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mission. to anti establishment parties claim the right to govern a silly after elections leave the country facing a hung parliament. as evidence the full country's current blockading cattle were involved in a coup attempt against it in one thousand nine hundred six and russian former spy is critically ill in hospital in the u.k. off to be exposed to an unknown substance. and i'm tatiana sanchez in doha with all of us including crossing in the cold line a british parliamentary report finds that former tour de france champion bradley wiggins and his team used performance enhancing drugs with and the anti doping rules. we begin in syria where an aid convoy finally allowed into the besieged rebel held enclave of east and cut short its mission amid shelling nine of the forty six

trucks left without being unloaded before being allowed past on the checkpoints most of the convoys medical supplies were confiscated ongoing syrian and russian air attacks have killed almost seventy two people in the past twenty four hours say in a holder of ports now in a warning that you might find some of the images in this story to stepping. it's the first time aid has entered the rebel controlled enclave of eastern huta since the latest offensive began just over two weeks ago but world health organization officials say seventy percent of what was loaded on the trucks was removed during inspection. it's not the first time syrian government officials have prevented trauma kits and surgical supplies from reaching besieged areas they have been systematically removed from aid convoys in the past to prevent rebel fighters being treated but such life saving medical equipment is what is urgently needed medics say they are struggling according to the united nations up to one thousand

civilians some of them critically ill need to be evacuated to receive proper treatment already a few thousand people have been injured in the airstrikes and the toll continues to rise. there yeah. we were sleeping when my cousin came and told us my sister's husband was killed god bless him then the war plane hit nearby my cousin my mother and father and two of my siblings were injured two of my other siblings are safe because they were in the underground shelter. on the ground a pro-government forces are advancing on several fronts taking territory in recent days mainly farms and villages in the east forcing many people to flee to the western parts of the enclave their spite international criticism and outrage the syrian president bashar assad promised to continue the offensive until in eastern

recaptured the government says it is fighting what it calls terrorists and it blames rebels for holding civilians as human shields the people in eastern would say the government wants to depopulate the area. they are wrapping children killed in the bombardment with the u.n. aid bags to show their anger over the organizations inability to help them others had a message to the syrian government backer russia putin wants to displays the people of eastern you have no business here neither does your army that you shouldn't be opening doors for us to leave you should stop getting us we were remain steadfast and no one can force us to leave our land god willing the united nations says it has permission to deliver supplies enough for seventy thousand people in the next few days but it is estimated up to four hundred thousand people are in eastern huta an area that has been under siege for four years an area that doesn't receive aid regularly whatever aid does reach those trapped inside will help but it is far from

enough. beirut. the international committee of the red cross in beirut says more convoys are badly needed after weeks and weeks perhaps months of asking both parties to allow humanitarian aid and today we managed to enter a duma and provide the syrian arab red crescent warehouses with humanitarian aid basically food medical and other items essential to help ease the suffering of people inside. about twenty seven thousand five hundred people will benefit from this convoy however this is not enough and we are continuing to ask for further convoys to be allowed in in the coming days so that we are able to to help more and more people who are desperately in need of

humanitarian. we go to italy now where a surge in support for populist and far right parties in sunday's election has left the country in political deadlock no party got enough votes to govern alone meaning long negotiations to form a new coalition lie ahead results so far give the center right coalition about thirty seven percent of the vote eighteen percent of that for the anti immigrant right wing likud party the anti establishment five star movement was the biggest party with some thirty two percent while the center left coalition languishes behind on twenty three percent between them the fi some movement in league have the fifty percent required to govern italy both of called for greatest spending on welfare a rejection of e.u. deficit rules and a crackdown on illegal immigration during the campaign the five star movement ruled out joining a coalition but leader thirty one year old luigi timaya now says that the party is open for talks again barbara ports from rome. just

five years after they first got into parliaments the five star movement the anti politicians policy of the clear individual winners in italy's general election after a campaign that saw the violence of fight corruption the vote share was more than ten points ahead of any other single party. we are a political force that represents an entire nation we can say it is the same for the others which instead of more geographically biased this is very important because representing the entire nation projects us unavoidably towards governing the country. towards governing italy that by is best. done. but to form a government they'd have to betray their promise not to go into a coalition. formally the northern league led by. also appended the established order with its hardline anti immigrant euro skeptic

