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russian president vladimir putin celebrates as he looks set to return to office for a full six year term. but you will. probably chemical weapons which destroyed all its concealed weapons under international observation. person rejects allegations of involvement in the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. and offers to help in the probe. and other news turkey says its capture of the kurdish held syrian town of a free while syrian government troops make gains in rebel held eastern ghouta and the holes first be an alley showcasing art and culture and one of pakistan's biggest city is. that every person has celebrated his victory and russia's presidential election but thousands of supporters in moscow with more than half of the votes counted persians projected to take seventy. five percent of the ballot he was always always expected

to win but what was in question was how many people would watch and his favor or soon after the first exit polls came out he joined the crowds in red square the election was held on the fourth anniversary of the annexation of crimea from ukraine at a press conference later the russian president rejected british allegations of involvement in the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. saying there were nonsense and of course the spy scandal is not the only controversy involving russia there are also several investigations underway into alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen we'll be talking about all of these issues shortly but first lawrence lee takes a look at putin's landslide victory. by see what they called his election such as the status of london near putin in russia as he was in reality little more than a coronation was disappearing you do you mean it's very important to maintain this

unity to attract those who could have voted for all the candidates we have to stand together shoulder to shoulder we have to think about unity not about differences we should think about the future of our people about the future of our country we are destined for success. it was never a contest got the overwhelming percentage of votes cast and more than six out of ten russians voted for the kremlin it went more or less to plan of course russians knew perfectly well that when the television told them that they had to go out to vote because it was a city do you see what they really meant was you have to go and vote because we have to get back in the kremlin that meant this wasn't really a lecture about who was going to win but it was about but how much. several instances of fraud were caught on camera harmless looking old ladies voting twice while stuffing reams of paper since a box is not enough to alter the outcome but for alexina valmy banned from standing

in the election evidence of a corrupt vote so thousands of people went to vote and out of curiosity i went on twitter to check on the candidates to see if they are writing about violations they are behaving as if nothing is happening people who are observing these elections keep writing about things and other violations and they're complaining about it and the people who are remaining silent don't care about this they are candidates it's just that kind of election i guess. barely even took part in the campaign and was entirely absent from the t.v. debates but during the election videos surfaced on the internet like this one which gave a glimpse of how the kremlin wants people to think the film depicts a man who tells his wife he can't be bothered to vote something which putin himself had warned against the man that has a nightmare in which black africans suddenly appear in the armed forces to his horror the homosexual in the kitchen the message is clear is day this is what you'll get if you don't have putin in charge and of course it's coupled with a promise from the president spend more and more on the military. which in would

very much like to normalize ties with the west but his personality means he can't show weakness he can't be seen to be giving up yet he understands very well that with international isolation his regime is open to risks and dangers his fourth term begins with a flat out diplomatic crisis with the west's events which are uncertain and fast moving but political change in russia continues to move as fast as the ice on the moscow river. of life. as we've been saying not a foregone conclusion but dead person get the turnout that he. yes i think this by and large the kremlin will be very happy with the way things turned out it was without any. particular problem or complication they had been concerned that since putin's been in charge for such

a long time now he took power first present in two thousand as long ago as that that people wouldn't be bothered to vote because why would they if they knew what the outcome was going to be and so they they they basically marshal every single thing you can think of to try to get people out and clearly that involves an almost entirely compliant media in russia there were inducements and coercion to some degree to say to people as i said in that report is he sitting duty you really should do this there were there were prices on offer for the people if they turned out so you might go with a mobile phone or something like that as well as ours as you saw there were some irregularities as well so it all it all kind of came together because they wanted to make sure that the figures that they had were they wanted approximately sixty five to seventy percent turnout to prove that there was a validation in the just a messy and people were so enthusiastic about voting for putin and they wanted to ensure that putin got about seventy percent or more of the actual votes now

certainly is now mathematically impossible for anybody else to win putin is probably going to get more than seventy percent of the turnout and the actual turnout itself is going to be seen in the sixty's so it's enough putin is not entirely popular but he's certainly far more popular than any of the other candidates who are by and large completely hopeless and so in that sense his job is done and you know for westerners you think well it's not fair because not a multi-party democracy the fact of the matter is that putin is pretty popular in russia has no history whatsoever of of the sort of democracy the see in western countries and the the pursuance of this sort of anti western agenda plus a very very conservative social program at home with think is bound to continue and what about the credibility of the vote lines as you mentioned there were several reports of everyday lashings in the vanishing throughout the day what is the election commission saying about that. well they they have

