peace is possible but not. because the situation is. but because no one can or if you join us on set. between. eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's been to this has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news grid significant gains for pro-government forces in syria and they've cut off to important towns as they fight to retake all of the rebel held on clave is this

the end game for opposition fighters and their last remaining territory near the capital. also on the grid a judge it questions donald trump is breaking the u.s. constitution when he blocks this critics on twitter seven of them are suing the president arguing that he's treading on their right to free speech and a reporter deployment don't get much more remote than this one right there we've sent the clark to the end of the earth to see what to become the world's largest wildlife sanctuary it's home to ecosystems found nowhere else and scientists say time is running out to save the. pakistani fashion brand is accused of racism for a photo shoot in kenya but the company stands by its work and says much of the criticism is coming from fake accounts. of us using the hashtag aids a sprint. here

with the news good we're live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com we'll start in syria that's where a government forces have reportedly surrounded the two largest towns in eastern huta after seizing more territory from rebel fighters just to remind you of the region we're talking about so it's shaded you'll see it in just a moment it's shaded right there it's on the outskirts of the capital damascus now the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says grown forces have advanced into areas between duma and how to stop that effectively cuts off the main rebel supply line the government's also said it has full control of in the east of the enclave cutting off another key roads to duma life to alan fischer he's joining us from gaza that's near the turkey syria border tell us about these advances allen that

have been made by the syrian government forces. or seen these tactics from the syrian government forces before particularly since they enlisted the help of the russians both tactically and middle tonally the idea is to split in the area isolated and then perhaps they can start to negotiate some would see him pause a peace deal which would mean fighters moving away from there they've done it before we've seen the exact same tactics as this war has going on and people are suggesting this is exactly what their intention was in the scooter and it appears that particularly over the last few hours they've been able to achieve that now has been a difficult twenty four hours in eastern guta you'll remember that earlier this week there was a need convoy that was sent in there were forty six trucks not all of them managed to unload what was in the back that was because of airstrikes in and around the area where they were operating thirteen trucks pool don't fully laden while they went back in and fraidy again not all the trucks were able to unload again because

of strikes in and around that area and we're hearing that forty nine people were killed in fighting overnight but a number of buildings were collapsed and that is the possibility that that number will increase but it's not all one way traffic we're also hearing from areas and eastern ghouta where some government soldiers have been forced to retreat because of the opposition that they are getting from people described as militants by the syrian regime and another syrian city that is awfully in and we are seeing advances being made there by the turks. exactly we thought the movement of three in would be a couple of days away but after recent successes clearly they've decided just to push on and since the smalling we had six tones in villages to the south and to the north of our friend had been taken by the free syrian army backed up by the turks we're also hearing from our friend itself that there have been

a number of air strikes there the water has been cut off we've also heard that the internet is down to one doctor in a hospital said he was concerned that there would be a massacre if the turkish troops with the free syrian army moved into the city and one of the leading council people there has called on the united nations to end to have been president of the one speaking at a campaign rally just a few hours ago said that if they wanted to and if they were in compassionate to the humanitarian situation it could easily have troops in the center of our foreign within three days which would suggest that it may take slightly longer but the progress of this military operation is going faster than anyone expected and our friend is clearly under threat from the f.s.a. and the turks alan fischer reporting from gaza on tap thank you. now to the region's other major conflict that's yemen where it's almost three years since the saudi led coalition intervened to try to help the government defeat its

hold feet rebels well the consequences have been catastrophic the world health organization estimates that more than nine thousand people have been killed and more than fifty thousand have been wounded three million are displaced forced from their homes by conflict and a desperate search for food in a country teetering on the brink of famine yemen's cholera epidemic has been the largest and fastest spreading in history and huge numbers of people are also falling ill from diptheria the. controlled much of yemen including the capital sanaa since driving out presidents have a double months i was in twenty fifteen saudi arabia and its allies say the whole fees are armed by iran and pose a threat to the wider region were almost two hundred thousand yemenis have fled to neighboring countries many of them across the red sea to the east african nation of djibouti and that is where mohammad the dough is joining us from tell us what they

