you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera the last time i spoke to him he told me he was thinking of going to syria the world wants to see syria's fighters up close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is you made these chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was riddled with bullets and exclusive documentary syria the last assignments at this time on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera. and this is the news out of the way from london coming up in the next sixty minutes russia or the sixty u.s. diplomats out of the country just the latest trip for top move over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. and another diplomatic breakthrough on the korean peninsula the leaders of the north and south agreed to meet for the first time in a decade and he faced no credible challenger so it's no surprise that egypt's president is saying towards the election victory but it's one mall and buy votes around i think. and i'm peter stammered in doha with all the day's sports australia has banned cricket captain steve smith breaks down as he arrives home and apologizes for his role in a cheating scandal. to save the world. interest. in.

danger in that moment is. it. russia's foreign minister has announced the expulsion of sixteen u.s. diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. so a lever off said moscow was also closing the u.s. consulate in some petersburg is just the latest in a string of tit for tat expulsions announced by moscow siding with the u.k. and blaming russia for than the agent attack were a challenge reports. well we've been waiting for several days only for russia to come out with its response so all these diplomatic expulsions the western nations processing of the moment and so on thursday evening in moscow we did get some clue from a lover of the russian foreign minister about what these are going to be let's listen

to what sergey lavrov had to say mutable that sort of girl in me. there will be myriad measures but not only stopping at that the u.s. ambassador is invited to our ministry where my deputy will deliver him the content of these retaliation re measures against the united states they include the explosion of a similar number of diplomats and they include our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the united states consulate general in some petersburg as for the rest of the countries everything that concerns the number of people who would leave the russian federation from diplomatic missions is also mirrored said well jon huntsman the u.s. ambassador to russia was summoned to the foreign ministry earlier and he was told that there are fifty eight personnel in moscow that are being declared persona non grata from the u.s. embassy and to consular staff from the consulates in. who

are now persona non-grata as well this impeded by a consulate has two days in which to wrap up or operations and shutdown there's a very fast and all the staff there being kicked out while they have a week to leave the russians are also clearly quite concerned i think about yulia script hols recovery they have been looking around for something to throw at london and today earlier in a press conference given by marie as a car of the foreign ministry spokesman she said that the united kingdom was breaching a consular agreements drafted in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight between the united kingdom and what was the usa. so far and this supposedly gives access all promises access to citizens of the u.s.s.r. and now russia in the united kingdom or recently while the script files were comatose in the hospital access to them was important but not absolutely essential but now you describe how is so we're being told conscious recovering and perhaps

going to be talkative sometime soon well that makes things very very different let's go live now to washington d.c. where we're joined by al jazeera is my cat michael calling this a tit for tat and this would look like the task if you like from the russians that they expulsions is response to the west's explosions it doesn't seem the u.s. state department quite seeing. the state department it is reacting with a great degree of anger at the russian action despite as you say this is clearly and stated by the russian foreign minister to retaliate for the u.s. expulsion the state department addressed the issue at length the spokes person saying that if russia is going to continue to make an issue of this there are more than twenty other nations who have also withdrawn or had russian diplomats frozen out of their countries she says this is an issue that russia cannot deal with the

weight of opinion international opinion is against it this is what the state department spokesperson to say there is no justification for the russian response our actions were motivated purely by the attack on the united kingdom the attack on a british citizen and his daughter remember this is the first time that a weapons grade nerve agent no which shot has been used outside of war on our allied soil. is clearly not a diplomatic spat that is going to go away as we heard the the us diplomats have to be outof russia by april the first. so mike don't go away for a minute because while all of this was going on the president was speaking at a rally in ohio he touched on multiple topics including syria where he suggested his plan was to downgrade the u.s. involvement there and by the way we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon

very soon will come and we're going to have a hundred percent of the caliphate as they call it sometimes referred to his land take it all back quickly quickly it's not clear if the president was speaking off the cuff there mike but from the sounds of it this caught the u.s. state department by surprise. well certainly has the president once again musing aloud and stating a policy that is not in place as far as state department or indeed the u.s. military is concerned december the. military secretary james matters made very clear that there were some two thousand u.s. troops within syria that they would remain there until the campaign against eisel was completely concluded he then said there would be a shift in strategy there be a greater number of diplomats going in a kind of stabilization process but now we're hearing an off the cuff comment from

