the extraordinary journey from the to tajikistan braved ordinary joint. to high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all in kurdistan of this time on al-jazeera. the bowl this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this hour jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine that is coming up in the next sixty minutes china's palm and abolishes presidential term limits clearing the way for she jim paint a room for life. the number of people

killed in syria's eastern ghouta rises as pro-government forces continue their assault on the rebel on clay. i think they want to do something i think they want to make peace i think it's time. the u.s. president promotes his historic meeting with north korea's leader but is america ready for it. plus an international alliance is looking to the sun to combat climate change and i'm tatiana all the day sports as fourteen time major when a tiger woods closer then on his fast win in almost five years. but first china's national people's congress has voted to remove term limits for the president and the vice president the change of the constitution paves the way.

paying to remain in office beyond twenty twenty three at the moment is restricted to serving a maximum of two five year terms. today. we made the decision to implement the key policy of amending the constitution the members of the standing committee totally agreed to protect the communist party's policy to amend the constitution in specially to incorporate the xi jinping thought of the new era of socialism chinese characteristics into the law we go live now to our china correspondent adrian brown is outside the national people's congress. no surprises there we weren't expecting there to be any show of dissent. no this was always going to be a four foregone conclusion president xi jinping has got exactly what he wanted the delegates arriving at the great hall of the people on sunday afternoon knew exactly what was expected of them this was going to be a day of

a uniform loyalty before them a series of amendments twenty one in all it's fourteen years since china's constitution was last changed but these twenty one amendments all passed there were vote to who voted against and there were three abstentions now possibly this was token opposition that was orchestrated to give a sort of veneer of transparency but certainly she jingping has stamped his authority not just on parliament but also on the state critics say that what we're seeing now martine is really the building of a cult of personality she jingping is his his thoughts are being his works thought has been encouraged it's been taught to school children it's been taught in universities it's been taught in workplaces and this in many people's minds is almost a throwback to the era of chairman mao now supporters of the president say that these changes were needed because of the challenges that china faces right now and

what's needed in the face of those challenges is a united party and a strong leader but of course you know privately a lot of chinese people ones i've spoken to are very uneasy about what is happening earlier on today i spoke to willy lam a respected analyst in hong kong and he said that what she jingping had done was to basically carry out a bloodless coup and that he had hijacked not just the party but also the country and he was quoting a number of intellectuals that he'd been speaking to well i'm sure those intellectuals are not going to go public with those comments in the current environment in china all right a.j. and thank you for that adrian brown there correspondent live in beijing now china has a rich history that dates back thousands of. years but it's the modern day leaders who made the most significant changes mountie tone wielded power of the communist china from its foundation in one hundred forty nine until his death in one hundred seventy six dung sharping emerged as his successor in the years of followed and was

recognized as the most important leader despite never formally holding the top position and it was during the dung era that restrictions were imposed on future presidents jiang zemin took over in one thousand nine hundred three and was limited by the constitution to the maximum of two five year terms hu jintao also abided by those rules serving ten years from twenty two thousand and three to twenty thirteen but now the national people's congress has removed the restriction paving the way as we've already said to possibly for president xi to say in office beyond twenty twenty three we can now talk to joseph chang who is the convener for the alliance of true democracy in hong kong thank you very much indeed for talking to us i'm guessing that you're going to have deep reservations about the action that's been taken by the people's congress. yes i think the intelligentsia in china. a lot of reservations about

this move because there is obviously a danger of a return to power among all powerful like the days of march you don't and they also appreciate also realized or realized that in the final years of moscow a lot of damage was done it was exactly the realisation of such damages the one nine hundred eighty s. . hoping the set of certain principles such as limited terms for. pollution of live life long tenure of a card and for service on collective responsibility but now it seems the sea is so easy to do away with all these plans indeed let me jump in there and just put the alternative point of view because of course president xi and those who support him