face when they come to djibouti mohammad and how djibouti itself is coping with the influx. well so far djibouti is coping just fine and i was all penned all balls for the yemeni refugees but the refugees in the market complex is the only come for yemeni refugees here in djibouti are complaining of conditions of the comp it's much in the middle of the desert and there are some storms that sometimes last for weeks tox by wild animals at night such as jackals and hyenas they also complain about the food rations they are given which is not much and it's not a surprise that the almost forty thousand people have and to djibouti yemen f.e.d.'s only two thousand live in medical come last of them have sought alternative lives in the areas of djibouti particularly the main city in djibouti cup itll djibouti where they are taking advantage of

a recent change in the government refugee lol which now allows yemeni refugees the chance to work and living here is the story of loss who have chosen to remain in the camp. it's food distribution the medical 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 ha ha south of the yemen now a mother who had a hand look at the shooting divisive 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 systems hardly been many away this is the 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 have a country yemen preflighting the un something terrible was known to life in this can. also 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 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 admitted the jenna's southwards across the bubble mandeb straight to djibouti since march two thousand

and fifteen from the beginning to put you opened its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted from massive quite an investment in recent years due to it started you can look. but the extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there's little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and asylum. one of the wall grimes all in the yemen in. the humanitarian crisis there unfolds many yemeni refugees here getting hopeless about with tunning home soon and they're looking full. of alternatives including the settlement of the rule and the will of god but for hundreds of yemeni refugees who had sort of these this from the u.s. embassy here in djibouti in december the u.s. embassy role told them denial advice saying that they've been denied the visas

because the government of president chomped do not want people from yemen that they included people who will rush up luke and others with seeking three units in with their families with this young lebanese forces this whose father was in syracuse in the york state his father himself troubled here to put in the papers but they will also deny the so they have been u.s. lawyers coming here trying to give advice to the refugees us well us also put pressure on the embassy but so far it's not bomb and fluids ok one hundred zero reporting from djibouti thank you what you'll find on al-jazeera dot com is this interactive it's a breakdown of the military action in yemen who supporting the action and how and who is against it so had to al jazeera dot com and take a look you can also get in touch with us here on the newsgroup would like to hear

from you on these stories you can send your comments to any one of our online platforms were on twitter at a.j. english or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news great you can also send us a whatsapp plus nine seven four five a triple one one four nine and just a reminder to always use the hash tag and to news grid. now america's powerful gun lobby that's the national rifle association is going to court it's hoping to stop new gun control laws in the state of florida so the bill signed off by governor rick scott sees the minimum age for purchasing a gun in florida increased from eighteen to twenty one and gives police more power to confiscate weapons the n.r.a. argues that it breaches people's rights the law is a response to heavy campaigning by survivors of last month's high school shooting in which seventeen people were killed and recordings have been released of students calling police as that shooting happens more on that from our friends at a.j.

plus take a look. i'm not the guy i'm interested in the feeling that. some shooting of the school including anti-gay karaoke was happening dissipated in the mall can still be government honest or what. a lot of them. tell our. our modern political group it's called our it's bank shot up. by you at the school. i haven't had a deposit on i'm actually a pilot what is that what is british you say what is happening somebody just entered the room how is it that you take the wrong way to avoid i'm not in this

market and i was worried i had learned that. my son is an installment of a type of deception heard noises and passed out tell me do have something on take your we don't have that information in the end. why we're interested in trying to hire one that is on topic on an intimate scene want an average. well our social media producer of her it has been looking at reaction to the n r a

lawsuit sara video really gives you chills during looking at this story on social media you can see clearly why it has divided the u.s. and that's a vision continues over the gun control cone troll debate now they are n.r.a. frames it like this say the new legislation strips people all that close situational rights and protect themselves but that's not me because they've all said as if the restrictions are and fast to women aged under twenty one because they augie's that females are less likely to carry out violent crime than older men who can dig the purchase firearms and take a look at this tweet this u.s. air force veteran he agrees with the n.r.a. and is thanks to filing a lawsuit on behalf of what he describes as loyal abiding citizens but not seventy one agrees with that opinion in five months and he's opposing the n.r.a. as response he thinks this is just confirmation that the n.r.a. as he writes it opposes opposes any and all gun reform and many of the high school

