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hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes. opposition leader like me and more than a thousand others are detained across fresh. fruit in protests violence flares in indian administered kashmir a protester is killed after being run over by an indian security. guard. if you don't like warnings of more tremors to come in hawaii after a magnitude six point nine earthquake rattles the big island triggering more eruptions from mount kenya where. i'm tatiana franchise in doha with the sports and it's the penultimate weekend in the english premier league teams are now

fighting for survival west brom have secured a crucial when it may not be enough. russian police have detained opposition leader. as well as more than a thousand of his supporters in anti-government demonstrations across the country. the valley was carried away as he attended a rally against president vladimir putin in the capital moscow the protests come just two days ahead of putin's inauguration for a forced her or a challenge that is live in moscow for us following all developments what is the situation now. well we have been looking at data released by a group called o.b.d. info all day which is a human rights monitoring group that essentially keeps

a tally of all the detentions that have been taking place across the country and they say in their most recent tweet tweet that at least one thousand six hundred seven people have been detained across the country in these demonstrations so far we may get more coming later on into the evening it gives you an idea really of the kind of police tactics that have been used in towns and cities across this country i went down to the demonstration here in moscow earlier on today which was the biggest one. was watching what the police were doing and they were moving into the crowd in their finances basically grabbing individuals either by deciding previously that that's who they were going to target or sometimes it seems that they were just grab someone by random and then they would pull them out and stick them in a police van and then move back in on another raids and that was repeated again and

again and again throughout the afternoon and tory i mean this only happened a few hours ago but from what you can see especially on the local t.v. there how much impact is this having russia had south. well i mean if you look at the local t.v. channels predict the state t.v. channels which the majority of t.v. channels see you wouldn't really know there was any such thing going on the state t.v. channels generally ignore alexina around the when they do mention him it's always in a fairly pejorative way he's obviously not a popular man on state t.v. . that's one of the things that i think you know the kremlin learned in the last six years or so there was a round of demonstrations that happened just as putin was coming into his previous term in office from the end of two thousand and eleven into two thousand

and twelve which shook the kremlin to its core really there were tens of thousands regularly coming out onto the streets of moscow and petersburg following that round of demonstrations there were numerous changes brought in the laws surrounding protests were toughened up so that it's almost impossible to have a legal demonstration now there were harsh jail sentences given against demonstrators the laws surrounding the control of the media were tightened up as well so foreign media or foreign ownership of russian media was essentially kind of driven. down and there were changes made to the electoral system all of these things of basically immense that now if you add all that together with vladimir putin's foreign policy decisions which have been immensely popular in the country now flooded with putin is looking a lot more comfortable than he was six years ago. or a challenge for the latest there from moscow rory for the moment thank you and for

more on the story we're joined by samuel greene's the director of kings of russia institute at king's college here in london sir thank you so much for joining us here on the al-jazeera so first of all we heard our correspondent there for a challenge from moscow what do you think alec scene of ali is trying to achieve and what do you think he can ultimately achieve looking at the situation in russia as it is well i'm so i think that what he's trying to achieve or what he probably can achieve is to remain relevant. obvious the region has just rather convincingly although with some degree of question of how free and fair the election was he's won another six year term. and so. not only find yourself again on the outside very much looking in not content and this is really to just sit and wait as many in russia are not content to sit and wait for the next election to see when there's an opportunity to to make some change so i think that he wants to demonstrate to the kremlin that he can still get large numbers of

people out on the street that there are still large numbers of people who are willing to take risks to go out to an unsanctioned rally to rallies across the country to risk confrontations with the riot police and so forth but also i think importantly to demonstrate to. those in the russian opposition themselves that there is still momentum here there is still some solidarity there is still a group of people who despite the fact that they will not be seen on television despite the fact that they can't get any formal entry into into russian politics that they still. have at least some means of making themselves seen and heard so you say that there is still you know this opposition but how difficult is it to see how much support the lakes in the valley actually has both he as a person and just in general an opposition movement to president putin it is. almost impossible to estimate how much support he does or could possibly have

