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desperate choices people in eastern guta face says syrian government forces continue to bomb the rebel held districts despite a un mandated cease fire there's growing pressure on russia to use its influence on the syrian government to let aid in and civilians out but how much leverage does moscow actually have on the regime. also on the grid the struggle to contain armed groups in west africa. killed sixteen people highlighting the deteriorating security situation in the region former colonial power france is backing a regional military force to combat on groups across the south but will that be enough to end the threats and the dilemma millions of people face in britain as the winter weather turns colder eat or heat summer having to choose between keeping warm or eating with food poverty hitting record levels and energy prices going up explore what's being done to help the most vulnerable there have been protests both

on the streets of survivor and online after the journalist was murdered. to this week on the side of hyde now i'm going to king the global reaction to john because he adds that night he connected us using the hash tag a.j. it's great the with the news great guide on air and streaming online three you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us says still no relief in sight for people in syria's eastern ghouta trapped by a nearly five year long siege they hoped a u.n. backed ceasefire agreed last week would give them some reprieve but instead they continue to come under government bombing and now wal-mart is say the syrian government is intensifying its ground offensive in the rebel held enclave the syrian observatory for human rights says government forces have advanced inside eastern ghouta capturing some areas and military bases from rebel fighters from beirut's in neighboring lebanon harder begins our coverage with this report.

is desperate queues just one of about four hundred thousand people trapped in eastern which is under attack. he is very ill and poor living in a besieged enclave means medicine and food are hard to find i remember what a lot of the roads here are i am crying and my children are cried because i am unable to buy anything for them my situation is very bad we have no money. and for the past two weeks this is what the people have been facing. the. airstrikes artillery shelling more than six hundred civilians have already been killed. syrian aircraft are dropping leaflets over the besieged rebel held eastern some provide information and what they call safe exit out of the enclave others urge rebels to lay down their arms promising amnesty if they turn themselves in the pro-government

alliance has been calling on civilians to leave and blame rebels for using them as human shields. for many especially those involved in opposition activities crossing into government territory is not an option there are no security guarantees and people don't want to leave their homes. one of the older you russia is a terrorist state and it has carried out massacres against the people of east and the humanitarian corridor they talk about is aimed at displacing the people and changing the demography of this region. there are voices of defiance from inside the war zone but the suffering is immense it's not clear how long they will be able to ensure. the syrian national coalition the main opposition body in exile is calling on the united states to enforce a cease fire that was recently adopted by the un security council it also wants washington to stop what it calls russia's monopoly of decision making in syria the

us president donald trump discussed syria with germany's chancellor angela merkel and france's president and manuel mccraw they all called on russia to stop bombing eastern who died and to force the syrian government to stop offensive operations against civilian areas. destroying civilian infrastructure and making the lives of civilians unbearable are part of a military strategy that has worked in the past and it's now being applied in eastern huta. beirut. while international pressure on the syrian regime is growing to stop its military offensive in eastern guta besides iran russia is of course the syrian president's main ally and the u.s. u.k. germany and france want moscow to use its influence and the bombing and here's why russia and syria have strong economic military trade and diplomatic ties that date back to the soviet times moscow has consistently supported president assad as

a counterweight in the region to western influence especially the u.s. is also the syrian government's biggest on supply a russia maintains a naval and air bases in syria the only military facility it has in the middle east and moscow has consistently use its veto power at the u.n. security council to defend its ally or let's speak to andrea's creagh now who is an assistant professor of defense studies at the kings college in london he joins us live from our new center there in london and just very good to have you on the news great again so despite the russians agreeing to this latest ceasefire in syria and even saying that they will allow. humanitarian paulus in eastern guta every day there is still no cease fire why do you think this is and how much leverage does russia actually have on the government and are they using that leverage right now. well two questions here i mean do they have leverage and do the other using the leverage first of all or do the leverage now or has diminished the lid

a lot over the last three years every or two and a half years when since russia got involved initially russia got involved when our site was at the brink of losing the civil war they turned the tide of this war put a sub very much back in the driver's seat assad is very much able to consolidate his power now within the regions that he controls is unable to restore power as it wasn't two thousand and seven but he's very much in the driver's seat he is a lot more confident now than he has been two and a half years ago and so with that confidence particular because he's working also with the iranians with that confidence he is not really in the he doesn't really like to be pushed around by the russians so i think the leverage has diminished also because i think the relationship is more egalitarian at the same time the second part the question is does russia use it i don't think russia is using that leverage because i think all of all of the all of what is russia saying at the moment is part of their information warfare is showing the west that we're trying to do something but we can't and they're blaming it on the rebels saying the rebels

