they thought they'd last forever. people should be forced to move from below where they were born which are. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. there i'm citizen this is the news out live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes it's a scene of immense suffering and possible war crimes syrian dropped leaflets on

eastern ghouta telling civilians to leave why many say that's not an option. to tell italians will head to the polls in just a few hours the anti establishment style movement looks set to win the most votes just why is it so popular. and call for greater representation of ethnic minorities on screen after hollywood passed for its biggest night. and i'm peter sternness in doha with all the sports this year's world cup in russia will get video replays after football's rule makers unanimously approved the technology. syrian government forces are continuing to push into the rebel held and claimed. activists say they've taken almost complete control of the town of haifa nia since february eighteenth more than six hundred people have been killed in the

bombardment so in airplanes on dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area despite severe shortages of food and medicine people say that's just not an option zain all the reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. through or is desperate he is just one of about four hundred thousand people trapped in eastern huta 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 my children are cried because i am unable to buy anything for them what my situation is very bad we have no money. and for the past two weeks this is what the people have been facing. airstrikes artillery shelling more than six hundred civilians have already been killed. syrian aircraft are dropping leaflets over the besieged rebel held eastern huta 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 the only one of the year russia is a terrorist state and it has carried out the 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 hooter 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. and then asked strike appears to have targeted aid workers in eastern groups and this footage uploaded to the social media rescue team can be seen helping an injured man into the back of an ambulance than an ass

strike hits near the vehicle doctors without borders have previously voiced concerns about the practice of double tapping y. by an area is hit and then targeted again once aid workers arrive to help the wounded. italians go to the polls on sunday but it could be some time before the country's leadership is decided no single party appears on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government let's take a closer look at the main players in this election former prime minister silvio berlusconi has launched yet another political comeback his fall of the italian party is france of a center right coalition that is on track to form the next government the eighty one year old conto public office because of a tax fraud conviction but he could become can make for the italian could form a coalition with the labor party led by matteo salvini it's euro skeptic and anti immigrant that contrasts with the party of current prime minister paolo gentil

owning the democratic party or p.t. is pro europe and pro immigrant but it's found to engage younger voters luigi the mayor is the prime minister ariel peck of the five star movement and anti establishment anti corruption party which burst on to the scene five years ago it could win the most variants of any one single party but not enough to govern alone lawrence lee reports. a rainy monday night in this is city in the city of aleppo and they're pushing to get into the theater the man they've all come to see is the leader of the five star movement what they all have in common is a design to take back political control from people who they believe the failed it is the friend does not the. organization so it's made to buy from people everywhere someone to make a cup right to do something for it's sad for the community for the parson and

that's exciting for us. in he came just thirty one years old luigi to my old 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 its time and international joke. oh yes 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 its the many of five star policies that will wreck normal level of bullet points and like a lot of detail but none the less for all these people what this party represents

is the basic our outrage against the corrupts and useless political class and that's and that's a low look like being enough for that five the biggest party there for me in this election. five-star has been on a journey no longer the sheltie populism of the founder bet that below 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 organize the universal basic income for the poor in the all six cities like road these ideas look pretty difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the fact that they say it's all. movement is a sort of. day hour long as you go in to try to collect consensus and

electors from every part of political market so this kind of list of desires to some extent is a really wonderful but there is it a lot of problems in the possibility of concrete translation in policies. but the final rally in rome the crowd numbered several thousands of italian public is understandably cynical about politics many complain the five-star wouldn't be any different to the rest of the boy who was the leaders of. the they want to govern alone only the backing of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters to give them any chance lawrence lee al-jazeera he's really. well joining me now in the studio is frederica santi he's a europe analyst at the eurasia group specializing in a city on the years or thanks very much for coming into al-jazeera are you getting a little bit carried away by the hype of this five star movement. i'm guessing they

