until commodity big business takes a new interest brian wells gives protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to share sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have the heart protection of nature to do that because to see your business crossing the planet at this time on al-jazeera. this is zero. hello there i'm jim mcdonald this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes italians head to the polls for an election in which the far right and populist parties a set to dominate but

a clear winner is unlikely. more airstrikes hit rebel held he said cool to us that reinforces our lives sees the force of the hate and still the aid is getting in. months of political uncertainty and in germany the social democrats vote to renew the coalition giving up our for a fourth term as chancellor. and i'm tatiana fund has been doha with all the support italian football in shock as the captain of thirty our team feared and tina is found dead before a game all matches in the country's top league were postponed on sunday. if their warm welcome to the news hour well it's being described as its least most uncertain election one that could bring about a political gridlock polls close in just four hours from now the only thing that.

certain is that there will be no clear winner the end to stablish mint five star movement which is campaigning hard against corruption but set to win the most votes but not enough to govern and it says it will tend to a coalition but we'll be live in rome in just a moment the first look at how votes it has gone so far honestly before. as the time arrived for voters to make their minds up there was every sign there were as many people who simply couldn't decide as those with any sort of conviction the policy making much of the running is the and see politician party its thirty one year old leader held several parts sime job's before even entering politics five stars inside proposal is to create a citizens' block in opposition to the corrupt excesses of the political class but five star vowed not to do a coalition deal with anyone else and in a country which you can't do government without a coalition it leads many to wonder if they would prefer not to be in government at all they want to. probably be camera defer political

parties to transform into influence to do transformation in the reconfiguration of we need to go since them we doubt government responsibility. the political bloc with the best chance is this group led by the it's handily youthful silvio berlusconi the eighty one year old appears to hold a magnetic attraction for his far right allies which have campaigned entirely around identity politics blaming the european union for what they see as an invasion of black people and muslims from over the mediterranean the dream scenario for the anti establishment right wing is this man his prime minister matteo salvini wants mass deportations it's really first he says. that if you go to any one 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 governments 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 on offer many suspect that in the events of political stacey's he and the censor 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 politico he could well hold the key to unlocking the confusion the fact that the european union might look to him as their best guarantor of stability says much about the state of politics lawrence li al jazeera wrote. well the day baba is live in rome for

a side then deemed so what chance is just berlusconi have of getting to cheer this elites italy. julie good question i mean laurence in his report there was saying that the prospect of him being such a powerful figure again on the national scene even though he himself won't hold office might along some italians but he's got plenty of fans here and all the latest opinion polls that were published suggested that his coalition would probably have the greatest chance of being able to form a government a bloc in parliament behind me to rule for a bit more on the return the possible return of silvio berlusconi i'm joined by alberto castille vicky a political analyst from luis university here in rome alberto. the fact that berlusconi now is back home the seed and could be the person who chooses the next prime minister how surprising is that here in italy and not really surprising to us they tell us because see villa's conus comeback is impressive indeed to

international observers but to us italians first of all he's quite up my as a personality and many people think he's a good entertainer and despite all the judiciary problems he had after all he's able to do the job better than others and then there is two basic reasons for his comeback first the failure of mr matilda and sees previous prime minister demolition project when matter and he came into the political arena he presented himself as a demolition man but then demolition didn't work and the second is that that was corny when political communication last year was divided in many harsh comments blame game innuendo blackmailing he came back impressively with tenderness a federation of new energies and we must be together as a nation so this is a good sentiment mr goodwill impression he did to the electorate maybe will prove him to be successful in the ballots of course particularly in the south there's a big fight between his coalition and the five saw movement and we're just hearing

that it was just a few moments ago that national turnout so far is around fifty one percent. i don't know if that's any of any significance but one generally who would start to benefit the most from a high turnout saw for a low turnout well i think that in the end the general numbers just figures of the turnout will be more or less like five guess ago with general elections but the difference is exactly as you said what will happen in the south because if people go to those and mass in the south this could be good news for the new coming five star movement which will not have per se the possibility to form a government but will be an interlocutor of any new government so believe me five stars move in his death to stay for the next decade and even if silvio berlusconi wins the fast the new that will be somehow included in the negotiation for the forming of the new government you need to lead they have said all along the five

