if you join us. i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's. joined the global conversation at this time on. live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters. kurdish forces in northern syria former old around. to hold back an offensive that's been moving towards them for weeks we'll have an

update on. where fighters are by the syrian army also on the grid they put down their weapons and now they hope to pick up votes for the first time colombia's former fark rebels are. but after years of bloodshed can they reach outside their traditional base and breaking through the ice to reach one of the most remote. places on earth. journey continues. untouched by human. and seven years after the tsunami disaster in japan citizen scientists are emerging in the worst affected areas. looking at how they're measuring radiation levels.

here with a newspaper live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us so kurdish fighters who are battling turkish forces in northern syria say they're mobilizing a human shield that's around the town off. while turkish troops and their allies in the free syrian army say they've surrounded awfully in and they're about to go in kurdish forces say they're not forcing anyone to protect the town adding that civilians have volunteered several bus loads of people are believed to be heading for. elsewhere syrian state media says the government the government forces that is have surrounded the town of duma in rebel held eastern. porting to activists government and russian air strikes killed at least forty people on saturday left

alan fischer and guys in top near the turkey syria border keeping an eye out on both the developments if we first look at what's happening in awfully and alan what can you tell us about this human shield reportedly being formed. well this operation which is the free syrian army backed by the turkish military have been moving towards a free and over the last three or four days the speed of the assault thing is taken everyone by surprise and in fact just in the last few hours we've heard they've taken a number of tones and villages to the north and south of free and there were people who said that they wanted to help the kurds the white p.g. against the f.s.a. and the turks and so the offer themselves as human shields an offer that was accepted by the y. p.g. and it's not just people from the cup this year is going there to help we're also hearing reports of women's groups and socialist groups that are also offering their services to to put themselves between the f.s.a. and the turks and the why p.g.

now we know that things are now friends have been a bit rough for the last forty eight hours or so we're hearing now that the water has been cut off we're hearing that the internet is down and there's been a number of air strikes in the city we're hearing from people in the city itself the most houses no accommodate four to five families because of the number of people that moved because of this offensive into the city itself but to a degree the kurds are calling president the ones bluff or the turkey's president was speaking on saturday at a campaign event and he said look if turkey was like every other country when they went into syria then we could have soldiers in the center of our freedom in the next three days but we do it because we look at it with a humanitarian angle we look at the civilians that could be caught up in the fighting and we will continue to do that as this offensive goes on so essentially you know what the kurds are saying is there are people here the nurse say that they're trying to make sure that what you do isn't going to hearts was and so they're going to stay in position interestingly enough in the last twenty four

hours one of the senior members of the council and our friend has called on the united nations to investigate and to intervene. and if we just look at the situation in eastern water for a second alan the syrian military is saying that they've completely surrounded the town of duma now how significant is that but what it does is it separates the tones that have been essentially a block up into this point and makes perhaps the negotiation of a peace deal even easier no we've heard from the groups in various parts of the scooter that they're not interested in negotiating to have the fighters leave those areas but in the last twenty four hours the sounds of a possible deal have been circulating particularly has to be said on syrian state media so what they would like to do i suspect is say to those groups look we will stop the assault but these fighters have to leave these areas and leave no buy in circling times by cutting them off from supply routes from the main roads that are

essentially leaving these groups with no other option to either leave or stand and fight i'm as we've seen in the past in syria the option has often been just to leave ok alan fischer giving us the update from gaziantep that's in turkey thank you what we'll do now is speak to journalists new adam he is inside eastern huta in fact and he's joining us via skype thanks for joining us on al-jazeera so i'll just ask you what i asked alan fischer about the situation in eastern hotel itself and particularly now that the syrian army is saying that it's surrounded. can you verify this information what are you hearing. first of all i said the forces did not the surrender do more or anything of good out there the good as a like in seashore of the five years and now the question is is still going on between the syrian free army and the forces on the ground and deal with the many many many many are stricken was it the war that with the russian warplanes and the

