lol. zero. zero zero zero zero zero i maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes twenty eight killed and fifty others wounded in coordinated attacks and bikini capital the french embassy and the army headquarters

a targeted the u.n. imagery which shows the bombardment of eastern getting worse despite a cease fire ordered by russia. strips to its border with bangladesh triggering fears it plans to expel thousands of refugees living in no man's land. with schools including olympic gymnast only raise men has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. olympic committee saying very new disgrace dr larry dasa was abusing her and of the gym that's. where at least twenty eight people have been killed during coordinated attacks on the military headquarters on the french embassy in the capital ouagadougou witnesses say the mosque attack is used guns and explosives cheering the assault so

on again ago has more. plumes of smoke rising above booking a fast says capital the third major assault on the walker dugu in two years. this latest attack conducted by islamic extremist fighters according to the book government coordinated and well planned the targets the army headquarters and the french embassy. seven soldiers were killed at that when a tree h.q. several of those wounded eight attackers were killed by the armed forces but it's not known if there were more people involved witnesses said the attackers had arrived in a pickup truck and started shooting off the shouting allahu akbar they set fire to the truck and continued to shoot their video we did hear that. there were a lot of shots fired damage everywhere two policemen went by and near the army headquarters there was a car with around four to six people they fired there was an explosion we saw

a lot of shots fired a lot of smoke and then people started running but you know faster as the cation in the sun so hard has made it a target for groups of fighters who operate in the region tens of thousands of people have died be area because of frequent attacks. last year an al qaeda affiliated group attacked a turkish restaurant in a market killing nineteen people in two thousand and sixteen thirty people died in another assault in a hotel and restaurant in the city the region was once a french colony france now has four thousand troops in the sahara region supporting the armed forces in five countries that the attack is the latest against the country's security forces in a region where violence has increased in recent years sunny al jazeera. or we're joined on the phone now by nicholas haq he is in what they do all more of you learned about the attacks today. well you know i'm just

a few hundred meters away from the army headquarters where the attack took place i'm on the ave division which is only just made artery this of the capitol and only it's bustling with activity even at ten o'clock local time at night but right now it's quiet people have stated indoors people are scared they're still trying to figure out what happened this morning because this morning at ten o'clock local time while people were going about their daily lives four men in a taxi pulled up to the army headquarters and started firing inside the building it took more than an hour and a half before the. army and the french special forces were able to neutralize the attackers at the same time there was an attack at the french embassy and the cultural center and what that really important about these three location those are

supposed to be the most secure and safe location in this country and yet this morning they were under texas many people here fear granted they are not safe there is no place for them to feel safe because this is the first attack that has happened in laager do over and repeat the process for that matter there's been several attacks recently last year in a restaurant in the hotel targeting people mostly foreigners here in water do when the big foreign populations year is it people from france which is the former colony of this country miriam and the interesting thing about this attack nicholas is that it wasn't just another attack on foreign as it was a very old day shift coordinated an attack on a key center of power the army had courses but also a key foreign target the french embassy one of that suggest over what is the government saying about who might have been behind me attacks. who's here it's

a brazen attack and we were here just last year and we saw the french special forces training in case it would be another terrorist attack in this place there's been attacked on hotels and then shooting and restaurants and so and so there was a level of preparedness from the security forces in fact during this attack there was the use of drones there was use of helicopters and the french special forces were at the base here were quick to react but in these previous attacks the people that claimed responsibility were vendors of elmira the tune a rebel group that operates in the sahara region that wants to over assert the government here in britain afonso up until a few years ago it was one strong on blair. who controlled this country for twenty seven years as soon as his that people implicate up i still have more freedom but

there was more attacks and people felt less safe shortly after he left power they had a coup and attempted coup by the general in charge of the presidential guard then just two days ago before this attack was the start of his trial there's many within the our imports those that are unhappy with the people who are in charge in this country and there are many many people in the north rebel groups who are also unhappy with the government of ouagadougou we're also mentioning is that this morning in the in the headquarters of the army there was supposed to be a meeting of the chief of staff of the g five which is the five countries that are along with france fighting the rebel groups in the sahara region that is mauritania malines air chad and. and it's unclear whether that meeting