the u.s. president saying we're going to be very soon he makes it sound like everybody's going to be out that the u.s. is going to be completely pulling away but it does appear that this is yet another off the cuff statement that is not rooted in any form of policy purely in the president's mind as he speaks in the next improper a way state department making very clear that there has been no policy change on the issue of syria and u.s. presence there and that is at least they don't know about any change good to get your thoughts am i kind of life or is that in washington d.c. now north korean leader kim jong un will meet the south korean president in the board on the border between the two nations on the twenty seventh of april the announcement was made on thursday following talks between representatives of both governments it comes just days after king john made his international debut with a surprise trip to china the leaders of the two koreas have held talks only twice

since the korean war and the novak has more from seoul. well it is just a month now until south korea's president will meet north korean leader kim jong un forming up the date for the first intercourse summit since two thousand and seven is another sign of improving relations between the two koreas which remains technically at war the agreement was made at high level talks between south korea's unification minister and his north korean counterpart it's the second time to these two men have met this here and they remarked on how much has changed since they last met in january when it was decided that after two years of the two countries not munich ating it would come together at the winter olympics in south korea. i'm certain that this is quite a positive development since we are living in a divided nation i feel more relieved when we settle things peacefully rather than being in a dangerous situation i think this is good i hope this happens more frequently.

i usually don't pay attention to news but i now pay more attention as we hear more good news rather than bad news like nuclear war so the mood amongst much of the south korean public and certainly the south korean government is one of cautious optimism but there are still some skeptics the agenda still hasn't been agreed to for the into korean summit and many will want to be sure that denuclearization is up for discussion and of course this all comes after that surprise visit that kim jong un made to china for a meeting with xi jinping china's top diplomat young show is in south korea to brief south korean officials on the topics that were discussed at that meeting valuable information as they go ahead and plan the interconnection summit next month. as much more to come on this news hour. that killed sixty eight people puts the spotlight on venezuela's overcrowded

violent prison system and the army is called in to clean up one of in these. his main waterways that's become a giant dumping ground and a great football club president received his punishment for bringing a gun on to the field of play details later in sports. egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi is on track to win a second term in office and an election by paul turnout says he had no credible challenge of those so the result comes as no surprise and the chapelle reports. the wrong ones with most votes already counted in egypt's presidential election abdel fattah el-sisi appears to have won a second term by a landslide state media says he secured ninety percent of the vote while sisi described the election as a source of pride critics described it as a sham millions of eligible voters stayed home over the three days of the election

rather than vote for him or his only rival you said mustafa mussa leads a party that supported sisi he announced he was running at the last minute after all other potential challengers pulled out some were arrested some were pressured to drop out a new national has said well i voted to improve the country's current situation it doesn't matter who you support most of my friends didn't vote with. seven political parties and one hundred fifty opposition figures told voters to stay home rather than grant sisi the electoral agenda mysie he wanted the national elections authority warned egyptians to vote or pay a fine other threats and incentives were used to encourage voters but participation was lower in this election than in the previous two more than one point five million votes were rejected after some voters submitted blank ballots or wrote in their own candidates that made the term invalid votes trend on twitter the most

popular post saying the true winners of the vote were egyptians who. because of the election altogether we all know that it has no constitutional or political legitimacy or sense of. not much of participation saphir fair and so on but he was to say at least that there was significant turnout. to give him another mandate for another four years especially that most of his promises in twenty fourteen were not fulfilled security for egypt prosperous economic situation the ending of the crises whether security or political. with a new mandate of sorts and with his reelection secured his strongest supporters are considering the possibility of amending the constitution to allow sisi to run for thirty or perhaps even longer into schapelle al-jazeera. the united nations is calling on venezuela to launch an investigation into a prison riot and fire that killed sixty eight people in the city of violence here

