what made this different was they targeted. their pain to be forced to leave would be all and then again whether it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe other turndowns it's not part of business. has become more united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm joe now this is the news hour live from london good to have you with us coming up. africa must come first in everything that we have.

several roman pows or is sworn in as south africa's new president with a promise to tackle corruption. a saudi owned television news station al arab surrenders its right to broadcast in the u.k. . the florida school shooting suspect appears in court where warner the warnings he did about his behavior plus the. top dogs the films vying for almost at the berlin film festival went up or. i'm going to guess roscoe with the sport as american starsky and mckayla shifrin claim to have first gold medal at ease when. i. cyril ramaphosa promised to fight corruption as he was sworn in as south africa's new president. i'm opposed to succeeds jacob zuma who resigned on wednesday after

months of pressure from the ruling a.n.c. party over corruption allegations one opposition party walked out during the parliamentary proceedings on thursday but the new president pledged to work with his opponents for the good of the country are will seek to work with all political parties. and were started off was started off with wanting to have a meeting with the leaders of all political parties so that we can try and find a way of working together and i am heartened by some of the sentiments expressed year about working together which i will want to touch on. burma poses will face a range of challenges including reducing unemployment and building up the economy ultimately his performance will be judged by voters in elections set for next year

alexey o'brien has more. president of the republic of south africa. before becoming the new leader of south africa cyril ramaphosa was seen as the chief negotiator in the final days of jacob zuma as presidency he was elected president of the governing african national congress in december by a slim margin will have to work to unite his divided party he'll also have to repair the political and economic damage suffered under zuma and improve the party's image after years of allegations of corruption. so the reporter is a different kind of president to anything we've had before this is a modernist this is somebody he's a negotiator he's a recon ciliated as well but here's a man of a very clear determined purpose he has stuck with jacob zuma for how many years sitting by as zuma embarrassed the country embarrassed himself and that's.

going along with what had happened in south africa has given the impression that. i don't think he is. but rahm opposer remains tainted by criticism over his involvement in america on a killings in which police shot and killed thirty four striking miners six years ago. as a board member of one of the largest mining companies in south africa at the time ram opposer was accused of being behind the government's decision to break the strike he later apologized saying he had stepped in to prevent further deaths. as a politician turned businessman rahm opposer enjoys the confidence of the financial sector. unemployment rose the currency and investor confidence weakened and the country's credit rating went down south africa's new leader has said he plans to create jobs and this is an economic growth target of three percent for this year

that's more than double the right predicted by the international monetary fund during the last election support for the a.n.c. fell to sixty two percent many hope the party of nelson mandela will be able to reverse this trained under the leadership of rahm opposer. brian al jazeera let's go live now to rob matheson standing by in our johannesburg bureau rob ramaphosa says he'll tackle corruption that's a task much more easily said than done isn't it it's a very civil now in public institutions in state run enterprise even in law enforcement do people do you think believe he can do it. i think they certainly hope that he will be able to do it but it's really a question of of waiting to see in fact that's a phrase that we've heard from a lot of people that we've been speaking to over the last few hours since his inauguration that they are willing to see give him the opportunity to try but

because of the scale of the problems that the country is facing at the moment it's the problems as alexey was saying in in her report the problems of the economy the problems with unemployment the problems with education health the infrastructure of the country is very poor the problems that he faces as leader of this country are massive but he also has this issue where he has said as you were hearing earlier that he wants to talk to the opposition parties bring them into the fold and find out how they can move the country on but the opposition parties are saying well actually we're not the problem we haven't been for a long time the problem has been in your own party in the a.n.c. we have been warning you about the excesses of the zuma regime and you have done nothing about it we put forward motions for debates we put motions to have them removed from office any time the a.n.c. has blocked those motions so the scale of the problems that i'm opposed to risk at the moment is really quite excessive the interesting thing will be how he chooses

to to fight each of these battles he is quite clearly seen as being a candidate with a lot of goodwill from the business community he is claiming that he is going to be transparent but in in politics there's an awful lot of give and take there's an awful lot of trade offs that go on and it's going to be very interesting to see how he can manage to make the changes that he wants and still remain as true to the transparency as he claims he wants to be you mentioned the opposition rob credit of course is given to a rejuvenated opposition in south africa the democratic alliance and julius malema c.s.s. and the pressure that they applied as well as of course a free spirited media in bringing down zuma that the opposition isn't going to go now they're going to really put his feet to the fire. as the months take on towards an election. i think that's absolutely correct and i think particularly in the

