am am i . this is al-jazeera. our armed citizen this is the news hour live from london coming up rebel forces are values in territory in eastern guta as syrian aircraft dropped leaflets telling

civilians to mean for money say it's not an option just nine hours are until the polls open in the italian election we'll look at why me on to your scam bushman coming star movement looks set to win the most votes seventy nine people are reported dead in ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo. and call for greater representation of actiq minorities on the screen as hollywood prepares for its biggest night. and arpita street in doha with all the sports the serious 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 clave of eastern goods and the damascus rebel forces on now admitting they are losing territory in the area since february the eighteenth more than six hundred people

have been killed in the bombardment syrian airplanes on now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area despite severe shortages of food and medicine people say that's just not an option they know how they recall from beirut in neighboring lebanon. through or is desperate it 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 quite a lot of the roads here are i am crying my children are cried because i am unable to buy anything for them what we buy situation is very bad we have no money. and for the past two weeks this is what the people have been facing. the only 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 massacre as against the people of eastern 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 enjoy. 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 manuel mccraw they all called on russia to stop bombing eastern huta 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 an airstrike appears to have targeted aid workers in a single cell in this footage uploaded to social media

a rescue team can be seen helping an injured man into the back of an ambulance then and asked why it's near the doctors without borders have previously voiced concern about the practice of double talking by an area is hits and targeted again once aid workers arrive so help the wounded. elsewhere in syria at least thirty six pro syrian government fighters have reportedly been killed by turkish airstrikes in a free on friday the turkish military released this footage which it says are its helicopters targeting kurdish white b.g. positions in the west. forces loyal to the syrian government helping repel the turkish offensive which he won't turkish soldiers have been killed since the operation began in january. italians go to the polls in just nine hours 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 well 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 fourth it's hallelujah party is part of a center right coalition that is on track to form the next government the eighty one year old can't hold public office because of a tax fraud conviction but he could become kingmaker for the italia could form a coalition with the leg up passing by matter salvini its year a skeptic and anti immigrant that contrasts with the party of current prime minister paolo gentle owning a democratic party or p.d. is pro europe and pro immigrant but it's failed to engage younger voters luigi the mayor is the prime ministerial pick of the five star movement and anti establishment anti corruption party which burst on to the scene five years ago could win the most votes of any one single party but not enough to govern alone now

the bomber is in rome with the latest well most political commentators here in italy or refraining from predicting with confidence who will be in government next most people think that whoever emerges as the largest party in parliament will need to reach out and form alliances with other parties other groups now there's already one coalition that's established going into the election even though they don't have a common platform but the alliance led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi one of the other parties to watch is the one that was the largest party in the latest opinion polls the five star movement but as my colleague laurence li reports they are trying to do everything they can to convince voters that they are a breath of for. 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 designed to take back political control from people who they believe the failed it is the friend does not the. organisation so it's made to buy from people every bear some 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 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 its time an international joke. so 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 your five star policies are still written on the 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 power of outrage against the corrupts and useless political class and that's and that's a low looks like being enough for that five the biggest party that's only in this election. five star has been on a journey no longer the sheltie populism of the founder 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 organize the universal basic income for the poor in your sick 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. they are. in the try to collect consensus and electors from every part of a political market so discount off 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. 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 the border. leaders are urging in sample 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 in italy. last lawrence was saying it is entirely possible that there is some kind of grand coalition and that includes the possibility that material renzi who resigned at the end of twenty sixteen and handed over to he's party colleague paolo gentle only comes back onto the national stage many people really would see that as a continuation of the same old same old but at the same time nobody is ruling it out while federico santé is a year panelist at the eurasia group specializing in italy and the eurozone is so true as about who is likely to vote for the anti establishment party five star and why. 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 and 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 will be much harder for them despite the fact that they have pretty good chance of being the largest party in terms of votes i think if so often their position on this for a long time the 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 in a way bill is going to pioneer this brand of right wing populism that is so widespread today so it was ahead of his time in a way in the ninety's paradoxically today is seen as an almost reassuring figure compared to the far 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 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 anytime soon 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 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 that tens of thousands of supporters of russia's president vladimir putin have gathered in moscow to hear him speak and has the election later this month with no significant opposition he's expected to easily win a fourth term almost eighteenth. from moscow. 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 of president who vote for him that's the payment. for bishop feature. such 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 it was the year. 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 making his way onto a stage. thank you doolittle she's a little strong you want to make a country brought forward looking into the future because i'm sisters lived here we live here our children live here and our children unlike grandchildren will live here. the opinion polls presumably don't lie president putin's popularity ratings consistently of them i would get around seventy five percent for granted out of promises he made in his speech to parliament a few days ago not just economic growth but fossil technological advances in the

