the nature of news as it breaks there is a sense of renewed hope with the president enjoys he'll 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. hello there this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes president bashar al assad the syrian bombardment of east and will continue

. five star party claims a triumph in its least general election but early projections suggest it won't have enough votes to govern. china's national people's congress is underway in beijing an increase in defense spending as announced. on the investigation into interference in the u.s. presidential election now includes the arab emirates. the u.s. has accused russia of killing civilians in syria. saying it carried out twenty bombings a day late last month as the white house is strongest accusations date of russia's role in the government offensive on the rebel held enclave more than six hundred forty people have been killed over the past two weeks syrian president bashar assad has vowed to continue with the as strikes but at the same time he says troops. open

the way for civilians to leave assad has also denied using chemical weapons around four hundred thousand people are trapped inside with little food and basic supplies assad has called such descriptions as ridiculous lie by the west he says his army is making progress against what he calls terrorists. there is no contradiction between our troops and the combat operations the advancement of yesterday and the day before by the arab syrian army took place in the midst of this truce that's why when we speak about the resolution there are some positives that allow for the achievement of humanitarian gold at the same time as allowing us to get the terrorists this is why we have to continue with our operation while at the same time allowing civilians to leave when the rebels say they've made some gains against our forces. today we regained control of some territory after fierce battles the regime used scorched earth policy after failing for four

months to achieve any progress through ground fighting russian and syrian airliners bombs the area intensively using helicopters so we count attacked with raids and. the un is sounding the alarm saying the collective punishment of civilians is simply unacceptable so how to reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. pro-government forces are advancing inside eastern since friday they've seized at least ten percent of the one hundred ten square kilometer enclave they are moving in from the eastern side forcing people to pack whatever they can and move to other areas away from the front lines 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 to 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 pozen 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 we're stripping humanitarian access to a besieged population has been used as a weapon of war. senator as his leader beirut. and the anti establishment five star movement is projected to win the most votes in the general election. parties that he won your needs earned in my own tears as he was the initial projections but if i sample comes the biggest

party is still short of the threshold needed to form a government that's well in the story for us and joins us from rome where the five star movement had been gathered as the vote counting looking again. well it's still going on laura but we do have a strong indication thanks to projections from it's how you can be based on a partial count of what the lower house of parliament is going to look like and it's almost certain that the five star movement led by luigi dimaio will be the largest largest single party in that chamber or around thirty two percent but that's far from an offers you a saying in the introduction to form a government on their own and the point is that they as an anti establishment party have all along said they won't enter any kind of coalition will serve silvio

berlusconi already had a coalition going into the election with the far right and they together are looking like they're going to be the biggest block in parliament still short of an outright majority so many political and political analysts and i also think that there is going to be. some considerable period of negotiation and there are so many permutations right now that nobody's really daring to say who exactly will be in the next government one clear message though is that populist if you like or anti establishment parties have emerged as doing better than predicted both the five star movement and labor formerly the northern league under matteo salvini what is what does that mean that he may want to tell us about later sentiment. well those two groups that i was

just mentioning both they have been euro skeptic parties although more recently the five star movement has moved away from pledges to hold of a referendum on the euro currency but still very they want a lot of reform in the you are for the five star movement and. the. league or the league policy firmly against continued immigration they want to start deporting many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees. migrants who've arrived in italy in the last few years it tells me that people really do have in great measure rejected the continuation of the old system but not just that they're economically fed up they have seen or stare at sea they've seen their livelihoods. get tougher and tougher they've seen unemployment

continue to rise it's really is the fourth largest economy in the e.u. but they're lagging behind in terms of growth people are asking why one thing though is for sure there will have to be some coalition building. between well in the next few days and weeks and it's entirely possible that no lawyers see if i still will countenance it all of them and other so-called populist parties could actually get the numbers in parliament in which case they could go to the president and say we would like to form a government that's something that will allow many people in the e.u. and the financial markets but it remains possible ok at the many thanks for the update there from rome. china's parliament's expected to approve changes to the country's constitution which will see president xi jinping be able to rule indefinitely