describing the death toll as appalling rights groups and the opposition have been quick to blame president nicolas maduro for not dealing with overcrowding and violence in the country's prison system so far there's been no official government statement. reports. families outside this venezuelan jail are desperate for news he cannot get the money or why i don't know if my son is dead or alive they won't give me any time updates or information my son has been imprisoned there for one year i know he's been be in there before. a riot then a fire broke out here hours earlier in the central city of l.a. and. many of them a still alive but of those who did in there even the ones that are life suffocating to death they have to do something to get them out because the dying inside they need oxygen someone please get them out this time past engines mounted the

relatives clash with the police that fired tear gas on the crowd this is the fourth major prison riot in the last five years leaving more than eighty people dead before counting this last incident at least thirty three thousand inmates are held in temporary police cells in venezuela for lack of space in prisons in appalling conditions. and it's a pretty. crowded . people so we need. medical attention. through human rights advocates up along the announced the deteriorating conditions in mates face in venezuela in prisons last year alone at least thirty seven have died in another riot always leaving families desperately demanding explanations by

the government that seem never to come let's go live now to ellis island who is still in bogota for us and the pressure is really growing now on the government to come out last investigation or at least make some comment about this riots. absolutely yet we are still waiting for any statements from him coming from the governor. president nicholas my daughter more than twenty four hours have passed since this incident is being described among the worst ever disasters ever to hit the detention fertility in the country the only official information that venezuelans received this so far came late on wednesday viet twitter from the twitter of the attorney general's office he confirmed the death toll and said he was going to

a point for prosecutors to investigate exactly what happened inside this jail in venezuela and he was also fast to essentially blame the inmates for starting the deadly fire but that has been all the information all the official information that has come so far in response to this tragedy and want to the families to. relatives what are they calling for here listen to what they are expecting the authorities to come out and say in. well they want to know what happened exactly what happened and why this jail that was made to hold sixty. inmates was instead holding more than two hundred which is what the local police have told some of the relatives outside of the police station for a second day dozens of them have spent the entire day some of them are still there waiting for a response first of all trying to find out if their loved ones are still alive or

trying to recover the body the local authorities of the state of kind of global set up an improvised morgue inside the police station to try and speed up the process but it will probably take a few more days to finish that process and then to at least start to understand exactly what happened and let's remember that this is unfortunately just the last in a serious devastating deadly prison riots in venezuela which actually started in the mid ninety's the first one in one nine hundred ninety four saw over one hundred people who died in a fire in the western state of julia about what experts here are saying they're n.g.o.s not not not for profits are getting ization is a work inside venezuelan prison they say that the situation of overcrowding the lack of basic supplies and maintenance has just become worse and worse year after

year as minute venezuela continues to struggle with an ever worsening social and economic crisis many thanks alison. in california the funeral has taken place for an unarmed black man who was shot dead by two police officers hundreds of people attended the service for twenty two year old stefan clarke with a civil rights activist al sharpton delivering the eulogy clark was pursued and killed by officers in sacramento eleven days ago the police say they believed they pointed a gun but investigators found no weapons and only a man mobile phone his body. never peace laureate yosef has returned to pakistan for the first time since she was shot in the head by the taliban twenty twelve malala was attacked for speaking out in support of girls' education a small an emotional return for pakistan's most recognizable figures

malawi use of say is back on homes or six years after being targeted by pakistan taliban for her determination to go to school many times i still cannot believe that this is true that this is actually happening for the last five years i've dreamed that i could set foot in my country today i'm very happy. security was tight for her arrival in islamabad a government source described the lack of as necessary for what is a sensitive visit. use of say rose to international prominence when she was attacked by masked gunman on her way home from school in two thousand and twelve that then fifteen year old was shot in the head punishment for her defying the pakistan taliban ban on girls' education in her home district of the swat she was airlifted to britain for lifesaving treatment and has been living there since she continued her schooling united kingdom getting top grades and enrolling in oxford

university she also continued campaigning for education and shovelled the world supporting local advocacy groups in two thousand and fourteen she won the nobel peace prize the youngest ever to do so age seventeen noticed a cop noticed our books and. they are lost far for weapons one child and one teacher one book and one thing. changed the while. despite her worldwide acclaim many don't regard her as well me back in pakistan where some say she portrays her country and negative light and is seeking her own fame but there was a lot of you know kind of a mixed opinion about milan and what does people even criticised. an agent of the west that was a lot of people want to read a. news of her return was welcomed on the streets the capital but also highlighted

