forced to be displaced by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three it was very buggy greek and turkish villagers returned to their roots almost a century later. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people should be forced to move from dilemma where they were born which are. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. zero. hello i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes sporadic attacks and reports of syrian troops trying to push

their way into. the second humanitarian pause. an olive branch for the taliban the afghan president offers to recognize them as a legitimate political party. as students return to a florida school where a gunman killed seventeen people two weeks ago a major u.s. retailer stop selling assault style rifles. welling's of the sports including him from the cold rush hour officially reinstated to the olympic movement. has been lifted. a come to the program a top story syrian government troops are reported killed launched a ground assault on the edge of east and despite a russian ordered pause in hostilities russia and syria were supposed to stop their offensive between nine am and two pm local time to allow for civilians to leave but

no one has left and no aid has been able to get in some of binge of aid has this report now from. digging more graves is how some spend the five hour pause in the daily bombardment of eastern but many deaths every day the local council arranges for mosques burials. on the syrian government side of the offer been crossing buses an ambulance has waited for civilians to cross but people deny a claim by the russian president that some civilians crossed over on the second day of the pod and fighting. we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave but the second group could not leave because the militants just did not give them an opportunity to do so people in the eastern border called a five hour daily pause in hostilities a joke they ask how can anyone expect them to want to cross to the same people who bomb them for the other nineteen hours of the day not much has changed for the nearly four hundred thousand in besieged east and many have been stranded in

basements like this one that is this woman says her family has survived in pieces of radish for the last few days. there is human flesh everywhere says this man who also tells how he has been disabled by his injuries there are similar tales of despair in other shelters have the situation here is just hunger and sickness no showers the children sleep hungry here. activists say the price of bread is one hundred times more than just a few kilometers away in the syrian capital damascus and very expensive rice is rarely available. this woman says she found some spinach near the river and that's going to be their meal for medical supplies are limited and many hospitals have been destroyed doctors in eastern hold to have recent a list of eighty five people to the united nations who are mostly women and children among the more than one thousand people who need medical evacuation but in the east of water no aid has come in and then on the people who are sick or wounded

have been able to go out. on the turkey syria border. well president putin's claim that large numbers of civilians were evacuated from eastern good has been contradicted by both his own u.n. ambassador and the un's humanitarian affairs chief during a heated discussion at the un security council our diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations approved just days after these ambassadors unanimously demanded a ceasefire their resolution continues to be ignored and repeatedly violated the u.n. undersecretary general mark low called this the world's most senior humanitarian official told them he would answer some of the questions he's received in recent days have there been any medical evacuations. have any civilians left eastern ghouta. is there any actual improvement in the humanitarian situation in

eastern guta since the passage of the resolution demanding is it unimpeded access. he ended his briefing with one last question for the ambassadors when will your resolution be implemented when the u.s. and the u.k. put the blame squarely on russia since we adopted resolution twenty four zero one russia has announced a daily five hour humanitarian cause in the it's in the aerial bombing of civilians in eastern guta this is senekal callous and in flagrant defiance of the demands of twenty four a one. the russian ambassador didn't repeat earlier claims by his boss president putin that a large number of people had been evacuated but he said some medical help had been provided to eastern ghouta underscores the need for the parties to agree on human opinion pauses these of them he read part of the resolution passed on saturday

before giving his explanation why it was not yet halting the violence there's a new stooge attorney. did you read the resolution the whole resolution we stated that any enduring paul's must be preceded by agreement by the parties for deescalation demanding an overnight and immediate halt toss deliveries suggests either a failure to understand realities on the ground or a deliberate exploitation of human tragedy the three main opposition fighting groups in eastern cooter of written a letter to the president of the security council they pledged to kick out the group the council still refers to bart's formal name. they also say they will give the un resolution their full support the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar jeffrey was in the council chamber he gave a typically rambling nineteen minutes speech but he made no such commitment james days out of the united nations. well in a related story elite u.n.

