generally it's quite quiet here we have seen a cluster of storms around nicaragua that's still going to be with us on saturday still spreading a bit further south actually into costa rica and gradually trying to push its way towards the west as we head through sunday but not making a great deal of headway for north america we've got excessive flooding here thanks to this system here has ground to a halt and has just given us days of very heavy rain that system still with us as we head through the day on saturday but eventually on sunday it will begin to move away. there with sponsored by qatar and. this is zero. hello and welcome to the al-jazeera new sound live from our headquarters in doha with me it is

a problem coming out the next sixty minutes. we're working on it and we're not giving up. diplomatic bickering at the u.n. delays a cease fire agreement for syria at least five hundred people killed in rebel held eastern ghouta and just seven days. for attacks across afghanistan targets security forces and couples diplomatic area. a national disaster that's what my dear is president is one of the latest abduction of more than one hundred girls by boko haram. and fifty years since the poor people's campaign paying tribute to an important transition in america's civil rights movement i'm joined again with the sports way history has been made in pyung chang the czech republic's estella death becomes the first athlete to win gold in both skiing and snowboarding at a single lympics.

diplomats have expressed extreme frustration as the u.n. security council delayed a vote on a resolution which demands a ceasefire across syria a big sticking point is timing russia says an immediate cease fire is on realistic western diplomats in queues and the russians of stalling for the draft resolution calls for a thirty day truce which would allow a deliveries and medical evacuations of people who are critically ill and ill or diplomats minds are particularly focused on the rebel enclave of eastern guth and near damascus which is being pounded by syrian and russian forces at least five hundred people have died there in just seven days we'll pick up on the diplomatic wrangling shortly but first let's go to a solid been jarvey of our correspondent in gaza along the turkish syrian border and as we just mentioned asama just in the last few hours we have had that death toll rising once again to at least five hundred people now.

absolutely elizabeth that is the grim to all that keeps riding rising in eastern been hearing reports of attacks artillery shells and airstrikes in. other areas in. the shows and bombs of landed in residential neighborhoods adding to the misery of the people who have been many of whom have been. reduced to taking shelter in underground places. in very small spaces where the conditions that they're living in are inhumane and the message that they're trying to send out to the outside world is to allow for a small pause just a pause not just that they can go out and get medical help just to go out and get some food. they called for those left on another floor but in the dense dust and debris it's hard to see who's left. the upper floor is on fire.

the doctor tells me to open his eyes so he can wash medical workers in eastern are calling for urgent assistance because of the continuous heavy bombardment. incendiary bombs are now appearing in the night skies weapons intended to start large fires when they hit the ground people and bodies are pulled out from crevices between buildings the nearly four hundred thousand people in the besieged enclave are dying in their hundreds how to be what's taken place in eastern is a genocide and a crime against humanity in violation of international and humanitarian law and the perpetrators should be held liable accountable and cannot escape punishment under any circumstances russia is to blame for directly being involved in the military campaign and the. graphic videos we've chosen not to show you contain body parts scattered in the aftermath of the latest onslaught by the assad government and its

allies the opposition holds russia and iran responsible. when the dust settles the destruction is clear people have been forced to live in underground shelters. and message to the security council is for a cease fire or truce for days airstrikes and bombardments have forced families and children into underground shelters we can't do anything we can't even go outside to get food but when the outside looks like this there aren't many places people can go to. and activists have been saying that this is not a battle this is an annihilation people are being killed the area is home to four hundred thousand people and not all of them fight is the insinuation that it is all these are terrorists that the assad government says that it is fighting and what russia keeps insisting is just not true in the last few hours you heard from medics on the ground who've been telling us that at least twelve medical facilities

including hospitals are now completely out of service they cannot cater to the needs of the people and those remaining are in critical need of supplies and medical help which hasn't been allowed in since two thousand and thirteen thank you very much for that that's a some of the latest from gaza on tap thank you. the u.n. where diplomats are hoping to vote on a cease fire resolution on saturday james phase has more. old a frantic negotiations here at the united nations to try and get a security council resolution passed a great deal of the pressure on the russian ambassador vasoline who has problems with some of the language in the draft resolution drawn up by kuwait and sweden at one point the kuwaiti ambassador the president of the security council appeared with the other nonpermanent members of the so-called elected ten and he sounded upbeat we're still working on. the language on some of the but i could ask but we

are almost there and we would like you know as have been holding as a president of the city council to thank actually the eaton for their support to a lot of votes and hopefully you are so close to adopt this illusion today throughout the day votes were scheduled then perspire owned meetings were delayed towards the end of the day the us ambassador nikki haley tweeted unbelievable that russia is stalling a vote on a ceasefire allowing humanitarian access in syria how many more people will die before the security council agrees to take up this vote let's do this tonight the syrian people can't wait but in the end the security council decided to postpone its vote until saturday this was the comment from the swedish ambassador i'm trying to facilitate a meaningful outcome of this security council so i can only protect what we're