will galvanize the youth vote with their message but what about the older vote how much of an impact if you know how with them there is a challenger in the end i think five-star is been quite good at harnessing the widespread and establishment support that's that's in the country i think to look quite well in the election whether they can make inroads with more moderate as well as elderly voters as you mentioned will be a key factor in determining whether they can actually have any hope of actually getting to government which i think would be much harder for them despite the fact that they are pretty good chance of being the largest party in terms of votes are they likely to want to join a coalition that we think they they they that get that fall because that will be on guessing the one thing that pushes somebody over the line i would say that's unlikely is that i think if softer in their position on this for a long time to been very hesitant to show any cooperation really with more established mainstream political parties or seems that changed at least. you know in terms of their declarations but in practice you know i still struggle to see them working constructively with any of the other parties in the political spectrum frankly we've seen silvio berlusconi back again on the campaign trail because he

can't actually stand because of his conviction but is possibly going to have an impact on what happens next year yeah it's interesting in a way bill is going to pioneer this brand of right wing populism that is so widespread today so was ahead of his time in a way in the ninety's paradoxically today is seen as an almost reassuring figure compared to. the for a far right almost a safe pair of hands right and i think is maneuvered quite skillfully over the past few months to ensure that his party will play a pivotal role in any coalition government that might emerge after the election and one of the areas that they've talked a lot about is concerning people as they go to the polls is the economy is on employment do you see out of this election is the becoming most stable or less stable and not rigo i'm afraid not in fact when you look at the economy all of the possible coalition options that are on the table they really range from bad to worse now this doesn't necessarily mean that your exit or exit will be at stake any time soon it doesn't mean that election outcomes no matter how unexpected may

actually undermine the fragile economic recovery that started to take hold in the country what it does mean however is that at least they think that italy or italy's economy will mean a something of a liability i think for the rest of europe going forward and a fairly large liability at that when you talk about the key key policies being in this election we talked about immigration how much of a factor do you think that is and which way is it swinging at the moment what's the atmosphere like in this that's been a major factor i would say a immigration has been very much front and center in terms of the election campaign which is not surprising given the very large inflows of migrants from north africa that italy has received over the past few years on this issue as well as on the economy i think right wing parties rightly or wrongly are perceived as being more credible which is one reason why i think this right wing coalition is still the slight favorite to win the election and the fascinating result federico santi thanks very much for joining us tens of thousands of supporters of russia's

president vladimir putin have gathered in moscow to hear him speak as head of the election later this month when there's significant opposition he's expected to easily win a fourth term almost the eighteenth genoa polls from a six. people have turned up two weeks before the presidential election in support of just one man hoping to see him here in fact it is of course blood in me uprooted is the root of those who want to support a president who votes for him that's the case. for bishop feature. stuff sports it's like a sport there is one leader and then there are outsiders the challengers that said you can compare it with a sports race and here we are at the olympic stadium. after eighteen years in power putin is going for another six year term constitutionally possibly his last but the result isn't really even much doubt there is a field of seven candidates running against him but it's more about

a picture of democracy just as his critics might say this is a picture of his support and here he is now president putin is making his way onto the stage. thank you doolittle she's a little strong you want to make a country brought forward looking into the future because i'm such a little here we live here our children live here and our children are like grandchildren will live here. the opinion polls presumably don't lie president putin's popularity ratings consistently of them i would not around seventy five percent had turned out of straw mrs he made in his speech to parliament a few days ago not just economic growth but functional technological advances in the years to come and a key promise to restore russia to its rightful place as a new career military superpower right our eyes with the united states after going to play big stream really well with people in far corners of this country moving many can simply not imagine another leader who are able to achieve all earlier who

are going to hold al-jazeera over the last. we much more succumb on the news our champney social democrats to pass why now if they're willing to form another grand coalition then go america's conservatives. and often a french field of protesters clashed with police over plans to store nuclear waste and in sports south african kevin anderson is a win away in the second consecutive a.t.p. cycle pizza has all the results from the mexican and uncertain final. became a fast as prime minister says he's revolted by friday's attacks on the army headquarters and french embassy in which eight people were killed whole cover tira made the comments while meeting the army chief they select in the capital ouagadougou the assault took place security forces killed eight of the attackers and several arrests have now been made nicholas had custom all from ouagadougou.

