what makes this moment. this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important. to be a. serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. from studio fourteen. in syria's second attempt at a pause in the fighting and it seems to be holding there has been some sporadic

shelling. in the polls. and today russia's foreign minister has been blaming opposition fighters for not allowing a third. meanwhile the u.s. disarmament officials told russia you're on the wrong side of history failing to live up to the commitments of destroying syria's chemical weapons. un report accuses north korea of supplying the syrian government with to create a very. high school in the florida class is in session an emotional step for those who survived the pipeline shooting as they remember the students. who weren't there at the moment. and i'm we are hearty apple is about to start story. of its chinese customers on servers in china the worry is it will make it easier for the chinese government to track its citizens we're following the conversation and have your react. be sure to connect that with the hash tag agent.

with the news great in mind on air in streaming online through you tube facebook live and dot com a second attempt at a so-called pause in the fighting the tried again this wednesday in eastern good there and it's largely been adhered to despite the reports of sporadic shelling remember this is supposed to be a daily humanitarian window called for by the russians and it failed on tuesday when at least thirteen people were killed in the fighting and that's the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov who's blamed syrian opposition fighters for blocking aid access into that besieged area lavrov says russia and its syrian allies have established humanitarian corridors for people to flee but it's the rebel shelling is blocking the path around the u.n. for its part says the truce is a five hour window is just too short to evacuate people or to send in aid.

it is the 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 plot 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 turn of the militants and their sponsors to act as the militants entrenched there continue the shelling of damascus blocking a deliveries and the evacuation of those wishing to leave here is a somber binge of aid in gaza and with more. can you elaborate more on how the fighting today compares with what we saw yesterday. well it's day two of more of the same this five out of pause came into effect and went away without any real changes on the ground aid did not come in and medical evacuations did not happen russia has been insisting that it has carved out this

humanitarian corridor from the bar for the crossing where people can exit to vote and it blames rebel forces for the rebels as well as people inside the east and with the civilians have been saying that they don't trust disarrangement there is no third party there is no neutral party which they can trust to try and come out of that many people don't want to come out anyways but the people who want to come out don't trust either russia or the syrian government activists have been saying that it is absurd that this the world at large and russia believes that nineteen hours a day they can bomb us and that nine one one past nine day expect us to travel to their area where they will not kill us so that is the kind of sentiment that is in eastern guta that this is a ploy to go around the u.n. six nations security council resolution passed and saturday when the world agreed that the bombing and the relentless killing of people in people in eastern would the needs to stop that hasn't. stop in the one thousand hours before and after this

five five hour pause the shelling and air strikes continue we heard a number of people have died today is when many of them were injured in last night's bombing of duma of decent people who cannot get medical aid the medical supplies as well as medical facilities are limited we heard from one doctor saying that they have sent at a list of eighty five people in that is a shorter version of more than one thousand people who need to be urgently evacuated from eastern guta but this so far i haven't heard on how these evacuations will happen i can't begin to imagine how bad the humanitarian situation is inside. the what do you hear from your contacts. well people have been telling us that because it's one hundred square kilometers of eastern ruta and there are urban pods and drooly pods and this is largely an agricultural area so people who are on the outskirts have things to eat like every

cultural products that they can go out and kill but in the urban areas people have not been getting any aid whatsoever because of the relentless bombardment overnight and during the day the day i was there are stranded in basements with varying the to do eat people one of the one of the activists who we spoke to last night told us that he's had has to lie to his children that don't don't worry it is going to be ok we will take care of things and they have to russian the food that they have because they don't know when will the name next aid convoy or next. you know russian packet will be delivered to them because this russian packets are being delivered by aid workers on the ground in eastern route to and you have to bear in mind that a lot of roads have been taken out in different as bombardment as well so the one thing that is happening in the five hour pause is that aid workers are going out trying to clear out roads where i'm going says and trucks carrying aid can reach these people stranded mostly in their basements some of binge of aid and for the latest on what's happening in syria thank you for that exactly what is happening

