousand child soldiers were released back into society last year but tens of thousands more remain boys and girls continue to be

recruited kidnaps forced to face and to work for military groups on. armed forces of twenty seventeen u.n. report lists fourteen countries of concern that include afghanistan chad myanmar somalia and yemen the armed group boko haram which is based in nigeria used eighty three children as human bombs in the first eight months of twenty seventeen most of the more girls more than three thousand cases of child recruitment were verified in twenty sixteen in the democratic republic of congo at least nineteen thousand and eighteen year olds are taking part in the conflict in south sudan as he morgan reports now from young view in south sudan reintegrating those kids back into the community is a struggle. these moves are not need to jon 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

thousand and national liberation movement that is looming and they're going through their. video by those who want to go alone or if you take it in that you want a world that says if you define you will do that 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 for just thirteen year old sarah. i was alluding. to loans to those people and only ones tend to think they do anything wrong. and i still don't know they said to me that is hold on to the unit today and said to move from. mr. 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 but that their condition abandoned 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 need to do is there meaning 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 in. communities. nearly two thousand children have been demobilized in 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 two to three years for that child to go back home and resettle we still have more kids to be released so access big thing 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 onto their own young south sudan. by bierria former president ellen johnson sirleaf has become the first woman to win the most ibrahim prize for african leadership sirleaf was recognized for efforts to rebuild her country not to civil wars she was africa's first elected female head of state and served two terms as liberia's president. forests across the world are under growing threat of destruction according to the world wildlife

fund which says that an area equivalent to twenty seven football fields is lost every minute to logging and agriculture but in costa rica environmental asked activists are fighting back as andy gallagher reports. 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 if. they 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 you know what i 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. the tower 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 something costa rica's done very effectively through 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 clown bridge reserve in costa rica. just ahead on the news out. ward on the berkeley campus the military has funded a new program that could insert information into the mine about storing all. added scores highway and once again causing havoc at the winter olympics a lot of young child.

the in. time for the day to support his son thank you very much adrian while high winds have again hit the action at the winter games in more events that have been postponed and some of those that did go ahead were at first only affected in the women's slopestyle all of the riders fell on the least one run one of the finalists said it was like riding into wind tunnel defending champion jamie anderson the united states stayed on her feet long enough to win gold a but many competitors were unhappy i feel so good i'm so happy.

i frickin fenton got another galled definitely was a struggle out there today for everyone and i'm just happy i was able to put one down. element of survival today was survival mode it wasn't about doing the biggest and best tricks it was just making a weight on the course in in a safe and it's powerful manner as you could and. there were elements of it that were you know scary. our sports correspondent. he says the decision to proceed with the event it was taken by snowboarding xah governing body not the international olympic committee. well yes you can understand the frustration and on happiness of many of the competitors in the women's five star never voted for years for these winter olympics in pyongyang and to not be able to get down one of your

fans also not be able to complete all either of the rounds so a medal prospect like ana gasteyer of austria and the finishing first day it's terribly disappointing for them and many of them felt that the event should have been taking place should have been postponed not cover events have faith but you would also say that jimmy anderson who stayed on a boat twice actually does of the gold medal those are little doubts about that but it was certainly spoke to an extent it has of course affected other events the men's downhill had to be postponed until thursday i think you've got to with me john solomon responded to think tank asleep i went over seventy kilometers an hour like a wind tunnel many of the compasses aside but safety is paramount and this is what mark adams of the international olympic committee has said in defense of events going ahead as advised by the skating federation each federation has a wealth of experience on this sport and we really really about that of course we

have to coordinate the whole show edulis quite a quite a headache getting all the different sports and so on to run it in a different way but obviously we would never take a decision. that would that would put in jeopardy the safety that at least one thing that will help the guys here is it is forecast to get a lot warmer it's so cold here that all the see that's been the story record breaking low temperatures but it's average is set to rise as much as ten degrees always even more i'm not going to take it into a situation where events once we hope be affected side by billy and hopefully the winds will die down as well. well one ever you definitely don't want high winds it is ski jumping hairs and it isn't explain how those medals will be won and lost the first ski jumping events were held in norway back in the nineteenth century and events has been in every winter olympics but it wasn't until the sochi games in

