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information warfare against the united states thirteen russians are charged with meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election marking a major development in the f.b.i. investigation. thank you very much i love these tragedies donald trump avoids more questions about america's gun laws while visiting victims of the florida school shooting spree also a state of emergency is declared any theo here after the prime minister's sudden resignation. and countries blockading cattle stage a conference in germany but as we find out not all is as it seems. welcome to the al-jazeera news hour now thirteen russians and three russian companies have been charged with tampering in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the office of special counsel robert miller described it as

a criminal and espionage conspiracy to support donald trump and disparage the candidate t. defeated hillary clinton crucially the indictment does not suggest any collusion between the russians and trump's campaign mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . an anti trump protest march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day part of a massive campaign the indictments say were aimed at promoting donald trump at the expense of his opponents both republican and democrat. special counsel robert miller has indicted a total of thirteen russian nationals and three companies for alleged interference with the twenty sixteen elections according to the unsealed indictment the accused

conspired from two thousand and fourteen until today to interfere with the us political and electoral processes including the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen the special counsel alleges that the group posed as americans and controlled social media accounts but focused on divisive social and political issues. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein states said there are no conclusions in the indictment that the campaign affected the election result no allegation in this indictment that any american had any knowledge and the nature of the scheme was that the defendants took extraordinary steps to make it appear that they were ordinary american political activists even going so far as to base their activities on a virtual private network here in the united states of anybody traced it back to the first jump and they appear to be americans this interpreted in a unique way by president trump who tweeted in reaction russia started the end to

us campaign in two thousand and fourteen long before i announce that i would run for president the results of the election were not impacted the trump campaign did nothing wrong no collusion. no acknowledgement that the indictments implicitly reject his off stated opinion that claims of russian interference were as he put it fake news donald trump is going to be very worried about today's events in large part because it puts to lie the allegations that he's made for the past year that there was no russian involvement many republicans including president trump in seoul have been highly critical of the work being carried out by robert miller and his team these indictments put to an end any attempts to undermine or even a halt to the investigation by the special counsel the other certainty that proof of russian involvement in the us election is just the beginning and not the end of

investigation mike hanna al-jazeera washington. is executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research he joins me now from washington d.c. good to have you with something the indictments reveal that russia's direct efforts on behalf of donald trump began much earlier parts were even more expensive than anyone had previously understood are you surprised at that revelation. i'm surprised at the expenditure level especially at the end of the campaign we're talking more than a million dollars a month that's pretty significant money and that's a pretty significant number of russians working very hard on social media on behalf of donald trump from same petersburg in the indictment so the indictment itself is a complex part of a much larger investigation for instance i mean it has nothing to do with the hacking of the clinton the national democratic committee e-mails that has nothing

about the funneling of national rifle association money into any of the campaigns i mean how important is it that we're sort of. are seeing former trump advisors like paul motherhood and michael flynn being charged that's all very important in terms of the developments in this case. yeah the investigation is picking up speed and even so i don't think it's that far from the beginning i think we're closer to the beginning and then the end of this investigation i think that the internet support on behalf of donald trump that is revealed in this indictment is a significant fact but it is never been that area. help from russia that was most likely to be part of a conspiracy between russia and the trump campaign the two parts that were most likely to be a conspiracy one was the hacking of the democratic national committee hillary clinton's campaign chairman john podesta and

a series of other figures in the democratic party those hocks whether or not they were encouraged or assisted by the campaign that is remains a very big unanswered question as of now and it's also unanswered whether or not the national rifle association the n.r.a. the pro-gun group in america that received it spent a lot more money than they ever had before in two thousand and sixteen they have very close ties to the russian government and it remains a very interesting question unfortunately in light of the tragic events in florida this week particularly timely question about whether or not the russian government helped the n.r.a. assist donald trump in the election some of the state was a coming out from social media groups such as twitter and facebook talking about that they will continue to work with the special prosecutor and considering they were you see the platforms old where the platforms for the way the pay was read and viewed talked about in twenty six and how important is the they continue trying

