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person to person twenty three british diplomats will be expelled from russia and activities official british officers will be home meanwhile in the u.k. the confirmed killing of a russian businessman has prompted police to contact other exiles us concerns grow for advanced sites also on the grid while thousands in tunisia for you to find in syria as it is the same is now happening in the north which turkish forces are fighting the kurdish wife t.j. . people even another mass exodus and remember this is the region which turkey has said it won't give back if it wins. and just days before retirement f.b.i. deputy director andrew mcafee is the latest casualties in that era donald trump of the president isn't hiding his. did wrong and explore who might be next to leave the city ministration. and i'm with the paralympics coming to a close we're looking into the type of prosthetic athletes have been. using at the

games we have more from the so-called cyborg community about the future prospects and want to hear from you to connect that with a game it's great. with the new screen live on air in streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com first it was twenty three russian diplomats being expelled from the u.k. and now it's twenty three british diplomats about to get the same treatment things are not improving between moscow and london after the poisoning of a former russian double agent in the u.k. two weeks ago you'll remember surrogates cripple and his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in seoul's barre with an investigation showing it was a nerve agent used in the attack britain's foreign minister has gone as far as to suggest the russian president vladimir putin ordered the killing in self russia's foreign minister is head back accusing the west of producing the chemical that poisons group it's just back and forth and the latest move from moscow has come with a warning of potentially more action against the u.k.

. we think that you would like to. be on strike. if they think. that. they're. going to be. like. his lawrence lee covering things from moscow for us silence the sort of wonder maybe this is just the first salvo being fired by moscow because you know britain expelled diplomats and russia basically said well whatever we're not really interested we're not paying attention to this and now it goes and does the same thing. well i mean they said immediately elf to britain said it was exciting the twenty three that the russian ambassador to london said that will will do the same thing so they have signaled that we're going to win that's what usually happens in these in these things i think i think the russians have said today that unless the british do something else then they think it's not

clearly the british going to do something else well that depends on events as they say doesn't it and i think that will probably become quite a lot clearer in the course of the next seven days and going forward from there because what's going to happen next after this is that people from the international body trying to prevent chemical weapons excuse me are going to arrive in salzburg next week to take samples of the nerve agent and take it away intestate and one would assume that they're supposed to be a neutral international body the their definition of what c.t.'s and who might suffer do states might lend some clarity so all this you said this in you said this stuff between russia and britain at the moment and based on that you might get an indication of as to what what any further action might happen but of course in the meantime you do know about boris johnson blaming putin which of course he has no evidence for whatsoever the russians equally coming up with all kinds of claims

that they have no evidence for whatsoever either and want one man was in the russian media today suggesting this cripple might have actually produced it himself which would which seems barmy but that's that's the sort of level of things that is reduced to in this in this mudslinging competition does feel like that is not lawrence lee in moscow thank you for that and actually an early comment on facebook on the whopper he said the russians are fully within their rights the british have provided no proof nor have bailed out russia to be part of the investigation echoing what lawrence is pointing out there now there is a separate story here as well u.k. police say they have contacted several russian exiles over safety concerns after the killing of a prominent business prominent businessman a murder investigation is underway after an economic was found dead in his home on monday. that was granted political asylum in twenty ten and the u.k. had blocked attempts by russia to extradite him. now the u.k. prime minister to resign i says she's and seven other actions against moscow after the expulsion of the british diplomats and we've got me back

a witness who is actually outside me for i. bring us up to date neve with well what's happening there and then also the political developments. well the murder investigation is well underway police announced that it was moving into the realms of being a very investigation on friday and confirmed that it was now largely being spearheaded by counterterrorism command a special branch of the met police here in london who deal with highly complex cases like this and they are of course also dealing with the poisoning of this cripples in salzburg just under two weeks ago. the. nickel i was found here at his property in southwest london on monday the police say that there were signs of compression marks on his neck he had been chewed to appear in court on monday to answer some longstanding charges that have been brought against him by his former employer the russian national airline araf law where he'd been

previously working as its chief financial officer had previously been jailed also in russia in one thousand nine hundred nine for five years for financial irregularities in the russian government to be wanting him back in moscow to face even more charges although the british authorities had refused to extradite him he was also very close associate of course affairs of ski the russian oligarch who was a very staunch kremlin critic who was also based here in exile in the united kingdom and he was found dead in two thousand and thirteen behind a locked door with a look at your around his neck the view from elise here was the bird's own ski was in fact murdered on the orders of the kremlin an investigation to how birds of ski died came back with an open verdict in terms of whether this case is being linked or not to the script all investigation appears at this current stage that it is not but on that investigation moving forward there in solsbury the british prime

