highlight the human triumph against the all. as president putin dominates the russian political scene his reelection becomes more apparent. what direction russia might take. with media trends consummate changing listening post analyzes how the news is being covered. and there's more people around the world struggle to find clean drinking leaders and researchers gathered in brazil to address a critical issue march on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. jordan this is the al-jazeera news you from coming up in the next sixty minutes the second day of a russian sponsored ceasefire in syria with little evidence that things have

changed on the ground. u.n. report shows new links between north korea and syria's chemical weapons program. the afghan president calls on the taliban to join peace talks and help save the country. and an emotional day in florida as classes resume in the city of atlanta. welcome to the program russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is blaming syrian rebels for blocking aid access into eastern ghouta have been reports of sporadic shelling during russia's pause in the fighting which has now ended for a second day officials at a syrian controlled camp during the five a pause but there were no people seen leaving the rebel held on clay. the roots is a people of syria face a direct humanitarian crisis u.n. security council resolution two forty zero one has established

a framework for all parties to agree upon conditions to elevate the plight of civilians throughout the country russia together with the syrian government have already announced the establishment of humanitarian corridors in eastern guta now it is the ten of the militants and their sponsors to act as the militants entrenched they continue the shelling of damascus blocking a delivery is and the evacuation of those wishing to leave as well as some of them just say it is in the turkish city of gas he entered near the syrian border sama so it's day two of these five hour cease fires in eastern due to what happened today. like clockwork we're hearing reports from duma in eastern ruta that the airstrikes have resumed after the five hour pause and that's been the case for a second day continuing that airstrikes and artillery shells continue to pound eastern ghouta before a bit before nine am and after two pm that is the that is the time that pressure

agreed with the assad government that it will allow for humanitarian pause but not much has been achieved in the last two days in terms of actions on the ground russia declared this part of the crossing from where people could pass through and into queues doubles on the second day that they're not allowing people to leave but people inside eastern who do not want to leave they've been telling us that their side of the story saying that they have no guarantees from the russian government or the international community that there is that will they go we've been talking to doctors on the ground who've been telling us that at least eighty five cases out of the more than one thousand people who are already pending with the united nations have been resubmitted this morning or two here i think they should these eighty five people mostly women and children who need urgent medical evacuation from because there are very limited symmetrical supplies and the capabilities of the hospitals have been. reduced in the last eleven days due to this relentless shelling and the bargain that you see on this rebel held in place on

a summer once the cease fires are all over presuming the bombings on the shelling will continue i mean the syrian regime backed by the russians are you know they're absolutely determined to take eastern ghouta. that's really the case for the last two days there and that is what people are saying that they failed to understand why does the russian government or the international community expect people to go to the same people who have been bombarding them relentlessly in the last five years and then in the last eleven days has been more extensive and these people say they are don't guarantee the new safety guarantees people from inside don't want to be facing the same fate as people from the riaa or aleppo or homs in other parts of the country who've tried to leave their pay places of religion and have been displaced multiple times over when they went to these other areas so there is this a disparity that you hear from on bird spoken by world leaders that there is

a humanitarian pause there is a thirty day suppose that ceasefire in syria but not just elsewhere in the country there flashpoints there fighting continues asama thank you. afghanistan's president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as part of negotiations aimed at ending the more than sixteen years of war ashraf ghani was speaking at a meeting of nations trying to build a framework for peace talks but he reiterated that the group also needs to recognize his government danny has proposed releasing prisoners and reviewing the constitution officials from twenty five countries the e.u. and nato are meeting as part of the kabul process in the afghan capital. these look . we are making this offer without any preconditions in order to lead to a peace agreement i call on television and their leadership today the decision is in your hands except peace a dignified peace come together to safeguard the country which has been the result of sacrifices and struggle to berkeley has more from kabul. so there are

encouraging signs coming out of this process president danny said some very encouraging things which making people think that things are moving in the right direction his offer to recognize the taliban as a political party is one also his offer for the taliban to open an office in kabul moving it from doha is another and then he can operate with immunity so there are encouraging signs also encouraging signs from the taliban in recent weeks that they are not really opposing the constitution any longer including women's rights suggesting they want to talk their open letter to the americans for example where they say they would like to have direct talks it's all moving in the right direction there are stumbling blocks however the fact that the taliban have always viewed the afghan government as a puppet of the americans they've always insisted that they must deal directly with the americans but president garvey made it quite clear that the afghans will have to be included the americans always say that they will have to include the afghan