activists who survived the parkland shooting like cameron has seen in you know as a step forward in the right direction meanwhile and already supports is sharing a video of former president ronald reagan addressing the u.s. gun lobby in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and that was to you is also being shot in an assisted nation attempt now he said to the n.r.a. and promised never to some americans who want to protect their families from home. so you insist on individuals be held responsible for their actions the n.r.a. believes that america's laws were made to be obeyed and that our constitutional liberties are just as important today as two hundred years ago and by the way the constitution does not say that government show decrease the right to keep and bear arms the constitution says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not

be infringed so that video has been shed on on the other end of the spectrum prices like this one have been shed on line quite similar encouraging americans to fight out its politicians who've accepted financial contributions from the n.r.a. and that is being used in fact that has like has been trending as you can see here in blue the red is defend the second tweets are mostly by an array supporters talking about the second amendment to the us constitution which of course allows americans to legally own guns you can see the uprising hash size are also being used just as equally and a myth that's a vision retired navy seal on the stump is urging both sides to come together saying it's possible to support reasonable gun legislation and the second amendment but as always if you want to know what you think you can get in touch with me or any of us news stories and comments especially about this story coming out of the us well we continue to look at the issue of gun control and gun sales in the u.s.

here at al-jazeera and in this particular episode of counting the cost from twenty sixteen in fact the team explores the huge money being made from sales by gun manufacturers and the money which goes from groups such as the n.r.a. a towards political lobbying and even where the number of shootings having already happened not much has changed since twenty sixteen take a look for yourself. france's far right leader marine le pen is attempting to revive her battered party with a helping hand from that man donald trump's former advisor steve bannon so he has joined the national front conference in the northern city of having repeatedly shown support for europe's far right movement david schaper joining us from that city and what i understand david is that steve bannon is also scheduled to speak not only attend. oh yes that's right so

he'll actually be taken on to the platform by the national front leader marine the parents and introduced to the delegates now steve bannon is a very controversial figure he's been on a tour of europe he was in both rome and milan for the italian elections and welcomed the fact that the populous parties gained something like fifty three percent of the popular vote he also went to zurich where he met with the alternative to germany the extreme right wing of the german politics who got a large bloc in the bundestag now and will shortly be the official opposition and then of course he's come here and he wants to spread his message the message is apparently that he wants to form a new populist army foot soldiers trained in how to use the tools of social media getting new sites out getting the information across trying to combat what he calls

the liberal elite of of european politics so it's bound to be very helpful the speech here. and will be very exactly what he has to say in about an hour's time and for marine le pen how is she going to try and revive her battered party. well i think you've got to remember the images been somewhat dented by the results in the french elections but she did achieve a lot she almost doubled the actual votes of the national front the gains a big foothold in the popular vote but only eight seats in the national assembly the french parliament and since then she's been highly criticized for her role in the final debate the one to one debate with a manual macro. severely defeated in that debate and pushed

a bank in the in the country as a whole so the exercise here is for her to try and riband rebrand the party come up with a new name national front no longer and also what to doing here at the moment they've been setting a questionnaire of eighty questions to the national front membership asking them exactly what the most important policies are there been some very interesting answers they say that something like ninety percent are in favor of favor of a referendum on the e.u. i afraid and also perhaps not so surprising the other nearly one hundred percent ninety eight percent want strict immigration laws brought in to stop what they call a tsunami of immigration so these are the policies that no doubt will see being portrayed by marine le pen who will actually stand for election but she's the only candidate stand for election to lead the party so a rebranding exercise trying to increase the possibility for the national front or

whatever is going to be called us from tomorrow to form new alliances to gain a larger grip on power all right david taylor keeping across that story thank you. now if there's one thing pretty much all of us know about that's donald trump and his love for twitter so he's not so fond of his twitter critics however and he's blocked plenty of them and that's prompted a warning from a judge sarah's back to tell us more about that. well the world's most influential leader who has forty eight million followers on twitter is being illegally challenge in the court by these seven individuals just behind me here including a comedian a professor and a policeman and then not happy it's all with being blocked on so it's a bias don't trump himself so much so that they taken their case to court and they all human is that twitter is a public platform for free speech and they're being excluded from it just because

