this is al jazeera. news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.s. says it may be weeks before it has enough evidence. for the killing of journalist. a call for. calm and to reconvene to resolve the political crisis which has triggered off the president. is no one is the right thing to do walking out on google thousands of workers around the world protesting. on sexual

harassment. in the making scientists wait for a crucial decision to help protect wildlife in antarctica. now it could be weeks before the u.s. has enough evidence to impose sanctions on saudi arabia for the killing of the journalist. in an interview to a radio station u.s. state might bump aoe said the u.s. is waiting for more evidence before making any decisions well he was killed on october the second when he went to pick up documents from the saudi consulate in istanbul al-jazeera caster reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions against saudi arabia for the killing of jamal khashoggi are likely coming from we have four more weeks before we have enough evidence to actually put those sanctions in place but i'm i think we'll be able to get there we're going to. by the fact that

a president said we will demand accountability for those who are in the commission of that i've described sanctions would not be the only repercussion from the u.s. more than a week ago the state department revoked the visas of twenty one saudi nationals identified as involved in the operation to kill. secretary mike on pale set at the time those penalties would not be the last word even as the u.s. continued to gather facts that included cia director gina haskell travelling to turkey and reportedly listening to the audio recording of killing turkey is leading the investigation it says she was strangled almost immediately after entering the saudi consulate on october second. no one will escape responsibility this issue has become universal it cannot be covered up and it is watched by everyone in the world turkey will transparently share with all international

institutions the data of the investigation process we expect saudi officials to cooperate with the turkish side in the investigations through joint work to uncover all of the circumstances of this crime. meanwhile the washington post reports saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman spoke with senior trump administration officials prior to the kingdom of knowledge killing in the private call been someone reportedly said he was dangerous and a member of the muslim brotherhood a point the journalist had long denied later in public prince amman would change his tune calling killing a terrible mistake and not justifiable key questions remain about what exactly happened including what his killers did with his body the u.s. state department says it's calling on saudi arabia to return remains to his family as soon as possible. hi joe castro al-jazeera washington the eiffel tower in

paris went dark on the eve of the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists the landmark lowered its lights to on the press freedom to highlight crimes against journalists become merely a month to the day after the shock she's getting. well following his murder the spotlights now on how much money saudi arabia spends in the u.s. trying to buy influence in both politics and education some universities are now considering whether to cut ties with the riyadh particle again reports from washington. this is the university of new haven in the state of connecticut not the most scenic campus or the most well known but it is now drawing nationwide media attention for its relationship to saudi arabia it has a partnership to train saudi arabia security officers executive director of the middle east crisis committee stanley heller says his group protested when the deal was announced two years ago we were appalled that any u.s.

college would be helping the saudi regime in any way but especially to help police college. since we know the appalling situation of the of the justice system they were ignored then but are hoping now that saudi arabia has admitted to murdering journalist jamal khashoggi increased pressure will force the university to reconsider the prestigious university the massachusetts institute of technology or mit says it is reconsidering its relationship with saudi arabia now but these are just a couple of the dozens of universities the take money from the government and people of saudi arabia this is here to press did an investigation that it found the most saudi money goes here to george washington university in washington d.c. if you look at the database the tracks this information in all over the last decade the government of saudi arabia its citizens and its businesses spent more than six hundred thirteen million dollars in u.s.

universities but they're not alone just in the gulf nation of qatar the same timeframe more than a billion dollars the united arab emirates more than two hundred and eleven million . asked about the saudi money much of which goes to research or scholarships for saudi students many university said it would be wrong to dip. deserving students of an education as for george washington university it says it regularly reviews programs with saudi arabia to make sure they are consistent with their educational mission giving no indication that they plan to change the relationship anytime soon . washington. coalition in yemen has targeted an airbase in the capital but it says has been used to launch missiles and drones a t.v. channel linked to the rebels reported more than thirty. u.n. special envoy to yemen's relaunching talks to try and end the war as the coalition deployed thousands of soldiers to the main port city of data. this report.

