to harvest brazil nuts. getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge the. risky new tool in the libya. at this time on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. i welcome to the al-jazeera news our arms the whole robin is our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes four israeli soldiers are injured by an explosion along the gaza border israel hits back with airstrikes also washington

and moscow trade barbs after thirteen russians are charged with meddling in the election that brought donald trump to power and. i really kind of question whether or not they should vote for. mixed feelings as the gun show goes ahead in florida an hour's drive from where seventeen people were shot and killed at a high school on wednesday. and we'll hear from the indigenous kenyan forest communities who say they're being forced off their ancestral lands. welcome to the news hour four israeli soldiers have been wounded two seriously during an explosion along the gaza border now israel's military has been quick to blame hamas its responded by launching air strikes against a number of sites in the southern gaza strip palestinian security sources say there

are two injuries on their side the border area has seen an increase in violence since president trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital but the future today's incident on the gaza strip border was severe we were responding appropriately i send my wishes for a quick recovery to the wounded let's go straight over to harry falso to joining us now from west jerusalem i mean what more do we know about the incident harry and the condition of both the israeli soldiers and the palestinian palestinian casualties. was is what israel is calling a large scale attack in response to the blasts which struck those four soldiers all kneeboard offense two of those soldiers were seriously injured in that attack one moderately one lightly we're told by the israeli military and so there have been these air strikes which of the targeted at six targets in total israeli military

says two of them at least military compounds one of them they say was a tunnel being directed underground towards israeli territory six targets in all and asked of the airstrikes there were also a report there's also a report from the palestinian side from the gazan health ministry saying that two people have been injured and three were missing after a tank fire was incoming near the rafa crossing that's the egyptian and southern end of the gaza strip east of iraq there were these other injuries there were reports the israeli minute and media that there were four gazans were ten seem to penetrate the border fence at that point and were targeted by ins raiding bank fire the israelis holding hamas responsible in entirety for everything that happens there was also a rocket that was fired out of guards and struck the roof of

a house in the no northeast of the garzon border no injuries reported in that hamas is holding israel entirely responsible for what it calls an escalation of course the whole area has been quite tense since the jerusalem declaration what the what has the situation really been like on the ground i mean we of the we we come on air and live to the region when something like this happens but the tension is always there. yes and certainly since december sixth when donald trump made his declaration saying that the united states regarded your islam as the capital of israel we saw protests across the west bank your quote west bank crossed gaza and indeed within israel itself and in jerusalem certainly some of the protests in gaza were some of the most specific groups and confrontational there were a number of incidents between israeli troops and the protesters these hamas we've seen protests at least. most notably those the shooting death of one

double amputee during that period so there so there's certainly been more tension because of that there's also the question of simply the humanitarian situation inside gaza which is deteriorating even from the desperately low point is been some time the head of the israeli military in recent weeks with reporters telling us really cabinet that humanitarian situation needed to be improved with large scale funding in order to prevent that being a potential course of conflict hamas as well reportedly has been warning of the prospect of some kind of israeli incursion some sort of pre-planned israeli incursions of both sides have been warning about the prospects of increased military conflict so far this particular incident appears at the now at least to a calm and the analysts here in israel and indeed others are predicting or at least

suggesting that neither side wants to go much further than this at this station there is room to deescalate from what is a pretty serious confrontation in terms of what's been happening over the last few years or will continue to monitor the situation with the for the moment howie thank you. now russia has dismissed u.s. allegations that thirteen of its nationals ran a secret operation to sway the twenty sixteen presidential election in the. donald trump russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov issued the denial at the munich security conference but speaking straight after a lover of u.s. security advisor hey john mcmasters said the evidence of espionage is undeniable well rose jordan is our correspondent in washington d.c. following events for isn't just really seems that the diplomatic spat is continuing well it's not just continuing sawhill but it's also happening pretty much in real time with both countries representatives actually stating their case on the global

stage. the munich security conference often focuses on weapons of mass destruction regional war and the threat from road nations and group or similar but at this year's meeting the conflict is between russia and the us which is now and died thirteen russian citizens for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen presidential race the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the indictments irrelevant they said to see if you go so until we hear the facts everything else is just. the indictment says otherwise the defendants allegedly were promoting donald trump's candidacy and undermining that of his democratic rival hillary clinton. by one example an anti trump protest march in new york shortly after his election allegedly organized by the defendants and not by ordinary americans the allegation is that the russians were using the

