what makes this moment. this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important. to be a. serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. this is. from studio fourteen here at headquarters in doha i'm come. to the news rebuilding iraq. conference in kuwait for one

hundred billion dollars to put the country back together but that is a massive task not to mention the question of whether isis has been. on the grid will he stay right now top members of. the president say he has managed to. despite years of corrupt. may be his biggest challenge yet and ten years. to its indigenous population stolen generation of children taken from their families we're looking at what has proved to be aboriginal people and the equality. of clothes. and i'm talking about the need to move but it's chinese equivalent has something to do with a bowl of rice and a rabbit. you

know if the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com and what price on rebuilding iraq well apparently it's one hundred billion dollars at least that is what the iraqi government is asking for in assistance after defeating a three day donors conference has begun in kuwait and on the first say they got pledges worth more than three hundred million dollars from aid agencies iraq has of course suffered major devastation from the three year war against eisel homes schools hospitals infrastructure all damaged or destroyed but in december it was that baghdad declared victory over eisel after government forces backed by a u.s. led coalition took control of large parts of the country so we're going to start with that put it all on the map and see how iraq is operating now show you're familiar with these the who controls what that what you need to concentrate here is the green that is government the black is i so first of all these towns here which you see little triangles these are all towns which were under ice the control are

now been taken back by government forces and to put some numbers on here as well we're going since january twenty sixth a now the united nations says that nine thousand one hundred fifty three people have been killed in eisel related violence there are also let me check my numbers seven hundred thousand people sorry terrible writing the displaced and then just in this area here which is western anbar province since. well this year we're looking at sixty five thousand people who have fled that area as well we're talking about massive massive displacement issues well sam is a dam is that the conference in kuwait city that we talked about but he's also been looking at some of those parts of iraq i was just showing you the one still in ruins more than six months after they were retaken by the government this will give you an idea of how big the task ahead is. 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 robby 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 sold in his life as a. given up hope in returning home we've been displaced over three years look at how our house has been destroyed. alan 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 then on the 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 if you know. the government does not get. a great. ally. in the. war children will be forced to leave while girls will be forced to marry early we might seem more young. 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 in 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 never be quenched sam is a damn al-jazeera kuwait i have got a good friend of the great here mama judge him of course al jazeera correspondent has reported i mean you know this story you've done it you've reported it you've seen it and in fact rather than ask you a question first of all i want us to have a look at some pictures this is some of mohammed's reporting let's have a look these days the smiles don't come often and when they do they

barely mask the pain. even in this child friendly space fourteen year old john fields far from safe. rather than speak she draws. for a girl who lost both parents and three of her siblings in the fight against isis it's a way to express her sorrow for the mohamed we could have we could talk about the donors conference and money but this is actually what the story is and this is it and you took us through what you saw there in the units and it will come alive i firmly believe that the best way to try to really understand the magnitude of the multiple crises going on has to really try to look at it through the eyes of children i mean they've experienced the worst of it they are seeing things that have seen things that even adults would have a hard time processing now when we did that story we were at or camp for the internally displaced where was that exactly what this was outside of ajdabiya and

this girl as john was fourteen years old she had lived under eisel rule and in the airstrikes that were carried out to try to liberate that town her extended family was killed her parents many of her siblings were killed she was so traumatized that she could no longer speak so the trauma counselors that were working with her were trying to gain her trust were trying to make her feel more at ease but this is something we saw with so many of the children that experienced the horrors of the war of the conflicts in iraq they simply cannot process what they have seen the kind of horrors that they have lived with them because of that it's so important to have centers like the one that as john her brother and her cousins were going to in this camp but the fact of the matter is that there just isn't enough money to sustain these kinds of support programs at such a crucial time and as thinking actually in the back of my head it's so much of what

we see there is actually money can't rebuild that the you know they have that scott for life in some rooms over i've got some more pictures let's roll is more of muhammad's reporting in. just to really talk a little bit more about the whole issue of displacement as i rather roughly showed him how it had before you know seven hundred thousand displaced just since january of last year what happens to all these people i mean that the the the prospect of them going home it's got to be minuscule yeah i mean a lot of the it often is that we would see that went to these camps even the new arrivals they were having this realisation that this was essentially going to be their home from here on out they were too afraid to go back home many of them even if they're told they can return to their towns they are too afraid to do so for various reasons so they have this horrible realisation that suddenly they are without a home that they are living in these encampments where they can't get the kinds of basic goods and services that should be the should be available to any human around

