the all these explosions were not an act of war. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the soviet union. to the kazakh people who lived in the vicinity the motives might be little difference rewind silent. at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes israel's prime minister denies claims of corruption saying he will continue to leave the country after police say he should be indicted.

the a n c jacob zuma to step down as south africa's president but he's staying on for now. the world is watching and waiting for burma to act the u.s. envoy to the united nations says myanmar's blocking a u.n. investigation into the situation in iraq kind state. and i'm far is small in doha another star is burst on to the scene at the winter olympics seventeen year old american snowboarder chloe cam wins gold in the women's half pipe will have that and more from kyung chang later. our top story israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will continue to lead the country despite the police recommending that he is indicted for corruption

and bribery it's alleged netanyahu and his wife received illicit gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer are a force that is following the story joins us now from west jerusalem and so we have here the official recommendation from the police that nessun yahoo be indicted on these charges what happens next terry. well what happens next is a few things the playing out of this politically how the israeli electorate will react how benjamin and no zone coalition partners were react perhaps most crucially how the attorney general will react it's up to him now to take account of these recommendations and decide whether or not to indict israel sitting prime minister it all centers around two cases case one thousand in which netanyahu is accused of taking these gifts cigars and champagne from these two very rich men the hollywood

mogul on. board in israel but now u.s. based on the australian billionaire james packer there were leaks during the course investigation which suggests that he and his wife sarah had solicited these gifts something that netanyahu denied he said that it was simply the result of long term friendships but in these documents it suggested that this was up to a million shekels worth of gifts about two hundred fifty thousand dollars or more and more over that netanyahu was backing a bill which would allow have allowed mr miliband to repatriate to israel without losing huge amounts of money in penalties netanyahu says he simply backed his visa because he was a friend of israel not because he gave him cigars in the other case that's about alleged media manipulation trying to get favorable coverage in one newspaper by offering to hamper the activities of that use paper's main competitor and netanyahu denies all of this he was trying to project an image of resilience and calm and confidence in his address to the nation as evening the whom. and you know

come to the lawsuit review i am not here for personal gain if that was what was driving me i would have been somewhere else long ago what drives me is one thing to assure the future of our state our government will see out its days together we will continue to turn israel into an international force i will continue to lead israel responsibly and faithfully for as long as you the citizens of israel choose me so that i am certain that the truth will be revealed so waiting to see if the attorney general will act on these recommendations that netanyahu be charged with bribery and fraud harry what about his political allies how might they react now. well there was some support coming from members of the knesset who were with journalists as they watched his address from his own party members the opposition as you might expect were very condom later of the fact that israel's prime minister

was really in the grip of this corruption scandal as they have been for some time but now we see that the granular detail and it's pretty pretty difficult stuff to digest from the point of view of benjamin netanyahu he does of course say that he's totally innocent and the will be proven the remain the other plots to topple him he will continue and fight the next election the one of the key questions is how his coalition partners the most senior members of his coalition government respond in regards to that he has long projected himself as the man who is the wise economic steward of israel and the the strong security pragmatist he was of course responding just in recent days to what israel said was an israeli as are iranian drone infiltration into israel route resulting in some of the largest and widest strikes against syrian and what israel said were iranian military targets within

syria as a result so people have to really evaluate whether they still see him in that light now or whether his political credibility has been fatally undermined as of course the attorney general sits and considers exactly what to do next well thank you very much carry forth reporting to us with all the latest from west jerusalem on to our other top story the south africa's president is expected to address the media on wednesday after the ruling a.n.c. party formally asked him to step down it's uncertain if seventy five year old jacob zuma will resign but if he doesn't he could face a vote of no confidence in the parliament and the miller has more from johannesburg . after days of confusion and uncertainty this press briefing was expected to introduce some clarity into the future of president jacob zuma but while the a.n.c. confirmed it had asked the president to resign the party did little to assure south

africans that will happen any time soon as we have this this is just the time and space. to respond. we haven't given him any. truth. so i don't know what will happen but let's leave it there is the. this was an opportunity for the a.n.c. to be decisive regain the public's trust and by taking the lead in removing a president accused of being corrupt but the a.n.c. is message was mixed saying it had asked zuma to step down not because he had done anything wrong but for the sake of stability mr zuma is a very shrewd intelligence operator and has knowledge of many of the covered or covered up actions of the members during their time in exile so here is