missiles and throwing gas today or been down ned forces use it done and the neighborhood did chlorine gas and navid answers for and all of this within is it internationally for being. what is the situation then for the civilians in eastern tomorrow what do you witnessing. there until this moment of them and in the short term or hiding from the bombing and the missiles i mean every every civilians in and every bill here all of them and subject or it did not go out of just like a film and fifty years in days i mean at the moment still going on at the day and night over or brain does not exist. at. the u.n. when it entered to my last week with the aid they described it as being quote on the verge of a major disaster so as far as you're concerned then you're in eastern the water

itself is the situation getting worse yes said the situation is going to last because the end the united nations and to add to that is not enough for the seven percent from the people here there are four hundred thousand be put back in eastern england off most of them a shoulder and women and their shoulder need to have medical supplies and need to mail and need need all of the stuff of who we need it i mean there is a shortage of medical supplies and mrs and miss and war really started get that went to will that hospital completely has if they go dark circles if there are hospitals yet that are still functioning. actually the hospital there are the shortage of medical supplies and adult dogs and we need to actually add a lot of missing their world and start to get twenty two what's the dollar and they are sick and by this are sick that it will get to a hospital completely out serve it they don't get the ambulances they killed two doctors and five. men part of member with with this is linda vance alan

fischer our reporter from gaza on top saying just a moment ago that there could be some sort of talk of a deal that's been circulating over the past twenty four hours some sort of negotiation deal with the opposition rebels and the fighters that are in eastern oil to are you hearing anything about that no no that's actually not true they're just one day in the end between is it army or just them and they're they're united nation and they're get out there that. they didn't so i thirty member from the britain of the dishes done to it they're just dead the it is no they are god or more of the syrian free army here the opposition to it live there that's actually not true just one deal have been between i didn't issue all right nor are the leaders there we can queue for speaking to us from eastern thank you or online team has broken down even more what's happening and why and this article on

al-jazeera dot com you'll find it on the home page and it's constantly updated with all of the latest developments from eastern huzzah. colombians are voting in elections that will test the nation's commitment to a peace deal which ended fifty two years of fighting so former far crumbles are making their political debut after laying down their arms and converting to a peaceful movement now fark is guaranteed to win a minimum of ten seats under the terms of the peace settlement but many colombians feel that former fighters should be in prison rather than congress under a petty joining us live from the capital so the fox participation obviously is a huge issue they face an uphill battle what does this all mean for them and for the peace deal implementation.

well there in entering lingo politics was never going to be for the fire of the. conflict against columbia and about i think that even then i've been surprised by just how poisonous the atmosphere surrounding these elections have been their candidates have been hacked threatened on social media they've been health care the way tomatoes or stones doing many campaign events so much so that the fact is they started to suspend their campaign a month ago and their then presidential candidate to go on then you're better known as too much ink of finally decided to end its campaign however it was also for health reasons and the fact is now been the only party that has suffered these kind of attacks it just show how angry colombe and so are for the economic downturn for a few correction here but for the fact as you were saying they indeed have

a guaranteed ten seats the turnout will still be extremely important to legitimize their presence in congress and this will be very important for the implementation of the peace deal but the issue of peace however important not the most present day in the mind of those who are voting today correction is probably the main theme as we discovered in our latest story. this colombians gear up to renovate the congress and send a there's one issue on everybody's minds. soon corruption is the biggest worry of voters reaching for on the right or left of the political spectrum is get the word as long overshadow the legal political practices which are only now coming on the bigger scrutiny scandals in past months have involved most parties and even tainted president when one son tells us campaign. yes a 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 house of representatives that have links with criminal organizations or are involved in corruption scandals such as older brecht or our children or wives of currently jailed representatives all with excellent chances of being elected they represent rural family clans that have for decades run their districts like. 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 entered these 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 they're the 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. parties. 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 practice is. director of political website i see says the system is per base of. professional. how what is the percent. of votes for congress and they all agree seventy percent. thirty percent. and like other major latin american countries jailed mindy kaling and chieftain clans remain tough through this large as long as votes can be bought for