policies. it would be the biggest player in a right wing coalition led by former premier silvio berlusconi but that group still falls short of being able to form a majority. salvini though insists the result is proof that italians fed up with the status quo digital cable. i read in brussels that some people are worried they are wrong european people with the italian vote have taken a step forward towards liberation. from closes in cages which are bringing hunger job uncertainty and insecurity. but it could be. a sequel to. one of the clearest outcomes of the five years in power the center left democratic party's popularity has slumped and on monday matteo renzi stepped down as party leader but they are still the second biggest party in the absence of any other solution they might stay on in government until another voting system and elections are organized we had the referendum in the last beer to change an institution and

seize them and their friend and pray and so now we will see for example water. pipes that move that want to do on these things because in because they were against but now the way we are there we now have about without the numbers meanwhile silvio berlusconi who had looked like be kingmaker in an extraordinary political comeback seems a diminished figure. it's clear that many italians sent a message in this election that they were unhappy with the state of politics here what's not clear is he's going to be in power in the short term and italy has a history of governments that don't last long the next one may be no difference nadine barber al-jazeera wrote. under my monet joins us now he is a lecturer in modern european history at royal holloway university of london and an expert on european foreign politics as well thank you very much for coming to us so

we have here a strong showing for the five star movement and the lead party as well defeat for material renzi and his democratic party now how do you see a government potentially taking shape. well it depends if the rains result of the game because he resigned but still resign but without resigning really so i want to wait and there's a new government taking place you frenzies really out of the game that his party is pushing him out in some ways i think that the five star movement with good part of it will try to. a majority with the center left and the left at large because i think that for them is much better to be allied with the send left rather than with the north because it would be extra very extreme such a coalition and the thing that it did not necessarily wark in favor of the five star says the horse trading begins you see the lead party being isolated somewhat five star has done very well out of this election but what the most palatable

option for them is to combine with the center left or the left yeah yeah i think so i think that i mean the five star movement is a strange movement germany's like there are many people there are different souls within it so you have a leftist people and also right wing people naturally some of them would like to be on our side the other on the other side but their movement as no as no majority and they're really changed over the last last months electric company and so as you were saying that at the beginning they didn't want to have any any any coalition they were they wanted to run along but now they realize that they cannot run along so they will make if it's quite diverse. you say it's a populist movement but like you say you have people from the left people from the right does the thirty one year old leader louis cheatin meyer have the does he have control enough sway enough influence over the party to be able to lead them into

a coalition yes i think that there is a pity to to have to run to run into they want they don't want to lose this chance and they think that for this reason they already started saying ok let's talk let's have a call. and so on i think that they really want to do that the risk is that if there is a collision with an order link it would be a nightmare for many in italy and this is then from what you're saying we could see an evolution of the five star movement because there's been obviously everyone is now looking ahead to what this means for the italian economy what this means for their relationship with europe what it means for immigration do you see the five star movement becoming more pragmatic and populist they're already pragmatic but i'm not another person convinced that they will change completely in the sense that there are as i said there are strange moves and the fact is that i think that the big picture is that fifty percent of the italian a lecture a vote for a start blish when moments rejecting this idea of european union scapegoating the

european union and or immigrants or islam i think that this will feature in some ways seem part of the policy especially towards me. because if they run our government now they will do they would want they want to win it again so i don't think that even if the if the the joining the center left the center left join them they will be you know like a sort of normal usual traditional party politics as we are used to know i think you very much for helping us to understand it a little bit more and rare my money from the royal holloway university here in london things. you know at the news hour much more still to come during a visit by benjamin netanyahu donald trump says he's considering going to israel for the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem. but enthusiasm for the plan to scrap presidential term limits as china's parliament gathers for its annual meeting. at its core here in champions

league hearts out with teens eyeing tice's in the quarter finals tatiana will have more on that. an al-jazeera investigation has revealed new evidence of saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain's attempt to overthrow the country government in one thousand nine hundred six this includes interviews with crew leaders who conspired to remove share has been highly for funny the father of the current and the heir of cata who was then the country's leader investigation comes eight months into a blockade against qatar by the same countries they've accused of supporting terrorism playing cat art denies andrea's creagh who's an assistant professor in defense studies at king's college london explains the background to the attempt in one thousand nine hundred six in castle you have to understand as within the context of the early ninety nine to so first of all had been highly for just had