obviously he was not allowed to contest the elections and we don't know how many people would have voted for him even if. he had been allowed right he is not visible on television and so his ability to to reach people through formal means is quite limited he has and his supporters have opened a network of volunteer centers around the country which participate in organizing these sorts of things also trying to get involved in local protest movements around . environmental issues housing other sorts of very much kind of a material issues for for average russians and. but the reality is that. most people in russia will not see politics either formal politics or or street politics as a fruitful way of of problem solving so his big challenge is to to demonstrate that something can actually be achieved and what do you make of the authorities response because we were hearing from or a challenge sitiveni. reports of people being pulled out of the crowd we again

reports one thousand six hundred people arrested including of course the romney himself what if you made of the response was so it's very reminiscent of what we saw around about this time in may two thousand and twelve just after putin the last time was was reelected there was one last protest right before his inauguration it resulted in large numbers of arrests after which a couple dozen people went to prison for fairly lengthy prison terms i have no idea whether we'll see something similar now but in both cases up until the election the government held back void of the sorts of scenes that we've seen today in order i think to prevail present the elections as relatively open relatively free and fair but then once the thing was said and done certainly wanted to say that the game's over ok samuel green from king's college here in my answer thank you. now at least four people have been killed in violence in indian administered

kashmir a civilian died from his injuries after being run over by an indian security vehicle and earlier at least three separatist fighters were killed during a raid by security forces a warning that you may find some images in a sum of fives report the starving. this is the moment when an indian security vehicle crushes a protester. the vehicle drives on and the wounded man is left behind he later died of his injuries indian forces say they're investigating what happened that is now under control as a guard that gave a civilian system to be a certain make over the fact is all the second was more than a dozen people have been killed in escalating violence in indian administered kashmir last month the un secretary general urged that the loss of civilian lives needs to be investigated. and get it's been another day of violence.

this time it began when soldiers raided homes in a densely populated area in the city ocean over security forces say they had information that fighters were hiding in that area when they were asked to surrender the soldiers say the fighters started shooting opposition is going on things are under control everything is an under control you want to look. there is not much there is more damage of assuming property and other things so i think that under control. all three fighters were killed by security forces during the operation police accused protesters of trying to impede their operation and help the rebels sort of. our brothers who've left in the path of the left for us and they've taken up arms after seeing the tyranny in kashmir now we have come out to rescue our brothers. india continues to blame neighboring pakistan for instigating trouble in the disputed region which pakistan denies. activists say

more than seven hundred thousand indian troops and security personnel have been deployed in kashmir and the army is opposing calls to repeal a special powers act which prevents the prosecution of soldiers accused of abuses human rights watch has urged india to carry out prompt investigations into allegations of abuses and to prosecute those responsible but rights groups say thousands have already been killed in kashmir in nearly three decades of violence with no sign of reconciliation any time soon. how wise big island remains on high alert continues to spew from its killer way of ok no the island has been rocked by a series of strong earthquakes and nearly two thousand people have been forced to flee their homes there and a home has the latest. but five days hawaii's big island has been rattled by hundreds of earthquakes and then three major train has over

a three hour period the biggest a magnitude six point nine. the seismic activity began on monday when the crisis floor of the a volcanic cone on the cool the way it started to collapse lava flows into new created underground chambers that lava along with rocks and toxic gas is now being spewed into the air and coming up through the years. the stay active for a short period. wayne will start a. killer wears one of the world's most deck to volcanoes vulcanologists say it was never a question of when but where the volcano might erupt what's different this time is that a new fissure is a period much farther down the mountain challenge with this activity is the fact that it occurred in a populated area now the question is will it stay in that area will it move to

another part of the part of the volcano and how long will it last. officials ordered at least seven thousand five hundred people to leave their homes including everyone in the town of path for. development this residents of familiar with the dangers four years ago kill away as lava flow stopped just short of the town. experts say the gases and ash the highly toxic but well the lever is dangerous it's slow moving that means people will have time to escape even for those who did get close to it that buildings can't be moved and homes have already been destroyed. killer where has been erupting on and off for thirty five years experts say it's difficult to predict how long this irruption will last but they're insisting they'll do whatever is necessary no measure the disruption to keep people safe to hand out to syria. the u.n.