government so they're asked on sticking points but some are some encouraging signs now this kabul process conference which is lasting wednesday and thursday is shoring up regional and international support for the peace process and very importantly it includes pakistan pakistan is seeing being seen as essential to this whole process and with them onboard perhaps it's going to be a speedier time everyone agrees that this war cannot be won militarily the americans have increased firepower they're bombing more from the air now the taliban on the ground using more suicide bombers but nobody can win this conventional war it has to be won and done at the negotiating table everyone here is hopeful that we're heading towards that situation or david seventies the former deputy u.s. assistant secretary defense for afghanistan and pakistan he says the increase of u.s. troops is impacting heavily on the taliban. up until then the taliban had been counting on president obama's promise to leave afghanistan and to end the war there by

pulling all u.s. troops out this change of direction by the trumpet ministration has told both the taliban and their supporters in pakistan that they can't count on the united states leaving and i think that is one of the major factors that is leading the taliban to look at and to look at talks with new interest i think that has show in both the taliban and pakistan that just waiting out the the fall of the afghan government is not going to work at the same time as the increase in air attacks an increase in u.s. military support for the afghan government is leading to greater at a field casualties to that for the column and they've responded by cheap shots if you will using suicide bombers to kill civilians in afghan cities but on the ground the situation is starting to tilt against the taliban. now one of christianity's holiest sites in jerusalem has reopened three days after its leaders closed it and protest against israeli tax measures the church of the honeysuckle car is believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ have

reopened after the local man suspended a plan to make churches pay substantial back taxes on their assets are a force that has update from occupied east jerusalem. well here in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher things seem to be back to normal tourists and pilgrims they've been flocking over the last three days not able to get in through those giant wooden doors now they are able to get in to this most important christian holy site however behind the scenes there is still some uncertainty what has been struck is an interim deal which is allowed the jerusalem municipality to suspend for now its attempts to collect back taxes from the three churches involved the armenian greek orthodox and roman catholic churches it's also allowed for the suspension of any proposed legislation which would see the israeli government have the ability to claim land seize land which the church had sold to private investors that is something that the church says is discriminatory along with the attempts to claim taxes from what it says should be tax exempt properties in and around

jerusalem for the tourists for the pilgrims this of course is a very happy day it was very important for us and they quit impression for us because we are three days to come in and we have no chance to call there and it was very impressive for us it was on our our touring i actually thought we may not get to come and so now i think it really joyous the price to be able to come in here so christians once again have access to science such as this the slab where jesus said to have been prepared for burial the question now is how this is resolved the plan is for a committee which includes ministers the jews from his party and others to try to come sign some kind of long term agreement. as to how to solve the divisions that still exist between the church in your forty's there are some voices that question whether that gives too much power in the long term to israeli authorities while in the short term it does seem that they've backed down the standoff has been resolved

the differences that created it have yet to be. u.n. experts are accusing north korea of supplying the syrian government with items to create ballistic missiles and chemical weapons the reports expected to be publicly released next month and outlines north korea's dealings with syria over the past ten years supply of such items of breach u.n. sanctions syrian government's been accused of using chemical weapons and the report also says north korea sent ballistic missile systems to me in march well let's talk to graham on web is he's a research fellow at the nine young technological university joins us on skype from singapore graham good to have you back so this report hasn't been released yet but it will go on to say that there been dozens of plan to stand shipments to syria from north korea how big do you think the problem actually is good evening i have a little trouble hearing your question entirely but i can see that this report is not surprising but justified grounds for these assertions because they have

precedents in the past where north korea has supplied both acknowledge e and knowledge to rogue regimes such as pakistan and syria and even iran in helping these countries to proliferate and formally missile weapons technology a nuclear weapons technology so it's not all too surprising so graham how do you think washington will react to this are they likely to push for even more sanctions against the north. very likely i mean this was in the cards somewhat if you recall last month the central intelligence agency director mike on piero actually made remarks in public in washington d.c. suggesting that he wouldn't be surprised if the north korean regime would start selling its nuclear weapons technology in this arctic knology and wherewithal in order to generate cash in light of the fact that the current sanctions regime is

really hitting john young extremely hard and it has to subsist so it's selling these sort of items would be quite lucrative in certain quarters of the world and clearly that the usual suspects have sprung up and graham where does this then lead south korea i mean seoul has been pushing for a dialogue with pyongyang but this is put the south koreans a difficult position perhaps. it likely does i mean it has this is likely to dampen the mood i mean there's been a unprecedented euphoric high over the last few weeks in light of the approach mount if you like between the north and the south and everyone's turned to this new hope that the crisis in the an insular could be resolved a lot sooner than we thought but now with this report coming on and it gains traction and if this compelling evidence will clearly lead the administration for one and other countries in the world to start ratchet it ratcheting it up against

