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steps together the u.s. and turkey agreed to work together on syria as the conflict dominates talks during the secretary of state's rex tillerson visit to the region. cyril ramaphosa is to deliver his first state of the nation address a south africa's new president a struggling economy and corruption are some of his key challenges. also in the next sixty minutes political uncertainty in ethiopia after the sudden resignation of the prime minister. and. day seven at the winter olympics in pyongyang chuang. dream of becoming the first skier to win four gold medals at a single games is over she finished fourth in her best event.

ok let's get going in the last hour the u.s. and turkey have agreed to normalize relations after their talks in ankara the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been holding discussions with his turkish counterpart cover saw two times between the two countries have been strained over recent months particularly over u.s. support for kurdish fighters in syria but the turkish foreign minister says they've decided to tackle the issues together. our relations are going through a critical stage. we are i do going to. mend fences or. go in a different direction and we have come to an agreement to take joint steps together of course we need to take steps and yes of course both parties have expectations of each other. and we have expectations in relation to

that to like it and the support given to the y p g by the united states and we have stated our expectations quite clearly we recognize the legitimate right of turkey to secure its borders we take it seriously when our nato ally turkey says it has security concerns as to africa we call on turkey to show restraint in its operation to minimize the the casualties to civilians and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in that area well earlier there were small protests outside the discussions venue the shout then to u.s. slogans angry over its support for the kurds the demonstrators and many to blame the u.s. for the deaths of turkish soldiers and civilians on thursday mr tillotson met the

president. describing the talks as open and productive both sides made sure to emphasize their enjoying relationship despite the recent tensions rose jordan tells us more. there's a saying you dance with the ones who brought you in mandate syria the u.s. military is supporting the syrian defense forces local fighters who helped liberate the city from. just one problem the s.d.f. is led by kurds whom turkey considers a mortal enemy. once again is demanding washington abandon the s.d.f. and pull its own forces out of syria he can you produce and how that you can why are you standing around go ahead and leave who did you bring their. b.g. k.k. didn't you take in there and you are still telling us not to come the money we will come to my marriage to deliver the land to its true owners. the us response not

happening we need to stay here until the that political environment is stable and our security here our presence here provides that level stabilization and bring security for it's just the latest in a number of issues that have driven in washington apart going back to the start of the syrian civil war in two thousand and eleven turkey became increasingly frustrated that the united states wasn't helping it achieve its goal of bringing down a side in the united states became increasingly frustrated by turkey support for radical groups what's more the u.s. is still refusing to extradite the cleric that. accused of plotting the failed two thousand and sixteen coup against her to one all this has the turkish president jockeying for closer ties with russia and attacking the u.s. as a pro enemy everywhere he goes the anti american message is resonating

a recent poll found that seventy nine percent of turks hold an unfavorable view of the u.s. government just eighteen percent have a favorable view even people to people ties are affected sixty seven percent of turks have an unfavorable view of americans roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. to encourage our correspondent jamal el sheil such as well they're going to normalize relations how are they going to do it well i mean starting with nice words i suppose that's what came out of their press conference they both tried to underline that during relationship the important relationship the strong alliance between the true but they didn't really give us any details exactly of how they're going to strengthen or how they're going to bolster that said relationship there was very little in that respects aside from rex tillerson

and his counterparts talking about the mechanism that was being set up in order to agree and work together i mean the the rhetoric that came out is very promising in that you know you we heard things like working together in terms of syria we had things about collaboration we heard the talk about the need to. share information and all of that respects but and agreeing on how they view this future of syria as an independent unified free and democratic states but there was an exact details that for example where will the u.s. presence be will the u.s. stop funding in supporting the white p.g. that a group turkey considers to be a terrorist organization will the turks agree with the americans as to which type of groups should be allowed to participate in military operations what's will happen with france are not good and all of these those details weren't given i mean all we got like i say were strong nice words that would indicate of some sort of