believe that it is actually necessary to maintain a period just stability in order to make china great again that's the stated desire for instance the one but one road project that will take more than ten years for the leader to see through. yes. but at the same time it is obvious from history from various examples that concentrating power in the hands of one person and one person alone is quite dangerous is quite unstable it certainly means discouragement of. the articulation of opposing ideas alternative ideas it also means less tolerance for disciplines for challenging the official policy and certainly. it also means the lack of collective responsibility the obvious casualty is premier

league culture here not only doesn't have the major role in foreign policy. as in the person of two and i he also did not have a very significant role in the economy because he jinping is also in charge of central leadership groups responsible for deepening of reforms for financial and economic work and in fact he jinping himself claimed to be the architect of the recent five year. five year you cannot break and social program there in lies perhaps a potential problem do you think then the fact that somebody as powerful as lee could chang for instance who now may be feeding sidelined therein lies the hopes the potential of opposition to president xi is continued through. exactly because progress lies in institutionalization now in the absence of

in institutionalization u. turn to rely on one single strong person that is a bit dangerous at the same time it also means there is no room nor not much room for political reforms to six screens the weary of the intelligentsia in china in fact in recent years speech in pain had made it a ball of regarding the discussion of universal barely use separation of power was our universities and within the university campuses all right joseph chang talking to us live from hong kong thank you very much a syrian government i'm russian air strikes have killed at least forty people on saturday and injured dozens in rebel held eastern cuter women and children are among the latest victims in the offensive to take the last remaining rebel

stronghold near syria's capital and the volunteer group syrian civil defense is reporting that several people have been killed in a barrel bomb attack on a residential area of the rebel held town of. syrian government forces have made significant gains in their battle to take the last remaining rebel stronghold near damascus. the orange stripes here show how much territory the rebels had in her on february eighteenth that's when the government stepped up its offensive three weeks of heavy bombardment supported by the russians and the rebel stronghold has dramatically shrunk more than a thousand people have been killed or many of those have been children and president assad's troops have advance into areas between the main towns of duma and harass and they're now in full control of misrata effectively cutting off their main supply routes their strategy has been to cut the old clave into three

isolating the rebel groups and blocking the supply of weapons and fighters alan fischer reports now from the turkey syria border. or syrian government forces have made big gains in the last twenty four hours they are still facing resistance. thanks 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 tones something syrian government forces have done consistently especially since enlisting the help of the russians 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 does deal with useless law. across the country the free syrian army supported

by the talks are closing in on the city of afrin. positions held by the kurdish militia the why 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 cell. 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 freend 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 our conscience ethics and sensitivities just like other countries and terrorists do to syria then country after it will be a job that would take is just three days. but. syrian t.v.

says the government forces now control fifty one percent of the area they're still considering you know money to the corridors for people and fighters who are ready to leave but they still continue to push for fuel control alan fischer al jazeera on the talk to syrian border the us president says north korea's government is holding its missile tests ahead of donald trump's meeting with kim jong un mr trump are speaking at a rally in pennsylvania where he prays china and south korea for helping to build a dialogue with north korea there's been no official comment so far from pyongyang on the proposed meeting or on tests mike hanna has more from washington. throughout the day president trump was upbeat about the proposed face to face meeting with the north korean leader he tweeted about phone calls he made with various world leaders including the prime minister of japan the president of china the president of

france getting international support for this unprecedented meeting also in the course of the day he tweeted that north korea had not carried out any missile test since the twenty eighth of november indicating that he believed the assurances that were passed on to him by south korean mediators this theme he returned to during a campaign speech in support of republican candidates in the course of the evening they're not going to send missiles or think of it they're not sending missiles out and i believe that i believe that i really do i think they want to do something i think they want to make peace i think it's time and i think we've shown great strength i think that's also important but many in washington expressing concern about the lack of preparation by the trumpet ministration should any such face to face talks take place there is no ambassador in south korea also the

