because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. we have a newsgathering team here that is second term they're all over the world and they do a fantastic job when information is coming in very quickly all at once you've got to be able to react to all of the changes and al-jazeera we adapt to them. my job is is to break it all down and we held the view on the stand and make sense of it.

they were. looking for the perfect inspectors from the. chemical weapons in syria to be chemical attack. and really what's next the war as a whole. as a politician from the. right however this. is only part of the story.

of the world's population doesn't have. to. have to pay nine hundred dollars yet. streaming online. dot com we have been saying suspected chemical attack for eight days now because despite the video footage and the claims in the west there's actually been nothing. if initiative about the attack on duma in syria yet investigators from the global chemical weapons watchdog are now in syria they are from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w.

remember this is the group which actually won the nobel peace prize for its work to destroy syria's chemical weapons back in twenty thirteen deers a visit itself close to syria's capital damascus where more than forty people were killed over a week ago it was the doomer attack which led the united states france and the u.k. to launch their bombing campaign in syria against chemical weapons targets all right here's the some of the on tap near the turkish border with syria to bring us up to date on this one what's the access going to be like how does this whole sort of thing work when syria and its ally russia of course have been saying no we weren't behind this but they're telling them also they can come in and have a look. well it tells you how difficult the situation will be for these inspectors when they go in to do much if they're allowed complete access and the people who are there and try and imagine their situation as well because there's a chain position now dumas no longer under rebel control it's now controlled by the

russian military police and the syrian government forces so these inspectors are going to go in and presumably they're going to inspect the site they would collect samples and then record testimonies testimonies where russia and the syrian government has been vehemently saying that these testimonies show that there was no such attack so how will these people be able to record those testimonies how will people people be. confident to tell talk to the o.p.c. because you have to remember you'll be c.w. doesn't give of it this protection program these are people who when the u.b.c. didn't expect to leave would have to live in this area so it is a tough task ahead we're hearing reports that the o.p.c. that he has met russian as well as syrian officials have been giving them gotten teens as we've been hearing from them that they will be able to go in they will be able to carry out their work independently and figure out whether an attack actually happened or not going to russia and the syrian government and says that it didn't happen and the western governments say that they have ample proof enough so

that they can launch strikes not just one country but three countries to punish the government of bashar al assad and tell them that. chemical weapons attacks these attacks which killed people indiscriminately where the world has said no to for years and years will not be allowed to happen and we watch and wait on that one thank you a somber binge of it and meanwhile the war goes on but really the syrian government is almost completely in control in fact as a summer alluded to the rebel enclave which has been bombarded for months has now been retaken by government forces as the last rebel fighters leaves anahata with more on that. it's being described as the biggest victory for syrian president bashar assad since the start of the conflict eastern to has returned to state control after almost six years for weeks the enclave on the doorsteps of the capital damascus came under heavy fire hundreds of civilians were killed the

pro-government alliance was also accused of using chemical weapons in the main town of duma before the last rebel group surrendered the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is sending a team to the site to investigate those claims the u.s. and its allies didn't wait for the organizations findings they said they had their own evidence and launched air strikes targeting syria's chemical weapons facilities . the strikes were not about threatening bashar assad's hold on power but since the bombings the message from the government has been one of defiance its army says it is preparing for more offensives the priority seems to be clearing the remaining territories outside government control near the capital. in southern damascus a number of districts are under a government siege centered on yarmouk some neighborhoods there are controlled by eisel others by opposition fighters the rebels also control areas of countryside in

the central province of homs territory in the western region close to the damascus homes highway parts of the southern province of daraa the northwestern province of idlib desert territory close to the iraqi jordan border elsewhere under the control of u.s. backed syrian democratic force rebels is the kurdish area while the region west of the euphrates river is under the control of turkey back to rebels. the government's priority now is to clear areas around damascus or what it calls useful syria because the location is strategically so important russian and syrian military officers have been reaching out to some rebel factions who are already under siege giving them the choice to accept state rule or surrender if they don't want to face an offensive in it live however there has been no offer of reconciliation there are warnings of a humanitarian disaster if there is an offensive there it's the most densely

populated rebel held area some two million syrians live there. displaced from towns recaptured by the government iran a backer of the syrian government says it could be the next target but so which is the border with jordan the government has been trying to penetrate rebel defenses for some time now. the u.s. led strikes have not changed anything and threats of further actions by western powers are confined to the use of chemical weapons the syrian government still has the upper hand and it's pushing ahead with its military solution to the conflict zone of. beirut and despite its u.s. president donald trump indicating he wanted his troops out of syria the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has just told morning television in the united states that military personnel still have work to do. i think that no he never thought he'd get out in forty eight hours yes it is all of our goal to see american troops come home but we're not going to