star movement that they are different and they won't enter any coalition but it looks almost inevitable that they'll have to distance if they want to take power well you know they presented dems have the sentai establishment and terrorism and anything but in the last year they started negotiate on many many issues and they know that they will come to terms with any possible winner of these elections and they assumed a more much much more milder stance in the last six months so i think that yes despite being so the protests that have been so against anything in the end you know italy is quite a conservative conference a catholic country and everybody wants to bring to terms an end in the end of a successor vecchi thank you very much for your feelings here now where there are of course several i was still voting left it might actually go on beyond the the official deadline of eleven pm local time because there were delays in rome and in another town in the north of italy and exit polls will come out quickly but

generally it's very hard to extrapolate from them what's going to happen and it could be many many hours perhaps days before a picture emerges as to who's going to be in a position to try to form a government here in italy. and get their life in moment and thank you. when government forces have seized more than a quarter of rebel held eastern coats and near damascus where than six hundred and forty people are reported to have been killed in the besieged during the past two weeks the u.n. says the increase in violence is simply unacceptable and holder reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. pro-government forces are advancing inside eastern they are moving in from the eastern side forcing people to pack whatever they can and move to other areas away from the frontlines people are seeking shelter in towns closer to the center this placement is adding to their suffering the ground offensive

began just over a week ago the territory taken is not heavily populated it's mainly farmlands which are hard to defend pro-government forces want to control the do mushy funny out road which would cut rebel supply lines cut off the main town of duma and split the opposition held pocket in half. the assault is not just from the ground airstrikes and shelling are targeting towns throughout the besieged rebel stronghold the bombing may have lessened since the five hour daily pause in the fighting ordered by the russian government came into effect on tuesday but civilians continue to be killed. it's one of the deadliest offensives in the almost eight year conflict the death toll is now more than six hundred fifty rebels have been retaliated by firing mortars into the syrian capital killing almost thirty people in the past two weeks the ability of the opposition to threaten damascus is

one of the reasons why the pro-government alliance wants to recapture eastern huta . it is the last major opposition controlled area close to the government seat of power if pro-government forces take it then there will be only one a small pocket of territory south of the capital out of the government's control and the pro-government alliance is making it clear not only in its words but in its actions that it is not ready to compromise and it is pushing for a military victory despite pleas from humanitarian organizations aid hasn't reached almost four hundred thousand people believed to be in eastern huta the united nations was hoping to deliver food and medical supplies on sunday now it says that won't happen this isn't the first time restricting humanitarian access to a besieged population has been used as a weapon of war. senator beirut firas is a member of the white helmets rescue group he spoke to us earlier from eastern

quarter on sky and he says no one is able to escape nor. is the more nor an get out of is them or some some civilians just. run away from the areas. near the front lines. or get out from you so far and everyone tries to do it they'll be close one of the front line you will be shot by the snipers of the syrian government so for the four hundred thousand people trapped inside the rebel held on kate the situation is still dire u.n. says it wasn't able to get its convoy of forty trucks interval to on sunday because permission wasn't given it says it will now try again on monday only one small convoy has entered this year with enough supplies for just seven thousand two hundred people where the fighting has damaged health facilities and shops increasing the price of even basic supplies like bread by two and

a half percent. well with a severe shortage of food water and electricity those who has remained there have been forced to find new ways to survive as a summer binge of a now reports these are alien mushrooms non-native species to eastern an area just a few kilometers from syria's capital damascus when the siege tightened in two thousand and thirteen food supplies were exhausted quickly one of the answers for growing protein needs was mushrooms after testing they were in poisonous biologists grew spores in the labs they taught people how to up cycle down better kitchen waste and shot from grain 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 bread 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 into 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. 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 they are wishing but they don't do any serious things to do to have been in this area. which is maybe the worst the worst season in the last one hundred to you. 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 a job it out to zero by the un to get the turkey syria border. well there's much

more to come on the program saudi arabia's crown prince arrives in egypt on the first leg of his a foreign trip in his new role. to. the. fireplace a comeback in colombia thousands of that music lovers gather for the milk. and the first man to break the four minute mile has died his story coming up later in sports. germany's social democrats have voted to approve their party going into another coalition giving the conservative chancellor angela merkel a fourth term in office well it brings an end to months of political uncertainty that many in the party aren't happy to be propping up another markel government from violent domenech a force. for much of the past six months since the federal election failed to find a clear winner the social democrats have appeared divided stuck between the