took place was. the attack happened but it's quite a cli students that this attack happened that high and the mention again and people here are artists frightened and set up there's been several attacks that have happened here since the return of democracy and there's been a call for long security so that those attacks don't happen again. thank you very much nic us hack with all the latest from the capital of the kenya fast whack a doodle. the u.n. has really satellite images of areas of east and showing the destruction in the space of a week. ago is from the u.n. operational satellite applications program based in geneva tell me duma is the west hit city. makeshift clinics in eastern who have been filling up with the wounded most of the civilian casualties are women and children. are waiting for the civilians to receive aid so we can preserve their lives we are waiting for reaction

from the world. that wait for the world to help stop the attacks and has gone on for years and since the government's latest offensive began last month morgues have run out of space for the dead. instead of receiving worshipers on friday this mosque god bombs people here say syrians iranians and russians are mocking the united nations and the security council since again anima cease fire resolution on saturday there have been hundreds of attacks in eastern huta. where this mosque was here to praise god there are no weapons or cannon here the regime bombed it ten minutes before the ceasefire why are you the world silent on these war crimes those allegations have echoed at the human rights council the un human rights chief says the syrian regime and its allies are potentially carrying out crimes against humanity civilians are being pounded into submission or death and the perpetrators of these crimes must know that they are being identified

das years are being built up with a view to the prosecution and that they will be held accountable for what they have done syria must be referred to the international criminal court attempts to what justice and share these criminals are disgraceful day five of the five hour pause in fighting was no different from previous days with more airstrikes and shelling close to seven hundred people have been killed in the relentless bombardment the choices for nearly four hundred thousand people are to starve surrender or die. in addition to the attacks on residential areas level positions on the front lines at. under heavy bombardment usual islam until after ramadan fighters have been holding meetings with families to assure them they are not going to retreat. doctor in eastern huta about the potential crimes against humanity remarks and he replied with a question has

a road drawn another red line and said never again he asked because the assad government's attacks on civilians have become more brazen strong words from the u.n. humanitarian chief but like other statements and resolutions they remain just that words with no action. because young in the turkey syria border. so that's a picture of the latest developments taking place in the damascus suburb of eastern guta as you saying earlier the united nations as release and images showing the level of destruction comparing images that we have seen in eastern guta more recently with those a week ago earlier i spoke to. his head of the applications program for these images based in geneva. well these images shows us that there has been increase and. the garment in using ghouta

and in particular in do mother to be animal is based on a satellite image taken this morning compared to an image taken on the twenty third oath temporary so what we observe in the imagery is continued. to continue shelling and continued damage to infrastructure in doing this civic ace in duma it can be sometimes difficult to distinguish between residential areas businesses etc but we do observe damage to a large number of different types of buildings including what seems to be residential areas so it's quite widespread damage that you observe including you know damage to infrastructure. roads areas etc we see certain areas where there's severe damage we could go all the areas where there's no damage that we can see in the satellite images certain areas that

are also out of that state but what red damage but there are definitely areas that we see you know heavily affected well i'm living here are the top story the sound man was army is being accused of bullying and intimidating rang the refugees in the no man's land between its border with bangladesh al jazeera has spoken to witnesses who say the troops fired slingshots in three bottles at the refugees some even tried to climb a fence into bangladeshi territory bangladesh's told me and not to withdraw its forces from the shad border where thousands of rangar assault refuge in iran khan has mall. range of muslims fleeing myanmar face harassment the troops that pushed them out a back making it very clear they want their hands are gone for good. this woman shows us her suitcase which she says was hit by ricocheting bullets fired into the camp al-jazeera producer tom barrett chaldee spoke to those who fled from the army troops there said they were intimidated by they were using bullhorn and mikes

warning them to get out of this area. had them alcohol bottles and were using even sling shot at some point some of the troops have been tried to climb the fence into the no man's land to intimidate them but where stopped by the buying of there's a broader gods. bangladesh is protesting the deployment of troops along the border and says it's highly irregular it prompted bangladesh to summon me. and demand the troops people back as. they came at around ten am brought in seven trucks with two ladders in each vehicle a total of fourteen and they tried to cross the barbed wire fences to forcefully destroy our camp this area is widely referred to as no man's land for weeks myanmar soldiers have up their patrols of the border fence. and use loud hailer is to order the estimated six thousand ranges to leave but hundreds of the refugees

