of silence this time. a unique poor trait of a small gulf nation living under siege maybe this friend was there targeted sense that pain to be forced to leave would just be our fault and then gains others and that it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe our turn downs but it's not a moment barbara business. has become more united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. i know i'm this is the news hour live from london coming up. russia's foreign

minister dismisses the indictment of thirteen of its nationals by the u.s. for election tampering as blather the kremlin slams it as it. the man convicted of the rape and murder of six year old zainab i'm sorry who's killing triggered nationwide protests is sentenced to death. ethiopia's defense minister defends the implementation of a state of emergency which bans protests to six months. i'm joining with the latest from pyung chang as japanese superstar. makes history becoming the first male figure skater in sixty six years to defend the gold medal at the winter olympics. so we begin with the war of words that's erupted between the u.s. and russia over the indictment of thirteen russian nationals for election meddling

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has dismissed the indictments as just blather saying there were no facts to back them up but u.s. national security adviser said the evidence of espionage and subversion was undeniable on friday special counsel robert muller charged thirteen russians with running a huge social media trolling campaign against democrat hillary clinton. mr foreign minister i just wanted your reaction is to the indictments to publish yesterday the united states that show us one point two five million dollars a month of russian taxpayers' money being spent in trying to influence the american election do you think that was do you see a good return on that investment they said no i have no response you can publish anything and we have seen those indictments and i've also read the statements from the homeland security adviser in the u.s. who denied the reports that any country to influence the election results the same was said by mike pence either here or maybe in another european capital so until we

have the facts everything else is just blather so this you can see with the f.b.i. indictment the evidence is now really incontrovertibly and available in the public domain whereas in the past it was it was difficult to attribute for a couple of reasons first technically it was difficult but then also you didn't want to divulge your intelligence capabilities but now that this is in the in the in the arena of the law enforcement investigation it's going to be very apparent to everyone let's take a closer look then at what's being alleged in this indictment the st petersburg based internet research i see is listed as a major target of the investigation it's actually taken operations to interfere with elections and political processes also known as the troll factory it's accused of manipulating social media in the u.s. and staging political rallies in support of donald trump indictment says russian

imposters on social media use tash tags like trump train trump two thousand and sixteen and hillary for prison named in the indictment is yevgeny in a close associate of russian president vladimir putin and one of russia's richest men is listed as financing the troll factories operations or a challenge brings us more on this now from moscow. russian response so far has essentially amplified a sense of incredulity incredulity that thirteen people could of influence the voting of more than three hundred million americans incredulity that these thirteen people could have acted against their billion dollar budgets serve us intelligence services and counter intelligence against all the latest innovations and technologies give gainey privilege and who is right at the heart of this indictment was widely believed the financial muscle behind this troll farm in same petersburg

was also known by the way as putin the chef a billionaire businessman and now he says well the americans are very impressionable people and they see what they want to see he doesn't mind being on this list years already on a u.s. sanctions list and says that if the americans want to see the devil will let them the russians are also going to be drilling down into the fact that this indictment doesn't explicitly say that the russian government sponsored this election meddling efforts and also that the indictment doesn't say that russia actually change the outcome of the elections russians are also be very aware that the united states doesn't have an entirely clean records when regard when it comes to in meddling in other people's elections they've done it numerous times in numerous countries over the years and they in fact have done it in russia too in one thousand nine hundred six when for us yeltsin looked like he was going to be losing an election to the communists well it was us political advisors that what it for him. so they've been

called now for social media sites to do more to prevent political interference on their platforms but twitter and facebook say they are working with the f.b.i. investigators so i'm joined now by kern who is an internet and social media lawyer thanks very much for coming in it is interesting so we are hearing that the indictment reveals a combination of tactics even if the methods have been exposed is it possible to stop the use of online tools to spread propaganda or in this information it is very difficult to do that because do the same online tools are being in front think carriage by social media companies are we talking about two main methods one is the bought saw in other words robots that go online and. post in emails and and what have you and the other method is actually people sitting there post to get all the from the websites so inflation to the board social media companies like the boards because board boards do they they create the perception

