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call for a ceasefire is ignored in syria's war or war as strikes more dead and wounded as government forces bomb east and. white house response to north korea's awful for talks saying certain conditions must be met. and how an israeli attacks plan has led to the closure of one of christianity's holiest sites. plus south africa deals with the challenge of traditional healers who insist on using threatened species as part of their treatments. rescue volunteers in syria say toxic gas has been used in attacks on east and near the capital damascus the strikes on the rebel held enclave are amongst the latest and more than a week of intense bombardment by syrian and russian forces white house spokesman told the village of. was hit by missiles containing poisonous gas at least twenty

seven people were killed in attacks across eastern ghouta on sunday despite the u.n. security council's resolution demanding a ceasefire more now from some of in java. this is what the united nations agrees has to stop. me. but hours into the un security council has thirty day ceasefire declaration bombs kept dropping on eastern. medics aboard a dozen of them that's injuries from more than one hundred airstrikes. and artillery bombardments all of which was supposed to end continues in the rebel held area home to four hundred thousand syrians. what experiences from. us heights the face and it's the. what's. the. possible we don't know we don't. and. this is

a big number of population it won't be. all doable and won't be a solution with one thousand or two thousand of them to be sorted out of little as feared government forces try to enter eastern huta from three sides attempting to seize as much land as possible before the cease fire is implemented reinforcements from the syrian army's fourth intended brigades have been circling eastern for days special forces and troops from the elite tiger battalion are also on the front lines i. bulldozers and tanks are deployed to breach level defenses iran and syria maintain that the security council resolution allows the targeting of what they call terrorists forward despite facing large approved numbers and heavy levels and they have held their front line so far killing and capturing some soldiers thank you. we welcome the security council's decision regarding

a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted of the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern as usual we didn't find any commitment by the syrian regime in its russian allies east and. north west and go to southern wist and almost every front and go to has been stalled by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they haven't succeeded. many besieged people have been stranded in underground shelters for days and fear the worst to come. we can't eat because there's nothing to eight our sons had no work my son has fallen. children and he doesn't know how to feed them we will die hungry without food we've been targeted now homes have been destroyed we have done nothing to be treated and targeted like this but eastern good has been intensity targeted for the past week the un called it hell on earth. the pope calls

the victims in syria martyrs that have been conversations between the leaders of france germany and russia to try and persuade the assad government to stop attacks and allow in humanitarian aid that's when the people will continue to face what they see is annihilation. of the turkey syria border. correspondent mohammed. this update. now had the. russian and syrian government warplanes have been stop targeting the residential areas of eastern greter we can hear they're flying over us to target the different districts and towns people stuck here are very scared the syrian regime forces have attacked eastern due to from several different fronts with the aim of advancing its control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is ongoing and more than twenty syrian regime forces have been killed while another group of them has been captured in the fighting is happening even after the u.n.

security council's decision to demand a cease fire that would have led aid and assistance to reach the people of eastern . the hering harrowing scenes in eastern goose over the past week are painful reminder for many syrian refugees of what they've been through almost five and a half million have fled the country since the start of the war seeking shelter in turkey jordan lebanon and beyond and many are living with the psychological impact on a daily basis in the u.s. state of michigan which is one of the largest syrian populations refugees in america a recent study found that thirty percent of adults experience post-traumatic stress disorder and half of them suffer symptoms of depression and sixty percent of syrian refugee children show signs of anxiety made worse by their parents posttraumatic symptoms talk to our staff and back says director of stress trauma and anxiety research clinic department of psychiatry at wayne state university joins us now

from ann arbor in michigan via skype good to have you with us when you see what's happening in syria we shouldn't be surprised with the impact that it's having on refugees mental health. you know because these are actually going most traumatic experience of the human can go through basically what we defined as a matter of order. to diagnosis versus for caring to look at the. extreme traumatic situations where the life of a person for those around them and then into these people have been for use. to wish. that we. were limited resources who didn't. want a given morning to get out of. back. much alive so definitely very different from experiences any new.