are terrorists the rebels are using human shields so we actually were trying to help but we can't because we're being attacked by the rebels so i don't i mean i think it's on the one hand there i want it up on one of your points said because you've made a couple of interesting points you say that the relationship is more egalitarian now but do you think that assad has stopped responding to russian pressure who's controlling whom basically right now at the states. i mean the whole syrian war is a it's a proxy war between different patterns and proxies between different principals and agents and i think it's very difficult to say that some powers are now principals in the other powers or agents and to say that he's a puppet of either you or iran or russia i think even either iran and russia need a certain i need both of them so it's a lot more egalitarian and a sub can diversify his sponsorship if you will i mean he's getting weapons financial support and most importantly support for his ground war from iran which

is existential and russia provides him with another vital ingredient which is their power so you need both but he can play one of the proxies one of the patterns against each other saying if you don't support me i can always go back to iran this is one of the russians then after in syria right now what is it that the russians want out of their intervention what is motivating them to support to continue supporting bashar assad. right i think unlike the iranians who have an ideological support with the family of bashar al assad and because he is an alawite i think the russians are more pragmatic pragmatists they want to have a regime that is friendly in damascus towards moscow that doesn't need to be necessarily assad it but they need to have a regime which is similar to assad that is pro russian so the worst thing that could happen for the russians is if america expends it's small photos of the turks pounding their food or iran is expanding the photos at the expense of russia so russia sees this as you surprised in this report is sees russia syria as

a jew strategic hub in the region they need it for energy they needed for military operations and it's also part of the global power game so they can't lose the regime but if it comes to. a new kind of arrangement with the turn it of forces in damascus even with some of the opposition forces russia would back it as long as this new regime would would help the russians maintain this that is in syria so in that way our son is expendable and they can they can potentially get rid of him which is something the iranians obviously don't want to do but they need they can't do without assad because if he's gone that knows what's coming afterwards so it's a very difficult game for us to play they need to stay in there but at the same time they're not the most powerful player on the ground as always very interesting to hear thoughts on this story andrea is craig joining us there from london and i want to point you now to this very interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com by loonies on russia's involvement in syria he argues that all may not be what it

seems right now when it comes to russia's influence as andrea said there aren't as despite its crucial role in this conflict in fact he argues that because russia does not have a post conflict strategy in syria the asaad government will likely not respond to any pressure from moscow it's a very interesting perspective read it on our website on al-jazeera dot com and within getting a lot of comments on this story or read. on the news great one here from gary on facebook who says foreigners need to get out of syria another one from osama talking about the ceasefire that was agreed at the un last week he says the un is a joke one security council member can support the criminal action of any member state and the whole world is crippled from taking action thank you very much for the comments don't forget to send more comments on this and other stories we're covering on the news grid all the ways to connect with us on your screen right now don't forget to use the hash tag news good now to booking a fossil where the hunt is on for those behind friday's attacks in the capital

ouagadougou at least sixteen people were killed in the coordinated shooting and bombing that targeted the country's military headquarters and the french embassy twenty four hours later there is still no claim of responsibility nicholas haq has more from the care fossils capital. the headquarters are just a few hundred meters behind me this is the main artery a road of the nation in the capital was going to do when it's about at this time it's yesterday on friday that a taxi drove up packed with explosives up cinched road and said today did a bomb we got to see earlier on today up close what happened there they were shattered glass says five hundred meters away from the building in the vicinity that was the strength of the bomb we could read peered inside the army headquarters and we saw a large devery if we weren't allowed to go inside the prime minister went inside i asked him what he saw he told me this these were africa lipsticks that is the

strength of the destination straight after visiting the site she went to the hospital we weren't allowed to see the rooms or just perhaps they're trying to keep a tight control of what what could be filmed or not but there are about eighty nine so far officials that are being treated in the hospital and with this huge that's a nation that appears to have happened yesterday the best call is like these are a to rise in the hours and days to come there was a brazen attack actually the french embassy is down this road that's right behind me and it happened simultaneously with the french special forces that have a big base here that despite the sprint special forces that you're deployed in there's a hell area were deployed yesterday to protect the french institute in the trench and just see it took them about forty five minutes to neutralize for attackers that attack the french embassy to use drones and helicopters for the return of the forces inside the military headquarters it took them two hours before they could

