i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring the fans as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. a conflict standing seven years. humanitarian disaster displacing more than half a nation. al-jazeera world meets the children who have become victims of syria's civil war. i am a syrian child an al-jazeera.

hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes fifty two people are injured in clashes in barcelona after the former captain a leader. is a respite in germany. evacuations from eastern huta is the syrian government tightens its grip on the last rebel stronghold near damascus. thirteen people are killed in a car bomb attack in somalia al-shabaab claims responsibility after a day of powerful voices calling for gun reform in the u.s. a day of silence from the president in response. and in sport the cheating cricket scandal that's in golf to australia other national kept it. down after his

team admitted to ball tampering and it has to match against south africa. but first we begin the news hour with some breaking news from saudi arabia state t.v. there says a missile has been intercepted over the capital it says the air force shot it down over northeastern riyadh the yemeni rebel group the who these have claimed responsibility and say that they've targeted three airports in the country saudi arabia is of course leading a coalition that's been heavily bombing the group the who these in northern yemen that breaking news story coming into us here at al-jazeera just in the past few minutes we will of course bring you more on it as we get more details. now at least fifty two people have been injured and three others have been arrested in barcelona after clashes with police during protests about the arrest of former catalan

president catulus wisdom alt in germany the protesters are demanding the release of them all to is waiting to hear if he will face extradition to spain he's wanted there on rebellion charges after leading a session vote which was the clarity legal by the government in madrid with more he has. since playing spain nearly five months ago the former catalan president has been able to move relatively freely thanks to europe's lack of internal borders but shortly after crossing this border from denmark into germany on sunday. was identified by motorway police and detained. after initial enquiries at the motorway police station which to mom was driven away in a dark colored van the van was later photographed arriving at this detention center in the nearby town of knowing what stuff they bring him for a judge and the judge. judge if he house.

or he is free on the conditions. in forty eight hours news of pooja monza rest brought large numbers of protesters out onto the streets of the catalan capital barcelona riot police blocked some roads in the atmosphere with ten to one we'll see that there are some doesn't mean you have two million people who will not back down outraged and we will not feel spanish because they arrest. it will have the opposite effect each time we feel less spanish less included and less loved in this state that only punishes us. many critics have branded him a coward and discount who gambled and lost with an illegal and unconstitutional referendum aimed at trying to force the issue of catalan independence. but he supported. insists he's a democrat and a political hero suffering for the cause of freedom. it's an image he himself has

cultivated during the past five months of freedom most recently during a trip to finland on friday i will continue my struggle in order to defend my rights as a citizen as a member of catalan beryl mn of britain and the friending collective rights of people the people of scotland but on the same day back in madrid the spanish supreme court was issuing a european arrest warrant the charge rebellion connected to his leading role in october's catalan independence referendum in madrid the news of monza arrest has been largely welcomed but there are lingering concerns about the wider political damage this continues to inflict and. i don't agree with the resting politicians for ideological issues i think they should be more concerned with improving their dialogue and communication rather than imposing the law. throughout his

self-imposed exile from spain persimmon maintained he would cooperate fully with the relevant authorities that promise will now be put to the test here in germany when he decides whether to oppose or cooperate with his extradition to spain. al-jazeera. let's take you to barcelona now you can see the latest live pictures there now the streets relatively empty compared certainly for a few hours ago that's because police have actually been clearing out the streets a few protesters are still it remaining in some of the fellows tomorrow but those the latest images coming into us now from barcelona force the capital of catalonia well let's speak now to danielle cruz is a campaigner with the pan-european democracy in europe movement he joins us now via skype from barcelona thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera we're just talking about those demonstrations the many many people that turned out on the streets of barcelona earlier on sunday you were among them tell us

a little bit about why you yourself turned out to demonstrate in the kind of mood the things that you were hearing there. used to invite me first well. the other big signs which are very. very tense everything here. a meeting a lot of mistakes very serious mistakes now. because of the erratic or right mean artists are seeking revenge here in barcelona not just the u.s. this is a very serious thing. we're hearing the streets are representing their protest by more than two million people love both for independence action and now it's like. the leaders but the people are just going this week. well some far left parties have actually called for civil disobedience there is talk of a general strike as well potentially starting from monday what do you know anything more about that. well. take up cover today isn't there a cut on referendum. for the first time without our labor union. calling.