report suggests that north korea has been supplying the syrian government with the means to create chemical weapons and ballistic missiles according to this u.n. report made more than forty shipments to syria between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen the syrian government has repeatedly been accused of using chemical weapons in rebel held areas recently on sunday when civilians in east and go to showed symptoms consistent with exposure to cloying gas that out government has repeatedly denied using those weapons under russian broken daily syrian government was meant to have given up its stockpile of chemical weapons in two thousand and thirteen. it again when you have a country like russia that is frankly a guarantor was supposed to be a guarantor of syrian. the necessity to that for syria to destroy their chemical weapons stockpile in a verifiable way and to prevent their supposed to guarantor of preventing three are

from using those weapons they have clearly been in violation of their commitments the afghan president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political party ashraf ghani made the offer during the kabul process peace conference where twenty five countries are meeting to initiate a meaningful process and that ending the sixteen year long war tony reports from kabul it was a warm and far reaching speech in which the afghan president offered the taliban a peace deal without precondition he also promised official political recognition and an office in kabul if the armed group joins the peace process of the taliban a machine. i call on the taliban and their leadership today the decision is in your hands accept peace a dignified peace will come together to safeguard this country which has been the results of our sacrifices and struggle as though they were his most conciliatory words as president ghani has previously described the taliban as terrorists and

rebels but now he says he'll not prejudge any group he even went as far as to say taliban fighters and officials could be removed from international blacklists delegates representing twenty five regional and international countries have come together in the afghan capital to try and devise a peace strategy aimed at ending sixteen years of conflict it comes at a time when all sides are showing they are willing to talk. the door is still open and they have shown softness in their stand. not just the taliban but the afghan government and its international counterparts as well and i think it's the perfect time maybe in maybe not for the peace deal to be struck at this date but probably for a temporary ceasefire which could then pave the path for is sustainable peace in the long term. the taliban previously insisted on changes to the afghan constitution and the removal of the us military from the country as

a precondition to peace talks but it has always refused to talk directly to the afghan government which it describes as american puppets the group no longer mentions withdrawal all the constitutional changes on top of this the americans are said the door to peace is still open to the taliban and they have put much pressure on pakistan to help in this regard the u.s. military has been increasing its bombing missions from the air while the taliban has been stepping up its suicide attacks on the ground but everyone agrees that this war cannot be won militarily even as president ghani was delivering his speech news came through about how thirty people were abducted by the taliban near kandahar nineteen of them policemen their fate is uncertain and it shows that the violence in afghanistan is continuing as normal no one is suggesting that peace is about to break out in afghanistan but the encouraging signs and language which are coming from all parties are raising hopes here that may be the first tentative

steps of ending this brutal war of being taken tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. now students from the florida high school where a gunman killed seventeen people have return to class as for the first time it's been two weeks sense of form a student allegedly stole marjorie steinman douglas high school with an assault rifle the principal has called it a day of hailing and gallacher reports now from parkland. that he shall i tell you she was despite the fears and despite the trauma these students have been through they came back to marjorie stillman douglass high school just two weeks after losing so many local police on hand to greet them many wearing the school's colors hung shakes and hugs were plentiful the acts of walking through these gates hard to imagine i'm a little nervous a ballet government guilty person hundreds so much security here and to speak back to my friends and teachers imprinted exerted to be back at school. a little bit

nervous this is how different everything feels but everything is it exactly. that it was. over the past two weeks the students have become a force for change the calls for gun reform a fueled a national debate there rallying call of never again echoed by parents who lost children you see me here i don't want to do this but you guys look at me i want to be the last fall there of a murdered kid that's ever. in this country that's it this is me i'm the last fall that everyone is going to say yep that's the last that was his daughter that died that was the last one from protesting at the state capitol to social media campaigns many here trying to keep pressure on politicians next month many of these students will march in washington d.c. with the hope their voices will be heard i lost one of my really close friends in this massacre and. so never again is just we refuse to be sophistic

we refuse to let anything else happen we're going to actually advocate for gun control for the students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school this has been a traumatic but important day many were keen to be reunited with friends and teachers in what was a day of healing going forward students will only attend half days the building where seventeen lives were lost is likely to be demolished and turned into a memorial and the gallacher all deserve a parkland florida. well as members of congress continue to discuss whether they'll legislate any restriction on u.s. gun ownership teenagers a walking out of class and protest against the inaction in cities across the united states students are rising up as part of a broader student movement against guns in america can get reports. since the deadly florida school shooting two weeks ago teenagers across the united states have been making their voices heard i pray that there is