is the latest military buildup near the besieged port city of data even as calls grow louder to end the hostilities reports of the saudi coalition in yemen has sent thousands of extra troops to the area come after the united nations announced its backing the resumption of a political process to end the fighting. the special envoy will continue to work with all parties to agree on tangible steps to spare all yemenis the disastrous consequences of further conflict and to urgently address the political security and humanitarian crisis in yemen u.s. defense secretary james mattis and secretary of state mike pompei all have also called for an immediate end to the three and a half year war data which is controlled by the who is to teach a cli important. the red sea port is a vital lifeline the entry point for the bulk of imports and aid supplies the u.n. says that the already dire humanitarian crisis is far worse than they previously estimated warning that fourteen million yemenis face serious threat of famine and

the deepening food crisis is largely the result of fighting around the data. unicef says over eleven million children have been affected but the port of the data is also a life line for the millions of children throughout yemen and the people who live in the park slope and. on the whole they could be the lives of. the children here in. talks with the saudi led coalition and who the rebels are expected to be held in sweden this month similar talks faltered last month after the representative said the saudis blocked their flights to geneva the question now will the renewed push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict ensure the wearing parties make it to the negotiating table this time around mohammed al jazeera. to come here on the news

hour including. we will no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores and us threatens more sanctions against what it calls the troika of tyranny in america . and one step at a time to imply that's giving new hope to. sport but desirous awaits the return of one of the world's fiercest football. played in the final of the company. president donald trump is pledging a crackdown on migrants trying to claim asylum saying anyone crossing the border illegally will be detained until their claim is heard in court is called the number of people arriving from central america an invasion the salame is not a program for those living in poverty there are billions of people in the world

living. at the poverty level the united states cannot possibly absorb them all asylum is a very special protection intended only for those fleeing government persecution based on race religion and other protected status says he's told u.s. troops mobilizing of the border if they face rock throwing migrants they should react as though the rocks were rifles but despite from threats migrants continued to head towards the front and since the caravan violent. were going slowly we're going peacefully we're not aggressive if we go aggressively than will be treated like terrorists we're going peacefully to get a chance to work in the us the only thing we want is to work to take our families forward to get a better life because in honduras you can't get anything you can never get ahead no matter how hard you work there's nothing in honduras president trump let us pass we're going peacefully we're not aggressive al-jazeera is john home and joined

a family which is part of that caravan and look at the challenges they're facing on their journey. when alexander starts his day's journey at three am he's not even awake his system maria is and every step is a small tool it's not just legs a little used to walking a marathon every day she's developed to call. them or have whether it's because we're sleeping rough the winds get to her that's why she's sick this is a day in the life that the re is a lie a family durance travelling in a caravan trying to reach the us today's route forty kilometers to the mexican town of weeks they've left early to avoid the midday sun but dad alvin a struggling tool can push the stroller in a dorm break he explains why. this is that this is the legs it's bad it's this one with paul here it's been seven months mum early in his sophie's eight months pregnant but she didn't want to have her baby back code that meant it that out

alone he would have suffered like the other children there born into poverty after a four hour was she struggling then the family gets a break a ride from a passing truck it revives the flagging children. it's set some down before a migration checkpoint one of several in the south mit's can roam without papers their only hope to get through is by sheer force of numbers they have to wait for the others at least erling compressed two hours later the caravan catches up and passes together the type tix worked but is mid day approaches the race allies have other problems no food all to spare clothes a man pulls up out of nowhere and helps with the first two and then the third. becomes he said she makes consent been divided over the caravan but today help is ever present this lady simply sweeps up the family and pays the bus tickets just in

time at the end of their strength. and it makes you wonder what's going to happen to them i just had to help when i saw the baby they finally made it two weeks ago here they can rest but there's no shelter so we just have these blankets for the children don't sleep on the pier pavement as the rain fools they try and work out their next move so everyone is just settling down now after what's been an exhausting day but they've still got about two thousand kilometers to get to the buddha and that they cover right that's going to take them at least a month and a hall but first there's a lawyer a his family has to try and get through the noise john home and how does he had a week's. well evelyn magill is the president of project hope three sixty she says president trumps using the plight of migrants to run a political support ahead of the midterm elections. these are human beings running

i mean a lot of these people are families that are coming together and so they're fleeing because there's the this debilitation of their country i mean from a social economic perspective the violence is rising and people do just one better future for their children a better future for themselves and their families and so you know it's just the political unrest you know the economic instability those are the things that are really driving these people i think that they're very much aware that the that the president of the united states does not welcome them here but i think that they have probably using this to their advantage in the sense that he has been using it to mislead people during this midterm election and so he has given them a great platform the media and so yeah i think that they do know the opposition that they face but they also know that there is a great america that does embrace them and does welcome them we're talking about over seventy five hundred people that are trying to cross the border for