a strike for the first time. the market the history of spain so here for the first time now are again and find you're not a strike but again without the labor union so it will be a really strange cause there some kind of body in the structure has to go through the legally constitution a strike but people are really committed on the on the streets yeah i mean obviously the issue of independence for killing has always been very emotive and we can see some pictures there now on our screens of just how many people turned out but in a sense there's been a deadlock since just after the referendum because all of this has been triggered by the fact that bush the month has been arrested in germany might be extradited but the reality is he's been effectively in exile for months and so the situation

has been in deadlock how do you actually see this moving forward even if he doesn't get extradited. well i for the whole we believe that they're just using germany will not be the us lowing this bunny sex symbol because we see here are missing our son is just his equal justice say seventy four year morley seeking revenge so first of all we don't expect that the german justice extradite would you want or you know more important. look very good relation with germany but with everything. in stead of that we don't expect the german justice whatever rate when they're spanish well what we'll have to see i mean on monday we should probably get a clearer idea of whether he will be extradited or not but certainly l.s.e. is it would be unwise for him to to come back to spain which leaves the catalunya without really a government because there hasn't been able to be one and there could be new

elections in may do you think that that's something that perhaps might break break the deadlock. when the bottom thing that will happen with him on come back to the colonial to spain keep him be elected president because he's not the intellect of course he's not in the spring so this. is now seen trying to to put him again on the on to do to make him a president again. will dance a lot of more just this you know stain so we it's a very unknown future that people are on the street that people want to go home and the people it's very easy to rock there the streets now we are seeing in pictures that their police are charging very violently today peaceful people out on the street so we don't want for sure we'll call tool a peaceful way to do their mobilization but if people are in the streets for the

first time without any level of party looking you know a strike. that he will cruise a campaign with a pan-european the mako see in europe move on we're going to have to leave it there but thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. it's going to syria now where hundreds more rebel fighters and civilians have been evacuated from eastern huta government forces are close to controlling all of what had to be the last rebel stronghold near damascus following a months long offensive just one group that. is holding out and they're believed to be close to a deal there is following developments from the. their family members as well as civilians being bussed out of what was once the rebel controlled enclave of eastern ghouta to the rebel controlled province of idlib in the northwest of the country this is part of the course of the evacuation deals or what amounts really to a surrender the rebels didn't have much of a choice they were besieged by government forces and there was

a relentless bombing campaign that was targeting civilians who were trapped inside so it's not only the fighters who are leaving it is people who are involved in opposition activities media activists people that we've been speaking to telling us that we're only able to pack a few belongings and we're going to the unknown we're leaving behind our homes our lives the will we be able to rebuild our lives once again will we be able to return to our homes so these people are really afraid of what comes next because they're going to live which is also not a safe area it is an area which is a target really of the pro-government alliance but the pro-government alliance declaring victory as saying that they're clearing the area from what they call terrorists eastern huta has long been a thorn in the side of the government the last major rebel stronghold close to the capital close to the government seat of power there have been numerous attempts over the years to recapture eastern huta but the government lacked the manpower they were busy on many front lines but this time around it was an all out military

campaign and the only choice the opposition had was to surrender. turkey's president. says that. will be the next target of his cross border campaign in syria turkey says its army and allied syrian opposition fighters are now in total control of the enclave in the north of the country they launched a ground offensive against kurdish fighters there in late january tens of thousands of people are reported to have fled the assault the turkish military is now sweeping the area for mines in the explosives to allow a free residents to go back home. has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that killed thirteen people in somalia several people were also injured in the blast which happened near the parliament in the capital mogadishu the bomb was detonated at a checkpoint after soldiers stopped a suspicious vehicle. reports. we're

here in front of the headquarters of the somalia parliament where a car bomb exploded next to a security checkpoint set up as the first line of security for the parliament at the presidential palace this is the second explosion in mogadishu in the last two seem street which is maca street was hit with an explosion at a different area killing twenty four people and injuring others this is the second explosion. this is despite all the measures taken by the somali government such bombings which have been happening on a routine business as you can see nearby shops have been affected and have been shut down by citizens who fled the scene for safety authorities are present trying to investigate the incident and gather evidence. so they come on the al jazeera news hour the u.n. calls for an end to a brutal war on children as the number of. egyptians prepare to vote in monday's presidential elections which looks certain to return president.