trump doesn't agree with that critical comments and this was tweeted by the lawyers who finally found filed sort of a complaint in a new york court with the hashtag blocked by trunk and they've mentioned there about first amendment applying to speech on social media says trump's twitter account is also used for official government communication and that's why blocking uses deprives them of best testament from an right to free speech so you can imagine when brunson nails surprise surprise when he found this message just hey real real donald trump has books he and i mean hundreds of others just like this former guantanamo bay prison guards cannot see or replied to trump streets or even reply and interactions between other uses within that feed now the judge overseeing the case is now advising the u.s. president to meet rather than broke his critics on twitter but what's the difference well it's more than just what because new thing a following means you won't be able to see anything by the news to use off but it

still allows a person to see old tweets and respond to it now as we mentioned trump has more than forty eight million followers which uses to both praise his allies and i'm bust his critics but a lawyer from a free speech group at columbia university told media just outside the court in new york that they'll now wait for the judge to rule but she also had this as well to add. what we are seeking is having president trump stop stop blocking our plaintiffs and stop blocking people because of viewpoint if he does that the muting is an acceptable option. now also speaking out outside the court with some of those who see the court in the fast place and his also what they had to say i want people to know that this isn't about me it's about other people's right to see a dissenting point of view and to. get their own opinion based on it makes it a lot harder to engage with other people who are covering the president and it

makes it a lot harder to gather information about what people's responses are following the tweets and i lose the opportunity to participate in conversation you know i was shocked when he blocked me and i thought i was i was sort of outraged and first i was kind of proud like who cares about me but then very quickly realized that a lot fewer people are seeing my tweets and my political advocacy my my ability to speak to my fellow citizens was impaired by that and i think that's not the way our government should act now the way the government sees it is that a president can choose who he interacts with on twitter and social media and fight with a justice department lawyer michael bay are comparing it to a politician having the freedom to walk away from a protest acts of political convention rather than being forced to listen to them now it's not clear whether trump would agree to meet saying instead of blocking but lawyers on both sides have agreed that they could consider the judge needs saying option out there but we want to know what you think which you think is do you think

it's a viable opinion maybe it's an option that they can go for but we want to hear what you had to say so tweet us a.j. news grid is the hash tag and you can also have a read for yourself about that lawsuits are us talking about on al-jazeera dot com and more on why this free speech group says his practice of blocking twitter users violates the constitution's first amendment rights. if you're watching us on facebook live our social media to you has a reality check on modern day slavery dots on facebook and coming up on the news grid another emergency meeting among the top levels of britain's government right after a nerve agent attack on a russian former spy. hello there we've got a lot of cloud of rain that's working its way across the middle east at the moment

the satellite picture is showing all the cloud gradually drifting its way towards the east and it's bringing some wet weather mostly through parts of afghanistan and a lawyer up into cannes expand this area of damp weather is going to stick around as we head through into monday as well a lot of rain on that and a fair amount of snow over the mountains as well behind that system there's another one that's drifting its way southward over the caspian sea giving some of the some rain and again some snow for the works just looking quite quiet weather wise we're looking at a top temperature of around nineteen there even beirut a bit further towards the south and here in doha it's got pretty hoff's over the last few days alltop temperature on sunday is again going to be pretty high up around thirty two degrees but it will be less high as we head through into monday so this time all temperatures topic at around twenty nine this week feature is edging its way towards us a behind that the winds will change they'll be quite brisk and that will make things feel a bit cooler over the next few days further towards the south of there's plenty of

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where the government has released the first batch of results after wednesday's election and what they show is that the ruling party is running neck and neck with its largest opposition rival the s.l.p. pete because it's so close a runoff vote is looking likely. well a pakistani fashion brand has found itself the target of a huge tree online after a photo shoot took place in kenya sarah is here again to explain what happened there sara wilder in santa suffolk downs is a popular women's fashion brands and it's known for its annual campaign but this is catalog has been criticized more than it has been praised and that's because of images like this the santa stuff in as models were photographed with members of the mass tribe in kenya and the brand has been denounced for using the tribesmen as props or backdrops for the pakistani models instead of showing the models and

locals interacting in a genuine way selima fear us the lifestyle journalists in karachi who says this isn't a first other brands have also been accused of elitism but i think it's time to have a wider conversation about how design alone is sold about islam it's not racial product and as such it's positioned in such a way that campaigns routinely show models in exotic locations enjoying the trappings of luxury have that's meant that there have been some problematic images from several brands designers have a responsibility they have a customer base of millions and subtly they can change the way people see the world with these campaigns they can reinforce stereotypes or they can break them so maybe it's time to think about how they use that power for the santa stuff and as case is unique because of allegations of racism we've been speaking to some pakistanis who've been quite vocal of the campaign on twitter. silence appears in their league

