these reelection becomes more apparent we assess what direction russia might take. with media trends constantly changing listening post analyzes how the news is being covered. and as more people around the world struggle to find clean drinking water leaders and researchers gather in brazil to address a critical issue march on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello again i'm peter double you're watching news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next hour a south korean delegation returns from the north with a dramatic announcement. russia offers safe passage out of besieged eastern guta

for n.t. government fighters and their families. a cold war style mystery as a former russian spy lies critically ill in a british hospital. in sport brazilian striken neymar begins his race to be fit for the world cup the game's most expensive player is on crutches after surgery one hundred days out from kick off in russia. ok let's get going the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to hold an historic summit in april those hopes build for a breakthrough on the peninsula it follows a high level meeting between a south korean delegation and the north korean leader kim jong il in pyongyang they've agreed to install a hotline between the two leaders to deescalate military tension and north korea as well to freeze nuclear. and missile tests during the dialogue the south says

pyongyang is willing to talk to the u.s. to discuss giving up its weapons it said it wouldn't need them if it security was guaranteed the u.s. has previously said it would only hold talks if those talks lead to north korea's nuclear eyes ation mcbride joins us live now from seoul so rob considering where we were just a few weeks ago i guess this would on the face of it look amazing progress. it is an extraordinary period of diplomatic activity it is a little more than twenty four hours that this delegation has been north korea they left south korea not even knowing if they would actually get to meet with kim jong un the leader of north korea many critics have undermined tried to undermine this mission saying that it was premature that the south was being beguiled by the north that the north has not been sincere in this that they didn't have the right commitments to be sending

a delegation and yet we have had these extraordinary optics of kim jong un hosting a banquet all smiles handshakes and now the delegation returning apparently with what's moving jay into south korea believes is a landmark agreement something that could bring about a real sea change in the crisis surrounding north korea and its nuclear missiles first of all we have this commitment to a summit we know the details of it it will happen at the end of april in panmunjom we even know for example that it will happen to the south of the line of the d.m.z. separate separating north and south korea previous summits on the last one remember peter was back in two thousand and seven that happened in pyongyang this will happen actually on the d.m.z. that is quite symbolic in itself and furthermore we have this apparent commitment to denuclearize asia now this is very important not only for south korea but also

of course for the americans under the right conditions cording to south korea north korea has said it would be willing to denuclearize if it did not feel threatened if it felt as though its future was guaranteed now the devil they say is in the detail as it always is people will be looking at this very closely what exactly does that mean what constitutes a threat to north korea north korea is threatened by many things it says it's threatened by the exercises that take. place between south korean and american forces it is threatened by thirty eight thousand military u.s. military personnel in south korea well there's no indication that those personnel are going to go anywhere else anytime soon so there's lots to be worked out but it does at least provide a tantalizing offer or at least a way out a diplomatic way dialogue way peaceful way out of the current standoff over north korea's nuclear ambitions peter many thanks let's bring in robert kelly robot is

a professor of political science and diplomacy at the pusan university he joins us live now from busan in north korea on skype talking about getting rid of these things and actually doing it two very different concepts how do they make sure this goes in the right direction i think the next step is to get the americans on board right and we know that the rhetoric coming from the americans has been pretty tough for the last year donald trump's tolerance for north korean nuclear weapons is famously low you know we're on the verge of strikes and war not maybe four or five months ago as your reporter said there so i think that's really the next step you know the summit goes well the north koreans make some kind of serious offer and not some not pseudo concessions of like a freeze or something that can easily reversed but some genuine concession then moon has to go the south korean president has to go and sell that to the american ally ok so they will be we assume strategic provocations i.e. north korea will not test fire any more missiles between now and when the summits a shuttle to take place right and that's

a good thing but again that's the sort of that's the kind of thing i would call pseudo concession right and that's you know sort of the person you're dealing with agreeing not to fire a gun at you or something like that right i mean what we really need is for the north koreans to actually concede on something that's genuinely important right they allow inspectors back in or something like that right and you know a nuclear test a missile test could easily be restarted so you know freeze isn't really a concession i mean that's what i think that's what the south koreans will need if they're going to sell this to the americans as something that looks like the north inmate really moved on something important to it. what do the north koreans want out of this robot kelli i mean beyond security guarantees the economy is in a mess and the people of north korea suffer privations on a regular basis so what does he want to achieve i think with the north koreans alike most of all is some kind of guarantee there won't be american led regime change against the north and i think that's one of the reasons why so many people are skeptical these deals can be struck because it's just not clear that the americans can make that deal credibly which is to say the american president can say this but the next american president rolled back right the north koreans have