and tight security cricket returns. biggest city. but first organizers of the march for our lives campaign say saturday was the largest gun reform protest in a generation but while people were marching across the u.s. president donald trump was at his holiday home in florida and his twitter feed has been silent on the issue so how much of an impact will this movement have on legislation and the gallagher has been taking a look. by any measure the march for our lives protest was a success hundreds of thousands of people came to hear from those whose lives have been touched by gun violence for decades my community of los angeles has become accustomed to this violence. around the world the refrain of never

again was heard loud and clear but while crowds gathered close to the white house president donald trump was in florida his twitter account has remained silent on the issue although the white house issued a statement that in part said we applaud the many courageous young americans exercising their first amendment rights keeping our children safe is a top priority of the president's on friday the president signed a bill that includes legislation that aims to strengthen background checks. moved to ban stops which turn rifles into fully automatic weapons are also on the way campaigners say it's not enough the fact that nobody is discussed in the bill they don't say the word gun once. what causes all these shootings what's the one thing to tie everything together there's no specific mental health problem that makes all these shootings happen is the weapon and the fact that they aren't taking any action towards it is proof that we need to keep on going my name stephen merchant

marching from my coach chris dixon organizers hope that this is the beginning of a movement but translating never again into significant changes will be challenging former astronaut mark kelly whose wife survived an assassination attempt says it will be a long road ahead i would warn them not to get discouraged you know this is often two steps forward and one step back. guy had the opportunity to talk to a few of them yesterday they have a plan and this is this is not the last we're going to see these kids the protesters that came here may be gone but their list of demands remains running assault weapons extended magazines and raising age limits will be challenging while the republicans remain in power and the national rifle association continues to wield so much influence the next revolution say organizers will be at the polls and gallica al-jazeera washington the united nations is calling for an end to a brutal war on children in yemen it says the number of severely malnourished

children there has doubled over the course of the three year civil war it also says an additional half a million boys and girls can no longer go to school both saudi arabia and iran who back a different sides in the conflict have been accused of blocking or delaying humanitarian shipments unicef gammel. the war on children in yemen. that's the responsibility of the fighting parties that's the responsibility of those who are supporting the fighting parties and to date i have been symbols straightforward request all those who are crying or suit or in the fighting parties. how do you think your billions of dollars that you are currently investing in work there how do you think this service job i can tell you as the children's organization that it doesn't serve a single job in yemen we only need

a few hundreds of millions of dollars much much more ensure that children get down again that access to that's an illusion that children can go back and children to be safe and can be productive to join but is is yours make that choice if you want to continue in this drug children's lives rather convert your family and make it available to access their insurance children a bright future well human rights groups are calling for a full investigation into war crimes in yemen they want perpetrators identified and held to account there have been violations by who the rebels the bombing campaign by the saudi led coalition and armed groups backed by the u.a.e. a some of inch of i reports. trainees of the southern belt forces were originally being prepared to fight i think and by the in yemen the militia was formed in two thousand and sixteen by the internationally recognized government but

since then the security bill forces are operating beyond the control of the government of president of the rebel maturer. they are funded and controlled by the united arab emirates along with other groups in the provinces ahead remote and. war ravaged yemen is already divided on sectarian tribal and religious lines there is a fear that parallel security operations would endangered any attempt by the government to gain strength there's also the lack of accountability in the way these forces have been working human rights watch says security built and hundred mi elite forces have used excessive force during arrests and raids detain family members of wanted suspects to pressure them to voluntarily turn themselves in arbitrarily arrested and detained men and boys the danger in with adults and forcibly disappeared dozens the u.a.e. as part of the saudi led coalition leads these forces as a counterterrorism effort in southern and eastern yemen that's where groups like al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and i still have roots information obtained by al

