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cruel and barbaric to top it off they have the gall to blame the media the united nations puts more pressure on the inmarsat government to deal with their bare hands are crisis. oxfam international chief faces corruption charges as the charity confronts a deepening abuse scandal. confronting racism in canada how the case of an indigenous man killed by a white farmer could change the country's criminal justice system. a defiant israeli prime minister says he'll keep a lady in the country despite police recommending he be charged for corruption and bribery benjamin netanyahu is accused of accepting nearly three hundred thousand dollars in gifts from billionaire benefactors he's also suspected of backroom deals with the publisher of an israeli newspaper for favorable coverage harry fawcett

reports on mr islam. the corruption scandal has swirled around him for months but never at this intensity addressing the nation benjamin netanyahu was determined to project resilience and confidence i'm sure will be with you not too slow but i will continue to lead israel responsibly and faithfully as long as you the citizens of israel choose me to lead you i am certain i am certain that the truth will be revealed and i am certain that at the next elections which will be held on schedule i will earn your trust again israeli police are recommending that he be charged in two cases the first case one thousand involves gifts of cigars and champagne made to the prime minister and his wife sarra the gift givers israeli born hollywood mogul. and australian billionaire james packer the police reportedly recommending milchan also be charged with bribery base in total the netanyahu has received a quarter of a million dollars the accusation that netanyahu back to bill that would have saved

his friend much more money if he wanted to repatriate to israel netanyahu rejected any such suggestion in his late night rebuttal saying only that he helped him with the visa application not in return for cigars but because it was a friend of israel and it will come to the last what route through i'm not here for personal gain 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 in the second case israel's prime minister is accused of trying to get favorable coverage in the country's second biggest newspaper by offering to hamper the activities of its main competitor the police are also reportedly recommending the proprietor of the get you off her and off newspaper be charged with bribery the question now is how much the prime minister's carefully cultivated image of a wise economic steward and strong security pragmatist will be undermined by the tawdry details in the police document was distasteful is there is the pettiness of it he is personally a millionaire. he doesn't need. a billionaire to buy him cigars more important in

the voters' reactions may well be those of netanyahu as political allies will his coalition partners continue to back him and perhaps the most consequential decision will fall to the attorney general whether or not to follow the police recommendation and indict the sitting prime minister of israel army forces al-jazeera west jerusalem i spoke about these developments just a short time ago with a key the elder political columnist at monitor dot com i began by asking him whether he thought israel's attorney general will formally file charges against netanyahu. akiva eldar astute political columnist with a monitor dot com he joins us now on skype from tel aviv thank you very much for your time so the police recommendation that there is sufficient evidence to charge benjamin netanyahu in these corruption cases do you think the attorney general or take it from here and actually do that well i'm not sure it looks like it would be

very difficult for him to convince the israeli public opinion and maybe even the supreme court that what the police comes up with is not enough to charge the prime minister right but it's now becoming a political question more than just a legal question whether the attorney general will indict him or not because once the police is so clear about bribery here and what's even in my view as a journalist should worry us more is how the prime minister puts his hand so deep into the media and television internet newspapers business and meddling with things that should be very clear to you senior and veteran.

politician like benjamin have you know that he should keep away from this do you think having covered him for quite some time do you think how do you think he will fight obviously he's you know maintained his innocence but as this plays out how do you see him handling this how do you see him fighting this you know the. funny thing about the israeli system is that you can serve as a minister once your indicted but you can't service prime minister while you spend your time commuting between the prime minister's office and court because. if the prime minister has to restart the whole the government has to resign and then it means that the president has to authorize another member of knesset to form a government or we go for only elections and what happens if at the end of the day

