as always very good to get your insight on the situation in syria thank you so very much for joining us on the news great now let's bring in our social media producer and just ship out andrew a lot of the chatter online and in diplomatic circles is how to define these various groups and it is yet it's a heated conversation from as high up as the united nations security council we've certainly seen that over the past week as diplomats constantly bicker about who is a quote unquote terrorist and who isn't we just heard that a few moments ago and lots of generalizations are being used by russian and syrian accounts media outlets and diplomats kind of lumping all of these fighters and all of it live the whole province into one of two categories either terrorists or rebels this is from a russian news outlet now the russians are even pushing back on the idea that what's about to happen in it live can even be described as a military operation on tuesday the russian ambassador of a sealy in the business said that quote we are not talking about a military operation here we are talking about and anti terrorist operation in its libyan minute it was you know

a few days before that the syrian ambassador bashar al jaafari said that the government is aware of the humanitarian consequences that might result from liberating it live from illness or affronts he also said that the syrian government will provide safe passage for civilians to leave as they've done in similar situations now there's a number of british personalities actually and politicians who agree with that katie hopkins for one tweeting about putin and assad are strong leaders who are not responsible for civilian deaths in libya of other individuals such as a former member of parliament also in the u.k. this is george galloway he posted on september eleventh that britain and the united states are now at war in syria in defense of al qaeda just think about that he says . same story in the united states with figures such as congresswoman tulsi gapper who was heavily criticized for meeting with us last year she's accusing the trump administration of quote acting as protectors of al-qaeda in lib and also

threatening to punish russia and syria if they were to attack so the un special envoy for syria stuff on them a story he's one of the many individuals trying to add some nuance here and saying stop generalizing these groups he's reminded the security council that ninety nine point eight percent of the people in it live cannot be considered terrorists and must be protected that's millions of human beings caught in the crosshairs as these warring parties argue over who is a terrorist and who isn't so let us know what you think about all of this and the competing narratives around it live you can get in touch with us using the hash tag it in it's good thank you very much for that andrew again reminding you that we have a special page on the battle for al-jazeera dot com with all the latest news lines on that with checking out if you want to know more about the main player is a likely scenario is of an offensive and of course the human cost it's a page that's constantly updated find it at al-jazeera dot com.

in other world news spain has decided to go ahead with selling four hundred laser guided bombs to sanji arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel the order the move is anger activists who say the weapons will end up killing innocent people in yemen but the holding of the deal had created concerns about spanish jobs and the future of a more lucrative contract to supply warships inside yemen meanwhile the u.n. says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as fighting between the saudi emirati coalition and with the rebels escalates in the port city of data commanders of the saudi emir articulations say they continue to control a main supply route but that's disputed by the who fees who say they have repelled government forces and stopped their progress well let's get the view of sigurd new bar now in washington d.c. as areas of expertise include middle east politics thank you very much for joining us on the news great there was a lot of hope indeed from human rights groups after spain's government decided to stop its one to fifty arms deal with saudi arabia now they say they will go ahead

with the sale of these four hundred laser guided bombs to the saudis what do you make of this u. turn especially when it comes just a day after the trumpet ministrations certified that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are doing enough to minimize the deadly impact of their military campaign in yemen . what we're seeing is that we're seeing increasing pressure around the world including in spain the united states germany britain and even norway to cease all military sales to yemen to saudi arabia and to the united arab emirates forwarder operations in yemen having said that we're also seeing that there is a concerted effort led by the united states to push forward the peace process for yemen as we have seen in previous reportings just these past couple of days the u.n. special envoy for yemen martin griffin has just traveled throughout the gulf to set the stage for the next push for the u.n.

peace talks we have also seen that the who things have said that they have been denied access to traveling to geneva for the peace talks and the saudis for their part have accused the who these of not showing up so there is a gap there between the two narratives yet you say there's a lot of pressure on these western governments to perhaps review their support for the sandy led coalition but it doesn't seem to have had any effect i mean with spain today of reversing this decision to stop this arms deal with saudi arabia what's the best way to you as you to influence these western governments the u.s. and others to perhaps influence them more in telling the saudi led coalition to reduce the number of civilian casualties in yemen what actions should they take. well what we are seeing is we're seeing concerted actions so for instance when the united states secretary of defense declared last week u.s. support for de war in yemen even though it's minimal is on conditional and the