to help with the. the investigation itself. they cannot fix what they did wrong in two thousand and sixteen i mean the abdication of responsibility by facebook especially but google and twitter and even pinterest and tumbler to some extent those that advocation responsibly can never be fully redress but they need to get ahead of this for the future because there are all sorts of indications both in america in two thousand and eighteen and across the world that there is russian meddling but i don't think anyone really believes that russia is the only country that would consider meddling in other country's elections and obviously i'm also aware that the united states times done things in other countries elections that it should not have done i would like to think that people will realize the cost of this sort of behavior this interference in elections and that we can get to a place where the internet platforms help us and the threat of international

meddling in elections. is very clear that these indictments of the americas. find extremely vulnerable i mean how will the ability be addressed in the future when it comes to the internet security. so there is an effort in the american senate to the honest ads act to try to make sure that at least when communication goes on one of these internet platforms that you can trace who bought that advertisement but i think that these fake people that the today's indictment talked about the russian troll factory in st petersburg russia that's a pretty tough thing to go against so i mean i think we need campaign finance a variety of campaign finance reform so it's going to be pretty systemic but we also at some level are going to need civil society in america to recognize that

this is a problem and to push back against it on a more nonpartisan basis. what was so frustrating about the efforts by the russian trolls is that they found so many allies in america who were willing to go their messages and they found seemingly a presidential campaign that was willing to ally with them we need people to reject this sort of. bot you know these twitter and internet. fake algorithms that mimic people and also the clearly fake people who drive stories online we just need to clean up our communication and some of that's going to be by law and some of that's going to be by society doing a better job it will. be the coming months perhaps even the years for the movement to be great to get your insights into this thing hugh the way from the mill investigation. to survivors of the high school shooting spree that half of

florida nineteen year old cruz has been charged with murdering seventeen people in the municipality of parkland north of miami and is the. well this was essential a surprise visit by president trump it wasn't announced to the public in the usual way but he's visited two locations firstly broward county hospital that place that took in so many are victims of wednesday's shooting he then went to the broward county sheriff's office where he met with law enforcement officials and talked about what a great job first responders and law enforcement to have done but what he didn't do is come here to this place where many people are coming to pay their respects and i think it's a fair assessment to say he wouldn't be that welcome a lot of people here are very angry that the president hasn't talked about guns or gun control they are fed up with the inaction on gun control and the fact that the politicians in this country can't even have a conversation the other news from here is that the f.b.i. were tipped off about nicholas cruz on january the fifth and they failed to act on

very specific information that may have actually prevented this shooting from happen so a great deal of anger here at the government at the federal officials who should have protected them but ultimately what people here want to do is pay their respects to those that lost their lives now the head of the f.b.i. is facing calls to resign after he after the agency admitted that it failed to follow up on a tip about the gunman before wednesday's attack the f.b.i. says a person close to nicholas cruz called them early in january to report concerns that he may kill people but nothing was done in response florida governor rick scott says it's an unacceptable failure well don't park says the c.e.o. of the metropolitan protective services a company that focuses on safety joins me now from washington d.c. good to have you with us on al-jazeera semin how does information get passed from the f.b.i. to local law enforcement or even regional f.b.i. offices when they get

a credible tip off. well the person know call the f.b.i. and then they will categorize the tip see how important a tip is and then if it's some legitimacy to it and they have enough information then they will investigate all complaints but it's just. in what order were they investigated i mean how quickly is the process conducted because surely the f.b.i. gets thousands if not millions of calls every day on a whole range of subjects sure sure we'll see in this particular situation the information that was given was very vague so from what i understand the person called and said this individual wanted to kill people that's a very very a didn't say he wanted to kill. a particular person or a particular group of individuals gathered at a particular location so that become a very vague level of information now they have to start to sort through it and

