to address a critical issue march on al-jazeera. this is the opportunity to understand in a very different way where there are people thinking how could we don't leave our. zero. three. this is al-jazeera. hello there are more of this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. and elsewhere in syria on likely war crimes and

potential crimes against humanity a warning from the u.n. human rights chief to attacking the syrian city of. gunmen killed after attacking the french embassy in the military headquarters in capital. talk of retaliation against u.s. president trying to plant a slap tariffs on steel imports. and police in the u.s. state of michigan search for a student suspected of killing his parents i think university residence hall. the u.n. human rights chief says astronauts on the besieged syrian neighborhood of eastern goose up probably amount to war crimes and should be prosecuted at least twenty three more civilians have been killed as government forces really took more ground from rebel fighters on friday had reports from neighboring turkey.

makeshift clinics in eastern who to have been filling up the wounded most of the civilian casualties are women and children. we are waiting for the civilians to receive aid so we can preserve their lives we are waiting for reaction from the world. but 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 one of a cease fire resolution on saturday there have been hundreds of attacks in eastern guta that it was so gentle with this mosque was here to praise god there are no weapons or cannon here the regime bombed it ten minutes before the ceasefire so why use 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 the perpetrators of these crimes must know that they are being identified not 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 war justice and sure these criminals are disgraceful they 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 rebel

positions on the frontlines are also. under heavy bombardment usual islam and fail after ramadan fighters have been holding meetings with families to shore them they're not going to retreat we asked a doctor in eastern huta about the potential crimes against humanity remarks and he replied with a question has the world drawn another red line and said never again he asked because the assad government 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 some of it. because young in the turkey syria border. he is the interaction of the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university joins us live now from kansas city in missouri so these have been branded as potential crimes against humanity but are we going to see any action taken. well of course the princes

a high commission on human rights would speak in terms of potential and probable because the ultimate the decision as to whether these are in fact crimes against humanity. is up to a court. it is very difficult to see how you can have a court proceeding in this in this environment where one of the permanent members of the. security council with veto power russia is an ally of the regime which is appears to be committing these crimes against humanity and war crimes a referral to the international criminal court which prince's aide called for requires a u.n. security council resolution where again russia and china have previously exercised a veto so i think the prince's aides remarks at this moment are aspirational. rather than practical ok so if not the i.c.c.

was all the way might have tried says on both sides face justice. well of course and in fact it's interesting that. at this current moment in our national sort of in the adjudication of international crimes the sort of the mood is in favor either of regional courts or national courts rather than the i.c.c. there's a bit of i.c.c. fatigue certainly in the continent of africa but other places around the world as well so it's conceivable that if for instance there were a negotiated settlement to the syrian civil war and if a new government arose that perhaps not tomorrow perhaps not the day after tomorrow but perhaps in time there might indeed be a national court that would exercise jurisdiction over these crimes and that surely must be the hope of prince's aid now and i have no doubt that there will be. u.n.

offices as well as n.g.o.s or c s o's around the world that are indeed gathering evidence against the hope that some day there may well be trials in syria argues that print side is biased in this debate is pro lists assize you know him seventy two so that i have the privilege of knowing prince is a he is a committed dedicated public servant international public servant whose pronouncements are who makes pronouncements based upon where the evidence takes him his pronouncements are guarded and appropriate to the circumstances. i as a private individual can say that it is obvious to me that what has been occurring in syria and on more than one side has been have been war crimes and crimes

against humanity and i'm choosing my words carefully as an international lawyer ok . many thanks for taking the time to join us there from kansas city. thank you very much. syrian government forces have released footage of leaflets being dropped to civilians in damascus near east and soldiers say the papers have information about favorite places humanitarian corridors and medical points of the leaflets told civilians if they choose not to cooperate with syrian rebels obvious old safety food accommodation and free fast a. satellite image is a part of anything good to have been released by the un they say the destruction in the span of a week and a bill go is from the u.n. operational satellite applications program into neiva he says duma is the west had thirty well these images shows us that there has been increased

