but in the particular because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues. the people who believe that tell the real story i'll just mend it used to be we're individualism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. this is zero. hello i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up donald trump's former lawyer pleads guilty to lying to congress as part of the investigation into claims of russian collusion. or u.s. president heads to the g twenty in argentina with russia. saying then missing at the summit is now. says it's because of the crisis in crimea where russia has

boosted its military on where and ukraine's president has called for nato help mop the. law. and the u.n. says it's time to get up stand up stand up for the rights of reggae music. and far as small have all the sports after found violence cause the libertad or its final to be abandoned around madrid had become the front runner south america's biggest match. pressure is building on us president donald trump has form a lawyer admitted he lied to congress to help his former boss in a surprise course of parents michael cohen says he made false statements last year to a said it. telegin is committee that's investigating russian interference in the two

thousand and sixteen presidential election trump has lashed out at calling him a liar and a weak man. has more now from washington. mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied to congress now admitting that he was trying to arrange a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the deal and that now president trump knew about it all things cohen had previously denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself secondly it also indicates that president trump or then candidate trump felt vulnerable if it was known that he was dealing in russian enterprises or because he would need to curry

to favor of mr putin nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide is a weak person. by being weak god like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to where the cohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trial pain of women who tried had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president. you've got all these closest

associates of the president one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white house that still seems just obsessed about this investigation it's believed the special counsel has filed several indictments that are still under seal which means it is quite likely michael cohen won't be the last to face the cameras or the court. does their washington oh let's now speak to any gallegos following the story from washington as well and it seems another dramatic turn in robert miller's investigation what did we learn today about the extent of michael cohen's contacts with the kremlin. well what we learned was that michael cohen lied to congress saying that his business dealings with people in russia about potentially building a trump tower in moscow initially he said that it ended in january twenty sixth in

the four candidate trump began to run for the presidency he's now saying that is not the case that in fact those communications did continue and that the president knew about it now at the very least the optics for the president don't look good because it looks if true as if the president was doing business with russia a country that has been accused of interfering in the u.s. election to get him elected as president so at the very least the optics of this do not look good when you bring into effect all the other things that the special counsel has been looking at i think more importantly you've now got michael cohen somebody who was the president's personal fix and personal lawyer for a decade a man who once said he would take a bullet for the president completely cooperating with special counsel robert muller's investigation and we also know there's plenty of reporting that michael cohen says that he potentially has tapes of all their meetings potentially has e-mails so if it comes out that the president did in fact continue those

negotiations or that contact with russia opposed to january twenty sixth and that could be big trouble for the president and what's also interesting is we know that the president has answered written questions to the special counsel and if he's been asked about those business dealings with russia and has said that ended on a particular date and it turns out that he didn't it again really spells trouble for the president remember this is just another one of the president's aides that has now been indicted that has now admitted guilt michael cohen back in august admitted to financial irregularities in that he paid alleged x. lovers of the president money and that was back in august so the net seems to be closing on this presidency the net seems to be closing around president trump you can tell that in the reaction he. passes report what he's calling someone. who he was his trusted confident lawyer someone who's weak and a liar so that it really isn't good news for the president but i think we'll have to wait and see what the special counsel is investigation does next we certainly

had the president lashing out against his former lawyer as you say and just to be care about this trump himself has not been directly accused of any wrongdoing but the problem here is that as you say it's the circle is tightening it brings trump that much closer to an effort to obstruct investigations into possible collusion between russia and his campaign you know it's really about the optics because russia has by the intelligence community here is without doubt that russia was interfering in the u.s. election and that they wanted president trump to win if it turns out that the president was actually doing business with russians at that time that does spell trouble for him and it's something he's denied categorically every time he's asked about it the president says look i have no dealings there i have no financial obligations in russia once my campaign got under way that didn't happen and he said this is a project that that he was allowed to do anyway is a business person so while nothing illegal may have happened here it's simply the

optics of actually doing business with those people while running for the candidacy while the country is then accused of interfering in the election and plus it's about everything else is going on in the modern reverse to get six of the raids including pour money for have been found guilty of various different charges it just piles on top of the president's. doubts that he that russia has perhaps got something on them that he perhaps owes them something it just doesn't look good for this president it just gives him yet another headache thank you very much from washington andy gallacher. donald trump is now on his way to the g. twenty summit in argentina where he was jus to meet russian president vladimir putin but trump announced that meeting was cancelled over twitter without first warning the kremlin it tweeted based on the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia i have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president