this is the irony of the nation the main artery of the capital ouagadougou and this is where a taxi packed with explosives on friday drove up this road and detonated a bomb inside the military had ordered simultaneously down this road a few hundred meters away in the french embassy the french cultural center there too and it took place these are supposed to be some of the safest and most secured areas in this country people here say if attackers are able to penetrate these areas then no one is safe of an attack now earlier today the prime minister visited the site of the attack now there are many people wounded there are no official numbers and that the authorities here wouldn't allow us to go inside the hospital but the prime minister told me that the scenes inside the military headquarters were sick so he's calling for all of the people in britain to unite

to come together to continue their trust in the armed forces deployed along this a hell with other countries involved in the g five hell led by france this is where people here in this government believe the attackers came from now the prime minister is calling for unity this this other attack he's calling on people from brick you know faster to remain united and to support the security forces. more than forty people are believed to have been killed in the latest round of ethnic violence to hit the democratic republic of congo the bodies were discovered in several villages in north eastern it's true a province more than one hundred people have died and two hundred thousand have fled their homes since mid december. bahrain says it's arrested one hundred sixty members of what it calls

a terrorist network set up and funded by iran's revolutionary guards which has broken some bahraini t.v. and legit they show weapons on nation and explosives to be used in attacks on the government and security forces sunny led government regularly accuses iran of supporting armed groups inside the shia majority country which iran denies the government's crackdown on dissent and since mass protests in twenty eleven it often accuses opponents of having links to iran. germany's social democrats are counting the ballots after members voted on whether or not to enter into another coalition with angela merkel the result will either let merkel finally form a government more than five months off the election or plunge the country into more political uncertainty dominic cain has more. thursday night in leipzig and for the social democrats the hot topic is coalition across germany the party members are

deciding if they want to work with anger merkel's christian democrats again young members like a benyamin girl or are clear. because of his sworn in. there's no grand vision in this grand coalition and i think we can only develop as an opposition party i think it's not logical that the election losers build the new government contrast that with the views of older members like this stuff yaps he's proud of his fifty years as a social democrat and says pragmatism is important i was also. realist i think i'm a realist i don't want germany to become insignificant in europe we need to contribute in a way that makes our continent grow together and we can only do that with a government here that has a stable majority certainly that's the view of the party machine reaching this point has already cost the leader martin shirts his job his designated successor and their knowledge has tried hard to gain support for the deal which many members

feel is one of the head not the heart kevin out has led the campaign against another grand coalition and has encouraged thousands of people to join the party to vote it down vanish that's pretty tired after we've been in a grand coalition for four years and our election performances keep getting weaker so when we've just had our worst ever result it's time to ask if this is the right way to make our party strong again. the only opinion poll taken of the party membership so far suggests a small yes vote at the same time the party's popularity is lower now than in september's elections of the parties torn in the membership is torn people are in secure what actually would help the s.p.d. to survive. all of which brings us back to sunday's vote a yes will mean angular merkel remains as chancellor but with leading social

democrats in important cabinet posts and know will mean she probably remains as chancellor but with no majority in parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin french police have repelled a group of environmentalists who are protesting plans to store nuclear waste their return on the two groups clashed in the field near the proposed site but asked as upset by plans to place nuclear waste five hundred metres below the ground they said already removed and activists can't close to the site which is east of paris but protesters remain defiant david chaytor has more from there at the protest site . the anti-nuclear demonstrators got within sight of the forest where the bunkers will be built underground five hundred meters underground to store the nuclear waste but that's as far as they got the police had huge cordons across the field