secretary of state mike from pale issuing yesterday in a statement that you know do you any and sell the are barely meeting the requirements needed to avoid all sorts of civilian casualties these are the diplomatic messages stead are put forward and the conditions diplomatic messages are exciting they don't seem to have any any impact on the ground i mean we're still seeing civilian casualties. or no data is intensify. the no no this is i disagree with what you just suggested because the united states could have withhold all support for saudi arabia and yemen all unless they are paving the way for u.n. peace talks and what we're seeing now is that we're seeing the discussions beginning to take place bringing the leadership and this saudi coalition for peace talks in yemen so all of this look messy at the moment but this is very much tied

to the united states using military pressure to force the saudis and or audi's to make the concessions that they need so that peace talks can take place when you talk about the u.s. military the u.s. using military pressure on the coalition what sort of pressure exactly nothing has really changed has it i mean they're still continuing their arms sales of the saudi that whole mission are they not. at the bare minimum you are you may have seen just yesterday there was an outcry in the u.s. congress including in the senate the house of representatives where world leaders from both parties were pressuring the administration to move forward that message has been understood and b. and in riyadh and therefore what we're seeing now is that the u.n. special envoy is now in the region to try to coax all the parties so that these talks can take place and the united states is clearly using that as leverage at the same time the relationship between the united states and its partners and to go for

a strategic even though there are significant differences with deadly toll that the war has taken on civilians across the country and and the united states now is signaling that this will no longer be tolerated and i think this message has gotten across to up with the riyadh ok thank you for sharing your views with us a good know about middle east analyst joining us there from washington thank you for your time and the war in yemen and the struggle for survival in pictures on our website more than ten thousand people have been killed in three years of conflict you've seen these photos civilians are struggling to go to cope with the devastating consequences of this three year conflict this is at al jazeera dot com writing a putin has watched an army of more than a quarter of a million russian soldiers on their not just military exercises since the fall of the soviet union russia's president says he wants to beef up the military but has no aggressive plans for the first time chinese troops are also part of the war

games nato for its part says drills as a rehearsal for launch scale conflicts chalons reports from very hostile. three hundred thousand personnel thirty six thousand tanks and other vehicles one thousand aircraft eighty ships and supply vessels that's the size of vos stop two thousand and eighteen according to russia's defense ministry even if there might be some exaggeration there these drills are still huge the largest since one thousand nine hundred one bloody may putin flew into water the sukkot firing range of near where the russian chinese and one goalie and borders meet soldiers and hardware from all three countries are taking part. but it is not in this way i want to express special gratitude to the soldiers of the people's republic of china and mongolia our duty to russia i am referring now to russian servicemen our duty to the homeland as did ready to defend the sovereignty the security and the national interests of our country. it's a huge show of force from the modernized russian military boosted by increased

funding and the crucial battle experience it's gained in syria the chinese involvement in russia's drills has raised particular concerns in the west it's a sign the two eurasian powers are overcoming historical animosities to forge a strengthening partnership. they want to show that if the united states asserts itself in the korean peninsula if they move against iran that they're likely to come up against a unified front from beijing and russia so it's really about showing solidarity and showing that that's an alignment of interests putin said russia is a peace loving state that does not and cannot have aggressive plans but nato has condemned the drills as rehearsal for a large scale conflict the north atlantic alliance has also been testing capabilities british french and german jets simulated flight interceptions over western europe on wednesday to deter russian planes from entering nato airspace russia and the west haven't seem quite so hostile since the cold war these military

exercises with china coincide with russia hosting the chinese president and other asian leaders at the eastern economic forum here in the pacific port city of lot of rostock and taken together these two things show the russia are increasingly seen as its partners in interests in this part of the world more than in the capitals of europe and the united states will reach islands how does era radical stop. as rory mentioned these military maneuvers as tensions between the west and russia intensifies so russia turning east romney put in and she didn't bring have announced stronger ties but can russia and china actually trust each other a very interesting discussion on this on inside story at al-jazeera the call. it was hailed at the time as a diplomatic triumph then u.s. president bill clinton brought the palestinian and israeli leaders together on a sunlit white house lawn to sign the first of the oslo accords twenty five years

on the deal looks like a velux from a bygone era that solves nothing cords were supposed to be the foundation of a permanent peace deal that would create two states side by side but many of the issues postponed for later resolution seem further from ever from being agreed on they include the status of jerusalem by both sides of their capital palestinians were enraged when the trump administration recognized them as israel's capital and moved its embassy there the fate of millions of palestinians who fed wars dating back to nine hundred forty eight is also undecided as is the issue of israeli settlements considered illegal under international law built on occupied land that palestinians want for a state. a former palestinian negotiator he says the of course change the nature of the israeli occupation wants to leaving them in control. what the also accords did was to recreate the system of control the control matrix of israeli control over the occupied palestinian territories in

