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approves a cease fire. it demands any parties cease hostilities without delay that means right now immediately. also ahead as they fled violence and male mon-el six months on these three hundred refugees tell us there's still no end in sight to the suffering. protesters tried and failed to block controversial former north korean gentleman from attending the winter olympics there are many in south korea. and there'll be no russian flag at that closing ceremony because of two failed drug tests but for russia's athletes there lympics ends on a golden doubt in the men's i think the final will have all the sports news from the twenty eighteen games. and one of the just movie star three day dies suddenly the age of the.

syrian dolman troops have launched a new ground and air offensive in the rebel held on plate of eastern ghouta just hours after the u.n. security council agreed to demand a cease fire a pro-government video show syrian forces move into words the area on the outskirts of damascus it's been on the heavy bombardment by the government and its allies including russia that these five hundred people were killed there just in the past week well let's get a better idea of the area we're talking about used and with it encompasses the eastern suburbs of damascus rebel could reach the center of the city so a victory there is a big government priority to rebel groups hostile to each other control different sections of the enclave along with several smaller groups or government forces have tried to enter by using the homes to damascus highway and also at. let's go

straight now to our correspondent osama bin job and he's live for us in the turkish city of god the on top near the border with syria and what's the latest you're hearing the sama about the ground offensive. attacks have continued both from the air and on the ground multiple fronts are activated as the government has finally been launched its ground offensive to try and take as many areas it's possible from government fighters as the united nations security council agreed that it will be there will be a thirty day ceasefire across syria including eastern you heard last night from a number of fighters to various groups on the ground in eastern buthe saying that they would abide by the cease fire but they reserve the right to self-defense and they will respond to any aggression in the last few hours we've heard from various fronts that these government forces have been converging the tenth brigade the fourth brigade the tiger forces from multiple fronts trying to first bombard these

areas where these different lines. of the rebel fighting and then moving so just close to one group. says that they have been able to capture a number of soldiers and killed a number of soldiers as they try to make their way inside the city. plave of eastern huta there also being reports of attacks on civilians at least three people have been killed since this morning including one woman and a sama it was already an incredibly diet humanitarian situation as of mentioned at least five hundred civilians killed in the past week so what is this ground offensive going to mean then for the people in the east and can pass. for the people in easton who to have been rejecting this idea that the syrian government is fighting terrorism. the number of a list suffices this is the affiliate of ranges from somewhere between two hundred to three hundred fighters in

the non-playing that's home to four hundred thousand people and the situation has been extremely desperate and to talk more about that we have had this management turkey mounted you have seen the american medical society doctor the pill and doctor to do can you tell us about the situation on the down both in terms of demand it seems in aid has been as the medical emergency. four hundred thousand people have been which have been living under siege since over five years now is completely sure of many services. but the shortage of supplies because this is easy to see just one challenge why are they at the most challenging is disagree that doctors targeted him and hit him for infrastructure in this area and a boss six days we lost forty percent of our capacity to respond to the injuries and to the people in need of medical services in this area this q teams cannot move from a place of a place because of the destruction of the buildings because of the continuous

attacks on civilians and that a structure actually this offensive targeted mainly the civilians and the citizens which is a provided for the city libyans to push them to flee or to serve and just last was helpless of thought to the ground offensive started in the frontlines while the past six days were completely against civilians also tell us about the humanitarian situation for people you say civilians are being targeted how are they coping when the airstrikes and challenge continues to be hidden reports that there now many of people are living in shelters underground. this is a big community of four hundred thousand people every said mrs need to brigham and women's one to deliver baby there are people with chronic diseases. children wanted vaccination all of this is obscene now that the first priority is to respond to the injuries just life saving operation people who are living under a ship in shelters under the ground now live without the basic needs like water.

