with bureaus running six continents across the. al-jazeera correspondents living the stories they turn. to news. this is zero. hello i'm barbara starr this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes italians are voting in an election likely due to be dominated by the far right and populist parties

a clear winner is unlikely more airstrikes on rebel held eastern huta with syrian forces now seizing up water of the enclave and still no way is getting in the investigation into interference in the u.s. presidential election extends to include the united arab emirates and hollywood gears up for its biggest night butter issues of race and gender overshadowing the movies at the oscars. and i'm tatiana franchise in doha with all the sports a talian football in shock as the captain of thirty at field and tina is found dead before a game or much is in the country the top leagues were postponed on sunday. it's being described as italy's most uncertain election in years one that could. bring

about political gridlock polls close in about an hour's time and the only thing to look certain is that there will be no clear winner the anti establishment five star movement which has campaigned hard against corruption looks set to win the most votes but not enough to govern and it says it will not enter into a coalition with any other party we're going to be live in rome in just a moment first though let's take a look at how voting has gone so far here's lawrence lee 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 on jobe's before even entering politics five stars inside a 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 won't. probably become defers political parties to transform into influence the transformation in the reconfiguration of political system we doubt rio government responsibility. the political bloc with the best chance is this group led by the it's home of the 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 is prime minister matteo salvini wants mass deportations it's really first he says entitlement or not so

that you go to 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 governments many italians are revolted at the idea of berlusconi choosing the next prime minister so what then its 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 in the sense a 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. 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 lee al-jazeera wrote well

it is in rome is actually at the five star movement gathering for i suggest they like everyone else waiting for some exit polls to come out in about an hour's time there are likely to win an overall majority but there is a still a bit of a success story and it really does show you the anger of the tallinn voting public that a party didn't even exist eight years ago is actually most likely going to be the biggest single party. absolutely barbara this is the policy the movement that's creating most of the bars on election night it's not actually party headquarters but it's a five star hotel for the five star movement which now under luigi dimaio this thirty one year old party leader seems to have been reenergized they broke through into parliament in twenty thirteen under the leadership of betty grillo who became a very well known figure here and internationally now in his final rally luigi

demaio say he'd seen some private polling which couldn't be published which would surprise people and said that his party were on the verge of scoring a great victory well they were the largest single party but nobody thinks they can go a further step i'm get enough seats in parliament to govern on their own and dimaio has ruled out forming any kind of alliance in parliament where it's expected to be a hung parliament after the results start coming in and so people really are questioning whether that's a red line for him whether he'll backtrack on or whether as the analyst in lawrence's report was suggesting that really they think they can influence matters more as they are in opposition barbara and tell us a little bit i mean now we are an hour away from the polls actually closing voting will go on for a little while to allow the people that were in the queue to to finish voting up to

tell us a little bit about how many people have actually turned out to vote today initially do we have any kind of figures for that. well seven pm local time four hours before polling stations and you to close. turnout was around fifty eight percent now that's roughly equivalent to the last time if we went to the general elections in twenty thirteen everybody's wondering particularly what will happen in the south of italy that's parts of a country where there is a big fight between the center right coalition of silvio berlusconi and the five star movement and if that is the five star movement manage to get enough marginal seats in the south in places like sicily in naples and so on then they really well will have a good shout of being not just the first party but possibly if they're prepared to

try to make a partnership and form a government but many people are predicting that it's so. divided at the moment that what we might end up with ease even a grand coalition between the center right under under berlusconi's allies going to scully of course himself won't hold office and the center left the democratic party led by former prime minister matteo renzi you are mentioning exit polls they're not . thought to be very reliable if you talk to a tally or news but we're hoping that there might be some more reliable projections in the hours after the polls close at twenty three local time that's twenty two g.m.t. in an hour or so from now and we are meant to get some reliable results some time on monday morning. with the latest at the five star movement meeting in rome and they deem thank you and now we're joined by physical santiago's an italian

