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its effort to retake the rebel held territory. it's been three years of war disease and death in yemen we meet those who've escaped to cross the red sea to djibouti. and u.s. president donald trump tweets confirmation a deal is in the making with north korea after a mixed messages from the white house. on the clock reporting from an expedition in antarctica on the effort to turn the vast and remote weddle sea into the largest protected area on earth. so we start in syria where government forces have reportedly surrounded the two largest towns in eastern guta of the seizing more territory from the rebels on saturday government shelling and air strikes killed more than fifty people in the rebel on klav within the last twenty four hours the governor. it says it's now in

full control of misrata that's in the east and there are reports that it's advance into areas between the two main towns of duma and harassed and that effectively cut some off from each other well meanwhile the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave east and has reached a government controlled area outside the own claims the group jaish al islam or the army of islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that it turns imprisoned along with their families let's talk first now to our correspondent alan fischer he's in gaziantep in southern turkey very close to the border with syria first of all it seems as a the syrian army and its allies have made significant gains in the sim gate or. something fits in with the pattern that we've seen throughout this war when they have moved on a new area supported by the russians they tend to try and split the area where the people that the describers rebels and terrorists are holed up and then move in that

direction to try and take complete control of the area believing that that cut supply routes and also then when they've surrounded those areas gives them the opportunity to move rebel fighters out of that area so this entirely fits in with the strategy that has been used by the syrian army essentially since the russians came in as advisors and also with their milk military support it has been a difficult twenty four hours for the people in ghouta we know that there was another aid convoy sent in on friday you remember the airlie last week they sent in forty six truckloads of food but not all of them could on load at thirteen left without getting anything out of the trucks they were sent back in and friday most of the managed to get their foodstuffs out but some still had to leave fairly laden again because there was an outbreak of violence airstrikes near where they were working and they couldn't take the risk and so they pooled out we're hearing that at least forty nine people were killed in the over. right fighting and we expect

that number to increase because a number of buildings were destroyed in air strikes and they still haven't been able to clear the rubble so they think there may still be bodies trapped in those structures and further north then allan closer to where you are the turkish army and its allies are moving ever closer to their target of affray. exactly we're hearing that they're very close to the city of freedom they've taken over the last few hours six tones and villages to the north and south of the city you know the turkish press that mr elder one has been speaking just in the last hour or so and he said look if we were like everyone else we could have people in our friend within three days but we are taking precautions because of the number of civilians there now we've heard from a doctor in a friend who said he's worried about an ongoing massacre if the talks backing up the f.s.a. continue with their assault at the level that we've seen over the last twenty four hours or so and certainly speaking to people enough just in the last hour or so

we're hearing that the water supplies have been shut off and that they have no internet a tall. you see that most houses that are three or four families living there people that have been displaced by the fighting up to this point now we thought the assault enough room would take perhaps a few days but it seems that the free syrian army backed by the turks have continued to push forward even though there was the threat of seventeen hundred why p.g. the cutlash militia soldiers being pulled from elsewhere in syria to defend a free and you know appears that they may well be in place but with superior manpower and superior weaponry the free syrian army and the turks believe that that taking control of that city is only days away alan tisha live in gaziantep thank you very much indeed well now on camera land is here with me he is the director of policy analysis at the day her. we've just been hearing about two separate hotspots

in the syrian war but let's focus on what's going on in the single to because it seems very much as though the inevitable has arrived and the syrian government has achieved at least the first of its military objectives when it comes to recent you're right this development has not come as a surprise for people who have been watching this conflict from. the very beginning in fact the area has been under siege for the past five years short of munition food medicine. whereas the regime actually is supported by very dedicated is a very big fire power be presented by russia but air force has been actually bombing the area for the past three weeks. saw. and we we know or we also know that the iranian backed militia are very much difficult to actually towards taking back this despite of damascus suburbs saw because it's very important i mean it is

a little too that it's very important is right close to the seat of their seat of government is very true it's like. i mean it's like seven kilometers away from the city center from the mosque a citizen does so the regime has been actually adamant on taking back i mean this area tell us more about the nature of the rebel groups that are in. july shell islam we understand the army of islam they have begun to leave the territory where don't know if they'd be followed by anymore but we know a small group of have already left the territory how significant is that there are three major factions of the syrian opposition is still water the one you mentioned slow or the army of islam which is actually controlling merely duma a very important city. and we have. which is another faction that is controlling and we have which is more or less. i sell it. group