or popularity of some post and generate revenues for the social media companies so it is very difficult to to stop only in one direction to stop it in different directions actually this type of activity is what's in their interests therefore they're unlikely to stop it does that mean that there has to be some sort of tightening of legislation to govern how they how they deal with these issues online traditionally social media companies have got autonomy over what is happening on their own platform social media companies are encouraged to moderate content and remove content whenever necessary but they have been very reluctant to do that for a very long time no there have been some calls by governments particularly from european governments to social media companies to start taking more seriously the moderation of content otherwise government says. they are going to intervene and

they will send the traditional police to the internet to decide what content should be published will soon be published the problem of course is that is it right to leave it for individuals appointed by say facebook or google to decide what is newsworthy what is not news all the world is julie's falls so this sounds like something that is still so much in the early stages of developing but we have like you say we've seen pressure from politicians on both sides of the atlantic on social media companies to do more to crack down on the use of their platforms to spread harmful information or on information warfare just to be saying that companies like facebook and twitter or instagram are very much capable of tackling this alone but is it an ethical question of whether they should or a legal one the question is who is to decide what is what information is home for and what information is in the public interest to see all used to decide for

example the b.b.c. news is more news all the or more credible than sale jazeera and this seemed to be a trend now by google in particular to exclude certain media from from its news. spread such as the russian news that such as iran and give more credibility to more sort of traditional western maybe c.n.n. and b.b.c. is that right thank you very much for sharing your views your analysis with us appreciate it yeah thank you well now the u.s. is calling on the international community to take action on the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government u.s. national security adviser martin made the comments during a speech at the munich security conference he says it's clear syrian president bashar assad is using chemical weapons and that he should be held to account public accounts or photos clearly show. that assad's chemical weapons use is

continuing it is time for all nations to hold the syrian regime and its sponsors accountable for their actions and supports the efforts of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. ash is covering all this for us from munich so strong words are hearing now from h. on the masthead but. is it likely that the us will follow up this. you know that concerns with any sort of tangible action. while money and this is exactly what people were thought of. right after the speech by general mcmaster when he said that the international community should hold the syrian government accountable and the question was are we going to expect a strike against the syrian government similar to the one that for the april chemical attack targeting civilians in the horn but this time i mean any military

action would have to take into consideration many factors first of all the russian presence in syria and russia has in the past been very critical of any attempt to last any attacks against the syrian government's second development on the ground which is basically of the syrian government now is reversing many of the gains made by the opposition over the last few years and many believe that the americans have lost significant leverage in syria and that their presence there was limited to areas in the northern part of the country where there is a presence of the kurdish factions particularly white. which has been a crucial ally of united states of america in the fight against i sell a military action if it happens in the new future many believe would also have very limited impact on the ground given the fact that the syrian government remains. is . supported by russia and by iran which gives the government huge

advantage in the fight again in the fight against the rebels right so that you mentioned that hashem the fight against i still have also been hearing from the iraqi prime minister a body what's he been saying about the the post i still challenges of rebuilding in . country. money and this was an opportunity for a bad teacher try to send reassurances to the donors who were participating of the donor donors conference in kuwait and hope page thirty billion dollars for. rebuilding iraq. the fact that his country his government is committed to combating corruption and this is a huge problem in iraq many donors were saying that we don't want to see our money and in their pockets of corrupt officials number two who would like he wanted to

send a message of reconciliation to the cinema in the minority in. iraq but he was also saying that there are still challenges ahead particularly when it comes to the need to expand the role of security forces and to further isolate militias which have been playing a role in the world over the last few years in iraq and which spearheaded in a way or another the fight against myself in places like and mosul so it was a a platform for that allowed bad you to tell the international community of that the thirty billion dollars that was players will go to the white bases and will be instrumental in trying to bring about stability to iraq there was also an interesting debate a while ago about what happens next after the defeat of iceland the future of. terrorist groups in different parts of the of the global bases like the sahara like