the world and that is a very sad day for them you have parents who don't know how to explain that this new reality to their children you have children that are now out of school the fears of a lost generation continue to to multiply these past several years with all these crises going on in iraq and it just becomes this displacement crisis that goes on without in the one thing we kept hearing from so many at all these various camps throughout the country is that they don't believe that the displacement crisis in iraq gets the kind of coverage that other displacement or refugee crises get in the region and other parts of that is exactly why we're talking about it's very moment thank you for coming in from leisure to talk to you as always now to newark is joining us of the war of isis on the road to the caliphate joining us from bill in iraq thank you for your time hopefully you could hear what mohammed was telling us some of those very personal stories of all these people have been displaced and so now the iraqi government goes looking for money one hundred billion dollars is

a huge amount of money though isn't it. it is it is an enormous amount of money and if you look in the cities that we're talking about it's because it's about reconstruction of cities like moves so. far. even to create many of those towns still in ruins especially of course mosul which is the worst but even i was recently in. which was not so badly damaged but still people cannot go back there for one reason because so many houses have been damaged because the services are no longer there because there is still explosives around but also because there is still isis fighters around and because of that the security forces will not that people back to their houses right i'm glad you brought up that point i wanted to ask you about

i saw in the first place you know the iraqi government tops the fact that i saw has been defeated i mean you get this feeling that one i saw is an ideology that probably can't be defeated it can be pushed back but ideologically can't be defeated and is there any really guarantee that they've just melted away and aren't going to come back. yes the problem is of course that. iraq doesn't really have the money to rebuild the country and that's also why this conference is being held if you look at the budget for two thousand and eighteen there's hardly money on it and the budget is not getting passed the parliament so where's the money going to come from already people in in the cities in the sunni cities that were destroyed are complaining also because they still don't get summaries many of the people who state when isis was there are being checked and rechecked and still do not get

their salaries amongst them very important teachers and and policeman that is making people feel like second great citizens this just makes them disenchanted and that might. make it more possible for even if it's not a group of groups like isis but anyone who would who would help the sunnis. to to get them to stand behind those you feel i still have been defeated here. no i definitely don't feel isis is defeated here at all. we hear very regularly about sleeping cells that are being picked up recently in. which was one of the important towns for isis there was a nine day operation in which they still found

a hospital tunnels an operational center even a bomb factory so and we know that that these groups together with other groups are getting together in the how marine mountains which is near to the core just on region in the area border area between iraq and syria and they still post a threat they are still able to attack so that means they're not gone not at all good at neutering thank you so much for joining us from bill on the news good much appreciated our interactive team has put together a lot of stuff on isolate the years i believe this to be the definitive one it is called simply defeating eisel and it brings together everything the timeline which slow the appears and explains how it's all gone since twenty fourteen the number is the animating maps it is a snapshot of the past three or four years in iraq and syria to let's not forget that as well search for defacing i so it is in the interactive section at al

jazeera dot com and more links at the bottom there. thank you for getting in touch already with the hash tag a.j. news grid pessimism is what i'm saying a lot of here allie saying first they destroy the whole country now they talk about rebuilding in the name of human rights great and home and says this next generation in iraq is in a dire situation can iraq provide accommodation to all these displaced pay displaced people it looks like there is no hope certainly that tag of one hundred billion dollars on rebuilding iraq knows there is a huge task ahead that's the what's that number plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine the hashtag a.j. newsgroup on facebook and twitter. we move on a developing story actually underway right now senior members of south africa's ruling party are meeting to decide the future of president jacob zuma trying to hammer out a deal for mr zuma to quit before his term ends next year zuma under pressure to step down over corruption allegations that he denies any wrongdoing african

national congress leader cyril ramaphosa says the party leaders will decide on a swift transfer of power from it amid a following this one for us from johannesburg i'm seeing lots of lines dropping from me to the word fake news is being bandied about i do is that he might have said he will step down and wants it done can you clarify for us please. well this is a situation that's been going on for at least a couple of weeks of course growing in it intensity as we see meetings perspire own now the same port and national executive meeting of the a.n.c. taking place this afternoon for at least the last three hours and there's no official word at all that jacob zuma has agreed to resign in fact it's been the complete opposite up till now that the a.n.c. seems to be having difficulty to get jacob zuma to step down and that's why this meeting is taking place. the president of the a.n.c. had been trying to negotiate with zuma trying to negotiate the strands cision the