a better tomorrow and so we're not sure what's going to happen we do know that mexico is open to helping the families united states obviously doesn't have the same. attitude or heard the same grace for the families and really the united states but you know this is a you know the president of the united states who is really using this you know to make sure that he rallies up his voters in this midterm election for whatever reason you know he's using these scare tactics to make sure that people come out and vote in favor of his politics which we know of course are inhumane i mean they're literally against what america stands for and so you know it is going to be a problem that we're going to be seen for some time and you know we're going to be watching but yeah i you know they they will you know there will be on our radar for quite some time this is you know this is a huge undertaking you're talking about seventy five hundred people eight hundred

miles away from our borders there's a lot it's going to happen. the u.s. economic embargo of cuba has been overwhelmingly condemned by the united nations the cuban sponsored resolution to the un general assembly passed one hundred eighty nine to two with no abstentions moldova and ukraine did not vote he was foreign minister says the u.s. embargo has held back his country for generations. to do you know is a flagrant massive and systematic violation of the human rights of cuban men and women and it has been and still is the main obstacle to the well being and prosperity of several generations. they have been abandoned by the united nations and by most of the world's governments but the cuban people are not alone today the united states of america stands with them the people of cuba are our neighbors and our friends and they are fellow children of god yes president donald trump has announced new sanctions on venezuela and warned of more measures against cuba

nicaragua as a ministration has branded them a troika of tyranny well the measures include sanctions on venezuela's gold sector which the u.s. says has been used to finance criminal groups u.s. citizens are not allowed to trade with people or networks involved in its sale or export national security advisor john bolton says new sanctions on more than two dozen entities owned or controlled by the cuban military and intelligence services will be announced soon and he's threatened action against the nicaraguan government of president daniel ortega which is accused of cracking down on protesters and eroding democratic institutions. peas dictators and despots near are sure we will not reward firing squads torturers and murderers we will champion the independence and liberty of our neighbors and this president and his entire administration will stand with the freedom fighters' the troika of tyranny

in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match. deputy global and it's a robot but ends his says sanctions are time to come inside with the u.s. midterm elections it is interesting these sanctions come at a time where republicans are having some each shewn garnering political support especially in florida i don't think there's any coincidence that john bolton gave this speech in florida where you see two democratic candidates one for governor seat and for senate actually going neck and neck with the republicans in that state not to mention florida is a battleground state and it's a very important location when it comes to elections both for the midterms next week and also for twenty twenty for the upcoming presidential elections it's an

interesting relationship between the united states and the crowd were because while trump has had a really tough stance on the car what the president of nicaragua then you know take a has been cooperating with. the entity that is in charge of importing you know undocumented immigrants in the united states so they have been they signed up and then agreement a couple you know a couple of months ago where they will be bringing in the kragen nationals into the country not to mention the t.p.s. the temporary protected status for many central americans is about to expire. sri lanka's president has climbed down on his decision to suspend parliament calling for a meeting of politicians next week the sacking of prime minister ronald wickramasinghe and his replacement with former leader mahinda rajapaksa has caused a political crisis with critics warning it's an unconstitutional move that could lead to a bloodbath speaking to an jazeera rajapaksa defended his appointment as legitimate

ben smith reports from colombo. he has all the trappings of prime minister including access to the office for the new prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is acting unconstitutionally his critics say because he was appointed by president by three policy is saying or a not elected by the members of parliament on a mr rajapaksa how useless i see you as your of a loved one legitimate you think serbia says it's the institution of the budget the argument is that parliament should be deciding who's the prime minister not the normal norm. read the institution the new play and so your immediate one search for a now you're assuming the prime minister's position i who are going to be ignored or both of these the rajapaksa needs the backing of one hundred thirteen m.p.'s to solidify his return to power but the president suspended parliament some suspect he did that to give rajapaksa time to get enough support how will you get enough support from parliament how will you get the n.p.t.