a slightly different form so instead of having direct military government and direct civil administration as they were called by israel of all aspects of palestinian civil civilian life this shifted into joint committees in which however the veto power was held in every domain for instance registering births and deaths issuing passports allowing imports and exports access to water access to land land registry everything you can think of was ultimately under the veto power of the israeli side so this was an absolute control mechanism which was sort of possible to ignore in the good years because things were growing the palestinian commie was growing and had not yet exhausted the potential for growth within the israeli control system but by around two thousand per capita income was no longer growing many lower income groups among the palestinians who had hoped for much more from

the peace process found that their political economic and social status hadn't changed and so there's a great deal of frustration with israeli policies of course colonizing the territory imposing collective economic punishments restricting access to markets these things were coming to a boil by two thousand mantras back into the family of the a course particularly resonant among young palestinians yes folly especially among those they call the oslo generation some people refer to them as oslo babies we're talking about twenty five year olds who were born around the time these accords were signed they watched as the debates around the agreement evolved as they grew up and here's how some see things now. i think it's with the full tilt. that. people second place the statistics it's just. even. to the point that if they. have to explain that he did

it there are gaps that. they didn't need to be yet also has lots of positive sides to put us geographically and politically on the international map also the return of some fifty five thousand palestinians including arafat also gave us interim self rule one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders with east jerusalem as capital unfortunately it was supposed to last five years it wasn't expected to drag for twenty five years that's a lifetime and nothing to go through today in light of the israeli violation as we are reviewing this agreement many times which is violated by the israelis every day in international law there is a right of reciprocity if the israelis disengage from the agreement it is our right to disavow the agreement but it's one thing to live the accords and then another to have witnessed life before and after rania masry is a professor an activist who says she opposed the accords twenty five years ago and still does today that any a court that denies our right of return our right of liberty our right to dignity

our right to safety is a death sentence and she says that israelis and palestinians who watch the courts be signed both sides say that there is a kind of disillusionment that's clear i believe. that was true is that it was a missed opportunity. you know for a potential peace and then just the better of putting the country in a better place i mean it was it is it was a time of hope you know i want to take that's why today because it was a time of hope it was a time of hopefully that things were going to be turning around and that it would be better for not just the israelis but the palestinians as well if it no can be as low agreement was a disaster for us and our lands in reality my lands and houses were demolished i was arrested twice the settlers attacked my third house and they still do now for the last twenty five years since nine hundred ninety three until today the settlers

have been attacking me and the civil administration. honestly it's been difficult to find comments from people who think the accords were a success we've seen that with the poll that we posted on our twitter page more than sixty percent of votes so far say that the oslo accords were a failure and most of the comments are pretty much saying the same thing meanwhile the situation on the ground continues to grow worse a coalition of more than eighty international n.g.o.s released a report on this twenty fifth anniversary of the accords and they warn that in the absence of peace international aid programs are one of the only things sustaining life in the occupied palestinian territory the international community must not keep using aid to paper over its acceptance of the failure of the oslo process finally the author ramsey says even if the accords were a failure there is still a blueprint that international leaders continue to follow for future negotiations

and he says that's a bad thing so let us know if you agree with him you can get in touch using the hash tag it is good and to thank you very much for that if you're watching us on facebook live coming up new zealand's prime minister reveals her commitment to learning had countries native language and still ahead on the grades they were name . britain as the two who poisoned a former russian spy in britain now they've told their side of the saudi that's coming up to stay with us. hello we got more warm sunshine across a good part of the middle east a chance of want to see showers still spinning their way across turkey maybe the odd shower there into syria lebanon jordan over the next day or so but essentially for the most part does look largely dry the showers will be a bit further north pushing up towards the black sea maybe towards the caucuses as well but sometimes a by roache at twenty nine celsius warm sunshine to for karate again at twenty nine

degrees but we are going to see temperatures again getting up into the forty's for a good part of iraq and also into kuwait into the forty's here in dakar as well with a high of forty two celsius on friday looking at temperatures around thirty eight in abu dhabi a little more on the humid side here similar conditions as we go on through stay but it is pretty much wall to wall sunshine and bunny is on side to into a southern africa that a bit of cloud right now making its way away from the southern cape brightening skies coming back behind we'll see temperatures in capetown getting up to around sixteen degrees celsius ten degrees warmer than that four to harness but it was pleasant sunshine coming through a little more cloud spilling its way into the western cape as we go on through sas day but i suspect it will be largely fine and dry. my name is murphy and managers are my children joel finds doesn't lose his brands

good ol boy is really a doesn't really need all this but usually the just will show seats in a club. i am mentioning i've only seen all. of. my nigerian on al-jazeera. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folke abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with him helped save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count on al-jazeera.