trying to do and that is to have a resolution adopted yesterday and now we have not achieved that i find that extremely frustrating given what we are faced with on the ground at the end of the day the russian ambassador was chatting with his syrian colleague bash i'll jaffrey it's still unclear whether any vote will actually take place and whether a vote will pass what is certain is that the syrian government bombardment for now will. continue well doctors and aid workers have been a student who have spoken about conditions there during an event organized by the turkish charity the international human rights and humanitarian relief foundation they are also known as i h h is that shaheen is a board member and he says the strikes have specifically targeted aid at medical facilities since this collision of the situation in the go to keep in touch with colleagues and if you don't see inside doctors and nurses and doctors who military

and actors inside the situation is the worst i cannot even imagine worse and it just the ten kilometers away from the center of damascus and the four hundred thousand people in the siege there for five years in one hundred kilometers and did there is no way to survive people in shelters and underground shelters in the basements and they cannot move they cannot hide themselves you cannot collect to the basic needs and the food and the others needs and the distribution getting worse and worse and mostly the health centers twenty two health centers seward to get it and more than what four hundred people killed and tarzan's wounded and there there is no chance of for them to get treatment. let's move on to other news now there have been four attacks in afghanistan part of out of fatah stormed the army outpost at bolivar look at the west killing at least twenty

soldiers security forces have also been targeted at lashkar gah and another attack took place in the air by the ali and i still has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in kabul tony berkeley has more from kabul. another bloody day in afghanistan three suicide bombings at a large scale taliban attack on an afghan army base the first attack was in kabul at eight thirty on saturday morning the target was intelligence building afghan intelligence building where people were killed and wounded this was carried out by islamic state they claim responsibility for the other attacks were by the taliban there is concern i think especially for the attack in kabul you may remember the large ambulance bomb that was set off in january killing more than one hundred people but after that the afghan president ashraf ghani said there was a new security strategy you've seen on the streets greater numbers of army and

police greater defenses but still with this in place islamic state able to strike so that's causing concern and of course the taliban is beefing up their attacks as well is preemptive perhaps for their annual spring offensive which they always launch but there are so many attacks going on now that basically want to fence it rolls into another the united nations has released a report showing that the majority of people killed all civilians last year ten thousand were killed and wounded and it's the weapon of choice now is more often suicide bombs and roadside explosions. the americans are here in force they've beefed up their numbers they're using more aerial power to try and defeat in particular islamic state but so far it doesn't seem to be working and the security strategy certainly has holes in it. now government buildings in the state have been targeted in a series of bombings three separate explosions went off in the state's capital said early on saturday injuring at least one policeman another three unexploded devices

were seized and three days ago a bomb killed two bank employees in the northeastern city of law show no one's claimed responsibility for the attacks. nigeria's president is deploying extra soldiers to search for more than one hundred girls kidnapped from their school in the town of dop sheikh mohammad the behati has called monday's abduction bible a national disaster parents of the missing girls plan to join the bring back our girls campaign which was launched after boko haram kidnapped more than two hundred seventy schoolgirls from the town of chibok in two thousand and fourteen many of them are still missing but interest has the latest from a budget or. there are questions as to whether or not the gun troops and the air operations will look at where they are your best state in particular is a vast area most of it desert area. and it's not far from the general public this school where these girls were taken in particular licenses and two

hundred kilometers away from initiated public and nobody is certain whether or not these goals have been moved out of nigeria to reggie or inside nigerian territory so the question is why will these troops start looking and it's been three or four days since they have been taken but all the same a lot of people are sort of. commending the government because it had knowledge of this problem early on unlike in the past when it took weeks before the government accepted the fact that these girls have been taken the government will be keen to avoid a repeat of chibok of two thousand and fourteen simply because it's campaign season starts very shortly and already it has gained momentum in this country the president will want to see this issue quickly resolved and how soon nobody knows at the moment but it's clear that the next few days will determine whether or not this government will succeed in bringing this goes back and people will be watching what it will do also regarding the remainder of the trouble because could not bible

quite on four years ago. there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including a former election aide to donald trump pleads guilty to charges of revealed in the investigation into alleged russian meddling and u.s. politics london for the surgeon stabbings where look at what's behind it. and norway won a record thirty eight one to win them all the details from pyong chang. and. to somalia now where relatives of those killed in bomb attacks of accusing government leaders of failing to protect all twenty explosions in the capital mogadishu killed thirty eight people on friday the administration is praising security forces for intercepting a vehicle packed with explosives but. the families collect the dead hours after the latest bomb and gun attacks in the capital it's four months since

