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two very different kingdoms but this wednesday is all about how close they can get at the highest levels mohammed bin some of the crown prince of saudi arabia is in the u.k. he is missing the british monarch queen elizabeth also his effective counterpart prince charles and the british prime minister series in may and it's the kind of trip which has provoked some deep feelings about the u.k.'s relationship with saudi arabia mohammed bin salman or m.b.a.'s as is often called is pushing an agenda or of reform in saudi arabia but the kingdom is also as we know leading a war in yemen a blockade against cancer and so there are questions over the u.k. being too close to a controversial global player so there he is mohamed bin some missing queen elizabeth the second but it is worth remembering as well that they are not equals if you look at the. family tree if you like their king solomon of course is actually the monarch he would be queen elizabeth's. it is his son however mohammed

been so many you see on the right hand side there's so much power so much influence with him at the moment that he is leading this trip to the united kingdom his first international trip as crown prince let's check in with jamal he is in london for us outside the prime minister's residence that's number ten downing street jamal tell us about how it's all been received today. well it is a very controversial trip as you outlined to come out just a few steps away from downing street there are protesters who've began to gather in fact earlier than expected they are angry that the u.k. prime minister is welcoming the amount they consider to be responsible for the killing of thousands of civilians in yemen and also responsible for a regime which they described to be extremely oppressive and regressive in that it has cracked down on opposition figures not just human rights activists and so forth but also anyone that's been some man or m.b.'s sees as

a threats to his. power within saudi arabia however on the other side you have those who have been trying to portray him as a young reformer who's going to develop an liberalize saudi arabia they point to the fact that he's promised so allow women to drive although that still hasn't been implemented his critics however say that is all superficial and the reality is that there are still those who are being beheaded in public there are very little rights when it comes to women and in fact the head of the opposition party here in the united kingdom german court when the head of the labor party tabled an urgent question earlier today in part minister's question time where he questioned or he criticized the way in which this government is receiving muhammad and someone tomorrow is international women's day a chance to vote celebrate how far we've come on equality for women but it was said reflect on how far we have to go not just in this country but around the world

later today mr speaker the prime minister is due to meet crown prince mohammed bin solomon as she makes a rum sales pitch will she also call on the ground prince to hold the shocking abuse of human rights in saudi arabia. the link that we have with saudi arabia is historic it is an important one and it to say it has saved the lives of potentially hundreds of people. and i will be raising concerns about human rights with the crown prince when i meet him can i just say as the rise of the gentleman started on the issue of international women's day i welcome the fact that the crown prince will be sitting down with as the guest of a female prime minister. well that strong relationship isn't just about security cooperation between the two countries but more

importantly about money and in the end of the day money does talk as the saying goes the united kingdom and under the premiership of theresa may is struggling economically in that it is still trying to figure out how its economy would look like host brigs it and it is in dire need or she is in dire need of finding economic partners to invest so we understand that through this trip the saudis will be promising an increase roughly twenty percent of investment in the united kingdom roughly the trade between the two countries stands at about eight billion dollars a year they're promising to bring that up to ten billion a year obviously a large part of that is arms sales and that is why so many people are against the way in which the u.k. is dealing with this partner because in the end of the day mahomedan sandman is the architect of the war in yemen it is british arms that are being used to bomb civilians in yemen and they're saying well if the u.k. wants to be seen internationally as a country that respects human rights and freedom and so forth it should not be.

essentially paying along with some of bins of mine and ignoring or turning a blind eye to the human rights abuses that are taking place there one last thing what's expected actually to come out of this trip tomorrow is this formation of a strategic council that will be headed by both the british prime minister and mohamed been some man and as you mentioned there is very peculiar that this will be taking place because in the end of the demo have been some money is not the head of state so when countries do form such committees or councils or structures it is usually the way you do should be parity in terms of who heads them so if it's a prime minister here it should be the leader of the government in the other country but for all intents and purposes m.b.'s is the ruler of saudi arabia he has proven to be ruthless in his approach or his quest for power. as far as the pragmatists here in the united kingdom are concerned are willing to accept that