years to come and a key promise to restore russia to its rightful place as a nuclear and military superpower writer i with the united states that will play a big stream really well with people in far corners of this country moving many people can simply not imagine another leader who are able to achieve all earlier who are so whole culture zero last. year at least seventy nine people have died in the latest into ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the village the village. on friday evening and more attacks are being reported in three nearby villages on sunset say more than two hundred thousand people have fled the area in recent months to escape the violence will bring reports. witnesses said the ethnic lendu militia went from house to house hacking people to death with machetes and burning the buildings afterwards the victims came from the majority ethnic haim

a group and the number of fatalities makes this the most deadly attack in the recent uptick in violence between them. footage from as a shows some villages looking shocked others appearing vengeful and angry the cheery region was already blighted by food shortages and now this. people are dying and there is nobody to bury the children are also dying of hunger there is no supervision we worry that we want peace to return among the population so that everyone can go back to their homes and we can be safe. but soldiers often on the ground despite the reassurances of the army you will see why we are here with the tissue instructions from the president to see what is going on and see how to resolve the situation which is. the violence in the province of authority has forced two hundred thousand people to flee the homes of the town a visit by the provincial governor did little to reassure some of them. to him and then do

a longstanding enemies but outbreaks of low level violence have been common but not on such a scale is this paul brennan al jazeera. coming up on this news hour germany's social democrats prepared to announce if they're willing to form another ground coalition but angle america's conservatives standoff in a french failed us president has clashed with police over plans to store nuclear waste. and in sports roberta. seals the second eighty title on the scene. it's never been a show. because prime minister says he's revolted by friday's attack on an army headquarters and french embassy which eight people were killed all culverts he made the comments while meeting the army chief at the site in the capital ouagadougou by the assault

took place security forces killed eight of the attackers and several arrests have now been made. 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 different 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 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 up a clip thick so he's calling for all of the people in russia 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 led by ground 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. behind says it's arrested one hundred sixty members of what he calls a terrorist network setup and funded by rounds from financial recounts that just broke us some behind the t.v. allegedly show weapons ammunition and explosives to be used in attacks on the governments and security forces the sony rule the gulf nation has received harsh

criticism from international rights groups for stifling any form of opposition to the monarchy and government policies and the this year human rights watch said the country. tolerance for dissent was approaching vanishing point it frequently detains figures it says has things to shia iran in january at least arrested forty seven people on terrorism related charges according to human rights watch bahraini court sentenced a total of fourteen people to death last year for alleged terrorist activities it's also dissolved the secular left national democratic action society after the group condemned the executions and in june the government ordered the suspension of. bahrain's own independent newspaper one hundred fifty six bahrain these were also reports at least to the nationality in twenty seventeen rendering them stateless hundreds of others have also been killed jailed and stripped of citizenship since

arab spring inspired protests broke out in twenty eleven which call for an elected prime minister well to talk about this more i am joined by roxanne famine from iran . in politics and international relations at cambridge university and specializes in the middle east thanks very much for coming in just a pick up a little bit to a more human rights watch was saying that the tolerance is a vanishing point i think the middle east or it went on to say it raising whatever progress it made after pioneering a promising other to make reforms following the rest in twenty eleven it seems it certainly hasn't done them is there any evidence that these latest arrests are terrorists or are they activists there is no evidence that we know of is pointed to terrorists and in fact there has been an ongoing this is part of a longer story and there's been ongoing low grade violence all through last year which is what led to the shutdown of the party and the paper for example. there is

no evidence that we can. reach at this point that the iranians are actually. and it in the way that the government is saying in bahrain so the almost full position but then also obviously one of the neighbors saudi arabia saying the same kind of thing is this really down to the very crux of the problem here that this is a sunni minority governments of a shia majority popular absolutely it is part of a it is a small voice in this larger war of words that's going on between saudi arabia and iran and in the case of bahrain it does have the majority shia that has been seriously repressed and this gives it further justification to repress further and it is a difficult place for those outside to put pressure on because it is home to the fifth fleet it is an area that britain is building

a military facility and there at the moment. it is a real case for its sunni elite to adopt a hard line in a larger of war the saudi arabia its great protector and the emirates are waging against iran which as you say is the fallback position it's always the need for state to play there was a spark in twenty eleven that was quashed really is there a sense now the reason for the increase arrests this increase is because there may be some protest group emerging from mensing is there any any sense that the activists are gaining any kind of momentum we don't really see that because of human rights watch and in fact most recently amnesty has pointed out there really is very little room for activism at the moment. there is a an increasing fear in this very polarized society by the sunni

group that the. need for. or a very hardline is justified by these kinds of attacks so i would say it is unlikely at this point that any opening exists for activism they could to get you thanks very much thank you for having iraq's on from on for my own thank you. germany social democrats are counting the ballots the 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 benyamin girl or are clear. because of his thorn in him.