. he is he's not guilty and he's acquitted so he can stay there almost until he even appeals to the supreme court so we are looking at maybe another year or so that this cloud the black cloud will be following the prime minister and the whole country and what do you think the implications of that are for the country well. the tragedy is that if. we look at the polls tomorrow we will find out that the majority of the israelis still support him and this is something very weird about about a country that is considered to be leading in high tech and in culture in everything when it comes to politics it seems that people are very stupid and the

threshold is not even you know bribery and clear accommodation of the police to indict him in other words. you would get if you go to the street and ask people what do you think they will tell you well there is nobody else in it and you. no is the best that we can come up with so he will play the his his popularity he will use his. communication abilities and he will go to the end of the he will take us reserved in mars the government has been accused of making life for a hench. death sentence the damning words come from the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley and the un's head of refugees also says conditions are right for henschel return to return to me and mar as its government has still not address their exclusion denial of rights and lack of

citizenship mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the plight of the rethink is highlighted in this exhibition on capitol hill around the table discussion on the crisis is joined by some of the senators who are adamant that the time has come for military leaders to be held accountable for the well documented abuse suffered in iraq kind state and i hope this except right here on capitol hill well help bring to the american people the need the urgency for us to help the rohingya muslims and to prevail in the future atrocities in our community we should speak out against the world the civilized world against the million more policies that have led to this persecution of discrimination in this expulsion of these people from min and the demand that the white house take a public position on what is happening in myanmar i want to see the president the

united states cape fear stand about this ethnic cleansing about this genocide we have not had one word not one word from the oval office. not one word of leadership against this horrific horrific crime against humanity on tuesday donald trump some best to the un did speak on the issue but pointed the finger of blame at others for not holding myanmar to a company 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 the situation while there may be little action at the u.n. the u.s. senate is likely to leave the way with a food vote in coming days and targeted sanctions appears certain against those

military leaders responsible for these crimes my kind of washington and the scandal surrounding the british charity oxfam is widening with the new allegations of abuse by its staff in south sudan some aid workers are accused of sexual assault and rape in some cases exchanging sex for food it follows allegations that staff as prostitutes and its operation in haiti following the two thousand and ten earthquake and also in chad now on top of all of this oxfam international chairman want to went as knight has been arrested in his native guatemala over corruption allegations from his time as a government minister there so brian concannon as a human rights lawyer and the executive director of the institute for justice and democracy in haiti he joins us from boston massachusetts and we appreciate your time. clearly something is wrong as you see it is there is systemic cultural problem and oxfam what what or what do you see.

well oxfam has admitted that they have a cultural problem and is taking steps to remedy that but the oxfam scandal is really just the tip of the iceberg and the iceberg is a long history of unaccountable interventions by the humanitarian community in countries like haiti but also many other countries that are poor and this is an oxfam sexual abuse scandal is a problem but there's also been an al-jazeera has reported on this extensively sexual abuse by u.n. troops there's been sexually abused by missionaries and it goes beyond that to get in the case of haiti the u.n. introduced color to haiti killing ten thousand people and has refused to accept responsibility you have unaccountable policies by international financial institutions that force the haitian government and other governments like you to to him to accept economic policies that their citizens don't want and so you have

a whole history of of humanitarian interventions they do many good things but but they also do much harm because they're not accountable to the people of haiti and to to that point there's no accountability is there no accountability because these groups are going into places that are already vulnerable so that people in the communities in the countries are not empowered relate to stand up for themselves. exactly there it's very hard for that for the people of poor countries who need humanitarian assistance to exert their rights but also the humanitarian system is set up to prevent them from doing it all the county count ability mechanisms are back to to the donors not to the people who are supposed to be beneficiaries and it's ironic that in oxfam's case oxfam is actually a leading voice for accountability both for international financial institutions but also for n.g.o.s for spending money better and oxfam was one of the

organizations that was behind the creation of these standards called the sphere standards that are supposed to regulate how humanitarians operate and those standards are fairly broadly accepted but also just as broadly ignored when it comes to constraining or what organizations want to do so with so many eyes on oxfam everybody knows what oxfam is and the fact that these things seem to keep happening with as you mentioned the un various organizations. could there be a reckoning coming and the sense that there will have to be change and that oxfam could be in a position to initiate that change. and oxfam reading it statements oxfam says it has been initiating the change over the last couple of years i'm not i'm not in a position to judge how well those have been implemented i think we should all look at how oxfam's doing and how other work in his asians are doing and one of the

concerns about the reckoning is you mentioned is that is that the main impact of the reckoning is that important humanitarian work is not going to be done in places where it needs to and for it would be really tragic for the main victims of this scandal to be people in haiti and other places where where oxfam in other organizations are doing good work and i think it is important on the world to make sure that the good work is done is being done but that there is a layer of accountability added on to that and i think we can do both. and brian kind of can and thank you very much for this important conversation we appreciate it. plenty more had and the news hour including. i don't know about them but there's new video there's a very very soon what. they and say as jacob zuma to step down a south africa's president that he is refusing to go. the former president of