anti trump protest to cover their tracks in supporting him the special counsel robert muller has indicted thirteen russian citizens and three companies for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen elections according to the unsealed indictment the accused allegedly conspired from two thousand and fourteen until now to interfere with the u.s. political and electoral processes including the two thousand and sixteen election the special counsel alleges that the group posed as americans and controlled social media accounts focusing on divisive social and political issues one important point the indictment does not allege that anyone in the donald trump campaign colluded actively with the russians the u.s. national security advisor h r mcmaster told conference delegates the rumors of russian interference are now fact the united states will expose and act

against those who use cyberspace social media and other means to advance campaigns of the. formation subversion and espionage the former russian ambassador to the united states long accused of using his post to interfere in u.s. affairs told delegates the indictments are nothing more than fear mongering where they have a league asians moaned at the. simplest sentences being useful police reasons inside the militant states meanwhile no comment from president donald trump spending the weekend at his florida state. the president did tweet out on friday evening several times indicating that the indictments prove that there wasn't any collusion between his campaign and russian officials or agents but it's important to note so that this did not actually address the

question of what people inside the trunk campaign actually were doing of their own volition that question is still outstanding indeed it will have to continue to monitor events very closely over the next few days and weeks thanks roles. in washington d.c. well joining me now from washington also is hillary mann leverett a former u.s. state department official national security council member it's good have you with us on al-jazeera again miss levering i mean it seems that while the u.s. and moscow continue to exchange barbs was highlighting russian involvement a well thought out strategy by the justice department at this moment in time when a much larger investigation headed by is going on at the moment. well i think it's what what muller is trying to do is to lay a factual foundation here for the american public that they are in fact was a problem that the russians in fact did interfere in some way in the u.s.

election something that president trump has cast doubt on since he was elected so i think he's trying to impart is trying to lay a factual foundation to lay the ground perhaps for future prosecutions or future parts of this case to unfold involving maybe even more serious allegations involving others in in trying to ministration potentially we sort of heading towards a new form of sort of cold war be it a diplomatic one at the moment. well it certainly harken harkens back to the diplomat the cold war of decades ago i mean there's nothing new about russian or american interference in each other's domestic politics or in the domestic politics of a range of other countries this is something you know going back to one nine hundred fifty s. when many prominent americans were fired from their jobs and blacklisted for suspected ties to commie to the communist soviet union so there's nothing really new about it i think the new dynamic now here is an american political elite

concern about resurgent russia particularly russia's power under president putin to exercise its influence whether we see it in the middle east in syria in other places china and perhaps here in the united states when the united states is arguably at a very weak point where many people in the united states would consider this is right now a very divided and open and vulnerable to russian influence so i think the concern is very much about the resurgence of russian power and how the united states can come to terms with that it was. funny that the united states russia were heavily involved in certain parts of the world where all the diplomats are in close proximity whether it be syria whether it be ukraine crimea. even talk about nuclear being increased because neither side seems to trust each other the.

the public would be worried about a sort of ruched up of the rhetoric. i think the public here is worried about that and it's a very dicey issue in the american domestic body politic impart and the president trump may be doing something useful in trying not to highlight this case so much you know he certainly of course has a lot of personal reasons to not highlight it but there is a profound strategic reason not to do so there is in fact a resurgent russian political and military power on the world stage we see very clearly in the middle east we see it with china we see it in north korea and in fact the united states needs to work with russia not against russia in each of these critical parts of the world so for whatever personal considerations president trump has it is important strategically to keep our eye on the ball that the united states does in fact have to work with the reality of a resurgent russia it was good to get your insights into these subjects three you