twenty fourteen that women were also allowed to compete of a lympics feature three ski jumping events the normal hill which is ninety meters high the lower chill which is one hundred and twenty meters above the ground and the team large scale which is contested by fourteen members who combine their scores now from a seated starting position skiers glide down a steep hill and then hits a builtin ramp which propels them into the air at speeds of around ninety kilometers an hour the distance traveled is important but competitors are also scored on how they control their flights let's have a look at what the panel of five judges are looking for each hill has a minimum distance for scoring take a lot chill where you get extra points for every meter past the one hundred and twenty five minutes and mark additionally jumpers receive style marks depending on their poise through the air and the style of their landing the jump all team with

the highest number of points gets the gold medal. as have a quick look at the medals at table germany are where the four gold think that that moved up to second after winning two golds and yet in the team figure skating and the men's more. many of the world's best tennis players are in qatar this week at the latest stop on the women's tour could see every mad to of the australian open final touch and a scientist has more. women's tennis is enjoying a resurgence already this year and the best female tennis players in the world are in doha for their first major stop after the australian open last month tournament emphasized the fifth rivalry in the women's game with a succession of tightly fought and lengthy matches as women's tennis becomes more competitive it helps shine certain people's view the men should be paid more.

foreman men's world number one novak djokovic was criticized two years ago for saying that men should be paid more than women and for saying that men's tennis should fight for more pay because the start so that the men's game is far more popular to watch i think we put the same effort like the man's during our practice and we try to make the quality of all the sessions of courts to say and we are going on courts to give our best many top female tennis players were appalled by djokovic his comments including serena williams who said i think it's unfair to compare we've had so many great women champions and players who have brought such great vision to the sport there have been great men players too but women's tennis is the biggest sport for women period serena had dominated the game for years the twenty three time grand slam champion career came to a halt though after her twenty seventeen australian open title after announcing her

pregnancy paving the way for other players to shine and take the top top it's just one or two points who can decide if you win the match or if you lose a match and you know it's just i don't know i don't think that we're looking this way that syria is not there i mean of course she is the champion she is a legend while carter insists arena isn't part of her focus this tournament in doha give several formal while number one the chance to make their mark and become very new pacesetter tatyana al-jazeera doha and that's it for me back to so many thanks indeed now it's the stuff of science fiction but the u.s. military is announced more than sixty million dollars in grants to build hardware that would read and write forts in the brain the team working on the project is hoping to do it all with a device a small as a sugar cube jacob or visited the team in california at the light of.

lighter concrete or thumb something ten years ago dean lloyd a lawyer in palo alto california received the world's first artificial retina it allowed him to see it was a low quality video image but it was something. so i'm getting if i can read about thirty. words from the dirt or grass or whatever is america foliage and you're going to only difference between one surface and other though that's correct if a contrast point yet really think about that to make it useful but that technology is ancient compared to what's coming next a new military grant program is funding projects that seek to not just read the information that's in your brain but actually write information into it basically would be putting synthetic versions of things like sight into the brain at the university of california at berkeley is home to one of the six teams hoping to create within four years a device that can read and control one million neurons right now we can only watch

one hundred at a time our goal is to be able to see that many neurons every one of them individually and not only to be able to watch what they do as you do an m.r.i. but to be able to play back to them the patterns of activity in space and in time so that you could actually reconstitute and synthesize the experience of the real world and thereby replace something that is missing because of an injury this military funded program could replace lost senses in wounded soldiers but could also put entirely new senses into healthy soldiers if it works the project will be a world changing leap for example while we were developing this proposal we had a few meetings sort of saying we can't do this this is physically impossible will never get there our goal is to take like a microscope something like this and squash it down really tiny so it can fit on the head of a mouse while it's running around that this is one of our first prototype cohen

working on math that can turn a low grade two d. picture of the brain useful three d. images so they can take a rough it's like this. process is. if you're alive you will then we can create custom patterns and should light exactly where we want at the right moment for and post-doctoral research or nickel up the guy is building the system that will convert real world experiences into math that directs lasers to light up individual neurons so here is a movie casablanca and this is what you have to turn that into for it to then be shown on the brain and i thought wow unified on a pattern you tell me which neurons you want to activate and we will at the exact time give the exact amount of light that's required to activate in your own the project could rebuild soldiers or eventually give them enhanced abilities on the battlefield either way if it works we will have crossed into

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