georgia accuses ukraine of kidnapping as he's taken from a restaurant and sent out of the country. and then sport the teenage snowboarder taking over the slopes at they can change winter olympics. yes actress at rex tillerson has warned that the end of combat operations against doesn't mean the fight against the armed group is over he made the comments during a conference of the global coalition to defeat eisel in kuwait summit on reports from there. displacement is a cold world a life where the only warmth is the smile of your last surviving child and that the smiles wife and two other children were killed in a u.s. led coalition air strike in two thousand and four his house in ramadi turned to rubble now have been a camp is the inhospitable host of these unwilling guests these are the people the

u.s. secretary of state told a conference of the n.t. eisel coalition not to forget. which. countries managed to work together to achieve a military goal defeating i saw on the battlefield but now that that phase is over comes perhaps an even more challenging one how do you keep an international coalition together in achieving the next three key objectives reconstruction on land recaptured from i saw political inclusiveness and security but who will stop isis return and provide security america's top diplomat says ground forces a crucial but his own troops have already started to draw from and in syria washington has mainly relied on kurdish forces to fight i saw forces turkey is

fighting and previews the missing plane another terrorist group that can't be allowed to fill the vacuum. on the ship must we have seen some very serious mistakes and wrongdoing from our ally the united states our relations are at a very critical juncture we will either mend our relations or they will break apart completely assignment wasteland of destruction is nonetheless the subject of a noisy argument over who protects it both tillerson and iraq's prime minister are urging attendees at the reconstruction conference to help iraq rebuild. war is over but the battle for reconstruction has just begun and our invitation to invest in iraq is a real invitation but who will come up with the one hundred billion dollars about he says is needed to listen maybe urging the private sector to commit its cash but he's president was busy describing money spent in the middle east is a waste as of a couple of months ago we have spent seven trillion dollars in the middle east

seven trillion dollars was a mistake the children of have been in a camp no want far worse looks like all they want is to go home and a real shot at a peaceful future sami's a than al-jazeera kuwait egypt's former anti-corruption chief has shamed the naina has been detained it recently spoken out over the arrest of sami anon a former military chief of staff that was planning to run in the upcoming presidential election in iran it's groups are warning the poll in march will not a free and fair trial strafford reports. this is egypt's former anti corruption chief. speaking hours before he was arrested. i had hoped in a pretty 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 can have been increasingly critical of the c.c.

government since egyptian police arrested the former military chief of staff sami and last month and then was arrested after announcing he would run against president fattal 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 be that he tried to urge him from other perspectives of making other people or trying to. pressure on the government and if you know if it. were but it was down well rested and i now i'm so yeah i mean there's no 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. in the trial of a palestinian teenager charged with assaulting an israeli soldier has been in journey until march after a judge ordered the case be heard behind closed doors i had to mimi was arrested in december after

a video of her slapping and hitting israeli soldiers went viral the seventeen year old faces twelve charges including assault and incitement and she could spend up to ten years in prison if found guilty south africa's president is expected to address the media on wednesday after his party the african national congress formally asked him to step down it's uncertain uncertain if rather seventy five year old jacob zuma will resign but if he doesn't he could face a vote of no confidence in parliament that meeting miller has more from johannesburg. off to days of confusion and uncertainty this precise briefing was expected to introduce some clarity into the future of president jacob zuma but while the a.n.c. confirmed it had also a president to resign the party did little to assure solve africans that will happen any time soon as we know there's this is the time and space. to respond. we have.