a better world for this passes on to the next because we're tomorrow's leaders. would be a shame if we could do it ourselves the educators school safety network reports threats against schools have been increasing since the florida shooting approximately fifty threats of violence a day most recently in washington state students this week were locked in their classrooms after a gun was fired on campus in missouri students say they've had enough of the threats dozens of students walked out of the classroom carrying signs with the names of students killed in the florida school massacre in stockton california hundreds of students from five high schools walked out of their class in protest of gun violence this is important to every school no matter where we are this could happen it doesn't matter if you're informed of the matter for instructing no matter where we are there could be a gun on campus and someone could get hurt president trump says he also wants

change and is still holding school safety listening sessions thank you for the right thank you for your thoughts but some of trogs proposals such as arming teachers are being rejected according to a representative of the national education association who vetted the idea with public school teachers she represents they didn't want more guns in their school they didn't want their schools to be turned into prisons and their teachers and other educators to be turned into prison in prison guards armed prison guards. in the absence of new federal gun laws one top u.s. sporting goods retailer has announced it will take corporate action to curtail the sale of firearms ending sales of assault rifles and banning gun sales to customers younger than age twenty one good afternoon and state prosecutors are attorney generals an individual states are also considering their own action this is a movement moment in our country and it is being led by these young boys. and it's

time for politicians to listen new polls show roughly two in three americans now say gun control laws should be made stricter it's a wake up call for the nation's lawmakers typically reticent to restrict gun ownership now under pressure by a growing grassroots movement of anti-gun you can really help get al-jazeera washington. it was the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about on the program starting a new life as more and more venezuelans cross the border in search of work brazil declares a state of social emergency. arctic weather disrupts transport across europe and forces some people to find new ways to get out. and in sport hiking up his wetsuit while champion surfer who once tussles with a shot. fighting

in the central african republic between muslim and christian armed groups has forced more than a million people from their homes and more than half the population is in need of humanitarian aid in the first of a three part series catherine sawyer reports from brianna a diamond rich region in the northeast of the country that's controlled by one of the largest rebel movements here is her exclusive report. yes 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.b.i. are seize one of the largest factions of what was a mostly muslim group called seleka the town is an important supply routes and has the largest diamond mines in the country. so we are all abundant we are not bundy.

organized we have structures 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 craig's list it began fighting just over a year ago this is the main markets. they keep people here. they talk and support. and the arrangement that seems to be working well now. at one end of town and right on the doorstep of the un peacekeepers base is accomplished placed people all a christian more than seventy thousand people in brianna have been forced to flee their homes the un says this complex 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 ear safely. out of the ones who protected us where they are not in the company more 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 leaves 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. 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. public hearings have started into atrocities committed in zimbabwe more than thirty years ago during the rule of robert mugabe it's claimed the former president ordered the deaths of people he believed were trying to depose him but his harem of tasks are ports from the town of parnay many don't trust the new government to investigate. this public hearing was meant to encourage people to talk about atrocities committed in matabele land during the one nine hundred eighty s. but some here feel the national peace and reconciliation commission set up by zimbabwe's government is a waste of time. president emerson when and i was in charge of internal security during the massacres with thousands of people were killed allegedly by forces loyal to robert mugabe the former president people from this area mainly material and in

millions nice to see the very guy. took part in those atrocities being arrested going to court saying that most of them are still alive they are still very very in the government so relaxing if justice is to be done those people should be arrested was. soon after independence from britain in one nine hundred eighty mg i believe some of the barbarians were plotting to overthrow him he accused some communities of working with and hiding his enemies he called dissidents. something they don't want an apology he made loads of the stations for this virus they are these hearings and they don't trust the government those who want the hearings to continue so they can get answers are frustrated these three came from an area called to law till they say soldiers came to the village in one nine hundred eighty three looking for dissidents. it's

difficult to talk about what happened they killed my husband then they've beaten raped me it's very painful. when the massacres and other atrocities top part of families some people still don't know where their loved ones are buried what is it that can unite this country. unless we year what is taking people what is troubling people what are the major problems that are keeping us divided. we do not know how far we can move because the massacres a moment of madness but he never apologized forgiveness and healing will be a long slow and painful journey for those desperate for answers how to meet us al jazeera zimbabwe. in countries torn apart by war it's not just the bombs and the bullets that threaten the lives conflict has a catastrophic effect on civilian infrastructure yemen's health system is buckling