have already given into the soldiers orders and crossed into bangladesh. it's been six months since almost seven hundred thousand range of muslims fled a military crackdown in myanmar's and rocking state united nations called it a textbook example of ethnic cleansing refugees spoke of systematic murder sexual violence and arson. but the government insists it was simply defending itself after attacks from. myanmar reportedly claim some of those range of fighters are hiding within the border camp aid agencies meanwhile are helping refugees prepare as best they can for the coming monsoon season one assessment says more than one hundred thousand people could be affected by floods and landslides the diplomatic row over troop movement at the border now threatens a controversial deal to send their injured refugees back to myanmar many will be questioning whether it will ever really be safe to go back to me on the world imran khan observed. at the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about

as the african union discusses plans to withdraw troops from somalia al-jazeera spends time with a police patrol to see if the country is ready to go it alone a british prime minister to resign may have missed the u.k. won't get everything it wants when it comes to bracks said. and in sport juan martin del potro stance is perfect record against dominic team to spain next. year being commission has threatened. america's best products in response to u.s. plans to hike tariffs on foreign oil of many and steel commission president says harley davidsons open and levi jeans could be hit with a twenty five percent tariff if president on a trump follows through with his promise and his can really help it reports a growing list of countries have also to retaliate. it's

a move targeting china and the lesser quality steel u.s. president donald trump says is flooding the american market for in steel brought into the united states will be slapped with an additional fee of twenty five percent ten percent on aluminum all purported to protect u.s. jobs to bring steel back it was a major campaign promise to steel and aluminum workers in states like pennsylvania and michigan and helped trump win the white house and well trump has singled out china it isn't even in the top ten among steel exports to the united states according to the u.s. commerce department it's canada that ranks number one as sixteen percent of all exports to the u.s. well china is that number eleven responsible for less than two percent of the steel imported into the united states may find that they pad the u.s. adopting anti-dumping anti subsidy tariffs in hundreds of cases of imported steel

and aluminum products is to protect their domestic products of all countries imitate the u.s. approach then this would have a serious impact on the global trade order fears of a global trade war have sent world financial markets into uncertainty and on twitter trump defended his position arguing the trade wars are good and easy to win that trade war appears underway canada mexico china australia brazil and the european union are all threatening retaliatory measures against u.s. products this is not something we wanted to see that we will continue to engage with all of the american administration in the coming days so that the understand that this will. not sit idly while our industries which we're going for measures that put thousands of european jobs at risk if you react firmly commensurately to defend our interests one of europe's largest appliance. sure is electrolux says as

a result of trump's announcement it is delaying an investment of more than two hundred fifty million dollars in the us state of tennessee it appears that trump's tariffs designed to save american jobs in the industrial sector now putting other u.s. jobs at risk kimberley health hit al-jazeera washington so for more on this i'm joined from new york via skype by richard wolfe is an economics professor at the university of massachusetts and co-founder of the website democracy at work dot info thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us could this be the beginning of a global trade war. yes it could and like most trade wars it has less to do with trade and more to do with the politics of the societies that begin then in this case our country governed by mr trump right now is governed by a minority

a president who wasn't elected by the majority of the people has lost support throughout his regime and is now busy trying to curry favor in this case with producers of steel and aluminum in the united states who have been unable to compete successfully with the rest of the world and now want protection in the form of tariffs so they can raise their prices and yes as you point out this will help hire workers in those industries which is what the president talks about but it will damage employment in all the industries that buy steel and aluminum which is many because they will face higher prices for their imports and that will cause all kinds of difficult the us leading to layoffs the reason we developed in this were oh the world trade organization and half a dozen other international agencies is for two reasons this kind of trade war

is a political maneuver that may help this or that regime but is not very healthy for the world economy as a whole and the second reason is that when you can't succeed through a trade war there's a nasty habit in american history and other countries history for trade wars to slide into military wars and anyone who knows some history worries of a very important point about the impact it's going to have on u.s. businesses and jobs because as you say it's a political thing it's something that a president trump spoke about when he was on the campaign trail so in some way it should come as no surprise that what you're saying is judging by measures we have seen in the past i think president george w. bush did something similar in two thousand and two the impact on the industries that use stale is far greater than on the industries that produce stale. yes and i think what you're going to see and what we have seen over and over again