the largest ever truck bomb attack in mogadishu killed hundreds of somalis the lack of protection continues to cause anger. that. the government failed to protect its people they should step down if they can't protect us from the slaughter of the constant explosions. one of the. fighters launched the attack at the start of friday prayers targeting somalia's intelligence headquarters and then the. gun battles continued near the presidential palace. as the night wore on the number of dead grows people searching for their loved ones and hospitals then at moogs many of the dead and injured on friday were civilians including people enjoying their weekend on the beach. we came from the beach me and my two brothers we were near the hotel when the explosion happened i survived but my two brothers died. fighters who are linked to

al qaida once controlled large areas of somalia but were forced out of major cities six years ago it wants to overthrow the un backed government and impose strict islamic law. frequently detonates car bombs and fights gun battles the worst attack killed five hundred twelve people in october at least fifteen hundred children well off and somali government leaders say they are doing what they can to keep people safe and say security forces prevented at least one bomb laden car from reaching its intended target the somali government is backed by twenty two thousand african union troops and u.s. drone strikes following criticism after october's attack the minister of defense was sacked along with the police commissioner and security bosses despite that mogadishu's in mourning again victoria gave him be. a journalist and said on so

they're living in fear of arrest some place for doing their jobs last month several reporters were detained while covering protests against government policies which resulted and further price increases many of those jailed have now been released bought there was concern about others still behind bars have a morgue and reports from catherine. ten days ago i might have been he was not sure whether she'd ever see her home or her children a game. the journalist was held for more than a month without charge or trial after she was arrested while filming protests against economic reforms. i was arrested on the sixteenth of january in the protest organized by the community's party we were at the place the protests were held with my colleague omar the security people came and beat us and directed us to go to a certain direction they surrounded me and said i'm melissa filming us filming us.

how bernie was one of eighty journalists politicians and activists released last week by the sudanese government. they were arrested during last month's protest against the government's decision to devalue the currency which led to price rises and inflation lawyer had and has and like others who were arrested says she had no part in the protests. but a good i'm even the one who had better say i was walking on the streets after the protests and they were beating a young man so i stepped in to help and told them to leave him they turned to me and started beating me they put me on a pickup truck and i was taken to detention. the prisoners were released after international pressure on sudan's government which hasn't said how many arrests were made political and rights groups say more than two hundred people were arrested during the protests over high prices in january and with only a few released rights groups including human rights watch say many are still being held in unknown locations with no access to lawyers or family visit in conditions

which may constitute and force appearances and with democrats of abuse. the government has pledged to release all prisoners but says protesters who are attempting an overthrow need to be careful. president's decision to release the prisoners is a sign of good will and we released all the students women and all the members of the party and we hope that contributes in developing the political environment in our country but anyone who tries to mess with the administrative institutes of the nation and tarnish it we will not let them get away with it. i might have been he says she's happy to be back with her family a game but worries about others who remain in detention and whether she'll be jailed again for doing her job he morgan al-jazeera. government has taken over a major container port from a us company that porters strategically located on the bobbin mom that straight between djibouti and yemen and gives access to shipping lanes linking europe asia

and africa it is one of several ports in the region run by the bar based d.p. world others are controlled by the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen of watch the u.a.e. is a member well the dispute between the us and regional concern as almost all imports destined for neighboring ethiopia moves through its use to transfer aid into yemen . well the government in djibouti says it's nationalized that are there because the contract with the u.a.e. was damaging its sovereignty and economic independence and blames an iraqi officials for refusing to settle a contractual dispute sources have told al jazeera that relations between the two countries sell it off to djibouti refused to allow the u.a.e. to establish a military base on its soil d.p. world one of thirty year contract to operate in two thousand and six it's accusing djibouti of illegally seizing the port the company is now launching a case in the international court of arbitration seeking damages. rights

to italy now where rallies are being held across the country ahead of next week's parliamentary elections that these are live pictures of anti-fascist demonstrators taking to the streets of rome the election campaign has divided the country and polarized opinion over immigration policies and neo-fascist sentiment is witnessing something of a revival the rightwing anti emigrants northern league has halted hand pain valley in the next hour. the united states has confirmed it will open its new embassy in jerusalem this may much earlier than expected or palestinians have condemned the announcement saying it's a provocation meanwhile turkey says moving the embassy on the seventieth anniversary of the founding of israel is extremely worrying roslyn jordan has more . news the u.s. embassy would move from tel aviv to jerusalem on may fourteenth king not in a communique but in a tweet from israel's intelligence minister i would like to congratulate donald