and heavy bombardment in using guta and in particular in due mother to be animal is based on a satellite image taken this morning compared to an image taken on the twenty third oath february so what we observe in the imagery is continued. to continue cellucci and continue to damage to infrastructure and in this case 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 cetera 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 south like in certain areas but also out of that state but what red damage but that there are definitely areas that we see you know heavily affected. now. as many as twenty eight people have been killed in coordinated attacks on the military headquarters of the french embassy in the capital while good do good. when it's as a them lost attackers use guns and explosives during the assault so they gave has more. plumes of smoke rising above became 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 government coordinated and well planned the targets the army headquarters and the french embassy. seven soldiers were killed at the military h.q.

several 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 shouting allahu akbar they set fire to the truck and continued to shoot video we did hear that. there were a lot of shots fired damage everywhere two policemen went by 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 fast says the patient in the southern sahara has made it a target for groups of fighters who operate in the region tens of thousands of people have fled the 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 old 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 so new diagonal al-jazeera. us reports say police are searching for a student suspected of shooting dead his parents at the university hall of residence in michigan nineteen year old james eric davis allegedly killed when they came to pick him up from central michigan university police warn davis should because of dangerous they say was picked up the night before by police. steam your police department did have contact with the involved in the virtual last evening at some point evening he was transported to mclaren hospital due to what the officers believe may be drug related. incidents an overdose or a reaction to the drugs at that point he was released to the hospital staff

in the school shooting in florida last month has reignited the congressional debate on whether to tyson gun control laws democrats are demanding thorough background checks once republicans are protecting the constitutional right to bear arms and as mike hanna reports from new york the stalemate has some corporations taking their own steps to slow gun sales. the biggest fear 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 u.s. 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 kroger 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 interest 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 as 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 mike hanna al-jazeera new york. and in mosul has him including.

campaigning for general election voters look to replace a caretaker cabinet and bring in a new. saving a russian history private investors work to preserve the terrorising a state that will once home to royalty. hundreds more slim picked him last alleyways been has found a new city against the u.s. olympic committee has the details. pulling and intimidating the henge refugees and its border with bangladesh spoke to witnesses who say the troops slingshots and threw bottles at refugees bangladesh's told me withdraw its forces from the area imran khan has more range of muslims fleeing me on my face harassment the troops that pushed them out

a back making it very clear they want their engine gone for good this woman shows a suitcase which she says was hit by ricocheting bullets fired into the camp al-jazeera producer tom spoke to those who fled from the only troops they said they were intimidated them they were using bullhorn and mikes warning them to get out of this area through the storm had them alcohol bottles and right using even sling shot at some point some of the troops even tried to climb the fence into the no man's land to intimidate them but where stopped and warned by the buying of this 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. 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 the patrols of the border fence. and use loud hailer as to order the estimated six thousand ranger 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 me and miles of rocking state united nations called it a textbook example of ethnic cleansing refugee 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 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 route the troop movement to the border now threatens a controversial deal to send the range of refugees back to myanmar many will be questioning whether it will ever really be safe to go back to me on imran khan zero their opinion commission has threatened. america's best known products in response to u.s. plans to increase tariffs on foreign oil or many and still present says hali davison's a levi jeans could be hit with a twenty five percent tariff if president donald trump follows through on his promise. ports a growing list of countries have also vowed to retaliate. it's a move targeting china and the lesser quality steel u.s. president donald trump says is flooding the american market foreign 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 is 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 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 and we will continue to engage with all levels of the american administration in the coming days so that the understand that this proposal is unacceptable but not sit idly while our industry is hit with them for measures that put thousands of european jobs at risk if you react firmly and 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 care al-jazeera washington and he's one person is dead after a suicide blast in the afghan capital kabul police say a car bomb was detonated near a convoy of a straining an embassy bear calls that no one has yet claimed responsibility. well it comes just days after president afghani announced plans for peace talks with the taliban the group here to respond to the offer could see it recognized as a legitimate political party and soberly reports after more than sixteen years of war many afghans remain wary of what they're hearing from both sides. in the conflict in afghanistan like in most wars it's sometimes difficult if not impossible to see clearly what is happening and why the first casualty of war they say is the truth. away from the bombs and the bullets there is another war being fought here that of propaganda the winning of hearts and minds each side bombard