is warning of disease outbreaks following severe flooding in kenya at least one hundred twelve people have been killed in more than two hundred sixty thousand the splay sed over the past two months aid workers say they've managed to help just a quarter of the nearly fifty thousand families in need of shelter after weeks of the renshaw rain and simmons has been traveling with one of the relief teams. here in the neighboring county of killing three it's the reverse of baccy another major river that's causing all of the hardship right now people are leaving the school here so many schools have been used to shelter but now it is nature that's forcing these people away is actually the government because they want these schools to reopen there are seven them seven of them here in gary she alone many others are also being used they've got much better facilities obviously water and sanitation but you know these people are going through a camp they're having to move again they're not really complaining the fact that

their children need education but everyone is really getting to terms trying to get to terms of the fact that this crisis isn't going to be over within days in mind or be over within months because there could be a lasting effect so many crops lost so many livelihoods lost they had a drought now they've had another extreme to long rains to renshaw rain and the forecast is adjusting the rains could go right into june that means crops will be totally destroyed it would have been the planting season and then you're into what could be another drought afterwards well these people are in a situation where there should be an abundance of crude here but the whole livelihoods the whole lives are being threatened. so much more is. going to be head of the first parliamentary election. but will a new electoral system actually bring about. three to.

the new mission to mars that will dig deeper into the red planet. and. is the biggest. protesters are gathering outside the national rifle association's annual meeting in dallas texas momentum has been building for stricter gun control since a high school shooting in florida left seventeen people dead a little earlier this year president trump addressed the meeting on friday valuing to protect the rights of gun owners well how do you castro joins us live outside the conference i guess people had hoped that the momentum after the parkland shooting that we were just mentioning would bring about change but then donald

trump speaking to the conference on friday kind of seemed to the support. that's right barbara in fact trump rather bask in the approval of the eighty thousand some and ari members who attended the conference they are among his most loyal supporters the gun lobby donating more than thirty million dollars to his election campaign and texas which is host to the n.r.a. conference this year is a hotbed for the gun rights movement this is the state that has the most guns out of the entire country and in fact behind me that protesters seen as a gathering of gun rights advocates they are civilians who march on the streets armed with rifles and pistols because texas is a state that allows people to carry weapons openly in the public now those protesters the anti protesters rather who i just spoke with said that they're here because they want to demonstrate their second amendment right to bear arms earlier

this plaza was full of the other side we're seeing this very divisive issue separating the united states i spoke with those students who were protesting and the parents of children who have been killed in school shootings and they said that they're not trying to take guns away from people but rather pass commonsense gun legislation. things like making sure everyone has a universal background check thing before being allowed to purchase a gun and they said they were disappointed that president donald trump who had indicated some sympathy to the victims of the last school shooting in florida who had famously even said to his fellow republican lawmakers that they may be afraid of the n.r.a. but that he as president wasn't in fact back pedaled on all of those promises and yesterday was extremely. appreciative to the n.r.a. saying that they were patriots and that he too was committed in making sure that

gun rights are not eroded in this country but so heidi does that mean that the momentum more you know perceived momentum but we've seen after the parkland shooting is now over that effectively nothing looks like it is going to change. that is a big question up in the air barbara and in years past as you know there have been many school shootings as well as movie theater shootings and just public shootings nothing much has come of them despite increasing public opinion with polls showing that it is a growing number of americans now close to seventy percent who support more gun control but the n.r.a. is such a powerful gun lobby so many politicians depend on that camp their back their funding for their campaigns and fear their attack ads if they were to pass any gun legislation that the n.r.a. opposes and so what the gun gun control advocates are saying now is they hope that

those americans will show up to the polls in november when it comes time to reelect members of congress and only elect those who will support some gun reform but as you custer with the latest from dallas in texas heidi thank you. now the u.s. could end its role in the saudi led coalition in yemen after it deployed forces to a yemeni island without consulting its exiled government that's according to a senior yemeni official speaking to the associated press there have been further protests on so-called try against the u.s. military presence it's not clear when the troops will be sunny arabia sent a delegation to the island after an iraqi soldiers took over key locations there this week the yemeni government and the u.a.e. are formally allies against who the rebels but the u.a.e. has promoted other separatists in southern yemen at the expense of the government lebanon is holding its first parliamentary elections in nine years on sunday

thousands of ballot boxes are being distributed across fifteen electoral districts but with the country still divided along sectarian lines there's little hopes of new electoral system will bring major political changes in a hotter has more now from beirut. it will be the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade polls were repeatedly postponed until a new electoral law was agreed proportional representation has replaced winner takes all system but some are criticizing the new law for benefiting the ruling political class who have been forging unlikely electoral alliances just to stay in power their main objective is to increase the number of seats. that number of seats and. the new law is supposed to give a chance to first time hopefuls but breaking the establishment decades long hold on power is not easy the problem is that the civil society.

