violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by bollywood. but its leading star is throwing his weight behind the cause. of addiction barbarity and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. the snake charmers ahmed khan witness at this time on a. this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news outlaw you from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes russia calls it a daily pause in the fighting but in syria there's barely enough time to bury the

dead. u.s. president donald trump breaks with his party stance on guns and calls on politicians to go big on reform. south korea's president it's out to japan never its role in the world war two sex slaves. and the long track to a better life we meet the mother and son walking from venezuela to brazil. welcome to the program at least six civilians including a young girl have been killed on thursday in russian and syrian government and strikes on eastern ghouta it's unclear yet whether the deaths occurred during the third day of a humanitarian poor was in the fighting that's currently under way but on wednesday fourteen people died in more aerial bombardments on the rebel on plate the u.n. estimates more than five hundred ninety people have been killed and well over a thousand injured since an upsurge in the violence on february eighteenth

deliveries and evacuations are yet to take place despite the daily five hour cease fire. but it did in the past ten days there was a lot of pressure on medical care and we have large numbers of were injured and now seem to as there are thousands of wounded and more than five hundred martyrs there is a shortage of medical supplies we have been in a besieged area for more than five years the regime perhaps medical care for the wounded it is extremely hard to work with the medical supplies we have we did everything in our power but we have an extreme shortage of medical supplies a lot of supplies are not even available we cannot ensure any medical supplies some that we are only supposed to use once we use twice some specialist care is not even available in ghouta for example we only have one nerve doctor and it is impossible for him to treat all the wounded emergency rooms are limited and they were full from the first day. what is live for us from beirut in neighboring lebanon even the russian president vladimir putin has called these five hour humanitarian pauses

a failure what does that mean. well the russians called for this five hour humanitarian pause this daily humanitarian pause now he's calling it the failure and the russian officer at the crossing that is where the checkpoint where the people were supposed to exit eastern he's saying well if the truce is not working then we might as well and that so is this a warning a message to the people of eastern huta that the resumption of the relentless bombardment we saw during the first week of the bombing campaign this is going to resume that of course the pozen the fighting did not end the civilian deaths did not end the bombardment today we are getting reports of up to sixty billions killed during the pause in the fighting but undoubtedly the violence has been reduced according to the syrian observatory for human rights sixty seven people were killed during the pause in the fighting for the past three days but we have to remember more than six hundred people were killed since this bombing campaign began so russia really in one way or the other warning putting yet more pressure on the

people of eastern huta and the rebels to surrender we're also hearing from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov making it very clear what the pro-government alliance wants and that is for all the rebels to surrender it was a response really to a proposal put forward by the three main rebel groups in eastern huta who have been saying that look we can kick out the fighters who are affiliated in one way or another to al qaida as a way to stop this assault the pro-government alliance saying no we are not willing to compromise so this bombing campaign is expected to continue no aid has entered to the people inside medical cases people you know dying simply because they cannot get the medical treatment that they need signed up thank you. russia's ambassador to the u.n. has contradicted president putin's claim that large numbers of people have been moved out of eastern ghouta diplomatic editor james brings reports from the united nations. just days after these ambassadors unanimously demanded a ceasefire their resolution continues to be ignored and repeatedly violated the

un under-secretary general mark local crystal world's most senior humanitarian official told them he would answer some of the question is why he's received in recent days have there been any medical evacuations. have any civilians left eastern ghouta and. is there any actual improvement in the humanitarian situation in eastern guta since the passage of the resolution demanding as it did 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 pause in the it's in the aerial bombing at civilians in eastern. 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 binocular he read part of the resolution passed on saturday before giving his explanation why it was not yet halting the violence yes there's a new stooge attorney. did you read the resolution the whole resolution we stated that any enduring pulls must be preceded by agreement by the parties for deescalation demanding an overnight and immediate halt hostilities 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 if they pledged to kick out the