people who endure such experience of all of the developments of. the depression. the refugees that you are speaking to. a dealing with they are of the clear of the danger now but do you think the trauma in some way exacerbated by the fact that they're in a completely alien country not surrounded by their family not surrounded by the front. but i'm also factors involved here so first let me remind you what these beauties to the situation have a mention as a result. people are assuming they're as anxious always bored about something terrible happening having nightmares about what happened before and flashbacks always being on the edge and so that's a very difficult condition with depression work for instance in the new environment because they have to explore the new environment and similar so the good side of

the story for refugees who are now in place of what they like and their side of the year away from the. residue loss bought at the same time as you mentioned others such as migration is one of the most stressful experience of any human life and now see it's been a down time they said people are exposed to a forced migration to conflicts that is very unfamiliar in terms of language everything is different in america. lives are you even scarier the day to day life situation and of course they are not mean to that ideal situation in terms of outing an environment a sense of that's when they come to so it's a complicated situation something facilities some of us love but our studies show that the level of anxiety depression and falling off at least one syrian refugees coming to america after two years of being able to find who was for the letting process symptoms of are almost similar to those things which goes on in camps and

we do. what can be done to mitigate the effects of p.t.s.d. and so. what could be done to mitigate the effects of p.t.s.d. . so the good news is that there are very good treatments for p.c.'s so we have like so if there be treatments that medications that we can very we can possibly tweak and we do so a lot of sense and what is the result with this population is that we don't have a lot of people who are skilled in treatment for things i can find off who are culturally wasn't a full time language so that limitation. and of course the culture of the some treatments may not very much fit to the vulture versus funds from syria so what we have done in our department is that we have started the feelings or mentions with hopefully the art school and other non-profits in our area and we bring them on a child set small and child to plan it to rec center where the children who are

condensing movement therapy in my mind for all of which interventions such one pharmacists the reduction of stress we have seen part of that so there are multiple ways that refugees decide that the lord the love of their followers the now whatever it is financial occupation all of them the inhalation in terms of being possible that the new environment just reducing their stress can reduce the losses and the things i see. done in the multidimensional up to the. last six plus a medication in the psychiatric clinic it's very important specifically for kids because someone can lead on their research something else to do that. can take at all physical and mental health significance for these people able to. function all people and adults in like it decade or two from now in their new

society we'll be very much need to. ok dr devin back thanks very much and joining us out from ann arbor in michigan. now a north korean general attending the closing of the winter olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the united states at the ceremony just metas from u.s. president donald trump's daughter ivanka name has more from coming. from protesters at the border and the stadium too uncomfortable questions asked by reporters all over it was a controversial arrival at the closing ceremony of the winter olympics for the north korean delegation. some south koreans are angry about the delegation leader general kimmitt young chore all is thought to be behind attacks against the south including the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors know.

president of korea is most zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero north korea hero. role in a protest. no prisoner and the north korean dictator this is. south korean president moon j. in use the games to reboot intercalary and relationships with. the so-called peace olympics included a joint women's hockey team athlete celebrating korean nationalism by marching under a unified flag as well as a visit by kim meo john the sister of the north korean leader she arrived with an invite for me to visit yeah. it's a two hour test and it was a good olympics and we were so concerned about it last year but it went so well many north koreans came and i wish this could lead to unification i didn't it was

interesting it was an honor for us to host it i really enjoyed it and. even the choice of olympic venues was symbolic gang one province is divided between the north and south. of them and if the tension continues tourists don't come so peace is very important to our economy north korea participated in the olympics and this has become a basis for establishing peace here and that means a lot to us. for the russians the games and did as they began marching without their flag two of their athletes were disqualified after testing positive for banned drugs four years on from the sochi doping scandal russians were only allowed to compete under an olympic flag. as all athletes return home the question here is what happens after the olympics. the u.s. announced its toughest package of sanctions against north korea on friday with the hope it will pressure the country to denuclearize whether that will work when other

sanctions have failed remains to be seen and there's no word yet on when president moon might travel to the north if he does he'll become the first south korean president to meet kim jong un since he became leader seven years ago natasha going to a zero on south korea that estabrook has more now from washington on the possibility of talks between north korea and the u.s. . well the united states the white house specifically said this afternoon that any talks with north korea would have to lead to that country dismantling its nuclear program it said it's really unclear at this point whether these proposed talks are a step in that direction and the state department essentially said the same thing and washington is seems to be taking a wait and see attitude about this because north korea hasn't yet said if there are