utilize the taj nicholas hocking was going to the day well this latest attack invoking a fossil highlights and the security challenges for the countries in the cya wage and host ability is crucial for europe back in twenty thirty in france. the former colonial power intervened militarily in mali to push out on groups who were threatening the central government in bombing but the threat did not go away in fact it spread to other countries in the area several groups including north africa branch and i still are active in west africa's saya region. fossil malini share mauritania and chad formed a joint military force called the silo g five with five thousand soldiers with the help of france and there's still four thousand french troops on the ground and they operate alongside the g five force the european union and other international donors are also funding the five nation force well for more about the security

situation in the region let's bring in. an africa analysts she is live from paris thank you very much for being with us they had been rumors of an attack in brooklyn a fossil for some time now and. it seems that many people weren't really surprised but the state is a tot was far bigger and more brazen than the previous ones what does this say of you about the current threats in this region. this is first first of all that there is a security collapse in brooklyn a fast so after the ousting of former president in his compound we will or will has sort of a deal with all of those terrorist girardi's or you know these are all those groups and he has or he had also a very good. presidential security unit. and

a very good intelligence unit intelligence is key here and all of that disappeared because that unit specifically attempted will cool and he was dissolved but what happened later is that the new president did not really tackle the issue it was like well. those security and the military units are just good for attempting to so we don't want to develop that again missing the point that. booking office a was now. let's see vulnerable to what has been happening around the country right you know let me just ask you while you which is the main breeding ground of those yes you mentioned mali then i was going to actually come to that i mean there is a french military presence in the region in mali with france intervention there the

fact that there are still these armed groups and they seem to be multiplying and even uniting among amongst themselves present now despite the french being there what does that say about france's role in the region and francis presence has the french intervention in mali made the security situation better or worse and it. you know the point the probably that the the french don't have the same agenda as the africans or let's add the mali government to. because. the the main focus for france is security for europe security for the the french troops and not sort of unifying the military turia and not the maliki government taking control of the whole territory and specific specifically of the northern region france has

a tacit alliance with the two eirik in the north because they need them for intelligence and. somebody said the other meeting that ninety percent of the intelligence of the ground for the french troops comes from the two aren't on the m.l. and that. they didn't the prevented their mally and troops from taking over the regions in go and dal they kept them away and they want those though the all the rebel groups to be the leaders so what do you think needs to have this is a daily things which cannot work right so what needs to happen for these armed groups whether it's in mali or elsewhere in the syal in brooklyn or fossil what needs to happen for them to be brain dead is it just about a military intervention or are they other things that need to happen at the same time. of course you know you know there are some countries

in africa where there is no terror is there no terrorism why because there are no breeding ground for that and that we have to they have to tackle the root causes we have been saying that for decades nobody really does that they are is more interesting to reinforce the military because a lot of money coming with it because you know but is is not really efficient ok what they need there are two point there two aspect of course the situation of the people economy problem social problem and also the fact that in some areas there is no no state no government you have no schools you have no administration second thing is intelligence if and to put in common the resources of intelligence that mali work really together with the canal fuss or with on intelligence issues and

not just relying on the french role on the americans to do this and that and that's what have been people have been disenfranchised ok on that and there is a big movement now in mali right they call it a gondola which means our land they want to have a dialogue with all the communities the two are exist songwriter the arabs and whatever the people in the north say we have been living together for millionaires were ok hundreds of years so we used to sharing. sharing landa sharing everything so why don't we sit and discuss and not just rely a lot of chinese nations in africa. and a lot of challenges ahead for the us and that is indeed you know that's a classical things that dialogue will bring peace thank you so very much for speaking to us very interesting to hear your views on this money or below are joining us there from paris and there's an egg. documentary on the security threat

in the cya legion on al-jazeera dot com shadow war in the sorry looks at the u.s. and french military presence in africa is it really about the so-called war on terror or more a competition for natural resources an excellent film watch it by clicking on the special series on al-jazeera dot com. onto other world news now in egypt's top court has upheld a deal to transfer to red sea islands tucson's eurabia the agreement was sound when was signed rather when saudi king solomon visited egypt two years ago is situated between the two countries in the red sea to iran and santa fear remain largely on occupied but our political the sensitive transfer deal provokes widespread protests across egypt opponents say it amounts to selling off egypt's sovereign territory i again aim is there is a middle east analyst he says while not everyone might agree it was important that the legal process was followed i believe. it was very important for the region him