group the council still refers to parts form and i'm al nasra they also say they will give the un resolution their full support the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar al 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 rescue workers in mosul lost soul searching through bombed out buildings seven months after the iraqi government declared victory of ice and in the city they found more than three thousand bodies and there's still much more work to do a warning you may find some of the pictures and hard to underline means package disturbing it's a city in ruins with entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble the most damage is in mosul all city that stood for centuries before the i saw this is where i sell fighters for to the bitter end. and as bulldozers sift through the grim reality of

war emerges in the rubble of booby trapped and bombed out buildings shrapnel shell casings and dead bodies plenty of them and. we found many bodies including i saw once scattered all across the neighborhoods you can see the bodies all over the place and in huge numbers we need support from the international community and organizations we have a limited capacities we need help to lift the soonest. reeks in diseases also to help people go back home life back to mosul also. hundreds of bodies of i still fighters were found they will be buried in mass graves but it seems that it's the civilians who paid the highest price in this war so far more than three thousand bodies have been retrieved and still counting. uncovered in the trappings of war they will be delivered to forensic labs in order to be identified and ultimately returned to their families even if many are beyond recognition and will remain

anonymous a group of volunteers is helping out young people who despite the stench in the air the emotional and security challenges say they want to bring mosul back to its glory i mean we come here each morning pull out the bodies and put them in bags there are many obstacles our capacities are limited the roads are blocked with rubble we can barely knew and we sift through it with our hands our only tools are rubber gloves and face masks. stuff is overwhelming he's just in a day visit to his home town alone he doesn't want his family to see how mosul has become a city of the dead now isn't a vote for a jew we need more help to get rid of these bodies as soon as possible the smell is unbearable and diseases spreading people are reluctant to come back because of this many are afraid they could enter their houses and find a booby trapped body from a nice old guy. a fraction of all city has been cleared so far one

estimate puts the number of civilian this at ten thousand it could be higher for people who wouldn't couldn't leave their homes during the war the devastation is a testament to what happened here but their voices will never be heard but at the. well let's talk to melanie markham she's with the norwegian refugee council in iraq and she joins us live now from baghdad but in a market i mean mosul is a city that's completely broken with many neighborhoods in ruin just talk briefly the scale of the damage and destruction that faces both iraqi government and a groups like yours. so the world bank estimates that around eighty eight billion dollars of damage has been caused by this conflict across iraq that's huge when you look at rym when you compare mosul with ramadi for example which was retaken by the iraqi security forces two years ago they're still clearing rubble

from the streets so it's going to take a long time before people can move back to mosul especially the old city but the first step in that process is clearing the city making it safe clearing it of unexploded bombs of booby traps and other things that that are unsafe for people so it's going to be some time the u.n. estimates that that could be that clearance the decontamination could take years alone and since the raunchy government amounts of ice will have been defeated there are something like two million iraq has remained displaced and there are reports that many are being forced to go home with no homes to go back to. that's true around three point three million iraqis have returned to their homes over the last two years and roughly oh just over two million still were mine displaced we conducted a study in the displacement camps in anbar and found that eighty four percent of people in just two camps there felt safer in the camps than they did back at home

and only one percent of the people we spoke to news that they had a home to go to so if their homes haven't been flattened by the conflict if they're not damaged there are no services there or they're being occupied by other people so they really it's a very difficult choice and often there is no choice as to whether they can go home or not i mean you've given some reasons melanie that one of the other reasons why displaced iraqis don't want to or can't go home. that's true and a lot of people i spoke to in these camps in the last couple of months fear of violence fear tribal violence but they also fear retribution if families this suspected of having links with isis or have proven links with isis then they are under the threat of violence if they go home as i said attacks of retribution or reprisals. thank you very much indeed for your time. coming on the news hour including.