any preconditions to these talks whether it's putting anything on the table specifically its nuclear program the timing of this is also curious as well north korea is proposing this just a couple of days after the u.s. slapped these additional sanctions on the country making it more difficult for them to trade oil and coal north korea is calling that an act of war and there are some conservatives here in washington who think that these sanctions might finally be having an impact on north korea and maybe they're using these proposed talks as a way of getting some economic relief from these sanctions certainly the optics are there as far as a thawing of relations we saw vice president pence at the opening ceremonies at the olympics saying that potentially there could be talks if the north koreans would talk about potentially dismantling their nuclear program we saw the president's

daughter at the closing ceremonies in the same general area as representatives from the north and south korea's but again these are two countries north korea and the united states who have had a very very icy very tense relations for a half a century so it remains to be seen whether anything will happen from these talks after the glow of the olympics. and i jerry and government has confirmed that one hundred ten girls remain unaccounted for from an attack by the armed group boko haram in the country's northeast gunman overran a school in the town of dappy last monday or thirty's and nationally denied that any of the girls have been abducted his information minister says additional police and security officers have been deployed to schools present mamadou bihari called monday's abduction by booker a national disaster. one person is dead and at least twenty others injured are security forces in the democratic republic of congo shot of processes

and ice why much has the latest in a series of chess at demonstrations calling on president joseph kabila to step down to shop reports. the catholic church has been at the forefront of demonstrations calling on the congress president joseph kabila to stand down. and after morning service on sunday protesters took to the streets again. since december more than a dozen people have been killed by security forces and protests like these and today there was an all too familiar response by police was tear gas quickly followed by gunfire was enough for the local candy was shot dead before the march started. his body taken to a nearby hospital. two others were seriously injured one of them a student serge moca a washington george i'm not protesting by accident or in vain and not because i

don't know why i'm protesting but protesting today i was just claiming my right and this is what happened to me. organizers said the protesters no longer believed in the political will of current leaders to ensure a peaceful transition of power if capital is forced to stand down i mean his good care is killing here is kabila condemning them he's not condemning them a tall we will not end these protests we will maintain our fight and we will go up to the end with this fight. as with previous protest marches internet data and messaging services were cut across the congo well before you could. but the opposition message is getting out. in the shooting by the security forces use for the stoking up anger peter shop al jazeera. here on the news hour including.

philippines protestors fearful that country is returning to an era of dictatorship plus. hollywood reacts to the death of one of india's biggest movie stars. suddenly at the age of fifty four. and his poor despite there being no russian flag at the winter olympics closing ceremony the athletes games and on a cold in no time tatyana and explain the. church leaders in occupied east jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity in response to what they call discrimination by the israeli government of the church of the honeysuckle couple leave to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ. proposed tax plans force it has more. the chance to experience sunday mass at the place where they believe christ rose

from the dead draws pilgrims from around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the greek orthodox armenian and catholic churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain their rights over church property is that in mind the. office which we're in now. in europe. this is the back the. back against christians in their holy land. levi only. and some of the right the church leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem city government what it says is more than one hundred eighty million dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies for sundays

in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site it's always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus christ died and if you was buried here would have liked just to go there and have the east point if you will you know that would we be able to understand it better you know i i don't know if the sides of the parties involved but you know it certainly is going to get the public attention to do this and hopefully it drives a quicker conclusion the christian patriarchates only large areas of often prime real estate in and around jerusalem much of it at least to the state palestinians have criticized the greek orthodox patriarch the selling property inside the old city the jewish settler groups and others jerusalem's municipal leaders say only properties being used for religious activities should be tax exempt not those

rented commercially they've already frozen about nine million dollars in assets of the greek orthodox church and we're talking about other places that the church own factors hotel and they have been exempt wrongly from paying city taxes for years and years and years and the mare at the moment is trying to correct a wrong that was done that affects us from evidence every single day and ministerial discussion on the bill to allow seizure of already sold church land has been postponed to next week the author of the proposed law says it's designed to protect the rights of those living on the land from often anonymous offshore entities church leaders say their long established rights are being trampled in what they call an attempt to weaken the christian presence in jerusalem ari force at al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. and egyptian quarters frozen the assets of a prominent opposition figure he said having contact with the outlawed muslim brotherhood former presidential kansas abdel moneim aboul fotouh was arrested on

february fourteenth after calling for a boycott of next month's presidential election he has his own political party has distanced himself from the muslim brotherhood feel his apple for two appeared on al-jazeera earlier this month where he was critical of president sisi. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has addressed hundreds of his supporters of his force or italian policy at a rally in milan ahead of next weekend's elections he's hoping they can win enough votes to form a right wing coalition government so the guy i go has more. this is not an apparition of elections past but the return of the great survivor of italian politics despite the scandals the humiliating political defeats and a conviction for tax fraud anyone who gambled on never seeing silvio berlusconi again might feel shortchanged but not the party faithful in a theater in milan to hear his message. yesterday i read a quote from former u.s.