then track down all the leads and try to figure out how substantial is this information are you surprised to see in the f.b.i. is if we can call this salient for the moment does it warrant the head of the f.b.i. to resign. well i really don't i think you know in a bad situation like this we always want to blame someone. for a situation like this but in this kind of event i don't necessarily know that you could squarely place blame on the f.b.i. for failure to act because the information was so vague in nature. that they started a slight level of investigation but it just didn't say that this guy wanted to kill these people on this day or even identify a location so they had to run on the leads that they had given the information at

the time we're seeing a range of these sorts of attacks whether it was sunday hook or columbine or parkland over the years and decades that are affecting american society from the east to the west coast surely there has to be some sort of system in place in terms of an early warning system where checks and balances all there to everybody to the potential of what might happen or could happen even if the threat is vague does that have to be looked into now sure i think we do i think right now the united states is. under attack you know from domestic terrorism and from from foreign terrorism so. i think we have to really understand a different way to deal with the constant threats that we're under from homegrown individuals who just want to exact revenge and

a lot of people are suffering from mental psychosis there's not been dealt with in a professional manner and they're acting out in the way today choose to act out is by killing lots of people at one time for the moment so has to leave it but thanks very much for joining us from washington d.c. office thank you. no but he had here on the al-jazeera news hour including turning to the military to stem gang violence brazil's president puts the army in charge of security in rio de janeiro. also it is nothing but a number unless it is the world number one roger federer returns to the top of the tennis rankings at the age of thirty six joe will have those details in school. stay in central america now where a magnitude seven point two earthquake has struck mexico's pacific coast shaking southern and central regions now the u.s.

geological survey says the epicenter was just south of the city of pinot tamer in the state of one hacker there are no reports of any deaths at this stage now these are the latest pictures we're getting out of the region three hundred fifty kilometers from the epicenter in mexico city there are reports there are buildings swaying for more than a minute both mexico city and the state of one hacker are still reeling from separate earthquakes last september that killed hundreds of people. south africa where its new president has promised a new dawn as he delivered his first state of the nation address several rum opposer was sworn in on thursday after the resignation of his embattled pre-disaster jacob zuma in a moment we'll hear reaction to his speech from rob matheson who went to the township where robert poser grew up but first for me to miller reports from cape town. with no threat of protests and less security this state of the nation address

was a departure from recent years with demonstrations had become routine. this was an opportunity for president settled on the porter to outline the government's goals for the coming year and set the tone of the new administration much of his speech focused on economic growth and job creation almost a third of south africa's population is unemployed most of them under the age of thirty five. poverty levels rose in twenty fifteen unemployment has gone up and inequality has persisted for several years our economy has not grown at the pace needed to create enough jobs so that we can lift our people out of poverty i'm a poster plans to grow the economy by five percent in the next few years by boosting the agriculture and manufacturing industries and offering more support for

small business from a poor sorry iterated his commitment to land expropriation without compensation a policy that remains divisive has also promised to clamp down on corruption stressing the importance of ethical leadership but not everyone is convinced and the we have realized that the president does not have a plan the president speaks about commissions speaks about saving us speaks about inquiries yes got no plan it was an important speech and there is going to fight over. it seemed to lack the very idea of what is the total change that we bring the president promised bold change but actually deliver more of the same still roam a process tone was resolute at a time when south africans of the people strong leadership from a possible cause at the dawn of a new era i think is a sense of renewed hope with a president who enjoys wide appeal but still on the force i will be watched closely

to see how we implement his policies and delivers on promises with some warning that self africans should to manage their expectations now attentional turn to from a process cabinet he's under pressure to change key appointments and root out corruption in government from a demolition al-jazeera cape town. this is the cradle has high hopes for south africa's new president is known several rebel positions little boys two of thousands whose child has been spent on the streets of seoul where to give them a chance. to see gives the in. this country would tend. to settle and said well you know everybody went everywhere or when he grows up there are those that those were two things that really do. it right when it came to their real things similar were doing that i think so little