accuses egypt. as part of its offensive. china moves to crack down on corruption but there's controversy over the government's methods. this is. part of. that story. president vladimir putin is giving his annual address to parliament just weeks ahead of presidential elections he's told the poverty rate is unacceptable and as promised to have it in the next six years he's also said spending on road infrastructure must be. running for his fourth term in office. russia is one of the leading countries in the world with a strong defense and economy however when you look at living standards we haven't

reached the necessary level we must do it and we will do it the role of the state in the contemporary world is not defined by natural resources on dust potential it depends on the potential of every human being and it's very important to look after the russian people this is where we need to have a key breakthrough. has been listening to putin he joins us live now from moscow the purpose of putin's speech so close to the election. i darn well yeah i mean this the timing of this speech is pretty striking less than three weeks now to the presidential election it was meant to be given in december and deliberately apparently moved to this date and really giving president putin a quite extraordinary platform from which to address the political elite and also the country as a whole with not just his policy plans for the next year as we ordinarily would every year in this parliamentary speech but for the next six years for the next

presidential term and he was careful to point out that at the beginning of this address that that term could be won by anybody it was a pretty wide ranging speech or nod to foreign policy that certainly was the substance of it it was much more domestic focused as you heard there he's aware of course that the his audience the russian people are concerned about the economy they've been several years of recession not helped by international sanctions so there were wide ranging promises to improve the lives of ordinary people to seize on the challenges of the civilizational technological revolution he called it that would define russia's future there were promises to improve infrastructure job creation this sort of thing but really whatever he was going to say in this address was not going to materially affect the outcome of the election on march the eighteenth according to just about every poll out there putin's popularity rating is something like seventy percent there really is very little doubt about who is

going to win this election and win it and certainly and journal what has the opposition had to say about the timing of this speech. well not happy about it perhaps understandably of course grigori yavlinsky a veteran opposition leader saying that putin should have cancelled this beach well that was probably never going to happen the central election commission said it was fine it was his constitutional right as president to give this. dresses and you will address him to do so pretty much whenever he felt like it in the meantime of course the other seven candidates taking part in the election have begun televised debates this week excluding president putin he isn't going to get involved and you know they know that they don't really have a chance of winning their debates descended into something close to far sort of russian political theater and the only key person there is putin himself jonah thank you now gun legislation in the united states could be set for an overhaul

after a school shooting in florida left seventeen people dead earlier this month while a grassroots student movement to tighten gun laws has swept across the country and politicians seem to be taking notice where president trump has broken away from the traditional republican party's stance on guns he's called for expanded background checks and accused senators of being afraid to take on the national rifle association the n.r.a. the country's biggest gun lobby well the largest retailer in the u.s. has announced it will no longer sell firearms and bullets to people under twenty one years old wal-mart also plans to remove assault style rifles replica and toy guns from its website and trump has suggested arming teachers to prevent any more mass shootings but an incident in the state of georgia is raising questions about that idea a high school teacher was arrested after barricading himself in a classroom with a handgun and firing a shot. one on wednesday students from

a florida high school that was targeted two weeks ago returned to classes for the first time since the shooting and the gallagher has more on that. scheid. 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 bank like me feel safe person handed so much security here and to speak back to my friends and peers i'm pretty certain to be back at school for. a little bit nervous this is how different everything feels but i think that it's ok that. that's what. over the past two weeks the students have become a force for change the calls for gun reform a fueled

a national debate that rallying call of never again echoed by parents who lost children is 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 father everyone's 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 plan 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 a gallacher all deserve a parkland florida well teenagers across the country have been walking out of class to protest against in action on gun control the grassroots movement up and sweeping the u.s. and individual states and are considering their own legislative changes his complete health care. 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. this passes on to the next because we're tomorrow's leaders. 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 schools 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 general. individual states are also considering their own action this is a movement moment in our country and it is being led by these young voices 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 south korea's president moon j.n. says japan hasn't resolved the issue of the so-called comfort woman whom spoke at an event to mark ninety nine years since korea rose up against japanese rule thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two the government of japan has apologized and offered to compensate victims not more. resolving the comfort women issue the government of japan as the perpetrator should not say it is over the inhuman crimes against humanity cannot be covered up by saying it is over and the unfortunate history should be remembered even more and learning from such a history is the real resolution to the issue. brad has more now from the south korean capital seoul. moon jane's criticism came on a day that is full of symbolism here in south korea it's a national holiday commemorating a failed uprising by koreans against japanese colonial rulers and the event took

