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a food. as many watch another european country. it will deliver populist and you are skeptic games. syrian government forces edge further into battered eastern trucks loaded with a cops. will find out more about an al qaida link that claimed responsibility for saturday's attacks and fall so that killed eight people and. how humble fruit bats like these could put an end to disease pandemics. that's a result which ends months of political uncertainty in europe's economic powerhouse and of the fourth term to a long time lead to german chancellor angela merkel's center left rivals the social democrats haven't else that they met. this has all the velma only voted to approve

a new coalition with her conservatives as the third such coalition since two thousand and five but the social democrats also known as the s.p.d. are deeply divided about this one and that's because they've been punished at successive elections by voters who fear the s.p.d. is becoming too similar to miracles christian democrats all this new grand coalition also effectively means that the anti immigration far right party to a day overcome germany's main opposition force dhimmitude it is the s.p.d. members follow the suggestion of the party leadership with a big majority we now have clarity the s.p.d. will join to make government the social democratic party did not make this decision lightly it spent the last weeks in depth transparent and open discussions over the coalition deal they were you portions and gripping debates that a great many members of the s.p.d. took part in we grew closer together during these discussions of this will now give us the strength we need to move ourselves forward as

a party in government and to put our country on the right path but let's go live now to our correspondent dominic cain is joining us from the inside of the s.p.d. voting decisively reluctantly in favor of this grand coalition dominic what will it look like. well the point to make is that they will now be alongside angela merkel in cabinet there will be six social democrats ministers in cabinet three men three women and the important element from the social democrats point of view certainly that's what the leadership says is a take a look at the ministries that they will control now not ordinarily in german coalition government the leading party controls the finance ministry the money decisions as it were while the social democrats will control the finance ministry and the man you heard from just then is the shards well he will be the next finance minister certainly that is what the social democrats say so you get a sense there that he is saying to his party look yes we have to go go into. with

christine them it's democrats again yes they have the chance to rebut look at the posts that we will control and from angela merkel's perspective well she has tweeted already following the results saying she's looking forward to governing with the s.p.d. but in a certain sense you would expect her to say that her difficulty is that she has had to surrender the finance ministry to the social democrats to get this fourth term as you referred to in your introduction elizabeth and so you have the sense that here at least the social democrats have said this is a pragmatic decision it's a decision of the head not the heart and many people in this party at lower levels do not want to govern with angela merkel's christian democrats they don't want to be the junior partner in the government they want other policies to be enacted but by a considerable majority two thirds the one third the leadership here gets what it wants which is another three and a half years in government with angle america and is the e.u. getting what it wants dominic how relieved will it be that there will be continuity

in biggest economy where the continent's most powerful leader to staying. will certainly continuity is very important in so far as that area is concerned and with angela merkel very like while she will be confirmed as chancellor again parliament isn't sitting this week so next week there will come a vote in which the social democrat members will vote for a christian democrat chancellor and she will be in charge but then the point is that the social democrats having the foreign ministry will they get the chance to to prioritise europe and that's something which the former leader of the social democrats martin schultz put at the heart of his agenda in the coalition talks europe and the role that germany can play in europe given the fact that there are very many decisions that the e.u. has to make this in this year not the least of which is the briggs it situation regarding the united kingdom so now that other european leaders know that they will be dealing with angela merkel as german chancellor. in what will be

a stable government for the next three and a half years where they will have relief who they know who it's going to be she's a known quantity she's a known commodity as it were and this continuity certainly from a german chancellor rhee there will be all right dominic thank you very much for that for now that is dominic cain with the latest from the lead thank you. well germany and the rest of europe are also watching italy many fear parliamentary elections there was a live against the populist and right wing parties let's look at the big players the democratic party p.d. led by former prime minister renzi as pro europe and pro immigration but it's failed to engage younger voters to my own as the prime ministerial pick of the five star movement and that financing establishment anticorruption party which is set for a strong showing then there's the league of party led by matteo salvia me it's a skeptic and anti immigration and former prime minister silvio berlusconi returns with the center right for a tally of party he can't hold public office because of

a tax for convection part could hold significance sway in the future coalition government if his party does while alive two laws flee in rome shortly right after his report which sets up the background of italy's most uncertain elections and years. it says much about the state of politics here the party making is the n.c. politician party it's thirty one year old leader held several part time jobs before entering politics five stars entire proposal is to create a citizens' block you know position so the corrupt excesses of the political will. but five star have not to do a coalition deal with anyone else in a country in which you call do government without coercion it leads many to wonder if they would prefer not to give the government. the want. probably because defer. political parties to transform into influence to do