told us famously for years that the americans promised not to strike libya if khadafi gave up his nuclear weapons he did and we struck them anyway during the arab spring i think that's going to be the biggest problem is can the american signal credibly to the north koreans if we want to strike that most people assume that that's not possible the north koreans won't believe us and therefore they would keep their weapons that's why i mean this promise to denuclearize again it's you know we've heard this before the north koreans said this ten years ago i mean the basic strategic issues haven't really changed that much you know i mean the north koreans are still looking for security how much of this comes down to personality is because i mean since this news has broken some people are saying look kim jong un had another secret weapon it was his sister it was the personality mix when they were marching under the same flag for the winter olympics. yeah i think there's some of that i think the olympics certainly helped right and certainly i think the western press was sort of quite you know taken by the sister and it certainly got the ball rolling and i don't know again i'm not sure how much

i would say that sort of really has closed the gap though because again i think this for dziedzic issues are still genuine and real and i think they're quite deep actually but i don't think we would be having this summit so rapidly i think many people are surprised that someone's going to be so quick writes going to be in six weeks i don't think that would have happened without like you said the sisters visit and the sort of or of good feelings around the olympics six weeks is not a big timescale considering how long the divisions have lost on the peninsula and how long the bad language has gone on between north korea and this u.s. presidency so if they stumble jury six weeks what might they stumble of what i think the big thing coming up will be the tasks are the exercises right the americans in the south koreans do exercises every year south korea has a conscript army and so it's necessary to have these regular journals of the americans to ensure interoperability the north koreans always say these things are about an american invasion plan that's really not correct. but the americans want to do these things right and they're trying to ministrations pretty hawkish on north korea and they'll push for this and so now there's a big question of whether or not the exercises will actually happen because they're

supposed to happen after the paralympics and in like two weeks which would make which would have the exercises before the summit which would almost certainly sink the summit so now i wonder the south koreans going to try to get the americans to push the exercises back a couple months that would be a big deal because the south koreans meant signaling to the americans for a while they wouldn't actually postpone them robot kelly as have a good still she thanks very much thank you for having me. the russian military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern but the rebels are accusing russia of a military escalation and imposing force displacement russian air strikes killed ten people on tuesday the latest now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. the latest bombing campaign. into its third week i. believe. the number of civilians killed is climbing within an hour away. from the.

civil defense volunteers are overwhelmed now russia is offering a way to stop the war russian military commanders say they will guarantee safe passage out of the besieged enclave for rebel fighters and their families this. immunity for all fighters which was. personal weapons and with their families is government you did by the russian center we call upon the leaders of all the illegal groups to make everything possible to with these the civilians from suffering and secure unobstructed delivery of humanitarian aid to. the hundreds of thousands of people in eastern who are trapped in a war zone many refusing to cross into government controlled territory because of the lack of security guarantees the pro-government alliance blames the rebels for preventing civilians from leaving and holding them as human shields the rebel factions deny that and accuse russia of insisting on military escalation and force

displacement what is known as the revolutionary leadership announced general mobilization to defend the cities and towns. that this unite and forget the differences of the past the world with your steadfastness and perseverance with all your sacrifices during these hard. victory's near many many requests to join so we've opened many recruiting centers for volunteers and the should be the opposition has lost ground in recent days rebel defenses collapsed in the eastern side of the enclave the fighting hasn't yet reached heavily populated areas but pro-government forces seem to want to avoid direct combat the strategy appears to involve surrounding the main towns and cutting rebel supply lines to force a surrender that is what they did in the battle for aleppo they laid siege to the

rebel controlled east of the city for months and then they launched an all out military campaign it was only when the rebels found themselves trapped in a small pocket of territory that they agreed to leave with their families many others left with them particularly those involved in opposition activities the people of eastern huta fear the same fate doctors civil defense volunteers media activists are all considered terrorists by the government they don't want to be forced from their homes but the likelihood is increasing dozens are killed every day the suffering is only getting worse. beirut. dean is an activist who lives in inside east and we spoke to him a little earlier he says the area has been under attack all day. today there is no cease fire from nine to two o'clock as usual maybe there's shelling and bombing with. airplanes and rockets all over.

