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says it now has control of a friend in. russia's vladimir putin is widely expected to win a full term as president. four years after one of the worst ever or outbreaks in sierra leone the disease still lingers in the west african country. with the latest sports news including twenty time grand slam champion roger federer breaks his own record as he continues his unbeaten start to twenty eighteen to thirty six year old is into the final as the indian world's. but first a turkish president dredge up to a better one has declared the center of the syrian city of a free to be entirely under the control of his forces president at one made the announcement almost two months after turkey launched its crossed. border offensive

to push back kurdish forces from the border area free syrian army forces backed by the turkish military captured the town center just before dawn on sunday it says seventy kurdish why b.g. fighters were killed in the violence the turkish flag is now being raised throughout the center of town as troops battle to clear the surrounding areas thousands of civilians meanwhile have been displaced by the fighting we can go live now to our correspondent andrew symonds who's in gaziantep in southern turkey very close to the border with syria so after a fairly lengthy operation it seems as though the end has come rather quickly that turkish backed forces. it certainly has most seen john which went to his when this operation started and now the moment they had all waited for certainly the turkish senior military had been waiting for the free syrian army

acting as a front line full so to speak but this is a turkish army operation controlled not necessarily backed by them and what happened was this in the early hours of sunday morning the free syrian army advance from the west on the east on to the city and by dawn they had reached it i didn't reach i didn't have much resistance from y.p. g. forces but they pushed for what they claim there was seventy fatalities amongst the why p. g. forces they haven't mentioned their casualty rates other than to say of the ten civilians were injured and four f.s.a. were injured after the event because all of the improvised explosive devices he. left behind but the turkish forces covered from the air all tell recover as well they were very forceful in taking this city and this is

what the president had to say. the law says other than most of the terrorist have already fled with their tails between their legs our special forces and members of the free syrian army and cleaning the remains of the traps i left behind in the center of a frame our flags of trust and stability away even inside of rags a terrorist how roster is going to. end we've sent service sieved cheek from the p y d that's the political wing of this kurdish movement a chair former chairman saying withdrawal from one battle doesn't mean loss of the war and giving up the struggle the struggle will continue and the kurdish people will keep defending themselves against the genocide planned on them. the victory will be for northern syria forces that's all we've heard from the kurds no word or either from the syrian states on this very very. clear that they don't have

anything to say at this point but that has to be said that civilians have fled into the syrian regime held part in the south and also the why p.g. are known to have withdrawn south ahead of this attack so the majority of them that is so this was weak resistance and they are threatening retaliation it remains to be seen with the turks of very strong in their advance on other areas of why p.g. held territory determined to actually take the entire area around the border with turkey within a matter of weeks if not all of our months perhaps but certainly determined to do so martin. and just stay with us for a moment because it's a good moment first a look further south in syria and look at the other hope bed of violence because eastern ghouta we're hearing now has got

a deadline for the rebels to evacuate the. town of harassed and that deadline when the sand has just passed syrian government forces have reportedly encircled the town after retaking almost eighty percent of rebel territory and the u.n. says more than twenty thousand people have left. in the last week alone or so back to andrew then so it seems very much as they at the government and government forces are well on track for retaking eastern gator. well this does look like an game it has to be said this is a situation where the syrian regime is determined to bring this to an end and have these plans in place some considerable time ago to evacuate civilians and to push down hard on the rebel forces now there doesn't appear to be any leeway here any hope of

a deal especially is the fact that that that deadline was four o'clock local well just past that now we've not heard any reports of exactly what's happening on the ground but this is the situation there is not a duel but stable despite speculation that it could have been done and now the only hope at this very late stage for the rebels in the rest of goods is a u.n. backed plan for some sort of evacuation awful for fighters for some sort of escape all of this this endgame that we're talking about right now but there is a very very limited jaunts of that happening it would seem all lines of pressure from the syrian opposition to the f.s.a. from the various factions involved in this. is going on right now this loss right down to the wire but the house be such an onslaught by the syrians and the syrian regime backed up by russian firepower in the air and on the ground and also this