to get the approval of the consider usual court and i mean the ruling today's ruling you know proves that. the constitutional court which is the highest judicial body in egypt is really part of the routine litany just stress upon the fact that the way they have egypt to the two others to in favor of saudi arabia is totally. came in a flagrant way it was a flagrant violation of both the local the chips and those and the international law again. you know all things happen and unfortunately. and the life of the fact that this total absence of them obviously in egypt things happen and. nothing nothing we can do for now to reverse this thing. who fans to gain from egypt and saudi arabia's island deal in this opinion piece on al

jazeera dot com jonathan cook says it's israel he says israel could use diplomatic capital gains in its approval of tiran insana fear for support on the palestinian issue read his very interesting piece on al-jazeera dot com. over sixty people have died in a severe cold wave across europe this past week heavy snow fall and rain lashed different parts of the continent in the u.k. thousands of people are without electricity drought warnings have been issued across the country because of melting snow airports however have reopened and the public transport system is slowly returning to normal but the harsh winter weather has had a huge impact on millions of people and some poor families in the u.k. have had to make a difficult choice eat or stay warm sour hire out a social media produces he'll tell us more sides will follow it's actually hard to believe this could even happen in one of the world's richest countries but about

three thousand people in the u.k. die every year just because they can't afford to heat their homes in fact the case has one of the worst records for cold home related deaths in all of europe and the so-called fuel poverty has forced people to choose between keeping their heating on and staying warm in the cold or eating a meal and for food banks across the whole country are at their busiest especially during this bitter wintry week so a heat or each campaign is aimed at raising awareness and helping people get out of poverty now people just like this need this woman his elderly woman all the most vulnerable but who is mainly being blamed for fuel poverty apart from the government of course it's also the big six now those are the six major privatized energy companies don't know eighty ninety percent of the u.k. market gas bills for many are so high and the prices only keep going up and when the cold weather is at its worst some energy companies raise their terrorist and

asked to cover a hike in prices of gas that's being imported from a ball abroad and protests against the big six are not actually in france if you look at this place to just say that was from twenty thirteen it's an ongoing problem and this is an interview you'll be seeing from back in twenty eleven with one woman in wales. the gas and electric takes most of my money and then i just go try and spread the rest then between everything else i've got to pay i am going to money to spend on food and the streets for me night my son they've gone by the wayside because i just can't afford it or. and this just here is jack monroe now she's a well known british who wanted to highlight the choices many homes are having to make in the winter to heat or to in the video you're about to see shows diners invited to hope restaurant called fuel it was one that was just set up for this experiment and people were in for a shock just a chit a tip story what's the temperature doll in the corner of your screen. but.

it's still a bit chilly. you know to. me because i am. i'm a guy so i understand that you know i love to spend a bit less and i do i've had a couple of complaints about me being how old people have been secondly for the finish that seems a bit of a bizarre concept for a restaurant no one would expect think bounce that a million people walk down the country poverty face a choice between whether they can eat or whether they come here and to me that's a crisis and it's a crisis i want you to govern think about just that drastic choice between two i want to be born or do i want to be famous and that's the choice to get the gist there but experiment is in partnership with the charity almost and pound that is one of the big six energy companies in the u.k. and what we found was that many non big six supplies are part of

a campaign also to end fuel poverty and that's because quite a few of them believe they can provide energy that's more efficient and greener at a reduced price that's as a recent report found that public investment to better heat u.k. homes for example by providing insulation has been caught by fifty eight percent since twenty twelve which in turn has hauled the u.k. wide organizational energy supplies to deliver energy efficient improvements now i also just want to show you one more thing here it's a u.k. government that lets. income households no say qualify for financial help during below freezing weather such as this week so what you do is you go to the link you put your postcode in the beginning of the postcard so in a s. one of course postcode or some people have different names for in different parts of the world but shouldn't if it connects they go tell me that a person living in that area can receive payments to help them through the cold and

zero below zero temperatures so if you're watching us the nikkei we'd love to hear from you of course or maybe you're one of the people that's been affected by fuel poverty you can always tweet me you can d.m. me as well on twitter at such a higher salary thank you very much for that and i want to pick this up now with graham sheriff was a researcher at the university of self-worth and a campaigner of the fuel poverty and research network is on skype from selfridge in the u.k. thank you very much for being with us it's quite astonishing that in a country like the u.k. so many people millions have to choose between eating and staying warm why is this happening in one of the richest countries in the world and who is to blame in your view you know good afternoon it's a good question and the fuel poverty problem really hung around rich a society we do we are not part of what we contribute we also a lot. will be housing stock. and if you're in one of the two point five million

