more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can dora. but to watch where the last thing a facts of this agreement there's a regional set to sites because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people and after that with the. psych speak out lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. that of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the us presidential election announces the indictment of thirteen russians. i know i'm maryam namazie and and you're watching al-jazeera also coming up.

unemployment has gone up in the quality is this is. south africa's new president admits the failures of the past and vows to work towards a better future in the states of the nation address. president trump promises to meet victims of wednesday's mass shooting in florida as he agrees to work with congress in a number of ways. and style without boundaries london fashion week ends with a focus on diversity and social issues. or we begin in the united states where a federal jury has charged thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies as part of the investigation into alleged interference in the presidential election the court says that action started as early as two thousand and fourteen so let's go straight to roslyn jordan who's following everything for us from washington what

more have we learned about russia's role in the presidential election rolls. well put this indictment from a secret grand jury here in washington d.c. is alleging is that at some point around two thousand and fourteen and suggesting perhaps it might have been earlier a company called the internet research agency was a stablished with funding from two other companies known as concord for the express purpose of trying to basically wreak havoc with americans trust of the political system and to more directly interfere with the election the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen what is also alleged is that in the commission of this crime the defendants thirteen persons as well as these three companies are accused of engaging in identity theft a visa fraud of setting up false

a social media statements and using them to foment false information around the political sphere here in the united states and doing so with out informing u.s. officials that they were trying to participate in any way in the u.s. electoral process the action which is under u.s. law considered illegal this is the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who is in charge of the government when it comes to this case because the attorney general has had to recuse himself this indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the. internal ledges that the russian conspirators want to promote discord in the united states and undermine public confidence in democracy we must not allow them to succeed. the department of justice will continue to work oh opportunely with other law enforcement intelligence agencies and with the congress to defend our nation

against similar current and future efforts. and rose we know of course that president trump has denied any accusations that his company that his campaign colluded with russia in any way but do these indictments now make it much more difficult to either discredit or and the mother investigation. well mari i'm get the word use of the word colluded is a very interesting word because it implies intent what this indictment alleges is that they had to get offended including the thirteen people listed in this indictment reached out to at least two people working for the president's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign pretending to be u.s. persons never telling these two campaign staff members who are who are unidentified

that they were in fact russian citizens trying to be involved in the two thousand and sixteen election so it's pretty clear at least the way this indictment has been written that the two people who have been contacted for help in setting up a grassroots campaign rallies in support of donald trump had no idea that they were actually dealing with russians not u.s. persons and so that is an unsupported distinction to make here clearly this effort although it does not say that it was being done at the behest of the russian government it was pretty sophisticated it involved hundreds of people working for this operation and it does spell out some rather compelling evidence that they knew they were trying to get around u.s. law in carrying out their activities of course we'll have to see whether the special counsel robert mueller has other people or organizations that he feels

should face the the u.s. justice system for their alleged behavior during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign all right thank you very much charles when jordan following everything for us that from washington. south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa has been making his state of the nation address speaking in cape town on the prizes said he would need to take tough decisions to reduce the size of the country's fiscal deficit and stabilize debt after years of weak growth from a post office said that he wanted south africans to pull together to end corruption well one people committed to work together to find jobs for use to build factories and roads houses and clear thinks to prepare our children for

a world of change and progress to build cities and towns where families may be safe productive and maybe content we are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plan. of public resources no the fifth by corporate criminals of their hard earned savings of ordinary people. out there is for me to many reports from cape town. president still room opposed they used the beginning of his first state of the nation address to thank former president jacob zuma for what he said was his role in this political transition zuma resigned just two days ago but he also went on to talk about the importance of ethical leadership and also ending the looting

and plundering of state resources certainly a striking the right note with south africans who would become disgruntled with the political leadership in the last few years accused of gross corruption much of from opposers address focused on the economy development growing the economy creating jobs and specifically called the youth young people in south africa at least half of them don't have jobs there's a twenty six percent unemployment rate and remote forces use this address to talk about how you will create jobs will boost investor confidence and business confidence in south africa he also touched on the work that will happen in the agricultural and mining industries no one area that has been very controversial for the government has been that of land appropriation with out compensation the government has said that it would want to return land to p two people well and was

taken from them during apartheid and of colonialism this hasn't been an issue that has been resolved adequately but it's one that roma says that he's committed to he's also used this address to ask south africans to remain united and put the negativity of the past few years behind them. now to ethiopia countries announced a state of emergency a day after the prime minister haile mariam desolate and announced his intention to step down resignation which is unprecedented in ethiopia's history aims to smooth reforms an end unrest which is threatening the ruling party's hold on power been a wave of strikes in towns near the capital and demonstrations calling for the release a six thousand political prisoners. the government is also struggling to quell the anger between the two largest ethnic groups the roma and the mark who both feel under represented the f.b.i.