ideological desire to oppose angle america's and the pragmatic need for germany to have a stable government on sunday the party's grass roots had their say it. will not anoint on devices thousand two hundred thirty nine thousand six hundred four is speedy members voted yes this one hundred twenty three thousand three hundred twenty nine is speedy members voted no this represents a two thirds vote and one third of those. this was a decision of the head not the heart many members agonized over their choice some feared how the electorate will perceive another grand coalition in the weeks leading up to the vote the party youth movement was vociferously opposed saying election losers should lick their wounds and not work with angle america but the politician who is likely to be the next finance minister welcome sunday's result i mean it's klyde city is pretty deep. we now have clarity in s.p.d.

will join the next government our party did not make this decision lightly like this will now give us the strength we need to move forward as a party in government and to put our country on the right path it's good to but some analysts believe it's questionable whether that path will benefit the social democrats long term brand is social justice but it has to be more in order to actually be over twenty or over thirty percent because what they're claiming for they still want to be a fox pattaya and what does that label mean it actually means or how is it defied thirty percent or more of the vote and they're far away from that in the end the parties members have decided to put the interests of the country above the interests of their party but the point to make here is the constant plate another coalition with anglo-american christian democrats is it's now many many years since their party has been in a position to win an election and to provide the chancellor as a social democrats dominant county al-jazeera. it's been reported in the us that

the investigation into russian interference in the presidential elections may have to include the influence of the united arab emirates new york times says investigators have been questioning george nader an american lebanese businessman who's an adviser to the crown prince of the u. . john hendren is live in washington d.c. for us hi there john so who is this man and what does it mean for the murder people . well julie this is exactly what president trump does not want he has been privately advised by of lawyers that the truth that the molar investigation would be winding down he has apparently been telling other people that and that's why you keep hear him saying no collusion because he thinks that is what it has been focused on and we learn now that according to the new york times anyway that that is not the only question that robert mueller is focusing on and he's focusing on it looking at this guy george nader and his influence with the u.s.

nader's this sort of shady diplomatic character who has played a role behind the scenes for many years back in the clinton administration he was a go between between the u.s. and syria and now he's said to represent the crown prince of abu dhabi and muller's investigators are apparently they have it questioned him and talking to other people asking whether emirate has tried to do anything to buy influence with the trumpet ministration during that campaign it is notable that president trump has switched u.s. policy and has backed saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in a disputed diplomatic dispute with qatar which of course sponsors this broadcast so that's one of the things that muller is looking at and he's looking at it of civically by trying to figure out the role of this guy nader who is said to represent the usa each that is bad news for people who have met with nader jared cushion of the president's son in law also steve benen a former senior adviser for president trump so this could go on for some time the

bottom line is this probe is not winding down it's getting broader and now it's examining the role of the u.a.e. and whether they tried to buy influence in the u.s. election don't you mentioned they are now the president some in law and of course close aide and according to reports in the york times that he met with nato. that's right julian that's that's just one of the bad things that has happened to him recently last week krishna lost his top secret classification his clearance so that means he can't look at a number of documents even while he is supposed to be the lead u.s. negotiator in trying to formulate some kind of middle east peace krisna was also named in articles in which u.s. intelligence officials said diplomats from four other countries said they found him to be an easy target because of his extensive business ties an easy target for influence those countries included mexico china israel and the united arab emirates

so that is a potential problematic area for questioner he has been named as somebody who has been a real problem in the administration today on sunday talk shows because of this investigation this is what one u.s. democratic senator had to say. if it's true it's damning if it's true jared kushner has to go for many of us to follow the middle east closely we could not understand why the trumpet ministration was so firmly taking the saudis side in this dispute between the saudis the m. roddy's and the qataris because the united states has very important interests in qatar at the top of the list are thousands of u.s. troops that are stationed in a base there and so to so firmly take the side of the saudis against the qataris potentially resulting in the downward spiral of the qatari economy put thousands of americans at risk of the bottom line here is this investigation is not winding down despite what donald trump's lawyers have been telling him and what he has