households need. a lot more households if you're in one of those households you're going to notice financially the most expensive he can build in that moment and point out. there is not very. i have a comment here from one of our viewers on facebook live michelle who says stop waging wars abroad and save that money to help our older adults that whole a lot of people are blaming the government of course or what are they doing to a system most vulnerable. well it's that is the price of the not just the elderly who suffer through poverty it's possible and it's sick to find that rents suffer and so people run to survive the long hours in the u.k. and because i have very little control of that house isn't like making food they might want to take so we really need some action from the government and that's partly financial action so we stayed in and it's proven that some of these games to

be able to vary by homes and levels with their homes but also regulations among all of them are we have at the moment to measure along those give that tenants a bath have they can measure that and not they're not paying massive energy bills when you could be in a much more efficient there was as we heard from sarah area if not this just the government though that needs to step in is it i mean what else needs to be done to improve the situation. now there i mean there's a look at the individuals do those various advice the energy advice and service and around you know making sure that what you do in your home is energy efficient and you can also buy your energy bills so you can switch to cheap cheap goods are many people need much more than it should be an amputee and because they haven't switched to that they're not and it's important for the government nature there by the noted birth names and how the people who are now options as well as from the news and your houses thank you so much for talking to us graham graham chef joining

us on the news great from south it's like you're watching us on facebook live coming up next a story about a trove of red the range species discovered in australia's deep ocean and still ahead on the news break we'll tell you more about the populist movement riding high head of italy's elections this year this. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've got a large dry conditions across the eastern areas temperatures looking pretty good there for our marty and in kazakhstan tashkent then a speck of stan around the caspian sea is also looking pretty good tear around at nineteen degrees now we've got some rain indeed some snow around the caucuses and unsettled weather conditions here generally but certainly looking quite warm for lebanon our beirut twenty three rising to twenty four as we head through into

monday with the winds having come up from warsaw in parts of africa now as we move down into the reagan places also looking good here dry conditions fine conditions mecca thirty four here in doha is warming up temperatures of twenty eight degrees the fact that in very close to thirty as we head through monday despite an increase in cloud let's head down into southern portions of africa we've got a tropical cyclone which is just running. it's the east coast amount of gas going to be bringing more heavy rain here but otherwise for much of south africa weather conditions are fine same goes for much of botswana once you get up into parts feingold or through some bia and towards and by then we've got some heavy showers developing and as we head into monday we're like to see some heavy downpours affecting lusaka with highs of twenty four. forced to be displaced by their governments in one thousand twenty three. it was

very greek and turkish villagers returning to their own really to. reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people should be forced to move from the border which are. the great population exchange at this time. we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have presence here all the time apart from being a good time and it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happened and what happens there matters.

the. headlines on al-jazeera and the stories trending on al-jazeera dot com at number one there was times likely to be committed in syria's eastern ghouta the words of the head of the u.n. human rights council as the situation worsens about enclave me at damascus also

trending god and sees it crashing in jerusalem more on the syrian conflict number three syria's war explained from the beginning all those stories and much more on our website at al-jazeera dot com. with al-jazeera and we've got people watching today from sweden. and ivory coast thank you very much for your company don't forget to connect with us send us your questions comments were on facebook at facebook dot com or on twitter our handle is at a.j. english or just use the hash tag news grid you can also whatsapp us or find us on telegram as well at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four. now italian politicians have finished campaigning ahead of sunday's general election the ruling center left democratic party made a last minute push for votes in florence as poll suggests its leader material renzi could be in second place the antiestablishment five star movement is on course to

gain the knowledge a single party vote let's take a closer look at the main players in this election the vote heralds the return of former prime minister silvio berlusconi his force a tally a party is part of a center right coalition that is on track to form the next government now he can't hold public office because of a tax fraud conviction but berlusconi could become kingmaker for say tahlia could form a coalition with the league of party led by my tail salvini is euro skeptic and untie immigrant now that contrasts with the democratic party or p.d. led by former prime minister matteo renzi it is pro europe and pro immigrant but has failed to engage younger voters luigi demaio is a prime ministerial pick of the five star movement unties fabrice mint untie corruption party which exploded onto the political scene five years ago despite deep divisions it could still win the most votes of any one single party but not enough to govern alone let's bring in. in a role for as the d.m.