political analyst for the eurasia group thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera so we're talking about the five star movement you know i guess the surprise and the establishment that in eight years has become the biggest party what we you'd be looking for. when we get the exit polls in about an hour's time what numbers do you think will give it give a an indication of the potential future government well clearly would be important to see how well a five star movement does nationwide i think polls would suggest that they would get roughly thirty percent of the vote if they get close to or above thirty five percent of the vote i think that would be a clear indication that they would be as a sudden or just the largest party but actually have a real chance of a real shot at forming a government in addition i would be looking at how well the northern league so the far right performs the northern league being i think the only real plausible coalition partner for five star in the new parliament and that's quite interesting with the northern league is just to remind viewers would be the northern league in berlin his party in another a smaller party as well is supposed to look for is also whether the northern league

gets more than berlusconi's party at which point for the center right alliance the leader of the n.t. immigrant northern league which is actually called the league now could plausibly say well actually on the one that should be prime minister yes which i think would make for a much more disrupt the relationship for it with the e.u. first of all on the other hand i think you know if the northern league does have a take for it to tell you one effect could be to actually push seat a bit was going to close at the center left so in it's possible that it could increase the odds of a grand coalition government emerging instead which i think would be seen as so the more predictable reassuring outcome also by other european countries this of course will be heavily contingent on the p.d.s. that a center left performing well a to the well i mean you say be reassuring it would certainly be reassuring for the european union for the markets i guess for anyone who wants italy to be quite stable but we are seeing in these potential results is that a lot of people have voted for anti establishment parties i mean it does seem that the anger of italians at a political system that hasn't really worked well since ever really is coming to

the fore it was a funny lot of frustration i mean the country is in effect a very very significant about the eurozone crisis the country hasn't really grown in the past fifteen years really so it's no surprise that it should. this pervasive sense of you know anti-establishment sentiment in the country i think the five star movement has done a fairly good job at harnessing this sentiment which i think as i said gives them a real shot of actually getting to govern in this time country of twenty thirty and i mean you mention the potential five star movement and alliance and they both come both parties being very openly n.t.e.u. have spoken publicly about coming out of the euro certainly the northern league incredibly anti immigration how worrying would that be for the e.u. stability if those two parties that form a government well you know even assuming they have the numbers to do so it's not a given they could actually succeed successfully work together i mean they're very different parties so that is a big a big question but if they if they do so i think that could prove to be very disruptive i don't think your exit or you exit are really at stake i think both

parties have moderated their tone the northern league a little bit less so but the five-star in particular on this issue and i think they have come to understand now the practical difficulties of actually leaving the currency block. forgive me just one last question i mean a lot of the talk has been about their list and i think a lot of people just being amazed that a he's still there and you know looking like he didn't ten fifteen years ago. but actually when we look at he's at his polling numbers four to talia's pulling about half of what he used to even five six years ago so is he really as relevant as perhaps i guess from the outside we perceive him to be well you know i think has retained a fairly loyal base of support which is large enough i think to give him a chance to influence the next government again assuming the polls are reasonably right which is a huge if i think is maneuvered in a way. to to ensure therefore they thought his party as a critical role in any coalition government that might emerge again unless five-star does so well that it could actually get to government in which case of

course it was going as much as other mainstream parties will be very much out of the out of the picture what we are expecting the exit polls at twenty two a g.m.t. now they are not particularly reliable but i guess it will give us some kind of indication i know you'll be with us in the studio then so we're discussing when we have some numbers for that he goes on to thank you. and much more to come on the program including its another grand coalition for germany as the s.p.d. agrees to work with angular merkel's conservatives saudi arabia's crown prince arrives in egypt on the first leg of his first foreign trip in his new role and we'll have the story of roger bannister. after you. have to run faster. but first the syria's president bashar al assad has the western reports about the

humanitarian situation in eastern as a dictionary of lies is promised to continue with the military offensive on the rebel held enclave near the capital the reports that more than six hundred forty people have been killed in the past two weeks so the holder reports now 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 displacement 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 phony 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 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. beirut. well fear is a is a member of the white helmets rescue group he spoke to us a little earlier from eastern huta on skype he says no one is able to escape nor out of is the more no and get out of is the more of us though for some some civilians just. run away from the areas.