many of those shelters are not prepared there is no sanitation and food some of them live for forty eight hours to lose good teams could be used and to deliver some food for them and there is no access to bring them to another another place many patients who are vive to the hospitals where that would be what the big injuries will need big obliteration and we only thing that we can provide all of them is only lifesaving aid they don't have a home to walk to the back to one there's no space there's no physical space for those people who lost their homes now the world. places to live the united nations security council has agreed to this cease fire that many rebels have agreed to but there is a cap yet that the government and other forces operating on the ground will continue their attacks. against isis and other groups that the united nations calls terrorists do you think or do you foresee peace in east and with us in hours or

days ahead actually we don't have high hopes from the syrians for the concert was a douche and this is the best this is not the first concert as a new show in which cool for immediate aid inside the room which calls for media in different places and in studio experiences from the via ceasefire in syria don't give us high expectation it's for fish and when this fishing what's what they involve there is a mission to save the ceasefire will stop as soon as possible one is this possible we don't know we don't we don't know when this will start and and then here this is a big number of population and it won't be a solution that removing them one or two convoys and one be the solution that we evacuated one thousand or two thousand of them to be. set it up a little this is a big community this is much bigger than many cities around the ward and then this needed solution on the lake which was considered a long term of course for those people to be protected thank you very much ahead

there you have it the situation on the ground seems to be deteriorating and not improving after the united nations security council resolution more attacks on civilian areas more for efforts by the government to try and retake more areas and the suffering of the people continues aid workers who live we've been speaking to in the united nations say they're ready to provide aid they just need to know and figure out how asama thank you very much for that solid and java joining us live from. well the u.n. security council vote followed days of tough negotiations to get russia on board from the united nations on diplomatic editor james bass reports. for a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria he got an agreement with the russians now. today we're going to see if russia has a conscience the russian ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart who's government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern even as the

negotiations drag gone diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one that comes into force without delay it meant they could vote. it was unanimous but they didn't seem to be much unity in the chamber. every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering group getting to a vote became a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assad's fighter jets continued to fall in the three days it took us to adopt this resolution how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling why we

negotiated this so long and that is illusion that the wanted to make sure that it is not used as a pretext for military action because we had some trouble so what in what ng. government's on that in the recent days any good in today some of the variability cause these negotiations were extremely hard getting a ceasefire across syria will be even harder can they get a stop to the bombardment in eastern guta there is an exemption in the resolution allowing continued military action against al qaida and eisel and some diplomats fear that the syrian government will assert that those fighting in eastern guta have links with those groups james pays out his era at the united nations. well let's get more on this now we're joined by sometime barakat director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute and

a professor at the university of york always good to get your thoughts thank you for taking the time to speak with that so we have been waiting for days now for this resolution to be passed to the u.n. security council and the moment it's passed we see a ground offensive in the east and go to the opposite of what we should be saying. was this always the syrian government's plan or there's been talks about that this resolution for almost two weeks it was a reading on kuwait first put forward it was a vision for a ceasefire and what they really were after is a humanitarian pause and not a sort of cease fire that leads to a peace deal and they put it first forward in the tenth of february and it's been debated ever since the last three days in terms of negotiations in the security council which resulted with the text that we have in front of us now it is almost common that when you have this kind of positions which does not give you

a specific start date or time that all parties on the ground will try and gain as much we know as possible they're trying to. gain more ground as they push forward because they anticipate that at some stage the resolution will come into into action but so far i think this phase of the coming few hours will see all parties trying to push forward the rebels cannot withstand what the syrian government and russia the syrian government allies are doing and instant go into do they need to surrender given the cost to civilian lives that we've seen in the last week not just the last week but you know from for many months now but especially in the last week or are they not going to do that because it's going to result in certain population transfer for them i mean they've been under siege for the last seven years in eastern water and in it live. and we should also remember that back in september two thousand and sixteen. some of those fighters were been either born

before that they were in hams and in homes now all of them have been displaced and the believe back you waited stage after stage where they ended up today i think they have no other way out is going to be very very difficult for them to decide to give up or to evacuate to see it live. and the only way. this should work could work is for them to accept a humanitarian ceasefire allow for for assistance to come in hopefully the syrians will commit to that and it's really all in the hands of the russians if the russians decide that they want this to work they will make it work they control the skies they have they have usually bridge over the russian the syrian government and it's really up to the russians now to make sure that this humanitarian pose works and from then on words maybe some further negotiations will be required or at least about of that thank you as always for your time we appreciate it thank you thank