come to power ninety ninety five within a bloodless coup within the palace against his father his father has been although having also similar difficulties with saudi arabia he generally been someone who was leaning towards saudi arabia he wasn't trying to alter the internal affairs and policies of qatar in the same way that his son i'm a believer the father mia was going to do so now you have this new media coming in with new ideas new policy policies new visions also for the country which were very much opposed to the absolutely conservative visions that saudi arabia had so he came in they wanted to take him out and at the same time it was a great way of crying splitting up the party if you will so here's a young country that was aspiring through a natural gas that was rich that significantly growing influence as well in the region and it was a way for saudi arabia for the bahrain is in the a mirage is to get rid of someone that they consider to be problematic the father mir and splitting up a potentially very wealthy country and taking the spoils. well living out reports

that a businessman with links to the united arab emirates trying to get u.s. president to sack the secretary of state for not supporting the u.a.e. against cast on the b.b.c. says it has e-mails that show that boise who is also a major fundraiser for trump asked the president to sack rex tillerson in october last year so one is let's go to roslyn jordan who's in washington for us what more do we know. well it's not just elliot brody who is a california based leader of a company that provides security services featuring veteran u.s. troops or former u.s. troops as a security muscle as it were across the middle east and perhaps some other regions but mainly in the middle east basically what the b.b.c. report and other reports are suggesting is that not just elliot brody but another businessman george nader who apparently has ties in the washington area where both

are trying to exert influence on the trumpet ministration to essentially take a hard line against qatar and in mr broida his case try to have rex tillerson the secretary of state fired from his position as our viewers will recall there was a real patch from about september through the end of last year in which there was a lot of speculation about mr taylor since future as secretary of state and in fact he had to have a press conference at one point to basically say that he was continuing to do his job that he served at the pleasure of the president and that he wasn't going to be beaten down personally by all of the speculation what this indicates is that the special counsel's investigation into whether there was any russian influence in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election such that donald trump became president well it seems to have broadened to see whether the united arab emirates

perhaps other countries and we don't know this for a fact may have also tried to exert influence not just to one curry favor with a possible u.s. president but once dollar trump got into the oval office to try to shape u.s. foreign policy in their image i thank you very much roslyn joan with the latest on that story from washington. well in other developments us president donald trump says he's considering visiting israel for the opening of the american embassy in jerusalem he made the comment while and citing israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house this is the fifth time the two men have met since trump took office they are expected to discuss regional policy on iran as well as the u.s. embassy's relocation from tel aviv if i have to say what is our greatest challenge in the middle east to both our countries. it's become flew in one word. iran iran has not given up its nuclear ambitions it is came out of this nuclear

deal in boulder ridged is practicing aggression that we were putting on our own borders. and i think we we have to stop this country the chance the through if you go to america you're wrong must be stopped. the biggest difficulty that anybody said you look over twenty five years nobody could get past number one juror so if they couldn't get past it we've taken it off the table so this gives us a real opportunity to do peace we'll see how it works with the palestinians i think you are wanting to come back to the table very bad. if they don't you don't have peace. will trump is currently under fire from members of his own party including the republican house leader poll ryan about his plans to impose heavy tariffs on steel and alan minion imports speaking alongside nessun yahoo the us president hinted that he may waive the tariffs on canada and mexico but only if they concede ground in the north american free trade agreement talks which have been taking

place in mexico city we are renegotiating nafta as i said i would and if we don't make a deal out terminate nafta but if i do make a deal which is fair to the workers and to the american people that would be i would imagine one of the points that will go she said it will be tariffs on steel for canada and for mexico. john heilemann has been monitoring the nafta talks in mexico city for us. is about taking part in talks they've also been given a news conference what's the latest. well there were three very different the mean as in the the press conferences just finished between the us the canadian in the mexican representatives the u.s. representative the trade envoy that was in general pretty negative about what's happened in the nuff the negotiations or the we're now in the seventh round of he said we haven't made a lot of progress if we don't make much more progress if this doesn't work then

we're happy to just put an end to this and go buy a lot through instead of trying to keep these trading block together pretty much equity in the words of his overall boss president trump the canadian foreign minister was much more upbeat about it then in the middle of her smooth speech she said that any restrictions on canadian steel were completely unacceptable and that kind of that would then take an appropriate response that would protect canadian workers there was a roof right there in the middle per speech the mexican economic minister just tried to move the thing down he didn't make any reference so to to steal to terrorists something that's going to be a really big issue for me as well going forward from here and i think really that speaks to the bargaining power of those three countries the u.s. and can kind of do the two developed countries in the block a mix car which is really that you need a partner in this that knows that it doesn't really have too much control over what goes foods that it has to react to those two countries especially the u.s.