nigeria like north africa and the middle east and many of the panelists are insisting on the fact that the military operations that the security corp is one hand but at the same time there needs to be an effort by the international community to try to bring about prosperity and stability to those. yes for them to be able to stop groups like isis hijack an awful tapping into the growing district discontent of the youth over the thanks very much with all the latest from the new nick security conference. with the news hour live from london much more still to come. on the. crowds pay their respects to zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai as his body returns home. kosovo celebrates ten years of independence as leaders call for all countries to recognize its status. and poland get their first medal of the chuang

a lympics joe will have the best of the action in sport. a court in pakistan has handed four death sentences to a man convicted of raping and murdering a six year old girl zainab and sorry's body was found in a rubbish dump after she had been sexually assaulted a death sparked protests across pakistan with claims of government inaction and police incompetence and reports. captured on security cameras walking hand in hand with the man who would kill her these are the last known moments of little zaineb and sari's life her body would later be found on a rubber stamp in kasuri the town where she lived with her family near the eastern city of lahore investigators say she was raped and strangled twenty four year old iran was convicted of her kidnap rape and murder and anti-terrorism court handed

him four separate death sentences that are biased on the law crimes that are considered to have spread terror in society can be charged as acts of terrorism the opportunity that this case was or better a child protection or a more honest and a sort of. reflection within society about how it's natural it's and easy it is or predators like. to prey on a young child all of those opportunities if they want to and. will essentially close the chapter on this instance but not close the chapter on. an abuse of children and i think that's a missed opportunity and one there in january thousands of people across pakistan protested to demand justice for zaineb her family said police took no action during the five days from when she was reported missing and her body was found there were

demonstrations at police stations and politicians homes were set on fire the authorities were accused of being different and incompetent zaineb are also brought to light eleven other similar cases in the consumer area in two years prosecutors say ali has confessed to eight of the killings including saying the fact that this it happened levon times if you sleep and. it was left the body of young children did not stir the american agent of already. you know you only because you're such a course was just said. ali has fifteen days to appeal the verdict then its parents are demanding his execution be carried out in public at the same rubberstamp their daughter's body was found in tears diab zero. so for more on this let's speak to beena sarwar

a pakistani journalist who focuses on human rights issues she joins us via skype from boston and the u.s. thanks very much for speaking to us and so if i start by picking up on some of the points that empty house is making in his report. that the man who murdered zainab and sari was also linked to the deaths of several other girls seven girls i think it was why was he not arrested before now. well it was more than seven it was more like eleven and i think actually there was one of all those girls one is still alive one she's still critically ill still critically injured in hospital since november when she was found in a member so it's and it's not just these few computer cases and also i don't think that he hasn't been convicted i mean he has yet to go through the courts process so i think there's a lot of media hype and there's a lot of. basically mob lynching mentality i

think and media trial going on right now he may be guilty of all of those murders are guilty of only one but what's clear is that child abuse is a widespread issue and hanging one man is not going to solve it. the the family of the not been sorry said that the police failed to take any action in those few days the five days from when she was reported missing to when her body was found why didn't they do anything. so that's a really critical point i think the police and slackistan has been totally politicized they work under political orders they don't work as book as per do process there's very little they have a little support or empowerment regarding forensics regarding how you know investigative techniques it's very common for crime scenes to be completely you know washed out before all the evidence has been collected. we've seen that in very high profile murder cases like benazir bhutto's you have issues like when there's

a few print fingerprinting lab police often when they arrest people. mostly the beat them into confession you know there's no there's very little like i said investigative techniques so police feel police are disempowered to work as police and they often are just used as the ip guards and they really have there's been a lot of calls for the reform of police of the policing system and focus on very senior police officials have argued and presented cases you know research that shows how the police would be reformed and politically i think they are not able to carry those reforms through because it's too convenient to use them for political purposes so what is your view on how what is likely to happen in the in the coming months and years because from the

situation you described the flaws and within law enforcement agencies and the application of the rule of law in the country it seems as though it's just not fit for purpose that the vulnerable and particularly children just you know will not be protected from these types of crimes rate and also the poor in general if you look at the prisons they're full of poor people if you look at the the death sentences that are handed out they're all handed out to poor people. they don't. i have access to lawyers so it's a systemic issue it's not about one child although that is a severe tragedy and my heart goes out to her parents i completely disagree with their call for any kind of public exist you should i think we've seen that done that in the d.r. years where there were public floggings public and q. sions research has shown that this does not deter crime this kind of public only brutalizing society further and i don't think that i don't i think that the