a lot of intelligence on people who are either in positions of power now or likely to be in positions of power in the near future while the a.n.c. appears to have taken a negotiated approach the opposition wants next week's vote of no confidence against zuma to put forward with a mainstream majority in parliament zuma has survived eight other motions of no confidence the a.n.c. says it has no plans yet to bring its own motion against the president now this is a party that's either confident that zuma will step down or is prepared to wait it out the a.n.c. says it expects zuma to respond to his decision to recall him by wednesday for me to milan al-jazeera johannesburg. well our mind now of the control the sea that's plagues him is nine years in power as for me his report was mentioning yes survived a no confidence vote in parliament most recently in august last year in two thousand and sixteen a court ruled that zuma should face charges of bribery relating to an arms deal

dating back to one thousand nine hundred nine he's also been accused of accepting outside influence to make government decisions and cabinet appointments by the gupta's a wealthy indian born business family now living in south africa zoomer and some of his family members along with the gupta is being investigated on charges of international money laundering he was also accused of using twenty three million dollars of government money to renovate his private home which included and you suing pull elated pay the money back following a public outcry well joining us live now from washington is john campbell who is a senior fellow for africa studies at the council on foreign relations and also a former u.s. ambassador to nigeria thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us so we are expecting a response from president jacob zuma on wednesday so far we've seen him playing for time we know that the a.n.c. is decision that he step aside is not legally binding what are your expectations will he continue to resist pressure to stand down

he'll resist pressure to stand but not indefinitely and i think he will at the end of the day resign resignation preserves more of his dignity than any of the other alternatives and certainly preserves more of his dignity than losing a no confidence vote the other option for removing him from office is impeachment. that would be devastating to his personal reputation and it would also cost him his pension. ok so those are the options impeachment or that no confidence vote in parliament one thing we know about jacob zuma is that he does seem determined to if he is going to go it has to be on his terms what about the a.n.c. deal will they be able to reach a united decision on the next steps. i would suggest that they probably have already done so the report was that the national

executive committee which is the highest governing body within the a.n.c. . unanimously decided that to to ask for zuma is resignation that would imply to me that the party is indeed showing unity on this particular question. nevertheless could there be problems if not now then further down the line for several ran the posts party has been managed to maintain unity on this issue right now but we also know that jacob zuma has his fair share of allies within the a.n.c. still. he does indeed. it's easy to forget that within parts of the south african electorate jacob zuma is popular he's popular amongst his fellows who lose who are about twenty five percent of south africa's population he is also popular with the rural poor these are both

constituencies that so ram oppose a will have to work to reconcile. it and so how difficult could that be going into elections in a year's time to reconcile those different forces particularly if this power struggle within the party goes on. much i think depends on what happens with the economy serum opposer has made it quite clear that his goal is to grow to south africa in qana me and to grow it quickly if in fact he is successful even in two to a fairly small degree that will make a big difference i would also point out that the opposition parties the democratic alliance the economic freedom fighters both benefited enormously from zuma as derry bad popular reputation with zuma gone that particular gift to the opposition is

also gone and that helped strengthen the a.n.c. well thank you john campbell from the council on foreign relations form a u.s. ambassador to nigeria. on our nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has manuals government is preventing the u.n. security council from traveling to iraq and state to investigate the situation on the ground that hundreds of thousands of range of muslims have fled the country since a violent crackdown diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. . well strong words from nikki haley at the security council meeting on the situation in myanmar where we also heard from the u.n. high commissioner for refugees and from a senior u.n. political figure who both talked about continuing threats and intimidation to the ringer community in iraq on state they talked about the number of people that have

fled since august over six hundred eighty thousand people they say the number now leaving is reduced but still one thousand five hundred in the last month and it's with that backdrop that ambassador haley made these comments unfortunately the security council has so far failed in its responsibility to act in response to the clear threat to international peace and security that has resulted from recent events in northern rakhine state we cannot look the other way in this situation what happened in burma and is still happening in burma is not ok this council must hold the military accountable for their actions and pressure on santucci to acknowledge these horrific acts are taking place in her country no more excuses about the haley said that the authorities in myanmar have the gall to blame the media for what was going on she was one of