bad lines on the news great and the stories trending on al-jazeera dot com our web site at number one a gunman killing five people in a california should. spree the latest shooting in the united states police say the

entire incident occurred in ten to fifteen minutes and ended after the gunman killed himself also timing the philippines bracing for a powerful typhoon ten million people in the path of mongrel and myanmar's leader and sons hoochie defending the imprisonment of the reuters journalists. she made the comments earlier today on santucci all those stories and much more on our website that al-jazeera. and the two men charged by british prosecutors with the sole story nerve agent attack say they're innocent and just visited a saurus appearing on russian t.v. rahsaan they not xander petrol insisted they went to the city to see its famous cathedral and the timing of the no child poisoning was a coincidence the british government says they are kremlin agents who were sent to murder former russian spy sergei script and his daughter yulia they're both recovering let's go live to needs baka who's been following this story for us from

london so what's been the response to this interview in the u.k. neavitt does anyone believe this explanation. no is the short answer is six tree million likely this this interview is in any way going to change official opinions over what happened in solsbury in march the british authorities believe that they have a weight of forensic evidence on their side to conclude that it was indeed these two men that plans to kill so scrip owl and their attempts to do so ended up also harming two other members of the public leading of course to the death of dawn sturgis who was just simply wrapped up in this attempted murder there have been some very short official responses from the government spokesperson said the police and crown prosecution service has i've identified these men as prime suspects it's clear that these men are officers of the russian military

intelligence service the g.r.u. and we've repeatedly asked russia for an account of what happened inside of march just as we've seen throughout they've responded with obfuscation and lies a very interesting comment also from the m.p. in sol's breed john glenn who took to twitter to say this did lighted that alexander petroff breach of were able to see all of the world class attractions on offer in souls but very strange to come all this way just for two days while carrying nazi chalk in their luggage so clearly some jibes to what british officials believe is an attempt really by russia to turn britain's version of events completely on its head so where does the investigation then go from here needs. it's good to know exactly where the investigation will go we know that various different european wide and international wide police services are

continuing to pull whatever evidence they may have to strengthen the case that the british authorities have already built but the reason why we know all of this information about these two individuals the reason why we've seen all of that c.c.t.v. footage and forensic evidence is primarily because the british believe that there's no way that these two prime suspects will ever be before a court of law here in the u.k. there's no extradition arrangement with russia previous examples of aborted bit experienced by the british authorities when they tried to get the two prime suspects involved in the murder of alexander litvinenko extradited to the u.k. in the past they failed to do that it looks like they're continuing to fail to do this to get these two men over here to the u.k. but it doesn't mean of course they won't share what evidence they have with the rest of the u.k. and with british allies further afield need thank you for that neve baka live in london and a good refresher on our web site of the script controversy the case reserve

internationally a combined total of three hundred forty two diplomats where it's spelled and sent back to their home country since the alleged nerve gas attack on the former double agent. in the u.k. that's on al-jazeera dot com now in a first for france its president demand here michael has acknowledged that the country used torture widely during our jury as independence war in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's the conflicts came to about one point five million minds and remain student sensitive and both countries to this day that speak to our correspondent in paris natasha but not an apology from emanuel my corner but still quite significant . yes a very significant statement indeed from the french president because it's the first time that a french president has actually said that there was state responsibility in the death of morris or dan one hundred fifty seven during the algerian war of

independence was twenty five years old he was living in algiers where he taught mathematics at the university he was an anti colonial activist a communist and what his widow says is one evening the french military came to the dog they arrested him took him away and they later told that he had escaped from the prison where he was being held while she never believed it and more than sixty years later we now have the french president a man omar cost saying that morris was indeed tortured and that he died because of the torture inflicted on him by the french military so it is a very big statement indeed and what's more is also saying that he is going to open up the state archives the files that have been put away over all these decades about other people who disappeared at the time so that some of their loved ones might also be able to find some information about what happened to them and have