know washington d.c. bureau thanks so much for your time i know the alleged election meddling isn't the only thing america. was evidently plenty to disagree on the munich security conference in germany. the war in syria as we just mentioned. from germany. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov took center stage at the munich security conference to accuse nato of a military buildup in eastern europe describing international relations as going through turmoil he reached out to the european union with. them credit we want to have a predictable and strong e.u. which will be irresponsible on the foreign scene but in remarks clearly aimed at the united states he attacked washington's policies on syria and iran that we cannot approach these issues from an even more dangerous standpoint and i mean the middle east conflict and try to resolve it through heightening the tensions between

sunni and shia it's highly dangerous. the president trumps national security adviser was quick to hit back at russia's role in syria public or kelson photos clearly show that assad's chemical weapons use is continuing it is time for all nations to hold the syrian regime ended sponsors accountable for their actions and support the efforts of the organization for the prohibition. of chemical weapons but mostest said syria and north korea were not the only rogue states he said iran was building its hizbollah militia into a large proxy army what iran is actually doing is applying the hezbollah model to the greater middle east in which they they want weak governments in power they want the arab world to be perpetually weak and if we governments in power that are

dependent on iran for support kept at bay by thousands of police demonstrators gathered in the pulling snow around the conference center they come every year to oppose nato and call for disarmament. but this year the demonstration has been different it's been mobbed by a large contingent of kurdish demonstrators protesting against the turkish incursion against the kurdish enclave in northern syria and. the turkish planes are making more an effort and there are lots of kids in there for and they are dying it's forbidden the british prime minister to reserve may began the day at the conference with a keynote speech calling for a special relationship with the european union on security to bragg's it so as we leave the e.u. and fortune new paltz russel's in the world the u.k. is just as committed to your security in the future as we have been in the past the sentiment and content of

a speech was well received by delegates but everyone is now waiting to see if an equally special relationship can be developed on economic ties post breaks it and just exactly what her vision really is david chase the al-jazeera eunuch. well inside syria and strikes have killed two children in a rebel held area of provinces according to activists who say nine other people were injured in the attack in the town of the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says there's been more strikes in other parts of the province but those didn't injure anyone. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including a serial killer a sentence for a crime that sparked protests across pakistan. also were in mexico where the pressure is on the government to raise the minimum wage which is less than five dollars a day. and this japanese superstar makes history at the winter olympics joe we'll

have that story in sport. students from the u.s. school in florida where seventeen people were shot dead on wednesday have been among those holding a somber rally to demand tighter gun control the man who's been charged with the murders is a former student of the school police say nicholas cruz brought the bolt the automatic weapon legally. it was i. i. i. i i. i i i. about an hour's drive away in miami people attending a gun show said firearms could not be blamed for what happened at the school the company in charge of the event

a florida gun shows expressed sympathy about the shooting spree displaying posters saying they meant no disrespect or insensitivity. these events that we have a florida gun shows are prescheduled years in advance and these venues are are you know reserved for the gun show in years in advance this was in my opinion not necessarily a gun problem but more a mental health problem. well it's headed south asian i were recorded barbara starr has hunted for death sentences to a man convicted of raping and murdering a six year old girl is anyone's ari's body was found in a rubbish dump after she'd been strangled to death sparked protests across the country as people accuse the government and police of incompetence in the us they're passable. 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 cars sure 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 antiterrorism 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 or better child protection or a more honest and a sort of. debate and reflection within society about the stature of it's 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 the job or. 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 zina 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 could happen leaven times if you sleep and. it was eleven bodies of young children did not stir the about the actions of ortiz. and only only because. the action. was just said. ali has fifteen days to appeal the verdict is in its parents are demanding his

execution be carried out in public at the same rubbish dump their daughter's body was found in theo's diab al-jazeera at least twenty people are being killed by three suicide bombers in northern nigeria where they blew themselves up out of fish market in conduit just outside of made a guru on friday night no one has claimed responsibility for the attack but the armed group boko haram has been active in the region now the us embassy in ethiopia says it strongly disagrees with the government's decision to impose a six month state of emergency during which protests will be banned the ruling party hopes the move will help quell the worst anti-government demonstrations in a quarter of a century which prompted the prime minister to resign on thursday how would our husband. 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 ban on port tests governing style and publications that incite violence you're going to value gives you the 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 movement jimmer the announcement follows the sudden resignation of prime minister high limit embezzling who had been in office since two thousand and twelve haile mariam said his departure as prime minister and chairman of the ruling if he appears people's revolution of democratic front coalition was to enable necessary reforms in government the. the been lost the most russians in ethiopia sluggers regions will neon i'm hot are interested in months with protesters calling for political and economic reforms and an end to state corruption. but

