the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much employed in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else could it is you know it's very challenging living in particular because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended used to do we were indeed journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. zero. zero zero zero that this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes humanitarian aid convoy is forced to turn back from the syrian enclave of

east and a shelling continues. a former russian spy living in england is in critical condition in hospital after being exposed to an unknown substance. leaked e-mails a u.a.e. linked businessman and his suspected plan to get america's top diplomat fired we'll have the details. with no clear winner in a sleaze election we'll look at the coalition prospects between. the right wing parties which fared well at the polls. and aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged eastern gusa region because of an escalation in fighting the red cross says aid workers a safe and most of the forty trucks have been loaded but the world health organization says around. seventy percent of medical supplies were blocked by the

government monday's aids every was the first since mid february and seven hundred people have been killed in eastern goose us since the government intensified its offensive there more than two weeks ago. reports and a warning you may find some of the images in this story disturbing. 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 kids 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. that yeah. we were sleeping when my cousin came and told us my sister's husband was killed god bless him then the warplanes 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. i 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 there spite international criticism and outrage the syrian president bashar assad promised to continue the offensive until 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 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 and neither does your or you shouldn't be opening recorded doors for us to meet you should just 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 then to tell me spokeswoman for the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in syria she says there's still hope medical supplies will get into a sinker. kongo i still contain nutrition supplies somehow supplies along with food for over twenty seven thousand people in need so this is of course we are extremely disappointed that many of my saving health supplies were not allowed to be loaded but we also have a follow up on why on thursday and we hope that we both medical supplies will be able to be loaded. in the rest of. the rest of the supplies that are destined for dumas as we had said earlier the full package is for somebody about the people in need in dumas but this is far from enough we haven't been able to reach these on a regular basis the last time was on the fourteenth of february and before that it

had been over some of the day that we had not been able to reach we continue to deliver a christian to millions of people a month in in all areas and wherever we have access you know we're ready to provide the full the full package of humanitarian assistance to people in need this includes things like food medicine water and sanitation supplies and shelter items these are people don't need just you know certain types of things they need many types of things and the other thing in addition to supplies is that we need regular absence so that we can assess what the situation is on the ground and that we can better inform the type of the system that we're bringing in a former russian spy is critically ill in hospital in the u.k. office reportedly being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old scrapple and a woman in her thirty's a both in intensive care and found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center in the town of souls for

a script that's been living in the u.k. since twenty ten after being freed from a russian jail in a spy swap this has not been declared as a counterterrorism incident and we would urge people not to speculate however i must emphasize that we retain an open mind. and we continue to review this position we have access to a wide range of specialist resources and services that are helping us to understand what we are or aren't dealing with at this time the focus at this moment in trying to establish what has caused these people to become critically ill and we are working with partners to prioritize this diagnosis and ensure that they receive the most appropriate and timely treatment telly and has more. 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 surrogate of

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 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 or 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 a 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. north korean state media is reporting leader kim jong un wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with south korea after meeting with officials from seoul at a banquet did them. hosted the south korean boys the ruling workers' party headquarters in pyongyang high level south korean delegation has traveled north for two days of talks focused on averting a new conflict of joins us now live from seoul so a lot has happened in the last few hours of the delegation being in pyongyang bring us up to speed. that's right

a whirlwind tour so far it seems and the highlight as you mentioned there has been this banquet hosted by kim jong un and his wife the ruling workers' party of career headquarters in pyongyang officials in south korea say it's the first time that south korean officials have been hosted in this building giving some indication of the significance of this trip south korea is very much playing up this visit and the importance of it in the importance which north korea has also been crediting to the visitors apparently kim told the visitors that they were on the brink of writing a new history of national reunification but also said that an agreement had been reached satisfactorily on accommodating the intentions of moon j. and the president of south korea to hold a summit now all of this is come to us from the official north north korean news agency we are getting some corroboration of these facts from the soul from the