a number of ambassadors that raise the case of two reporters from the international news agency reuters who were arrested and are still being held in custody after reporting the existence of mass graves it's worth telling you that we also heard from the ambassador from myanmar who made the point which many might doubt that his country has freedom of the press he said that the two reuters reporters were only arrested because they broke some of the country's secrecy laws. the u.s. in thailand have been criticized for lang to. a major military exercise in east in thailand military is accused of committing ethnic cleansing and state forcing hundreds of thousands of ringette muslims to flee the countries we've been hearing about when he reports from the war games in royal. these are the largest joint military exercises in the asia pacific region this year more than eleven thousand soldiers from twenty nine countries are taking part but it was

the presence of one man at the opening ceremony that attracted a lot of the attention and observer from me and my i was invited despite his army's alleged involvement in human rights abuses at home at the ceremony the u.s. ambassador to thailand tried to avoid the subject ambassador why did you not push back stronger against me in my involvement in this as. i would accept the promise of a very happy to what. my colleagues address your view of their presence through this war is not a participant nation. but they still here i was sitting right on the right made me here in the they're not part of the exercise you're glynn davies boss secretary of state ricks to listen has previously called the violence in west in myanmar ethnic cleansing. one of the main focuses of cobra gold this year will be training to provide humanitarian assistance which is added to the criticism of the me and my

military's involvement given its role in the refugee crisis that some folded in rakhine states that's now the only part of the ten day program that the myanmar representatives will observe critics say passing the blame on to thailand for me and mas involvement is unacceptable for the united states if that's the case then you have a situation where the world's most powerful military in the world is outsourcing decisions as to who to include in this largest military exercises in the region to another country which is problematic in and of itself this will be the largest u.s. contingent in years as it tries to rebuild relations with thailand which soured after a coup in two thousand and fourteen it's also been criticized for that given that thailand is still under military rule wayne hey al jazeera thailand now watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you. more allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers at one of the world's best known charities. the war against iso may be over but iraq's prime minister says the battle now is to rebuild

. i'm having a catheter. where all eyes are on caroline was the arcade to see if she can belt on her restraining an open secret that. u.s. secretary of state has warned that the end of combat operations against doesn't mean the fight against the group is over rex tillerson made these comments while speaking at the global coalition to defeat i still in kuwait is call for members to step up commitments to stabilize parts of iraq and syria that used to be and i still control the united states and the coalition forces that are working with. the control of the syrian territory. and controlled a large enough amount of the population and it controlled a large amount of syria's oil fields so i think in terms of this observation that

the u.s. has little leverage or role the play is simply false well iraq's prime minister told the conference that his main priority now is with building the cities that have suffered so much destruction. military operations are over and we have total victory of auschwitz terrorism we must remember all of the states who have been supporting us in this battle. the war is over but now we have a new battle a battle of reconstruction and rebuilding. down raise us more now from the conference in quite. the international community managed to work together to achieve a military objective defeating eisel on the battlefield now they've got to figure out how to hold together the international coalition achieving some nonmilitary goals we heard the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson today say don't forget that this these lands which have been taken off of vice all are not rehabilitated they might fall right back

into isolate hands again that's part of the problem who's going to provide the one hundred billion dollars that iraq's prime minister for example says he needs in order to get the job done not a lot of people lining up to volunteer that level of cash so far who provides the security on the ground again secretary tillerson saying it's very important to provide security for communities that are low longer eisel control of the americans so far have been working primarily in syria with the syrian kurds now the turkish allies don't see that the kurds should be the ones to fill that vacuum left by i saw they call those groups backed by the u.s. terrorists they accuse them of being allied with the p k k a kurdish group in turkey which is been known for things like putting bombs in shopping malls then this is the issue of course of political inclusiveness everybody agrees that's

a good thing but the devil is in the details iraq is going ahead for example with elections in may of two and a half million of the population many of them certainly remain displaced that's a challenge how do you create an inclusive government in an environment where a big chunk of your population can't even take part in elections. egypt's former anticorruption chief could to be detained for up to fifteen days pending an investigation according to al-jazeera sources and you know has recently spoken out of the arrest of sami and man a former military chief of staff who was held after revealing he'd run in the upcoming presidential election several rights groups have criticized the election saying that it's impossible for a free and fair vote to take place charles strafford reports. this is egypt's former anticorruption chief. speaking hours before he was arrested. i had hoped and appreciate to be given to the chief of staff sami and then to give a testimony freely and without intimidation for the record so that all things come