we've seen the main players in this election what are the big issues. well folly some of the biggest to center around italy's economic problems nearly all of the parties and groupings that you were talking about just then have promised to tackle youth unemployment around one in three italians under the age of twenty five is jobless many of them of also pledged to do things like bring in universal basic incomes of varying amounts but some economists have suggested that those are promises rather than realizable projects another big theme has been immigration of course italy's received hundreds of thousands of people crossing the mediterranean from the middle east and from africa in recent years on friday one of the parties holding its final rally was the northern league part of silvio berlusconi's coalition and matteo sylvie the leader said again that immigration was

taking away jobs that should be going to young italians even the democratic party of matteo renzi who resigned in december twenty sixth and i was here when he stepped down handed over to paolo gentil only because he failed to get through constitutional reforms he's fairly unpopular but he's suggested limiting the number of migrants the country takes in one party who hasn't been talking tough on migration the five star movement now led by the young luigi demaio who took over from betty grillo a well known figure here and internationally laurence li my colleague looks at where the party has come from and where they want to take the country. a rainy monday night in this is silly in city of palermo and they're pushing to get into the theater the mandible come to see is the leader of the five star movement what they all have in common is a desire to take back political control from people who they believe the failed

them is different is not the. organization so it's made to buy from people every bear some. make appropriate to do something for itself or for the community for the parson and that's exciting for us. in he came just thirty one years old luigi demaio spoke for nearly an hour without notes he didn't mention immigration once the touchstone issue for a right wing looking to turn working class italians against refugees but he mocked endlessly the corruption of mainstream politics which he said made it's really an international joke. oh it's we had better scolding from one side and bronzy from the other they stole the future from my generation. i can't understand how they dared to show their faces and promise to change things when they had twenty

years in government and didn't do anything the whole point was about transparency the message that italy needs a totally new politics in all of this the man you're five star quality that still written on the level of bullet points and like a lot of detail but none the less all the people what this party represents is the basic out for a. corrupt useless political class and that's a low looks like being enough for that five the biggest party in this election. five star has been on a journey no longer the sheltie populism of the found a better grillo no longer do they wanted to lead to leave the euro or the european union but they still insist they will never do coalition deals with the other parties they despise instead five-star now demands a totally green economy funded by a publicly owned investment bank which organizes the universal basic income for the

poor in chaotic cities like rome these ideas look incredibly difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the facts that they say the most all. meant is a sort of. they are. in the try to collect consensus and electors from every part of political market so discount off list of desires to some extent is a really wonderful but there is it a lot of problems in deposit. concrete translation in policies. at the final rally in rome the crowd numbered several thousands of italian public is understandably cynical about politics and many complain the five-star won't be any different to the rest of us. their leaders are urging in sam pathy though if they want to govern alone they'll need the backing of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters to give them any chance lawrence lee al jazeera in italy so in

a dream what are the chances of the far right being in power and how's that going to be viewed internationally if it happens. well fully i think if you're asking about institutions like the european union then that would be a lonely prospect it is possible there's a party fielding candidates called cows a pound which are clearly inspired by a fascism and use it symbols as another grouping called force and one of which has posters saying fascists vote for photo of our policy they're not hiding it but also some of their slogans like it's really first or it's only for italians have been echoed by the northern league and the other party and berlusconi's coalition which is an inheritance from a previous post fascist party also does share some of the same tendencies i think though that generally even if that doesn't happen that coalition the discourse has

been shifted to the right on immigration many people are worried about the numbers coming in but i was talking to one person earlier he was actually an immigrant himself from pakistan saying that whatever the parties say we're not that worried because for example deportations the very many practical steps that need to happen to allow that to go ahead which they're not in place they're not in power in a position to do there have been a number of attacks in recent weeks on people of foreign backgrounds by some of these groups on the margins of the elections and on left wing activists against them as well so there there has been a lot of tension around the issue it's hard to say exactly though how far they'll get in parliament thank you for that. for us in rome and we've got a special page up on al-jazeera dot com on the tally in elections all about the different candidates the issues and some very interesting opinion pieces on there and of course we'll have extensive coverage tomorrow sunday on these elections and the results when they come in throughout the day here on al-jazeera as saying your