trump on his decision to transfer the u.s. embassy on israel's independence day no greater gift than that a short time later the u.s. president donald trump confirmed the news in the speech i was hit by more countries and more pressure and more people calling begging me don't do it don't do it don't do it. i said we have to do it it's the right thing to do it wasn't december trump announced he was moving the embassy to jerusalem. and he angered at those who said the u.s. was basically giving jerusalem to israel outside of final status talks with the palestinians the palestinian president mahmoud abbas was among those who condemned but at the u.n. security council this week it was clear abbas had moved on he told him the era of the u.s. as an honest broker is over and that it's time to try something new and the art of

grammar we call for the convening of an international peace conference by mid two thousand and nineteen based on international law and relevant un resolutions with broad international participation including the two concerned parties and regional and international stakeholders a u.s. based analyst called the move in date very bad foreign policy rather than just giving jerusalem away to the israelis what he could have done and said we will acknowledge jerusalem as the capital of israel if you dismantle all the illegal settlements and so what he found now it seems given away very big valuable check and essentially gotten nothing in return the ambassador david friedman and a few aides will join current consulate staff at their office in jerusalem a new building won't be built for several years there's no denying the embassy move will affect any and all peace talks going forward roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington now most of about a good thing is the president of the palestinian national initiative and he says

it's time for tangible action against the moves to recognize generous and i miss israel's capital. the hesitation of the palestinian authority should be finished and i think what mr. should do now is design that one to two organizations of the united nations that mr graham does not want us to join including the organization of intellectual property including the world health organization we should challenge them and the starburst also should do his best to get and clear palestinian unity as soon as possible because mr trump feels that we are weak because we are divided and we should immediately deal with this issue of division and create unity as soon as possible so that i think the palestinian liberation organization and the p.a. should immediately implement what they promised which out of that is allusions of the security council resolutions of the central council of the p.l.o. including eliminating and stopping all forms of security coordination with israel

we should not we should not look passive we should not look weak we should respond to these aggressive and provocative acts by president. ellen the u.s. special counsel robert muller who is investigating alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election has revealed the latest charges against former trump a whole lot of force he's accused of secretly paying unnamed european politicians in two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen to lobby for ukraine to ban government which is probably the most court paper say manifold also why the politicians more than two million euros meanwhile another former top campaign staffer has changed his plea to guilty but admission of conspiracy and lying to f.b.i. investigators means he's willing to cooperate and testify against others patty culhane reports. it's happened again another member of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign walks into the courthouse and pleads guilty to

a serious felony conspiring against the united states. and line two investigators gates isn't a household name but it's believed he played an important role in the campaign and inauguration often seen right next to his boss like here preparing for his party's acceptance speech gates was the former deputy campaign manager for trump and a longtime business partner of campaign chairman paul man of fort gates was indicted with manna for it last october for money laundering later face charges of bank fraud and tax evasion both men originally pled not guilty gates joined the term campaign in june of two thousand and sixteen and stayed on after man a fort was fired this will put more pressure on man afford to follow suit and flip giving evidence on people higher up in the campaign he was in that critical meeting between donald trump jr jared cushion or and the russian lawyer linked to the kremlin this is now the third trump campaign official to come to this courthouse

and plead guilty with that there's been a lot more talking conservative circles that president donald trump should simply pardon everyone involved under the constitution he can do that you can pardon pretty much anybody except himself it would be politically risky but there's another problem the special counsel's been working with states' attorneys and when it comes to stay crimes well there's literally nothing the president can do to interfere so far nineteen people have been indicted in connection with the investigation into possible russian collusion have flipped make it likely that more rests are coming and making it harder to say there's nothing here it discredits more and more the claim that this is just fake news there's nothing there there's nothing there why are people pleading guilty they usually do that in order for prosecutors to get people more powerful in this case closer to the president what's not know just how high this will go if it's possible it could lead to the president himself. al-jazeera washington. now puerto rico has been visiting

mainland u.s. looking for financial support for the island. but many portion we can see that it will be big business and not the residence that benefit from very building she have a explains. ricco there rosales as investors who take advantage of puerto rico's opportunities. and enjoy. the benefits of what. the government plans to privatize put a rico's electricity grid their house shareholders will make a profit even as they invest in a reliable electricity source for all hasn't been explained put a rekers history is cautionary in the ninety's governor rosales further privatized the water system when he was governor a failure that polluted the environment and raised prices authorities eventually reap took control having paid to french multinational companies hundreds of millions of dollars if the whole idea that their public utilities are meant man is