north korea and treating north korea with the usual suspicion it's earned over the last few years that into mind it's and if arius. speak of weapons testing missile and nuclear are right growing on with thanks very much for talking to us. bunch more still to come on the news hour including three months after his visit to saudi arabia led to a political crisis back home lebanon's prime minister is back in riyadh. and the chief exec negotiator warns that time is short and britain needs to make some decisions. on a sport legend is back home and back to his bestie just coming up later in the program. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has returned to saudi arabia three months after announcing his sudden resignation during

a trip to riyadh riri met with saudi king salmon in the capital and also hold talks with crown prince mohammed bin solomon was the first time areas visited saudi arabia since november when he made that televised address announcing he was stepping down lebanese officials accuse saudi arabia of forcing harry to quit and putting him under house arrest while riyadh denied this is resignation plans lebannon into a regional and political crisis between saudi arabia and iran returned home weeks later after french intervention and withdrew his resignation his government to since reaffirmed its policy of staying out of conflicts in arab countries it's a hard as monitoring the visit from beirut. press office insisting that. he is in riyadh he did not request this meeting he is responding to an invitation ties that really have been strained not just between the saudi leadership but between lebanon and saudi arabia since a shock resignation from the saudi capital on and of ember for and the bizarre

sequence of events that followed many in lebanon including the president accused saudi arabia of holding the prime minister hostage and since then the prime minister has withdrawn his resignation but. the relationship has not been the same for example happy to used to visit saudi arabia more often and you know saudi officials used to visit beirut so the first time a saudi official delegation arrived was on monday and now how do you do in saudi arabia sources saying that they hope to open a new phase in the relationship the timing is quite interesting just a few months before parliamentary elections in may saudi arabia lost a lot was their man in lebanon and if they want to maintain influence in this country they're going to need him because he is the most popular sunni leader in lebanon we have to remember this is a sectarian. system of government is based on sectarianism so saudi arabia miscalculated in the past maybe trying to you know trying to reverse the losses following this resignation and the whole affair around a bit it is still too early to say whether the relationship is back on track. well

let's talk to him he's an associate professor at the lebanese american university in beirut and joins us on skype is this an indication that things have improved between i really on the saudi leadership. i think so no i think anybody has been. serious after just two or moved relations with saudi arabia being it's his. war of hezbollah and that is not so you know alliance with hezbollah and. that's what wise or political wise also i really succeeded in convincing. me. not to be aligned with any. power so now and defeat us policy which was a condition also. to. come back to us

i think. that the saudis know the saudis are to be examining he asked us in that position finding no other alternative to solve how do you see a strong sunni. country people of willing ok by united front or is by i mean many people say that saudi arabia miscalculated this resignation issue has really had lost any influence in lebanon as a result of the crisis. of course i mean you have. these big you. show this all washed out on the. ship and under my arm you know many warnings how to use allies. into leadership so we're now marsh fourteen which was the group being backed by saudi

arabia's crown. once and our own tree is no longer one united front but. if i did it no longer school here and or. definitely. there is. no use our trying to do now is to believe that after all fragmenting then our lives into what was incomes and what about how really himself is he still considered to be saudi arabia's man in lebanon i don't think so at all because the alternative. that's wrong especially now about to experience. national action and the saudis not me to bits on. her own secure leadership how do you require insecurity. for the cow

can come from hezbollah doesn't go and. saudis spec the. significant size of parliament and it's a little i was i was going to say it's an important point you make about the upcoming election because what about the lebanese people i mean they watched the resignation drama unfold last december how will they be feeling watching i really go back to riyadh with all this drama happened. well you know if it is and is and this impression the whole works are going to happen but i think. his comeback and how it's based on and. hoping that relationship will improve how he will. go in the election. and of course that i was and other things that one should pay attention to that this visit to saudi. is asking donors

to. support its economy. going out and is now waiting a donor conference. crome so without sorrow or. countries who are it would be really difficult for they're going to succeed ok. so it's a good time being i guess i'm out so let me thank you for talking to al-jazeera. now classes have resume for the first time a florida high school since the shooting that left seventeen people dead earlier this month students will be attending half days of the school until further notice follows an orientation session for teachers students and their family members on sunday a three story building where the shooting took place has been closed indefinitely and unlikely to be torn down and the gallagher joins us live now from park and he says the first day back since the shooting what's the what's the atmosphere been like and how the students feeling. well it's exactly