is saying that it received a detailed warning last month that the florida school shooter was a danger but it failed to act nineteen year old nicholas cruz has confessed to killing seventeen people at the marjory stoneman douglas high school police say the former student was armed with a semiautomatic rifle a gas mask and smoke grenades when he began his assault that left dozens of others injured president trump is meeting the victims and their families later on friday let's go live now to andy gallacher goes in parkland florida and andy why did the f.b.i. fail to investigate nicholas cruz even after receiving a tip about him. well this is a stunning admission by the f.b.i. and this wasn't a vague tip off this was somebody close to nicholas cruz who told the f.b.i. locally that this young individual was showing erratic behavior was obsessed with guns and specifically said he wanted to go into a school and carry out

a shooting this person close to cruz contacted the f.b.i. the f.b.i. locally fail to pass that message on to the regional office down in miami now you can only imagine what the parents here who are burying their children today think of this when they hear that the f.b.i. a body that is essentially there to protect the american people fail to do something so basic as to pass a message on their arm afic ations of that hardly bear thinking about i don't know what the f.b.i. will do about this i'm sure there will be an internal investigation and there already is an internal investigation about the you tube comment that nichols cruz left saying i want to become a professional shooter so lots of questions for the f.b.i. as to why simple procedures that potentially could have saved lives weren't followed through. and we know that president trump intends to visit florida meet with parents and survivors of this shooting but what sort of reception might he get

. i think it's going to be difficult i spent a lot of time last night in this park where there was a vigil i spoke to lots of parents lots of students who survived that shooting and there isn't one of them that isn't angry for some kind of change remember in his address to the nation and the president didn't even mention guns once he talked about mental health he talked about safety in schools but people here overwhelmingly want to see something done but the president you have to remember took millions of dollars for the national rifle association for his campaign another senator marco rubio a very prominent florida senator will also be here today but he's taken over three million dollars from the national rifle association this morning quoting biblical verses on twitter if you look down at those replies you can see lots of people saying you took blood money we don't want your condolences we don't want your prayers we don't want your biblical verses that is the mood here in part overwhelmingly so i think if president trump does come here today and we're still not sure whether that's actually going to happen on friday they may have to hunt

pick the people that we he will have to meet otherwise he could be in for a very hard time. and again a current partner in florida thank you. still to come for you on the program we're going to be talking to the woman at the head of aid agency oxfam as it's rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct. and the american calls for collective action in the middle east on security and says the boycott of his country is a futile exercise. hello febreze often the coldest months of winter in the northern hemisphere particularly europe but that's not proving the case at the moment this arc of cloud that you see here being pushed in that direction is being pushed by atlantic with

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up and back you without as our let's update you on the day's top stories head of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the us presidential election and now this is the indictment of thirteen russians. south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa has given his first state of the nation address to parliament in cape town promising to follow in the footsteps of nelson mandela. and a state of emergency is declared in ethiopia after the sudden resignation of the prime minister. now and other stories we're following the united states and turkey have agreed to mend relations and work together over the conflict in syria turkey even proposed sending a joint deployment of u.s. backed kodesh fight has a but u.s. support for the wipe each has severely strained relations with turkey as secretary of state rex tillerson foundering talks with his turkish counterpart in ankara shall reports from ankara. rex tillerson didn't receive the warmest of welcomes

when he arrived in the turkish capital ankara turkey has been angered by u.s. policy which it believes threatens its national security and president. made that clear during a three hour long meeting with the u.s. secretary of state's in syria the united states has been arming and supporting the kurdish militia the y.p. ji. turkey says the y p g is a terrorist organization that's killed dozens of teicher civilians and soldiers in recent weeks this support for the kurdish fighters has baffled the turks who say the americans should be siding with their nato allies and not with an alcove group according to tillerson the disagreements over syria are being resolved on both ankara and washington will now be working towards the same goal our two countries share the same objectives in syria the defeat of isis. secure and stable zones and independent and unified syria. tillerson and his counterparts.