to respond. i don't want to love him but let's leave president. 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'd also be much a 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 be brought 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 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. al-jazeera johannesburg. the dutch foreign minister has resigned after he admitted lying about meeting the russian president more than a decade ago. previously claimed he was with vladimir putin in two thousand and six and heard him speak about x. expansion his plans to create a greater russia on monday and that it was an athame of it said he was in order to protect his source investigators say sunday's plane crash in russia may have been caused by frozen speed gauges and minutes after taking off the passenger jet crashed in a field near moscow on sunday killing all seventy one people on board and best

skater say the crew may have failed to follow correct de icing procedures the russian built plane belonging to saratov airlines was on its way to the city of or skin the year old mountains canada's government says it's looking at changing the way juries are chosen for criminal trials this comes after an all white jury made up of twelve acquitted a white farmer of the murder of a twenty two year old indigenous man. lack as more. he was in a vehicle with several others when he was shot in the head by gerald stanley stanley said his family and property were under attack and the gun had misfired when he tried to frighten those in the car for his trial defense lawyers rejected all potential jurors with indigenous backgrounds it took just fifteen hours for an all white jury to acquit stanley of second degree murder. protests erupted across the country last saturday against

a verdict many saw as racially motivated indigenous activists say the criminal courts routinely deny them justice both as victims of violence and as defendants. their son all over again to say that his life has no meaning and this is allowed and then what does it mean for the rest of us like do we need to keep worrying that our lives are in danger by people who have racist ideas about members of bushies family headed to auto to press for change to the justice system after two days of meetings the family says the government is listening to them and they're keeping up pressure for action not just words of comfort as a family we want to be a part of that process so that these injustices are addressed. and that we feel justice for our brother for our son the prime minister what concrete steps will he take since he was elected just over two years ago prime minister justin trudeau has

been promising indigenous people redress and reconciliation so far he's talked of change but no specifics yet we have come to this point as a country far too many times indigenous people across this country are. angry they're heartbroken. and i know indigenous and non-indigenous canadians alike know that we have to do better the federal justice minister says she's looking at changes to the jury system as protesters and the bush family have been demanding still indigenous canadians have heard promises of reform before promises that haven't been kept this time they say the outcome must be different than your lack al-jazeera toronto. head on al-jazeera the. largest military exercises began of controversy over invited. i'm having them be kept. there on caroline with the arcade thing if she can build on her

stunning and i plan think that. out of the still flooding on the ground in cannes i want to other states i suspect and the snow on the ground to the north east of the front brought it all this one it's been a raft three days it disappeared leaving a bit of rain maybe northern florida beyond that well there's a lot of plan around a power play but i think actually not much going on the immediate future the next winter storm system is gathering in washington state and running east was through montana there was in southern california arizona is still there in bits and pieces there is winter in the hills but across the plains is nothing like his code the real cold kept up in the canadian prairies is clear there will develop and bring more rain to the currently flooded states for example kentucky but also to bring

rain further east washington twenty degrees suggest a nice warm spell south of this and we still wash in the prevalent breeze which brings these great clouds which really are bringing very much on to the caribbean coast anywhere from panama right up to mexico so occasional showers or outbreaks of rain here the big showers are for me mexico seem to be taking a backseat and disappearing all the dry spell from mexico so happens to the south of that of the big concerts of south america there are still big showers around but livia but the main rain still falling happily around. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and

solving problems their challenging systems and shaping. creative thinkers shaping continents future innovate africa at this time on. the floor of the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to the. freedom of the challenge is going to be. limited to the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth.

watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now israeli police have recommended prime minister benjamin netanyahu be indicted over corruption allegations the attorney general now has to decide whether to pursue formal charges and yahoo has vowed to stay on as israel's leader as some bastard to the u.n. has accused me of mars' government of making lives for henge of muslims a death sentence hundreds of thousands of them have fled the country since a violent military crackdown began in august the scandal surrounding the british charity oxfam is widening with new allegations of abuse by its staff and south sudan follows allegations that aid workers she's prostitutes in haiti following the two thousand and ten earthquake and also in chad. aid workers from the un's world food program are in the city of doors or in syria for the first time since it was taken by eisel in two thousand and fourteen last year was taken back by syrian

government forces with support from russia and iran all it was under control it was besieged by pro-government troops and aid supplies to the city were cut off russia says it has no information about the russian mercenaries being killed in syria it comes in response to reports that more than two hundred pro syrian government fighters were killed in doors or last week from fighting with u.s. coalition forces moscow says it's only aware of its citizens being deployed there as part of the russian armed forces russia has been supporting the government of syrian president bashar al assad throughout the civil war or a challenge has more from moscow. what happened in dera zoar on february seventh has the potential to turn into a rare political scandal in russia it's alleged that perhaps in excess of two hundred russian mercenaries died in a botched assault on a syria democratic forces h.q. in the area the u.s.