two weeks since fourteen children and three teachers with skitt were killed here at the marjory stoneman douglas high school so understandably it's a pretty somber day but i have to say the community showing great resilience great strength we've seen students singing as they come into class most wearing t. shirts that say m.s.t. strong or never again we've seen police officers and there are hundreds of them here today lining the route where the children have been coming in hugging the students there is a great sense of resilience obviously there is some trepidation for many of the students we've spoken to about returning to the building where there was such a riff it seems two weeks ago but many of them are spoken to actually want to get back to some kind of normality they want to see their friends but today there won't be normal classes there are grief counselors inside the school there will be availability for the children to talk to anyone they want to do to get through this process because coming back to

a scenario like this could very well trigger some very powerful difficult memories for a lot of the students here but overwhelmingly this morning has been a showing of absolute strength for this community a community that has been not only going through attending friends funerals but of course campaigning for a change in gun laws and on the what about progress towards gun reform has there been a movement at all. well just in the last hour or so dick's sporting goods which is one of the biggest retailers in this country announced that they will no longer sell assault rifles and the rage the minimum age to twenty one they are the latest corporate company to joined a kind of movement against the n.r.a. and against gun advocates that is a major move also got the florida legislature talking about raising the minimum age to twenty one at the same time they're also talking about passing legislation to arm teachers so it's a mixed bag at the moment but i think what a lot of people here are doing is looking towards washington d.c.

looking towards president trump and other. moments it looks like he's going back on some of the promises he initially made talking about raising national or minimum ages across the entire country so we just don't know there's no real action coming from washington d.c. but i certainly think talking to the students here they're not going to stop campaigning despite what they've been through over these past two weeks and the thank you australia's government has ordered the recall of more than two million cars with air bags made by the japanese from takata it says it's not satisfied with the results of voluntary recall is carried out by vehicle manufacturers last year faulty tata airbags have been linked to at least twenty three deaths around the world. as the latest incident. this is affecting dozens of car manufacturers including european brands that weren't affected by voluntary recall last year the issue with the car airbags is that it can deteriorate causing it to explode and

sending shrapnel and metal shards into the faces of the occupants of the car it's already been linked to about twenty deaths and about two hundred thirty injuries globally and this is prompted the recall of about one hundred million cars rolled ride in australia about two point three million cars will be affected by the recall that's about one in five cars driving on a strain that comes just as to cause her reached a six hundred fifty million dollars settlement in the united states although there are concerns about whether or not it will be able to pay due to bankruptcy problems . to check on the weather now his ever turned on what's the latest with this beast from the east of us and when you replace the process is just the way it's going to be replaced over the next couple days while what i'm calling the guest from the west here you can see this little area clear out as pushing in from the atlantic

snow good news i'm afraid this is storm it's going to bring some windy weather into those southwestern parts of sweetness well little further north what's. area of low pressure see the warm front that red line that i've drawn on that's warm will push its way in from the south as it does spontaneity the cold at first we're looking at a fair bit of snow just coming in here the rain readily turning to snow is it pushes in across the southwestern corner if you have never be the case as we go on through the next couple days already seeing some very heavy rain we've seen some big downpours into portugal recently puerto fifty nine millimeters of rain here in just twenty four hours as we go into next couple days and here's that really started to push in. into friday there's that snow on the leading edges it bumps into that very cold windy weather there around the bay of biscay those who go through thursday on the weekend we're going to see the snow continues not just way further northwards moving further northwards and east was in the process. of paris

moderate started to push in only one in london but by the end of the weekend it will be somewhat dry and mild for many everton thank you for that last more still to come your knowledge is there a day in court for two reuters journalists imprisoned by me in moscow. i'm catherine sawyer in central african republic account that is controlled by one of the largest. that i'll be telling you why they're here despite the absence of u.n. . tennis world number one roger federer picks up more silverware off the court on that stage. to. pay the scene for us when they're on line what is a parent's time in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on

sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the first.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the been reports of sporadic shelling during russia's poles and fighting in eastern guta. forces now and then for a second day i'm balance officers are part of a syrian controlled come on the edge of the rebel held but no one was seen leaving . afghanistan's president has offered to recognize the taliban is on the just my political group a spot of negotiations aimed at ending more than sixteen years of a shutdown he was speaking at a meeting of diplomats trying to build a framework for peace talks. and classism resume for the first time at a florida high schools and since the shooting that left seventeen people dead at the end of this month students will be attending a half day's school until further notice three story building where the shooting