the need for further development. before she has brought pride to pakistan she's got a noble award the attack on her was very unjust but mullard is not the only girl from pakistan there are also other girls of the same like malala we should take care of our women like we are taken care of her the timing of her visit is important skeptics point out this is election year in pakistan and the homecoming could be seen as good publicist how to hawkster al-jazeera. the mayor of libya's capital tripoli has been abducted by gunmen abdul-rauf by tom mauser is affiliated with libya's un back to government of national accord which resides in tripoli the city council says he was taken when gunmen stormed his home on wednesday nights the demands are clear. and the latest part of our first series where in indonesia where one of the world's deserts rivers is being cleaned up an ambitious project is

underway to make the water the cheetah roamed drinkable in the next seven years but a step russell reports from west java some factories are still using the river as a dump for chemical waste. a thick soup of rubbish clogging one of indonesia's main waterways after previous failed attempts to clean up the river in west java the government has called in the army to do the dirty work it's not an easy battle to win as the soldiers remove garbage from the three hundred kilometer long river more arrives ways from households markets and shops simply dumped into the water not only is it the easiest way to get rid of rubbish but for many living along the river it's the only way that they've got. up for more than a month we've been talking to villagers about how to be more hygienic turns out most of them don't want to dump their garbage in the river but they don't know what else to do with their household waste there is no garbage dump in their village there are no garbage collectors it's

a huge problem. people in the village of my july are used the river for washing and cleaning but many villagers including yes watty and her son are suffering from a skin disease doctors blame on the contaminated water look mushy in the same rules of. the water used to be clean but since the factories have been operating it has become like this it used to be totally clear. thousands of factories dumped tons of chemical waste in the river every day and via mental groups took legal action against one of the main textile producers kohat tax but this spied a supreme court order in november betting the dumping of waste this is what we found a black colored slick coming from god tax after repeated requests for an explanation the company. eventually said the color does not prove the water is contaminated so long. as long as there is no lawrence force minton as long as they don't have

regular inspections in these factories the river will never be clean this clean up has been happening for nearly two months and there have been inspections but this is the evidence we find the samples have shown dangerous levels of lead and other matters in the water which is also used by thousands of farmers for irrigation turning this into drinking water within the next seven years sounds like a promise impossible to keep despite another attempt to clean up what's known as one of the world's dirtiest rivers she tavern is still being used as a dump for all kinds of waste and fire mantilla say that if polluters are not being punished this cleanup is just another waste of time and money the government says action will be taken against polluters as soon as a presidential decree is issued that we're going to focus on promises because we told them radio you're going to kill the next generation or don't play around anymore because before i heard about this story you know and i said no was this

decree coming we're going to we're going to be getting next week we're going to execute some parts of the river are looking quite clean now but taking out the rubbish has not exactly solved the waste issue with most landfills full soldiers have no choice but to dump garbage next to the river in the middle of a residential area creating new problems step fasten al-jazeera a cheetah river. two u.s. astronauts have completed a six hour space walk out the international space station drew feustel and ricky arnold installed a new wireless antenna i am to move leaky hoses from a radiator as they floated outside the station two hundred fifty miles above us the space walk was thirty minutes shorter than planned though because of a problem with one of the astronauts a six point still and arrived at the space station on friday to stay until august rick is they will say on the news hour still hasn't a minister tourism

a ters a u.k. to mark one year to go till breakfast which is turning out to be far from child's play class. under one hundred in the american midwest where many small farmers who voted for donald trump are suffering buyer's remorse more on that coming up. after viewing state cameron's. saying it's only a three year make this decision. and australia's kerry steps down on a day of tearful regrets over the cricket ball tampering scandal peter we'll have the details coming up and still. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now across europe we've got a big area of low pressure moving in across western heiresses one big spiral low