exit a smooth transition on sunday reports addressed a large crowd in cape town around these. celebrations of nelson mandela's birth and him having left prison twenty eight years ago he used the opportunity to address of africans to talk about this transition saying that the country needs closure and there is an acknowledgement that south africans are becoming increasingly frustrated and impatient with a lack of decisive action by the african national congress now that this meeting is taking place it seems the closest they've been at any point to recalling what they say is recalling jacob zuma after that they would expect a resignation from the president this hasn't happened yet in fact even if they do recall him constitutionally jacob zuma doesn't have to resign it's then that the a.n.c. would have to put in put forward

a motion of no confidence in parliament and get the president out that way but what has happened this afternoon kemal what is important is that opposition leaders have come together saying that they want jacob zuma out as soon as possible they had a motion of no confidence that would happen on the twenty second of february they say that's too far along it has to happen this week and if they don't get an answer from the. officials of parliament by tomorrow morning they are going to take quick action and most importantly what they want is parliament to be dissolved and full snap elections to be held in ninety days this quickly from a ticket can you put your finger on just for of us why jacob zuma seems to be so desperately clinging to power he is no longer the leader of the a.n.c. there is all this controversy there are all i mean the swirling for years now and the people are fed up as well it looks like the time to make an exit. jacob zuma has been employed in scandal after scandal throughout his two terms in

the in the in the in office this goes back to before he was deputy president this goes back to allegations of corruption linked to his financial advisor should be a shake once those charges were dropped just before he became president of the african national congress and then later president of south africa he continues to be embroiled in scandal is to do with what according state capture basically influence in government that has benefited him his family as well his family friends so really issues around his politics and business and it's been very difficult to remove the president because of the support he's had within the party and who else might be involved in these allegations from a military coup for those updates we will come back to you if anything develops of course when jacob zuma stood for election in two thousand and nine he was facing this is just a bit more detail on what fun it was saying both rape and corruption charges but

that did not stop him from securing the country's top job the scandals that did not go away he was criticized for his links with the indian born businessman from the wealthy gupta family former deputy finance minister accused them of offering him a bribe to accept a promotion in return for advancing their business interests there is also the allegations in the use state funds to build a lavish private home in canada is still fighting more than seven hundred counts of corruption related to an arms deal when he was deputy president that was in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and so far as we were discussing there he has managed to hold on to power and has survived several no confidence votes but as we've pointed out he's no longer leader of the party was replaced by several ramaphosa in december we've got grant masterton to talk more about this head of program at the electoral institute for sustainable democracy in south africa he's in johannesburg on skype for us how when i just read through all of those things i cannot believe he survived this long what

is it about jacob zuma is it charm is it charisma is it popularity what is it that has kept him in the job this long. at this stage it seems to be that it bloody mindedness to keep on for as long as possible and that he is running out of cotton tricks to play but if you're going to play every trick that he has to dig for. the state do you see a possibility that he could hang on even now with all of this happening votes of no confidence change in the latest ship is there a twist that he could stay i'm still jacob zuma has actually exited the building it's always possible and he has a lot of incentive to try and hold on to power as long as possible as you've got mine but i don't see him surviving this one and you correctly pointed out that throughout the scandal prone to you that our president says it is the agency that has supported him in that shooting from accountability and he could no longer call

on the loyalties of the top leadership of the a n c his preferred candidate is that it's five percent of the resume that was defeated very narrowly i must admit but she was defeated in december in the electoral conference that the a.n.c. held and so the forces of now with the deputy president and the current a.n.c. presidents are on the rez made it very clear that he wants to deal with the situation of the transition as equals it which is the euphemistic of removing some of the presidency and he wants to do that but does he jacob zuma have support still within the party you'll saying that at the top levels he hasn't any more what about further down and is there enough there to drag this out a bit longer. well he does have support he is it is a very charming man and he still does enjoy a lot of support amongst the if new group counter-jumper from the president itself