punishment has to be that we certainty of punishment rather than the severity and that's what will help to deter crime also what you mention about the issue of empowering children in a country in our region. trained to just say yes to adults they're not they're not . adults says or does something that they aren't comfortable with they don't have they don't they're not empowered to say please don't do that it makes me uncomfortable they are taught to to respect your elders and it becomes a very oppresses that you a should not just with children but for all vulnerable communities lower down in the social hierarchy as well so you can all make hierarchy so it's a widespread problem i do see steps being taken to address it. in terms of creating awareness which we're in in terms of protection laws in terms of how people are speaking out but i think that calling but these calls for public hangings which also translate into public lynchings we've seen a lot of those in pakistan i think if this man was let out right now he would be

publicly lynched so i think pakistan has to address a very deep rooted system system a systemic issue related to brutality and violence and a respect for human life thank you very much b.s. i was there and now austin in the u.s. thank you. the u.s. embassy in ethiopia is saying it strongly disagrees with the government's decision to impose a six month state of emergency jaring which protests will be banned the ruling party hopes the move will help to quell the worst anti-government demonstrations in a quarter of a century which prompted the prime minister to resign on day one hundred of dough reports. it's calm on the streets of ethiopia's capital of the suburb but the country's slipping into a deeper political crisis on friday the government imposed a state of emergency to stay more we will invest the defense minister confirmed on saturday it will last for six months and includes a bomb on poultice hts governing style and publications that incite violence you

get a good value gives you a state of emergency should not be seen as a military coup the army is under the federal constitution and it is a tool to implement the government's decision that the state of emergency procedures are intended to protect the constitution country and people moved in with him or the announcement follows the sudden resignation of prime minister high limit embezzling who had been in office since two thousand and twelve i'm said his departure as prime minister and chairman of the ruling if you have his people's revolution of democratic front coalition was to enable necessary reforms in government the. the been lost the most russians in ethiopia's largest regions will neon i'm high and recent months with protesters calling for political and economic reforms and an end to state corruption all of a ten month state of emergency end of last year but failed to stop the protests particularly by ethiopia's youth who think christina come to view the most searches

as the only way to bring about meaningful change doesn't so protesters of been killed and many more injured since two thousand and fifteen iskander of nega is one of six thousand political prisoners released by the government this year in an effort to ease growing tensions to beyond complex it with ethiopia as one large prison i say this because there is no democracy in the country this is a dictatorship we have to change its big prison into a democratic state opposition leaders say here prison ruling coalition has lost its all forty that demanding all parties be involved in deciding the country's future. you know this country is a country of hundred really it is too big for one political group for the long. run as aphids of hundred million people the years of unaccountability on earth in the size of the country's politics it's your be

a tipping point some say injustice repression on the block of minute full democracy have instilled a sense of despondency if your peers a ruling coalition the e.p.a. r.b.f. is expected to meet within days to choose a successor to highland body i'm disciplined but the stakes are high and just sling for the premiership in tons what about the coalition decides who will have a huge impact on how ethiopia is governed mahomedan al-jazeera. the body of zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been repatriated from south africa he died on wednesday after battling colon cancer is a key figure in zimbabwe in politics and form the movement for democratic change and the task has more from harare. when the plane carrying more than forty landed hundreds of people were at the airport pushing and shoving each other trying to get a glimpse of the cost of some jumped the fence tried to get on to the tarmac and

security told them to turn back even ran to the cargo section of the airport where they saw the coffin leave in a convoy is supported by police has been brought here to a military base in harare government officials say because morgan tsvangirai was a former prime minister it is the norm as was to be done the body will be brought here until it's time for if there are. injuries on sunday the the several turks the percent across the country family and friends are going to take their eyes house to pay their respects that honor and there is going to be a real grabbing a big public gathering reality that exists within that rebel in ferrari where people are going to say they fail whilst we remain on sunday. his bones he was very deliberate here at his rural home village about two hundred twenty kilometers from harare rednecks with first wife louise and opposition the borders they plowed to give him a big send off and they say they want to say goodbye in style to a man they call a lot from the revolution