led coalition says that it responded with artillery and air strikes to be attacked by what it calls pro syrian regime forces information that's a merged on russian language social media suggests that this led to a complete rounds a massacre with plane loads of wounded survivors being brought back to russia now as with much to do with the syrian war the actual facts are murky and hard to come by but conflicts intelligence team which does detective work based on open source information has already noted condolence is being posted on the social media profiles of russian mercenaries with the the dates and locations matching this particular battle. the kremlin though and the ministry of defense are staying very tight lipped the kremlin says that it has no information about all of

this there's the report should be verified and perhaps they should be put to the ministry of defense themselves now despite being technically illegal in russia private military companies have done much of the fighting on the russian side in both ukraine and syria it's a way of outsourcing military dirty work keeping costs and casualties off the books essentially but this catastrophe could blow the lid on all that and russian m.p.'s are starting to clamor for information it's not often that the kremlin faces such a domestic challenge to its long maintain the stance of plausible deniability. let's turn now to that conference in kuwait about rebuilding iraq after its campaign against i saw the country needs tens of billions of dollars to rebuild some of its cities after the war against that group made has more on just what iraq

wants for fifteen years conflict has laid waste to iraq roads schools hospitals industry even entire cities are now in ruin millions of people live in poverty the government of iraq worked with the world bank to assess all this damage and count the cost of rebuilding the country they concentrated on the areas that were most affected in recent years of conflict they came up with a staggering figure one hundred four billion dollars in total losses since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and three damage from the war against isis alone is estimated at forty five billion now the breakdown seventeen point four billion is needed to rebuild homes this is a priority as about three million iraqis are living in tents about ten billion dollars are required to rebuild schools and health care facilities at least half of iraq's hospitals and health clinics are gone. and then there's the water and

sanitation system about ninety percent of it is damaged beyond use that's another two point four billion dollars repairing the damage eisel calls to the country's cultural and religious sites will cost one point seven billion another nine billion is needed to restore power for all iraqis at the moment their entire cities which don't have electricity at all and in others just a few hours a day the basic sectors of the country's economy need more than twenty billion dollars just to function properly nearly half of that is earmarked for the oil and gas industry that's a priority for iraq to be able to pump more barrels per day and kick start the economy but before reconstruction can begin the government of iraq needs to provide security and stability as well as an all inclusive government for all iraqis regardless of sect or its necessity for iraq that is priceless. it craney an

opposition leader and former president of georgia mikheil saakashvili says he has been kidnapped and then sent to poland security footage shows truckers feeley being dragged from the restaurant by men in military uniforms and it later emerged it was a government operation to deport him charla bellus reports. the mosque figures in an upmarket queue of restraint 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 tuneful or security camera footage posted on his facebook page shows him being dragged up by his here. oh he's 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 met by polish side and ukrainian so it was absolutely outrageous but then it was a kidnapping illegal one but polls are very good pushing 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 stripping him of his citizenship last year still his former friend snuck back into ukraine through poland in september. 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 mikhail saakashvili 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. his right to deport all the political opponents who 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 site and say he should be detained he cannot return to his native georgia because of charges of abuse of power for now he'll likely stay in poland a temporary safe haven from his political enemies charlotte dallas al-jazeera. the founder of wiki leaks julian assange has lost another court appeal to have issued arrest warrant dropped its lead 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 the judge said his son should have the courage to face the consequences of breaking the law a british royal navy warship is to sail through the sound china sea to challenge beijing's claims on international waters him miss southerland is returning from a pass through a key trade route in that area china claims nearly all of the waters despite competing claims from several other asian pacific nations that also constructed new islands and military facilities in the sea the u.s. and thailand have been criticized for including me and more security forces at a major military exercise and have accused me and our security forces of committing ethnic cleansing against the hinge of minority and rakhine state when he reports from the war games and very young. 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 pass 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 us ambassador to thailand tried to avoid the subject ambassador why did you not push back stronger against me in my involvement in this. i would accept the promise of that i'm very happy to let. my colleagues address your fear of their presence but the truth is. it is not a participant nation. but they still here i was sitting right on the right made me out here and there they're not part of the exercise here 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's unfolded 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 its 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 hay al jazeera rayong thailand. scientists in the u.s. have developed a robot dog which open and hold doors with its legs its something to keep

watching. the company behind the creation posted a video showing the new invention so the dog. extends an arm out of its head to the handle and uses a claw to turn it. has reignited the debate over how advanced technology has become. scarily advanced. affleck and. still ahead on al-jazeera. region of south korea. all in.