lied to me and i look forward to a meaningful summit again as soon as the situation is resolved or trumbull so says he won't be meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond because of times constraints the g twenty summit will be the first time the leaders are gathering together since the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. i would have sat with them but we didn't set that one up by meeting with president xi which is a very important meeting having to do with race and as you know i make it about three or four meetings are just a. meanwhile canada has sanctioned seventeen saudi nationals over the mudra jamal khashoggi canadian government announced the move just as prime minister justin trudeau arrived in argentina for twenty summit. is live for us now from one is iris and alan a great deal for world leaders to tackle when they meet for the summit but how closely will they be watching this move by canada to sanction those involved in the

matter. it just adds to what is becoming your side sure to the g twenty the g twenty should be one of the most important international gatherings of the year when the leaders of the twenty biggest industrialized countries get together and talk about common interests and how they can keep the global economy going as well as tackle issues such as global warming rather keeping poverty all of these things should be on the agenda but what we've got. g. twenty because of various different disputes we have the u.s. and china head super trade saying you might do a deal you might not but he's got a meeting with the chinese president during his time here hammad been soundman and the question of what world leaders will talk with the canadians the latest to announce sanctions against him and donald trump seeing that there's not going to be a meeting and we know they don't want to be with. doesn't matter whether that would

happen and then on top of that we've got what's going on with the you know the russia and ukraine and countries in europe and also know the united states saying that they're going to sit down with a lot of your putin because of the i just in the last hour until you get terry to use the sector general the united nations held a news conference and i asked him how difficult do. to get everyone to concentrate on things like the global economy climate change all these little spots and they're hardly little beholding spots are broken out between the members and he said it is important but what is more important is that all twenty countries sit down together and discuss those issues although he did admit to the murder of jamal khashoggi and how other countries are no treating saudi arabia but also what has happened in the last few days between russia and ukraine has made that incredibly difficult so it's a how do you do it and to be honest i don't think he really knows because he's through the question back to me i'm going to ask you i would you do one or the secretary general of the united nations that's

a task that he has to deal with sounds like an easy way out of the tough question doesn't as you say there is so much on the international agenda right now talking about russia ukraine you've got climate change you've got the u.s. relationship with china the world's biggest economies are under a great deal of strain at them and then what will their priorities be. while they would like to get some sort of communique at the end of this gathering we all know that when there's international gatherings of this kind you like to show that there has been some sort of progress some sort of agreed agenda but there's no guarantee that this will happen this time and part of the problem is donald trump because during the recent economic summit where mike pence went to represent the united states there was no communique because the u.s. couldn't sign up to some of the things that they wanted to put in the final document and you remember that at the g. seven here there was a communique from all seven nations but suddenly because donald trump and fallen out with the canadians

a few hours later on here force one when he was heading back to the united states he testified to communicate so they would like to get something out of this but diplomatically it's going to be different but there are people here as you can see we're standing in the center of units that is outside the historic and very beautiful congress building and there are hundreds of protesters here. they will be joined in the coming days by hundreds more who are king leaders to put aside their differences and to talk about things like climate change people here are worried that there's not enough being done on the international stage to reverify what is going on or even at the very most to stop the worst effects of what's happening with the climate of course donald trump see just the last few days he doesn't believe i report that his. administration compiled about the impact of climate change and they're also talking about global poverty they want more done for those economies that are struggling for people that are struggling through the g. twenty this is a difficult time for them to meet probably one of the most awkward g twenty since

they all started back in london the time of the financial crisis they've got a lot to do together and they've got a lot of problems to sort out individually as well and to. as you say a number of problems for them statistics through despite a very colorful scenes behind alan fish and one is are is. ukraine's president is calling for international help in his nation standoff with russia petro par shanghai wants nato to deploy ships at sea of hours of where he's accusing russia of blockading ports comes as russia deploys more surface to air missiles to crimea or the regions in ukraine are already on the martial law including the city of kharkiv from where under simmons now reports. martial law in ukraine second city is very evident more police on the ground and extra vigilance but most of the emergency powers now available to the president being held in reserve. so fear and counted sky is

