but this time the what can we blame that on the deep sleep was the first civilian death. and we are creators. are. the engineers at this time. we al jazeera has eyes and ears on the ground in southern africa identifying the crucially important stories for the audience that's incredibly dug. rebuilding iraq donors aim to raise billions of dollars to help its people restart their shattered lives. and our entire lives is al-jazeera live from london also coming up then on the dancing to the same tune pressure mounts on zuma as the a.n.c.

meets to decide whether to ask him to resign as south africa's president egypt has been a very important member of the defeat our coalition the u.s. extra state pledges to help egypt to defeat i sold. and investigators search for the cause of the plane crash which killed all seventy one people on board in russia . today rebuilding iraq after nearly three years of war with i still is going to cost nearly ninety billion dollars that's according to iraqi officials who are attending an international donors conference in kuwait iraq has published a list of one hundred fifty seven projects it seeking investment for to provide jobs and new homes for some of the two and a half million people displaced by the fighting they toss battles schools businesses infrastructure and telecommunications iraq says about one hundred thirty eight thousand homes and apartment blocks were damaged during the fight against

arsenal half of which were completely destroyed some he said on reports from kuwait . ngos here the conference of pledged over three hundred million dollars to various humanitarian projects inside iraq and quite the engineers 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 person for the state department saying things like one 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 response supposed to be about in arc no just to defeat the irish but to rebuild which could lead how much money would you like to see listening to listen bring luck if he is going to kill those twenty billion dollars and all the darkness buf 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.

in south africa the a.n.c. party is holding a special meeting to decide the fate of president jacob zuma the meeting called d.-day by local media is a fun attempt to precious zuma to resign and he president cyril ramaphosa said on sunday that the issue was causing disunity and discord as you mr downer's a.n.c. leader in december you faces a number of corruption charges after nine years in power coming to miller joins us live from johannesburg what are we expecting from this meeting. well those meetings been going on for a couple of hours now and the expectation is that the national executive committee will come out to push jacob zuma to resign all indications so far is that his resisted that and that's even through talks with the president of the a.n.c. so remote pours out over the last few days where they were trying to come to some sort of solution some sort of exit plan to get jacob zuma out it seems that those talks collapse there were a number of demands from jacob zuma which the a.n.c.

as a party even though the governing party can't necessarily meet around devotee around prosecution related to these poor corruption charges and and even the state covering the cost of legal fees as well as security for his family now these reports around what the president may have wanted he's not stepped down yet and so the expectation is that this if he see meeting does come up with a decisive plan and a push for jacob zuma to step down from office and from it what of the opposition party's been saying on this. all opposition parties have come out today to say that they want a motion of no confidence which was set out for the twenty second of this month they want that brought forward to this week and once that motion of no confidence is debated and these parties and members of parliament vote they want parliament dissolve to say they have no faith in this institution that has protected jacob

zuma and that also hasn't held the president to account for for issues like in congo where millions of dollars were we use state to our taxpayers' money was used on these private residence upgrades for that residence and they say parliament hasn't acted in the ballot it should have and this is following a constitutional court ruling last year and the opposition parties say that if they don't get an answer from parliament by tuesday morning they're then going to court to push parliament to hold the vote of no confidence debate so it's really pushed the a.n.c. into very difficult corner they're dealing with a party that's divided a president of the country that won't step down and actually very little that the a.b.c. can do besides ask him to step down because constitutionally jacob zuma can say no thank you very much indeed for minimal or your sexual state rex tillerson says the trumpet mr remains committed to working with egypt to defeat the threat of i saw it

