when i was in the community. i've. talked to alvin and i. remember. when i'm walking on this concern to drive on the light can be all that me and that is really i love. that's what keeps me cool. this is al jazeera. aluminum tape this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes once a rebel stronghold now weakened and splintered syrian forces make their biggest

gains yet in the battle to take eastern ghouta. don't want to take to twitter to sell his upcoming meeting with north korea's kim jong un and suggest pyongyang has agreed to halt missile tests. form a trump adviser steve bannon tells france's far right the future is all about the anti standish mint. i'm joined again in doha with the day's sports news including double delight for manchester united as baucus rushford schools twice against liverpool to tighten their grip on second place. syrian government forces have made significant gains in their battle to take the last remaining rebel stronghold near damascus for almost three weeks they've been pounding eastern go to from above killing almost a thousand people in the process now ground forces have advanced into areas between the main towns of duma and harassed that cuts off the main rebel supply line the

government also says it has full control of misrata that cuts off another key road to doom or and splits the enclave into three and fisher has more from a turkey syria border. all syrian government forces have made big gains in the last twenty four hours they are still facing resistance and. this video from josh al islam claims to show regime forces being pushed back but they have surrounded two large towns in eastern guta duma and harassed and circling times it's something syrian government forces have done consistently especially since enlisting the help of the right. militarily and tactically by cutting off roads and important supply lines they've essentially left the fighters with no place left to go he's isolating the two cities now the two big cities in the in the east he's weakening them and he's. supporting its military approach by having this political strategy submitting

them both on the ground and politically by trying to have a deal this deal with useless law. across the country the free syrian army supported by the talks are closing in on the city of afrin. the positions held by the kurdish militia the wife p.g. . is strikes have been ongoing water has been cut one doctor in the local hospital says he fears a massacre the chair of the local council has called on the u.n. to intervene. the u.n. official claims that self administration and the y. p.g. prevent the population from escaping we invite those who sit somewhere and say something like this to send a delegation to a free and to talk to people here the people of our free prefer to voluntarily stay in their country and defend against the occupation of the turkish state. president says he expects turkish troops in the city. if we placed on a shelf put on solid our conscience ethics and sensitivities just like other

countries and terrorists do well in syria then capturing a free will be a job that would take is just three days. back east and syrian t.v. says government forces now control fifty one percent of the area we're still considering humanitarian corridors for people and fighters who are ready to leave but we still continue to push for full control alan fischer of the cedar on the turkish syrian border. syria's president bashar assad has said he will not give up the fight to take eastern go to the international community has repeatedly condemned this salt and the tactics used human suffering has been huge with the u.n. comparing it to an apocalypse almost a thousand people have been killed since february eighteenth that's when the syrian forces intensified their assault on the area many of the victims are children medical charities say chlorine gas has been dropped in some areas the syrian government is denying that though saying the opposition of fabricated the attacks

the government has also been accused of blocking aid trucks from entering the enclave some meager food supplies have been allowed in but the u.n. says most medical supplies were confiscated. i don't after all ashraf joins us in the studio now he's a visiting fellow at nottingham university's center for conflict security and terrorism so do you think way of reaching a kind of end game at the moment in eastern i think so i think this is certainly the beginning the end it may not be in itself but judging by the performance of the syrian forces both in the aleppo and in rocca once they have decided that that is what they want to do they will push on and sort this problem out it is a problem from their point of view it isn't just an offensive there have received mortar fire and other. assaults from the guta region so it does present a threat to them and it's not in their interest to just stop this assault to move

the church i suppose what people have pointed to is the scale of this in terms of proportionality i mean the kind of the it the father getting into damascus is nothing like the kind of level of fire that they're sending in is it oh it's not a portion of the toll and no side in this conflict is innocent that there have been huge casualties a number of frayed civilians and paid an enormous price about a thousand people died in this assault which is a huge number and many many times more would be injured and many of those who of course be children and so i think this is it's not a conflict where you can say one side is blameless it is awful it is a conflict and must be brought to an end as soon as possible and so with the kind of the cutting off of the various pockets do you think the rebels will in in the end except defeat and and come out how do you expect this to play out of the next few days or one hopes that they accept what some stage that this is going to turn