minister has now revealed. probably confirmed in her eyes that she believes that the russian state was responsible for this even though initially she left it open implying that the substance used to poison this cripples could have fall into the hands of others he is what the prime minister had to say a little bit earlier on russia's response doesn't change the facts of the matter the attempted assassination of two people on british soil for which there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable it is russia that is in flagrant breach of international law and the chemical weapons convention well nicholai good cause now joined an ever increasing list of russians into exile here in the u.k.

some of whom have died some of whom the police are concerned about the safety of of course new investigations are opening into the death of a burst of ski and others m i five are involved in that but there are also a chorus of voices from the political opposition asking the british government to clarify exactly how and why it believes that the russian state the kremlin are behind these souls we poisoning. barca thank you for that update meanwhile the arguably more pressing matter for russia at home at least is a presidential election on sunday in fact because russia is so huge nine time zones remember some regions in the far east will actually begin voting in less than five hours a lot of focus has been on crimea where all four of his have reportedly been tasked with producing an overwhelming vote for lot of me a provision that would be a validation of the referendum that's all crimea become part of russia four years ago or chalons is there for us with this report. crimea with its dramatic

coastline has long held a romantic place in russian hearts. and since it was an extreme ukraine four years ago it's russian once more ready made putin who says he took the decision to reclaim the peninsula held his last big campaign rally in the port of sevastopol on wednesday he thanks the crowd for voting in the two thousand and fourteen referendum which most countries never recognized and which so soured relations with the west. with your decision you showed the entire world the meaning of true democracy not a sham one he took part in the referendum and made a decision you voted for your future and the future of your children. crimean za voting again on sunday the first time they've ever done so in a russian presidential election and the peninsula has been made a central symbol in the putin campaign by the way putin is reminding people that he

is the gatherer of russian lands it's very hard for him to boast of any meaningful economic progress so defense security and national pride are his campaigning aces. in crimea in tar tar towns like historical back she's a right the mood is different. mainly oppose the annexation intend to boycott the election but they say they're being pressured to vote was appalled. if there were threats at all levels that people could lose their jobs for example in our local school the director says think again of local people don't go to the elections they might fire me therefore i think some of the teachers will go to. the national spotlight is on crimea fresh from an appearance on russia's main t.v. channel we spoke to crime is deputy prime minister and he denied any dirty tricks of being used before but it ups the election is a completely free and democratic process therefore crimean people go to the polling

stations and make the choice they want we think turnout will be quite high so most what we saw the referendum because crimea and people don't see it as an obligation it's a celebration for us. as the home of russia's black sea fleet crimea has always been strategically important for moscow this year it's elects a really important to reach allan's how does it running. but he appeared cover from al-jazeera dot com has put together this handy little info graphic on who is running against vladimir putin informationally each of the candidates from the anti semitic ultra nationalist with jewish roots to the daughter of putin's former boss to the stalinist communist it's a fascinating field and all handily put you in one place it's in the features section if you just look for russian elections and you get in touch with us as well contact details coming up on screen for you right now twitter facebook and whatsapp all up and running we're going to be speaking in a moment or two things coming up syria will look at the latest there with our correspondent but also talking to our guest about engine mccabe the sacking of the

f.b.i. deputy director and what's next for this trumpet ministration if you've got any questions on that one and you send them in to us facebook dot coms us down to zero for the live stream the what's that number is plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine you can tweet me directly as well at age eighty so yes syria thousands of civilians fleeing the besieged enclaves to separate areas of syria where major battles have intensified anything hooten in damascus a new wave of ten thousand people have left areas held by rebels in the past few hours they're headed to syrian army positions up. mean after they were urged to leave in a state t.v. broadcast meanwhile in the northern city of a three in thousands are evacuating territory held by kurdish y p g finances as turkish forces and the syrian allies try to break into the city just a reminder about africa because it can get somewhat overshadowed by what's been happening in eastern good to have got the syria civil war map here from al jazeera

dot com to show you just ramana we're talking about well there is a good to right down there near damascus but it's up here in this on clay it's just gotten hidden by the way banner there let's try again a free here in these yellow kurdish areas right near the border with turkey that is where those turkish forces have come in and your same as is live in kill it's now which is near the turkey syria border want you to bring us up to date first of all with what's happening in africa as i say we we mustn't lose sight of that because these thing group to resolve is the major frayne ongoing for a long time now. that's right kemal yes the situation that is escalating by the hour it has to be said that i'm a noob ring in circling the city they are backing up the free syrian army fighters those fights is have now actually taken over a prison to the west of free that has taken that prison from the y.p.