pennies. these elections are also a present to the upcoming presidential elections in may so it will be very important today to see which parties come on top which coalition will have more strength going towards those presidential elections there are also two primaries one on the left and on the right to decide the candidate that will run for election and may this congress will be fundamental him pushing forward or not the very important reforms that come with the deal that have so far been moving very slowly on this under a petty reporting from bogota thank you let's dig deeper into this anger some might say about forks or participation in these elections of social media producer sarah ferret is here sarah yeah that's right serene here in the newsgroup we've been seeing plenty of opposing views online especially because fox will be appointed ten

seats in congress no matter what's in fact it's one of the most important and contentious parts of the peace agreement signed two years ago between the rebel group and the government and it took them until twenty seven seemed to complete their transformation from an armed group to a political movement but it still came at a cost as many colombians still haven't forgiven them and that's because fox conflict with the government for more than fifty years has cost at least two hundred and thirty thousand lives and that's and seven million people forced to leave their homes and people tweeting like kolosov said the sat it's a very sad situation is countries thought being allowed to run in the election after killing kidnapping and bombing thousands of innocent people are the critics of fox's sharing a video as well from last year of reports amal and also gloria alvarez speaking out against fox during an event in colombia which is called up inside a k c many colombians believe that if you're against her. parts of the peace

agreement then you're pro-war or that you don't want peace i don't believe this i think it's valid to be critical of the peace agreement i believe people who violated fundamental human rights for decades like the right to live they killed and kidnapped civilians the right to freedom of speech and the right of personal property which they violated to sell drugs and should not be allowed to participate in politics and. now other far components have been doing the math they've pointed out the fact is being given four percent of the seats in congress even though they're only expected to attract two percent of the votes in it so they can sensibly mcatee caucus impact you know the numbers that it's the fact that the central democratic party a party that was most opposed to the peace agreement is beginning such good results in the polls suggest that it's an issue that's important to voters in your book. the fact we're going few votes in these elections it's very difficult if not impossible for the fock to get enough votes to get more seats in congress than is

stated by the agreement. but despite all this there are those who believe fuck deserves a chance to make a fresh start one of those people is gina and she too is she's actually in columbus she says that she has voted for far candidates and she is the hash tag vote for fog because she believes her country needs change and a new kind of politics and we've also been in touch with colombians from around the world to want to find out what else they think as well that political section of the peace deal is being implemented that colombians also expect that this question of justice for peace start operates the future of colombia's peace also depends on farts rendering truth reparation to big tims and on those leaders that committed crimes against humanity. judged for what the

g.o.p. is doing when i think it's a good way to incorporate in our political system the idea is you know for a group that has acted like a terrorist is necessary to reach the peace we all want sound left on no i don't agree i believe in peace but not the fark and what they have been given as part of the agreement if we want to thank you i think it was necessary fark all pro griller but it was necessary to sign the peace agreement. well that's what they think you know you can always get in search of us as well whether in colombia and if anywhere else we'd love to hear from you i'm on twitter during the show and after cigarettes and such with the hash tag a.j. . well some people are getting in touch in fact i'm getting comments here on our facebook feed of you were telling us i hope colombians figure out a way to get fork out of power they are a bunch of bandits and drug traffickers that is one point of view and also liam saying if it brings peace why not work for ireland and the ira well shortly after

that peace deal was signed in colombia news outlets had started picking up on a baby boom taking place the result of the end of a ban on having babies during wartime so in this film the al-jazeera witnessed teen speak to two women who joined farkas teenagers and have now left as mothers it also exposes the truth about what life was like in the jungle for foreign fighters it's a great watch and you'll find it on the witness page under the documentary section documentaries tab that is on al-jazeera dot com china as she jumping has secured a pass to rule indefinitely as parliament rubber stamped a move by the communist party to abolish presidential term limits so a package of reforms also inscribed she's political mantra into the constitution and expanded his anti corruption crusades are china correspondent adrian brown reports from beijing. an army of chinese legislators came to the