warming of relationships but in terms of the action exactly we're not sure peter and also want to sim's as well jamal that they need stability they need some form of stabilization on the ground in syria and we are so very far away from that particularly in these areas and think about men being shia these areas that they were very crucially discussing today. indeed i mean and this is probably the what's frustrating the trucks more so than the americans because the instability in syria obviously affects turkey much faster and much more powerful you rather than the than the americans because obviously turkey shares a border with syria has three million syrian refugees inside not to mention obviously the link between the kurdish militia inside syria and the kurdish militia inside turkey but having said that the u.s. maintains that it has some sort of national security interest in terms of being a presence in syria what that is exactly is not clear but then again this isn't anything new for the u.s.

in terms of involvements within the middle east in terms of military presence but what is strange and what is peculiar and we heard some one of the questions i was presented to the true diplomats which was this why is it taking so long for two nato allies to agree not to kill each other or shoot each other and that is the issue now that they have agreed maybe that they said they're going to work together but we'll need to find out says well putting those words to the test in the next couple of weeks will be an indication whether we see now a reorganization or deployments of u.s. forces in syria whether we see maybe our withdrawal in the y. p.g. in the kurdish militia or maybe a reduction in their firepower how the rhetoric coming out of her to man and his politicians will be in terms of visibly their attacks on the u.s. what they see is criticism of u.s. policy all of that will let us know whether this was a real beginning to a new phase in the relationship or whether it was a failed attempt to patch up maybe something that is difficult to hide jamal you

keep us up to date i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much keeping us company here in the studio seven i'm proud he is associate. told me he is an associate professor at the doha institute for graduate studies i guess that's a measure of the point that jamal was making that of how complex the situation is that you've got two major major nato allies circling each other trying to identify the areas that they can work on yes so actually it's very important to listen carefully to that authority that came from the press conference where in fact i notice that there is more of a tough rhetoric on the turkish side than that with the american like the turkish foreign minister said that clearly that our relationship has been at the most a critical stage. and indicating that their dissatisfaction of the outcome of this meeting now on the other hand you know for the. both of them isn't saying that all

of us in syria all of the seem so very broad vague statements and he's talking about i want to should be off i think together back in korea in the fifth is talking about this romantic relationship you know shoulder to shoulder and fighting together making sacrifice together and that the objectives of the other's him so that was not very would reflected on the turkish foreign minister side talking about that critical stage that this relationship is facing at the moment and the real issues if members judge that. as a source of the conflict for now actually that have not been talked about in a way that would give signs for the pollution how do they move the relationship forward given that ankara seems to think america now has a track record of broken promises and america thinks and korea has been

overreacting for at least six months now i guess well you know we have to understand there is a very strong anger on the talk of sides of the foreign policy of the. that is the it's the link in the northern part of syria with the condition of the shits. turkey escalated by responding with a military operations in the northern syria and they're free and to end. their duties seeing a lack of understanding from their from their strategic ally the united states to their national security needs on the on their southern borders you know army when he says that they're fighting against turkey so that that issue in addition to other the other ones that the girl in the show that emerged very strongly in this meeting that was not by the way that me think was not about the initial it was about syria but initially emerged as very strongly there are many other issues like also the jewels on issues from administrations the recognition of jerusalem as its

capital and. the could the muslim coalition to keep a lid against this position so this i mean these years of tensions that none none of that has been address in this meeting and it's still not clear how the united states is going to. sort out this issue because just talking about the you know romantic relationship you know the historical side of it is not sufficient because at the end of the day the turkish there could additionally shias in business in members now for turkey they have to move to the eastern part of the rivers which is the united states will have to fears that and deal with it and we never got to talk about the ottoman slap we can talk about that later of course many thanks. the world has moved towards the brink of a significant conflict that's the warning from the chairman of the annual munich security conference policymakers and experts have gathered in the german city to talk about global security challenges organizers say the role of the e.u.

