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decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect south africa's scandal plagued president jacob zuma reluctantly steps down under intense pressure from his own party. also seventeen people killed during a us high school shooting the suspect is a former student he'd been expelled and. russia can push the regime to commit to seeking a real peace in syria the u.s. and russia again trade blame at the u.n. after the special envoy for syria says the violence is at its worst level for years . also around moves in on black market money traders and sinking currency inflicts more pain on the economy. welcome to the news hour jacob zuma has resigned south africa's president heeding

orders from his ruling party the a.n.c. he's going immediately bringing an end to almost nine scandal plagued years in power for me to miller possible from johannesburg. a reluctant announcement from an in vattel to president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of my of the leadership of my of going to zation i have always been a disciplined member of the. it came just hours before parliament was due to vote in a motion of no confidence against jacob zuma president's hand may have been forced but zuma says his party did not give reasons why he should resign that's despite

being in broiled in scandal after scandal throughout his presidency including accusations of corruption and a court ruling that he had broken his oath of office when he ignored the public protect his recommendation that he paperback some of the state money used to rehab issues private residence. despite all the criticism against zuma the a.n.c. says the decision to recall him was a difficult one to make following zoomers resignation the ruling party saluted what it called his outstanding contribution and thanked him for the role he played in the a.n.c. for many decades. earlier in the day the home of zimmer's associates a family known as the gupta's was raided. five people have been arrested after an investigation revealed that billions of dollars of state funds was siphoned from a dairy farm project into business is linked to the group does. next week the national prosecuting authority will decide if

a corruption charges against zuma that were dropped in two thousand and nine will be reinstated and an inquiry into the extent of external influence in seumas administration known as state capture is due to begin his removal as president may just be the beginning of zoomers troubles for media millar al jazeera johannesburg but for me to mention the gupta brothers alleged role in jacob zuma is troubles takes a closer look at who they are. twenty five years after immigrating from india to brothers a.j. and brijesh one of the richest families in south africa they went from success to success with investments in media energy air travel mining and technology they first met president jacob zuma more than a decade ago one of the company of events wasn't long before several xoom is working for the gov't is but their relationship didn't become controversial until the go to strew a luxury waiting in twenty thirteen and chartered

a plane with more than two hundred wedding guests to an air force base that is reserved to state dignitaries it was a national scandal about the same time allegations surfaced that they had pushed president zuma on certain ministerial appointments allegations that gupta's and zuma denies. charge of the government i'm in charge i'll point. in terms of the constitution there is no minister who is that here was appointed by the who does. but the accusation stuck the national ombudsman published a three hundred fifty five page report on the matter and twenty six doing its title state of capture the came household term the normally media shy group has had little choice but to respond. i'm not a lobbyist i'm not a state capture as far as concern of that i'm a friend only. going to do me as

a friend of the people of matting and met office what are the been a list explain and by understand that captured is there. when you are digging and the advantage of anybody a.j. good to see it less than two percent of their business is government related the image was tainted now with the arrests of several members of the gupta family many will be looking to see how this case will impact the president so robert poser faces a mountain of challenges as he moves into the presidency despite the seas promises to build homes that improve basic services millions of people still live without electricity or water levels of violent crime remain the bugs the highest in the world while official figures put unemployment at twenty seven point seven percent many suspect it's even higher than that and capetown south africa's second largest city is also running out of water. for khuda is a researcher at the al-jazeera center for studies he says zuma is removal is an

effort by the african african national congress to move on from a tainted presidency before elections come soon i think sort of the polls of the current leader of the sea. insistence of removing jacob zuma was clearly to try and have a smoother electoral period because jacob zuma would have indeed impacted on the in c. winning the next elections and twenty nineteen because he's around it and suddenly by all of these people who bring the petition down and then the corruption charges that are hanging over his head so it was an agent issue for the a.n.c. to get rid of jacob zuma and if that i mean if this is the only hope actually they head to replace him with sort of oppose it because if zuma was going to take and see today to the election next year many people argue that in a scene might have is in the last elections. seventeen people are being killed in