and why it's happening in there is being constantly moms are not tasted at al-jazeera dot com this page very handy one all the latest updates the who controls what map a bit further down this video as it's running high and what's trending as well so it's pretty easy for you to find. out what is happening and why that's what you'll have a search for that al-jazeera dot com. why don't you pick things up from here talking to us some about the humanitarian situation that includes obviously technology and trying to get the word out which well as it happened it is happening in syria is quite good at actually publishing these videos online the internet is filled with videos from people inside good to asking for a permanent end to the fighting that's been their message all along here's a journalist reporting from inside the city a few hours after the cease fire was announced on tuesday and now. there is many or plays on who want to come and assemble don't. want to

please. be seized. it's twelve o'clock russia always did many things. there are also children reporting from inside eastern ghouta and we've been talking to several of them they're begging for the fighting to stop altogether many of them are hiding in shelters underground and i think much alike and just play out but for what appears and you just kind of go into where it is that just play on the all deeply within the country of syria levy and on them will make i think they would want to get into the watch and they get on the me nothing but the destruction if we want to it will be for eighty years ago what we leave today into any p.c.

should be. the log of the will of the. now some people think these children are not real that they're paid to post online and to spread propaganda against the syrian president bashar assad that brings us back to bed you may remember the eight year old who was live tweeting during the bombings and aleppo last year she was also accused of being fake though she was not fake russian and pro assad trolls are once again using the hash tag bomb the hoax to to discredit the children tweeting from within that's including fifteen year old mohammed who we just heard from in that video elliot higgins he's a researcher at king college london he tweeted a thread on his account proving that muhammad in particular is in fact real he said higgins said quote take this video from february eighth for example where mohammad says his friends home was bombed it shows footage of white helmets rescuing people then in this screengrab from a white helmet channel you can see the rescue operation which includes one of the

same vans filmed by how much he also compares he being eliot higgins the researcher compares different windows and trees and different markings on buildings to prove that mohammed is in fact where he says he is comparing those to other videos in the middle of a war zone now many of you have also asked us how you can help these children and others stuck inside go to the website good dot com gives you ten ways to help people of eastern guta one of the top ways is to tweet about it with a hash tag save if you do be sure to add our hash tag as well hash tag age eight news good minds of the just as very much feel like aleppo all over again doesn't it . well we heard the russians pointing the finger at syrian rebels for the violations of its five hour cease fire in these the good the but russians also taken some pretty heavy criticism in return from the united states a senior u.s. disarmament official says russia has violated its commitments as guarantor all of

the destruction of syria's chemical weapons stockpile and that it's failed to prevent president bashar al assad's government from using them as far as the recent deaths attack on civilians which the syrian government denies. a state that does. that has used chemical weapons in syria. against its own people i might add. russia does give support to that regime and so that's of great concern to us and we continue to point out to our russian friends that. you need to get on the right side of history on this you are currently on the wrong side of history with regard to chemical weapons use in syria you know back in twenty five syria did publicly acknowledge it had chemical weapons but insisted they would never be used against the syrian people only against quote external aggression rules remember all this twenty twelve u.s. president barack obama said his red line with the syrian government would be the use of chemical weapons and later that year assad's forces killed nearly fifteen

hundred people in a chemical weapons attack and while the u.s. didn't follow through with the red line threats the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w. announced that syria's chemical weapons would be destroyed on board a u.s. ship and by april of twenty fourteen they announced that ninety two percent of those weapons had been destroyed and then on top of that we're we now just twenty fifteen you've got u.n. security council resolution two to three five which created an investigative units to determine who was responsible for the chemical weapons attack so all of this is happening. but the attacks didn't stop a year later hospital officials reported an attack using chlorine gas this was in aleppo. april twenty seventh tain chemical weapons killed dozens of people in it leaving the o.p.c. w. again says assad's forces have used well this time it's the nerve agent called sarin gas and then just yesterday there was this leaked report suggesting north