discussed this year with egyptian foreign minister some a shukri in cairo at the start of his middle east tour to us and also held talks with the president of the c.c. he says the united states and cairo share a common goal for lasting peace in the region. we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on counterterrorism measures including our joint commitment to the defeat of isis and 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 u.s. to continue to work and 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 us and is due to visit turkey later this week with relations between the two nato allies strained over syria the us defense secretary has admitted that some american backed syrian kurdish fighters are coming to the aid of fellow kurds fighting turkish forces in a free and province attack us army says at least thirty one of its soldiers have been killed and one hundred forty wounded since it launched an offensive against kurdish forces in a frame last month to his foreign minister says that relations with washington art are a very critical point over support of the cuts. opposition activists in syria. turning to social media to highlight the suffering of around three hundred fifty thousand

people trapped in the besieged area hundreds of people are being killed in ass trucks and shelling by government forces and their allies in recent weeks the un has been calling for a ceasefire so that aid can reach people affected by the fighting so hard to reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. said. appeals for help coming from the children of eastern. we are being killed by your silence before it is too late mohamed says. the. 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 to the 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. 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. 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 and 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 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 here buildings are being flattened there is a wide scale destruction and the international community is still silent. but out. of the civil defense volunteers have been overwhelmed since the battle for

control of east 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 newly elected co-leader of turkey's pro kurdish opposition party is being investigated for a possible violation of sedition laws. was elected to be a party leadership on sunday. state news says she's under investigation for allegedly engaging in what it called terror propaganda during her victory speech and was elected to replace former co-leader. he's been in jail since twenty sixteen facing tara charges. so they are mounting criticism of the charity oxfam's handling of sexual exploitation allegations the deputy chief executive resigns. if you know each city but the religious yet here. in montana is burning hundreds

a range of villages as the british foreign secretary has its record in state. hello the warm winter wind is blowing through china and there it sounds all but that does seem to be the case it's not rages on tuesdays eighty in hong kong but shanghai is up to eleven hong kong warms up and will probably feel it with the breeze picking up brings the more humidity on wednesday and shanghai's up to eighty now that really is quite silly all the moisture is being spread from further south of the philippines where tropical soccer is on his way through the signs is more activity in india to well actually northern india northern pakistan afghanistan the active winter storm system coming through and it's brought some useful rain and maybe less useful snow that's the pictures we see it on tuesday after sun and

probably nepal but doesn't mean it's the end of it might actually bring some more in the next day or so for most of india of course it's settled and quiet quote is not good in new delhi and passing showers hit northern sri lanka now as part of the systems that are bringing snow and rain to afghanistan is quite active throughout the middle east and levant the temperature forecast in riyadh is thirty three well above the average in their hearts twenty eight and if anything following day doha warms up won't last forever already the max in riyadh stanton in all. on counting the. stock market look at what's going on and why it matters how women in twenty eighteen are still fighting for equal rights in the workplace and us sheryl is defying expectations but will it make life difficult for counting

the cost at this time. and one of top stories here now is their non-governmental organizations have pledged more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with i saw but the figure is well short of the one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government says it needs u.s. picture state says the trumpet ministration is committed to working with egypt to defeat i saw rex tillerson has discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister some i should create in cairo at the start of his middle east tour. oxfam's deputy

chief executive has resigned as the charity faces mounting criticism of its handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by some members of staff and in ours said she was ashamed of what had happened and took full responsibility oxfam denies covering up a scandal over the use of prostitutes by members of staff in haiti in twenty eleven and before that in chad or some officials have been meeting the british international development secretary he was threatening to withdraw its government funding and joins us in the studio to discuss this so why is the deputy going and not the boss question there is some kind of direct link perry lawrence in her resignation statement says as program director at the time is showing that this happened on my watch and i take full responsibility for the the to the two times timelines really are that in two thousand and six she has now accepted that it's that there were reports to the organization that some of the stuff in chad's had