clear before the public had been increasingly critical of the c.c. government since egyptian police arrested the former military chief of staff sami last month and then was arrested after announcing he would run against president double fattah el-sisi in the upcoming presidential election getting a warned that top secret files would be released if a man was harmed in any way is his testimony or her say or supported with evidence he's in possession of documents and evidence which is not kept here in egypt you mean out of egypt yes could these pieces of evidence change the course of trials of course no doubt could they incriminate many yes given his daughter says hours later thirty police officers stormed his home in cairo before leading him away. analysts say the egyptian president is targeting anyone who could risk his chances of

a second term in the march plus that he need to say with a secret documents exist or not president sisi isn't taking any chances i don't know what it is that would be so scandalous that it would be threatening to them but it could also cause that he's right from other perspectives of making other people or trying to. pressure on the government and if you know if it starts. down or arrested and it's fine now. so yeah i mean there's no real it's formality international and regional rights groups say there is no chance the march election will be free and fair human rights watch and the international commission of jurists see cc's government has suppressed freedoms arrested potential candidates and their supporters several other presidential hopefuls have either dropped out or being pushed out of the race in recent weeks these include

muhammad anwar sadat the nephew of former leader anwar sadat he withdrew in january saying it was to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or arrest and the former prime minister ahmed shafik tweeted his withdrawal from the race earlier last month that was after he was deported from the united arab emirates where he had been living in exile should fix lawyers say he was arrested as soon as he landed in cairo egypt's military said in a statement beginning his comments raised suspicion about the state and its institutions and that the matter would be referred to the relevant authorities to start legal proceedings guinean a had been among a man's top election campaign aides now they are both in jail just weeks before an election which president sisi says he will win. but al-jazeera. russia says it has no information about any russian mercenaries being killed in

syria this comes in response to reports that more than one hundred pro syrian government fighters were killed in arizona last week during fighting with u.s. coalition forces and moscow says it's only aware of its citizens being deployed there as part of the russian armed forces. in other stories we're following sunday's plane crash in russia may have been caused by frozen speed gauges minutes after taking off the passenger jet crashed in a field near moscow on sunday killing all seventy one people on board investigators say the crew may have failed to follow correct icing procedures the former president of georgia mikheil saakashvili says he was kidnapped in ukraine and sent to poland security for said shows saakashvili is now an opposition leader in ukraine being dragged from a restaurant by men in military uniforms it later emerged it was a government operation to deport him charlotte ballasts explains. the

mosque figures in an upmarket kira's strong shot get down the target is the former president of georgia mikhail saakashvili he was eating lunch on monday when more than a dozen men in military uniforms switched into the building really was a marksmen in ukraine as an opposition leader who had rallied against president petro poroshenko a close friend tuned for security camera footage posted on his facebook page shows him being dragged up by his here. he is then thrown into one of two white vans and driven away. he says his mouth and eyes were covered as he was punched and pushed to the floor of the vehicle a private plane waited distant for poland. on arrival in warsaw he made these comments i was very nicely made by polish side and ukrainian side was absolutely outrageous but there was a kidnapping illegal one but poles are very good pollution cohen saakashvili had

been close friends the ukrainian president granted him citizenship in twenty four tane and helped him to become a regional governor but saakashvili turned on him with allegations of corruption pushing co-head back of stripping him of his citizenship last year still his former friend snuck back into ukraine through poland in september. the ukrainian border services for that reason it was a legal operation that saakashvili was sent to poland now sure according to the court's decision really was on ukraine's territorial illegally that's why keeping with the judicial norms he was returned to the country where he came from for breaking the national laws of ukraine saakashvili supporters say he's fighting for justice they chant resignation for president pushing code. by his right to deport all the political opponents you can mobilize people public opponents.

in order to. prepare to win the election second time will saakashvili alleges the ukrainian president is corrupt others have accused him of the same and say he should be detained he cannot return to his native georgia because of charges of abuse of power the now he'll likely stay in poland a temporary safe haven from his political enemies shall it ballasts al-jazeera without is there still to come. the founder of wiki leaks loses another appeal to have his arrest warrant thrown out. on behalf of the government destroyed i'm sorry . ten years on from an historic apology we ask and then things changed. in the pyung chang way june of south korea a limb pick legion and i'll be all king whether young koreans all in pricing these guys.