korea was supplying the syrian government with items to create ballistic missiles and chemical weapons that particular report is expected to be publicly released next month it outlines north korea's dealings with syria over the past ten years a lot to take in there i know but we're going to break it down with hamish depression gordon who is a chemical weapons advisor to the ngos working in syria joining us via skype from baltimore it's always good to talk to you sir i mean the short story here is that the chemical weapons were destroyed i mean we heard that ninety two percent of them were but are we just looking at the remaining eight percent here. well not quite i mean you're right as certainly a big lot myself looking at this at the time believed that the regime had not declared all their chemical weapons and about two hundred tons of precursors are missing however the organization the prohibition of chemical weapons when they removed the declared stop are also destroyed the wherewithal to do it the un report that you mention is about the interdiction of two north korean ships in twenty

sixty that were carrying pieces of equipment that would enable the regime to mix the precursors they had into nerve agents and that appears to be what what has happened so when the capability was destroyed in twenty forty by the a p c w we then saw extensive use of chemical weapons mainly chlorine and other toxic industrial gases but can she can last year was a major sarin attack and killed up to one hundred people and there has been a lot of indications of a legit uses a sarin in the last twelve months or as well so you're far from destroying that chemical weapons capability the regime have used chemical weapons frequently and seem to have the capability to mix sarin and probably helped by the north koreans who have an extensive can weapons program themselves. and with the more deadly

nerve agent v.x. which hopefully they have passed on to the regime as well so is the onus on russia as the united states is trying to say to keep up its side of the bargain and try to exert some pressure on the syrians to give up those remaining chemical weapons. well i think they are certainly in my humanitarian work in syria and negotiations with the russians and the sat to get injured people out of the left in december twenty sixth eight and more recently it is quite clear that the russians do have a very strong hold over the regime and do it in certain each and request a side does does they can and he does them i don't think the russians are directly involved in the syrian chemical weapons program but they must be seeing it and they are a signatory to the chemical weapons convention that is russia as is syria and as such

and also in their role as a permanent member of the u.n. security council it is it is best on their end to make sure that assad's first of all doesn't use chemical weapons in future in the hundred year. was well and truly broken lucy's described. and is now being used very frequently so i think the russians hold the key here and every precious should be put on them to ensure that the assad regime stops using these chemical weapons which you know have now led to proliferation all around the world and every dictator despeaux rogue states and terrorist sees them as fair game times to britain gordon always interesting talking to you we thank you for your time if you want to get in touch with us why don't you contact details coming up for you on screen right now with the hash tag a genuine that i have heard from jelani on facebook live is talking about the un's need to utilize its influence to stop the killings of innocent syrians well i think they're trying to do that but as you see diplomacy does move quite slowly the u.n.

wanted a full ceasefire and it's the group that we've only got these five hour windows every day and are on facebook like that is facebook the cons lashonda zero asks how would the world react if this was happening in america or europe has to go to news good twitter facebook and what's app and telegram all up and running for you to get in touch with us directly. now lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has returned to saudi arabia just three months since his last trip to riyadh which he used to announce a sudden resignation hariri this time as the king salmon in the capital so hopeful to the crown prince mohammed bin solomon. just a quick reminder if you don't remember what happened on that last trip it was back in november hariri made a televised address from saudi arabia announcing his resignation just a day after he got there lebanese officials accused of forcing him to step down and even putting him under house arrest while the government denied this harry reid's resignation plunge lebanon into

a regional political crisis between saudi arabia and iran hariri eventually made it home some weeks later after a french intervention and then withdrew his resignation his government since reaffirmed its policy of staying out of conflicts and arab countries where there is monitoring this visit from beirut. these 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 the 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 have 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 how do you do 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 the 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 good background here on subtle hurried includes video reports there's an episode of inside story there's an interview with our senior political analyst mangeshkar there which was conducted on use grid so you can just search for who is lebanon's saad hariri if you want to have a browse through that and then also when hariri was last in the headlines