they used tear gas to try and dispersed and drive them back those tactics were very successful and the demonstrators in the moving back across the road down back to where they started from but this is no doubt the beginning of a whole series of protests this fight will still go on the nuclear waste that is going to be buried in a site in this area some sort of five hundred five hundred meters underground in clay that was formed in the jurassic period which is supposed to be impermeable will be here for hundreds of thousands of years and i think this will be the focus of more and more protests and demonstrations many people fear that the reassurance from the geologist and nuclear experts that the whole area is impermeable that the radioactive waste which is very high level will not leak out it will not. allow any

water to get in they fear that somehow there could be some earthquake source on natural disaster which will break open the whole area and mean that the highly radioactive waste can then contaminate the environment and that you so they're not going to give up this fight they are going to continue with it and at the moment it appears they're going back to lick their wounds and clear their eyes from the tear gas but they will be back. police in slovakia have released seventy eight's hellions who are being held suspects in the murder of a journalist and his girlfriend tens of thousands of people march through bratislava on friday nights to remember. the seven arrested businessmen have been named by kasi akhet in a report into alleged political corruption involving the italian mafia ukrainian police have shut down a political protest camp and arrested at least fifty people in the capital here six

protesters and four police officers were injured in fighting supporters of opposition leader mikhail saakashvili set up the makeshift camp last october i've been calling for the creation of an anti corruption court they say they found grenades and smoke bombs in the range. the families of those on board the missing malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy have held a vigil for their relatives almost four years after the plane disappeared without trace the boeing triple seven was carrying two hundred thirty nine passengers and crew when it went missing on the way from kuala lumpur to beijing flawless louis has been speaking to the families. united by grief and a quest to know the two families and friends of those on board malaysia airlines flight three seventy gathered in kuala lumpur to mark four years since the plane disappeared grace novenas mother was on that flight and grace has been leading the

demand for the search effort to continue in the beginning it was a lot about myself about michael and about. my feeling in my how upset i was at how things were going but as time went on it became more and more about aviation safety about a more global issue a more national issue about setting a good receipt and we don't want something like this happening again m h three seventy disappeared on its way to beijing from kuala lumpur in march two thousand and fourteen. crash investigators say the flight ended in the indian ocean a path that drastically different from its intended direction is not clear how or why that happened after a two year effort the malaysian chinese and or strayed in governments suspended the search then in january ocean infinity a private exploration company hired by the malaysian government began a new search it will be paid if it locates the wreckage within ninety days it's not

yet known if the search will continue if the plane is not located within the stipulated time families of the passengers have never given up hope but they understand that this could well be the last attempt even if the aircraft is found retrieving the wreckage could require substantial time and effort extensive marketing will have to be undertaken to determine the spread of the wreckage i imagine the c.c.t.v. the robots we sent dale to take pictures and video all of the wreckage so they can come up with a lifting plan decide which of the most important parts to look from the surface and then come up with a plan to do that perhaps then will there be some concrete answers to one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time florence louis al jazeera kuala lumpur. many people in wales remain cut off by snow after days of bad weather transports being affected across much of the u.k. where lines and airports closed temperatures are now starting to rise but people

trying to travel are being warned to expect serious delays it's not just the u.k. that's been struggling with winter weather much of northern europe has been snowed in and storms in the north east us have left more than two million people without power. stay with us on the news hour still ahead egypt's top court rules in favor of handing saudi arabia to islands in the red sea the u.n. says it's the west face in the world to be a child wearing guatemala to find out why and fresh from winning gold in an off year slalom through another title details coming up in school. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've got to largely dry conditions across the eastern areas temperatures

looking pretty good there for marty and in kazakhstan tashkent then is back you stand 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 now beirut twenty three runs into 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 arabian peninsula is also looking good here dry conditions fine conditions maker thirty four here in doha is warming up temperatures of twenty eight degrees in fact and 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 towards 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'll likely see some heavy downpours affecting lusaka with highs of twenty four. an act of youthful defiance we've ruled your turn next doctor also on the school will they arrested me at home at four in the morning the electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle with als and that was the beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war at this time on al jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know it's very challenging they believe but the good because you have