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a mild spell at the same time this has developed further south in the last one and it's like pretty unpleasant weather for greece so we're going to have wind rain and ready chilly weather clipping algeria tunisia and then developing rather more properly throwing winds for the gulf to see it catching the eastern side of libya and eventually probably cyprus as well but the stormy weather is certainly no mediterranean based. while the world's rich take what they want. the world's poorest must beg to survive from the streets of manila to the roots of moment people and investigates the injustices of a globalized economy. and how different countries responds to those at the very bottom of society. begging for life. at this time on

al-jazeera. discover a willful would winning programming from the world. to make it challenge your perceptions if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better platform than facebook. documenters debates and discussions this country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did it get to this point al-jazeera. i'm back with the news outlets update you on our top stories israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu says he will continue to lead the country despite police recommending the tepee indicted for corruption and bribery it's alleged netanyahu and his wife received illicit gifts from billionaire benefactors polluting a major hollywood producer. south africa's ruling african national congress has officially asked president jacob zuma to step down no deadline has been set for the seventy five year old who is due to respond on wednesday and nikki haley the u.s. envoy to the united nations says myanmar's government is preventing the security council from traveling to rock island state. to witness violence that. oxfam is facing fresh claims of sexual assault and cover up this time in south sudan it follows allegations of sexual misconduct by some oxfam workers in haiti while delivering aid in the earthquake hit country and. survey of stuff in three countries including south sudan found that around ten percent of its workers had

witnessed or experienced sexual assault the charity is at risk of losing its government funding because of the scandal. so joining me now via skype from boston is paula donovan she's the co-director of aids free world and its code blue campaign which aims to end impunity for sexual exploitation by un peacekeepers thanks very much for speaking to us so we have seen that sexual exploitation is really a danger in every industry whether it be business or politics or broadcasting or entertainment but the thing about charities and n.g.o.s is that they really are dealing with the world's most vulnerable people who've undergone immense suffering how is it that these organizations are getting wrong. well it's certainly prevalent throughout the development organizations as it is within the united nations and throughout its agencies funds programs and so forth and it is an

epidemic it's not isolated incidents it's something that is happening in every part of the so-called aid industry and the problem that you cited at the beginning of your intro is the one that i think is most most on the top of mind for organizations when they're faced with allegations they're concerned about their continued funding and so it's the protection not of the most vulnerable or those who have been assaulted and abused and exploited it's the protection of the of the organization in the institution and its continued financial support and ability to to continue to do its work that is the most serious concern of those who are conducting investigations and in designing on the actions that will be taken into early right and because it is very important to note that these

organizations are doing very well while lifesaving work as well in asylum is difficult parts of the wild and a you concerned about how this might be exploited then by by certain political groups particularly far right groups which we see very much gaining influence particularly here in europe we know that the public's perception of the percentage of budgets that go to foreign aid can are often much more inflated than the reality d.c. that's being exploited by certain political elements that and that could as a result really put funding at risk. no i'm actually i'm actually concerned about the exact opposite which is that people will continue to operate under the misconceptions that if you call to task any organization or institution for the behavior and the conduct of of individuals within that organization that

somehow that will expose you are you'll be airing your dirty laundry and and the result will be reduced funding i think the opposite is true that if you don't deal with these with these allegations appropriately and ensure that justice is served then you lose the confidence of the populations that you're mandated to serve and you create and sustain this culture of impunity where the problem just gets bigger and bigger because people perceive that that if they happen to be fortunate enough to work for the united nations or four or one of these large development organizations they can get away with things that they wouldn't be able to get away with at home because people perceive that the that individual victims should be martyrs for the cause they should simply sort of turn the other cheek for the good of humankind and because these institutions are are doing important work throughout

