chants of wanted to showers in argentina. just. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for our sad. time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news out of from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes another shift in the white house stands for meeting him junkfood donald trump now says the deal with north korea is in the making. so grateful for what they've received we're in

a syrian villages people get enough basic necessities to last a few weeks. a study in concentration we meet highly educated palestinian women who are still struggling to find work plus. i'm a clot reporting from an expedition in antarctica on the effort to turn the third remote weddell sea into the largest protected area all are. welcome to the program donald trump says a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making in a tweet he says if completed their agreement will be quote a very good one for the world his words come as the white house says will be no preconditions to meeting leader kim jong. spoke earlier with china's president xi jinping on the phone both agreed to continue sanctions until north korea takes steps to end its nuclear program but trump agreed to meet kim within two months

after an invitation was extended through a south korean envoy mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . it appeared that the u.s. had introduced. new preconditions when the press secretary said that the meeting would not take place unless north korea provided strong guarantees and took strong steps to indicate the authenticity of its position however subsequently administration officials said that mr sanders was not introducing new preconditions they said she was indeed emphasizing the consequences should north korea continue or resume nuclear or missile testing or interfere with the joint military exercises taking place between the u.s. and south korea but there is confusion underscores the developments that have occurred with president trump leaping headfirst into a potential face to face negotiation many expressing concern that negotiations such as these begin from the bottom up that the face to face meeting between leaders

comes at the end of a process not at the very beginning in addition some experts point out the north koreans have had decades of negotiating deals with various states the trumpet ministration new to the game they going to be at a disadvantage in any negotiation with the north koreans should it take place from the very beginning let's talk to young chick bang is a research fellow at yonsei university is institute for north korean studies he joins us via skype from seoul and how do you think the north koreans will react to any kind of preconditions set by the americans for this meeting because there are or there is confusion about preconditions currently. well i would i wouldn't worry about there because there are no good leadership itself has a limited a most of the very conditions such as a demand or suspension of the exercise by the start then the united states'

commitment to eventually lean. on the other players so you can't be using message coming from washington d.c. alone released are not going to be ok but kim jong un talked about being open to denuclearization as you say but what does that mean is this just the north koreans freezing their nuclear program because the west will want to see verifiable decommissioning and an end to the nuclear program. you're absolutely correct that by posing the question north korea is a tree and there's a big hit the world the guessing. at me mean mean different things to north korea as me is. free from nuclear weapons including the u.s. troops in south korea or deep one month of a new strategic nuclear assets so you. could not bear that mean. not know what you know about it is that the new collision over in the newsletter at

the minimum north korea will meet demand that north korea will not put years any more and you clear weapons or in the midst of about a lot of big killing and your nuclear weapons that mr he has already put up with this and u.s. vice president mike pence says the strategy to isolate kim jong un is working but in reality have sanctions really forced the north korean leader to come to the table or was he playing the americans do you think. i would say that the bank has been really working for the first time in the entire history of. korea by north korea. is not only targeting the entire economy and north korea is being made depend on the bunch trade with china and government. corruption arising from public sanctions imposed and the trade has been. drastically reduced and really unheard any climate so it is high for those the leadership to

make the truth. get out of the. way. and we need to be cautious here don't we because in the possed north korea has pulled on a nuclear test during previous talks only to resume them when it lost patience or it didn't get what it wanted. for the first time on certain favor the united states president from. north korea's behavior is that if the world. vision that as long as they remain in place by is not on the side of north korea. then the economy in that regard president trump has the upper hand in the negotiations. thank you for talking to al-jazeera. now five civilians have been

killed in attacks by syrian government forces on parts of eastern ghouta on friday an aid convoy crossed into the rebel held on clay bringing much needed food despite heavy fighting close to relief workers the delivery includes supplies that didn't reach the air on monday when a convoy retreated because of renewed violence for the syrian rebel group army of islam has agreed to release fighters being held as prisoners in eastern guta syrian state t.v. showed thirteen fighters in the group formerly known as the al nusra front and their families starting to leave the rebel group says the decision was made after consulting the u.n. and international parties it's not clear if the deal will lead to a broader evacuation of fighters from either groups or civilians turkey's president says his troops will soon enter the northern syrian town of the freeing of. the turkish military has surrounded or free and after seizing control of the key neighboring town of jenin barris allied syrian rebels are trying to push kurdish