a man they say was the basis of the opposition. stay with us on the news hour much more still ahead by meeting the indigenous kenyan forrest community that's been forced out of its ancestral lands by the government. meanwhile in mexico the government there is coming under pressure to raise the minimum wage which is less than five dollars a day. after taking his place as the only less number one in tennis. is back on the court will tell you how he's school and school. welcome back we have quite an active frontal system moving across the levant and on into western parts of asia so here is this particular system there's another of low

pressure towards the western mediterranean that's going to influence the weather over the coming days to be you see quite a bit of rain around parts of syria and through into iran and iraq and extending further towards the gulf now beirut should be seen brighter conditions by sunday heading through towards monday much that rain turns to clear away so brought to conditions returning eighteen degrees as a high him pay route twenty one there in kuwait city ok we don't think radium pincher this will backend of that weather front will be moving across the region so we're going to see a change we've got very warm air for this time of year for doha thirty degrees the forecast on sunday the front will go through that well may well be some cloud for a time as just the chance of a shower but i think will stay dry for the most part but certainly temperatures will drop way as the wind goes from the south towards the northwest elsewhere fine conditions meca looking at highs of thirty two degrees heading down to southern parts of africa you see on the satellite imagery some big share of clouds across eastern parts of south africa so look at the forecast still some heavy showers

expected on parts of the eastern cape. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera at this time. the scene for us where on line what is a very nice time in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating

base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. i'm back with the news outlets update on the stories making headlines russia's foreign minister has dismissed the indictment of thirteen russian citizens for interfering in the u.s. election speaking at a security conference in munich cycle of raaf said there are no facts to back up the claims. the man convicted of the rape and murder of six year old zainab and sorry. his killing triggered protests across pakistan has been given for death

sentences. and ethiopia's defense minister says there's been no military takeover and the state of emergency declared on friday after the resignation of prime minister haile mariam desolate and will last for six months. now in other stories we're following it's exactly ten years since costs about officially declared independence from serbia after years of conflict and a civil war that claimed thousands of lives kosovo is recognised as an independent nation by more than one hundred other countries among them the u.s. and most of the e.u. but it's still not recognized by others including serbia russia and china. joins us live now from prishtina and andrew what are kosovo's leaders calling for on this important milestone. well as you say it's an important milestone a landmark asian on its concentrated minds about how long it's taken for the key issue of serbia recognizing this independent country in order to allow

a chain of events it would appear that it would mean that serbia if it did so would be able to join the e.u. and ensure kosovo would be able to join the would mean a far better situation all round for both countries i put this situation to call suppose brahmanism was it a question of when or if at all serbia would recognize goals from. all those in russian's military political financial are all loosing gazer and. it is very rational to keep it still unfinished business. so we have lost a lot of time so that. today it's the time tomorrow is the time but we don't have anymore the years for this because the last two decades on this topic. so challenges ahead but this seems to be an update celebratory atmosphere where you

are tonight. wanted to you could hear probably the warm up to rita ora. she's the born u.k. pops dogs will be performing this evening and of course these celebrations will be going on right in to sunday but there's an underlying sadness to it all of course because of those losses involved in the war fence that led to nato intervening one in particular that atrocity in a village not far from here at the village of. it's a war he's grown used to over the years. still can't comprehend why he lived and his brother died not the men had been fight says they were kosovo 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 romesha bony and others had been rounded up in this yard. pretty hard to stop or two in the hole as you can see first of all they threw grenades and opened fire on the house people were screaming especially the kids so 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 from a follow 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 that would civilian casualties. i could rate check this young man believes the conflict walls with it's the buyer on hire a z who was six when his eighteen year old brother was shot dead says many of kosovo's leaders a noun neglecting his village and others like it. if we compare raw tracks 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 economic development stifled every heist 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.