keep pouring out to and president trump announcement as the some round of negotiations were going on really did throw these negotiators and really did throw cold water of the whole process yeah because what we're seeing now is president trying to leverage the imposition of tariffs on steel in alimony and in these nafta negotiations what is the way forward from mexico's point of view that. well it's interesting that the finance minister didn't address this in the speech he had done earlier in the three in a tweet copying president trump sort of going broke on this and he said that isn't going to help him after it's too but i think after the expression the speech and i'm told speaking privately after that to some journalists he was saying the car needs to see exactly what president and his administration are going to do and then react to that and the economists and analysts that we've been talking to here

really say that that might be mexico's option if they try and slap tariffs on steel or other goods that are going into mexico from the united states which they could do there's a lot for example of corn that's exported from the united states into mexico that it could just make prices higher here and affect especially the poor people in mexico and the bilateral trade so current really as it has been all the way through has adopted a sort of wait and see approach to this their off different sectors of the mexican economy particularly the steel industry that do want them to start getting tough and to start putting science tariffs on the still that's going the other way but the mexican government for the moment seems like they're going to resist doing that wait and see canada which has more bargaining power as i say seems to publicly have announced that they are willing to get more tough all right thank you very much john holman with the latest on that story from mexico city meanwhile as many as forty mexican politicians have been killed since december in the lead up to this

year's general elections most of the victims were local mayors or candidates in july's vote drug gangs are suspected of using violence to influence and intimidate politicians or than twenty three thousand people were murdered in two thousand and seventeen making it mexico's bloodiest year since records began. a russian form of double agent is critically ill in a u.k. hospital after reportedly being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old sergei scrip and a woman in her thirty's are being treated by doctors off they were found unconscious on a bench in the town of souls pray in southern england scrip all has been living there since two thousand and ten to treating it as a major incident charlie angela has more on this. police here are calling this a major incident and the two individuals are in critical condition in intensive care where hospital workers are working on diagnosing and treating them as quickly as possible the sixty six year old man has been identified as surrogates cripple

a russian national and former colonel in the russian military intelligence who in two thousand and six was convicted on charges of espionage and jailed for thirteen years it seems that he had been supplying the u.k. intelligence service m i six with the identity of undercover russian agents operating in europe but in twenty ten he was released as part of a spy swap deal orchestrated with the united states he was flown to the u.k. and is since been living here probably keeping a low profile and given a new identity by m i six will this use of an unknown known substance does remind us of the case of alexander litvinenko a former russian spy turned british citizen who in two thousand and six was poisoned here in london it turns out he had been exposed to radioactive polonium he became gravely ill and died three weeks later not before accusing president putin

of his murder of government inquiry take that took place under the u.k. authority found that president putin had probably sanctioned the murder of alexander litvinenko and that incident led to a souring of relations between russia and u.k. obviously this incident it's too early to tell if we're looking at something similar but the speculation is there. a major car factory in the u.k. is stop production because of a shortage of water jag your land rover in solihull has turned off its machines syracuse demand on the water supply it follows freezing weather last week which burst a large number of pipes in the region jack your land rover says it doesn't know when production will resume. well last week's freezing weather in the united kingdom appears to have taken an unexpected toll on marine life thousands of dead starfish of washed up on a beach in the southeastern coastal town of ramsgate there were also dead lobsters

crabs gulls and fish marine experts believe they may have frozen to death when shallow coastal waters turned to ice still ahead for you this hour a south african food manufacturer under scrutiny is the w.h.o. warns a deadly listeria outbreak is the largest in recorded history. the latest power play in the battle for control of shipping and ports in the horn of africa. and basketball legend kobe bryant keeps winning even in retirement tatiana we'll have that story and much more. hello there for many of us there's a lot of rain over parts of europe but not quite as much snow is there have been there's still plenty of cloud showing up on the satellite picture all circulating around this area here giving most of us some heavy rain and fortunately it's not

too cold at the moment so we're looking at a maximum of around eleven in madrid matching the temperature we're expecting in paris so mild but wet there for the western parts then in the central belt we have more in the way of wintery weather and then if you extend further south for us in parts of the mediterranean we think of strong winds and heavy rain and all of that's pushing its way towards the east as it does so it will give us some snow it will turn increasingly wintry but it will also be chasing out that very very cold air that's up in the northeast so cold for now but it should get a bit milder over the next few days for the northern parts of africa largely fine and dry in the eastern parts of arm up for the west there's more in the way of wet weather here's a robot is looking pretty soggy force on tuesday the heaviest most persistent of that rain is easing as we head into wednesday but still a good deal of cloud around and they could just be one or two more showers there is further towards the south for many of us here there's plenty of dry weather just a couple of showers perhaps around the coast of west africa the wetter weather there is further towards the east it looks like we'll see some heavy showers there