the world and shouldn't lose their funding. quanah donovan kind rector of the thank you. thank you al adding to the pressure on oxfam is the arrest now all of its international channon quanell but a friend has was arrested in guatemala as part of a local corruption investigation and i think his time as the country's finance minister ten other people including the former president alvaro colom well the tank . turkey has warned cyprus and greece not to explore for gas near its coastline cyprus says turkish warships of blocking an oil rig from reaching a location in the eastern mediterranean where it italian oil company wants to drill turkey's been in a long running dispute with cyprus over maritime boundaries claiming certain areas fall into turkish jurisdiction last year eleven is all who are to them is warships forces an office security a closely following who do developments in the region with the instruction to make

or collins of interventions when necessary revise foreign companies who carry out activities off the coast of so it proves not to overstep their abilities or merely . a british royal navy warship this to sail through the south china sea to challenge beijing's claims on international waters the h.m.s. sutherland is returning from australia will pass through a key trade routes in the area to protect international navigation rights china has increased its activity in the region building new military facilities on reefs and islands the founder of wiki leaks julian assange has lost another court appeal to have his u.k. arrest warrant dropped a songe fled to the ecuadorian embassy in london six years ago to avoid being extradited to sweden where he faced rape and sexual assault charges those charges have now been dropped and his defense team said the arrest warrant for skipping bail should be dropped as well but in court today the judge said his son should have the courage to face the consequences of breaking the law if baka has more from

the court in central london. in the short run it means that life for julian assange remains very much the same the warrants outstanding for his arrest for skipping bell in two thousand and twelve has been upheld the second time it's been upheld in the space of a week his defense team made an initial pill to have it lifted last week they said it no longer should stand that it no longer applied after swedish investigators decided to scrap there at some to one of two medicines extradited to sweden to face questioning for sexual misconduct and rape allegations but despite that ruling his defense team then launched a second appeal which is only now been ruled upon they had hoped that the judge would lift the warrants this time around on the basis that serve it there was no public interest to maintain it anymore judah stanchest spent more than five and a half years in the ecuadorian embassy they argue about was in itself

a form of punishment for julian a songe but the charge here at westminster magistrate's court as rejected that the prosecution has always said the julian assange shouldn't be simply rewarded for outlasting the swedish investigation but all of this aside there were still deep concerns from asuncion his defense team about the existence of a possible secret indictment that could see him extradited to the u.s. and face serious challenges of espionage even if he is allowed to leave the ecuadorian embassy where according to his lawyers his health both mental and physical is suffering. the trial of a palestinian teenager challenge with assaulting an israeli soldier has been adjourned until march after a judge ordered the case behind closed doors i had tammy was arrested in december after a video of slapping and hitting israeli soldiers went viral seventeen year old faces twelve charges including assault and incitement she could spend up to ten years in

prison if found guilty. ten years ago kevin rudd australia's then prime minister apologized in parliament to generations of indigenous children who were forcibly taken from their homes and put into state institutions in an attempt to integrate them but many say since then not enough has changed andrew thomas reports and camera of the better part of a century it has been a central campaign promise in february two thousand and eight three months after being elected australia's new prime minister apologized to decades of institutional racism and abuse as prime minister of australia i'm sorry on behalf of the government of the strata i'm sorry watched by australians across the country rudd was specifically saying sorry to the stolen generations tens of thousands of people who as children have been forcibly removed from their families to bring them up often institutions as part of white australia instead it was

a much anticipated event in town to do feel giving that speech personally i felt as if i was carrying an enormous responsibility of my shoulders. on those important symbolic nationally coalitions you have to bring the mood and the sentiment and the heart of the country with you and so i spent a lot of time including until about three o'clock that morning writing this speech up by hand to make sure it was going to be authentically me and therefore as the prime minister of the country an authentic apology to the indigenous peoples who'd be assembled in the chamber of the house as well. but a decade on many aboriginal people say not enough has actually changed the official policy used to remove aboriginal children from their families indeed in the early one nine hundred seventy s.

but even today indigenous children are far more likely than others to be placed in institutional or foster family care but isothermal robert spent seven years of her childhood in different foster families now studying to be a lawyer she wants to stop other indigenous children from having similarly disrupted childhoods but someone says sorry i'll forgive them as long as they pull through with action we have not seen action take part since the apology we've seen nothing but over thirty thousand young people favoring two thousand and eight the policy came with a practical initiative to close the gap between the lives of indigenous and non-indigenous australians kevin rudd's created ambitious long term targets to improve the education employment health and life expectancy of aboriginal australians today he says substantial progress has been made but on monday australia's current prime minister said that all seven targets three are on track

to be met andrew thomas al-jazeera. is still with the news hour coming up. city or some of the biggest brands in the world. i'll tell you why. that story. business updates. going places to get.