york fashion week is in full swing that there is less glitz on the runways this year because several top designers have chosen to skip it the reason is a focus on other shows in europe every elizondo reports. everybody's running a frantic buzz of activity bowman's before the big show oh. me it's too crowded in there to create 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 the offers an opportunity of excitement where everybody wants to come to a show of that who 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 school or two sata 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 leave utah 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 in upwards to a million dollars and even some of the biggest names in fact. 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. a 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 it wasn't an empty seat at d'angelo show just needs with some of the biggest names not here. some of the little guys for the spotlight gabriel psagot how do you see your. the two cutting the in.

time for sport with fara thanks very 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 and young chang seventeen year old american chloe cam one gold in the women's halfpipe on cheese day her success follows the slope style win on sunday for teammate and fellow teen red gerard kevin jarrett herself to fans by tweeting about wanting an ice cream during the event she'd already been a big hit in europe parents coming from south korea i think you know having my family. good to be there through the whole process was so helpful and i've surrounded myself with such amazing people that 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. as 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 lee wellings 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 thanks 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 a program specifically in certain ways to reach out to young people through youth focused events it's a big part of a limp dick agenda 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 that connected with new generations by the events by include buying gaging with them on social media platforms is it working well this is known as coffee straight in the gangnam coastal area many of the events take place in the cost of 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 my older friends seem to know that human beings 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 remember going to games probably a step too soon right now it's about engagement through the olympic channel through our partners out of the community find ways that we can engage with them and see where that takes us beyond. the young koreans we've spoken to these olympics are excited and proud but across the ocean some on the the about the guns being used as a political tool why barely does on those of north korea the international olympic committee knows it needs to reach out to the young koreans and the younger generations everyway 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 day when her of six consecutive overall world cup titles hirsch's previous

best start an olympics with silver in the so long in sochi this combined event features downhill and slalom races her she 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 baffles 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 captain yells out directions to two other players who sweep the ice ahead of the stone with their 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 ins it actually is incredibly tactical perhaps what cooling is known as chase on ice germany are still top of the medal table after day four of action that league eisenberger won their fifth gold in the women's division on choose day just behind are the

netherlands they won and now their speed skating gold earlier norway in third have the most total medals with eleven. in football the way the champions league is back in to results to bring you from the first legs of the round of sixteen ties manchester city won for now at basel while top them came back from two goals down to draw eventis a reverse legs of both ties will take place next month. world number one caroline wozniak 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 an iraqi. well it's awesome i think pressure and just enjoying myself enjoying the ride and there's been a lot going on the last couple of weeks and i'm just here trying to do my best to try and. fight my hardest and then we see what happens was the accu career has been in the spotlight since she first became number one in the well back in twenty time 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 major breakthrough . player prakash i'm rich. 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

a thrust into the spotlight carolyn's been there for a while she's lost a couple of very tough foibles 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 it quite well trying to hold on to number one spot is the immediate challenge. and just three hundred and forty nine points ahead of her that i'm with many to defend having reached last year's final. you know i've achieved my first year and i think all of that is so huge so for me and whatever happens for the rest of the year you know it's still going to be a successful susan. it seems was the akhi is taking this new chapter i have had korea. al-jazeera doha and that's all your sport for now more later thousands of revelers have marched to the controversial leaders portugal's annual carnival so take a look at this one of the floats portrays u.s.

president. donald trump sitting on a toilet shaped like planet earth. wow ok and behind him fourth korea's kim jong un holds a rocket you know rocket man and the carnival the capitalised on his spam is for its political satire it's all for the news hour keep it here on the other side of the break.

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every click you make click to everything all the waves also. it's time to watch the what. we believe that on the deep sleep is the first civilian. trials. and we are creators. of the engineers at this time. as prime minister benjamin netanyahu should face bribery charges but the attorney general will have the final say on prosecution. i'm richelle carey and this is al jazeera also coming up. what we have seen so far

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