against them as a consequence negotiate. at least the. evacuation of children and. civilians if they want to fight on then they can fight on but traps innocent children and civilian in this conflict is not acceptable in the past certainly the syrian government has allowed civilians to leave as they did i think in aleppo and elsewhere and i think that would be the right thing to do i think the writing is definitely on the war for them if this continues unless they get some external support which is always a possibility many of the coalition forces have been supplying weapons of things but i don't think unless a lot of external help is given that they will survive very long and it would be better for them to recognize that the suffering of innocents can be alleviated by an evacuation and maybe even a surrender in terms of the kind of the politics of it if. this this this region

researcher is kind of taken over by assad's forces and so was it is a problem close to the capital damascus where does that put him in a position in terms of the talk show any kind of potential negotiated settlement for the future of syria well i think it's very difficult to have a negotiated settlement not even with recovery of land because there's very few people to negotiate with in terms of a block these dozens of groups they're not united they're fighting against themselves and then there's external backers turkey backing groups you've got the u.s. backing other groups and you've got the gulf states working partly aligned with the u.s. backing certain groups and provides aid there are allegations that israel's involved this is the iran of course yes ron and his ball which is supported by iran and and so on so this is

a complete mess and it's not. easy way even to get a political solution even if people want it because there is no clear. parted negotiate with at the end of the the simplest thing courses and the un has said this is the the integrity of syria as a nation state should remain and if somebody wants to negotiate then they should negotiate with the syrian government i think that would be the simplest thing but this. ad hoc form of global politics and regional politics that's being played out is harming ordinary civilians and it's not giving anybody an advantage at all. thank you very much indeed for just thank you don trump percent a series of tweets about his possible meeting with kim jong un a day after surprising the world by announcing that would that he would meet the north korean leader for talks also fired off

a tweet about phone calls he's had with leaders of china and japan mike hanna is filing events at first in washington d.c. so mike there's been a flurry of tweets today from trying to still no more real detail how do we think things are progressing well the president trump appears to think that if things are progressing very well indeed among the multitude of tweets that he passed in the course of the morning was one saying that north korea has not conducted a missile test since november twenty eighth that he is confident that they will not do so that they will stand by the word which was reported to him through south korean intermediaries as you said he also had discussions with the japanese prime minister and the chinese president in the course of the morning he also apparently had a telephone call to the french president emmanuel mccrone so certainly the president trump is attempting to reach out to world leaders to get them on board with this absolutely unprecedented decision to hold

a face to face meeting with the north korean leader and have prepared is the trumpet initiation for this type of negotiation. well that's a very. important question the answer is on the face of it it's not at all prepared there is no ambassador to south korea for example to trumpet ministration withdrew its nomination for the person for that post because he was opposed to any armed intervention in north korea which president trump had been suggesting at the time the top state department official on north korea joseph yun resigned last week from the state department so there is no back up in the state department which has been in tatters in the past a year or so the idea of setting up a negotiating team in a matter of weeks it would appear is something that's very very difficult indeed north korea on the other hand has been holding this type of negotiation on and off

for decades they have a well established team they know how the game is played the trumpet ministration is going to be starting from the very beginning at an absolute disadvantage should this meeting take place at all mike hanna thank you very much indeed the planned meeting between trump and came 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 rob mcbride explains. 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. there's much more to come on the news hour including a city in mourning and in shock an investigation reveals serving soldiers were involved in last week's attack. capital. thousands of yemeni refugees in djibouti face a tough choice struggle in the camps or return to their will torn country. and the first medals of the twenty eight hundred paralympic winter games have been won find out who's ahead in junk china for. nine months after losing the french presidential election to a man you're the whole far right leader in a pen is rebranding her party the national front will announce

a new name this weekend for white house chief strategist steve bannon brought his support to the party on the start of the national congress david schaper reports from. marine le pen is still bruised by the scale of defeat to emanuel macron nine months ago but as quoted britain's wartime leader winston churchill failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts a change of brandon a change of name a coming in lille this weekend but not it seems a change in policies the ballot of eighty questions sent to national front members just return of majority of ninety percent in favor of a presidential run them in the european union and ninety eight percent want a drastic limit to immigration which delegates here described as a tsunami. it's not often that the spotlight moves away from the marine le pen the president trumps former chief strategist stephen bannon managed it when invited on