president reagan which says they told me that politics is historically the second activity of man and i thought it was very very close to the first activity with therefore need to be respectable in politics. for his supporters it was the one and only chance to see him campaigning and. even if it's for what he's already done for us he has my support then you know he's a miracle of maturity he has so much energy it comes from his desire to see her rescan tree maybe eighty one years old she may have only just had open heart surgery last year but still better schooling is back and it's a very volatile political stage he is being seen as a safe pair of hands but he is barred from political office because of his tax fraud conviction but in the event of election victory he would have the power to nominate a substitute while the veteran politician has a colorful past in comparison to today's politicians ranging from the populist to

the neo fascist scorning is relatively a less controversial figure he remains pro european union a reassuring quality for brussels. despite the fact that one of his political allies is the image. and anti e.u. leg up party for so italia is seen as a force to keep the far right in check this could be better to school in his final comeback his political career has been declared dead several times before but so far that hasn't stopped him hanging on to power sony vaio al-jazeera milan. some filipino is a celebration the country's return to democracy it's been thirty two years since the end of the third not dictated ship but others fear the current president are going to test say is trying to bring back the era of the strong. reforms. for thirty two years filipinos have come together to celebrate

a watershed moment in their history when a revolution forced president ferdinand marcos from power. in recent years that unity has been tainted by partisan politics between political dynasties and concerns of the current leader rodriguez deter take his tuna style joke of the marcus era and it's important to stand up now especially since last year we saw that this administration blatantly disregarded our history that they buried the dictate our marcos and now we are very independent she's from the current regime from the current government after twenty years in power marcos was toppled in an army back to revolt after he was accused of cheating in the presidential election when filipinos flooded at a main road in manila demanding an end to corruption and human rights abuses thousands were killed for voicing opposition to his rule do territories were on drugs reminds many of the darker time because thousands more filipinos have been

killed. despite that and opposition from these protesters and others such as the roman catholic church. remains popular able to withstand whatever criticism he gets from rights groups the media and his political opponents and several new show and we are celebrating decades more than three decades after being used to define what we are a nation which is a democratic society are republican government where there is a rule of law not the man but the problem with that he's after that's all we all went home. do you wish the protesters well calling the anniversary a time for unity in the name of democracy but unlike his predecessors he wasn't there to deliver his message or hear how polarized his policies have made these filipinos feel anger chapelle. said ahead on al-jazeera china's communist party pushes for an end to term limits now present she didn't

paying to stay in office plus. we'll hear from the golden girl of the olympics after the president ski and snowboard double that's coming up in school. hello there the rain is finally beginning to move over parts of north america being with us for a good while now stuck in place across this belts here giving very heavy rain but it's not only been the rain that's causing us the problem that rain is falling on snow and the snow is melting so a combined problem of heavy rain and also snow melt has given us quite a bit of flooding that system those funny cleary moving down towards the southeast still with us on monday and then eventually as we head into tuesday it will continue its journey south eastwards and break up as it does so so most of us then

will get away with a dry picture towards the west it's a little bit different though two areas of cloud here and these could both be giving us some fairly heavy outbreaks of snow before the tour to south of for most of us across the caribbean is fine and dry but over jamaica they could be one or two showers during the day on monday also for nicaragua and costa rica a few showers here and there's a still going to be with us as we head through chews day some of them again very heavy with the old rumble of thunder for south america there's also been a lot of wet weather here recently particularly in the northern parts of bolivia more weather still to come here could give us more problems with flooding and that system also extends all the way down towards rio basically to the north of that line you've got a good chance of seeing a fair few showers but for the south it's looking drawing just a handful of showers here. the way we communicate is what defines us. it always has been. as innovation in technology continues to shape our lives. pioneering content