great hall of the people knowing what was expected of them a display of uniform loyalty to the man who could now be china's leader for life for the constitution is in accordance with our country's reality and the wishes of all the people and. this is a big event a very memorable moment in our political life the genie. and historic and controversial moment as well the almost three thousand delegates had been told the amendments were needed because the challenges china faces require a strong leader and a united party. in china's version of legislative government new laws and constitutional changes are always passed unanimously. and so it proved to be the case again on sunday when delegates approved twenty one constitutional revisions including the scrapping of term limits for the president and vice

president but there was perhaps token opposition to votes against and three abstentions congress officials insist this process was transparent. the chinese people have had no say in this historic moment critics accuse president xi jinping of building a personality cult indoctrinating the masses with his political philosophy just as chairman mao once did it was done shopping the other towering figure in recent chinese history who'd insisted on two term limits for the president he wanted to avoid a repeat of the cultish devotion that had surrounded mao but analysts say one party rule is once more turning into one man rule the fact of the matter this seeming has hijacked the entire communist party in the country so we are back to

just one person doing the talking one person making the decisions for the entitled party in the entire country we are back to the period of the so-called one more second chamber. the president's influence is now felt in many aspects of life here she jean ping thought is now required reading for all party members study groups of spread to businesses and universities. parliament also voted to expand the president's campaign against corruption during a five year purge more than one and a half million party officials have been punished analysts say the campaign is a guys for getting rid of potential rivals for now at least though she would appear to have none. adrian brown al-jazeera beijing let's speak to steve saying he's a professor of contemporary chinese studies and he's the director of the so us china policy institute in london joining us from nottingham that's in the u.k. via skype thanks for speaking to us so how are you seeing this from china's xi

jinping securing a path to basically rule indefinitely well it is in many ways a step backward it is undermining institutionalization but worst of all he is reducing the school for internal policy debates and we have a system in china where the party has to make more decisions right in terms of policy and now the risk of mistakes being made has just been increased and in that sense is not a positive development tool china appears in the economist saying that china has now stepped from autocracy to the ship and also saying this that the west got china wrong bet that china would head towards democracy and the gamble has failed has a failed that the west got china wrong. well i think he was right that the united states and europe and gauged with china in the last thirty forty years it would

have been well not ring true to china but the idea that china would democratize was based on a basic misunderstanding of in nature of the political system in place in china. china may not be committed to communism as a needy ology any longer but this is them remained essentially that of a communist party system oil managed system and the system is fundamentally antidemocratic so as long as the communist party is in power china do not and more good times so is that why perhaps then the international community hasn't been quick to condemn what's the scribed by many as a power grab. well it is in a sense also rather difficult for the western governments to condemn what is happening in china bearing in mind that she did bring is only just about to start

his second term so he hasn't even still. gone beyond the norm of being able to serve two terms so you can't really buy our principles condemn somebody because of any intend but before and that has been committed all right got it so we thank you very much for speaking to us they're saying from the u.k. thank you. coming up if you're watching us on facebook lively ecuadorean who's using her clothing line to fight racism and coming up on the news grid can in name change turn things around for france is a far right national front party we'll hear how a leader marine le pen wants to break from a troubled past. because

a little bit of rain sleet and snow heading towards afghanistan took mistah it's kind of clout that just pulling across iran will continue to drive its way further ace was bright skies do come back here behind this that disturbed weather there kabul is about sixteen celsius you can see a little further north that wintry mix still showing its hands also want to rain showers into northern parts of iran maybe just around the caspian as well but fun to draw across the eastern side of the med warm sunshine temperatures getting up to around ninety twenty celsius over the next day or two little bit of wet weather just easing its way into western parts of turkey by this days no sign of any wet weather across the arabian peninsula over the next day at a little bit of cloud there just around that eastern side of saudi arabia but fought in trial here in monday will see temps getting up to twenty nine selfies with a gentle breeze there but on the murky side recently the winds switch from to the northwest to the rest of the chance of seeing some with dust and sand and that could still create some visibility problems and as we go on through the next day or

two maybe all this last you draw into western parts of south africa i'm afraid the wetter weather still clinging on to the eastern type a chance of some showers here through monday still plenty of showers into mozambique zimbabwe and zambia. on counting the cost in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is bending the rules of comus and free trade is really worth fighting for plus the latest mind bending concept cars from the geneva also show counting the cost at this time. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested and that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as favorite i enjoy

the taste of it and the harmful effects of what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen and 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 there.