today from what it was bombed bombardment with helicopters with. many syrians injured. sometimes by. a scrimmage and to take the most. confusing thing that yesterday when the convoys was backing in eastern. there was an order from the regime to evacuate eastern good talk to the convoys. so nine trucks of these convoys. evacuate eastern could tell when they could with their goods. of course for the order of the regime. even. regime prevent entering the. front and medicine. all those. convoys was targeted

to. twenty seven. thousand people in eastern good in this. only one hundred thousand people so it's not enough. to clear the ten day state of emergency to stop the spread of violence against muslims the military's been deployed to the city of candy and the curfew has been imposed on homes and businesses were damaged in roy its recent unrest began after a truck driver from the majority buddhist community don't get days off from all to creation but for mr. nelson and the latest from county provides. a heavy blanket of security around the affected areas of beginner and candy in. the authorities very keen to make sure that there's no room for any further flare ups any more confrontations the muslim community and the sing haley's now what

started off as a. small scale argument on an altercation about broadway's all right of way. has basically taken on a communal proportion it never started this way and this is what the government is urging people not to give in to sort of hate rhetoric or any of this hate crime and violence but ensure that they work together the government has pointed towards the violence this country has seen for almost thirty years reminding people that they can't afford to go back to that era now basically the muslim community burying one of its own a youth who was caught in a house that was born down by an unruly mob last afternoon he couldn't get out on time and basically his funeral happening on tuesday afternoon now the single community also sort of hurting after

a truck driver forty one year old truck driver basically was assaulted to death a few days ago which formed the sort of catalyst for this tension for this country hoping very. they don't want to turn to this kind of communal clash because the country simply cannot afford it a senior u.n. official says me an ethnic cleansing of range of muslims is continuing the un assistant secretary general for human rights that's under gilmore says tactics of change from mass killing and rape to forced starvation he was visiting refugee camps in bangladesh where nearly seven hundred thousand rangers have been seeking refuge since a military crackdown began in august gilmore says there is a systematic effort by me and ma to destroy the ranges livelihood. nobody wants to reward the ethnic cleansing is on the side you have driven them out but at the same time one cannot force people to go back into what could well be

certain that what is going on at the moment not only are they still killing are they still rapes on a large scale not only are they driving people out with force and threats but also there is it seems almost systematic attempt to destroy the future livelihoods. well as most come for you here on the news hour including these stories he's been in office for one hundred days but insist bob weighs new president making any progress. and a new u.n. report says the number of children forced into marriage has fallen dramatically in one region in particular counts for much of the progress. if you are a victim of sexual abuse it's ok it's not your fault and the lawyers plea after a gymnast's becomes the first man to accuse a jailed u.s. doctor of sexual abuse.

britain's foreign secretary boris johnson says the u.k. will respond quote robustly if moscow is behind the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy powell and his thirty three year old daughter yulia are now in intensive care after exposure to an unknown substance it was found unconscious on a park bench in salzburg sixty six year old script has been living in the u.k. for the past eight years after being freed from prison and a russian spy swap the kremlin has denied any involvement and he joins us live with the latest from seoul's prison eve i guess they really need to know what this stuff was that caused this. yes that is the biggest question all we know so far is that they were affected by some form of contamination some form of poisoning according to the member of the public that first spotted them on this bench over there the end of our shot you can see the benches obviously still

covered with forensic tent they were found frothing at the ballston in the woods of the witness they were found in the semi paralyze state before they both then fell unconscious the daughter was then taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and her father then followed by road. we clearly have no idea or no sense of what they say material is but we do know also that the police don't believe that they suppose there's any continued health risk there is of course a cordon around the sport but it is of course possibly an active crime scene and what you call and see just a short is a mobile police unit that's been set up here we know that one restaurant in the town's easy has been closed as a precaution we have no idea whether or not the two may have been at that restaurant a little bit earlier but what this substance is we don't quite know yet but we are expecting a media statement from police here in the county of about