a journalist who was here outside the city's russian consulate when it was firebombed on sunday night nationalists demonstrating against russia's action off the coast of alec's crimea she says later when president petro poroshenko warned the russia had tripled the number of tanks on the border people were startled some fearing an invasion. it's karma. which like an official's have assured people that nerves which will restrict their constitutional rights well are may be brought into effect f. russia stats and open act of aggression such as an invasion people here in hockey live in a strange state is there a full war or isn't there a paper boats remain outside the consulate passive resistance to the russian confrontation city officials won't comment and were understood to be seeking more clarification about the martial law or some politicians are still cynical about the

president's motivations with their actions at the end of march next year the fact that a bill like the one about that a bill on the back of twenty four. it should have been done and everyone would have taken it normally it could have been an adequate response to the situation but now honestly it looks ridiculous. an estimated thirty percent of hockey these people are ethnic russian and the border is only forty kilometers away if the conflict was to escalate drastically. would certainly be in the firing line and this is the city that built thousands of teeth thirty four tanks its legendary armor believed by many to have been one of the main reasons why the soviets defeated the nazis in the second world war. now work to build and maintain ukrainian tanks is virtually nonstop with exports halted. it's not necessarily what's happening on the

ground that's alarming it's what's going through people's minds military conscription for example is applies to young men between twenty and twenty seven years of age one year for graduates eighteen months for non-graduates special exemption for young people from serving on the front line but could this old change . a students depart from a day's study in their university and get a hint of their nervousness. brother the nations are fighting each other there needs to be a peaceful solution without the loss of human life but for me well. i will be in pain if my brother is conscripted because i don't want him to go to war to fight somebody at a strained time in its short history as an independent state the message from ukraine is one of strength and determination but there's divisiveness in its internal politics andrew symonds al-jazeera hockey you crying. still ahead for you

on this news hour from london arrested at the age of twelve and out of jail after three years look at the mistreatment of palestinian children in israeli prisons georgia elects its first female president but the opposition calls it a criminal farce and in sport we'll hear from brazilian football a name as he breaks another record that story and will coming up later. syrian state media says the air force is shot down several hostile targets flying over its territory they reportedly shot down over the town of a kiss what south of the capital damascus. developing story that we're following and we will bring you more details on it as they come into us have also been all the developments around syria today the u.n. envoy has called the latest talks involving iran russia and turkey to try and end

the war a missed opportunity to find the mr is saying he is disappointed with the failure to set up a u.n. back constitutional committee syria's u.n. ambassador has also called for the west to lift sanctions to help refugees return saying hold reports now from kazakhstan's capital a stunna where those talks were taking place. it's a new round of syria talks the power brokers russia iran and turkey brought the warring parties their allies yet again to the capital. the united nations was also invited the special envoy to find a mistake i was hoping for a breakthrough in what is likely to be his last diplomatic mission before leaving office but there was no deal on the formation of a un constitutional committee russia's presidential envoy alexander lovren so the issue of the committee is important and its creation is their goal moscow knows it won't get the backing of the west for its plans for post-war reconstruction and

refugee returns if damascus doesn't engage with the un led political process for most enough the issues were thoroughly discussed there was no deal no formal announcement about the committee creation but details are being discussed on the show seriousness and i'm optimistic there will be a solution them a student said this meeting was another missed opportunity to accelerate this stablish ment of what he called a credible balanced and inclusive syria owned syrian led un facilitated constitutional committee but he said he remains committed to facilitate for their efforts the target date to set up the committee is by the end of the year that is what france and germany requested during the last meeting on syria and istanbul in october there are no longer calls for syrian president bashar assad to step down but the un political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's

work and mandate it doesn't want a new charter is we produce something or sort of. important and be a political to start a process war in in more than forty years forty of geneva accords for instance we have been using. the so-called asked in a forum is about undercutting and sidelining the un but russia can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing so that when asked in a u.s. senate is expected to debate next week whether to end american support in the war in yemen it comes after a majority vote on wednesday to go ahead with the measure and what's been described as a rebuke to the trumpet ministration the u.s. has been providing logistical and intelligence support to the saudi amrani coalition the war in yemen since two thousand and fifteen when it began under