the people with their message of success. we're having many successes against the terrorists we're killing many the afghan forces with their allies are getting stronger people are skeptical that they're being given the true casualty figures and whether the successes are as successful as both sides claim war zones a breeding grounds for fake news. if you really look at it from the neutral perspective. i think both of them are are trying to hype whatever they're doing and reality. quite far from from reality it's always been hard for many afghans especially those who are educated to believe everything they're being told in this murky world of warlords corrupts military officials and politicians and shady profiteering businessmen people here long ago lost trust but it's not just distrust of their own for sixteen years the u.s. has given afghanistan support and promises visiting troops in december american

vice president mike pence made a declaration i believe victory is closer than ever before. gen john nicholson head of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan sais they are on course to win he is the eighth u.s. commander to claim victory was in sight so far the afghan campaign has cost america a trillion dollars and two thousand four hundred lives. in the propaganda war the taliban is not an amateur the group has professional websites in multiple languages uses twitter and other social media pumping out its message twenty four hours a day suicide attacks are choreographed with media in mind the tone of communication and the penetration rate in a one as long as is getting higher and higher day by day not just an hour when i want to run but also in rural understand. my sort of problem in recruiting

new officers in recruiting recruitment of new. predators and conveying the message to their audiences i think it's quite effective absolutely media in afghanistan are said to be flourishing and independent but then now on the frontline of the propaganda war last year twenty one journalist were killed doing their job afghan media certainly one of the success stories of the past seventeen years is paying a very high price for telling to through for giving the afghan people the voice they deserve a seat sadat is a camera man who suffered i damaged when a taliban suicide bomber targeted their vehicle seven colleagues died in the blast as i like you do every time i go out i'm scared my family want me to stop but i need the job many times where i have no choice but it's a risk. the true story of this war could be seen in the hospital wards in graveyards across the country to date hundreds of thousands of people most of them

civilians have been killed and wounded in forty years of conflict that in itself is almost unbelievable. europe is in the grip of a deep freeze the so-called beast from the east a blast of siberian air brought widespread snow and freezing conditions at the start of the week now the united kingdom and ireland are being battered by storm and has forced dublin airport to close a twenty four thousand homes and businesses across the island without power in britain the army is called in to help rescue hundreds of drivers stuck in the snow . and so he's covered most of it including venice making a ride to one of the city's famous cons of less than pleasant some schools were closed and there was disruption in train services. and gas supplies are affected in number of areas in ukraine schools have been closed because of the shortage of work to cut gas usage after russia's gazprom pipeline unexpectedly decided not to

restart could open up a new front in the long running route between care of moscow russia's our socratic estates are disintegrating many were nationalized during soviet times the distance state hands and the high costs and bureaucracy that comes with the restoration as private investors reluctant to step him or challenge reports on whether anything could be done to save the historic building. silence and snowflakes inhabit a grave and over now but before its current desolation this grand estates 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 the movies that i shot that like great never most estates are formally owned by the state the communist seeds them out of the one nine hundred seventeen revolution and in the years following the u.s.s.r. as 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's imminent demise. and her i'm going to move her. over from like a state where the life you can really ends are one in the right circumstances. like my tug of war efforts restoring set of nick over wasn't easy but it's 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 mccollum 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 a 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 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 this beauty of. mccall 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 grab me of or perhaps it's already too late it's been more than

a hundred winters since this place was lost a 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 or retellings al-jazeera region still ahead here on al-jazeera women direct four percent of top feature film so i may say man direct ninety six percent of most movies you see. there is hope that this weekend's also a new era for female directors in hollywood. and neither of us can have exactly what we want. but i am confident that we can reach agreement growing pressure for britain's prime minister to lay out details of who gets what the nation spits from the european union. and support the trade centers his perfect record against the team to advance and mexico.