highly organized it would seem evacuation of civilians coinciding with more and more ass strikes which of terrorized the population even more than they were already so definitely looking very bleak for the opposition forces in eastern guta right now martin all right andrew simmons then with the very latest on the war in syria all the various wars in syria thank you very much. now russia's election commission says the turnout in this year's presidential vote is much higher than the last one which was six years ago earlier the russian president cast his ballot in moscow lattimer putin is seeking a fourth term which would give him six more years in office the opposition leader alexina valmy use been barred from running called for a boycott of the vote and we understand he's due to speak shortly his

anticorruption group has reported that dozens of apparent violations in polling stations across the country i would be pleased with any result that would give me the right to continue serving as president i'm sure the program i'm offering is the right one. for some of the seven other candidates vying for a share of the votes are cast their ballots in polling stations across the capital moscow none of them though are considered a real threat to vladimir putin who is leading by a wide margin let's take a closer look at who they are and what they stand for a high profile name is thirty six year old send me a song track a former reality t.v. star have parents of politicians who've got long ties with the president the communist party has fielded powerful gruden in he's been critical of the russian government but has avoided attacking mr putin personally vladimir zhirinovsky is an ultra nationalist who has consistently supported putin and the united russia party

this will be his sixth bid for the presidency but in twenty twelve he took just six percent of the vote go already yavlinsky is arguably the most liberal candidate the economist ran against putin back in two thousand and since then he has frequently criticized the president and calls for more political freedom. we have two correspondents in russia covering this election for us we've got rory chalons is in crimea and so vast a poll first so let's go to jenna is in moscow so quite cheering news then for thing to hear the voter turnout is quite high. that's certainly how it's looking we're now two thirds of the way through the voting day here in moscow at least large parts of the east of this country of course of already finished voting many times owns away the result as you say is not

in any doubt it will be vladimir putin's day it's not a traditional election in any way really but winning is not the only thing the kremlin cares about what they really care about is a high turnout as we were saying there in order to put the stamp of legitimacy on his victory is my report you know there's a presidential election going on because of the banners in the street that say presidential election and schools are full of adults on a sunday voters a presented with a seemingly vibrant a ray of choices eight candidates some veteran politicians there's a communist an ultra nationalist and a former reality t.v. star who some fancy is a future leader but not this time this time the result is not in doubt. this man says he's voting for the father of the nation within the couple to.

which i trust putin and i like the way he built our country. the array of choices is not all it seems a series of televised election debates over the past fortnight featuring seven of the eight candidates minus putin of course quickly descended into a circus like fast in fact circus is a word the kremlin has used to describe the other seven election candidates so it's more a show of democracy than the real thing. conspicuously absent from the ballot is this man alexina valmy and to corruption lawyer turned opposition figure who's led enormous street protests in the past he's putin's most outspoken critic barred from taking part after a conviction for embezzlement a charge he says was politically motivated novelli has called on his supporters to boycott the election. that may impact on the one thing the kremlin seems to care

about most a high turnout to boost the legitimacy of this vote and it may also be that many russians matter who they support simply see little reason to get out and vote. but i think we're looking now at live pictures of a press conference going on being given by alexina valmy who i was just talking about there the anti corruption lawyer turned off position leader barred from taking part in this election because of what he says are politically motivated charges against him when he put out tens of thousands of activists across the country to monitor this vote to look for irregularities as well as of course calling on his supporters to boycott the vote and he's reporting back now on some of their findings there's certainly been a lot of suggestions reports allegations of irregularities on social media coming in all day long ballot box stuffing people voting multiple times people voting who

aren't registered in this sort of thing i mean this is unlikely to be people trying to manipulate the result in favor of the dimia putin they know that that's going to happen anyway the majority of voters probably really can't see any alternative anyway but what this is likely to be if proven is an attempt to boost those numbers to get turnout up because it is that show of legitimacy that the kremlin desperately wants to be able to take away from this to point out for their critics both at home and with fast deteriorating relations between russia and the west abroad as well all right jonah thank you very much jonah hill is live in moscow now we can go to crimea as you'll recall four years ago an expired the biggest city is so vast the poland of course one of very challenges there how does this presidential election the first one involving crimea ends and how does it look from there. well it's being treated