we have got the i'm going to be short and so why the delay in recalling pollen and what are we hanging on for norm because we want to. get ready for the i did rajapakse that was at the prime minister's office to meet academics telling them there's no crisis as far as he's concerned it certainly is a crisis but the ousted prime minister ronnell wickramasinghe or he's refusing to leave the official residence of the pm he says he remains prime minister because the power to sack him was stripped from the president two years ago by an amendment to the constitution the whole structure of government in the country is still very strong the executive. and the presumption is that the presidency is the strongest office even though the nineteenth amendment has made changes to that and therefore what the presidency has to say go yes rajapaksa serve two terms as president defeated thomas separatists in

a twenty six year long civil war but was accused of human rights abuses in the process his family and inner circle is under investigation for corruption and are you looking forward to your new positions are you looking forward to being prime minister really much if you had to play hard to get behind the rajapaksa is presenting an image of business as usual but we've run away from a single still claiming to be the legitimate prime minister things are far from usual parliament will though now get to have the final say it seems when it's soon recalled and m.p.'s get to vote burnitz al-jazeera colomba armenia's president has dissolved parliament and called a snap election after politicians failed to choose a new prime minister nicole passion resigned from the position last week and has been pushing for an early poll parliament's dominated by passion the previous s's when blocking his agenda since he took office in may following anti-government protests election is set for december the night. well thousands of google

employees around the world that walked off their jobs to protest against sexual harassment the companies faced criticism of a multi-million dollar payouts to top executives accused of sexual misconduct reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees stream down denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate arrests mist let any accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after

the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting up how tough it is to believe but i think to some here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests also took place at the company's offices in singapore and in london i'm walking out along with other colleagues in support of all anyone in any workplace has been arrested to ensure that the pride is yeah no protection and no reward it's on google c.e.o. sundar pichai and co-founder larry page apologized to workers and promised changes in policy protesting employees are also demanding an end to mandatory.

arbitration clauses in their contracts which prevent them from taking harassers to court rob reynolds al-jazeera well sensuous all right time for a short break here not just when we come back to life slowly returns to normal in iraq's oil but the threat from iceland still hangs in the air and out in nature we visit one of the world's biggest sculptures festivals in australia and sportsmen baal's has tumbled our way into history as the first woman to and for all run well titles and gymnastics more that stay with us. by the springtime flowering of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. head of the remains of what was typhoon u two and is now topical storm or less really visible but basically it's just

a massive cloud producing heavy rain and it's slow moving heavy rain i've seen it in the small island there in the southern tip of taiwan but really this should be something on the mainland of china through fujian in particular of the next twenty four hours and then the thing disperse is completely visit so far i see no reports but expect some will be some flooding from as well and then you end up the fine if you picture on saturday which extends right the way up through to northern china before you eventually reach winter south of all this the showers are starting to build once more not just in borneo and sulawesi but they're probably come back to the southern philippines a reaching down as far south as jakarta has got showers already as forecast and big thunderstorms seem likely just west of the dying so possibly of a sumatra maybe singapore kuala lumpur over the next couple of days there is the picture for saturday suggesting rain is not far away from jakarta you're dry time is over this right now and what does affect the northeast monsoon sri lanka tamil nadu sometimes carola and there's also a patch of caterpillar suggest significance though in the matches afghanistan of

the finals of pakistan at least for friday but it's dry for most. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. in the united states the religious right is on the mom we were always hunting for the guy who would take our script and read it their goal was to take control of one of the political parties and they've effectively done that full lines examines the trumpet ministration special relationship with the religious right what do you get out of the presidency and what evangelical support means for the future of the country church of trump analogise there. where online are you looking at wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties and that's where we're going to be long term that thought or if you join us on sat if you could take me around the content what would you take me through don't have the set up your experiment and for your experiment in the

universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting point there that several of our community members are going to join the global conversation on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here and al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state says it may be weeks before washington has enough evidence to impose sanctions on saudi arabia over the murder of the journalist. peo says the u.s. wants those behind the killing to be held accountable. the saudi marathi coalition in yemen has targeted an airbase in the capital sana'a that it says has been used by hoofy rebels to launch missiles and drones sending more troops to retake the

port city of the data as a un we don't use talks to end the war. and u.s. president donald trump is pushing a crackdown on migrants trying to claim asylum saying anyone crossing the border illegally will be detained until their claim is heard in court it's called a number of people arriving from central america and invasion. police in the u.s. are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from saudi arabia who were found dead in new york their bodies which were bound together washed up on the city's waterfront last week and he said appears they were alive when they went into the water course and salumi reports. new york city police searching the banks of the hudson river looking for clues to help them solve the mystery surrounding the deaths of two sisters from saudi arabia their bodies discovered by a passer by here last week taped together at the waist facing each other wearing black leggings and commands. the young women were identified as twenty two year old