historically is that we're simply setting up a fight on the one hand the industries that are benefiting from protection on the other hand the industries that are hurt by protection each of them will throw all their money their lobbyist their political influence into a struggle and the outcome will depend on who has the better strategy and throws more resources meanwhile people are talking about global trade implications that's not really the issue because this is a fight between two sets of capitalists in each country trying to maneuver the government to their own advantage and so. sort of related to that what do you make of the grounds on which this was done there were commerce department investigations to investigations and so president trump is doing this he is invoking this these economic measures on the grounds of national security what are

the implications of that. well it's an attempt to provide justification i'm a professional economist i have done these studies i can assure you that those studies about international trade always depend on basic assumptions those who do this kind of work like myself know exactly that those assumptions determine the outcome if you want to show that a country harmed by international trade it is childishly easy if you want to show that it is benefited it is likewise easy it depends on the assumptions when mr trump says he took this or that study into account the truth is he had studies showing all raft of contradictory results he picked from those to make it seem reasonable and when he invokes national security it's the same rationale to make it

appear that he is not favoring one group of captain lows in order to win their political support but that he's actually doing something that for the nation as are all that comes out of our study it is a sham political theater and should all know what it was so if i can ask you briefly this measure puts president trump on a collision course with his party but also with members of his own team people like gary kern who would not be in favor of this how difficult is it going to be to implement as my hair. well you know we have seen over the last year that a number of steps taken by mr trump were told to us through the media something they were thinking is that gary coleman for example and other officials close to mr trump did not agree with these things were passed there was a ample opportunity for mr cole and folks like him to resign before during and

after most of them have not done it the resignations usually have come when people were caught doing something unethical or illegal and had to leave to keep the regime clean so i'm not too old for all that and this kind of departure from the commitment to free trade it to switch over to make a commitment to protection this is done by mr drum for political reasons and the republican party seems to be committed to supporting him on the grounds that any effort to split will simply turn the politics over to the democrats and they would rather go with trump than risk that professor richard well thank you very much my pleasure thank you it's been just over a week since the park in school shooting that has been little clarity on whether the u.s. is likely to tie can tighten its gun laws president trump has delivered mixed

messages with democrat lawmakers demanding proper background checks while republicans put a face resistance to any action they believe would infringe the constitutional right to bear arms despite or perhaps because of this legislative inaction some corporations are taking that own steps my canner reports from new york. the biggest fan of the second amendment many of you are there being vague promises of executive action from the president and much discussion among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle but as yet there are no concrete signs of any substantive tightening of the us is notoriously lax gun control legislation some corporations are not waiting for congress to take action several major businesses wal-mart dick's sporting goods and the latest l b have announced they are unilaterally raising the minimum age for gun sales and will no longer sell guns to customers younger than twenty one. federal

law states that no one under twenty one may buy a handgun but confusingly any eighteen year old or above can buy a semiautomatic rifle with no background checks or training it's time the sens say some c.e.o.'s when we looked at those kids and we saw what with the grief that they were going through and how these kids organized to really have their voices heard we talked amongst ourselves and said if these kids can be brave enough to do this then we should be brave enough to make us make a stand or self these are difficult decisions for business but nevertheless eventually the personal conscience the moral conscience kicks in and it has to be balanced with all of the stakeholders in the shareholder interests as well and social media reaction to the dick's decision is mixed some calling the company anti american others welcoming the move and calling it courageous delta airlines is

among the companies that has ended discount deals with the powerful national rifle association the n.r.a. but that comes at a financial cost republican lawmakers in georgia have killed a tax break for the company and its jet fuel costs retaliation that will cost delta billions of dollars. the n.r.a. itself has lashed out at what it calls a shameful display of political and civic cowardice despite the national horror recurring school shootings u.s. society remains as polarized on gun control issues as never before the constitutional right to bear arms being bigger asli asserted even as children continue to be killed by camera al-jazeera new york so i had for you in the news hour the eighty one year old former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi really be the man to decide the country's parliamentary elections. why this controversial