president barack obama. and it's meant to help stabilize the region and counteract iranian actions who see rebels fighting the coalition are backed by to iran until recently much of the u.s. assistance was in the form of in-flight refueling for saudi jets bombing yemen that's been halted in recent weeks in the wake of the outrage around the murder of jamal khashoggi the u.s. still cooperates on intelligence for the coalition there and is the top arms supplier to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and it says its offices advise the coalition on potential targets to minimize civilian casualties. meanwhile the un's humanitarian chief is in the yemeni capital sanaa for three days of talks maslow cough is calling for a cease fire he's also meeting aid workers displaced families and communities to assess the scale of the crisis. i'm very concerned about the humanitarian situation here which has deteriorated since i was here last and as i've said repeatedly to the security council there are five things i would like to happen to improve the

situation and to reduce the suffering of the people first i'd like to see a sation of hostilities especially around the key aid infrastructure especially around the data secondly i'd like to see the environment in which the aid system operates made easier for all the aid agencies keep the ports open keep the roads so provide access to all the key facilities. well now one of the youngest palestinian children jailed in israel has been released he was arrested at the age of twelve and spent almost three years in prison for plotting an attack a charge he denies as in touch or going to reports from ramallah his case highlights concerns about the mistreatment of palestinian children arrested by israeli forces. with three birthdays spent in prison fifteen year old child before. the media attention after crossing the

calendar checkpoint in the occupied west bank and returning home to palestinians. it's the best feeling in the world the feeling of freedom nothing like it. was twelve when he and his friend ahmed zaatari were arrested in their village in two thousand and fifteen israeli authorities charged him with possession of a knife and plotting an attack despite taking a plea deal he denies this thanks to his mother's tireless efforts emerged as the face of palestinian children in israeli prisons human rights groups say they're often coerced into confessing to crimes they didn't commit the palestinian prime minister's office says there are two hundred seventy children in israeli jails this year more than nine hundred have been arrested children report being subjected to physical violence and put in solitary confinement during interrogations according to the rights group defense for children.

during the interrogation and whenever we say something they don't like they turn the cameras off they beat us they put us through psychological torture but it was worse for our families a spokesman with the israeli police didn't respond directly to the allegations but explained their procedures there's a clip protocol that we go according to notify the parents that they've been involved in an attack notify a lawyer if necessary as well and of course according to the standard procedure they will appear before the court that is what takes place in israel and of course in many cases as well everything of course is documented and even filmed human rights groups say israel needs to be held accountable a lot of. things that i mean of innocence and to try to ask international community to. in the coming days weeks and months

human rights groups say once the euphoria dissipates the forum may very well have difficulties coming to terms with the trauma of three teenage years spent in prison natasha going to aim ramallah. well michael link is the un special rapporteur on palestine he joins me live from montreal thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us we were watching that natasha story of now fifteen year old who has spent the last three years in jail he has been released but we know that there are many of the children still imprisoned how concerned are you about the conditions facing palestinian mine is in israeli prisons. very concerned my concerns are shared by a number of those in the as really palestinian human rights community with respect to the treatment of children under occupation a number of these children are in prison for offenses that wouldn't be imprisoned

in in most countries remember that under the un convention on the rights of children imprisonment is for children is to be done only at a very last resort a number of these children the i think at any one time you'd find anywhere between two hundred fifty to three hundred palestinian children under detention are there for issues like stone throwing or or and being involved in scuffles with with police and they're taken off generally interrogated without lawyers or access to family until a confession is reached many of them want up going to prison based on plea deals because the consequences are probably probably worse if they if they pled not guilty and went through a military court trial there churched under juvenile courts that are attached to the military courts that have a very very high prosecution rate so these are the sorts of issues that i think keep anybody in the human rights community concerned but. any efforts that you can

tell us about that are on the way to raise awareness or perhaps more to the point to put pressure on the legal political establishment to consider a change in policy. sure i mean these issues are brought up regularly the united nations of the general assembly there are contained in reports that are you deliver others to live or to the united nations human rights council so there is a spotlight on these practices and there have been some incremental changes in israeli practices there are fewer children in prison today than there were say five or six years ago where the number was closer to the six hundred there's been the creation of this juvenile court but those who examined the rights of palestinian children under occupation closely say that these are these are incremental changes not substantial changes and they still don't comply with international standards or with the requirements under the u.n. convention for the rights of children i suppose there is a bigger question here around the fact that these problems will never be resolved