near the front lines and no one will get out from them so far and everyone tries to go at the big close one of the frontline you will be shot by the snipers of the syrian government so for the four hundred thousand people trapped inside the rebel held enclave the situation is dire the u.n. says it was unable to get its convoy of forty aid trucks into huet on sunday because permission wasn't given it says it will now try again on monday on the one small convoy has entered this year with enough supplies for just seven thousand two hundred people the fighting has damaged health facilities and shops increasing the price of even basic supplies like bread by two and a half thousand percent well with the severe shortage of food water and electricity those who've remained there have been forced to find new ways to survive as a summer binge i'd never ports the alien mushrooms non-native species to eastern

blue to any of you 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 apply cold damp bed of kitchen waste and shot from greens so everyone with a small dark room could become a farmer. by last year charity workers say they were producing close to two tons of mushrooms every day i want to hazard 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 and had a 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 although it's 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 to the needs of almost four hundred thousand residents of east good for most of the supplies came 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 good 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 thirty of. since the one thousand nine hundred ninety 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 they see is an army of iranian militias and russian soldiers and if given the chance they want to rebuild what's being destroyed with or without any outside help some of a job it does iraq. have to take the syria border it's being reported in the u.s. that the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election may have widened to include the influence of the united arab emirates the 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.a.e. . well they n.-s.

the book is live in washington d.c. for us a first of all diane who is georgia naderi what does this mean for the miller probe well barbara as you mentioned he is a lebanese american businessman and he's been sort of a i guess what you would call a shadowy figure in washington over the last few decades he was a back channel negotiator with syria during the clinton administration but in more recent years he's been an advisor to the u.a.e. and he's been a visitor a handful of times to the white house over the past year at a time when president trump has praised the emirates for its war against terrorism and has sided with the u.a.e. and the saudis in this blockade against qatar what it means as far as the mower investigation is concerned is that the special counsel is now widening his investigation he's not just looking at russia buying influence with this white

house but the tension with other countries buying influence as well and it could mean that this investigation could go on for several more months and continue to cast a giant cloud over this white house. what about jared cushion of the president's son in law and of course close close aide what implications could this have for him well this is been a bad week for jared cushion or this new york times article reported that he and steve bannon both had met with nader at the white house this comes at a time when he's lost his security clearance at the white house and he's also been coming under scrutiny for his family's business ties and whether that means that he could be susceptible or open to some sort of outside influence from other countries and one senator raised that possibility and questioned it during a conversation on one of the sunday talk shows today if it's true it's damning if

it's true cushion or has to go for many of us the fall 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 countries potentially resulting in the downward spiral of the qatari economy put thousands of americans at risk so clearly the moeller investigation is going to go on for several more months and this is going to continue to be as a distraction for the trump white house they end estabrook with the laces from washington d.c. fan thank you. germany's social democrats have voted to approve their party going into another coalition giving the conservative chancellor angela merkel a forced term in office it brings an end to months of political uncertainty but

many in the party i'm happy to be propping up another merkel government from berlin dominic cain explains. 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 and the pragmatic need for germany to have a stable government on sunday the party's grass roots had their say it. will not annoying on the eyes it's thousand two hundred thirty nine thousand six hundred four is speedy now it's worth one hundred twenty three thousand three hundred twenty nine in 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 to sunday's result . we now have clarity s.p.d. will join the next government our party did not make this decision lightly 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 over thirty percent because what they're claiming for they still want to be a fights and what does that label mean it actually means or how. as it defied thirty percent and more of the votes and they're far away from that in the end the party's members have decided to put the interests of the country above the