a couple of hours time people are talking about what happened to alexander litvinenko a few years back is it too soon to make a connection. i think peter inevitably when you talk about scrip being an ex russian agent when you talk about a possible poisoning there are going to be parallels drawn. as you mentioned in the introduction there has been really been speaking in the lower house of parliament the house of commons he said that it may be too early to point the finger but there are of course suspicions of state involvement in the possible attempts to kill scrip are all of that really has to be stablished the british authorities are very clear that they are open to all possible options but at the same time britain's foreign secretary has said that the country would be prepared to take robust action

and support this investigation going forward and if any kind of link to moscow can be established if these suspicions karen end up being stood up then it could even possibly lead to an extension of sanctions against moscow but for now we really just don't know we can see neve thanks very much well chalons is in moscow with more. well the kremlin is wearing it's world weary here we go again nothing to do with us hats on at the moment it's person to be sure peskov says the claims in the u.k. of a russian connection haven't been long in coming that u.k. authorities haven't actually asked for any assistance yet from moscow but if they do moscow is always open to interaction that i think will raise some eyebrows in london given the absence of cooperation over the lip and yank ok but beyond that the kremlin is making very little comment saying it has no more information itself there's been something slightly more pity from a parliamentarian

a duma deputy called on great lugovoy he says the britons suffer from phobias and that if something happens to a russian they immediately start looking for a russian trail and that one cannot rule out that the media will try and stir up another scandal putting forward further accusations against the russian special services now if the name on day lugovoy is familiar to our audience that is because he is one of the two russians who is suspected in the u.k. of being behind the murder in two thousand and six of alexander living yanker by poisoning he was never extradited to face any charges in the u.k. in fact he was essentially promoted into the russian parliament giving him extra immunity. the un says the number of child marriages around the world has decreased by fifteen percent in the last decade south asia has witnessed the biggest decline with the likelihood of girls under eighteen getting married dropping from fifty

percent to thirty percent that's been credited to india's progress in education and proactive government initiatives unicef estimates twenty five million marriages have been prevented in the past ten years but there is still a lot of work to be done with more than one hundred fifty million girls likely to marry under the age of eighteen by the year twenty thirty and he is the child chief child protection officer at unicef india he joins us live now from new delhi how have they managed to get the message out there. you know with afternoon. hello good afternoon can you hear us. yeah yeah i can hear you perfectly know indeed we are in a moment of celebration in the you can see the. baby and you should decline an upbeat list on ten years from forty seven percent of prevalence of child marriage to twenty seven percent so the data decline that in the short period of time and

how have they managed to get that idea out there and how have they managed to get people to respond in this very positive way. so there has been for a very important initiatives the first one is that increasing number of girls going to school in the country these. years millions of girls are know having access to education the second one is that we have an incredibly strong and progressive legislation that is really driving these change the third one is that we really dynamic on vibrancy in society and community in it were said to have made child marriage and the next. and fifty one is part of the changing demographics in india with millions of people moving from. these in which their behavior towards change very quickly is this done to the girl saying no i'm not going to get married

under the age of consent i guess or is it their mothers perhaps saying actually you don't have to. well it is a combination of boss what you see impressive in the country when you visit some brutal areas is that you have very empowered and. able to say i don't want to get married but we have to be very careful because i think we are putting also a lot of responsibilities on the shoulders of those girls and also parents some of them have taken the responsibility to say no to child marriage of course this is an ongoing process and while we're celebrating these major progress in the country we have to accept that in many regions of the states of the country fairly high prevalence of child marriage is still there there is still a way to go with this issue how do you make sure that this carries on moving in the

right direction. well the first piece i think that our main mainly government initiatives that we need to keep supporting the most access to quality education and we ensured this difficult transition from a school to work from childhood to other and there are plenty of government programs that are supporting that transition how we would use is not enough this is the first thing that we need to work together with civil society with the government is how do we ensure distance ation from childhood hoot and the critical point is to see what type of job opportunities to nip this in life we can create for those girls that will be the first in the second one more and more we have. been implemented we have mention a few minutes before incredibly well designed. is not enough to have a good look as if they are not implemented this is the second point the third one