fighters from the area al-jazeera as alan fischer has been with turkish troops inside syria in their ballot that southwest of genderless. we drove into syria with the turkish army escort they decided where we would go the destination the village of one of the first retaken from kurdish militia by the free syrian army supported by the turks in the operation and all of branch sitting in the shade the children waited for the truck to distribute its boxes the date here has been the scene for a while in a small building a makeshift doctor's office treating a lot of minor injuries anything serious in the transfer to turkey for further treatment. for some who knew nothing but war. it's a new and frightening experience. then it was time to hand out the aid but i mean and the family's name was called and someone stepped forward some fairly tall enough to carry it home the people are starving here waiting patiently for the aid

to be handed out that is they say they're waiting long enough for the aid to arrive but they don't mind waiting that little bit longer. each box is all in sugar and flour and sanitary products enough to last the family three weeks one retired hundred of them another since the f.s.a. came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the wire p.j. there was the aid materials should be a little bit more because of the number of people here and the number of people in those families some of them received aid but one or two boxes are not enough for one family because they're all gathered in one house the turkish red crescent says it's doing what you can with what it has. up to but we came to the area yesterday and assess the needs of the village residents who are prepared food and hygenic material for everyone. every so often the growing shakes with the sound of

activity fire the big guns pointed so in support of the ongoing military operation the children told me they don't like the noise they may have grown up with the war but it's something they will never get used to. alan fischer al-jazeera there balut not in syria the un human rights chief has suggested the philippine president should seek psychiatric evaluation. saying his comments come afterward regard to ted his government filed a court petition trying to get a u.n. russia and several other high profile people declared as terrorists they're accused of being part of the communist group wanting to overthrow the government. this is of course unacceptable for a special rocketeer are acting on behalf of the international community whose expertise is sort by the human rights council to be treated in the story and i hope and i expect the human rights council to respond accordingly and really makes one

believes that the president of the philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation this sort of this this sort of common read is unacceptable general allen dogan has more now from manila. when president through the good the third to was sworn in in two thousand and sixteen he promised so usher in a new era of peace between the philippine government and members of the communist party of the philippines he promised to end a five year conflict in the country he released members of the communist movement and even appointed some of them within his cabinet but months of attempts and failure at negotiations and skirmishes between the philippine army and members of the armed wing called the new people's army has led to this new terror to says the new people's army together with some other members of the national democratic front he says are there and it's intended to destroy quote unquote his country and so the

department of justice has submitted to a court a list of what it seeks to tag as terrorists this includes members of the new people's army but it also includes activists former priests and former politicians and even members of the united nations human rights organisations and it is something that they say is deeply dangerous they say president of the good that their dad has the makings of a dictator and they say that using the word terrorist is irresponsible malicious and downright dangerous bunch more to come here on the news hour including. a show of unity kenya's president and opposition leader put aside their differences to heal political divisions and caving in to pressure florida's governor signs off an age restrictions for people buying guns and sport the biggest winter olympics in history are officially on the way that's also to come.

now the u.n. has warned two million children are at risk of dying of starvation in the democratic republic of congo aid agencies say you. as a conflict of instability have created one of the world's worst complex humanitarian crises and it's getting worse how to help star reports. this child is part of a great humanitarian crisis one of two million children at risk of dying from mt nutrition in the cafe region in the democratic republic of congo. intercommunal conflicts have been escalating here since two thousand and sixteen similar violence across the country has led to more than four point five million people internally displaced that's nearly half of the country's population. the humanitarian community has launched its largest ever appeal to the democratic republic of congo

asking for nearly one point seven billion dollars two million kids suffering from acute severe malnutrition who are at risk. of dying of what is what is clear is you're looking at numbers of this magnitude. you know the urgency couldn't be couldn't be greater the world food program emphasized the need for urgent assistance in the castle region alone three point two million people are severely hungry that one in four people. malnourished children at risk of dying three hundred thousand at risk of dying just think of that three hundred thousand little kids. the u.n. humanitarian chief plans to visit castro next month to raise awareness the drama of the democratic republic of the congo is falling in the shadows of the horrific wars in syria and in yemen. the congo it has become completely neglected