a knowledge that there were similar good irises but they said it's a doesn't really matter and they would say that wouldn't they because in in the end and other mean this is and cynical it's all but they are all part of the same machine that had to get putin back into power certainly alexina valmy who was the only person who could eventually provide any credible threats of putin was who's been barred from standing in those videos that you saw that were posted on places like twitter of things like ballot box stuffing work were done by his supporters there are some suggestions of the might be protests in the coming days but i don't think it's getting anywhere in all all honesty you know there's nothing that would have actually made a difference to the overall result it's if putin is russia's choice and that's just the end of it all at once thank you very much for that for now that is lawrence lay joining us live from moscow thank you. well victory for president means who will serve as president until two thousand and twenty four the end of the current two

term limit making him the longest serving russian leader since joseph stalin and he shrugged off questions on whether he'll try to serve another term his career started with the soviet security agency the k.g.b. he rose to become left tenant colonel before venturing into politics in one thousand nine hundred one he took over as acting president on new year's eve one thousand nine hundred ninety and one over half the votes in the next year's election russia's economy stabilized and expanded substantially over the next eight years between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve putin served as prime minister and he was widely seen as the force behind russia's invasion of georgia mass protests over alleged voter fraud followed his reelection as president in two thousand and twelve putin was outraged by western support for the protesters now the past six years have seen putin's most all day shows foreign policy maneuvers including the attic sation of the crimean peninsula in two thousand and fourteen and intervention in syria the following year let's get more on this now

we're joined by mark david a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council's deno patris you're asia center and he's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so we'll start with what what will another term of putin mean for russia do you think. another term with putin is more putin for russia and i think we know what both his credentials are as well as his claim successes you're going to have a continued aggressive russian foreign policy that is in line in direct opposition to the west you're going to have a claim that the president is going to increase russia's economic stability despite western sanctions and also you're going to likely have a preparation for the future and that's i think the biggest question is will president putin will this be his last term who is he going to prepare for a succession i think you're going to see some cabinet changes but in particular this is putin's moment in eighteen years in office. and how do you think he will

capitalize on that moment let's begin with the challenges domestically and the lagging economy you know first and foremost i think president putin this is an incredible victory for the kremlin they did this without relatively any hiccups even though there is no opposition they marshal all their resources and as a result they're going to take advantage of this so they're going to shift the russian cabinet putin is already intimated that he's ready to shift his advisors he's going to try to inject some new blood i don't see any reform or potential significant structural changes going on and i don't think there's going to be many significant changes in russia's foreign policy you're going to see a continuation of russia's engagement in syria i think the one thing you should look for is how russia approaches ukraine and particularly relations with the united states but i don't believe there's going to be any structural changes in russia's foreign policy as well essentially this is

a referendum on putin's last eighteen years in the russian people a majority of believe that he is the right person to be russia's president and he's going to take that as a need to continue with his again accomplishments a mistake is how is the united states looking on as this at this point and victory . you know there are obviously is a lot of interest in washington about this election but less because it's a continuation of the current course there's no surprises both of his victory in the margin of victory this is more of a coronation rather than an election but i think many in the united states and in washington are in for rough ride knowing that us russian relations were main very rocky there's obviously a president in the white house who is interested in promoting relations with structurally there are too many areas of differences between ited states and russia and too much baggage particularly here in washington politically to try to improve relations in russia and of itself sees its own interests fundamentally

contradictory to the united states so i i believe that we're going to continue to see very difficult relations between russia and the west and putin again believes that he's popularity largely stems from that that the russian people see russia under threat and as a result russia should remain having it to modules relationship with the west that's david great to get your thoughts on this that's mark david joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. well as you heard earlier the vote was held on the fourth anniversary of the annexation of crimea from ukraine or challenge reports from sebastopol that's crimea is largest city. as the home of russia's black sea fleet sevastopol has always felt like a russian city even in the years before crimea was and explain this territory was leased off ukraine. so the polling stations here bustled with cadets and naval offices military policemen and civilians most seemingly happy for crimea to be voting in its first russian presidential election and most seemingly happy cos that