a national people's congress is holding its annual gathering and beijing wouldn't call miss pontine support to remove the current two term president to limit xi jinping was elected to his second five year term last october. gordon chang is a forbes magazine columnist and author of the coming collapse of china he joins us via skype from bedminster in new jersey so what do you think of this indefinite siege in pain will. rule this is certainly not a good sign and you know a lot of optimists thought of that the use a judicial decision the communist party the layering on rules was a good thing and of course it was a good thing but what we're seeing is trying to go back to a balanced period where you have you know one person able to pretty much drive the country any direction he wants and as we saw last time it is just not possible to do this i mean china has become so much more complex since then and i don't understand how one person can do all of this this is

a real indication i think that essentially china is sort of dk this is what late stage also word regimes do they're driving back to totalitarianism and nothing good will come of that but they're not saying much opposition to it from within china in fact many observers say it sets china on a more stable course. well we know one man rules look like a china and not just in the period of the people's republic but also for that you know you might have stability in the beginning but it degenerates that shows the nature of one man regimes i mean the less you have something like north korea this isn't going to work you know you gotta remember that siege and think there's no term limit on his more important posts being general secretary of the communist party and chairman of the party central military commission what we're talking about is a term limit on the presidency which is rather ceremonial post this is a real indication that siege and paying once absolute control i mean how many times

have we seen what happens when someone gets absolute control this is probably a replay of the one nine hundred thirty s. and we're heading into an extraordinarily dangerous period not only for asia but for the rest of the world will be will be consent to say that china is raising its defense spending by around eight percent from last year why did that says. well you know first of all the economy is growing perhaps about two or three percent in reality the last year for which we have figures as to the complete set of figures is two thousand and sixteen well the world bank released a chart in the middle of last year showing the china grow one point two percent that's consistent with the growth of energy consumption in two thousand and sixteen which is the most reliable indicator of chinese economic activity that was one point four percent and if the china is growing you know its military expenditures at eight percent it means that the military has grabbed control of the political system we saw that in the one nine hundred thirty s. in japan and we know how that ended up so i don't know how you could see

a more dangerous period as china believes that it can do what it wants is flawless it's closing up its economy it's trying to shut out foreign influence and now you've got a guy grabbing absolute political control i mean what more can you want. ok gordon chang many thanks for joining us with your view is that from new jersey let's go back fainting now that we can join a.j. and brownies covering this story as it was the dominant theme that's been emerging from the premier league so far. well the premier has been speaking for more than an hour now he began his address that nine am local time and while this is traditionally a report where the premier focus is on his economic targets for the year ahead and looks back on the cheap months of the year past really it to my eyes that the dominant theme in his address has been the constant references to shooting playing

essentially saying that the important changes that have to happen in china as it transitions from an economy based on you know big productions like steel and coal as it moves towards a consumer economy based on consumption all these big things can only happen with xi jinping at the helm and of course this is going to be the congress where the two thousand or three thousand so delegates will be asked to amend the constitution so that sheeting pin kind of effect of the rule for life now early on this morning we spoke to some of the delegates as they were arriving at the great hall of the people saying do you think this amendment is a good thing and most people just avoided the question and walked right past with only two people would agree to talk with two delegates and one of them said well the change hasn't happened yet it is a very sensitive issue now this congress normally runs for ten days the at this time it's going to be running for fifteen days and that possibly means that they want to give time for the delegates to discuss this proposed amendment but

certainly this will be i think the congress where president xi jinping really does cement his his power here in china in days al qaeda and many thanks for joining us there from town and square. saudi arabia's crown prince arriving in egypt on the foreign trip. to north korea for two days of talks. and football. before. his media is reporting the investigation into russian interference in the twenty six thousand election has widens to include the influence of the united arab emirates you know times as the f.b.i.