next ten thousands have protested in slovakia over the manager of a journalist's investigative reporter yann she was found dead shot dead he was found shot dead next to his fiance at their home in the capital bratislava on sunday he was writing an article on suspected links between the tonya mafia and the slovakian prime minister shot bennett has a story. it was a silent march through bratislava the sound of boots on the frozen ground doing the talking. to protesters rallied in a dozen slovakian says he's demanding justice for the murders of investigative journalist. and his fiance because. the twenty seven year olds would use a marry in may they were killed in their home last week obviously this is why we are here to support slovak journalists on stand up for freedom of speech we want to journalists to work freely. cruciate have been investigating suspected corruption

between the italian mafia and people close to prime minister robert fico. jaan coup ziac expose the activities of people connected to the italian mafia and their business in slovakia especially when it comes to the drawdown of e.u. funds various government contracts suspicions of tax fraud blackmailing and violent crimes the full out from the murders has rippled through the government the chief station advisor and security ball stood down temporarily the culture minister resigned the opposition is calling for the in terry a minister and police chief to follow the. graph from an objective point of view the ministry of culture has the closest relation to the media now i can't see myself staying in the post anymore. the. prime minister fico who once called journalists to see mt slovak prostitutes had offered one million euros

to anybody who provides information on the murders his critics call it a hole or just. jail is in danger in europe. that's a danger for see. we are asked to declare a state of emergency you said you know received your. slovakia's police conducted raids in a recent civil people on the day the homes were linked to the people who was investigating. slovakian so they will stay in the streets as colleagues who stay on the story until it's revealed who was behind the mood shallop bellus dizzier and sarah's been looking at the social media reaction to clues yaks murderous our what are people saying well the momentum of the protests against the axe murder is provide an online as it is on the streets in fact he's been working for the organized crime and corruption reporting project when he was killed and the project has launched

a twitter campaign to raise awareness of his death and the fight for justice and we spoke to the group itself earlier as well as another journalist who supports the campaign and this is what they told us. i think law enforcement is doing its best to solve this i think that's very difficult to solve these types of crimes because they involve sophisticated mafia groups who kill people for a living. i think the repercussions politically are going to be more interesting i think there were a lot of ties between these organized crime figures who we wrote about and the government of slovakia and that will take a while to decouple those and to really get to the bottom that we're going to continue to work on it as far as journalists it's not going to stop us if one journalist dies we will replace them with twenty and we'll continue to work on these stories and we'll continue to out these people who are causing corruption in our countries you know and this is not ending here and they will have to kill a lot of journalists before were afraid. of backing journalists young.

teen a questionnaire over just highlights the restrictive journalists like like him go to hold the powerful to account it's worrying for europe coming so soon afterwards similar med or a new car on it in malta although i appreciate it's politically difficult to see the european union's police agency europol being strengthened to have powers of the rest perhaps. we need to get beyond statements of condemnation i mean to take the option of crimes like these are a mind of it's becoming increasingly difficult for journalists and young because iraq is the highest types of a story if you want to follow it online yes and such of us these are my beatles her on twitter and facebook and the hashtag was always a doing and sarah comment here from one of our viewers on facebook ali who says so much all for freedom of speech journalists are detained and killed even in europe now imagine the rest thank you for your comment allie don't forget aging is great

when you connect with us on social media now the wetlands of hokkaido provide a rich habitat for thousands of species of animals and plants among them are japan's famous red crowned cranes who find sanctuary there during the winter their numbers are now slowly recovering after overhunting and destruction of their habitat pushed them to the brink of extinction. is a conservation is helping to protect them here is his story in his own way. imo some of her other chief ranger to do itto turn to sanctuary. was a red crowned cranes or the largest birds in japan have one hundred forty centimeters tall the wingspan is two point four metres wide there are such dramatic birds and they're a symbol of long life and happiness the i know japan's indigenous people name their sudden come on the dart of the wetlands they believe that animals are sick. from

around the middle of february the birds begin to perform the courtship the young birds seek partners in couples raising children dance in unison they raise their head high well to one another flap their wings run around and make many gestures it's mesmerizing they can never get enough of. these birds used to drive across the whole region and migrated to the mainland. but by the early one thousand nine hundred over hunting and destruction of their habitat from rampant land development caused a decline in their population at one point they were believed to have been extinct the cranes still here today are believed to originate from a handful that survived in the wetlands or spring water kept the river from freezing. local farmers first spotted them plucking corn in their fields and gave their own food to save the wintering cranes that's how the feeding began and their