so these three. productions syrian factions they don't actually go along very much because they have been fighting actually between these different groups over the past couple of years so this seems to me that they are trying to strike deals deals with the regime specially for additional islam. in particular because this is how i mean this is how you try to understand the situation is think what is more the original it's more about cities that are fighting against each other in the region is exploiting that division for a while by now trying to have this deal with. actually fighting alone in this and this but i defectively by cutting off cutting the territory in half. he's isolating the two cities now the two big cities in the in the east and what he's weakening them and he's. supporting its military approach by having this political strategy separating them both on the ground and politically

by trying to have a deal this deal with. well as ever thank you. now trade officials from the u.s. a u. and japan they're meeting in brussels to talk about president trump's planned tariffs on steel and dalla minium the european bloc has threatened to impose tariffs of its own on u.s. products in retaliation washington's allies have warned that the move could end up harming u.s. interests more than china which is apparently the plan's main target paul brennan reports now from brussels. this is a meeting that had been put in the diary several weeks ago to talk about the root cause of the industries the steel industries woes and that is overcapacity but president trump's announcements on tariffs have put new impetus into that part of the discussions that have been taking place here in brussels and the opportunity for the european union trade commissioner and the japanese trade minister to have face to face time with robert light hisor the u. s.

trade envoy is very valuable at the start of this two week period before president trump's tariffs actually start to be imposed there are going to be intense negotiations over this next two weeks to decide whether or not the european union can be exempted from those tariffs and the big implications if they're not are an escalating tit for tat kind of trade war involving all kinds of other products such as peanut butter orange juice harley-davidson motorcycles blue denim jeans all of these kind of things that the european union are threatening they will the slap tariffs on in retaliation essentially for what's happening to the steel industry now it's not a foregone conclusion by any means that the european union will find that it still has tariffs imposed upon it overnight president trump appears to be coming close to a deal with the australian prime minister on security arrangements there which will mean president trump won't impose tariffs on australia so there is

a glimmer of hope that european union still produces will escape the worst effects of it but with this president it's not there's no guarantee at all and that is why the european union is seeking clarity from robert lighthouse and here in brussels. now former u.s. servicemen and three women he took all staged at home for war veterans have been found dead after a day long standoff with the police the gunman has now been identified as albert one he was a thirty six year old former army rifleman who'd served in afghanistan the women worked for an organization that actually treats veterans of 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 calling them uncalled situational leaders of the country's largest gun lobby around very that the governor signed a bill which increases the minimum age for buying firearms from eighteen to twenty

one and it follows weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting in which seventeen people were killed the law also paves the way for some school staff to be armed i mean remember and i was in a remember when i became governor i'm going to be an interim member when i'm not governor i'm sure there's an array members that agree with the bill so they 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 commonsense solutions commonsense things as a father as a grandfather the governor is is we need to have offers for schools we need to harden or suppose we need more mental health counseling we need to make sure people that are you know are going to do harm and think about we know we the people who are stalking 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 don't series

a co-chair of the group women against gun violence and she fears the n.r.a. could use these new 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 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 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 said if completed the agreement would be quote a very good one for the world the white house says that we no preconditions to trump meeting leader kim jong may mr trump spoke earlier with the chinese either xi jinping by phone both of them agree to continue with tough sanctions until north korea actually takes steps to end its nuclear program mike hanna has more from washington. 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 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. we've got a lot more to come in this hour jazeera news hour including. india and france reach defense and trade deals during president mccall's first visit to new delhi. and the first medals of the twenty eighteen paralympic winter games have been awarded find out his winning impune china peter will have the details. there's been almost exactly three years since a saudi led coalition entered yemen 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 that's according to the u.n. the saudi led coalition has been criticized for not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths and blocking the delivery of aid the u.n.