to the party platform we had the single greatest candidate in american history. all we had to do was let trump be trump number one stop mass illegal immigration and limit illegal immigration to get our sovereignty back and to help our workers told the national front they were part of a world wide movement that history was on their side and it was the tide that would bring them victory after victory after victory. but it didn't happen for marine le pen and twenty seventeen and many blamed her poor showing in the campaign's final debate with a manual macro of empathy. eyes are now turning on her twenty eight year old niece marion barry charlottetown although now retired from politics she has been identified as a rising star by bannon and was spreading her message in in one thousand states last month i am not offended when i see your president on the trail and say america

first. in price. i want america first for the american people i want britain first for the british people and i want friends first of all the french people. the arena plan hopes exercise in leap frogging will help bring support back and allow us to form alliances with other parties to change or how to steer a. a presidential election in sierra leone look set to go to a runoff vote a national election commission or so far released fifty percent of the results let's take you to sierra leone omnivorous is in freetown first so fifty percent counted this it definitely a runoff. well it's in looking increasingly like this election is heading for a runoff right now fifty percent of the vote have been announced and the leading candidate has five hundred sixty six thousand votes and he's followed closely by

somebody who spoke scored. four five thousand six hundred forty five hundred sixty four thousand plus which means that he's only a difference of less than two thousand votes between the two the third candidate is some a for some hundreds of thousands of votes behind the second candidate so the third and fourth candidates are being courted as we speak by the leading candidates in case this goes into a runoff which minnesota loon is believed by the way heading for another round of election probably in the next two weeks after the result is an hours basically the two interestingly both splinters from the two leading parties instead of the on. a p.c. and the as and p p and both of the two can be both candidates the third or fourth candidates were actually from these particular parties and angered by what they

called lack of accommodation in the parties and form their own parties so these will be probably the kingmakers when the runoff is held and what about syrians what do they think about the prospect of another election. well a lot of them many of them don't really want to go through the same process considering the fact that the electioneering campaign was not as smooth as people wanted there were violence and even before the election there were threats of violence and a lot of campaigning a lot of mobilization by civil rights groups women organizations one on to convince several unions to keep the peace and ensure that the vote passed. peacefully and that has been achieved to a large extent except for a few incidents here and there instead of leon when the results are being announced there were jubilation in certain parts of the country and a lot of people thought for the first time in many years the they're having

a system that they recognize very well that is developing very well actually and they're also saying that when this election will finally come to pass definitely it will be over issues and not personalities anymore because the two leading political parties in this vote actually have been ruling this country since the return of democracy managers thank you very much indeed. israeli soldiers a shot dead a palestinian man following a confrontation involving jewish settlers near the west bank city of nablus both sides are blaming the other for the violence israeli military says soldiers at the scene used quote right dispersal means and live rounds one other person has been injured but it's unclear whether they were shot by soldiers or settlers looking to fast so this morning the victims of last week's coordinated attack on its military headquarters and the french embassy and investigation into the violence has

resulted in war arrests including serving soldiers because haq is in the capital like a dooku. beyond for those who died in last week's attack. most killed were soldiers of. brick enough also 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 late and the attackers took his life his body was so wounded he was unrecognizable. nine armed men drove a car full of explosives undetected through rush hour traffic to the most secured areas of the capital the french embassy and army headquarters. the car bomb took park enough aso security forces by surprise overrun and overpowered the french special forces who have

a base in the capital intervened and killed the attackers investigators say the target was a scheduled meeting of the army chief of staff a five sahani in countries part of a multinational force led by france to push rebel groups out of the region on a visit to britain to foster the forces coronating country needs share vowed to hunt down the group responsible for the attack. we know that terrorists and their accomplices seek to undo our alliance they say they are foreign forces but they are allies fighting a common enemy. eight men in the capital were arrested after a rebel group operating in this and how it claimed responsibility for the attack news that men are not foreigners but a mix of active and former soldiers surprised many here but all. the time came forty eight hours after the start of the trial of general gender 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. libya's coast guard says several hundred migrants have been picked up as smugglers took advantage of calm seas to launch a flurry of boats towards italy two hundred fifty two people were picked up in two separate rescue operations and taken back to tripoli a third boat was picked up by and mission and taken to italy almost six hundred thousand migrants have crossed from libya to italy in the past four years so there was pretty scary rescue the we had a critical rescue which means that there's a high risk of many people dying in that and the boat was in very bad condition all