is that more and more we need to work with communities where the practice is to prevail and a very much linked to the dollar tree in which in many communities and families the girls become a burden to their families so these practices are. really hold embark in child marriage in many states across india really i mean in new delhi thank you very much . ok time for the weather here's everton and another snow storm system hitting the states yeah that's right pain another one making its way across the northeast and conus got the potential to be quite a big snowmaker rashly could see as much as twenty five to thirty centimeters of snow is the system makes its way through we've got some snow at the moment moving across the northern plains heading towards the midwest is for south dakota the snow is now edging its way across minnesota heading towards the great lakes and will continue to travel its way eastwards we're looking at sit running over towards the

lakes then easing over towards the northeast and cold it's was doing little look further south to where is of low pressure here we're pulling in a fair amount of moisture so when we see that snow mixing in with this area of a wintry weather across northern parts when we see these two systems come together we have the potential for some heavy and wet snow coming through not as windy as last week's nor'easter across that northeastern corner but we are looking at some pretty nasty weather to go on through the next few days widespread travel disruption there's the snow see how that's pushing across pennsylvania into new york pushing into new england it will continue to make its way further north which in this is when stay through thursday i think that's when we can see the worst of the weather not just for the north has but we are sucking that moisture in bumping into the cold air that's where we're going to see the problem so by the time we come to thursday the snow still extending across ontario into quebec and pulling out of maine peter. everson thanks very much still to come here on the news leaked e-mails are you a you linked to businessman and his suspected plan to get america's top diplomat

will give you the details and ending poverty is the aim of the chinese government but migrants in beijing paying a high price we have the first of two special reports and the sports news serena williams steps up her preparations for the top level singles action and he has that story in about twenty minutes. the scene for us where they are on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but. not because the situation is calm but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people choosing between buying that. this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is close to the story joined the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

the partnership. hello again you're with live from doha your headlines so far this hour the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to meet in april that follows

a high level meeting between a south korean delegation and the north korean leader kim jong un in pyongyang they've agreed to install a hotline between the two leaders while the north as about freeze nuclear tests all the talks get underway. the russian military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern culture but rebels are accusing russia of a military escalation and imposing force to displacement russian air strikes killed ten people on tuesday at least eighty on monday. britain's foreign secretary boris johnson says the u.k. will respond robustly if moscow is behind the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy circus cripple and his thirty three year old daughter yulia and now in intensive care in the u.k. after being exposed to an unknown substance the kremlin has today tonight any involvement. zimbabwe's new president emerson among has been in office now for one hundred days since he took over from robert mugabe last year he's been trying to attract foreign investment to revive the economy however as how much

house an hour explains from harare zimbabwe and have mixed feelings about his progress so far. charles my look i was laid off years ago he used to work for this coast deal which was once one of africa's largest still factories. charles is now a part time handyman in his neighborhood he says not being able to properly provide for his family is humiliating but we have been living from hand to mouth and most of the days in some night. you know it's so odd for the not to supply for his family. from two thousand and eight up to today the steel factory where charles worked is now an industrial graveyard it used to employ more than five thousand workers and produced a one million tons of steel annually now zimbabwe imports four hundred million dollars worth of steel every year president is under pressure to deliver his

administration insist it is making progress repairing relations with western powers and international financial institutions what was been solved by this government is the promise of change that although they have been part of the old regime seem to be committed to some form of change and some traction and also to be fresh out of the eighty three promises were around thirty three issues but opposition politicians say not much has changed in the one hundred days as well and took over from robert mugabe so you missed that opportunity by failing to frame a government that was consistent with a spirit of the people really does been downward now it's business as usual the public is very skeptical reviving dilapidated infrastructure needs foreign direct investment the us has extended targeted sanctions for another year say not much has changed since managua took over the sanctions were imposed nearly twenty years ago for alleged human rights abuses economists warn this could scare away potential investors industry experts say the real economic recovery could take at least three

years right now people can access money from banks and the unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world after years of neglect some roads are getting a facelift some people say that's a small positive sign but political analysts say the road to real economic recovery in zimbabwe will be long and bumpy. a political analyst and co-director of the university of johannesburg david manya good to have you here on the news hour so the honeymoon is over how's he doing. i think years mid quite a number of attempts he's promising change or real change on the ground will take time to take place and there's a lot of time for sanctions to be lifted for a number of changes to take place that political is only going to make level ok the economic level first some people are saying two and a half or three years that's