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again you know what your. top stories this hour at least twenty seven people have been killed in attacks across the east and on sunday that's despite the u.n. security council's resolution demanding a cease fire in syria i ask you volunteers say toxic gas has been used in attacks on the rebel held and now the couple capsule damascus. church leaders in occupied east jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity in response to what they call discrimination by the israeli government bonds is of the. believed to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ. proposed taxes on the church. and a north korean general attending the closing of the winter olympics and south korea

has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the united states at the ceremony just meters from us president old. daughter ivanka but washington says sanctions against north korea will continue. mark fitzpatrick is the director of the nonproliferation program and sascha institute for strategic studies need joins us now from washington d.c. on skype thanks for being with us so the north. the north korea has expressed willingness to talk to the u.s. but when it except preconditions that the u.s. is laying down well this is the big problem is north korea has now accepted the u.s. condition. north korea agree to a deal nuclearization go or something you used to accept but hasn't percival years now. they could have talks about talks you know that states has said that when vice president pence was in so he said they could meet without preconditions just to

have some conversations but for any negotiations there would be conditions do you think the announcement during the games which was seen as the peace lympics do you think the u.s. announcement of its largest sanctions package ever was a good idea. well i'm in favor of putting pressure on north korea to try to get it in a peaceful way to stop its provocative missile program but the timing of it. i think could have been handled better if you're trying to get something going for diplomacy that wasn't the time to make an announcement that made it all but impossible for any real conversations to be held between the united states and north korea and an occasion at the olympics where senior people close to the leaders of both countries were present and the other flashpoint of course going to be these military exercises between south korea and the u.s. which in jew and knowledge will they go ahead because they really upset the north

and they. the north uses these exercises as a as a reason stated reason to to conduct its missile tests and yes i guess they are upset by that by these exercises but they exaggerate thinking that they're pretty to invasion united states has been in for many years i think the talk i think the exercise will go ahead. and and then we'll be back in a very tense situation of north korea then resumes missile testing absolutely ok mark fitzpatrick great to get your thoughts thanks for joining us there from washington to talk to china president xi jinping could be reelected in twenty twenty three under a new proposal put forward by the burning policy and wants to change the constitution to remove term limits for chinese leaders the vice president would also be allowed to say for longer than the current two time limits come his posse elected president c. as its head for another five years last october to pick up hollande has moved from

hong kong. well there was much speculation he would be angling to stay beyond the next five years back in october when he was addressing the chinese people's congress he laid out a vision of thirty years and a very ambitious vision of china's development both socially infrastructure advice and financially now this has to has to go through a parliament but it's inconceivable that this will be blocked in any way as parliament this tactic politicians that are loyal to the ruling establishment paying well now if this goes ahead be china's most powerful modern day leader as he's also the leader of the military he will become a cult of personality many fear much like mao tse-tung was during his thirty tenure thirty year tenure which ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy six now there's also concern that under his rule china will see many of their human rights or many of their rights squeezed even more under his tenure so far we have seen china turn

into more of a surveillance state descend very quickly crushed it's also of great concern to the people of hong kong as unders easing ping's rule we've seen the biggest closed to hong kong's democracy movement people here are now concerned about how he will or whether he will continue to treat hong kong as a special in ministry to a region separate from the rest of china australia has a new deputy prime minister as bobby joyce steps out following weeks of pressure is being replaced by a veteran affairs but it's a michael mccormick choice came under fire after it was revealed he had an extramarital affair with his press secretary he also faces sexual harassment complaint that's our correspondent she's in sydney so you are now that joyce is officially resigned as a replacement is big enough can the government move on from this scandal.

well it's definitely hoping that it can move on from the toxicity in the sniping back and forth that we've seen between the two leaders of the parties that make up the governing coalition you've got to remember that the coalition is the most successful political arrangement australia has ever had in its post-war period and neither side wants to see that arrangement derailed but the relationship was deteriorating we saw prime minister malcolm turnbull say that barnaby joyce is affair with a former staffer was a shocking error of judgment barnaby joyce retaliated saying that those comments were inept so now the two parties that make up the governing coalition are hoping for a fresh start with the election of michael mccormack and he certainly indicated that he wants to create a closer relationship with the liberal party he said that he wants to focus on uniting his team and teamwork after so many weeks of disarray he also said he wants

to get back to the business of governing and of keeping the opposition labor party out of government which laura i have to say have really enjoyed capitalizing on the spectacle of the last three weeks i can imagine them reporting from sydney thanks very much. because of a says in south africa a growing increasingly concerned over the use of endangered species for traditional medicines that animals used by hill as being openly sold in local markets despite strict rules against it 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 gross we showed our video to conservationists here. and we learned that looks like