you very much. we're going to move on to other news now and protesters have failed to stop a controversial former north korean general from crossing into south korea to attend a cousin ceremony of the child went to and then pigs well kemi young children has just held talks with the south korean president when jay and the head of the seventy saul had to temporarily take off a blacklist to allow the visit they accuse him of being behind the attacks in two thousand and ten that killed fifteen people our correspondents to toss a good name is joining us live from ground zero for more on this now hugely controversial figure came young natasha do those protesters represent the general mood to words towards them in the country. you know there are a contingent of south korean society elizabeth there were protesters at the border bridge and there are protesters at the olympic stadium and reporters asking very uncomfortable questions as the general arrived during this delegation and the

general feeling with this delegation is definitely very different than the one led by kim jong un sr during the opening ceremony this one has attracted a lot of controversy and that is because the man leading it general kim sure is a hard liner he was believed or he was rather in charge of military intelligence for north korea and believed to have been waging attacks against south koreans most notably the sinking of a warship south korean warship in two thousand and ten that killed forty six sailors now he refused to answer questions by reporters about that warship sinking today but north korea in the past has denied involvement president mungy in has asked the public to look toward the future to see how engagement with north korea is a good step toward improving intercooler relations and establishing peace on the peninsula

now days after the united states announced its largest package of sanctions against north korea we are now hearing from the north koreans an official with the foreign ministry is saying that the united states is now trying to undermine any improvement in into a korean relations that it views this quote blockade as an act of war and that the united states has brought the threat of war to the closing ceremony and it is the closing ceremony on sunday i mean if we can put politics aside i mean how people feel about the games have the politics somewhat taken over the story overshadowed events here. there's no question elizabeth that a lot of people thought that north korea hijacked the spotlight from south korea this was south korea's first time to host a winter olympics they spent thirteen billion dollars to hosted in a region that i should add is divided between the north and south and it was hoped

that this would not only spur economic development in the region but also as we've seen over the last several weeks president moon is hoping it will promote this reboot or what he hopes will be a reboot in the relationship between the north and south after a very tense year and of course we've spoken to people who feel very optimistic they were very pleased that the north koreans participated but there is skepticism there are people saying that this charm offensive by the north korea has a lot of style but not a lot of substance that their agenda is to ease up on these sanctions and they just don't see president moon offering or they're concerned that he's going to be offering concessions without getting the appropriate compromises from north korea he will continue to meet with that delegation through tuesday in seoul and hopefully will heal hear more about what might transpire elizabeth we do know that

one thing that has come out of this is that president moon has been invited to pyongyang to meet with kim jong un and if he makes that trip it would be historic it would be the first time that kim jong un has met with the leader of south korea since taking office or at natasha thank you very much for the finale that isn't going to end joining us with all the very latest from knowing we are going to get more on this though we're joined by sable coal managing editor of korea exposé news magazine he's joining us live via skype from seoul very good to have you with us on alan is there a sort of spoken about just what a controversial figure kim young children is is the fact that the south korean government you know the fact that they. took him off the blacklist even allowed into the country let alone the north korean delegation to the closing ceremony of the and then picked games is that a sign of that willingness to work with the north and is it something that's going to pay off for president or do you think. well it's clear that it's not very

committed to making sure that this. just launches and we do beings that it would actually be dialogue we you know and we have seen this in the gestures a song has been formed in trying to get those long here offering to shoulder the cost of posting this very large contingent also having north koreans even the actual beings going away and joining in korean ice hockey so it is truly de you know injury is a hard line and there's a lot of incoming here and the government use empowering people. but it does not change the fact that you don't lose also the worse and lose interest of the united front to the point when you must that is to go with an organ responsible for managing your relations so it is there and the being is there and you're trying to really make this and given the fact that haze and south korea we had the latest sr