some clarification of how they came to disappear and attash this isn't the first time that michael has touched on france's colonial history is it. no it's not indeed it was back during the presidential campaign last year that amount or mark or talked about how france needed to look into its colonial past and really talk about it isn't that time he said that during the algerian war that france had committed some crimes against humanity well that caused quite a for among some sections of french society the far right leader marine le pen rated him for that so it was seen as almost treasonous in her point of view and also it also upset the some of the french people who had fled algeria at the time but emmanuel markov said it's important that france looks into its past may it's what's happened that's the only way to move forward and i think it's probably

easier for him as a young president he was born after the algerian war to be able to do that and that's perhaps why former presidents have never gone where he has dared you might put it that way i thank you for that matter live in paris. it's often referred to as the big c. and most of us will know someone who's battled or died from some form of cancer and the number of people suffering from the disease is on the rise with cancer expected to become the leading cause of death this century the world health organization estimates be about eighteen million new cases of cancer this year and more than nine million deaths worldwide the most common lung breast and bowel cancer with lung cancer the most deadly men are twice as likely to die from the disease as women and where you live could affect what type of cancer you get as countries get richer you're more likely to get diseases linked to obesity are. most cancer deaths are in asia home to sixty percent of the world's population researchers are warning

that if no action is taken the number of patients will double by twenty forty with twenty nine million cases and sixteen million deaths joining us now on the news great is dr christopher while he is the director of the global agency for research on cancer with the world health organization he joins us from in france thank you so very much dr won for being with us this is quite an alarming report why are we seeing the number of cases increased around the world in spite of what seems like better prevention. thank you for the invitation to be with you as you said difference your introductory piece we make these projections from today on estimates vote seeing million you can see cases worldwide in twenty eight seen through to that estimate of twenty nine million in what is just twenty years' time and twenty four say so here are people affected by this to see the

reasons behind those increases are quite complex but there are two major components the first one which is really predominant is the aging of the growth in populations worldwide so cancer is predominantly a disease of older people generally globally we're becoming older we're living longer. but at the same time there is a fact of changing exposures so the risk factors the underlying causes of cancer which are becoming more common also contributes to those projected increases that you mention right as your report says there are dozens of types of cancer and large differences between countries also what socio economic factors come into play when explaining why some regions are more at risk than others and also why as some cancers like lung cancer for instance more prevalent among men than women.

you know you're right the the sort of patterns that we see different very much geographically and reflects to a large extent differences in the exposure to known risk factors so for. chronic infections which are responsible for about one in six counts as worldwide. we see huge differences in different populations in north america or it's only one in thirty counseling to those factors or is in sub-saharan africa one in three so for a start we just go up difference globally and exposure to these different types of risk. with the alone cancer that you refer to course this is driven primarily by the bits of cigarette smoking while since some of the high income countries north america parts of europe coming under control and we're seeing the rates of

smoking particularly in men starting to fall followed by a full it becomes then some other parts of the world we're still seeing increases in smoking right it's a lower particularly points of the observation and one comes through many women increasing because of the i think they feed up to why and what needs to be done to address this and nonbeing rise what sort of anti-cancer measures can we adopt. we really don't want this to be a depressing report there's a law the company them so look we know for example because it comes on that we collapse at all now so certainly in terms of tobacco control we have some very effective measures to reduce smoking sickleave the direct show frame with conventional part of control contrition implement this fully aware of very effective vaccines now against viruses that cause cervical cancer in live accounts

. well about the biggest challenges such lead is there he says the epidemic and finding ways to reach use answer increased physical activity because this is one of the main challenges we see that comes associates it with obesity and lack of physical activity occurring in many parts of the world dr christopher line from the world health organization thank you very much for your time thank you and people in the u.s. state of north carolina are feeling the first bite of hurricane florence as it moves towards the east calls here it is on the weather tracking website windy dot com the good news is it's weakened somewhat and is no longer classified as a major hurricane but itself packing plenty of punch and about ten million people live in its predicted path let's go live to andy gallagher who is in wilmington north carolina for us what's the latest from where you are. well as