just. as are the only parties that formed joint lists at a national level they have long dominated the political landscape but they are facing opposition from within limited but a challenge nevertheless and that is why he has been campaigning hard. change. because of the way districts are carved out but he is expected to be with the biggest bloc in parliament he does however face opposition from within his community with him for not taking a hardline stance against the iranian backed.

christian candidates are also battling for leadership of their community the poll term and their popularity a few years before they vie for the presidency a post reserved. and the pros. and the. military which. has. been focusing instead on securing their power if they hope to bring about a new generation of leaders that likely will not happen there may be some changes within parliament but there is

a general. says that these elections will not in major changes to the political landscape. be grouped. that is sending a robotic geologist to mars to explore deeper inside the planet than ever before. the mars insight lander launched from california in the first interplanetary mission to ever take off from the west coast of the us it will take six months for the spacecraft to reach its destination and its kristen salumi now reports the aim is that help learn more about our own planet to. it's a mission to deepen our understanding of the red planet quite literally once nasa's mars insight lands it will send probes deep under the surface not just to find out more about that world but also our own mars is geologically similar to earth what's different is that it's relatively unchanged since its formation something

scientists hope will provide clues as to how the earth formed after the big bang we want to understand what happened in those first few ticks of the clock on the earth that the evidence has been mostly erased. instrument point but that's not all the mars insights to your mission will also use seismometers like these to measure quakes on the planet and in a first experiment of its kind the mars insight will be trying out new satellite technology called cube sat two briefcase sized satellites will break off from the insite shortly after take off and follow it to mars but stay in orbit while it does its work below if they can still transmit the data back to earth it's thought they could revolutionize satellite use its nasa is first interplanetary mission to be launched from a base other than florida's cape canaveral but after saying goodbye the scientists will have to wait six months before insight reaches its target and is able to dig

deep into the red planet kristen salumi al-jazeera. stay with us on the news hour still to come the french president wraps up his trip to new caledonia with what's being seen as a symbolic gesture towards reconciliation and i'll just say we're investigation reveals how hundreds of people were experimented on the without their knowledge in mexico and then supported an english writer shows the locals ahead of the spanish moto g.p. . hello we know in iran expect showers maybe one or two in iraq as well but this cloud isn't particularly dangerous is not producing big thunderstorms not just yet so think of the caucasus think of turkey but there is

a circulation in the eastern med that will increase the amount of cloud trust the levant so showers seem quite likely during monday spreading down across the border into northern saudi arabia and spreading clouds across iraq by this time much of iran is dry afghanistan still is not shown seem quite likely here including in kabul so we got shells coming to the north of saudi arabia but science of that is just a quiet picture and i'm sure it t. is a little bit hard for some around the gulf states because there's no prevailing breeze but he could is not much going on dusty the us is quite weather as it is now for the most part in all southern africa you can see the line of clarity circulation that by bringing a shower to into the eastern cape catching double it seems less likely than of late and in could be as big a breeze in cape town which might allow the cloud to come in here and if you're lucky get a shower too but otherwise it's sunshine and it's reasonably warm twenty nine to twenty six and wouldn't talk because probably drive a bit further north still showery.