says more than three million people are displaced with many if i'm taking refuge across the red sea in japan the world food program warns yemen is on the brink of famine the conflict has also led to a cholera epidemic with more than a million people affected are let's go live now to the city that's a capital city correspondent mohamed is there a mohammed what are the conditions there for the people who managed to get away from yemen what kind of conditions await them in djibouti. yes martin the refugees keep complaining about the harsh conditions of the mark as they come in the tunnel. about in the north of djibouti every day new refugees are arriving at their come just last month according to un i see our eighty refugees arrived at americas it come but while up to almost forty

thousand people have registered themselves as refugees that not because they come it's now home to only two thousand people because of these harsh conditions many have chosen to go and live in urban areas in djibouti including the capital booty taking advantage of a change in the butties refugee law which now allows yemeni refugees the chance to work and living here is the story of those who continue to live in because they come. it's food distribution. come for yemeni refugees in the dusty port town of. 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 the whole south and the now a mother who had a hand look at the shooting the rest they've given us they won't be nothing my family in five days

a situation is really bad. apart from the redirections people here also complain of conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun treatment many away this is a place where many don't want to stay for long at one point this country's home for more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one live here most of them have either going to town or to the capital others however tonty yemen preflighting the un something terrible was known to life in this county. 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 primal 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 young men 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 admitted the jenna's southwards across the bubble mandeb straight to djibouti since march two thousand and fifteen from the beginning to build you opened its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted from an investment in recent years due to it started. but extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there's little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and asylum. now as the war rages in yemen and the humanitarian crisis continues to unfold many yemeni refugees losing hope of returning home soon and they're looking for resettlement abroad and some of them have had their hopes dashed when the united states embassy here in djibouti sent

them these are denial notices in december six hundred of them and they are in limbo here in djibouti some of them have their families in the united states when but a young man and his whole sisters whose father works in syracuse new york state his father had come here to fill in the papers but now that application has been projected on them many like them and they continue to be in limbo and they say that the cost of living here is so high and they cannot continue living here and might be forced even to the time back to yemen and how many lives thank you very much when an international conference is under way also looking at the consequences of the war in yemen our correspondent jim. there is more more interest in the saudi led war in yemen particularly in the capital cities like london in countries

like the united kingdom which are or have a direct link true that conflict which has gone on for several years now in so much as that it is u.k. weapons that are being used by the saudis and there are allies in bombing yemen in fact united kingdom just announced a memorandum of understanding to sell even more fighter jets through the saudis during the visit of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon a conference like this which involves not only yemeni experts but also very small reserve different think tanks and analysts is trying to set about maybe an alternative truth this or a way out of this war some sort of peaceful solution earlier we spoke to yemeni diplomats and asked him whether the u.k. is approach in terms of selling more weapons to solder arabia was the correct one or in his free will to meet what needed to be done in order to find an end to this war the solution in yemen which is an all of all parties knows it should be

a peaceful dissolution t.m. and selling more weapons t.m. and it would not help them many people to to reach a peaceful settlement for their public problems. i would hope that united kingdom other countries will add sort of weapons to to saudi arabia to exempt more precious than selling weapons and that saudis and other forces in the horses for them to come down to a to a table and reach a peaceful settlement to yemen although not so high profile in the there aren't any government ministers attending there are an increased number of these events that are taking place in the narrative around the war on yemen and the u.k.'s involvement in it and the need for the international community to intervene to put an end to what the un has described as the worst humanitarian crisis today that. not activity in countries like united kingdom i can see is increasing so

a conference like this is testament to the fact that there is greater public dismay or maybe opposition to the policies that are taken by specific governments and increased demand but there must be and true the saudi look worn yemen katha has filed a complaint with the un security council denouncing violations of its airspace by amorality and bahraini military planes the cattery government described the intrusions in a letter that was also sent to the un secretary general the u.a.e. in bahrain are yet to respond to the accusations the two countries along with saudi arabia and egypt broke ties with last june accusing it of supporting terrorist groups catarrh denies those allegations. that specialist british soldiers are removing detention a contaminated objects in the english city of saul's ferry where a former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned officers trained in chemical warfare are assisting the police so gay and u.t.s.