because they knew that the saudi money essentially helped tells you a lot about how much power has been put in his hands doesn't jump straight in london thank you as you all mention there of course been protests against the crown prince's visit human rights groups put the spotlight on the devastating impact of saudi arabia's campaign in yemen the saudi that militant coalition is backing the yemeni government in its fight against the hutu rebels but the civil war has led to the world was a humanitarian crisis as well and i took a side business times with saudi arabia should not be put ahead of human rights. here voicing the concerns of the british public both the concerns over what saudi arabia is doing in yemen and the u.k. complicity by setting selling war arms to them and as you can see behind us the crown prince is while he's counting the death toll the u.k. continues to count its cash that it's making over arms deals now a peculiar feature also stripped by mohamed bin someone's been the huge advertising

blitz in london posters of gone up as you say portraying m.b.'s as a reformist who is changing his kingdom for the better hashtag new saudi arabia there the ads take over includes many premium locations including the main highway from heathrow airport in to central london there's also been an online spend with many similar ads popping up on social media and even on some news apps. and you sort of are you always sharing information we're doing so by improving awareness of what's going on in the kingdom you know it's a good idea i think without this kind of thing people probably wouldn't be that it's not heavily companies just put but when i think it's not a photo i just show you just for show well it would make me look behind. what they're trying to achieve with that communication if there is a real change we should. you know be ok with it but we don't

really know how open it is even though there are signs of it it kind of looks like like it's trying to advertise something else as opposed to the prince coming to the u.k. . we've got something pretty with us now president of the muslim association of britain he's in our london studio i want to talk about your open lesson to prime minister to resign may in a moment but first your reaction to what we just saw there all these billboards they've been mobile billboards moving around london there's been the online i mean it. it is quite peculiar isn't it that this kind of visit well it just shows that money can buy anything doesn't it and also a question that came to my mind as i saw one of those billboards very very peculiar very weird is for whose pleasure is it i mean is it for. you know it was to promote the saudi visit i mean to the ordinary londoner in the you know on the streets or is it probably to make any kind of agreements contracts deals arms and otherwise is

a moot palatable to the british public once they know exactly what they what their government is doing on their behalf just say ok so as i said your association under your name actually wrote this open letter to prime minister to reason that broadly speaking what did you want from her from this trip. well essentially i mean we recognize the fact that britain doesn't need to do trade with other countries and saudi arabia is an important country and we outlined the importance of saudi arabia not only from a strategic standpoint but also politically and of course commercially and religiously and therefore there is no denying that britain will do business with saudi arabia however what we try to outline what we try to remind our prime minister is that it was crucial that the aspect of human rights of freedoms and of democracy will come to talk about that a little bit must be at the very heart of any kind of deal we don't do deals

regardless we don't do deals without conditions otherwise you know what what kind of what kind of country are we proclaiming that we uphold democracy we uphold human rights we uphold liberties and freedoms then we enter into a deal with you know a regime that recognizes none of that and it's also important that you know i listen to the reports of germany. and your introduction to the segment and it's quite important that once one hundred mr nunn is being introduced. as this reforma and in order to explain exactly how he's reforming we go directly to the fact that women have been allowed to drive i find that quite insulting to be honest i mean the fact that ally saudi arabia is now opening several cinema multiplexes or that it's hosting several musical concerts for instance or allowing women to drive then that's sort of an indication of reform reformation of liberalism

liberalization of opening up you would ask how many of those women who are allowed to drive would be allowed to vote or would be allowed to dissent politically would be allowed to object to any policy of the saudi regime then we know the measure of the real kind of liberalization reformation that is taking place last night in south anas altikriti from the british muslim association thank you for your time. if you want to get in touch with us on this topic well you should or any of the topics you've seen that are coming up on the grid today hashtag a.j. use good as we always say if you using twitter i've actually read tweeted something already from at english which you can reply to that thread and we had our producers looking for your feedback there at facebook dot com slash zero of the live stream where you can watch you can comment to us you can common amongst yourselves online and thousand and seven for five or one triple one for nine on your mobile that is whatsapp and telegram if using either of those messaging services you can get in touch with us as well so please do we're going to move on just for now posen sierra

leone's elections closing in less than two hours now as voters choose their new president ernest bai koroma is stepping down after ten years having served the maximum number of presidential term that is two leaders of sixteen political parties are vying to succeed him including two new parties looking to gain some ground also on the ballots parliamentary and local government positions iraq just over three million voters registered for this third elections since the end of the civil war atlanta dress is with us now he is joining us from freetown how long to go till the polls close. well we know that is less than two hours exactly. we're talking about one hour forty five minutes before the police. and things are actually the count actually thinning out it's been a busy morning there were accused in the morning lots of people lined up to vote and as the day goes on it's like