right articles right now on our web site al jazeera dot com are right there on the screen in the top spot the turkey official trades barbs with a minister and in the second spot you can read about describing life in north korea cartoons so read much more about those stories and the rest of the day's developments on al-jazeera don't. go sebastian pinera has been sworn back into his old job as chile's president replacing a socialist michelle bachelor a off to the south american country swung to the right soap and hero who served in

the top job from twenty ten until twenty fourteen i believe those are live pictures right there from the inauguration so he's once again promised to use his experience in business to turn the economy around he also says that he's learned from the mistakes that he made last time. a lot america is alysia newman joining us live from the city of that is where the inauguration going on right now somewhere to the side a few of the c.s.o. he's in the spot for a second time what will be his biggest challenges. hello daryn well he is actually just left the congress building where he was sworn in and he is a touring bike racer now in an open car waving to his supporters and to general chileans who want to get a glimpse of him on his he knows very well that one of his main challenges is going to be not just to spur economic growth again as he did in his first administration but this time to do it in a way where it seems that he is doing it for the sake of the vast majority of

chileans particularly the poor and not the business elite of which he is of course a member he is a billionaire he was his first administration was plagued by demonstrations street demonstrations and protests constantly precisely because he was seen as being elitist that is what he says he won't do again and he says that that was the mistake that he will not repeat tyrie is there a sense that his inauguration seems to be consolidating in america moving more towards the right. well you know it actually clearly shows that yet another latin american country has moved towards the right to chile in fact in the last thirty years have mainly center left governments but what is interesting is that there are about to be elections in three very important countries in brazil in mexico and in colombia and in almost three cases it looks like the incumbent or at least the incumbent political party is not going to get

back in so there may be a shift very soon from the war from the right more to the center and even more to the left ok from just your ration thank you. well while we're in the region cubans are voting to ratify a new national assembly it's the first step towards the election of a new president the assembly will choose who succeeds eighty six year olds a role castro seen as summits here in venezuela just over a week ago he's stepping down next month and his replacement will be the first cuban president from outside the castro family in sixty years raul took over in two thousand and six from his ailing brother fidel who governed since seizing power during the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution. from london with more of the international news by merriam. i that i mean that's right we're going to begin in france now where the far right leader marine le pen has been

speaking on the second day of the national front's congress to rebrand the party and make over is designed to revive the nationalist party after the loss of french presidential election to emmanuel macron last year the band has sought to distance how policy from a strange father the former leader and he called the name change a trail this. morning we are the defenders we are the last defenders of the french republic. the french republic has been stripped of its content which you thea is becoming less and less democratic and less and less social the political leaders are speaking in english is being replaced by the european flag marked by agendas that avoid of any substance. so david chase had joins us live now from the congress and david is this rebranding going to work. well merriam the real question was

how are they going to change the name what's it going to be in finally of to organ hour and a half or so speech she said that she was going to suggesting the name change from national front to the actual gathering now that received polite applause here. whole speech was given. a broad welcome but only just over fifty percent of the members of the national front as we can still call it actually agree with that green that that that name change so what about the rest of the rebranding putting a distance between her and. her father eighty nine year old john merida upin well yes he's now been stripped of his ordinary presidency of the organization that he founded about forty five years ago so in this new book which is a bestseller he's actually saying that he agrees and backs the vichy regime during