ji kurdish fighters inside the city itself there is a lot of controversy claim and counterclaim from either side that took issue denying point blank that they targeted the hospital in the city on friday the report was that a number of people died sixteen people died according to the syrian observatory for human rights now the turkish have shown a picture of the hospital they say was taken on saturday morning showing it was completely intact the the s.o.h. of the human rights syrian observatory and now showing t.v. pictures which they say show the damage to the hospital so i dispute that but undoubtedly civilians are dying in large numbers and they're fleeing in large numbers as well come off well yes on that night andrew those people leaving are free now actually the people leaving a good as well where are they going what are they what are they leaving to.

well how do you put yourself in a situation of being in an onslaught of barrels for ever and from land. the first opportunity you did have to get out with your kids or whatever is going to be taken that would be really the situation here we are in the eighth war now of being still cruelly affected and the situation in eastern guta for example isn't straightforward at all it isn't as simple as coals going out for people to evacuate then the orderly procedure to evacuate it's a terrifying procedure whereby quite often very many cases there are asteroids artillery barrages coinciding with the moods to get people out there are talks go out on the ground quite often with elders syrian elders from the opposition with other people and the syrian regime and then you have these attacks the syrian

observatory for human rights i'm quoting again here say that thirty civilians died as they were preparing to get out on saturday and you do see those pictures of course of those those long very tired emotionally exhausted fearful people traipsing through the rural areas away from all the the awful damage left behind those people are just looking and they're going to centers where they are given food apparently and medical aid with not seen pictures of this but that's what we're told happens and then they're distributed and moved on to other two families homes relatives families homes or tents or all population shifts elsewhere it's entirely unclear it's not i would hasten to add in any way monitored or organized by the united nations this is the syrian regime

backed by. russia is orchestrating this movement of populations ok thank you for all that and you do appreciate it andrew symonds in the is in kill it's to the united states now with the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe is out of a job just days before he was about to retire attorney general jeff sessions announced mccabe was being sacked over inappropriate communications with the media but the man himself says it goes deeper than that and that his dismissal is really just payback from president donald trump who was certainly very happy with the decision look at this tweet andrew mccabe fired a great day for the hardworking men and women of the f.b.i. a great day for democracy he says sanctimonious james comey was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir boy he knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the f.b.i. all trump as if not holding back the full story now with russell and jordan andrew mccabe was an f.b.i.

agent for twenty two years rising to deputy director and then acting director after his boss james calmly was fired by the trump white house in twenty seventeen but just before he planned to retire on march eighteenth those mccabe two was dismissed in a statement released late on friday night the attorney general jeff sessions said that according to an internal agency investigation quote mr mccabe had made and an authorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor including under oath a multiple occasions i have terminated the employment of andrew mccabe effective immediately. right after this mccabe told the news media his firing was payback for doing his job investigating ties between russia and donald trump's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign as well as overseeing the probe into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state now president trump has

accused mccabe of partisan bias mccabe's wife a democrat received campaign donations from one of hillary clinton's allies then mccabe added this quote the attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not to just slander me personally but to taint the f.b.i. law enforcement and intelligence professionals generally it is part of this administration's ongoing war on the f.b.i. and the efforts of the special counsel analysts say robert muller who is the special counsel will want to talk to mckay but now aides now will be testifying in front of mahler and he knows a lot now what happened. during the campaign and during the investigation mr mccain can talk about the fact that when president drama fired your rector call me that was jam if you were going to call me we're actually going

ahead with the investigation i'm not could be considered a structure in the justice being fired means andrew mccabe might lose his retirement and health care benefits but mccabe might also have much more to gain by telling robert muller everything he knows about any russian links to the trump presidential campaign and that could mean the trumpet ministration might now have a much bigger problem on its hands rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington so what we have here is another high profile dismissal from the trump administration which incidentally i calculated has been in power for four hundred and twenty one days. in that time and i'm going to go through the whole list here courtesy of this feature down to zero dot com we have seen the firing or resignation of the secretary of state the chief strategist is also the national security adviser he resigned the f.b.i. director of course them is the chief of staff the acting attorney general went inside ten days director of communications press secretary the head of the national