brand that i'm known for selling overpriced norn and guns. but this whole campaign is showing us that they are also trying to show us that they're hierarchy in society by comparing themselves to people that will want to refer to as slaves and using them as ornaments in this shoot which i think is a very disrespectful act maybe this is not the intention or the direct intention that senate finance had but the fact that they're very silent on this issue. leads us to think in other ways if we check out this issue we do see that just going to eating comments from people that want an explanation. and. using. has brought. water. from the region is not fair to the rest of them. this is not the first time to bring them democracy you know for

using your diary. from what you write. that despite those opinions many people are all still defending the brand and in fact a fan has says it's a bit rich to yelp appropriation without first asserting whether or not everybody was a willing participant and in fact son of softness has said just that and we spoke to the head of the brand has self she told us a lot of the criticism on instagram and twitter is coming from fake accounts now this is on a also released this statement on instagram saying she read an article two years ago about ethical tourism and how often news of promoting responsible tourism exists that supports and encourage local projects son to soften us says the employed the tribesmen seen in the photos and that the money went towards building a school for children now supporters of santa stuff and as have also is one of them leave with song and that outfit you can see there is the type of traditional

material that the messiah use and calvin klein and ralph lauren are just a few other brands accused of using the side designs without paying the people themselves now the message must fight maids and like to use ip says people should be collecting ten million dollars a year in licensing fees so in light of all of that we'd like to know what you think share your thoughts with us you can tweet me ordering on twitter the hash tag as always a.j. news grid sarah thank you well let's get a check on more of for the news headlines from right around the world and we'll cross over to lauren taylor who is joining us from our london broadcast center hi laurin. thanks three britain is holding a second meeting of its national emergency committee in response to the poisoning of a russian former spy with a nerve agent u.k. home secretary will travel meeting investigators into the attack focusing their attention on the victim's house in the english city of souls bree agent was found unconscious last weekend and his daughter yulia they remain in critical condition

so you're going to go is live for us outside the cabinet office and white horses want to take this extremely seriously. indeed they are and it's also to do with the actual seriousness of this crime as as many. cabinet ministers and officials have said to really be reckless. occurrence which was to have courage so while they are chairing this meeting they are looking along with intelligence officials as well as senior cabinet ministers and civil servants as to what the next step forward is coordinated plan which they're looking ahead of this and meanwhile back at the scene of the crime and sold spree there have been one hundred eighty troops some of which have specialized chemical weapons knowledge which have been combing through the areas looking at and examine if there are any solid pools around still that where mr steve powell and

his door to yet may have been just on friday night there had been an ambulance removed from outside source b. district hospital where the police who's the first responder is staying he took it was he still is quite ill so nothing is being left to chance the gravestones of mr powell his wife and about of his son are also being looked at as well as well as his house so really trying to get as much of that as possible over to be examined nearby at the government medical facility where. we'll be able to ascertain what the substance is and where it was produced but of course this is all raising a lot of tensions with russia even though politicians have said that no one ought to come to any conclusions yet until all the evidence has been. contested and or rather proven but it hasn't it has raised that because of simply because of the

parallels that it has which has had with other debts namely that the most famous one up out of russian dissident alexander litvinenko who died some twelve years ago poisoned by radioactive radioactive agents so this is of course tensions in the backdrop of this very. determined investigation which the british authorities are hoping which will unravel more information so they're going to thank you very much qatar has filed a complaint to the united nations security council denouncing violations of its airspace by military planes from the u.a.e. and bahrain the country government also described intrusions in a letter to the u.n. secretary general the u.a.e. and bahrain a yet to respond the two nations along with saudi arabia and egypt broke tries with their her last june accusing it of supporting what they call terrorist groups qatar denies the allegations yes or state rex tillerson has had to cancel events on the