case of the e f f the economic freedom fighters julius malema sparty as we were hearing earlier on they were absolutely determined that they were going to hold to account interestingly one of the main stances of the e f f when it's been in existence has been simply to get rid of. the previous administration now that zuma has stepped down in one respect they've almost been just for a brief moment a party looking for a reason to exist but very very quickly they have adopted the persona of we are part of the legitimate opposition in africa and we're going to hold the new president to account for everything he does it's going to be very interesting to watch over the next few months sitaram opposer is going to become one of the most watched presidents the south africa has ever had. in johannesburg many thanks rob. now the saudi owned television news station are

a beer has surrendered its rights to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar it comes after a qatari complained to the u.k. television regulator of com over the broadcasting of fake quotes attributed to the amir of qatar last may. be and sky news arabia analyzed and condemned a speech published online which later turned out to been faked by hackers shortly afterwards the g.c.c. began its blockade of qatar well let's take a quick look back at how the crisis evolved last may the qatar news agency was hacked so that fake remarks attributed to shake to me been tunney were published in which he appeared to criticize u.s. foreign policy. egypt and the u.a.e. responded by blocking sites belonging to qatar including al jazeera a month later the e-mail account of the u.a.e. ambassador to the us was hacked to revealing links with

a pro israel think tank in washington he was also found to be urging the u.s. to move its military base out of qatar two days after that bahrain the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt imposed a blockade on qatar until it agreed to stop sponsoring terrorism groups they also demanded the closure of the al-jazeera media network well qatar said it was the victim of incitement and lies last july qatar amended its antiterrorism laws and signed an accord with the united states to curb terrorism financing the us secretary of state rex tillerson praised qatar's efforts and called on the boycotting countries to lift the blockade. well joining me in the studio now is true of a barnes is a former legal director and senior manager of of com the regulatory body here in the u.k. trevor thanks for joining us. give us a bit of context here in terms of the way of calm works what does it mean for instance for a broadcaster government to give up its license this is

a really big deal journo when someone is decides to or is forced to hand back its license because you can only broadcast in the u.k. with a license if you don't have a license you are committing a criminal offense so you need a license if you don't have one it's a real problem the mystery here is exactly why our bare handed it back and the circumstances in which they did so we know from our sources that in fact the license was handed back on the first of february we also know that in january of com fined rabiya one hundred twenty thousand pounds for essentially putting out some news about a man who was tortured into making certain confessions and that confession and those statements were repeated again and again on the arabic and that was a very very serious breach of the off com code so what seems to have happened here was that there was a complaint put in by the qatari network about the sort of issues that you've just

been doing about your background piece that it was quite likely that a bill was going to be facing another sanction from off calm and i was i know because i've sat in a number of sanctions cases myself from the top floor of off calm way in comes the licensee and you see the whites of their eyes if you get one serious sanction and it's immediately followed by another one it would have been highly likely in my view that off would have taken away by force the owner of the a license so it's perfectly possible civilian posed another fine well they may well have done exactly so you could have had the two so what happens now. desire a beer get away with not paying the fine that's already been imposed they have to pay a fine what our understanding is that that fine the one hundred twenty thousand pounds about the bahraini incident is already been paid now what is the mystery here is that nothing has been published by off calm about this complaint that's been made by the could tarries so there's been no breach decision of the code so all of this

seems to have happened behind some sort of screen that it's a decision by it as i know you've encountered before no idea what i don't know it is perfectly possible that lara beers thought right if we don't back off now we're going to have the bad publicity of being for stand back and we'll be fined again and so the simple fact now is that our a beer as a channel has to cease or will have had to cease on the first of every broadcast in the u.k. is that correct exactly right and as far as q. and a the qatar news agency is concerned its complaint. goes away now is there any other body it can i can approach or well the answer is it may still be we just don't get off we'll still publish something. may still decide in fact to find in principle rabiya and then of course know this as a former legal director of com may decide to take legal action against arab ear to