a ten month state of emergency end of last year but failed to stop the protests particularly by your peers you who think christina come to view the most searches as the only way to bring about meaningful change dozens of 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 parent complexity 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 its big prison into a democratic state opposition leaders say the year 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 one small group to ride as our fates of hundred million people the years of

unaccountability and atomisation of the country's politics of fear be a tipping point some say injustice repression and lack of mimic full democracy have instilled a sense of despondency if your peers a ruling coalition the e.p.a. of the ever is expected to meet within days to choose a successor. but the stakes are high and just sling for the premiership intense what about the coalition decides who will have a huge impact on how with your peers governed mohammed and al-jazeera. now thousands of people from an indigenous forest community in kenya or accusing the government of kicking them off their ancestral land they sang where people live in the western highlands as katherine sawyer reports say been targets of violence and threats from the kenyan forest service. this is ember boot forest in western kenya

it's part of a large ecosystem called the chairing on the heels forest one of the most important what are 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 home 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 banning chalk. 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 the sand where community traditionally the hunters gather us and they say ember book is that ancestral home they are keeping huge hundreds of lifestyle sheep katra sometimes even goats and goats are not allowed in the forest by little 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 is 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's 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 people's rights judges ruled they had their rights to leave in and help conserve another important water tower

the mile forest forced evictions are not a right or in polls are people even in the context of a cross official project this is what i i mean by human rights based correspondent protection something where families were compensated by the state in twenty thirteen to pull into really moved out but they now say the money was not enough to buy land police the town's as her family got nothing and social state puts and protects her cattle no matter the consequences catherine saw al-jazeera and book forest west and cannot. well but for out here on the al-jazeera news hour including war starvation and cholera epidemics now a new health crisis brings more misery to yemen. also seven years after the beginning of libya's revolution can the people's hopes ever be realized and it's

tough on the snow for some competitors at the rally of sweden. about stories. welcome back we'll look at the weather across the americas this time is seeing quite an active frontal system clearing the way southeast which bring in some colder air with it as we head through sunday we'll see some recovery in temperature for washington compared to say about five degrees on stuff they summed up to ten new york eight not looking too bad we've got some snowfall though across more central areas cause northern plains and into the rockies obviously some big negative temperatures there for parts of canada more snow developing across the west here in the course of monday dry conditions expected for los angeles and san francisco the islands of the caribbean are enjoying some really nice weather at the

moment showers very few and far between are not going to be entirely dry but only the bulk of the day you made up the sunshine twenty nine the high in kingston jamaica continuing that way as we head through monday obviously winds coming off the caribbean is along this coast that will see a few showers through central america but for the most part here too it's looking dry and fine so into south america we've seen some pretty heavy showers in parts of bolivia in recent days are still things receive some heavy downpours here brazil to certain southern areas realtor's neary seeing some flooding here but it's looking somewhat better still the risk of showers around further south it should be dry and fine in buenos aires with highs expected to reach thirty two degrees celsius. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption it's white season mudslides that are claiming most lives i don't remember even the wall when if i think one thousand one

hundred people died in two minutes people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if there's an all carroty fail to act the mountain will fall at this time on al-jazeera. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in. something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working round the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well.

welcome back you're watching out there is news hour i'm cell ramat a reminder of our top news stories this hour four israeli soldiers have been wounded two seriously and an explosion along the israeli border with gaza the israeli military claims have asked its responded with asteroids against a number of sites in the southern gaza strip. also russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has dismissed u.s. allegations of thirteen russian nationals run a secret operation to sway the twenty sixteen presidential election in donald trump's favor in response u.s. national security adviser master said the evidence of espionage is deniable. and a court in pakistan has handed four death sentences try man convicted of raping and murdering a six year old girl a killing that led to widespread national protests. now yemen is facing