has been described as the heart of africa it's a mixture of cultures and religions this prosperity here hundreds also poverty people here say that ruffles i can sing but only if he remembers where he's from but jacob zuma the man the ram opposing has replaced grew up in poverty too only to become mired in allegations of corruption there are those here who say that coming from so waiter may not be enough to prevent rival poles of facing the same thing. sitaram opposers first state of the nation speech also known as the sona has ranged from cutting youth unemployment boosting the struggling economy and helping industry and tackling widespread corruption i'm excited to see what cyril can do. i think his focus is not on command well it's on putting the country first for many many many positive things as you can hear the speech is ongoing and it's people clapping and not booing right so it's probably right you know how it is sunday is

it creates expectation but at a more at ease when excited is a lot more confident not extremely but i'm happy with what i have to file. in soweto and across the rest of south africa people have heard from opposers promises now they're waiting to see you. matheson's al jazeera so it. the state of emergency has been declared in ethiopia a day after the unexpected resignation of the prime minister. the country's seen a wave of protests fueled least in part by ethnic divisions reports. the streets of ethiopia's capital addis ababa appear calm but the country's political landscape is slipping deeper into crisis. of friday ethiopia's ruling coalition decided to impose emergency rule to stem

a recent wave of anti-government protests there is no indication of how long the measures will be in place the announcement comes a day after the sudden resignation of prime minister haile mariam to sell a new leader of ethiopia since two thousand and twelve he said he was stepping down in a bid to smooth reforms. the country's been troubled by years of unrest by ethnic groups of the m r a n r romeo regions who say they've been marginalized by the government a ten month state of emergency ended last year but failed to stop protests particularly by ethiopia's youth who have been calling for the release of political prisoners dozens of demonstrators have been killed and many more injured as skinned a neg is one of six thousand political prisoners released by the government since january in a bid to ease growing tensions. to and. ethiopia is one large prison i say this because there is no democracy in the country this is a dictatorship we have to change big prison into

a democratic state opposition leaders say ethiopia's ruling coalition has lost its all forty that demanding all parties be involved in mapping the country's future. you know. hundred really. it is too big for one political group for one small group back to ride zach fates of hundred million people even with the resignation of the prime minister the government's tight grip of the country continues and so inevitably will the protests the al-jazeera people in the procedure rebel held enclave near syria's capital damascus a new aid supplies are far from enough nine trucks carrying aid entities to wednesday the first delivery since november the u.n. says it'll feed seven thousand people for a month four hundred thousand civilians have been besieged in eastern guta by government forces since twenty thirteen there experiencing severe shortages of food

medical supplies and around a constant bombardment from the. misery. regarding the aid they are joking with us and this is not enough everyone has only one kilo and this thing is not enough they're joking with us people are hungry and there is no quantity this is not enough for us. for me us presidential candidate mitt romney is running for the senate he's been a sharp critic of president donald trump and some hope he'll continue to be a voice of opposition within the republican party rob reynolds reports. in a carefully crafted video launching is bid for a senate seat from utah mitt romney contrasts are what he called the state's values service sensibility with the partisan gridlock and scandal gripping the nation's capital because i believe i can help bring you to us values and utah's lessons to washington romney who lost to president barack obama in two thousand and twelve became one of the sharpest republican critics of then candidate donald trump during

the twenty sixteen election campaign blasting the reality show star as unfit to be president here's what i know. donald trump is a phony a fraud his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university secretary of state their meetings at trump tower now seem like a way for trump to get even with romney and publicly humiliate him if romney goes to washington analysts say he could be a full word in trump's side there was an opening for a conservative critic of trump i don't think at this point mitt romney intends to fill that opening but i think the role could fall upon him if there is increasing criticism of president obama among the conservatives romney didn't single out trump by name but implicitly criticized his immigration policies utah welcomes legal immigrants around the world washington sends immigrants

a message of exclusion romney is considered likely to win the senate seat he's well known and respected in utah where he successfully managed a twenty twelve salt lake city olympics he is a leading member of the latter day saints church commonly known as the mormons whose members are a solid majority in heavily republican huge all mormons have never been entirely comfortable with donald trump his values his lifestyle are very alien to the mormon point of view the question now is will romney's self-proclaimed utah all values translate into opposition to trump values robert oulds al-jazeera. well still ahead all the news we travel to the sites of one of the worst massacres that accompanied the breakup of the former yugoslavia ten years ago after kosovo declared independence. but. also politics of late son superheroes why marvel's latest comic book living is