but one of the five pollutants holding the boat up was either completely deflated or deflating i mean we saw about one hundred twenty people inside the boat. three years after their saudi led coalition first launched airstrikes against toothy rebels in yemen the conflict has engulfed most of the country nearly thirty five thousand refugees have fled to djibouti in the horn of africa to escape the war but once they reach safety they face harsh conditions in the camps where supplies a stretch to the limit the port town of book one hundred other reforms. its food distribution day or the mark as they come for yemeni refugees in the dusty port town of. 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

for 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 a place where many don't want to stay for long at one point this camp was home to more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one lived here most of them have either gone talk of the town or to the capital djibouti have others hover tonty them and put a fighting the un something terrible was on 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 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 have made the journey is southwards across the bubble man group straight to djibouti since march two thousand and fifteen from the beginning to put you open its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted from foreign investment in recent years due to it started. but the extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there is little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety. to all just. to booty olivia's unfold what's claimed to be the world's longest flag to draw attention to its demand for the return of its access to the sea the flag stretches almost two hundred kilometers from the capital opposed to the city of. olivia lost its only

coastline to chile in the war of the pacific between the two nations hundred thirty five years ago the latest legal claim for its return begins at the international court of justice in the hague this week. is here with us on the news asked the head where colombia to find about out back to life on the campaign trail the fox political candidates and it's not pretty. i'm the clock reporting from an expedition in antarctica or the effort to turn the bastard remote weddell sea into the largest protected area. and in sport to mikhail schifrin is back on top of the podium we'll have details coming up soon.

hello there it is a lot milder across europe now and it's going to stay that way for some of us over the next few days you can see the latest swirl of cloud with got this pushing in from the atlantic that's bringing in some more mild weather but also plenty of cloud and of a few outbreaks of rain as well so we're looking at the top temperature of around fourteen in london sixteen in paris but a good deal of moisture around and a good deal of wet weather to all that mold there is also spreading its way into the southeast corner of europe so perfect weather wise here but unfortunately with all the snow melting it is causing a bit of a concern with flooding there will be a few more showers for the southeast corner as well as we head through monday so a few more outbreaks of rain definitely not what we need on top of all of that snow melt that mild air will also be making its way up towards the northeastern parts of europe it seemed very cold here over the last few weeks temperatures have been well below freezing but we'll get to the dizzy heights of minus two there in moscow i mean further towards the south and there's plenty of fine dry weather to be found across the northern parts of africa the northwest it's been

a little bit more unsettled recently a few showers here over parts of morocco and algeria were expecting a couple more perhaps sunday but it should draw up an brighten up for monday for about the twenty. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with a smoking alternative known as vapor i enjoy the taste of it and not get the harmful effects of what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen in two thousand and fourteen alone we start tripling in use among us high school students and head to head comparison ysaye versus conventional cigarette which one do you think has helped my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no at this time and else is the. new rooms spawning six continents across the. aisle to series correspondents live

and bring the stories they tell of this was not a good reason about not running and that's the sound. we're at the mercy of the rajinikanth for palestinian leaders iraq food in world news. and one of the top stories here on our syria syrian government troops have made further advances into eastern ghouta cutting off the rebel held town of duma and harasta that effectively splinters the enclave into three parts. u.s. president donald trump says he secured an agreement from pyongyang to suspend

missile testing head of a planned face to face meeting between him and the north korean leader kim jong il . the former chief strategist to u.s. president donald trump has been speaking at the party conference of prague his national front says the election results in italy people were rejecting establishment political parties. let's get more on the seven roger griffin who's a professor in modern history at oxford brookes he joins me live by skype from ox thanks very much indeed for being with us so how well do you think it will work this exercise in rebranding the national front i think it's a bit desperate really. but really look. look was riding high year a go but she's got some major problems she didn't she did rather badly in the last round of the presidential elections a whole lot of greatest quality people learn look her father. has.