ballot for one. of course we voted for the president of the russian federation for number one vladimir putin. if he didn't take civil stopped all in the whole of crimea under his arm it would have ended up in the wrong hands if he didn't do what he did who knows who would have been in charge of this fleet now watches or thoughts to connect this presidential election as much as possible with another vote that happens four years ago and so everyone the cost their ballots in this polling station today i'm around sebastopol get some medals and this medal as the dates of the referendum sixteenth of march two thousand and fourteen referendum of course in which the annexation of crimea was formalized and then on the back we have them also with russia forever very consciously election day here has been made a celebration of being russian it's a tactic that's likely to play well for the kremlin both in terms of crimean

turnout and results but it's the an experience has been a central if i'm declared campaign platform for putin nationally to win criminalise it's the biggest achievement of his last presidential time and for many russians it's a source of huge national pride got it seems serious by seeing. so on sunday evening shortly after the polls closed big celebrations were held in red square the name russia. crimea. now desirous when there. are plenty more ahead on the news hour including donald trump renews his attack on the special counsel investigating the russian election meddling republicans want him not to sack robert mala. as the u.s. today said so long as we visit and hire a school which has been quietly educators for years and as for chelsea fight for a place in the and english f.a.

cup semifinals details coming up. kurdish fighters in syria's northwest and a fleeing region have valid to fight on after the main town this taken by turkish forces and their allies taking launched its operation to clear the enclave of kurdish y.p. g. forces in january. attack against the turkish army anderson's reports from turkey's southern port. they reached a friend at sunrise columns of free syrian army fighters turkish special forces have been active on the ground ahead of them kurdish y p g fighters have withdrawn in large numbers there was limited resistance on one of the rebel fighters backed and directed by turkey with ground forces and airstrikes prepared to declare victory here. the one and after we enter the freen with all the

center buildings we will declare a victory statement on the terror we are telling the civilians to come back to our friends it's safe now. within hours celebrations in the city center. for the syrians and the turks. this is a gift from the turkish armed forces to the turkish people and our glorious martyrs on this day a reference there to the victory of turkish forces against the western allied forces one hundred three years ago in deliberately in the first world war the turkish president was at the commemorations and made this announcement. 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 they left behind. in the center of our flags of trust and stability away even inside of rags of terrorist and so on the fifty eighth day of operation olive branch turkey's first objective is realized that a fight here larry has it some civilians have chosen to stay instead of joining tens of thousands of others into syrian regime areas to the south. it's reporter the kurdish y p g now in turns to avoid direct confrontation with turkish forces instead engaging in guerrilla types of action the turkish have proved with force their intention to push back the white p.g.a. away from its border and it doesn't and they'll be moving further eastwards this is likely to be one battle of several andrew simmons al-jazeera. well

this is the situation in syria now turkey and the free syrian army have captured large swathes of the a free and region but kurdish forces remain in control of most of the northern territory that's east of the euphrates edler province in the northwest remains the largest rebel held stronghold in the south syrian government forces backed by russian airpower have divided the rebel on klaver east and go into three cutting off fighters key supply lines and president bashar asad has visited army positions in eastern go there where his forces now control some eighty percent off the territory had met soldiers who'd been part of the effort to retake the area the un is said to be negotiating a possible ceasefire with the main rebel group there that. the rebels say they are in discussions about getting aid to civilians and evacuating people in need of urgent medical care asama binge of aid has the latest on the situation in east and . this is still happening in the besieged pockets of rebel held east of.