leave until we know we have accomplished those things what he has done is talk to our allies and said they need to step up more they need to do more and it shouldn't just be us doing it and i think that's the right approach but be very clear if we leave when we only it will be because we know that everything is moving forward. ok musters wherry with us here in studio director of the gulf studies center of culture university regular contributor for us on al-jazeera and we thank you for coming in that you believe there is talking about things getting the job being done almost or when the job will be done i mean isn't it almost down to radiate feels like this war is not going say coming to an end but really the syrian government's back in control i think after the do war with isis it was obvious that the syrian government is trying to take control of most of the cities in syria of course with the support of russia and iran they are achieving these goals starting with with

a liberal and then goes back to cities like damascus and now at liberty think of the. i think the pipeline to to to take over. at liberty i think also there are in the south there is a clear plan supported by russia and iran that the government should be strong enough to control all the cities that is to achieve one goal to improve the position of the government politically in the future negotiation on the future of syria ok let's pause for a second because i think it's worth going back and you can have a look at on the screens here going back to the who controls what what maps from al jazeera dot com i got here so you were talking about first of all you know what i mean this is important the fact that this strategic area near damascus is entirely in the red zone of the government when i look at this map the other important areas the green areas which are rebel held italy and the what's what could happen there do you think because that's almost part of the turkish issue up here isn't it with

with i think what i think syrian government is reporting to seems in the same scenario is basically two million people most of them there came from other cities the government's trying to take control of the city they would use basically the you know preventing food to come to the city and also much more pressure on other. military groups who are basically based on a i think. situation we will see intervention from turkey i think the question will be when the turkish government will it will intervene i think i'm not sure the turks will be happy to see the simpson evil hold up and admit for two reasons one for political reasons they don't want to see more cities basically the regime winning the other cities and politically for the humanitarian reason they don't want to see more people killed you know through the regime attacks and over the same scenario of what happened in other cities quick final thought is i saw

a factor at all anymore again actually can we bring up the map again just really really quickly because i think viewers might look at this and think well there's these areas in black which look still quite significant especially this one closer down to the border with jordan and need to ask is i still a factor at all i don't think so i think this is this is this is this is a you know over one one thing is to take control of the cities and they say they believe that the but the whole confrontation with isis is done already those small areas will be controlled maybe tomorrow if not today mushrooms very pleasure as always taking comfort you and us thank you now just a day after those strikes in syria the arab league is getting hit together for its annual talk the leaders of the league meeting in saudi arabia interestingly though the airstrikes won't be discussed instead it will be the wind a serious situation iran's influence and the u.s. decision to move its embassy to jerusalem are also likely to dominate. i would like to announce at this one the nine arab summit will be named as you do

some summit let it be known to all palestine and its people are in the hearts and minds of all arab and muslim. therefore i am now in the kingdom of saudi arabia has pledged one hundred fifty million dollars to the islamic program in jerusalem and we condemn also announce a donation of five hundred million dollars. i think this is a fair question to us one which you may ask yourself as well why is bashar al assad still in power the team at al jazeera dot com has broken it all down for you the four main reasons they've given here as to why syria's leader has remained in charge after seven years of absolutely devastating war if you just look up his name bashar al assad and hit the latest filter on the search results you'll find that one. to read and you can get in touch with us as well contact details are coming up on the screen for you now the hash tag is a.j.

news grid as you know already heard from cabello who said what's happening in syria is already a world war there's no point in denying it this has to be taken more seriously solutions need to be achieved as you heard the troops were saying there it really has got to the point with the syrian government is pretty much back in the control of the country which was taken partially out of its control seven years ago that number plus nine hundred forty five or one triple one four nine what's happened telegram up and running on that number and also facebook dot com slash al-jazeera now there's been widespread protests against sexual assault in india this was sparked by the rape of two young girls separate incidences in one a politician has been arrested and charged with raping a teenager and in another very disturbing case eight men jailed for the gang rape torture and murder of an eight year old girl in indian administrate kashmir shallot bellus has the stories. the arc the family has started a movement in india muslim nomads from indian administered kashmir they are the