as a kind of party here a celebration a celebration of russian this in many ways and there are direct parallels being made between this presidential election and another vote exactly for here is go away and cry means we're ross do you want to be a part of russia again ams in overwhelming numbers they said yes they did now of course the west and many other countries around the world view that as an illegitimate referendum essentially and illegal anik sation but that's not how it's seen here and so the voters when they turn up a voting stations like the one behind me i get a little metal like this and this one says sevastopol on the on the front on the top and then underneath it it says for the referendum on the sixteenth of march two thousand and fourteen of course the referendum where crimea was an extent on the back it says with russia forever so for the kremlin for the thorazine is here

making that connection between boots in the kremlin the crimean referendum and this presidential election is is paramount really there are events going all all over the place of the moments that make that connection there was one in sevastopol a few days ago with a bottom it was intended there's another one later on today in moscow on red square called russia seven stop hold crimea so this is very much views as the central parts of of letting it loose in the achievement really of his previous previous presidential taking crimea and bringing it back to russia. drawing chalons live in sevastopol thank you very much indeed. we're going to come on this al-jazeera news hour including people in cape town could be forced to turn off the top as a country looks at ways to deal with its water crisis. and who the russian

ambassador to the european union says could be behind the poisoning of a former spy. man knew marsh on in search of a thirteenth f.a. cup title visa will have the details in school. the president has lifted the nation of emergency was imposed twelve days ago after unrest between sinhalese a muslim communities muslim the owned businesses and a mosque was set on fire in an attempt to prevent further incitement the government also introduced social media bans which were lifted just a few days ago. bennett smith has more now from joshua in northern sri lanka. now when intercommunal violence first broke out two weeks ago the police and the government were criticised for not doing enough to stop the violence that was directed mainly on muslim owned shops businesses and homes so in response to that

they quickly imposed a state of emergency in as part of but they blocked all restricted access to what's up viber to facebook because the government says messages inciting racial violence were being spread by members of the sinhalese majority nationalist community to the muslim minority now one of the lessons the government has learned is that it says in future it's going to much more closely monitor what goes out on the social media because now for two weeks people not been able to get access to watch baseball viable or imo because of those restrictions considerably inconveniencing people here but he says he needs to monitor what's the message of the spread on those social media platforms and indeed facebook was called in by the government last week to say what it could do and facebook has said it will work with the government to try and stop these messages the messages of. violence racial

incitement being spread by or it's powerful. all right we can now speak to give a hand they're going to tell ok in colombo vasco he's a human rights lawyer and director of very research thanks for talking to us and cheer lanka is sadly rather better known for the rift between the tamil and the sinhalese community how big a problem is this broadest. problem with the muslim community. well i think there's a there's a history to this problem there was there were widespread violations of human rights and was riots as far back as nine hundred fifteen where the muslims were targeted but over the last century as you like right it by point out it was the tamil signal the conflict that took precedence. over the past three years we've seen a resurgence of attacks against the muslim community for u.s. reasons. this is called we needed in unity because no perpetrator has been

really taken to task in terms of their involvement in the violence. incidents we saw in last week i think were the worst we've seen in the last hundred years since the one hundred fifty lives and what do you think is behind it and how deep is this animosity between the two communities. i think the more superficial level we could say that impunity drives violations of this nature but i think there are deeper causes one cause is certainly the entitlement complex of the sin in the buddhist community they believe that the country belongs to them and the minority community that asserts itself economically or demographically as the muslim community is perceived to could be seen as a threat to that in title meant complex is also existential tears amongst the

lebanese i believe this they see the wisdom community the christian community the tamil community as part of global community where as a single a buddhist community is essentially just confined to sri lanka and there's a sense that they're surrounded by these minority communities that have global connections so i think it's essential fears also drive this so there could be various deeps deep centered reasons for this violation is what this violence that we're seeing right here today but i do think impunity is one of the causes of this kind of acute violence so the state of emergency the first one introduced ensure lanka for what seventy is quelled the immediate tensions but what is my three policy they said they really need to do to address these deep seated feelings of resentment. well i'm not sure the emergency