listening post tackle this issue on how arab media reports the story along these geopolitical lines which exist especially given the influence of saudi arabia and crown prince mohammed bin someone always inform us of the listening post it is in the show's section. dot com. just having a look at the live wall and actually also having a look at some comments i've had this box here we see the current president of the united nations security council is kuwait be discussing syria and i've had a message from well it's a tweet actually united nations just become a place of get together for bureaucrats they've lost their humanity become there at the u.n. has lost its purpose well they're trying to talk still trying to make some headway on the humanitarian situation particularly in syria as well as the ongoing fighting or write off we go to london now here is more international news from you come our thank you let's go to afghanistan where the president has offered to

recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as part of negotiations to end the more than sixteen years of war calamy made the proposal at the start of an international conference aimed at creating a platform for peace talks he also put forward a range of other options including a ceasefire the release of prisoners and fresh elections this comes after the taliban has been blamed for much of the increased violence in afghanistan tony 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 impunity 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. to reuters journalists imprisoned in myanmar have called for press freedom and protested their innocence. or end while long were denied bail after appearing in court on wednesday charged with illegal possession of state secrets that journalists have been covering the violence against for him to muslims in iraq and state and were arrested in december over allegations that they violated the country's official secrets act the u.n. is calling for their immediate release. employees of general motors in south korea are demanding the government protect their jobs they've already voted to go on strike if the u.s. carmaker decides to pull out of the country the company suspended pay talks earlier this month and revealed it would shut one of its factories it's still deciding the fate of destry remaining plants general motors employs around sixteen thousand

people in south korea. in jerusalem one of christianity's holiest sites has reopened to the public's three days after its leaders close there in protest against israeli tax measures the church of the holy settle car is believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ it reopened after the local mayor suspended a plan to make churches pay substantial back taxes on their assets have a force that has this update from occupy eastern. 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 attempt 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 waited 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 tour and i actually thought we may not get to come and so now it's it really joyous the price to be able to come in here so christians once again have access to sites such as this the slab where jesus said to be prepared for burial the question now is how this is

resolved the plan is for a committee which includes ministers the jews. ms power to you 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 new authorities there are some voices that question whether that gives too much power in the long term to israeli authorities well 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. and that is it from london now let's go back to come out of a barber thank you for that the former campaign chairman for u.s. president donald trump is appearing in court to answer a thirty two count indictment against him for faces charges including conspiracies and launder money conspiracy to defraud the united states failure to file as a foreign agent out of the lobbying work he did on behalf of the pro russian ukrainian party of regions four was indicted by special counsel robert muller who is investigating of course the alleged russian interference of the twenty sixteen

election and also us media reporting donald trump's son in law and advisor. has lost his access to top secret security briefings he's one of several aides under scrutiny about the level of information they have been allowed to see we will discuss both of these with patty callahan in washington d.c. now patty let's deal with. cushion a first of all i mean at the least it seems incredibly embarrassing that a senior advisor couldn't be given this sort of clearance but it goes to other people as well that seems to be a big problem. and doesn't this is i can't stress enough highly unusual we are more than a year into the presidency of donald trump and it wasn't just jerry question as you mentioned his son in law and a senior advisor there are dozens of people we believe inside the white house they're still not been cleared by the f.b.i. to be able to see the most sensitive information that the intelligence community comes up with now that he's been able to see all of that information for the year because he had a kind of exemption well now the chief of staff has stepped in and said not anymore

you can still see some information there's different. of classification but the most secretive the most classified he doesn't get to see that anymore so the question is how is he going to be able to do his job don't forget this president has given him a huge portfolio everything from dealing with china to mexico to peace in the middle east and he will be able to see what the intelligence community thinks is actually happening in those places more concerning i think for cushion or right now is a report out of the washington post that we haven't been able to verify but the washington post is now saying that cushion or at least four countries openly talked about being able to exploit questioner because of his inexperience in foreign policy because his personal company is so in debt they said that was the u.a.e. china mexico in israel all believed to have been at least looking at ways to exploit commissioner in the same time it's now reported the question was having these conversations with foreign leaders without coordinating or even telling anyone in the national security council that it itself again unprecedented and.