poster family for an epidemic of sexual abuse against girls and women michael data but. she was a very beautiful and clever girl she was pretty why was she killed for what reason refreeze is the mother of eight year old a c for police charges released this week saying see phil was abducted in january by eight hindu men including police officers and rape for six days before she was killed on. everyone knows the details about the case now and even god knows these perpetrators must be asked why they killed such an innocent soul and they must be investigated. india's ruling b j p has defended the investigation into a seafoods death after the officer in charge took bribes to protect her killer. but activists saying the government is apathetic towards sexual abuse and that has created a culture of impunity in india. proteus which northern india after

a sci fi story was shared and they grew on saturday when b j p lawmaker called it saying single was a receipt for the rights of a teenage girl the alleged assault happened nine months ago but he was only charged after the victim six or self on fire. go back just a few years to twenty twelve and mass demonstrations gripped india when twenty three year old joseph singh was gang raped and tortured on a bus in delhi who did secure violence in india out of the shadows this week prime minister narendra modi trying to get ahead of a fresh wave of fury if. it is still as a society as a country we are all ashamed of it in any part of the country or in any region incidents like these shake human sensitivities i want to assure the country that no corporate will be spared on the hills of indian administered kashmir modi's words

mean little to eight year old saima she has lost a playmate. she misses a c. for a lot she tells us she misses her every day. impunity apathy exploitation would simon doesn't understand that little girls in india pay the price for them all the same. one day she took out horses to graze and someone killed her her body was found a week later they didn't allow us to bury her there she was buried in another place with the sea for gone now she takes the horses to grace charlotte dallas al-jazeera . it's hard to know what to say after saying that isn't there and this story keeps happening it keeps happening in india take us through what people are talking about there the levels about rights a lot of outrage but you know this story about little is one of the top conversations we're seeing in india right now and as we get more details about the

rape and the killing the crime taps into some of the wider issues in the country related to abuse of women and girls and some of the deeper divisions between hindus and muslims take a listen to what one man had to say for men to accept that it's an opportunity for us to do something like this and get away with it and people in power trying to defend it it's absolutely horrible i think as a society the fact that these things are in certain people's heads acceptable to a certain degree it's disturbing and it's shocking. now many others are voicing their anger on twitter using the hash tag justice for us if we shall that loni is a well known singer he tweeted this picture saying don't let this matter be pushed aside by the news cycle driven media raise your voice and put up your own pictures well that's exactly what people have been doing

a number of india's biggest film stars have joined the social media campaign and they're sharing their disgust over the rape case and calling for severe punishment now as much as this case has got its supporters others are protesting in favor of the accused and that's where the controversy plays in this he says that as if i gets attention and the politicians get attention the marches get attention the law gets attention but what about the rapists sensationalizing crimes and victims feels the darkness in humanity and the party officials from the b j p have taken part in protests in support of some of the men accused in rape and murder and this is caused outrage online with pictures of these officials being shed with the hash tag boycott b j p and meanwhile the prime minister narendra modi commented off to opposition leaders criticize him for staying silent he stated that the country was ashamed about the rapes and that our daughters will definitely get justice while

this did not do much sakshi cond down the tensions the prime minister's slow reaction cause even more outrage among prime monk very well known journalists and also public figures general tweeted this picture saying that history will remember modi for his eternal silence on brutal rapes murders and nationwide protests. and has prompted a tweets on tragedies in other countries where others have been tweeting him directly one man out of india said that they gave you power it is your responsibility to protect us if and all other indians what are you doing with india and then there's a ten year old kid who took it a step further he recorded this message to the prime minister who would do this prime minister we need to make sure that this stuff stops and india is now safe for women and children because i told my father i don't want to go to india for summer vacation because it seems so dangerous and i'm scared to go there now. so if you

are currently in india we do want to hear from you share your concerns or questions or comments on any of the platforms use the hash tag a.j. news groups thank you we're here the plenty more to come see you on the newsgroup right now a check of some other international headlines start with lauren tara. thanks crawl three hundred fifty thousand protesters have rallied in this fire city of boston or to demand the release of high profile secessionist leaders but just as it took over many of the city's main streets and wore yellow in support of the catalan leaders no one prominent separatists a big held in prison while awaiting trial for their role in last year's secession referendum so you're going to go has more from barcelona. this is a cold shot just filled with those interests not just by really trying to support us but also i think probably the trade unions as well they say that yes they were pressing tactics used by the scruff of the state so that he is still