proclamation had a major effect i think it did signal that the government was serious about preventing violence and also bringing the situation under control but the emergency regulations also criminalize the dissemination of information that could cause public or law not that kind of fence also covers dissemination of information on the violence itself so on the one hand why the government wanted to signal its seriousness about bringing the situation under control i also think it displayed some concern for the information over the information flow and wanted to control the information flow which is extremely problematic and this is why a number of human rights activists actually criticize the emergency regulations in terms of the scope of powers vested in the police and the scope of the offenses right was contained in the emergency going to i'm presumably social media new media generally had a rather large part to play in the us absolutely we've had

a history of mainstream media silence of ethno religious violence we certainly saw this in two thousand and fourteen in our look dumber and it's always been social media and new media that was used against seventy eight information on the island itself so this particular offense continued the new emergency regulations that were similar to the work stream is suspicious because i think it indicates the fact that the government also want to control information channels ok gay hannah going to tell ok thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from the sri lanka capital colombo. now capetonians may have to turn off their taps in july because of an unprecedented drought in south africa and if that happens it will become the first major city in the world to run out of water welcome web's report is the first in our thirst series on water and how conflict drought and pollution are affecting its availability. cape town's water is running out

this has become a common site city or thought he said people should use no more than fifty liters of tap water per person per day so some line up at this communal spring collect some extra and take it home it's really very difficult getting for some of us a beautiful garden to be things dying we just did not wash our cars so it's just a mission to aruba fish that i don't think a country that they should have to endure. but it's the kind of insurance that many south africans are familiar with about a third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one any consume about four percent of the water but for generations they were already being collecting it from communal taps and carrying it. all sources say the city will reach day zero on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the homes that have it only the communal taps will stay on angela van vike lives right

next to one since she heard about the shortage she says as much as she can i save my water by keeping the same or day as i do a wash my dishes i don't i don't want that way i just keep it for tomorrow and i use the same what i did this was. the city's taps the fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest gazelles gallop where four years ago they would have been on the twenty five meters of water since then the province has suffered the worst drought on record. kevin winter has researched it for years he says the city was vulnerable because it relied only on rain filled reservoirs this climate change wake up call this quarter a school on the back foot and so this is a wake up call in the city like cape town needs these kind of large thumping wake up calls to say it's time to actually diversify that water and now you can

reprivatize which is what city of cape town is do. water is now being pumped from aquifers here work began on a plan to desalinate sea water with accessing new sources takes time so for now more lines water saving measures have already postponed day zero by three months everyone here is hoping the winter will soon bring enough rainfall to make sure they never comes malcolm webb al-jazeera cape town south africa and then the second part of our first series mohamed evolve reports from lake chad which is drying up and vanish within the next century the drought in central africa is affecting the lives of the millions of people who live around this disappearing lake that's story in part two of our series first on monday here it out to sara. now it's time for today's weather is richard with the latest on the cold weather that same parts of europe will it not stop there it will actually martini's on its web but i thought i

featured i because if it is at its peak in the u.k. is particularly cold moment got a couple of shots which come from up on the up on the hills the cotswold hills in gloucestershire and a snowy scene which is repeated across many parts of northern central southern western england just been looking at some of the weather observations a city of bristol for instance temperatures minus two at the moment and the wind is such that there is a wind chill out there that minus fourteen to minus fifteen degrees celsius where you can see the cold there which penetrates as far west as the u.k. at the concentration is still across eastern parts of europe and as i move this forecast on from sunday to monday and tuesday you watch warsaw berlin london goes from minus one plus one plus one plus one plus four plus for my tommy get through to choose they they're going plus four post five per se so you see the coldest of the air is on its way at least for those areas but over in the eastern part of europe was sticking in that cold air also pushing weather systems up from the south

there's a lot of dust reported to be coming out we saw a computer forecast suggest it so that could be big the positions of dust coming up and some of the rain across parts of the mediterranean and eastern parts of europe there is where the big snow is going to curve the next twenty four hours across moldova through into ukraine across parts of southeastern europe but further towards west that mild air does begin to spread in. richard thank you very much indeed lots more to come here on the news hour including the syrian government recaptures more ground in these and what engineers in florida now saying about a pedestrian bridge that collapsed and killed at least six people and insult tiger woods stays in the hunt for his first professional golf title in five years. when winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state p.r.

machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is influencing. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera and the reported world on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the world.