because they're public and you just sell them off and then everything is going to be great for everyone even though there's this clear example they privatized water services and things just got a lot of wires so why do you think it's not mentioned because all the people and involved in this privatization process and the banks and the advisors they all get paid out of the fees there is a suspicion that what's being attempted is a classic case of what's known as disaster capitalism the use of the of a natural disaster to push through the privatization of essential services something wall street always wants but can't always get you the democratic popular opposition. to new orleans is cited as an example public housing was sold off to private developers who coverage of the land and schools were privatized resulting in a decline in educational performance amid a rise in private profits and governor a say has already said he intends to privatise put

a rico schools and millions of dollars of our public that are not invested in our school are not invested in our health one want it and then by this financial institution alternatives to the neo liberal street. put a rico's reconstruction has been offered as i look at the board proposal it is really putting an ambiguous priority one how much can we squeeze out of the island. and i think that's morally wrong nobel economic laureate joseph stiglitz for example says austerity and privatization will make matters worse growth will only be achieved through government investment but that's made little dent in a narrative of an inevitably privatized future for puerto rico shepparton see washington. it's time for the weather now here steph it's raining outside elizabeth you're excited color the labor for a long time not quite so exciting though is the rain across the u.s.

where it's been raining for quite some time in fact this front here has stalled for it stayed more or less where it has been over the past few days and that's causes quite a few problems because the heavy rain has fallen on snow and that snow has melted and now we've got quite a few problems these pictures are from indiana showing the flooding that we've got there but it's not only a need in indiana we've also got plenty of flooding across this whole stretch of the u.s. it also extends up into the for them parts of canada as well now there's good news because it looks like that front is finally beginning to move so it's still with us at the moment still giving a sim very heavy outbreaks of rain then gradually if we head through the next twenty four to forty eight hours it begins to sink its way down towards the southeast now ahead of it is still very very warm we're looking at twenty eight in miami twenty there in washington d.c. but as that front flips through it does get an awful lot fresher so there's that weather system then pushing its way slowly towards the southeast and behind it not

as warm as it has been washington is the maximum this time just getting to thirteen and we should be on the back end of that system so a good deal of cloud maybe a few light outbreaks of rain but really the worst is over instead the wetter weather well that's just edging a little bit further down towards the southeast and there it is over atlanta nineteen degrees and still rather wet so then as we head through the day on monday them for many of us it's fine and dry plenty of dry weather chicago there around ten degrees but there is another weather feature that's beginning to age in from the pacific that's giving us a lot of snow and we'll see the edge eastwards over the next few days and bring yet more rain and maybe even some more flooding elizabeth. thank you very much stef still ahead on the news hour we have reaction from asia after the u.s. imposed this month sanctions on north korea and to fly the flag or not russian athletes away if they face off the two failed drug tests that the one to end them picks. for the chosen sport.

what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion isn't what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level right to publish it. to be offensive or provoke that's about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. discover a willful would winning programming from the world. the demolition challenge your perceptions if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better than first. documentary debate and discussion this country that was once the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point.

good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories hundreds of thousands of people trapped in a rebel held. captive of being bombed for the seventh day as diplomats at the u.n. negotiate a cease fire proposal at least five hundred people have been killed in eastern over the past seven days. the rain for attacks across of gonna stand with at least twenty soldiers killed in the west and two other attacks targeted its soldiers and southern helmand province meanwhile in kabul a suicide bomber blew himself up in the diplomatic area. the u.s.

has confirmed it will open its new embassy in jerusalem this may much earlier than expected palestinians have condemned the announcement saying it's a provocation. u.s. president says washington is imposing its largest ever set of sanctions on north korea to isolate and put pressure to give up its nuclear program or the measures specifically target maritime activity sixteen north korean shipping companies have been sanctioned along with several based in hong kong china and taiwan twenty eight ships on the list mostly north korean two from panama one from the camorra and another from tanzania and one individual a toddler niece passport holder has also been sanctioned the vehicle pollen has more from hong kong. in order to effectively and for the latest you upload i know would have to be fully on board beijing is north korea's closest ally and biggest trading partner and it's sort of having the most clout when it comes to

pyongyang. since kim jong un came to power in two thousand and eleven relations have somewhat fower particularly refusal to attend. talks hosted by. china has taken a tough stance against kim jong un's regime and cooperated with previous united nations sanctions including a blockade on the oil and fuel which would have had a great impact on north korea in fact latest data from china's custom show trade has dropped fifty two percent from a year earlier indicating that china has complied with the u.n. sanctions imposed over the past few months what's interesting though is trying to clamp down on exchanges that pyongyang hong kong has become a major source of problems for north korea the u.s. has called on the territory to tighten regulations and next week a new set of rules will come into place in hong kong to close those loopholes and shipping and other possible transfers but all eyes have been on the olympic venue.