expert in the state department under oath korea resigned last week so should have been go see asians take place on a face to face basis the u.s. would be at a disadvantage it would appear right from the start. now the south korean foreign minister says she's planning to meet u.s. actually a state rex tillerson to talk about these proposed talks between the u.s. and north korean leaders cancun wa said her trip next week will help to form an agenda for this historic meeting she was speaking whilst on a visit to vietnam where we can speak now to a former south korean diplomat p.j. came he's live for us in seoul i thank you very much what is your impression of this remarkable turn of events the president trumps acceptance of this invitation to meet kim jong seem to come and take everyone by surprise particularly in his administration absolutely and even here in korea i have never seen any commentators

or experts who said i knew this was coming and this is a big surprise for everyone nobody can say i knew this was going to happen this is a big surprise surprise in the sense that it has really kind of made a big jump. you know the point where we are where north korean president and united states president having agreed to meet to go where this kind of point would sort of come and would have come probably after a one year or two years of negotiation right ok i gave you a huge jump for the people and that's the very point i'd like to ask you about actually because given that the meeting has been set it's jude to happen well within six or seven weeks i think by the end of may how much work now needs to be done in order to get a negotiating framework ready. a lot of work because if we had had going through the normal process without having this kind of jump as i said it would take about

a year or two to get to this point and that much of war a core perhaps a little bit less needs to be done within this very compact period of time and as we have to call this top down approach before all the negotiations with coming on took place the item of working level officials had details discussed and then they moved up the ladder and they sometimes got to a point where presidential meeting was discussed but this time is totally. probably earth agreed to this so therefore working level officials have spared much work to do a job in a very much shorter time so the challenge for the working of the fish and it sounds as though a lot of the heavy lifting is likely to be done by the south koreans anyway the south korean foreign minister just head is about to meet up with rex harrison quite soon i'm also looking at news that to the national security chief of south korea is going to china to meet president xi and also going to japan to meet his o.o.b.

so this is going to be it's a regional approach isn't it that will probably will hopefully feed in to the american effort right that's a very important point i mean there's no question that pre-show thing washington and telling young directly they will need to have discussion press there is south korea they will have a lot of work to do but i just point out south korea also has a lot of work to do i think open the gate for this process and as you said ahead of national security council here in the traveling to beijing and other countries and then head of national intelligence i think it will be in tokyo with the japanese government they are very busy and you know south korea having as i said open the gate here has its own role to do and a lot of work to do ahead of. and what do you make what do you make of this hollowed out white house if you like and this lack of senior expertise on the american side and also the president is quite quite new world

a really new to foreign affairs negotiations that are pitted against the north koreans who are well seasoned this. right indeed i mean for sure at the white house the national security council they have alice cooper who has the professional you know with long experience in this closely having discussion with north korea before but other than her i mean there are other competent professionals but state department is a problem state department about all the edges mentioned in your report who they don't have a basket or who south korea here or those so they have several layers of senior and working level not yet appointed so you know this is a diplomatic game with talking about there or no matter how hard traum and the national security council at the white house are meeting the games at the state department there's a lot of work to do and they don't have the people so that they'll have to move really quickly but in the meantime because of the recommend power at the state

department probably will continue to the white house and there's no security council leading the game for quite some time b.j. came thank you very much because a lot more to come on this out as they are news hour including police detained pro-democracy protests as in hong kong during a crucial date for the legislative council new details in the suspicious poisoning of a former russian spy. and a serene williams continues head tennis combat a familiar face awaits at indian wells. to the controversial founder of france's national front policies being kicked out while his daughter marine le pen is being reelected as leader the move comes at a crucial time for marina as she hopes to broaden the right wing parties appeal and the national front appears to have friends overseas too with president trump's full

my chief strategist offering his wisdom david chase are reports from leno in northern france. marien le pen is still bruised by the scale of the defeat to emmanuel macro nine months ago but as quoted britain's wartime leader winston churchill failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue the accounts a change of brand and a change of name a coming in leo this weekend but not it seems a change in policies a ballot of eighty questions sent to national front members just returned a majority of ninety percent in favor of a referendum on 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

thank 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 many blamed her poor showing in the campaign's final debate with the manual macro eyes are now turning on her twenty eight year old niece marion maddox charlotte penn although now retired from politics she has been identified as a rising star by bannon and was spreading her message an invited states last month . i'm not offended when i hear president on the truman say america first.