rotunda and sixteen year old tala for a police say they went missing from their home in virginia in late august publicly their first priority was identifying the girl's. young ladies and once that was done i do think we've made significant progress in piecing together pieces of this puzzle to find out what happened the mother of the two young women told police that he had received a call from the saudi arabian embassy the day before the bodies were discovered she says the family was ordered to leave the united states because the daughters had applied for political asylum no comment on that from saudi officials here in new york but the consulate has put out a statement saying that an attorney has been appointed to closely follow the case. according to the saudi consulate general embassy officials in washington have contacted the family and extended its support and aid in this trying time it said the sisters were students accompanying their brother in washington investigators

have also visited the fairfax condominium where the family had lived for the last three years as well as george mason university where the older sister had been studying until last spring trying to determine where they were in the two months since they'd been missing i think intactness work has filled in many of the pieces but this still some gaps that we would like to. really get are going to clear a picture of what happened in the last two months but there has been. somewhat significant progress trying to get to the picture of what ultimately led to the two young ladies being discovered reports suggest the girls were alive when their bodies under the water police are appealing to the public for any information in their quest to determine just what led to the deaths kristen salumi al jazeera new york. the first democratically elected president of the mole deaves has returned home from exile two months after his party colleague won the island nations presidential election mama nasheed was welcomed by president elect mohammed sali

have been formally the of the yemeni in september on the yemenis rule ahmed nasheed was sentenced to thirteen years in jail on charges of arresting a top judge the u.n. said the trial and due process the supreme court suspended his prison sentence earlier this week for people who fled the iraqi city of quetta coca slowly returning a year after government forces took back control from kurdish peshmerga fighters but the threat of violence still hangs over the city with security forces on the outskirts still battling to flush out remnants of i saw on the reports. this is the city of kids from iraq almost a year after it out the forces took control of the city to cut the special medical forces a some old instability is returning to its streets. and security situation is relatively better nowadays but the economy is still fragile

taxes and red tape getting out permits to continue our businesses is to some extent hindering our. doing that dance on the city but it out it forces fears of renewed conflict between book the additional forty two forced many families to flee the city most of them offices that retard are now trying to restart their lives in towns and villages outside kook though it out the forces continue on oil production against remnants of eisel who have been cutting out frequent attacks against civilians and security forces. despite their ongoing operations against i sold it out there i'm no officials insist that i'm group has been defeated and play down the fears of a comeback. we hope that both iraqi and kurdish forces unite together and eliminate any remaining pockets of terrorism across karkoc the security situation remains a challenge for everyone here if security is improved economy will be boosted. kid coke is a melting pot over iraq's major ethnic groups. cuts and talking live side by side

here. the recent the opening of conflicts apple to commercial flights as instill discipline the residents of the city there has been used as a military base by american troops since two thousand and three and later but it upbeat and kurdish peshmerga forces. our thought we have overcome many obstacles to make the dream of reopening the airport for commercial flights a reality for the people of herco province our province is a symbol of iraq's diversity and it represents the unity of iraq kirkuk is also home to some of iraq's alders the most productive oil fields the province coming flipper knees us up to four hundred fifty thousand bottles for oil and there are plans to truck some of these coote to iran but the road to the border is yet to be sick you would back makes the fight against remnants of i still have been more urgent. about russian space engineers are blaming

a dam and sense of a last month's soyuz rocket failure russian cosmonaut and american astronauts were forced abandon that mission to the international space station and landed safely in kazakhstan after an emergency descent stepped past and has more from moscow. it was the first female lounge of a russian spacecraft since one thousand nine hundred eighty three on october eleventh only two minutes after takeoff the emergency system of the so use a mess tent started to work and the lounge was aborted a capsule carrying two crewmembers one russian and one american landed safely back to earth the state commission has now concluded that there was a technical default at one of the sensors that has to separate the first from the second phase of the lounge the problem most likely occurred during the assembly of the rocket at the cost more drone in kazakhstan the commission now suspects that two other soldiers rocket's might have to same defect and

a thorough investigation has been started russia is the only country that are sending humans into space after the americans had aborted their program in two thousand and eleven well it normally takes months for an investigation to come to an end after all of failure of a rocket launch this commission has worked very far because there is a lot at stake three crewmembers are still at the international space station and they need to be replaced very soon russia now sad wants to send several unmanned flights to space first before it will send another manned spacecraft probably early december brazil's president elect says he will move his country's embassy in israel to jerusalem from tel aviv it will for solar campaign promise by job also narrow the made the announcement on twitter the u.s. was the first to make the controversial switch may reversing longstanding u.s. policy it led to protests and palestinians across the world want jerusalem as the