without a return to the negotiating table president trump has said a middle east peace plan would be the deal of the century nothing has happened since he came to office nothing has been articulated by his son in law gerri it is a very fragile situation still we need he saw another war in gaza or it looked as though we were on that that could be a possibility just weeks ago how urgent is it for that to be some sort of process or or plan released. sure one could have good wishes for the prospects of the peace plan that's being prepared by the americans but i must say with with little realistic hope there's not a lot of evidence that the peace plan if it's delivered sometime in the next several months and released is going to have a lot of traction there is virtually no official relationship right now between the united states and the palestinian authority that doesn't bode well the ideas that

have leaked out of the peace plan as it's taken its various draft forms seem to be recycling old ideas such as a palestinian confederation with jordan or turning over the gaza strip to gyptian control those ideas were long ago discarded by the unit and this feeling can i just sort of sorry to interrupt you that's sort of jump in there but i just what you're saying it just makes me think i mean is now and then not the time for the u.n. security council maybe to show leadership on this can they come up with some ideas . well of course. but you are to remember that one of the permanent members on the security council is the united states and it holds a veto and it's indicated quite clearly that given the person close relationship between washington and tel aviv and jerusalem that it be willing to use that to protect israel. there is a wide gap. in retort between the huge body of resolutions by the united nations

calling on israel to stop the and exhaustion of territory to stop the settlements to comply with the force of the convention and what actually happens on the ground and as long as that large gap between between rhetorical performance occurs we're going to see a third of the occupation we're seeing israel moving closer and closer to and i've seen parts or even all of the of the west bank the situation is bad and it's only getting worse and and one can only point to to get out of the look at what a recent u.n. official said is a catastrophe on top of the crisis. thank you very much for taking time to speak to us today michael link u.n. special. miriam thank you very much. for you on the program this hour senegalese government restricts the internet to stop the spread of this information but critics say it's an attack on freedom of

speech. by a u.n. weapons in. and. drawn breaks out. to heavyweight boxes face for the final time. balance looks like it's already started. it was still got some lively showers into the eastern side of the mediterranean lots of claps still showing up pig sea ice just making its way from the south pushing a little further north was trying to add some warm weather abe but not really succeeding it's pretty cold down here athens no woman running eleven degrees celsius single figures there for ankara sub zero for bucharest for kiev and of course up towards moscow where it's minus a selfish but at least it's try here concentra weather also making its way into the

western side of the upper parabens the british isles blustery winds feeding their way in eleven celsius there in london twelve degrees for paris some wet weather into central pos that will sink down into central areas of the mediterranean then we've got some more cloud of the right party back into that northwestern side of the year of the recent well showers just around the black sea that cold enough to snow just pushing its way into southern areas of ukraine over the next couple of days meanwhile northern parts of the mediterranean seeing some of that rain just sliding its way down into those northern areas of egypt moving parts of libya as well twenty two celsius there for cairo over the next couple of days a chance of a few showers too just around to see and maybe algeria from morocco is dry.

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hannah. welcome back a look at the top stories now u.s. president has accused his former lawyer of lying off she pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress michael cohen says he'll lie to a senate intelligence committee that's investigating claims of russian collusion during the two thousand and sixteen election donald trump has canceled an upcoming meeting with the russian president vladimir putin at the g. twenty summit in argentina. trump who made the announcement over twitter says he's called it off because of the tension in crimea. meanwhile ukraine's president has called on nato to deploy warships. the sea of us two amid rising tensions between

ukraine and russia petro poroshenko has accused the russian president of attempting to annex entire country. of georgia party says it does not accept the results of wednesday's presidential one of which saw a former french diplomat elected as the head of state. said to be the country's first female president she was born in paris after her parents fled george or in one nine hundred twenty one following it's an exception by soviet forces service really was posted to the georgian capital as the french ambassador to children two thousand and three but later gave up the post to serve as georgia's foreign minister a sixty six year old ran as an independent candidate but was backed by the ruling georgian dream party robin forrester walker has more now from tbilisi. georgians have elected their first female president in the capital there were mixed feelings about the result but i think that she will be heard i'm trying to move her