the second world war course collaborating with an os you so i don't think she could really put that much of a distance between the new party and the and the man who actually founded it is it going to work listening to the policy today those policies the very familiar all during the campaign last year i heard exactly the same sort of speeches so this is almost a groundhog day will she be able to reach out with a new name and a new and fresh approach i very much doubt it listening to the formants today aria . thank you very much david chase with all the latest from the national front congress taking place in. the u.s. president donald trump says his planned talks with north korea could either fail or bring about the greatest deal for the world to ease nuclear tensions between the two countries he also said he believes north korea wants to make peace during a political rally in pennsylvania but president trump also warned it's possible he could leave the talks quickly if it didn't look like progress for nuclear

disarmament could be made well in other developments to south korean officials who met the north korean leader kim jong un last week will meet the leaders of japan and china and china one of the officials will speak to china's president xi jinping on monday of the other will meet japan's president on tuesday the meetings are designed to update leaders on the progress of nuclear talks with north korea and it comes after south korea's and we returned from a visit to the u.s. on sunday after that meeting with president trump. u.k. police are saying that the hospitalization of an officer linked to the poisoning of a former russian spy with a nerve agent has sent shock waves through the force a restaurant and a park in the english town of souls are among a number of locations which will remain locked down as police investigate the poisoning of sergei scrip and his daughter yulia anyone who visited the locations has been advised to wash their belongings but authorities insist that the health risk is very low. or police as saying that the case could potentially have

international ramifications. you'll be aware this is a fast paced multi faceted complex investigation. on interest in this case has moved from the local to the regional to the international to the global so any information at all to help us with our colleagues from the counterterrorism network stop this was will be gratefully appreciated. hong kong has been voting in a byelection with pro-democracy activists hoping to win back veto power in the legislature police detained a number of protesters gathered outside the polling station where the city's leader cost her ballot the election is to fill four seats formerly held by pro-democracy politicians who were ousted from their public office for refusing to properly swear an oath it's seen as a way to gauge reaction to beijing's increased control over the city. the indian

prime minister narendra modi in the french president emanuel macron of officially launched the international solar alliance at a summit in new delhi they want to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels by expanding the veil ability of solar energy the idea was first proposed on the sidelines of the twenty fifteen paris agreement on climate change representatives from forty five nations are attending the event we'll have more from london in about twenty minutes from now let's get back to daryn. thank you well japan has been marking seven years since the earthquake tsunami and nuclear disaster the devastated its northeastern coast and left at least eighteen and a half thousand people either dead or missing and since it happened some people in the disaster zone have become citizen scientists serious back to explain why that is i have in fact disasters can turn people's lives upside down in seconds but something else happens in communities they come together and that's exactly what

occurred after the for kashima nuclear disaster sons of thousands of people are still unable to return to their towns where houses stand empty because of nuclear contamination the government says it could take as long as forty years to clean up the nuclear sites and radioactive areas around it but many people have lost faith in the government's recovery efforts and don't believe its radiation statistic levels and that's where citizen science comes in because she mirages are learning how to make their own geiger counters and collect radiation data in real time professor norio what's on rb is teaching youngsters in full kashima how to make the guy counts and themselves. that i got on the hook that was done i don't know if there are no people like me continue to monitor the levels it will be forgotten but it will be left to the past if there is nobody checking levels constantly there'll be no evidence in case something happens decades later i want to save the data for our children there is the safe site and there is the risk the site but no one is

speaking up somewhere in between people outside the prefecture or outside japan would never understand how stressful it is like and also come to them and that's how safe cos was born in twenty eleven because of a lack of trustworthy radiation information a group of volunteers have since been collecting radiation measurements from many citizens and putting them on a single website which is just behind me here you've got different colors and all the different levels show you the different amounts of radiation that are existing in the fukushima area and they region radiation zones that didn't match that of the government's now safe cost is now home to the world's largest open data for radiation measurements a huge difference is the growth in merit over measurements and relevance because people measure their own neighborhoods to measure what they actually care for a government may decide to put the sensor on top of a hill or top of the city hall our volunteers see decide to measure where it is schools are where their workplaces are and where the houses are so i think one