the u.s. state of florida by a gunman who opened fire at a high school it happened in the municipality of parkland north of miami police say the suspect is a former student who was expelled for we'll have a live update from our correspondent and a gala in parkland shortly but first here's mike hanna this report on what we know so far. reports of gunfire were received shortly before classes were dismissed for the day a code red alert was issued the school was locked down with many students still sheltering inside there are more than three thousand students registered at the school and the rescue operation was made more difficult by the vast size of the campus. multiple casualties we've had approximately fourteen people transported to area hospitals with varying degrees of injuries there are multiple casualties aerial footage showed hundreds of students running

from the area some of the injured being treated on the scene the suspect here we are being a maroon shirt was taken into custody. in this footage she's shown being placed on a gurney he's been identified as a nineteen year old former student at the school the daily white house briefing was canceled because of the shooting and president trump took to twitter my prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible florida shooting he said no child teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an american school in washington the senator from the state which up until now was the scene of the deadliest school shooting five and a half years ago at sandy hook said yet again a very american tragedy had occurred the scorch of school shooting after school shooting it only happens here not because of coincidence

not because of bad luck. but as a consequence of our inaction we are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else before this day they had already been five separate school attacks reported in this year alone a total of at least four students had been killed well over twenty injured and i was relieved parents are reunited with their children one stark fact remains the six and latest attack is likely to see release tragic numbers increase significantly mike hanna al-jazeera washington let's go straight over to the calhoun who's in parkland for some the shootouts been apprehended and they are as

well as we know in the last few hours but what do we know about the circumstances leading up to the shooting. well we're getting a clearer picture it is now clear that this was a premeditated attack we're told that cruise entered the school with a gas mask smoke grenades and an assault rifle possibly an a r fifteen we are also being told that it is him that triggered the smoke alarm as he walked inside the school to create an atmosphere of panic and it's also worth remembering that this is a school that he attended before he was essentially kicked out so he knew where to go he knew where the classrooms were he knew where there would be most people he is now in hospital his injuries are said to be not life threatening and already he is cooperating with investigators they are currently going through his social media through his facebook feed they already say they're finding disturbing images and disturbing messages his motive is still not known but this is somebody who has left

an indelible mark here in parkland in florida but as mike said this is not the first mass school shooting in this country this year alone it is in fact the six and it is only halfway through the month of february so it is striking that yet again in the world's most advanced nation that this keeps on repeatedly happening over the past fifteen years of just about covered every mass shooting that has been in this country and almost every time i am asked the question when will things change and i can tell you almost categorically nothing will change despite the loss of life here and despite the repeated times that this keeps on happening in the united states and of course you have to be when we see these shootings we hear about these shootings whether they were to school or to rock concerts we saw in las vegas just only what late last year the debate about gun control the debate about the second amendment comes to the forefront and then sort of at zero way.

it does every time and there are many reasons for that soley that one of the main reasons is the national rifle association who have millions of members in this country who lobby quite heavily in washington d.c. and give lots of money to politicians are extremely powerful and there are plenty of people in this country that believe the second amendment should never be touched but the fact remains that a nineteen year old student who clearly had issues on social media was able to go and buy an assault rifle if that's a weapon indeed used which is basically a military grade weapon one that we saw used in sandy hook in connecticut when twenty children were killed who were far younger than the ones here the debate happens it dies and goes away the only thing i can think of that's happened in the direction of controlling guns is after las vegas which i also covered they were talking about banning bump stocks which turn assault rifles into automatic weapons that still hasn't. passed any kind of legislation in congress people are frustrated

people are angry that nothing ever happens but i can almost categorically tell you that once again even though this is tragic even though there's been a great loss of life nothing is bound to change once again for the moment i do believe that of course and come back to as a situation develops and a gal heather in parkland in florida well john boehner is a gun violence expert and joins me now from pittsburgh good to have you with some in another shooting at another school and according to our correspondent you know maybe up to as many as eleven in the u.s. and it's only february it's a concern surely for lawmakers as well as security officials who not just guard schools but guard rock concerts shopping malls and the places where ordinary civilians go every day. yeah unfortunately there's there's

