mining and relaxed standards for fuel efficient vehicles california is taking the lead hoping other states and cities will help with stave off a fiery and foreboding future robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. japan is proposing an end to a thirty three year old ban on commercial whaling the move comes as the international whaling commission begins its two union meeting which is taking place this week in brazil right now home to explains the issues on the table you'd be forgiven for thinking whaling is a thing of the past gone of the fleets slaughtering whales to near extinction commercial whaling is banned trading and while products is to end yet every year japan norway and iceland collect least fifteen hundred that's an estimated forty five thousand whales at least since the ban was introduced in one thousand nine hundred eighty six and they want to take more norway has never been bound by the

eighty six moratorium because it lodged an objection to pen in iceland to conduct scientific whaling a controversial new poll allowing countries to hunt for research purposes together they have been lobbying the international whaling commission to reinstate sustainable commercial whaling the stocks that they say have recovered and he whaling countries though say the numbers and the practices just don't stack up they accuse japan of aggressive lobbying and particular of trying to entice developing nations to vote on this side and return for investment in their fishing industries and so every two years i.w.c. member nations on both sides of the divide prepare for a fight like whaling itself it's a bloody business. the russian protest group pussy riot says one of their members has been poisoned piotr of a sylow has been in emergency care since losing his eyesight and his speech on

tuesday he was one of four protesters jailed for disrupting the world cup final in moscow two months ago they ran on to the pitch to demand the release of political prisoners and more choice for russian voters. he's designed a floating airport in japan an eye catching museum in new york and the tallest tower in london the city where new exhibition of the work of the architect renzo piano is about to open just a boulder has been to a preview at the royal academy in london. you've probably seen or even visited a building designed by renzo piano museums concert halls skyscrapers by the italian architects scouter the world the buildings are beautiful critically acclaimed how does piano do it it all starts with a quick sketch in green marker he says then it's the context the neighborhood the strength and the spirit of the community you try to understand change the shape of society the shape of the wall and you build from that say. it all

began with the pompidou center in paris shocking when it was designed in the seventy's with richard rodgers it reflects the turmoil of nine hundred sixty eight the establishment turned inside out by student riots. piano is most proud of his public buildings used to understand that this is for society. just don't go for a. single the mayor they fear that by doing what you do you can change the rules the shard london's tallest building was a technological challenge a relatively small piece of land up against railway lines and a thirteenth century church the buildings eleven thousand glass panels reflect the city's icy skies making iron cement and industrial glass appear delicate the building of classic renzo piano radical design the latest technology and it

reflects a time in history with london and edgy confident city attracting attention from around the world. the recent bridge collapse in pianos native genoa has left him bereft he's offered to design a new bridge to reconnect the port city a bridge falling is that just because those are for want it for twice the beautiful and the symbol of the four but these could actually be a bridge is the all poses of the more. bridges should never fall and walls should never go that's the truth in uganda piano is building and funding a children's hospital builders are using an ancient clay technique it's sustainable cheap and local reflecting pianos belief that increasingly good architecture must also take good care of the planet jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. still to come

here. from sprint to zero what happens when you take gravity away from the fastest man in the world.

just watch news with peter thank you well it's been five months since in a canadian youth ice hockey team lost sixteen of its members when a boss taking them to a game crashed on the way now the humble broncos have emerged from the tragedy to play the opponents they were meant to face in april and hearts we.