economic council the u.s. attorney for the southern district of manhattan the white house staff secretary another director of communications the health secretary and the deputy assistant to the president or to bring in clear finkelstein now director of ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school joining us via skype from philadelphia i can't believe it claire as i go through that list and think that all of those people have gone in this time and it leads us to speculate about who's next is that the right thing to do first of all really just you know almost looking for the next one to go or is there real chance of more change i think this chaos in the white house will continue obviously the president cannot tolerate the idea that anyone would be in the executive branch who is not favorable to him and not particularly convinced of his point of view and anyone in particular who's involved

in the russia pro who might know something about the russian probe and he mccain would have been and guess what still will be a very potentially effective witness in the moller probe having to do with the firing of james comey whether or not the president is guilty of obstruction of justice so the idea that the president is somehow making himself safer by orchestrating the firing of person after person who may turn against him is actually not likely to help him ok but what we see him doing as surrounding himself with let's say more like minded people. the most prominent one i've heard so far is the idea that national security adviser. to could be replaced by former u.n. ambassador john bolton again feelings on the chance of that happening and if it did i mean that would be a pretty major thing for u.s. foreign policy i can't speak to whether or not bolton will be the replacement but

it does seem increasingly likely that h.r. mcmaster will be asked to step down usually the white house seems to float perhaps intentionally leak the advance news of a dismissal to see how it plays is my guess and and then in almost all of these cases the person is in fact dismissed later so it is looking as though mcmaster who has clashed with the president on a number of issues and is fairly independently minded will not last in this administration does any of this matter to you think to donald trump because i think a lot of us on the outside looking in at the can you use the word chaos the fact that this many staff could leave in fourteen months but for him is this all just part of the i don't say part of the game because it's far more serious than a dame but just part of the presidency it ought to matter to him he tweeted at one point that chaos is good he likes chaos but it's extremely dangerous

for the country and it deeply compromises our national security think about the fact that we have no secretary of state at the moment and who knows how long it will take for my pump aoe to either be confirmed or to be rejected. it is impossible for a government to function effectively with so much change all the time and it's a dangerous state for the country clear finkelstein good to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us thank you. now a days analytics firm closely associated with the election campaign of don't know drum is facing a bit of heat from facebook we've got leah to look through this one for us i mean i could never fooled that facebook would have been so defining pollination can handle really yeah and that donald trump campaign accepted facebook staff to help them because it's part of something that facebook offers but this group it has been associated with the campaign and with bracks it the data analysis firm it's called

cambridge analytic it's been suspended after it failed to delete data from about two hundred seventy thousand users who downloaded a personality app it's called this is your digital life now the app itself was in line with facebook's developer policies but the way the data was collected was not and according to facebook's deputy general counsel paul grewal a university of cambridge professor named kogan sold the data to another third party company facebook's legal counsel said quote we are moving aggressively to determine the accuracy of these claims if true this is another unacceptable violation of trust and that commitments made we will take legal action if necessary to hold them responsible and accountable for any unlawful behavior the suspension means that cambridge analytic is prohibited from buying ads or running facebook pages for its clients as facebook's and your boss worth tweeted here cambridge

analytics did not yet respond but denied any wrongdoing back in two thousand and fifteen saying it had destroyed the information that it received now it's not clear if the ban is meant to be temporary or permanent but the investigation into this continues and we've seen the facebook under more pressure recently to be more transparent about how paul it political observers use its platform and people have been also quite vocal about this online this user here ryan tweeted saying that facebook suspending trump affiliated can bridge analytic. for violating its policies it's too little too late he says for twenty sixteen but it's just in time for twenty eight thousand and twenty twenty small victory he says if you're following this story online make sure you get in touch with us you can write me directly at leo hardy you can use any of our other platforms or get in touch us with the hash tag a.j. news grid and more from a little later on in the grid she's going to be talking about athletes with bionet limbs as the paralympic games comes towards in the meantime we're going to go off