refiled remain in intensive care after being targeted with a nerve agent moscow denies involvement and has dismissed the u.k.'s warnings of possible retaliation as propaganda. india and france have signed sixteen billion dollars worth of deals after prime minister narendra modi met president emmanuel macro the agreements include cooperation on defense on energy space and counterterrorism as well as the construction of a nuclear power plant in india there was also a pledge to work together to ensure the freedom of navigation in the indian nation . please believe that world peace progress and prosperity in the future the indian ocean region is going to play a very important role. matter time security and resources a freedom of navigation or flight be a committed to strengthen our partnership this is why today the press and doing a joint. in the indian ocean region. and. the

pacific or the indian ocean cannot be places for head to morning hours we are therefore building a strategic partnership in this respect this is also the purpose of our defense cooperation that was born a while ago and was also tested in difficult times but beyond political alternatives in both france and in india this cooperation in the defense sector now has a new significance because it is essential to our strategic independence. happy man jacob is a professor of national security and international relations. university he says political instability in the u.s. and britain as post india to form new strategic partnerships. i think that is not of consequences for what is happening in the voucher system today especially with richard reeling under but. it's on its own because the programs if you are for do partners with the united states or are you know you know if they don't get the

degree let going to from the united states and difficult france is not looking like the biggest. but depends on trying to market that india as in the it you're all going to but this is not just. defense partners are but is also civilian partnership and all that is going to be in the body and i'm sorry i mean they did it or some video so i think this is it meeting on my knees and i did it is perhaps has been more of a guess i'm able to and i did he's going to be ever since the. seventy's and eighty's so it is no surprise here part of it is good to see that this is the relationship is beginning far more robust. for this time of the weather now and his staff well it's very mild over europe now which is good but mild often comes with wet and i think that actually what we're seeing at the moment plenty of way but

mild weather sweeping its way across europe you see all the cloud that we've got with this and so in the southeast where we've had a lot of wet weather over the last week or so we've also had a lot of snow melting we are seeing a little bit of flooding these pictures from albania show that some villages of actually being cut off thanks to all the water that we've seen and there's more rain on the cards not just yet though at the moment it's fine there and it should be settled as we head into sunday to be elsewhere lots of wet weather sweeping its way up towards the northeast so here's what we're expecting overnight then the swirling math this huge area of low pressure covering much of the western half of europe that's making things there mark look at paris up at sixteen degrees that sixty one in fahrenheit certainly mild there but there is a lot of wet weather around the more rain across the alps will be turning wintry want more so towards the east then that's where we're seeing the cold weather still minus five as a maximum temperature in moscow still below average but things there will begin to change as well and that's thanks to the mild air is just pushing

a little bit further towards the northeast so finally things are beginning to defrost a little bit well they really though minus two with still below freezing it's just not quite as bad as it has been marty. thank you very much indeed steph lots more to come here on this al-jazeera news hour including a series of attacks targeting muslims undermines a tourist in sri lanka we have a report from candy. off the dumps how performers are getting a foothold in new professions after leaving the limelight. uninstall the law number one advances of the indian wells tennis details coming up with peter. what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on the truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding the distortion isn't over what free speech is supposed to

be about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a good to be offensive or provokes it's all about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. meet . our jews here on. where every.

take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera syrian government forces have reportedly surrounded the two largest towns in the. after seizing more territory from rebels on saturday ground forces are believed to have advanced into areas between the two main towns of duma and harasser effectively cutting them off from each other. the national rifle association the n.r.a. has filed a lawsuit which challenges new gun control laws in the state of florida calling them unconstitutional the country's largest gun lobby opposes raising the minimum age for buying firearms from eighteen to twenty one weeks of campaigning by the survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting that killed seventeen people. 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 no preconditions for a planned meeting between the u.s. president and north korean leader kim jong. taken a hit after a wave of violence force the government to impose a nighttime curfew in the central region of candy t.v. who died and more than sixty were arrested in the aftermath of attacks on mosques and muslim and business is called has now returned but the effects of seeing still being felt there's been it smith now reports. temple of the tooth is up there on the must see list of tourists coming to sri lanka. millions are drawn to the island serenity a match but the images taken a hit after the attacks by similarly. as 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 like to do a detour which was three hours longer than sixty saludos acted a member or we saw destroyed things destroyed innocents and. on those. prime minister knows the violence has impacted his country's image by these unwise acts carried out by a small group have done great social and financial damage to the country dorris were greatly in can we missed and this has dealt a blow to the tourist industry. government assessors are now drawing up lists of businesses that are 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 nothing really doing something michael is indeed for these players and for the