apparently been telling other people it is broadening it's now looking into the ties of the united arab emirates of this one particular man george nader and what has happened between the u.a.e. and the trump administration it's getting broader and that means it could take more time not less for robert mueller to get to the end of this investigation to one hundred their lives that with the details on that story from washington d.c. john thank you saudi arabia's crown prince is in cairo for a three day visit to meet with egyptian president. it's mohamed bin someone's first foreign trip since becoming prime prints last year of them fly on to meet with the days in the u.s. and the u.k. saudi arabia and egypt are amongst the countries that imposed a blockade on qatar last june. is following developments from the. this is one hundred percent man's first foreign trip as crown prince of saudi arabia and people might wonder why did he choose egypt as the first leg of the trip

well from a sandy perspective there are two serious challenges in the region first of all iran which the saudis consider almost like an existential threat and the war in yemen which continues with no indication that it might come to an end anytime soon so for the saudis the only way to contain iran's growing influence and to win the war in saudi arabia they need to rely on a strong ally in the region and this explains why they have been pouring billions of dollars into the gyptian economy and providing strong political assistance to the president of the c.c. if you look at the events shuttle during that three day visit crown prince mohammed bin so many is going to meet with pope to address the second leader of the coptic christians in egypt and this is quite significant because crown prince will have a verse and i would like to show that he's young more to break into from a long tradition of strict interpretation of islam that has been prevailing in

saudi arabia for decades he's going also to attend a performance of the opera in cairo along with the president at the has sisi. only recently saudi arabia decided to invest sixty one billion dollars into intertainment industry in the kingdom and this is quite important for saudi leader because he says who wants to introduce major changes in the society and diversify the economy he's basically wants to be seen as a young leader who is going to change science eurabia. there's three people have been injured in a car ramming incident in the northern israeli city of our critics now the israeli police are describing it as a nationalistic attack a term things used to describe politically motivated attacks against israelis by palestinians they say an arab israeli attempted to run over a border policeman crashed into another car and maim to

a sidewalk. in burkina faso one man has been shot dead whilst attempting to storm a roll block at the presidential compound two other men involved in that attack which happened in the capital or good who managed to flee well it comes just two days after eight people were killed in twin assaults on the military headquarters and french embassy in the capital city where king of fossils prime minister paul coveted condemned the attacks as calls cowardly. almost a week after a deadly quake struck the highlands of papua new guinea nearly a hundred and fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies damaged roads and landslides have stopped the delivery of aid to isolated communities the quake destroyed a damaged the homes around seven thousand people lost others in the region are in desperate need of food water and sanitation. stay with us on the news hour still to

come china spot a man prepares to vote on changing the constitution so she can stay in power possibly for life. the hollywood gears up for its biggest night its but are issues of race and gender overshadowing the movies of the oscars and this double olympic champion races to record world cup title details coming up in sports. hello there we're seeing plenty of cloud march its way across the middle east at the moment we're seeing plenty of it in the northern part of a map mostly b.c. the next system is working its way across turkey at the moment that's and bringing us some rain mostly to the northern parts of our map through parts of armenia and off into georgia we're seeing some snow rain in the system but it will be picking up as we head through and to choose days as some heavy outbreaks making their way

through parts of turkey as well and maybe just one or two showers through the northern parts of iraq and into iran to the south of all of that no major problems for us it looks like to a city where we're getting to around twenty six degrees and here in doha we'll be getting to around twenty nine or thirty over the next few days there is this area of cloud and just to the north of us and maybe just squeeze out one or two showers but it shouldn't bring us anything too significant a bit further towards the south and we've been watching a cycling hair is just to the east of madagascar is running down the eastern coast looks like the eye of the storm will make landfall which is good because it's intensifying very rapidly but it's still given us a lot of heavy rain along that yeast and coast and there's plenty more still to come so very heavy downpours here and then the what weather stretches all the way across the further towards the west as well so we're also seeing a very heavy downpours in parts of mozambique and tanzania as well.

a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but it wouldn't have been hard to do who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. no limit here is due to all. you know hope of finally letting the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because you knew if i could just find a finger bone i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks there is a since all of renewed hope with the president enjoys quite a deal with detailed coverage they are dodging distractions that appear to be hurting president trump's ability to manage the mideast peace crisis from around the world over one hundred thirty one thousand people are registered in the south korean database for separated family.