took place has been closed in different. now the british government has rejected an e.u. proposal for the northern ireland border after it leaves the european union next year the news chief negotiator michel barnier has unveiled the first draft text of the blocks legal agreement with britain banning address the thorny issue of the future of northern ireland saying it could stay in the customs union with the e.u. after briggs it but london says it can't accept any measure that would create a hard border between northern ireland and the rest of the united kingdom one that involves live for us from london now not him so how much of a surprise were michel barnier revelations about the briggs's legal text well according to himself they should come as no surprise he says that everything that he outlined in a press conference just a couple of hours ago was agreed by the european union and by the u.k. last december he says that there is

a joint commitment by either side above all to avoid a hard border between the between northern ireland and the republic of ireland because many people see that as something that would entailed border checks which some people think could put this good friday agreement the agreement back in the ninety's which are ended years of sectarian violence and brought in power sharing many people think that that could be put in danger if you did have customs you know checks and offices perhaps on perhaps not he did say also that he wanted to see much more progress on the issue of citizens' rights and he said that because the u.k. government still wasn't making it clear what future rights people who arrive after march twenty nine thousand would have he said that the idea of a transition period of top is not one hundred percent certain but on the issue of the irish border he said that they do need to put into this agreement a last resort option which could be taken out at a later date if the u.k.

came up with genuine solutions to how to avoid that hard border. the u.k. committed to proposing specific solutions to address the new unique consensus on the island of ireland we look forward to receiving these proposals to maintain food lyman resumes rulers of the internal market and the customs union which now all in the future through port north-south corp the old eye on the economy and the protection of the good friday agreement he sees the buck stops that we have to put into which the rule agreement so that name how is all of this going down there in britain. not surprisingly it's gone down extremely by and lee with prime minister to resume a she was taking questions in parliament earlier on she's again rejected the

idea of britain staying in a customs union of course the i.e. the problem is that if the whole of the united kingdom and northern islands were out of that customs union then where does that leave the border so she said that the draft text if implemented would undermine the u.k. common market but more moreover it would threaten the constitutional integrity of the u.k. by creating a border down the irish sea she says no prime minister could agree to that now michelle bunny a will be talking to the other twenty seven e.u. member states later on wednesday next week he meets northern ireland's political leaders one of them the d u p leader arlene foster has already tweeted that this this text is constitutionally unacceptable she said it would be economically catastrophic for northern ireland very hard words but what mr bunny says he needs is concrete proposals concrete solutions the opposition leader jeremy corbett in

parliament not to reason may because mr corbin has now shifted his stance saying that britain should be in a customs union so now that he's got this new approach he's able to say worldly the conservative government really don't have a coherent plan i think everybody though will be left in no doubt after mr barr mr bonny is a reminder that with thirteen months away from march twenty ninth the leave date that the clock really is taking a there are so many issues that still need to be hammered out in the name thank you it's a final day of high level discussions on the global stage of human rights representatives some countries around the world and spoken at the un human rights council in geneva it's painted a dire picture of the situation millions of facing the changes more from geneva. it was meant to be a celebration the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights but the shadow of conflict was costing

a mood of pessimism across the powers of nations as the un human rights council began its opening session this week in geneva today oppression is fashionable again this security state is back. and fundamental freedoms are in retreat in every region of the world. and nowhere more so than in syria still no ceasefire the bombing the killing and the maiming have not stopped in eastern guta although the government says it's responding to rebel shelling on the capital of damascus and it is important for the united nations to step up to the plate. and it is outside the chamber men who know all about challenges syrian members of the white helmet rescue teams talking to a colleague inside eastern goto. we did not need assistance we need a ceasefire and a stop to the bloodshed and massacres being committed against civilians women and

children against guta. no average to stays off emotional milk but the only think that continues to give us the setting is a smile that we see on the sides they are words seen from a father or mother. the resident a crisis for me and my has been described by the un as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing and the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world seven hundred thousand mostly muslim or hindu or have fled into neighboring bangladesh the country's army launched a campaign of murder and rape to drive them from their villages but that's not how the minister from me in marjah scribed it in geneva and the fight against terrorist who you civilian recruit there will always be violence illiterate damage and civilian casualties britain's minister of state of the foreign office beg to differ