just published a quite a quite a successful book about the early years of the little nazi an island his background in foreign politics which has taken a bit of wind out of our sails because a lot of people who moved to her actually have a have a sort of groupie crush on her father and so that's called some of the hard core away from her a little bit and of course there is the problem of her niece marian the mother shola penn who is actually going beyond france and giving talks to conservatives in washington and doing a sort of reverse barn and i mean she's actually she's actually fishing in the pond of international and t.v. you empty global and social politics so yes she's you know she would choose in a way actually it means you can also the banon has been praising him i shall open and say quoting a kind of one of the most important people in the world apparently and what that

hasn't attention in the at the national front congress i mean unusual for them to have someone like that on on stage with them. well you see i think that this is this is really that the politics of desperation i mean obviously brandon who found a role for himself since he was ousted from his is rollers as it tries to trump he's actually found a role going round europe self-appointed really advising anti you right wing parties he went to italy now he's in france i don't think he's got any real. attachment or loyalty to any party but he's he wants to keep his profile high i mean well that's a reciprocal interest in in him adding a bit of international glamour but of course that can backfire as well and and the other brother son of somebody who's in dire straits is the fact that she wants to unveil this new name now i'm very intrigued to see what new names she's going to

give to the party tomorrow but maybe she hasn't heard about her royal mail in england thought they could get rid of a lot of problems like calling themselves concept common signal which only anybody remembers now and i mean this is a very dangerous france again tell him what about the the divisions and between between the the various characters is in the in the national front i mean she had to use her right hand man do you think she's gone beyond that you think she's got any kind of strength back within her sort of in a circle to fight this well i think the main problem is none of the people within the party i mean these are structural forces a lot of people who are voting for her a year ago were voting not because they are actually xenophobic. hard right wing voters but because they live in rustbelt in leland various places where she's holding the. the congress and they that what they want is hope and a sense of some sort of change now that's exactly what mark corcoran still of it

and actually the most the greatest threat to her party apart from all the internal wrangles and the factionalism within it that setter is the fact that. we attracted back into the mainstream call to exploit my calling so i really think it's this is really i wonder so i've got this completely wrong and as a political scientist who say that's that's quite feasible cooper a lot of things wrong but nevertheless i would say that by the end of that weekend she will have been a bit like the british rugby team and we think she's just misreading things and was complacent and doesn't read that just like but can community she was riding high a year ago for straight structural forces beyond our control and now she's being dumped to go by the same structural forces because the tide has turned professor roger head thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you. and the u.k. home secretary says the russian ex spy assegais script and his daughter remain in

a critical but stable condition after they were poisoned with a nerve agent british misses have been holding an emergency security meeting to discuss the latest police and intelligence report on two hundred fifty counterterrorism police are involved in the investigation and more than two hundred witnesses have been identified so we're going to go report. this is a fast moving investigation which is coordinating intelligence officials see a cabinet ministers as well as security officials as well now while the investigation continues in salzburg and all the. locations there which have presumably been visited by the victims said basically pile on his door to yet there is also a plan being formulated as to what will be happening beyond this and from this point onwards and as the home secretary amber rudd said this is an investigation which is going to require some fine combing of the evidence before being pointed out who's behind it. this is a serious substantial investigation we're over two hundred fifty counterterrorism

police from eight out of far left and counterterrorism units involved there's over two hundred witnesses involved and there's over two hundred forty pieces of evidence so we need to give the police and all the investigative parts around them the space to get on with that with that in mind there have been tensions also rising between britain and russia with certain politicians and officials tentatively pointing the finger that perhaps this bears the hallmarks of if not a state sponsored attack on mr powell and his daughter then perhaps it could be that of a criminal organization this has been something which the russian government has been strenuously denying from its part saying this has nothing to do with such a thing but so at the same time the british officials this does raise parallels

with the death of mr alexander litvinenko a russian dissident who was living in the u.k. and was killed by radiation poisoning nearly twelve years ago however there will be the matter of how do tightly define exactly who was behind this once the evidence yields that officials are saying. that they will be raising this issue after the nato meeting in july together with nato partners as to how to proceed with perpetrators of such attacks on british soil and that of course is adding to a difficult time tense time diplomatically between london and moscow the russian president vladimir putin has rejected accusations by u.s. intelligence services that he ordered his citizens to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election in an interview with n.b.c. news putin said he couldn't care less if anyone meddled in the campaign as they were not connected to the kremlin he also said he would never allow the extradition of thirteen russian citizens accused by the u.s.