get that fine paid if an arab it has assets in this country of calm will try an inforce judgment against a lot of beer ok travel bans for legal director of the british broadcasting regulator ofcom many thanks for your time. and still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour ethiopia's prime minister resigns after months of protests he says he wants to be part of the solution. morning rather morgan chang supporters remember zimbabwe's opposition leader and his legacy and look to the future. and the sweet taste of success at the fifth time of trying for this german skater details coming up in sports. now the government accused of killing seventeen people in a school shooting in florida on wednesday has appeared in court nineteen year old

nicholas cruz spoke only to confirm his name before being ordered to be held in jail without bond let's get more now from andy gallagher who joins me from parkland florida and what's happening there well general too often in these stories journalists end up behind barriers behind police checkpoints but at vigils like this you really get a sense of how much tragedy has caused wondering around among the crowd you can see lots of the students hugging each other but the most striking thing is you can hear them telling stories about what happened on wednesday after the gunman entered the school and opened fire and it is simply horrifying it really does hit home lots of the parents also crying and showing deep concern but let's take a look back at the events of the day. even in a nation plagued by my shootings the scenes from inside the marjory stoneman douglas high school a harrowing student solve as they're forced to run past bodies

a fall in classmates in old seventeen people died most were getting ready to go home to their parents and loved ones i saw in two girls dead next to each other holding hands there was another body that's running me. there was three in the bathroom door form a student nicholas cruz is now being charged with premeditated murder but it's now known the f.b.i. was warned about him last september a comment left online and was reported to authorities the f.b.i. which he did from a shit about a comment made on a you tube channel. a couple of comments simply said i'm going to be a professional school shooter. no other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time location for the true identity of the person who made the comment. yet he conducted database reviews checked with and was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment there were other warnings to friends say

nineteen year old cruz was going to obsessed teaches at the school will reportedly afraid of him school officials haven't said why cruz was expelled last year but the local sheriff made an emotional appeal for more resources people are going to be rightfully so concerned about their rights as a minor but what about the rights of the students what about the rights of young kids who go to schools with book bags and pencils don't they have the right to be protected by the united states government to the best of our ability or you need police jacob cruz. is here nicholas cruz is said to be cooperating with investigators early searches of his social media accounts as said to be disturbing . and the terribly sad scenes i'm sure taking place around you just twenty four hours or so after those awful events of the school how does a community like this you've covered many shootings of this sort of thought how on earth does a community like this pick itself up and move on despite

the fact that i have covered so many shootings like this you do see the same thing the community really pulling together i mean at the moment there are so many cars and so many people here it feels like the entire community of parkland all of its students and all of its parents have come together to grieve grieving counselors have been sent down there are lots of emergency workers here they are getting the support they need from the federal authorities but ultimately this tragedy will be something that parkland will have to deal with on its own will have to deal with together but lots of people here calling for change they really are fed up of hearing about condolences and prayers they want something legitimate something solid to happen so that nothing like this can happen again because of course at this year alone there have been at least five or six separate deadly school shootings in the united states and many people here say despite the loss that they are going through they don't want to see anyone else go through the same thing

themselves and i got to live for us in parkland at a vigil after that school shooting on wednesday many thanks and now one of the most shocking aspects of this story is that nobody was really surprised it's the eighteenth school shooting in the united states so far this year and we're only in the mid february but as patty culhane reports from washington d.c. an extension of gun control seems as far away as it's ever been. the sanctuary of a school punctured with screams. panicked children flee terrified parents wait we've seen this over and over and over again this is a couple of dozen at high school at universities and at an elementary school twenty children six adults slaughtered by an automatic weapon then as and now the flags come down and the politicians debate this uniquely american phenomena the core

question they ask are guns really to blame president donald trump didn't even mention the word gun in his address not even once we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health we have to have smart gun safety laws and we cannot tolerate a society and and live in a country with any level of pride when our babies are being slaughtered the last time congress actually debated gun control after these six year olds were murdered in two thousand and twelve even with the parents of the dead children lobbying them the senate couldn't pass a bill requiring background checks to buy a gun and that proposal is hugely popular according to gallup ninety six percent of americans polled what background checks for all gun purchases seventy five percent want a thirty day waiting period to buy