being hailed as a cultural milestone. and the usa is going to skim mccalla shriven learns that you can't win them all the time since for which. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east. how it was very quiet start to the years the dog in fact temperatures throughout central and southern china maybe a little bit higher than you might expect twenty one kong ten in shanghai we all feeding moisture a piece i think it will eventually turn into cloud and bitter rain will fall but there's nothing really significant go in even further north is not especially cold in beijing for example one of our freeze yes it should be used on the year things are warming up fairly quickly the wet season still a policy in indonesia and that is java bali soloway sea and beyond but most of the

laser is find that certain indication of cloud here and in the middle the south china sea the remains of the tropical soccer that went across the philippines may well bring a few significant shasta coast of vietnam maybe cambodia probably not thailand mostly thai should be fine is obvious so should malaysia brown singapore passing showers will be the worst you get ugly. so out india is still quiet quality is not particularly good in the north because there is a cloud gathering around the himalayan platter and we see in passing showers a bit of snow but nothing much happens in the next day or so they are so temperatures run about where they should be slowly on the rise whereas it's quite warm in the forecast to doha on riyadh. the weather sponsored by cattle and peace. for the congolese the journey to work all aboard means unimaginable hardship i prefer to live down the stone i got cut into chancing

life and live on a dangerous journey through the jungle i fell onto the rails and nearly died. our children go to school and live because of the trade risking it all the democratic republic of congo at this time on al-jazeera when the news breaks when people need to be heard. like it good to me is. my brain and this story needs to be too dangerous largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. and live news on air and.

welcome back you're watching the observer and news hour with me the whole robin a reminder of our top news stories criminal charges have been laid against thirteen russians and three companies as part of a u.s. investigation into meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the indictment says that they use thousands of fake social media accounts to influence public debate in favor of donald trump. also u.s. president donald trump pals visited the victims of the nashua to school in florida former student nicholas cruz allegedly killed seventeen people in parliament. head of the f.b.i. is facing calls for him to resign after the agency admitted that it failed to follow up on a tip about cruz before the attack. ethiopia has announced a state of emergency

a day after prime minister. della seign said that he was stepping down the government struggling to quell protests telling from ethnic groups that feel under represented. security in rio de janeiro state has been completely handed over to the brazilian military the order here older president michel tamers responds to a wave of armed violence and golfing the city but those out of silver reports there are fears it could leave rio's most vulnerable at risk. it's become a common sight in rio de janeiro heavily armed soldiers patrolling the city's most impoverished neighborhoods but now brazil's president michel is taking it a step further or came out of that is that. organized crime almost took control in rio de janeiro state wished it's a cancer that is spreading through the country and threatens the tranquility of our people that's why we decided to we see the decree for federal intervention to ensure public security in rio de janeiro. a presidential decree that puts the

military in charge of all security operations across the rio de janeiro state situation not seen in brazil since the end of military dictatorship thirty years ago. it's a matter of extreme circumstances requiring an extreme solution. every two hours a person is shot at in rio janeiro and the violence has been spilling beyond the cities for their lives more often. just a few weeks ago drivers on a major road had to run for cover as military police engaged in shootouts with suspected drug traffickers and despite a strong military presence rio's famous carnival this year was marred by a spate of muggings armed robberies and confrontations. you hear john you know the brass say. it's an urgent problem for rio de janeiro but we've not been able to stop the war between gangs in our state using only military place and regular place . the military takeover comes at