important thing is that we're going to larry and implicate the lady of measurements that matters to people's direct lives now one of those volunteers taking part is a bit dismount collecting data with his own council which he has at the top of his temple five tomorrow khan has been measuring local radiation levels since two thousand and seven and he found his readings off to this also were fifty times higher than that for radiation levels now he claims the government kept citing his community that they had nothing to worry about qana hopes it will help people make informed choices about moving back to their homes or not. probably leaders who are for whatever people. my gentle breeze giving them we are in a safe place and living calmly and strained serenity and that many because. even in peace

we do have our own radiation counts so or if you access the website you can choose it say or not it's your choice it's not our choice it's your choice so i let them know we do have the devices so choose yourself. now that's gone example of citizen journalism which happens all around the world it happens because research budgets of being cut so citizen science is becoming increasingly popular and i did a very quick search on twitter just a cop citizen science and there's a few things out there like this one help scientists understand the influence of light so many projects taking place is a group of people that are going out into the wildlife to find some sugar gliders and one last one i'll show you that the by the plastic ties i have a seven thousand volunteers have been taking part bites hiking more than two

hundred fifty thousand targets of plastic and that is part of citizen science so if you are part of any projects anywhere in the world we did often heo story and get in touch with us the hash tag as always is a.j. news grid well sir a lot of interest in the story in fact and we have viewers with us from japan from india as well as malawi and those from japan very vocal on the story. telling us on facebook that's why every country should not have nuclear bombs or radiation kills and dave saying people should always check the troops themselves rather than just accept what the government. is saying to keep your comments coming to us here on the newsgroup just use the hash tag age a news group the antarctic has been described as one of the most remote pristine and treacherous places on earth so much of its rich biodiversity is still a mystery to us and scientists want to make sure nothing disappears before we get a chance to document it in the second part of his antarctic series our environment

editor nick clark continues the journey through the weddell sea. the captain's eye view of voyage south as the icebreaker optic sunrise pushes through into the remote waters of the weddell sea vost unknown territory a few ships venture this fall. has already made an attempt this antarctic summer but was foiled by ice. a way through. to get it down into the wealthiest trying to reach the think before the beginning of what would be protected looks like opening at least for. yet only to break through 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 some one other ship in this entire space as us that another ship about there and that's it and the whole whole area that's a slightly scary terrifying. exciting exciting kind of just makes the case that this is pristine this area is not developed his not call industry has never had industry. we take a chance in this 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 ice and great icebergs to be. sweeping up. the. way to the.

proposed area pretty much all touched by human activity. scientific research is taking place back to base the arctic sunrise standing by for a return alongside a giant tabula ice pack perhaps a kilometer long the next helicopter sortie is to the very top of it the expedition team 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 and did a day of scenic wonder the antarctic day ends with a spectacular show above this apparently a reverse sunset phenomenon while simultaneously the clouds more in shape and color into fantastic unworldly painting across the evening sky at the ends of the.

al-jazeera until ticket so that spectacular report from nick clark and we also asked him what it's like to work and film in one of the most remote places on earth here's what he. say let's have a little shit to talk right it's going to bite your head because it always everywhere. we're actually entering the hole there and should just get out sea level here. and there are living courses on those ways either side because our tries and then there you go survival suit since we use with me to have landings to show their hard hats here life jackets all sorts of paraphernalia and there's even a workshop over here where we'll find grog part of what. packing up something or other would be going to be a decent sample who's going to come right and the day off or not it's great news

and you can get well ok and let's take up since. stance on the stands this place is going to hold on tight. it's true hearing about as you say. few of the ships cabins are hit this is one that has been the time around. and myself and my butt down here been the sleeves of it so we read each other but some stories at night and for those of you. to gale howling outside. this is the mess kids where everybody gathers to eat lots of meal smooth but choppy out at sea and his big ali and they just making the final preparations his narrows the chef as well as a partner in crime. or something and you take ice and you know

you can see you know you just you know you're. having fun she's. you know when you write that you see that yeah that's right i like nice guys. oh here it is again. you know. we very well bore. the celebrated for the ways like. if the asians myself so that's nick like reporting from the weddell sea as you can see is sunrise here in just a moment to tell us what's trending in sports is tiger woods about to complete one of golf's greatest ever time box the fourteen time winner is looking sharp once again details coming up.