under direct rule from the drink but there is increasingly this i guess that they have this it prices really has not moved on march since that in fact there have been like you say shoes that spain has directly into feed with trying to provide some form some legal way for the cats of my leadership to be able to aid see this crisis for example one of the political leaders of the subject that m.p. is still in prison he has not been allowed out to be able to have an investigation he's and he made formally the president of catalonia if this crisis continues until the end of may then there will be no other option but to hold elections is something which the catalog. leaders are trying to hold off on again but feeling terror not playing away there is an impasse here at this moment on the

spanish government is really doing its best to strong arm what it can do using all its tactics to be able to double down on the catalog supporters. voting is underway montenegro's presidential election longtime leader mellowed you kind of rich has never lost an election and is the favorite to win in. his ruling and democratic party of socialists have dominated politics in the balkan country for more than twenty five years he favors closer ties with europe over those with its traditional ally moscow last year the country went against russia and joined nato. the film world is paying tribute to oscar winning director mueller's foreman who died at the age of eighty six on saturday the czech born filmmaker who was part of a nine hundred sixty s. wave of directors which criticized the communist regime in czechoslovakia but it was in hollywood before one made his name in one hundred seventy five he picked up his first directing osca the one flew over the cuckoo's nest nine years later he repeated that success with amadeus about the imagined rivalry between mozart and an

italian composer fighters disguised as un peacekeepers have attacked a new u.n. base in mali killing one peacekeeper and injuring ten french soldiers it act happened on saturday in the northern city of timbuktu the fighters entered the camp and blew up two suicide car bombs before launching rockets one of the vehicles had been disguised as a mali and military vehicle there is no immediate came the responsibility as a moment for me back to command in doha thank you laura lawrence got a full dozen top of the hour sixteen hundred hours g.m.t. from london. so it nigeria just quickly want to bring you up to date on a story that we've been following your member the two hundred seventy six chibok school girls who were kidnapped by boko haram in nigeria we've been following that for four years now and while some of them have been freed there is a journalist now claiming only fifteen of them are still alive the nigerian government says it has no way of knowing whether that is true though and insists

negotiations with boko haram are ongoing last we heard though it was believed more than one hundred of the schoolgirls were still being held captive. before we go to the break i just want to answer a couple of questions or one question in particular which is coming up facebook dot com slash al-jazeera the live stream show you who's asked the o.p.c. w. inspect is that is the chemical weapons inspectors in syria on the payroll of the west which may compromise their funding as well as you can see have done a quick little bit of research for you all of these countries here on their websites members of the o.p.c. w it is an intergovernmental organization there are one hundred ninety two signatories and that includes syria they're basically if you signed up to the chemical weapons convention then you are a part of the o.p.c. w. so it bills itself as a sign intergovernmental association organization so in answer to your question you would hope they would not be compromised by any sort of affiliation because they are from one hundred ninety two different countries around the world headquartered in the hague in the netherlands as it happens all right so if you've

got any other questions do getting through to us the hash tag a j news good twitter facebook and whatsapp this is a news group if you're joining us on facebook live welcome we've got a story coming up just for you now about a u.s. judicial nominee who refuses to answer a question about whether or not she supports a ruling against racial segregation in public schools just in story and that is true to say about friends and educate us and then later we take you to one all south america's largest capitals where officials are trying to improve the lives of those living in the city's. hello springs fairly obvious from the satellite if you look at the amount of clouds over iran of afghanistan to pakistan that she has done anything that ends in stone frankly you can expect rain at the moment less so in iran and less so still in iraq

but there are still discreet showers around the euphrates and tigris for example about tails down towards cuba it tempted to run any twelve degrees and if it is still to remind you it's only april cold differ just now in the mountains just to the north so it doesn't caspian warn us fine with the west for that bit of a breeze every day out again from the wrong direction to right make things really warm but it's pleasant enough twenty six in better twenty nine in baghdad and by the time we get to choose day it's shot on the rainy and side of the border less a further south or further west but there is a cloud around the arabian peninsula and the breeze from the south would suggest dusty weather again possibly occasional suns to sandstorms kicked up by developing thunderstorms they look possible and choose a rock cutoff for example but a little less likely maybe moving sas through the tropical rains to southern africa we've seen some decent rain recently for a long through new maybe and to angola those showers are still going that also every now and again sprouting up in the western cape.

in australia more indigenous children are being taken from their families than ever before. one when used investigates whether history is repeating itself. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. a society's progress is dependent on the quality of its experts we need more finance professionals a top arity is too wide awake at new generation to study find new teaching methods are infusing thai students to become the agents of change taking them out of the classroom to solve problems in their local communities level education inspiring

science in thailand at this time on al-jazeera.