he is a zulu and he was the first to be president of the country so he enjoys some ethnic support yes and he does still have supporters that very crucially those supporters are not in the ascendancy within the a.n.c. but the a.n.c. is a broad church as they always tell us and they don't want to see any kind of split at this stage heading towards very crucial elections in twenty nine t. those elections the a.n.c. is expecting the toughest challenges faced since not to not to or when it was by accident and any kind of this is that at this stage would really weaken the agency in its totality so jacob zuma would too. if the exit of zuma from the paparazzi and from the presidency crucially was not well managed and his supporters go with him. and seize chances that tell us about so rum a horse and what you think about his style of leadership how it will differ from jacob zuma was sort of south african might be on to him. well he's he's

been did you president during the very scandal prone five years you became to be present in the second term that jacob zuma took us through and he has faced a lot of personal criticism or how silent he has been during the worst years of the sumedha regime a lot of people say that he has no backbone and accuse him of not be prepared to stand up for what he believes in and again now in the midst of this transition as president it was as face of a criticism or the way in which he is handling this people are growing frustrated with this softly softly diplomacy style and that being said he is a man who knows how to get things done these are very competent businessmen he set on many boards and directorships and done very well themselves in business news also being a very astute politician and he's managed to survive this year regime when it became clear that zoom in on the as it were not working well to get it right so

he's a very astute politician and i think crucially for south africans of all political dispensations he is a constitutionalist at heart because he was critically involved in the development of our constitution and that's a very important point that the current president zuma has done everything he can to straights the constitution and constitutional law and you really can see the start of the ship as a drum was it really is to restore some kind of normal service into cost of duty in the zoo and what a fascinating stand off it is months to thank you so much for your time and your thoughts. plenty of companion material for you at al-jazeera dot com starting with this one an opinion piece by william gamu day i'm sorry from the university of the witte what a stunned i hope i've said that right in johannesburg talking about the tough year ahead he says a little further down here resuscitating south africa's distressed economy should be another priority for ramaphosa if he wants to restore the audience sees fortunes

this is in the opinion section and a little bit further down the road at the bottom of the article there is an embedded episode of inside story now if you unusual whole story and you want a little bit more. about the a.n.c. leader is there on the force a good background piece here too as well easiest thing to do is to search for and see al-jazeera dot com and click the latest filter these are all quite recent pieces for you to look at we're jumping off the grid early tonight we are going we're going to mauritania up in northwest africa so a prominent mauritanian activist has been in jail for almost a month now in mauritania after trying to tackle discrimination and while of delhi salim jali has been in prison this video was posted on his facebook page when you come up with a line item of the peace be on you all the mauritanians should be kind to each other and they should remember they share a country that is bigger than the whole population and rich in resources should

also be united my goal is to fight for better education and health and human rights watch has been following this case rather closely it's released a statement on monday saying that human rights defenders in mauritania face repression by their government. i'm going to yes he is he a social media activist detained for two weeks and already here in mauritania because of his social media posts criticizing what he calls discrimination against the heart of teen minority here demanding that they stand up for their rights the government should release him from detention provide convincing proof that he's been genuinely inciting to violence or harm which is what they're claiming but we haven't seen the evidence jali has been using social media to urge mauritania's howard teens to stand up for their rights and resist the system he says that her teens are the largest minority group in the country their money the most economically and politically marginalized people their descendants of black african

slaves and they still face discrimination to this day the topic is rather consists considered rather to be quite taboo in the country now the mauritanian government has taken steps to fight discrimination particularly with her teens with the new law but many groups have criticized the way that the law has been used the u.n. for example they say we call on the mauretania authorities to urgently revise this flawed law to avoid disastrous use and interpretation that could lead to the grave violations of the country's international human rights commitments. now jali is not the only activists in prison there's a case against a blogger named mohammed shaikh mokhtar who until recently face the death penalty because he criticized religion and another case of the law he select and melissa bet him there activists in an anti-slavery group and they're both serving two years in a remote prison after a trial that human rights watch called fair if you're in mauritania we would like