and secret police to show herself. through or to be seen. in my choice. i really. i think she'll do what's required of her we need our women's rhaetian women's perspective but i have some kind of. very hopes georgians will be able to reconcile their differences after an ugly election campaign. when they are. our choice is a peaceful georgia a free country where citizens have equal rights our choice is a dialogue with those who did not vote for me today. so obviously will be the last elected president by the voting public even in future it will be parliament that decides who becomes. residence as the country transitions to

a parliamentary democracy but georgian democracy may not be as healthy as it seems according to the opposition the government's last minute promise of debt relief for more than six hundred thousand georgians was tantamount to a vote it was if. we go with. the flow. of. georgia's most powerful figure initially the billionaire chairman of the governing party staked his reputation on his tour of this village when her muscles already got to voters our society realized their power understood that they have all the tools and reacted absolutely adequately absence at this gathering was a symbol that real power in georgia remains a money dominated male affair robyn for a steelworker al-jazeera tblisi. italian prosecutors have publicly named several

members of egypt's national security agency as suspects in the murder of italian student julia regina a graduate student disappeared in january two thousand and sixteen his body was found with signs of torture the next month in the desert outside of cairo the president of the italian parliament says m.p.'s the whole thing all diplomatic relations with egypt until there is a breakthrough and a trial in the case and not a shrank away supporters of the sacked prime minister run away from a singer of push through a vote in parliament to cut funding for the man who's replaced him form a strongman head to rajapaksa took over the job after the president removed from a singer plunging the country into a political crisis al-jazeera as many alpha nanda is was at the parliament and brings us more now from colombia. and another and another defeat for prime minister behind the rajapaksa at the hands of the faction of the ousted prime minister on the vicar missing the vote today sought to cut down the expenditure and budget

allocation to the prime minister's office and was passed by a majority of one hundred and twenty three now this is even more votes than the last of the vicar missing a faction was able to pas however we have my in the rajapaksa saying that this entire process in parliament is illegal his supporters saying that the speaker was being partial to the vicar missing her faction basically today's vote them saying that the agenda was not properly prepared that these matters are before the court the supreme court and the appeal so are subject here and basically saying that they would not accept such a result now all eyes on prison might recall a city saying he had basically rejected the two no confidence motions against prime minister rajapaksa however when you met foreign correspondents on sunday he did say that the vote today if done properly and if the majority was shown by the vicar missing a faction he said he would have to accept it however he did say that he would not

basically see any way of reappointing prime minister viktor missing however a vigorous in his supporters have once again taken the board and said that he is their only candidate for the post of prime minister when that majority is a recognized you break in the eastern democratic republic of congo is the second biggest in history the health ministry says there are now four hundred twenty six confirmed and probable cases at least two hundred forty five people have been killed it's only surpassed by the epidemic in west africa the losses from two thousand and thirteen until twenty sixteen when more than twenty eight thousand people contracted the disease much of the day aussies current outbreak. and it teary provinces are attacks by armed groups of severely hampered any medical response. meanwhile the un refugee agency wasted millions of dollars in its response to africa's largest refugee crisis including paying for

a parking lot at ugandan prime minister's office the un agency help provide food and shelter for people who fled south sudan for uganda in twenty sixteen but eleven million dollars is now being spent on a recount of the refugees with fears the numbers could have been inflated by hundreds of thousands. in senegal along restricting access to the internet has been approved by parliament the government says it's needed to stop the spread of misinformation but critics say it will give more power to president lackey sul who is running for reelection in february nicolas hock reports from the capital dhaka it is a joke shared on a private whatsapp group that landed senegalese t.v. news reporter in jail when sunday night she shared a photo montage of president mikey sells portrait on the naked muscular man's body to seven other women saying that he looked cute. a month later plainclothes officers arrested her and sent her to jail for three months for conspiracy

violating decency and causing offense to the head of state. of the protests of what's right reputation and so has my family before i was free to chat on mine or write on facebook my thoughts freely that freedom has been replaced by fear now i'm scared to say what i think or even to make it so members of parliament voted to regulate the internet some human rights groups say it allows the state to shut down access to social media and censor content online it looks like they're not very comfortable with the freedom of expression in freedom of speech and in the internet easy huge powerful tool to many africans to expect their views and be relayed around the globe. there have been two hundred sixty four internet shutdowns in the last three years around the world and more and more governments are cutting access to the internet especially in africa in the english speaking regions of cameroon