has been questioning george an american lebanese business been advised as the crown prince of the social council original focus was on contacts between donald trump's campaign and russia. has more on the story. so it appears that robert muller's investigation is not just now focused on russia and whether or not it influenced the campaign and the election of two thousand and sixteen and potentially the white house but whether other countries might be trying to buy access to the trumpet ministration as well and that brings us to this lebanese american businessman george nader and gerard cushion or nader is this advisor to the u.a.e. he's been a frequent visitor to the white house and has in fact met with jared cushion or which is raising some eyebrows this past week cushion or was stripped of his top secret security clearance as an investigation into his background continues and one

of the things that's raising a red flag is question or spam lee's extensive business ties around the globe and whether or not he is susceptible to influence by outsiders like a george nader and in fact on one of the sunday talk shows a senator mentioned that he's very concerned about gerald cushion or now there were media reports last week that president trump was looking to have his chief of staff john kelly oust gerald cushion or and his wife voc of the president's daughter from the oval office so if these reports are true this could potentially pave the way for that. i mentioned joins a chorus of democrats calling for questions removal if allegations of him interfering in u.s. foreign policy are true if it's true it's damning if it's true or 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 countries potentially resulting in the downward spiral of the qatari economy put thousands of americans at risk. their own best occasions revealed new evidence of saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain's attempt to overthrow the castro government in one thousand nine hundred six and includes interviews with coup leaders who conspired to remove the amir of castle's father shaikh bin ptolemy who was then the country's leader the investigation comes eight months into a blockade against cattle by saudi bahrain and egypt the countries have accused of supporting terrorism a claim cast of their many denies they've done a. couple of the four countries that conspired against qatar in the coup attempt of

ninety nine to six the same countries that were behind the attempt of two thousand and seventeen the actual military attempt at the time was in preparation for a military invasion. saudi arabia's crown prince is in cairo for a three day visit has mohamad been silenced first foreign trip since becoming crown prince last year and then fly on to meet with leaders in the u.s. and the u.k. are some of our eyes following developments from doha. 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. says 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 is 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 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 sides eurabia. colombia's music scene is using dominated by pop songs such as kara 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 from around p.s. he reports scoring the bins searching for their 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 it's an lp. they kept coming as the analog format 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 them i these 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 d.n.a. of 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 and the other five me i've heard that her very

thank you. and when i moved to new york more evenings by the end of it where everything. i paid for every came to me. from over knowing that in america it was country to. be an explosive that i heard maybe to remind you i wanted to warn you that time i wrote for 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 and dancing as collectors' paul the stairs soon to be played rarities for the excited crowd. means to me the proud owner of five thousand of them says it's difficult to choose this favorite. they're all special to me but the music lover likes to fix the hardest. runs in our blood like a disease. no doubt it's a contagious but cheerful illness and one that won't stand still. just.

some rockwell has won best supporting actor for his role in the film three billboards hollywood's biggest night is underway at the ninetieth annual academy awards this is awards of been overshadowed by kind of sexual harassment and calls to see more women represents in the industry heading into the evening the shape of war so. with thirteen nominations but all eyes will be on best director. the only female nominee for her film. is covering the event for us from. one of the other favorites for the night. well you know we're still waiting on that the big four if you will laura. best male actor best female actor best director and of course best picture and of the nine pictures that were nominated this year for best shape of water looks like it is the front runner but it's kind of unusual for the academy which is very conservative really in its taste

just. use this kind of a hybrid creature feature beauty and the beast love story as best picture will see another contender for that is the film that was very successful most successful of the nine at the box office and that's get out by jordan peele director this is a film that explores issues of racism and white supremacy in a horror movie format and then of course there's three billboards which already picked up that award for sam rockwell best supporting actor as you mentioned this is a film that may appeal to people in this particular moment because of its underlying theme of violence against women. it has been a tough year for hollywood i'm going to ask a robot how the office is recognizing that being today when the times out movement . you know there's been surprisingly few references to directly

overtly to me to or to time's up a lot of people are wearing little sort of lapel pin states that acknowledge time's up as a movement there were some jokes there were some jokes at the beginning by the host jimmy kimmel about harvey weinstein saying that harvey weinstein was a check did from the academy last year and the only other person who has ever been a check that was somebody who handed out his video c.d.'s to his neighbors so not sure exactly how well that you were really went over but so far it seems that the people have been downplaying that pretty much there have been some political gibe that the administration at the vice president mike pence and some support for the dreamers that those are young people who want to achieve permanent residency in the united states who are brought to this country without documentation but other than that we haven't seen any you know full throated political speeches from the podium