tougher to take a look at the top stories here it out to sara the turkish president roger tie a better one has declared the center of this. city of africa to be entirely under the control of his forces turkish flags have been raising their freeness troops now battle to clear the surrounding area of kurdish fighters. and further south in a government deadline for rebels to evacuate the town of harasser has passed government forces have reportedly encircled the town after retaking almost eighty percent of rebel territory. has cast his ballot ballot for russia's presidential election seven other candidates are vying for

a share of the vote that is widely expected the mr putin will win a full term in office and that means he'll lead the country for the next six years . and we're going to look more closely at that story because the situation in syria now looks like this turkey and the free syrian army have captured large swathes of the african district kurdish forces remain in control of most of the northern territory the east of the euphrates now province remains the largest rebel rebel stronghold the two main rebel groups there have been fighting with each other for control while also coming under attack from government forces and just next to the capital damascus a syrian government's divided rebel held eastern ghouta into three own claves cutting off key supply routes. well the main rebel group in says it's negotiating a possible ceasefire with the united nations the rebel group al raman says it's in

discussion about getting aid to civilians and evacuating people with urgent medical needs but the government and its allies are continuing to attack three rebel held pockets of the enclave also a binge of aid as the latest. this is still happening in the besieged pockets of rebel held eastern guta here strikes and shelling have continued on one of the largest and most populated parts of the entry from inside duma this footage from a drone shows the shrinking boundary between rebel fighters and advancing forces loyal to president bashar al assad thousands of people have been wounded in more than fifteen hundred killed in the latest on slot for. russia we hold the united nations and the security council directly responsible for their silence around these crimes and for failing to take action to prevent these crimes but let us not forget the party that holds direct responsibility of the syrian regime and the countries that continue to stand by it. like much else of rebel held syria

relentless bombardment of who has forced most of it into submission the buildings over parking garages no longer stand that's a washing machine hanging out from the shell of an apartment block a fridge shows what was once a kitchen another floor appears to show but and the caved in roof the cameraman who filmed it says this used to be his neighborhood craters on top of buildings are the entry points from where rockets and bombs entered these buildings until recently eastern there was home to almost four hundred thousand people the u.n. is said to be negotiating with rebels for an evacuation deal many don't want to leave because they fear conscription arrests reprisals and revenge once they leave . more than twenty thousand have fled to government controlled areas but tens of thousands still remain inside. we lived in horrible conditions we did not her food

water or loot. syria's military has released videos of tanks and soldiers rolling into the streets of towns across the east and in addition to russian air cover government forces are backed by iranian troops has been fighters and shia militias from iraq and afghanistan they see they have almost won but they're taking over another area decimated by syria seven year war some of a job with al jazeera now russia's ambassador to the european union has suggested that the nerve agent the who is used to poison a former russian spy could have actually originated in the u.k. the british government dismissed the claim britain accuses moscow being behind the attack a charge it denies russia and britain have now expelled twenty three of each other's diplomats over the row with both sides considering further retaliatory measures let's now talk to our correspondent neves barker who is live in london and so we are expecting now the chemical weapons or the preservation of chemical weapons

inspectors to arrive in the u.k. any time soon. that's right martin they're expected on monday and this is crunch time for the british government they will need to put their money where their mouth is sensually the team of specialists arrives on monday they're going to be looking closely at the claims that are being made by the british government the theory that the pritish government has a sabotage surrounding the poisoning of the script files two weeks ago in the town of solsbury britain stance towards russia has very much hardened over the past two weeks initially the british prime minister to reason may said that on the balance of probability it was very likely that the script holes were poisoned using a nerve agent that would have been manufactured in russia and that the nerve agent was either used directly by the russian state or it may have slipped out of the

russian state hands now in the last couple of days prime minister to reason may has pointed the finger slowly and directly at the russian state no longer giving moscow the benefit of the doubt and boris johnson has taken things even one step further accusing vladimir putin the russian president for being the likely mind behind it all of likely all during the possible poisoning of the script miles and now also in an interview on sunday morning boris johnson has leveled one more allegation against moscow saying that we have evidence that russia has been exploring a nerve agent based assassination strategy and stockpiling deadly agency said in the last decade if these allegations are true incredibly serious in contravention of course of international law but this is how boris johnson said the