to hear from you again we don't cover this country as often it's harder to get in touch with people there so if you're there do you reach out with a hash tag a genius script to do it thank you for that later this is the news good if you're watching us on facebook live a load first of all you're about to find out about a unique program in afghanistan that is helping women defy the odds and then a little light hardware that could imply a what's in people's minds when we say implant we really mean it's this is an extraordinary tech story that is coming up for you a little later on the spirit. al is cool got quite active in iran afghanistan this rainfall in afghanistan the clouds showing a streak of tiredness running out of egypt across live on through iran has now become active underneath it rain is falling a wet day seems likely in beirut and

a good part of iraq jordan to jerusalem is only twelve degrees by guards at twenty one miles freshly walnuts but there's wont to the size of it and tear around see the rain as well which is a fairly rare event the whole lot does movies was safe to tell you from tuesday to wednesday obviously snow in northern syria and the higher parts of iran the caucuses so go because but sun follows temps isn't changed very much for the sun's out in beirut baghdad's about twenty degrees and this time the rain's gone beyond two took matters stand to tashkent nine degrees to freezing it three. well to the south of that temporarily it's pretty warm in eastern side is thirty three in riyadh the max is thirty seven for every this is something of a short heat wave their house twenty eight probably but just as a forecast of twenty nine possibly the charleville the four things get cooler by thursday already the cool was whether it's come through the riyadh twenty six is what you might expect in february we have to wait till wednesday to get it.

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domestic violence and imprisonment the only areas where there's been some progress is in reducing childs deaths increasing high school attendance and improving early childhood education so there are some wins there but some say things would improve faster if the government actually recognised indigenous australians in the constitution despite being the original inhabitants of the continent nation of people i'm not even mentioned in the founding document now our friends over it up front with us on have a regular segment called reality check this is what they found on the disparity faced by australia's aborigines. strange it sounds to come out on top in global rankings as the second wealthiest nation on the planet. another example of life expectancy education and standard of living we. are lucky. wow lucky for. thailand australians it's another story entirely according to the most recent comparative study australia was

ranked food globally in terms of its un human development index but indigenous australians alone would have come in one hundred and play it's not surprising given that today aboriginal life expectancy is ten years lower than health conditions have been slammed by the un as was the third world and indigenous children twenty six times more likely to be imprisoned and sadly young indigenous man one of the highest suicide rates in the world the disparity is the legacy of colonialism. took hold of australia on the twenty sixth of january seventeenth a date that is celebrated every year as australia day although some prefer to call it invasion day. the beginning of the why it's so strange policy the name says it all and soon late so the government began to programs of course. of indigenous people and forcibly removed one hundred thousand aboriginal children from their

families all this thing was in place until the seventy's and has been officially classified as an act of genocide and i'm original people were not counted in the sense this is part of the official human population until nine hundred sixty seven . just checking in at the live wall here just have these pictures coming in of of the live with former u.s. president barack obama obviously but they've just unveiled a painting of him at the smithsonian museum in washington d.c. actually if we just pop that box back i want to have a look at the other ones that you can just see it we're just losing the shot there but this is new portrait unveiled michelle obama has already spoken and barack obama speaking now what else have we got going on oh them the bottom here the search going on at the crash site of the site of the airlines plane in russia that crashed actually we were talking about at this time yesterday on the grid that search goes on under darkness for well remains of the plane and bodies as

well grim task going on there in the cold of russia at the moment so that's what's happening at the live there is more international news of course in their entire lives got that for us in the hi laurin thanks kiran as the state says the trump administration is committed to working with egypt to defeat eisel rex tillerson has discussed the issue with egypt foreign minister some issue cre in cairo at the start of his middle east tour to us and has also held talks with president abdel fattah sisi he says washington remains committed to achieving a lasting peace between israel and palestine as despite president donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. 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 most of all mentioned a moment ago investigators in russia trying to find out why a passenger plane crashed minutes south to takeoff killing all seventy one people on board both black boxes which record voice and data have been found which could provide vital information to determine what happened a saratov airlines flight was heading to boston and it plunged into a field in the countryside outside moscow on sunday which owns has more from the site crash site in moscow. it was apparent very quickly after this plane came down that there were likely to be no survivors and officially now the search and rescue operation is over if i stand out of the camera shot for