a new health crisis after years of conflict already dealing with severe malnutrition and a cholera epidemic people are now dying from what's thought to be bird flu kathy lopez had reports it's exactly what yemen's already overloaded medical teams didn't want to hear a new outbreak of disease a growing number of people have died with symptoms similar to bird flu and doctors say dozens more could be infected. and there are subtle was when these patients arrived they had influenza symptoms like breathing difficulties and acute respiratory failure they also had a high fever. identifying the disease is challenging doctors are treating more patients with fewer resources standard supplies and testing kits have become a luxury. how the in these cases raise a red flag they match h one n one some dimiss like fever intensive coughing and he

thinks the ministry of health hasn't been able to confirm this since last year labs don't have supplies to test this. the country is already dealing with one of the worst ever outbreaks of cholera the international committee of the red cross says there are more than one million suspected cases and about eighty percent of yemen lacks proper access to food clean water and health care cases of bird flu would only add to the crisis if we add to this formula. preventable diseases and then we are we are facing an extremely difficult that's a straw for a problem in yemen it's a fight doctors deal with on a regular basis. yemen's three year war has made already dire conditions of disease and hunger even more difficult to combat we have more than twenty men women and children who die every day from preventable diseases why the why does that happen

because more than fifty percent of the health centers and hospitals and yemen today do not function anymore there are small finds of progress in january the u.n. allocated fifty million dollars to support yemen see monetary and response some ports have all been allowing for the delivery of food supplies and medicine aid the country's hospitals desperately need for many the help has arrived too late for others there is still some hope had to locus of the young and the desire. the body is a barber's opposition leader morgan trying growing has been brought home from south africa thousands of supporters were waiting outside the vote in the capital harare to the late leader on wednesday from colon cancer her would toss a move from zimbabwe's capital harare. when the plane carrying morgan tsvangirai landed hundreds of people were at the airport and shoving to the trying to get

a glimpse of the coffin some jumped the fence tried to get on to the tarmac and security told them to turn back then ran to the crowd a section of the air force 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 and so it's time for. days on sunday the the several church services across the country family and friends are going to take guy's house to pay their respects that on hand they are going through a period grabbing a big public gathering without regard to retain that read in ferrari where people are going to say they favor was going on sunday moments i'm going to. read here at his rural home village about two hundred and twenty kilometers from harare is very mixed with first white families and obviously want to say they plan to give him

a big send off and they say they want to say goodbye inside the term and they call it. a revolution and they say the face of the opposition. now has handed over a list of more than eight thousand names of g.'s to me and to begin repatriations it's part of a deal signed between the two countries last november when six and a half will be sent back in the first phase but haven't given the date almost seven hundred thousand have crossed into bangladesh since august fleeing a military crackdown. the philippine ambassador to kuwait says he's received almost six thousand complaints of abuse towards filipino workers in the last twelve months the body of a filipino maid found in a freezer in kuwait last week has highlighted the mistreatment of some domestic workers in the gulf present. and the further deployment of filipino workers to

kuwait triggering a diplomatic crisis. has the reaction from kuwait city there is praying for closure church services in kuwait spare a prayer for join a demo fellas maria khanna 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 that 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. the me i knew would like my sister the philippine government reacted strongly to joanna's death banding its citizens from coming to kuwait for work it later issued a clarification exempting those who already have jobs here about the initial announcement nevertheless centric waves through the country. for many filipinos a job in the gulf is a lifeline for extended families some experiencing the life and. they don't have

they don't they don't get that. good at math from us philippine authorities however say complaints of abuse compelled them to take action we have so called plane so five thousand some five thousand eight hundred more than five hundred complaints of abuse last year. including treatment sexual harassment and three. the philippine ban on allowing new workers to go to kuwait is a problem for them and you can now. 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. court there and some of my stuff was who won the game here this is a 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's statements have only complicated the situation at the moment. the ban was ordered for domestic reasons it's a clear there are also other reasons for such an escalation in joules but we are also not divulge. the congregation sings for their community to be delivered from the devil the devil of abuse and the devil of hasty government decisions sami's a down al-jazeera kuwait kosovo has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of the country's declaration of independence now the break from serbia came after years of conflict that claimed thousands of lives and to simmons' reports from the capital pristina this is a landmark event and it certainly concentrated political minds on the vexed question of if and when serbia will fully recognize kosovo paving its way to