will be one of the key issues up for discussion the gulf crisis north korea and the conflict in ukraine are also expected to be talked about hashem joins us live now from munich. what's on the agenda. peter this conference comes against the backdrop often of conflicts some of which could turn into serious geo political crises and therefore comes the need among different decision makers to try to reach some sense of consensus about how to move forward in the near future definitely the growing tension between the united states of america and north korea over pyong young's you can a program is going to top the agenda of these ready for prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to deliver also a speech to make the case against iran is right has been saying that iran is trying to maintain permanent military bases in northern syria something that israel considers a red line the stalemate in eastern ukraine is definitely going to be one of the top issues and where the organizers are where the decision makers are try to

consider the possibility of sending united nations peacekeeping forces but you know this is something that could be done only when you have a consensus among the key players particularly united states of america and. russia so you have also the fight against isis and against groups operated with in the. region so we're talking about different conflicts with this growing feeling among many decision makers here the confidence that there needs to be some political consensus about how to contain those crisis before they degenerate into major major confrontations there is cattery representation as well are they going to talk about the g.c.c. crisis. yes indeed the emir of qatar is going to deliver a keynote speech where he's going to. explain basically what has happened since the

start of the book a that was imposed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt. qatar each time and during a speech like the one of united nations general assembly and also the sure council and don't have the emir of qatar said that his country is committed to finding a political way out of the quizes but at the same time he said that there is absolutely no indication to suggest that there is a desire among scientists arabia and other located in countries to set aside their differences and negotiate a settlement has been basically saying that the demands that the list of eleven demands that was presented by saudi arabia and its allies are rejected because they undermine qatar's national sovereignty the general sentiment among qatari officials basically is the crisis has been based on fabricated lies and that the aim of the

blockade was basically to talk into some sort of pariah state in there something which has been completely rejected by qatar's of fishel over the past few months so it would be really interesting to see what the emir of qatar. i mean but what i thought he would say about the crisis about the future of the region peter i have to say that the recent report by the munich security conference has been saying that the crisis in particular the the the crisis in the region the blockade imposed by saudi arabia on qatar is just going to further complicate the task for different international players trying to find a consensus among countries there thanks very much. plenty more ahead here on the news including. as well you know is that his legacy is very much in said and zimbabwe's new opposition leaders look to the future following the death of more than chang iraq and china welcomes the lunar new year we reveal by the year of

the dog may not be a good one for the u.s. president donald trump. and in the sport roger federer looks closer to retaining the number one ranking people have the details in about for. south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa is set to give his first state of the nation address and is expected to appoint a new cabinet posts a pledge to. not to disappoint south africans as he took over from his predecessor jacob zuma matheson reports now from johannesburg christian. it's taken more than nine years but several rum oppose it finally has what he wants the leadership of south africa and his nomination members of his party the ruling a.n.c. have been dancing and cheering i do believe that when one is elected in this type

of position you basically become a servant of the people of south africa and i will seek to execute that task with humility with faithfulness. and with dignity as well but within minutes hence the one big hurdle the new president must face we don't have any jacob zuma problem we have in n.c. problem. mr mom of course i wish you strength but no we will hold you accountable and i will see you in twenty nineteen on the ballot box some of the opposition is refusing to recognize his presidency we just want to put it on the record speaker that we cannot be part of an illegitimate illegal process. and i'm opposed also has to hold together a ruling party which has seen support plummet during the last election voters have high expectations of their new leader i am be.

even sure. i'm you something right you must. tell she was there because you must admit you. are not helping much and run opposer is facing a struggling economy high unemployment and allegations of widespread corruption the pressure is on for south africa's new president to try to deliver what his controversial predecessor could not and rob joins us live now from soweto rob over to you. peter thank you very much indeed as you say we're right in the heart of so way too and i'm standing outside the family home of several around the pows a . very simple structure because a lot smaller than this when he was growing up as a boy the family have built on this as time has gone on and of course from