transformation in the reconfiguration of political system we doubt reale government responsibility to. the political bloc with the best chance is this group led by the attorney for silvio berlusconi the eighty one year old appears to hold a magnetic attraction for his far right allies who campaigned entirely around identity politics blaming the european union for what they see as an invasion of black people and muslims over the mediterranean. for if they gain power they claim they would deport four hundred thousand people to libya earlier ringing indorsements of the european union's suppose liberals were us. that anyone who arrives here illegally must be sent back if we keep welcoming them and look after them the state will collapse it doesn't work economically or socially. but if

the polls are accurate the far right might not get enough votes for a stable government many italians are revolted at the idea of berlusconi choosing the next prime minister so what then. it's hardly unusual for italian politicians to promise one thing and then change their minds and even though silvio berlusconi insists his right wing coalition is the only one and all for many suspect that in the events of political stacey's he and the center left might do a deal for a sort of grand coalition supposedly for the good of italy but even that would only be a temporary measure with a view to even more elections. all of it reflects a bigger malays in european politics from rome to london and berlin there's a lack of confidence no clear direction. horsley al-jazeera wrote. and live now to long for house polling.

yes and it's interesting isn't it on the same day that the european elites in brussels will be breathing a sigh of relief that in germany which is obviously more important than italy in many senses the sense of crisis has been overcome and stability has been restored because of the reemergence of the grand coalition there are these out of the same day you have the potential for a right wing populist revolt in italy and there are many people who say that it's disturbing that groups with their roots in fascism have a chance if not a certainty but a chance of getting into government but how real are these concerns as told to undress merger let's see who's the chairman of the center for international studies here in rome thank you very much for time thank you for that let's start with the right wing here we've been talking about steve bell and donald trump's old friend who's in rome at the moment and he wants nothing more than matteo salvini the leader of the league party to become prime minister salvina said join the election

campaign he wants the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants what does this say about you think about the state of politics in italy let me tell you we league is not a fascist party a tall. east not a fascist party at all but with an evident right wing. to be right doesn't mean that you are a fascist you are a fascist if you act as a fascist the common least in the party wearing some sort fascist because when you deny. basic needs when you deny dignity of a people you act as a fighter but doesn't care about it but to the point he said that he wants mass deportation of undocumented migrants is that is achievable do you think it's a good thing to italians want it i think we have it we have europe and we have too strong of it. left wing and the right wing center right this at the left a stronger european approach we want to rebalance for probably big lation but the

spear see beneath as a national security problem. and always remember is of a same a love of the world what that that what you say when you are in electoral campaign is not what you do when you act as a prime minister and so in this sense a right coalition as you put it with berlusconi in charge how important is berlusconi then in this process do you think he has a chance he will get to choose the next prime minister. berlusconi said divide the east wrongly suggests that. surprised. me is the chairman of the european parliament just so he's absolutely the strongest the european approach with you could be major we need to more to you but you mustn't to write him for something like this is about. what is important is not the only need not only need. a populist party but that speaks and do nothing that's of if if there is

a hung parliament here and there's no government for weeks and weeks and weeks how how damaging is that do you think to the european union spanos germany knows. without a big government to be get out of problems that what we are facing you need. the struggle to find a way to have a government a lesson obviously we don't have a clear victory for one side over on the other side indra thank you very much for your thoughts from us back to you and we'll have more from rome during the course of today and into this election for two lawns that is a long stretch joining us live from ron thank you. we have plenty more ahead on the new cell including on the seizure and out of food and how people in from his perceived eastern go to have adapted to growing and consume. mushrooms. china's leaders defend their push to scrap the limits which could see president xi jinping

stay in power and definitely and just three hundred christiane of a dollar reaches another milestone in spain details coming up of the chosen sport. the syrian government says it sees more territory. after another lot of air strikes and shelling more than six hundred forty people are reported to have been killed in the besieged on clay in the past two weeks the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights reports government forces have taken ten percent of rebel held territory but most of that is farmland that's difficult to defend. to capture this road which goes from duma to the small village. that would cut rebel supply lines from the main tunnel and split the opposition held pocket in ha. ha ha there she is live for us in beirut and neighboring lebanon