i remind our top stories here on the voter turnout is sitting around fifty one percent in its healing say election is the most uncertain vote in years with no single party expected to win the forty percent needed to form a majority government. but syrian forces have ceased twenty five percent of rebel held east include to and the military says it's close to splitting the own cave into un says it will attempt to send an aid convoy into the area on monday it was refused permission in sunday. german chancellor angela merkel center left rivals the social democrats have overwhelmingly voted to approve

a new grand coalition conservatives bringing to an end months of political uncertainty. on monday china's parliament will hold its annual meeting where it's expected to up a stand changes to the constitution moving any limits on how long the president can stay in power the plans for first months a week ago and they're being seen as a huge power grab by xi jinping which could see him within china for the rest of his life from beijing it in brown reports 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 these 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 military and in october his name was in shrines in 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 we're willing to share their views and surprisingly they were all positive that one day while i emerge honestly. this hasn't happened in china and other countries before if you change the constitution itis that it's back to the old days we're not moving backwards. 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 says korea is sending a delegation to visit the north for talks on how to ease nuclear tensions and restart dialogue between the u.s. and pyongyang the group believes on monday it's in response to an invitation made by leader kim jong un's sister during her visit to the winter olympics in south korea rob a grave has more. 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 the 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 journalists from the poles largest newspaper have been charged with contempt of court after they published stories that were critical of the chief justice the case against the county poor daly is being seen as an attack on press freedom so minister says most of the capital mandel. riot police were deployed outside the supreme court as representatives of

nepal's largest newspaper the county daily arrived for the hearing security was tight and court authorities strict about who else would be allowed in so the sharma's the newspaper's editor would remember. and this is not only a case of conduct but of the larger case of press freedom in nepal this will set a precedent on how widely ordinarily the constitutional guarantee of free speech will be understood. become people who daily published a series of reports alleging that the ponce chief justice but actually use fake documents and falsified his date of birth the mandatory age retirement is sixty five the chief justice says that these stories are a tap on the judiciary system with imaginary facts and objectionable language that the brain court however already has an ongoing investigation that you jumped on the alleged charges all fake documents. chief justice but agilely had issued an order for the newspaper to appear on charges of contempt of court he also ordered the

press council a press watchdog body with government appointed members to presents a news against him constitutional experts say this sets a dangerous trend. is very important so says even if the process of the debate isn't a christian there may be some sort of to decide but in. the meeting. and. the respect of those views of those come in with regard to the pronounced man with regard to the duties of the behavior although previously but i actually sat on his own case despite being implicated in it do other judges presided on sunday the hearing was adjourned until monday it's been a stressed out is there a government. in the united states seven people have been killed and more than two million households remain without power after the northeast of the country was hit

by a massive storm to children are amongst the dead all of whom were killed by falling trees so in writing about heavy snow and strong winds in the states of new york and new jersey well with heavy rain which led to historic flooding. now protests have taken to the streets of london calling for gender equality ahead of international women's day on thursday dubbed march for women the aim is to highlight the inequality women and girls face around the world this is mere subject can was set up the event is vowing to make london the best sissy in the world to be a woman. at the all skies will be getting underway in a few hours time an event that's usually filled with glitz glamour and a celebration of the year's big screen successes but this year's ceremony has been overshadowed by sexual harassment allegations and calls for grace and diversity in the film and to share think we can bring you some live pictures of all of the set up that goes on and hours and hours it takes of all the milling around on the red

carcass let's go now to rob reynolds who reports from l.a. . this hollywood readies 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 self 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 me two movements are broken the culture of silence complicity and enabling that lasted for so long you've heard a lot of stars. yes 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 hollywood finds it so with little to celebrate rubbles al-jazeera. joining me from los angeles is

tema state she's the founder of women in media organization that aims to support and encourage more work women working in the film industry tema their warm welcome to the program it's interesting that in world specie was saying you know all of this control to see is threatening to overshadow the films itself but is it about time frankly that they were overshadows with issues as important as this well it's a long time coming and quite frankly it's been a systemic problem for a very long time so it's not surprising that it's happening now tema what do you think the impact is and perhaps for a long time you know we didn't even notice about the impact on the stories that are actually being told in hollywood because there is such a lack of diversity behind the scenes well the problem really stems from within the crew we need more diversity from the bottom up as well as the top