second day of his visit to kenya due to illness a spokesperson for to us and said his illness comes after working on major issues back in the u.s. with north korea to us and is four days into his first diplomatic trip to africa where he's raised to ethiopia djibouti and kenya is trivial to go into nigeria and chad donald trump's surprise agreement for talks with kim jong un in what would be the first ever meeting of a u.s. president and north korean leader has been making headline news all over the world but not in north korea where it poses a major problem for the nation's propaganda machine well brian explains from south korea's capital seoul. 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. french president wants friends to replace britain as india's gateway to europe many who held talks with promise to render modi of his first official visit to india the focus was trade security and fighting climate change and the past signed fourteen agreements president michel said he wanted to welcome indian citizens to france. that's it for me for the moment. lauren think you all are heading to the bottom of the world now that's where scientists want to create the planet's largest

a wildlife sanctuary so if approved then the marine reserve would cover almost two million square kilometers of the weddell sea which is home to about fourteen thousand species of ocean life in part one of our series on the weddell sea our environment editor nick large joins a greenpeace expedition making its way to the proposed sanctuary take a look. it's a city near the end of the maritime history class. in the main square in punta arenas but none mckellen 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 concept incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that but they called because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one nine hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind that shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far it has worked to the principle the spirit is a combination. really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do anything because this is an extreme. with extreme conditions. from point a right as to king george island on the fringes of antarctica it's well below zero and the tourists off the cruise ships are on their way home. so here with no king

george island and tell tell me late. night you know. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russia 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. is our ride out to the. top when the men. on board were quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed tree 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 backed by the e.u. and that sort of starts about sixty four degrees described by everyone who is pretty in hospital 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. let's talk about this and speak to john dudley he's an antarctic scientist who used to be deputy director of the british antarctic survey joining us now from cambridge in the u.k. via skype thanks very much for speaking to us so you have made many visits to antarctica what are your thoughts on you the possibility of creating the world's largest a wildlife sanctuary. well i think it's to be welcomed it would be untested to chaman the field on the the recent. achievement of getting one that's one point five million square kilometers in the ross sea which actually came into force very recently so i think it will be a step of the next step on the road. to continue to protect the antarctic

environment and when you talk of protection so how would this practically work from what i understand the sanctuary would stop industrial scale krill for fishing is that all it's going to go and if so is that enough. i think i think one's got to be a bit careful of the antarctic ocean as being managed by the convention for the conservation of antarctic marine living resources since nine hundred eighty is an offshoot of the antarctic treaty. and at that convention contains a clause which allows rational use that's fishing but it's a convention which makes. very special protections for the the outlaw here and sets what are called total in our bill catches but all of the species that humans might wish to catch taking an ounce of the fact that they should not be eaten down to the extent that they become dangerous in the species that live on them becoming the you so it's been

a very successful. convention and it's under this convention that this next marrying a protected area will it will come about if indeed it does and so we have to be a bit careful about being too alarmist about. the fact that there is fishing going on in the antarctic waters there is going on in the antarctic waters but actually our no from my own experience it really is a success story a fifty two years ago i would have been amazed to see a wire just a few weeks ago i was in antarctica actually passing the green the ship as it happens. and. whiles are frequent now particularly humpback ones saying with with first year or so we have to be a bit careful about being too alarmist about what's happening in in antarctica the real threat threats to the antarctic environment is climate change not not fishing how would this then help climate change if it were to come about

how sorry you say the question again how would this help climate change tackle climate change if this proposal were to combine i don't believe that i don't believe that this is a major step in the direction of tackling climate change in the antarctic although we do know that the answer and start to go shoot is a sink for carbon and so it's important that we maintain the oceans in this scene the sage as we can but know the the protection for the antarctic from climate change now unsolved there's a bell well weather of climate change that's got to come from nations agreeing to release less carbon into the atmosphere it's as simple as that i got it and. i'll try not to be alarmist here as you were saying but how confident are you that governments are actually going to come together and support this idea of establishing the wildlife sanctuary because right now it's just a proposal. well that's true but camel has

a very good track record they have just as i said before established a one point five million square kilometer mary protected area in the rossi that took several years of negotiation because it can only be done by consensus and one of two countries did against the good sense census for one because they have fishing in this fishing interests and one shouldn't denigrate them for that and i suspect that it may it may not get agreed is coming coming on meeting in hobart in the autumn but even if it's not then that they will continue come along has a plan to introduce these protected areas and i would be really quite astonished if in the next few years they don't achieve it ok john dudley we thank you very much for speaking to us from cambridge in the u.k. thank you well you can head to al jazeera dot com to the reporters and notebook tab that's where nick clark is filing his reports from antarctica where they are and