a cause and now being the fifth president of south africa and all the tension here in the country is going to be paid on his first state of the nation address which is going to be made at seven o'clock local time tonight here in south africa another is going to be as i say a tremendous amount of close attention paid to what he says the chances are it's going to be a fairly broad brush approach to what he intends to do with the country in order to move it forward but at the same time he has a lot of problems to deal with very high unemployment we have a very poorly performing economy but of course the one thing that everybody's paying a lot of attention to going to be there was a kind of corruption allegations that have been surrounding jacob zuma and the zuma administration the previous president and of course which have also affected the his party the a n c on that basis i want to introduce you to joyce malecki who is a neighbor of. tell me what the president is like as a person

a president. is somebody who is. somebody who only when. he is he is principled and humble you know he's not that. you are free to. eat approachable and you are an a.n.c. supporter now how concerned are you about the fractures in difficulties that the a.n.c. is facing right now we know that because we we know that now that speak of unity which we must unite. one must unite and rally against our pain. that's what you must do. and do you think that he's the man who is going to be able to negotiate and pull all these differing elements together the opposition and the people within the a.n.c. himself who supported jacob zuma and don't really want him to be president no we

trust according to. the we went to the today elections knowing that every is going to we we're. going to support whoever we. want so that's what we're going to do to work together we. then even as we have. seen what they did they did they think that they are failing and he let them. working together will do it because he cannot do it alone he needs support from the need from the opposition joyce thank you very much indeed so as i say all attention being paid on that state of the nation address which is being made at seven o'clock local time tonight here in south africa. rob thanks very much. well staying in south africa that country's prominent business family the subpoena at

the center of those corruption allegations against the former president jacob zuma the police raided their residence in johannesburg on weapons to arresting several people. the reveling of the group to empire date spec five years and seem to surround a dairy farm and emerge the free state agriculture department paid nineteen million dollars to the govt is to run the farm that was meant to help black farmers instead leaked e-mails alleged two point five million dollars of that money was siphoned to finance this family waiting last month prosecutors seize control of the farm when investigators freeze goup to assets to the troon of nineteen million dollars a week ago the public prosecutor released a report on the farm lining regularities and gross negligence after the dairy scandal of the group his empire came under more scrutiny to take the connection to a scam the state tell us that generates ninety five percent of south africa's

electricity the group to receive billions to supply eskom with coal literally thanks to pressure from the in president zuma then they demanded to be paid more money for the coal oil that stopped supplying it and another energy deal they bought iranian mine in twenty tain that was largely defunct afterwards it became clear zuma had been pushing a seventy billion dollars deal with russia to build your rainy and fueled nuclear power plants as controversy swirls around the family the reputations of multinationals they worked with suffered including k.p. and g. and bell pottinger for south africa's biggest banks decided against in business with group to control companies now repercussions have swung from their finances to the freedom utopias parliament is planning to hold talks after the sudden resignation of the prime minister. follows nationwide antigovernment protests he is mohammad the vote. in

a televised address and say it is it is ignition wasn't vital for choosing the changes necessary evil sustainable peace and democracy in ethiopia in other words an attempt to ease rising tensions in the country losing 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 highlight embezzling has led ethiopia since two thousand and twelve following the death of former prime minister and the architect of a few 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 who's an deputy prime minister his departure follows the current wave of unrest on a national state of emergency doubt and last. ethiopia's lodges regions only on on how to have witnessed must have demonstrations in recent months with protesters

mainly made up of youths calling for political and economic reform and an end to state corruption. in recent weeks the government doesn't released thousands of opposition supporters from jail but a protest of continued years of unaccountability and ethnocide sation of the country's politics a push if you appear to tipping point injustice repression and lack of many full democracy some say have instilled a sense of despondency particularly among youth your peers 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 dip 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 modi i'm surprised his ignition may not satisfy all of if you press protesters but for some it's a start mohamed atta walsh's era ok let's get more on that for you tom gardner is