no place that you can explain to us here in america we're seeing this in our schools movie theaters and like you've mentioned before proper reaction we have to do is we have to understand that these numbers are skyrocketing and one thing that we recommend in a school setting is that every one of our school buildings now have to consider putting armed security armed police inside these buildings for these children also fortifying the building with capturing vestibules and the third piece of this is to make sure that all the staff all the teachers know how to properly react so that they don't go into a freeze they don't go into a a fight or flight or they freeze these are the knowns is that you have to be able to react immediately which is paramount as to the reason why that's the billion dollar question here in america there's three hundred twenty million people in america trying to figure out everyone's intent is very difficult that's one

thing that the investigators will now be doing eighty five percent of all active shooters died by either self harm or police force at the scene just like to say we're able to take this man alive or allow them so i just to get in there just very quickly because you've raised a number of points that we haven't at the time to discuss a vulture that's very interesting subject because basically if you if you talk about security in schools if you have extra security start telling kids how to protect themselves start telling children how to protect themselves use change the nature of the education establishment from one that should be a free and open environment full children to feel safe and comfortable to one where they wonder who's got a gun know who's got some sort of weapon to defend themselves and their teachers look after them in a state of emergency. you bring up vollard points a very valid points however this is the byproduct of what america has come to and if you don't prepare for this then there's

a liability and. you're not providing that security we will adjust here in america the children wonder stand that this is what we have to do now we have to learn these we have to have these deep discussions so that we can get that proper reaction to eliminate injury or death during one of these active shooters in terms of the scene of the crime right now the assailant has apparently been apprehended how does the investigation proceed now in terms of really how he managed either to get a gun or get into the school all of that right now they're going to start with the epicenter they're going to do everything in terms of search warrants looking on his social media his computers finding out every place he has lived find out if there's any blog network in starting out and nexus ing out to see if there was anyone involved what is his intent what caused him to be so angry every one of these active shooter start with

a grievance part to this so to find out what triggered this man and to find out if there's any other individuals involved was he subscribing to any type of. mohammad or is he upset with certain people in the school they're going to be very open minded to try to answer every one of those questions we'll see what happens in . this investigation as it is at the moment joe bruno they pittsburgh thanks very much for joining us sir. but more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including in more danger than ever a chilling new report about children in war zones. and pledges are made to help rebuild iraq but is there enough money to make a difference. also shaun white in the olympic spotlight but it's not just for his half pipe a row ix we'll explain it. to

african our zimbabwe's political opposition has lost a towering figure with the death of morgan chiang rai he founded the movement for democratic change and became a symbol of resistance against former president robert mugabe with whom he briefly shared power was being treated for colon cancer in neighboring south africa perelman tassel looks back at his life. to his supporters morbid richard that i was a man who challenges of our time leader robert mugabe at a time when few people day to do so but it was a long and sometimes painful journey in one thousand nine hundred nineteen get i've been a trade union leader for the opposition party the movement for democratic change in the years that followed he organized protests to try and force mugabe out of office he was beaten while in police custody charged with treason jailed several times and labeled a chain by mugabe supporters. in the two thousand and eight presidential election

he won the most votes but not enough to win outright. before a second round took place his supporters were targeted in a campaign of violence the opposition leader put out of the presidential race in protest regional leaders and the international community intervened after months of negotiations saying that i was sworn in as prime minister in two thousand and nine it was a temporary power sharing government but mugabe was still the president. remembered fundamentally in the sense that he broke. into god this will include those eight when we got before the first of this did last. the first president. in almost the majority overall of of religion in that is we've been done since then to doing. so for dogs. four years later

another election took place this time m.d.c. party lost by a huge margin his critics said he had ignored the plight of the poor and got caught up in the trappings of wealth and power allegations of party infighting and corruption also tarnished his image some of his closest allies left accusing him of being a dictator. but in twenty seventeen the m.d.c. alliance was formed those who had less hunger returned for me a coalition to challenge and grab at the polls. they were occasional anti-government protests the bombers economy was on its knees there was a shortage of foreign currency and the government couldn't pay salaries on time the military intervened in a van by twenty seventeen and put mugabe and house arrest and zimbabweans from all political parties marched together in solidarity saying mcgarvey must stick down eventually mcgarvey resigned and emerson and gaga were sworn in as president. despite having cancer tank i supporters insisted he was