what more you hearing about this. saying. well this ground offensive began just over a week ago but the last forty eight hours programming forces have been seizing territory they have been pushing from the eastern flank of this besieged enclave like you mentioned they've taken a number of towns a lot of them farmland and small towns which are not really heavily populated so it is quite easy but what we understand is that these programming forces are pushing ahead with this offensive they're trying to reach other areas areas like misrata and reports from the ground is still very hard for us to independently confirm this indicate that the people living in these areas are fearful so they have started to move to other towns towards the west of the of this enclave which is approximately . a hundred and ten square kilometers so it's not just pressure from the ground the government continuing air strikes targeting

a number of areas civilians continue to die. pause in the fighting undoubtedly the bombardment is much less but civilians continue to be killed and what is a little that. situation with entering hasn't been getting in. this all means that the pro-government alliance is bent on a military victory they don't seem to be willing to compromise a few days ago the united nations said that they were hoping to be able to. deliver on sunday today a short while ago the united nations says this will not be happening they did not get the necessary permission from the syrian government even though they said a few days ago that there were indications that they would get permission the more pressure you put on the civilians the easier it is for them to surrender and this is what the government wants they want the civilians to surrender they want the rebels to lay down their arms so you know the people of. immense immense pressure

medical supplies one thousand people need to be evacuated according to the united nations so now no. thank you very much for that. thank you. to find new ways to survive. the border between turkey and syria. non-native species. you needed just a few kilometers from syria's capital. when the. team. exhausted quickly one of the answers for growing protein needs was mushrooms. after testing they weren't poisonous biologists grew spores in the labs they taught people how to cycle dam better kitchen waste and shot from grains so everyone with a small darkroom could become a farmer by last year charity workers say they were producing close to two tons of

mushrooms every day. you need the right environment and tools after we succeeded in production it became an independent project to provide the spores for a good time it was difficult for people to go from the staple red rice and meat to mushrooms but when a kilo of salt costs thirty three dollars a kilo of flour costs six dollars and a kilo rice is that eleven dollars a kilo hungry people don't have much choice another problem with fuel because who hasn't had electricity for nearly five years they really used all glass to make solar panels as sources of heat and to generate electricity those with a little advance scientific knowledge built a bio gas plant which became a continuous cost effective source for clean energy. well there is an agricultural region east of damascus so people also grew some food but at the risk of ongoing airstrikes and shelling from the syrian government side however these were small projects which couldn't get it to the needs of almost four hundred thousand

residents of east good for most of the supplies through a lucrative war trade via tunnels and government checkpoints this war economy and extortion like tax pushed prices multiple times to what they are on the other side of damascus. we have seen misses his home in the after escaping the siege he runs a charity which helped to fund training and set up new projects he feels abandoned by the un and others who he says should be doing more than just advocacy they are calling they are begging. but they don't do any serious things to. happen in this area. which is maybe the worst the worst season in the last one hundred the. since the one nine hundred february onslaught many of the projects have been destroyed in the relentless bombardment people say it's been a tough life under siege but they will not give up their lands to what this is an

army of iranian militias and russian soldiers and if given the chance they want to rebuild what's been destroyed with or without any outside help some of the job it does is iraq. you know the turkey syria border. the investigation into russian interference in the election of donald trump has reportedly been widened to include the united arab emirates the new york times as an advisor to the crown prince has been questioned special counsel wants to know whether george made out who's a regular visitor to the white house attempted to buy political influence the u.s. president contradicted years of policy when he initially backed the u.a.e. and saudi led against. flash is linked to al qaida and based in mali said they were responsible for the attacks on friday as sixteen people were killed including eight gunman at the french embassy and army headquarters in the capital. when

a packed with explosives drove past was fetching water and was sorting out his stall and quander was clearing his shop none of them noticed the attackers nor did members of the armed forces who let the tank see the attackers enter their headquarters the subsequent explosions and the country into panic. at the same time another attack was underway targeting the french embassy and its cultural center french special forces were deployed after hours of fighting all the attackers were shot dead. and was leamy has claimed responsibility for the attack they say it's in retaliation for the bombing by french forces that killed one of the group's leaders in february. sorry sitting in this video on the right was killed in that attack them brooklyn afonso is home to a french military base and has increasingly been targeted by fighters in the south of the market people are returning to work with mixed feelings there was nobody