a lot of them have voted and have moved back home now let me show you what has been going on throughout the day of water for example that gentleman over there the door will come and consult with this election official who will go through his register he had to see whether or not the name here corresponds. with the card the voter is holding and from there they move to these two ladies who will issue. papers one for the presidential election the other one for parliamentary and then some more for the local council elections holding on the same day as start of the presidential elections immediately after that the voter will proceed and collect some more of these ballot papers which are from for the municipal elections then the voter will proceed to this enclosure and mark his or her own ballot at the end of the

marking the voter will come and drop the ballots for the presidential election here and this one is actually for the parliamentary election and after that they move all work to this place where the council elections boxes are this one is for the council chairman or the mayor and this one for the council is immediately the voter finishes. the fingers or rather the thumbs will be marked with an indelible ink so that's what's been going on earlier when we spoke to the election officials who said it's been a success according to their own assessment. odal there are here and there one particular area was. boxes delivered ballot papers for the presidential and parliamentary elections were delivered but the council issued and miral election ballot papers were not delivered those big quickly one to two address but it was very difficult for that for them to do that so they've shifted some of these

elections where they have these problems to the next day they wanted to do it on another day so basically that's what's been happening and only because it sent us i was literally on today ok when i made it is that we're talking to begin later on as those polls close and hopefully we start to get an indication of what's happening in the sierra leone election. right we are going to have a look at some other world news for you now judy macdonald is in months. i can well thank you now the syrian government has intensified its assault on eastern in an effort to cut the rebel held into hundreds of people have been killed since the bombardment was launched late last month now warning this report by saying a hoarder does contain distressing images. civil defense volunteers are appealing to the un security council to make this stop they are calling what is happening in eastern huta

a bloodbath. rescuers are responding to cries from underneath the rubble in this case from a child. your mother something that you get me out of here this boy says. he survived oh it. was but at least eight hundred syrians many of them women and children have already been killed in almost three weeks of relentless airstrikes and bartman throughout the besieged enclave. but anyhow we are the free people of eastern little we want to freedom and the downfall of this murderous regimes which has committed crimes against the people there are more extremists and terrorists here they are the ones who are killing children and god willing we will remain steadfast. the pro-government alliance is pushing ahead with its air and ground assault they have

reportedly sent reinforcements hundreds of soldiers to join the battle rebels have lost territory but remain defiant one of the main factions official islam says the people and the fighters in eastern huta will defend their land. the faction is also denying negotiating a withdrawal proposed by the russian military the russian defense ministry says some groups in eastern huta are ready to accept the amnesty offer and leave with their families the ministry did not name those groups and so. far none have expressed readiness to leave even eastern who does civilians have not taken up the russian offer to evacuate many of them are afraid to cross into government controlled territory and many are afraid of permanent displacement western nations have criticized the attacks on the densely populated opposition held territory but they have done little to stop them the united nations yet again using strong words against the syrian government and its backers russia this month it is eastern which

is in the words of the secretary general hello nurse next month or the month after it will be somewhere else where people face an apocalypse an apocalypse intended planned and executed by individuals within the government apparently with the full backing of some of the foreign supporters. it is urgent to reverse this catastrophic course to refer syria to the international criminal court hundreds of thousands of syrians are trapped in a war zone many are on the move as pro-government units advance further into the enclave the central town of misrata is the next target government forces are approaching the town from the east and the west just a few kilometers of territory is separating those forces capturing mr obama will cut the enclave in half making it more difficult for rebels to defend their territory so out of beirut the exclusive footage from the sinai peninsula shows the

aftermath of an egyptian military operation armed forces moved in a month ago to root out eisel and other armed groups but residents in the area say they're under siege and their homes have been destroyed the military hasn't talked about the destruction of homes but in their latest statement they've spoken about destroying hundreds of hideouts and store houses as part of that operation. yes president on trump says north korea seems sincere in its apparent willingness to negotiate on abandoning nuclear weapons south korea's president when jane says it's too early though to be optimistic said korean officials met kim jong un earlier this week and said he's willing to do nuclear eyes if his country's security is assured bought south korea said it has no plans to ease sanctions before next month's summit with the north authorities in myanmar being accused of deliberately destroying evidence of possible crimes against humanity the united nations human rights chief says he also strongly suspects that acts of genocide may have been