pressure all across the region so we're pulling in the motors are at it fifteen degrees london and a lot of cloud of rain just nine so the cool conditions in there appear in potential that my sort of twelve in the trade moving through into the start of the weekend that low pressure moves little bit further towards the east give you some heavy snowfall across the alps the southerly flow on the eastern flank the low brings warm in across austria but we're up towards walsall the twelve degrees celsius. and conditions remain quiet across parts of russia that temperatures around the freezing mark in moscow southeastern parts have actually fairing quite well with some sunshine that and i'm korea on the other side of the mediterranean we've got showers along the coast of all cheery and fairly strong winds coming in from the desert giving temperature of twenty eight degrees in china's further towards the east we've got a lot of sun blowing around parts of egypt sudan and chad nish and that's going to continue through into the weekend very high levels of dust blowing here becomes a bit quantity head through into saturday as we moved into central parts of africa

plenty of showers and evidence here while i see some downpours affecting labor fill in the bone. a conflict standing seven years. humanitarian disaster displacing more than half a nation. on just your world meets the children who have become victims of syria's civil war. i am a syrian child announces iraq. when the news breaks. on the wall that the city and the story builds to be forced to leave the room just. when people need to be heard women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring

you the award winning documentaries and live news about al-jazeera i got to commend you on hearing is good journalism on and on mine. welcome back a reminder of the top stories here on the news hour russia's foreign minister has announced the expulsion of sixteen u.s. diplomats and the closure of the u.s. consulate in some petersburg is the latest move in a diplomatic route over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to meet face to face next month for only the third time since the end of the korean war sixty five years ago and

preliminary results following egypt's presidential election suggest a landslide win for the incumbent leader abdel fattah el-sisi but voter turnout was low it's around forty two percent. britain's prime minister tourism a is turning the country to mark one year before the u.k. officially the european union but pro european groups often referred to us remain as all refusing to give up hope of staying in the u r u k correspondent barnaby phillips reports. she didn't vote for breck's it put on a rapid tour of britain starting in a scottish textile factory the prime minister urged the country to embrace the idea of leaving the e.u. i believe that we can negotiate a good agreement which is terrorists free in this friction is trade is possible so we maintain those markets in the e.u. but also that we open up markets around the rest of the world brics it provides us

with opportunities. but who's this campaigning against sit outside downing street boris johnson or maybe not but his impersonator and these protesters believe bret's it can be stopped with a second referendum on the final deal because she ations between britain and the e.u. will a student to speak. for a generation that voted overwhelmingly to stay in business one direction for if you begin fighting to mobilize and try to persuade our parents and grandparents many of whom like mine to back to back to back just not sure anymore but it's not the right deal but not right direction for america but all the older generation persuadable i traveled from london to the english market town of spaulding where seventy percent voted to leave the e.u. the challenge for those trying to stop bricks it is to change people's minds in

towns like spalding and that still feels like an uphill struggle there is a measure of your slant i don't think you can lay should not go into this get only birds back in london not much sign of rallying round another and group sets off on a battle bus tour around britain supported by some big names in british politics all right except that whatever happens in terms of any effort. to stop it which is take it to a different course in the one the people's voice roy said so it's very difficult but i think millions of people believe the country's made a mistake. this is just come on. this isn't sustainable meanwhile the prime minister travelling all through northern ireland wales and england in one hectic day says there's no turning back but if the bricks that referendum of twenty six steve was meant to settle the issue of britain and europe

for want some for all while it doesn't yet feel that it has to be philips al-jazeera london. malaysia has slashed the proposed penalty it wants to impose on anyone found guilty of creating and spreading fake news they originally planned was a ten year jail term that's been dropped to six following an outcry from rights groups the government has also changed the wording of the bill making it a crime to maliciously create spread. or published is that of knowingly rights activists say the legislation is designed to shut down discussions about a multi-billion dollar financial scandal involving the prime minister najib razak is accused of stealing a billion dollars from the one. day fund the proposed legislation covers all media even foreignness outside malaysia it also calls for a hundred twenty eight thousand dollars fine well for more on this let's talk go

she is a fellow in public interest technology at the think tank new america jones is live from cambridge in massachusetts thanks very much for joining us here on al-jazeera let's start with this malaysian situation has been downgraded a little bit but it's still looking at enormous fine in six years in jail if anything's perceived to be malicious is this the way that you think specifically malays or even other countries as well hiding behind the sort of news that they might not like by just saying it's fake news it's this is a very difficult situation because what these governments are trying to do is really shape the news in a way that supports their story and in this particular case i think what we're seeing is that that the government doesn't doesn't like the situation that is happening with with reporters and journalists and researchers discussing openly