here straits and shelling have continued on one of the largest and most populated parts of the entry from inside this footage from a drawn 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. should 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 the 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 bottoms and the caved in roof the cameraman

who filmed it says this used to be his neighborhood creatures 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 wants to 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 have food water or wood. serious military has released videos of tanks and soldiers rolling into the streets of towns across eastern huta in addition to russian air cover government forces are backed by iranian troops hezbollah fighters and shia militias from iraq and afghanistan they say they have almost won but they're taking over

another area decimated by syria's seventy a war some of a job with al jazeera. let's get more on all of this now we're joined by nicholas danforth senior policy analyst at the bipartisan policy center on middle east politics he's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us get to eastern go with her in just a moment but let's start with the turkish military and then taking a frame where the kurds allies the u.s. saw even the syrian government. so the united states has had what i guess you could call a consistent but incoherent approach to dealing with the syrian kurds this whole time they've made it very clear that they're working with the syrian kurds east of euphrates river in an mom bitch where they're directly fighting isis but at the same time their situation often in the kurdish resistance to the turkish attack there is not something the united states is going to get involved with so at the point where russia opened in russia open office airspace to turkish military

strikes and at the point where the y.p. g. declined an agreement with the assad regime to let the assad regime take over offering to prevent a turkish attack for better or worse the way p.g. was on its own and what does this defeats mean for the wife for the kurds who are hoping to have some kind of kurdish region in a post will syria in part very much depends on what happens next in n y y p g ultimately left off in if they decided to evacuate often because they felt they didn't have the strength of the public support to defend it that certainly would have negative consequences for the moving forward on the other hand if they decided to spare the city destruction possible destruction in a turkish military assault that could be part of a larger strategy which you know through a successful guerrilla campaign against turkish forces could ultimately get them. some limited measure of autonomy yet it will be very interesting to see what the kurds do next in this region and also what doesn't if it does go for men and east

of the euphrates. i do want to get to what's happening elsewhere in syria east and go and president assad visit saying while the u.n. is working on a cease fire how do you see this playing out. you know i've been following awfully more closely but honestly if there are reasons to be optimistic about this if there are reasons to be more optimistic than in any previous point in the syrian civil war i'm unaware of them unfortunately so far it seems when a side in the united nations have gone head to head it's ended with assad getting what he wants as in as aleppo mr danforth i'm afraid that is all the time we have to make of this danforth joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. now for the us where part publicans headed as a warning president donald trump not to fire special counsel robert muller they say he must be allowed to investigate alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and

sixteen presidential election now in a series of tweets over the weekend to donald trump accuse the f.b.i. leadership of the lies corruption and leaking information tom ackerman has more from washington d.c. . while calling the investigation into his campaign suspected connections with russia a witchhunt the us president had indicated he might be willing to submit to questioning by the special counsel but as robert muller's team appears to tighten its focus on the president himself trump's latest tweet storm made clear his open hostility towards the probe why he said as the moeller team have thirteen hardened democrats some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans another dam recently added does anyone think this is fair and yet there is no collusion on saturday trump's personal lawyer john dowd called for a shutdown of moaners investigation at first saying he was speaking for the president but later backtracking he spoke after former f.b.i.

acting director andrew mccabe was fired for what government investigators said were an authorized media contacts and a lack of candor about alleged disclosure of classified information we gave disputed the allegations and said his dismissal was an attempt to undermine his credibility because he could corroborate former f.b.i. director jim commies own firing by trump who's admitted it was intended to and the russia investigation amid reports that muller has presented the white house with questions he wants to ask the president even under threat of a court ordered subpoena there's growing speculation that trump is ready to fire muller that say members of congress would be a big mistake this is a serious investigation and if the president tries to terminate it prematurely i think it will be. a true constitutional crisis but meanwhile mccabe's firing just two days before he became eligible for a full government pension has prompted at least one democratic congressman to offer

him a temporary job allowing mccabe to preserve his benefits tom ackerman al-jazeera washington still ahead in the news hour we'll tell you why a fifty year old massacre and a fed up. means a stop and peace efforts with armed groups in mindanao are days zero evidence for cape town why residents of the south african city may be forced to turn off their taps by july and open in march a g.p. race gets underway in a couple of the last lap child will tell you who has been setting the pace for the new season. hello there the weather in north america is now romping up forcing lots of cloud will work its way towards the east and gradually as it does so it's going to be picking up more and more moisture and strengthening as well so by the time we get