a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are with the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. welcome back reminder of the top stories today on al jazeera syrian airplanes are now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta more than six hundred people have been killed during the government's nearly two weeks long bombing campaign. italian's posters predicts sunday's election will

be a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required to form a government. and russia's president has told thousands of supporters gathered in moscow that he wants to make the country bright and forward looking good and putin is seeking a fourth term on faces no significant opposition in the march eighteenth election. egypt's top court house validated a deal to transfer to red sea islands to saudi arabia egremont was signed one hundred selman visited egypt in twenty sixteen sitting between the two countries in the red sea tehran and sun affair remain largely on occupied but they lie in a politically sensitive area you hear going to aim is al-jazeera as a middle east analyst he says that while not everyone might agree with the decision it's important that legal process is followed i believe. it was very important for the region to get the approval of the constitutional 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 respond the fact that the way they have egypt did the two of those two in favor of saudi arabia is totally. came in a flagrant way it was a flagrant violation of both the local the chips in los and the international law again but you know things happen and unfortunately in in the light of the fact that there is total absence of them obviously in egypt things happen them . nothing nothing we can do for now to reverse this thing now as hollywood prepares for its biggest night the oscars a group of young activists in person pushing for greater screen diversity and done

so by recreating famous movie posters but with a crucial difference they replace the white lead characters with black actors instead the films given the treatment include titanic skyfall and harry potter where she don't talk play is one of the young people behind the poster campaign he told us why it's so important to improve diversity on screen. there is a high level on the representation and. the fact on the representation that it links well with misrepresentation because if you're on the represent them you're just he used to not being able to see people in those kind of roles in the lead roles so you just automatically assume that everything is fine because you're sub conditioned to believe it so and if just because now that they're under represented that it would be misrepresented as well by you know depicting them as gangsters is drug dealing is we initially wanted to just put it on the internet and you know just leave it at that bus special patrol group post is and they decided to put on

bus stops around brixton which was amazing and we you know just where we were grateful for them to do for them in that and now that the campaign is advaita into what has become now and people are paying attention to the different things that are required in media which is representation of all groups not only black people were specifically focusing on black people because it comes from a personal experience for all four of us. well joining me in the serious kindly allowed a film historian culture critic and broadcast effects very much for coming into al-jazeera i was just looking at one statistic that stuck out in the u.k. black actors between two thousand and six and two thousand and sixteen they just not point five percent of roles so you just see under-representation i'm guessing it's also the idea that sometimes the typecast as well you know i mean those statistics were produced for. the black star season in two thousand and sixteen. you know without a shadow of a doubt there is an issue about representation of black people within both the

screens on t.v. and in the film world but i would also commend the young people who notions campaign actually making the point that it's not just about black people it's actually a host slew of groups that are under represented south east asian for example people with disabilities and of course women on the disability side again another little a little statistic this been thirty years since a disabled actor won an oscar that was molly matalin for children of a lesser of which i think she she was death at the time and this is something that's been addressed at least in the oscars with regards to the black representation very recently and people will now point folks like black panther and and get out saying with at least there is an effort but it's a drop in the ocean i'm guessing the woods and well i mean even films like. hidden

triggers. those films were in production before hollywood so white campaigning came around i think but hollywood is going through a general period of kind of self reflection and change similar to that the technology that's involved in making films is also changing which is opening up new areas of discussion in terms of representation and i can only from my money. good thing today many platforms like netflix and amazon doing better just think that the sort of content that they're looking for the on the usual holiday hollywood rather be meant to stretching the boundaries a little bit more i think certainly. the fact of the matter is the relationship between the traditional hollywood institutions and the digital world is going to be one of the most important and exciting new developments if we look at films like mudd bound made by netflix base of no nation featuring our own idris elba again