what is what is happening with the prime minister in this financial situation and want to try to try to temper down on the ability for open and free speech. you wrote earlier this year about attack kalash looking at the backlash i suppose against certain social media sites people like facebook like twitter we just heard on thursday that facebook is now looking at trying to fact check photos and video. to to to reduce for hoaxes and false news there as well but really we will look at these specific social media platforms and saying you need to sort this out but we all need to take responsibility for this. i think that's that's exactly right i think the situation right now is really difficult for companies it's difficult for governments to. but i don't think

necessarily the solution that's being proposed in malaysia's bill is necessarily the right way forward i think we need the public we need consumer advocates and companies and governments and policy experts all coming together to really try to develop a stronger solution here and these unilateral moves to try to legislate in a very strict way against the industry or in a way that can impinge on the right to free speech or the right to political expression these types of approaches should should really be thrown away what do you think people at home should be thinking as to how they can find the news trust the news that they're reading a watching how do they ensure that they are not being sucked in by the fake stories that have been put out there. well again a very very difficult situation and i think companies are right now in trying to figure that out for example facebook twitter and other large internet companies are

trying to figure out ways with the journalistic community to try to establish for for consumers for internet users facebook users twitter users and so on and so forth that a story that they might see in their news feed or in a google search or on a you tube video is very or is coming from a certified. source and i think that's the that's probably the way forward in general terms but i think it'll it'll take a long time to get there for consumers i think we really just we need to be perceptive and we need to we need to try to understand the sources of the information that we're seeing that's ok your thoughts on this departing guys thanks very much for joining us. and it's been two years since one of latin america's largest construction companies confessed to one of the biggest corruption scandals

in history executives from brushed had been paying millions of dollars in bribes to secure government contracts around the world in peru the scandal has forced the president to resign but it's also left thousands of peruvians who worked with direct without jobs marianna sanchez reports. have been working for years in this quarry for a company supplying the construction giant. last year the business when broke not long after a government decree halted the brazilian company's operations in b. two assets were frozen and quinn says he didn't receive the twelve hundred dollars in salary he was so. now i can't even pay for a room nearby keeping watch over these machines but what i make now he's not even enough money to send my son to school. the plant stopped working fifteen months ago and the owner of the wind hiding he says he received death threats he owes nearly

three hundred thousand dollars most of it to former employees. i feel frustrated just so frustrated because i had to fire my employees and tell them that i can't pay them and they tell me that it's not my fault but they've been loyal workers for sixteen years all this is very painful but since the scandal broke loose association of construction supply company says more than sixty thousand people have lost their jobs it says all the rich owes nearly six hundred businesses more than two hundred sixty million dollars almost three quarters of that figure was to have paid salaries in addition to the company's financial disaster many business men say they still have to pay bank loans government taxes and some have had to sell their family homes to pay their debts. sophist she's juggling options with her drivers by shifting to other businesses with the water trucks she has left she sought enough to pay debts with the bank ceasing three others. owed

a break has paralyzed everything it was a company that brought a lot of capital and jobs many of my colleagues are ruined. outside of but i see all the riches biggest operation was here in bed with most of the largest projects are stalled analysts say that's cut the overall value of the peruvian economy the g.d.p. by one percent. that's about two billion dollars that should be the economy so when it trickles down to the population it's when there is real investment and important that hasn't happened so it has contributed to the slowdown of peru's economy. that is congress has partially lifted the free sonali religious assets to allow companies to pay off some of their debts it's a scandal that has left its mark on the country's business community its political arena and most tragically of all on thousands of families.