a time of severe economic crises in rio de janeiro state and of bankruptcy in rio's police still critics say that by handing rio streets to the army to marie's attempting to give a boost to popularity levels some described as embarrassingly low they also fear that with the use of strong arm tactics by security forces abuses against the city's poor may become more common on the silver al-jazeera. well there is a law professor at the union of educational institutions of power he joins me now from . kentucky with us live on al-jazeera i mean all the president's hands tied as he says they are that he just had to be seen to be doing something after the rio carnival was marred in violence what was it three police officers killed looting and shooting or even foreign visitors attacked. the problem of the incident is the realization it was long standing in despair who according to several reports there

were several cases of harboring intrusions in the city of wi-fi which left the population scared and asking for an answer how concerned sam or as the approval or approval and with the decree it try to use to show that it is doing something just so the problem of what is the country especially real many say that the there was no other option but then that went off that there interventions other states very were going some measure on the national security force could have been sent to solve the problem and use for. it how concerned are people in the public at large of the army has come in to the large areas like rio de janeiro state. considering the past history the military has had with the public are they weren't . there to greet the president to take their ship as well as others that the

cure to decades ago in south america was terrible persecutions and the rest of the people for what they fought for to this finish now today treated that at some later most of the population no longer have a sense of revolt within the military and the army as one who could who can help solve the problem of violence and resiliency. critics of the president say it's a ploy for further for him to distract the public from his own political problems do you think it's a ploy and how how seriously has the president had to deal with this issue. it's also important to say that this is talk. at the brazilian congress which is the pension reform cannot to. wilder's the federal intervention according to the constitution which prohibits change in its wilder's an intervention many say

that the government has. to. be reformed so the intervention will change in the discussions in the congress in the media as the greatest depends on the. ok well we'll have to leave it out in only a few little technical problems with the sound but we got a general gist certainly of what's going on certainly in brazil for the moment and in rio de janeiro diego franco pereira thanks for your time on are there now they want to have the munich security conference has struck a dark tone with world leaders warning that the threat of a major global conflict is the highest in decades dozens of politicians and military chiefs are attending the three day summit as david schaper reports. 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 thrown 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. then in the past the international order itself. is stablished in the post world war period is at risk 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 conflicts 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 assertive a shot but 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'm very concerned that president trump has not been a strong leader for nato he's the first american president says nine hundred forty nine to be openly ambivalent about article five and attack on one of us is 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 white mind 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 a 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 how do you general 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 by till all admit the world is on the brink of a major new conflict can they bring it back maybe change to al-jazeera unic. a lot wasn't the only conference going on in munich another meeting not far away was organized by the countries that are blockading capital but there are reports many were paid to turn up. a few blocks from where the world's most influential security conference is being held another day than to has taken place the countries imposing a sea land and air blockade on qatar invited journalists to attend their own meeting described as

a conference to encourage sanctions against qatar when no one showed up organizers reportedly hired a p.r. company and the room was filled with young women who told us they were mostly from eastern europe one of them read a statement she had been handed by organizers i have to date. and. i said just what. i see. and actually. was. in was. in anyway when asked by and i'll just zero reporter why there were attending the event some said there were paid. one woman was presented as a senior analyst at a think tank based in washington d.c.

by the translator laughed as he reacted to when she asked the united states of america the e.u. and india to stop buying gas from qatar. similar meetings continue to take place elsewhere in many european countries many of the events are said to have been august rated and financed mostly by the saudi led coalition that cut off diplomatic ties with qatar last june accusing doha of violence in extremism there are accusations dismissed by the qatari government as fabricated lies more than eight months since the start of the crisis the us the european union have called on the parties to set their differences aside by the blockade in countries insist. meet a list of thirteen demands that include shutting down al-jazeera media network

downgrading ties with iran and closing a turkish military base that demands were rejected by qatar as violating its sovereignty. munich it's nearly ten years since calls of a fishley declared independence from serbia but autonomy came after years of struggle the massacre of course of our albanians in the right check was one of the major events in the civil war that accompanied the breakup of the former yugoslavia and simmons went to write a check to see how it's fair in recent years. it's a war he's grown used to over the years. still can't comprehend why he lived and his brother died neither men had been fighters they were kosovar albanian and that was a death sentence for those buried here young and old. this happened within the reach of unarmed european observers but the serbs blocked their