south korean government but we are awaiting for more details about what this exactly means but this was one of the main intentions of advancing the dialogue there will be more discussions today before this team returns later choose day back to seoul when we'll get a fuller idea of what has been agreed as a leadership summit i mean that would be a very rare occurrence indeed what would it look like. it is i mean there has been one the last one was in two thousand and seven the one before that was two thousand so if they are indeed rare in some respects since those times the stakes are a lot higher north korea's nuclear and missile programs as we know are far more advanced and moving jay and the president of south korea has stated that the only reason for this dialogue is to ultimately achieve the denuclearization of the korean peninsula it is the only way forward through talks which sounds reasonable

enough except the north was in as we know has given no such commitments many observers believe that north korea is now so close to gaining a long range nuclear missile. will not concede anything on the nuclear front so the concern is from many that they will come up with some fudge if you like some loosely worded agreement that's the basis of a future summit that won't mean anything north korea will not be committed to giving up nuclear weapons at least any time soon while moon j.n. can claim that yes dialogue is continuing aiming to achieve some lasting solution for career and of course in the background is a very skeptical united states they have cautiously welcomed this dialogue but as we know there precondition is that if they are going to have any talks there north korea will first of all have to commit itself to giving up its nuclear arsenal and

conspicuously absent so far from any of these discussions is the other intention of these talks which is to achieve some dialogue between north korea and the united states laura mcbride ensoul thanks rob. plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including refugees who survived a military crackdown eman mom is now face a new risk as monsoon season approaches. law. and we look at a new government strategy in afghanistan to help educate children for a better future. because president donald trump is considering attending the opening of the american embassy in jerusalem in may that's a controversial move that could further inflame tensions over peace negotiations with palestine has been holding talks with israel's prime minister benjamin

netanyahu at the white house the fifth meeting and again reports. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and u.s. president donald trump smiled broadly in their white house meeting despite both being embroiled in scandal netanyahu wasted no time turning the attention to the u.s. president for his decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital should president be remembered by our people throughout the night yahoo is in washington in advance of his address on tuesday before the largest israeli lobby group of the us apac but netanyahu made it clear he was also seeking u.s. support for what he sees as israel's greatest security challenge to corruption in one word. iraq. is not giving up its nuclear ambitions that came out of this nuclear deal and rich both netanyahu and trump have made no

secret of their loading of the twenty fifteen agreement agreed on by the u.s. and the other world powers with iran to limit tehran's nuclear program both believe the agreements. aeration is too short and is weakened by the fact it does not address iran's ballistic missile program. there's also shared concern over what they believe is iran's rising influence and a desire for a permanent presence in syria israelis want more support against iran. has talked big against iran but he has done very very little to the u.s. president has also talked about striking a peace deal between the israelis and palestinians. trumps jerusalem declaration in december infuriated palestinian leaders they're now calling on the international community to negotiate a deal not the u.s. a point the president seems to have ignored the palestinians i think you are

wanting to come back to the table very bad. if they don't you don't have peace if you don't have peace if they don't you don't have peace and that's a possibility also i'm not saying it's going to happen indeed donald trump's mideast peace efforts are almost nonexistent still he said on monday he may now himself go to israel to open the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. senior political analyst says trump is sending mixed signals it's either deception or delusion i can't see a third explanation to what president has said because number one everyone in the region everyone in the world with the exception of what the model thinks that this is such a horrible idea it's it's illegal according to hold and it would definitely escalate

and in danger. the security within the region and would certainly not lead to peace the other thing that is kind of. mr moore rising is that why when trump recognizes jerusalem as the. road the american diplomat said this does not change anything still the final start of jerusalem is up to the point is the negotiating yet he once again just told us that he took it off the table so it's no longer an issue of discussion so which is it is it an issue of discussion or is it no longer to discussion and last point i mean if it's just a simple as to stick it out why don't we take the nuclear issue out of the iranian american. relations and this where they would have. to take the mail suggests a businessman with links to the united arab emirates reportedly trying to convince the u.s. president to sack his secretary of state the e-mail seen by the b.b.c. found that earlier prodi a major trump fundraiser wanted rex tillerson fired for not supporting the gets