head of the advice was evacuate the northeast coast this is a brief nor'easter spinning out there the cloud which means a strong wind coming in the gates or in cold air snow seems like a bigger risk and this is it happening because the storm surge which comes out of the coast near boston for example in the daylight hours should see it diminish a lot but that doesn't mean it's all necessarily gone this is a picture take about middle of the day after all then it's fine weather off that nothing like is cold right back to the plain states but back in montana stretching down towards california chances are we'll see this no but again not a particularly heavy in idaho worthwhile snow but it's still there now we're on to

sunday about this time much quieter weather now in boston still of her freezing in toronto there is obviously some cold air in canada that is a quite picture for you even the trade winds are much lighter taking a big step back now which means they're not driving any shots anywhere they're not going to showers on the coast of nicaragua but if you see any more in there you're a better man than i am and that's true for the next two days the breeze of everything changes direction completely comes down from the north. too often on the streets of india. are victims but a new force is at play. female police officers are combative sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is

a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's lady cops. at this time on al-jazeera. i sometimes feel that we are really looking into the hearts and the soul of those directly involved in advance taking place really good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who've been affected you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a generation past like and i often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from.

hello again i'm laura collier watching and has a mind of our top stories this. u.n. human rights chief says as strikes in the besieged syrian neighborhood. probably amount to war crimes and those responsible should be prosecuted at least twenty three more civilians have been killed as government forces returned ground from rebel fighters on friday. and he's twenty eight people have been killed in. a coordinated attack on the french embassy and military headquarters eight gunman was killed by forces and how many more were involved in the west african nation. and the european commission's president to threaten to impose duties on some america's most well known products including harley davidsons levi jeans. to put a twenty five percent tariff on steel imports a growing list of steel producing countries are considering steps.

it's the final day of campaigning for italian politicians at this weekend's parliamentary election the ruling center left democratic party has made a last push for votes of florence as polls put its lead in metairie renzi firmly in second place many analysts predict former prime minister silvio berlusconi his posse is likely to be part of a potential coalition with no party winning enough to govern on its own in the second of his reports from lawrence league considers the impact of a rightwing coalition. central it's really very very pretty and people are very young. 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. just want to die on the floor i mean.

in the summer so many women have complained that they your and eating 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 the it is on our immediate arctic care he's running to get out and of course we don't want to deport all of them is going to the right immigrants who work here who are integrated 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 is a general this in charged 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 on to donald trump. at the age of eighty one silvio berlusconi is back his plastic skin 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 our tally and families other governments already do it is the italian state won't spend more on asylum seekers than italian pensioners. if you ask the far right how they would actually deport nearly half a million people they talk about putting them in boats and dumping them in libya is being discussed at all tells you much about the state of the european union with berlusconi right back in the mix lawrence leigh al-jazeera it's unreal. britain's prime minister has laid out more details on what kind of trading relationship with the u.k. the u.k. will have where the european union once it withdraws from the block trade the mayor's been under pressure to spell out exactly how to avoid a hard border in ireland while also satisfy the demands of competing factions in

her own party the parker reports from london. 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 suggested the u.k. would mirror some rules 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 journalist 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 of 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 which store 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. on their legal commitments on wednesday the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel barnier said northern ireland should remain part of the customs

territory with the e.u. after brics it. to reason maces any e.u. attempt to effectively an extent 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 brics 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 he park at al-jazeera london suspected bok around fighters have killed at least three aid workers and eight security staff members and northern nigeria. says the attack happened late thursday night and the town of run and borno state