where a presidential campaign took place the internet is down for almost a year now tanzania uganda been in and egypt are some of the countries introducing new internet laws the governments say this is not about censorship but stopping fake news and regulating the telecom operators who for now have complete oversight on how people consume online with the boom of smartphones in africa data has become the new gold and governments here want to have more control over it. senegal's that new legislation comes just months before a presidential election where campaigning is taking place online i think. we have a tradition of debate discussion and laughter under the village tree with so many people now living away from they could be unities in the cities the internet has replaced the village truly it's important that this tradition is preserved online

shunned by her peers since her release from prison monday has lost her job as a news reporter instead she works at a call center and sells textiles on the streets. it is only in the privacy of her home that she goes back online in search of a safe place to talk. nicholas hawk al-jazeera car. well the united nations has voted to protect reggae music by adding it to its world heritage list. the un heritage agency unesco says the music genre popularized by bob marley and other musicians is worthy of protection for its contribution to social and political justice reggae originated in jamaica fifty years ago the song lyrics tackling issues including inequality and police brutality but reggae isn't the only cultural treasure unesco is added to its intangible heritage list as hurling

a field sport from island dating back about two thousand years it's considered as an intrinsic part of irish culture and plays a central role in health and well being as some are a traditional dance at your damien weddings also makes a list poetry's recited during the performance to express feelings of joy and empathy and then we have the spring festive rights of course breeders they include the first milking and marks the beginning of the new breeding era a form of korean folk wrestling from the fourth century has a new protected status as well after a joint bid by north and south korea. well joining us now in the studio is pyro been some founder of reggae so interesting to run through some of the the other sports and i suppose parts of culture that have made the list but you must be very pleased about the un's recognition of reggae what does it mean for reggae music and fans of reggae music absolutely we welcome the news i mean it means

a lot to us i'm not saying that we don't know that it is a cultural treasure of course it is to us and already love us all over the world but for it to actually have the un's approval just means that it's absolutely amazing i mean reggae music is loved all over the world but in particular in britain it's got like a huge entrenched history you know of bringing unity and diversity here so we welcome it one hundred percent it tell us a bit more about that because reggae emerged from the caribbean in the late one nine hundred sixty s. what was it about reggae what was it that fueled its rise to prominence and made it so prevalent in the u.s. but mainly here in the u.k. i think it is funny because you had the punk rockers if you had the skinheads that just really took to it i think it's all about the fact that it brought freedom that rebellion that freedom of voice that love and you know it's not something that britain had ever seen before you know before there was no reggae here and assume as

my grandparents i can say brought it in their suitcases was ply playing it you know on their vinyls and it i think it just brought that essence of culture which was much needed here and you know i'm very proud absolutely and what was the purpose of reggae because you said that it's more than a genre of music you said that it's quite spiritual you've described it as a movement for people that might not have experienced reggae music help us to understand why it captures the imagination what we're going to remember where i guess coming from and it's important not to leave out the friend ism because that is the that's been the backbone of reggae music. can see that from the legend bob marley he's carried that with him and never left out his reasons being a us the area so you know at the end hriday i believe the people listening to reggae you hear the sound but they head to the roots of it they have the music they hear the core of it and that message was about truth rights and justice you know it came out of a time where black people were facing

a lot of injustice especially in the caribbean and so when people hear it there's parts of them that come identify you listen to any reggae soul and bill you can hear that whether it's a love song whether it's a song which talking about something happening in your life and i think that's what captures people it's more than just a john with music it's more than just the sound it's a spiritual vibration and as i said love really you mentioned your parents and grandparents there and there's been a great deal of debate here in the u.k. about the wind rush generation and the issues around that is reggae music is relevant now as it was in the sixty's and seventy's absolutely even more so when i think of my grandparents i think of the ground not a lot of people know about that gram that you know you could put a woman play and i hear stories from my parents specially my dad when he used to run around on you know the car pit listening to different reggae songs and i think it's so relevant it's so important that we grasp reggae based on what it's saying

in terms of all the things happening in the world reggae music the only jordan when i can say that that really brings about unity and love it always paul sat through and any way you go in the world and you hear reggae someone has to dance whether they understand it or not it's just that feeling that vibrance can't help it can you can help thank you very much pyro been some from head of media for reggae betray me tanya thank you very much for larry's mall still ahead on program for you we're going to have all the sports with the labor to dora's in limbo could real madrid step into those south america's biggest match our will be here. wow the law. business. thank.