there i'm not scared i'm not going to let the attacker put me in a state of fear just some but it feels uneasy because the reality is brooke you know fastow is in the middle of a security crisis government officials visit the army headquarters the intensity of the explosion shattered the windows of neighboring buildings deborah flew hundreds of meters into the air bullet holes pockmark the building this is supposed to be one of the safest and most secure place in this country and yet it's inside this building that most people lost their lives on the prime minister is talking to the troops outside police have cordoned off this area and are hundreds of people standing there in shock and they have one question how could this attack take place in such secured and safe areas visiting the scene the prime minister described what he called applicable in sign but he tried to reassure the public sometime muscling that we have to stay united against this war that is being imposed on us i am

convinced we will win we weren't allowed in the hospital where the injured mostly soldiers are being treated their friends and relatives are worried wondering if they will survive. there is a sense of despair that brick in a fire so has become another frontline to an expanding conflict affecting millions of people across the sahara nicholas hark al jazeera what to do. china now with the country's leaders are defending their plans to scrap term limits on the presidency which would allow xi jinping to will definitely the most of a shadow in this year's gathering of parliament which. according to the constitution of the chinese communist party is no such provision as to nor more than two successive terms for the general secretary and the chairman of the central military commission of the party. there's no such cause of no more the two terms for the chairman of the central military commission for the country and the

constitution of china so if we post the similar clause in the constitution for the terms of the presidency it's can juicer to upholding the authority of the central committee of the party with comrade xi jinping at the core and also to unify leadership also will help strengthen and improve the country's governance i shot a correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. in the ceremonial heart of beijing china's political season is about to start but it will be different this year delegates to the national people's congress are being asked to do something they've never had to before approve a change to the constitution that restricts presidents to two terms dissenting voices are rare in today's china yet in the run up to this n.p.c. there's been token criticism over the proposed amendment. most of the modern countries in the world adopt those two term presidency that's why people find it

unbelievable that she is going to stay in power more than two terms president she is likely to get his way the n.p.c. is viewed as a largely rubber stamp body controlled by the ruling communist party and has never voted down a proposal from party leaders. the change will further consolidate she's power as he's also party chief and head of the minute. free and in october his name was in shrine to the constitution elevating him to the status of chairman mao like president trump xi jinping wants to make his country great again and he often talks about the rejuvenation of the chinese nation he now believes he's the only leader that can make that happen there are no opinion polls in china so it's not possible to gauge what the public thinks about all of this a few people in beijing though were willing to share their views and surprisingly

they weren't all positive is that when they were out of miami or dallas. this hasn't happened in china or other countries before if you change the constitution itis it is back to the old days when i living backwards there's ten years. he should be president for more than two terms even if he serves seeks i would support him china today is a one party state dominated now by one man. adrian brown al jazeera beijing. well steph will have a weather update for you shortly and then south korea says it will send a special envoy to the north for the first time and eleven years and. abuse of power sexual harassment that has really led the conversation in the industry throughout the oscar campaign season the dark side of hollywood threatens to steal the focus during the movie nights movie world's biggest night and sweeping up the fans how current has captured the attention of ice hockey novels details coming up

with shows the school. from the clear blue sky dome home. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city. hello there we've had an awful lot of what weather over parts of kenya recently some places have even seen some flooding in clude ing at nairobi this is what twenty two millimeters of rain does in nairobi elsewhere in the country there we've had even more rain so presumably the flooding is worse elsewhere but we don't have the pictures from the just nairobi at the moment and all of back cloud where you can link it all the way back through into madagascar and this huge circulation just to the east of madagascar is our psyche now currently the sustained winds are around one hundred twenty kilometers per hour so that will make it a category one hurricane if it was in the waters around the america america's but

it is strengthening very quickly is working its way down towards the south fortunately staying away from land but it is strengthening quickly and just in the next twenty four hours we're expecting it to have become the equivalent of a category three hurricane so a major hurricane that could do extensive damage but fortunately as i say it looks like the eye of the storm will stay away from land instead the problem is going to be with the amount of rain gives us so only kenya that's going to see some flooding thanks to this system also. the northern parts of madagascar we've seen one hundred forty three millimeters of rain just in the last twenty four hours and also on the east coast we've seen well over one hundred millimeters as well so plenty of what weather across this region and it looks like it's going to continue raining heavily over the next couple of days at least. the way the sponsored by qatar. forced to be displaced by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three. it was very greek and turkish villagers returned to their roots almost

a century later. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people shouldn't be forced to move from. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. the growing up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being. freedom. is going to be. the resources that are available it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants you to know the government is not willing to do the one thing the demonstrators want apologize for. the truth.