in prague. i want america first for the american people i want britain first for the british people and i was transferred for the french people. plan hope exercise in rebranding will help bring support back and allow us to form alliances with other parties. how to steer a. british police have identified more than two hundred witnesses in their investigation into the poisoning of a former russian spy the home secretary said more than two hundred forty pieces of evidence are also being considered so gaze upon his daughter yulia remains in critical condition in hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent so you're going to go has more from london. 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 yes 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 he's behind it. this is a serious substantial investigation 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 part. 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 that has nothing to do with such a thing barks 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 twelve years ago however there will there will be the matter of how do. it tightly define exactly who was behind this once the evidence yields that officials are saying that they will be raising this issue at a 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 a second round of voting most likely in sierra leone with the results from wednesday's presidential election too close to call both the ruling all people's congress and the opposition sierra leone people's party have around forty three percent with half the votes counted candidates require fifty five of the said to win outright the election itself was largely peaceful but rival supporters forced on saturday's results came in a runoff poll must take place two weeks after the final results are known. in just a few moments we'll have the weather with ever ten but also coming up on this al-jazeera news hour why colombian say corruption is their biggest concern as a head to the polls for legislative elections. under quote reporting from antarctica and we don't fall for the weather all three of bugs on the remotest

wharton's owner. and the los angeles clippers give their m.b.a. playoff hopes a big boost tatiana's got the details in sports. by the skyline if you. are off the coast of the italian riviera. well after days if not weeks a very heavy rain into parts of northern australia in place say we've got some slightly quater weather going on over the next few days a chance for a some less wet weather pushing through them still this area of low pressure just up around the gulf of carpentaria around the top end up towards that northeastern corner of queensland we have seen severe flooding here this is a i'm just to the north of townsville and you can see just how bad conditions are remain those waters

a slowly starting to eight waist deep in places ankle deep for some but around two hundred homes have been inundated with the flood waters as a result of the heavy storms being pushed in on that eastley all south easterly wind there so the showers drifting in for day after day that same came east leeway intended to push east way down towards sea yes southeastern corner so the southwestern corner so perth seeing some very very windy conditions race and they could have thirty one celsius but with the strong winds around ten thousand homes still without power at present so little change as we go on through the next few days the strong winds coming in here with some strong winds also heading towards new zealand so this area of low pressure starts to push its way through that is of course tropical side time hala will bring some very wet weather across northern parts of new zealand over the next forty eight hours. the weather sponsored by cat time race. refugee problem is something which is

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conference take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera china's parliament has voted to remove term limits for the president and the vice president the change to the constitution paves the way for xi jinping to remain in office beyond twenty twenty three leaders until now have been restricted to a maximum of two five year terms syrian government to russian air strikes have killed forty people on saturday and injured dozens in rebel held eastern kuta women and children are among the latest victims in the offensive to take the last remaining rebel stronghold this syria's capital. ok this forces in syria have announced they may be allies in

a human shield resistance around the city of affray nessa turkish military approaches alan fisher is our correspondent he's in southern turkey very close to the border with syria and first of all what do the kurds mean when they're talking about a human shield resistance. well they're essentially saying that anyone who wants to join them defend freeman they can do so. they're saying anyone who voluntarily wants to go to the city which is know very much in the sights of the free syrian army backed up by the turkish military there has been an offensive it's called all of branches been ongoing since january but particularly over the last few days as they move closer and closer to our friend there have been some quite stunning victories even just in the last few hours they've taken over four villages both of the north and south of our friend and what the kurds have said is that people who want to defend our freedom voluntarily they would like to see in that city and they will essentially perform