what you'll see on part two on sunday nick making his way to the western edge of what the activists hope will become the world's biggest wildlife sanctuary. well joe was here to talk about the paralympics in just a moment and how it is t.v. star mr t. is involved plus a new school of hard knocks opens up in the middle east as pro wrestling grapples with taking over the world details in just a moment. al-jazeera where every. amman is decided to break with tradition and trying to sail competitively will be not that we want to present a positive image and change the steering typical expectation. for them it's about

more than just racing yachts you can still be a good and lonely woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong on money people are al-jazeera world meets the first female sailing crew in the gulf a man's sailing at this time on al-jazeera the continent of antarctica is facing multiple threats from climate change to overfishing tourism but now a campaign is underway to create the largest protected area on earth the remote waters of the white vote see stay with al-jazeera for a series of special reports from the treat these expeditions and antarctica. thank you we need to live here now to

talk about sport and she can tell us more about the first day's action at the paralympics joe that's right during the barreling in there olympics have been a popular topic for the last twenty four hours on social media and when you see the athletes in action it's great to see why the first medals were awarded on saturday at this year's games in pyongyang slovakia's henrietta fucka so one gold in the women's downhill for visually impaired ski is she finished just ahead of reigning world champion minnie knight of great britain this event where compared to ski behind a sighted guide is just one of those capturing the attention on social media eighty five thousand tweets around the world using the hashtags paralympics paralympic and pinching in the conversation is really happening globally even in africa which doesn't have any representatives in these games the usa particularly interested in the paralympics and with three gold medals on the opening day more than they want to sochi four years ago you can understand why so who better to lead the supporters than mr t. the one nine hundred eighty s. t.v.

star emerges an unlikely super fan of curling at the winter olympics just a few weeks ago now he's cheering on the paralympians in an avalanche of tweets using the brilliant hash tag i pity the fool you fool who don't watch the paralympics he wrote now i must be honest with you i feel kind of wimpy when i think about what the paralympic athletes had to go through to get to the paralympics wow he goes on paralympians deserve your love they hustle struggle inspire and they don't quit and this i love a good underdog story where a team or an individual barely made it they weren't given a chance then they beat the odds and win it all go usa paralympics and of course he says that. i pity the fool who don't watch the paralympics which brings me to the story of one of the u.s.a.'s golden go. oksana masters if you don't know her name then he soon will last is a double amputee who was born in ukraine with severe physical disabilities she was

sent to an orphanage their home was eventually adopted by an american woman at the age of eight the twenty eight year old cross-country ski is a rare example of a paralympian who's a successful in sports as she is in her commercial dealings she's competed in and won medals in rowing cycling and cross-country skiing across four paralympics and has big sponsorship deals in the united states as well on saturday she won silver in cross-country skis again on sunday i might be missing legs but i'm not missing that drive in my heart and the desire to like be number one and represent your country and to have that opportunity is just put in words really so we're just talking about mr t. as a former pro wrestler he be delighted with this next story pro wrestling is going global it's looking for talent in untapped markets including in the middle east fintan monaghan went to the region's first ever pro wrestling school in qatar to hear from

aspiring grapplers. yes. welcome to the school of hard knocks. clotheslines are on the curriculum all with technical hold on the map. but trainees at the copper 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 mixes sports with dramatic story telling me 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 stupid bulletins so like you know 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 this what you see me. and. 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 and many shows who. are willing 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 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 way that you did my professional wrestling already has deep roots in the u.s. the 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 and the middle east is its latest target for expand. american wrestling shows usually portrayed arab wrestlers as bad guys but going global could be challenging old stereotypes isn't being changed now. because there will be start to the visiting it at least not like before so if you go into for example to saudi arabia and qatar to think that they'll be there you should. think of this as a q b 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 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 well if you want to talk to me about the wrestling or the paralympics or anything else get in touch with us using the hash tag a.j. nice grade or tweet me at. be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. for now hand you back to doreen joe thank you and thanks for watching the news grid

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