the address of a correspondent for the economist publication he joins us on skype tom gardner good to have you here on the news will this resignation be enough in your mind to defuse all those recent tensions. i think the most important thing is. if. someone from the euro region the largest with book just out of the country i know out that went through something to contain some of the younger of the protests in that part of the particles that are well represented you know martin exists and so it's a successor is he's from that era from that part of the country that might do something to results on these grievances but they go much deeper than that and eat the idea that ruthless and has a tendency to diagnose the problem as as internal suits. going to rest of the time a consequence of the factionalism bickering within the party but it is not in my

view goes it goes much must go to the next year of political democracy human rights and a lot of it's going to on that front if you are some. which occur you log on to terrorism laws. little space. parties i was assuming that system extensions. along. pretty grotesque. in theory the person that becomes prime minister is then prime minister until the elections but given those issues that you're outlining for us today would it be fair to say that whoever gets the job really has to start campaigning or has to kind of set their store all these are the representation for people in the highest office because the have never had representation at this level before if indeed it's somebody from that ethnic group that ends up as prime minister. you know the

one of the concerns of the moment is that they're going to choose another place now the interim leader and the moment it's really not it's right something that i don't think there's a there's a sense of urgency this enormous frustration and very high expectations at the moment they're saying that choosing to say definitely prime minister i did not recover from aristide is that still how you marry him soused another two years is fish and let's say someone. recep times the politics. needs to be a prop for a change of government not just because cosmetic reshuffling the around it something more than once and. ok we'll leave it there tom gardner thanks very much . known a few moments we'll have your weather with rob but also still ahead here on the news hour a grieving community in florida calling for action against gun violence after seventeen people were killed in another school shooting. tiger woods continues to

come back to competitive golf find out how he's getting along in the sports news in about twenty minutes. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. chuckle cycling gaeta is still with us still significant still in fact catchcry to at the moment it went past tong of his embarrassment past fiji did some minor damage is now in the south of new caledonia he's quite a long way away so i think just because he's edge effects has some right as a bit of a breeze but look at the think it's two wins of a hundred sixty cs up to nine metres where does it go from here i think you probably know it heads slowly west woods and then goes around the curve and heads

back towards new zealand in about four days' time it will be going through the cook strait we think that by that time it will not be a cyclical so be a significant storm but not a cycle but the next day or two it's sudden new caledonia to be affected largely by the rain but still she saw it was a fairly strong winds it disappears by the time we get to sunday and i want to tell you the other side of australia where there's another formation happening at the moment the satellite pictures suggest is what is happening is a swirl of glad i'm here with the thunder storm surge in all directions it is the wet season we're talking about it probably will where it should be wet and we see it's a big figures two to vary from one hundred twenty three millimeters for example but this will become tropical cyclone kelvin sometime in the next twelve hours. the weather sponsored by cateye place. i was always telling you how famous he was going to make it that's how he presented i love my name about it out manchester city's northwest representatives kind of my teaching pretty cool. actually you'll remember

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welcome if you're just joining us you're watching the al-jazeera news our lives headquarters here in doha these are your headlines the u.s. and turkey have agreed to normalize relations and work together over the syrian war the secretary of state rex tillerson has been holding talks with his turkish counterpart took a sword and current times have been strained in recent months over u.s. support for kurdish fighters inside syria south africa's new leader cyril ramaphosa is expected to outline his priorities were he to the verses first stage of the union address later on friday. has promised to revive the economy and to tackle corruption which critics say was widespread under his predecessor jacob zuma. ethiopia's parliament is planning to hold talks after the sudden resignation of the prime minister desolations announcement follows nationwide antigovernment protests

as elaine says stepping down was vital to achieve necessary reforms. zimbabweans are waiting for the body of the opposition leader morgan chang right to return from south africa the zimbabwean government said it will help pay for a state funeral for the founder of the country's main opposition movement from harare. good years and. many opposition supporters are broken hearted. a way 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 shock of. the bus three days that there was nobody. thought we had. just listen 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 a commander but i can tell you is that we do not have a crisis. for the generals on the field of those who are going to be left in is to make sure that will win the battle in the war again is then coming in the wind this election was but two senior party officials took was only kupang investments already 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 back to follow the leaders in the opposition have to keep believing that it's the transition if they want to keep the knight who was he was the face of zimbabwe's opposition to longstanding leader robert mugabe for decades