capital of any future state. the u.s. department of justice is charged two former goldman sachs bankers in relation to corruption at malaysia's state development fund one m d b one banker has admitted to conspiring to launder money in violating a u.s. anti bribery law investigators say public officials stole billions from the fund to buy property and jewelry former malaysian prime minister najib razak is facing more than thirty eight charges relating to the scandal. scientists in switzerland have developed an electronic implant that's not only helping paraplegics walk again but could also repair that damage spinal cords it's providing hope to patients years after their accidents reports. he'd been told he'd never walk again. sebastiaan to was paralyzed from the waist down after a bicycle accident five years ago but now thanks to breakthrough technology he's taking tentative steps forward so basically i had no ability to activate single

muscles of both legs but we said that the model competes for properly. and nor with some training he's able to really. like for example of extension of his leg so basically you recover a lot of control over the bar lice muscles despite no more than four years of complete paralysis it's all down to a tiny electronic implant placed over the damaged area of the spinal cord it helps boost signals from the brain to his legs giving sebastiaan back some control over his paralyzed limbs and any and any antibiotics and no it's not easy and has taken months of rehabilitation but it's life changing progress they treat patients involved in the study he idea that you are repairing the injured spine or goals so you maybe don't know the mechanism but many many more that is we have clearly seen that with the state of training nerve fiber still to be growing we are

going that's why the brain region concord over the moment of the leg the first such implant was developed in twenty tain and earlier this year two other groups of scientists reported similar success but this research goes one step further targeting the alec tronic pulses to specific locations yak yak three asparagus the tree like. like running a marathon and holding eggs. same time you're pushing as hard as you can so you really need to find a good balance of pushing hard to get. the right timing in the right place the three main still. the treatment for the most severe. room for improvement but definitely.

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scientists on conservationists are debating whether to town on turn one of the most remote parts of the planet into an ocean sanctuary the would else see an entente to go could be home to thousands of undiscovered species and many support on either

proposal to make it a no go zone for industrial fishing mining and deep sea drilling as did the area earlier this year. then february al-jazeera joined the greenpeace icebreaker the arctic sunrise as she pushed through into the remote waltzes of the weddell sea collecting evidence to support the bid to turn a huge section into an ocean sanctuary it is a vasan known territory few ships venture here almost year round sea ice making it a challenge to fall for most. it's like helping you. yet. after several days of trying we finally broke through and we took a chance in a rare window of weather to take to the air to see what may soon become the largest protected area on a so what we're looking at here is melting yes sea ice and great icebergs to be topped off the glass is sweeping off jane for all silent at the weddell sea extends

way to a distance over that proposed area pretty much on touched by human activity almost no scientific research is taking place. it's the realm of the penguin and myriad mirroring species but is not the realm of men and many want to keep it that way the sentry proposal would protect an area five times the size of germany. part of the evidence being assessed by the end thought commission was gathered by the expedition submarine on board which the antarctic specialist sits on look. it has one hundred percent coverage in the sea floor i'm going to assume it has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if they're and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to become hotter it disturb it such as bottom fishing we call these areas vulnerable marine ecosystem and hopefully we can get to this and other areas we come across that special protection that we saw firsthand how accessible the

outer limits of antarctica have already become and now there's a huge effort to protect vaal swathes of this stunning continent the antarctic ocean commission has given itself the mandate to create this law scale network of marine protected areas it's given itself a mandate to use the best available science and we believe that the proposal is absolutely fulfilling that monday scientific consensus around the world is that we need to be protecting roughly a third of the world's oceans by twenty thirty we've got to start down here in the most precious waters that we have the e.u. proposal has to be supported by consensus of the twenty five member commission. while there is a great deal of support it would only take one country to disagree and send the whole effort back to the drawing board. al-jazeera. under thomas joins us live now from hobart in tasmania just talk us through what's being discussed about on top to go. well as nic was talking about in that pakistan the