and over the past few weeks the area has historically been under developed but an influx of investment full south korea's first went to games change that natasha going to reports from providence on whether the money will keep flowing the mountains the sea and the forests of gang one province have inspired artists for centuries but the korean war divided the picturesque region and drove away investment after spending an estimated thirteen billion dollars on the so-called peace olympics as well as renew dialogue between the north and south people wonder if the tourist dollars will keep coming long after the athletes pack up their skis and ice skates. much less developed than i thought i don't think there would be much economic benefit after the olympics. it was good the north koreans came and so hell developed it would be good for unification. change

huge you love the bustle the expense and the smog of seoul six years ago to invest in her hometown the native open this bakery with her brother she says the winter games have boosted profits and she's going to expand because the future looks promising. this is special for us john has become known throughout the world and it was a boost for a bakery south koreans hope they can benefit from the costly infrastructure projects to continue hosting sporting events something other olympic host cities have found difficult to do even so some of the stadiums will be demolished because they're too expensive to maintain a gov chain moon soon says even with the new hotels a high speed train line and a casino the most important benefit for gang one is the prospect of peace with

north korea. we hope the peaceful atmosphere will continue expand and we can tackle the nuclear issue it's our role to provide a good atmosphere and for this sports and cultural exchanges are key. the hope is the picture seen on television and social media feeds during pyongyang twenty eighteen will captivate prospective tourists in the way it has artists and they'll come to experience the natural beauty first hand not going to aim al-jazeera gang one province south korea. construction has the down on the afghan section of a major gas pipeline linking several countries and asia the project is backed by the us box talent and even the taliban with hopes that transit phase will help a lot of towns economy and the us five reports. there isn't much to cheer about in afghanistan these days but on friday there was an exception construction began on

a pipeline project to carry natural gas from turkmenistan through the country to india and pakistan workers welded the first link of pipe crossing the border between turkmenistan and afghanistan's goes our district near herat a ten billion dollars project will bring jobs and income but this project brings electricity gas work and life it brings light to the dark homes in afghanistan pakistan and india and also brings energy to each of our investors. this ceremony was watched by turkmenistan's president the prime minister of pakistan and india's minister for external affairs who joined by video link a project known as toppy the initials of the four countries is being described as a new page in regional cooperation and hopes for a better future. after a long time afghanistan is taking part in a regional project which will provide jobs for people i'm hoping that this regional cooperation will result in closer relations between the countries and that it will

help afghanistan become a stable but i want but i'm not sure what the tapi project brings a message of peace so it will help to bring peace in our country and also in the wider region the tension between the countries in the region will reduce the pipeline will run one thousand eight hundred fourteen kilometers and carry thirty three billion cubic meters of natural gas each year it's expected to be completed by january two thousand and twenty security in herat was tight for the ceremony but the taliban has given its support for the pipeline reversing an earlier stand observers say this is probably because of its close ties with pakistan which will take forty percent of the gas and make a profit of twenty five percent on the sale with the security fears soften the main focus now is attracting the investors to raise the capital to complete the project but for now everyone seems to be happy. i'll just hear. a lebanese man has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the death of a filipino maid and kuwait joana de matha of his body was found in

a freezer more than a year after she was reported missing police arrested her former employer. in lebanon his wife was suspect as missing the muffler says death prompted the philippine government to ban new deployments of workers to kuwait and to repatriate hundreds of its nationals from there. to the u.k. now where knife crime by more than a fifth last year with a third of recorded offenses taking place in london and the majority of those killed in the capital black teenagers are u.k. correspondent bobby philips reports though father should have to visit the site of their son's murder but this is michael's fate he doesn't know who stabbed to death his boy michael jr in a south london park the attack seems to be random for months on the police appealed for information. is being tight lipped we're facing. wishes. there's. something

they're going to be labelled as being made for. just another london knife crime this robbery earlier this month on camera but no one will tell the police who this is the epidemic hundreds of knife crimes every week these some of the weapons used driven say the police by territorial gangs drugs and in london there's an ethnic dynamic i recognise that there's a disproportionate number of young black males that are getting stomped and unfortunately being killed the gangs don't necessarily follow racial groups in fact some of them come in very multicultural but as a rule at the moment we're finding the biggest threat to a young black male is indeed a young black male. his mother tries to explain what's gone wrong no investments for the young. community centers being closed down. no