a gun and seventy percent want all guns to be registered with police so why does the popular will not have an impact here on capitol hill well many lawmakers from rural areas are afraid of angering their constituents were guns are more prevalent and there's also the issue of campaign money the gun lobby the national rifle association is very powerful if you add up the money it gives to candidates running ads or lobbying they have contributed more than two hundred. three million dollars for elections dating back to nine hundred ninety eight now that it is happened again a familiar refrain from people in power we owe it to every one of those kids trying outside their screw yesterday you know those who never made it out of this they didn't make it out of the school a supposedly safe place that america clearly isn't anymore and there seems to be little political will to do anything to try and change that pedicle hain al-jazeera

washington ethiopia's prime minister. has suddenly resigned following months of anti-government protests he says he's trying to solve the crisis in his country and he's resigning in order to be part of the solution vomit the reports. in a televised address. say his it is ignition was vital for cheating the changes necessary for sustainable peace and democracy in ethiopia in other words an attempt to ease rising tensions in the country plays into the form which in my circuit unrest and political crisis have led to the loss of lives and the displacement of many i see my stepping down as vital in the effort to carry out reforms that lead to sustainable peace largely seen as a placeholder on a consensus figure doesn't lead has led ethiopia since two thousand and twelve following the death of former prime minister and the architect of if you present isn't a comic boom melissa. he rolls from relative obscurity as an a can they make to

president of the solvent region before being appointed foreign minister and deputy prime minister his departure fulls the current wave of unrest on a muscle state of emergency doubt and last. ethiopia's lodge's regions only on omaha to have witnessed must of the most russians in recent months with protest as mainly met up of youths calling for political and economic reform and to state corruption. in recent weeks the government has released thousands of opposition supporters from jail but the protest of continued years of unaccountability and ethnocide zation of the country's politics of push if you appear to tipping point injustice repression and lack of minute full democracy some say have instilled a sense of despondency particularly among ethiopia's youth driving many to view protests as the only viable means of bringing about many people change their own going to stop and has also led to deep divisions within the governing coalition

with some of ethiopians powerful and it's coming to see the prime minister as weak and lacking in focus hyla madi i'm surprised his ignition may not satisfy all of if you press protesters but for some it's us that mohamed atta walsh's era daniel biechele is an ethiopian analyst and a former director for africa advocacy at human rights watch she joins me live from new york many thanks i should say as well that you were arrested and jailed for two years for promoting human rights in ethiopia in two thousand and five what is it using the brought holly mariyam to this point was it simply pressure from the streets. thanks for having me the prime minister's resignation is such a significant and unprecedented development in ethiopian political history but not totally surprising given the fact that the political crisis in the country. that

there was just reporting has really reached its tipping point basically caused by democratic governance for several years and a political repression where you know you're not used as political opponents and civil society activists of been labeled as terrorists and languished in prison and three demonstrators have died on the streets and the serious political crisis has really reached to a point where we we have now saw his resignation is a result of. the push from people the demands from people the demands for better governance the demand for democracy the demand for rule of law and human rights respect to see it as a genuine gesture of goodwill he says he wants to be part of the solution a gesture towards meaningful reform. it's was encouraging to hear the prime minister making that remark but. whether or not

ethiopia is going on a path of genuine in political solution and a new political chapter is yet to be seen by what they were ruling party ever and willing to commit to the prime minister's departure is is a significant and major step but i think now the question is a way that their ruling party is able to lead an all inclusive new political transition for ethiopia to start a program of national reconciliation and to start a program of reconstruction entry consolation in an all inclusive way national unity and reconciliation a key themes on the in a country so brutally ethnically divided now broadly speaking across those ethnicities do think this is being seen as a positive step. yes it is

arguably seen as a positive step but like i said you know the. ball is a squarely in the court of the ruling party now so to speak because there is now a huge expectation that their ruling party should rise up to the occasion should rise up to the demands of the time to provide the leadership to facilitate a credible meaning before genuine reform agenda because what the country needs is not a change of. leader the prime minister celeb but a real change in their way the country is governed and so the question is whether the ruling party together with other political actors including the opposition groups would call electively or rise up to zork asia and to provide leadership for four. out of the crisis the country is in the water is if the current political crisis and the ethnically charge attention is allowed to under any

clients but there is hope to believe that he has a chance to use this as an opportunity to start a new political transition and a new political chapter don't you because we were going to have to leave your analyst p.q. to us from new york many thanks for your time. still to come here on the zero zero . zero british soccer coach who's convicted of forty three counts of sexual abuse on al-jazeera the investigation uncovers new information. the refugees whose journey has stalled in indonesia forced to move on the side of the road. and in school the will to champion.