and south korea and an invitation to president moon to visit the north after you know at least a year of very heightened tensions in the region could the moves that we've seen and the last few weeks lead to something more substantial and better in relations between the two koreas do you think. so that's a very good question because one thing that south korean media are zooming in on this morning and also in the. member of the john that is let you know this is a man who primarily responsible for negotiating with the u.s. and the meantime we have the trump leading the american delegation here also attending the glossing ceremony tonight and one member contingent member of the even erik and national security council who has being an illegal in many years so

to have these two people together in korea at the same time is quite remarkable especially given that washington has made it very clear they're not interested in any official contact we north korea but it seems that certain steps have been taken to care for this possibility of dialogue. must occur it is great to get your thoughts and your insights from to verify to say walker joining us live from seoul thank you. now they houses a maid often made of plastic sheets much of their food comes from aid agencies jobs a few and there's barely anything to fill their days this is the reality facing revenge of refugees sheltering and. six months ago on the twenty fifth of august reports emerged of one hundred muslims escaping an army crackdown that was launched in retaliation for a string of attacks by a hinge of fighters by the end of the day the number of newly arrived refugees in bangladesh reached about three thousand within

a month the number had spiraled to half a million and passed six hundred thousand tobar swelled by one hundred who had initially opted to stay and state were fighting was going on but what then for start by january of this year almost seven hundred thousand one hundred were living in squalid makeshift camps photographic evidence of mass graves emerged that rights groups said pointed to a genocide and then just two days ago human rights watch produced satellite imagery that it said showed me on my bulldozed at least fifty five of the more than three hundred sixty were henge a village is attacked by myanmar's forces well we've tracked down some of the revenger we first met when the exodus began and charlotte bellus has their stories . six months ago as you said identified as a nine year old. refugee one of six hundred eighty eight thousand who streamed

across bangladesh border fleeing what they call a targeted campaign to wipe them out we first met her in december she'd been shot three times in the leg and armpit by a soldier at close range. she says she's still in pain and has decided she won't go back and. they kill my father killed my mother i feel so. it i don't want to go back to me and they were bombing houses sitting them on fire pulling people out from their homes and shooting them torturing me and i'm scared to see all their all one in one and i still feel like dying a fireman that those days. when they raped our women and you can see what they did to this child there are thousands of his here recovering from different weapons of war these two sisters say myanmar soldiers tied them to trees and raped them their mother father and three siblings were locked inside their home

which was then sit a life not much has changed since we first met the teenage girls in january they care and crucible long camp got them you know cabs although bright and colorful the girls say they remain cloaked in darkness. as an image and we can't go back to burma if we are asked to we don't have parents brothers and sisters no house to live there where should we live their wounds have healed but their nerves are frayed they fidget constantly they say they need help but they are too proud to big . pride motivates many to carry on muhammad or haasan is eighteen years old he's in studio on his feet he says he was shot three times by soldiers twice in the back once in the chest he lived by playing date. when i came here i became paralyzed couldn't walk move and couldn't even move my hands

after taking medicine i can now move and walk but still very much in pain his wounds have healed well since we met him in october at this point he knew two of his brothers had been shot and killed he has since learned eighteen family members died in the correct. muhammad rule and others are considering their future in november abdul fi showed us his house right across the border the bangladesh government's agreed to repatriate the revenger but six months on they refused to return. they want a guarantee of safety compensation for the destroyed villages and citizenship something they've been denied for thirty five years. we want to tell the world of we want to live like human beings we want to educate our children and we want to live a peaceful life with our family we asked the world to provide justice for all. myanmar's government continues to deflect accusations of ethnic cleansing and even genocide