headlines around the word home and what's trending the live updates obviously does strikes are no longer going on but we have what's effectively on my blog it's all the latest ever since those air strikes on syria what mission has the u.s. accomplished in syria have a look at that in fact pretty much everything syria related there certainly not so of coverage at out zero dot com and there are a number i that story i showed you a little bit earlier why is bashar al assad still in power you'll find all the stories the what's trending section on the front page i don't as you would dot com there's something. one of those things many of us take for granted but you know in just thirty years the u.n. reckons a quarter of the world's population won't have access to clean water and actually that die situation is already a reality in some countries but scientists in britain say they may have a solution now if you have any questions about water scarcity a water treatment send them in to us now because we have an environmental policy specialist joining us in

a moment to talk about it that's off the latest in our thirst series where lawrence they goes to manchester to find out about a potential game changer. it may only be one atom think and invisible to the eye but the graphene layer wrapped inside these two can help provide clean water to the planets. the mesh around its tiny holes acts as a filter bacteria and other nasty bits in the dirty water are trapped in the graphene layer and drinking water comes through the other side and you get blocked by the christian you know and trust your water can come yet so effectively it's a seed. turn graphene into a shield like this and run salt water through it the salts molecule stick and h two o. passes through graphene can desalinate sea water as well we recently sold it stephanie possible to remote i answer. which was a very important step but now we need to reproduce stalls results on a very large scale this is probably going to take at least five years i think. in

many ways it appears to be the breakthrough the world's been waiting for cities like cape town face potentially catastrophic water shortages desert occasions through climate change water borne diseases the problems are so well known yet solutions remain elusive that's partly because desalination and other filtration process is a currently slow and expensive once the graphene solution is scaled up to industrial levels it may hold the prospects of revolutionizing the availability of clean water they're going to gee this one for example have a big role to play they can reduce the cost of. distribution what the treatments are lots. and it can really help the companies governments motivate them to provide water for cheaper for their citizens it won't be enough but it can play a big role. as ever though much of the potential success of graphene will be wrapped up in politics people living in gaza for example rely on desalinated water and lay their hopes on israel and the united nations for solutions technological

advances and political will on the same thing they've already had queries from people in cities like a. town wondering how quickly they can get hold of their own personal water filtration system so there's no doubting the agency of the need but it is as good an example as you can find of the way in which technology is now on the point of being able to overcome some of the planet's most difficult public health problems lawrence li al jazeera and manchester talk ok joining us via skype from davis california is hannah savage she is the environmental policy specialist who i mention a little bit earlier nice to have you with us hanna. seventy percent of the world is covered in water i believe dissent and i know this technology which we're talking about here is new. and going into mass production will be a whole big a step but doesn't it all seem to make sense you know we here in the desert we have to desalinate all our water because there's just not enough rainfall that seems to

make sense yeah that's right we really need to talk to now matching water streams to water and you know there's a lot of different types of water out there in the world we can think about siri what are. respond are we think about grey water that you use for washing as well especially her and all of those different what research streams can be used for different purposes and right now we do a lot of wasting potable water on earth nonpolitical applications like agriculture and we take a lot of not potable water and treat it as waste here and don't think about rays that we can extract from now so i think we need to do a better job of ensuring that waste water isn't wasted on the kinds of technological innovation never seen like the graphene treatment or examples and so what can be done to you mention to which sort of piqued my interest a greywater which i think he said was washing water and waste water as well what what can be i guess we're saying recycled from that and re-used. yes

a couple of things so it's interesting to think about the potential for recycling wastewater well into potable water and then also thinking about other types of value that stretch from least water waste water again which we characterize as something that's just waste actually has a lot of useful now you say contains a lot of bio stalins or again if matter and if you have a fission job of collecting those fire solids you can combust and generate clean energy at the same time as you're generating clean water so thinking about the concept of actually getting to energy neutral or net energy positive wastewater treatment there's also the potential to do direct wired to reuse them rather than taking waste water and discharging into our oceans we can think about closing that water safe keeping the waste water transforming it into clean drinking water that we can use for all sorts of herbs and do you think there's enough awareness about all of this and i mentioned at the start of our segment that the u.n. is saying twenty five percent of the world's population won't have access to clean water in only thirty kids that's not long to go it's you know i think that it's