jazeera suggests an estimated twenty thousand fighters are part of these counter-terrorism militias rights groups are calling on the newly established u.n. panel of experts on yemen to impartially investigate the patterns of abuse and identify those responsible and mr international believes war crimes have been committed there is absolutely no justification for parties to the conflict to me to be using this at this military target or the fact that they are operating in this terrorist what they call terrorists to be by these rules of the war which have been put in place by merit to protect civilians the number of those earning a living by enrolling in some security force has spiked in the last three years. with no peace expected any time soon the war machine is likely to go on with impunity along with disastrous consequences for yemen civilian population. some of the jarvey of those there. well let's update you now on that breaking story from

saudi arabia where a missile has been intercepted and shot down over the capital riyadh now the yemeni rebel group the who these have claimed responsibility and they say they've targeted three airports in riyadh a sea air and on saudi arabia's leading a coalition that's been heavily bombing the group in yemen well joining us now via skype from washington d.c. is the deal who is the nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council's. center for the middle east and the former u.s. diplomat at the u.s. embassy in yemen sir thank you so much for joining us here on out by my calculations this is the third similar attack by the who these on saudi arabia proper in the past since the start of the war what do you make of all of this attack now basically over the capital riyadh. well. it seems that the money mediated talks between the saudis and who he is have

not come to anything not surprising because neither side is really making any major new concessions. and saudi war effort and particularly air campaign over am and has not stopped it has only increased lately so i imagine it's normal that the these are firing at riyadh to show that they are still capable and they are not to be taken for granted militarily. it's not all in all it's it is not their good sign. particularly that m.b.a.'s there was in washington linda either he's still in the country in fact and one would have thought. donald trump would have discussed the perhaps a major new diplomatic push to end the war in yemen but it seems to be that the

opposite is the case. and. the saudis continue to see iran when they look at yemen which is a mistake whether or not iran is managing to get a few things in to yemen despite the blockade the problem is with the yemen it is inside the amman it is between the who is in the saudis really iran is not a party to this and if the saudis want to end this war they have to think of the yemeni problems and think of ways in which they could help resolve and obviously the war continues i mean just these days i think we're looking at the third anniversary so we're actually entering the forty year of the war and we were just watching reports on the devastating humanitarian impact it's having on the people of yemen you mentioned that this attack. presumably shows the who these are the image that the who these want to portray is that they're still capable but those

that also show the knowledge of still capable that in a sense their capability seems to be expanding where do you think they might have acquired if you think they have the sort of bigger stronger technology to be able to strike saudi arabia the way that they've been doing. first of all i personally and others a been saying for a while that the late president saleh. purchased soviet era rockets and a lot of flour weaponry and from iraq from saddam hussein and in fact some of them were gifted to him because he stood by saddam hussein in the one nine hundred ninety four. and those were all in deep storage underground in different places in yemen the who thieves have access to those weapons and who knows they may or since neither they may have discovered some new stashes.

these are all during our kids but they are capable and some of them are anti aircraft from iran iran since ninety s. in the twenty fifteen and twenty fourteen actually they have been trying to smuggle in weapons to the who are these but they can't manage to do very much because the blockade is pretty effective and so they managed to smuggle rockets in parks and have to be put back together by rockets they already have to make them longer range to make them more attractive as so they are improving by increment. all in all. doesn't change the picture very much and. forgive me for interrupting so why don't we just let the running out of time i just want to put a point here mean as you mentioned mohamed bin sandman the saudi crown prince is in the united states right now we know that he met president trump we know that the

two seem to share quite a close relationship do you think that any pressure will be put on him by the u.s. administration to try and sort of pull back from the war in yemen have you seen anything that leads you to think that it doesn't seem to be the case because you know congress tried to. bassett joint resolution asking the administration to stop supporting the saudi war in order to put pressure to bring the war to an end and at the very least to have the administration justify before the american people why the u.s. is dissipating in this war so that there's aleutian failed unfortunately and so the administration doesn't feel pressured from this city the wise men so to speak and administration to have already been fired rex tillerson and the general mcmaster general mattis three may end but the two new people that has

added are very hawkish and very anti iran and unfortunately i think they would be pulling in the and the direction of war rather than peace yeah and the one enters a fourth year with no end in sight and that pierre corey a senior fellow at the atlantic council's africa to the center for the middle east that sir thank you so much there. now still lots more to come on the al-jazeera news i want to including warnings that perhaps could one day be turned off in afghanistan as the forces of nature are melting i wonder of nature plus. it's sure not a fifty years since the founding of the modern circus i mean gone here in the city of birmingham ticcing when. and how a breakdown and a pitstop decided the outcome of formula one's season opening race details later in school.