a place. candidates for the twenty one thousand elections they were confident he could defeat at the polls but he never got that chance opposition supporters states that i will be remembered as a brave man a charismatic public speaker and a symbol of resistance. al-jazeera the u.s. envoy for syria has warned that violence is the worst that he's seen taking the job four years ago certain to miss stories briefing at the security council prompted more finger pointing between the u.s. and russia who accuse each other blocking paths to peace from the un our diplomatic editor james bates reports the deteriorating military situation dominated a security council meeting that was both grim i've been now for years special envoy this as violent and worrying and dangerous a moment as any that i've seen in my time he mentioned all the nations now fighting in syria the turkish operation around after three in

a me assad government's continued bombardment of an eastern ghouta civilians are being killed on a horrific scale reports suggest more than one thousand civilians indeed first week of february alone he went on to describe developments in recent days the u.s. attack on assad forces near dera zoar and israeli air strikes in syria including on iranian targets but both these operations were later defended by the us ambassador to the united states will always reserve the right to act in self-defense. the assad regime has become a front for iran hezbollah and their allies to advance the irresponsible and dangerous agenda for the middle east outside the council chamber the french ambassador warned the situation in stone the outcome of a conference in the russian city of sochi seems now to be in doubt mr de mistura

wants to select members of a new committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but president assad's ambassador at the u.n. rejected that when i'm not emotionally coffin madama i discipline of this conference did not grant any authority for mr de mistura to set up this communist afterwards i asked him for further clarification don't get lost into the little details there was not me or what we've constantly seen is the syrian government not being prepared to fully engage with your plans isn't it now time as yet again they seem to be not engaging peter call them out on their obstruction i am a diplomat and. my job is not to call out anyway it's actually do make sure that we move forward in the hours before the security council meeting the first convoy was committed since november can give every bit of help is obviously welcomed by a starving community but diplomats pointed to

a familiar and somewhat cynical pattern by the syrian government it's only when it's in the international spotlight with a meeting like this with a small amount of aid is finally delivered james barry's out of his era at the united nations now egyptian police have arrested a prominent opposition figure for alleged contact with the outlawed muslim brotherhood group. who was a presidential candidate in the twenty twelve elections he's a staunch critic of president of the c.c. and calls for a boycott of next month's election others who announce their intention to contest against sisi were either arrested or forced to withdraw. including a former army chief only a little known politician is left in the race beside c.c. . shia muslims protesting in bahrain a fault with police while marking the seventh anniversary of a failed uprising now security forces fired tear gas in the number of villages are reinforcements were deployed to stop protesters blocking main roads the country has

a shiite majority but the ruling body is seventeen since the demonstrations first broke out hundreds of people have been stripped of their citizenship allies of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have been offering their support after police recommended he be indicted on corruption charges that netanyahu is accused of accepting the three hundred thousand dollars in gifts that is suspected of backroom deals with the publisher of an israeli newspaper in return for favorable coverage and he denies the allegations and backers say they'll stand by him pending a decision of the indictment from the attorney general. meanwhile israel has details of more than thirty palestinians and raids across the occupied west bank and east jerusalem is being viewed by palestinian officials as a skeleton a policy of aggression hurry force that has more from occupied east jerusalem. on an east jerusalem hillside the palestinian neighborhood of the so we are has become a regular flashpoint of confrontation with israeli forces this afternoon it's quiet

children make their way home from school but the day started different place in the early hours eleven palestinians five of the miners were taken from their homes by israeli forces accused of taking part in confrontations and stone throwing one hundred one has lived his whole life here before and after israel occupied east jerusalem in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven he says israeli forces provoke such clashes. here men give nor thought for allowing. word soon spread that another israeli patrol is on the way the street clears as they approach off camera comes the sound of a rock hitting a parked car and the israeli forces take up positions along each side of the road we've just been here in the village for a few minutes talking to a couple of people they say that arrests happen very frequently and just as we were here suddenly the israeli border police have arrived and looks like be here to

carry out some kind of operation. but almost as soon as they came still training their guns along the streets believe any objective hard to discern we're seeing ongoing disturbances by local residents unfortunately including miners that are throwing rocks and stones and attacking police offices our units have to respond our units have to make arrests and our units have to find the suspects. for the families of those detained the nighttime raids are followed by a day in the courthouse corridors it's the fifth time wafa university student son has been arrested. every time they have a different charge every time they say in secret file you know nothing about it or say he's been for instance next day he's but i'd molotov cocktails know he'll head them off of monday i wish his son is fifteen years old along with the others will be detained until friday this is dramatic police say they stand in front of the