a long time for the people of zimbabwe to wait considering what a tough life they've had so far anyway indeed and this is jude to deliberate dating infrastructure and unemployment which is high inflation as well as the usage of for an occurrence as in probably does not have a current of its own and therefore to make all these changes in that tried massive foreign investment will take time and for the sanctions to be lifted as well so these would lead up to the stable democratic election by foreigners the international community particularly within countries and ensure that the region side back in the e.u. contribute meaningfully to ensure that all institutions of governance in place for elections to take place at this year is there

a sense in which perhaps he was always going to be fair the beds into an easy honeymoon period not because of him as a politician not because of anything that he may or may not do but rather by default because he's not robert mugabe. no doubt about that and the change that he spoke about i think he has promised quite a lot and appears to have been one chip in some of these start to go up to active in terms of stop the lies in the economy ensuring that there's food security by subsidizing a coach or two ordinary people on the ground compensating some of the white farmers but all these that require support from outside the international the international community particularly britain and think there's more week to be done and it depends with zimbabweans not just those in the country but those in the border to go back home and assist these government but unfortunately the opposition is not in

good good state is this a big ask for him or perhaps for anyone who is doing his job just now because you seem to be saying to us now look he's got to get foreign investment by saying to the foreign investors i have foreign investment he needs people to come into the country to encourage more people to get into the country so when he takes that message of the economic chances around the corner if you will combined with i'm not mr mugabe what's his central message say when he has a meeting with boris johnson in three to six months time the u.k. foreign secretary. i think is to go back to the original scene which is the you know. legacy and dealing with the outstanding issues emitting from the lancaster house britain must play its role in terms of compensating the white farmers whose land was taken including the zimbabwean government and then they need to close that pod to ensure that this productivity in the culture sector which is

the biggest for this in dublin economy and at the same time he also has to try that foreign investment through good economic policies and it appears that is working with a good team and one expects support from all the bobbins including the opposition but it seems that zimbabweans are not yet speaking the call at end and directed way to deal with these challenges. at the university of germs books thanks very much. evidence is a suggesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates trying to convince the u.s. president to sack rex tillerson leaked e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. found elliot brody a major trump fundraiser wanted to listen out for not supporting the u.a.e. backed blockade of count up a small. us citizens have the constitutional right to lobby the government but

they have to obey the law when they do so on behalf of another country please write news reports say the special counsel for the russia investigation robert muller has expanded his work to include those who may be lobbying on behalf of the united arab emirates the new york times says muller has already interviewed this man businessman george nader about his ties to the iraqi government and his meetings with white house officials the news reports also say nader knows another u.s. businessman elliott brody brody too has u.a.e. ties according to the b.b.c. broidery reportedly lobbied to president donald trump in october to support the blockade against qatar to hold secret talks with the crown prince and to fire secretary of state rex tillerson because he opposed the blockade to be clear there is no indication moller is investigating broidery. what analysts like interesting

is the extent of the influence the emirates hold inside washington it's the. invest of so much good is now this over confidence that they can have their way into the us administration and to the extend that. they were trying to get to the head of some because of his position toward the gulf crisis at the same time what is a lot of is not an act of regular. national role being part of the game in washington but it's rather you have two asian kids any your kids. and yours may that whole or trying to establish a diabetic between tromp and mohammed have been is a good. there's also the question of whether the president's initial support for the blockade was in any way influenced by his son in law jared cushion or news

report say a few weeks before the blockade began family business tried and failed to get a business loan from a car to reinvest or all this comes as it becomes clear muller is investigating the communications of everyone close to the president and wants trump's communications to on monday one of those former aides repeatedly turned up on american television to say he would not comply with out so we were taken with what they want i think it would be funny if they arrested thank you very much we've nunberg runs the risk of being jailed if he doesn't cooperate a fact that can't be ignored as the moeller investigation grows beyond the russia question and into other countries as well. jordan al-jazeera washington. hundreds of women from fifty countries are on the road from turkey to the syrian border they're raising awareness about the conflict in syria and its impact on women the convoy of more than one hundred fifty buses left istanbul arrive in

a tie on thursday which is international women's day thousands of syrian women have been killed tortured and raped in the seven year long civil sin in pursuit of has more now from istanbul. march two thousand and eighteen marks the seventh year of the syrian war which cost that these five hundred thousand lives inside syria according to the human rights organizations at least thirteen thousand people lost their lives in prisons by torture by the syrian regime and the muslims here. there are full of women hitting the road from his normal to hyped i hope turkeys border city with syria there is no reason why six thousand women should be held in prisons in syria this is the twenty first century you know what was unearthed this happening twenty first century and women are being tortured in brutalized it has to stop by is assad keeping these women in prison what is he