to lunchtime on monday then there's the area of low pressure pulling up plenty of moisture ahead of it bringing up plenty of rain there and behind it will see the edge dragged down from the north so what for you that warm i'm also going to see a fair amount of snow that system then just eases out towards the east there as we head into tuesday deepening rapidly as it does so heavy rain some snow on its northern edge and plenty of what weather behind it strong winds in with this system as well it does look particularly nobody behind it there's a little bit more in the way of cloud a few outbreaks of snow and for the western coast it's also looking rather unsettled here with more wet weather working its way into parts of california the further towards the south for many of us here it's fine and dry there's plenty of warm sunshine to enjoy kingston there and into around thirty one degrees most of the showers there in the southern parts of i'm up through parts of panama and into colombia if we had down towards south america here the wet weather that has been in the faso the parts of our map is now working its way northward here it is over parts of power by working its way into brazil as well heavy downpours here.

in the past seven years over three million homes destroyed. and eleven million people displaced. syrians made homeless by war share their stories. in the ruins of a dream at this time on al-jazeera. perception . documentary. from around the globe. was a big sound like the. debates and discussion is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion isn't the only argument i find against all. history.

see the world to see the spectrum. that have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories let him a person has celebrated his landslide victory in russia's presidential election thanking thousands of supporters in moscow but more than half the votes counted projected to take seventy five percent of the ballots some observers have reported widespread violations including forced. kurdish fighters and syria's northwest and

a fleeing region have valid to fight on use and develop tactics after turkish forces took control of the main town taking launched its operation to clear the on klav of kurdish y p g forces in january. now russian president vladimir putin has dismissed allegations by the u.k. that moscow was behind the chemical attack on a form of double agent as the sun's motion has expelled twenty three russian diplomats in protest of the poisoning of couple and his daughter and southern england last week russia has retaliated with some of the measures but insists it did not possess the nerve agent used in the attack. i learned about this tragedy about scripts i learned about it from the media i think it's quite obvious that if it was a chemical weapon many people would die immediately doesn't have any chemical weapons destroyed all its chemical weapons under international observation some of our international partners promised to do so but they haven't done before we're open to corporation with investigation. and israeli security guard has died in

hospital after being stabbed and occupied east jerusalem suspected attacker a twenty eight year old palestinian man was shot dead by security forces it comes as concern because of a potential surgeon unrest in the coming weeks as the u.s. prepares to move its embassy to jerusalem. now ceremonies taking place to mark the fiftieth anniversary of a massacre on an island in the philippines local leaders say that because the massacre of muslim filipinos remains unresolved peace talks between the government and armed groups are not moving forward. reports from your island. the island of the door was scene of one of the most decisive battles in the second world war it was the last line of defense for american and filipino troops from invading japanese forces since then it has become a memorial of bravery and sacrifice. but for many muslim filipinos could he door

is also a place of a national betrayal. jesus walked through these walls hoping to see the name of his grandfather it isn't here he says but it does not diminish the importance of what's happened here fifty years ago. i studied struggle in the bottom more history and then i found the story of this. and so a suburban summer youth. we had to conduct a study in justice because we are the future of the bombs and mortar. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. before martial law was imposed the philippine government already wielded enormous control over state forces and many of its operations were shrouded in secrecy operation where decca was a covert military plan by former president for dinner and marcus to destabilize sabah and take it back from malaysia filipino muslims were recruited under the

guise that they will be able to join the philippine military but the plan failed and the massacre or more than twenty filipino muslims spark to rebel union mindanao that continues to this day. it is believed that a total of about sixty filipino muslims were recruited and most of them remain unaccounted for various armed groups and rebel leaders have for decades demanded separate state for more communities in mindanao more than one hundred thousand people have been killed and millions more displaced governments have tried and failed to achieve a peace deal many local leaders believe that's because historical injustices have never been acknowledged the job of the massacre is not taught in schools are written about in history books and so in a small and solemn commemoration of jebediah those who died are honored fifty

years ago those filipino muslims being trained as soldiers but their names on these walls. local leaders see this may have been a desperate act as the ruby had captive by the military and probably already knew they would be killed but they wanted the country to know they did exist and remember what happened here. to hear their island central philippines. thousand bob ways first presidential and parliamentary elections since robert mugabe was removed from office will be held in july president emerson mullen guard was said he hopes the vote will be violence free and transparent to him present last november after a de facto the trick who helped end the garveys nearly four decades long on power. sierra leone is still struggling to recover from the bowl an outbreak which helped west africa four years ago the epidemic killed thousands of people in the country