justice for the revenger is hard to come by. i have no father no mother and so much pain if i have to go out to collect firewood it's so painful. those who survived the crackdown in the camps live with scars on their bodies and in their minds charlotte bellus al-jazeera. and a new report is one of child abductions and trafficking from the camps and in bangladesh more than two thousand six hundred children have been reported as unaccompanied and the border area and many have become separated while collecting firewood walking along roads or in the dark save the children says teenagers and cats live in fear of so-called forest men they say girls are at particular risk of sexual assault the authors are calling on the international community to end short children aren't sent back to myanmar unless their safety can be guaranteed whatever

sherman is the regional media manager for save the children. we estimate that fifty five percent of all the writing of it if they arrived at children it's a huge percentage and it really just highlights the fact that this is a children's emergency you know we've seen children with their families coming across the board out over the last six months flaming violence and. atrocities in and now arriving in bangladesh you know living in in really precarious situations and living in refugee camps where they're relying on the support of aid agencies like save the children and their basic food shelter health care and those kind of things you know that that really report told us that overwhelmingly up to children not really can get bashed and things aren't going and collecting firewood and they're afraid of wild animals and elephants and snakes and we sorta an elephant in the camps just a couple of days ago children are also afraid of getting lost and girls told us that they're afraid tend to go to the trains so really concerning she is the

children that have after playing myanmar not too long ago. with a look at the world weather and then why asian regional policy of trying money around as a small pacific nation prepares to host the first major summit how the standoff between serbia and kosovo is holding back a once mighty mining company and we'll hear from the golden gown of the olympics after her precedented ski and snowboard coming up on child in sports. from brisk nose and fuel. to the woman trying to this of southeast asia. color rain in qatar is always a news worthy event we just had some of the western windy night and you might get an idea of that happened because of this pool of clouds it went right into western

society and has now gone east was the sun's out at the moment and to be honest the figures we're talking about are not great you know thirty millimeters just up from there on the coast of qatar but through side five in riyadh fourteen in medina that might seem a bit more reasonable obviously these really are desert nations nothing much falls out of the sky so we haven't got more than the fed reaffirmation of the average itself could be wildly changed by from one year to the next to the big pool nevertheless at forty minimum his sporting four times is for every average app maybe more importantly it's not yet over it looks like it could well see a bit more rain down in the u.a.e. possibly encounter. sometime during science and skies of blue at the moment but if that doesn't happen and this all will sweep out of the way such that tomorrow looks fine day for the most part doesn't mean it's necessarily over the thames is where they should be averagely we can expect fall chilly nice i think in the next few days and then as the cloud builds as

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reports from inside. the. planes from the syrian regime in russia still flying in the skies targeting some locations in. the warplanes have already targeted chiffonier village. area the syrian regime has targeted these areas many times after the cease fire and the decision to open safe corridors to allow aid and assistance into eastern. corp's one of the main military factions in . their full and serious commitment to the cease fire agreement to pave the way for

the urgent need to enter the area it seems that the russians and the syrian regime showing a commitment to the security council decision to apply a cease fire and to allow the urgent assistance to reach the navy p. . people obese to greater or to take those with critical illnesses or injuries to hospitals outside the area people here are still in the shelters they're still scared of the war planes targeting the residential areas no one knows where the aerial rights will target other cities or villages during the coming hours or not the opposition says that there are two russian warplanes and a third belonging to the syrian regime flying in the skies of eastern greater. now china's ruling party is considering scrapping term limits for the president and vice president the communist party wants to change the constitution so that leaders can serve more than two consecutive terms the amendment would allow president xi jinping to be selected as leader again in two thousand and twenty three but let's

get more on this now our correspondent vehicle pollen is joining us live from hong kong is the change likely to happen there via. very much so elizabeth now this tow has to be go through parliament but as everyone knows china's parliament is attacked with people who are politicians loyal to the ruling establishment so there's going to be very little opposition now i must mention that there was speculation that was angling to extend his term beyond the next five years back in october when he addressed the chinese people's congress giving them a thirty year vision for the development of china so that was the first hint that there was going to go in that direction he also had. got his party members to put his political thought into the constitution he now will become china's most powerful man perhaps a cult of personality someone like mousy doing in the one nine hundred seventy six at once this passes because he's also head of the chinese people's congress and the