the former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial over claims that he misused his influence lawyers for mr sarkozy have said they will appeal against the decision the case centers on wiretapped phone calls in which this is not cozy allegedly trying to influence judges who were looking into claims of illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign a white woman in south africa has been jailed after being filmed racially abusing a black policeman. you've got a. real estate agent vicki member who was sentenced to three years with one year suspended it's believed to be the first prison term imposed in south africa for verbal racial abuse the policeman tried to help after three days broke into her car . small farms are increasingly disappearing from the american landscape with big

farms growing big small farms are increasingly going out of business in the u.s. presidential election many votes as in the fall belt. who picked a farm state governor mike pence his running mates but now many say they regret that choice john hendren reports from pence's home state of indiana. in a word great says american foreign policy is found when i was young there are family farms all around one hundred sixty four hundred acres and largely all disappeared. fifty to ninety percent of them are gone here in the indiana plains home of vice president mike pence farmers in their rural neighbors voted heavily for donald trump. and there's a late comer. now many farmers especially smaller scale producers are suffering buyer's remorse chump administration had an awful lot of support from rural america

and my expectations was trump was going to support all classes of farmers there some rules that would would give small farmers family still agriculture a chance and he hasn't made any of those kind of deals for us trump is focused on slashing regulations we think we can cut regulations by seventy five percent maybe more but big farmers complain that trump the deal maker has been a deal breaker when it comes to trade pacts that boost their exports and immigration policies that supply them with cheap labor kathleen merrigan a former obama administration deputy secretary of agriculture says small farmers have it worse largely ignored by government farm aid it favors massive corporate farms that don't need it though administration has. if you're hearing from farmers in the field the trumpet. stray sions not doing enough for them i wholeheartedly

agree we see the big guys doing well some of the new entrants small guys are doing ok but it sat middle that functioning farm where most of your income is coming from farming but you're not giant those are the ones that are really feeling great gunther of the biggest client issue congo celebrity chef rick bayless who owns this restaurant here at the upscale clientele has come to expect the free range organic pork and poultry that gun fork delivers that's how we differentiate himself but the trump administration has declined to sign the strict guidelines on organic food that many farmers have asked for things like requiring that animals have access to outdoors so gung thorpe says no one can really know just how different his product is investment is his main selling point that is this farmer wondering how many more of his neighbors will stop contributing to the world's food supply in simply let their fields grow fallow john hendren al jazeera le grange

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now it's time for the sport is peter in. so you thank you very much cricket's ball tampering scandal has claimed it's the latest scalp on a day of high emotion the disgraced trio of steve smith david warner and cameron bancroft's all arrived back in australia on thursday just the day after stating he would remain as coach darren lehman resigned saying it was the right thing for straitly in cricket now the scandal is cost cricket australia one of its major sponsors and the players have had personal deals scrapped as well emotions were high as the players made tearful apologies and pleas for forgiveness your a boomer elam has more from sydney. the world's best test match batsman

fronted the astray the media and the combination of what has been the hottest week of his career i made a serious error of judgment and i now understand the consequences. it was a failure of leadership. a violation to say well it's. it's . like that in every and most it's. it hurts. former captain steve smith and vice captain david warner a band from playing for the next twelve months and batsman cameron bancroft is banned for nine months or three conspired to use sandpaper to manipulate the ball during saturday's test match against south africa are you going to stand for the top emotional for was the kids. at this present on you hear from in public. bancroft also states the media when he landed in perth not

a second has gone boy since last saturday when i have a wish to turn back home and do the right thing during the launch brought. it is something all regret for the rest of us at just twenty eight years old smith has become one of the strangest sporting stars want to go to to get their view on heard he became the country's third youngest captain in two thousand and fifteen and twice won a strategy is most prestigious cricket prize it's disturbing you know the true story now a spectacular fall from grace this has been a lot of emotional press conference the biggest rally and the players involved and i hope it is marks the end of the saga that they have already begun ramifications for confidence starting to pull out smith is no longer brand ambassador for one of the strangers best known banks or breakfast cereals both want to and bancroft have

lost contracts with a sports clothing company and a wealth management company has cancelled its estimated fifteen million dollars sponsorship deal with the game's administrators cricket australia and smith and warner a banned from play. in the indian premier league costing them close to two million dollars each smith may still have a bright future in the years to come but the former captain may never be able to repair the damage from the ball tampering scandal which has shocked the sporting world. al-jazeera sydney the tearful news conferences prompted coach terry lehman to also announce his resignation the fourth test against the africa starting on friday in johannesburg will be the last to support. the not resigning after viewing statement cameron's. it's only for this decision. this will include a full review into the call for the him to implement changes to regain the trust of