really easy you know it once you don't have access to a lot of you think about how important it becomes and i'm sure you've done something that residents kicked out another recently water stress or water scarce regions are thinking about in california i don't see that part of that because we've got parts of the state where water is very prevalent in parts of the state where water is very scarce and water scarce region so it's very much pressure but in the water rich regions we don't think about how much where our water comes from how much water we had and how quickly we're using at consumable sources of water like groundwater so education and outreach certainly a huge part of trying to solve the water crisis just a quick final question for you had it's come from one of our viewers jonathan who's asked by sickly is water possibly the next oil you know the thing that that precious commodity which people are desperate for people might even find hyphen. you know i did meet about why there is not mystery an exploit all the next energy because there's a lot of different types of water just as there's

a lot of different types of energy oil was one of them consumable sources of water like groundwater are also one of them but in the same way that we're seeing the proliferation of energy innovation across the globe and a proliferation of renewable term good sources of energy we can think about much more sustainable way is to reduce our water and assess the great talking to you know it's early there on the west coast on sunday morning so we do appreciate the time. much not senegal's historic coastal city all of st louis is that risk of disappearing due to rapidly rising sea levels houses in the form of capital and now unesco world heritage site already being swallowed up by the ocean they've been hundreds of people homeless nicholas hock reports from there. when the tide is out. what is left of his home resurfaces. this is where the kitchen was he tells his side. he shows him his grandparents bedroom.

and the living area where they would all watch t.v. together. the ocean swallowed the two story house i do shared with his ten relatives. it's a series of bad storms that destroyed the homes on the coast over the years the ocean keeps pushing forward they live on the brink in an archipelago barely one meter above sea level so louis was once france's colonial capital in africa now and tens of thousands of its residents have been displaced due to natural processes and human intervention. on a visit in february the president of france promised millions of dollars to save this unesco world heritage site and its inhabitants saying climate change was to blame for the destruction that forced france were urgently invest in the coastal marine life to help and protect its preservation macky sall has begun them bitches program in the north to put up stone along the coastline in two thousand and three senegalese engineers dug a small canal in one of the islands facing the ocean thinking it would help

evacuate flooded waters from the city center instead it made it worse the five meters wide canal is now five kilometers long. the city council is building an embankment made out of stone and metal people here say it will be no match to the force of the ocean that has already destroyed concrete home their fear is at the rate at which the ocean is rising here it's just a matter of decades before they were hoods of this ancient city vanish under the water. displaced families are really catered to these makeshift tents on the edge of this a house. the rising temperatures and lack of water make it impossible to grow any food and so some have left the camp. not war or poverty but the changing climate. they traveled through the sahara desert and across the mediterranean to europe adding to the hundreds of millions of climate refugees now on the moon in

search for a safe place to live. nicholas hawk al jazeera senegal. in the last season of al-jazeera earthrise series one entire episode was devoted to water saving every drop fascinating stories from the dark in india and also from jordan about some incredible low tech innovations actually being used to make the most of scarce water sources and by the way the story just want to gold medal at the recent new york festivals to t.v. and film awards so earthrise was a great watch it's in the show's section at al jazeera dot com to want to sire is now one of south america's largest capitals and just like many other big cities thousands of people are living in slums now the government there is trying to integrate the slums into the rest of the city trying to provide everyone with access to the basic services they never had before if you think it's going down well with everyone to raise a boat as the story. it's known as the white elephant an abandoned

building in when a site is that for decades was home to hundreds of people that had nowhere else to live. but these days heavy equipment is working nonstop to bring it down. we started to think in twenty eleven when the national government gave the city the building what we should do with it there were too many things happening here we decided to demolish it and start from scratch to transform the area. it was meant to be the largest hospital in that no merica during the government. but when he was overthrown in one nine hundred fifty five the project was abandoned and since then it has been a symbol of neglect. hoping to build a park schools and are currently building the new ministry of social development here the idea of this project is to increase the presence of the state in an area that has been historically abandoned around ninety families used to live in this

building in this conditions with no water electricity or access to basic services there were also one hundred forty families who lived outside the city has been offering all those occupying the area cash incentives to buy a house somewhere else. on the face it was difficult to ask people to leave people didn't trust in our goodwill to help them leave this place slowly we started showing them that we want to help them improve their lives some families want to other places some of them are better off but there are ten families who do not want to leave and works as a driver here says he's not ready to move. when you don't want to go because this is where we work from people know they can find us here i don't trust the government's intentions they leave and they don't finish what they started over seven hundred thousand people live in slums in suburban when a site is the current administration says it's working to improve the living