been using prostitutes. then in two thousand and eleven in haiti similar incidents happens and in both of those countries the country director was roland van however myron he resigned after those allegations were put to him twenty eleven so clearly she's now saying that they should have done something in the original reporting of allegations in chad back in two thousand and six she's not the top person in britain she's not the best known figure in oxfam but clearly she feels some sense of responsibility but i don't think the charities out of the water yet just in the last few hours they've been called in to explain what happened in haiti to the international development secretary she's warning that you know funding could be pulled unless they are more transparent that they than they have been there is a lot of pressure on them so you mention that that question of the funding it is the government really going to pull the plug on the financial or i don't think anybody's clear it is a real threat because there is so much there has been so much concentration on the

way that oxfam did or didn't deal correctly with reports of abuse i think that's that's the crux of it and it's a significant amount of money it was forty three million u.s. dollars that the government gave them last year that is dwarfed by the amounts that the british public give oxfam in donations and through sales of clothes and books in their stores around the country so i think really that's where their main concern is that they need to keep the public onside image wise beyond that there are a lot of industry insiders on monday have been coming out to say that it's not just oxfam lots of aid agencies have been warned through national police in britain for example for decades that in humanitarian disaster zones abuses will actually try to get in and secure jobs so that they can actually perpetrate crimes and they're saying that the whole culture in aid organizations won't really change until people are prosecuted and sent to jail so they're saying that yes withdrawing the funding

is a good lever but there are there are other leaders including jail thank you very much indeed thanks. investigators in russia are trying to find out why a passenger plane crashed soon after takeoff killing all seventy one people on board so far they found both black boxes which are called voice and data the sound shop airlines flight was heading to or ask when it plunged into a field in the countryside outside moscow on sunday ok its destination also is a city in the ural mountains and that's where most of the victims were from people that have been laying flowers and attending memorials for the dead or chose has more from the 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 and 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 has come from the urgency services and the investigative committee here is that two hundred nine body parts of been found so far well as the investigation progresses certain 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. the u.s.

vice president says washington and seoul have agreed on terms for 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 and made the comments as he returned from south korea where north and south korean leaders met on the sidelines of the winter olympics. u.s. president on trump has questioned israel's commitment to making peace with the palestinians made the comments in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire and trump baca sheldon adelson in a rare rebuke of the israeli leadership the us president says he isn't necessarily sure they're looking to make peace he warns israeli settlements are quote something that very much complicate and always have complicated making peace here as israel to be very careful with the settlements which i'm also repeats what he's been saying about the palestinian leadership he says they're not looking to make peace and threatens to withhold aid unless they agree to talks what president

trump spoke of was the idea of a quote peace deal that's very different than peace peace requires at least a modicum of justice that was not on the agenda here a deal implies ending resistance essentially to israeli power that is not on the palestinians agenda that's been the position recently of the palestinian leadership bringing it closer to matching the position of a wide majority of palestinian. civil society so i think what we're seeing here is certainly not the end of the u.s. role as a as an honest broker because it never was an honest broker this is simply a clear acknowledgement of that reality. monday marks international day against the use of child soldiers according to the u.n. the number of children recruited is still rising more than two thousand took up arms in the past three years now young soldiers in south sudan are being given

a chance to lead a normal life but some are struggling to reintegrate into their communities ever more when reports from yemen you. these moves are not need to john he's been taught how to carry them out for the past two years since he was fifteen he didn't learn the drills willingly john's one of at least seven hundred children forcibly recruited by the south sudan's national liberation movement that is nearing rather than going to dan. di dio guardi life for too long to go out alone or if you take it easy and that you want to work in the day except if you define you do that day kill 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 such as thirteen year old sarah. i was alluding. to

a long sentence people are only start to think on new day during the cold. and they still don't know this is to leave it is cold and today we're not today and said to leave from. the start families. 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 that they were not really forced but to their condition abandon first today and now all of us to get up to state to in fact we did not didn't before they decide that they may be a. meeting to fight does what you see we have decided also as we are now in tones of that the best sort of we decided to release them so that they can go to school. communities. nearly two thousand children have been demobilized in the past five years but they are being replaced according to unicef the number of child soldiers