place at a former prison that was used by japan to house mainly political prisoners and freedom fighters moon said to japan still had not fully atoned for the treatment of these so called comfort women women from korea who were forced into sexual slavery at the service of the japanese military moon like many people in south korea believes that japan has never really fully come to terms with the issue that's despite an agreement that was signed in twenty fifteen that was meant to have resolved this issue once and for all the criticism has hit home in japan which has issued a very terse response. what president mccain said is against japan south korea agreement and it is totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable we immediately lodged a complaint with the south korean government the greenman isn't violent irreversible solution to the issue and japan has conducted all of the obligations

based on the agreement and now we're just south korea to do the same thing japan also very pointedly reminded south korea that this latest spat comes to very difficult time when japan and south korea along with the united states should be showing a united front to the village or its of north korea with regards to into korean relations and also used his speech to call to build upon the goodwill that has been generated during these limpid games saying that north and south korea should be looking towards collaborative projects that will build two wards peace and economic progress if that is followed through if they can agree on projects between north and south korea that would be very tangible evidence of an improvement in the korean relations. in a moment we'll catch up on the weather with everton but still to come here on al-jazeera. why lack of education is no barrier to teaching children in the central

african republic. the un report blames regional powers of stoking the fires in libya. and in sport well champion surfer who once force officer shot is coming up is what's on the ice. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. well it's like a case of new months a mild weather certainly the case across much of here and this is every a cloud here that sport significant snow fall into ukraine this is seen in kiev west been snowing for almost a week temperatures hovering around minus ten celsius overnight getting up to how minus three in the heat of the day that's not particularly unusual for that

a ceasar if you have it rather more unusual course is the icing easterly wind that we've seen further west had also the significant amounts of snowfall we've had the slow will come from a different direction as we go on through the next twenty four to thirty six hours also this area of low pressure now making its way across spain and portugal that is storm bringing in milder but the model rather wet arrives bumping into the cold and that's brought significant amounts of snow fall over the beaches of northern spain this is the same in science hand we've had a good old covering of snow here that snow the strong winds the blizzard conditions and now in the process of making their way further north as we go through thursday into friday we are looking at some significant snowfall and coming in across a good parts of southwestern parts of england pushing up across wells into oland as we go on into the weekend we're going to see that making its way further north what's in the east was but mild eventually coming behind. the weather sponsored by

catto and he's. the only nation ever hit by an atomic bomb once again braces for the worst. when he's explores life in japan under north korea's nuclear threat at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where every. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems they're challenging systems and shaping you want it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on

al-jazeera. welcome back recap our top stories here on the al-jazeera at least six civilians have been killed by syrian government strikes in peace on thursday it's unclear whether they died on the third day of a cease fire is currently in effect in the rebel held. russian president vladimir putin has outlined economic plan is a new address as to how poverty improve health care and increased spending on infrastructure is running for his fourth term in office in march. and south korea's president says japan has

a result the issue of so-called comfort women thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two japan has described comments as extremely regrettable. now an independent israeli human rights group has released security footage showing soldiers mistreating a palestinian man in the hours before he died in custody. appears to charge israeli soldiers with a metal rod during an army raid in the city of jericho before being shot then beaten by the group the video shows the thirty three year old being dragged into an alleyway where the rights group says he spent twenty five minutes without medical help israeli media is quoting a soldier insisting he wasn't sure if he'd shot saturday israeli army is investigating. amnesty international says egypt's army is using banned cluster bombs and its military operations in north sinai the human rights group made the accusation off to analyzing this egyptian military video it says i'm initial a serial number circled here proves beyond doubt that it's a u.s.