to london and here is lawrence taylor with more international news for us hi lauren thanks carol hooty rebels say they were going to hold talks with saudi arabia to end the war in yemen who thieves made the admission after reports emerged the group's spokesman had been in direct contact with saudi officials in amman both sides did not secret talks are taking place there said they would support un peace efforts aimed at reaching a political solution comes as the humanitarian situation in yemen continues to worsen with twenty two point two million people in desperate need of assistance. and. there was no direct meeting between us and saudi arabia in the sky but when there was a chance for honorable peace there is no problem in having a direct dialogue between us and the saudi government that we are in a war with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and they are using all their military capabilities on yemen so we need such dialogue between parties to stop the war. china's president has been sworn in for

a second term with a unanimous support the confirmation follows a change in the constitution which does away with term limits for the president xi jinping is close political ally wang sharon will be his vice president scott hardly has more from beijing. for the first time in history the president of china took an oath of office president xi jinping raising his fist pledging loyalty to country and constitution as he begins his second five year term and that's a constitution that was changed last week during the national people's congress here in beijing. one of the biggest differences lifting term limits on the offices of presidents and vice presidents meaning this is almost certainly not the last time we will see she take the oh. also took his oath on saturday his first five year term as vice president. only one vote was cast against him out of the nearly three thousand carefully selected delegates known as

a firefighter taking on tough tasks one front at the president's anti-corruption crackdown it punished more than one and a half million officials. the election of one seized on was no surprise he's a close ally of season playing and term limits have been lifted on the vice president's role but what will be different is that his power and influence will elevate the position that's traditionally been ceremonial get things done so see his loyalty and how he can follow his order to discipline chinese officials and he has been very successful in that and looking forward you would want to make sure that his power i would be stabilized for next decade or beyond that even before the curtains close on this year's national people's congress on tuesday wang will have his work cut out whatever his responsibilities is to deal with u.s. trade friction something president trump has intensified over the past few days

it's got harder al-jazeera beijing. as well passenger plane carrying five people has crashed into a house in the philippines happened shortly after takeoff north of manila. killing all those on board as well as five people on the ground rescuers are said to be looking for at least one missing person in the rubble of a house. thousands of elderly spaniards are rallying for an increase in public pension payout unions and retiree groups are taking part in the protests which are being held in more than one hundred cities and towns across spain they want pension payouts to rise in line with inflation the government has defended its record saying it paid one hundred seventy billion dollars in to state pensions last year. that's always moment to command in doha thank you this is the news group if you're watching us on facebook live with the story you know about a young girl born a refugee in jordan after her family is forced to flee the war in syria that's coming up in a moment and then later opiates for the masses an increase in the production of

drugs in afghanistan is translating to an increase in funding for the taliban that story and the headlines shortly. hello there there's still plenty of unsettled weather across parts of the middle east at the moment here's the latest weather system as it works its way out of iraq and into iran still getting some heavy downpours as it does say and ahead of it we're seeing a few flurries of snow over the mountains in afghanistan so that system still with us on sunday gradually retreating eastwards as we head into monday but still afghanistan looking pretty wet and actually extends all the way up into kazakstan as well then move to other weather features with us as we head through monday the next one is here that's working its way over parts of iraq not a great deal of rain on this but i think we'll see some winds and some dust being kicked up as well and then the next systems here over the western parts of turkey

giving some rain and some strong winds too now as that first system worked its way across parts of q wait we saw the orange skies thanks to the dust that it was kicking up there and the whole system then gradually sunk its way towards the east brought us a few breaks of rain here in doha and across parts of the u.a.e. as well so clearing away to so by sunday should be fine and dry the wind still feeding down the gulf so twenty eight degrees will be the maximum temperature we're expecting in doha maybe up to around twenty nine as we head through monday and the winds bringing in some slightly fresh air from madagascar we're watching our cycle as it gradually sinks southwards. a global economic superpower that's underperformed in the world of football when east explores how china is now spending billions in its quest to conquer the beautiful game. at this time on al-jazeera.