a few seconds you'll be able to get an idea really of the kind of terrain that the emergency services people are working in it's very snowy at subzero temperatures there's been a very heavy snow fall in the moscow region over the last week or so owns the emergency services people are moving around by snowmobile this is now basically an operation where they're trying to retrieve evidence for the investigation and of course retrieve the human remains the grim news that's come from the burgesses services and the investigative committee here is that two hundred nine body parts of been found so far well as the investigation progresses certain of the thoughts and theories are going to start being discounted and one of those is that this plane was burning when it fell out of the sky and that perhaps it was already disintegrating that had been reported by eyewitnesses close to the scene on sunday but now the investigative committee is saying that wasn't the case that this plane

was not on fire when it came down and it came down whole. opened fire near a military camp in indian controlled kashmir at least one paramilitary soldier has been killed if that comes just hours after government troops ended a two day gun battle at a separate army camp where five soldiers and one civilian were killed in test time 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 very control of the situation than going to start their own bang for. the or not the congress or what is in them but it will be on the expect to do good things to think that even if they don't really want to go to do all these injured you know because on the front lines of these just hours

earlier government troops into the gun battle inside another military camp in the regions area of its three fighters were killed and in the attack that began that dawn on saturday this rear 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 pakistan 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. al-jazeera. a state of emergency has been declared in tonga as the pacific nation braces a tropical cyclone gate has now just off the coast of the most populous island with winds of two hundred seventy five kilometers an hour it's expected to make a direct hit as a category five storm evacuation centers have been set up and

a curfew has been imposed. so for me for a moment back to come on into thank you lauren and that we'll see more from lauren in about twenty minutes time top of the from the on the now new york's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the weinstein company saying it failed to protect its employees against the disgraced former chief executive harvey weinstein prosecutors say the firm and its co-founders repeatedly broke the rules by facilitating weinstein's alleged abuses remember he was one of hollywood's most influential produces until more than seventy women accused him of sexual misconduct including rape which he denies the old suit has stalled the plan sale of his company for five hundred million dollars so leah out of the whole weinstein controversy and subsequent things came to me to write hash tag me tesh like millions of people as well remember we're using this so why do you have a bowl of rice and a rabbit on your screen well because of china is a great question i know they have in china

a very very tough censorship laws and it makes it harder to post about me too so to get around that restriction people have been using the hash tag rice bunny but why is because in chinese the word for rice is me and the word for bunny is two and me two or rice bunny so the rice bunny hash tag is usually used with the m o g s of rice bowls and bunny heads chinese women have been using it to expose sexual harassment they're also utilizing other hashtags in chinese like i am also and hashtag me to in china now according to the website the conversation the name change for me to to rice bunny around january nineteenth of this year when the hash tag need to was blocked in china users on the social media site we bow then started hash tag rice bunny in china to continue the campaign the page now has more than two million views now feminist censorship is not new in china in two thousand and

fifteen the chinese government arrested five women now known as the feminist five for. observing international women's day and handing out stickers and anti sexual harassment buttons now the hash tag feminist five has been used to try to free them along with a facebook page marking the outrage over their arrest groups in washington d.c. and new york city have gathered to put more pressure on the international community to let them go so far though that has happened without success the five women are still in prison but in two thousand and seventeen even this facebook page was blocked temporarily so in china after they posted an article supporting the women's march in washington d.c. that was just after donald trump became president now if you search for rice bunny or me to twitter now it's clear that even with the censorship the movement is not going anywhere if you're in china or if you're tweeting about rice bunny if you've never heard of it before and you're searching for it for the first time just be

sure to add our hash tag a.j. news grid so we can hear more about your story. thank you russ bonnie got it as we impart information to you here on the grid like rust bunny we are quite possibly changing the thoughts inside your head now that's a fairly normal thing isn't it it's a mixture of learning and influencing what's really abnormal though is the u.s. military announcing more than sixty million dollars in grants to build hardware that would read and write thoughts in your brain i know it sounds creepy so we've called jake avoid in california with this report to explain it all at the light of a 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 that i'm getting it's like you're right about there. words from the dirt or grass or whatever is american can fully

been going to the only difference between one surface another 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 we'd be putting synthetic versions of things like sight into the brain 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 it can turn a low grade two d. picture of the brain useful three d. images so they can take it rough and it's like this. process it into a life even though we can create cost. patterns and should light exactly where we