doing with them you know what purpose there is no purpose at all release these women and children you know some women have had to give birth behind bars you know can you imagine the the horrors that they've had to endure it has to stop it is not really human who are these have been in syria so as we following in the footsteps of mr mandela we hope this it will make a change so that is the way we are here at least to support all the way from very. great place which is the birthplace of mr mandela these people are gathered here to give support for the women who are imprisoned in my area by the regime and they are trying to create an international awareness and initiate a campaign that will let the syrian regime release the women who are in prison and

all they want is that the syrian women should be freed and they are giving this message which is going to end up by a convoy on the international women's day so you don't go solo al-jazeera stumble. zimbabwe has banned imports of processed meat stuff from south africa following an outbreak of listeria there the world health organization says the problem is the largest in recorded history with at least one hundred eighty deaths in the past year zambia and mozambique have already stopped bringing in meat products from south africa. thousands of teachers have gone onto a forty eight hour strike in argentina on the first day of the new school year they marched towards the education ministry to demand better salaries new schools and more resources now the president. has offered a fifteen percent pay rise but teachers say that's not enough and doesn't keep pace with inflation. venezuelans every member of president chavez on the fifth anniversary of his death leaders of latin american countries who are part of the

boulevardier n.t. u.s. bloc met in caracas they rejected peru's decision to ban president nicolas maduro from next month's summit of the americas neighboring countries are alarmed at the deepening economic crisis and food shortages and murderers called for an early presidential election without any credible opposition chinese leaders are trying to further reduce poverty levels by encouraging millions more people in rural areas to move to the cities but not to beijing when migrant workers are being forced to leave others who remain in the capital struggling to cope with the high cost of living in china correspondent adrian brought. you the song you is having a good afternoon he reckons you'll have made around ten dollars by the end of it he collects discarded clothes plastic and scrap metal anything he can sell to recyclers. you shows me his home

a room measuring just over five square metres in the rents a hundred dollars a month to economize the electric heater stays off which means it's as cold inside as out a dangerous mesh of exposed wiring loops around the room. he washes outside where there's also a public toilet pool has a well my father had to share this bear with me last asama my children also visited all five of us have to live in this tiny room some of us have to sleep on the floor can you imagine five people squeeze in this room. he came to beijing almost ten years ago because there was no work in his home province of chandon his wife two daughters and a son are all in other cities he sees them just once a year. so i first daughter and my second daughter

a both in college now the reason i'm working here is to save money for their education last the chinese new year i didn't go home because i didn't have enough money. he's not bitter about his life and accept it's his choice to live this way poverty in china is defined as anyone living on around three hundred sixty u.s. dollars a year you makes twelve times that but in beijing costs are much higher than elsewhere . his future though is now uncertain in recent weeks the homes of tens of thousands of migrant workers have been demolished on the grounds they violated safety codes for years china's rural poor have been encouraged to move into the big cities but here in beijing officials now want to cap the population of twenty three million and that's why so many migrant workers are being forced to leave kneel on

the only i don't have any pension or medical care when i have to look after myself or with no one really cares about you to be honest and never sought about my future . china's economic transformation has for now passed him by down the road there's a new shopping mall and apartment complex aimed at beijing's permanent residence a world that you is unlikely to ever know adrian brown al jazeera beijing. and from urban poverty to rural poverty in the second of our special to reports in that series adrian brown will report from china she province in the northwest of china tomorrow that is where some farmers are surviving by or owing into the clay hillside that's where today from seven hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera. the wreck of a u.s. aircraft carrier has finally been found seventy six years after it went in a second world war battle video shows the u.s.s. lexington is in remarkably well preserved condition three kilometers below on the

seabed lady lexa she was known when in the battle of the coral sea in one nine hundred forty two when the u.s. prevented the japanese invasion of australia wreckage was found off the coast of queensland by a search team led by the us billionaire paul allen. still ahead here and. on the political front line and he's here with us story when we come back.