committed against muslim or hinges in a kind state since august. reports. life urson what a begum and her young children is a struggle to survive for months they have been sheltering in this refugee camp in a no man's land between the border with bangladesh and me and more the mother says she lost nearly everything when she escaped the military crackdown in her home state of. florida. we were all running away from me on march trying to save our lives we had no chance to look back my son died along the way he died crying. the only way for refugees in the camp to get access to aid is to cross this river into bangladesh. to get out of we don't want to stay here because we don't feel safe in myanmar army fire shots at us they have taken people from here day and night we can't sleep and we're scared for our lives

. nearly seven hundred thousand row hinge or seeking refuge in bangladesh many have described killings rape and arson by me and mar security forces the united nations human rights commissions has issued several condemnations of myanmar's treatment of the road into what is warning the ethnic cleansing is continuing and says the tactics have changed from mass killings and rape to force starvation this council is aware that my office has strong suspicions that acts of genocide may have taken place in rakhine state since august i am therefore not surprised by reports that ruins of villages which were attacked in recent years and alleged mass graves of the victims being bulldozed. at the same time the bangladesh government ministers accusing me of obstructing efforts to repatriate refugees finance minister a.m.a. movement said despite a repatriation deal signed between myanmar and bangladesh in november it's unlikely

to displace muslims would ever return to their homeland that repatriation plan has been controversial from the outset rights groups and the un have more than that the conditions for real hinge are to return are nowhere near refugees living in camps in southeastern bangladesh are also resisting the idea fearing they won't be safe if they return to their homes and. well that's it from a few moment back to kemal thank you for that a law has been approved that allows the israeli government to remove residents the rights of people who live in occupied east jerusalem the knesset says it would apply to people accused of quote breaching the trust of israel by surprise the p.l.o. the palestine liberation organization has called the legislation racist and a violation of international human rights israel has revoked the residency status of more than fourteen thousand palestinians from jerusalem since nineteen sixty seven child stratford is with us now in west jerusalem charles want to talk us

through the ins and outs of this law and the implications of it. i think it's important to have a look at certainly what's being reported is the specific language of this law and it shows just certainly what the palestinians are saying and how ambiguous it is the law replies to people who the israelis deem as being either a supporter of a terrorist organization an organization such as hamas for example somebody who is deemed as being a would be terrorist attack anybody who is seen as as you reported there is breaching israel's trust and anybody who has been convicted of what israel says is treason so it's the kind of that kind of language that basically palestinians are saying it leaves the law very much open to interpretation of potentially open to being exploited by the israelis i mean the fact of the matter is is that there are

a lot of palestinians in east jerusalem that do have sympathy for an organization such as hamas that israel sees as being a terror organization an organization that hamas is itself described as being a resistance movement and the palestinians are very afraid that this law could be applied on a wider level that is very much part of israel's long term plan to clear them out of east jerusalem to make space for the ongoing building of more settlements and reaction from the palestinians. well we had some early reaction to this law being passed was expected to be passed today we had some reaction last night from a senior member of the palace in the bird organization executive committee and analysts. she described this law amendment as being an indication of

israel's racist policy she described it is looking towards increasing ethnic tension ethnic cleansing of palestinians in those areas of east jerusalem in occupied east jerusalem and then i offer this law was passed today a palestinian member of the knesset a mr yousif. said that the legislation was punishment against palestinians in jerusalem as part of a racist and fascist laws now israel says that this laure amendment is all to do with its own going crackdown against what it describes as terror but i also think it's important to look at in the context of the kind of domestic politics being played out here in israel specifically looking at prime minister netanyahu let's not forget that he is under investigation. for allegations of corruption at least three cases that he's under investigation for and his critics saying that the

passing of a law like this is very much an indication of him trying to appeal to his right wing base and deflates kind of attention away from the pressures that he's on the domestically here in israel charles troponin west jerusalem thank you for explaining all that one to us do appreciate it. just before we hit the break get you plenty of comments coming out on visits to the u.k. and us want to read a few of them a tweet from roberta who said let's summarize all of this in one sentence money talks and you know i'm pretty sure that's what anna sell to crazy i guess that in his first answer as well that pretty much money can buy you anything in this case also a facebook live comment from nicholas who said way syrian human british government sold them all the military equipment train their pilots etc it's the british government which is directly responsible that's in response of course to what's happening and yemen at the moment i think that's what a lot of people feel quite strongly about that the british selling arms to the