heard she was straw man. some of the thirteen survivors from the accident attended the game is the team made its return to a packed out arena in the province of saskatchewan the game began with the survivors dropping the puck in the ceremonial first faceoff humboldt managed to school the opening goal against the nipple on the hawks but went on to lose the game two one the team will board a bus again on friday to play nickel and in a rematch. always hokey legend wayne gretzky is pushing for the n.h.l. to lift the ban on players competing at the winter olympics style ting with the next games in beijing twenty twenty gretzky's in beijing for the n.h.l. china games he's the league's all time leading scorer and played for canada at the ninety eight games when a child players were first allowed to take part this year the league ball players from competing at the south korea winter olympics because they didn't want to break up the season gretzky hopes they'll reconsider there's

a difference between the best players in the world and good players in the world now. if we don't go to the big games it's still going to be a wonderful olympics and still going to be exciting hockey and the fans i think will really enjoy watching. the best younger players in the world play sort of speak but there's a different level that we can send the best players in the game it's always much better for everyone now it's been a pretty lucrative few days for this lady u.s. open champion and they are less than a week after beating serena williams to claim the three point eight million dollar win is check at flushing meadows she's now partners are with japanese car company nissen on a three year deal as the new brand ambassador the twenty year old was presented at their headquarters in yokohama japan's first grand slam winner is also reported to have signed a deal with added us with ten million dollars a year a soccer can't escape those questions though about serena's all game and with the umpire. kind of isolate your name was in that she was so emotional you were so calm

us alone i couldn't there so it out and i realize how mature you are and pretty. it's easy to get over excited how do you stay cool like that guy. and i just think you. are not to be negative oh man yeah just to not have any regrets. it's been a busy twenty four hours for a socket a separate news conference in your yokohama she spoke about her aim to be a role model for young japanese players and also her mission to win gold at the tokyo olympics. i know everyone's very excited that the olympics are going to be held in tokyo and you know i mean. i feel like it's every every athlete's dream to play in the olympics so i'm looking forward to that a lot and i feel like if you play then before course you would want to go for gold

so that would be my goal to l.m.b. organizers say planning for take here twenty twenty is harder not only because there's more sports than ever before but also because of the high risk of natural disasters japan was hit by an earthquake in typhoon just last week what happened last week and then what happened in the assad regime we certainly have here time to me and i know the organizing committee the sir the complexity of planning for these guy for sydney we had a simulation exercise one weekend of what could go wrong but i were all. disasters that we draped up you know try and come in off the rial in the blue mountains. someone bursting through attacking you know one of the marathon runners all of those sorts of things. but you don't have to dream anything up in this country the youngest ever go for to compete at the u.s.

open is now the first male professional player to come out as gay howie's todd made the announcement on instagram saying that he struggled with his mental health for years because of hiding his sexuality he says he wants to inspire others going through the same thing back in two thousand and six would you call a qualified for the u.s. open at the age of just fifteen. to las vegas now where unusually there was no faceoff between god and canal alvarez ahead of a huge rematch fight this weekend traditionally at fight week press conferences both fight to square up for the cameras but they kept their distance on wednesday's report of the canal or refused because he's too angry with goal of can the fighters made several comments about kanellos two failed drug tests since they're drawn fight last year you can win yes i mean if you've known me throughout my career i do not like to talk i'll do it in the ring and i hope everyone enjoys the fight for my friends and for mexico i mean do you regret not doing

a faceoff. this is point you know just to. see him since i'm a fifteen and why they before you know this more important now it's one of the biggest rivalries in cricket in hockey but india and pakistan footballers aren't shy of a bit of confrontation either it wasn't helped by india going three nil up in this south asian suzuki cup semifinal india the defending champions of the tournament in bangladesh a tussle between two of the players brought both sides down to ten men pakistan did manage to pull one back final score three one to india. and they'll face two thousand and eight champions mold leaves in the final the maldives passage through this tournament has been unconventional they made it into the last four after a coin toss decided the course final between them and sri lanka this time the maldives were three male winners over nepal although the game was suspended because of a fundamental. volleyball

world champions poland got the defense of their title off to a successful start they be cuba three time champions in two thousand and fourteen runners up brazil also grabbed a win in their opener they beat egypt three nil brazil won the olympic gold in rio and all the top ranked team at this tournament. eight time a limpet gold medalist the same bolt defied sporting logic cheering his record breaking sprint cribbage don't even the jamaican can defy gravity but spin in france where he's been rendered weightless in a microgravity plame during the two hour flight the thirty two year old attempted a short dash but as you can see here he struggled to really get going. there are there were just four. words right right. right right. the words right it's so different. our first words your birth order in. the morning