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twelve or thirteen degrees cloud of the re will drive its way further east which is to go through what she's day heavy downpours a possibility through the low countries across a good part of france warming up in retreat you notice of the around twenty degrees celsius nice and pleasant and warm sunshine eventually coming through not too woman algiers on monday forty degrees in the cloud and right it will mount the cheese day with a high of sixty. if you see. a family. politicized by the forces of nature. will know before you. came in pharma documents his struggle for his community survival and builds a template for global action on climate change. the climate dial

a witness documentary on the. bureau's spawning six continents across the. correspondents living brings the stories they tell. news. are lined out the top stories on al-jazeera saudi state television says

a missile has been intercepted over the capital riyadh it says the air force shot down over a northeastern part of the city yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility and say they've targeted three airports in saudi arabia at least fifty two people have been injured and three others arrested in barcelona after clashes with police during protests about the arrest of former president catalyst bush that will push them on to is waiting to hear if he'll face extradition to spain after being detained in germany. hundreds more rebel fighters and civilians have been evacuated from the syrian region of the central government forces are now close to controlling all of what was once the last opposition stronghold near the capital damascus. violence is casting a shadow over preparations for monday's presidential election in egypt the interior

ministry says police have killed six people who they accuse of being involved in a deadly bombing in alexandria two policemen were killed and at least four others wounded in saturday's assault in the coastal city authorities have blamed the armed wing of the muslim brotherhood for the attack while monday's vote looks to return president. to power it comes seven years after the revolution that ended the three decade long presidents of hosni mubarak al-jazeera as richard ginsburg from the listening post has been analyzing the egyptian news coverage in the run up to the vote reporting this election campaign hasn't been a particularly complex operation for the egyptian news media the decks were largely cleared early on of potential challengers to president. one by one those would be candidates dropped out of the race for egyptians turning into broadcasters both state owned as well as private there have been plenty of media outlets to watch but much less available in terms of information opinions and perspectives. over the

past few weeks egypt's state owned broadcaster and private channels like d.m.c. . and on t.v. have all done their part in scripting a fed accompli contributing on the airwaves to the cult of personality surrounding president sisi as one how humans are low alamosa may be the golden boy he might have to sydney. but maybe he can fade a bit but the chemicals had a mesh had to die to share out and it's not just the news turn to a sports program or a soap opera and you'll see football and film stuff and among those who have been added to the nonstop chorus of proceeds the voices you will hear and see on the egyptian airwaves egypt's media routinely glorify a military strongman and have played a key role in manufacturing a national security narrative that warns against impending chaos domestic terrorism and external threats from iran turkey and qatar and they let me know. that

a couple of them. that they would have thought of robin most of the sources. they have here on the planet. that i will start of course on stories about foreign threats are not just being reported by the egyptian media the egyptian government has also accused some foreign news outlets of being threats to national security themselves earlier this month egypt accused the b.b.c. of lies and false allegations of human rights abuses this network al-jazeera has long been considered persona non-grata accused by the c.c. government of having a pro muslim brotherhood agenda. wallows in all of that in me having a tough going to exhibit the egyptian state has gained control of the media landscape channels the authorities don't like have been banned journalists and politicians who refuse to fall silent have been arrested that's how the egyptian news media are covering this presidential campaign and election was just one

candidate one vision and only one possible outcome. richard gives but reporting there let's take a closer look now at egypt's election and joining us from the north brunswick in the u.s. is the funny she's an associate professor of political science at long island university madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean there does seem to be little other option except president being reelected in the election over the next few days but do you think that for example turnout might have an impact at all because some of it is the tractors have been urging for a boycott in two thousand and fourteen there was forty seven percent turnout do you think that if that number was low or if there were question marks over turnout and support that might have an impact. absolutely and so it's really the only perfect thing for looking for right now is turnout and we need enough turnout to lend some legitimacy even to this election and so yes there was