south to saudi arabia which is then being used in this war in yemen which has been going on for well three years now to keep the thoughts coming in facebook dot com sound as there is with a live stream is the what's that number is plus one seven full five zero one triple one four nine if you are watching us on facebook live well larry nasa probably name you remember the gymnastics doctor who was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for sexual assault well he now has a male accuser and we're going to have his story in just a minute also ahead for you on the grid a state of emergency in sri lanka i just want to spawn to some rest and why a social media sites like facebook. hello the eastern mediterranean is still not a settled place to be its spring storm i suppose you could argue even there any early march and that cloud doesn't look very much but it is part of the system

that's just been slowly churning it'll bring significant rain to turkey and has a twelve degrees and there's not much risk of snow except in the high ground to the east to see a bit of a breeze so expect a fairly windy time on the coast in beirut you'll see big waves i think it twenty six degrees as quite warm twenty eight in baghdad and the temp is actually relatively high society rock and further south as for iran slow warming trend baku sees eleven degrees and a hint of a circulation which means we're going to win hearts the snow in the coldest as the rain up in northern syria and eastern turkey and given that that is a system running through the thames is like to drop down about eighteen in barry's out to be quite a shocking change at ten degrees in one day now i said to the south temperatures been hard they should be that is true thirty one of the forecast for the for the next two days well above where it should be it's showing not walk through it for the south as well the remains of the tropical cycle and i've seen the way from

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the headlines that al-jazeera dot com and what's trending as well play. your variety for you there royal welcome and right it's described as the saudi crown prince as it's the u.k. of course the latest on what's happening in syria there in eastern groups and sri lanka as well have a look at that once it what's trending it out is there a dot com you'll find it on the front page. so here is lee to talk about well this is what new sort of law in the united arab emirates to crack down on people online this is social influences which is a phrase i have an issue with in the first place but right basically to explain you know mark online so the plan is the u.a.e. will soon require a license if you're a social media influencer like i'm always saying basically it means if you take pictures of food fashion or anything fun and you get paid for it you'll need permission from the government to keep doing it if you don't you could get

a thirteen hundred dollars fine and risk getting your online profile shut down the rule will go into effect in june now on tuesday the national media council said they're doing this to professionalize and regulate the industry but some people are asking where do you draw the line a good example of that is this blogger or video blogger here he goes by the name emco on he tweeted saying i've read so much in the last twenty four hours about the new influencer legislation here in the u.a.e. and my opinion it's a good thing generally for the industry and for those serious content creators however the gloating from some with a face plant there now the u.a.e. has had many laws governing expression journalists working in the country require government issued press cards and people have been jailed for their comments online another example of online censorship came into effect when the u.a.e. and three other countries imposed a blockade on qatar in june of last year we saw threats of fines and prison time

for anyone writing sympathetic post about qatar the fines go as high as one hundred thirty six thousand dollars with up to fifteen years and jail it's a story we'll continue to keep our eye on for you but do be sure to send us your questions and comments about it with our hash tag thank you yes social influence and interesting now sri lanka's military is imposing a twenty four hour curfew in kandy districts i was told people to stay indoors the government's declared a nationwide state of emergency in order to social media sites to be blocked to stop the spread of religious tension muslim on homes and businesses have been set on fire and damaged in the riots and as has more now from candy. the main city of candy is like a ghost town as you can see behind me as everyone has shouted down and bunker down for a twenty four hour curfew that came into effect this afternoon now the police spokesman has said that any of the tri forces or the police can make any arrests of anyone

causing violence or communal disharmony and these crimes will carry twenty years rigorous imprisonment under the emergency rules have been tightened and any of the security arms can crack down hard on those creating such incidents now we've been travelling around some of the cities and towns around candy and seen a number of flashpoints we've seen basically timber us still burning we've seen shops been burned many of them belonging to those in the muslim community but we've also visited a temple that was basically leave vandalized by muslim youth according to what we're hearing and the tension seemed to be spilling over which is the reason the government has come down strong with extending this curfew for a period of twenty four hours in a bid to get a handle on it but one must say that even with a heavy military presence we're seeing the violence continuing. as