membership of the european union and also opening the door eventually to kosovo joining the e.u. with the celebrations for this event there has been underlying sadness particularly over atrocities from the past and warm in particular in this village. it's a war he's grown used to over the years. still can't comprehend why he lived and his brother died none of the men had been fighters they were kosovar albanian and that was a death sentence for those buried here young good all. this happened within the reach of unarmed european observers but the serbs blocked their access bony and others had been rounded up in this yard. to shop or to talk to you know who as you can see first of all they threw grenades and

opened fire on the house people were screaming especially the kids who 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 ram a follow directions coming up here stopping to light a cigarette and then hearing shooting he ran in that direction 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 read 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 kosovo's 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 a canonic development to stifle every heist in our village as 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. and so is the celebrations continue the number of positives in this young country are numerous but they matched by the number of negatives that may be a four percent growth rate the highest in the region but unemployment for the use

stands at around sixty percent and heart of the population is under twenty five add to that concerns about corruption and a whole host of other issues and there was a lot of thought about the future because of a. military helicopter saying damage from the earthquake in southern mexico has crashed killing thirteen people on the ground including three children now the chopper was carrying mexico's interior minister and a state governor when it came down on top of two vans everyone on board survived. now pressure is growing on mexico's government to raise its minimum wage advocates have told latin america's human rights watchdog that the current rate of less than five dollars a day condemns millions to a life of poverty as john holmes reports live in mexico city. millionaires 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 because the sink 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 minutes can see 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 and i mean it in a bit over the oh 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. bits conspiring power began to nosedive more than a decade ago and has never recovered the mexican 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 wait is so low the strategy of the government. has been to montagne 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 is struggled to balance creating jobs with ensuring they pay enough for people to enjoy a decent life on. john hoeven. miscue city. or to north africa now where it's been seven years since the beginning of protests in libya which would turn into a revolution that brought down gadhafi in two thousand and eleven when it brought the change that so many people wanted for so long it also left behind a divided and broken nation with few signs of improvement and he time soon mahmoud of the what he reports of the capital tripoli. welcome so deep does not enjoy his business as he once did in the old days he says when the financial situation was a staple in libya he used to have fourteen workers in his shop but not now and the coppersmith hardly gets any older to make anything new or have the where and sometimes we work here for a whole day and end up with always nothing in our pockets many clients have not

come to pick up a pieces several months because of lack of money libyans have been through a lot over the past seven years two competing the bases of. dozens of rival groups and conflict and consequently a financial crisis but some here say they have not lost their faith in the revolution and are hoping for change while others say they're disappointed. since twenty eleven many libyans celebrated the anniversary of the seventeenth of february revolution but the country has a slipped into kira's zakaria took part in the twenty a live in protests he says he does not trust politicians. all the politicians have shown their true faces which they hid before the fall of the gadhafi regime they would rather take from the state than give to it. others take a different view noted dean says he travels from the united states to libya every

year to share the ok zhen with his friends and former neighbors he says things are better now than before the revolution before it was very difficult to come back to go to the airport today immigration you know and all that stuff now days and i commonly leave you know freely but the situation looks a bleak on the ground prices for everyday goods have risen the markets have taken a tumble and the libyan dinar has lost much of its value. the political division has led to a divide between the economic and security institutions the state has become so weak it's unable to control its own resources. are the backbone of libya's income and oil production dropped significantly between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen when four major oil ports were blockaded by militia

a commission already is proud his profession is part of libya's heritage but he fears if there is no solution to the country's economic crisis crafts like his might fade away. tripoli. all the al-jazeera news your olympic updates just one hundredth all the second means the difference between silver and gold the slopes of a story straight up. on counting the cost to i.m.f. chief christine like god about how the economic model is changing here in the middle east can ireland break regs it find out how the emerald isle is caught in the middle of a big round between the u.k. and the e.u. the year of the dog in china counting the cost at this time.

more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw him. but what were the last in your facts of this agreement there's a regional set to six because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people after that with the. sykes pico lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. the first.