salaries. i believe what they believe and they're going to want to really make. you know money is the only way to listen illegal immigrant. 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 calmly when trouble flat as soon as calm returned that warning was just as quickly drawn. 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. even more wrestling became a fast after last week's attacks on the military headquarters in the french embassy and soldiers are among those detained raising suspicions that those responsible may

have had inside help. from the capital while they do the. beyond for those who died in last week's attack most killed were soldiers. who is in mourning still in shock. distance. 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 later in the attack as 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 protein afonso security forces by surprise overrun in 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 in some won't. we know that terrorists and their accomplices seek to undo our alliance they say they are foreign forces but they are allies fighting a common enemy. eight men in the capital were arrested after a rebel group operating in this to help 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 talk 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. russia's foreign minister has concluded his five day tour of africa in ethiopia confirmed his support for the continent to have a seat on the un security council at all physically big zimbabwe and the media has to coincided with a trip to the region by the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson protests is have called for foreign experts to join an investigation into the killing of a journalist and his fiance young could see. was shot dead in their home last month could see at last i'm finished reporters on the activities of the italian

mafia in slovakia and it's time to people close to the country's prime minister starting monday for to hear that we want our government to investigate the murders with international experts and also we want a new government a trustworthy government with no existing links to corruption and organized crime. colombians vote on sunday in parliamentary elections which for the first time will include candidates who were once members of the fark rebel group a peace deal which ended the fifty year civil war was signed in twenty six scene about as well as iran p.r.t. reports the path from fighting to peace time politics has not been easy oh yes thank you the last day of campaigning for former for come in there because yes indeed no 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 good review 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 personae 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

sending a 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 party we suffered considerable stigmatise station and much slanging . as one of the five stop sending a will likely fail one of ten congressional seats that the piece they all set aside for the new farts party regardless of their showing but it will be difficult for them to see them i don't see if they don't get enough votes there is a tremendous degree of. negative feelings towards this group the have not. adequately process and taken measures to address. for extern zisha into a legal electoral. force was never going to be simple but this tentative steps or

already any story kaci ferment in a country still struggling to find a way to turn the page on its long and bloody conflict alison. a former us drug company executive once dubbed america's most hated man has been jailed for seven years for fraud martin squarely became notorious for increasing the price of a life saving drug by more than five thousand percent prosecutors had pushed for the thirty four year old to be jailed for fifteen years after being convicted of defrauding investors. workers in the northeastern united states are racing to restore power before another severe storm that hit on monday more than four hundred thousand people are currently without electricity after wintry weather knocked out power lines and blocked roads most of the current outages are in the states of massachusetts new jersey connecticut and new york two storms in

a week of dumped more than sixty centimeters of snow at least two people are known to have died and the forecasters say a third storm system is moving up the coast. rather what you'll see in antarctica is the coldest on the planet yet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem basing an estimated fourteen thousand species from killer whales to starfish now there's a proposal to turn the rich more says into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in part one of our jazeera series on the weddell sea our environment to editor nick clark joined the greenpeace expedition. it's a city near the end of the 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 shackleton this is where famous antarctic expeditions came and sometimes returned and today it's home to the chilean and it's

to toot a signatory to a very important treaty preserving the integrity of the antarctic continent works as a kind of international co-operative as you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you're presented with a map of the concert incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that with a cold because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far that has worked to the principle the 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 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. and here we know king george island and tells him he made it seem. like you know that. this is where the wells 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 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 to read 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 described by everyone who goes there is pretty in the hospital so 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. al-jazeera antarctica. and in part two of our series on the proposed. breakthrough the activists say will become the west and the protected. here at. here in the. professional wrestling. from the middle east peace will have that story in just a little. a