the celebrations continue there are many positives to look out at this small young independent country but they're matched by the negatives and one of the issues of course youth unemployment stands at around sixty percent and on top of that there is a real sense of hopelessness within because there is no form of state benefits for the unemployed and also the economy although it's running at them four percent growth rate which is the highest in the region there are all serious questions about corruption about levels of investment and the diaspora the size of it down for the book grown larger and larger ahead of the war and join the war and still exists in a very large scale and it's the only lifeline as you heard in that report from so many families to all of that the situation involving foreign investment that needs

to be more of the needs to be a far more dynamic and show about the government that's the view not just of economists but also united states and the european union so a lot of work to be done. but still there's quite a lot to celebrate for the people here this evening from pristina under seven thank you very much. the body of a filipino maid which was found in a freezer in kuwait has been returned to manila a desk trained relations between the philippines and quite with president roger go to territory ordering the repatriation of thousands of filipino workers and banning further deployment sami's a dam has the reaction from quite a city. praying for closure church service isn't quite spare a prayer for joining the demo fellas maria can a two spares a thought for the domestic worker whose body was found in a freezer authorities are still looking for the suspect

a lebanese national i'm afraid me. these. cannon knows all about the life of a domestic worker she's worked as one for more than eighty years she says some face abuse but it's not typical. of the me i knew were like my sister the philippine government reacted strongly to joanna's death banning it citizens from coming to kuwait for work it later issued a clarification exempting those who already have jobs here about the initial announcement never the last century through the country. for many filipinos a job in the gulf is a lifeline for extended families some i experience in the life and. they don't have they don't they don't get that. good at math from. philippine authorities however say complaints of abuse compelled them to take action we have. five thousand five thousand eight.

hundred complaints of abuse last year. including treatment sexual harassment and rape you hear the philippine ban on allowing new workers to go to kuwait is a problem for you can now only after over a decade in kuwait van jones a restaurant and money exchange businesses she needs to expand her work force the president's ban she says is holding her back. and some of my stuff it was really who won the deal game here this is really very very big problem as the officials are critical two of the ban they concede it might be necessary to review. some quality measures like the ability of sponsors to hold migrant workers passports however they say the philippine president statements have only complicated the situation at the moment. the bird was ordered for domestic

reasons it's a clear there are also of the reasons for such a list gleason were not in jewels but we are all sort of devolves the the congregation sings for their community to be delivered from the devil the devil of abuse and the devil of hasty government decisions sammy say that al-jazeera kuwait . four israeli soldiers have been wounded two seriously in an explosion along the israeli border with gaza in response israel's military struck an observation post in the southern gaza strip palestinian security sources say there were no injuries on their side the border area has seen an increase in violence since president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital in december. at least thirteen people have been killed after a military helicopter crashed in southern mexico the helicopter was serving the damages of an earthquake in the state of one haka when it crashed into a boss three children are among the dead

a seven point two magnitude quake destroyed fifty homes and waka in the millions without power in mexico city twenty people have been killed by three suicide bombers at a market in northern nigeria the suicide bombers blew themselves up at a fish market in conduit just outside my degree on friday night known as claim responsibility for the attack but the group boko haram is active in borno state our fountains of people from an indigenous forest community in kenya are accusing the government of forcefully evicting them from their ancestral land they've been targets of violence and threats from the kenya forth this catherine so he has more from both forest in western kenya. this is a forest in western kenya it's part of a large ecosystem called the chairing on the heels forest one of the most important water catchment areas in the country and a source of livelihood to millions of people downstream yet look at this century

old trees are recently set on fire it's not clear by whom but forest warden say thousands of acres of the forest have over the years been destroyed by people living here illegally grazing farming logging and binding charcoal streams that supply water to lakes and rivers are running dry and it's become a hideout for cattle thieves but in this forest also leads the scent where community traditionally the hunters gather us and they say ember books is their ancestral home they are keeping huge hundreds of livestock ship card from sometimes even goats and goats are not allowed in the forest by law the farming we are seeing and cautious listed thomas has refused to leave she says her house was banned down by forest guards in december now she spends her days hiding from them alyssa tells us this place keeps her safe from forest guards and raiders from