made cluster bomb which could only have been dropped by the egyptian air force the military argues the weapons were improvised explosive devices planted by what it calls terrorist elements but jeffrey marcus from amnesty international he says it's not the first time egypt has he was cluster bombs they've done it before just earlier in the months. indeed ships in military officer posted to his twitter account when we indicated another u.s. type cluster munition being used by loaded onto any gyptian plane and then plane that had gyptian air force flags on it so they seem to be quite proud of this these custom bombs are so dangerous and so deadly because they're indiscriminate the cannot be used with precision they excel in harming maiming and killing civilians it is this danger that his or an international

treaty to ban and their sale and use egypt is not a party to that but hundreds of countries are we need the u.s. to step up on this they. we have we go laws here that prevent the use of us munitions in what is in war crimes or human rights violations we think the quest for bombs are de facto human rights violations we made the connection between the us and the use of these parts for bombs it's time for the u.s. government to step up. al jazeera has obtained a link to un report which has once again highlighted violations of the arms embargo in libya the report says the united arab emirates and egypt supplied weapons and military support to armed groups there and that's against a u.n. ban which has been in place since twenty eleven. d.c.

reports. armed groups in libya are continuing to receive foreign support from nations aiming to influence who will control the oil rich nation that's according to a panel of united nations experts. after the fall of moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven during the arab spring libya spiraled into civil war between rival political factions international sanctions were imposed in reaction to gross and systematic violations of human rights the latest report highlights countries that have both directly and indirectly fueled the ongoing conflict in libya it mentions the repeated air raids by the egyptian air force on the oil areas to support the forces of renegade general khalifa haftar. countries in the gulf as well as you see there foreign policy not only as directed towards intergovernmental relations but as putting governments in place in various countries or imposing policies that are

in line with their definition of national security and their geopolitical designs and on the other hand you have come to see a business opportunity here and a group willing to exploit that. the u.n. panel reported last june that the united arab emirates violated international law by supplying half their forces with attack helicopters and other military aircraft pro half the groups have been accused of kidnapping and torturing journalists activists and religious figures in eastern libya some of whom faced extrajudicial executions this latest report is set to be submitted to the un security council for further action in hopes that it can counter foreign influence in the war torn nation have a d.c. al-jazeera. the next trains of china's anti corruption crackdown is set to become law a new controversial detention measure and an anti-corruption super ministry will give the government the power to investigate all state employees president xi jinping as

vowed to root out illegal behavior among chinese officials for joseph chang is a political scientist he says president xi is bid to cling to power will have a destabilizing effect on the government it appears that siege in pain would like to stay longer as the power among the time now for more than ten years like all powerful leaders he believes that he is indispensable but at the same time certainly. what he does goes against the masters introduced by dental pain in the early one nine hundred eighty s. including the metate on terms of tenure of pollution of lifelong ten new awful carders of all rans as well as emphasis. on collective leadership so what he does will be rob that piece that policing in the sense that as we all know when power is highly concentrated in the high hands of one person

this is the step alighting this intention to concentrate power in the hands of one person discourage deliberations open discussions of policies and the leader himself will certainly discourage and the potential emergence of other the jurors who may be in a position to challenge him and there will be less and that. checks and balances and more and more intolerant of criticisms. i took his president typer to one is on a five day four nation trip to west africa turkey's interests in africa rival the ones of former colonial powers like france and the u.k. as well as china one of the countries visiting is senegal nicholas hawke has more influence there repeat after me says you know lima turkish teacher at the institute

of the car. i am sinegal and i speak turkish it is a learned which many here now want to master. more than i like want to you must learn this long read or listen for and out you know. we just. learned. turkey is making it easier for cynically students to enter their country senegal is making it easier for turkish companies to invest in their country especially in this project senegal wants to turn this land into a residential city for hundreds of thousands of people construction of an international airport conference center and factories are complete next up a university government buildings a railway line luxury apartments and the state of the art basketball stadium almost all of the construction is done by turkish companies since president has come to power trade to africa tripled to eighteen point eight billion dollars last year