and forgotten as a mega crisis indeed hundreds of thousands of children may starve to death the humanitarian community is holding its first ever democratic republic of congo during a conference in geneva in april. this year. russia's foreign minister has wrapped up his five day tour of africa and ethiopia a lover of confirmed moscow support for africa to have a seat on the un security council's love rebels have visited angola mozambique zimbabwe and namibia so his visit coincide of the trip to the region by his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson. kenya's president the main opposition leader i promised to begin a process of reconciliation they met for the first time since last year's disputed election which was followed by violence. reports. a surprise public show of unity that has caught many of their supporters off god president two who are working as an opposition leader. have agreed to bury their

political hatchet after two acrimonious presidential elections last year that led to the deaths of many people swearing in as the people's president his refusal to recognize allegedly mysie a contract his presidency and the government's haase reaction to a dangerous swearing in cracking down on the media and opposition now the two say all that is behind them they have come to a common understanding and understanding that this country of kenya is greater. than any one individual and that for this country to come together leaders must come together you guys must be able to discuss their defenses you guys must be able to discuss freely and openly what is our country what. is a real. ethnic division. and we see

a constituency many opposition supporters want to know what really was discussed behind closed doors electra justice that the dinka has been so passionate about the credibility of the presidential election and what about justice to the many people who died in the election. is that what he and the president have done is provide leadership to king and agree on the other use of the differences and the of the. millions of our children to be born and mounted into these differences people are dying out of these differences. my brother. and last cent of them come together today to see this descent stuff here this meeting appears to have been possibly two times to coincide with the visit of the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson the us has been critical of both sides in how

they've handled the political situation. and perhaps want to show that all is well now they want to move the country forward and help heal deep apnic divisions t.v.'s on met the president when he arrived we shared our concerns there and our discussions with the president about the importance of democratic institutions and kenya as a leading democracy in africa we believe that there are actions the need to be taken in kenya and that they need to correct certain actions like shutting down t.v. stations and threatening the independence of the courts they also discussed economic ties between the u.s. and kenya and the fight against terrorism in the region catherine saw al-jazeera nairobi kenya. a rally has been held in slovakia's capital of bratislava calling for a probe into the killing of a reporter and his fiance the protesters want foreign experts to join local police

working on the case young and his fiance martina rover was shot dead in their home last month last unfinished story was on the activities of the italian mafia in slovakia and their ties to people close to prime minister robert fico shockingly mr toobin is here that we want our government to investigate the murders with international expert and also we want a new government a trustworthy government with no existing links to corruption and organized crime police in sri lanka are investigating whether the suspected leaders of this week's wave of violence against muslims had foreign funding two people died and more than sixty were arrested in attacks on mosques and muslim owned businesses in the central region of candy well calm has now returned and many shops have reopened but as bernard smith now reports the economy has taken a hit. candy's temple of the tooth is up there on the must see list of tourists coming to sri lanka. millions are drawn to the islands serenity and natural beauty

but that images taken a hit after the attacks by sinhalese nationalists on the minority muslim community in candy we had to pass the area which was under curfew and so we had to go to the police to get a special permit to go through and that was quite exhausting and annoying also we had to do a detour which was three hours longer than six each of them leaders did remember we saw destroyed things destroyed machines and. so we took some. prime minister knows the violence has impacted his country's image. these unwise acts carried out by a small group have done great social and financial damage to the country to this will greatly and can we need and this has dealt a blow to the tourist industry. government assesses and now drawing up lists of businesses. that had to be compensated many muslim families have seen a lifetime's work go up in flames after their properties were attacked. but the

curfew imposed has meant lost income for almost every large and small business in kandy which have to close as the security forces try to contain the violence really doing something illegal is indeed what he's played in the salaries. in the water there. and they're going to risk all to really make. you know nervous going to go live to. eighty percent of tourists who come to sri lanka include candy on their itinerary the government is very sensitive to threats to tourists and to tourism more than two million foreign visitors to sri lanka last year bringing in more than three point two billion dollars in foreign exchange so while the authorities were very quick to put out a warning telling foreigners not to come to candy when trouble lad as soon as calm returned that warning was just as quickly. a national state of emergency is in place until monday and there's still an overnight curfew the authorities are hoping