cast in the current blockade according to e-mails brody advised trump to continue his support for the u.a.e. and saudi arabia and warned him against getting involved in their hour with cattle . told trant to fire tellus them at a politically convenient time to us and has repeatedly criticized the air sea and land blockade the saudi arabia bahrain and egypt imposed on cata nine months ago this latest revelation comes at a time and another white house regular and adviser george nader has reportedly being questioned in the ongoing probe into trance twenty sixteen election campaign muslim jordan has more from washington d.c. . the upshot of these latest reports on what two u.s. based business men may or may not have been doing in terms of lobbying the trumpet ministration is this the special counsel's investigation into whether russia had anything to do to try to throw the twenty sixteen presidential election as well as

to exert influence on u.s. foreign policy once donald trump became president apparently is now covering whether other countries might have been doing the same thing there are a number of reports now out suggesting that two businessmen george nader and elliott brody both try to influence the trumpet ministration in twenty seventeen to actually take a harder line against the government of qatar as well as to try to get rid of the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson all of this in a way to basically try to bolster the u.a.e. efforts to expand its political influence across the gulf region and across the greater middle east now there have been a lot of back and forth about what u.s. foreign policy particularly in the middle east should be and certainly with the june fifth blockade imposed against the state of qatar there have been

a lot of questions about whether the trumpet ministration is actually standing by or harming a longtime national security ally in the gulf region so this really does raise the specter of whether the investigation is broadening and whether any persons both within the united states and outside the united states might find themselves in legal jeopardy because of it and i as the middle east studies program coordinator at the university of oklahoma he joins us now from norman and oklahoma good to have you with us as anything illegal gone on here with brady and george naida trying to influence the u.s. government. it's not clear if it's illegal with regard to mr nader there is not sufficient evidence to make that claim but with regard to mr brody's actions there certainly are day shifts into to tell a sitting president that he should fire and secretary of state and for there to be

a self interest in that that is his economic dealings with the u.a.e. certainly brazen and presumptuous but not necessarily illegal at least no evidence so far ok so should we expect any backlash against the. well i don't think so i don't expect any i mean we've seen now over the last six or months or so a number of email leaks including the email account of the u.a.e. powerful and that's your to washington use of a table in which there were all kinds of improper things revealed and we saw our really no backlash so i'm not expecting any ok so what do you make of the timing then of these leaks because the saudi crown prince might have been summoned to in the u.s. later this month. well not only is muhammad and someone going to washington but also another trump central player jerry questionnaire the son in law

has recently had his security clearance downgraded and of course it's thought that he has also because he is so close with mohamed bin saw mine and also good relations with the u.a.e. been another person who has been whispering anti-cancer things in president trump's ear and i don't fortunately again you know this blockade now and the actions of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has lasted about nine months and president from all over recently has made some more conciliatory gestures does not seem willing at the moment to put pressure on all of the parties particularly saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to find some reconciliation or resolution ok with russia. trying to influence the u.s. government what does that say about the trumpet ministration itself well you know as someone sitting here in the united states watching this administration on

a daily basis it is incredibly chaotic even in you know not in believable amount of disarray seeming to be unusable shares of individuals occupying positions and then of course either forced out were chased out of office because of scandal so this is you know to put it kind of mildly a very unusual american administration and i would say an incompetent one with regards to middle east and many other matters senator good to speak to thanks for joining us half my claim my pleasure. well saudi arabia's crown prince has met egypt's coptic pope in cairo during a three day tour of egypt and marks the first time a saudi official has been the spiritual center of the egyptian orthodox christian community so the first trip abroad for the having been some months since becoming an apparent last year he's due to meet leaders in the u.k. and the u.s. later in march. a search in support for populist and far right parties in sunday's

election has left its lee once again in political deadlock skeptic league policy has been the best performer among the group of right wing parties pleasantly they want thirty seven percent but the strongest single party was another populist movement five star with thirty two percent of the involved are reports from rome. just five years after they first got into parliament the five star movement the anti politicians party and the clear individual winners in italy's general election after a campaign that saw them valve's of fight corruption the vote share was more than ten points ahead of any other single party. a political force that represents an entire nation we can't say it is the same for the others which instead of more geographically based this is very important because representing the entire nation yes it protects us unavoidably towards governing the country towards governing. but to form