o.p.c. w. investigation will unfold in the coming days. tomorrow. technical experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will come from the hague to the u.k. we will share the samples with them they will then be tested by the most reputable possible international the burra trees so naive everybody i suppose will be rather relieved that the international experts will be coming in to have a look at this the substance a bit when the russian ambassador to the european union suggested that it could have actually been homegrown homemade what was he referring to he was referring to a government installation money that's not fairy far away from seoul's free where it happened. that's what he was referring to portland down which is the main medical and scientific and chemical research base for the u.k. it's largely controlled and operated by operational arms of the british military

it's only about eleven kilometers away from salvi cells b. which is of course a strong military town with military connections he suggested throwing that you dear into the mix that possibly the british may have been responsible for creating all of this mess in the first place and maybe it was the british that planted the substance there if not maybe the british even carried out this possible poisoning or boris johnson was very quick to dismiss the this suggestion as utter nonsense another example he believed of of russia trying to obfuscate form of the clear facts in his mind as to what happens there in solsbury the british government believe they are pretty calm for that they've got their analysis right but they absolutely have to make sure that they are on the right side of this story of course and they have to make sure that the o.p.c. w.'s findings match up to the o.p.c. w.

will take samples they would distribute them amongst different laboratories and locations that they trust and we expect to hear back their findings in a couple of weeks or so i need thank you for that live in london now leaders of southeast asian countries have expressed grave concern about the situation on the korean peninsula and the summit held in sydney the militarization of the south china sea trade and counter-terrorism were also discussed at the s.n. leaders' meeting hosted for the first time by australia andrew thomas has our report. sydney felt like parts of southeast asia on sunday it was unusually hot and humid but australia is not a member of the association of southeast asian nations so hosting an assay and summit was a diplomatic coup for australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull but to kill or lead in the face of the ever growing power of china and a more isolationist united states turnbull wants australia and as the end countries

to speak with one voice and says that's what he's got the countries of r.c.n. are among our closest neighbors they're our friends and increasingly our family as well the so-called sydney declaration issued at the end of the summits commits the end countries to support trade and resist all forms of protectionism it supports action to address climate change and the full implementation of the powers agreement that a correlation stresses grave concerns about the escalation of tensions on the korean peninsula and it commits as he and countries to further cooperation on counterterrorism you just sensual. it just keep and it is imperative that we have legislations that prevent acts of terrorism rather than just deal with the aftermath the declaration also calls for restraint in the south china sea before the summit some analysts said but one test of the final declaration

strength we whether it mentioned china as a country by name this declaration doesn't presumably that was seen as too provocative but it does emphasize the need for non militarization and self restraint in the south china sea outside the summit venue there were protests against some of the leaders attending australia welcomed me and unsung to cheat despite the range of crisis vietnam's prime minister knew and one folk was there too despite human rights abuses in the one party state but the biggest protests were against cambodia's prime minister hun sen who has cracked down on opponents and had promised before the summit to find and beat up anyone who burned an effigy of him in sydney protesters did it anyway the fact that there were protests here is a great sign a lot of asean countries when they hold these summits they're not progress or they're at such a far distance from the summit site they can't possibly have an impact it's forecast to cool down in sydney on monday by then most as the end leaders will be

home after thomas al-jazeera sydney. u.s. president donald trump has lashed out at the investigation into links between russia and his twenty sixteen election campaign and for the first time on twitter he's actually used the name of the man who is leading the investigation it was all part of a political storm surrounding the firing of the f.b.i. his former deputy director president trump tweeted the mole a probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime he went on it was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by crooked hillary in the d.n.c. and improperly used by in fisa court for surveillance of my campaign which i want a report comes from chris and salumi former deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe insists he was fired in an attempt to undermine his credibility months before his dismissal he told congress he can corroborate the

former f.b.i. director jim commies account of his firing which is under investigation by special counsel robert muller simply puts or you cannot stop the men and women of the f.b.i. from doing the right thing protecting the american people and calling the constitution . now multiple news agencies citing anonymous sources say mccabe as acting director of the f.b.i. kept notes of his interactions with the president which have been handed over to mohler. president trump's own statements have linked conan's firing to his refusal to shut down miller's russia best again. i don't believe he's going to fire robert muller but i can tell you this there's a lot of pressure on the congress on the attorney general to put an end to this fishing expedition not one shred of evidence has connected the president of the united states when he was a candidate and now that he is president any connection to russia there has been no