and as i put to the minister just now i said what is the first duty of any responsible government it is the security of all your citizens and from my mind my perspective that means irrespective of who they are what community they belong to and yes that means protests. thing the rights and the civil rights at the human rights of the wreckage of muslim community many political observers might also taken issue with both the tone and content of the speech by egypt's foreign minister to the human rights council some a shokri boasted egypt created in record time a modern constitution in line with international standards to preserve human rights and fundamental freedoms but when it gyptian is go to vote in presidential elections in march they won't have much of a choice on the ballot any real challenger to president abdel fattah el-sisi has either been arrested or forced to drop out human rights watch says the crackdown is a violation of the same constitution their foreign minister was so eager to

highlight and of course al-jazeera as journalists more to say it has now been held in an egyptian prison for fourteen months and has still not been formally charged egypt's me an ma in syria three prime examples of how the government side of the story often stands in stark contrast to what is actually happening on the ground david chaytor al-jazeera geneva in miramar two imprisoned reuters journalists appeared in court for another hearing protest of their innocence and call for press freedom they were arrested last december and charged with illegal possession of state secrets they've been covering the violence against a range of muslims in northern rakhine state the un's calling for their immediate release. of the we were arrested while covering the news we covered the masquerade story as you know aung san suu kyi says it's new that the military has admitted to what had happened nobody recognizes that we were the first ones to shed light on that fact you know you know you would you know the government needs to get the

right information the media has to be able to travel to cover and to write news freely not only about the right kind situation but in all issues. iraqi authorities are increasing pressure on displaced families living in camps and unbar province to return home aid agencies say this is being done to boost the number of voters in certain areas of elections and iraq is a force on the homes of the isolated other parts of the country the army group was and pushed out by the iraqi army and allied fighters in the campaign reduced many areas to rubble well the director of the norwegian refugee council in iraq said conditions have to improve before people can return home. the government together with the international community has to create conditions for the people to return to their homes being too late to through elementary security in their areas be related to have clearance after months of war unexploded bombs being related to proper infrastructure in place schools hospitals etc people also need to have

access to basic documents for them to be able to sell it across the country and be able to have a system in place services that includes personal ids that includes birth certificates to children that includes ration cards or any other documents that enable them to access assistance provided by the government or by the international community. fighting in central african republic between muslim and christian groups has forced more than million people from their homes and more than two million that's half of the population needs humanitarian aid well the conflict is now spreading to areas or ones considered peaceful in the first of our three part series al-jazeera is catherine sawyer went to a diamond rich region in the east that's controlled by one of the largest rebel groups here's her exclusive report from bria. rebel gunmen make sure that everyone entering bria is unarmed and don't belong to

rival groups the checkpoint is controlled by the popular front for their own essence of the central african republic the f. p.r.c.'s one of the largest factions of what was a mostly muslim group called. the town is an important supply routes and has the largest diamond mines in the country. so we have. we are not. we. we have structured we're not so just get out of line we deal with them when i see one commits a crime we have a judicial system to deal with that. business is a town center which is only now coming back to life after armed groups which had previously clegg's it began fighting just over a year ago this is the main markets in which. they keep people here they plan expect them to pay taxes and support them and the arrangement that seems to be

working for now. at one end of town and right on the doorstep of a u.n. peacekeepers base his accomplice placed people all a christian more than seventy thousand people in brianna have been forced to flee their homes the u.n. says this kompas been infiltrated by gunmen from. a largely christian group in the competent high that. during the fighting it is they aren't sure that a good year safely out of the ones who protected us where they are not in the camp in him or what you see in bria plays out in many other towns and villages across the country people who are living together have now created their own religious and ethnic boundaries binoy lives on the christian side of town he says he can go to the muslim dominated market during the day but has to return before nightfall. even at night i don't sleep well. afraid that people might come and kill me i

always have to be prepared to run. most of the countries controlled by armed groups often fighting over men drawls cattle and trade routes forging an easy alliances and then violently breaking up un peacekeepers in the central african republic are overwhelmed and caught up in all this central african such as who are just trying to stay alive catherine saw al-jazeera bria central african republic. when is when is leader nicolas maduro has officially registered himself as a candidate for april's presidential election the opposition's boycotting the i'm calling it a false main rivals a standing against him who have left the country to avoid tension venezuela is going through an unprecedented recession with widespread shortages of basic goods and medicines it's also facing tough sanctions from the united states. it's now official even though the latest polls indicate that seventy five percent