yet but tonight as you. and it is i will keep checking in with you as there was army continues thanks for joining us. so has hair on al-jazeera why critics of the me and my government say repatriation of random muslims may not be a good option. and just present donald trump israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu set to meet at the white house on monday will tell you what's on the agenda. as the first man to break the four minute mile has died his story coming up in sports. by the spring time flowers of a mountain unique. to the first smoke fall on a winter's day. welcome back we begin in southern and eastern parts of china and taiwan where we still get a flow from the southwest bringing some pretty warm humid air there so fuzhou

looking at thirty degrees but with a growing risk of some rain developing the same goes for shanghai rain is likely here but the warm air is in across a good part of indochina with annoying in northern vietnam seeing a high of thirty four degrees but as we head on through into choosing see that dropping away quite considering cooler weather conditions generally stage losing the southerly flow and so fuzhou is quite a drop in temperatures in the space of twenty four hours with some rain further north towards yangtze river valley so let's head down is southeastern parts of asia where for the philippines where the conditions not looking too bad across loose on plenty sunshine there from manila the highs of thirty four the risk of a few showers further towards the south across pornos looking quite shower at the moment but for java yes a few showers are likely but it should be some dry intervals mixed in between up through them and a pinch of showers are certainly possible for singapore and kuala lumpur but northwards into thailand across cambodia and southern parts of vietnam where the conditions jaring looking too bad only two showers around the gulf of thailand into

south asia some snow up on the hill stations otherwise looking fine twenty eight the high in delhi. the weather sponsored by cat time he's. the only nation ever hit by an atomic bomb once again braces for the worst. one of many six glorious life in japan under north three years nuclear threat at this time on al jazeera. march on al-jazeera. with all potential challengers out of the way egypt a series of stories that highlight the human triumph against the only. as president putin dominates the russian political scene and his reelection becomes more apparent it's what direction russia might take. with media trends constantly changing. post on line is how the news is being covered. around the world struggle drinking leaders. to address

a crazy. march on al-jazeera. and watching us there is a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. has accused russia of killing civilians in syria. saying it carried out twenty bombings a day last month as the white house's strongest accusation to date of russia's role in the government offensive held on the rebel held and. in its lead the anti establishment five star movement has projects to win the most votes in the general election even if becomes the biggest party that is so short of the threshold needed

to form a government. and china's problem and is expected to approve changes to the country's constitution which will see president xi jinping able to rule indefinitely national people's congress is holding its annual gathering in beijing also announced an eight percent increase in defense spending. south korea will send a senior delegation to north korea for two days of talks on monday that's in response to an invitation delivered by kim jong sr during her visit to the olympics the delegation will include five senior officials including the chief of south korea's national intelligence service the meeting comes during a four in relations between the two nations of the bride following the story for us from seoul so what details do we know of this trip was going to happen there. an important day laura we're expecting a briefing from the president's office here in south korea and within the next hour or so then a couple of hours after that the delegation will leave on

a direct flight from seoul to pyongyang that doesn't happen very often but it will be taking it in direct route it leaves from here it goes out to sea it's skirting around the sensitive military installations of the d.m.z. separating the two koreas and then begins a two days of talks it's expected that this delegation will meet with kim jong un of north korea but that's not yet confirmed there's also speculation the delegation will be carrying a personal letter from one j. and the president of south korea but again we're waiting upon confirmation of that and they're there and then of course they will be getting into these very important talks about furthering into korean dialogue and also the conditions under which we can see a resumption or start of dialogue between north korea and the united states and then that's maybe as much as we're going to hear for the next two days or so it

gives you a sense of the isolation of north korea that there is no media accompanying this group we rely upon what north korean media will be reporting about this visit and some communiques through the president's office we might not know much more about progress until the group returns a couple of days from now when they'll brief officials here in seoul but also officials from washington laura and how that has this trip being seen in south korea people in favor of it. there is a certain amount of optimism here certainly especially over the goodwill that's been built up from the a limpid games the feeling is here that any kind of dialogue surely must be good especially compared with the kind of hostility that existed really as recently as a couple of months ago for example kim jong un since he came to power in twenty eleven he has not yet met a south korean official so this is in many ways