i wish that was the trade in. is supposed to be highly regulated the convention on the international trade in endangered species have lifted near the top of their list trade in big cat parts is permitted but only in exceptional circumstances it's because it's a cultural issue that they won't touch 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 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 inspectors. to so many. in total we have for the country we have two thousand eight hundred and something inspectors traditional healers communicate with and sisters to diagnose and treat patients many africans use it in conjunction with western medicine. for an example in. in order for me to heal that hated of course to get her in the nose of her or to me from aids it's very powerful in the money it's it has a very very. traditional healers say if and sisters 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. pleasure week has suffered another setback for us recovery efforts with most of the island losing power after an explosion at a substation on sunday the u.s. territory is struggling to rebuild following hurricane maria in september and now college students are being forced to move to the main move to the mainland to finish school says telhami has more from new york. nineteen year old crystal medina prefers the weather back home but says she's thankful to be here despite the cold attending new york university going to school in puerto rico has been difficult since hurricane maria a lot of the buildings were being really badly damaged we had fungus in our classroom so we had to take classes and tents. there was no electricity for like the first two months there was no water for months after the category four storm a third of the island remains without power even before maria hit the government

there cut funding to the university of puerto rico. prompting a student strike that shut it down for a month chrystal is one of about sixty puerto rican students attending n.y.u. free of charge dozens of other schools on the mainland are offering free or reduced to ition but such programs aren't without controversy as many as thirty two thousand college aged puerto ricans are expected to leave the island in the coming year continuing a trend that started with an economic crisis in two thousand and six as they leave in search of better opportunities the worry is that universities like this are luring away the best and the brightest researchers at the hunter college center for puerto rican studies say the d. population of puerto rico is one of the most significant hurdles to its economic recovery the reality. is the long term parole in the now is being intensified. those your people even after you train them which is part of

what's up to me then the economy is lacking the skills base to live battle you know new broader new companies that enterprises that have actually promoted the going to be brought home and why you require students to continue paying tuition to their schools at home to lessen the impact on their already strapped budgets still christian cruz has mixed feelings about being in new york as an. element of like guilt too because i'm over here and i'm pretty much getting a free ride just pay my sin university back home and i'm getting all these benefits and they're not. but the longer it takes puerto rico to recover the stronger the pull to leave kristin silly me al-jazeera new york large crowds of fans have gathered outside the home of bollywood actress sridevi as they await the return of her body from dubai that's four year old who starred in more than one hundred films

died suddenly of a heart attack at a family wedding on saturday tributes have been flowing from india's prime minister to act as who worked alongside the kind of good occasion you have truly match mine and so no wonder the. job i think i saw. we're not. showing more from books on how we both how deep you are. very grateful for the dog being a conduit in opposition on the unusual davey for the past forty years while working in the hindi cinema industry we've both started from the second movie of mine together nobody can fill his shoes and therefore i pray for the peace of his soul but i would also like to pass on my condolences to bernie count poor and the family members i pray that sridevi lives in our hearts with us forever. take

a look back at her life thank you she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a male. tree davey's performance in this eighties blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood for reva. film critics described her as a show stephen a mr india became a cult classic and suddenly sridevi was filling sentiments the we get to. the egypt i am. a comic genius true the crowd thank you it was a i think it was his skill and beauty as a dancer that truly kept device with audiences who was who was not only

was she started out as a child actress in southern india maybe 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 overtook 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 hollywood's themselves who want it was getting i am fifty families 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 bali. what actress priyanka chopra and didn't do as prime

minister narendra modi many in india was shocked at his sudden death. space for her servant level to which she rose i think at that particular time for females to come to that level was a little difficult was the first news flash on my form that mean everybody at my home was very sad. 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 slide was cut too short. for still ahead including months the city winning the trophy under pep guardiola.

also did in less than one generation of developing countries and one of the most developed countries in the world we have to be pretty full for just a need for new bridge and fear to a pretty rough and tough men singapore's founding father created a nation of political dynasty and put a family disputes undermining that legacy what's happened to the family and what's happened in singapore's institutions i just don't know what would have caused the whole grief people in power investigates the house that leave at this time announce his era. the nature of news as it breaks. is a since all of renewed hope with a president who enjoys quiet he'll with detailed coverage they are dodging distractions that appear to be hurting president trump's ability to manage the mideast peace crisis from around the world over one hundred thirty one thousand people are registered in the south korean database for separated families.