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 christoph 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 very it's pretty high 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 election 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 angle america remains as chancellor but with leading social democrats in important cabinet posts and no woman 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 against plans to store nuclear waste near a town in the north east the two groups clashed in a failed nearly proposed site at last as i plan is to place nuclear waste five hundred metres below the ground david chaytor reports from lorraine the n.t. nuclear protesters found their progress blocked by the police as they approached the forest site where high level radioactive waste is shuttle to be buried in underground bunkers nuclear power supplies percent of the energy to the french grid more than any other country in the world most of the demonstrators were wearing face masks to hide their identities but their message was clear on the on for him to nuclear because if i close there it's

a fight that needs to be close because nuclear waste comes from all over france from all over europe. we are just starting to go along battle against the nuclear trash and the ward it represents. the protesters moved into the surrounding fields to try and escape the police blockade but they were driven back repeatedly by volleys of tear gas. the radioactive waste will be buried five hundred meters underneath each field in a complex stretching for fifteen square kilometers. the first trains carrying the highly hazardous cargo won't start arriving here till twenty twenty five by then it's estimated the project will have cost the french taxpayer around forty billion dollars so far the police tactics have proof for a successful they've pushed the demonstrators off the field they almost on the

brink of the forest but the use of tear gas has driven them back onto the road and now they're surrounded by the police. scientists have been testing the safety of the rock where the waste will be buried for the last ten years it dates back one hundred sixty million years it's hard almost impermeable rock which allows us to store radioactive waste in a safe manner for at least one hundred thousand years almost some of the police are also trying to make the area impermeable to demonstrators last month they cleared a protest camp set up in the woods above the area. i sit here in front of you very clearly that the state would come back as many times as needed and that was certainly the message being delivered to the demonstrators forced to retreat in the face of overwhelming police power but they promise they will be back. chaytor al-jazeera. place in suffolk here have released seven italians who were being held

the suspects in the murder of a journalist and his fiance. has now been buried in the village just. a day after the funeral was held for martin there over the seven arrested businessman had been named bikers yack in their reports into a latest political corruption involving the italian mafia. much more to come on the program including we visit quite amala to find out why the u.n. has called it the worst place in the world to be a child the small stitches that define the big picture as hollywood gets ready for the oscars we examine this year's best costume design from tenders and friends from winning gold at the olympics and austrian skier slaloms to another title details coming up and.

hello and welcome back the worse the snow is gone from many parts of europe but we still have some snowfall to contend with particular across parts of russia for the next twenty four hours some really cold air still entrenched across that part of the world meanwhile out towards the west we call our low pressure system bring in marta air up from the southwest visibility problems and then melting snow being the issue so flooding could well be a significant problem across parts of the u.k. so all the conditions generally through the course of monday central parts of europe so a not as cold as i have been by any means but still pretty disturbed weather down through the adriatic into parts of the balkans on the other side of the mediterranean we still got a few showers affecting coastal parts will cheer in tunis here with some bruce winds become further along the coast and it's looking fine and car is looking pretty warm of the moment temperatures there well on into the thirty's as a flow comes up from the desert southwest heading into central parts of africa

we've still some heavy showers across parts of east africa through uganda towards good bond congo much of west africa though looks it should be largely dry and fine plenty of sunshine for i crush and down and highs of thirty two then into southern portions of africa as tropical cycle running close to madagascar otherwise fine and south africa twenty three in cape town. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure to sometimes we risk our own lives in taking these road splits cattle saving lives is a dangerous job it's a vaccine so it's always good for twenty four hours there are patients waiting for these medicines for most of the things life's worth risking their lives a really could go one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road but that can just read what folks are risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera and monday put

it world on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the or. i'll come back to remind all of the top stories here on al-jazeera syrian airplanes

are now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the rebel held enclave of the single to more than six hundred people have pain tells terry new governments need to wait long bombing campaign italian posters predict sunday's election will be a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required forty percent of all the governments and of the seventy nine people have died in the latest into ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo where the attacker is going house to house looking people to die. and burning buildings. egypt's top court has validated a deal to transfer two red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed one hundred selman visit egypt in twenty sixteen sitting between the two countries in the red sea to run on santa fe remained largely on occupied but they lie in a politically sensitive area you hear going to i'm is al jazeera middle east analyst he says that while not everyone might agree with the decision it's

important to follow the legal process i believe. it was very important for the region 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 respond the fact that the way they have injected the two are those two in favor of saudi arabia is totally. came in in a flagrant way it was a flagrant violation of both the local bishops and laws and the international law again but you know all things happen and unfortunately in and the light of the fact that this total absence of the marcos like in egypt things happen and.