area that's under discussion is a boston area of the southern ocean the weddell say five times the size of germany and it really is one of the most pristine areas on earth but getting consensus out of twenty four different countries and the e.u. separately operating as a block is not so you see these conferences for a few years and it always comes down to the final day of the two weeks that they run for and today friday is that final day i'm afraid to say that off the record briefings we're getting don't look that good as yet no one will talk on the record in the meetings and selves are completely closed off to the major that in previous years when you get a positive result you tend to get it fairly early by about lunchtime on the friday and that's where we're at right now and there's no sign this meeting is wrapping up yet so obviously they're still talking about certain issues but whether they are getting to the big issue to approve the weddell sea or not but we'll find out in a few hours' time but it doesn't look that hopeful the trouble with these

negotiations down is that although they are sustained simply just about the issues directly relevant to antarctica fishing rights mining rights those sorts of things in practice a lot of countries use the opportunity of multilateral discussions like this to bring in other things like trade like military cooperation those sorts of things so although on paper this is just about antarctica and making a marine down there in antarctica in practices out far far more and at the moment i'm afraid to say the science don't look good this year agreements going to be reached and they're just briefly how is all of this time likely to play out do you think. well we've got about six hours of official talks left to run so in theory that could all come together we could be saying happy faces coming out of those doors in the next six hours but they will use every minute of zero six hours to thrash out all those issues that i've just been talking about and the chance frankly of them reaching agreement in these final few hours is

fairly slim there are many many people in that room although there are twenty five in total delegations each delegation has five or six people in it and they all want to have their say and they will be. described to me yesterday one person said that something that you think would only take forty five seconds so you discussed end up taking forty five minutes an hour and a half when you get into the level of detail that's being discussed at this meeting the size of fishing rights that you ration that any marine park agreement should last for in terms of months and years we're talking about marine parks that would normally last thirty five years was the last one the ross say back in twenty six they when they agreed that one that direction of the marine park you remember one of the main sticking points it could be but that's what they're talking about here but as i say right now i'm afraid the signals don't look at right to andrew thomas there in the box in tasmania andrew thank you for the support his poll. thank you very much someone balls is dominating out the world gymnastics championships

and cattle she's already led the americans to a team gold and is starting to rack up her own medals how small. man i know female gymnast in history has ever done this simone biles winning the world all around gold for the fourth time even so biles was not at her best. she fell twice on vault and balance beam and stepped out of bounds on floor exercise she wasn't even able to stick the landing on the movement after. after slipping on the ball table mistakes this big usually cost gymnast the meat but it was the difficulty of her routines that saved her. even with the falls she top japan's my merc cami by nearly two points something unheard of in the gymnastics world. twenty seventeen world champion and american teammate

morgan herd came in third when she won the title last year biles was taking a year off instead of wearing red white or blue opted for teal the color representing sexual abuse survivors miles was one of the more than three hundred gemma sexually assaulted by former team doctor larry nascar but she says the dark past is behind them the newly crowned best gymnast in the world has four more shots at gold in the event finals but she's been fighting to compete even off in that. the day before the competition started she was hospitalized because of kidney stones her slips and her health concerns have reminded the crowd in doha that she's only human and everything else she does makes one of the hardest individual sports look so easy. to harden al-jazeera. novak djokovic has reached the quarter finals of the paris masters r.c.

awaits his coronation as the world number one bosnia's dhamma izumo was his opponent in the last sixteen on thursday to serve on the first set six one but samoa showed plenty of fight in the second in the fifty two winning this rally but still going to one down but it turned out to be his back that got the better of him on the arena bessie. the bosnian having to retire her debt not long afterwards rough on the dollar has also withdrawn from paris with an abdominal injury so jock which will take its place as number one next week. reflecting on what i've been through in the last year it's. quite quite phenomenal achievement and i you know of course i'm very very happy and proud about it. five you know five months ago if you told me that it would be i always believe in myself but it was highly unprobable at that time considering my ranking in the way i played in front on the court. play modern church in the quarter as bulgaria as a grigor dimitrov took him to

a tie break in the first set but the world number seven correlation came through after that on the second set as well to set up another all bunkum type power. defending champion jacks are also sealed his place in the quarter finals he beat out john is he's more like his eerie in straight sets and dominated in the open forcing three successive breaks on the way won six love six for. south american football's cup at liberty dora's trophy will be contested for the first time by fierce buenos aires rivals baka juniors and river plate barca book their spot in the final on wednesday knocking out power of brazil so hell malik has the option. a spot in the biggest match in south american top football the copper liberty tourist final was on the line and sell paolo louis scolari's power as we're looking to make a comeback against argentina's baka genius who despite leading to none from the first leg well without suspended coach guillermo barrel on the touchline. that