a forty seven percent or not in the last election but that really was twenty three million people of a population of over nine nine hundred ninety and so the question is what is this state and what is discouraging what are the what is this agenda really look like since president sisi has taken power we've seen sixty thousand political prisoners rounded up regina has been built sixteen more prisons to put the population of a generation that was dealing just in two thousand and eleven generation protests that is now deemed generation jailed by amnesty international there have been eight hundred thirty cases of torture two hundred fifty people have been disappeared so far this year the mass on terror trials the sweeping death sentence the closures of n.g.o.s the blocking the four hundred thirty four news websites and so what you're seeing is the consolidation of power around an individual not even a regime anymore an individual who's who's really fearful about maintaining a sense of legitimacy we are entering into an election tomorrow where the streets

of cairo and alexandria and all over egypt are painted with the image of president the fact that the c.c. . historically the lessons we learned from from author ten virgins in the past in central america was that a sanitarium leaders actually paint the town in the in in their own image during an election not so much for the election but during mind the people of their power to remind people of i am the person i am the only individual i'm not just your savior but you have no real alternative because what is the economic conditions in egypt look like today what his sleeping austerity measures what you see it is thirty percent inflation two thirds of the population is under the age of twenty nine you have seventy percent and one in some areas of pliers. and so when there is no alternative even for individuals who need a heavy handed. journal actually souter is not really. so in light of that let me

just ask you a double pronged question first of all do you think that in light of all the problems that you've just listed that egypt does face you know a lot of them financial and economic do you think that he faces any threats from within so for example the business elite or perhaps even the military and then if we can also look at international support because i suppose to some people outside of the middle east they would look at egypt and they would you know perhaps shrug their shoulders and say well at least that stable at least it's not libya or syria or iraq so do you think that the international community which has by and large been supporting or turning the other way do you think that anything could make them sway in their support for sisi. first part of your question was internal forces if you look at the i'm very candidates of six feet and sunny i ninety two with very distinguished military backgrounds one that was forceful wrong when i was a mess. they would not have run their candidate and they haven't one that worked for can ask candidates if they did nothing at all that there was actual support for

them in the military and so when you started to see that there could possibly be fissures within the military this makes presidencies if you were very uncomfortable and so led to this sweeping kind of cleaning up house that he's been doing in the past couple of weeks not the international level that we've seen here in the united states for example senator menendez and senator rubio put out a joint statement on friday a resolution actually that was submitted condemning this coming election and looking for openness we saw senator mccain for example on a genuine twenty fifth. put out a statement saying that each increasing in its repression we see the withholding of three hundred million dollars of military aid from the united states and so all these are small what they do signal is at some level there is going to be a in over there's going to be some kind of pressure that's going to force the dipshit we're going to open and we only have to look at what happened during the mubarak era there was

a time period between two thousand and four and two thousand and six were under the bush administration there was this push book public and fired it for there to be a political opening and i really believe in the coming election in two thousand and twenty parliamentary election there may come a time where because of the increasing or plashing coupled with uncertainty and instability that the converging would have to have some sort of political opening during the coming parliamentary election even if it's just window dressing but there has to be some little opening yes egypt is not syria yes egypt is not yemen but egypt is the place where revolution began a new sign to thousand and eleven and this is the spirit of the egyptian people will not be compromised anymore. associate professor of political science a lot of island university speaking to us from north brunswick in the u.s. thank you. now at least thirty seven people many of them children have been killed in a fire at a shopping center in siberia sixty nine others are reported to be missing in the

blaze which happened in the city of kemet over which is three thousand kilometers east of moscow the cause of the fire is not yet known i source says it was behind the bombing that killed at least one person in the western afghan city of herat two suicide bombers tried to enter a shia mosque when security guards opened fire one of them was shot dead and the other blew himself up at least eight other is good. well while the government in afghanistan is the ailing with its daily security battles a bigger threat of water scarcity is looming on the horizon not only do thousands die every year from poor sanitation and unclean water but the glace years of the hindu kush are melting meaning that afghanistan's only source of clean water could actually be gone in certain years time tony burke lee has the story from kabul the hindu kush mountain range a wonder of nature and the giver of life it has the highest concentration of snow