a government they'd have to betray their promise not to go into a coalition. leggo formally the northern league led by much. 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. so vini though insists the result is proof that italians fed up with the status quo which. 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 encloses in cages which are bringing hunger job uncertainty and insecurity to europe. 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 policy in the absence of any other solution they might stay on in

governments until another voting system and elections are organized we had the referendum and the last media to change an institution and seize them and these are the way and so now we will see for example water. pipes them to want to do on these things because in departing anywhere against. the we'd be out there we know 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 in the next one may be no difference nadine barber al-jazeera wrote. as we've said results so far give the center right

coalition around thirty seven percent of the vote eighteen percent of that for the anti immigrant rights wing league party. five star movement was the biggest party with some thirty two percent was the center left coalition languishes behind on twenty three percent between them the five stars on the lake over fifty percent needed to govern islay have called for greater spending on welfare rejection of eve 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 to mayo now says it's open to talks underway in a is a lecture and modern european history at the university of london and a specialist on the european far right he expects the five star movement will betray its campaign promise and go into a coalition by aligning with the center left well it depends if it 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 is forty is

pushing him out 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 alone with the second left rather than with the north because it will be a very extreme such a coalition and the thing that it did not necessarily work in favor of the five star the movement was strained movement them in news like there are many people there are different souls within it so you have 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 the movement has no majority. still ahead on al-jazeera florida lawmakers scramble to pass legislation they hope will gun violence after last month's deadly school shooting. in the sierra leonean his head into hotly

contested elections that are all faires of possible violence. doesn't sports the european champions league what's up with teams are in places in the quarterfinals. by the skyline of asian. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello there it's much cooler now for many of us in eastern china for us in shanghai the temperature will only be around ten degrees as we head through the next couple of days for to say though it should be dry this area of rain staying out towards the west but as we head into wednesday it will be galloping its way towards the so many of us here are going to see some heavy rain reaching us in shanghai probably late on wednesday and into thursday i mean further towards the south and there's plenty of showers here all showing up very nicely on the satellite picture in the northern half of where there's more in the way of drawing weather and that's how

things are going to stay as we head through chews day and into wednesday as well further south always more showers here further north a better chance of getting away with a dry day but even in the north it's not going to be completely dry i think for some of us in the northern parts of thailand there's a chance we could see some rather violent thunderstorms out towards the west largely fine and dry for many of us across pakistan and into india just a bit of cloud there over pakistan might just squeeze out the arch out but i think by and large it will be giving us some gray a conditions rather the wet conditions towards the east that we more in the way of what weather and snow there over poles in a poor but it is trying to pull away as we head into wednesday and things that will be drying up here in doha the temperature is rising i think as we head into tuesday and wednesday we're looking at a top temperature of around thirty. there with sponsored by the time these cool freely on the other goods can move freely as far and as much as they want it's a multinational colonialism this is a v i'm not an over the democratic process these companies they just want the money

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again you're watching on zero as a reminder of our top stories this hour an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged east and do so region juicer escalation and fighting across as a work as a safe and most of the forty trucks have been unloaded but the world health organization says around seventy percent of medical supplies were blocked by the government it's. former russian spy is being admitted to hospital in the u.k. after apostate being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old surrogates cripple and a woman in her thirty's are both critically ill in intensive care scrapple has been living in bresson since a spy swap in twenty ten. a new evidence has emerged jesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates tried to convince the us president to sign the american secretary of state and e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. found elliot brady a major trump fundraiser wanted rex tillerson out for not supporting the blockade against castle. but i mean that's one of our top stories the ongoing talks between

north and south korea a high level delegation from seoul is n.p.r. for a second day of discussions for a daughter to ski as an analyst at the news website and news and joins us now from seoul good to have you with us what's likely to come out of these talks. kalu poll of the correct answer is no one really knows what will come out of his talks because when you have been so unpredictable during the last two months probably we'll hear about some kind of agreement in a few hours between two careers maybe something related to potential summit between president clinton how unusual would that summit be about if it will actually take place it would be the summit between the leaders of the north and south korea the first one was between president clinton john and kim