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let's find out what people are talking about in sports or here said oh thank you very much a day while tiger was is closing in on his first win in nearly if five years the fourteen time major winner ended the third rather just once thought of the overnight leader car economists evolves for a championship with carded a four on the pa sixty seven on saturday a win would mark a huge turnaround for woods who dropped down to sweep 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've i'm playing little better little cleaner the last two days and i missed

a medical use their last hole with a sandwich yesterday i don't know it's been a pretty clean last couple days been really good i've been really consistent a little bit south of the border and i was packed up there but. they say i've got a shot. a lot of reaction on social media on the return of tiger woods one excited fan has tweeted waking up on this sunday as if on a little kid on christmas morning tiger woods is one shot back heading into the final round let's go high care the one tweeted or more excited one while surely it would be the greatest comeback in the history of sports if he could win another major but is it joining us now is someone that was on hand for tiger's last major when the two thousand and eight u.s. open golf correspondent at u.k.'s daily express in el squires joins us now neil first of all thank you for joining us do you think if tiger wins in florida do you

think where is it ranked among the great comebacks in sports. well those of us the sorries last major win certainly wouldn't have imagined it would have been this long that would be up there in contention and then billed as a possible masters winner this year but he he says fall was so steep and so disastrous that i think a lot of people have written it off it's very hard to to compare across the sports about the comeback but certainly in terms of golf you're looking at jack nicklaus winning the masters at forty six or even further back in time ben hogan winning the u.s. open after a terrible car crash he mean in woods's case he he he was broken physically with that back back problem that needed the spinal fusion but you know he's also broken emotionally with the collapse of his marriage and all of the well publicized problems in his private life so for him to come back to be where is today's pretty

exciting there's a lot of fans and journalists pinching themselves to the what about the sport itself and its spectators how badly do they need it how badly do they need that successful tiger what well the i mean the cast list is pretty good in golf at the moment is a lot of exciting you know young talent now just in thomas coming through jordan spey through mark arroyo dustin johnson but you know this is like a great old old movie star from the past appearing appearing on stage again and i think with phil mickelson winning in mexico the other week you know or there's two great stars from yesteryear reappearing and it's all boiling up over happens at the valspar to really exciting masters next month what about the ryder cup i mean there's a lot of rumors that he could come back as a player do you see this happening. well you know if

he can call it if he carries on this form you know he can qualify of his own right there's there's no doubt about that because you know he he if he can keep this consistency going from from this event then yeah he can qualify but even if he doesn't you know i think jim sure it'll take a look at of firing tiger woods and what what that might bring to his side as a wild card and think yeah why not send him out in front since september you know sports writer at the daily express thank you very much for that now moving on to a bit of an emotional story here it's a nice feeling to have played their first game since the sudden death of their captain a story just a week ago the thirty one year old was found dead of a suspected cardiac arrest in his hotel room before the much it with an easy all games were called off and it is top flight last sunday but earlier his feeling tina

teammates set aside the emotion to turn out against bin if into a moment's silence was held up for the play the game also came to stop in the thirteenth minute as everyone paid tribute to destroy current and went on to win one nil against then if. all that game was trending on social media it would the hash tag chalo daveed then also has been if into a talkative palmeri who is a b. and sports correspondent has posted this heartbreaking picture of the late daveed story which translates to the story is summoned for sure and he not been of into one fan also tweeted that is there a football fan in the world who doesn't want to win today emotional screens at the pre match. with that. for now i hand you back to daryn so i thank you and that will do it for the newsgroup thanks for watching keep

in touch with us on social media use the hash tag a.j. news read will see you back here in studio fourteen on monday thanks for watching. three.

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