hello and welcome back now as we take a look at europe's weather is still pretty chilly in parts of the east not as cold as it has been without some snow across central areas which is dying away mamma conditions out across some more western areas double figures for london looking fine in madrid though the maximum of fifteen degrees move the situation on twenty four hours more snow across the alps and quite heavy falls a snow likely here and across the u.k. and western parts of france fine conditions and still relatively cool across more eastern areas a low pressure across parts of greece and turkey should be moving away towards the eastern side of the mediterranean towards cyprus now on the other side of the mediterranean this low pressure is sitting in and bring cool winds in on the coast that will be quite windy some rough seas are likely here caro should be ok there are highs of twenty one degrees and then through saturday as the wind picks up kyle see temperatures dropping away or certainly cloud over that may stay dry for much of the day for central parts of africa we've got some significant showers across parts uganda towards congo central from republic of bonn much of west africa's

a risk of showers there but jerry not looking too bad our current ghana look at highs of thirty two degrees celsius across southern portions of the continent of course some heavy rain likely to affect in parts of sambir. it was always tell it how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name without manchester city's northwest representative scouts teacher put it. i said you were a member of that we had this special meeting about five adele and he said no. that's not the topic and you immediately this is a cover you know piece on the on man city yeah al jazeera investigation football's rule of silence at this time.

you responding six continents across the do. correspondents live and bring the stories they tell you have. no opinions about it and that's this. we're at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian i'll just zero food in world news. a quick reminder now of our top stories cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in as south africa's president a day after embattled leader jacob zuma resigned he's promising to fight corruption and to revitalize the economy. a saudi owned television news station out of beer

has surrendered its right to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar. the gunman accused of killing seventeen people in a school shooting in florida on wednesday has appeared in court nineteen year old nicholas cruz has been ordered to be held in jail without bond. and let's get more now on cyril ramaphosa taking over south africa's president joining me in the studio is stephen gold piece an economist and a research fellow at the overseas development institute that's an independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues you also of course knew cyril ramaphosa well when he was a union leader the mine boss and you advised mandela and mbeki i believe that's right in their terms as president. i mean he was a solid struggle stalwart mandela's trustee left tenant he was a union leader and then he went on to be

a hugely successful businessman can he do you think go back to his roots go back to a real understanding of the people which is what he needs to do now well i think he's still got some understanding of the people. and he's got a very subtle and smart political touch and political judgment he develops negotiating skills back in the eighty's when he was a unionist and i think he's demonstrated in the last ten days or two weeks that he's still very much got the skills which he'll need going forward two years very low and he is indeed going to need them because the list of issues of problems that he faces is epic not just revitalizing the economy and bringing a sort of sense of positive spirit back to the country but crucially rooting out corruption which is what is if it's in public institutions state run into prizes likely electricity provider in the broadcast it's in the tax collection service

it's even in law enforcement bodies corruption down to the roots is he able to do that or is that a task just too great for one man to follow one man yes that i think he can lead a process which will begin to do that it's very difficult once corruption takes root it's like a cancer to get it out. the society is very hard and he's even inherited a government which is largely been built up on the basis of cronyism and questionable motives i mean who does he how does he know who to trust well he's clearly got you know people around him that he trusts and he'll have to you know work with others and make sure that they can act that's i think he's made a very good starts you know yesterday when the hawks the police force the sort of f.b.i. type organization arrested people for particular act of corruption around a farm in the free state province that showed even though he wasn't yet president

clearly showed his mark and that you know a hard line was going to be taken the cooked family which has been very much at the center of the recent corruption with president zuma one of them i think is in prison under arrest a second one is on the run and probably will be arrested and then also important is that you've already two weeks ago he'd appointed a new chairperson and board of directors that eskom the interesting company and these are the whole group of people are very highly respected and so already he was sharing that these are very rare disease go to make that i want to take you back briefly before we before we went to two to nine hundred ninety february the release of mandela because it was rum opposer and you would have known him then who stood next to nelson mandela on the balcony of city hall in capetown holding the microphone everybody expected him to be the deputy president everybody expected him to be mandela's successor dare we imagine what how different things might have been