faces of the youth when they leave school to program after being properly have to defend west allis to an official say more than a thousand arrests have been made in occupied east jerusalem since the announcement in december by donald trump recognizing the city as israel's capital and the protests that followed a policy palestinians call collective punishment are a force that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem while still had all the al-jazeera news are. under thomas in sydney where all to suppress bonded to the roma incidents recorded at australia's offshore refugee crisis. but a top goal for his involved in a fatal car crash will have those details installed. from the neon lights of asia. to the city never seen.

however the weather remains slightly set fabric cross the southeast corner of china twenty three celsius in hong kong ten celsius a little further north there into shanghai could see some rain in shanghai cooler weather coming in as we go through friday says system just brings the temperatures down in the process to still twenty four therefore hong kong with more cloud just pushing over towards indonesia we will see some rather wet weather coming across indonesia live sadducees showers to still larry into the philippines this massive cloud here that's what remains this is tropical depression sandra that's going to bring some other wet weather over towards southern parts of vietnam as we go on into friday much of a laser not too bad but into indonesia still seeing some lovely sales there to java jakarta around twenty nine celsius fine and dry their course of the late peninsula and into thailand and that try weather stretches across a good part of south asia a little more cloud just spilling into weapon star as we go on through the next day or two but it should stay twenty four celsius in new delhi thirty celsius there for

karate over the next couple of days fair amounts of cloud down towards southern parts of india maybe want to see showers creeping in here but for the most part it stays fine dry and sunny. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. i am doing this for the benefit of people. so bad they see the importance of there are guys. who witnessed documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. and reported world on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already

a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. nor she believes their news aren't so rob a reminder of all top stories jacob zuma has resigned as south africa's president reluctantly heeding orders from his ruling party the a.n.c. will go with immediate effect. also police in the u.s. state of florida have taken

a man into custody after at least seventeen people were shot and killed at a high school in parkland officers have identified the suspect that's nicholas cruz an in thousand year old former student could be expelled. the u.n. special envoy to syria wall the violence in the water old country is the worst he's seen since taking the job four years ago staffan de mistura said he's received reports of up to one thousand civilians being killed in one week. well all top story the objectives of his resignation it's marked an end of an era which has been dominated by scandals infighting a very public to visions share a zog of food takes us through the zuma years. his path to the presidency began in one thousand nine hundred nine as deputy under the leadership of tabone becky but personal differences and power struggles put a strain on their relationship in june two thousand and five president mbeki fired jacob zuma a south africa's deputy president over allegations of fraud related to

a multi-billion dollar arms deal four months later zuma financial advisors schabir shaik was convicted of corruption and fraud by december zuma was charged with raping and hiv positive family friend but was acquitted by april two thousand and six despite the scandals zoomer remained popular and by december two thousand and seven he was elected president of the ruling african national congress ten days later zuma was charged with fraud corruption money laundering and record hearing in two thousand and nine zuma was elected president just a month off to corruption charges were dropped in two thousand and ten he announced a major overhaul to south africa's hiv aids policy rolling out life saving anti-retroviral drugs but his government faced criticism for poor economic performance growing unemployment poor service delivery and corruption. and his

second zuma faced one of his biggest scandals the twenty three million dollar refurbishment of his private residence with taxpayers' money and as public officials and opposition parties did that he paid back the money. when their money as directed by the public protector all i said to him about is that south africans will remember all the bits that. we are not coming so i feel that. will be gotten off various condiments. who did not know what to do with an issue by the end of two thousand and fifteen zuma was accused of acting in the interests of his political and business associates his close and allegedly corrupt relationship with the group has a prominent and influential family was a source of discontent within his party and the public several questionable cabinet

reshuffles and allegations of influence by the group has further weakened public confidence in zuma still zuma resisted calls from within and outside of his party to resign is the president willing to take accountability for the decision and resign in front of the people of south africa. in two thousand and seventeen zuma returned to court to fight the reinstatement of decade old corruption charges throughout this time zuma faced several motions of no confidence in parliament by december of that year deputy president of the a.n.c. so ramaphosa replaced him as party leader no longer president of the ruling party zuma as position of strength we can making way for dramatic end for a leader who many say routinely courted controversy rather than inspiring confidence. for of zero. eight i mean your report has highlighted an apparent rise