after three years of war with many medical centers destroyed and doctors being forced to work without pay and. reports that's put cancer patients more risk than ever before. there's nothing more important than providing whatever comfort he can i know i have out of i'm scared for my children they were life they're the seeds of my soul every day i do my best to help them. the worried father holds their hands or taking the pretreatment to the national on college the center in yemen's capital sanaa his eight year old son a crime suffers from lymphoma while his seven year old daughter as john has a brain tumor they wait in a room in which bright colors fail to mask the kind of darkness the young should never have to contend with. other children are clearly paned. life was extremely difficult for cancer patients in yemen even before the three year old war which has devastated hospitals and the health care system the center's director

says government payments have stopped it used to provide twelve million dollars a year we need to have no conservation dying to limited or. even limited or. difficult to what they can or. the world health organization is in the process of providing the center with two point five million dollars an amount that would be sufficient for approximately thirty thousand patients but that money is a fraction of what's needed what is happening is also because of the local resources the people are not paid the professionals are not paid as professionals on the state and that the qualified of coaches who are required to take as a faces they leave the country or they seek for four other opportunities doctors examined as john and a crumb a routine they become accustomed to but despite the care but he is still concerned

so now that i was not able to get proper health care they're not able to get supplies into yemen because of the siege and prices going up there's a shortage of medicines in the chiba medical center has now you have to buy the medicine to treat to ms and few were available. a father anguished but determined no matter the war no matter the shortages clinging to hope for himself and his children. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has returned to saudi arabia three months after he announced his sudden resignation during a trip to riyadh kerry met the cane selman in the capital and is due to hold talks with crown prince mohammed bin salmond in november lebanese officials accused saudi arabia of forcing hari to quit and putting him under house arrest saudi arabia tonight this. one of christianity's holiest sites in jerusalem has reopened its

doors three days after its leaders closed it in protest against israeli tax measures the church of the holy several is believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ and leo penned after the local mayor suspended a plan to make churches pay substantial act taxes on their assets how a force it has this update for us 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 we waited three days to come in and we have no chance to call there and it was very impressive for us it was an hour or two and 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 sites 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 science. some kind of long term agreement as to how to solve the divisions

that still exist between the church and you 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. it watching the news hour much more still ahead australia orders the recall of millions of cars with airbags linked to more than twenty deaths worldwide. campaigners celebrate has a supermarket in amsterdam opens the world casting free. and then later in sport year it's a big freeze decimates formula one testing with just three drivers braving the icy track.

hello and welcome back well europe's weather what can you say about it remains incredibly unsettled massive amount of cold air driving across many areas plus low pressure systems coming in as well this one coming in from the southwest is going to result in snow on its leading edge across the u.k. we've got snow pushing up across parts of france through into switzerland northern parts of italy and more snow across more eastern areas though through thursday that she was slightly improving situation ahead further towards the east still some snow on friday across parts remain here and bulk area and then towards the west or it's the temperatures are coming up but the price of pale of ford edge that frontal system is some really heavy snowfall across parts of the u.k. and down through france more wet weather coming in through iberian peninsula as you move down into north africa weather conditions here thankfully are nowhere near as unsettled we saw some fairly brisk winds in the showers for the coastal parts of morocco and algeria come further towards the east where the conditions generally ticking much quieter in fact fine weather expected in cairo with highs of twenty

six into central parts of africa looking pretty large across parts of ether east africa at the moment some showers for bon otherwise across west africa femina sunshine it should be bright in akron ghana with highs here of thirty two. but they also did in less than one generation of developing countries one of the most the developed countries in the world we have to be grateful for just a need for new bridge and fear to pretty rough and tough men singapore's founding father created a nation of political dynasty but a family disputes undermining that legacy what happens in a family and what's happened in singapore's institutions i just don't know what would have caused them all great people in power investigates the house that leave at this time on al-jazeera and monday put it world on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do

with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. welcome back you're watching the news hour al top stories syrian government troops reportedly carried out air and ground attacks around the rebel held enclave of eastern despite a russian ordered pause in hostilities. afghanistan's president has offered to

recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as possibly ending more than sixteen years of war. and dozens of police were on hand to make students feel more secure as they return to margery started in douglas high school in florida for the first time since a former student shot and killed seventeen people inside the grounds. now in other stories donald trump has invited the emir of qatar to visit the united states in april. a funny is said to have received the offered a phone call with the u.s. president on wednesday both nations are keen to strengthen cooperation. is a political expert to the truman national security project and joins me now from washington d.c. thank you very much for speaking to us are we seeing a renewed versioning to resolve the crisis in the gulf.