military a real consolidation of power there via he is as you say already one of the most powerful leaders if not the most in a generation what will this mean for the country. yes that is the question everyone's asking now an analyst i just spoke to basically said under his term china has become more of a surveillance state there's been a lot more crackdown on dissent and his corruption drive which many have lauded have also has also been. you know criticized for the fact that while he has tried to cut down on corruption and trying to he's also targeted a lot of politicians or a lot of people in power that are opposed to him so he really wiping away any kind of opposition hong kong people are also very worried because it's under him that we've seen the biggest crackdown on any democracy movement so extending his power of making it known that or possibly due to him being staying on the beyond his two terms is

a concern for many who were hoping to have more freedom for hong kong in the territory and for china hoping that china would open up more not just financially but also politically or via thank you very much for that for now that's the vehicle pollin joining us live from hong kong thank you. now popular new guinea is gearing up to host its biggest international event the apec diplomatic summit but despite significant financial help from foreign countries there was concern the small pacific nation won't be ready in time as andrew thomas reports the money is coming from nations like china and astray via as they compete for influence. built on the waterfront in the van but this will be the showpiece conference center for the biggest international events papua new guinea has a hosted winning the right to host the asia pacific economic cooperation or apec summit was a major achievement for papua new guinea its capital port moresby struggles with public and high crime and some living here down the city will be ready in time.

yeah hopefully it will be ready but given the country's. state. them to finance i'm not so i have my doubts but papua new guinea's government insists it will host a successful event it expects us president donald trump and chinese leader xi jinping to be among the thousands of delegates and says the nearly two hundred million dollars it's paying to host the event will be earned back in subsequent investment many times over the government's confidence is in part because the country is getting lots of assistance papua new guinea isn't having to pay the full apec costs on its own other countries are in effect subsidizing the event particularly australia and china through assistance in time into providing people security and training australia is paying between a quarter and a third of the total a pack costs it's a real struggle is having

a break in poverty and that's how i would see it. but new zealand who is sending hundreds of people to help with protocol training and the chinese government built and is now renovating this second apec venue apec has become an opportunity for rival powers to get close to papua new guinea an example of the way the region's bigger countries are trying to influence with small island nations support happening in his in a very strategic point in the world in the world where it can pull from asia from strayer new zealand to its benefit and to the benefit of its people and you know any country in that situation would do the same but others are concerned that their country risks becoming a geo political pawn it's a little bit risky. because in the event of a conflict it's more likely that in places like new guinea those conflicts with the power of the plane of the help being poured into the apec summit is just one

example of mostly china and australia competing to be the best friend of the pacific for if or when that friendship becomes necessary andrew thomas al-jazeera portmore springs. to nigeria now where the parents of more than one hundred missing schoolgirls have joined the bring back our girls movement again global prominence during the mass abduction of schoolgirls from chibok in two thousand and fourteen fight is believed to have taken the girls from their school in northeast india of a state six days ago auckland interest has more from the capital of. the movie's died of shock and anger anger because the nigerian government has failed to properly explain how many kids or how many students have been taken from that college and what exactly happened there now shock in the sense that many people expected nigeria and the security agencies to learn from the mistakes of two thousand and forty in trouble when more than two hundred and seventy schools got

the school girls have been kidnapped by boko haram more than one hundred of them are still unaccounted for a group of activists have been pushing the nigerian government to rescue the troubled gold now we spoke to some of them who expressed shock and dismay that four years on the nigerian government and the nigerian security services have not learned anything from people who are hoping that before it's four years older than twelve chibok girls did but only two will walk on up on tuesday to realize that most girls were abducted and we're back to square one when many nigerians expected the government to beef up security i don't vulnerable places like schools especially boarding schools in the northeast of nigeria now in the case of cheese that clearly did not happen and many nigerians will be watching the government closely as well as security agencies to see whether or not these girls are rescued in the next few days or so. now to south africa where traditional medicine plays an