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is the world actually getting better. known to be honest have a read of it what's trending this saturday about this year into. well without drugs the war in afghanistan would have been long over and that statement from a former afghan president really does highlight the link between opium cultivation and the taliban they are controls large territories in the south including helmand province which produces eighty percent of afghanistan's opium taxes providing security to its producers and smugglers are a big source of money for the taliban opium production went up by eighty seven percent to an estimated nine thousand tonnes and twenty sixteen as the taliban widened its presence in the country well the un office on drugs and crime is strengthening the fifty percent of that opium used to make heroin is smuggled out of the country and is tiny but the reports from kabul conflict and unemployment are driving a record number of people to drugs. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts

exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul. these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who have lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and then numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the forty five day program of this former military warehouse complex is basic and caters to nine hundred patients the treatment consists mainly of keeping the addicts away from drugs but it can't keep them away from the desire most relapse when they leave. not there not that we need international hill we are struggling drug addiction is everywhere in the world but unfortunately it's affecting us more we have double impact one is the war and the other is that people are jobless. no ruse turn to drugs eight years ago when he lost his job he abandoned all hope and his wife and

six children. are going to my from north dakota with no job or income you have no choice but to steal and rob to get drugs addicts who have money eventually spend it all on drugs and when the money is gone they join us poor under the bridge we are no use to family society or country the bridges police doctor in kabul where the addicts live in a desolate world the afghan government estimates that three million people ten percent of the population is addicted to heroin forty percent of those are women opium cultivation is a major source of funding for the taliban and a major target for the u.s. an air campaign to destroy crops and production has been intensified the international community's sixteen year battle against drugs in afghanistan has cost billions of dollars but poppy growing is flourishing like never before last year there was a sixty three percent growth in land use for cultivation and an eighty seven percent increase in opium production the most in afghan history varmus of turn to

poppies because there's more money in them the conventional crops but the threats from the air always there but this figure. we are worried that foreigners are the afghan government are going to destroy our fields the farmers are the ones who face the entire hardship of cultivation but the smugglers and others are the ones who benefit the most. that is beyond the concern of the addicks under the poly sakta bridge their only concern is how to get the next fix they are in direct victims of this war but their image will haunt afghanistan for many years to come tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. with us now from washington d.c. david said a former deputy u.s. assistant secretary of state for defense for afghanistan and pakistan now a senior fellow with the center for strategic and international studies it's lovely to have you with us again mr said as our report outlines people turn to drugs

people get addicted to drugs for a multitude of reasons but one of the major ones is that the drugs are there the poppies are being grown the opium is being harvested why has it been something that the afghan government that the coalition nations have not been able to get on top of it. well as your report showed a lot of the core reasons that people turn to drugs is lack of economic opportunity an international effort in afghanistan has done a very poor job of helping to build the economy when the united states decided to start pulling its troops out in two thousand and fourteen the united states and other countries pulled back from economic assistance especially in the agricultural area and you don't win the war on drugs just by bombing drug factories and destroying crops you have to create alternative livelihoods and you have to change a lot of the structures there is some good news in afghanistan over the last year

the number of provinces that are drug free has increased those are the provinces where the afghan government is in firm control however the huge increase you mentioned has taken place in areas where the afghan government is not in control in the south in eastern provinces of afghanistan in the north s. and in the northeast in the box on and bulk so the places where the government is in control and is able to bring economic advancement is actually working unfortunately the places where the taliban is attacking the afghanistan government most strongly are the areas where the drug production is going a pious and that is the area where the taliban help the taliban profit from those that drug trade and that helps to fuel the insurgency so why then we just actually looking at some pictures on screen of the. drug making facilities in crop fields being destroyed why then do you think that. is still being pursued if you as you've pointed out that that doesn't really work long term why do you think they carry on doing is it just a short term fix. well but going after drugs in

a holistic way does include going after the traffickers going after the labs and going after crops at least in an intelligent way but it has to be part of a coordinated effort and that's the weakness right now the interdiction part they've stepped up over the last year but building alternative livelihoods putting in place systems in the agricultural area that will allow for the growth of alternative crops those are areas where the government of afghanistan and the international community are not doing enough one area of successes in herat province where many former drug problem drug farmers have turned to saffron and are making actually as much or more money than they were under drugs so this is a path that can work but it needs a coordinated effort not just a military effort but a coordinated effort across all parts of society in government and must create real resentment on the ground as well if these crops and facilities are getting bombed

from from the sky. and the taliban is probably encouraging people to know you've got to keep doing this and almost fight back it creates another another war was. well the bombing that you're talking about is of drug facilities fields aren't being bombed the farmers are not being bombed it's the drug facilities that the u.s. and afghan air forces are kicking taking on over the last several months they have destroyed a number of drug producing labs. destruction of crops in the fields is carried out by the local governments using hand labor not it's not doesn't the destruction of crops doesn't come from the air but the problem with the crops is that the vast majority of afghan opium is raised by tenant farmers they don't really have a choice about what to grow it's large landowners often who are have very close ties to the taliban and took the corrupt drug networks there are the ones that decide what gets planted so footage such as the one you showed of some of the