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see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. welcome back you with the news hour a recap of the top stories and aid convoy finally allowed into the rebel held enclave of eastern shore to its mission amid shelling around seventy percent of the convoys medical supplies were confiscated before it was allowed on the checkpoints . former italian prime minister material renzi has resigned after his democratic party's poor showing in sunday's election far right and populist parties including

the five star movement were the pick winners in the u.s. president donald trump is under pressure from within his own party to reconsider his plans to impose heavy tariffs on steel and alum million imports. well now in all the stories we're following south korean officials i've met north korea's leader kim jong un for the first time since he took power at the end of two thousand and eleven the meeting at a banquet dinner in pyongyang came at the start of a two day visit that's focusing on averting nuclear conflict and restarting talks with washington has more from seoul. from seoul with smiles south korea's delegation heads north hoping to build on the goodwill momentum generated at the winter olympics when a high level north korean delegation attended the games as guests of south korean president moon j.n. kim jong sr of north korean leader kim jong un hand delivered the invitation to

visit pyongyang from her brother south korea hopes this will be more than just a courtesy call from time to most of all i will deliver president moon's firm will and resolve to achieve the denuclearization on the korean peninsula and create true and permanent peace even before the delegates left on their controversial trip it wasn't clear they would meet with the north korean leader but soon after their arrival they were hosted to a dinner that fact along with the seniority of the officials who welcomed the south koreans and their accommodation in an official guest house shows the importance north korea places on this trip according to seoul meetings between north and south are rare summit talks were held in two thousand at the height of the so-called sunshine policy period that brought the two koreas closer together then again in two thousand and seven but with north korea's missile development

a nuclear program increasing in pace in recent years relations slumped to their lowest and most dangerous point for decades. for many people in south korea just holding talks is a welcome change to the hostile rhetoric of the recent past but without a commitment from north korea that it's willing even to discuss giving up its nuclear arsenal many conservative groups have condemned these talks as meaningless pass this visit is meant to lead to more talks between the two koreas that is certainly achievable it's far less certain this mission can jump start talks between north korea and a skeptical united states 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 this visit could prove in the long turn either to be important in

the search for a negotiated solution or another false start in dealing with the north korean crisis of mcbride al-jazeera sold. china's parliament to set to approve measures that will allow president xi jinping to wield power indefinitely this move would reverse constitutional changes made to prevent a repeat of the excesses of the cultural revolution adrian brown has more from beijing by the national people's congress has opened its annual session tiananmen square has been the setting for some of the most of finding moments in recent chinese history not all of them peaceful now a new political drama is unfolding this carefully choreographed gathering involves almost three thousand delegates and almost as many journalists like parliament the media in china is controlled by the party offering uniform coverage of the national people's congress normally last for ten days but this year it's being extended by

five days possibly to give delegates more time to discuss proposed changes to china's constitution which could mean she jingping being president for life. the issue is overshadowing this congress but most delegates we spoke to didn't want to talk about it i don't want to discuss it i asked them he said. and no comment from him either. party discipline though would ensure the amendment is passed that little until either those capable people should stay in their posts as low as possible. that their decision is made by the party as a delegate i fully support it. the decisions made here will affect almost a fifth of humanity. premier league chung presented his annual work report with his boss seated just a few rows behind him he said the communist party not the country has faced an

extremely complex environment both at home and abroad it is forty five page address he mentioned cheating paying eighteen times while nothing touching needed and yet that we were rarely even close around the party central committee was calmer she jumping at his call hold high the banner of socialism with chinese characteristics and follow the guidelines xi jinping saw on socialism with chinese characteristics for a new era the premier presented a vision of a vibrant growing economy but in language often reminiscent of them out. and there was one overriding message china will be great again so long as she jing pings at the home adrian brown al jazeera beijing a u.s. aircraft carriers arrived in vietnam for the first time since the end of the vietnam war the visit by the u.s.s. carl vinson to the port of down a young is the biggest u.s. military presence in vietnam since one thousand nine hundred seventy five and is