then of all the people that robert mueller has gone off to it's amount of food has been the biggest fish so far because he's i mean he was the campaign manager he was so close to president candidates donald trump when all this is apparently happened . if you hear the white house say it he wasn't that big of a deal but he as you mentioned he was the campaign manager he ran the campaign until he was forced out that all these allegations came out that he was tied to the pro russian former ukrainian government he is facing a slew of charges he came here to the courthouse behind me might still be in the courtroom. but he pled not guilty to a new indictment and then he's going to go to virginia where he's facing more moeller charges it's going to we expect to plead not guilty on friday there but if you read the indictment it really does seem like the moeller team has a lot of evidence against him and now his close associate rick gates has basically flip to taking a plea deal and is testifying against him and whoever else we don't know so man

a four under chris. being pressured to do the same thing to flip to be able to try and get out of this some way because he's sixty eight years old and he is facing charges from as you mentioned bank fraud tax evasion expiring against the u.s. government this would basically if he was found guilty i mean he was going to die in prison the further complication for the republican party the trump presidency his trial is now scheduled for late september that will be at the very height of the campaign for the midterm elections and donald trump is visibly worried about losing his majority in congress because if you look at the polls that seems very likely all of this manner for news not good news for the president believe a bill isn't it patty hein in washington d.c. thank you for that it's this is the news great if you're watching us on facebook live got a story for you coming up about putting police offices in u.s. schools in the wake of the latest american school shooting speaking all of which are to spank school today at montreux stoneman douglas high school in florida two

weeks ago the scene of the deadliest high school shooting in u.s. history we will be in puntland as the students return to class. however the weather looks a little kwacha or across much of the middle east at the moment the still a fair amount of cloud in place still some. for some you see the the cloud making its way in which was the levant with a bit of wet weather just coming into northern areas of syria just spilling out of to here of course is. the policy of europe just to celsius in ankara then on thursday off to some when she weather to over towards afghanistan took in the stock . that will linger there as we go on through friday should be a little drier across northern parts of syria pushing across of the northern areas

all rock a little bit of cloud coming through it's somewhat to weather some wintry. up towards the caspian sea for the south we'll see eighteen celsius in beirut with some good spells of sunshine still some decent spells of sunshine into the right information we've had some showers on and off the coast just around the gulf racially here in the harbor the past couple of days a few spots of right twenty five celsius on thursday come friday twenty six celsius here in doha little cloud just nothing its way to southern pasta saudi arabia through the u.a.e. with a possibility all right i said take a chance of rain across. pushing into the mist that much of south africa will stay for. our. own the benefit of saddam people. so a bad day see be important. witness

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the headline and on the seaward all call man what's trending this well the bollywood stars sridevi who died in dubai a funeral today and this is big very big news you talked about it on the grid a really popular story online is low and then of course. you can go to syria and go to that is our top story there is so much really good strong background highbridge

and complementary coverage it is really what's going to al-jazeera dot com if you want to understand what's happening in syria every day out there read it the team does a great job there what's trending i don't see or don't. for the students of marjorie's steinman douglas high school in florida there is no such thing as returning to normal in the past two weeks students have attended funerals of their classmates and teaches have been challenging florida lawmakers over gun laws today they returned to the same school with seventeen people were shot and killed on february fourteenth in what was the deadliest high school shooting in u.s. history. is andy gallagher has been phoning in reporting on this story since it happened and. almost seems silly to ask this question but what is the mood like there can you convey to us the depth the feeling that's there.

well the students at the marjory stoneman douglas side school started turning up here about seven thirty this morning but they had lots of support from the local community just about the entire broward sheriff's police department were out here lots of hugs and high fives from police officers to students are the students we've spoken to most of them were really looking forward to getting back to school they wanted to try and get back to some kind of normalcy to greet their friends to hug their friends but the principal of the school said today it's not a teaching day it's a healing day it's only a four hour day they'll be out of these gates in about an hour's time inside there were lots of grief counselors the principal told them not to bring their backpacks not to bring their books so clearly inside marjorie stoneman douglas high school today you know there's a lot of traumatic experiences because going back into something like this where fourteen students and three teachers were killed must be so traumatic for many of these young people in many cases it could trigger post-traumatic stress so the