emotional support for our young people it affects their mental health depression anxiety stress to. this project helps fill the void left by cuts in social spending by the government the mare of london city car is not responsible for those cuts but as a high profile politician in the capital he's feeling the political heat of the knife crime crisis at a time when the demobbed of policing is going up the supply of police and because of government cuts is going down his opponents say his policies are incoherent he's too slow to spend the money he does have. this week he sent a message to young londoners who is in london even realize london evening life london needs me alive so i don't. it's too late for my heart stabbed to death at a north london party attended by hundreds last summer the police who have very few

ethnic somali officers are again struggling for information this community is disproportionately affected but a mother's despair well that's universal i love my son he. is a mummy boy he's good boy never forget. barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. european council president has one in the u.k. that its approach to the next stage of brecht's that negotiations is based on pure illusion speaking at a summit in brussels he said britain was still trying to cherry pick its future relationship with a blog that follows reports that british foreign minister tourism is divided cabinet has finally reached a common position reports suggest that senior ministers are backing a plan to accept some e.u. regulation after leaving the blog donald tusk has dismissed that plan. to brazil now with thousands of soldiers in rio de janeiro are taking control of the

west side of the city as part of a why the security operation or president michel tomorrow ordered the military takeover in response to a recent increase in violent crime a quarter say the move isn't going to change the underlying issues. over ports. is alone and still in shock she's wondering how her beloved son could have been shot by army soldiers not in a faraway battlefield but right neighborhood where they live. there is a family man hard worker who stays away from any trouble but two years ago when driving back home with friends after watching a football match there was shot by army soldiers at a checkpoint at the entrance of the shanty town he lives with his family. he was shot twice with a machine gun and he was taken to the hospital in a military tank. the military was in the middle of a sixteen month long operation troops backed up by the police stationed in his

neighborhood around the clock to crack down on crime and drug gangs the shooting of the there was a mistake and it cost him dearly he is now confined to a wheelchair still too scared to want to speak on camera or even be filmed eventually the military occupation of the neighborhood ended but now the troops are coming back with even more power than before that is president michel tamar ordered the military this week to take complete control over policing in rio in an attempt to bring back law and order after a surge in violence there are sixteen million people that live in the state of rio de janeiro and the security for all of them now rests squarely with soldiers from the army the last time the military played such a prominent world was over thirty years ago the time of the military dictatorship the government says now is the time to get the army back on the streets because they say here in rio the police have failed. but lawyers credo echoes the

sentiments of many here says that the hundreds of millions to be spent on really tries in rio would be better channeled into dealing with the root causes of the city's problems. so we need education better health jobs better planning there's no miracle that the military can solve but the army for sure plans to go back to my day where victor was shot and still lives and that leaves his mother furious she doesn't want them to set aside that and. when the military say it's an order i ask her who it's not for us who are poor black and live in slums it's for those who live in the richest area of rio de janeiro. for a mother still hurting for a son left crippled for life by the very forces that were meant to protect him. gabriel's on al-jazeera rio de janeiro. now the sports news still ahead on the news

alan tiger is back in the hunt on the p.g.a. tour for the first time in more than two hears these health coming up with joe. when the news breaks when people need to be heard in the stock market good to me that's. my brain and this story needs to be turned

largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teens on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. and the live news on air and online. in the. lead. in the. it is time for sport now his job elizabeth thank you and still a debt guy has written herself into the olympics history books a week on from her surprise victory in the skiing super g.

on saturday she claimed another gold in snowboarding parallel giant slalom she's the first athlete ever to win gold in both sports at a winter games the czech had never earned a podium finish in skiing until her super g. trials but she is the reigning world champion in parallel giant slalom snowboarding and she beat germany's selena york by point for six seconds to secure the olympic title the twenty two year old ending her games as an unprecedented double champion . meanwhile the men's parallel giant slalom was won by switzerland's neven gomery knee south korea's leasing hoto silver the host nation's first medal on snow. began snowboarding has won lots of fans on its olympic debut including donald trump's daughter ivanka she was in the crowd to see kyle mack win a silver for the united states but it was the best in to town of canada who bought the gold. in norway have broken the record for most medals won at the winter

olympics by any nation a bronze in the alpine team competition took their tally to thirty eight one more than the united states won at the vancouver games in twenty ten and switzerland be tossed to gold in the event which sees mixed teams of four skiis compete in head to head slalom races is the first time it's been held at a lympics. the usa rocked sweden in the men's curling final they scored five in the eighth end to clinch a ten seven victory is their first ever a limb pick men's curling gold finland won its first gold of these games in the men's cross-country fifty kilometer mass start evo new skin and held off two russian competitors to win. in speedskating it was gold for japan in the ladies' mass start on saturday none of kagi was first across the line with the host nations kimbo taking silver bronze went to irene shelton from the netherlands. and the host