i think we definitely are and i also think that that's a very positive thing we're building off of the momentum of the extremely successful us qatar strategic dialogue that happened in washington just a few weeks ago and during that time the foreign minister of qatar had very productive and positive conversations with general mattis and h.r. mcmaster and secretary tillerson the strength of the u.s. qatar relationship is incredibly important and i'm happy to see the president playing a more active role in ameliorating the crisis he's trying to play a more proactive role as you say but how much is he going to be able to achieve we have seen a deep schism in the gulf one that could be very difficult to repair. how difficult a toss this is going to be for trump and his team. well i think that the trump administration is definitely going to have to come up with some face saving measures to protect the the reputation and the interest of the saudi and

amorality led blockade and so they're not going to want to and the blockade without looking like they've gained something at the same time there blockade has not been effective in achieving their intended aims and so i think that it's important for the diplomats at the state department and the leaders in the trumpet ministration to have an honest conversation which will definitely be in private with the saudis and the emmer audi's in order to incentivize them to lift this blockade but at the same time do it in a way where the optics are managed so that each side can claim a win certainly the saudis in the m.r.i. will not agree to any kind of deal but makes them look like a loser at the end of the blockade at the same time i don't think that there's going to that they're going to be able to continue it for very much longer without a stronger u.s. opposition to it we've seen that president john has been speaking to eat is in the

saudi arabia in recent days and weeks the common thread in all these conversations is iran is the trump of ministrations drive to confront iran in some way really fueling this this push to repair the crisis in the gulf. well i think that it's very important to recognize that the relationship that doha has with tehran is really an opportunity for the united states and other entities to potentially negotiate with the iranians and lessen some of the stress that we see in the broader reach and so for example we see a lot of proxy situations happening in yemen as you were talking about earlier also the the tension between iran or rather in lebannon the tension between hezbollah and the saudi supported groups in lebanon and so i think that it's important that some back dialogue back track dialogue happens with the iranians and so for all of

our security interests the only option is not to break out into armed violence and the fox but doha house formalize diplomatic channels with tehran is an opportunity that should really be seized they should not be penalize for that whatsoever in fact because the blockade actually created the situation that caused the qatar ease to build stronger relationships with iran because of over from limitations on overfly rights and the importation of various goods and services that cetera well thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this with us i was saying from the trim in national security project that in washington. now high level discussions on the global stage of human rights have wrapped up in geneva representatives from countries around the world spoke at the un human rights council in the meeting painted a diet picture of the situation millions of facing a to has more from geneva it was meant to be

a celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights but the shadow of conflict was costing a mood of pessimism across the promise of nations as the un human rights council began its opening session this week in geneva today oppression is fashionable again. the 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 may have not stopped in eastern guta although the government says it's responding to revel shelling on the capital of damascus and it is important for the united nations to step up to the plate and. 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 do 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 the only think that continues to give us the strength is a smile that we see on the sides they are words seen from a father or mother. the resident a crisis or 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 hinge 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 used civilian recruits 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 maher 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 written or muslim community many political observers might also have 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 egyptians go to vote in presidential elections in march they won't have much of a choice on the ballot or 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 the 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 two reuters journalists imprisoned in myanmar of course the press freedom and protest at that innocence choice and wallow were denied bail after appearing in court on wednesday charged with illegal possession of state secrets jenison been covering the violence against raising the muslims in iraq i'm state and were arrested in december over allegations they violate the country's official secrets act they face up to fourteen years in prison. no no no