school taking things very gently the students of course i've been doing anything but that over the past two weeks they've been. taking to the streets making impassioned speeches about gun control and that really isn't going to let up they're planning to march again in washington d.c. next month and certainly most of them here will continue to push for gun control and in many ways are becoming the voices of a new generation that can't even vote yet but their voices have certainly been reverberating around the world and a slight sidebar issue at least to what's happening with you there today and it has to do with something i've been reading about called dick's sporting goods obviously a store in the united states i was telling me earlier it's big online this story and it's a big deal talk us through what's happened. it is a big deal this is one of the biggest sporting retailers in the united states is no way you go in this country where you can't find a dick's sporting goods and now after the shooting happened the c.e.o.

of that company sat down with all these directors they were selling assault rifles they were selling assault rifles to people as young as eighteen they've now decided to remove assault rifles from all their stores and raise the minimum age from eighteen to twenty one they did in fact say that one weapon they sold was to nicholas cruz it wasn't an assault rifle but the c.e.o. said look he doesn't want to feel like they're selling weapons to anyone that can do something like this they've taken a position and they're not the only ones lots of big corporate companies in this country and now we're moving benefits to national rifle association members including delta airlines and lots of car rental companies so there is a growing movement here i think in corporate america to recognize that they play a part in this and they can have a voice in this too because i think these students speeches of really touched a lot of people and they are of course very intelligent young people very passionate young people and they are those that the spear tip of a growing movement but of course the legislation is moving

a lot slower than many people he would like and he gallica in pontin's first day back at school the thank you for that. great little reality check here from our friends over at upfront it's from late twenty fifteen but it's actually a pretty fascinating history lesson into the gun control debate and how the n.r.a. the national rifle association wasn't always anti gun control up front with meth the hot sun is in the show's section about zero com if you search for n.r.a. reality check. now a state of social emergency has been declared in brazil in response to the massive influx of venezuelan migrants fleeing the economic meltdown at home hundreds of thousands of them have gone to colombia and many of as i heading south to brazil is on the reports now from the northern brazilian city of both vista on what the u.n. is calling a refugee crisis. in a makeshift encampment to the center of town hundreds of venezuelans who have

crossed into brazil in search of what they can't find it home food jobs and maybe a better life this is a city of both of these to presume on the border with venezuela that's where we find one thousand year old thomas prieto and his wife sees that it for them and their newborn baby sent ya go home is now a tent in spite of the conditions they're hopeful. it's better here than in venezuela at least here we can eat here we have possibilities you can find food and people try to help us she is only twenty one years old and having to make decisions based on survival for her family but i got this we came here to try and find a better future for our child and find. in the last few weeks about a thousand venezuelans have been arriving here every day after a tough journey across the border many are hungry. when a truck carrying food arrives in the park the desperation is evident i don't watch

it unfold on the other side of town the gymnasium has been turned into a rudimentary shelter for six hundred people the conditions are prison like italy to washrooms the first thing many venezuelans do when they reach brazil is try to get a job it's the first step in trying to earn money to support their families but to work in brazil you need a permit and that process of getting one used to take weeks but now it's taking months because there are so many people in the work. they come to the police headquarters to begin the process easily in a plaza was forced to come here by herself to try to find work to support her three kids back home you know while there are no options and then as well an option is only to leave. the mayor of both east says the city is doing all it can but is one of brazil's smallest and poorest state capitals struggling. vista is offering all services we have to venezuelans because the city of only three hundred fifty

thousand residents we don't have the capability either financial or through infrastructure to deal with a situation like this. as more people arrive the strain on resources is likely to build but brazil at least for the time being does not plan to close its border with been a swell and if it does it would extinguish something else these people say is also in short supply back home and that's hope. al-jazeera the boa beast in brazil. no one chooses greed we talked about online censorship in china in light of the talk of unlimited presidential terms come true well today there's another strands of pull out and it's to do with how much control the chinese government has or you might say is being given by some of the world's big tech companies this is when it comes to personal data about july last year this happened apple removed v.p.n. services from its chinese absolutely is of course the apps which help you buy