a reporting tree launches block several social media websites including facebook whatsapp and instagram and it's supposed to continue for the next seventy two hours but interestingly twitter has not been blocked we've been monitoring the conversation online and there is a lot of frustration on that platform people are using the hash tag sri lanka and hash tag facebook down as well to mainly criticize the move the deputy minister of national policies in economics affairs he tweeted this picture along with a quote that said hate speech on facebook is increasing beyond acceptable levels in sri lanka government will have to act immediately to save lives but there are many people who are not pleased with this this person here responded saying don't take actions against us so again social media sort out the real problem now there is also video circulating on twitter of the well known cricketer kumar sangakkara who used the platform to spread a message of peace referring to the entire muslim rhetoric in the country. morally

corrupt that we cannot see how well mindless actions endangering our common future we are responsible for the safety and wellbeing of funny because we are our sisters keepers we are our brothers' keepers we have to make sure that intrude lanka anyone and everyone feel safe loved and accepted regardless of ethnicity or religion when we look into the eyes of our fellow sri lankan brothers and sisters we shouldn't see a single lees a muslim or tamil or a burger we must see a selves in each other. if you're unsure langkawi want to hear from me you can always send us a message on our telegram col out our number here you can also still contact us on twitter since it's so open for you with their hash tag aging is good and killer just a week ago the around this an exclusive report showing disturbing evidence of continuing torture in sri lanka this is against the tamils remember president citizen it came to power three years ago and promised less authoritarian leadership this would

suggest otherwise have a look for yourself search for sri lanka tunnels torture al-jazeera dot com it's a report from barnaby phillips. to the u.s. now in florida state house of representatives is likely to pass a final vote on a bill to raise the minimum age to buy guns this is nearly three weeks now after a gunman of course killed seventeen people of a school in punkin florida the bill does not ban assault rifles but emphasizes mental health programs in schools controversially it would allow some teachers to carry guns if unchanged the bill would automatically become law within fifteen days now hoping to have a chat to our correspondent in florida shortly. but i will also just in the meantime point you to this have a look at this for an economic take on gun control you can check out this edition of counting the cost it's from twenty sixteen during that year's n.r.a.

convention but as we know little has changed with regards to guns in the u.s. of this is still very much relevant more than three hundred million guns in the one country it is an entire industry pushed by some powerful groups that's counting the cost in the show's section of al-jazeera dot com have a look for americans and the. andy gallagher is in tallahassee hopefully he can hear me andy when we talk about this gun reform lower in florida how quick i mean how well is it landmark in the first place and how close are we actually to it. well we're on day three this is already been through the senate it's now in the house they've just started talking about amendments they may vote on all this today but what does this mean in terms of potentially landmark decisions well as you said it means that the age limit for buying rifles goes up to twenty one there is also a wait period on rifles of three days but the real rub here the real sticking point

is who may or may not be armed in florida schools the governor has said by the time this bill reaches his desk he does not want to arm school teachers but they're already talking about arming and siller staff and people who have different kinds of titles so we may end up seeing more guns in florida school which is obviously something that's very controversial something that the students and parents from parkland where seventeen people died do not want to see but here's the political reality in florida parkland is in broward county one of the most democratic parts of this state it's solidly blue the rest of the state is not so here at the capitol building behind me that the house of representatives is overwhelmingly republican so you're never going to see that ban on assault rifles but there is some progress if you talk about common sense gun reforms raising the minimum age for rifles to twenty one is a good thing as seen by the people from parkland and pro gun reform advocates and

making people wait for three days is also a good thing on their behalf but the simple fact is the students and their parents overwhelmingly wanted to see a ban on assault rifles and they haven't got that and they're not likely to get that anytime soon you know just watching some pictures actually from back in february of the children at the high school fleeing that scene i wonder what the likely reaction would be amongst them. i mean i think it stream disappointment the parents in the end and the students have been very vocal and very eloquent and and heard around the world will be extremely disappointed just yesterday here in tallahassee students from local schools had to die in the rotunda inside the capitol building because it's not just students at parkland who feel strongly about banning assault rifles it students from all over this nation remember next week on wednesday students from all over the country will be marching out in a couple of weeks later after that students from all over the country will be marching on washington d.c.