that have you with us on the al-jazeera news out of these are our top stories moments of political uncertainty in germany have come to an end. democratic party. to join a grand coalition government led by charles and going in the cold. and italians are voting in a parliamentary election that six specter to result in a hung parliament many feel anti establishment and right wing parties will gain ground and the syrian government has reportedly seized ten percent of rebel territory and east and after another marching strikes and shelling more than six hundred forty people have been coached just in the past two weeks. saudi arabia's comprende. for a three day visit to meet with the egyptian president of the c.c.

. first foreign trip since becoming prince last year he will then file in to meet with leaders in the u.s. and the u.k. and saudi arabia and egypt are among the countries that impose a blockade on the last. let's get more on this now we're joined by whoa. call professor of history at the university of michigan mr call real pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera and on the set so i know that you have said that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon visiting egypt is like trump going to you know the results that he owns why is that egypt really is by now a wholly owned subsidiary of saudi arabia after the twenty thirteen who the saudis the united arab emirates and kuwait have put in on the order of thirty billion dollars in investments and gifts and loans to the egyptian regime so that is a lot of investment in egypt just yesterday we had the announcement by the top court

in egypt giving away these two islands in the red sea strategically important islands to nod and sign off aid to egypt what else is egypt getting out of all of this investment in saudi getting out of this investment. the saudis did get those islands that they have a claim on them going back but they've been egyptian territory for as long as anybody can think. they also have gotten egypt security help egypt however has been a little bit difficult for the saudis in some areas it hasn't been enthusiastic about the war in yemen which is one of the major projects of the saudis it also has tilted towards the bashar al assad regime in syria because it is a secular regime fighting the rebels and so on those

issues there may be some tension can we expect any movement or progress on those issues on the wards and sevier or yemen you know i think egypt is just going to refuse to get involved they may talk a good game but the gyptian elite for some. time now has drawn back from active best moment in those kinds of projects the one place where saudi arabia and egypt are on the same page with regard to regional developments is that egypt is backing secular forces in libya as well as are the saudis so as we mentioned. egypt crown prince mohammed and so model go on to the u.s. and to the u.k. we've had a gushing editorial by the precious. precious newspaper about this visit and how welcome it's going to be is that is how do you expect the rest of this trip to go

well i think that there's going to be trouble in the u.k. boris johnson and the tory party in general will welcome the saudi crown prince and they have resisted calls to limit arms sales to saudi arabia over the targeting of civilians in yemen but the london street is likely to come out in very large numbers and to attempt to embarrass the crown prince over saudi arabia's executable human rights yeah will be interesting to see how that goes and what about the u.s. leg of the trip what are you expecting from that the main president mohamed than some on have certainly been very warm towards each other yes trump has almost been had been back pocket but in recent months there's been a cooling in the sense that. i think secretary of defense james mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson have convinced trump to moderate his

position on the crisis in the gulf and he's not been as harsh towards cutter in recent times in fact is trying. to negotiate an end to the crisis so he's no longer siding so strongly with the saudis. very interesting we'll wait and see what comes out of the trip was to cold thank you for your time we appreciate it thank you. well police in behind have arrested one hundred sixty members of what they're calling a terrorist network funded by iran's revolutionary t.v. pitches is said to show weapons and explosives to be used in attacks on security forces the sunni led government on the sheer majority island regularly accuses of supporting armed groups but iran denies that stirring dissent. journalists from naipaul's largest newspaper have appeared in court off to stories who published the chief justice they conquered daily has been charged with contempt of court the case

is being seen as an attack on press freedom. in the capital. i'm standing outside the supreme court where the power of the largest newspaper. is expected to go on trial on contempt of court case the newspaper published and lead the party and they're going down the ponts chief justice. used fake documents and posted by his date of birth which allows him to extend his term beyond the mandatory retirement age of sixty five chief justice to be says that news stories are an attack on the judiciary system that they use objectionable language and imaginary facts now that justice is the judge in his own pace and poor people including the proprietor he edits and newspaper reports right down to one year jail term if found guilty to defend it and many other people agree say