while those who survived so they're not getting the help they need for health complications linked to the disease but in the first reports from the city of waterloo. they fought and survived one of the most fatal viruses street west africa indicate a group of survivors of the twenty fourteen a ball outbreak i work in we're now in a strategy to help others instead of your so they say the disease is still killing people three years after the country was declared a ball of free. the. complications leads to the you know there of fifteen or even the survivors in a country and that one is too but there is also need to get on there for even the probably to be concrete sorrow that if we don't have proper cleaning from a care serial you will be i mean we are so risk because members

mill survivors some are still there that i have fragments of the virus in your sim in. only appeared in seventy two months of the first outbreak in guinea in march two thousand and fourteen it killed thousands dozens 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 the funds received by government had been used properly this symmetry is a constant reminder of one of several yawns 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. rich one that the victim survivors can just is

what it will are we have to stress again that our government is prepared that our government judiciously manages whatever. that 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. government says more than four thousand people died here activists say the numbers are higher. for now their biggest challenge is dealing with the health complications and the stigma of having contracted the virus. water the city of young. to australia now where hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes in the state of victoria as bush fires raged across four hundred thousand square kilometers a dozen properties have been destroyed already with almost forty towns under threat eight hundred people have been evacuated so far officials believe the blaze is sparked by lightning strikes. now next weekend tens of thousands of students are

expected to march in cities across the u.s. to demand action after the florida school shooting the level of gun violence in the us is strikingly high if you compare it with other developed countries three of the deadliest mass shootings in the u.s. have happened in the past six months alone in october a gunman killed fifty nine people at a concert in las vegas making it the deadliest gun crime in modern american history just a month later twenty six people were killed in a church in texas the deadliest mass shooting in the state and last month in florida a gunman opened fire in a high school killing seventeen people including students and teachers this year alone they have been more than ten thousand shootings in the u.s. killing at least two thousand eight hundred men women and children well u.s. president donald trump has proposed teachers be armed to prevent more school shootings it comes after that florida shooting where mostly teenagers were killed

the state's parliament has since passed a law to allow teachers to carry weapons but it's not a new concept as john hendren reports from or higher. this might be the most heavily armed public school in america in the rural town of sidney ohio would be attackers are warned each entrance to every school scattered throughout this school or several safes opened with a fingerprint it put a glock one thousand handgun in reach of a team of teachers and staff trained to take out the shooter i don't necessarily like having guns in school either mental health backpacks background checks assault rifles gun control laws all of those things i don't necessarily agree disagree with but at the same time all of those things combined are not going to stop an active shooter five years before president trump said this if you had a teacher with who was adept at firearms they could very well end the attack very

quickly educators like this former soldier were volunteering to train for classroom combat back when we first started this. i second guessed whether this was the correct thing to do and sometimes i still do but. if if we save one one one student or we say a whole building where the students and i think it's worth it i think it's. i don't it's it's just sad that we have to do that now after the massacre at connecticut sandy hook elementary school in two thousand and twelve sheriff john lindh heart decided that if anyone starts shooting here there would be a small army to fire back its case in america i cannot wait on state i cannot wait on the federal government i can't wait on psychologists to figure out why one person hurts another person you have to protect yourselves if i could wave a wand and make it all go away i would prefer no guns period. but that's not what

happened in the states. each school in sydney also has an armed deputy and each classroom is numbered on the outside so first responders can pinpoint a gunman the locations of the weapons and the identities of the first responders are secret so that if a gunman came to this school he wouldn't know who might be are because it's all caught on camera the first responders can see him many teachers say they're already overburdened without adding security to their duties they're there to teach so what they would rather have than guns is to have training on how to identify mental health problems but here in sydney some parents of reluctantly come around like it's not the world i think any of us well event but i think it's the reality of where we're at and. you know we take all kinds of measures to protect our banks and our money and museums and why wouldn't we do the same thing for our kids as she can schools across the us return to focusing on the so-called three r.'s reading

writing and arithmetic here in sydney they've added a fourth responder john hendren al-jazeera sydney ohio. where the sports news still ahead on the news hour and goodbye south korea causes the palin pick games off to a historic five weeks of sport and politics. a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of calls official. brides just to show the most dangerous comedy team on and sometimes take a spot in the difference to blow up a customer five days judicial corruption as in my plan. i come out of my car in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examine one man's extraordinary battle for just as in donna.