at rome opposed to come to power well i think that things would have been different i mean mbeki sort of outmaneuvered rama poser in that particular struggle mbeki had his problems and in some ways zuma was a reaction to them becky. and he was put in power by essentially the trade unions and. youssou were very hostile to him becky having been marginalized so i think south africa would have had a very different history. rafa's of then was not able to to win office ok stephen goble going to have to leave it there an economist and research fellow at the odeon many thanks for your thoughts now zimbabwe's main opposition party has named nelson chamisa acting president of the party he replaces longtime opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who died in south africa on wednesday metasearch has more now from harare. many opposition

supporters are broken hearted. they say they are struggling to accept the man who led them for nearly twenty years morgan tsvangirai is dead. i always defer to. the m.d.c. is national council has appointed nelson chamisa as acting president for twelve months which is likely means he will be the party's presidential candidate when elections take place later this year chamisa is forty years old and popular with the youth we are just four months away from an election and we have lost their commander but i can tell you is that we do not have a crisis. the generals on the field of those who are going to be left turners to make sure that we win the battle in the war against then come in and win this

election was but two senior party officials took an alias missouri did not attend thursday's party meeting there is speculation they may split the biggest opposition party because they don't want chamisa to be their boss. i want to. be on my dad's to follow leaders in the opposition have to have been managed the transition if they want to keep the night. he was the face of zimbabwe's opposition to longstanding leader robert mugabe for decades i live long enough to see his rival resigned. and facing its first election in nearly two decades without either. a british soccer coach barry by now now being convicted of forty three counts of sexual abuse and has pleaded guilty to another seven and al-jazeera investigation

has revealed new information about one of his most high profile players gary speed committed suicide in two thousand and eleven is family deny that he was abused and say they still don't know why he killed himself but his deborah davis reports some of gary speed's boys boyhood teammates believe they know part of the answer as a highly successful premiership player away els international and then manager gary speed's death stunned the footballing world in his youth he played in various teams linked to barry been l. he was first convicted of abusing boys twenty years ago. after gary speed died there was speculation he'd been one of bin l's victims in a tape obtained exclusively by al-jazeera but mel denies that he. is a. result of an easy problem.

but boys who played alongside gary speed and wear them selves abused believe differently i saw gary coleman go in various life he was a one son difference he was one shoulder gay if he was one that was going on different holidays and different tours sets him apart emerging with fire with all the young people if you ask me i would say that jerry will have suffered abuse at the hands of barry we've also spoken to more than one witness with even more direct knowledge because it's so sensitive an actor is reading one man's words on a few occasions got he was in the same bad battery would abuse one of course then turn over and then abuse ilda you are absolutely certain that gary speed was appeased by the now hundred percent well mine on point nine percent because he literally both in the bed at the same time. you don't actually witness sidewise but basically the same process is happening to the other person in the trial has just ended gary speed was named as one of four players coached by been l.

have died our investigation has revealed one of them mark hazel dein was a former teammate of gary speed he also committed suicide two other players died off to troubled lives from problems with drink and drugs but now is due to be sentenced on multiple counts of sexual abuse later this month deborah davis al-jazeera london. and you can see deborah davies full report football's wall of silence here on al-jazeera on friday twelve hundred g.m.t. or on saturday at over one hundred and again at twenty hundred g.m.t. now world leaders are coming together in germany to discuss global security policy on the agenda will be the gulf crisis the role of the e.u. and relations with russia are reports from munich this is one of the top international security conferences in the world security officials and experts will

debate for three days wide range of issues like the war of words between the united states of america and north korea over its nuclear program the mounting tension between israel and iran and the growing rivalry between saudi arabia and iran over syria yemen and iraq but also the ok it imposed by saudi arabia and its allies on qatar this conference comes against the backdrop of what many experts believe to be signs of the decline of the wells liberal order they basically say that the building blocks of the political order that prevailed for the last forty years which was which was based on respect for you were riots economic freedoms multilateral institutions like the united nations and the and need to are undermined by the policies of the trump administration on the rise of populist movements all over the world you would be able to see decision makers at odds with each other remains to be seen whether the munich security conference will be the