announced that they did stablished a mechanism so that the true nato allies would be able to resolve all issues and better collaborates but no details were given and there's another problem this is not going away the continued refusal by the u.s. to extradite. the amount of orchestrating the july twenty sixth being felt. only if it don't want to invite him in relation to. do we have evidence do we not have evidence can he be extradited or not rather than having these discussions in the press and in public we will have these discussions and we work together on these issues thank you very much us talkers relations have probably never been worse off but citizens visit seems to have been a positive one clear message that the two allies will start working together again whether they will succeed only time will tell yeah i just. well

oxfam has agreed to withdraw from bidding for funding until the british government is satisfied that they can meet the highest standards expected the charity usually beds with the u.k.'s department for international development meanwhile winnie by an email the charity's executive director is asked women's rights leaders to carry out an urgent review oxfam has faced mounting criticism over the way it's handled allegations of sexual abuse staff members were fired after being accused of using prostitutes while working in haiti on peace a that oxfam's wynnie by name a joins me in the studio now thank you very much for taking the time to come in and speak to us so a very troubling allegations of a over the past few weeks what are your proposals and you know what sort of change are we likely to see within oxfam now well first i apologize i see in my own language. the city which is from the bottom of her to ask

forgiveness for oxfam and after that i want to assure the victims that they would receive justice we are prepared for torn for the damage that was done so i'm reaching go out to the women in haiti or anywhere else and i'm saying come forward come forward with this into you we believe and who delivered justice. secondly i'm sitting up an international independent commission of women's rights that he does human rights leaders be announcing the names in a couple of days this commission will take a hard look at our culture and our practice and give us record mandation to strengthen our system and so can i ask you you made of apologized and you are reaching out to people that may have been affected and may have. suffered.

to come forward does in terms of investigations will they now continue because we know that allegations have emerged in haiti and chad and south sudan do you fear that there are many more victims were actually since the haiti of fear we did a review and following that review we strengthened our system we put in place a safeguarding team dedicated for the purpose of preventing and also detecting and dealing with cases there is to work because then allegations emerged elsewhere yes you have a point because although we've strengthened where we are today. what happened in haiti wouldn't be handled that way today but we know that we are now to where we want to be these revelations show that we still have weaknesses in our system why do those weaknesses exist and i can appreciate that you've issued this apology but

i suppose many people would say that aid and development agencies are dealing with the world's most vulnerable people they simply cannot afford to get this wrong yes we can't afford even for one woman to be abused a woman who has fled war to come to us and be abused that's bad enough some acceptable. and it's contradicts everything we stand for women's rights so we come into these situations because as a humanitarian our imperative is to reach people quickly and deliver assistance to ski so we tend to recruit many people very prickly they are not initially vetted so one of the changes mariyam that we are looking for is to work with others in the sixth or to establish a way certify certifying humanitarian workers so that when we are recruiting in a hurry we are picking from a pool that's already vetted this is something to do with in the sector and it's

one of the. it's crucial to do background checks on the people that your deploying in the field to work with those that they that are in need and to obviously represent the charity and the organization but uncertain needs an agreement with everybody else in this so how quickly will you be able to implement those changes because i suppose many would say that's the sort of thing that should already have been in place. indeed but as i said some things are not we did in our means to do alone but those that we can do that we've been my sphere orks found i'm doing and i'm doing right away for example of us to that we double investment in the team for safe guarding that means we're going to spend about one million dollars this year on that team it will be able to recruit three times as many people as it has now to

do the job of protecting this stuff and the people we work with in all these countries more than ninety countries where we work but let me tell you something mario that needs also to be remembered here is that we hope almost ten thousand staff there are out there in their more sed dangerous places south sudan iraq syria putting themselves out because they have these values of humanity of kerry and these are good people doing good work and it must continue and it's important to point that out that there is still positive work being done but can i just ask you briefly do you fear that there are still there are people working for you that might be sex offenders how concerned are you about that now about people currently working for the organization that might be perpetrating these riots and son to feel concerned you know i'm a women's rights fighter all my life i've been in that in that struggle just to

think that the organization i head is for us and some people sleeping in and sleep out and abuse women it gives me sleepless nights so that's why i am putting in place this plan of put resources behind it and i'm going to make sure that steps are taken right away to block those who don't share our values from joining us and those who do are trained are inducted shown what is expected of them and that we talk seriously when it happens oxfam international's executive director winnie by name a thank you for coming in to speak to us thank you for the opportunity. well leaders have gathered in the german city of new nec for a three day conference on global security challenges then secretary general antonio terris called on policymakers not to miss a peaceful opportunity to and north korea's nuclear threat david chase reports from munich. the world has moved towards the brink of