numbers gradually began to recover yes it's a moving history we followed up on their effort and continued to provide a stable feeding ground when our institution was founded thirty years ago there were about four hundred cranes now there are eighteen hundred. i'm so relieved when they come back to us in winter it's good to know they were well and raise their children safely it feels like reuniting with family. feeding is crucial for wintering cranes and we need to keep it. with their wild birds and they shouldn't get too used to us that's why i do my job carefully even if i want to show them how much i care i remind myself to keep a distance. their numbers continue to grow but there are downsides to think about the birds can die coming too close to humans they can also cause agricultural damage beyond sanctuary we have to lessen these incidents and their dependence on us and let them thrive in the wild. beautiful peter will be here with us was very

shortly at the football world reacts to the news that video replay technology will be used at this year's world cup in russia. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these road splits canada saving lives is a dangerous job so vaccines talks on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for these medicines for most of even a life start threads like a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road but that can do it with one foot still risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera. i mean this is different it's whether someone is paying for some of this video rents. i think it's how you approach an official and i think it is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject

a story and fly out. i . hear you say with this board and video of repayed football a lot of people are talking about it certainly are folly and some are not happy others are very happy but it is something that has divided opinion in the world of football but it's official now a video replay technology will be used at this year's world cup in russia football's lawmakers unanimously voted to approve the technology just a short time ago marking one of the biggest changes to the rules of the game at the top level is just a quick reminder for you of how it all works the video assistant referee commonly known as the v a or can be used to help award goals penalties red cards or in

cases of mistaken identity now a referee away from the stadium sits and watches the game and has access to all camera angles and lets the on field referee know if there's been an error so far the system has been tested internationally at the confederations cup as well as the fee for under twenty world cup b r is also said to be adopted in the spanish league and is already being used in the leagues of germany italy and the united states but it has its critics who were concerned about the system disrupting the flow of the game and even though it's been approved when it comes to the leagues they can decide when or if they will use the a are now the president of football's world governing body gianni and from tino is a big advocate of v.a. aren't speaking off of the decision earlier he addressed some of the concerns surrounding the technology if we can rules one meaning which anyway will be added on after the match at the end of the match to correct the wrong decision of the

referee then i think we have made something good and for this reason i believe that. v.a.r. . at the world cup will certainly certainly help. to if air would go well this v.a.r. decision has got people talking on social media there are those who welcome it but i want to show you some tweets that are not as a well coming up start with this one from former england forward rodney marsh who hosts a radio show in the united states these days many say via are simply takes too long according to march the world cup will have to continue all the way through until september another former england striker gary lineker also put a sarcastic twist on its official v a r is here to stay and will be used at the summer's world cup what could possibly go wrong the arts perhaps this tweet from mark williams that attempts to answer that question no more marathon or so on his

moments he ses now for more on this earlier we spoke to the associated press is global football writer rob harris one thing he highlighted is a v.f.r. is also being used to help make football safer for players take a listen to us in sochi this week in russia for out welcome meetings and while there is going to be an addition of an extension of replaced which is in will be able to have a second doctor in the if units and stands and they will be able to sort of assess injuries particularly head impact injuries and check for concussion and relate their diagnosis to the doctor who could be on the pitch actually tending to the player and this is all intended to actually outplay welfare it just shows out the first time the very same technology after many years of resisting it on the sat yesterday actually that that is to suit the vast at the world cup but i think at the heart of all of it is ensuring the referees and officials using vi are actually

experienced and because of the world cup you're not going to want people who are sort of learning on the job. video replays also played something of a role in a bizarre incident at the world indoor championships on friday take a look at those at first glance nothing really unusual about this heat for the mains four hundred meters but all five runners are lined up road were disqualified from the event one for a false start the rest for running out of their lanes during the race on to that big blow for grenada's brail in taplin hero who had been the favorite to win gold before the championships he did appeal but it was rejected and you can see confirmation here on these replays of the runners going out of their lanes the i.w. have said it was the first time in the history of athletics that every runner in a world championship race has been disqualified well let us know what you think of the athletics as well as the v.a.r. or anything else using the hash tag a.j. news get on social media you can also tweet me directly at peter underscore

stammered most of all for you for me in the eight hundred g.m.t. hour but for now i'm going to head back to folly he did thank you very much for that and that will do it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times the hash tag aging news great from me for the back to when the whole news great team thank you for watching and we'll see you here at tokyo fourteen fifteen hundred g.m.t. tomorrow from. the way we communicate is what defines us. don't always has been.

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