thank you sports news with andy thank you so much pete so well aside one of the

favorites for football's world cup won't want to same one hundred days out from kick off at the games showpiece event in russia the most expensive player on the planet's brazil's name is on crutches after surgery on that fractured right foot the two hundred seventy million dollars hi sanjay man striker has now left brazil to begin a three month recovery doctors say the operation on his methods hostle and ankle went perfectly but he's still racing to be fit for brazil's opening world cup game that's coming up in mid june meanwhile he's of course missing pasties champion's league match against holden realm a dreaded p.s.g. three one down from the first like most goes up soreness samberg you always have two options sit down and cry look it up and make it happen it's true that with neymar p.s.g. is much stronger and without name us it is still strong but there are other players it's true that it's impossible not to feel the absence of such a player but i insist we are the sit down and cry or we might do and we fight and

of course i choose the second option liverpool have the option of resting some key players for the second leg of that song with port side the inner side winning the first like in portugal five nil and now the same in the history of the tournament has recovered from being a five goals down to when it's high. if i was in a dress and i want to prove a point and it's very important game for us you know. every every time a political show on the expectation of pressure to win the game and we expect to do that every time regardless also for the rest of the season want to keep this wrong going on important a good performance on monday manchester united at leap frog liverpool into second place in the english premier league took a late winner from their money matic to save a three two win at relegation threatened crystal palace united coming back from to nail down to start losing against chelsea is is very difficult and to start losing the way of home. against

a team that needs points like they do is is very very hard so we kept the faith we kept. we kept the belief he made changes the plays the excepts. the risk and then i have to i have to admit that we were a little bit. a little bit lucky. now the asian champions league is a football tournament that's found itself on the political front lawn nine months on from four nearby countries imposing a blockade on cats all football has found a way through for a small reports. a team from saudi arabia in caps hard to play a match with the saudis continuing to impose a blockade on cats 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 have 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 the patrie team by the saudi and amorality football associations one of the matches 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 parts 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 shouldn't think about

any political things that we just have to be focused on what we are doing on the pitch and nothing on from the site. team members were less keen to talk refusing to comment on a media conference when al-jazeera asked if the team was happy to be in kept our. no answer for this question because it's not about. al graf its chairman is hopeful the asian champions league games can play a role in easing tensions between the neighbors we should not involve politics to the sport and i'm sure sport is the best thing that can bring the youth you know close up together and i'm sure about it the players they keep all those things behind them their course appearing at the game a late equaliser for all grafters saw this game finish in a suitably diplomatic one one draw both teams are in with the big 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 as al-jazeera del. striker came out sure to lift south korea's martz's to a third straight win in the competition cames three goals part of john brooks six three victory over its hands in one jan in their group match the twenty sixth in champions a top of the group now five points clear of the nearest rivals. and the first man has come forward to accuse former u.s. gymnastics team doctor laurie nasser of sexual abuse jacob moore says he was abused two years ago while being treated by nasa for a shoulder injury the eighteen year old is one of more than two hundred fifty alleged victims of nasa has been sentenced to hundreds of years in jail. i hope to god you know no one no one else is. has been affected by this that hasn't come out

yet but. you know if they are out there then. you know i don't want them to be you know scared to come out because of you know this stigma that you know guys can be you know sexually abused or you know taking advantage of this and serena williams a step parent sent to competitive tennis with an appearance at an exhibition solomons in new york williams appeared to be bright tens ahead if i return to the cards six months on from giving birth to her daughter the twenty three time major tournament champion will play at the indian wells event in california a first match is set for wednesday. you are going to make your way back starting next week and you've made it a point to set your expectations high which i love why well i think everyone should have high expectations you know you should always believe in yourself even if no one else does and if someone tells you no you just keep going and don't let that

stop you so that's kind of how i feel and that's the message that i'm spreading on this journey that most sport throughout the night that is it and i think you took more news on the web site of course al jazeera dot com is the web address you need to we will recap all the top stories when we come back in a couple of minutes she about. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems their challenging systems and shaping new ones it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. and monday put it well on. u.s.

and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the earth. natural capital the capital which makes a creative. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscapes protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because they see a business of pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera we're here to jerusalem

bureau coverage israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of internet to recover includes that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to get journalists to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens here matters. leaders of north and south korea agree to hold talks next month raising hopes of a breakthrough in relations see. below again i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live from of course here and also coming up.