investigation of communicating with a trunk campaign is qatar has filed a complaint with the united nations security council denouncing the violations of its airspace by military planes from the u.a.e. and behind the country government also described the intrusions in a letter to the un secretary general the u.a.e. and bahrain yet to respond to nations along with saudi arabia and egypt break ties with doha last june accusing it of supporting terrorist groups qatar denies the allegations japan's trade minister has sought an exemption from u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum and called for calm headed behavior the e.u. japan and the u.s. have been holding trade talks in brussels japan's trade minister told a news conference his u.s. counterpart and only explain the shadow and procedure for the terrorists that use trade chief said the block is also seeking to be exempt from britain has more 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 where as and that is overcapacity but president trumps an ounce months 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 commission 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 that 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's a deal 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. colombians will vote on sunday in the first parliamentary elections to include candidates from the former rebel group fark the peace deal which ended the fifty year war was signed in twenty sixteen but as i was under the reports and you're outta the switch from fighting the government to fighting elections has not been an easy one oh yeah. it's the last day of campaigning for former for commander big

daddy the 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 giver your fighter. 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 tonight's 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.

it stopped commander running for president was pelted with rocks he later ended his run because of health reasons too x. fighters campaigning for a candidate have been killed and most suffered attacks or traits and social media. says columbia's private institutions systematically hampered their efforts and i feel 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 the campaign banks would not open us accounts we couldn't reach out on radio and t.v. like the other parties we suffered considerable stigmatise station and much slanging. as one of the facts stop sending a well likely fail one of ten congressional seats that the peace deal set aside for the new farts party regardless of their showing but it will be difficult for them to see that my those states if they don't get enough vote there is

a tremendous degree of. negative feelings towards this group the have not. adequately processed and taken measures to address. for extern zisha into illegal elect. all force was never going to be simple but this tentative steps are already any story kaci even meant in a country still struggling to find a way to turn the page on its long and bloody conflict alison. but still to come on the news are going global professional wrestling has its eyes set on the middle east. and we report on a plan to turn the rich waters of the weddell see an antarctic into the largest protected area on earth. richard problem is something which is

a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to manage under one thousand refugees don't have the right to walk freely on the other current gourds can move freely as far and as much as they want it's multinational colonialism this is of the over the democratic process this company they just want the mom europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. al jazeera is different because there's a majority about its views god is in this group generally i would also channel the pads like the rest of the story i go. all the time i'm not going to al-jazeera he says you know to give thanks that you know the reality on the ground the reality on the ground the only people. that not all the people that's what we do i think that's what we do well.

temples for jurors and. lauren thank you well we start with football where man just see united have strengthened their hold on second place in the english premier league after beating face rivals liverpool two won on saturday making his first league start for united since december markus rushford scored twice in just ten minutes to put the hosts in control of who got on the scoresheet in the second off courtesy of an own goal from eric baie but united held on for the win then now five points clear of live a pole in the table so the points is very important. a perfect performance i wouldn't go so far. i say perfect in relation to. to what the game

gave us and in the first of the game it was the opportunity to be. aggressive and direct and fast and intense and to score goals. but there were ugly scenes at london stadium as west ham fans invaded the pitch during their three nil home defeat to burnley many were protesting against the board and the joint chairman who had to be escorted from their seats before the end of the game the loss was west ham's third straight league defeat their fifteenth in the table just three points above the relegation zone well that result leaves burnley just two points behind sixth place arsenal who play on sunday their wins to forever to newcastle leicester and chelsea antonio conti side surviving a late scared to be crystal palace to one barcelona extend their lead in the spanish league to eleven points they were malaga two nil on sunday the catalans

were without lino messi who took time off after the birth of his the child but even with their star player missing basso were dominant goals lewis torres continues sealed the win second place and let it go madrid will be looking to close that merit gap again when they play celta vigo on sunday. two goals from christie on the rinaldo helped real madrid to a two one win over a bar that saw them just hold on to third place in the table they're still fifteen points adrift of boss so those. are only a point behind rail after the beats of the two nil now ireland have won rugby six nations title with a week to spare after they secured a bonus point for scoring four tries in a win over scotland on saturday while title rivals england lost twenty two to sixteen in france two tries from jacob stockdale and one each from connemara and sean cronin helped ireland to a twenty eight eight victory in dublin they now face england in their final fixture