a landmark visit just by the very fact of it happening how can it be bad according to many conservatives though in south korea yes he can be bad they are very critical of this they see it is really giving a prize to north korea in return for its belligerence and its nuclear program they treat this this group almost as cheerleaders for north korea's nuclear ambitions so people are divided here about it but it is being widely covered as you would imagine also it has to be pointed out laura it is being covered in north korea only one opinion there though being covered as you might expect in the official media it is being treated in north korea as very positive laura ok rob many thanks for that from so let's go now to mark fitzpatrick he's the director of the nonproliferation program in stache science teachers to teach and he joins us live from washington d.c. what do you think is going to be the outcome of these talks in pyongyang. i don't

expect a great deal from these talks the fact that they're taking place is the news i doubt that they will actually be meeting with kim jong un i'm surprised that that's being put out there because not only is kim jong un not met with any south korean officials he's not met with any officials from any country no chinese he didn't meet the mungo and president he doesn't meet with americans or u.n. officials who visit if he meets with the south korean officials that would be very interesting that could perhaps herald a breakthrough but there's a lot of obstacles to real breakthrough toward peace so you don't see the u.s. and north korea sitting around the table any time soon i don't i mean they really should i wish they would but. the tour so far apart just on the terms for a meeting although the united states vice president had indicated that united states could meet without preconditions they want

a meeting to lead to denuclearization to north korea giving up its nuclear weapons and north korea has no intention of doing that so there's no likelihood that the united states and north korea would be meeting as a result of this is their military exercises jus in south korea this month they always upset north korea should the south and the u.s. council. i don't think they should cancel them i think by the way the next month april next i think that if north korea makes if north korea were to offer some concessions if they were to say they would not test any missiles this year well then i think the united states and south korea should do something about the exercises maybe not council but scale them back move the location toned down the p.r. with them there are various variables that can be in play here but north korea has to give something port just meeting alone shouldn't be

a trigger for the united states and south korea relaxing their guard ok what about the science has been the u.s. recently declared the toughest sanctions yet on the north are they having an impact are they brave the north to the table at least with the south. no i don't think i don't think that the sanctions are bringing the north to the table although you know that's one of the factors why the north has suddenly become all smiley and and ready to talk to the south they're certainly having an economic impact but north korea has many ways to evade sanctions the cold war sanctions for example north korea has been shipping cold to a port in in russia that it hardly ever used before dumping the coal there and then some of the ship comes along and picks it up and so north korea gets paid for it so there's many ways that they're evading sanctions. speech thanks for joining us there from washington happy to talk to her but u.s.

aircraft carrier will shortly dock in the vietnamese city have done nothing a move seen as the largest but she might since the end of the vietnam war u.s.s. carl vinson visits as a sign of warming relations between the two countries and i was the first american combat troops arrive to began their involvement in the conflict more than five decades ago this comes and that rising tensions in the south china sea. hundreds of men mass holders are refusing to leave their bangladesh border area where they've been since last week government says they're staying because of intelligence reports of an imminent attack by a hinge of refugees critics say the troop presence is intimidation and proof that repatriation to men is not an option challah ballasts reports. this sprawling koos prolong camp near the bangladesh meum our border home to nearly six hundred thousand ranger refugees the majority have arrived since august.