he said this storm has now week and it's now a category two hurricane still packing winds of around one hundred sixty kilometers an hour north of us where the outer barrier is just out into the ocean there already feeling the first outer bands of this hurricane but there are two major concerns that forecasters here have one is storm surge which in wilmington case is predicted to be as high as four meters now if we just show you here we're on the cape fear river we expect this river within the next twelve hours will breach the banks here and then come over the edge here and head into the city focuses same buildings like the one over there you can see will go up into at least the first floor and be inundated with water now the other major concern that forecasters have is just how long this storm will linger focuses a saying that once hurricane florence makes it to the east coast it could potentially hang around for as long as two days with those high winds that high storm surge and the rain predictions are phenomenal something this state hasn't

seen in at least thirty to forty years so about one point six million people are under mandatory evacuation order in this area don if you can see behind me there are plenty of locals who have chosen to stay here in wilmington they know once a storm hits the emergency services will not be here they will not get help if they need it and that is a serious threat and one analytical firm is talking about as much as one hundred eighty billion dollars worth of damage but it's that storm surge that is the real thing the forecasters are going to watch out for and just how long hurricane florence will linger along this coastline for so here in wilmington people bracing preparations have been made as much as they possibly can millions of people have left this region those that stay behind it's not a case of if this storm will hit it's a case of when and how bad it will be and he thank you very much for that update andy gallagher live for us in wilmington north carolina and we've talked a lot about hurricane florence on a social and political level but some scientists are warning the song could also cause. an environmental and public health disaster and has been taking

a look at that thankfully well hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated their homes to avoid this storm but what will they be coming back to afterwards turns out some pretty disgusting stuff really north carolina is home to an estimated nine million pigs and the world's largest hawg slaughter plant so billions of pounds of wet animal waste is stored there in the open air lagoon so there's concerns that there manure could wash into homes and contaminates local drinking water now the same could happen with the state's nine toxic waste sites and there are dozens of coal ash piles some as high as one hundred feet high that are in the hurricane's path. now george smeaton from the energy and climate intelligence unit points out that this happened before with a category two hurricane hurricane floyd back in one thousand nine hundred nine in the environmental protection agency says that it's taking steps to prevent these

kinds of disasters these issues from happening again farmers for one are being told to move their hogs to higher ground and they're also pumping down the lagoon levels there and the e.p.a. workers are also monitoring some of these toxic sites and the acting director of the e.p.a. says that there are steps that the residents themselves can take to protect their homes so if you're in the carolinas let us know if you're taking any of these steps and what you're doing to weather out the storm you can connect with us using the hash tag it is good thank you very much for that here with a sports in a minute including proof that u.s. open champion has always been a competitor. you know me. yet.

i. right time for sports stories here and after what's been quite the last few days of controversy in tennis is a bit more calm and quiet yes you could say so fully and we started this week talking a lot about serena williams and that u.s. open final drama said to day we are focusing on the winner of that match naomi osaka and what a pretty lucrative few days it's been for her first she won the three point eight million dollar win is check at flushing meadows now she's partnered up with japanese car company miss and on a three year deal as the new brand ambassador and the twenty year old could be standing on the cost of being one of the best paid female athletes in the world

japan's first grand slam winner is also reported to have signed a deal with added asks worth ten million dollars a year asako confiscate those questions though about serena's all human with the empire. i just think your name was on that she was so emotional you were so calm like couldn't bear it out and i realize how mature you are and pretty gosh you know it's easy to get over excited how do you stay cool like that i'm the guy. i just think i. am not to be negative oh man yeah and just to not have any regrets. scenary had probably the best week of her life earlier i spoke to simon chadwick professor professor of sports and prize at the sofa business school and why she's so peeling now to sponsor. but especially interesting about. naomi asarco several things first one is is is that she is

a woman and serena williams aside i think for women's tennis in particular is is restarting around right now for the next big star obviously williams is it's coming towards the end of her career and those kind of compelling. commercial propositions just not not out there in women's tennis right now and so i think the find that nearly a soccer has come along she's very leone obviously successful but also she's very very distinctive too so i really think her japanese nurses is significant but i also think her mixed heritage background is also important and if you look at tiger woods for example tiger woods too was of mixed heritage and essentially what he did was to appear to my eyes the age at the time when he first appeared but i think what it also it did with woods and it will do the same with a soccer is not just appealing to for example white anglo-saxon europeans or for

that matter not just appealing to african-americans in a sarkis case european appealing to an asian marketplace but also to a northern and central american market place as well given a haitian background alongside that what sponsors will do is were they will look for some kind of natural alignment between who they are and the properties that are sponsoring so obviously over law and most obvious of a lot is is a soccer's japanese heritage and japanese brand and japanese heritage of their the athlete herself but there's something to i think about the age profile of of nisson buyers and you got to look at two i think the age profile of tennis followers they tend to be a little older a little richer. a little more highly educated and so. irrespective of sarka being as almost as i saw a soccer is the vehicle for something more significant and more tangible in terms