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a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. a show of force and the siberia three hundred thousand troops join the largest war games for russia since the soviet era. of them are a con this is live from doha also coming up saudi and aussie led coalition battles with the rebels over a main supply route in hyundai to. world leaders gather and ghana for the funeral

of former un second general kofi annan. and we look back at the mixed legacy of the oslo accords twenty five years after this is stark can shake in front of the white house. russia's president has inspected troops taking part of the largest war game since the fall of the soviet union that i'm a person says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened that russia is a peace loving state that doesn't have aggressive plans three hundred thousand troops or at the weeklong bus stop training exercises in russia's far east chinese troops have joined them for the first time in such a large scale operation. lot of us stock. well there are two notable things about these drills the first is the sheer size of them they are large the

biggest we are being told since nine hundred eighty one and involving three hundred thousand military personnel from the russian armed forces we are seeing or iraq thousand aircraft involved helicopters are managed aerial vehicles are struggles basically up to thirty six thousand tanks and armored personnel carriers and vehicles and eighty ships and supply vessels now there might be some exaggeration going on here previous military exercises that raw. has conducted have not been quite as big in the final tally as we were told they were going to be beforehand but still they're large and there is also this chinese components now the chinese imports is minimal compared to the russian the chinese have put in three thousand two hundred troops and thirty aircraft helicopters and planes plus a few tanks and other armored vehicles but it's the gesture that's important it's

russia inviting china to show them essentially that russia does not view china as a threat or an adversary but it's also a sign to the west to nato to the united states that russia and china are getting closer together and might push came to shove actually fight alongside each other now to me putin has been watching over these exercises and he says they've gone pretty well so far he went on also to say that russia is a peace loving state we don't do not and cannot have aggressive plans now. that is of course trying to assure any international observers these are. defensive drills rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going back to say two thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that's is a lot of a person's view on things today. commanders of the saudi m.r.c.

coalition at war in yemen say they continue to control the main routes supplying the important port of hyundai and if i says underplaying the reports saying they've repelled government forces and stopped their progress sixteen is when the main has the supply routes linking the data to the rebel held capital the u.n. envoy cmin is set to visit sana to revive talks to stop the fighting under simmons is following the story from djibouti and has the latest. there's certainly no letup in reports that the saudi u.s. led coalition and government forces on the ground have cut off warm major supply line between the port city of who data and the. rebel held capital sana'a now the implications of this are huge because there's already a major humanitarian catastrophe going on in yemen this will just add to it on a grand scale warnings from all quarters that this was the last thing needed in the

run up to attempt to try to get some sort of dialogue going only dialogue not certainly a peace deal at this day age and the u.n. special envoy. probably. if it's possible and then on from there to riyadh but the timing of this is it is really difficult for him he had said that he had tried to get the hootches to the table he seemed sympathetic in some parts of his announcement last saturday towards the hooters in terms of what the difficulties were but no one knows really what the true motivations of either side is in terms of gains or losses it was seen now that the coalition is determined to make a major leap forward as they see it in this conflict and a leap backwards for the human beings involved. united nations humanitarian coordinator for syria is calling for all parties involved in the whole time. and.