a sign of warming relations between the two countries that are where the carrier has docked was where american combat troops first arrived during the war. the world health organization says the listeria outbreak in south africa is the largest in recorded history one hundred eighty people have died in the past year and botswana zambia and mozambique of bad wheat imports from south africa malcolm webb has more . this is the food company whose products the government says are responsible for the listeria outbreak they make all kinds of meat products can be found in supermarkets all over south africa they are affordable to most south africans this outlet now closed its outside one of their fractures if not several across the country but the government says that some of their production lines are contaminated and that's why people are lining up here with meat products that they've bought recently come to demand

a refund and ask about the risks to their health chaplain mccall advised to sausages regularly for her two young children when i saw on the news last so tell us get you know i live in now and i'm still alive and i was up at my work the health of makeshifts suspects now what's going to happen to more or tonight all right so and i don't know all the symptoms of the disease because this is not enough. like teaching for getting the disease and this bacteria is responsible for the more than one hundred seventy deaths at this lab government scientists have been testing samples from patients and food for months from all over the country to identify the source its industrial food production that enabled it to spread so far contamination occurs during processing and further manufacture because you've got mass production of it on industrial scales environmental

contamination with in a processing plant can result in contending nation of. significant number of products there are they in distributed far and wide and eaten by meaning potentially at risk people it's here in so wet when in townships like this across the country that the products the most popular takeaways like this one. thousands of them in south africa people like to come here to buy sausage is another processed meat product. it would have been removed the company's recalled all its products south africans are now hoping that the outbreak can be brought under control and that nobody else will die. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has embarked on a five day africa tour he's visiting different countries including are in the ethiopia just as his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson professed to set off on his own tour of africa it comes

as russia's trade within with the region is growing as or a chance reports from moscow. will. more they'll be plenty of this in the coming days russia's foreign minister shaking hands in africa the message he wants to convey is that russia has returns to the continent sergey lavrov africa top takes him to five countries in five days angola on monday then it's off to you know maybe a for choose day when say it's mozambique neighboring zimbabwe on thursday finally on friday he's due to head north to ethiopia in the horn of africa is russia's interest in africa has been building for a while president vladimir putin and prime minister dmitry medvedev have visited in recent years the diplomatic push carries faint echoes of former times when the u.s.s.r. contested western influence by supporting marxist guerrillas fighting against colonial rulers such as in mozambique but when the soviet union dissolved so too

did russia's influence far from home lavrov africa talk her insides with a similar visit by u.s. state secretary rex tillerson they'll overlap in ethiopia and russia's foreign ministry has suggested a meeting where you have guinea current was a soviet and russian ambassador in africa he thinks the confidence is increasingly interesting for many global powers. then when you know this is a very important period in the history of africa and international relations african influence in world politics and economics is growing in the past fifteen years african d.d.p. has doubled without africa none of the global issues of our century can be solved russia's trade with africa is growing it was fourteen point five billion dollars in two thousand and sixteen but that's dwarfed by the e.u. use africa trade which amounts to thirty three billion dollars that's beaten by the u.s.a.'s with forty nine billion dollars in trade but the country has developed the

highest spending relationship with africa is china on one hundred forty nine billion dollars russia no longer has the ideology with which to woo developing countries like it could with soviet socialism moscow is trying to make up for lost time with africa it's hoping that trades defense natural resources and energy can win back some of the partners it lost when it soviet superpower status collapsed will reach alan's al-jazeera moscow. meanwhile a battle is under way for control of shipping in ports in the horn of africa the dubai based ports operated d.p. world has announced a major investment in a port in the south to claim state of somali land but neighboring somalia says somaliland is its territory and the dubai deal is illegal it was signed after d.p. world port contract in neighboring djibouti was suddenly cancelled as mohamed atta reports. other doral it contain up or to you prudy this team for

if your p.r. loaded onto a train the port is that the key to almost exclusively to imports and exports from london if you appear it's also in the middle of a dispute between the ports can put a d.p. world on by dubai in the united arab emirates and the government here do you good to nationalize the ports last week bringing to an end up thirty year concession d.p. world war in two thousand and six. we are ready and willing to discuss in a contractual issues arising from a disease we have family was in their rule of law and don't want to take what we launched to others but we will never accept anything that harms our country in a move seen as a response to djibouti d.p. world signed a deal last week with european on the better but our ports in the breakaway and global somaliland dubai's port operator has a fifty one percent stake in but better while somaliland has thirty percent and the remaining nineteen percent is controlled by theo peer port managers in djibouti or