symbol of south africa's apartheid era is still causing problems. and then later in sport the chinese super league defending champions get their campaign off to a troubling start the to has all the details a bit later i. hello it may not feel like it but the worst is nearly over storm is blowing out is this thing you hear of the british isles so the visit has gone from ireland but it's still an area of low pressure still driving moisture into cold air so there's more snow to come it stretches dance through the western side of europe they look at the temperatures here that are all positive this is the cold bit here vienna right up to stockholm east of moscow cyrus of bucharest is much woman this is much this is

rain freezing rain mislead for some for example down albania but generally speaking as a warming trend now given around the edges a stupendous that company ukraine and belarus western russia by daylight hours the snow should have stopped falling for the most part for the british isles still there in france and probably the swiss alps in the french alps on the italian alps as well or even lower ground yet even the pope valley sea level in italy so that should basically have gone by it's hard to get to sunday the white patches of snow shasta in the british isles the temp has risen a bit too modest to book or is still plus eleven ankara and the snow is cold to moscow still a bit talk back into ukraine but it's not as cold. on counting the cost of the italian job what the next government has to do when it comes to the economy the first drop breaks a treaty gets

a frosty reception in the u.k. plus we'll explain what five g.'s all about and if it even matters is counting the cost at this time. the capital which. nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest. it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because business pricing the planet has this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching the news hour a quick recap of the top stories for you there are reports that as many as twenty eight people have been killed and dozens more wounded during coordinated attacks on the military headquarters and the french embassy in the capital what to do good. the u.n. has really satellite images from last week which show major damage to parts of eastern ghouta despite a cease fire at least twenty two civilians have reportedly been killed as government forces more ground from rebel fighters on friday and stock markets have tumbled in response to u.s. president donald trump's plan to impose heavy tariffs on imported steel and out of many and while the e.u. commission says it will slap duties on some of america's most well known products if the move goes ahead. with all the stories we're following boko haram has killed

eleven people including three u.n. aid workers in the northeast of nigeria this happened in the remote town of run near the border with cameroon outside a camp housing fifty five thousand people displaced by the conflict mohammed val has more from a. suspected book harm fighters according to the reports we have used the darkness of the night to mount this brazen attack late on thursday they used a truck mounted with guns and also rocket propelled grenades to overpower paused guarding a camp for the internally displaced people this camp houses about fifty five thousand people victims of the war that has been going on now still going on between the government and book harm fighters. the u.n. has confirmed the killing of three aid workers two of them work for the international organization for migration and one a medical doctor with. unicef also a female nurse is missing and there were reports about of for aid worker who was

either killed or injured or so the security report from the side of the government has confirmed the killing of four soldiers and four policemen without giving any details about whether civilians were more civilians were wounded or killed in this attack. it's been a second suicide car bombing attack in two days near the somalia somalia's capital mogadishu this time associate bomber rammed a car into a military base thirty kilometers from the city killing one soldier al-shabaab says it was behind the attacks. when our somali are saying that it doesn't recognize a port deal between the break way region of somalia and the u.a.e. and ethiopia the berber a port agreement was signed with the u.a.e. owned company d.p. world and to buy on thursday somaliland declared itself for a public in one thousand nine hundred one but it's not recognized by market issue or most of the international community somalia says the port deal undermines its

unity and goes against its constitution. britain's prime minister is laid out more details on what kind of trading relationship the u.k. will have with the european union once it withdraws from the block to resume has been under pressure to spell out exactly how shell of void a hard order in ireland while also satisfying the demands of competing factions in our own party we've barker reports. a rallying cry for bricks it from the british prime minister to resume a fourth major speech on britain's departure from the e.u. in which he set out the government's vision on future trade ties with europe this is a negotiation and neither of us can have exactly what we want but i am confident that we can reach agreement we both want good access to each other's markets we want competition between us to be fair and open and we want reliable transparent means

of verifying we are meeting our commitments and resolving disputes may suggest that the u.k. would mirror some e.u. rules and break away from others to ensure a continuation of frictionless trade with the e.u. she suggested setting up a system to mutually recognise each other's goods and services but is all this complexity really worth it and rest it the answer is no we won't think again on bret's it the british people voted for brics it and i think it is incumbent on their politicians to deliver on the decision that we asked them to take the british prime minister has been accused over very good on workable proposals by the european union and of being paralyzed by divisions within her own political party hoping that this key speech restore some credibility in her ability to deliver. but before negotiations can move forward outstanding issues need resolving including what's going to happen here on the border between northern ireland