in the 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 child. soldiers and leading 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 the biggest challenge is reintegration it's a process that takes time to do three years for that child to go back home and resettle we still have more kids to be released so access big thing that we need more kids to be released all real concern is the reintegration of these children so that they don't get we routed again. john and sara as the they don't want to return to the battlefield but they also fear what lies ahead after their past experiences and wonder if they may be forced to fight again he will mourn al-jazeera yes south sudan a state of emergency has been declared in tonga as the pacific nation braces for

tropical cyclone gator evacuation centers have been set up and a curfew imposed later is 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 it haint general of new york state has filed a lawsuit against the weinstein company for failing to protect employees against former chief executive harvey weinstein prosecutors say the firm repeatedly broke the doors by facilitating the alleged abuses weinstein was one of hollywood's most influential produces the former seventy women accused him of sexual misconduct including rape which he denies lawsuit has stalled the planned sale of the company for five hundred million dollars despite volatility in the price of bitcoin the farms which mine the cryptocurrency a continuing to boom in iceland raising concerns about the long term environmental impact. this year so-called bitcoin

mining data centers i've had to use will and it just even all of our homes inside the mine and rows of computers are tossed with solving math problems to validate new bit coin transactions online is to claim a fraction of a coin not yet in circulation one more computing power is needed to beat the competition and our standard energy firm. says the small nation will be able to keep up. the british foreign secretary says he thinks i mean mas leader isn't fully aware of what he called the horror in northern rakhine state or visited muslim villages that as well as refugee camps in bangladesh their housing some of the seven hundred thousand people who fled the military crackdown the un says maybe a genocide will try to john force. the u.k. foreign secretary came to see the situation with his own eyes boris johnson two door hinge of refugee camps and bangladesh and met with villagers who remain in rakhine state 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 village 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 us to mates at least six

thousand seven hundred were murdered in the first month of violence i've seen nothing like it in my life the hundreds hundreds of villages torched it's absolutely devastating and i think that what is needed now is is some leadership some calm but some leadership working with the u.n. agencies for johnson is calling on me in march to work with the u.n. and repatriate the refugees dr rakhine state but under u.n. supervision me and more has so far blocked un investigators from the region and a high ranking u.s. diplomat recently quit an advisory board saying he feared the panel would whitewash the crisis new reports and photos of mass graves are increasing international pressure on sochi under a government i believe she can still make a change and make a difference but to do that she needs to show get the agencies in get the refugees

back home in a way that is safe and voluntary and and dignified. what remains to be seen is if she can live up to her nine hundred ninety one nobel peace prize and put a stop to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that continue paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. can catch up any time with our website. and you can watch us by clicking a live icon. and one of the top stories on our syria non-governmental organizations of pledged more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with eisel but the figure is well short of the one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government says it needs a donor conference is being held in kuwait to raise funds to help rebuild cities destroyed in the three year conflict south africa's ruling a.n.c. party is holding

a special meeting to decide the fate of president jacob zuma the meeting dubbed d.-day by local media is a final attempt to precious zoom into resigning he's facing a number of allegations of corruption but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year us extra state says the trumpet ministration is committed to working with egypt to defeat eisel rex tillerson has discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister some issue create in cairo at the start of his middle east tour to us and has also held talks with president of the fatah sisi he says washington remains committed to achieving a lasting peace between israel and palestine that despite president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on counterterrorism measures required in 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 that are dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai opposition activists in syria's eastern guta a turning to social media to highlight the suffering of around three hundred fifty thousand people trapped in the besieged area hundreds have been killed in as strikes and shelling by government forces and their allies in the past week alone the un has been calling for a cease fire so that aid can reach people affected by the fighting. a state of emergency has been declared in tonga as the pacific nation braces for tropical cyclone gator a storm is 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 posed to stay with us and under their next stop it's counting the cost to have more news for your to that likes watching life and.

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