in sexual assault and vial. against children in war zones a group save the children has put the research out and says there's a particularly big rise in cases of killing and maiming barca has more. destroys lives it traumatizes communities. and in many of the world's conflict zones children are suffering the most. this is. a suburb of the syrian capital damascus last week. it's space for lentulus bombardment after years of starve and surrender tactics. the human rights group save the children believes youngsters in war zones are now more at risk than at any time in the past twenty years. according to a new report by the organization one in six of the world's children live in conflict zones that's three hundred fifty seven million children

a seventy five percent increases the early one nine hundred ninety s. syria afghanistan and somalia are the three most dangerous conflict affected countries to be a child in the past few years there's been a three hundred percent increase in un verified cases of killing and maiming of children and around half of all children in conflict zones lack access to schools and health facilities. for. many of these children in the democratic republic of congo's kasai region count violence among the earliest memories militia have destroyed schools and homes across the region and the u.n. says thousands of children have been forced to become soldiers. save the children is one of several organizations trying to rehabilitate victims i think we're talking about in this report of children being raped children being forced to fight children being forced to kill other children horrifying brutality and so there's

a number of things we can do we can invest in mental health and social support for children in disaster zones we can rebuild the society around them get them back into school with their families there's a whole range of things we can do but that does take investment it takes time and it takes support. despite greater international standards when it comes to protecting children increasingly brutal tactics are being employed to fight the widespread use of indiscriminate weapons cluster bombs have seen child casualty numbers saw. this nine year old girl was shot three times while simply. children are not simply caught in the crossfire they are targets the groups say the profound psychological impact of conflict on children cannot be underestimated there are things seen in childhood that can take a lifetime to recover from the al-jazeera. some six countries

have promised to provide money to help rebuild iraq following the defeat of the pledges were made at a summit in kuwait but much of the cash will come in the form of loans which will be needed to pay back and the figure falls well short of what iraq's government actually needs reports from court city feeling the heat of another day of waiting for the world to help. aid agencies provide supplies and tents that have been the camp in iraq but it's just survival they haven't been given enough to return to a normal life. through other areas have been liberated but most people say they can't go back because their houses have been destroyed either by airstrikes or by isis. the iraqi government too is had a day of waiting for the world's help at the reconstruction conference in kuwait. it didn't get all it needs either but it's still got significant money most of it in credit in loans. and. this huge gathering has produced commitments

towards reconstructing iraq amounting to turkey billion dollars. that's far short of the one hundred billion dollars the prime minister says is needed to complete reconstruction but the president of iraq's reconstruction fund told me it's more than he expected. to be honest with you i mean if you ask me i was thinking. it's unclear when that money will make a visible impact on iraq's wastelands nevertheless it was a case of a glass half full for iraq's foreign minister. the amount which was committed with a grants or loans doesn't meet our needs but thirty billion dollars is not a small sum in today's world. in fact it's a lot of money for these people and more so on. their street needs running water their homes and businesses lie in the rubble of despair. we hope the culprits will pay the people who everyone is rebuilding their shops with their own money no one

has received anything from the government. international figures called the fund raising and quite impressive impressive for these people is when their markets peddle more than losses. to get the wheels rolling on reconstruction the country faces the challenge of maintaining security there's also the merry go round of corruption to overcome but will all the money pledged actually come through in two thousand and three thirty three billion dollars was promised to iraq at the madrid donor's conference but a year later they had to have a follow up meeting in tokyo because only a fraction of the money had actually come through the quite conference is open the door to the winds of change for iraq the government must now show that this chance won't be squandered by another gust of turbulence sami's a than al-jazeera kuwait