important part and many african cultures in south africa to some animal conservationists say endangered and threatened species such as leopards are being used to make it despite regulations outraged dead animals used by haters assault openly in local markets tanya page reports from johannesburg. these traders are suspicious of strangers but not so afraid that they'll stop what they're doing any day of the week they were threatened and endangered species on display that's we showed our video to conservationists it's him. and we don't that looks like i wish that were. supposed to be highly regulated the convention on the international trade in endangered species. near the top of their list trade in big parts is permitted but only in exceptional

circumstances it's because it's a cultural issue that they want to. the traders sell to healers who use it for muti or traditional medicine which plays an important role in many african cultures and is widely practiced conservationists have been warning for years about the illegal trade in animal parts yet two of johannesburg's big muti markets we found evidence of threatened species at both and there are several other markets like that around the country the government says it's trying to strike a balance between education and enforcement the challenge is what we saw. in the department itself we have plus minus. i would say fifty inspired us. to so many. in total we have for the country we have two thousand eight hundred and something inspect us traditional healers communicate with and sisters to diagnose

and treat patients many africans use it in conjunction with western medicine. for example and if you hit it in order for me to hear that hated of quarter kids. the nose of her maids it's very powerful in the money and it's it has a very very. traditional healers say it and says does demand a certain animal endangered or not they must obey but in helping their patients some species are being hurt for now it seems that in a country with so many challenges stopping the illegal trade is not a priority for the south african government tinier page al-jazeera johannesburg. israelis have demonstrated their support for thousands of africans who are facing deportation the rally in tel aviv follows one notices being sent to twenty thousand mostly sudanese and eritrean men have been told they risk jail if they don't start

to leave by april have been offered three thousand five hundred dollars and a plane ticket the israeli government says they'll be flying to a safe place in sub-saharan africa. now because it was prime minister is promising to revive one of the region's largest companies to help fight youth unemployment as planned is far from straightforward because neighboring serbia says it is the mining company treacher anderson's report from matter of it sir. trap show used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs because of those war changed that you don't have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company that's cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and we've recently been celebrating their country's tenth

anniversary of independence not far away is the other half of trips run by the minority cause of all serbs they're more likely to listen to serbia's government than their senior management at the firm's headquarters on the south side of mit's of pizza leaves a process at the age of two years. according to the law should be governed by one single executive management and should be unified as we stand now neither us nor they can be developed it shouldn't be divided more than twenty two thousand people work for this company two decades ago before the war now fewer than two and a half files and are on the payroll the management say that if the political problems with serbia could be worked out they could make this company the biggest employer in kosovo once again. but the issue is the need for a major investment the technology for lead and zinc processing needs bringing into the twenty first century and that's only one area that needs attention elsewhere

whole factories need replacing it was in twenty sixteen that cause of ars government nationalized to save it from bankruptcy now the prime minister says investment is on its way economy and investors find their way. to ward off the fact that this will not happen. is work yes yes it's already in a process will not take months of weeks to be ready for a partner but the company's management is skeptical the serbian government accused kosovo of theft when trapped she was nationalized half of the workforce is cause of all serb so even if the investment arrives the politics could destroy any hope of profits and jobs andrew simmons al-jazeera micha it's called supply. now celebrities politicians and millions of fans are paying tribute to celebrated

bollywood actress three very has died suddenly at the age of fifty four she appeared in more than one hundred films speaking several indian languages but it was her performance and one of them that transformed her into one of india's biggest superstars mariana homed has more thank you she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a male done my. true davey's performance in this eighty's blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood for eva. film critics described her as a show stephen a mr india became a cult classic and suddenly three davies was filling sentiments the we. can't. keep.