saying that i live long enough to see his rival resign. and facing its first election in nearly two decades without either. the head of oxfam says a high level independent commission will be set up to investigate claims of sexual misconduct we need be anemia the charities effects of director has asked women's rights leaders to carry out an urgent review oxfam has faced mounting condemnation of the way it's handled allegations of sexual abuse staff members were fired after being accused of using prostitutes while working in haiti. the remains of a filipino maid found in a freezer of an abandoned kuwait city apartment has arrived in manila joana them a fella says siblings wept as they saw her cos case at the airport her death from to the government or the repatriation of filipino workers in kuwait a ban on further deployment there to

a foreign affairs minister condemned the government's order saying it would damage times. the mexican government is trying to confirm if two dead bodies which have been discovered are those of kidnapped federal police officers the agents from a special unit went missing ten days ago from the get that states on the pacific coast they later appeared in an online video surrounded by heavily armed masked men . john holeman has more now from mexico city the video first began circulating at the start of the week and it's a two federal agents on their knees and surrounded by armed men they were forced to read a statement made up of that he's ations about the treatment of people by mexican security forces. actions like dropping kidnapping and disappearing people with respect to their women or children in the video is really shocking image scary because it's rare for federal agents to be treated like this on tape almost in a way that's reminiscent of terrorist propaganda in part the statement the agents

were forced to say that the cartel respected them as the authorities and that's why they were still alive but now it seems that the gunman could have changed their mind the attorney general's office has released a statement saying the remains have been found that could possibly be the agents and that they're know for sure within three to five days now the gunmen are identified in the video but ninety eight the state with the two agents were kidnapped is in the control of the new generation cartel it's going to be one of the most powerful in mexico and it's been very militant against authorities in its territory in two thousand and fifteen its members shot down an army helicopter killing ten soldiers this is more bad news for the government violence has risen to record levels even higher than what was considered the worst period of the drug war and events like this only reinforce the impression of authorities failing to take control. mourners are gathered in parkland in the u.s.

state of florida to remember the seventeen victims of the school shooting on weapons day that the f.b.i. had been previously warned about the shooting suspect nicholas cruz has appeared in court and was charged with the murders this is america's eighteenth school shooting this year we're in the middle of february and a spectacle in reports from washington tougher gun laws seem as far away as ever. the sanctuary of a school punctured with screams. like. 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 and 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 that screw 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 the us president's former chief strategist has been questioned by

investigators examining donald trump's election campaign and allegations of russian interference steve benen spoke for approximately twenty hours but it's not known what he was asked he was also quizzed again by a congressional intelligence panel but remained tight lipped citing white house privilege mike hanna has more. well it's understood that steve benen was questioned for a long period of time by members of special counsel robert miller's team on at least two occasions the questioning lasting some twenty hours the nature of the questions not yet known however we do understand that steve benen did give answers to all the questions that were put to him this is unlike his appearance before the house intelligence committee where he appeared for the second time this week there he refused to answer a large number of questions a quoting white house privilege he would only arms the questions that had in fact

being vetted by the white house now this caused a great deal of anger on the house committee members now discussing whether or not they should try him for contempt for not giving on says to the questions that they put to him. cracks have appeared in australia's fragile coalition government after a public spat between the prime minister malcolm turnbull and his deputy prime minister barnaby joyce joyce is refusing to resign over an affair with a staff member which has been deemed a shocking error of judgment by mr turnbull on thursday prime minister turnbull banned sexual relationships between members of parliament this time off after learning joyce's former press secretary is now pregnant fun to be has acknowledged his fault. he's era his grief about his conduct he has to consider his own position obviously.