down we won't see real change in the industry until it's across the board there are so many people working behind the scenes that just focusing on the top in terms of directors writers producers is a bit of a mistake we really need to focus on everybody in the industry and working towards diversity and parity across the board that's when we'll have true systemic change and tema what do you think's at the heart of the problem is it that you know when it comes to the big scripts the big budgets that women just aren't trust and. i think that's a big part of the problem yes women are not trusted and it's not just in the film industry it's across the board it's part of american culture it's part of culture around the world and once we're more trusted everywhere to handle big budgets and to be the keepers of the culture we'll have a much happier society and

a much more efore work environment for everybody and tema lots of the actresses that have been nominated this year are playing i think it's fair to say kind of serious and women do you think it's in any way significant that those fools in particular and the actresses who play those roles are being highlighted. i think it was inevitable that those stories would be happening now films are indicative of the guise of how people feel within the culture and women frankly are upset and i think a lot of men are also very upset about the revelations i think a lot of women woke up the day after the election and realize that we have a very serious problem that if someone as qualified as hillary clinton. couldn't get the job and that someone is in. qualified as mr trump could get the job that men are able to fill up words and women are left to languish

and we woke up with a very obvious reality and we got very very angry and i think that's how we've landed where we are right now tema do you say and amend a tipping point even since last year's oscars where more diversity was called for. absolutely i think it's been more than just a year i think ever since it would do for an a and l. also did not get the nominations that they deserved there was a huge outcry between oscar so white an oscar party and people really seeing the problems within the academy and it going viral i think that people have this voice and social media really caused a lot of the changes at the academy and there were sort of i don't want to say shamed into doing the right thing but honestly that's sort of how it works in social media that people have to do the right thing and unfortunately being nice

about it doesn't always work. and having the culture shift had to happen because people laypeople just weren't having it anymore to mistake their founder of women in media joining me there from los angeles tema thank you. still to come on the news hour. it's in the trail competitors of the world's most famous dog sled race up opens in the control the see behind them sport is up next. an act of youthful defiance we've read your turn next to the osogd in the school will be arrested near tacoma for in the morning the electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all which became a battle with als and that was the beginning of beyond struggle in syria. the

boy who started the syrian war this time on al-jazeera until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was a cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go a long way five and a half months of demanding it when it's occasional system that was introduced to. latin america i was as near as i have to fill a void that needed to be filled. tatiana's

here with all the day's sports news touch him. thank you so much truly italian football is in a state of shock the captain of thirty club and tina v. there are study has been found dead in his team's hotel before their game the thirty one year old who also played in the italian national team was expected to play against the never good and tina say he died of a sudden illness all top flight games in italy has been postponed on sunday the league released a statement saying it was shocked by the tragic news and even italy's a former prime minister paused during the country's elections to tweet this seems impossible i'm in a state of disbelief and i cry with his family and for all fiorentina good bye captain spanish league leaders barcelona also paid tribute to our study ahead of their big game with athletico madrid both teams held a minute's silence at the nou camp to express their condolences barcelona went on

to extend their lead at the top of the league table beating second place atletico one million all messi with the only goal of the game coming in at the first half. over in the english premier league manchester city have now gone eighteen points clear at the top of the table city were winners against chelsea on sunday but adios silva giving pep guardiola team a one nil victory. now the most capped dutch international footballer of all time wesley schneider who currently plays club football for i'll head off in qatar has called time on his international career schneider started out at the dam before going on to represent some of the europe's biggest clubs including real madrid into man and the right has helped his country the netherlands reach the world cup final in two thousand and ten and also the semifinals in twenty fourteen he turned one

hundred thirty three times for his country. roger bannister who was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes has died at the age of eighty eight the president of the international athletics federation fed co called that day of intense sadness for all of us in athletics to leave home and take a look back at his incredible sporting achievement. roger bannister the british one out record how that lines up with five other runners for the rights which ended by making history. it's rare for a sportsman to rate define what the human body can achieve the when roger bannister became the first man to run a mile in and of two minutes impossible became the muse of the hour together twenty five zero bannister took the lead with an amazing best of speed he went on to achieve a bad record of a mile in under five minutes so at half time i have the travel factor yes the three minute fifty nine point four second performance on