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and they started winning the medals in chang his pizza thank you so much martin that is exactly right the first medals of the twenty eighteen paralympic winter games in pyongyang have been one slovakia's henrietta fokus over was the first to 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 animal son with second and third the first men's gold medal of the downhill for the visually impaired win

to canada's mac maku he. slovakia and it's of these better. the first women's biathlon gold medal win to kendall gretsch of the u.s. in the six kilometers sitting even fellow american ox on a masters and yeah at off a year of completed the podium there was gold for the u.s. in the main seven point six kilometers sitting even to daniel nelson finishing ahead of the three of belarus and canada is called in cameroon. one of the fiercest rivalries in english football is currently underway between manchester united and liverpool after a marcus rush the double in the first half of the school at the moment at old trafford to no in favor of the home team who ever wins will in the day in second place in the premier league table there are six games taking place in the premier

league on saturday the late take place chelsea take on crystal palace at stamford bridge chelsea are looking to avoid their fifth defeat in six league games former world number one novak djokovic is looking to put injury plagued twelve months behind him at indian wells and elbow injury during wimbledon last year twelve times grand slam winner out of action for the rest of twenty seventeen and he had to undergo more surgery after a brief comeback at january's australian open he'll play his first match since then against japan's title daniel on sunday obviously expectations wise it's different you know it's not like coming in last year or two years ago this serious is really different not just because the rankings but because of the fact that i haven't played matches at all i mean last nine months and so for me you know the goals are bit different. nevertheless when i step on the court it's all game and.

and game on and of course i want to i want to try to get the best out of myself and . meanwhile women's world number one samantha hallett has advanced to the third round the twenty six year old who won the title into the fifteenth overpowered the czech republic's christina fisk of a six four six four gallop will now play american teenager caroline though heidi who earlier knocked out thirty eight seed so many custom built about. there was a shocker as world number three got to be the last her opening round match the spaniard beaten by world number one hundred session victory to six seven five six one it's ricky's best ever to real women and sure now face japan's naomi osaka in round three. it was based on news for another top ten player patrick of it's of work she won her fourteenth straight match to equal the longest winning streak of a career but the czech needed three hours and seventeen minutes to get past yulia put in save of kazakhstan eventually winning six seven seven six and six well.

he won't start an age of the world's golf courses but over the last few years success has been few and far between for tiger woods in his latest tournament over the forty two year old who had back surgery last year is in contention going into the weekend rounds woods is just two shots behind the leaders at the valspar championship the american shot a three under par sixty eight in the second round to share second place off one of the tournaments call reconnaissance sets at the top of the leaderboard. on 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. pro wrestling is going global with market leader the world wrestling entertainment or w w e pushing into new markets including the middle east aspiring

grapplers in qatar are looking to get in on the ground floor with the opening of the region's first ever pro wrestling school fence and monaghan has more 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. is to win but to entertain the crowd and that means you have to rely on your opponent to keep you safe from injury trust that would present so like you know first place we are friends and we move into doing so will if i don't trust him i want to be able to. call it

what 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 background t.v. i want to be in many. many shows. with a lot to do. the students say they're committed and those who aren't serious don't last long boys came here because they just believe that the person is fit if they think it's fake well the first thing you think that we got to teach and hope to at the top to risk so with we give them this is listen this is a ticking bomb of the ring that my professional wrestling already has deep roots in the u.s. . u.k. japan and mexico 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 in the middle east its latest target for expansion american wrestling shows usually portrayed of bad guys but going global could be challenging old stereotypes insisting it didn't change now. that it is there because there will be start to the visiting it at least not like before so if you go into for example to saudi arabia to qatar to think that they'll be there usually. because this man has a huge p.w. regularly flies in foreign stars for shows and catherine so the academy students might soon be ready for a spot on the card but for now bill battle it out in the gym getting ready for their chance to perform in front of the big crowds. al-jazeera doha. because guys are of school have more sport later in the day but for now martin

that's all i have to say all right thank you very much indeed peter now professional dancers like many sports stars are elite athletes with quite short careers but when injury strikes all retirement looms few of them have lucrative indorsement deals to fall back on many of them struggle to move into other careers but one british organization is helping make the 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 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 boss. they would be 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 but the time comes to retire 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 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 it's 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 hurry home

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 healthy small business. ventures. my complete this year with nobody gives up. so i'm saving already. after eight years on stage kevin 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 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 a second act catherine stansell al-jazeera london. that's all from the al-jazeera news hour but don't go anywhere because i'll be back in just a moment with more of the zazen. a suspected money laundering operation but this time was different. an accidental discovery of the war initial suspicions. unprecedented scale of systemic international corruption people in power investigates a racket of such magnitude that it threaten the government and redefine the rules of impunity. the power was. at this time just.

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