but well he these are matters for barnaby joyce to reflect on in regards. comments by the national a comments by the prime minister yesterday's press conference. i've have to say that in many instances they were. there was a cause for the harm i believe they were in many instances inept and most definitely in many instances unnecessary. people around the world have been celebrating the lunar new year ushering in the year of the dog this was the scene in the lazio as thousands celebrated with prayers at but his temples in australia vacation was marked at the sydney opera house with an iconic statue of a canine and people also took part in traditional dancing near st petersburg that winter palace in russia yttrium brown has more from beijing. its staff time of year

when china becomes a nation in motion few places busier than beijing's railway station during the last lunar new year holiday around four hundred million travel by train that's more than the population of the united states some are migrant workers unsure if they'll return a campaign of demolitions has made life here impossible for them my child is in school here we lived in beijing for many years but now they're trying to kick us out of cause and what about that much of the world's second largest economy is coming to a halt throughout the country people are on the move in what is the walls largest annual human migration people heading home for celebrations that will last for two weeks. as the chinese are sure in the year of the dog fortuneteller. sees more bad than good for anyone who shares the same zodiac sign and that

includes president donald trump are you by me and if i get pregnant trial was born dawkin we chinese people year about lot of us and i believe it will be a very bad year for him including his health and decision making. trump has barked a lot at china in return a bit of marketing mockery a giant statue that supposed to bear a likeness to the president sits outside a shopping mall in northeast china. it certainly gets plenty of attention sporting golden hair a stern expression and an index finger pointing straight up do you think it looks like a dog. were really there and then you just hear oh yeah the hair in your eyes like that yeah but is it all fake news at least one passer by seems to think so adrian brown al-jazeera beijing.

pieces here with all the talk. from day seven of them pigs young child.

before i still took control of mosul in twenty fourteen the iraqi city was famed for its cultural heritage its poets musicians and artists now despite the destruction they have begun to return a child stratford that reports. directly to the poem describes

a family being forced to flee their home left. to the full of iceland mosul poetry can be read in public and music played again directly. call it all we accompanies the reader on the mood. he describes what it was like being a musician in the new iraqi city when i still was in control you know i don't know that it's the ideas of my see if i still found out you're a musician you can be lashed or instrument would be destroyed i could be imprisoned and even beheaded i stayed at home i grew a beard and was careful that i would lock the doors and play quietly without using a pic i just strum the strings gently using my fingers instead the battle for mosul has been described as the most violent and destructive in iraq's history the u.n. estimates at least forty thousand homes were destroyed local government says more than forty two billion dollars is needed to rebuild the city and surrounding towns in nineveh province. this cafe has become

a center for cultural life since isis defeat late last year mosul was famous for its literature alt and music before eisel took over in twenty fourteen if up your homework lol. reconstruction stores should we building sols before houses we can put bricks down until our souls are restored after the catastrophe that happened to us to read is to be alive reading means new ambitions and new dreams. organizers say volunteers have come together and pooled their money to hold a book for at the cafe a kind of north careful get ahead of dollars the core idea is how to create awareness among the youth i saw used to burn books on philosophy history poetry and even some religious books but we found that many of the central lebanese books have survived we started to violently complain when we rescued more than thirty three thousand books and thoughts of the fair. and booksellers are now returning to the

streets for privacy if we want to bring books to the people the pavement is a great place to sell them because people are coming back mosul was known as a cultural center with many writers and intellectuals who used to live here the u.n. says it could take more than a decade to clear all the unexploded munitions that lay among the rubble making it dangerous for many of the approximate million people who want to return. before college happened his fellow artists the rebuilding of mosul spirit its music poetry literature art has already begun i think you are.