made by netflix we saw mentioned by the sea the first oscar winner for. one of the digital outlets it's really important but that gives the scope for new for voices new faces to come to the fore also concentrating on hollywood here because it's the oscars on sunday but we could look a little further i mean we could look at bollywood and i believe that you are saying that the polish community actually has quite a strong figure on the street that we don't even know about in fact during the year or blaxploitation period you know the market for blaxploitation didn't just extend to new york and london in parts of europe there was a great deal of interest in those films and again it comes back to the advance in digital technology as people are making films not just for theater and cinema exhibition but also for digital phones maybe it's time the old school the hollywood work of thanks very much for joining us can i thank you thank you djibouti as

government has handed management of a port which it sees on the u.a.e. so a state company there are that contain a terminal is considered one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in the horn of africa mohammed there are reports from djibouti. these newly nationalized dollar continue to tumble in djibouti walker's report for duty until last week they were employees of the group he owned by forbes involved which in two thousand and six want a concession to operate the port for thirty years. i am the force new leadership is working hard to manage any fallout from the government's takeover and also reassure the workers who are here and here judy that a new company called contain a time you know management company is now in charge owned one hundred percent by g u the employees are witnessing the making of history and you are key to our success the government of djibouti seized control of the port saying its contract with d.p.

world was damaging the country a statement from the office of the president say the agreement was one sided and compromised the sovereignty of the nation the more was a setback for the p. world stealth to a political on smart and such for ports on the red sea coast but people we talked to on the streets are happy about the government's takeover were you i will i will we support the president's decision the only took back what belongs to us or dubai ports was here for a sabotage they were against the booty developing a dark. saying hey we're happy with the departure of dubai ports there is no point catering for the interests of those who don't care about your own. just days after the demotion government console it's an agreement with dubai ports world the company has signed a deal with the breakaway republic of somaliland and if you appear one that gives it the majority stake in the portals better but at the most west somalia somali

government has described the agreement as illegal bordered on an affront to its sovereignty. there are concerns here that the nineteen percent think if the appeal was awarded in the better but our port deal could deny djibouti some much needed business despite its small size to boot he has become an important player because of its position on the bubble mendip street a crucial shipping lane to europe from the gulf and asia it has been the gateway to lovelock if you appeal for more than two decades with most of the hundred million strong nations exports and imports passing through djibouti officials here have been quick to downplay their agreement of a bit better though with six operational ports and two others under construction they say she butties able and willing to serve the anti african continent and beyond mohammed and all jazeera djibouti. germany and france are bringing forward plans to introduce a common corporation tax system is

a response to plan steel tariffs announced by u.s. president don't trump on thursday followed by his declaration that trade was good and easy to when the european commission's president is also threatening to impose duties on some of america's best known brands including davison bowen and levi james. and one of the big issues at the heart of trade friction between the u.s. and china right now is alleged copyright theft chinese firms have long been accused of these crimes but they're now fighting back in the u.s. courts and winning china correspondent ajram brown reports. just over a decade ago this electrical components firm in eastern china faced an uncertain future it was being sued in a u.s. court over intellectual property rights the chinese company for the action eventually able to prove that the plugs and other devices manufactured here were

not copies the case lasted seven years general shang the company's president told me he'd do it again if he had to. so this was american companies are using intellectual property rights as a tool to beat competitors from other countries the final goal is to rule out for a competitor's from the american market and the dc's protectionism chain one is last us lawsuit in two thousand and ten by then he'd spent more than twenty million dollars in legal fees today he's become something of a celebrity in china's corporate world dispensing advice to other executives involved in similar legal battles or if you're too good to go i am pretty sure that does send a clear message and in lightened many chinese enterprises to deal with disputes with their. american competitors as china shifts the focus of its economy from

heavy industry to innovation it's now clear that many of its companies are paying greater attention to intellectual property it is now something that is important to down the hallway z t all of these technology companies they're now fighting back they're fighting with apple or fighting with whoever it is that they believe is infringing on them so they're learning the rules of the game as it was taught to them by the west and they're engaged in the process part of that process involves registered trademarks they can show how innovative a country is twenty years ago china had none today it has more than one point three million including ones for the electrical devices made in china plant. and with chinese companies started to grasp the importance of intellectual property they're also prepared to defend those rights in a foreign court adrian brown al jazeera in eastern china guatemala is