we were arrested while covering the news we covered the mass great story as you go on since you chief 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 if you go to the government needs to get the right information the media has to be able to travel to cover and to write news freely not tell me about the rock current situation but in all issues. i thought of amsterdam's iconic canals have frozen over is basically called temperatures great much of europe authorities have banned boats on the canals so that locals can skate on the frozen waterways assistant snow and freezing conditions from a siberian cull snapple causing delays in many parts of britain and mainland europe where the roads and train service is hit particularly hard on hundreds of flights have also been affected as new fokker reports from london's heathrow airport. there be many more disruptions up and down the country is the so-called peace from the

east cruising much more arctic and much more snow dumping it up and down the u.k. and across the continent at launch here at heathrow airport dozens of flights had to be counsel reshape mainly to other parts of the u.k. or to the republic of ireland a small airport struggled with a deluge of snow there. is a fact for you it takes roughly four thousand lorry loads to shift only ten centimeters of snow from this entire airstrip and given the amount of so that we've seen here recently is pretty much a twenty four hour endeavor cold weather in winter hardly a surprise you may be asking but what's worrying the climatologists is that for the past few days it's been consistently colder here in europe than it has been in the arctic and they are blaming manmade global warming for causing all of this they say the warm air is being drawn up north over the arctic displacing colder air and pushing it down south over siberia and here first into eastern europe and then into

western europe here in the u.k. and over in ireland they know we have to do much more research to find out whether or not all of this freak weather is the shape of things to come. australia's government has ordered the recall of more than two million cars with ad bags made by the japanese found to contest it says it's not satisfied with the results of voluntary recalls carried out by vehicle manufacturers last year faulty to car to add bags have been linked to at least twenty three deaths around the world there's no doubt. that this is one of the largest and most significant recalls in the nation's history with a total of four million because the fictive defective airbags. this equates to around two hundred seven cars on the road. tragically there's been one death and one case of serious in really strive as a result of the deployment of these air bags and the government just doesn't want

to see any more. economic crisis and security situation in venezuela is forcing increasing numbers to leave the neighboring countries hundreds of thousands of people have gone to colombia and many others to heading south to brazil where a state of social emergency has been declared from the northern brazilian city of boa vista gabriel elizondo reports. in a makeshift encampment to the center of town hundreds of venezuelans who have crossed did 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 the east of brazil on the border within a swale and that's where we find one thousand year old thomas brito 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 at 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 with a lead 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 in venezuela the option is only to leave. the mayor of ball these disses 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 fine. all through. to deal with the situation. but at least for the time being does not plan to close it. if it does it would have something else these people say is also in short supply. hope.

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a city in northern libya once had three thousand such hires but as not what i have reports from larry are a few that survive now face an uncertain future in these mountains libyans xico of ated these cave houses hundreds of years ago to routine social bonds this house has a visitor's room separated from the others inside a cool dude leads to a terrace that has a natural drainage system there are a true means each used to be inhabited by one family from the same grandfather a lot of people had in his family members are comfortable in their inherited house but. after the great grandfather. built this house in the seventeenth century this house is three hundred fifty two years old and since them all the sons

and daughters and grandchildren have been living here the house has not been abandoned for a single day the reason why we live here is that we find tranquility in this place plus it's our birthplace and heritage he also says the ten meters deep eccentric design has health effects. swallows which make their nests nearby provide a morning alarm and warn over snakes dools are usually made of all the ward to resist decay here you can smell the aroma of ancient times and the rooms are decorated with primitive exotic household utensils each one has a single purpose such as this clay pitcher used for preserving oil this one is for me it and this one for milk everything here looks natural mats made of brush plants learned furs wool

carpets. traditional outfits and oil and turns years if much of it they get better it's cool in summer and warm in winter but also maintains privacy since you can't hear what the families in the adjacent rooms are say unlike in modern houses also ceilings are painted with white lime to give light prevent insects from living in spaces and absorb humidity there were around three thousand cave houses in the area and city only a few have survived a lot of people had hopes to turn his into a heritage museum but with a lack of awareness and government support the other houses face an uncertain future. libya. well here he is with all our sports news lady thank you very much for russia is officially back as part of the olympic