the act of human shields no not everyone there we can't verify whether everyone there is there voluntarily or not but we know that many people see this is a battle for the kurdish homeland and therefore the me well be there voluntarily to try and support the country's fighters you remember just last week the kurdish fighters said that they were going to pull our own seventeen hundred of their number from other parts of syria where they were fighting with us help against isis and they were going to send them to our friend to defend their the free syrian army has also said in the last few hours they believe they're making such stunning victories because there has been a collapse of leadership will to use a well worn political phrase they would see that wouldn't they and that is the possibility that our friend well could well be a place of a final showdown between the free syrian army backed by the turks and also the country why p.g. and how much pressure there does this and therefore push upon turkey to tread carefully and given its sensitive relationship we say with kate the kurdish

community not just in its own country but in the region. well president of the one was speaking at a campaign rally on saturday and he said look if we were like everyone else in the way they behaved in syria we could have troops in the center of our friend in three days but we're not like that of course he's going to see that they're going to take their time they're going to approach it in a humanity. and they're going to try and reduce the number of people who are being killed there what you have to remember is that just in the last twenty four hours or heard that the water in the city has no been cut off there is no internet access as well but there is a large population offering many people who lived in the line towns and villages have moved into the center of the city where we're hearing that in many houses there no three or four families per house so there are a lot of civilians in a concentrated area so if president of the one is going to make good on his promise that they're going to take this new humanitarian way then people will be watching

that closely not just here in turkey and in the kurdish supporting areas but right around the world right alan fischer live in gets into thanking the haitians and the way in a byelection in hong kong where pro-democracy activists are hoping to win back the power in the legislature police detained a number of protests outside the polling station where the city's leader cast her ballot and t.v. anchor palin reports the election is seen as an indicator of public sentiment about beijing's increased role in the city's government's doing here edward you know as to well that victory doesn't guarantee is placed on the legislative council. the former professor won in the twenty sixteen elections and while being sworn in he added to fray saying he would fight for universal suffrage after a year in office the beijing government reinterpreted hong kong's constitution to deem him ineligible because of that this time he promises his supporters he has

a plan ranging if you are going to unite and they believe in the end of this year we will discuss about the political rights of all call people by you good since the twenty fourteen pro-democracy demonstrations known as the umbrella movement beijing has tightened its grip on the city as i was it is that you would like to have the government meet these new hair this new cap our. law says god the legal system and although he made kalmadi these elections to a place for ousted legislative councillors are divided along very clear lines the candidates are either probate are pro democracy. and this is the other camp rallying supporters in front of the government headquarters the poll beijing parties the main office used to stabilize hong kong government so i suppose that these are the governments preferred candidates if they win the opposition will not

have the numbers in parliament to block bills or question beijing sections but many here believe these candidates will help the city run smoothly and hope is a problem i know i keep trying to write so insulting but i think all it takes is a kind of heart of all faiths ok my analysts say this vote is mostly symbolic a victory for the pro-democracy candidates would be an expression of frustration at beijing's increasing interference in hong kong's affairs former colonies macau and hong kong are the only territories in china where the public can directly vote for their government but many here say with beijing becoming more intrusive and pushing for more integration with their. the china voting is increasingly regarded as something that matters less and less the bigger palin arjun's there are hong kong the indian prime minister narendra modi and the french president emmanuel macro hosting the official launch of the international solar alliance in new delhi it's a summit which aims to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels by expanding

the availability of solar energy now the idea was first proposed on the sidelines of the twenty fifteen paris agreement on climate change representatives from around forty five nations are currently attending the event we can now speak to dhruva josh shanker who's in new delhi he's a foreign policy fellow at the think tank brooking's india thank you very much indeed it sounds like a very good idea doesn't it using the sun in order to mitigate the effects of climate change but what's a few people say few countries have signed up to this. is actually a lot more but quite a membership limited to countries in the tropical low but what are the outcomes of this. which is a new initiative by india. in the context of the paris climate summit.