access roma shabani and others had been rounded up in this yard. pretty hard to stop or to talk to in the hall as you can see first of all they threw grenades and opened fire on the house people were screaming especially the kids you know i was laid out and beaten just here then we were ordered to leave in that direction with our hands behind our heads. like the others rama followed directions coming up here stopping to light a cigarette and then haring shooting he ran in that direction and the rest had come along here and they'd fallen into a trap they call this the red trail paint marks the spots where blood stains belongings and foreign bodies had been found and it was all exposed by this figure from what i personally saw i do not hesitate to describe the event as a massacre obviously

a crime very much against humanity william walker's words started a diplomatic trail leading to nato's intervention the bombing of serbian military targets and there were civilian casualties. i could raise this young man believes the conflict was worth it but byron high res e who was six when his eighteen year old brother was shot dead says many of course of those leaders a noun neglecting his village and others like it. if we compare rhetorics contribution to the cost of postage i think the authorities have not paid off our sacrifice so many young people attend university degrees only to be unemployed big anomic development stifled every house in our village has a person who's migrated to support their family it's the view of many kosovar albanians ten years of independence hasn't carried with it good fortune for all andrew symonds out zero recheck in kosovo cracks appeared in australia's coalition

government during a public rift between the prime minister malcolm turnbull and his deputy barnaby joyce joyce is refusing to quit over an affair with all of his staff members prime minister turmel has introduced a battle sexual relationships between ministers and their staff and says joyce has shown a shocking error of judgment found to be has acknowledged his fault. he's era he's great about his conduct he has to consider his own position obviously. but 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 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 well supporters coming up on the al-jazeera news are. underwater can find out how this lucky moment turned a quick thinking spectator a very big bonus. he's. facing the realities of growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time in. the. light of

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welcome back it's time for sports history. thanks very much well for the first time in more than five years roger federer will return to the top of the world rankings and at the age of thirty six he will be the oldest number one in a.t.p. tour history as after he beat robin has a full six six one six one to reach the semifinals of the book to dam open meaning he'll replace rafael nadal in the top spot when the new rankings are released on monday federer first became number one back in two thousand and four but this will be the first time he's been at the top since october two thousand and twelve. the women's world number one ranking was also on the line on friday but caroline was lucky did enough to ensure she retained her place in the top a she reached the semifinals of the counselor open the day and beat angelica seven six six one six three show now play patrick fitz of us for a place in the final it was lucky had last summer and how it would have returned to number one despite earlier pulling out of the tournament with that injury. how its

withdrawal means that wimbledon champion got to be immigrants or receives a buy in to the final the full seat came from a set down to be caroline garcia two sets to one in the last eight it's. going to be. anything. but in the beginning. my. seven gold medals were won on day seven of the winter olympics but there was an upset on the flights as american mckayla difference bits to become the first alpine skier to win four golds at a single olympics came to an end piece of stem and has more. after winning gold in fus day's giant slalom mckayla schifrin was favored to defend her slalom title but

the twenty two year old could only manage fourth and said afterwards that she'd been sick before her first run the gold medal instead winter sweden's freedom hunts daughter was i mean this is said think i'm sure when you k.l.a. several italo cares so push your shit if further for me it's bound to be there today but i don't see this i've been there with me detail i was the best when they were live it doesn't matter which girl who was the seculars there was. there was also a surprise in the women's snowboard cross as the sport's most decorated rider lindsay finished but italy's mackellar more usually got the gold elsewhere on the slopes beller respect up their first medal. winning the women's aerial skiing austria's matthias mile won the men's super g. going one better than his father helmut who claimed silver in the same event in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight while switzerland's danio colonia made history