that this is a clear case of muzzling freedom of expression which is guaranteed under the constitution the case was on a friday what was the journey till sunday morning. a palestinian farmer has been shot and killed by israeli troops near the gaza border that had been booking on his land close to the border fence the israeli military says soldiers fired warning shots when he approached a restricted area in the southern gaza strip and when he failed to stop he was shot . the top iranian military commander says the islamic republic will launch negotiate its missile program unless europe and the us dismantle their nuclear weapons head and says the missile program is for you to understand that it's unrelated to the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal which led to the lifting of sanctions a real value officials have previously warned that talks on missiles are off the

table after u.s. president donald trump tried to link the defense program to the nuclear agreement. south korea has announced plans for a special envoy to visit north korea the delegation will leave on monday for two days of talks that's in response to an invitation from leader kim jong un sister when she attended the winter olympics in south korea last month problem brive has more from salt. the delegation is being led by two ministry level intelligence officials one of them an expert in u.s. korean relations the other an expert in into korean relations so it seems this delegation has a jewel purpose first of all of exploring the possibility of dialogue between pyongyang and washington but also looking at what is the next step in into korean relations with the anticipated visit perhaps by a south korean president moon j into north korea following on from the invitation

there was extended by kim jong un sr attending the opening of the winter olympics the team will be in pyongyang for two days of talks will then return to seoul to brief officials here and then go straight on to washington to brief american officials the process does point up the differences in approach between south korea and the united states to north korea the u.s. position is still that north korea should commit itself to denuclearize ation before negotiations or dialogue starts increasingly it seems the south korean position is one of pragmatism that dialogue itself should be entered into and see where it goes there are concerns among more hawkish conservative elements here and also in the united states that north korea might be using this whole process of trying to get around the sanctions which many people believe are beginning to bite

and trying to undermine the whole process of maximum pressure and the n.a.v. salable it with an all female crow is approaching the end of its round the world czerny a seventeen meter vessel set up from india in september and fed into cape town on friday what it prevents on board a tender finish their epic journey at the indian port of goa. to thailand now where scientists are testing fruit bats fruit bats and pigs to find out how viruses passed on to people when have reports from chonburi. of. the daytime sleep patterns of these fruit bats have been sending thousands into the afternoon sky but the commotion is for a good cause they're being woken so some can be caught temporarily in the name of health and science samples are taken from the bats to try to discover more about the many viruses they carry and how and when they can be passed on to domestic or

farm animals and ultimately to humans we know that some of the wild ass happy seasonal season are. so that mean. we really know this period other year. highest. the research is part of the global initiative to try to build a protocol and model of how to prevent or contain a major outbreak recent examples in other parts of the world of viruses being transmitted from animals to humans include ebola movers and sars one of the main focuses of this research is need virus which is common in this variety of fruit but the virus was first discovered across the border in malaysia twenty years ago when an outbreak killed more than one hundred people. in that case the virus was transmitted from bats to pigs to humans something that could happen here in thailand chonburi province surrounding the bat colony are several pig farms researchers conduct tests on the animals and educate farmers about what to look out

for if for example an animal eat something that was dropped by a bat infected with the virus. are changed to better farming practices and i've learned more about diseases and how to detect them before my pigs got diarrhea and anthrax i didn't know how to treat them but now i know. as well as researching the behavior of known viruses the thais scientists have also found at least two new ones that information will now go into a database for scientists around the world to access they believe their research and discoveries will see them better equipped to manage the next dark break of a virus originating from the humble fruit bats in hay al-jazeera chonburi thailand . brazilians are being urged to get yellow fever vaccinations of the country grapples with its worst outbreak and decades so hundred thirty seven people have died and more than seven hundred in fact it is being spread by mosquitoes from rural areas to towns and cities that want health workers in rio de janeiro state

have vaccinated ten million people and need to do at least another four million. the red carpet has been rolled out in preparation for hollywood's biggest night the oscars bought the film industry is still. moving from a year dominated by sexual harassment cases ad and it's not the only show it has to deal with as reynolds reports. it's hollywood ready for its big need a new study casts harsh light on the lack of racial in gender diversity in the film industry michael tran helped write the twenty eight team hollywood diversity report on most arenas that we look at you know writers directors actors and cetera you would have to you know double or triple the numbers of women and minorities in those fields to get a proportional representation with the u.s. population the numbers are not news to industry insiders but may surprise the movie