winter olympics time peter thank you so much peter and star american mckayla shifrin has missed out on the opportunity to become the first alpine skier to win four gold medals at a single lympics the twenty two year old finished fourth in the slalom at pyong chang on friday traditionally her best event schifrin says she had been vomiting minutes before her first run she did win gold on thursday in the giant slalom in may contest medals in the combined event and downhill as well sweden's freedom hands daughter one the slalom gold austria's matthias meyer one the main super g. he went one better than his father what one the sauber in the same event in calgary nine hundred eighty eight austria is one of only four countries to have ever won gold in this event. south korean fans are celebrating after winning their second gold medal of the games twenty three year old young and soon been claimed the main

skeleton with the largest victory margin in a lympics sliding event since one nine hundred seventy two and italian. only took the gold medal in the women's snowboard cross the school to most decorated rider american lindsey jacobellis finished out of the middles in for. germany continue to lead the middle table on day seven with nine gold that's three better than norway who are in second with the netherlands and united states and canada rounding out the top five the women's aerial skiing is one of two events still to be decided on friday and australian lydia listener missed out on a spot in the final in her fifth the limpid games she won gold in vancouver twenty tain but is now announced her retirement. i've loved every minute of love the sport the people. the feelings that it generates. and you know obviously

something. but at a point in my life and i'm ready to let it go. one of the most prestigious winter olympic events the men's figure skating will be decided on saturday defending champion using two hundred you won friday's short program with an olympic record score of one hundred and eleven point six eight a number of top u.s. olympians have been offering their condolences to victims of a school shooting in florida that killed seventeen people there was a minute of silence in the n.h.l. before the new york islanders hosted cross-town rivals the rangers while chicago cubs baseball star anthony ritz attended a candlelight vigil in florida he's a former student of marjorie stoneman douglas high school where the shooting took place i played on those fields i went to those classes i studied in those classrooms the same school we saw on video yesterday for all the

wrong reasons i am only who i am because of this community and i just want you to know how proud i am to be part of this community i want you to know that you're not alone in your grief we're all grieving with you twenty time grand slam champion roger federer is on the verge of reclaiming the number one tennis ranking for the first time since twenty twelve on thursday the first saw for the kohlschreiber at the rotterdam tournament seven six seven five if he defeats robin hacer on friday in the quarter finals he will become the oldest world number one at the age of thirty six when the new rankings are published on monday he has previously spent three hundred two weeks at the top of those rankings. meanwhile the women's world number one caroline wozniacki is through to the qatar open quarter finals the dane defeated the moniker nicholas crew who had eliminated maria sharapova earlier in

the tournament in this match the final score seven five six one. tiger woods is continuing his return to competitive golf at the genesis open but round one did not go the way he might have liked the fourteen time major winner carded a one over par seventy two on thursday woods did make five birdies but four bogeys and a double bogey ultimately spoil his scorecard he trails first round leaders patrick can play and turn if an hour by six shots i've. made a huge just really silly bogeys out there in particular number seven marilyn's not very good. from middle of fairway but overall i thought i hung in there well grounded australia have completed the highest ever run chasing twenty twenty cricket history they beat new zealand by two hundred or they scored two hundred forty five runs to beat new zealand in all clint but the happiest man at eden park on friday was a kiwi student he went home to be seven thousand dollars richer after sneering

a one handed catch on the boundary new zealand batsman ross taylor only got six runs the he's after. and that's where we leave at mosport later peter will see then thanks very much and there's more news for you on the websites the twenty four seventh's al-jazeera dot com here lots more on our top story the u.s. and turkey the pizza man times syria tension screw more news about two minutes with season.

carcinogen. was always telling you how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name and body without manchester city's northwest representatives kind of . teacher put it. i said you were a member of the we had the special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic and you immediately this is a cover you know piece on the mainland city yet al-jazeera investigation football's world of silence this time. for the congolese the journey to work all aboard means unimaginable hardship i prefer to live though because they can truth

chancing a life and live on a dangerous journey through the jungle have gone on to do a real job for nearly died of their own children to go to school and live because of the trade risking it all the democratic republic of congo at this time on al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. we've come to an agreement to take joint steps together. the u.s.n. turkey agreed to work together the syria conflict dominates towards doing as secretary of state rex citizens visit to the region.