jong il and this second one but it was between president. and also kim jong il what does south koreans think of this are they behind president means advances towards the north but the summit is quite popular here supporters fell about seventy percent something closer to eighty actually bought a society is divided roughly in half because of your relation things. gene should be pushing towards dinner. these summits boil off of a society thinks maybe we should discuss some small issues first and come to agreement or perhaps some exchanges or south korean tourists go into north korea or something similar are we still a long way off from north korea and the u.s. sitting around the same table it seems so although south korea would

very much like to present itself as a proxy between the two powers as a peacemaker so what would be the signs of warming relations between north and south because relations have deteriorated so much in the last few years. you're absolutely correct sylvia have been to projects of the region all before of the right wing and ministration of lehman back to power to fascinate one was suffering tories go into the of career and the second one preached support for most but not all or right in that period was caisson industrial complex while the second one is unlikely to be restarted in the future maybe some kind of agreement of tourism would be a definite sign. ok third order to ask you thank you very much take the time to speak to us there from seoul my pleasure it is aziz a tens of thousands of ranger refugees are at risk of death or serious injury when

their seasonal monsoon rains fall on their camps in bangladesh they warn the areas where they were staying are completely inadequate and the refugees need urgently housing and smith reports. johnny alarm is doing what he can to try and strengthen his home against the monsoon rains that will soon fall on this road in direct u.g. camp incautious bazaar but really there's not much you can do to stop these ten being swept into the canal a few metres below. right the bottom of a hill so this post could be easily washed away is also a risk of mudslide a might be able to rebuild the heart but i'm more afraid of my family being killed by storms and floodwater. rangers started running for me and my last august and around seven hundred thousand and it up in these camps in bangladesh condition to squalid and the people living in these homes built on steep

terraces will have little chance against a rental rain that will turn everything to mind. ideally we would like to evacuate many people from the sites but that depends on the availability and which we don't have so far we are extremely concerned and the steps we're taking are only mitigating steps we're not claiming it will help everybody and we are worried about the future very words indeed the u.n. says around one hundred thousand refugees here could be in grave danger from landslides and floods and the ranger come from a part of me and where they have no experience of how to manage extreme weather. scares us the most as if it rains during the night time we are sleeping there might be landslides we could die in our sleep there's some engineering work going on a can now is being cleared to make way for the rainwater retaining walls are being built pathways reinforced but it's going to be hard work to withstand the destructive force of monsoon downpours which are on the way. bernard smith.

leaders of latin american countries that are part of an anti u.s. bloc gathered in venezuela to commemorate the fifth anniversary of former president hugo chavez's death cuban president raul castro and ivan rather is of bolivia are among those who attended the event last america country continues to suffer from the deepening become a crisis which has forced thousands of venezuelans to flee to neighboring countries . thousands of teachers have gone on a forty eight hour strike a knowledge and. marching towards the country's ministry of education protesters want the government to give the more supplies open new schools and increase teacher salaries to compensate argentina's high inflation rate as an event marking the start of classes president receiver mark craig and mess said the public education system faces huge challenges he's made social spending cuts because he doesn't want wages above the inflation target of fifteen percent for this gap. canada's prime minister justin trudeau has called

a us president all trying to express his concern i have a suggestion of tariffs on steel imports his duties have been the subject of the latest talks to renegotiate the north american trade agreement which wrapped up in mexico city john home and has more we lost over the even from three thousand kilometers away washington d.c. president trump managed to open the seventh round of nafta negotiations we are renegotiating nafta as i said i work and if we don't make a deal all terminate now after that would be i would imagine one of the points that we're going to show you will be tariffs on steel for canada and for mexico. you do the announced plans to post tariffs on steel imports from around the world that kind of durham excuse felt that as the u.s. is partners in the nafta free trade they should be exempted canada was especially displeased should restrictions be imposed on canadian steel and aluminum products canada will take appropriate response of measures to defend our trade interests and

our workers they've been decimated president trump indicated he could be flexible if mix going canada capitulates another sticking points in the goetia. they include an increase a go to parts made in the us better mix could labor standards to make us work for small competitive of the clues and big enough that every five years common ground on those issues has been extremely hard to find us has indicated that the time is running out president trump's announcement has made already tough and slow moving the goetia actions even more difficult unless canada or mexico give the united states exactly what it wants the future seems uncertain for nafta john holeman how does it or mexico city. afghanistan has been declared one of the worst places to be born with high rates of infant mortality and sexual and physical abuse and with unemployment at more than forty percent. exodus of the country's educated youth the