going public accustomed to hollywood some promoted image hollywood does think of itself as a liberal place as a progressive place and that's an important thing to believe in those values but we're here to provide the data to make sure that that hollywood lives up to the values that it purports the entertainment industry is in the throes of a cultural revolution in this year's award season hollywood professionals are talking less about the films that have been nominated and more about sexual harassment lack of diversity and an equal pay for women in the movie industry it really has consistently been since the beginning of october and all the revelations about harvey weinstein and others in hollywood abuse of power sexual harassment that has really led the conversation in the industry throughout the oscar campaign season the time's up and need to movements are broken in the culture of silence complicity and it may billing that lasted for so long you've heard a lot of stars and some agents and others involved in the industry commenting on

exactly how much they did or didn't know it different times in a way because the responsibility and some level of enabling was so widespread across the industry on the eve of its annual celebration of hollywood finds itself . with little to celebrate rob reynolds al-jazeera was sensuous a sports update is just over a minute away. and they're all for the walls most famous dog sled that is joe i'll tell you why they're hoping to make controversy behind that on the serious trail. when winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is influencing. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and

what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access to polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera we hear to jerusalem bureau coverage israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to get a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happened and what happens here matters.

and it's time for sports well his job elizabeth thank you we start in spain where chris and i were out there has reached another historic milestone he scored his three hundred go in the league for a moment. it comes just before half time against her taffy he went on to score again in the second half to in a match which trail one three one the portuguese captain is only the second man to reach the three hundred mark after leo messi but he did it in two hundred eighty six league games that's forty eight fewer than messi managed there's a huge game in spain related to leaders barcelona will play second place athletico madrid just five points separate the two teams barcelona are on sixty six but a win for atletico would see their lead cut down to just two points and this game will pits two stars against each other lena messi is the top goalscorer in the league or with twenty three goals and twenty griezmann whose fourth in the

standings on fifteen but he did school all four goals against again years midweek now at let's go might be forgiven for feeling a little bit confident about this one but when it comes to title pedigree barcelona have the edge with twenty four to athletic o's ten but their coach knows that sunday's game can go some way to making or breaking their title race and it's all about me they are hard to win because the prices juicy you would leave the second place team eight points adrift and we need to focus on that also be thinking about cutting the distance to two points if we draw then everything will stay as it is but the one who wins will take a big leap. english premier league leaders manchester city face chelsea pep guardiola men need five wins from the last ten games to clinch the title but sometimes encounter with chelsea could prove to be a tricky tie meanwhile liverpool are doing all they can to eat into city's lead they moved up to second after beating newcastle goals for mohamed salah and saudia money goes in the two no victory but they're still fifteen points behind city in

the table. brazil superstar neymar has had successful surgery on his injured foot according to his country's team doctor fans gathered outside the hospital in belo horizonte as the world's most expensive player had an operation to repair a broken bone and sprained ankle on saturday the injury happened in last week's french league match between name. and then pick must say he now faces a race to be fit in time for james world cup in russia. the pace of recovery will depend a lot on the player's progress in six weeks we will undergo a new evaluation with imaging taste so we can observe his response and the evolution of his recovery american christian coleman set a new championship record time as he won the sixty metres title at the win the world indoor athletics championships in birmingham the twenty one year old going one better than the silver he won at last year's outer world championships he

crossed the line in six point three seven seconds just three hundred of a second outside the world record he set last month china's so big ten came second with american ronnie baker in it. the second gold medal of the championships but ethiopian middle distance runner instead they did baba she won the fifteen hundred meters title to add to the three thousand meters gold she won on thursday. in the men's heptathlon comes as damian bruno won the final event the one thousand meters but he just missed out on goals that went to kevin may of the frenchman adding the indoor heptathlon title to the outdoor kaplan gold he won in two thousand and seventeen. after an entire field in one of the men's four hundred meters heats was disqualified for running out of the lanes there were more issues in the final the athletes who finished first and second were disqualified for laying infringements in the puzzle must luck of the czech republic who crossed the

line third was promoted to gold. american clothes are guard broke the world record twice in one day as she dominated the women's individual pursuit at the track cycling world championships in the netherlands the twenty one year old demolished home favorite anime fan ten in a one sided final knocking very point one two seconds off the record she set in qualifying it's die got second gold at these championships she also won the tape to see. meanwhile local favorite women gunship was involved in a painful looking crash in the men's all million but gunship wasn't down for long he won silver with poland's chim on site not taking the title. the n.h.l. moved outdoors on saturday with the toronto maple leafs in the washington capitals contesting the only game in the stadium series scheduled for the season.