in places outside the polar region and is afghanistan's main source of water. but it's under threat there has been a rapid retreat and melting of glaciers at the current rate they will disappear by twenty fifty. water water's. sources of there is no life so something happened something unfortunate happened of course does the loss of human. melting glaciers are not the only problem forty years of conflict and the glick to taking a toll on an antiquated water and sanitation system just twenty seven percent of the population has access to clean water only twenty percent in rural areas this is the way most of kabul's poor get their water stand pipes open for a few hours every day the water system was designed in the one nine hundred eighty s. to cope with a population of a few hundred thousand today nearly six million people live in the capital muscle

that he says not like the man i go to school at six o'clock in the morning and when i return i have to carry water buckets to my home up the hillside and for that reason i'm too tired to do my homework. lack of education has led to poor hygiene people deaf acadian rivers and few boil the water they drink most rivers are contaminated every day rule so each flows into the kabul river from six thousand channels and is having serious health consequences twenty five percent of the deaths of children under the age of five are due to what a great drama nation and bad sanitation ten thousand children die every year because of die rule and water where an infection and disease account for more deaths in afghanistan the bombs and bullets forty years ago the population was thirteen million today it is around thirty six million causing a huge thirst but a shortage of reservoirs and pumping stations means just thirty percent of water is

retained. improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from. ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit cueing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the top tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. still to come on the al-jazeera news what's next for australia's cricket captain after he admits to cheating in a test match for the thousand the sport with.

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now whether watching acrobats fly through the sky or animals forming nature bending tricks the circus has always been at the forefront of entertainment for the past two hundred fifty years but in recent years how you operating costs and animal rights concerns have seen audiences for now a new generation of performers are hoping to revolutionize the old art form as me barco reports from birmingham. these are tomorrow's circus stars the students are developing dead devil acts and pushing their bodies to the extreme. it's fascinating to watch something that looks so effortless but that you know you

can't dave in some ways made it just like. every day which we do we do it every day or with you anyway to me here to discuss i came across. the board and circus was born in britain in seventeen sixty eight when a showman called philip astley set up a tent in london and filled it with x. this is a nineteenth century circus rolling into town and explosion of noise and color and a black and white world they would evolve into massive money making spectacles. today the circus like ballet theatre all the opera is seen as an art form in its own right people are seeing extraordinary feats and that's always been repeated of circus this year the physicality of it that the things that seem to be almost impossible you see people just in this room that they're able to do those things but i think it's also a change there's been

a massive shift in more audiences it's backed from entertainment from performance and from our tastes have certainly changed over the years. along with health and safety standards. an increasing number of countries have banned the use of animals over welfare concerns the u.k. will follow suit in two years' time. this is one traditional circus's have evolved into big budgets movie like production values zippo. now in theaters as well as temps. burberry here experiences like this guy saying when he was. talking about the war to cuba.

two hundred fifty years on the circus still captivates audience is a place where fear and fun collide the. birmingham. thing we've really enjoyed filming that piece ok it's sport now here's fire. barbara thank you so much australia's cricket captain steve smith has been suspended and fined by the sport's international governing body the penalty comes amid a cheating scandal after the aussie team admitted to ball tampering at least on the reports for he kept in this is the tiny piece of sticky tape that sent shock waves through australia's national sport it seemed completely beyond belief that the astroid in cricket. had been involved in trade during saturday's play in a test match in south africa a struggling as cameron battlecross was caught on camera placing a small object down his trousers after working on the ball when questioned by

umpires he produced a sunglasses cloth but later admitted he'd used type to rub dirt on the ball part of a plan backed by captain steve smith thing the later of the team on i'm incredibly sorry. for i guess trying to bring the game into disrepute the way that we did today roughing up one side of a cricket ball can result in it swinging unpredictably through the air when it's ball towards a batsman ball tampering with an artificial substance is illegal but not new to the game with several big name players penalize in the past cricket's governing body the i.c.c. suspended smith for one game and finding his match fee the sport's chief saying the game needs to have a hard look at itself something south african fans of the test match in cape town seemed caylee aware of we all know that just been happening for the past years but now we know every team has been doing it against every other team for so long and

with the reverse swing being what it is i think they're trying to get every single advantage they can but the problem is they really cross the law and know that this latest incident involved a premeditated planned to chase involving the national captain has provoked reaction from all levels of a strongly in society cricket australia has said sorry to fans everybody is gripped with a lot of shy men disappointment at the way our national team has carried on and this is really the one of the most infamous and darkest days in australian cricket history the test match concluded in cape town with smith removed his captain and david warner a spice captain still there may be greater consequences to come first strongly in cricket elease home and al jazeera. it might come as little surprise that australia were being comfortably in the third test by south africa they were bowled out for just one hundred and seven in their second innings on sunday resulting in