afghan presence initiated a new strategies to get young people into work but as anybody found out the plant poses new dangers. there's an army of desperate street kids selling whatever they can in a daily battle for survival it's not just the bombs and bullets that kill in afghanistan but poverty and hunger too the young work wherever they can mostly for a pittance there are hundreds of thousands of them most with no hope of an education these children at the internationally supported often aging kabul are more fortunate they are a mix of street kids often and those abandoned by desperate parents afghanistan is officially one of the worst countries to be born and it has high infant and child mortality rates it has high rates of child sexual and physical abuse but it has one of the lowest literacy rates in the developing world. it's estimated more than six million children don't go to school yet education brings hope and i ended up that

shell i want to be a doctor in the future so i can help people in afghanistan. all i want to be a policeman so i can kill i still serve the country i arrest thieves and stop suicide bombers. their chances are slim forty percent of young afghans are unemployed what jobs there are tend to be obtained through nepotism or bribes it's led to an exodus of the country's educated elite a trend president garny is trying to reverse with a new strategy simply put it's aimed at replacing the old with the new he started a youth parliament offering them a bigger role in the future the young know of this they are really educated and open minded and they have a very good idea. they can build this county had again toward peace and a sustainable prosperity and peace and in. the clear out of the old has also hit

the security forces many senior officers have enjoyed cushy positions in high salaries up to the age of seventy and beyond hundreds have now been sacked as part of the u.s. backed initiative. chuckle com was a colonel in intelligence and says he risked his life many times in a forty year career he's angry at being thrown out with a small pension and warns of potentially dangerous consequences why because most of the dialogue with our work for the government has been honest however there's a possibility that some could be recruited by the enemy for money because of our knowledge of the government that could help the opposition's support for the seventy thousand street kids and under-age workers of it's long been a divisive issue but increasingly the us public is in favor of gun reform and political action so far that's been slow in coming the bill will now go to florida's house of representatives in the hopes it will reach the governor's desk by friday governor scott has said he won't approve arming teachers that's

a sentiment echoed by the survivors of the school shooting but their desire to see assault rifles banned is now off the table and gallacher al-jazeera tallahassee florida. of course enter he has refused to release two greek soldiers who were detained last week i say they accidentally crossed the border into turkey whilst on patrol in heavy snow and fog the soldiers reportedly took pictures of the area to send to their superiors attackers court has accused them of espionage. campaigning in sierra leone's general elections has closed ahead of wednesday's vote and ages of sixteen political parties are battling to succeed close and ernest bai koroma. reports. like many artists are just life is hard for. he need to lecture city to power his students and repair a broken electronics. energy shortages across the country over the last six months

left to address to loss of earnings because there are fewer jobs to do or. not trusting them or not it was the other things how she was going i suppose to god i told him because our french english was ridiculous what are you a man it's myself because i'm doing says is this i've know you had two complaints. is only one of two million sarah lutyens who still have jobs they say many promises were made during previous elections but not my choice done. those same plagiarists repeated this year. the election campaigns are colorful and also eventful but pockets of campaign related clashes have stopped fears of a violent past something the election umpires say marry a car to force the challenges definitely and then one of them is. i mean possibility of. the candidates last sixteen or don't want testing for president and

what do you think the wind elections when you and i would add only one party one candidate that would mean the presidential elections. a candidate needs to fifty five percent of the vote outright but three main contenders that include the anointed candidate of the company president a former u.n. official and the next military ruler many here expect a run of sixteen political parties are fielding candidates for president there are also parliamentary mayoral and council elections all on the same day. after more than half a century of quality come independence providing basics such as water electricity roads education and health care remain the growing influence in this election as in many african countries corruption can greatly impact on the delivery of such services whoever gets elected in with this vote will also have to contend with high rate of unemployment and poverty in a country that is emerging from war and a devastating outbreak of the ball of disease. but cameron many of his compatriots

don't expect much to change even with a new government in place a mature trees al-jazeera feature. artworks from paris is live museum are on display in a wrong for the first time and a cultural exchange between the two countries their hands national museum will exhibit more than fifty works of art so over the next four months among the items on display they're all sphinx and paintings by dutch artist rembrandt later this month from iran will be showcased in front. on. the football field. story and school.