didn't seem to matter early on. one of their side struck first round want to put in three nil ahead and get leaving their brazilian opponents with an uphill task. how mirrors didn't give up though the one scored just after half time to come because the daunting i. and there was real hope when they were awarded a penalty soon after i i was doing the necessary on the hour i all of a sudden the comeback was gone it was short lived though dario benedicto dashing the hopes of the home side his long range of feeling the forty aggregate win and the place for the argentinians in the final so why go to get d.n.a. . we know the value goals have when you're a visitor it's a big marriage of the players to have taken control when born as ours and even here

in sao paolo a very difficult rival. when we scored the first goal then the second goal that motivated us we had the chance of the third goal but it didn't happen. barca can now look forward to a showdown with vs one if there is a drive through the plate in the final so we'll mallett al-jazeera. now south korea's jang who has been banned from his national team for life for exaggerating his record of community service jan he played at the world cup in the summer had been exempt from korean military service after winning the asian games in two thousand and fourteen but he still had to do community work and he's now been found two or falsified photographs of having done so john white now get to add to his fifty eight senior caps for south korea he can still play first club side in tokyo . now as if facing le bron james on court isn't scary enough he took things to another level ahead of the l.a. lakers halloween showdown with the dallas mavericks on wednesday erupt at staples

center dressed as a buddy from a hollywood horror movie ironically it was dallas though that gave l.a. a fright they overturned a thirteen point final quarter deficit and nearly came away with a win but braun who scored twenty nine on the night reverted to his role as hero sinking a free throw to see a one hundred fourteen two hundred thirteen when. there it rose put some of the pain of his injury hit past few seasons behind him for minnesota he scored a career high fifty points an eight hundred twenty eight hundred twenty five win over the utah jazz rose was the twenty eleven m.v.p. with the chicago bulls but injuries up the rails his career since then he walked off the floor in tears after a stunning performance put a lot of his demons to rest the boston red sox have been celebrating their world series title back home in massachusetts although their fans haven't been very careful with the trophy the sox clinched the world series a few days ago with a four one win over the los angeles dodgers in l.a.

but back in boston someone threw a beer cam at the bus hitting the trophy and bending its famous flag poles the city is perhaps getting careless of championship titles their baseball basketball ice hockey and american football teams have racked up eleven of them since two thousand and one. sport and i will have more later on well thank you now bob i'd be just really a maybe a surfer's delights but every year almost half a million people from all over the world had to sit in the front of them called sculpture by the sea of this year's lineup features a hundred artists well we spoke to the founder who says the exhibition couldn't have a better backdrop. i'm david handley on the founding director of sculpture by the sea in sydney australia in ninety ninety seven the exhibition was just a one day exhibition very quickly sculpture by the sea became what we believe is the largest annual sculpture exhibition in the world in terms of number of sculptures size the location i fled the corporate world in my mid twenty's i was

living in prague and i encountered a sculpture in a wonderful sculpture park where sculpture was juxtaposed cited amongst thirteenth century ruins internationally people didn't really think about australia except for the fact we had a rule iraq on a reef and probably an opera house and i have a bridge but that was about it and i wanted to create something that projected a straight it both to itself and internationally is a more sophisticated and cultured placed to visit to live but also which was fundamentally relaxed like australia is i thought this is the art form look at how you could contrast sculpture by color by form by scale with something else a sculpture is meant to be exhibited outdoors and this place is perfect it's as if god in the local mayor got together to create the most perfect location for sculpture we could site huge sculptures which we crane on to the edge of the straight and continent and just around the corner we can have something nestled among the rocks anyone in the world can apply to be in sculpture by the sea we have

a curatorial panel go through some five hundred submissions are only requirement is that the sculpture hasn't been exhibited before in australia i love this exhibition to have an idea that comes out of your head that so many people respond to an artists around the world respond to is very special the first seven years were very very tough we now have some four hundred twenty five to five hundred thousand visitors a year depending a bit on the weather and this year we've got artists from twenty one different countries and one hundred seven sculptures always we have just over one hundred sculptures they are does come together and it feels really special. all the news of course on our website all the latest on the fallout from this i'm all for shock you know to be addressed al-jazeera dot com. and also from a different job of the news out agent imogen's up next with more news digest that's a lot of. i wish the world innovation summit for health one community of two thousand health

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