farmer talking about worrying about being attacked from the air that's a very small part of the problem the big but the problem is actually much more complicated than that david said it's always interesting talking to thank you very much for your time thank you if you want to want to understand a little more about the afghan poppy problem can i suggest this documentary is from one of wendy's that's been twenty sixteen steve chavez did the poppy fields to investigate how afghan authorities are struggling to control this resurgence and the implications for the global war on drugs it is an award winner as well eight medals from the new york festivals a gold for best investigative report a gold for steve chalo is best reporter correspondents are well with the watch wonder when he's afghanistan's billion dollar drug lords in the documentary section at al-jazeera dot com do you get in touch with us as well on any of the stories that we are covering the hash tag is a.j. news grid you can use twitter facebook whatsapp or telegram or you can tweet me directly as well at kemal i j now. one of india's busiest cities could

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we're back on the news grid and we're going straight off the grid actually it worked for us today we are so it's the last full day of the paralympics but something you won't see at the games are by onyx or smart prosthetics why well it's because they're not allowed in competition but with technology improving so rapidly many are asking if some prosthetics can actually outperform real limbs kate grey is an example of that she was a paralympic swimmer in beijing who and she lost her left arm when she was two years old here's she is trying on a biopic arm for the first time. yes. oh oh. and then we have hugh her here he is right here he has the bio mechatronics group at the mit media lab and lost both of his legs to frostbite he's become

a champion for by onyx and has made it his mission to eliminate disability with technology about twelve months after my limbs are implicated i was climbing at the same level as i had before the accident and people started to get nervous and then i exceeded that level i'm starting to climb walls that no one ever climbed before and then i became a threat that happened overnight some of my clinic colleagues actually threatened to cut their own legs off to achieve the same unfair advantage just me no one actually did the fact that i could just sign my body part and exceed what i had achieved before it even exceed what nature intended was very inspiring so i realized that technology has the power to heal to rehabilitate and to even extend human experience and human capability. angel jeffrey has been using a prosthetic since she was six weeks old she was born without an arm she calls herself a cyborg and a biopic woman and she joins us now from new orleans into first of all i think

you're fascinating your twitter and instagram pictures are just incredibly impressive and you're an actress you were in hunger games you do yoga you're and archer can you just show us your arm and just explain how you're able to do the thing how you're able to tell your arm what to do absolutely so this is my out of cans. and i'm going technical is the three small size which sounds like a car right but that's where we're getting that technology so with my hands it's called a multi-year executing my electric hand which means i have multiple grip patterns that i can get through or hand gestures right now i have the option of eight that i've programmed into my hand using bluetooth capabilities i also have a wrist rotator as well as wrist flexion the rotator has my fun party trick. spinning right wrist all the way around. yeah i saw you on screen some light bulbs

on your instagram. yeah i did a lot of videos to show people that because that's one of the things that's outside of what the human capacity is that people think that's cool but the way that i control it is actually through the muscles in my residual limb so like you said it was more about my arm my arm stops about two inches after my although there are electrodes that pick up electrical impulses that are placed within the socket on the surface of my skin in very specific places my cross the chest advance are going to mix they're very careful with this placement because it's really important and how the hand functions so they sit surface and when i flex the correct muscles it allows me to control the hands and typically when i do this it will always say are controlling with your right side so you know i'm just showing you what i'm doing actually with my residual limb it's amazing so as i was saying earlier in the paralympics you are not allowed to have arms like yours or buy on it prosthetics do you think that should change as by onyx become more common. well

absolutely there's going to need to be some type of changes within the paralympics they already have. i have a lot of paralympic friends i can count thirty thirty coalition you can't for kids and a lot of my fellow counselors are paralympic athletes like lisi enders and and some others and they already are still working with their classifications to even make sure that they're correctly placing people against each other right based on different versions of their abilities the one by onyx become part of the situation we are going to have some more classifications we have to look into you know i was recently at south by southwest conference in austin this past week and i actually got to listen to professors you her and amy mullins talk about there there are high tech prostheses as well i mean he was talking about how currently he was designed a running leg that happens to have the same technology as these myoelectric or button on it right angles that he wears and she said that she already had kind of