dismissive of the u.s. move to court ethiopia their biggest client a metallic. peyser country of one hundred million people and need a enormous at liberty to say no agreements with anyone so my lands a relatively small puerto exports livestock to the middle east and imports food and other items all boxes said to changes d.p. world says it's prepared to invest up to four hundred forty two million dollars to develop the port for somaliland the dubai ports deal is not only a financial windfall but also of what of confidence that some major problem for somalia which view somaliland as its sovereign territory should get that if you will d.p. world is dividing our country it's unacceptable and illegal for this deal if allowed as it is will it damage relations between somalia and the u.a.e. we urge them to reconsider. new players such as the u.s.

conference calls but he says the summer. is the billet muhammad of the world is the go to beauty. the convicted killer known as carlos the jackal has been back in court in paris over a grenade attack in one nine hundred seventy four that killed two people. right near as sanchez is appealing a life sentence he was given last year he's already serving two life sentences for other attacks now sixty eight the venezuela was once one of the world's most wanted fugitives he carried out multiple attacks in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's in support of palestinian liberation before being captured in one thousand nine hundred four. was. to try a. night when hollywood faces up to the sexual misconduct scandal. and the long wait for a trophy is over but this town i'll be here to tell us more. was.

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. the a. law. the oscars now at the top honors went to the shape of water a fantasy romance about immediate woman and a secret it took for awards including best pitch at the fourth and five years to be won by a mexican director but amongst the usual glamour and glitz the nineteenth academy awards also overshadowed by the ongoing allegations of sexual misconduct in the film industry from los angeles brunell's has mle. the hollywood had more than

awards on its mind at the ninetieth annual oscar ceremony host jimmy kimmel quickly brought up disgraced hollywood producer and accuse sexual predator harvey weinstein who was expelled from the academy last year the academy as you are no doubt aware took action last year to expel harvey weinstein from their ranks there are a lot of great nominees but harvey deserved this about. the far reaching sexual harassment scandal in the growth of the me too time's up movements were on the minds of many finally saying time's up it's a new day in hollywood with new challenges ahead for all of us while those serious issues overshadowed hollywood's big night to a certain extent the show as they say must go on and it did. the oscar goes to. the shape of what i this may very well be the shape of water won the best picture award the

story of a love affair between a mute cleaning lady and a strange im d.b.'s creature at the center of a cold war weapons program it beat out stiff competition from get out lady bird and i tonia among other films. shape of waters film director guillermo del toro won the best director award the frances mcdormand won the best female actor award for her role as an angry and grieving mother in three billboards outside ebing missouri she asked all the women in the audience to stand and take up. as many predicted the best male actor nod went to gary oldman for his vivid and belligerent performance as winston churchill in the darkest hour. allison

janney portrayal of an unlovable mother in i tonja won her the best female supporting actor award. i did it all by myself. sam rockwell took home the best male supporting actor oscar for playing a violent racist police officer who turns over a new lease in three billboards i like to thank the academy never thought i'd say those words the chilean transgender drama a fantastic woman won the best foreign language film oscar and the audience pleasing cartoon coco won for best animated feature the biggest thank you of all to the people of mexico coco would not exist without her and lucy beautiful culture and tradition. margaret olley woods big night is over but the movement against sexual harassment in the film industry continues to expand and grow stronger i

denied everybody robert oulds al jazeera hollywood. one man's been arrested in los angeles for allegedly stealing frances mcdormand oscar statuette a sixty year old best actress winner had a wood taken from her table during a pose ceremony party she has since been reunited with her oscar. now with four thank you mary cycling is under the doping spotlight again a long awaited report by british members of parliament suggests the former top of france champion bradley wiggins and his team exploited an anti doping loophole to take performance enhancing drugs the wailings has more from london. he is one of the most successful and celebrated figures in the history of british sport but bradley wiggins and his former cycling team have effectively been accused u.k. parliament of cheating the question by the ethics of the use of medicines particularly medicines are being used not primary to treat medical need but

couldn't hold performance as well and what we're recommending from the report is that this grey area should be cleared up at the center of allegations is the mystery content of a package delivered to wigan cheering the criteria did off in a race in two thousand and eleven claimed by team sky to contain a decongestant for asthma and allergies the report says a year later he used an anti inflammatory performance enhancing drug to prepare for the biggest race in cycling the tour de france she won wiggins says he strongly refutes the climb any drug was used without medical need but that's not a denial the drugs were performance enhancing team sky also says it strongly refutes the reports claim that their medication was to enhance performance but it's another clear contradiction of the ethic set out by team principal. that they'd have zero tolerance to doping another british olympic hero long distance champion my farah is accused by the reports of using a supplement for the twenty forty nine the mouth and that was legal but not