the students apart when they're really the tip of the spear here in an argument in which many young people in this country and even a lot of republicans say it's time to look at this with common sense it's time to think about banning assault rifles and ultimately to make our schools safer and make our children safe. andy gallagher thank you for that and is in tallahassee florida parents the apologies for the fact we could actually see him all the areas right at the end now thank you and he like isn't that i have got a few technical problems there. now many watch donald trump closely for his take on the guns crisis but in general it has been a tumultuous year at the white house as in a few would argue with that but recently it seems like a hard place to hold on to your job when if you happen to be job hunting our friends are out there plus bring you this pitch from the boss the white house has tremendous energy has tremendous spirit it is a great place to be work in many many people want every single you know i read where oh gee maybe people don't want to work for trump but believe me everybody

wants to work in the white house they all want to piece of that oval office they want to piece of the west wing and not only in terms of it looks great on their resume just a great place to work but the white house has a tremendous energy and we have tremendous talent you know they'll be people i'm not going to be specific but they'll be people that change they always change sometimes they want to go out into something else but they all want to be in the way so many people want to come and i have a choice of anybody i could take any position in the white house and i'll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position everybody wants to be there and they love this white house because we have energy like rarely before ok thank you very much. the hundreds of delegates are in mexico to discuss ways to improve the state of the world's oceans overfishing and of course the dumping of plastics of big topics at the world ocean summit especially after the latest

shocking video we've seen from bali in indonesia with more on that first step in reporting from jakarta. indonesia is the world's second largest contributor to marine plastic pollution after china that's why the country during last year's world oceans summit vowed to reduce plastic waste with seventy percent by twenty twenty five but this is the reality today a british diver captured these images while swimming through a sea of plastic waste not very far from where the world ocean summit was held last year he went to a famous location where manta rays go to feed themselves with plankton it's also a famous tourist attraction where people go to watch these gigantic animals but both manta rays and tourists now find this location too dirty to go to instead the dive for rich horner captured images of plastic bags plastic bottles plastic cups and all kinds of plastic waste it's a sad reminder that instead of cleaner the oceans only become dirtier not only

threatening the country's rich marine life but also birds who have been found with plastic inside their stomachs and also fish meant for consumption are contaminated with plastic fish is an important source for protein in indonesia all in all a huge challenge for the delegates at this year's world ocean summit held in mexico more than three hundred delegates from governments companies and research institutes will gather to find a solution for this increasing environmental disaster while organizers have called two thousand and seventeen a year of promises they say two thousand and eighteen should be a year for decisions tough action is needed and not only awareness campaigns if not in the nisha and world oceans summit last year will turn into a bad example of only empty promises and very little action. there's some pictures not only i'm a scuba diver so i'm used to seeing plastic at the bottom of the scent bend like this yes no and this is the video that people keep sharing like step was saying of

the british diver rich horner who captured these images of plastic waste just floating in indonesia's waters this is him here as we were saying swimming through this wave really of the trash it's off the west coast in bali you know we spoke to him a bit earlier. on that day there was just a lot of trust and it was several times more than i'd ever listen and then anyone i spoken to is that the same so it was a big shock which is why i found it i think plain in the asians it's going to be a tough challenge and from what i understand that you know where they might be stuck with a lot of what's already in the ocean we don't need to to stock any more going in you know in that so i think the duty for the governments and the people of every nation to work together to stop a step mentioned in the report is just

a bit earlier indonesia is now the second largest plastic polluter in the world just after china the country produces about one hundred thirty thousand tonnes of plastic and solid waste every single day with about half of that reaching landfills now the world bank estimates that each indonesian is responsible for one kilogram of plastic waste a year there are also more demands for product packaging almost seventy percent of plastics are used to packaged food and drinks the ca's medic industry is also quite a big inhibitor of this and using a lot of plastics in their products pushing up demand and as indonesia's plastic packaging industry continues to grow many say poor government planning does not help solve the plastic pollution problem we've been talking to some indonesian based organizations about how they're dealing the problem. in october two thousand seventeen the president signed a new set of regulations they're all written down in this book you can also

download it from the internet. eight year plan two thousand seven hundred to two thousand and twenty five and the aim is to reduce the movie literally in an uneasy waters span a seventy percent by two thousand and twenty five so it's really important that we all join forces we create a network and bring with real n.g.o.s in vali and create a program called home p.c.'s that integrate island based waste management in small islands for us in asia and personally. we also need to engage with classic guidance you know whatever but it is right we reduce our plus abuse and we engage with the government to fight against plastic bags so zero waste policies if you're in indonesia especially near the water we want to hear from you can send us your questions and comments about plastic cushion and we may feature you on our website or on our hash tag rather with hash tag. co thanks for that leah techno always an

interesting watch one out of there this edition was devoted entirely to as you see the problem with plastic the team talk to legislators professors and about as they traced the journey of a single plastic bottle and the efforts to truly recycle it with zero wise that is a really good watch have a look see itself as well just search for techno plastic al-jazeera dot com. along. talking about the talent search for.