the worst is now over bernard smith al-jazeera candy. the french president has arrived in india for a state visit he and his wife bridgette to agreed to in the capital new delhi by prime minister narendra modi across the border delegation of french companies with him the trip is aimed at strengthening trade and defense ties. and france is enjoying its strongest economic growth in six years but many companies are struggling to find qualified staff some analysts are worried the shortage could slow down growth potential but the reports. in the french city of kanada it's another busy day at this building material supplier business is booming for the subsidy group that has outlets across france to keep growing the company needs more staff but it's struggling to find skilled workers. owner does fall says we have five thousand three hundred staff but two hundred and sixteen job vacancies we

mainly need sales people forklift drivers and tireless it's really hard to find people who are specialized in areas such as woodwork so it's difficult for us to recruit staff with the skills we need. the boss says the twenty years ago people joined young trained on the job and worked their way up but today that's rare because fewer people are attracted to industry. we can't fill vacancies internally anymore so we must recruit externally but this kid's we need are not always taught in training schools so there's a lot of available talent we train in the house but it's not enough. france is experiencing its biggest economic growth in six years but nearly half of its manufacturing companies find it hard to recruit staff even though unemployment is high experts say the labor shortage could slow growth there isn't a clear implement for growth in the next few months but as a liberal they g.'s can be

a real drag for. the next few quarters the french government wants to fix the country's labor shortage and get more now people into world it's already reformed the labor allow the workplace to be more flexible and it was the bruce the number of training apprenticeship schemes like this one. teaches at this school near paris hope the government's focus on training will improve the image of apprenticeships and create opportunities. for your convertibles who are africans think when a young person arrives at a company with two years of training like this they are much more attractive and it's what companies want. and when i want to learn as much as possible here then one day i open my own company to what extent the government's reforms will ease the labor shortage won't be clear for a few years but investing in this generation can only help the economy in the future natasha al-jazeera. fronts now scholars from europe and the

americas are returning to iraq now that i saw has largely been driven out they're keen to continue their research about mesopotamia an ancient land that covers most of iraq historians believe the region is where civilization began four thousand years ago it was also the scene of the fiercest battles against isis. reports. that . when these lawmakers state of iraq in the levant was trying to carve out its own caliphate four years ago its members destroyed thousands of christian and muslim relics and monuments i saw also stole some of your oxen syria's most prized ancient artifacts. but dominican fire no she managed to pack these rare manuscripts and sixteenth century books and smuggled them out of i sold battlegrounds. kurdish peshmerga fighters helped carry them to the safety of iraqi kurdistan. with the help of small cars we saved

these archives and especially some manuscripts belonging to the convent and church of the dominican and the mosul archives important letters and files that date back two hundred fifty to three hundred years. the authority of the father knows she been other dominican priests rescued a veritable treasure trove of religious documents and moved them to our bills oriental manuscript digitization center the center was stablished in one nine hundred ninety by dominican friars the same religious order that set up iraq's first printing house in eight hundred ninety seven the monks brought the equipment to the region through the desert and on the backs of camels now the friars are using high tech equipment to scan manuscripts recovered from churches and villages . achieve whom him in fact all the archives are important because they reflect the roots of a civilization and that is why the islamic state group is trying to eradicate and destroy the heritage and archaeological sites to erase everything that existed

before the introduction of this presumed islamic state and father knows training more helpers who will ensure digital copies are preserved for posterity and the originals returned to their owners paul chatterjee on. time for short break here not a zero when we come back building barriers but it's a new concern about the sea walls to protect people in japan from another tsunami more in the stay with us. from the clear blue sky of the tow home. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city a few. welcome back it's looking fine across much of central and southern china at the moment taiwan to enjoying fine weather the flow is basically been coming from further north so it's not particular warm here temperatures just about average but no more fine into vietnam there with a noise in terms of twenty four but still with the risk of some showers across more