of venezuelans disapprove of president. he seems to be reelected on april the twenty second and the reason is very simple the main opposition coalition isn't running it has been barred from doing so as has what would have been president main rival. who nearly beat him in presidential elections five years ago addressing his supporters shortly after registering his candidacy my little said that victory was guaranteed that it was a sure look on him here because our the president of the people and you are a people of the president now the main opposition political parties are boycotting the election they call it a fraud which gives no guarantees of transparency claims that they are following the orders of the united states there will be or probably will be three candidates from very very small political parties two of these candidates are barely known by

the venezuelan people and most assume that they will make very very little difference to the final outcome in the meantime the international couple a community is criticizing these elections they call it a sham latin american north american and european leaders are calling it fraudulent as well but president by registering his candidacy is showing that he is not concerned about growing international isolation and the growing threat of more international sanctions this is tens of thousands of venezuelans can do. new to flee the economic chaos of their country seeking food and medicine elsewhere. and egyptian pop star has been sentenced to six months in jail for a joke about the cleanliness of the river nile so in a day or had apologized after a video appeared of her laughing with fans in lebanon in august she said drinking water from the nile could give people parasites all the judges that used to have spreading false news she's free on bail pending an appeal thousands of film fans

have lined the streets of mumbai to pay tribute to bollywood stars sridevi who died on saturday a body was cabin a decorated truck to the place where last rites with a full fifty four year old died while attending a wedding in dubai police and her death was due to accidental drowning following a loss of consciousness start here in the three hundred fifty years. in the majors government has warned of an increase in landslides with more than forty million people at risk across the country recent years have seen hundreds of people killed and thousands displaced during the rainy season from central java state vasant centers report. landslides have become indonesia's most common natural disaster killing more people in a year then earthquakes floods or toonami. on february twenty two a group of farmers was buried while working at their rice fields when a hill collapsed on top of them. along. the danger

looms mostly in then sleep off related mountainous areas like by johnny gaddar in central java here seventy percent of the land is prone to landslides put in one million people in immediate danger early in january fifty one houses were destroyed and villages were cut off after the land collapsed everyone managed to escape in time. surreal hannah and her husband ran out of the house when huge correct started to appear and the did and it was raining and we were all sitting together as have been in evening suddenly the electricity went off and there was a rumbling noise everyone ran outside and we felt the landless moving electricity poles had fallen down so i ran as fast as i could with my two sleeping kids. not only did she lose her house she also lost her chicken farm four years ago lance lights were still rare in by german guy but in the past two months there have been fifty nine it started in two thousand and fourteen and more than one hundred twenty

people died when a landslide buried a small village logging intense agriculture and the rapidly growing population are seen as the main causes. why do we see more landslides and floods it's an accumulation of environmental destruction with riverbed deforestation and that's been happening for decades well measurement show soil and by john a guy is still unstable and more landslides could happen locals have started to clear the road millions of people in indonesia are living on a ticking time bomb every rain shower could cause another this asked for destroying lives property and life lee hoods while experts urge people here in this mountainous region to relocate many don't want to leave the government so far has only relocated people who have lost their houses but land is getting scarce and many don't want to live far away from their plantations and farms. those who insist on building new houses inside dangerous areas can still do so they are simply told

to watch out and look for cracks and other signs showing that a landslide is about to happen rarely does that mean doesn't the reality is we cannot evacuate everyone these people have their lives and livelihoods here they have their plantations we always tell them to be more careful. trying to prevent more casualties an early warning system has been put in place but the district chief has urged the government to help pre-planned the area as soon as possible using trees with strong roots that can keeps all together if this is not done quickly he worries a much bigger disaster could happen sometime soon step fasten al-jazeera by jem'hadar. world football.

well go back to his forum aaron thank you so much we start with basketball and the biggest star in the game le bron james has made even more history has trouble doubling cleveland's went over brooklyn on choose days saw him become the first n.b.a. player with thirty thousand points eight thousand a says and eight thousand rebounds now remember these pictures we showed you on shoes day three billboards were put out near cleveland trying to entice the cavaliers star to sign with the philadelphia seventy six ers the stand is inspired by the oxcart oscar nominated movie three billboards outside every misery the thirty three year old who can opt

out of his contract this year says he's flattered. you could say that. this is a distraction. not a distraction is actually very flattering. said you're thirty three my fifty's your teens. say teens. it's terrible. but people understand look he want me to play for. me that's cool. that's dope the bronze close friend and former teammate dwayne wade also had a big night the three time n.b.a. champion now back with miami drain the winning shot to how he beat the seventy six years by a point wade simeon littler a double double the twenty six points and twelve as says as the trailblazers beat the sacramento kings one hundred sixteen to ninety nine it was their fourth win in a row. they had of russia's olympic committee says that the international olympics