conditions of everyone in the city but you know. what happens in the city happens all over the country across latin america and in areas like education and health facilities. the president is working on a plan to improve slums around the country build roads and generate. this is part of the biggest urban development project when a site is has seen in decades but it is reducing poverty in the country what will guarantee that those who left the white elephant won't end up living in another slum once again. we want to keep an eye on freedom of speech around the world of course given a lot of our content comes directly from you on line but we have learned that tanzania's government has now approved a new law that will regulate content online retailer is looking at this one for us how serious are we talking here right now people think it's very serious now

bloggers social media influences and online platforms will now have to apply for a license and pay a fee of nine hundred and thirty dollars if they want to keep their sites up a content producers will have to provide a list of details such as funds and tax it's a difficult son also investments in order to get accreditation and set cafés are also reportedly expected to install surveillance cameras to record activities inside the business premises that the law gives the government the right to revoke a permit if a side publishes content that leads to public disorder and threatens national security this may include content that is indecent obscene has hate speech extreme violence or material that will offend or even cause annoyance users could face at least twelve months in prison and fined up to two thousand three hundred u.s.

dollars. now this is the latest move in the country's brought a crackdown on the media tend to me as president john mcgrath fully has got a zero tolerance policy for any criticism of him or his government since he came into power in twenty fifteen private owned radio stations and newspapers have been suspended new laws have also come into place to tighten control over the internet now a well known case is sense mellow he's the founder of a jam a forum says this is a website for whistleblowers and he's being prosecuted under the twenty fifteen cyber crimes act for stories that expose cases of alleged corruption involving companies close to the government and now there's a lot of not much clarity in terms of how the new regulations will be enforced or how they will impact citizens rights online but activists argue that it will restrict freedom of expression and human rights reporters without borders ranks tanzania eighty three out of one hundred eighty countries for press freedom

nicknaming the country the bulldozer of media we heard from the representative a firm a teacher's journal the story really the only subject to criminal proceedings cities and you only relation is just another step further in a context of significant deterioration of press freedom and. another issue is whether people can actually afford to pay this nine hundred thirty dollars fee now according to a twenty seven thousand overview by the world bank tanzania has sustained relatively high economic growth over the last decade but twelve million people still live in extreme poverty with earnings less than sixty cents a day that we heard from juliet from the international i.c.t. policy for east and southern africa she says that this will have an impact on bloggers in the country. we are likely to do to see

a decline in the number of unnamed publishes in tanzania this is primarily due to the hefty fees associated with the regulations which will largely be mostly in the foldable for many of the uses in the country so we pose these concerns to the town's named government and this is what the spokesman had to say about the new regulations. they you are going to drink relations out there as. to technological advancement and it is up to cannot judge where they want well what can be purchased with them and we need it in this missions to protect those who are being victims of slash and the every every kind of issues that one president decided to do without biting but. so what do you make of this latest move in tanzania get in touch with us on twitter so any of the people behind me is the hash tag. thank you for that right here the once again for our facebook love you as

a bonus story for you about whether i have bugged africa edition is made of that's my friends and i just bus again and then fires here with sport in the story of the collapsing marathon runner at the commonwealth games and why off hard to watch my goodness response so much debate. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very trained for is water problem on anybody say anything to. those people who see every two years something to invest a profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. you run for your. we are getting is going it's going to break one one it's incredible race to chinese formula one grand prix has been one of the top global trends this sunday there been hundreds of thousands of tweets from all over the world most of them came from the

united kingdom followed by italy brazil and the united states plenty from australia as well as they celebrate the victory of daniel ricardo the red bull driver finish top of the podium with championship leader sebastian vettel in phillies home and has this report. sebastian vettel started from pole position in shanghai after winning the first two races of the season the expectation was that the ferrari driver would make it three zero but a bad pit stop on the twenty first lap proved costly for him. and eventually allowed fien valtteri bottas to take the lead. a collision between the two toro rosso drivers open up the field even so the joining safety car conditions and daniel ricardo started to make his move through

the field from six. zero zero. the australian had barely made qualifying when engine problems that found his way to the top of the series of overtakes. vettel so he's right some gravel after a collision with red bulls match the stop and who was analyzed. while ricardo held them at the front the just the sixth victory of his formula one career bought a house in kimi reichen and completed the podium defending champion lewis hamilton was full vettel finished eighth on a day that well and truly belong to recut oh. i don't know what it is i don't i don't seem to win boring races they're all pretty fun so that was unexpected you know put ourselves twenty four hours ago i thought we might be starting on the back of the grid there's a two week break before the next f one stop in azerbaijan with vettel leading