a rainy day in oxford thrust him onto the global stage in one thousand nine hundred fifty four it also became a symbol of britain's emergence from the post-war years and change the perception of adventure sports in the era i think that it's certain that if you think the mammoth the one that made him for you if you know you think it was second to find somebody else in the world at seven times the lead it five that. he was right there the record lasted just forty six days a strongly and john landy batted it by a second and the pay would be long time rivals in august of nine hundred fifty four they sank stones at the british empire commonwealth games invited crews are in a rice that became known as the miracle mile that is two wins by far your was bannister later returned to his medical studies to become a new role in just the decades he saw those four minutes as nothing more than an interlude the delight he successful career but he remained

a respected identity in running and would often reflect on his achievements there was this magic about. sabbatical lapse of one minute each and it was just something which caught the public good by generation bannister was diagnosed with parkinson's disease in twenty eleven and ultimately was complications brought on by the neurological disorder the brought his history making life to an end a legacy that already carried for more than six decades will continue even longer delays homan just zero. while one thousand five hundred meters isn't quite a full mile but it was one of the gold medal events on sunday at the world indoor championships in burning an ethiopian from your to federer finish in three minutes at fifty eight point one nine seconds that was two tenths of a second faster than poland's massa now and doused the ability of morocco completed

the podium if you appear dominated the three thousand meters to come if the kid gel church took gold but i go with second kenya the best for bergen made a clean sweep on the podium for east african nations african domination continued in the women's eight hundred meters as france samba took first place but second place would go to american energy wilson while britons should lay in a clock took a bronze that was a gold medal for the united states as their women won first place in the four by four hundred meters relay. kimber wembley and courtney are carlo finishing ahead of poland and the ukraine. now diapering scandals don't just affect a russian olympic athlete as the world's most famous dog sled race found itself under scrutiny when dogs at last year's event tested positive for a banned painkiller reports both organizers and competitors and now hoping to put

that and more behind them the faith that off on the i did to our trail in iowa. really the. sled dogs in the drivers are off on the i just wrote they've got sixteen hundred kilometers ahead of them and came to distance themselves from dog door ping and depths. 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 year that. 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 have 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 i do to end in the remote bering sea community of norm it's expected to take the winner nine days. sixty seven mushes will dry. i have about one thousand dogs at the finish line going all night through all with are determined to leave this year scone dogs behind them charlotte belle of zero australia just one wicket away from victory in the first cricket test again felt africa in durban the all these were all alpha two

hundred twenty thousand leaving the south africans with a target of four hundred seventeen to win the test eight in markham scored one hundred forty three but most of his teammates perish mitchell starc took four wickets of the home team were left reeling at two hundred ninety three for nine at the close of play. of course and it's back to you. thank you that columbia's music scene is usually dominated by pop stars like my luna and she kiera that in the city of cali thousands of people gather every year to celebrate the old school vinyl record and revel in the region's unique sands from cali alexander m.p.'s reports. scoring the bins searching for them missing records or a rare treasure it might seem like a relic from a bygone age but not for the thousands who crowd call mr additional meeting of music lovers and collectors. it's our twenty sixth year it's a calling for all lovers of latin music salsa afro cuban all united by the same

passion salsa music and vinyl records for six consecutive days fans of afro caribbean music gather to trade stories i think it's an alpha piece. they kept coming as the analog formats was replaced by see these first then digital and they're still at it now that finally seeing a worldwide resurgence. it's an old format which was presumed dead but it refuses to go away and actually it's coming back with force people are dusting off the records they had stored away the passion is back that would. like the name i guess albums go for just a few us dollars to up to two hundred seventy some cases even more than one thousand u.s. dollars depending on how rare it is or how highly sought after by collectors and it's not only old nostalgics the an ad man this is part of a group of young salsa music aficionado's who arrived from new york she says these

albums also remind her of her father here describe me i think that experience i think of and what i want to do already more is coming back you seem to do everything right i think you're reclaiming thankfully i'm here for most of you know that in america where country no could go be an explosive that i've heard pretty much every minute yeah i want to tell you that from i wrote my life. as night falls to meeting him never to believe turns into a record playing party with people shaking my back as hitting on cowbells in days. seeing as collectors polish their soon to be player to rarities for the excited crowd. means to maybe not proud owner of five thousands of them says it's difficult to choose his favorite. player all special to me but the music lover like the first artist for it runs in our blood like a disease. no doubt it's

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