sixty seven words that spelled promise for one people. but disaster for another. the pledge to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british declaration the change the middle east powerful seeds of discord on al-jazeera when the news breaks. on the old man city and the story builds to be forced to leave just. when people need to be heard women and girls are being bombed and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you the mood winning documentaries and live news and out of iraq i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism

on air and online. a reminder now of the top stories on. russian police detained opposition leader. at a protest ahead of president vladimir putin's inauguration more than a thousand demonstrators were arrested across the country at least four people have been killed in violence and indeed administered kashmir a civilian died from his injuries after being run over by an indian security. and the u.a.e. could and its role in the saudi led coalition in yemen after it deployed forces to

a yemeni island without consulting yemen's exiled government that's according to a senior yemeni official speaking to the associated press. that the us navy has just reactivated its second fleet to patrol the north atlantic ocean in the face of increased russian aggression the fleet with the was the span that in two thousand and eleven as a cost saving measure it had played a key role in the mediterranean and north atlantic during the cold war russian planes ships and submarines of recently come into increasing contact with nato forces and assets in the north atlantic well joining us now from washington is harlan ullman who's a senior fellow at the u.s. naval war college service thank you so much for joining us here. first of all your reaction about the reestablishment of the second fleet are you surprised by that. this is very predictable nato has decided to reestablish or establish two new

commands a transportation command in europe and to reestablish what used to be called supreme allied commander atlantic in the atlantic and nato has two major operational commanders the supreme commander in europe who's responsible for the defense of europe and they will recommission the supreme allied commander atlanta will be responsible for the defense of the atlantic and the second fleet will be the primary organization that in turn will have the responsibilities for defending the atlantic fleet against potential aggression as we were just hearing the second fleet played a key role in the mediterranean north atlantic during the cold war but how effective do you think it's going to be or it is now to deal with current threats and the current situation i think we've exaggerated the russian military threat and we've under the under played the russian political threat i think that the likelihood of war with the west on the part of moscow is negligible

flatterer putin does not want to risk a war but he's been using so-called active measures political intimidation interference in our elections assassination attempts propaganda things that he can do to disrupt the alliance and so that will continue and the establishment of two nato commands is not going to have much to do with preventing russian use of active measures it will however enhanced deterrence in the eyes of the alliance who are concerned about the military aspects but it will do very little to deal with the bigger danger from russia the active measures which are political diplomatic and used to try to divide and conquer the alliance using these tools and tactics that i described earlier so i mean would you say that then this is mainly a symbolic move and you know even if it is just a symbolic move that it would actually carry weight for the other allies who perhaps are worried about russian incursions in in parts of europe. it's

a logical extension of what nato is doing it will reinforce deterrence in the eyes of our allies and it will provide some means to deal with any kind of russian aggression in the atlantic but in terms of the larger political and strategic picture nato has got to come to grips with countering active measures and unless or until nato does putin is going to have an open field to be able to do the types of things that he has been doing and continue to do so the so what else do you think the u.s. or nato in general could do to act as a proper to terence and try to properly contain the russian and chinese as well for i guess what i would talk about the chinese the russians and the chinese are not allied and they're not going to be allied i think nato and the european union have got to focus on the nonmilitary aspects from the russian playbook cyber attacks interference intimidation propaganda misinformation fake news these are all things

that are being done by russia and the nato members individually and collectively i think have got to do far better and coming up with some kind of a common framework it may be very difficult for the alliance to do that because it is still a military alliance but i think under the leadership of the united states we can move much more forcefully to deal with active measures and hope that this will spread throughout the alliance to be able to contain not so much soviet military russian military power a slip of the tongue but the active measures that politically diplomatically and strategically are giving putin great traction harlan ullman senior fellow at the u.s. naval war college a source thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you. now al-jazeera investigation has found that hundreds of mexicans have undergone experimental and unregulated medical procedures by the country's flagship neurological institute over a fourteen year period the patients were fitted with

a device meant to drain fluid from the brain but in some cases it made the patients conditions much worse to home and as part of the sound investigation. it's painful feeling under to look back at the time before she was hit by hydrocephalus a debilitating condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain it's left her with massive headaches and speech problems. everything changed because i was a sports woman before i spent twenty years doing sports and i sold clothing everything ended she hoped that an operational cruise flagship institute for neurology and neurosurgery would help her but what she didn't know was that doctors would hope with an experimental and the north arise device. and not just her four hundred seventy three other patients who went to the facility so implanted they