one refugee who witnessed the influx is kemal hussein has lived here since he was two his parents also fled violence some e.m.r. in the ninety's. the concern was people are coming to bangladesh who'd never been here before they don't know the place they don't know anyone they don't know the roads where to go what to eat where to sleep i want all of those who are we have first mc in october after he saved up a missing persons birth in the scramble for survival into bangladesh many refugees became separated and disoriented here ynet in some seven hundred families in the first two months. the commercial has closed the bush it's no longer needed no longer stream over the border they settling into a crucible on camp as hard just like he did some twenty years ago. about a year as they were down my concern is i've been living here since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight i came from burma when i was only

a child now i'm twenty eight i'm still here what will happen to those who are coming now i believe they'll suffer more. and bangladesh governments have been negotiating over a petri ation deal that would return more than seven hundred thousand russian jets but critics say me n ma is not an honest broker the government has deflected accusations of ethnic cleansing and even genocide and cannot be trusted to re home the very people it pushed out they say the latest troop build up on the border is a hostile miss it for the revenge or the whole purpose of forcibly even doing and destroying the communities over rangers across the northern arc on is to make sure that like you know burma. no longer has ranger as a group and so why would. take the you know nearly one million rangers

back. just say they wouldn't return anyway not until they have a guarantee of safety compensation for the destroyed villages and citizenship something must be denied for thirty five years. bangladesh remain said one million revenger entirely dependent on handouts following kemal making crucial long kemp their home charlotte ballasts and his ear. as well as prime minister benjamin netanyahu is meeting u.s. president donald trump in washington on monday cisco the middle east peace deal and iran's nuclear program that he departed israel on sunday leaving behind swirling accusations of corruption in israel ties of warm says trump came to power last year to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and said it relocate the u.s. embassy there. says a polar palestinian american political analyst he says the white house motivation for negotiating a middle east peace deal serves trumps self interest. peace between who

and who i mean trump and the people who work for trump in basically jason. david friedman. and nikki haley all of them are more settlers and more more zionists than the israelis themselves and they have not spoken to the palestinians since they took office they have not spoken to any meaningful arab country except the countries who are what i call trumps arabs they are talking to people who are plotting with donald trump in order to give israel what is it and once not peace the issue here is nobody is negotiating with the party to the issue which is the palestinians that palestinians are being marginalized they talk about the deal of the century but they're not talking to anybody who counts so what i see both people talking about netanyahu and

both of them are sinking and i don't think they have time to do anything except to talk about projects in the air brush that they are not going to be able to fulfill and get to continue in their offices as long as they come it is not for the palestinians it's not for peace for the sake of and then you only. and week after a deadly quake struck the highlands of papua new guinea nearly one hundred fifty thousand people remain an urgent need of emergency supplies damaged ways and landslides have stopped the delivery of aid to the country's isolated communities the quake destroyed or damaged the homes around seven thousand people as others in the region are in desperate need of food water and sanitation and none are wrong as a journalist and blogger on the ground in papa new kenny he says much of the damage is and remote areas. essentially we're talking about people in remote areas.

and not hugely very difficult mountain terrain tropical rainforest communities get isolated we've. been actions. and links and so we're talking about. this case you mention about one hundred fifty thousand people in the community since we literally infrastructure that very difficult to get. in london thousands of people have been celebrating international women's day and a march led by the city's mayor. a politician as musicians and activists joined the march with the houses of parliament and ended in trafalgar square a quote for gender equality a century after help british women gain the right to vote a great granddaughter who was on the march that there's a long way to go for women share the same rights as men it's a hundred years since some women got the vote i think every. mother sylvia plank us my grandmother would be saying look let's celebrate the achievements there are some

fantastic games that we do need to be aware of and highlight but they would be forward looking and they'd be saying you know come on hundred years and you're still fighting equal pay you still not have equal representation in parliament violence massaging the the treatment that women get it sounds too similar to the type of world that we lived in and come on keep going i'm sure they'd be urging us all. back out to the oscars and war winners have been announced the best foreign film award has gone to a chill and drama called a fantastic woman and i wasn't johnny has won best supporting actress for the film i tonia the woman as a film critic and for us as solomon and joins us via skype from phoenix arizona so we're getting the names of some winners that are the gongs going out as expected. yes so far what people been expecting is a very complex and hard to call oscar race and that's what we've seen so far based on the early awards done kirk got an award shape of water got reward but nothing in