comic genius through the crowds could be a new moon was going but it was his skill and to be you she is a dancer that truly captivated audiences. was. a god that she started out as a child actress in southern india i'm a big black eyes. and went on to appear in more than a hundred films to make you feel like many actresses of her generation she went by one name tree davey but unlike how the leading woman she quickly over took him my old costars to become the box office draw. it paved the way for today's bollywood stars to seamlessly make the move from bollywood to her. which themselves do you want to. forget. her family says she suffered

a heart attack on saturday while attending a wedding in dubai her instagram account received tens of thousands of messages and bollywood fans in india and abroad took to social media to express their condolences among them bollywood actress priyanka chopra and india's prime minister she stopped acting after him marriage to film producer bernie cup poor but made a successful comeback in two thousand and twelve with the hit movie english vinglish. but many will feel sridevi was cut too short. if olympics are wrapped up as coming up and just that it's just ahead of the sport would show the most successful one to end the pain of all time adds to have golden legacy.

but they cost less than one generation of developing countries one of the developed countries in the world we have to be one point you revered and feared. and. singapore's founding father created a nation of political dynasty family disputes undermining that legacy what happens in a family and what's happened in singapore's institutions i just don't know what would have cost them a great people in power investigates the house that leave at this time on al-jazeera we're here to jerusalem bureau coverage israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to get journalists to know the story very well before going into the fields. covering the united nations and global diplomacy for

al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks have been and what happens here matters. to you lou. stop us for now his job elizabeth thank you very much in the next few minutes the closing ceremony will begin but russian athletes have been told they won't be allowed to march with that country's flag comes after two of the athletes failed drugs tests throughout these gains they've competed as a limb pick athletes from russia after the country was banned from sending in

official team because of a massive doping scandal but the i.o.c. president thomas bach also suggested that russia could have its suspension lifted soon. to order these from fake or test your child. this was hugely disappointing. in addition to other considerations related to the i.o.c. from even considering lifting the suspension for closing. the suspension of the r.c. sports either leave the ones that don't freeze or yes you as prefer there are no. violations by members of the. well despite that disappointment in russia's olympics ended on a golden night in the men's ice hockey decider as they beat germany in

a dramatic final the olympic athletes from russia came back from a goal down to equalise three three with fifty six seconds left in regulation time forcing the game into overtime carol covers off then school the sudden death goal to secure a first gold in men's hockey for a russian team since one thousand nine hundred ninety two although there could be more trouble for russia's delegation as the victorious hockey team sang the national anthem over the top of the olympic anthem during the medal ceremony the russian anthem was also banned along with the flag. germany did win the pool man bobsled their fourteenth goal of these games and it was the second gold medal for pilot francesco grigory who also won. he's just the second man in thirty years to win both disciplines in the same game it was a tie for the silver medal the second german sled and south korea. curling has experienced a huge boost in popularity in south korea joining these games and that's largely

thanks to their women's team dubbed the garlic goals as they come from a garlic valley region they grabbed a silver medal on sunday losing in the women's final to sweden eight to three the swedes winning their third title. and in the final event of the olympics in her final race norway's cross country skiing star merit further added to her legacy she won the fifteenth medal of her career and fifth of these games in the thirty kilometer mass start the thirty seven year old has already become the most decorated winter olympian of all time in pyung chang and with that norway confirmed their place at the top of the final medal table thirty nine medals is a record for any nation at a winter games two more than the united states won in vancouver eight years ago they finished with fourteen goals the same as germany in second place both matching the best ever gold medal haul set by canada in twenty ten canada the united states

and the netherlands round out the top five with host south korea finishing in seven . double olympic gold medalist ethel a desk i will carry the flag for the czech republic at the closing ceremony the twenty two year old grabbed an unprecedented double when she won skiing super g. and snowboarding parallel giant slalom it's the first time an athlete has won gold in skiing and snowboarding at a lympics and she said she had the secret to her think that. i'm having fun and that allows me to do what i love without pressure because. my biggest. should be always to enjoy the run to have the best run able not to win the gold medals although i want to win all the gold medals but the first thing is just to. whatever learned and have fun with it you consider yourself

a role model now for other. no better no. plenty of young boys and girls who think she's the best thing to come out of these gangs elizabeth at. two thousand and eighteen has come to an end and we want to leave you with some of the best images from the olympics for me joe and the rest of the team and that. you. thank you thank you very much.

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