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i. you see it's soul spirit with us. that's and it is and this story's about how difficult saw slash easy it is to find the next brought you town of that all the largest talent search in football history is approaching its end game of the last decade a project called aspire football dreams has been holding trials for millions of young players in africa and beyond was led by the spanish scouts who helped launch legal messes create is packed with funding from cats are each year the program chooses a handful of boys to train up at an elite academy with the hope that one day they might just make it as professionals or football dreams project began in two thousand and seven banks by catspaws national sports academy aspire the target was to support players in developing countries where football infrastructure may be

lacking will since then more than five million thirteen year olds have been trialed in asia africa and latin america at the very best join an academy this was set up in senegal where they receive an education as well as top level coaching the players that excel that will get looked up by pro teams around the world an early success story was there one duty agni who was signed by barcelona as the project in its current form is wound down it's worth noting that none of the players involved have been naturalized to represent cats of national saying well it's a story we've been following here on al-jazeera that inspired journalist sebastian abbott's write the book the away game which is out this week sebastian greats have you on with us did one of the key things this project prove just how difficult it is to spots hans at a young age. definitely you know when i started this project i thought to myself well you know when you have the ability to choose from a pool of millions of kids and you have

a country backing it that has you know effectively limitless resources imagine the kind of talent you'll find and as you did say they did find some talented players but the truth is it's incredibly difficult to spot at a young age which kid has a chance to go on to become a football star you know in england at the premier league academies the percentage of players that make it from the youth level to the first team is only a half a percent and so it's incredibly difficult to know which kid has the right potential and so the us just some of these kids coming from frequent pool but grounds was that an added pressure for them at a very young age they needed not just to make it his football players but also his financial provide as yet for many of them they're under extreme pressure from you know not just their immediate family but extended families you know you i spent months traveling through west africa to report this book and when you do that

you see kids playing everywhere you know i saw boys playing under highway overpasses and night urea in cemeteries and gone on the beach in senegal and you literally have millions and millions of kids you know who are you know playing soccer every day and see it as their best chance to improve their lives to improve their family's lives and they're desperate to get to europe and so you know once they get on the channel that it looks like they might have actually have an opportunity there's a lot of pressure from home to succeed and to send money back and just tell us about the scale of this project top football will sport generally ever seen anything like it be full. you know i definitely not in the football world and actually i think never in the sports world you know as you mentioned you know qatar held tryouts for you know over five million boys in over a dozen countries over the past ten years you know it was an incredibly large

project an incredibly selective art project the perspective i like to give people is that you know the process was over a thousand times more selective in getting into harvard and you know one of the things that was incredible about it for me is it really illustrated just how globalized international football is because when you had you know a very wealthy mideast nation hiring a spanish get out scouring the african continent looking for football superstars that sort of globalization on steroids and turn them on the size of the projects of us and we use the most surprised by how few people outside of it seem to even know about it. yeah that was one of the things that was very surprising to me i mean perhaps the only thing that's more surprising than the size was again how few people seem to know about it i mean even in the international football world you know oftentimes i would tell people you know qatar over the last decade has held the largest you know talent search in football history five million kids across

africa latin america asia looking for football's next superstars in their eyes we kind of bulge out and even in in africa where i spent a lot of time folks they may have heard of a spy or they may have heard of football dreams but you know they weren't really sure what it was all about and so i think a lot of folks you know if they if they read my book will discover a lot of interesting things not just about this program but about you know the increasingly international search for football superstars all over the world sebastian of a fascinating stuff all thought of the away game a highly recommend that book will be keeping an eye on one's place if they emerge from those academies in clubs around the world well far will have more sport for you in the eighteen hundred g.m.c. news out of an hour let's get back to come on well we thank you for that and they want to get in touch with the sports stories online for anything that's taken to twitter facebook and what's up and running we are always looking for your comments

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