turkish airways expanded its coverage to twenty three destinations across the continent last september the turkish military opened a base in somalia to train african soldiers on a tour to west africa are to go on calls for free trade agreements to increase ties to turkey's interest in africa rivals the ones of former colonial powers like france and the u.k. as well as china but this comes at a cost last year senegal in sudan closed down several schools linked to for two legged girl in one of guns political rivals these authorities closed down this school at the request of air guns governments leaving hundreds of students out of school as turkey increases its investment to senegal and other african countries some here fear their governments will take difficult and uncomfortable compromises in order to ensure that turkey is happy and that their investments continue to flow into their countries. a parent is upset with her government's decision.

maybe children are paying the price of a political decision that has nothing to do with senekal many senegalese. feel hurt that a foreign country imposes its will to close down our schools. early guns government says it will reopen schools and sente tours to senegal but. we don't have political goals we are here to develop the relationship between the senegalese and turkish people and so many city believes that literally turkish is just one small step and will look for now like a new and promising relationship because hawk al-jazeera had a car while turkey so-called opening to africa policy has strengthened its political and economic ties with a host of african nations in two thousand and three and korea had only twelve diplomatic missions across the continent that number now stands at forty one by two thousand and five turkey had been granted observer status by the african union and

in recent years they've seen president obama visit ethiopia sudan somalia and south africa his country has signed trade and economic cooperation deals with forty five african countries the last fifteen years have seen trade between turkey and africa rise six fold to eighteen point eight billion dollars let's talk to tembisa thank you would he's a research at the al-jazeera center for studies and joins us live now from johannesburg tell me so how important is this africa trip for president and also thinking behind it. what i think is very important africa is a rising continent. as most people say but politically it's also very important for the president to want to reestablish the relations with the african continent but unfortunately his efforts were preceded by the his myth or what's known as the colonist movement that has done much more serious work in africa they've established schools and they've created a lot of other socially responsible platforms which seek to to develop and help

africans so the taking government is more of that in what the establishment of. diplomatic relations one secondly i think also they're looking at the one we call them easier countries to target because most of those countries are predominantly muslim countries if you look at for example mali cynical more attorney and i'm sure always going to know those are predominantly islamic countries and it is much more easier for president to go and most probably welcomed by the majority muslim there but i think if he has to make any serious progress he has to look at the deeper solve in african countries and that's where currently you have the play a very serious role and and when you hear about countries trying to peddle soft

power in france and africa i suppose you think of china or the united states so why has turkey been such a diplomatic late starters how you describe it. well if you look at the history of take in africa was twenty extent disturbed by firstly the first in the second world war there were busy in gauging their own conflicts will not result in a second or but they were never involved in africa like the other european and western countries were in colonialism because they were busy with the sort of pin. countries and some of the north african countries so they never really ventured down south so by the time they actually wanted to come to to do the southern part of africa you had other bigger players european players who were already. playing a major role in africa particularly britain france and belgium so it became very difficult for ticket to do to reenter africa to ease the language barrier take

issue is not a very widely spoken language in africa so after the second world war when everybody else traits that are going up towards coming to africa not as colonizers but more of a social and political and economic investment take you found it very difficult for it to reenter the african space. thank you for talking to al jazeera. now unicef says one of its workers and for teachers have been killed in central african republic it says a third of children are missing out on an education because of the fighting between armed groups many schools have been destroyed or are being used as camps for people with the violence catherine saw reports from the eastern town of brega. children learn basic math and social sciences from teachers simply smug. is one of only three teachers for the four hundred children who study here standard two and three pupils share one class because is not enough space to land separately. one to