a part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland and e.u. member to reason may said the border will remain open promising a combination of new technology and trust to keep goods and people moving without a hard border. text contains their legal commitments on wednesday the ease chief negotiator michel barnier said northern ireland should remain part of a customs territory with the e.u. after brics it. to reason maces any e.u. attempt to effectively alec's the region will never happen she now has to provide more detail on how her high tech plan will work prime the u.k. and e.u. also can't agree on what's going to happen immediately after breaks it during the two year transition period the e.u. wants its courts to have the final say in any disputes of the e.u. nationals arriving joining that time to have the same rights as those arriving before breaks it to resume a switch to the planned. these and other issues need to be resolved before the e.u. summit on march the twenty second without any progress trade remains off the table

negotiations. al-jazeera london. it's the final day for italian politicians to win our voters ahead of this weekend's parliamentary election expected to be one of the less polarizing in years many analysts predict that the former prime minister silvio berlusconi's party is likely to be part of a potential coalition with polls suggesting no possible when enough to govern on its own aren't say reports now on the impact of a hard right wing coalition which has been campaigning on an anti immigrant platform. cashin a central italy very old very pretty and people are very angry. stuck in the fields outside the town the government has housed one hundred asylum seekers they're about as popular as a moldy listen you. want to. pick. up in the summer so many women have complained that they urinating in the street

should we wait until something bad happens fair enough we have to protect the immigrants but who will protect italians. the town has forty five thousand people living in it so it isn't as though it's being overrun but cashin which had a left wing local government for seventy years since world war two recently voted in the right swing northern league it wants to deport four hundred thousand undocumented migrants from italy and on to just on our immediate arctic care something to get out and of course we don't want to deport all of these and if there are immigrants who work here who are integrated there the right criminals coming here to take houses from italians and we pay tax for them to do nothing. immigration of course is always fertile ground for the right wing in european politics as indeed as a general this in charmed with the state of the european union and longstanding concerns about the economy and it's all particularly good news for one man who

dominates italian politics for so long and is increasingly being seen as europe's answer to donald trump. at the age of eighty one silvio berlusconi is back his plastic scheme and rictus grin all over this election despite his criminal record he still has his own political party and media empire there is every chance he could get to choose the next prime minister it's like he never went away. thoughts that we are united force pushing back against all the bad things the left wing has done to our country we're going back into power because the left has put three million people into poverty and three million unemployed the third party in this potential coalition is called brothers of italy one of several groups with fascist roots that have a chance of seats in parliament even given italy's history it appears immigration

has made the electorate ready to consider what the european union dreads the most the far right in government. was we are committed to stopping. migration flows and paying more attention to a tally and families of the governments already do this the italian state won't spend more on asylum seekers than italian pension is. if you ask the far right how they would actually deport nearly half a million people putting them in boats and dumping going to libya that is being discussed at all tells you much about the state of the european union with berlusconi right back in the mix gloriously al-jazeera. or in florence the former italian prime minister and secretary of the democratic party matteo renzi is speaking as a final rally ahead of the election frenzy serve between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen and is hoping to secure victory for his party. in two thousand and sixteen after widespread when jackson off his proposed constitutional

reforms he then resigned so it is a live pictures coming to us now from florence where material renzi is speaking earlier though. earlier the populous five star movement held its final rally the anti establishment party is on track to be the single biggest party in parliament that in barber explains. well this final rally by the five star movement did feature better grillo at the end he's the man who co-founded the party but there is a new generation now running it thirty one year old lady to my own hopes to be italy's next prime minister and he hopes he says he can do that without going into an alliance or a coalition with other parties but the new electoral system that italy has which is a mixture of proportional representation and first past the post might make that very difficult his party was the biggest single party on around twenty eight

percent but they were way behind this coalition led by silvio berlusconi and his foots a tally a party his partner is a well known for their hard line stance on immigration luigi demaio has made a thing of not really talking about immigration trying to reach out both to the right and to the left on the youth vote he's promised things like a guaranteed basic income of around a thousand dollars a month he also wants to raise taxes on energy companies whether or not he will stick to the line of not forming an alliance in parliament is hard to say because if as many people predict they'll be a hung parliament after sunday then he has suggested he could do some kind of deal with other parties without giving them ministerial seats at the moment then really really hard to say who will emerge as the next prime minister. announcing mandela foundation has asked