central areas as a move the forecast to sunday you can see again a largely fine picture here hong kong sunshine and highs of twenty two degrees so let's move down in southeastern parts of asia there's a scattering of showers across the philippines but nothing more than that same goes really for much of borneo really heavy rain is likely across the southern portion of the indonesian archipelago so some big storms here java in particular which is carter seen some big downpours so move northward through them in a plane we're going to see want to share as possibly for singapore maybe kuala lumpur and we still have some showers around the gulf of thailand region so there bangkok usually dry this time of year there's no side chance of the odd shower so now let's head across into south asia and here we still have the risk of a few showers effect in sri lanka at the moment colombo probably dry for much of the time the rest of the region is looking fine temperatures looking pretty decent there for delhi highs of thirty two for sunday not a great deal of change remaining fine and again delhi looking at highs of thirty three. the weather sponsored by cateye nice. a

shining city stroud team from the rubble of a devastating. attack team president going on the plan. on the walls and for constraint over the war. in the dark anyone who dares to remember. and continue tale of repression chechnya war without a trace at this time we're now dizzy. with bureaus spanning sixty. in two months across the globe. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell.

me are fluent in world news. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump says a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making in a tweet he says if completed the agreement will be a very good one for the world the white house says they'll be no preconditions to trump meeting leader kim jong il and. five civilians have been killed in attacks by syrian government forces on parts of eastern kuta on friday an aid convoy crossed into the rebel held on clay delivering desperately needed food despite heavy fighting close to relief workers. kenya's president and main opposition leader have

promised to begin a process of reconciliation the paddle talks for the first time since last year's disputed election u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is visiting the road be and welcome the move. now a gunman has entered a veterans' home and taken hostages in the u.s. state of california police and john phillips changed file with the man police say he's holding three people captive the veterans' home is the largest in the united states and houses more than a thousand elderly and disabled residents. the national rifle association has filed a lawsuit challenging new gun control laws in florida running them unconstitutional the move comes just hours after florida's governor signed the bill increasing the minimum age for buying firearms to twenty one it follows weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's part in the high school shooting in which seventeen people died the law also paves the way for some school stuff to be armed. i mean are a member and i was in

a remember when i became governor i'm going to be an honorary member when i'm not governor i'm sure there's an array members that agree with the bill some that don't agree with this bill. would be you know but the way that i think about it i'm going to do what i think are common sense solutions common sense things as a father as a grandfather a governor is is we need to have offers for schools we need to harden or we need more mental health counseling we need to make sure people that are you know are going to do harm and think that we know we the people are stalking and we know we know they're out there talking we need to do something about and and we need to take all be all of us everybody needs to take this seriously when somebody is threatening people when holly dexter is co-chairwoman of women against gun violence she says the n.r.a. could use the new gun laws to push its agenda for getting more guns into schools. we're very concerned about this law being passed because of course it has a kickback in it for the n.r.a. in that they want to arm school personnel so i don't know exactly what they mean by

that is that the lunch lady is at the coaches either way in a state where stand your ground is legal that means that if any of this school this school personnel is said that they feel threatened by a student they can shoot to kill and legally get away with murder what we've seen in america before with our youth movements is that like during the vietnam war these young kids were seeing their friends come home in caskets and they said enough. and now they're seeing their friends being carried out of their schools in body bags and whereas the rest of us in america not me personally but many people have sort of this this cycle of learned helplessness we've seen the mass shootings the thoughts and prayers. the got the call for new gun laws and then nothing happens and we've just sort of gotten used to the fact that the n.r.a. gets to control everything and dictate policy from the white house but now these

students are saying they don't have a learned helplessness response they're seeing this their friends are being gunned down and they're saying no we're not going to take it we're going to change this we're the future we're tomorrow and we're going to make this happen. it's been seventy years since a major tsunami struck japan killing more than twenty thousand people will now huge concrete walls of being built along parts of the coast to protect against waves but some say the new barriers are too high and could impact on tourism matheson reports . for fishermen atsushi frizzy to the open waters of the to hokkaido coast swelling beneath a hazy blue sky where he earns his living pulling oysters from the sea bed. but when he returns to the shore the rolling hills of his home have been obscured by high concrete walls. i feel like i'm working inside a fence it feels like we're in jail even though we haven't done anything bad. in