with the sports. thank you very much the president of the international olympic committee has hinted that russia's suspension from the olympic family could be lifted soon vast despite two russian athletes testing positive for drugs at the winter olympics russia's competitors had hoped they would be allowed to march with the country's flag at the closing ceremony in china earlier on but the i.o.c. executive committee declined because of those failed tests although president thomas back suggested russia won't be out in the cold for much longer what it is

from russia they. don't try. this was hugely disappointing. in addition to other considerations related to the i was he from even considering lifting the suspension lucy. the suspension of the r.c. sports either if it wants to freeze or it's too early yet as you as prefer their own if it will be violations by members of the. day despite the disappointment of not being able to raise their flag rushes the olympics ended on a golden knights in the men's ice hockey decided to as they beat germany in a dramatic final the olympic athletes from russia came back from a goal down to equalize three three with fifty six seconds left in regulation time

forcing the game into overtime carol capris often scored the sudden death goal for the cure a fast bolt and men's hockey for a russian team since nineteen ninety two although that could be more trouble for russia's delegations as the victorious hockey team sang that national anthem over the top of the olympic on them during the medal ceremony the russian there was also banned along with the flag. germany did win the four man bobsleigh fourteenth gold of these olympics and it was a second gold medal for pilot francesco friedrich who also won the two man event he's just the second man in thirty years to win both disciplines in the same games meanwhile there was a tie for the silver medal between the second german sled and south korea the hosts also got a silver medal in women's curling losing to sweden in the final the swedes one eight three for their third olympic title killings experienced a huge boost in popularity in south korea during these games the team

a school friends who've been dubbed the garlic girls as they come from a rural garlic growing region. and in the final event of the olympics in her final race noways cross country skiing star mar going further added to her legacy she won the fifty in the middle of her career fifth of these games in the thirty kilometer start the thirty seven year old had already become the most decorated winter olympian of all time in chan 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 and twenty ten canada the united states and the netherlands round out the top five with hosts south korea finishing seven double olympic gold medalist ethel adepts go carry the flag for the czech republic

of the closing ceremony the twenty two year old grabbed an unprecedented double when she won skiing super g. and snowboarding parallelled giant slalom is the first time an athlete has won gold in skiing and snowboarding at an olympics and she shared the secrets of her success . i'm having fun and that allows me to do what i love without no pressure because. my biggest. should be always to enjoy the run and 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 do. whatever learned and have fun with it you consider yourself a role model now for other i. know better i know it's. pep guardiola has won his first trophy as manchester city both thirty defeated also

three nil in sunday's english league cup final club record score a third gerrard guerra scored his first thirty goal in a major cup final captain vincent kompany doubled the lead in the second half and david silva wrapped up the resoundingly when it's a special you know said he'd been singin in the lead scored three goals. and they help us to understand what that means in the club because like they won titles we put they put us pressure to continue to win titles if we're able to win more titles diffuser the people who's coming here they have to know here we have to enter those and that's why it's also important. in the english premier league manchester united moved back to second spot after william fired chelsea into the lead remember a new car and jesselyn god struck to ensure a two one win for joe is a marine years men are old trafford who found that balance in the second office in the two more solid team felt more comfortable to to go. into attacking

areas and of course without creating lots of chances because against chelsea that's not possible we created a few. and he scored over a new ball that i think we. before that hurricane netted his one hundred fiftieth goal for tottenham as they beat crystal palace one nil spurs are still fifth in the standings and as you can see them months united are second after beating chelsea city an arsenal of the three not moving because of their league cup final cycling now and one hundred valvo claimed the final stage of the abu dhabi tour and with it the title it was bad news for a while champion time trial is tom donilon who's after suffering a mechanical problem on saturday had another breakage on sunday leaving him fuming so it was down to the spaniard who went head to head with me get lopez in the final climb of the one hundred ninety nine kilometers stage the thirty seven year old out

sprint of the colombian lopez to the victory. so pyong chang a twenty eight team has the come to an end and we want to leave you with some of the best images from the twenty eighteen winter olympics i'll have more sport feel eight or.

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