himself is lining up a job he's never been to high school and was only trained for a month by a children's aid agency before starting to teach yes so. i decided to teach other literally and can have a bright future one day but if i make a difference in the life of one child that make a difference. he is one of the hundreds of community teachers here many with very little education themselves who have been hurriedly recruited and trained to fill the gap left by professional teachers who fled the war but alice is children have a classroom to come to every day many others in more remote areas in central african republic have no schools no teachers no way of getting an education in many parts schools have been destroyed lou ted or are occupied by armed groups many children have been displaced and others are forced to walk instead of going to

class we may be losing generations of children in this country when they go to school what they learn we're not sure it's something that will get them to where you know you would want any kid in this in this world to to go in terms of you know becoming a productive adults who can live peacefully in his or her community grassa to heart is twelve years old and often who sounds kerosene for a leaving his not been to school for two years. if my business grows i can feed myself. but i don't walk i cannot even afford anything. the country badly needs about fourteen thousand teaches those stepping up like i'd include some say they're doing the best they can in the most trying of times to ensure their pupils learn at least the basics catherine saw an al-jazeera central african republic on

a par three of our coverage of the conflict in central african republic we look at the security challenges and one of the countries turning to the european union to train its soldiers now the u.n. says it's seen an increase in the number of venezuelans leaving their country over the past two weeks they're escaping the severe economic crisis and many are going to brazil which is now declared an emergency because of the influx al-jazeera has gable elizondo i met one family as a crossed into brazil. it's been a swell in mother and son on a remote highway they hope leads them to a better life the lady basket is forty six years old and her twenty two year old son kenna reese they crossed the border into brazil and are now trying to reach bolivia stuff the nearest city it is one hundred eighty kilometers away they could not afford a bus ticket so for the past three days they have been walking and still have one hundred sixty kilometers to go people have been nice offering us some people

stopping cars and give us some water we just want to get to the nearest town and hopefully find a job it's my mom and i know we need to do. the trip is remote there are no services around them only asphalt and it's dangerous. was as they walk a mother tells me she said it's come to this but hopeful brazil will be a place they can find work in the meantime kenner collects aluminum cans he hopes he can then sell. her just to up an estimated one thousand venezuelans who in the past couple weeks had gathered along the northern brazil border outpost to come into the country they want to avoid what they say is a lack of food medicine and good jobs and their homeland as a situation deteriorates into a swale a war coming every day these menace wailings are desperate most arrive with little or no money so when they finally cross the border into brazil they're faced with

a very difficult decision. what to do next. we have just enough money for a bus ticket and we'll take it as far as we can go or try to make a new life from brazil it's a risk worth taking because we're starving or if i just a little bit you know i'm a professional person back home but here in brazil i will take any job to get some money and have some food this is all i can do. the united nations has a team here and says the nearly two million venezuelans that have played the country in the past two years are refugees this is dollars on the people who are crossing every day the border into the gulf and on a sort of protection and humanitarian assistance this is definitely a much a crisis. as for me lady in kenner there is no time to wait they keep walking one foot in front of the other mother and son alone hoping the road in is in a better place. on a highway in northern brazil. strengthens

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look about top of the sport his for darren thank you so much we start with basketball and the n.b.a.'s best side this season the houston rockets have gone unbeaten in fourteen games for the second time this season james harden tops scored with twenty five points they beat the l.a. clippers one hundred five to ninety two this was their forty eight win in sixty one games as they sit as the at the top of the western conference they're still some

way off their best streak of twenty two games from ten years ago one of hardin's likely rivals to be m.v.p. anthony davis also has a big game on wednesday the five time all-star double double to twenty six points and fifteen rebounds as new orleans downs san antonio one hundred and twenty one two hundred sixteen p.s.g. have been archrivals amar's say for a second time in less than a week they booked their place in the semifinals of the french a cup with a three nil when it's not all good news for the french side however they've confirmed their star player neymar will need surgery he suffered a fracture in his foot to the first win over maher say the two hundred eighty million dollars forward is expected to be out for six to eight weeks that means he'll not be available for the second leg of p.s.g. last sixteen second time against around madrid in the champions league. italy's two most trophy laden teams will face off for the italian cup eventis will take on ac