has been expanded membership to new countries we have over twenty heads of state in government attending the summit and then representatives from several other countries as well are so there's greater enthusiasm for it then what does this initiative actually need then to get off the ground and to get solar energy working for these countries. so one of them think that. the second idea that he had spoken about economic had been term before he became prime minister he spoke about creating a g twenty four solar power bit which is now expanded quite a bit one of the one of the. goals of this initiative is really for as part of india's national solar india has very ambitious targets to be trying to get one hundred kilowatts of installed solar capacity by twenty twenty so that's just four years from now to be a very massive massive increase of the current installed capacity and one of the

things that such an alliance would help do is bring down the cost by increasing the global demand for solar power. in the developed developing world and another thing that it would do is help the transfer of technology from more high income countries to shoot her income countries including india and to help really hoping to achieve those national targets and comply with the commitments in the paris climate agreement well isn't isn't that the perennial problem the fact is that there's always this division between the industrial countries in the developing countries in the industrial countries countries seem rather reluctant if you like to fund the climate change activities that the developing countries signed up to in in principle and they said that they need the money. so one of the more noteworthy aspects of this summit is to paros the participation of a lot of multilateral banks and lending agencies and one of one of the outcomes

hopefully is to do to have a commitment from those lending agencies to help finance some of these are for its . to achieve. well drew thank you very much indeed we just about got there as the line was starting to give up on a sank you very much now the antarctic has been described as one of the most remote and treacherous places on earth much of its rich biodiversity has yet to be fully documented in the second part of our antarctic series we look at the european union's campaign to protect this desolate region nick clark joined a greenpeace scientific expedition through the weddell sea. the captain's eye view of all voyage south as the icebreaker optic sunrise pushes through into the remote waters of the weddell sea vost unknown territory few ships

venture this fall. has already made an attempt this antarctic summer but was foiled by ice caps right away through. to get it down into the wealthiest trying to reach think before the beginning of what would be protected looks like opening it here to the more. yes let me just make sure somebody. finally we break through into the isolated area of the proposed site tree at the moment i checked on the. satellite charts this morning and there's someone of the ship in this entire space as us that another ship about that and that's it and the whole whole area that's a slightly scary terrifying. exciting but exciting kind of just makes the case that this is pristine this area is not developed his not call

industry it's never had industry. we take a chance and it's rare window of weather to take to the air and look down on the mesmerizing scene below. the western edge of the would be protected zone breath taking the rule power of land and sea and ice constantly reshaping on the move this is nature on a planetary scale so what we're looking at here is melting yes sea ice and great icebergs to the beach the glass is sweeping up james ross island at the weddell sea extends way to a distance over that proposed area pretty much on talks by human activity almost no scientific research is taking place the back to base the arctic sunrise standing by for a return alongside have a giant type below i suspect perhaps a kilometer long the next helicopter sortie is to the very top of it. the expedition team are making

a dramatic landing to spread the sanctuary message around the world this iceberg thousands of years in the making now adrift in a process that has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years appraises it seems may be changing because of global warming i did a day of scenic wonder below the antarctic day with a spectacular show above this apparently a reverse sunset phenomenon while simultaneously the clouds morphed in shape and color into fantastic unworldly painting across the evening sky at the ends of the. mic log al-jazeera and thought to go and in the next of our series our correspondent nick clark will look at the multiple threats wildlife in antarctica face ranging from climate change to tourism has been seven years since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands of people and cause a major nuclear disaster in japan prime minister shinzo lobby told

a remembrance service intake here that reconstruction is making steady progress tens of thousands of people have still not come back to their homes and cleaning up the still radioactive focus shimon nuclear plant site may take up to forty years. a huge tsunami struck right after my husband and my uncle decided to evacuate our bodies were lifted for me to swim to the way and although i managed to hang on to a nearby pine tree my hands let go of my uncles and my husband also to further and further away. faces in colombia are heading to the polls for the first election since the signing of a peace deal with fogge rebels the agreement has reduced political violence batters alessandra ram p.s.e. ripples many of the issues affecting colombian society have not changed. that's colombians gear up to renovate the congress and sunday there's one issue on