russian coalition that has been uncovered thus far attorney general jeff sessions says mccabe was fired at the recommendation of disciplinary officers for misleading investigators about the bureau's handling of the hillary clinton investigation for months trump has painted mccabe as a stooge for democrats because his wife received campaign money from a clinton ally the fake news is beside themselves that mccabe was caught called out and fired trump tweeted how many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife's campaign by crooked age friend terry m. who was also under investigation how many lies how many leaks komi knew it all and much more. komi responded with a tweet of his own mr president the american people will hear my story very soon and they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not erotically it was call me call me out

a week before the only action and reopening the investigation into secretary clinton's e-mails that really slung the election to trump because well who are battling the secretary clinton have been a little bit ahead and then he plyers him because the fact that he didn't want him to would investigate the collusion when in fact that they f.b.i. had to do that given or all of the evidence that they had about what russia was trying to do with the election mccabe was fired less than two days before his retirement and pension were due to kick in kristen salumi al-jazeera. people in west africa are still trying to recover from an ebola outbreak four years ago the epidemic killed thousands of people in sierra leone survivors now complain they're not getting the help they need i'm a dangerous reports from the city of waterloo with some still dying from health complications linked to the disease. they felt and survived one of the most

fatal viruses to heathrow west africa indicates a group of survivors of the twenty forty noble outbreak i walking on an awareness strategies to help others instead of your. they say the disease is still killing people three years after the country was declared a ball of free. the. complications leads to that there you know there of fifteen of the survivors in the country and that one is too bad there is also mitigation of there for even the you probably can't have that if we don't have proper clean the kind of care sierra leone will be i mean it will be because members mill survivors some are still there that i have a fragment of the virus in their seam in a wall appeared in seventy two months after the first outbreak in guinea in march two thousand and fourteen it killed. dozens were already dying before help

arrived this cemetery in waterloo is dedicated to victims of the disease thousands of them are buried here some sort of loon is believed many could have been saved if dorna funds received by government had been used properly this symmetry is a constant reminder of one of several yards darkest moment. activists and survivors still struggling to recover. court demanding accountability on how fourteen million dollars of money meant to fight the disease vanished the history of many strikes one striking whole idea is rich or that the victim survivors get just is what it will have to strike again that our government is prepared that our government judiciously manages whatever funds their side to respond to the virus that is what we do it is a government official told us that they've not received communication on the matter

from the regional court. the government says more than four thousand people died here activists say the numbers are higher. for their biggest challenge is dealing with the health complications and the stigma of having contract at the virus comedy trees. water the city beyond new video has emerged of the moment a newly built pedestrian bridge collapse in the usa to florida killing at least six people there this is dash cam video and it was taken on the road at florida international university in miami a lead engineer left a voice mail for a state transportation official warning of some cracking two days before the structure collapsed for the university says engine is met hours before the accident and concluded that a crack in the structure was not a safety concern. so to come here in the al-jazeera news hour in sports most

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winning documentary and. an al-jazeera i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism. and i. think the. artists have the skills he is now his peter thank you so much the record breaking twenty eighteen winter paralympic games in pyongyang have come to a spectacular ending with the closing ceremony in the last few minutes the games

were notable for recording the highest number of ticket sales at a winter paralympics organizers have also said this social media reaches the past that of london twenty twelve and saatchi twenty fourteen combine and north korea also competed for the first time. kathy novak is in pyongyang for us at the closing ceremony kathy nice to see you again the olympics is the more broadly popular event however the paralympics been perceived in south korea. well the south koreans have been enthusiastic least supporting these paralympics as you say ticket sales broke records and this country so liberated its first ever gold medal in a winter paralympics you know young won the seven and a half a kilometer men sitting cross country skiing event but even though this is the host country there were some complaints that local broadcasters weren't airing the many