a rival community during the day she cooks here that night she used everything space to sleep she says it keeps how warm but obviously it doesn't protect her from the rain the rainy season is about to start and many more people deep inside the forest also living rough in crevices and other open spaces after their homes are destroyed i have six children who are now staying with a neighbor outside the forest if i leave my animals here will be stolen what's going on in amber boot puts to focus the delicate balance of conserving their environment and protecting the rights of indigenous communities. last year they'll get another forest community one a landmark case of the african court and human and peoples rights judges ruled they had the rights to leave in and help conserve another important water tower the mile forest forced evictions and not a right or in polls on people. in the context of across

a racial project this is what i i mean by human rights based the courts protection samson where families were compensated by the state in twenty fifteen to pull you into really moved out but they now say the money was not enough to buy land police to tells us how families got nothing as social state puts and protect cattle no matter the consequences catherine saw al-jazeera and book forest west in kenya. with the news ourselves come just one hundredth of a second means the difference between silver and gold on the slopes joe will have all your olympic news. more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw a map. but what were the last of your facts of this agreement there's

a regional set to six because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people after that with the. psych speak out lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. was always telling you how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name and body without consciousness it is northwest representatives can't teach it could it. actually georgia member that we had the special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic and you mean this is a cover up in a piece on the mainland city yet al-jazeera investigation football's world of silence this time from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming

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the and. nearly seventy organizations are calling only into american commission of human rights to force mexico to raise its minimum wage they say the current rate of less than five dollars a day condemns millions to a life of poverty but even those not living on the lowest salaries are struggling to afford basic products as john heilemann found in mexico city. lilian has always tried to work with a smile on her face but like many mexicans she lives almost on the breadline the job buying and selling clothes in the local market often doesn't pay enough to feed her family or cannot call me that it was dissing point that i mean here costs just under three dollars and i just ate half of it and save the other part for the next day to save on costs. new official start show that four out of ten mix concerns

don't earn enough even to buy basic food stuffs last year's record inflation combined with the country's long stagnant salaries have left many families unable to cope with the unexpected i learned in a burrito but my goodness forbid in from getting sick because it costs money i have to have a special diet for my diabetes which costs even more. it's conspiring power began to nosedive more than a decade ago and has never recovered the mits can government posted this month that the economy's enjoyed five years of constant growth but that doesn't seem to have filtered down independent statistics show that the ten richest mexicans have the same amount of money as the sixty million poorest. countries on course to have the second lowest minimum wage in latin america and your firm says that less than five dollars a day it's so low it's unconstitutional it's urging the intermarriage conclude of

human rights to rule in favor of an increase but oxfam's head of research says that the roots of the problem also have to be addressed why a wage is so low it's good strategy. of the government has been to month. low wages in order to continue to attract foreign investment we need to stop competing with order markets by offering low wages we need to change that mindset in order to. cascade. the fruits of globalization. that's a steep challenge for a country which has struggled to balance creating jobs with ensuring they pay enough for people to enjoy a decent life on. john hoeven how does it or mexico city.

think of it. for the kyung chang action with. merriam it is been a busy day of action at the winter olympics with the nine medal events taking place in chang it included a historic gold for japanese figure skater zero can you pay to stem it has. an encoder injury prevented using two hundred you from competing for three months in the build up to these games but after anna lim big recalled school in friday's short program he produced another stunning performance in the free skate to win gold he's the first male figure skater in sixty six years to defeat and then pick title at the sliding center great britain's lizzy yarnold became the first skeleton

athlete to win back to back a limbic rounds while poland's camel starch also retained he ski jumping large field title to win his country's first medal in pealing chang but there was disappointment for american skiing stallman's a bomb became just six in the super g. . the surprise winner was yesterday decker who is also said to compete in snowboarding. in the women's slopestyle finals switzerland sarah heflin to gold ahead of compared to at matilda graham all. i didn't just wake up this morning and think that i was going to win the olympics so no i just wanted to get through the finals and have fun and there are so many better girls than me out on the field so . i definitely didn't think i was even going to i didn't think i belonged in the top three the women's twelve point five kilometer biathlon met start event was won by on the start of slovakia. norway added to be