this series vishnu sees games played in football or baseball stadiums but this one was held at the home of the u.s. naval academy in maryland with all the pomp and ceremony you might imagine that comes with that location u.s. curling team here one gold at the winter olympics swept up some extra fans as they delivered the ceremonial park attached to a curling stone. once the real action got underway there it was alex ovechkin who put on the show he scored his fortieth goal of the season and the five hundred ninety eight of his career wasn't quite the spectacle the n.h.l. had hoped for though as the lights went out midway through the third period spots the capitals went on to seal a five two win over the maple leafs sure. former us open champion who. has won his biggest title in nearly five years at the mexican open in acapulco del potro beat kevin anderson six four six four in the final seven when in a row over the south african the argentine beat three top ten players on very first

title of two thousand and eighteen and first at this level since winning the swiss indoors in two thousand and thirteen the twenty nine year old will now move up to eight in the world rankings. well doping scandals don't just affect russian olympic athletes the world's most famous dog sled race found itself under scrutiny when docs last year's event tested positive for a banned painkiller as charlotte dallas reports both organizers and competitors are now hoping to put that and more behind them as they set off on the i destroyed trail in alaska believe. the. sled dogs and their drivers are off on the eye destroyed they've got sixteen hundred kilometers ahead of them and came to distance themselves from dog door ping and davis. was this is the world's most famous dog sled race and for the first time in its history dogs failed drug tests for animals belonging to last year's

runner up della c.v. to sue positive for a bad painkiller tramadol c.v. who has won the race four times denied doping his dogs he wasn't on the start line and protest i'm one who believes we've got will go another forty three years before the next don't bring scandal and this will be remembered as the. anomaly happened. organizers have their own obstacles to navigate beyond the last a major sponsor and are under pressure from animal rights advocates following the death of five dogs last year there's always going to be and i did arrive. we've i consider this more of. a growing process than anything else this year's race starts alaska's biggest city encourage and will take the southern route thanks to heavy snow passing through twenty three checkpoints including the races namesake ideas are old to end in the

remote bering sea community of norm it's expected to take the winner nine days. sixty seven mushes will drive about one thousand dogs to the finish line going through all with are determined to leave this year's scandals behind them charlotte dallas. and that is all the sport from a finale more later elisabetta very much child now finally has bought and before we go a story that shows that it is never too late to get into social media when seventy five year old challenge i was living in brazil he started using instagram to keep in touch with his grandsons and south korea and the united states it started as a small family project but after less than three years he now has more than three hundred thousand followers around the world we caught up with him jaden when he turned him in the my name is lit and i draw pictures for my grandchildren and post them on instagram every day. i mean all you eastern into. when we lived in brazil

i used to drive my grand kids to and from school then move to south korea. all of a sudden my grandkids were gone and so was my daily driving job i felt very lonely without much to do. when i visited my son who lives in new york i told him about this my son suggested i draw pictures for the grandkids and post them on something called instagram. i dabbled a bit in art in high school but trying was just a hobby. i don't need to use a mobile phone to make calls i was at a bit of a loss and put off by social media such as facebook and instagram. my son explained over and over again how to use it but because i'm old i kept forgetting it was a very difficult process for me but eventually i was able to draw

a picture photograph it and posted on instagram. i draw a picture of my wife writes a story in korean to go along with. my son translated into english. my daughter translates it into portuguese because it's in three different languages a lot of people around the world can read it. through this project my wife son and daughter and i communicate every day it has had a positive influence on our family bonding. and first i only thought about what to draw from my grandkids. but as a continued lots of people started leaving comments. my youngest grandson is too young to understand but my two grand kids in middle school feel grateful for the pictures that people know their grandfather draws for them.

i thought it would be just for communicating within our family. i never anticipated that he would have so many followers. now i'm under even more pressure to draw good pictures. now that looks like instagram account with a following my that does it for the. benefit of him next thank you for watching.

arts. the streets as quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty metres in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships and children sometimes are caught in the crossfire when 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. daughter years ago i also lost my but 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 survivor of the genocide or people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering a heart who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. in them here is that all. you know hope of finally learning the past arrest and giving peace to the victims' families because if i could just find a finger i could bury him bone hunter at this time on al-jazeera. angela merkel's political rivals confirm they'll go back into coalition with her giving the german chancellor a fourth. hello i'm off with out of there alive from.