nation was given something to cheer for later in the day as least young hoon won the men's mass start gold medal belgians bartz wings was second or bronze went to for way of the netherlands now here's how the medal table is looking on the been ultimate day norway still top with thirteen goals and that record tally of thirty eight germany in second also have thirteen with canada sitting in third on eleven meanwhile the international him to committee have delayed a decision on whether or not to allow russian athletes to march with their country's flag in sunday's closing ceremony they've competed as a limp athletes from russia in pyongyang and carried in the olympic flag in the opening ceremony that's after russia was banned from sending in official team because of massive doping scandal two russian athletes have failed drug tests at these games complicating the decision allowing them to march with their country's flag would be readmitting russia into the olympic family. well there you go

of course we assure them that these violations are not of a systemic nature as you all the well and i hope our i.o.c. colleagues understand this also that this is more the result of negligence than malice. many russian athletes have won medals at these olympic games but of course we think our whole delegation of the athletes the coaches consider that the best reward would be the return of the national flag and the reinstatement of the olympic committee now the n.h.l. is absence from the olympics has no doubt helped the las vegas golden knights do so well in their debut season on friday they beat the vancouver canucks six to three william colson school two goals and bradley smith had three assists vegas improving to twenty four five in two at home this season they've now we have one point ahead of eastern conference leading tampa bay for most points in the n.h.l. with eighty seven. the leaders in spain barcelona are back in the league action later on they host fellow catalans euro hoping to extend their advantage which

currently sees them six seven points ahead of athletic arbitrated third place real madrid will play all of us and now it's taken him too and a half years and three back surgeries but tiger woods is finally back in the hunt at a p.g.a. tournament the fourteen time major champion is just four strokes behind leaders luke list and jamie love mark the half way stage of the honda classic in florida would shot and one of the past seventy one in windy conditions on friday. i'm looking right there. were i can i can win and win a golf tournament and you know for back on this golf course with thirty six holes ago i'm in a body can win this golf term and right now it's wide open and that is very useful for now more later elizabeth thank you very much joe well finally this bulletin a museum in washington has dedicated an exhibition to dr martin luther king's poor people's campaign from half a century ago the demonic. and human votes for poor americans off diverse

backgrounds it culminated in the one nine hundred sixty eight occupation of washington's national mall known as resurrection sunday well al-jazeera spoke for the national museum of african-american history curator and brought there were thirty five million people who were living in poverty with another thirty million people living just above the poverty able to twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the poor people's campaign actually begins with convening of one hundred leaders from across the country representing poor communities from across the country they come to meet with federal agencies and legislators on may second nineteen sixty eight the campaign officially launches every single day people would go out in they would protest at different federal agencies and that was really part of the responsibility and the commitment they made when they came to resurrect the city that they would stay in washington they would live in resurrection city until they could bring about some sort of positive change the poor people's campaign was

a multiethnic movement it marks a really important transition in the civil rights movement and that civil rights was transforming itself into this multi ethnic multi racial multicultural human rights crusade we see more multi-racial kinds of issues like the native american cultural heritage and preservation issues we also see issues related to poor whites and appalachians which is a really important considering what was happening in appalachian to job markets and the economy we saw issues related to women and women power in fact the poor people's campaign opened on may twelfth with the public rally led by carette a stocking it was called the mother's day rally and part of her speech was you know women scholars where she talks about the important role that women would play and changing america and to a great society at the heart of the similarities are really between the poor people's campaign. the symbol and this example of what the american democracy is

supposed to be about. and that's it for the. thank you very much for watching. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption and it's wet season months lives that are claiming my strides i don't remember even the wall when if i think one day in one thousand wound up would dive into means people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if there is an author already failed to act the mountain will fall at this time on al-jazeera. i would have been under the ada. they must go to. a lot of illness and caught up.

on the nineteenth of december twenty sixth. to say he was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression in egypt journalism is not a crime at this time on al-jazeera. from the hills of northern greece the places in turkey where refugees hideouts before trying to cross easy to see the crossing countries means crossing the intimidating everard's river more and more refugees are attempting this route even though they know how dangerous it is even outside the risk of drowning or dying of cold in these huge empty spaces any number of refugees have told us that been threatened and forcibly turned around by greek police acting in coordination with from texas the european union for the agency. this eighteen year old syrian was in the smugglers boats with his younger sister. the police came up to us in that boat they told us you can't cross they made us

turn around the police who previously given us access to their fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying that they turn any refugees around think claim their priority is human dignity. but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking international. we're working on it and we're not giving up. diplomatic but at the u.n. delays a ceasefire agreement for syria at least five hundred people killed in an instant and just seven days.