of the paralympic events and some of them started to show more of them after petitions were made to the president it's hoped that having the paralympics here will help improve conditions for people with disabilities in this country of course the organizers here made sure that the facilities were accessible but more broadly around the country it can be challenging for people with impairments to get around and that is an issue that's sort of shared across asia and the president of the international paralympic committee andrew parsons says there is an opportunity now to make change in this region as the games are passed on to tokyo in twenty twenty and beijing in two thousand and twenty two we want to take advantage of the fact that we are staying here in asia for a decade to really prove accessibility but also the way people perceive persons with an empowerment because it's not only about physical structures is about mentality so and this sometimes is even tougher than to make things physically

accessible kathy it's been a big five weeks for south korea with the olympic games and the paralympics as we've been discussing are south koreans seeing this as a successful event. i think so yes it is being celebrated here as a success and notably because the south korean president and had always said that he wanted these to be the peace olympics and we saw this historic show of unity between north and south korea in the lead up to the games there had been security concerns fears because of heightened tensions on the peninsula and worries that north korea might try to disrupt the games well instead what we saw was north korea sending delegations north and south korea march together at the olympic opening ceremony under a unified flag they fielded a joint women's ice hockey team and as you mentioned north korea sent representatives to the winter paralympics for the first time so it is being seen as

a turning point the peace olympics and after this event we are expecting to see the leader of north korea kim jong un meeting with the south korean president and the u.s. president donald trump so certainly south korea is seeing all of that as a result of a very successful winter olympics and paralympics peter kathy novak in killing chang thank you very much and this is what the final medals table looks like from twenty eighteen the united states way ahead with thirteen goals behind them be a neutral paralympic athletes the name given to russia's compare sources they had eight gold medals as they had food placed canada france and germany rounding up the top five. roger federer has surpassed these own record with a seventeenth straight victory to stop the tennis season the world number one beat croatia's born to try to cheat in three sets to reach the final of the indian wells tournament at thirty six it is best ever start to

a season having already won the australian open and a.t.p. event in rotterdam the source will go for a record sixth indian wells title when he takes on juan martin del potro in the decider. a lot of confidence took me a while to break my all record but i'm happy i did it at the almost thirty seven years old so it's it's been great look i can believe it that this things are going as well as joe doing i'm enjoying myself crowds are amazing every time a show up on court i really appreciate that i don't take that for granted at all argentina's del potro thrashes canadian opponent mean us around each six to six three to advance to the indian wells final del potro himself is unbeaten in ten games. twelve times f.a. cup winners manchester united or through to the twenty eight hundred seventy finals of the two no winner of a brighton on sunday romelu lukaku handed the hosts the lead to be for pneumonia

matter which doubled the advantage united are yet to concede a goal in the season they fake up in the wind came four days after they were knocked out of the champions league tottenham also made through the last four on saturday and fourteen's are still fighting to join them and united in the semifinal draw southampton just kicked off at food to your side wigan it's currently no no in the early stages then later on sunday chelsea travel to leicester. mohammad solari is now the leading goal scorer in europe's top five leagues he has overtaken barcelona as lino messi and talking hotspurs harry kane the softer he scored four goals in liverpool's thrashing of watered in the english premier league on saturday the egypt striker also provided the assist for diverter for me second half strike now has thirty six goals for liverpool in all competitions the season the five nil win takes club side to third in the premier league standings the former world

number one golfer tiger woods looks just five shots behind the leader going into the final day of the on old palmer invitational in orlando a fourteen time major champion part of a three under par sixty nine on sun saturday a bigger part in there is he continues he's come back of the undead going back surgery last april at the top of the leaderboard is sweden's henrik stenson he shot one hundred seventy one on saturday and will be hoping to go one better than twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen when he was in contention but failed to go all the way but of course tiger is not too far away. i'm going to chance i'm going to chance and i'm going to be as i said probably five or six back going and you know morrow and hopefully should a low one and the golf course to get a little quick. balls are gone forever out there on t. shirts and then the greens are there. they're definitely bounce a little bit and the parts oh my god. and i won't say it quite like hundred but you

put the putter down and it does slip a little bit and so they're going to stick. ok that's all the sport for me joanna geyser of school will have another update thank you very much indeed peta for that is over the al-jazeera news hour but i'll be back in just a moment today way. up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a good citizen freedom of the challenges going to be. men and women to the resources that are available what makes an al-jazeera story to me is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for staff what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth.

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