were essentially guinea pigs in an unofficial trial carried out over a period of fourteen years they never asked me anything before operating they said something to my husband but never that they were going to do an experiment. three doctors working at the institute at the time spoke to al-jazeera it all said that like you learned the nearly five hundred patients weren't told the device was unauthorized nor nobody's case file included an informed consent about the experimental nature of the device not one. the national institute has refused to clarify if patients were informed or not but we got access to six patient files this is what's key to all of this the medical consent form in one of the cases and it's very general it doesn't mention that this is an experimental device that hasn't been authorized by the health ministry. but that's not all the three doctors

out to syria talked to say the device was simply a tube that relied on gravity to drain away fluid from the brain down to the stomach area and that relying on gravity meant that if a patient lay down it would flow back other devices used valves to stop that. it's just a tube it's technology from the fifty's it doesn't represent any sort of progress by a published studies the inventor of the tube claimed it's precisely calculated diameter did regulate flow and stop fluid going back to the brain even when patients were climbed he said it worked better than valve eula devices. doctors told us several patients had to have the device replaced but it's unclear how many suffered from any ill effects the names of those implanted haven't been released and many came from poor remote communities. because it's a problem especially with patients without much money they feel ok and they go

there last. year learned that was able to have another device fitted several years ago but the health continues to worsen at this point hopes of getting better or for justice a fading john heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. an explosion in gaza has killed six members of hamas is military wing because some brigades the blast which injured three others happened in a residential neighborhood over that house says those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded israeli weapon dating back to the two thousand and fourteen war . iran's president has criticized the ban on a popular messaging application a son rouhani says blocking the app telegram is quote the opposite of democracy it was banned earlier this week by the conservative run judiciary state t.v. says it was to protect national security iran has been considering the move since january when protests over the colony spread across the country official say some

of those rallies were organized using telegram. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of paris to protest against french president the new and mccrone one year into his leadership that a stranger is carried and team a complex cards at effigies of the former investment banker the protesters are critical of his economic program which they say favors the rich record has been trying to liberalize france's labor market to make it easier for employers to hire and fire people well meanwhile mccrone has wrapped up his visit to new caledonia by attending a memorial marking thirty years since a hostage crisis on their island in the ember the french territory will vote in a referendum on whether to split from france but mccollum told al jazeera that reconciliation and his visit needed to come first and thomas reports from new caledonia. there are

a few places more remote than the island of emanuel macro came here to make a point that he's prepared to travel anywhere literally and politically in the name of reconciliation we are at six months from the refrained and i just wanted to first of all revert to the sometimes very difficult past we had in this vision here in of a our and i don't know were thirty years ago we had a very very definite there was a lot of victims so it's very important to reconcile everybody which is a precondition of a fair return i'm so going to be sure that this of on i'm going to be organize in the perfect way which would be the case and does a concert of the united nation with cert i want to convey as well as ambition of france and the region macro is the first french president ever to visit there where in one nine hundred eighty eight political violence killed more than twenty people after losing what they saw as a rigged referendum on independence a group of pro independent indigenous cannot command stormed

a police station killing four policeman and taking more than twenty others hostage for two weeks the policemen were held in a cave before france's government sent in soldiers they freed the hostages killing nineteen of those the french government called terrorists in the process patricia dno his brother was one of those killed on may the fifth nine hundred eighty eight she's marked the day every year since his grave which has become a memorial to the cannick victims. thirty years on they are still scars we want justice to be down i hope that michael makes a big just to feel that they did not die in vain people on saturday president joined commemorations meeting family members of those on both sides who died. this is the most significant part of president macron strip thirty years after the events of the late night and eighty's he's told people here that he wants to open a new chapter three of the french government and the people you tell us are you the

violence of the one nine hundred eighty s. led to a peace process which both sides agreed would lead ultimately to another referendum that's what's happening finally in november magro it wants to ensure that this time independent supporters see the vote as credible after britain leaves the european union france will be the only e.u. country with territory in the pacific macro thinks that will give his country a strategic edge in the region but keeping this specific terra treat peacefully with in france comes first andrew thomas al jazeera their new caledonia. the unveiling of a statue of karl marx sparked celebrations and protests in the german city of three year the bronze statue marks two hundred years since the philosophers of course it was a gift from china whose ruling party says it's carrying on a marxist communist legacy veiling saw protests against human rights abuses in china marks remains a controversial figure especially among germans who lived under the soviet union's

communist government after the second world war well sport is coming up next here on the news hour while we're going to hear about a fourteen year route is over for the new champions of russian football also coming up on the news our getting closer to nature why this japanese crafts man left his job as a mechanic to learn that this is a plane of growing on site trees. growing green bacteria in a boardroom and super heated gas escaping from. this is really the. innovation in the for what happened to experiments both exploring and. how counter the impacts of climate change the science of capturing cult news ignites i'm the guy in the congo back in my metairie and the i just have to contend.