everybody's mind. groups are corruption is the biggest worry of voters rich and poor on the right or left of the political spectrum. as long overshadowed the legal political practices which are only now coming under bigger scrutiny scandals in past months have involved most parties and even tainted president santos last campaign. the new study by the peace and reconciliation foundation says the public outcry will not bring political renovation. more than eighty candidates for the senate and the house of representatives that have links with criminal organizations or are involved in corruption scandals such as older brecht or our children our wives are currently jailed representatives all with excellent chances of being elected they represent rural family clans that have for decades run their districts like the most are expected to remain in power doling out jobs public work contracts for just

a little food and money to maintain the loyalty of their impoverished voters. many politicians and thirties corruption circuits to finance their campaigns they buy out local community leaders and pay around one thousand dollars per vote the culprits in the end there to citizens they vote for the same corrupt parties then they complain about corruption it's a vicious cycle you can't vote for bandits and then expect to be well governed according to this study only three. political parties have not presented can be viewed with suspicion for their relations with. these are criminal or. which have many here worrying that the new congress will have a hard time changing longstanding corruption practices. the rector of political website and the c.m. i see says the system is part of a sieve i have done an informal survey with professional politicians asking them ok

how what is the percentage will. open your votes for congress and they all agree that seventy percent seventy thirty percent opinion votes. and like other major latin american countries jailed many claimed chieftan yet the clans remain tough through this large as long as votes can be bought for pennies. now the u.s. state of florida has managed to pass modest gun restrictions after the paul clinton a school shooting that killed seventeen people last month bought in washington there were appears to be little appetite for the new law john hendren reports. the outcry for stricter gun laws in america has perhaps never been louder or more emotional this makes me sick millions of children are rationally preparing for such students slaughter and this is normalized we cannot allow our nation to go along

with this any longer how many more times how many more children are going to be slaughtered their names have become an international shorthand for mass shootings in america littleton colorado virginia tech orlando's plus nightclub sandy hook and now parklane florida but little has changed since last month's school massacre there in this hearing by senate democrats is unofficial the republicans you control both houses of congress are holding no hearings on guns president obama hugged me and wouldn't let go until i could catch my breath and stop crying it's different this time because people are taking it personally he said. but it wasn't different . at weekend gun shows across the us guns are easily bought with or without background checks and the appetite for weapons seems insatiable just try to find a parking spot at this one in virginia one reason background checks are such a point of contention is what's called the gun show loophole while licensed firearm

dealers need to do background checks on buyers any individual can sell to any other individual as long as they don't have reason to believe that person is prohibited from owning a firearm and gun shows are where they meet. even many gun aficionados are willing to support some change like mandatory background checks for all gun buyers should there be background checks absolutely absolutely the state of florida has passed modest changes banning the bump stocks that turned semiautomatic weapons into automatics raising the minimum age to buy a gun to twenty one setting a three day waiting period in arming school employees but on capitol hill the senate has moved on to banking reform leaving all proposals for new gun restrictions on the shelf john hendren al-jazeera dale city virginia but david benette is the former president of the group students for concealed carry and he says americans feel that they need guns because they call trust the government to

protect them. unfortunately we're not able to trust the system and we need look no further than florida's realize that you have the police were called to that shooter's home thirty nine different times you had teachers and the school officials who were aware of his the danger that he posed the school kids in that school were joking that he would be the next person to shoot of the school if anyone did you have the f.b.i. who was given specific reports about this person you have the mental health of the social workers he didn't do anything and you had an armed deputy actually multiple armed deputies who showed up and didn't go into that school so i don't blame the students for being upset when the teachers are being upset but i think that the ability to protect yourself especially whether it's in your home or whether it's in your classroom is very important to us because at the end of the day the only person that's there to protect you every second of the day is you and if you're armed with nothing more than a pencil or a textbook to throw back that's not enough. still to come here on the out of hearing news out and then lined up without their main man find out how they coped