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top designers have chosen to skip it the reason a changing industry and a focus on all the shows in europe. explains from new york. everybody's name is running a frantic buzz of activity before the big show. me is ready to carry this collection is all about ultra chic and comfortable travel garments from the colombian born designer edwin d'angelo new york fashion week it's a very important platform for myself and for emerging designers like myself because he offers an opportunity of excitement where everybody wants to come to a show of that he wants to be part of of this week well emerging designers like d'angelo still flock to do york's fashion week some of the biggest design houses like a pool and says school or. and tom brown are skipping it this year the fashion industry is in turmoil the way people buy their clothes is changing fast and

fashion week in new york has become less important to the high end brands as a focus on european buyers and big shows in europe beyond london and primarily paris paris is the crime till a crime of fashion week that's where chanel and christian dior and these brands that that we know is the real luxury brands show it's incredibly competitive and it's also a matter of money runway shows can cost anywhere from one hundred thousand dollars and upwards to a million dollars and even some of the biggest names in fashion don't want to spend that much money brands are starting to look for different ways that they can introduce their apparel their products to consumers without the costly and sometimes really ineffective ways it used to be. but fashion label rag and bone gave up on a new york fashion week runway show and instead got creative they introduced their

new collection in this video to reach more customers and drum up excitement it certainly doesn't fashion week is dead far from it there wasn't an empty seat at the. just needs was some of the biggest names not here. are some of the little guys you call the spotlight gabriels i'll go i'll do see them your. the way. now over to far and for sport marion thank you so much six gold medals will be up for grabs on day five of the winter olympics while another teenager has been taking over the slopes in pyong chang seventeen year old american

chloe kim won gold in the women's halfpipe on choose day her success follows the slope style win on sunday for teammate and fellow teen red gerard kim endured herself to founds by tweeting about wanting an ice cream during the event she'd already been a big hit and kyung chang parents coming from south korea. i think you know having my family could be there through the whole process was so helpful and i've surrounded myself with such amazing people that they definitely made it much easier for me. yeah i mean i feel like i got to represent both the u.s. and korea today and i'm very honored to have been able to do that. king was a success is the kind of story organizers had been hoping for while the winter olympics are a huge global event there have been concerns about how many young people are watching a survey in south korea before the games showed people under twenty were largely

indifferent about them only welling's has more. if summer olympics are the biggest the cool olympics coming winter there is a vibe amongst competitors and spectators that can give the game's a youth appeal so why did market research in korea before the games such a worrying picture for really big bosses the survey said under thirty's particularly the twenty's were more excited about such a four years ago than their own guy but the international olympic committee says it's evolving to appeal to the younger market we've developed the program specifically in certain ways to reach out to young people through youth focused events it's a big part of a limb pick a gender twenty twenty it's a big part of what we're doing with the olympic program generally you see that coming to life here in pyongyang you see the results with you gauge men of young people in the way that the young athletes themselves are responding to that energy there is plenty to attract young people it's not just the sports but the sound a look particularly fresh events like slopestyle despite the bitter cold and wind

it was ninety percent skill and ten percent fashion parade with plenty of teenagers competing. but sport is now consumed in a different why the i.o.c. feel they've connected with new generations by the events they include buying gaging with them on social media platforms is it working well this is known as coffee straight in the gunman coastal area many of the pyong chang events take place in the costa close to here and there's plenty of visitors so that you don't like it when i talk to my friends stay don't seem to have such a great interest in the olympics because young people don't have the spare time to be interested in the yemen my older friends seem to know about the olympics when i talk to their younger friends don't seem to have a big interest and become more indifferent and then there's the sports a huge deal in korea first it's spread so fast globally that tens of millions prefer it to traditional sports it can't be ignored but it's not part of the