in the reported world on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the work. loneliness is becoming an increasingly serious public health problem problem that's

according to new research a survey of twenty thousand american adults found barely half of people have meaningful face to face interactions on a daily basis the lowliest group perhaps surprisingly is the youngest ages eighteen to twenty two with loneliness levels decreasing among older adults social media seems to have little effect other people who never use it are slightly less lonely and those who do factors that help reduce loneliness included sleeping well spending more time with family exercising and working neither too much nor too little gabriel is on the has more. a person off in the distance alone in their thoughts sitting in a park in darkness a portrait of a man walking in the snow all by himself a young man playing basketball with nobody else around all pictures of people in new york in situations of solitude perhaps loneliness.

i. knew courtis sick polish photographers snapped the pictures he says he can relate to the subjects he moved to new york city four years ago knew almost no one and discovered many people suffered from loneliness just by chance many of his photographs were of people alone you know you come here and you are busy with your work life and then you realize that all your family all your friends and social life and then in many ways is behind them i was used to it but i talked to a lot of people a lot of new york is here my friends are strangers. and the theme of loneliness just kept coming back according to a study sponsored by cigna the global health insurance company americans are alarmingly lonely and being alone can bring about serious health risks. research has been done that has shown loneliness a linked to heart disease diabetes depression substance use and other chronic

illness as well the study was focused on the u.s. researchers say the numbers are similar in other parts of the world but perhaps what stood out most in the study young people between eight thousand and twenty two years old scored higher than any other age group in the loneliness survey horrible or lonely than people seventy two and older researchers aren't exactly sure why but they say high social media consumption does not help. we've all seen it a million times young people in parks like this and instead of sitting next to family and friends and talking hunched over their phones like this checking social media in social media is very anti social as for luke or does he is not trying to start a social commentary about loneliness with his pictures he simply discovered taking

pictures of people usually showed more often than not the people were alone gabriels and oh new york fascinating study ok now it's time for sport here starting in though. thank you so much barbara it's the penultimate weekend in the english premier league but with the title already guaranteed to be heading manchester fifty's way the focus is on the battle for survival up the bottom west brom in short they could still of void relegation with a dramatic win over taught him anything short of a victory would have seen the baggies go down but jake livermore struck in the ninety first minute as they downed spurs one nil. the result means the fourth placed top name on to guaranteed a place in next season's champions league west picked up a crucial victory a lesser felt hunton live to fight another day off to during with everton but stoke city all going down to the second tear they lost two one to crystal palace it means

they're out of the premier league for the first time in ten years. is that the mood in the game system. is still so it's difficult so. probably. good for everybody the book club support but it would because of those are blowing clubs. in the rebuilding of a really strong move to is a burden that we were strong. so here's about all means three will go down we know one it will be stoke that leaves five teams who still on face what's ham huddersfield found hampton swanzy and west brom hottest field face man city on sunday the melbourne victory have been crowned champions of australian football they beat the newcastle jets in a controversial grand final in his home and reports. the city of new council north of sydney hosted the pinnacle of a strongly in football for the first time. their take on the jets and finished

bottom of the table you earlier and were looking to complete the ultimate turnaround but a mood of celebration lasted just eight minutes. cost a barbarous as with the strike for the melbourne victory but it wasn't without controversy there were media claims of offside but the goal stuart the jets had sixty four percent of possession in the photos tiles but were frustrated by victory goalkeeper lawrence thomas who was the game's biggest star. he was also involved in a nasty incident in the dying stages copping a boot to the face from roy donovan the irish strike a lashing out in the ninety second minute he received a red card that he's efforts. the open the victory wouldn't allow it to sour them celebration. the old one new way of ensuring