the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami wave slammed into coastal cities two thousand people were killed in that sushi is home time the focus shima nuclear reactor was swamped leaking radiation into the surrounding land and sea their original tsunami barrier was just four meters high but the waves just swept right over it now japan is building sea walls fifteen meters high they offer more protection but not everyone thinks they're worth it just and all the more today at the local i think about fifty years ago we used to bring our kids here and enjoy the beautiful ocean and bay area while driving but there's not even a trace of that left or to it that knocked the world i don't think we need a sea wall if we could see the wave coming we could shout run but because of the wall we can't see anything. many local authorities refused to give planning permission for new homes until the walls were built to the begin to build after the construction of the seawall was confirmed i was able to get permission to rebuild

my bed and breakfast that is why i can't say things like the wall should be lower or we don't need it it's thanks to the wall that i could rebuild and now i have a job. and the oyster fishing has improved because this is now me stirred up the sea beds some complain to resume will be affected because the walls obscure the views but others say they're willing to pay that price for protection from mother nature rob matheson al-jazeera. that women in palestine are largely more educated than men thirteen percent hold university degrees compared to nine percent for the male population but despite their high levels of education many female struggle to find jobs are a force that reports from the occupied west bank. university attract some of the most able and ambitious students in the occupied west bank and what's noticeable on this most prestigious palestinian campus is how many of them a female natalie salama is in a fourth year studying civil engineering in business she says she dreams of a career in the field and in academia but is all too aware of the realities of the

palestinian job market i think i have like a good chance but not the best not because of my academics or my g.p.a. it's because of the type of the need our needs are of. working in an environment the situation byrd said reflects a wide a premium that's been put on female education in palestinian society all and sixty two percent of the current students are women a problem for them is what happens when they graduate. palestinian women are some of the region's best educated thirteen percent have a university degree compared to nine percent of men but only nineteen percent of women are in or seeking work that compares to twenty five percent in the middle east in north africa and fifty one percent in the world as a whole palestinian society is certainly patriarchal women often face pressure to marry young and stay at home there's also political and cultural pressure in favor of having large families the palestinian fertility rate is among the region's highest but economists some here are both misses the critical difference from the

rest of the region is the impact of the israeli occupation in the palestinian context israel has work. very hard since nine hundred sixty seven on undermining the productive capacity of the economy that is undermining agriculture and long acting these are the sectors that employ women agriculture has long been a mainstay of female employment especially here in the village of the about loot where the women say it's rare to spot a man in the fields but these days it's just as red a find a woman under forty five who doesn't they might think that other jobs are better and it's easier to sit at the desk than work the land we've lost lands to confiscation and we've lost our mountains to settlements it disarm has six daughters she says education has been crucial to their upbringing but the two who have already graduated university of both unemployed are a force at al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. lots more so it's coming on

al-jazeera including. looking after their lives and their limbs how professional dancers are getting have more on that status. in. the furniture. and monday put it well on the. 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 riverbed case 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. welcome back now the weather all seeing it on talked to is the coldest on the planet yet it's an extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species from killer whales to stop fish now there's a proposal to turn these rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth

and part one of al-jazeera series on the weddell sea environment is that nick plant joined a greenpeace expedition making its way to the sanctuary. it's a city near the end of the british maritime history. in the main square in punta arenas but none miguel and looked out towards where you go across the strait that bears his day from scott to shackleton this is where famous antarctic expeditions came and sometimes returned and today it's home to the chilean and it's to cheat a signatory to a very important treaty preserving the integrity of the antarctic continent what is a kind of international co-operative as you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you're presented with a map. the concept incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that but they called because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one nine hundred fifty nine to ensure

in the interest of all mankind that shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far. as the principle of spirit is a corporation. really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do anything because this is an extreme. with extreme conditions. from point a right as to king george island on the fringes of antarctica it's well below zero and the tourists off the cruise ships are on their way home. say with king george island and townsville related. line on. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russian neighbors chile along side it does not the nation's research stations it is the antarctic treaty

and action. survival suits are on for the trip from shore to ship. there is a ride out today. on board we're quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed ocean sanctuary an isolated wilderness of sea and ice home to an astonishing erev life campaign sort of is for the wealthy marine protected area proposal by the german government and backed by the e.u. and that sort of starts at about sixty four degrees is described by everyone who goes there is pretty inhospitable i think that's the feeling we're going to have as we round this corner the greenpeace expedition is taking in scientific studies of the ocean floor as well as an exploration of this remote outpost how far we get will depend on whether ice conditions and a good deal of luck nic long al-jazeera antarctica. now friday is the final day of

the world ocean summit being held on mexico's riviera maya it's a chance for business government and environment leaders to talk about the problems facing the world sees down to come up with solutions to protect the planet's vast ocean resources out as it was just home and. this is soon going to be the first insured coral reef in the world a trust fund of government n.g.o.s and document leaders has been created to take out a policy to cover the mix conception of the mess with american research against hurricanes the nature conservancy mastermind the scheme and hopes it can be replicated elsewhere we should be quite a race as i import them because two hundred million people in the world live close to reef and they are protected like what i was really for and you're against sea level rise beach erosion so we continue to see and i will reeve's as we are doing right now we will start by protection so being sure without us to have some funding to restore the reef after you can hit them. the pioneering plan was announced to

the world ocean summit every year it brings decision makers and conservationists together to find sustainable. ways to use the world sees the environmentalist's here this is about more than just the scheduled events it's about the chat sinful ways in the lobby bar the rich chance to network with government and business leaders who have the power to put their plans for the future of the oceans into practice. mexico's president riek opinion it all showed up and so did iceland's i think we need to face the fact that the future of the ocean she's a common concern whether you're a head of state or an ngo we all need to get inside the boat and grow in the same direction in mind but more governments need to take responsibility says the un environmental direct to for oceans it belongs to everyone but still no one is protected so if there is one issue that i would say it's crucial to get sorted out

is this sort of noble governance that's every somebody's a face a huge problem. a borrowed to problems in fact eight million tons of plastic go into the sea every year three quarters of coral reefs are under threat around ninety percent of fish food straight or overexploited here at least there's no lack of ideas a will power to turn things around don't home and. the mayan riviera mexico. well students have been stopped from going to sports competitions and other gulf countries because of a nine month blockade by neighboring states so they've come up with an alternative to keep competitive the targets and the reports. and to spend so goes to a british school and never imagined that he and his friends would be caught up in a political dispute between on one side saudi arabia egypt bahrain in the united

arab emirates and on the other cattle but that's been the case since organizers blocked him and hundreds of others from competing in a major school sports event in dubai this weekend five. teaches dismayed by the decision of organize the cattle games as an alternative students are competing in basketball football athletics swimming and other events. and what has been the most enjoyable bit of working with my team. mates and seeing how close to the school with of it is remark excited by like really competitive katie want to gold medal in the team swim event and says the standard of competition is high i got to compete with other people. and to some of my friends the cattle games is another example of how tyreese as well as the more than two million ex-pats living here are adapting to the challenges caused

by the blockade that said there is a certain amount of incredulity care that countries blockading cattle are using children to school political points it's also raise questions about whether sport education and politics should ever met organizers say that even in the gulf diplomatic dispute is eventually resolved the cattle games will run every year from now on you know i want to sell tiflis games as a beat the blockade games because you know very much now. out of adversity comes opportunity and the opportunity is here because essentially because of the blockade another the top and once on a spin social special and i know it will continue to be it will happen year after year after year the children had set their sights on competing in dubai this weekend the cattle games has ensured that months of hard work has not gone to waste victoria gave him be out is there a doha or a time for the sport. and give them

a tour serino williams has returned to competitive singles action with the when williams is back six months after the birth of her first child hoping round when that indian wells setting up the possible on court the union with her sister venus and a richardson reports. the biggest name in women's tennis is back on cools serena williams returning to action at the indian wells tournament in california prior to this match against kazakstan zarina d.s. the twenty three time grand slam singles champion hadn't played a top level tour event since winning the australian open at the start of last year i. of these are only appearances since the birth of her daughter have been in doubles games all exhibition matches but that famed fighting spirit soon reemerged you williams winning in straight sets

and i was almost going to cry because i missed my daughter and i was just like you know but i pulled myself together and i got to do it but it was good i was really in it when i was really happy to be out there and you know just be able play tennis again she'll meet dutch play a key persons in round two a sister venus a possible third round opponent and he richardson al-jazeera. roger federer begins his bid for a record six india a wells title on saturday that six year old is back at the top of the world rankings that with world number two rafael nadal missing from this event due to injury as little pressure as they seem to be there is always on the top guys you know because just you're always in the center of attention and expectations are there. you know but i'm definitely good place i also feel like i have less to prove today than in the past but that doesn't mean that i don't want

it badly time made a strong finish to pre-season training ahead of the new f one championship which begins it with the australia gone play on march the twenty fifth kimi recording was quickest in the final session in barcelona it caps a promising week fulfil ari with the finns teammate sebastian vettel fastest on thursday and their arch rivals are taking their threats seriously as well of that of red bull. we definitely think it is going to be a tree treat team battle this year which is always good for more than is good for for us as well to try you know half and half have some clear targets and some someone always to push us forward that makes us to work harder so i think consistent consistency is definitely going to be be the key you know it's it's a long season ahead. you.

the biggest winter paralympics is in history is officially underway the opening ceremony i'm sure on chung has finished early or north korea will be making its games debut but north and south korean athletes march separately at this event the two countries united for a joint session at last month's lympics this time the north i had wanted disputed islands to be put on the unified flag but the south disagreed i reckon five of the sixty seven athletes from forty eight countries will be competing along with north korea georgia. have athletes at the games for the first time eighty medals are up for grabs in six sports all pine skiing snowboarding power ice hockey welcher curling and the nordic skiing events of cross-country and pass along with the

winter olympics a russian athletes deemed drug free by organizes will be able to compete as neutrals around thirty russians will be in all must have had at least two anti doping tests in the posix months. the has a quieter day at the engine open he finished five the second round in a tie for second despite nearly missing his time a spy and said he missed his morning alarm call and woke up less than forty minutes before he was due to tee off they saw a quick shower and fosse driver was still able to get to the new delhi calls on time. my heart was pounding because i was very nervous because i thought i you know. i think the court. made a world record from the hotel to the golf course and i mean a couple minutes right that can take ten or fifteen minutes he was really wide

mantissa city of running away in the e.p.l. title race sixteen points clear would just nine games left their closest rivals are seemingly left to battle it out for second place to stay united oka pie that spot at host third place liverpool on saturday with only two points separating the teams now who are in better form going into the match their unbeaten in their last five games while united have lost two of their last five if a pool stall forward the most solid has a chance to complete a sweep against england's biggest clubs if he's cause he would have netted against every other top six sides in the e.p.l. i don't think that game needs any and the extra reasons to be a big game it's the biggest game i can imagine. so. it's very looking. but. always is in these games difficult as well unless it is fulfilled we will have

more later on so i thank you very much not professional dancers like many sports stars are elite athletes with short careers but when injury strikes or retirement looms few have lucrative endorsement deals to fall back on when he struggled to move into other careers but a british group is helping make the transition easier. has more from london. dancers captivate audience with their beauty and grace but it cheating that delicate balance of athletic prowess and artistic expression takes years of training and seemingly endless personals. daniel davidson started training when he was eleven he's not ready to leave the stage yet but at thirty three he knows that pushing the body beyond its limits inevitably takes its toll it's hard on the body with the long hours we have to train constantly. it's you know is difficult. but i feel like the emotionally exhausting aspects of the job is probably what makes me

think more about what's next. like professional sports dance favors the very young and ironically it's often when dancers reach their artistic peak that the time comes to retire a professional dancers career tends to be very short while the average. thirty five and. it's because their bodies can no longer withstand the rigors of their profession and many dancers find one of the biggest things they want to do. that's where dancers career development steps in the organization provides emotional and practical support helping dancers as they reach train in new fields is a very all nothing career and very often that's from the age of three up until thirty five so you can imagine when that time comes of perhaps when you're no longer in the same place and it's time for you to think about doing something else it can be incredibly daunting isolating and also people have to have real

shore of what they do they are what they are outside of a studio workshops like this help dancers looking ahead to retirement like tom clark who is struggling with injury and looking to pursue a career in photography what we get from study is that there's more business in. the village it's my complete transition when nobody gives up. so i'm saving already. after eight years on stage cabin mascot made his transition from a dance studio to the design studio i was thirty at the time i knew i maybe had a few more. but. at that point i knew i didn't want to do it forever i didn't want to be an old dancer so that kind of made up my mind for me i can stop this and i can retrain and something else kevin turned to dancers career development for help four years later he owns a thriving fashion business. proof that a life of a dancer can always have

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