right platform for people to set aside their differences and reach a consensus. now it's renowned as a showcase for hollywood blockbusters and high art european movies a bird in film festival has opened with an emphasis on cultural diversity and this year is at other movie events the me two campaign will be highlighting sexual harassment in the film world from berlin dominic kane reports. for many february in the german capital means only one thing the bellina a film festival which has helped put this city on the cultural map it's an opportunity for film goers and critics alike to view the movie's competing for the ultimate prize the golden bat but this year it's a different animal that's gaining attention. isle of dogs is the latest animated eventually phoring from the award winning us director anderson set in

a dystopian future japan where a form of canine flu has forced the all thora he's to quarantine all dogs on a remote island we follow the journey of a twelve year old boy as he struggles to find his lost pet rancid i mean banana peels and all the rice cakes dried up pickled in a sardine bones of broken egg shells and holds much deborah and gives her with maggots all over it ok it's worth it was obvious it would be in this venture from german director christiane pets to. we observe the plight of refugees through the ages set in modern southern france but with characters the travel from the past to the present transit profiles a man of fleeing the nazi occupation. and his interactions with modern refugees we get a sense of the fragility the collective experience. of a valid life. this

is not dominated by blockbuster films from hollywood studios one film critic says it means competition for the prizes will be fetus we don't have somebody really prominent movies so i think with this year it's going to be really a discovery where perhaps a lot of unknown directors smaller films will sort of pop up and get noticed one of the issues many people are mentioning here is the me too movement which has highlighted the prevalence of sexual harassment. against women in the film industry there will be really special programs for me too but also about diversity we think said this cultural events but only cultural events. platform now to discuss this and we are in the middle of sis's question. one of the drills of this festival has always been its combination of hollywood style with european. and as a showcase for independent film to attract attention to the cold.

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thank you. it's a lympics heavy as you may have guessed i'm joe is standing by. and i thank you one down and three to go mckay i say friend is on course to become the first skate to win four gold medals and a single winter olympics the american pulse toughest hurdle on thursday within a fact that when the giant slalom kevin calvert reports. the smooth and silky stall of a woman on a mission twenty two year old mckayla shifrin has been almost unstoppable on the low cup circuit the season and chicks you could come i am going today after the first round i thought like i can really win this i got i can. go

number two come on friday in the slalom which she won as a nineteen year old at the sochi games that's bigger than a correct so. it doesn't unless i got the thirty five year olds now the oldest person to win olympic gold and now find skating he's also i know was first down who champion and the first man to sneer olympic gold and both speed of events after winning the super g. a thank you for eight years ago. when kremas got gold medals but ten thousand meters the limpet glory still eludes the dutch speed skater. the five thousand meters champion sliding to sixty as canada's. claimed victory. overcome with emotion is gonna set chain called the thirty four year old when he first olympic title in five games she's been celebrating with german partner bruno after their world record breaking if he's escaped and it was some turnaround for

the. albert al jazeera. pierre bolt he has made an incredible comeback to win his second the olympic gold in the snowboard cross the fridge for an army scraped into the final after recovering from a collision in the semi celebrated his country's base and after edging australia's jared hughes regino and then those took bronze for spain's first medal in twenty six years germany continued to lead the medal table on day six with nine goals norway a second with six followed by the dutch and the usa with five gold medals each canada's women's hockey team in the first almost against their face rivals the united states the canadians are aiming for a fifth straight elim picoult and they won this encounter to ones of finish top of their group with three wins from three.

meanwhile south korea's men's team got some unexpected support from its northern neighbors the cheerleading team from north korea turned up to support them in their match against the czech republic the cheerleaders have largely bit a big head to these games although some of criticized them as propaganda from north korea's kim jong un but they got a good reception in the final performance limbic park on thursday. well thorn relations between north and south korea could be seen as a legacy for the games but the question of what will happen after the takes is one that is always raised me when things reports from pyongyang. this is the time in the olympics that hosting can seem like a really good idea. action comes to come fast the excitement bounces from venue to venue and each host nation medal provides a podium step closer to justification of the expense but with only a little big games the question needs to be asked what next well there actually be a legacy where the olympic stadium projects along cost one hundred nine million