a female nurse is also reported missing faired said the town is home to nurture base and account for more than fifty thousand internally displaced people. a car bomb packed with explosives has rammed into a military base thirty kilometers northwest of somalia's capital mogadishu it happened in the afghan district local police say the number of casualties as not no . well stay in the region officials from the five countries contributing to the african union force in somalia are in uganda's capital discussing power to withdraw their troops by the end of twenty twenty the force there as amazon has been battling al-shabaab for ten years it's now training local police forces the way the miller spent a day embedded with an african union police patrol in mogadishu. these local police officers a stationed at one of several high risk areas in mogadishu it's not far from the old parliament building an african union police patrol made up of kenyan nigerian

and ugandan offices stop to check in where they are and where a lot. but the local police meant to keep the area safe are not armed we have done the training we have been giving them in terms of knowledge and skills what is remaining is maybe give many if they're going to help equipment ok much more than we expect somalia is a national police force is twenty thousand strong but sometimes app has it it's still finding its feet securing the capital often relying on residents to gather intelligence some areas in mogadishu are targets fighters trying to overthrow the government. one challenge is that sometimes places explosives and paper bags and dust means african union patrols like this one a mint to coordinate security activities between foreign and local police the

patrol takes us through some of the busiest parts of the city crowded with people and traffic aside from being used to assist and train local police these patrols by the african union's amma some forces a very much about making people here feel safe the more police to see the war people feel secure the government is preparing its own security forces. takeover when african union police and soldiers leave the country in two years the united nations says al shabaab has been weakened in the past year but the somali government says its security forces also face challenges our security force used to have the training outside. the problem became when they come back they don't have. the nationalistic. view. and why they are fighting. there

will not fully prepared in terms of the current situation in somalia. the government says it's twenty six thousand troops are stretched thin somalia lacks the institutions to properly supported the police and soldiers sudden changes in leadership plan affiliations political infighting and low salaries don't make it any easier we are not going to be awful good right now as we talk the discussion is transition so i'm son is soon moving out and that's the reality in december one thousand amma some soldiers pulled out of somalia the african union says it could consider extending its mission in somalia but ultimately its mandate will end for me to al-jazeera mogadishu a united nations team says it has proof united arab emirates forces have seized operations of an air base in eastern libya later paul claims the away and egyptian

air forces are supporting general holly for hafter her pose as the u.n. backed government in tripoli would apple hate explains. according to the united nations team of experts they were needed at emirates air force has been running them military bases that is south of imagine city in the east of libya and that's military bases witnessed a remarkable development between march and september last year now we remember that in march last year in morality warplanes lasted several airstrikes on areas controlled by heft of opponents and an especially on gun food district where many people were killed by immorality either strikes including women and children we understand that since at any gaijin little free for have the launch of his military campaign known as operation dignity in may two thousand and fourteen the united arab emirates and egypt have been supporting hefted politically and militarily and

. hosted heads for the last year several times recently the czech republic has stopped a deal that includes seven helicopters who were both by the united arab emirates and were planned to be sent to engage in the khalifa haftar in the east of libya now all this supported by the united arab emirates and egypt to have that has increased the conflict has added more fuel to the fire in the east of libya and has eventually led to a link the u.n. sponsored peace talks that is the agreement of the libyan political agreement that was signed by libyan rebels in morocco in two thousand and fifteen. still has her on al-jazeera the chinese superleague defending champions get their campaign off to a public start you know all the details next since the.