movement reinstated with immediate effect the international olympic committee had banned russia from competing as a team for the winter games in south korea following state sponsored doping in the previous winter olympics which they hosted in sochi russians how to watch their athletes compete as neutrals in the pm trying going for it finished on sunday one hundred sixty eight of them competed as a limb pick up it's from russia winning seventeen medals and rising criticism that this was effectively brusha only the flag and the missing there were two more failed drug tests by russian athletes of the gangs the i.o.c. said all their other tests came back negative the mass and there's an issue wouldn't reassuring yeah today's decision from the i.o.c. is incredibly important for us because the version olympic committee has once again completely reinstated its rights and is now completely full fledged member of the olympic family it you wish to remove those three months from december the fifth or

last year with some of the most difficult in the history of russian sports on the olympic movement in russia serene your pocket. but unfortunately our relationship with the world anti-doping agency and i mean the complete reinstatement of the russian anti doping agency is not complete some serious work needs to be done only smarter it will be difficult but it has to be done and it has to be done as soon as possible. well for one drivers used to dealing with wet weather but not usually snog the third day of pre-season testing in barcelona was ruined by the bad weather that's sweeping across europe the truck was eventually cleared of snow but only a few drivers made it onto the circuit i mean the current fernando alonso managed to complete a timed lob with red bulls dani ricardo and sobbed as marcus erikson almost on braving the conditions the site is voting potus have been unsurprisingly quick before the snow but even he admits his team's domination hasn't necessarily been good for the sport. bigger group would be would be nice to have competition close

competition but of course we in the other hand we would prefer to be miles away from everyone that's because well all we want to do is win but it is true that to win this challenge when there is hard but also it makes you appreciate more the good results of how it goes with with everything so for for us to keep us developing for everyone a formal one i think it will be better to have close competition in football at authors of the quarter finals of the english f.a. cup after an instant pat match against thirty a side washed i know they wanted six one more fernando alonso scoring a hat trick at a snarly wembley stadium but it was levelled at one goal the pace at half time in the match was marred by a number of controversial video referee incidents roger city manager pep guardiola says he will continue to wear a yellow ribbon in support of imprisoned politicians in catalonia despite being charged by the english football association he is allowed to wear it out of sight

so it was only jumper under a coat for the league cup final against arsenal on sunday he says he doesn't want to dispute with. no but of course we're going to i'm going to write the letter and we're due for player position by the thing i am available what. if you. absolutely so it's no problem or guardian his team put more pressure on astana jacen vanga by baiting him three million that caught fire not wembley the two sides meet again in the premier league on thursday with angrily denying he's ready to walk away i am just amazed diable wrist to answer. activists in him i'm here for twenty one years i turned the whole world down to respect my contracts so i'm still amazed would i still have to answer these kind of questions in tennis while number of dollars

poured out of the next five when just a day before his opening round match the sixteen time grand slam champion is often the hip injury that also forced him to withdraw from the australian i. want to work hard to try to recover as soon as possible not for me is in is impossible to them out or to say something realistic about it i want to be in the wells are not them 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 that this will be as positive as possible and then let's . finally the professional suffer in from the state attacked by a shark has announced his retirement three time world champion mick fanning says next month will be his last on the circuit nearly twenty years since his debut in twenty fifteen funny has an encounter with a great white shark joining an event in south africa and punched the shark as it tried to bite through his lengths to try and survive to return to competition but his world title days were over now his top level surfing time is up

but a brave man is a brave man a time and well deserved very much thanks very much tony. a supermarket in amsterdam is taking action to stop plastic polluting the world's oceans the eco plaza stores open the world's first plastic free aisle more than seven hundred products including meat dairy fruit and vege are available in recyclable packaging . will roll out plastic free aisles to all seventy four of its stores by the end of the year well it this whole plastic free aisle is the brainchild of the group a plastic planet co-founder shann sutherland told out as they are that it was a mint i think that what eco clothes are doing here today is a catalyst to change change that is absolutely essential we can no longer think that it is ok for us to package up perishable food with this indestructible

material of plastic because we've now seen the damage that we're doing and we know very little we've learnt very clearly now that recycling is not the answer we've since the fifty's we have produced six point three billion tonnes of plastic only nine percent of that has ever been recycled so for us to hide behind that that it's recyclable it's totally fine for us to keep using it in this way it doesn't work anymore. i'll be back with more news for you in a couple of minutes a full but listen coming up very shortly seemed about. true confessions might never be cleaned up or many but not or a cynical example of communist propaganda and i wanted to put up

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