court in london has rejected an appeal by two nigerian communities who want to sue royal dutch shell over oil spills in the niger delta poles a ruling last year that the company can't be held responsible in english courts for the actions of its nigerian its absurd jury police and rather arrested dozens of unlicensed money traders as concern grows about the falling value of the iranian rio the president is under pressure to stop the currency slide against the dollar which business is saying here is harming the economy has more from tehran every morning iranians wake up to find the money in their pockets is worth less than when they went to bed that's because the iranian ryall has been on a downward spiral for years. iranians see the u.s. exchange rate as an indicator of the country's economic climate. for many small businesses the forecast is not good. the price of a dollar directly impacts our business it's been fifty percent more expensive the

past two months so everything we buy is thirty percent. higher costs equal higher prices that means fewer customers for his handbag business she's become more shots to give up your clothes what's clear even by previous presidents is that they could do nothing with suffering from bankruptcy and deposits up banks bankrupted we cannot do anything and seeing the exchange rate will go up even more iranian leaders say the problem is temporary but people remain unconvinced president hassan rouhani said ministration is under pressure to be seen doing something about the falling value of the iranian reopened on wednesday police arrested dozens of black market currency traders in downtown tehran. these men make up an informal currency trading floor that operates on to her own streets normally the police ignore them but recent rate hikes prompted this crackdown on irregular money trade while the power move like this may be

a good way to respond to public criticism experts say it isn't enough to stabilize the value of iran's money. me as an economist and says the most recent volatility is down to one person u.s. president donald trump. and i'm predictable event happened that was shocking even for america when the trumpet ministration took office all the equations changed trumps threat to pull out of the nuclear deal and oppose new sanctions on iran has put off a investors especially in the united states the world's biggest economy. if we assume that there are no sanctions and iran enjoyed normal relations with other countries and banks could operate normally the government could easily stabilize the foreign exchange market. while trump won't be president forever iranians are losing patience with their own president and the ever declining value of their currency. zero to one the explosion has killed four people during carnival

celebrations in bolivia the explosion went off in the city of a ruler over the capital of president evo morales his home province police said appears to be a homemade device but haven't said who might have been behind the attack eight people were killed in another explosion on saturday night just two blocks from the latest blast australian artists have reimagined harrowing stories that were written by refugees in the country's offshore prison terms a sydney gallery is showing the all we can't see exit in the hope is that it keeps a spotlight on the way australia treats refugees and thomas as more. she had been asking for a four minute shower as opposed to two minutes her request to be accepted on condition of sexual favor he had also tied the rope around his neck and attempted to weigh down the right he then said do i have to kill myself to go to australia the words from trauma incident reports written by people working with refugees the

pictures and sculptures of artists imagining or interpretive was described god stated do not sit in front of me i don't want to see you and keep the chair. at the sydney gallery artistic license is applied to a world deliberately hidden from view we want to make the invisible visible this policy has been so successful because it's been out of sight out of mind and we hope that by bringing him in trade the way stories people might be able to forget so easily they will have to start to pay attention the policy in question is australia's towards refugees since twenty thirteen the government has been deporting refugees who've tried to reach it shows by boat to two tiny pacific islands an hour and menace a really big stock black holes where it's very difficult to get information about conditions it's very hard to independently know what has gone off hundreds of refugees have been held on the roof for almost five years told they'll never leave

many suffer mental health issues others have been abused by guards local school reach other in twenty sixteen a cache of documents detailing such incidents was leaked by a former worker the curators here asked artists to choose one file each to illustrate one of the case workers on a bus in the morning and noticed that one of the children had signed a hot into his hand with a medal and thread she asked him why don that is so i don't know. i just found out it was a very simple incident but very graphic very confronting some pieces on. a picture of exactly what's described the much more abstract there are thirty three works on . gallery but overall the roof tiles describe what one thousand incidents what's on display is just the start of a much more ambitious project the curate says have posted online the text of the

more than two thousand reports they're encouraging people to read them and submit. the ultimate. to be illustrated not necessarily by professionals like those who did but by a mass movement. few minutes away. we'll have a full update on the.