a medal tally in cross country skiing with a medal your him leading them to victory in the women's four by five kilometer relay she's now been joined most decorated winter olympians of all time with footie medals and there was a food gold medal of the games for hosts of korea on the track nineteen year old choice winning the fifteen hundred meter title peter stammered al-jazeera. all that speed skating medal for south korea takes the hosts up to ninth in the table but germany continue to lead at the halfway mark of these games they have nine gold that's two better than norway who are in second place followed by the netherlands canada and the united states round out the top five. united states suffered a blow earlier as they as their men's ice hockey team lost for nothing to the olympic athletes from russia and canada as well also defensive of the first time in

eighty years that are lympics going down three two in a shootout to the czech republic no players from the n.h.l. are competing in pyong chang after league officials failed to reach an agreement for them to do so. but the olympics is not just about who wins medals for many of the athletes a podium finish is a distant dream just finishing a race is their dream come true like mexican cross-country skier german drug runner so who is twenty six minutes behind the gold medalist coming in dead last on friday he staggered home waving the mexican flag and was greeted by some of his rival competitors of the forty three year old who only started skiing a year ago it fulfilled a lifelong ambition to become an olympian and he perfectly encapsulated the olympic spirit. i'm in love with cross country skiing this sport has given me so much joy

it's given me this much add i am completely in love and devoted to cross-country skiing and i just wish that i could ski until i'm about eighty years old. well from someone starting out in the sport so a man has back at the top of his game that is of course much of phedre thirty six the swiss will become the oldest while the number one on record at least home on reports was he has twenty grand slam titles and almost every tennis i have possible to its name yet roger federer created a new piece of history on friday. was this we speed robinho asked to reach the semifinals of the world tennis tournament in russia dom in the netherlands and by doing so in short it will be top of the new world rankings on monday what an amazing one it's been in the journalism business for me throughout. so to clinch want to go the following monday during one of the really some optimism thank you

very much everybody thank you better our hasn't been in top spot since twenty twelve but the past thirteen months have been a standout in an already exceptional career he's won i titles including wimbledon and two australian organs. and to thirty six is a pos is the record held by american andre agassi who was three years younger as well number one rafael nadal jimmy connors and even lendl also that the rankings in their thirty's reaching number one is this one is not the odds on the children you know scored. sometimes the beginning to get there just because you play so well. later you sometimes try to fight back and you refer back to somebody else or deserve to be there and when you're older you know you feel like you have to put maybe sometimes double the work and so this is one of maybe the most to me throughout my career. the celebration was more than trace of federer he's back on

court in the semifinals it was his i don't draw a separate yet another tries and maybe beckoning for the soon to be world number one at least home and al-jazeera. while federer's semifinal match with seppi just got on the way a short time ago in rotterdam it's currently two one in the opening set. majestie united are aiming for a place in the quarterfinals of the english f.a. cup right now they are leading hundreds field to nil in the second half of their match from eleanor carcass schooled both goals for them earlier southampton and brighton booked their spots in the last eight spurts as you can see swanzy face a third consecutive f.a. cup replay after being held to a nail mill draw second tayside sheffield united and that is the sport for now i'll have more feel little bit later but for now it is back to mary i'm in london lovely thanks very much joe or remember there's more in everything we're covering for all

the news on the sport of course al jazeera dot com is where you need to go our top story there a state of emergency imposed in ethiopia after the sudden and unexpected resignation of the country's prime minister so you're going to have more on that story and everything else with my colleague lauren taylor she'll be here in just a couple of minutes with much more of the day's news say without is there. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have the brain

a good logical rational or personal crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not go all well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives of this time on al-jazeera. is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty meters in this community in one month the police say this area is a raid zone one of several in some townships and kept our children sometimes a court in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking past to try to take them from gang violence i lost myself looking away lived or yes the go i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. a unique portrait of

a small gulf nation living under siege maybe post to friends or as their targets and their pain to be forced to leave would just be all and their gains by the it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe upturned on its normal part of business. has become more united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. russia dismisses the indictment of thirteen of its nationals by the u.s. for election tampering as blather the kremlin slams it as absurd.