interests of their party but the point to make here as the concept floats 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 dominic al-jazeera. saudi arabia's crown prince is in cairo for a three day visit visit to meet the egyptian president of the father and sisi it's not how many been some man's first foreign trip since becoming crown prince last year he led a fly on to meet with leaders in the u.s. and the u.k. . saudi arabia and egypt are among the countries that imposed the blockade on capital last. 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 gypsum 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 who was the second leader of the coptic christians in egypt and this is quite significant because crown prince will have a bias 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 of a c.c. . only recently saudi arabia decided to invest sixty one billion dollars into into taim and industry in the kingdom and this is quite important for the leader because he says who he wants to introduce. major changes in the society and diversify the economy has basically wants to be seen as a young leader who is going to change saudi arabia will stay with us on the news hour still to come we'll tell you how china's parliament is preparing to vote on changing the constitution. and power possibly for life also tell you about the court case that's testing freedom of speech. and. champion braces for record world cup title details coming up in sports.

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twenty's in cairo as we head into choose day across more central and southern parts of africa we've got some heavy rain across the east africa the moment through kenya and tanzania towards uganda further towards the west a fine weather conditions here after i got to lagos nigeria plenty of sunshine and temperatures around the thirty degree mark as we head into southern parts of africa here we've got a tropical psycho's still give the threat of some heavy rain on the east coast amount of gas otherwise across much of south africa it's looking fine just a chance of a shower for dover we're expecting the high here of twenty seven degrees. the benefit of saddam. so a bad day see the importance of. documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. march on al-jazeera. with

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back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera voter turnout is sitting at around fifty eight percent in italy's election it's the most uncertain vote in years with no single party expected to win the forty percent needed to form a majority government. syria's president bashar al assad western reports about the humanitarian situation in eastern huta as a dictionary of lies syrian forces have seized twenty five percent of rebel held eastern huta and the military says it's close to splitting the enclave in two and it's being reported in the us that the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election may have widened to include the influence of the united arab emirates the new york times says investigators have been questioning george nader an american lebanese businessman who's an adviser to the crown prince of the . at least three people have been injured in

a car ramming incident in the northern israeli city of ocher israeli police are describing it as a nationalistic attack a term police used to describe politically motivated attacks against israelis by palestinians this am arab israeli attempted to run over a border policeman crashed into another car and mounted the pace. in booking a fossil one man has been shot dead while attempting to storm a roadblock near the presidential compound two other men involved in the attack which happened in the capital want to do manage to flee it comes just two days after eight people were killed in twin assaults on the military headquarters and french embassy in the capital city became a fossil as prime minister condemned the incidents as cowardly terrorist attacks. well it's almost a week after a deadly quake struck the highlands in papua new guinea and nearly one hundred

fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies there have been dozens of aftershocks including a magnitude six which struck the area just in the last couple of hours that magic roads and landslides of stop the delivery of aid to isolated communities the quake the stored or damaged the homes of around seven thousand people while others in the region are in desperate need of food water and sanitation well martin in the wrong is a journalist and blogger and joins us live now via skype from port moresby in papa new guinea thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera just tell us a little bit more just how difficult it is to get aid to isolated communities and do we even have a clear idea of how many people we're talking about and and just how isolated they are affected. essentially we're talking about people in.

huge very difficult mountain terrain tropical rain forest communities that isolated we've no mobile phone connections and no root reeling so and links and so we're talking about. this as you mentioned about one hundred fifty thousand people in the community since we literally infrastructure that's going to get. i mean the government has the cleared a state of emergency what more do you think authorities could do right now. martin i'm wrong i'm fortunate think we're having an issue with the skype line. with martin amaro and he was speaking to us from port moresby in papa new guinea where are hundred fifty thousand people still remain in north georgia in need of emergency supplies i think we have reconnected the line martin thank you for still

being with us just tell us a little bit more about what authorities you think could do to try and reach those people. sorry we seem to have lost the line again i mean obviously a lot of difficulties there and we've been hearing there have been aftershocks in probably new guinea we will try and bring you a clearer idea of what is going on there a little later here on al-jazeera on monday china's parliament will hold its annual meeting where it is expected to rubber stamp changes to the constitution removing any limits on how long the president can stay in power the plans were first announced the week ago and they're being seen as a huge power grab by a ping which could see him ruling china for the rest of his life from the from beijing hears a drunk driver. 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 this two term presidency that's why people find it unbelievable that if 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 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 what they wanted of my old honest. this hasn't happened in china or other countries before if you change the constitution itis that is back to the old days when i living back when. he should be president for more than two terms even he serves seeks i would support him. china today is a one party state dominated now by one man adrian brown al jazeera