recorded on his records there's a spotlight on the doctors involved in the opportunity to use these very powerful drugs is given you know if you like is a privilege those medical professionals so they do have a responsibility the prospect of action against those accused of cheating is slim and this was careful and sophisticated manipulation the damage to sports stars will be mainly reputational but these were people held up as heroes and the trust in them and their sports is diminishing by the di. london or the story of russian and i think it's also been a big hit at the oscars. icarus. that much exposed the scandal and led to the country's elim pick than one best documentary the direct to pay tribute to the russian whistleblower great read of a tank of his featured in the film. i wanted to acknowledge that in this moment of

happiness in winning this war there are real world stakes and there is a human life at stake and there are clean out fleets who have been cheated and there was a a russian government that continues to not deny all facts and all truth while they hunt the man who literally brought this information forward here basketball. to see shroom boy usually during. that wasn't the only big sporting achievement at the academy awards basketball legend kobe bryant continues to be a when it even in retirement the former l.a. lakers star won an oscar in the animated short cut to death basketball a poem he wrote off to ending his twenty year career on the court and twenty sixteen. i feel better than winning a championship. i swear i do it's you know growing up as a kid i dreamt of wanting to have insurance you know it working really hard to make that dream come true but then like to have. something like this seemingly come out

of left field you know. i heard a lot of people tell me when i started writing it would ask me would you go into a new target say well i want to be a writer of your story it's over i got a lot of that's cute that's cute you'll be depressed when your career is over in your comeback you know i got out alive and so to be here right now and to have like a like a sense of validation is this is this is crazy. it's crazy so full now in the gulf crisis came to the field on monday when qatar. saudi team actually in the asian champions league one no one was the final score saudi arabia's one of the countries that have a diplomatic ties with qatar in june but the asian football confederation to create the matches between the affected nations will not be held on neutral ground. in addition to the group games there was also action in group c. on monday night suffolk county sheriff is back a stand because sad one nil under rons persepolis with two know when it was over

the united arab emirates liver poll are in pole position off their champions league last sixteen tie against f.c. porto they take a five nil first leg lead into the second leg at home brown madrid are also in a good position although not as commanding the nadine's the dons men of three went up against paris sound man the second leg on choose day is in paris and the home team will have to turn things around without a star striker neymar that will suck it up and we have one it's the first time in the recent history of p.s.g. in the champions league that in a big important game in the knockout phase of the tournament we play the second leg at home that's why we will work hard and we will aim to win on tuesday to change the recent history of p.s.g. he. there are one up in the four match cricket test series against south africa off to completing a resoundingly one hundred eighteen run when end up in the match though was mobbed by on favorite incidents off to the match david warner and quinten de kock had an

altercation and earlier during play nathan lyon dropped the ball on top of a.b. de villiers who was on the ground off the diving line has been fined and has also apologized to defeat is. phil mickelson has ended a five year trophy drought with victory at the world golf championship in mexico mickelson beat fellow american justin thomas in a playoff as fast tone and when since the open in twenty tame the playoffs didn't last long mickelson made paul on the first extra hole to secure a fourteen career title at forty seven he's the oldest ever winner of a wild golf championship event. this is a is a very meaningful when i can't really put it into words given the tough times of the last four years and the struggle to get back here and knowing that i was able to compete at this level but not doing it the frustration that led to and to

finally break through and have this validation means a lot to me and that's all the sport for now is not to marry i'm in london thank you very much tatiana well that's it for the news hour but i'll be back in just a couple of minutes with a full list of music for you a full round up of all the day's top stories coming up very shortly see the bat. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure on the frontlines we risk our lives in taking the threats less cattle saving lives is a dangerous job it's

a vaccine that talks on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for these medicines who must be in a lives earth risk of a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road at that kind of group what with the risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera. conservation is helping kids is stowed to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves or are finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species as poverty and desperation sweep across or

he just settlements women and girls are being bought and sold and given away in refugee camps one on one east investigates yet another dark side of the rohingya crisis at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where every. a trucks of finally allowed into eastern ghouta in syria shelling forces them to cut short their mission. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming.