al jazeera. america where every year. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine that is coming up in the next sixty minutes. syrian fighters and their families leave

eastern ghouta for the first time since it came under siege four years ago. nearly three years of war disease and death in yemen we meet those have escaped to cross the red sea to djibouti. u.s. president donald trump tweets confirmation that a deal is in the making with north korea after mixed messages from the white house . life after dancing how performers are getting a foothold in new professions after leaving the limelight. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave the has reached a government controlled area outside the own clave the group it's gyration al islam that see army of islam had released thirteen pfizer's from another group that is heard imprisoned along with their. milly's meanwhile two people have been killed

from government shelling on saturday during a russian led five hour truce that is supposed to be under way at least fifty five people were killed in eastern on friday live now to our correspondent alan fischer who's monitoring events in syria from gaziantep in southern turkey and alan this is the first group of rebel fighters to come out of guta does this signal the beginning of the end for the resistance. well certainly there was no indication that these fighters were going to be a load to move it happened late on friday thirteen fighters and their families loaded on to buses and then sent to. what we're hearing from state t.v. reporters in the area is that they believe more fighters will follow this humanitarian route that has been established by the russians to a low them to leave the enclave certainly we knew that the russians created this

humanitarian corridor but up until friday no one had taken any advantage of it whatsoever we also know that there was an aid convoy into east ghouta on friday you'll remember earlier this week forty six lorries of the turkish red cross red crescent went into the area but thirteen couldn't empty their trucks because of your strikes nearby that was considered too much of a risk so they all left they went back in on friday again not all the trucks managed to unload the aid that is say your mark for east ghouta they were given permission to take in their own food for twenty thousand people they've been given permission. to to pick and food for seventy thousand people but only managed to get food in for twenty thousand the population of the scooter at the moment is around four hundred thousand and meanwhile while there is this aid going in we are still hearing about your street still hearing about a number of people being killed and the concern there is that because

a number of buildings have been destroyed that number of dead me grow in the coming hours and meanwhile further south in the story further north in the country in a free closer to where you are the turkish campaign goes on a case. exactly what we do expected maybe a very short halt in the operation for free because we knew that the kurdish militia the why p.g. were moving troops from elsewhere in syria to are free in a but. that is ongoing at the moment and the free syrian army backed by the kurdish military have taken control of six significant towns and villages around our friend to the north and to the south just in the last few hours and president everyone believes that there is going to be an assault in our friend and he believes that there could be free syrian army and turkish troops in the city in the coming days and certainly we're hearing from people on the ground and from that we've been speaking to that that city has been targeted by airstrikes no if it is taking it

will be the latest to succumb so if the time of our friend is taken it will be the latest major stronghold to be. overwhelmed by the free syrian army backed up by the turkish military and we crossed the border on friday to visit one tone that has already been taken by the free syrian army. we drove into syria with the turkish army escort they decided where we would go the destination the village of dead 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 of the children waited for the truck to distribute its boxes to 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 all the people are standing here waiting patiently for the aid to be handed out that is they say they were at it long enough for the aid to arrive but they don't mind waiting that little bit longer. each boxes on oil and sugar and flour and sanitary products enough to last a family three weeks. since the f s a came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the y.p. . the aid material 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 to can with what it has. up to we came to the area

yesterday and assess the needs of the village residents who prepared food and hygenic material for everyone. every so often the growing cheeks of the same to the artillery fire the big guns pointed out in support of the ongoing military operations the children told me they don't like the noise it may have grown up with the war but it's something they will never get used to alan fischer al-jazeera there balut northern syria. now it's been almost exactly three years since the saudi led coalition entered yemen's civil war on the side of the government against the rebels the consequences for millions of yemenis have been catastrophic more than five thousand civilians have been killed according to the u.n. the saudi led coalition's been criticized for not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths and of blocking the delivery of aid the u.n. says more than three million people are displaced with many taking refuge across

the red sea in djibouti and the world food program warns that yemen is on the brink of famine and millions are going hungry including nearly two million children who are acutely man arash the conflict has also led to a cholera epidemic with more than a million people impacted. so as we've already mentioned the conflict has driven thousands of yemenis to escape across the red sea to djibouti in the horn of africa and that's where our correspondent mohamed atta is and mohamed djibouti itself is not a wealthy country is it how is it managing to accommodate say many yemeni is. while yes martin djibouti is trying against all the boards to. accommodate these kinds of housing of yemeni refugees who've been fleeing the war in their country and it's said they really think that people are arriving at the comp the mark as

they come in. djibouti they're mainly coming from the cities of wildland and here is in yemen as well as the towns of babel meant that manhole also in the south they complain all luck of the most basic necessities as well as the conflict there and they say they're also being hostile by the fighters as well as the other fighting groups but when they arrive they're given they're registered given some tents and initial food rations but very few want to stay there they all want to come out because of the really bad conditions of the come some of them hot and up here in djibouti where the government recently changed its laws to allow yemeni refugees to work on a living here is the story of those who remain behind. it's food

distribution the market come for yemeni refugees in the dusty pull. the law mohammed of the law has just picked his family's food a location for the month he came here two years ago when a missile hit and destroyed his house in whole south of the yemen now a mother who had a hand look at the shooting that i saved given us there won't be enough for my family or even five days a situation is really bad. apart from the legal regimes people here also complain of conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun hardly been many away this is a place where many don't want to stay for long at one point this camp was home to more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one lived here most of them have either gone talk of the town or to the capital djibouti yet others hover tonty yemen preflighting the un something terrible was on to life in this country. those who have chosen to stay see the option of

a shared choice we have nowhere else to go where can we go we are forced to stay here yet the massive insecurity and shortage of some basic supplies in yemen is forcing many more refugees to cause the sea are some but are cut robbed of the come just three days ago from the city of thais which is under the control of both the fighters and again the human we fled from yemen because of war and hunger the hutu militias are also making life unbearable destroying homes of bullying and arresting people who will it's a disaster back in yemen. nearly thirty five thousand people admit the jenna's southwards across the bubble mandeb straight to djibouti since march two thousand and fifteen from the beginning to open its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted for an investment in recent years due to start to duplication but extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say that is

little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and. while there are hundreds of home yemenis who are in limbo here in good butties city now those who've been seeking resettlement and the united states members of families all united states citizens who themselves all but i live here in december last year the embassy the u.s. embassy here give denial most of this to about six hundred applicants who they say due to a directive from president that one more longer welcome in the united states and those that group is getting more desperate by the day they're saying they cannot continue being in limbo the cost of living here in the city is very high and they cannot continue to offer whole thing here and they might be forced to the tunnel mohamed lies in the city thank you very much. we're going to the mall to come on

this al-jazeera news hour including. india and france exchange agreements on defense and trade deals during president macross first visit to new jersey plus. on the clock reporting from an expedition in antarctica on the effort to turn the vast and remote will see the largest protected area. and the first medals of the twenty eighteen paralympic winter games have been handed out find out who's winning in q one china with peter coming up in sports. the president says a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making in a tweet the president said if completed the agreement would be quote a very good one for the world the white house says there will be no preconditions

to the meeting with kim jong un in may or before may president trump spoke earlier with the chinese leader xi jinping and both are very great to continue sanctions and till north korea takes steps to end its nuclear program mike hanna has more 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 this confusion underscores the developments that have occurred with president trump leaping head first 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 now hear the view from. guess now who is in beijing first of all sorry first of all we're going to hear from a correspondent who is in south korea rather pride. if you are in

north korea right now and you do not have access to an outside source of information then you will not know about the historic summit in all six pages of the road long since this is the state controlled main party newspaper there's not one mention of it the only related item is an article attacking the latest u.s. sanctions which it says are a further provocation possibly leading to war the problem in north korea is a propaganda machine that turns out a daily diet of common trees all the tacking the imperialist united states as the great war monger how do you now turn around and tell your people your leader is about to sit down and have a friendly chat with the leader of your arch enemy even harder it seems will be explaining that in preparation for this is sturrock summit you have put on hold work on your intercontinental ballistic missile this has been heralded as

a great achievement of the socialist north korea the thing that will offer salvation from the very same imperialist americans it seems the north koreans need time to work out this complicated narrative in order to be able to explain it to its people looking even further ahead becomes the prospect perhaps of normalized relationship if this talks continue between north korea and the united states maybe even relations veering towards possibly the friendly or at least less hostile should that happen north korea it seems will have to perform some kind of propaganda contortionists act in order to explain it all luckily for the people in the propaganda department that prospect does seem a long way off. possible severe now from beijing is seen since juice improperly and now joe who is an associate at the. center for global policy thank you very much

indeed for joining us. i'm just wondering what the view of this rather remarkable sequence of events is in beijing how are people in the chinese capital viewing this . well first of all we should be really is taking what is heard by the two parties north korea united states and they say moments north korea basically says that it is committed to the to do graduation which could be a very general. political commitment to the long term goal of. there might not be any plan to dismantle north korea's nuclear weapons and to and i don't the part of the united states mr truong committed to meeting with him there is no worry of and major concessions. that i think there is this is a major progress that the leaders of north korea and states are going to be face to face that creates

a very important opportunity for them to know better of each other to reduce the chances of standing this is all very. historic the first time a sitting u.s. president meets with a north korean leader that's obviously a very significant but who would you say is actually driving the process would you say to south koreans would you say to the united states all. well. it's the south koreans and with the natives in the discussions but in fact fundamentally i think it's the north koreans after successfully tested three intercontinental ballistic missiles and last year they have achieved the basic package code needed for searching you could deterrent capability so now they are quickly moving into the next stage which is to deal with all the negative consequences of their nuclear weapon development program so that's why we're seeing

north korea conducting this diplomatic overture to south korea to the united states so it's actually can young marines in the driving seat and the authorities in china believe that it was the extra additional pressure placed upon the pyongyang regime particularly from china of course that is that she yielded this result is it this campaign of of tough sanctions that has led north korea to the negotiating table i think from the chinese parts they cannot make some difference played a very important go. and make the north koreans feel that they don't have much time so even though the in the ideal case that would have wanted to conduct a deal more i.c.b.m. test of the economic pressure what so have the if they decided to run the program

and early as possible in death and economic sanctions played some role but still the primary reason what north korea has already achieved their basic deterrent in the navy but given the go played by some china i think will for sure continue implementing those sanctions the foremost group until north korea makes concrete progress towards your privation. thank you very much indeed and give. now the russian president vladimir putin has rejected accusations by u.s. intelligence that healed and citizens to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election in an interview president putin said he couldn't care less if anyone meddled in the campaign or say we're not connected to the kremlin but he also said he has no plans to extradite thirteen russian citizens accused of attempting to interfere by special counsel robert muller who's investigating suspected links between the trunk campaign and russia. france's president emanuel

macro has been holding talks with the prime minister of india on his first official visit there fourteen agreements have been signed following that ninety minute meeting the focus has been on trade security and climate change india and france are also co-hosting the first summit of the international solar alliance that's an initiative launched on the sidelines of the paris climate conference of twenty fifty. after twenty years of strategic partnership we are now opening up to a new era a new chapter of strengthening our strategic partnership with unprecedented alliances the pacific or the indian ocean cannot be places for hedging money powers we are building a strategic partnership in this respect this is also the purpose of our defense cooperation it was born a while ago and was also tested in difficult times but beyond political

alternatives both in france and in india this cooperation in the defense field now has new significance. or corporation in the defense sector is very deep and we consider france as one of our most trusted defense partners to their country the degree to stick support among our armed forces as a golden step in the history of a close defense corporation. saudi arabia has signed a preliminary deal to buy forty eight typhoon warplanes from the united kingdom it was agreed during the recent visit of saudi prince crown prince mohammed bin sound man to london he held talks with the british prime minister theresa may on wednesday or defense and security at the core of the relationship between britain and saudi arabia the u.k. is the world's third largest exporter with fifty eight percent going to the middle east saudi arabia has consistently been the u.k.'s top export market for the past

five years receiving two thirds of its arms exports in. twenty fifteen this is being criticized by those including opposition leader jeremy corbyn who fear the weapons are being used to kill civilians in yemen the u.k. has sold six point four billion dollars in our society arabia since the conflict began in twenty fifteen. now in a few minutes we'll have the weather with the staff but also coming up here on the al-jazeera news. why investigators in became a faster believe gunman who attacked the french embassy and army headquarters may have had inside help from the military. america's gun lobby fights back against florida's new gun control measures. and in sports women's world number one and former champion simona halep is closer to a second title at indian wells peter will have the details.

by the spring time flower of a mountain lake. to go. on a winter. hello there we certainly needed some rain in queensland but we've had far too much now take a look at the latest pictures from we can see just how bad the flooding is there it's really quite deep but it carries on for miles two hundred homes and now submerged by the floodwater a little bit false that video has hit a bit dizzy now that that system is just working a little bit further towards the north now so for it there we've had around fifty nine millimeters of rain in the last twenty four hours but for cannes we've had one hundred fifty nine so clearly a lot of what weather still falling out of this system it's just tracking a little bit further towards the north now but all of that is going on over australia watch out for this system here that's just trucking away from new caledonia that is a tropical storm now if this cycle was around the waters of the americas it would

be called a hurricane and it would be a category one so the weakest type of harken there is but still one that's capable of giving us a very heavy downpours from damaging winds this system is still capable of giving us some very destructive weather and it's slowly working its way towards the south it's still easing a little bit as it does so but it does look like it's working its way towards the north island of new zealand so we're going to see more in the way of cloud there as we head through the day on sunday and then sunday night into monday is where we're going to see the worst of us and we could see quite a bit of damage for some of us in new zealand that. do with sponsored by the time. an act of youthful defiance. your turn next doctor also in the school will be arrested near home at four in the morning of electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the

boy who started the syrian war at this time on al-jazeera. when the news breaks when people need to be heard. like it good to. my brain and the story needs to be to be just largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. and live news on air and on.

occasion for the sake of a top story here at al-jazeera the first creator syrian rebel fighters to leave have now reached a government controlled area outside of the enclave the group army of islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group headed held captive along with their families meanwhile two people have been killed from government shelling on saturday. the conflict in yemen is driven thousands of yemenis to flee across the red sea to djibouti in the horn of africa but food supplies are running short as camps there struggle to quit. with the numbers yemen is also struggling with widespread hunger and a cholera epidemic afflicting more than a million people. president trump says a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making the white house has confirmed there being no preconditions for a planned meeting between the u.s.

president and the north korean leader kim jong un. and a blow by blow to asian summit is being held on mexico's riviera maya and has now ended business government and environmental leaders address the problems facing the world sees john home and. this is soon going to be the first and should 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 declare reese as an important because two hundred million people in the world live close to reef and they are protected like what i was really for and you again see them in the rice beach erosion so we continue to see i will reeve's as we are doing right now we will start off by protection so being

sure without us to have some funding to restart 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 environmentalists here this is about more than just the scheduled events it's about the chance simple ways in the lobby bar the rare 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 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 proton grow in the same direction at one end 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 is crucial to get sorted out is this sort of noble governance that's the reason why we are facing this 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 john home and. the mayan riviera mexico for the weddell see an antarctic areas the coldest place on the planet yet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species from killer whales the starfish now there's a proposal to turn the rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in part one of al-jazeera serious on the web elsie environmental editor nick club

joined a greenpeace expedition. it's a city near the end of the maritime history land. in the main square in punta arenas but none miguel and looked out towards way go across the strait that bears his dame from scott 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 works as a kind of international co-operative and as you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you're presented with a map of the continent 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 in a 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 to 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. here with no king george island and downscale 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 in action. survival suits for the trip from shore to ship.

ride out to the. on board way 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 about sixty four degrees it's 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 nick long al-jazeera antarctica. and in part two of our series on the proposed sanctuary nick will break through the ice to what activists hope

will become the western edge of the protected weddle thing that's on sunday here about is there. now to be more aggressive became to fast after last week's attacks on his ministry headquarters and the french embassy in soldiers are among those detained raising the suspicion that those responsible may have had inside help. from the capital. for those who died in last week's attack most killed were soldiers. always in mourning still in shock. this is a moment of incredible sadness for us my brother in law went to the army headquarters to run an errand he was a bit late and the attackers took his life his body was so wounded he was unrecognizable. nine armed men drove

a car full of explosives undetected through rush hour traffic to the most secured areas of the capitol the french embassy and army headquarters. the car bomb took parking afonso security forces by surprise overrun and overpowered the french special forces who have a base in the capital intervened and killed the attackers investigators say the target was a scheduled meeting of the army chief of staff a five saheli in countries part of a multinational force led by france to push rebel groups out of the region on a visit to britain a fosse of the forces coronating country needs share vowed to hunt down the group responsible for the attack. we know that terrorists and their accomplices seek to undo our alliance they say they are foreign forces but they are fighting a common enemy. eight men in the capital were arrested after a rebel group operating in vista how it claimed responsibility for the attack news

that men are not foreigners but a mix of active and former soldiers surprised many here but all. the time came forty eight hours after the start of the trial of gen gen derry the former head of the presidential guards orchestrated a failed coup attempt in two thousand and fifty since then many of his soldiers have been fired and his men negotiated with the rebel groups on behalf of western countries he was key to the release of european hostages. since his arrest attacks have multiplied killing hundreds of people these soldiers on the front line of an expanding war with what now seems like an enemy within their midst nicholas hawk. the u.n. is warning that two million children risk of death from starvation in the democratic republic of congo aid agencies say years of conflict and instability have created one of the world's most complex humanitarian crises and it's only getting worse how

to help. this child is part of a growing humanitarian crisis one of two million children at risk of dying from mt nutrition in the castle region in the democratic republic of congo. into communal 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 been internally displaced the humanitarian community has launched its largest ever appeals to 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 gracious the world food program emphasized the need for urgent assistance in the custody region alone three point

two million people are severely hungry that's one in four people malnourished children at risk of dying us 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 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. the colombians vote on sunday for parliamentary elections which will be followed by a presidential poll taking place in may for the first time former fox fighters will

join the rat race since they signed a peace deal with the government in twenty six scene ending five decades of war alice under m.p.'s a little oh yeah. the last day of campaigning for former far commander big deal and it's a symbolic one she's back in her hometown northern colombia the town she left thirty one years ago to become a giver your fighter but this is the work. you have resisted you have had the ability and the courage to endure the systematic violence that has been waged against our people when you fight party has been running on a platform of political and social welfare reform but it has had a hard time attracting people outside of its traditional base and in all attendance here are poor farmers mostly cocoa growers hoping peace will bring about change. the hope is that this party will help us move forward and that one day we can

experience the peace we've been tonights persona long by the war we can reach at this time. but the far campaign has largely attracted a different kind of attention. last month it suspended campaigning after. its top commander running for president was pelted with rocks he later ended his run because of health reasons to x. fighters campaigning for a candidate have been killed and most suffered attacks or traits and social media. says columbia's private institutions systematically hampered their efforts. but we've been trying but it has been very hard the goal was to reach as many people as possible but we weren't able to finance a campaign banks would not open us accounts we couldn't reach out on radio and t.v. like the other parties we suffered considerable stigmatise station and much slanging. as one of the five stop sending a well likely fail one of ten congressional seats that the peace deal set aside for

the new farkas party regardless of their showing but it will be difficult for them to leave my those seats if they don't get enough votes there is a tremendous degree of. negative feelings towards this group the have not. adequately processed and taken measures to address. for extern zisha into illegal electoral. force was never going to be simple but this tentative steps or already any story could she have meant in a country still struggling to find a way to turn the page on its long and bloody conflict i listen. to. a former u.s. serviceman and three women he took hostage at a home for war veterans have been found dead after a day long standoff with police the gunman has been identified as al but while the thirty six year old former army rifleman who served in afghanistan the women worked

for an organization that treats veterans for post-traumatic stress the pathway home in california is the largest of its kind in the u.s. the national rifle association has filed a lawsuit challenging new gun control laws in the state of florida branding them uncle situational america's largest gun lobby is angry that the governor signed a bill increasing the minimum age for buying firearms to twenty one weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's pomp and high school shooting in which seventeen people died the law also paves the way for some school staff to be armed . i mean remember and i was in a remember when 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 this bill some that don't agree with this bill. and the 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 support we need more mental health counseling we need to make sure people that are going to do harm and think we know we the people talking when we know we know they're out there talking we need to do something about it and and we need to take all these all of us everybody needs to take this seriously when somebody is threatening people. well holly co-chairs the group of women against gun violence and she fears the n.r.a. could use the new florida 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 coach's either way in a state where stand your ground is legal that means that if any of this school of

the school personnel is says that they feel threatened by a student they can shoot to kill and legally get away with murder 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 still to come here in the al-jazeera news in sports going global professional wrestling has its eyes set on the middle east.

what makes this global this era we live in for so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding the distortion is that of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important to have a right to publish if you have a duty to be offensive will propose it without it as people did setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. and then reported wealth on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war.

the professional dancers like many sports elite athletes with short career is that when injury strikes or retirement looms few have lucrative indorsement deals to fall back on many struggle to move into other career is but one british organization is helping to make that transition easier catherine stansell reports 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 for her souls. 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 where you have to train constantly and it's you know it's 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 but the time comes to retire the professional dancers career tends to be very short of the average. thirty five and. it's because their bodies can no longer withstand the rigors of their profession and many dancers find friends because. they want to. 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 or long 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 of the real shore of what they who they are and 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 health care small business. ventures. my complete this human body gives up. so i'm saving already. after eight years on stage cabin mascot made his transition from the 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 in something else kevin turned to dances career development for help four years later he owns a thriving fashion business. proof that a life of a dancer can always have a second act catherine stance on al-jazeera london. weekly. right peter now with details from the first day of competition in pyongyang thank you so much martine and that is where we begin the first medals of the twenty

eighteen paralympic winter games in pyongyang have been one slovakia's him and he. was the first medal winner in south korea she finished first in the women's downhill for visually impaired athletes many nights of great britain and belgium's and an all summer were second and. the first men's gold medal of the downhill for the visually impaired win to canada's mac markku he. and it's a joke oh more better than nearly the first women's biathlon gold medal win to kindle greats of the u.s. in the six kilometers sitting ivins fellow american oksana masters and after years of bela ruth's compete at the podium there was gold for the u.s. in the main seven point six kilometers sixteen even to daniel lawson finishing heda of the me three of belarus and canada is common cameron. tennis now in women's world number one simona halep has advanced to the third round at indian wells in

california the twenty six year old romanian overpowered christina fisk of the czech republic a straight sets win for the former champion however six four six four on friday alex next plays the winner between slovenia and dominica sabine cover and american caroline don't hide claimed the indian wells title back in twenty fifty. has been a shock at the event already as world number three go to be near her was knocked out in her opening round match the spaniard losing to the world number one hundred qualifier sasha victory to six seven five six one it's victories best ever career when she goes through to the third round where she'll play naomi asarco of japan. world number five covering a political or has managed to go through to the third round of the tournaments the czech beat even cover many big who of romania in straight sets seven six six one the school. now with manchester city running away in the english premier league title race sixteen points clear with just nine games left their closest rivals are

seemingly left to battle about for second place now in just the united occupy that spot and host third place liverpool on saturday with only two points separating the teams liverpool or in better form going into the match their unbeaten in their last five league games while united have lost two of their last five liverpool star forward mohammad sylar has a chance to compete a sweep against indians biggest clubs in the schools he would have needed against every other top six side in the league i don't think that game needs any of the extra reasons to be a big game it's the biggest game i can imagine. and so first very looking. forward to it but how it always is in these games difficult as well. so we need to be at one hundred percent he once dominated the worlds golf courses but over the last few years success has been few and far between for tiger woods in his latest

tournament though woods is in contention going into the weekend rounds woods is just two shots behind the leaders of the valspar championship the american short three under par sixty eight in the second round to share second place at the halfway point of the tournament call economies sits at the top of the the board. of felt good i mean i. i thought i was i was playing well you know. and i had a honda and i was just a matter of cleaning up a few holes and a few shots here and there and. i had a shot with a few holes to go and so i just tried to you know basically trying to continue what i was doing in the n.b.a. the toronto raptors ended the used in rockets seventeen game winning streak with a one hundred eight one hundred five victory meanwhile the new orleans pelicans tain game winning streak has come to an end junior scored nineteen points as washington cruised to one hundred sixteen ninety seven when over the pelicans new

orleans could not overcome the absence of all star anthony davis who was out with a sprained ankle. and pro wrestling is going global with market leader will racing into tame little w w e pushing into new markets including the middle east aspiring grapplers in qatar looking to get in on the ground floor with the opening of the region's first day of a pro wrestling school friends in monaghan has moved from doha. welcome to the school of hard knocks. clotheslines are on the curriculum all with technical hold on the map. but trainees at the counter pro wrestling academy aren't just picking up the moves they're also learning to take them safely both grapplers work together to put on a show that makes the sport dramatic storytelling. isn't to win but to entertain the crowd and that means you have to rely on your opponent to keep you safe from

injury just stood for since so like in the first place we are friends and we move into doing so little if i don't trust him i want to be able to. call that's when you see. the school is the first of its kind in the middle east in the past aspiring wrestlers would have to go to the u.s. or the u.k. but now they have an opportunity that's closer to home i just don't want to hear. that on t.v. i want to be in many. many shows. with you to do. the students say they're committed and those who aren't serious don't last long boys came here because they just believed it was a good fit if they think it's fake one of the first thing that we got to teach and hope to act and talk to ryssdal so with we give them this is listen this is

a ticking bomb on the way that you don't want professional wrestling already has deep roots in the u.s. the u.k. japan and met. soko but it's right here in the middle east comes a time when the industry is truly going global with market leader world wrestling entertainment setting its sights on the region w w e airs in more than one hundred eighty countries in twenty different languages the company rakes in over eight hundred million dollars a year and the middle east is its latest target for expansion american wrestling shows usually portray arab wrestlers as bad guys but going global could be challenging old stereotypes and this is being changed now. for many because there will be start to the visiting eat at least not like before so if you go in to for example to soldier to bring the bill that you should have because this man has a huge b.w. regularly flies in foreign stars for shows and catherine some of the academy students might soon be ready for a spot on the card but for now they'll battle it out in the gym getting ready for

their chance to perform in front of the big crowds. binns manhunt al-jazeera doha. and we'll leave it there for now have another sporting update later of martina and i thank you very much indeed. and that's it for the pay to and for me for this news at.

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and will freely as far in this much as they want. multinational colonialism this is of the another moment over the democratic process these companies they just want the europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as an eyewitness. to. some syrian fighters and their families leave east and go to for the first time since it came under siege four years ago. although i'm adrian shot again this is al jazeera live from doha.