any ways beginning to show signs of a sweet ok accident were the things of the big blockbuster women's anymore i mean. do you think there's more of an appreciation by the oscars for the smaller budget film i'm glad you said that because it's such an excellent point that back in the ninety's huge blockbusters like titanic and forrest gump were the rule and these days it seems every year the series going to a movie that made less and less money than the year before virtually every recent award has been a record setter in terms of low grosses were seen extraordinary are a complex individual personal independent movies and i think personally i think that's a good thing it does raise some questions about the academy moving forward. as to how far they're going to go but let's not come to the main two movements at the extent that that is going to take center stage that tonight. well it's supposed to

we haven't seen it yet this is been saucily the most consequential year we've seen in oscar in movie history within our lifetimes it's hard to see harvey weinstein he was the basically the big neighborhood bully and he basically disappeared this year and so everyone's sort of feeling their feeling their new sort of found strength and activism i'll tell you about an hour or more into the ceremony so far we haven't seen much evidence of this i assume there's going to be a set piece coming up but even jimmy kimmel's opening monologue went very lightly on everything having to do with that moment so it seems to me there's some working behind the scenes to figure out how they're going to handle this later on tonight over to the climax of the even the best picture award they're going to double triple quadruple checking that envelope this year on the way they sure are that was a sensational wonderful moment last year we haven't seen anything like that in oscars i can't manage to get anything like this ever happened last in history now

to the oscars credit they handled the correction very transparently and professionally so i think bending it to me it actually instills confidence in the process rather than undermines it but you better believe it then yes you know they've given that warren beatty and faded away a chance to redo their best picture bestowal still so on there should be a great moment later on tonight apps and just last day what are your predictions for this is big winner. what so. i just as a piece of direction everyone agrees that ship of water deserves to get the award certainly year mandatory for best picture who knows what used to be the rule last year that the director would win best picture that hasn't happened in its hasn't happened five of the last six years or the last five years so it's very hard to tell i think it's between three billboards and shape of water but anything. it gets allenby finding out and if you as bill wyman thanks very much for joining us that

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but working says he took the drug to treat his denies using substances without medical need is credited for bringing integrity back to cycling after the seven time tour de france champion lance armstrong was banned for doping. the rest of the day sports news with tatyana. thank you very much italian football is in a state of shock the captain of thirty our club. a study has been found dead to end his team's hotel before bag game the thirty one year old who also played in the italian national team was expected to play against their feet and tina 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 could buy captain . spanish league leaders barcelona are also paying paid tribute to our story ahead of their big game with atletico 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 a second place athletico one million are messy with the irony goal of the game making it his six hundredth 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 are those silva giving pep guardiola as team a one nil victory. the most cut dutch international footballer of all time with lee schneider who can really play the club football for it in qatar has called time on his international career started out at i accept before going on to

represent some of europe's biggest clubs including israel madrid to enter milan and a gala task 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 that 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 other runners 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 a new convert 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 i'd have to have me travel fast 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 amateur sports in the era i think that it's second that if you think thank you ma'am the one that made him in for you tonight you think it was special 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 and commonwealth games in vancouver 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 quickly 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 in my generation bannister was diagnosed with parkinson's disease in twenty eleven and ultimately it 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 metres isn't quite a full mile but it was one of the gold medal events on sunday at the world indoor

championships and burning in ethiopia samuel to federer finished in three minutes fifty eight point one nine seconds that was two tenths of a second faster than poland's marinello and down. of morocco completed the podium if you appear dominated the three thousand meters to your move could gel church to gold while selim and better go was second kenya's 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 in the first place for second place would go to american a.g. wilson britton shalane asking clarke took bronze there was a gold medal for the united states as their women one first place in the four by four hundred meters relay corner has george ryan myleene she kimber wimbley and cornea carlo finishing ahead of poland and to the ukraine in the men's four by four hundred meter relay it took a wild indoor record time for poland to take first place doing so ahead of the

united states and belgium in the women's long gone the gold medal was won by a van with benefits of serbia who left a world leading distance of six point nine six metres brittney reese of the us was second with germany's thing morgan are inferred. there was something up for the home crowd to cheer for has the 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 are all monga. australia are just one wickets away from victory in the first cricket test against and in the all these were all alpha 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 two hundred ninety three for nine at the close of play. and the finale more later. and to get all websites there we've got

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