this firm public this iraq thing for showing cricket south africa's captain faf duplicity says he feels sorry for steve smith any hopes he will be given a second chance by both cricket selectors and fans. i did sentiment kicks. from a really deep. feel for you and you don't want to see guys going through that stuff . and it's going to be. just cinema issues of support saying that. you'll get through this you should be strong. and he was really going to appreciate the message the apologies of come too late for cricket australia's bank balance as you heard from our reporter in sydney one of their major sponsors has pulled out already seven months into a three year multi-million dollar deal fund manager magellan financial group who were the title sponsors for january's ashes series against england has dropped out

of the team the deal was reported to have been worth more than fifteen million dollars now the players have also been hit in the pocket steve smith has been dumped while straight his biggest lender that would be a commonwealth bank and also breakfast cereal company cemetery him who make weet bix electronics company l.g. they cut ties with david warner days ago already and sportswear brand assets also cancelled deals with both warner and bancroft moral clauses are common in sports sponsorship deals meaning one side can walk away if the conduct of the other has a negative effect ok let's go to some tennis now and over in miami u.s. open champion sloane stephens is on the verge of winning her first title since claiming her maiden grand slam crown last september on thursday she was in action against former world number one victoria as

a rain coat of bella ruth's in the miami open samy finals as a rink it's of the first set six three. but the american would come storming back to the second set six two before decisively taking the deciding set six one that would book her place in the final. the major league baseball season is underway with the miami marlins hosting the chicago cubs in the opening game. thank you with yet happy getting the season off to the perfect start for the cubs with a home run off the opening pitch it's the first time in more than thirty years that the first pitch of the season has been hit for a home run the cubs getting two more homers in the eight four victory. the president of football club power has been banned from all football stadiums in

greece for three years of the storming onto the pitch with a gun earlier this month even inside it is charged on to the field with a gun on his belt after his team had a goal disallowed in a match against fellow title challenges eight k. athens the greek league was suspended following the incident but matches will resume on saturday after all sixteen clubs agreed to antiviolence measures the club has also been stripped of three points but bron james has made n.b.a. history again he's tied to michael jordan for the longest double digit scoring streak lebron matched the seventeen year old mark of eight hundred sixty six consecutive games with ten points or more as he's keyed in cavaliers be the charlotte hornets that's the team that jordan actually owns in school forty one points in the game with the cavs won one hundred eighty one hundred five the thirty three year old could break the record against the new orleans pelicans on friday. and that's all the sport more again later. thank you peter terrorism in cyprus is

booming but not everywhere on the island is benefiting now look of mint is launching an initiative to revive terrorist towns in the mountains as summer is a down reports the aim is to spread the message that there's more to cyprus and some say and. it's hard to fit into a postcard just how nice it is to be away from the subzero temperatures back home we can't just say breeze because i know you're in ukraine is snow and cold and we wanted to go to spring to see flowers. and maybe to see. it's a familiar story the abundance of beaches and sunshine has attracted steadily increasing numbers of tourists to cyprus. that has seen the economies of coastal towns boosted as the number of visitors reached three point six million last year officials expect the number of tourists to reach a record level in two thousand and eighteen many head for seaside towns of course

leaving places in the mountains like up at three are here not as frequent as they could be a fact the government says it now wants to change. is ready for change has souvenir shop and got about three or gets its first visitors of the afternoon. the town is one of several in the trudeau's mountains facing declining numbers of tourists. government talk of reviving tourist towns like hers is raising her hopes i think it's very good idea because high living in the mountains and will be very happy to have more tourists because we're living you know all of us we need some jobs here. the government is unveiling a plan to increase visits to tourist spots left out of the blue sixteen million euros are being set aside to upgrade infrastructure and another million to improve hotels. as to keeping you brought it out so i've been seeing a lot of areas in the mountains for example to find out the way of life for blue

sea but it's not only on the beaches but on the mountains as well. that way of life is struggling in those mountains as visit is doing will so does business and people end up migrating to cities a newspaper can pass the time when you hardly have a customer in your restaurant but it won't reveal a new chapter for your town for that many are hoping the government's initiative will rescue them from a sticky situation sami's a than al-jazeera cup at the cypress. that's it for this news hour but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news thanks for watching.

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