into the rebel held enclaves. says nearly forty thousand people. of september. the most congested governorate in syria more than three million people living there about one point four million internally displaced. the situation in libya is really very different to any other area given the compositional including all the fighters and extremist groups that are there and that's really brings the need for humanitarian diplomacy for diplomacy for conflict prevention key element too of course is that the moment. we hope for the best we're preparing for the worst seven decades joins us from antakya on takis border with syria and stephanie the play ready as loud as ever isn't it full diplomatic solution to be found for. yes

because that the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe those the words being used by the united nations for weeks now are so high the numbers mentioned there are the worst case scenario nine hundred thousand people could flee that's almost a million people or most of those the opposition held areas well that's the only area that that is one controlled or you know backed by turkey just in the northern part of saying there that you know this doesn't mean by any means that we are ready but saying that they're trying to do their utmost to prepare for this worst case scenario also saying that they maintain talking to what they called you know countries of influence like russia like iran like turkey like cotton like the united states to try and find a political solution to this the bottom line or you know covering this war over the years you can see that it's usually a military option that comes first that kind of you know gets the actors in a position where they have a stronger negotiating hand at the table and then some kind of political negotiation will come at the moment reading the ground there was an escalation

a couple of days ago in southern province russian jets and syrian government dropping barrel bombs but in the last three days it has been quiet it seems that some more time is being given to turkey to try and talk to the rebel groups on the ground some of the ones being called terrorist organizations to disband themselves it is going to be incredibly difficult to achieve that certainly at the moment. the school facilities in health sciences schools needing to be protected i mean how difficult is that to achieve. well the u.n. mentioned there that they you know de confliction was incredibly important that it given the coordinates of things like hospitals to all the parties but we've seen this before in conflicts particularly comes to places like aleppo when there were you know health centers health facilities that coordinates were given and they were still hit so many people will tell you that you know what it comes to the military offensive in this war before there's been no rules that either side holds itself to

as you heard again there you know it is different it is seen as the last stand of the opposition you have many different rebel groups on the ground yes you have two main camps one of them being. the group for me known as the mr front and still seem to be affiliated with al qaida and then you have a loose fracture a see that say coalition of rebels that turkey supports turkey is the guarantor turkey needs to deal with a turkey also has troops inside it live it has observation posts there under the astonished deal it's been beefing up security and military over the last couple of weeks convoys going in to beef up some of these security posts also beefing up its borders and everyone is sort of in a holding pattern at the moment but people very aware of the cost particularly the humanitarian cost if this conflict goes full out and it isn't resolved politically just briefly people will tell you it may be in a couple of phases firstly taking the south but again at the moment everything

seems to be on hold ok stephanie many thanks for the update from. foreign minister is calling for a joint effort to eliminate what he calls extremist groups and. avoiding humanitarian catastrophe is vital. we are watching the situation over there very cautiously live was the last song off of the deescalation and we had knowledge that we had all extremist organizations who are operating from there to but the way to eliminate them is that really in cooperation with. with with turkey and with the with other allies over there in order to make sure that the protection of the civilians we want to avoid another catastrophe to take place. and to and we see that. the same the same thing has been repeated elsewhere unfortunately because which are being committed by the regime in the past years against their own people

. british prime minister of tourism is holding a cabinet meeting to discuss the narrows for a new deal break says the british government is about to publish guidance in case the e.u. and u.k. does not reach an agreement but the chief negotiator michel barnier said on monday he thinks a deal could be struck in the next two months some conservative m.p.'s have been meeting to discuss how and when they could force me to stand down as prime minister . joins us live from downing street sign is just about a three hour meeting was and it should be wrapping up about now. indeed it has lower we've just seen cabinet ministers emerging from number ten downing street behind me here and really what we are now anticipating twenty eight also technical notes about what's going to. really be uncovered in the event of a no deal breck's it and that would really cover issues such as environmental and vehicle standards among other things as well as for example cell phone roaming

charges within the european union it has already been stated by the brics it minister dominic robb that a deal had in fact been cut with several cell phone providers saying that they would not assume wants more roaming charges so that's perhaps a bit of good news for that side as well part of the back of all of these notices as well there's also news from the credit agency moody's who have warned that in the event of a no deal breck's it which looks certainly more likely according to them that it would potentially plunge the u.k. into a recession and cause a crisis with the value of the sterling as well really which does not spell good news for the government if that were to happen so many pressures on the prime minister that want challenges facing from within her own party. where there has been really a war within.