a three hundred and twenty two run loss there's still one test to play in a fairly dramatic series which the host now leave two to one to pay will leave the aussies after steve smith is suspect. the hole of the cross going forward. something we can with. something that we. suppose going to fall down when you say no or boy i'll try to publicly come and tell you that. we want to be common and i want to say that. afghanistan's cricketers have been providing more positive headlines for the game in recent days the team have beaten the west indies by seven wickets to win the world cup qualifying tournament in zimbabwe both sides will be appearing at next year's event in england before that afghanistan will play their first official test match they'll be taking on india in june. cricket has returned to roxanne's biggest city for the first time in close to a decade the pakistan super league final was played in karate surrounded by

a huge security operation on sunday thousands of security guards were deployed both inside and around the stadium it's the highest profile game to have been hosted by the city since sri lanka's team bus was attacked in the country in two thousand and nine as for the game itself a slum abad united beat defending champions bashara zalmay they won the title for the second time in the tournaments three year history chasing down a big tree target of one hundred forty nine runs or gratian football player has died on the pitch after a ball hit him during a match twenty five year old striker bruno bo brown was fifteen minutes into the game when he was hit in the chest from close range and collapse seconds later medics failed to revive him the cause of death has yet to be confirmed. for i sebastian vettel has won the season opening formula one grand prix in australia defending champion was hamilton set for victory in melbourne hamilton was leading until speed restrictions were briefly enforced when another car broke down on the

track. took his chance to make a pit stop and was able to rejoin the race ahead of his mercedes rival. basketball is one of the most popular sports in south sudan and for many used it seen as a path to a better life but would the stars still have a number of hurdles to overcome here were morgan reports from the. david aiming high he's not part of south sudan's national basketball team but would love to be which is why he's practicing three times a week with dozens of other young players. my dream is to be chosen for a scholarship outside south sudan so i can be internationally recognised and get well paid for playing that way i can support my family and maybe eventually take them out of south sudan to the fifteen year old is one of more than three hundred teenagers who come for training with the hopes of being chosen for an international scholarship but more than four years of war in south sudan has damaged sports

development and many other parts of society there are less than a dozen sports facilities in a country roughly the size of france and nearly all lack of proper equipment making it hard for young people to develop their talents and as challenging as it is for teenage boys it's even harder for the girls. if i know today is training day i have to wake up early and finish all household chores like cooking cleaning going to the market and to school then i come to treatment. but despite the challenges on and off court some continue to play their favorite sports striving for worldwide recognition they may not be many sports facilities here in south sudan but for those who come to court it's an opportunity for them to escape the life they're living and because of a program that provides her school scholarship to the. players it's also a chance for them to hope for a better future many children have been separated from their families during the civil war which has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions of investors south sudanese american basketball player and america's n.b.a.

the maneuverable program hopes to improve opportunities for young basketball players a lot of these. challenges in terms of having three meals a day that affects their performance on the court some of them families have economic challenges we believe is going to be the number one sport in south roughly we have about a thousand plus. bridges to close and we have so four of certain. just about over one hundred. david says he knows his training is limited but one day hopes to be one of those children futilely for a scholarship and be good enough to play for teams elsewhere in the world people morgan al-jazeera. and that's all you sport for now it's now back to barbara and london for a thank you now before we go flower lovers from across india are basking in the ambience of asia's biggest hulett garden look at this the in the argonne the garden

in indian administered kashmir open to the public on sunday a tourist favorite authorities say that thousands visit every year to see the colorful home grown petals more than a million to lips of fifty varieties were planted this year the flowers can usually last up to a months unless there is a harsh weather. much more on the website and i will of course be here in just a few minutes to bring you more of the day's expo watch. michael

. sam's an archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in bubble most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called multicultural meeting points and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture is in a language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with

lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture. a key figure of the early twentieth century arab literary scene. and a feminist writer. had ever had time. so why did his story and in such tragedy. al-jazeera won't expose the life and was amazed. at this time on al-jazeera.