with bureaus spanning six continents across the. al-jazeera correspondent brings the stories they tell us. about it. soon to world news. the world of water as being held in brazil this week came to addressing a looming global water crisis that is the result of facts from qana change to other

population and migration to urban centers or one city already feeling the impact as cape town and south africa where severe water restrictions are in place to try and allay what's known as a daisy that's when the city may be forced to turn off all its taps malcolm webb explains. cape town's water is running out this has become a common site city your thoughts 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 your. difficulty getting pulled some of us have beautiful gardens everything's dying we just did not wash our cars so it's just a question for a book that i don't think a country like that they should have to. 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 and only

consume about four percent of the water but for generations they were already being collecting it from communal taps and carrying it. all thora to 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 did 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 are fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest gazelles gallup where four years ago they would have been under twenty five meters of water since then the province has suffered the worst drought on record kevin winters researched it for years he says the city was vulnerable because it relied only on rain filled reservoirs this climate change

wakeup call this quarter a small on the back foot and so this is a wake up call in the city like cape time needs these kind of large some people wake up calls to say it's time to actually diversify their water and now you've got a repro tries in which the city of cape town is doing. what 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 daisy never comes now can webb al-jazeera cape town south africa. santa sports now has charge. thanks very much chelsea are through to a second successive english f.a. cup semi final but they needed extra time to get past less so on sunday elvira

marotta put chelsea ahead in the first half but jamie vadi equalized for the hosts to force extra time it was substitute pedro who headed home in the one hundred fifth minute to put chelsea in front again sealing their spot in the last four two one which also have been drawn with southampton who beat thirty's side wigan a little earlier and not just united and tottenham will play in the other semifinal now those matches will take place on the twenty first and the twenty second of april at wembley where top man will have something of a home advantage they've been playing home games there this season while the new stadium is being built now barcelona have made it thirty six matches unbeaten in spain's top flight after two no victory over athletic bilbao. there put them ahead after just eight minutes before leno messi scored his twenty fifth goal in the league of the season at mr voevoda side now have an eleven point lead at the top of

the standings. and that is off to second place atletico madrid lost two one at villareal on sunday but look at that it was an absolute go fest in madrid chris center and although schooled four goals israel beat your own us six three and rail off third in the standings but still fifteen points adrift of leaders boss lona christiane the elder and barcelona's lino messi maybe some of the best footballers in the world but both trail liverpool's most salah in the scoring ranks the egyptian striker has become the top goal scorer across europe some five major leagues and says he's flattered to be compared to messi by his own manager you can top some of the carbon i give you and i of course when they compare you to a great player and he's one of the best over the last few years it's great for me but i think the comparison is more about our goal tally rather than our style i read what they write on social media in the end social media spot it won't affect me change my mood and change my life sometimes we talk we laugh about this things

but in the end it's a compliment the new mighty g.p. season is underway the first race of two thousand and eighteen in council provided a last lap thriller to cassie's and rid of his ego so over to mark mark head and just managed to hold off the reigning world champion the visitor said crossing the line by me at no point not two seven seconds ahead of the spaniard valentino rossi completed the podium. i think. the way. south korea is celebrating the end of a successful winter games and its first ever gold medal at the winter paralympics it marks the end of a historic event we saw north and south korea uniting at the olympics and north korean athletes participating in the winter paralympics for the very first time

kathy novak reports from junk chang just over five weeks ago athletes and visitors arrived in this snowy region of south korea for the winter games now that much of the snow has melted in the final medals have been awarded it's time to say farewell with the closing ceremony for the biggest ever winter paralympics about five hundred seventy athletes from forty nine countries took part in clude ing for the first time in a winter paralympics north korea the show of unity started with athletes from both koreas marching under a unified flag at the olympic opening ceremony they helped to make these the pisa lympics that the south korean government had hoped for. the olympics acted as the path that led to donald trump and kim jong un agreeing to hold talks and korea became a driving force behind promoting peace to single you don't like a really big deal a lot of people have said that the winter games lead to the easing of into korean