of the aligning alignment between assigning tennis so in some respects providing a soccer can maintain a level of success in performance i would argue that she's a marked history well it's less than a week since the soccer won her first grand slam but did you know that ten years ago she was already a champion of sorts well that you will let her explain in this cute home video. this is chapstick. it's very easy and she sat down again using. it. for our fans are desperate to keep him here i can in this day he showed why he's so popular with them it wasn't your decision to leave ferrari but it was your decision to go back to salisbury so just talk us through why you why you're doing that or not and you're

still passionate about racing the fire is no i don't i'm not accident and i'm just . your. head games for you guys have been designed and i'm going to spend two years just not be happy if. we finish with proof that practice makes perfect have a look at parties tricks to trying to pull off what's called a quadruple tail whip. as you can see it wasn't going well but then eventually. did it we're told that the first seven hundred full tail wait to be landed on a mountain bike well worth another look in slow motion.

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population in the plains. journalist camera is a name to be. disagreed peacekeeping force to look at the problem complete. his own using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for those slaughtered by their guardians peace killers on al-jazeera. the two men the u.k. says poisoned a former russian spy go on television the say they were just tourists visiting solsbury cathedral. hello i'm barbara sorry you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the un urges all parties in a blip to stop. so aid can be delivered to the syrian province. the situation

could have been handled better myanmar's leader admits her government could have dealt with the revenger crisis differently but defends the jailing of to voice his journalists plus may your wisdom and compassion continue to inspire yes world leaders past and present to gather in ghana to bid farewell to former u.n. chief kofi annan. the two russians wanted for the attempted murder of the former russian spies sergei scriptural and this daughter u.v.-a have appeared on russian state television they professed their innocence saying they were merely tourists this cripples were poisoned in the u.k. town of salzburg in march using a band navi chalk and nerve agent the other two survived but a member of the public exposed to the substance later died neve barker has more.

the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei and march we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos. the man also confirmed their names are the same as those revealed by british police thought to be aliases and that it is them on this c.c.t.v. footage but they deny they were in salzburg they get back time of the poisoning for anything more than a holiday. they have a famous corridor with their the source. it is famous not only in europe or over the world i think it's famous for its one hundred twenty three metre spire it's famous for its clock the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works here prosecutors say the man visited solsbury on consecutive days the first day only for a few hours before returning to london the two russians say it was because of the

snowy weather british investigators say they were planning a murder at the interviews failed to change official opinions in the u.k. a government spokesman said they clear the men are russian military intelligence officers in the m.p. for songs but he dismissed the interview as propaganda delighted the alexander patrol of an whistlin barre shop were able to see the world class attractions that soulsby has to offer tweeted john glenn but very strange to come all this way for just two days while carrying not the chalk in their luggage the interview came a day after the russian president vladimir putin said the man had been found and that there was nothing unusual about them british officials suspect the interview is a carefully staged managed attempt to turn the u.k.'s version of event on its head neve barker al-jazeera. well meanwhile the russian protest group pussy riot says one of its activists has been poisoned hit a vet is ill over has been in emergency care in a moscow hospital since losing his eyesight and speech on tuesday he was the

husband of one of the pussy riot members jailed for protesting in a cathedral in two thousand and twelve and that that as their spokesman while they were in prison that is the low voice also one of four protesters jailed for running onto the pitch during the world cup final in moscow two months ago russia's president vladimir putin has flown in to watch his armed forces staged their largest military exercises since the soviet era and for the first time chinese troops joined the week long war games from vladivostok in the far east of russia for each allan's reports. three hundred thousand personnel thirty six thousand tanks and other vehicles one thousand aircraft eighty ships and supply vessels that's the size of voss stock two thousand and eighteen according to russia's defense ministry even if there might be some exaggeration there these drills are still huge the largest since one thousand nine hundred one but he may have putin flew into walked to the super bowl firing range near where the russian chinese and