thank you very much limpid gold medal winning gymnast annie raised and is suing the u.s. olympic committee this is just six weeks after her compelling testimony against disgraced former national team doctor larry nasa that saw him sentenced to more than one hundred years in prison raised and filed the 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 the athletes massa 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 the v.a. or 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 at 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 fever officials have been inspecting stadiums on friday

it was the turn of rostov on don no 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 in the league are on saturday mail of thirty in the table and fifteen points behind league leaders barcelona their defeat against espanyol made at the club's first 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 hit our fair and although rail have won each of the last eight meetings against them manages it in zidane is expecting a tough game. so. people that are 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 to ever ground they have got the new season off to a troubling start they took on a city rivals draw bar and if in the opening game of the season on friday and was nothing shy of a thriller 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 the top of our nine gold for now at the world indoor and latex championships in birmingham huber's one may go it has taken the main the long jump

gold medal that happened on friday each of area leapt eight point four six meters that's a world leading time to take first prize on the second day of the championships south africa's the nouveaux 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 ivanna that it should and cuba is your girl is sort of the big ace who took the silver and bronze medals respectively luke up we will face roberto about to star go to the dubai tennis championships final on saturday the frenchman in security spot with the semifinal victory over serbian philip cray you know which in what was a rain delay there for two in the two on friday took the opening set in little over half an hour but he lost the second on the tie break the twenty four year old

eventually coming out the winner of the three set encounter six three six seven and seven six. it's a case of advantage australia after the second day's play of the first test against south africa in durban the ozzies resumed play on two hundred twenty five for five m. thanks to mitchell marshes 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 the australians now 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've lost a major sponsor and are under pressure from animal rights advocates following the

death of five dogs last year and that's all the sport for me will have another update for you again later. now as hollywood gears up for its biggest night of the year. filmmakers adoring attention to the relative lack of jobs for women in the industry there was a glimmer of hope at this year's academy award nominations but for many changes still coming too slowly reports from. in this classroom at the art center college of design the numbers of male and female aspiring film directors are about equal and the women feel they have a fair shot at making it professionally the main thing i think as a woman so make is that you have to focus on is really not being intimidated not being intimidated by the amount of male colleagues you have and the amount of the spirit and gender that you would encounter on set outside the classroom the gender

disparity in the film industry is stark amy adrian crunched the numbers in her new documentary half the picture over about the past ten years women direct four percent of top feature film so obviously men direct ninety six percent of most movies you see a movie theaters in the numbers for t.v. or a little bit better think its average is about women direct fifteen percent around of television shows some men direct eighty five percent every single way you looked at the numbers they were terrible for women that's despite the fact that women make up about fifty percent of film school graduates this year director greg irwin has been nominated for an academy award for ladybird not yale because i probably couldn't get it he definitely. and the cinematographer rachel morrison is the first woman nominated for her work behind the camera in mudbone but those accolades are few and far between director victoria hochberg was part of

a group that sued major hollywood studios thirty years ago nothing has changed radically things have changed. very very very slowly and in spurts only when the studios or the production companies or even the unions are threatened in some way and they have to worry about lawsuits in some european countries laws mandating equal representation in industries including entertainment adrian says a similar approach may be needed in hollywood i think that it's very likely that the industry will need some kind of outside pressure to actually change despite that long history of gender disparity in the film industry many young aspiring female film directors are not discouraged i know it's going to be tough. and i know that us that woman and. two hundred percent determination to succeed in

an industry that has stacked the deck against women rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles well that's it from a laura college for this news hour oh back in just a moment with another full. of the day's news for you.

right. march on al-jazeera. with all potential challengers out of the way egypt's president abdullah fattah el-sisi is poised for a second time in power. a series of stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds as president putin dominates the russian political scheme and his reelection becomes more apparent we see what direction russia might take. with media trends constantly changing listening post analyzes how the news is being covered. and as more people around the world struggle to find clean drinking water leaders and research as governor in brazil to address

a critical issue march on al-jazeera more than forty thousand africans are facing deportation from israel is awarded more than ninety percent of. the way. almost zero point one per cent of the two of those in danger of being thrown out of the country in which they sought refuge. at this time. were in syria likely war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity. a warning from the un human rights chief there's attacking the syrian city of kusa.