run it past the paralympic committee and then i don't think they're ready for it yet but that's the thing the technology is coming and you know when it gets here we'll deal with it but as of right now they're just taking it as they are fascinating into a different thank you so much for joining us some cool isn't it. looked at by a mix a few years ago the intersection between hardware and humanity as they call them i met amanda boxer who was injured in the skiing accident twenty one years ago and she was there paralyzed from the waist down but is now walking thanks to a military designed battery powered exoskeleton it's very cool again and it's uplifting have a look techno biotech bodies at al-jazeera dot com. far as here to talk sports this is happening in doha qualifying gets underway in just a few minutes just down the road so see there j.p. if they need to keep it south ahead of the curve as the riders and teams get ready for a new season of competition the first grand prix of the year is encounter on sunday

fans will also get to see a prototype electric race by doing some tasks laps and in october the riders will be competing in thailand for the first time in moto g.p. history almost g.p. is the highest and fastest class of motorcycle racing there is spain's mark mark has is the reigning world champion the bikes can hit speeds of around three hundred and fifty kilometers per hour thirty nine year old valentino rossi is the sport's biggest star the nine time world champion has just committed himself to three more years of racing for next season electric bike event will also be part of the motor g.p. race day schedule a rider simon patterson says that for all the sports new ideas getting the veteran rossi to sign and new deal was just as importance. it's massive valentino rossi is still the face that everyone associates with moto g.p. so to have him in the championship for what would be another three years is is a big deal but i think he's not just there to be a face

a that he still you know ultra competitive he was second fastest yesterday morning in the first session of the the first round of the year and the only reason he's still there is because he thinks he can win the championship and he's being hunting for his elusive tenth title for the best part of a decade and he's not going to rest too easy until he gets it there's a real charisma around rossi there's a real passion for the sport which you don't always get off some of the other writers you you always feel that even if he wasn't talented enough to be in then time will be need be right now by going to car park with his mates somewhere just having some fun and you know he very much money just to get that across and i think because because motor g.p. because by chris saying is. it's a little bit more of an each sport sort of all bikers or motor g.p. fans for not all car drivers are formula one fans it's quite easy for people to relate to that passion that he brings we were doing quite a good job of developing new markets especially scythe asia and south america

they've really sort of started to expand in the last few years and there's a huge clamor at the minute to get a race in indonesia in particular we've got our first malaysian writer on the grid this year the first writer from that part of the great a kid called has if siren who has already proven to be incredibly popular and is doing good things for the sport they're the team that he's signed for the monster take three team have seen like a three fold expansion in the social media in the month that he's been with them so it's you know that's already starting to feel the impact of it we were expecting a sell out crowd at the malaysian race we're going to thailand for the first time in october we were there last month for a test and we get a bigger crowd there than for the test and we did some races i think in terms of week by week we're going to see a lot of unpredictability there's a lot of be. every very fast writers they share some of the fact that my fighters started given some of the smaller teams bikes that are on par with the likes of what mark has and of its who's or all of them so there's

a lot of very fast writers on very very good machinery and while maybe they can't win in a particular title challenge and win every week they can win on their day and that's you know it's going through a spanner in the works for the championship contenders so we're going to shift gears here now and talk about this man joe's a marine yellow the manchester united boss is known for his outrageous behavior both on and off the field they were dumped out of the champions league by severe on shoes am on friday at man united spree game press conference airplane brighton later today marine you went on a twelve minute rant about i have a listen for yourself in every wall every wall is a door and no every wall is a door you know i'm not going to run away i'm not going to disappear and i'm not going to cry when i was twenty years old i was nobody in football i was somebody's son and now and now we've fifty five i am what i am i did what i

did because of work because of my talent and because of my mentality. lots of reaction to that press conference on social media as you can imagine and here's a sample of those tweets football writer stephen to door saying it was brilliant a rant of brings to mind a husband trying to justify stumbling in at four am and making everything ten times worse this from the former west ham player danny gadahn looks like the united players are going to have to find a way to motivate themselves for today's game because josie is gone in a row throwing his team under the same bus that he regularly asks them to park for him but a slightly more positive reaction from united fan how in twelve minutes of pure tricky can hate and slate of all you wish but he is here to stay no one wants to see united succeed again more than this man he's hurt but is facing the challenge head on that's why i love merinos says helen oh what do you think he can tweet me

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