thank. all of these sports news updates his. thanks very much well it has been a busy day of action at the winter olympics with nine medal events taking place in pyung chang it included a historic goal for japanese figure skater is zero can you share is up to four has . you zero one you haven't competed for three months because of an ankle injury but after record school in the short program another stunning performance in the free skate secured gold he's the first male figure skater to defend in the olympic title in sixty six yes great britain's lizzy yarnold became the first skeleton athlete to win back to back goats while poland's camille stauffer also retained his key jumping logical title. there was

a shock in the woman super g. still a disco one gold by one hundredth of a second on a pair of mckayla shipman's old species while lindsey vonn missed out on the medals . and a surprise in the slopestyle to sarah hopeful and won it with none of the world's top ten making the podium i didn't just wake up this morning and think that i was going to win the olympics so i know 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 and more history was made n.p.r. has merit be organ lead no way to victory in the women's four by five kilometer relate with thirteen medals she's not the joint most decorated winter olympians of all time she has a go for all dizzy. the organs gold took norway's total medal haul to twenty two but it's still germany who took the table at this halfway mark of the games with

nine gold the netherlands are in third with canada and the united states rounding out the top five while host south korea won their third medal of the games in speedskating to set them up to mine in the table the united states suffered a blow earlier as their men's ice hockey team lost a four nothing to the olympic athletes from russia and canada were also defeated for the first time in eighty is at an olympics going down three two in a shootout to the czech republic no players from the n.h.l. are competing in pyung 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 ski or german mad razzo who was 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 but for the forty three year old who only started skiing a year ago if filled a lifelong ambition to become an olympian and he perfectly in capsulated the olympic spirit i'm in love with cross-country skiing this board has given me so much joy it's given me this march and i am completely in love and they wanted to cross-country skiing and i just wish that i could ski into i'm about eighty years old. a day on from securing his return to the top of the world rankings roger federer has reached the final of the rotterdam world tennis tournament the swiss who believe the oldest number one in tennis history at thirty six when the rankings are released on monday defeated andrea seppi in straight sets six three seven six. title. and sunday. federal play world number five grigor dimitrov on bobo garion might be feeling a little guilty after his progress came when opponent funk was forced to retire

from the semifinal with a serious eye injury was attempting to return a powerful forehand from dimitroff when the ball deflected off his racket and hit him in the left eye. women's world the one caroline version akki has lost in the semifinals of the cattle open wozniak he twice served for the match against patrick fitz of a box christopher held her nerve to close out the three six seven six seven five win in just over two and a half hours since the czechs twelve straight match victory after winning the same piece title earlier this month she'll now play at being in the group in sunday's showpiece. of extended their own beat and run in spain's a league of they've gone thirty one matches without a loss in the top flight a mark that they've achieved only once and before back in two thousand and eleven it came as barcelona beat to nil with goals from luis suarez and jordi alba that win puts barcelona ten points clear of second place atletico who play on sunday. i

remember look ocker double has earned manchester united a place in the quarterfinals of the english f.a. cup baby heart is filled and we now face brighton who came through their match with coventry three one southampton also the west brom to make the last eight but swanzy face a third consecutive replay after being held to a goalless draw at sheffield wednesday is the reality i believe with a really we all have a new game and we have another opportunity to go to next stage again we are playing i said before and they will say i will continue to say to save in this competition will play well play underdogs in this competition not because you are weak weaker than the other the openings but because our main competition is the premier terry novell will take a lead of more than twenty two seconds into the final day of the rally of sweden on sunday. the even after that incredibly lucky escape he safely negotiated his way through saturday stages to sit ahead of craig green in the standings the heavy

conditions along the route proved too much for some of his rivals several cars had the snow banks and some needed help from the spectators to come back out on the tracks. and that's all sport for now more later. thanks for. having the right stay with us. i was always telling you how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name and body but out. west representatives kind of. teacher put it.

aside you were a member of the on the special meeting about dale and he said no. that's not a near me this is a colored. only. al-jazeera investigation. of silence this time. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government fail. from satellite technology to three d.

printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators aprile pelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems challenging systems and shaping new ones. creative thinkers shaping the continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. four israeli soldiers are injured by the explosion along the gaza border israel hits back with airstrikes. cell robin this is al jazeera these are all top stories mosque.