thank you very much cycling is under the diapering spotlight again a long awaited report by british members of parliament suggest the form a tour de france champion bradley wiggins and his team exploited an anti doping loophole to take performance enhancing drugs 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 this question by the ethics of the use of medicines particularly medicines are being used not primary to treat medical need but could in homes 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

contents of a package delivered to work in june the criteria did offer in a race in two thousand and eleven claimed by team sky to contain the 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 it wasn't performance dancin in the sense that for me it was a case of i have this problem i've asked my tax i'd have. problems with breathing that flared up through pollen season and this was a case of it was an anti-inflammatory drug that was taken in order to prevent that happening so i could compete on the same level as i'd compete all year and with my rivals so this wasn't a drug that was this was a medication that was abused in order to gain an advantage 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 by far is accused by the reports of using a supplement before the. the 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 as a privilege those medical professionals so they do have a responsibility the prospects of action against those accused of cheating is slim and this was careful and sophisticated manipulation of the government. reputational but these were people held up as who runs on the trust in them on their sports is diminishing by the die. hosted saudi arabia's al actually in the group stage if the asian champions league on monday it marks the first time a team from a blockading country visited qatar for

a tournament since the gulf crisis began in june far s. now reports that. a team from saudi arabia in kept hard to play a match with the saudis continuing to impose a blockade on cateye our football is breaking through when nothing else is teams from united arab emirates another of the four countries which cut diplomatic relations last june had been drawn against sides from cats are in the continent's top club football competition the asian champions league alley are the first saudi club to play in cats are since the dispute began this group fixture as a home game for cattery team around the saudi and amorality football associations want it back just like this move to neutral venue a demand that was rejected by the region's governing body asian football confederation. cats r.'s twenty twenty two world cup organizers have urged the blockading nations to allow their people to play a full part in what will be the region's biggest ever sporting events. as star

player is wesley schneider who's played in a world cup final the milan darby and in el classico for around madrid against barcelona the most capped player in dutch history says politics shouldn't be allowed to interfere with football. i still love football every day i'm still driving here with a lot of joy because i still love the game and. i think we we shouldn't think about any political things that we just have to be focused on what we're doing on the pitch and nothing on from the site. team members were less keen to talk refusing to comment at a media conference when al-jazeera asked if the team was happy to be in caps are no answer for this question because it's not. as chairman is hopeful the asian champions league games can play a role in easing tensions between the neighbors the rafa have already played

a game in the emirates and three more cattery clubs are involved in boycott busting fixtures we should not and will politics to the sport and i'm sure sport is the best thing that can bring the youth. close up together and i'm sure the players they keep all those things behind them that they get a late equaliser for saw this game finish in a suitably diplomatic one one draw both teams are in with a good chance of reaching the knockout rounds how do you feel about the result today. on this night the saudi players were happy to allow their football to do their talking. far is small al-jazeera doha. liverpool are in pole position off their champion the last sixteen tie against f.c. porter they take a five nil first leg lead into the second leg at home around madrid also in

a good position although not as commanding the nadine's the dons man of three went up against paris found him on the second leg on choose day as in paris and the home team will have to turn things around with our star striker neymar that will suck it up when 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 years g australia are one up in there for match cricket test series against south africa after completing a resoundingly one hundred eighteen run when in durban the match though was mobbed by unsavory incidents after the match with 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 apologised to develop and this ball for now more later and that's it from me on the

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of course from. the blow up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a good citizen freedom of the soldiers going to be something these men and women are the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story to me is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth forced to be displeased by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three. it was very buggy greek and turkish villagers returned to their roots only most a century later. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever.

people shouldn't be forced to move from dilemma where they were born which are. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. a humanitarian aid convoys forced to turn back from the syrian on to have a nice and good says shelling continues. and i'm jane doesn't this is al jazeera live from the heart was a coming out of almost.