committee has reinstated his organization after banning it back in december russian fans had to watch their country's athletes compete as neutrals in the twenty eighteen winter olympics after the i.o.c. suspended the country over doping allegations the head of russian olympic committee says the organization has had its rights fully restored. p.s.g. phase that arrivals marsay for the second time in a week later as they attempt to a trophy quadruple this season they meet in the quarter final the french cup with p.s.g. winning sunday's match in the lead neymar was injured in that game with p.s.g. confirming the forward has a fracture in his right foot the brazilian does however have a small chance of playing against real madrid in next week's champions league last sixteen second leg tie the french club trail three one on aggregates. the monday there is not any decision about him undergoing surgery it is all fake news

this morning i had a meeting with the doctor he told me everything about his injuries after the first test when the swelling has gone down the doctor detected the front in the metal tosswill bone we will see in the next days what is going to happen then make a decision on whether i came in mind or all rested cristiana rinaldo for their league game against espanol gerard marino scored the only goal of the game as a rail slipped to their fifth fleet defeat of the season third in the table fourteen points behind leaders barcelona it's the first time especially all have beaten raul since two thousand and seven. in the first half with the chances we created we could have scored a goal and the much would have changed this is the defeat we lost and it's very hard. the head of football's governing body has backed the use of video technology to assist referee or referees at this year's world cup in russia for president johnny and believes the system doesn't prove the accuracy of decisions football

lawmakers will decide on saturday whether to authorize the so-called v.a.r. system on a permanent basis at a meeting of world cup team officials it's been decided the software will be made available to doctors during tournaments matches. and assistant of the doctor or a second doctor to sit in front of a television screen and gun held to the doctor in taking his decision because he can review very clearly very concretely what happened on the field what the doctor sitting on the bench perhaps could not see so this is a superior mental health for the doctor to put his diagnosis and to say ok he can go on yes or no the former arsenal on man city midfielder samir nasri has been banned from football for six months by football's european governing body away five the french player was found to have violated anti-doping rules the thirty year old who is currently without a club received in an authorised treatment at a private clinic in the us in two thousand and sixteen tennis world number two rafa

nadal has pulled out of the mexico open just a day before his opening round match the sixteen time grand slam champion is suffering with a hip injury that also forced him to withdraw from the australian open in january we want to work hard to try to recover as soon as possible not for me is it possible to them out or to say something realistic about if i want to be an indian wells are not that my goal is to be there and i want to work to try to be there but of course i can't say yes or no and. i hope the best will be i suppose the first possible and then let's. meanwhile world number one roger federer was the big winner at the lawrence awards in monte carlo the thirty six year old one sportsman of the year after clinching his fifth australian open title in his eighth wimbledon title last july this was star also the comeback of the year award. we did have a plan we were right we believe you could beat the best we believe you could maybe

be the best you we believe that could win. whatever it was you know and that's what i think what makes me so incredibly proud and happy right now to receive these two awards very well knowing that many other athletes deserve d's as much as me maybe even more but i take them very happily elsewhere top seeing grigor dimitrov has been knocked out in the first round bye to new zealand wild card tonight just searing beating the world number one in three spots thirty four year old jaziri will play dutchman roman around. for a amorous eighty's where the pacesetters on day two of formula one in a pre-season testing friday sebastian vettel posted the quickest lap time in barcelona the german finished second in last year's championship series driver lewis hamilton houghton skipped tuesday's session while his teammate about terry brought his was only marginally slower and better. and that's all your sport for

now more later back to you dear laura thank you that's it for me to enjoy this news hour i'll be back in a moment though with more of the day's news daily. too often on the streets of india little are victims but a new force is that plain. female police officers are combat sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india. at this time. i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information

most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds me we can get to washington d.c. in two hours we can get it on jurists in the rest of central america and about the same time but more importantly is where those two cultures north and south america meet have to teach a great it's a very important place for al-jazeera to be. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but it didn't come to heart and he's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. holding them furiously to draw. you know hope of finally laying the pass to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because we need to if i could just find a think about i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera. the nature news as it breaks thing is a sense of renewed hope with the president enjoys quite a deal with details 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. the second day of a russian sponsored ceasefire ends in syria with little evidence of things have changed on the ground. but i'm darned old massage there are live from doha also coming up a big.