and is out for. natural capital the capital which makes a creative call when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscape protecting landscapes and so from opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature to do that because to see your business pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. you run for your. right this time of the schools used out his tatiana and she's going to tell us about a couple of comebacks i am montane thing very exciting tiger woods is closing in on his first to win in nearly five years the fourteen time major winner was just one shot off a lead to cory connoisseur the championship woods carded a four under par sixty seven in the third round on saturday a win would mark a huge turnaround for woods who's dropped down to three hundred eighty eight in the

world rankings this being just his fourth official start off to having back surgery last april. i am excited i feel good i feel like i'm playing little better a little cleaner the last two days and i missed a medical use their last hole with a sandwich yesterday. it's been a pretty clean last couple days been really good i've been really consistent a little myself off the board and i was packed up there but. they say i got a shot at tennis now and serena williams will play sister venus at the indian wells tournament in california this ought to keep battens in the second round on faster day seven six seven five was the score serena continues her comeback to the toss and giving back for the first time last year the williams sisters most recent match against each other was last year's australian open final when serena one hundred twenty fed grand slam singles title. it was funny you know she is

you know as one of the best players in the world last year so for me to have to go up against so passes would be good to see where i am on my level. putting too much all myself. venus advance to the third round with victory over stay out of romania a straight sets win for the seven time grand slam singles winner six three six four was the final score there. in the men's draw rein as number one roger federer his second round match on hold in california this with plays arjen time but that he called el bonus for a place in the third round federer took the fast says six three and is two all in the second elsewhere spaniard fernando verdasco his feet and number three seed grigor dimitrov to reach the third round seven six four six six three the final score. in just over half an hour italian puppet and tina will kick off their first match since the death of their captain the saudi they take on benevento in

saudi the former italian international died last sunday just hours before his side was set to play the nurse or a story died of a cardiac arrest and his funeral on thursday was attended by thousands of feet into fans. tottenham take to the field later for the first time since being knocked out of the champions league they went down to the event as on wednesday in the last sixteen they're up against bournemouth on sunday in the e.p.l. though and need a win to create some space with chelsea to close the gap on them by winning on saturday of course the top four progress to next season's champions league. disappointed in this. he said do you two it's a personal thing that you need to. be one is kind of in the feeling way the only you need to give time for them to assimilate disappoint but always it's

a moment to think in that we can in this game they can but this one doesn't wait for you. barcelona have extended their lead in the spanish league to eleven points they beat malaga to no on saturday the catalans what with allen all messier took time off on to the bath of his child but even with that stop playing missing boss that were dominant goals from luis suarez and felipe catania sealed the win. earlier on saturday two goals from christiana and all their help draw madrid to a two one win over for them just hold on to third place in the table that still fifteen points adrift of boss of i am valencia are only a point behind route after they beat the v a two no later on athletico faces felt have a go. i. was .

up. the usa as kendal gretsch as a stopping her stopping herself as one of the early stars of the paralympics in pyong chang the twenty five year old has claimed her second gold in the space of just two days she's won the cross country leading the twelve kilometer race from start to finish the medal goes alongside her biathlon title which was also the first u.s. medal of the games. puppets the usa at the top of the medal table with four goals to more than in such a front and so back each have three golds germany and canada round out the top five . russell westbrook claimed his nineteenth a triple double of the season on saturday leading the oklahoma city thunder to one hundred fourteen ninety four when over the san antonio spurs are in california the l.a. clippers boosted the chances of making the postseason the williams scored twenty five points as they beat the orlando magic one hundred thirteen to one hundred five

that means the clippers all keep by the eighth and final playoff spots in the western conference. with ball back team watching as hanna thank you very much indeed that's all for me for a little while at least we don't going anywhere because laura carl be in the seats in just a minute. the

new poll ranks mexico city as the pool with worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse now mahdi army uses a new service it's called loyal droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers. in a war torn city in iraq a magic documents the stories of the survivors recording their hopes and dreams for

a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i so take control and his family off forced to flee and nowhere to hide a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. china as a ball is his presidential time limits clearing the way for a seat in playing to a bull. and i'm mark while this is live from doha also coming up. in syria say they'll form a human.