dollars and you know that started you will be used just four times for the opening and closing ceremonies of the olympics and paralympic games. i asked michael sheehan of the p.r. organizing committee poco if it's true it will then be demolished he insists they do have plans for the sides. and then so we are still having the main building which can be called a main building so after the games it can be used for. a lot of our cultural events and activities showing something and showcasing something. those who closely followed the long journey to this northeastern part of south korea no concern of apathy usually turns to positivity during a limb pick for night or thoughts of concerns raised about the lack of people who are going to be a lack of interest that the snow. all manner of logistical and organizational

francs and i think has been clearly some teething problems but generally speaking the crowds are being. compared with the last games i was that where it's been a lot easier what about the paralympics that take place here next month is not going to be a success tickets for just a. billeted sport can be a hard sell but the positive vibe of an olympics can kick start a ticket surge poco they are proud of their souls so fall but also point to the social impact it will have in korea olympic games sports parent kids disagree be related to the people aged two to two people with an impairment do you think the korean people will respond to that i believe so. when the circus departs reality can sink in that it was a party not a legacy but in this region they're confident koreans will return here remember the historic winter olympic year and be proud the wellings al-jazeera young china.

roger federer is just one win away from surpassing andre agassi is the oldest world number one in men's tennis history the thirty six year old just needs one when in his quarterfinal in rotterdam on friday to leapfrog arch rival rafael nadal agassi was thirty three and caroline for a sec is on course to keep her women's number one ranking the dane reached the course of finals of the cats are open although she does have the odd anxious moment in the first set the top seed still powered past romania's on monica seven five six one. will face either britain's john icon tough for what world number one and speak from germany in the last eight or number two simona halep is the threat to his top ranking the reigning will meet eighteen year olds a qualifier c.c. ballasts in the courses the american knocks out defending champion carolina please give us seven six six three in the third round in doha no such problems who will

then champion got to be good he said the spaniard saw off romania soran associate in straight sets on thursday six love six full. and that serious but for now back to china in london. joe thank you now if you work up for a ball bowl of rice krispies or other burger for lunch look away now because a study by a group of french scientists has found that people who eat highly processed food are more likely to develop cancer they looked at the diet of more than one hundred thousand people and those who eat more cakes crist's and ready meals are at higher risk of developing the disease neve barkha reports from london. what have you eaten today because what we innocently consume could be harming us. we've known for several years that certain food such as processed meat can increase our risk of disease but now french researchers have made a worrying link between ultra processed food and cancer western diets

are characterized by their intake of. an average of it could get to fifty percent of all chopra says troops. even a healthy product nutritionally can be processed because it can have food or preservatives or food color and or. or sweeteners so what do dieticians mean by ultra processed food and how do they differ from processed and processed foods on processed food or. it's things like fruit vegetables that are wrong not those kind of things then to take in not shop you might have things like milk and then the next level up from that is things like bread so bread in the olden days used to be made of three things and now it's made of quite a few more things so that now fits into a process you know pretty processed products and then we have things which are just

made out you know i think that you wouldn't necessarily recognize this food at all there's an awful lot of ingredients in this none of them really look like food at all said out within the out process. where the ultra processed foods contain artificial ingredients designed to keep them fresh on the shelves and make them look more appetizing being clued ready meals cakes must produce bread and instant noodles. there's an old piece of advice you should only eat food that your grandparents would recognize but the reality of life in the modern age is that fast cheap and inevitably highly processed food is very very tempting so how do we navigate this coloring minefield the simple fresh fruit vegetables foods that are high in fiber more research needs to be done to definitively linked ultra processed foods and cancer a rule out of the fact is many consumers of ultra processed foods are more likely

to smoke and be overweight both key causes of cancer but the overriding advice is clear if we must eat processed food eat it in moderation. zero london well that's it from this news hour in london but don't go away because i'll be back in just a moment with another half hour of the day's news. conservation

ease helping kyrgyzstan to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international least of threatened species i was always telling you how famous he was going to

make it that's how he presented hello my name is barry but out manchester city's northwest representatives kind of. digital you. actually do remember that we had this special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic and you mean this is a cover up. on the on that city al-jazeera investigation. of silence this time. south africa must come first in everything that we. posed is sworn in as south africa's new president with a promise to tackle corruption.