hamilton by nine points in the championship standings daniel ricardo is now fourth release homan al-jazeera. well daniel ricardo is known as one of the most popular drivers on the circuit he is the third most followed driver on social media by. honolulu's hamilton and fernando alonso and after that victory the australian posted this picture to his one point three million followers on instagram with a text winner winner smoked a brisket dinner look that up if you need to or we want to show you some shocking pictures from the commonwealth games which ended on sunday on australia's gold coast scotland's column hawkins was leading the marathon event by almost two minutes when he collapsed from heat exhaustion the twenty five year old tried to prop himself up and continue towards the finish line buddy just can do at a time several minutes for any paramedics and medical staff to ride australia's michael shelley past him happily winning the race from

a column still on the ground was being photographed by onlookers. all these pictures caused a social media frenzy the viewers were hope were genuinely horrified by these images that were posting them on twitter here's one of people just standing there and god king also fellow athletes and former athletes condemned the marathon organizers for taking too long to provide assistance marathon world record holder paula radcliffe tweeted big questions for local organizing committee and medical support that should never happen atlantic score a sponsor run lewis said how pathetic our commonwealth games organizers count hawking's should be an ambulance and he's lying flat on the ground it was in a great final day for games organizers they've been attacked by host broadcasters and fans online after forgetting to include the athletes in the closing ceremony the athletes were there but organizers chose not to have been featured on the

coverage or announced into the stadium one former competitor the same quote did get some time in front of the camera though showing off his d.j. how m's. well so what do you think you can get in touch with me directly at underscore is smile be back with more n eight hundred g.m.t. but for now back to. thanks for that far palestinians are using art to support the ongoing march of return protests against the israeli occupation of their lands there is a mirror in the displacement of seven hundred thousand. forced from their homes during the one nine hundred forty eight war so the creation of israel when i pass has been taking a look. and

finally if you can't in these are pros centuries old art form that was once one of hong kong's most popular forms of entertainment but now is struggling to engage the next generation the tradition is considered the unique part of hong kong's identity in industry diehards say they're going to keep it alive sarah clarke has more. after sixty years designing and creating traditional head dresses chan caulk yarn is considered a grandmaster in cantonese opera these days he spends less time creating and more time teaching to educate the next generation to appreciate this traditional art. the audience is mostly in their fifty's or sixty's i hope that we have more younger audiences over time that's the crucial point it's a concern shared by some in the industry who say younger people are now more

engaged with other types of digital and time and. so they have come up with a plan as well as subjects like math and science primary and secondary students can now study cantonese opera the hong kong government hopes that by making it part of the curriculum it will preserve this unique part of hong kong's cultural heritage the money through this kind of activity we hope to spark kids interest in this culture and they can experience the value of it the performance showcases stories of chinese history gestures and singing styles haven't changed nor have the demanding retains but the storyline has been given a modern make over everything to be like cantonese opera the only difference is the story itself we try to write stories on the daily lives of the children cantonese operator is considered a unique part of hong kong's identity and may be recognised by unesco as an intangible part of the city's cultural heritage and this year the government is

opening this new theater dedicated to the arts with a fan base of many adults and the elderly the industry now is the key to its survival is reinventing this tradition the decadent costumes are drawcard as well as the mike up but students are learning to appreciate the performance celebrating it on stage her whole journey i love the county's opera because i now know more chinese words and culture from it. i like it because my grandpa sings cantonese opportunist so i'm used to listening to him a lot with more than twenty schools now signed up to the program industry groups hope this new landscape of cantonese opera will stand the test of time sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. we're out of time on the grid we will see you again tomorrow and in the meantime i go to newsgroup.

getting to the heart of the matter if new stuff i can go to the supreme leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers are out there going on tyrol you know. we are

challenging the forces we're challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. stories of life. and inspiration. as series of short documentaries from around the world that celebrate the human spirit against the odds. al-jazeera selects gag us fifty three member states. one night comic figurehead as leaders of the commonwealth descend on london brits by anyone meeting al-jazeera asks how much does the commonwealth matter in today's world and where does it go up to queen elizabeth follow the commonwealth heads of government meeting on al-jazeera.