a course in south africa to bangkok churches displays of the country's old flag foundation believes displays constitute hate speech and racial discrimination in the country malcolm webber points now from johannesburg. the symbol of the apartheid era government of africa's old flag is controversial and to many deeply offensive here members of the white supremacist a.w.b. party held at the funeral of their leader in twenty ten the nelson mandela foundation has asked a court to choose displays of it the flag is synonymous with a part of it and to have it displayed is really it's a celebration of the apartheid crime against humanity and humiliation of its victims its unambiguously. expression that denies the human dignity of those who suffered under apartheid and particularly black people i am flag was designed the end of apartheid the rainbow nation. here at the twenty

ten world cup it was in the old one they were to be seen. but not everyone agrees the old one should be banned after a forum is an organization that represents afrikaners who are among south africa's white minority its deputy c.e.o. told us the organizations against anyone flying the flag that says it should not be banned if someone stands somewhere wearing the old south african flag that's not it it's offensive it's not hate speech if that person waved the flag and says let's go unheard black people then it had speech. the petition to ban the flag will be presented to the equality court which sits in here opponents will also be able to make their case and if the nelson mandela foundation succeeds in the flag is banned anyone who flies it thereafter could face a penalty this on likely to ever amount to more than a fine this couple were both born after the end of apartheid the whole. plan to delay the financial interests of live on i mean i. never even heard of it

but after we explained about i think often some people who should be and when after all it isn't. think it should be if you don't other people in our country it's a free country you see everyone it's will come here so i think. you could still have it is. where you come from. it is rare for the flag to be shown in public but the nelson mandela foundation and wants of rule malcolm where. johannesburg south africa well if you're in europe this will come as no surprise the region is in the grip of a deep freeze after the so-called beast from the east a blast of siberian air that bore snow and freezing conditions at the start of the week in ited kingdom an island are now being battered by storm amma it's forced dublin airport to close and twenty four thousand homes and businesses are without power across island while in britain the army has been called in to help rescue

hundreds of drivers stuck in the snow. or gas supplies are beginning to be affected in a number of areas in ukraine people are being asked to cut usage after russia's gazprom unexpectedly decided not to restart supplies it threatens to open up a new front in a long running route between kiev and the company a byproduct of political tensions following russia's annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen. states that will. last forever. and in. the law. business updates to you by. going places together.

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with. marion thank you very much olympic gold medal winning gymnast alley raised is suing the u.s. olympic committee this is just six weeks after her compelling testimony against discreated former national team doctor larry nasser that saw him sentenced to more than one hundred years in prison res one filed a lawsuit on wednesday in california the twenty three year old alleges that the organization as well as usa gymnastics were negligent and should have known about nasa's sexual abuse against her and earthly pts matter was jailed for up to one hundred seventy five years in prison for decades of abuse against hundreds of gymnasts. football's rule makers will decide on saturday whether to adopt a v.a.r.

their video replay technology across football to help cut down on refereeing mistakes if it's approved it could be brought in for this year's world cup in russia but critics say it's not without its faults and could make the game much more stop start as was the case said friday's melbourne dobby in australia the match began with controversy when melbourne victory thought they had taken the lead up to just fifty seconds until the referee stopped to use the v.a. our system more than ninety seconds later a victory celebration were halted when one of their players was judged to be offside the victory eventually got a goal in the twelve minutes and despite melbourne city's equaliser the roy george sealed a two one win for the victory. there is just over one hundred days to go until the world cup in russia and officials have been inspecting stadiums on friday it was the turn of rostov on don or where brazil will kick off their campaign against switzerland on june the seventeenth that will be the first of five matches taking

place in the south eastern city. over in spain real madrid will look to bounce back from tuesday's loss to espanyol when they play host to cut off aid in lower league on saturday mail of thirty in the table and fifteen. hind league leaders barcelona their defeat against espanyol made it the club's fourth league defeat of the season now before the important run of sixteen champions league second league fixture with paris st germain next tuesday they were attention turns to set up and although rail have won each of the last eight meetings against them manages it is a day in is expecting a tough game. so. people that are sort of the problem we have well it's not a problem is just a fact and that is that we are playing against an extra motivated extra focused team it's the game of the year for them and we need to think like that as well in