one goalie and borders meet soldiers and hardware from all three countries are taking part. but he is not in this way i want to express special gratitude to the soldiers of the people's republic of china and mongolia our duty to russia i am referring now to russian servicemen our duty to the homeland is to be ready to defend the sovereignty of the security and the national interests of our country. it's a huge show of force from the modernized russian military boosted by increased funding and the crucial battle experience it's gained in syria the chinese involvement in russia's drills has raised particular concerns in the west it's a sign the two eurasian powers are overcoming historical animosities to forge a strengthening partnership. they want to show that if the united states asserts itself in the korean peninsula if they move against iran that they're likely to come up against a unified front from beijing and russia so it's really about showing solidarity and showing that that's an alignment of interests putin said russia is

a peace loving state that does not and cannot have aggressive plans but nato has condemned the drills as rehearsal for a large scale conflict the north atlantic alliance has also been testing capabilities british french and german jets simulated flight interceptions over western europe on wednesday to deter russian planes from entering nato airspace russia and the west haven't seem quite so hostile since the cold war these military exercises with china coincide with russia hosting the chinese president and other asian leaders at the eastern economic forum here in the pacific port city of lot of rostock and taken together these two things show the russia increasingly see its partners and interests in this part of the world more than in the capitals of europe and the united states will reach islands how does era but it will stop.

the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as intense fighting between the saudi coalition and who the rebels escalates in the port city of data commanders of the saudi and iraqi coalition say they continue to control the main supply route into the city who the fighters are downplaying the reports saying that they've repelled the government forces and stopped their progress kido sixteen is one of the main who the supply routes linking the data to the rebel held capital under simmons has more now from neighboring djibouti. it's now becoming clearer that the fighting is escalating around the red sea port of data and hooty rebels have tried to repel the u.a.e. saudi led attacks but without success it seems there has been a cut in the supply line between the port and the rebel held capital sana'a now that has massive implications because say the children say millions of

children's lives are at risk because of this with food supplies not getting through and other supplies medicine along with the vital supplies for the hooty rebel fighters as this fighting goes on the attempts at getting some sort of dialogue revived by martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy goes on he's in the amount of capital muscat and he's been talking to a delegation of who is the delegation that was meant to go to geneva led by mohammed abdul salam and he has said that some sort of dialogue will continue there is nothing substantive coming out of these talks publicly anyway whether or not he goes on to sign or is unclear but he is destined for riyadh and time is going by at a rapid rate with all this fighting escalating and this critical situation the griffiths himself warned about the economy plummeting and the danger of more deaths

not through fighting but through farm in right there for everyone to see but then what does everyone do it is a very very dangerous situation. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for syria's calling for all parties involved in the province to stop a still ities so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to the rebel held enclave he says nearly forty thousand people have flooded lives since the beginning of september. it is the most congested governorates 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 at the moment. we hope for the best

we're preparing for the worst was the ferry that has more now from a talk here on turkey's border with syria nine hundred thousand people those are the estimates from the united nations at the worst case scenario if there is a full on military offensive on the province of idlib a fear that that's the amount of civilians who could try to flee to safety what does that mean though however because it is surrounded by government forces most people don't want to go to those areas there's a small area controlled by turkey turkish backed forces to the north the u.n. believes around seven hundred thousand people could flee in that direction that's a huge humanitarian effort and this is why you have increasing calls for there to be some kind of a political solution turkey maintains its borders are going to remain closed it already hosts over three and a half million people million syrians and it cannot take any more this is why the diplomatic tract the political talks are ongoing certainly reading the ground the last three days no airstrikes no barrel bombs on in that sporadic shelling yes

across the border but i think we can read from that the turkey has been given more time to try to talk to the armed groups inside particularly those sticking groups being called terrorist organizations to try and get them to disband that is going to be a major challenge so it is an incredibly complicated scenario and certainly for the opposition in the province is their last stand everyone will tell you at this point in time it's impossible to predict how it's all going to play out. man mars leader and son suchi says in hindsight her government could have handled the crisis better seven hundred thousand range of muslims have fled the military crackdown in rakhine state in the last year un investigators say there were mass killings and gang rapes but speaking at an international meeting in vietnam sochi defended security forces from charges of civilian atrocities when haye is in hanoi. appearance at the world economic forum on southeast asia in hanoi was the first international

speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and military leaders for attacks on ridding your communities in reclined state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and her government for their failure to condemn the violence something she also refused to do here in hanoi there are of cause. we simply too with hindsight might think that the situation could have been handled better but we believe that for the sake of long term stability and security we have to be fair to all sides the rule of law must apply to everybody we cannot choose and pick who should be protected by the rule of law and i have to keep repeating because people are very few are interested in that aspect of the situation that in the.