ties which is very positive and i feel great about it south koreans enthusiastically supported the paralympics with record breaking ticket sales but many complained they couldn't watch korean athletes competing because of a lack of television coverage. it was difficult to tell our children who was competing at the paralympics them with what kind of disability it's hard to find out if it's not in the media so that was a bit disappointing petitions to the president lead to broadcasters showing more paralympic events. it's hoped to these paralympics will help improve conditions for people with disabilities in south korea here in the host city organizers build and upgraded facilities to help make them more accessible but around the country older buildings narrow pathways and an even surfaces can make getting around challenging for those with impairments their issues being shared with the host cities of the next summer and winter games tokyo and beijing so we want to take advantage of the

fact that we're staying for a decade to really prove accessibility but also the way people perceive persons with an impairment because it's not only about physical structures is about mentality as the international paralympic committee president closed to the celebration he paid tribute to the renowned scientist stephen hawking who passed away on wednesday and like the athletes here refused to allow his disability to hold him back kathy novak al-jazeera chang south korea or pyongyang has now handed the olympic flag to the next host city beijing in four years' time china will try to better its medal hole like just one gold leaving them in twentieth place the united states topped the table with thirteen goals behind them were the n.p.a. or neutral paralympic athletes the name given to russia's competitors and canada came in. a time limit champion merit and did her record breaking season with

a flourish in the final event of the cross-country skiing world cup as for the new age and heidi being seal the overall title and who became the most decorated olympian of all time in china last month when the ten kilometer pursuit in sweden on sunday the thirty seven year old finished sixteen point seven seconds of the nearest challenger jessica diggins of the usa then finished down in eighteenth place but was still able to hang on to a lead in the overall standings to come her second consecutive crystal globe. elsewhere in sweden the final alpine skiing races of the world cup season were cancelled because of high winds the cancellation gave. a third giants line slalom title and first since two thousand and twelve. the slalom and overall ladies' title . was crowned men's slalom and champion and that is only useful for now more later. and following this bulletin artists musicians and poets from around the world have been flocking to the horn for pakistan's first ever be and ali festival

aims to place pakistani on a global stage the reports. this is a horse forged beer knowledge are given a. place once known as lotus guarded by the british in the mid nineteenth century it has since been renamed you know garden. down founding father. he's rejecting musicians entertain the audience. and to allow tip roll. but outside the music. and some of the originators find it hard to regulations the rhythm of the drop everything is so wonderful and almost fantastic and so you know to be participating and to global. security

historians galleries and then to show them facts of love. even we don't visit modern culture and cultural events are important to any country absolutely anything for us all because that's what says we are i think the whole by neil has said really nice things about pakistan i think that the people every person i've met in pakistan has been fantastic so you couldn't ask for a better investment or for the country it's a. rare times by the pakistani arteries to show the richness of the holy shit the beer gnarlier deforest off it's going to and a historic city a great an orderly showcase progress on the artist or the rest of the word but also give an opportunity for progress on the artists to learn from all those people who have come all the way to bach to chabad and district events all the data more than fifty artists taking part from bangladesh india iran syria longer your append the

us bogged down new yorkers saw the folk i feel really excited it's like a new journey has become and we are learning from them they're learning for us it's like not only an exchange of culture but it's a change of experiences and even comes at a time of relative calm in the city and magic security situation improves all going to i did believe it will encourage people to participate in events like the benalla the opportunities for world travel for people to come and visit. the artists folk unity. for. casual travel and to be able to see. no fault to be able to see that we all are living in we all a part of the same global culture and it's business as usual here things go up and down but things are going up and down a little was back at the hall museum one of his favorite locations for the event it

is more difficult to understand their reach. but their message heritage that. with this rich tradition. that's down to zero news out and i will be back in just a couple of minutes with another full of music on the.

part. conservation ease helping kick is stowed to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international least of threatened species. in syria its citizens are collecting evidence

and all applauded feel as shock of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria post six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's actually tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. ah ah the russian president vladimir putin celebrates as he looks set to return to office for fix. and welcome to out of there why.