a full title in thirteen seasons for the team conj by kevin muscat. then now the more successful team in elite history. elease holeman al-jazeera. a champion team has been crowned in russia as well and for the fast time and fourteen years the crown belongs to lokomotiv moscow baby that is the petersburg one nil on saturday the result means lokomotiv can't be cashed by the nearest rivals spartak and c.s.k. a moscow it was the third at premier league title for a seventy year old coach judy's german in his fourth spell in charge. is there pinning a weekend of the champions league across africa the biggest contest of the weekend kicks off in the next few minutes defending champions without katha. blanka facing former champions the moment sundown to clinch the south african premier league title last weekend to glee's de putin's air support will beaten two one by her

royal of guinea algeria is safe with thrashed four one by t.p. mazembe a from the democratic republic of congo. cycling now and italian rider alyea viviana has taken the second stage at the journal of the italia the first three stages of the race taking place in israel and viviane a finish the one hundred sixty seven kilometer leg from haifa to tel aviv in under four hours for hand dennis holds the lead as pink jersey the australian taking it from dutch while the champion thomas the moulin who won the opening stage introduce them. british moto g.p. rider cal crutchlow has set a track record in qualifying for sunday's spanish grand prix the honda ride a lap to the new lever prayed as track and just a fraction i have a one minute thirty seven point six five seconds to still pole position from several spanish stars it's crossroads first polls in two thousand and sixteen last

year's race when a dunny by that also will start second on the great while defending world champion cares could only manage fifth quickest in qualifying. the cavan cavaliers of the chance to go three nothing op in the n.b.a. playoff series with the toronto raptors later on the bron james and his team hold a two nothing advantage in the eastern conference semifinals and the cavs have never lost a series with that kind of lead and fast days of the eastern conference semifinal the boston celtics could also go three are over the philadelphia seventy six ers they've never lost a best of seven playoff series from the position. that pool hall is have been playing a major league baseball for eighteen faith and on friday he added a very special chapter to his stellar career at the l.a. angels dog joint the three thousand hit club they came at the top of the fifth ending against the fiasco maurice hall facing a single for his three thousand career base hit just the thirty second play and

i'll be history to reach that mog and only the second from the dominican republic. and out of all the bacteria that he and i thank you for that bonsai is a japanese art form which uses cultivation techniques to produce small trees in containers that takes years of discipline to convince nature into a small part that is a bonus i craftsman inside tama he says he listens to the voices of the trees as he works years his story in his own words. coordinated through my name is. a bonsai craftsman. i was a mechanic at toyota before this i had nothing to do with it until one day i visited a grower and as soon as i set foot into his place i knew instantly that i was going to quit my job and start working with. bonsai is grown in

a pot but cultivating it also involves creating trees that inspire sceneries of the natural world. and. i find beauty in trees when they're healthy and full of life instead of in their shape. i used to be very ambitious in how i transform the trees some of which were the most admired and respected in japan but when i turned thirty seven i realized how much i had damaged them and then suddenly i heard their screams saying we're alive just like you i felt strangled this experience. changed me completely. i try to understand what the best conditions are for each tree and deciding on the spot what i need to do now what i shouldn't do and what can't wait. the trees taught me not to force my own a statics upon them that's why i study hard to understand how the trees the sun and

the wind can best work together. i give them only moderate amounts of water and fertilizer it encourages the trees to grow the roots out. it's important to give them the strength to survive and thrive in their world. some are more than a thousand years old the june of birds are around four to five hundred years old it's astonishing but i'm equally moved by the life force of plants growing from the seeds or cuttings. the trees grow into certain shapes to thrive and i respect that what i try to do is bring out their beauty so that more people can appreciate and take good care of them i think that's the job of a craftsman even if they're highly valued i wouldn't say that they're true bonsai unless your heart feels at peace looking at them. you give the trees pass them on

because they will leave you but hundreds of thousands of years. the story there they have bonsai tree crafts now a very scared but brave witness says filmed a massive landslide in action in southwestern china take a look. terrifying that's an estimated fifty thousand cubic meters of rock and soil crashed down a hillside in sichuan province no one was killed or injured but the landslide blocked the road and even partially blocked the river at the from a general hole that will be here next i'll see you tomorrow thanks for watching.

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