olympics yet does that mean we'll see sport on the program of the next olympic games we're going to games probably a step too soon right now it's about engagement through the olympic channel through our partners out of that community find ways that we can engage with them and see where that takes us beyond the. the young koreans we've spoken to these olympics are excited and proud but of course the motion some on these the about the guns being used as a political tool by barely does on those of north korea the international olympic committee knows it needs to reach out to the young koreans on the younger generations everywhere to keep these five olympic rings special lee wellings al-jazeera. there's finally been a gold medal for austria's marcel her sure he's won the men's combined skiing on choose stay winner of six consecutive overall world cup titles hirsch's previous best start an olympics with silver in the slalom in sochi and this combined event features downhill and slalom races her sure has three more medal chances at these

games. meanwhile korea's combined women's hockey team suffered a second straight defeat of the games going down eight nothing to sweden they also lost to switzerland in their opening game the sign is made up of players from the north and south. canada won the first curling medal of the games in the mixed doubles of at earlier here's peter summit to tell you about the sports roots and its modern day. curling is one of those sports that bethel's a lot of people it's the one on ice with the rocks the brooms and the sheltering and if you think it looks like something from the middle ages well then yes you can think of medieval scotland forward this competitive stone that is made of granite and weighs almost twenty kilograms it's going to have to glide about forty five meters to reach a target that looks much like a bullseye from above what you have is two teams of four and they will take tunes

throwing the stones that are rotated so they cool as they travel down the ice hence the name cooling to help it along the way the schiphol caps and yells are directions to two other players who sweep the ice ahead of the stone with the brooms the friction melts the ice and allows the stone to glide faster to its target and from here it's all about points get your stone closer than your opponent and you get a point at the olympics this process is repeated fourteen rounds or in it actually is incredibly tactical perhaps what cooling is known as chase on ice. are still top of the medal table after day four of action now the guys in their one their fifth court in the women's lucia on cheers dane just behind are the netherlands they won another speed staving called earlier norway and third have the most total medals with eleven. in football the way the champions league is back

into results to bring you from the first legs of the round of sixteen ties and manchester city won for now at bars a while tottenham came back from two goals down to draw eventis a reverse lay both ties will take place next month. world number one caroline vie snacky is the star attraction at this week's catarrh open she's entering a new phase of her career after winning her first grand slam title howling gleason reports. caroline wozniacki is no stranger to life at the top of women's tennis but the feeling of being a grand slam champion is still brand new. it's just a couple of weeks since the twenty seven year old beat simona halep to win the australian open in what was her third slam final returning to the top of the rankings in the process in recent seasons the likes of angelica. have struggled for consistency after the highs of their first major triumphs but after waiting so long

for this moment that isn't something that is worrying was. last summer i think. just enjoying myself enjoying the ride there's been a lot going on the last couple of weeks and i'm just here trying to do my best. to fight my hardest and then we see what happened was the active career has been in the spotlight since she first became number one in the world back in twenty ten she dealt with constant questioning over whether she would ever win a grand slam title and many had written her off as recently as eighteen months ago when her ranking had fallen to just seventy four in the world but now expectations are high again and she has the new pressure of trying to back up have face major breakthrough. player prakash i'm a charge police was the experience will help her cope with this new challenge i think it's a little bit different than some of the younger players who all of a sudden thrust into the spotlight carolyn's been there for a while she's lost a couple of very tough ovals notably one to the u.s. open so i think she has a little bit better perspective she's

a slightly older player so i think with a quite well. trying to hold on to number one spot is the immediate challenge was the akki the katha open just three hundred and forty nine points ahead of i'm with many to defend having reached last year's final. you know of achieved i won my first year and i think all of that is so huge so for me and whatever happens with the rest of the year. it's still going to be a successful susan. it seems was the akhi is taking this new chapter of her korea right helen gleason al-jazeera. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to mary i'm in london thank you for a while now scientists in the u.s. have developed a robot dog which can open and hold doors boston dynamics the company behind the creation posted a video online showing off its new invention the robot dog extends an arm out of

its head to reach the handle and then uses a claw little claw to turn it footage once again we ignited the debate over how advanced robot technology has become. well that wraps up the news hour but i'll be back in just a couple of minutes with much more of the day's news say without is there.

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oil upon which modern day venezuela was a stop. for over a century this lucrative resorts has divided the people less than cursed with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time on al jazeera. israel's prime minister denies claims of corruption saying he will continue to leave the country off to police say he should be indicted. now i'm i am minimizing in london you're watching al-jazeera coming up.