as the first cross-country skier to win the same individual event three times in a row in the men's fifteen kilometer race. they want to be no food straight title for chick speed skater martina sub as may first won the women's five thousand meter title it the netherlands six speed skating gold and there was plenty for the host nation to celebrate twenty three year old. skeleton by a record one point six three seconds. al-jazeera. now to a person that has everyone talking in japan at least user can you he's a superstar in figure skating and the defending olympic gold medalists year zero seven lim picked record in the first leg of the men's competition in pyongyang on friday he can secure gold on saturday with a strong performance in the free skate there is a bit of a strange fun phenomenon when it comes to using involves throwing winnie the pooh

toys dozens rained down on to the ice after his performance on friday it started in two thousand and ten when he carried around a tissue box featuring the book character and it just kind of stuck well the end of day seven it's germany who can do easily the medal table they have nine gold that's three better than norway and netherlands in second and third the united states and canada round out the top five. chelsea have secured a place in the quarter finals the english f.a. cup they comfortably beat hull city four nil a live issue or actually scored his first goal in a chelsea shirt after his transfer from also also into the last eight a leicester janie volatile with the only goal in their one no victory of a second to sheffield united now straight to have completed the highest ever run chase in twenty twenty cricket history they scored two hundred forty five runs to beat new zealand in oakland but the happiest man at eden park on friday was a kiwi student he went home thirty seven thousand dollars richer off to snaring a one hundred catch on the boundary easy and back to ross taylor only got six runs

for his efforts. and that is all the sport for now more later. thanks jay well it's not often film critics heap praise on a superhero movie for its perceived cultural significance but black panther is different superhero films have featured a black lead character but no one has received such a lavish production and marketing but it does raise questions for its intended audiences hashi have written c. reports. just six. six six black comfort was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty six for marvel comics the superhero pinafore come to the technologically advanced called eyes african culture the film adaptation is being widely praised for its inclusive and racial empowerment the fight is a african superhero and people get a chance to look at themselves in positions of power and feel that it is important

disney is marketed the film to black schools and communities ahead of the film's release these children have just been informed by going to a screening. there is no joy in a mainstream black superhero even as there is realism at best its value could be used to sort of capitalize maybe used as a teachable moment to get into some broader more concrete ways that we can talk about black liberation which might mean introducing a younger generation to trying to overthrow disney and. well certainly this is the bit that upholds you know what i mean. it hasn't gone unnoticed that the film's promo uses a song called the revolution will not be televised. it's a song by the late leftwing black singer gil scott heron but explicitly warns that empowerment will never come from multinational corporations who run the media as a petition pointing out that since disney is specifically targeting black dollars

black audiences should boycott the film until the studio agrees to donate twenty five percent of worldwide profits from the film to black education. you have the ability to not only go see a film about a fictitious country in africa with advanced technology but the opportunity to invest in programs which focus on the fields science technology engineering and mathematics that make such advancements possible in real life it says the marketing of black panther is playing unashamedly with its coincidental namesake the black panther as the racial and economic justice group co-founded in the late sixty's by huey newton already mountain luther king's message of radical anti capitalist change has been sanitized from mainstream white audiences. most recently by a truck manufacturer a black panther may get follow a similar model of white america easily adopting black cultural figures but having

more difficulty with the black political struggle they represent she abrahams the al-jazeera washington. well if there was a superhero folly butty by over here the full hour of news in a moment for me of. a lifetime of emulation struck by stroke copying. selling reproductions can pay the bills but frustrate the artist. a pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that it's more rewarding to create than to imitate. dreaming of vincent a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. monitored truck quantified i'm valued to see data being the new car for weapons your

data your identity is a commodity and we have to understand where i'm from but to come from austria it is time to reclaim our cyber selves we have to connect them with something that cannot be sold we are creators we are activists we are geeks give us back our data at this time on a does either. in the heart of the amazon the bolivian family is quick sand mines imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. but it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it tool believe me out. at this time on al-jazeera. was always telling me how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name about it without manchester city's northwest

representatives kind of. teacher put it for. us to do remember that we had the special meeting about the nail and he said you know. that's not the topic i knew immediately this is a color you know piece on the mail man city al-jazeera investigation footholds board of silence at this time. the defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states thirteen russians are indicted by the us special prosecutor investigating and let's meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential next.