beijing. the oscars are getting underway in just a few hours time an event that's usually filled with glitz glamour and the celebration of the year's big screen success says this year's ceremony has been overshadowed by sexual harassment allegations and calls for greater diversity in the film industry rob reynolds joins us live now from los angeles from of course the whole me to movement originated from hollywood and we've seen actor actresses at the golden globes where black cat is the oscar is a disharmony going to deal with these allegations and scandals and anyway. oh i think it's inevitable barbara i mean i'm absolutely sure that the host for the ceremony jimmy kimmel will make some reference to the disc raised hollywood producer harvey weinstein he's been called the elephant in the room on other occasions and you can also expect that the presenters of the various awards will

speak about the need to movement in the times up movement which as you mentioned began in entertainment and have swept into many other fields where women are either abused or made victims of the doubts of our what you know the the depredations of weinstein and others who are so we'll known by so many people for so long in hollywood and elsewhere that it is a little tricky for stars to get up on the stage trunk but they're righteous indignation for fear of being called out for the backcross. that's hollywood readies for its big night a new study casts harsh light on a lack of racial in gender diversity in the film industry michael tran helped write the twenty eighteen hollywood diversity report on most arenas that we look at you know writers directors actors cetera you would have to you know double or triple

the number of. women and minorities in those fields to get to 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's 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 on 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 in the needling 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 hollywood finds itself with little to celebrate. saw a lot of controversies there and be interesting to see how they're dealt with dealing. oh he's back they. probably tell us a little bit about who the front runners are. well it is an award ceremony after all so we're going to see i think a big night for the shape of water and its director here motel to morrow that film is. accumulated thirteen oscar nominations altogether and many in

hollywood believe that that will be the best picture at the end of the night frances mcdormand is expected to walk away with the best female actor award. of a angry and grieving mother in three billboards outside of being missouri and in the best male actor category a lot of hollywood insiders say that the knot is going to go to the british actor gary oldman for his strong portrayal of winston churchill the best but really close race for best supporting actress between the two women who portrayed a flawed yet it's complex and complex mother's a sometimes unlikeable mother's a laurie metcalf in the ladybird and allison janney in i tonja both of them as i say sometimes going to the edge of an likeability in very strong performances and

in the best supporting actor category it's a race between the veteran actor willem de follow who costarred in the brilliance film that was largely overlooked by the academy at least in my opinion of the florida project and sam rockwell who plays the racist violent and yet conflicted sheriff's deputy in three billboards barbara battles with the latest that from the oscars red carpet probst thank you. still to come on the. news hour the final makes a comeback in colombia thousands of laughing is a clever as have gathered for the annual cali fair. hitting the trail how competitors of the world's most famous don't sled race are hoping to leave controversy behind them sport is coming up.

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cost at this time. colombia's music scene is usually dominated by pop stars like. but 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 sounds have reports that from cali. scoring the beans 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 columbia's traditional 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 about for a caribbean music gather to trade stories i think is an alpha peas. they kept coming as the analog formats was replaced by c.b.s. 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 just. like any i was 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 collecting and

it's not only old nostalgics the and they haven't and 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 killed by me i think that picturing him like i was and what i want to know if i want more is made by the end of the day where everything was very high profile murder rate came to me thank you don't be a guy from over oh my god in america it was country no go be an explosive that hurt. me remind yeah i want to want to take some i wrote for my life. as night falls the meeting he never did leave turns into a record playing party with people shaking my back as hitting on cowbells in days. seeing as collectors polished their soon to be player rarities for the excited crowd. means to maybe not proud owner of five thousands of them says it's difficult to choose this favorite. they're all special to me but the musical over like the