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from. marion thank you so much the couple of brazil doris final that was abandoned due to fan violence and when osiris is said to be helped thousands of miles away in madrid according to spanish and argentinian media south american football authorities are expected to announce that round madrid's burn about stadium will host the second leg of the all arjen time final between boca juniors and river plate on december the ninth the game in the argentine capital was postponed last week after an attack on the boca team bus outside rivers monumental stadium organizers decided to hold the second leg outside of the country due to security concerns earlier we spoke to south american football experts on our ngo he told us why madrid had suddenly become such a strong favorite to hold south america's biggest football match. that's a good question it just emerged out of the blue today. we we heard miami we had

heard. we had heard doha we've heard all these different venues maybe you just last night as well and also today that we're going to get so so as far as i guess a bit more distant from the situation it's. a little bit less rob a good point what's going on the road this weekend i mean the so i mean there's really not one answer you can give but it's a place that has been able to guarantee the safety of both teams that's been able to you know equal conditions and people both narratives have been able to be satisfied. well coincidentally around madrid are due to play the winner of boca versus river plate in the club world cup later in december in abu dhabi the players say they're looking forward to facing one of the having weights of south american football before that of over and then obviously we are against violence but i hope

south america has representation at the club world cup we don't know which team is going to play but it's important for football to have a team from south america either of them will be difficult because they play very good football as we saw in the first like this from a ban on up and it's a shame that violence goes on outside the pits and affects the game at the end the most important things are fair play a nice final and that decisions are respected i think that's even more important football itself and we will see what happens with that final and most importantly of course that there's no one injured atletico parent and say are through the final the copa sit american or the met fellow brazilian sliman and say f america on wednesday leading to nel from the first like and they swiftly extended their advantage me apco with the opening goal inside five minutes. going to give me irish added another in the second half to complete the four now aggregate when athletically played either junior that. or santa fe and summer's final. there is

a name r.'s celebrating becoming brazil's highest score score in champions league history the twenty six year old scored his thirty first champions league goal on wednesday his fourth of the season leading p.s.g. to a crucial two one victory against liverpool to keep their chances of reaching the last sixteen on truck in margot's want to head of kaka who had held the record from his time with raul madrid and ac milan. the team showed its strength and we were decisive we suffered a lot but we have a word to say in this competition i'm very happy to become the best brazilian striker in the champions league and i want to continue like that and help my teammates the line up for the knockout stages is getting closer to completion some more teams made it through after thursday's really matches a real betis and sporting lisbon among them sporting getting a six one win i care a bag and azerbaijan arsenal finish top of their group after a serino win in kiev that much moved from taba in eastern ukraine because of the

tensions with russia ac milan went to one down to luxembourg minnows doodling but won five. boxing fans will finally get to see dante wilder in tyson fury in one of the biggest heavyweight fights in years on saturday while there is a title holder and both fighters are i'm beaten things got heated in the final press conference the fighters and their camps gosling in las the faceoff went off the rails in front of the media while he says the fight that broke out wasn't just for show. i don't do it for i don't do it for them there were. there would. be no me. they know what our hero is that morning because i don't have to worry about what to you know when i'm not there things that you would rather too skinny. in the n.b.a. russell westbrook posted the one hundred and seven triple double of his career as

he led the oklahoma city thunder to a hundred eighty three went over the cleveland cavaliers it also moves him into a tie for third on the n.b.a.'s list for triple doubles over in tax that is it was nineteen year old rookie luke adamic to help the dallas mavericks to a win over the houston rockets donna and devon harris both scored twenty points dallas houston one hundred seventy to ninety five by the triple double from rockets star james harden. and the minnesota timberwolves thrushes san antonio spurs one hundred twenty eight to eighty nine in what was the third biggest win and minnesota franchise history it was also the timberwolves fourth straight victory and that's all useful for now it's now back to marion and london thank you for. well that wraps up the news hour but there is a full bulletin coming up very shortly around up of all the day's top stories in just a couple of minutes for you and then of course there's also a web site for everything that we're covering but also analysis that takes you

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