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full of the olympic news now his chair thanks very much showing white say piss of the winter olympics but not everybody is celebrating his latest leap to glory that's because of a sexual harassment case swelling around the snowboarder kevin calvert reports i guess he's what topped the american becoming the most successful borda at a games three time olympic gold medalist man you know this honestly i'm sure you can tell by my reactions at the bottom of the pipe but this meant the world to me. but with the als it was how much rather i put one up was the feeling was repeated should i win allocations me so was this week up six restaurants completed sixteen

the snowboard dismissed them as gossip that angered campaigners behind last year's me to movement. white has since apologized insisting he's a changed man i don't mean to as one tough i mean the german banking up a half minute deficit on the door to find cross country skiing. back to back titles the pick up the pace if you please define. the latest success story european team or was winning the one thousand meters speedskating and the end along pick record the dutch have topped the podium in north by speed skating events sofa and not a podium moment but one that ignited a home crowd. is unified women's hockey team scoring the first olympic gold but for one loss to japan as it did strike the feet so the games are over i'm keeping count

of how dizzy. well speaking of the ice hockey tournament the men's event slacks last over the absence of n.h.l. styles and it really showed in the united states opening game against slovenia on wednesday the usa led to nothing i need to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they were handed a shock three two overtime loss and they weren't the only hockey powerhouses to go down the team of russian athletes the last three two to slovakia north korea's only realistic shot at a medal comes in the pez figure skating correspondent li welling's watched the pair make that olympic entrance. i can tell you that was quite innovation for the north korean pac runs high oak and kim ginseng home of qualifies an eleventh slice the sky went down really well to abate will strike and basically the crowd here really got behind them not just because there was

a now famous north korean cheerleading squad there was a genuinely warm failing so to speak pub competitors vendor they did different from the other north korean compactness twenty two north koreans ahead twelve of them in the unified hockey is called but i were invited to actually qualified because by all so the top skaters in the world now to get a chance try and push on and win a medal in the free sky can you recall competition or round because they did you know this guy almost tried to holly when i was partner managed they really well with this guy create a bit of history but not quite well enough to make it through to the free sky they finished i think a ninety six they got very. germany continue to leave the medal table after golds in the nordic combined and lose doubles on wednesday the dutch are in second on the united states are up to third after shaun white's victory eight gold medals will be on offer on thursday there were men slalom was first shown until friday because of

high winds in pyongyang it's one of several different alpine ski events in these games has peter summit to break down zero point skiing is one of the flow of ships sports at the winter olympics and the number one event is the bear on the hill where you will see the world's biggest skiers one by one and launch themselves down the mountain in high tech aerodynamic outfits that there is a race of rule speed it features the longest course with competitors skiing largely in a straight line with the goal of posting the quickest time individuals can hit speeds of around one hundred fifty kilometers per hour now the solemne is the shortest but most technical of the disciplines skiers have to keep changing direction as they weave between tightly spaced gaits everyone gets two shots of the course the individual with the quickest combined turn is the way that giant slalom features fewer and wider turns than slalom allowing the skiers to pick up more speed as in

slalom you get two runs at the course and the super giant slalom or super g. was added to the olympics in one nine hundred eighty eight the course is longer meaning it is considered a speed event and just one chance to take on the mountain and win gold under football now and sadie a man has struck a hat trick as liverpool put five goals past porto in the last sixteen of the away for champions league and of course the title holders around madrid are also an action they've come from behind to beat paris and three one in a blockbuster match up christian or an elder with two of the goals there on the terrace and roger federer has been top of the world ranking since two thousand and twelve but he could be about to return to the number one spot again this race is two wins away. getting there after beating riven by moments in straight sets in the first round of rotterdam on wednesday federer just needs to reach the semi's of the tournament to retake the top spot from rafael nadal the thirty six year old would be the oldest men's number one of all time makes it. defending tour de

france cycling champion chris froome says he intends to clear his name after failing a don't test last year from his in spain competing in his first race since the test results became public the thirty two year old says he has no plans to stop racing while an investigation continues froome has to explain why a test result showed double the allowed level of illegal drug golfer bill hass has pulled out of the genesis open after surviving a fatal car crash in los angeles on tuesday night the six time p.g.a. tour when i was a passenger in a ferrari that flipped after hitting two cause the driver of the ferrari was killed while hurst was released from hospital with minor injuries to luke wilson was in one of the other cars that escaped. and that is all sport from our have more feel later. thanks very much to you been watching the al-jazeera news are with me it's a whole robin. that's with a lot of news to stay with us. the

scene for us where they are on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join a sunset there are people there to choose between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would get what it is you know it's very challenging day but in this particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't

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