every game like it's the game of the year for us to the defending chinese super league champions gong through ever ground they have got the new season off to a troubling start they took on a city rivals going through or and if in the opening game of the season on friday and was nothing shy of the visitors took the lead just two minutes in and ten minutes later their leaders doubled the hosts back three minutes after that the goals go long continued with the match tied at four four deep into the second half shower z. managed to have the winning header five four that's how it ended. i swear to top off a nine goal for now at the wool into athletics championships in birmingham huber's one may go it has taken the manes a long jump gold medal that happened on friday each of area leapt eight point four six metres that's

a world leading time to take first prize on the second day of the championships south africa is the nouveau my younger was second while american marquees then the completed the podium. earlier the first medal of the second day was won by great britain's catalina johnson thomson in the women's pentathlon the twenty five year old finished off the competition in the final eight hundred meter event ahead of austria's ivana that it she and cuba is your girl is sort of the big ace who took the silver and bronze medals respectively. lucas pretty or will face roberto about the star goods in the dubai tennis championship final on saturday the fringe moments a true spot for the same the final victory of a serbian philip client bitch in or it was a rain delay the match between the two on friday we took the opening six in a little over half an hour but he lost the second on a time break the thirty four year old eventually coming out the winner of the three

set encounter six three six seven seven six. it's a case of advantage of straining after the second day's play of the first test against south africa in durban the ozzies resumed play on two hundred twenty five or five and thanks to mitchell marshall's ninety six reach three hundred fifty one all out mitchell starc then took five wickets to bundle the south africans out for just one hundred sixty two strains their lead by one hundred and eighty nine the world's most famous sled dog race gets underway on saturday but allegations of dog doping just won't go away in october it was announced that four dogs belonging to four time winner della c.b. tested positive for a banned painkiller c.v. finished second in last year's race but has pulled up this year to protest he's innocent stoping isn't the only problem race organizers face they have lost a major sponsor and are under pressure from animal rights advocates following the death of five dogs last year. that's all the sport for me it's back to london and

marry him peter. well now thousands of the world's most beautiful stately homes are crumbling the victims of russia's turbulent political history the arris aquatic estates were nationalized after the one nine hundred seventeen revolution before going into disrepair in the quarter of a century since the collapse of the soviet union or a challenge reports. silence and snowflakes inhabit a grave and over now but before its current desolation this grand estate thirty kilometers northeast of moscow was home to royalty and rich merchants tuberculosis patients and finally soviet science students such a history should make this place special but across russia eight to ten thousand estates a quietly crumbling to dust says this conservationist. most of the states are in the horrible condition where someone could put money in for many years with an unclear idea how they take it back and you'd have to work hard on it and you bought

the movies i should think like great never most estates are formally owned by the state the communist seeds them off to the one nine hundred seventeen revolution and in the years following the u.s.s.r. collapse very few have passed back into private hands. one of the handful of success stories is so redneck over when we visited it was hosting boisterous maslin it's a festivities the slavic celebration of winter is imminent demise have zero zero i've heard knowing her. i was crying like a state where the life me koreans are one in the right circumstances oh like my tug of war efforts restoring set of nick over wasn't easy but his new custody in this did at least when now they host weddings film crews charge admission to the grounds and the profits help restore other bits of the estates mccullum and solve the namesake and relative of one of russia's most famous nineteenth century poets calls

himself a romantic but he believes this and well on necessary attributes for taking on such a project. and a state is how russian person understands what heaven on earth should look like and it represents the philosophy in the soul of a russian man today is his biggest. reuter's that's why it's important to restore not just one or two states but the entire culture of all the greatest poets writers and philosophers were raised among. us through a quantum. is now working with other owners and the governments to nurture and estates tourist industry and simplify many tax and regulate free complexities that person investors off for grabs me over perhaps it's already too late it's been more than a hundred winters since this place was lost her family home perhaps thirty or so since it was last used to tall and if someone can be found to show the love and

warmth that it deserves then who knows how many more winters it has before it finally vary by the snow. al-jazeera moscow region. but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news a full roundup of the top stories coming up very shortly i'll see you in a bit stay with just. discover a wealth of all would winning programming from around the world. to challenge your perceptions if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build

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