milan in the final in may you've a book their spot by beating atalanta two nil on aggregate ac milan had a tougher time winning on penalties after two goal with legs against a lot zero tottenham are through t.v. quarterfinals of the english f.a. cup after an incident packed six one victory against third tier side rochdale fernando laurent they scored a hat trick at a snowy when police stadium but it was level at one goal apiece at half time and the match was marred by a number of controversial video referee incidents my feeling is difficult. i think we need to split. because the. first half of. the system is going to. manchester city manager purport aeolus says he'll continue

to wear a yellow ribbon in support of the imprisoned politicians in catalonia despite being charged by the english football association is allowed to wear it out of sight so was on a jumper under a coat for the league cup final against arsenal on sunday and says he doesn't want any dispute. nobody of course we're going to i'm going to write the letter i'm going to explain your position. and. if. absolutely. no problem guardiola team put more pressure on arsenal manager arsene wenger by beating them three nail in the cup final at wembley the two sides meet again in the premier league on thursday with bangor angrily denying he's ready to walk away. i'm just amazed the diable raised two arms were being. exactly the same i'm here for twenty one news i

turned the whole word down to respect my contracts so i'm still amazed that i still have to answer these kind of questions american football players and professional boxers have highlighted the long term effects of repeated had trauma but there's a more vulnerable group of athletes suffering similar injuries thailand's child boxers scott haile reports from bangkok. at thirteen pasta what rotten a court wants to be just like his dad a thai kick boxing champion he says it's in his blood. the pride of my thai skills the national sport here is instilled in thais at a very early age at this training gym just outside bangkok they start at nine and that has raised concerns about brain injuries. i was knocked out once a pos it when i hit the floor when i regained consciousness i thought of it does like. his father also started boxing at nine then became

a champion at seventeen. and when i was a boxer of course i was knocked out but i think it's about training it's like a shield to protect ourselves but that's not nearly enough protection according to a recent medical study brain scans or m.r. eyes were taken of five hundred children under fifteen years old from similar social economic backgrounds it lasted five years included non boxes and incorporated psychological testing this is the first complete it. traumatic brain injury in child boxer she says it's all about the damage of repeated minor brain trauma from blows to the head because of the damage stop the maturation the foot the mature age and of some function of the brain cop with the function the memory of the dutchman the higher brain function is not well developed and when it got them this is very difficult for them to develop and that includes memory loss

and lower i.q. this is where the young hard work constraining me was to a big match venue like this one here at bangkok's the arena. big bouts are exciting for boxers like possible but with the increased intensity they are also more dangerous than sparring since my talk is part of thai culture an outright ban for young boxers is not realistic the government body that oversees boxing has read the medical study. figuring out the way to solve the problem the law should be amended a maximum young books the safety of but the enforcement of the lore is a weakness. with an estimated one hundred thousand child boxes in thailand many of them unregistered even once the laws changed protecting the boxers will be difficult and that could mean more head injuries as the study found out the longer they fight the more severe the damage scott harder al-jazeera banco

a chief executive of the u.s. olympic committee has resigned citing health problems scott black man had been under fire following the committee's response to a series of sex abuse scandals and january former u.s. gymnastics team doctor larry nasser was jailed for life for molesting hundreds of girls many victims criticize the olympic committee for not doing more to keep athletes safe. and finally the professional surfer infamously 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 a professional australian surfer who famously fended off a shark attack is quitting the sport three time world champion mick fanning says a competitor later this his competition later this month will be his last he drew global attention for punching a charge that tried to bite through his leash and twenty fifteen. and that's all

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harder. jeannette morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say going to be up at the gala the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government will fail.

or benefit those people. being polled and. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. russia calls it a daily pause in the fighting but in syria there's barely enough time to bury the dead.