a pos web restrictions in any given country this is the first time that apple complied with requests to get rid of overseas providers from its store and it took a lot of flak as well for apparently bowing to these demands from beijing and now we have a change coming regarding i cloud wish if you've got one of these things anywhere they will serve or if you will hit and use it every day it's part it's part of how these devices all talk to each other and right and it's how you say videos pictures like saying that devices can communicate and share information now the thing is apple is about to start storing the i cloud data of its chinese customers on servers in china now the concern is that it will make it easier for the chinese government to then track its citizens from now on china will rely on its own legal system to retrieve i cloud data instead of having to get permission through the u.s. legal system as it's had to do before and that as you can imagine is causing major

concerns human rights activists fear the chinese government could collect data without permission from users there prior examples of chinese authorities using stored data to find dissidents one case is when yahoo supplied information that led to the arrest of two democracy advocates. now apple said it decided it was better to offer icloud under the new system because discontinuing it would lead to a bad experience for users in a statement they said while we advocated against i cloud being subject to these laws we were alternately successful critics say that apple should not have agreed to operate under chinese laws professor here to fight she she says that the move is under is democratic she tweeted saying i don't think china china would have kicked out apple it's on apple to change that default to off in china and only turn it on after a very very clear warning is presented to the user and rene ritchie

a tech blogger explains how users could respond to this they can choose to stop using it entirely if that's what they want which in effect is the same thing as apple pulling i cloud out of china entirely and they believe they've received the message in error if they're not a chinese citizen residing in china using an operating i phone in china they can also choose not to have their account migrated and if they don't do anything if they don't make a choice either way apple will not migrate their account until they accept the new terms and conditions and then are forced to make a decision so there's no way you can sort of be railroaded into one choice or the other now if you're in china we would like to hear from you especially if you're deciding whether or not to use your i cloud you can get in touch me directly at leo harding age ethan user hash tag a.j. news grid or you can write us on telegram or what's up our number right here for you to use come up thinking individuals government has warned of an increased risk of landslides with more than forty million people at risk right across the country recent years have seen hundreds of people killed thousands displaced by landslides

during the rainy seasons from central java step boston with the support. landslides have become indonesia's most common national disaster killing more people in a year than earthquakes floods or two nominees. on february twenty two a group of farmers was buried while working at their rice fields when a hill collapsed on top of them. the danger looms mostly in that sleep related mountainous areas like by general garda 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 c. or hannah and her husband ran out of the house when huge crack started to appear and the did and it was raining and we were all sitting together as have an indie

evening suddenly the electricity went off and there was a rumbling noise everyone ran outside and we felt the lead was 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 landslides was still rare in by joining 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 while measurements show soil in by jenna ga 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 really doesn't have to see me at it doesn't watch 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 in early warning system has been put in place a 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. just before we take another break a little story from our own back yard cutter of course the world's largest liquefied national natural gas exporter a member of opec an economy built on socal petro dollars and it's just opened its first electric vehicle charging station part of a green car initiative aiming to make ten percent of cars electric by the year twenty. one small hurtled i was one of our viewers michael wrote on twitter unless they make electric versions of toyota land cruiser that is the big gas guzzling s.u.v.s which is so common here that is going to lie pretty much. we hope not for the environments like of course once again for. story about an italian lawyer who isn't letting a brutal injury deter her from a career in politics and then. look at why europe's domestic cup competitions don't

carry favor with fans like they once did but with the international weather.