in a week's time bidding to become just the third irish side to complete a grand slam by winning every game in the tournament. we look. up the paralympics so well and truly underway with twelve gold medals handed out on the first day of competition slovakia's henrietta fuck us over was the first gold medalist she won the women's downhill for visually impaired athletes beating defending world champion millie knight of great britain who took silver meanwhile was a super day for the united states who supports their gold medal haul from the such a games four years ago on just the first day they clinched gold in men's downhill

skiing and the women's and men's biathlon that puts the united states the top of the medal table with three gold one more than saatchi france and the neutral paralympic athletes team or n.p.a. just behind his two gold medals each ukraine and canada round out the top five. staying on the slopes michela shifrin has won her fifth the world cup slalom title in six seasons different secured to the crystal globe with victory in the penalty at world cup race of the season in germany on saturday she's the first skier to win forty two world cup races before the age of twenty three the american also clinched the overall title on friday for the second straight season for well no wonder djokovic she's looking to put a troubled twelve months behind him at indian wells an elbow injury during wimbledon last year kept the twelve time grand slam champion out of action until january australian open after which he had to have more surgery will he'll take to

the court again on sunday against japan's terror daniel. obviously expectations wise it's different you know it's like coming in last year or two years ago this year is really different not just because the rankings but because of the fact that i haven't played matches at all i mean in the last nine months and so 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. now pro wrestling is going global it's looking for talent in untapped markets including the middle east monaghan went to the region's first f a pro wrestling school in cata to hay from aspiring crapulous. 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 cademy aren't just picking up the moves they're also learning to take them safely both grapplers work together to put on a show that makes the sport dramatic storytelling. isn't to win but to entertain the crowd and that means you have to rely on your opponent to keep you safe from injury just stood for since so like you know first place we are friends and we move into do a little i don't trust him i want to be able to. call this 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 your. background on t.v.

i want to be in many. many shows. with you to do. the students say they're committed and those who aren't serious don't last long boys came here because they just believe that person is fit if you 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 that says listen the ticking bomb of the week 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 my. computer 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 arab wrestlers as bad guys but going global could be challenging old stereotypes insisting it didn't change now. because there will be start to

visiting eat at least not like before so if you go in to for example to saudi arabia to talk to bring the bill to be there you should get out 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. binns manhunt al-jazeera doha. and that is over for now but it's a lauren in london. thank you very much and i went l.c. in antarctica is the coldest on the planet it's home to extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species from killer whales to starfish now there's a proposal to turn the rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in part one about their series on the what else see our environment editor nick club

joined a greenpeace expedition to the century. it's a city near the end of the maritime history land. 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 which is a kind of international co-operative if you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you are presented with a map of the constant incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that but they called because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one nine hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind that shall continue for ever to be used exclusively

for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far. as to the principle the spirit is a combination in a really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do anything because this is an extreme. with extreme conditions. from point 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 he would know king george island and tells him he made it seem like landing on. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russia neighbors chile along side it does not the nations research stations it is the antarctic treaty in action. survival suits for the trip from shore to ship.

ride out to the. on board way quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed ocean sanctuary an isolated wilderness of sea and ice home to an astonishing erev life they are 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 goes there is pretty inhospitable i think that's the feeling we're going to have as we round this corner the greenpeace expedition is taking in scientific studies of the ocean floor as well as an exploration of this remote outpost how far we get will depend on whether ice conditions and a good deal of luck nick long al-jazeera antarctica. i mean my favorite to report for the day and part two of our series on a proposed. breaks through the ice to. the western edge of the protected but

that's on sunday. and that's it from the team here on news hour on the back and there but more news. as poverty and desperation sweep across ruhi just settlements women and girls are being bought sold and given away in refugee camps one on one east investigates yet another dark side of the real hinge a crisis at this time on al-jazeera. it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the

country from lubumbashi to a labor of it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in

a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to learn wasn't until just because she expressed herself here their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. magazine. bag. once a rebel stronghold now weakened and splintered syrian forces make their biggest gains yet in a battle to take. live from london also.