nothing nothing we can do for now to reverse this thing tributes his government has handed management of a ports which it seized from the u.a.e. to a state owned company the darrelle are gone taina terminal is considered one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in the horn of africa mohammad that our reports from djibouti. these newly nationalized dollar continue to tumble in djibouti walker's report for duty until last week there were employees of the relief on the buy for two gold 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 judy that a new company called the riley contain a time you know management company is now in charge owned one hundred percent by you the employees a weakness in the making of

a strong 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. one stealth to a political on smart and such for ports on the red sea coast but people we talked to on the streets a huffy 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 head. 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 the most west somalia somali government has described the agreement as illegal nolen point 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 djibouti has become an important player because of its position on the bubble mendip straight a crucial shipping lane to europe from the gulf and asia it has been the gateway to long locked 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 the 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 mohamed atta well jessica djibouti. is failing to protect the

rights of its children according to the united nations is committee on the rights of the child says 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's south. the stanley cup son has a rare neurological disorder when he started to lose 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 him as though all that 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 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. the high income pool where i come from people work in 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 whole of 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 a mother. now is hollywood prepares for its biggest night the oscars the group of

young activists in britain are pushing for great diversity a done so by recreating the famous movie posters but with a crucial difference they replace the white characters with black actors instead the films given the treatment include titanic sky full and harry potter will sit down tackle a 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 that the representation looks what links well with misrepresentation because if you're under represent them you're just he used to not being able to see people in those kind of roles and 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 then able to be misrepresented as well by you know like depicting them as gangsters

is drug dealers we initially wanted to just put it on the internet and you know just leave it like that but a special patrol group found our posters 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 elevated into what it's 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. on some of the artists whose hard work often gets overlooked the costume design is is every stitch tailor made clothes help to seal states are brunell's went to the los angeles fashion institute to find out how close make the man as the saying goes and often they make the movie too. at the fashion institute of designs museum in los angeles oscar nominated apparel is on display in all its glory fashion designer nick for rails

says costume is a subtle but vital part of all great films a lot of people say you know when you really don't notice the costumes in a film and the costume designer has done their job. getting. nominated costume design in victoria and abdul sends messages about wealth class and power the clothes especially for a victorian up to and queen victoria it's showing you who she is a queen good custom design is more than beautiful dresses it requires painstaking historical accuracy for the film darkest hour costume designer jacqueline duran went to extraordinary lengths to lend authenticity to actor gary oldman portrayal of winston churchill the tissue knack of vanity. we knew something about the actual sampled world and the way he made a lot. of suits and they're still in business and so they flew out

a tailor from london to los angeles to fit gary oldman for the suits that he wore in the film now they did that went with him wearing a fat suit one of this year's nominees for best costume design is a film about a costume designer daniel day lewis is neurotic could jury a in phantom threat when i was a boy. in the ninety's i definitely think that there is a bit of kudos to the profession that we as fashion designers do that is put into the film it's almost like a no body and what i love about it is putting fashion out in the forefront you know and it's showing you how important costumes can be to tell the story telling stories on screen stitch by deliberate stitch rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. so it's a calm on the. news hour we meet the japanese ranger this helping to save the country's most famous on the brink of extinction and south africa fights back in

the first cricket test against australia pete so we'll have the details. of his or is there want us to embrace but it's also the to see what happens next iteration of the unpredictable and fired by the barriers where mobile barricaded all seven streets that lead to here the movies now is being all about change people have gone past the fear barrier the mission of the national army is to fix the entire point complex and i'll just do a stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. natural capital the capital which makes a creative. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscapes protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to sheaves sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of

course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because to see a businessman crossing the planet as this time on al-jazeera. saturday marks un world wildlife day and that raising awareness of the plight of threatened species among them are japan's famous red crowned crane the su find some tree in the wetlands of hydro over winter the numbers sound they are slowly recovering after overhunting and the destruction of the habitat push them to the brink of