you know what i don't make you the story far but it's it seems that we're talking about what people are talking about. now but that's kind of interesting. probably every football competition in europe can be quite a task for even the most hardcore fans and even when some of the continent's biggest teams are in domestic cup action how many people are watching or really even care here's what's happening later on wednesday p.s.g. is match against bitter rivals marsay is arguably the biggest game it's known as elect and it's one of two coupe de france quarterfinals later you ventus an avalanche of kick off the second leg of their copa italia semifinal in about half an hour and a seam lands game with lot seo will follow and at london's wembley stadium taught him host lower league side rochdale in the f.a. cup sixth round. well let's take

a look at our trends map to see who in the world is actually talking about these games the yellow light show how many people are using the hashtag coupe de france the blue showing chatter on the copa italia and the f.a. cup is lit up in red now none of these are high none of the hashtags are trending there could be a bit more going on here as we get closer to take offs but right now not a whole lot of anticipation ahead of these games outside the countries there are happening and well let's bring our lee wellings who's live for us in london so leigh why are there so many competitions it's just seems it just seems so hard to keep track of them all. well you've got to go back to the history of the game because cup competitions in most countries predate league competitions certainly in england and have a great tradition and as you go through the decades i was talking to producers just so it was about this and he was pointing out that in the nineteen fifties here the

introduction of floodlights gave a real kick for the league cup and then of course you had better travel plane travel meaning that european competitions took off and suddenly you've got lots of comp cup competitions in each country and in europe when you go to modern football it's that dominance of the champions league that i don't find really interesting you have you could call it an absurd situation in leagues like the premier league where teams will be battling to finish fourth and they'll be desperate to finish fourth and please we want to finish fourth or would you swap that for winning your cup competition or one of the cup competitions in the country and players are not fast as long as i given the chance they but fans do want to win things and that's why they'll always be some interest in cup competitions because it's a chance to win a trophy isn't that what football isn't that what sport is meant to be of about and i come out of a back a sample not. ok see how the english f.a. cup is the oldest competition and the world then was once one of the most glamorous

competitions and the game why has it simpler ins declined than well the f.a. cup when i was growing up many decades ago on was the biggest event in england for the year and this is a boil wedding i want to talk about sport it was the biggest event we are talking about tens of millions watching it were talking about it dominated the day that the competition was a big deal throughout the few months of it and then when you got to the final well that was a huge occasion. i do have some sympathy for the fact that there was a challenge after the hillsborough disaster in one nine hundred eighty nine you had a situation where safety came in and they semifinals were played at wembley as well as it lost a little bit of its magic of the final being at wembley top and of course playing washed out all that much is actually out win because that's where the top and apply this time around but again it's that champions league premier league thing and maybe it's outrageous that managers will say well put more reserve team out for the f.a. cup because it's the league staying in the premier league getting into the champions

league that's what it's all about modern football and main some of the f.a. cup which i think is the world's greatest domestic football competition with hundreds of carbs in it and incredible history is no longer used today are rightfully great to get your thoughts we'll talk to you in a bit now here is a story people just can't stop talking about remember these pictures we showed you on shoes day three billboards or print out cyclamens try and tice cavalier star le bron james to sign with the philadelphia seventy six ers the stunt is inspired by the oscar amanat nominated movie three billboards outside having missouri and the braun had the best reaction to it watch this. you can say. it's a distraction. not a distraction is actually very flattering and i'm sitting here at thirty three my fifteen. teams. say teens. it's time for.

people understand just like the city want me to play for. me that's cool. that's dope. well that's it for me as always we like to hear your thoughts here on aging newsgroup you can tweet me directly at f. underscore it's my own. well be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. for now back to thank you farai i'm told that's a very good film as well joined up and told me that and thank you i think he makes a good point actually and it's the same in new zealand too much rugby almost it is there and the crowd numbers have gone right down as well because it's just all the time if you've got a thought on many of those sports stories or anything we've talked to about snow or you've got a story to say yes we need to see this on the news good then get in touch with us hashtag news get on twitter at i.j.a. english we put the tweet out there just before the show every day and then look for your replies in the thread with that hash tag so do keep an eye there facebook dot

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almost 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 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 take also begin less than one generation. developing countries and one of the news developing countries in the world we have to be brief when you and fear. and. singapore's founding father created a nation of political dynasty family disputes undermining that legacy what's happened to their family and what's happened in singapore's institutions i just don't know what would have cost them more grief people in power investigates the house that leapt out at this time on al-jazeera the sams in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes

a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life here and part of life is culture. sporadic attacks and reports of syrian troops trying to push their way into eastern during the second humanitarian portals.