fighting to protect the rights of its children according to the united nations as committee on the rights of the child says it's seriously concerned about the persistent high level of violence against children and high rates of chronic malnutrition in the central american nation david mercer reports from the country south. the stanley shop son has a rare neurological disorder when he started to loose feeling in his legs she took him to a doctor but the cost for surgery was in the thousands of dollars and her husband earns less than five dollars a day working in the fields if it weren't for private donations from abroad ellis sale would have lost his ability to walk. when your children are healthy give thanks to god long with them as though they may have but when they're sick you don't even want to see them lying in bed in pain it's so hard.

despite having one of the healthiest economies in latin america. is in terms of wealth one of the most unequal in the region its children particularly in rural indigenous communities often pay the price children in guatemala face a number of serious problems from chronic child malnutrition to extreme poverty gang violence to abuse in their own homes it's one of the reasons why unicef and other organizations of coldwater mol one of the worst countries in the world to be a child. last year forty one girls were killed in a fire at a government run children's home outside the capital guatemala city the tragedy put renewed focus on obligation to guarantee the life and integrity of all children. the committee on the rights of the child recently published dozens of recommendations and unicef continues to push for a national system of child protection and more investment in social programs.

this generation of children is the largest mall in history and if we don't invest in such a large group of children the country will lose a huge opportunity to develop it could be a disaster. is one of the children who are falling through the cracks the thirteen year old started shining shoes full time. when he was just seven the little money he earns helps his family survive jim which is the hottest way out of the high end gumball where i come from people work in the fields growing corn and beans it's hard work there are lots of laborers but there aren't many jobs that's why we came here. the hardest the scieno dreams of working in a bank some day but if the government continues to fail children like him it's likely his dream will also fail david mercer al-jazeera sick at the back is what i'm all. do stay with us on this news hour sports coming up next south africa fight

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country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point alger's real. now let's get on the spot with pizza. so thank you so much football's rule makers have unanimously approved the use of video replays in their sport what it means is that this year's world cup in russia will be the first to use the technology to help cut down on refereeing mistakes the video assistant referee or v.a.

or it will be used to help award goals penalties red cards all in cases of mistaken identity a referee away from the stadium watches the game and has access to all camera angles and lets the on field referee know if there's been an era the system has been used at the confederations cup and the fee for under twenty world cup v.a. are will also be adopted in spain and is already being used in germany italy and the united states but it has its critics who are concerned about the system disrupting the flow of the game he fears president though a wants everyone to see the bigger picture if we can lose one meaning which anyway will be added on after the match or at the end of the match to correct a 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 would certainly certainly help to have

a fair world cup despite teething problems with the technology the a.p.'s global football writer rob harris told us earlier that v.a.r. may also make football safer for players. it was in sochi this week in russia for out welcome meetings and while there is going to be an addition of an extension of replays which is in will be able to have a second doctor in the reviews and stands and they will be able to sort of assess injuries particularly heavy impact injuries and check for concussion and relate their diagnosis to the doctor who could be on the pitch or actually attending to the player and this is all intended to actually play out welfare it just shows out features finally embracing technology after many years of resisting it on the step yesterday actually that that is to see the vast at the world cup but i think the

heart of all of it is ensuring the referees and officials using bar are actually experienced and because of the world cup you're not going to want people who are sort of learning on the job in the english premier league tough them have overtaken liverpool in third place in the table for now taught them needed to win in order to go points above you're going clubs men and so on young men made sure that happened scoring both goals in the two nil victory against hundreds field but if lovable when they game against newcastle which they are currently leading they will again move back into third bumping spurs back down that game currently taking place about halfway through the second half the school there is two nil to the enfield club. roma do it have the chance to make up some ground on spanish league leaders barcelona later they are fifteen points behind in third place as they take on. rails defeat against espanyol midweek made at the club's fourth of the league a loss of the season with barcelona not in action until sunday rails coach insists