want at the right moment if and post-doctoral research or nickel up the guy is building the system that will convert real world experiences into math the directs lasers to light up individual neurons so here is a movie casablanca if this is what you have to turn that into for it to then be shown on to the brain and not on that wow you did find on the pattern you tell me which neurons you want to activate and we will add the exact time to 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 a new ethical and medical world a world where we can read human thoughts and implant new ones jake aboard al-jazeera berkeley california. right sorry it's just we had you've been very vocal about jacob zuma getting some comments in mahmoud who said jacob zuma this is

how he reckons it's going to go to zoom in might bogen relinquish his position if the corruption charges a wave but remember there are hundreds of those he might continue further though as president through a constitutional amendment these are all things we're waiting to find out from the a.n.c. is what's going to happen next year on twitter and a.j. english has said africans are tired of leaders like zuma south africa is a role model to other countries its leader must be a role model to others i don't think zuma is hashtag a.j. newsgroup for those comments to send and questions as well if you've got a question about one of the stories we're covering send them and we can ask them directly to a correspondence and guests and a mother far is here with the latest from the winter olympic games where it's called obviously there's plenty of snow yes but it's a chilling wind which has been blowing some metal hopefuls of course first though quick look at some wild weather.

sorry if you told spoil it so it was starting to feel like someone didn't check the forecast for the winter it's been all about the weather today because it just doesn't seem to want to cooperate at the games and chang more events were postponed

because of the strong winds the ones that did go ahead don't go too smooth late in the women's slopestyle all of the riders fell on at least one run one of the finalists said it was like riding into a wind tunnel defending champion jamie anderson of the u.s. did enough to win gold but many competitors were happy. element of survival today was survival mode it wasn't about doing the biggest and best tricks it was just making you wait on the course in a safe and powerful manner as you could and. there were elements of it. you know scary. i think when we all signed up for morning it was annoyance bluebird perfect like we get in california so my attitude with contests and with even training or shredding on any given day is like learning to adopt with the weather and just doing your best in any given condition lee wellings is in

pyongyang he says the decision to go ahead with the event was taken by snowboarding governing body not the international olympic committee where yes you can on the. on happiness of many of the compressed is in the womenfolk folks there are about four years for these words really picks. to not be. one of your not being able to complete all of the river runs sort. of the finishing first it's terribly disappointing for them and many of them for the event should not be taking place. where you would always. on a boat she deserved. but it was certainly through an experience has of course affected all the events the men's downhill.

was formed into. because of these high winds over seventy kilometers an hour like a wind tunnel many of the compressors of. the is paramount and this is what most of the international olympic committee defense of events going ahead i was advised by the school. each federation has a wealth of experience on this board and we really really balance that of course we have to coordinate the whole show jule it's quite a quite a headache getting all the different sports and so into it to run it in a different way but obviously we would never take a decision. that would that would put in jeopardy the safety vacillates one thing that will help the guy who is it is for cost to get a lot well it's so cold here that obviously that sabrina story raechel boy came home purchase but if there was a smart phone degrees or even more i'm not going to get into

a situation where one we be affected side by leigh and hopefully the winds will die down as well ok so a lot of chatter about the weather on social media if you can believe with many people angry at the olympic organizers this from dutch writer cheryl cheryl mass who finished out of the medals in that final she says today was challenging i'm sad they decided to run finals in these weather conditions the level of the contest was far from what women are capable of on a snowboard nowadays it also puts a damper on viewing for fans at home bacca in canada tweeted i feel desperately broken hearted for these women in the slopestyle final to work so hard to get here and have the weather have such a strong negative effect on your performance has got to be beyond frustrating doesn't seem fair and a decent dose of sarcasm from dave in the united states really love seeing crash after crash in the women's slopestyle how about we postpone and till there isn't

a tornado on the mountains or one of and very definitely don't want high winds is jumping here is any richardson to 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 at the 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 a chill has a minimum distance the 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 jumper or team with the highest number of points gets the gold medal. well keep up with everything connected to there are dedicated website had to al-jazeera dot com slash twenty eight as always we'd like to hear your thoughts on the winter olympics or any other sports story you see here on. f underscore i'll be back at eight hundred g.m.t. for now. thank you far have we got more of those graphics coming up a. lot of different thank you for joining us for the grid today you know how to get

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situation is. because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that. this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone. close to the story joined the conversation at this time on al-jazeera. u.s. and british companies have announced that the. this discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. on vehicles harvesting every pick you take every click. click to everything all their waves.

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