a significant conflict the words of the organizer of the security conference in munich it was an opinion clearly shared by the police who throw protective cordons around the luxury hotel where the event is being staged dozens of world leaders defense ministers and diplomats are attending the three day conference which provides a unique opportunity for a back room discussions away from the spotlight of the media. democracy and freedom the values we here in the west value most are in decline are under threat. the west. our societies appeared to be weaker. than in the past the international order itself. is stablished in the post world war period is. one of the key security concerns here has been the growing strain between the

united states and other nato nations faced with russia's role in the conflict in both syria and ukraine. nato secretary general was eager to try and diffuse the tensions but experience diplomats were putting the blame squarely on president trump. we see a more a sort of a shot but we. are we just pointed out but the same time for nato it is important to avoid a new cold war avoid a prevent the new arms race and therefore we continue to work for dialogue with russia i am very concerned their president trump has not been a strong leader for nato he's the first american president since my nine hundred forty nine to be openly ambivalent about article five and attack on one of us as an attack on all he's been openly competitive with the european union so we're looking at a major sea change in the least the rhetoric of the american president. the secretary general of the united nations took to the stage to warn that the middle east was

now what he called and authentically quagmires what i think is changed clearly is that today the whole global middle east became a mess and became a mess with a number of different fault lines that are completely crossing each other and interconnected the fault line that remains between israelis and palestinians the fault line that represents the memory of the cold war that is still there the fault line between sunni and shia and if you look at these fault lines i described and it is clear that there is a very special position of a country like iran that has a fault line with saudi arabia and its allies the fault line with israel and the fault line with the united states it was a theme the emir of qatar picked up the middle east is on the brink he said it's time to bring it back he had a direct message to the gulf nations mounting

a saudi led blockade of his country hydrogen relations been guided by a set of solid governance and the rule of law we would not have seen nations with limited resources being a blackmailed into hurting their foreign policies for externally we would not have seen the exportation of world power or geographical constraints to satisfy the thirst for power now more than ever the opportunities for the real power brokers here to find a new way forward are vital all admit the world is on the brink of a major new conflict can they bring it back david chaytor al-jazeera unic. our london fashion week is getting underway and is expected to draw thousands of visitors and what has. under the watchful eye of london's fashionistas models to showcase the work of an emerging designer there's really no place quite like it

anything goes here fashion has no boundaries and everything is documented diversity is one of the themes at this season's event along with trying to push the industry to better protect the women and men working in it so it's about really working to create safe environments to make sure there are safe places them to be that that was being photographed and you know just it's a whole new to see the so many aspects of it but it's something we take very seriously fashion the times though can seem purpose but the designers on the show know they're part of a growth industry one which employs nearly nine hundred thousand people in the u.k. a mode away from the bright lights of the runway in the real focus of actually because of course selling clothes the fashion industry is worth nearly forty two billion dollars to the u.k. economy so it's big business little wonder than that the u.k.'s decision to leave the european union is one that's being closely watched here where that trace playfully where said that really enjoys the freedom of movement in the freedom of

people between hairpiece when and where incredibly concerned and in terms of what the terms of breaks like for now though london special noble people putting their best put food striding ahead and trying to stand out from the crowd and the hayward al-jazeera in london. but look at the day's top stories for you now a federal jury in the u.s. is charged thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies as part of the investigation into alleged interference in a presidential election the deputy attorney general rosenstein says the russians aim was to spread distrust of the political system and so discord in the united states. south africa's new presidents or obama poster has given his first state of the nation address to parliament in cape town he said he wants to build on the

legacy of the late leader nelson mandela. we have dedicated this year truly a team to his memory and we will devote every action every effort to every our children's to the realisation of his vision of a democratic just an equitable society guided by his example we will use this year to really force our commitments to ethical behavior as well as ethical leadership a state of emergency has been declared in ethiopia a day off to the prime minister resigned does elaine's announcement follows nationwide anti-government protests his resignation has been accepted by his political coalition who will now have to find a replacement activists are calling for the next prime minister to come from the a roma ethnic group well those the day's headlines i'll have more news for you in

about twenty five minutes time oft off the upfront which starts now. when the arab spring protests swept through the middle east seven years ago demonstrators across the region were hoping for democratic reforms and even the overthrow of local despots but is libya really a better place now without its brutal dictator colonel gadhafi and how did bahrain become the forgotten revolution and up from special.