there's still a chance for his team to take the title now i mean i'm in no interest in looking looking i'm not interested in what they're going to do but let me tell you that league is always going to be there for all of us you all might think the league is decided even we can think so but no never in football we just need to get into our heads that the league or games we have ahead of us are important every day from football to tennis and from europe to north america kevin anderson is a win away from clinching he's second consecutive a.t.p. title by reaching the mexican open final anderson who won the new york open only two weeks ago battled through the semifinal against american qualifier jared donaldson in acapulco took the first seed three sets to overcome he's unseated opponent score six three four six and again six three. there and i'm just really pleased to be through the final shot of playing for title

that's always a goal coming in to this week so you know so far. you know so far so good. waiting for anderson in sunday's final will be sixteenth when martin del potro the argentine be twenty year old alexander revel in germany in the oval samy final to advance a straightforward victory for the former u.s. open champion six four six two the school in this. just two weeks ago marcel hershel won a gold medal in the giant slalom at the pyongyang winter games now the austrian skier has picked up where he left off as he returned to world cup action in slovenia on saturday her show was the quickest in the giant slalom beating the region rival hillary christofferson victory in the ultimate events of the season was enough to clinch the giant slalom title for twenty eight teams and he's still on the brink of winning a place against a civil overall championship. after making history at the winter olympics last

month by giving france its first women's gold medal in the twenty six year history of the moguls event purina farm has followed it up with another victory before won the freestyle ski moguls world cup event in as i walked for japan on saturday she scored eighty two point zero three point sprinting going chang silver medalist canadian just in do for love point america's keeton the congo finished in the good place. and south africa fought back admirably on the third day of their first cricket test against australia but still have a lot of work ahead the australians began their second innings at the start of play cameron bancroft was the only batsman to past fifty as more name or call and cash out of maharaj took three wickets each the ozzies with two hundred thirteen for nine at the close of play with a massive lead of four hundred two. and that's all the sport for me i have another

update for you in the twenty one hundred g.m.t. hour but for now it's back to london nic thank you pizza now saturday marks un world wildlife day aimed at raising awareness of the plight of threatened species among them on japan's famous red crowned cranes who found sanctuary in the wet lungs of a high go over winter then numbers on the house so to recovering off the overhunting and the destruction of the habitat pushed them to the brink of extinction a sono arata is a conservationist helping to protect his his story and his own work. imo somehow the other chief ranger of to do itto hunch a sanctuary. about the red crowned cranes or the largest birds in japan just hundred forty centimeters tall the wingspan is two point four metres wide there are such dramatic birds and there is symbol of long life and happiness the i know

japan's indigenous people named and sudden coming the god of the wetlands they believe that animals are safe. from around the middle of february the bird speaking to perform the courtship to young birds see partners and couples raising children dance in unison they raise their head high well out to one another flap their wings run around and make many gestures it's not as i'm writing i can never get enough of . these birds used to thrive on cross the ohio 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 where 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 francs 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 and 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 him and they can also cause agricultural

damage beyond sanctuary we have to lessen these incidents and their dependence on us and let them thrive for the last. that's all for this new salad i will be about with you in a moment with much more of the day's news much more content to come don't go away. when the winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state p.r. machine is going to overdrive first saw but just ahead. he's been through in saying

. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between can be said and what comes after. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside polling the media or opinion the listening post but based time on al-jazeera the street is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year the more than thirty meters in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships and children sometimes if caught in the crossfire would rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking us to try to take them from gang violence i lost my son looking while i'm doing years ago i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. a shining city stroud team

from the rubble of a devastating. attacks in president one of the crime. i am warts and all straight off the wall i in the. anyone who dares to remember i an intimate detail of repression chechnya war without trace at this time and now disease. it's a scene of immense suffering and possible war crimes syrian aircraft dropped leaflets . telling civilians to leave why many say that's not so the. color again i'm suits us and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up

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