extinction a sammo her other is a conservationist helping to protect them this is story in his own. imo somehow the other chief ranger of to ito tonto sanctuary. was a red crowned cranes are the largest birds in japan just 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 named and sighted uncomely the god of the wetlands they believe the animals are sick. from around the middle of february and the birds begin to perform the courtship dance young birds seek partners and couples raising children dance in unison they raise their head high 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 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 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. but they're 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 last. time not at all the sport with pets are in doubt. so you 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 will be used to help award goals penalties red cards all in some cases mistaken identity a referee away from the stadium watches the game and has access to all camera angles and it's the on field referee know if there's been an error the system has been used at the confederations cup and the fee for under twenty world cup v.a.r. 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 as president though once everyone to see the bigger picture if we can lose one minute which in any way will be added on after the match or 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. if arab world cup despite teething problems with the technology the a.p.'s global football writer rob harris told us earlier there via or may also make football safer for players. so it's in sochi this week in russia for out welcome meetings and while there it's going to be an addition of an extension of replays which is in will be able to have a second doctor in the 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 out play out welfare it just shows out features finally embracing 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 bar are actually experienced and because of that world cup you're not going to want people who are sort of learning on the job christiane or an elder has become the fosters player ever to score three hundred gold in lower league or the only other player to even reach that many goals is of course leader now missy but he needed three hundred thirty four league games to reach the number that's forty eight more than ronaldo the portuguese star achieved this landmark doing real madrid three one victory against the tough a on saturday in the english premier league liverpool have managed to hold on to their third place position in the table after a win over newcastle ahead of the game the enfield club were in danger of finishing up in fourth place by the end of the night and relied on a win to keep them above rivals tottenham goals from home and sell our and thirty our money gave them the victory tottenham had done all they could to go above

you're going to collapse men for a short time all in vain though in the end so on young men scoring both goals in a victory against huddersfield town but of course there was not going to be him. ok let's go to athletics now ethiopia's middle distance queen gain their body barbara has doubled up on gold medals at the world indoor athletics championships in birmingham the bobber won the three thousand meters title on thursday and on saturday she helped to serve the first place in the fifteen hundred meters persons laura mirror and see from her son of the netherlands complete at the podium in the men's eight hundred meters victory went to adam shot of poland he's time of one minute forty seven point four seven seconds enough to beat american drew window and spain's soul or done it in the men's four hundred meters spain's or sky see also won gold in

a time of forty four point nine two seconds lou guillen some thoughts and pub a must look completed the podium in the women's four hundred meters courtney gold in a personal best time of fifty point five five seconds she finished ahead of fellow american shaquille wimbley and great britain's elated do ill in the men's trouble jump first place when two american will place seventeen point four three meters was enough to take gold ahead of brazil's al mir dos santos elson of portugal was the up in the women's trouble germ that was venezuela's ulema rock us whose mark of fourteen point six three meters was enough to take the gold medal kimberly williams of japan i mean jamaica was second with spain's and pelletier author. francis kevin meyer is the heptathlon gold medal winner the frenchman finished ahead of canada's damien warner and myself of estonia to take first place

and new zealand's thomas welsh took the shot put title four men he's more than twenty two point three one metres enough to finish ahead of germany's david store and thomas stanek of the czech republic. tennis now and roberto about is the same the second a.t.p. title of the season this after winning the dubai tennis championships on saturday the spaniard began the season by claiming the a.b.'s the classic title and now managed a comfortable straight sets win over new car we are all from east to take this one as well six three six three was the school show you. just two weeks ago marcel her show won a gold medal in the giant slalom at the pyong chan winter games now the austrian skier has picked up where he left off as he returned to world cup action in slovenia on saturday hosier was quickest in the giant slalom beating norwegian rival hillary christofferson victory in the finance committee veins of the season was enough to clinch the giant slalom title twenty eighteen at least on the brink of winning an unprecedented seven 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 pair in lafont has followed it up with another victory the font won the freestyle skiing moguls world cup eventing times are what called japan on saturday she scored eighty three point zero three points beating john chiang solar medalist canadian just kinda for no point america's key to macondo finished. in south africa have fought back admirably on the third day of their first cricket test against australia but still have a lot of hard work ahead the australians began their second innings at the start of play cameron bancroft was the only batsman to pass fifty years morning morkel and cash of maharaja took three wickets each of these were two hundred thirteen from an up close of play with a massive lead of four hundred two and that's all the sport for me more coming up again later but for now it's back to london and see. thank you very most sports and

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. true confessions might never be clean up to many but not or a cynical example of communist propaganda and i wanted to put a baby girl on bare all i want to do it. in twenty ten al-jazeera access to north korea to investigate the alleged use of biological warfare by the us during the korean war rewind revisits dirty little secrets at this time on al-jazeera conservation is helping to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi

chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're refining all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. rebel forces are men that are losing territory any single assyrian aircraft out leaflets telling civilians to leave but many say it's not an option.