first the heart of stone runs in our blood like a disease. no doubt it's a contagious but cheerful illness and one that won't let you stand still i listen to them just. gives get all the support now with touch other things by tele inferrable is in a state of shock the captain of study club here and tina dive into our 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 other couldn't say he died of a sudden illness all top flight games in italy have been postponed on sunday. the league released a statement saying it was shocked by the tragic news and even italy's former prime minister pause during the country's the elections to tweet this it seems impossible i'm in a state of disbelief and i cry with his family and all for fear i'd like to you know goodbye captain. spanish league leaders barcelona are also paying paid tribute

to our story ahead of their big game with athletico madrid both teams held a minute's silence at the nou camp to express their condolences boss alone no went on to extend their lead at the top of the league table beating a second place one million on meth they were the i only goal of the game making it his six hundred career goal in the english premier league men just a city have now gone eighteen points clear at the top of the table thirty were winners against chelsea on sunday but not a silva giving pep guardiola team a one nil victory. the most cut dutch international footballer of all time with li schneider who can really play football for in qatar has called time on his international career started out at i access before going on to represent some of europe's biggest clubs including israel madrid to enter milan and

a gala tathra he helped his country and the netherlands reach the world cup final in two thousand and ten and also the semifinals in twenty fourteen he turned out 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 kokoda at day of intense sadness for all of us in athletics at least home and takes a look back at his incredible sporting achievement. roger bannister of the british one out recalled how that lines up with five of the run up for the rights which ended by making history. it's rare for a sportsman to re 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 move could have the us together trying to fight it out bannister took the lead with an amazing best of speed he went on to achieve our break out of

a mile in under five minutes so i'd have to have me travel far to get 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 second that if you think thank you ma'am the you run it in a week you know you think it was second to find somebody else in the world at seven times the lead it five if. 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 of just for 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. sabet recall lapse of one minute each and it was just something which caught the public good by julie. 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. well one thousand five hundred metres isn't quite a four mile but it was one of the gold medal events on sunday at the world indoor championships in birmingham if he appears samuel to federer finished in three minutes fifty eight point one nine seconds that was two tenths of

a second faster than poland's martha no one up there lotty a grade of morocco complete at the podium ethiopia dominate the three thousand meters to yama if it could gel church took gold while salamone burgo was second kenya's bethel bergen that made it a clean sweep on the podium for east african nations african domination continued in the women's eight hundred meters as francine neon saba took first place but second place would go to american idol you will then watch britain's shalane asking clarke took from those. there was a gold medal for the united states says the women won first place in the four by four hundred meters relay queen ira hayes georgann myleene should kimber wimbley and courtney are carlo finishing ahead of parliament and the ukraine in the men's four by four hundred meter relay it took a while didn't all right court time for poland to take first place doing so ahead of the united states and belgium. no africans on the podium in the women's long

jumbo the gold medal was won by advantage spawn of it of serbia who leapt a wild leading distance of six point nine six meters brittney reese off the u.s. was second with germany's morgan are and third. that was something for the home crowd to cheer for hours and reports they won gold in the men's sixty meter hurdles his season's best time of seven point four six seconds enough to beat out america's jarrett eaton and france's oral monger. now doping scandals don't just affect russian olympic athletes the world's most famous dog sled race found itself under scrutiny when dogs that last year's event tested positive for a banned painkiller shallop at last report by the organizers and competitive and now hoping to put that and more behind them if they thought off on the i detroit trail enough. the. sled dogs in their 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 defense. 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 bella c.v. to suppose for a bad painkiller tramadol cv 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. we've i consider this more of.

a growing process than anything else this year's race starts alaska's biggest city and courage and will take the southern route thanks to heavy snow passing through twenty three checkpoints including the races namesake i do to in the remarks 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 oh nice. all with are determined to leave this year's scandals behind them charlotte dallas . australia are just one wickets away from victory in the first cricket test against south africa and in the ozzies were all out for two hundred twenty seven 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 paris mitchell starc took four wickets as the home team were left reeling at two hundred ninety three for nine at

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