business updates. going places together. coming up in the next sixty minutes putting out the. new reports say the government is about to suspend the controversial fuel tax that sparked a weeks of nationwide protests. and police on the hunt for an armed group blamed for the disappearance of more than thirty construction workers assigned to a bridge project. the israeli army begins dismantling tunnels along its border with

lebanon. briggs it could still be shut down that's the opinion of the advocate general of the european court of justice. award player and in. we begin this new. security forces suspect an armed group is to blame for the disappearance of thirty one construction workers gunmen attacked a bridge project in a remote part of papua province on sunday all construction work has been halted in the region until it's deemed safe to restart an armed group in papua has been battling indonesian rule for nearly fifty years let's go live now to jakarta al jazeera step boston is this step

a very remote area are we clear yes as to what exactly has happened. yes indeed adrian it is a very remote area where this incident has happened it happened in the east very far east of the country in papar but also in a very remote part of it we're talking about the high lands there's no road access there's no phone access there and as we speak a soldier's are walking for another four hours to actually reach the location where this alleged killings have taken place the government is basically building this transpire road because it's of most poor region of the country and they want to bring some economy there but locally specially by these independent groups it's been accused as a project to get more control over the power plant and as you said there has been an uprising against indonesia for many years more than fifty six years actually and

this weekend the past weekend when this incident happened there was an anniversary of the first december declaration of independence which happened in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and apparently did workers basically were near where the group of men were holding this anniversary one of them apparently took a picture and then the whole situation got out of control but again there's still no confirmation on exactly what happened we're still waiting for the soldiers to arrive at the scene and report back because so far even the bodies of the workers are still missing nobody knows where they are so hopefully we'll hear more about that soon how strong is the independence movement in power for. well i think ninety sixty eight and sixty one when the pov month basically fell they got their independence from dutch colonise us. off the indonesian took control of the over the area i'm every year they have been celebrating this anniversary of the independence even on last saturday hundreds of one protest of had been arrested

around indonesia because they were protesting against what they call indonesian occupation of the on the movement though is a lot smaller there have been groups in the past and this particular group that the military now is saying is behind this attack there's a probably the most active and consists of around forty people apparently all with guns so the government has been very repressive against the idea of these groups even or on armed people who have been raising the independence flag have been locked up in prison for many many years so this repression will continue and will actually probably even get worse after this incident of the past week and many things such as this to pass in the live in jakarta now to france where reports say that the government is about to announce a freeze on its proposed diesel fuel tax the tax due to be imposed next month to

promote green energy provoke nationwide protests including the worst riots for decades in paris on saturday the so-called yellow vest protests brought streets to a standstill for the past three weekends three people were killed in traffic accidents linked to the blockading of streets by motorists protest of since widened into an outcry of failing living standards as well as demands for president president emmanuel mccaw to resign because of his economic policies lived out of paris notices david chasers there david what more details about these reports that the government is about to perform a u. turn. well it's the beginning of a u. turn i don't think it's complete yes we're getting from government sources that the prime minister felipe will go to the national assembly the french parliament and tell m.p.'s of the measures they're going to take now the first one of course as you say is a moratorium as they call it on the fuel tax rises and this was the central part

of the president green policies trying to sort of wean the country off its fuel is especially diesel but diesel is the one fuel which is necessary in the countryside people in the countryside in the poor suburbs use it and so these tax rises were forming on the shoulders of the people in france who could least afford it that's what was the genesis of the yellow vest protest and i think at the same time this will just be the first step in a series of measures we're getting indications that they will take perhaps something more another concession on wages very unclear what that's going to be but there is going to be perhaps a rough two policies another government is facing no confidence vote in the national assembly tomorrow we've just heard that of course it will pass easily because the real opposition as we've seen is on the streets to present macaroons

policies and it's going to way from his policies in the way and more to the man himself now we've just seen in the polls the latest polls extraordinary power match that he's he's actually on twenty three percent this was a i recall for the fifth republic when francois alone his biggest s. a drop down to it and now sharing that on a is president himself so he realizes he's got a huge gulf opening up between him and the people of france and he had to do something and he's left it in the hands of his prime minister who will be announcing these measures very soon the president up until now david has stood firm in the face of various protests he's buckled hasn't he. he has buckled and he's buckled after scenes of violence everyone says that the any change eleven gets in france politically is if there's rebellion if there is

violence a lot of people were saying that what we saw on saturday and what i saw and enjoyed on saturday like many others was the only way they could force their attention onto a president who seemed above that ordinary concern and he seems to have made this concession buckled under these violent attacks and more or less saying that he wants to try and give enough concessions to stop this happening again next weekend but how do you stop the l a vest revolt it's an amorphous structure arranged on social media and will the government ever do enough to stop this happening again that's still unsure because it's now growing it's not just a protest against the fuel tax rises every concern is coming forward into the yellow vests rebellion and i think they'll now be greedy for more concessions so this could be a real turnaround as i say is a bit of a u.

turn just a beginning of a u. turn by present macro but maybe they're going to get hungry for more they've seen the violence works david many thanks i was there as david chase of the live in paris this really army has begun destroying tunnels under the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to stop cross border attacks by hizbollah faces into northern israel israel's been boosting defenses along an eleven kilometer stretch of the border for the past three years of zero as the touch of good name reports from west to receive them. this is the first operation of its kind we've seen along the northern border targeting has a loss since two thousand and six that's when israel and hezbollah off a month long war and since then there's been a kind of tense detente israel is saying the existence of these tunnels is a violation of a un resolution agreed upon at that time prohibiting has the law from operating near the border and amassing weapons operation north shield as it's been dubbed by

the israeli military began last evening they've been destroying the tunnels building walls and rock barriers in an attempt to thwart any kind of attack from hezbollah in lebanon into israel and israeli military spokesman says we see the hezbollah activities as a flagrant and blatant violation of israeli authority so the question is what might happen next will has respond it's important to note that these activities by the israeli military are confined to israeli territory and that's why it's believed that this will not escalate further in addition hezbollah as attention and resources have been diverted in the last several years due to its participation in the war in syria which likely makes that loath to want any kind of military confrontation with israel last evening prime minister benjamin netanyahu

traveled to brussels to meet with u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o to alert him to this operation and also to discuss what they call quote iran's aggression this operation comes literally on the heels of some domestic troubles that netanyahu is having here in israel on sunday for the third time this year police have recommended that he be indicted as part of a wide ranging corruption investigation that has plagued him and his wife since last year some analysts are saying this operation could be a way to divert attention away from that. the u.k. could cancel bragg's it outright without the consent of other member states that's what the advocate general of the european court of justice has told the e.u. his highest court at a london m.p. is that user votes on whether the government broke parliamentary rules by failing to publish the full legal advice that it's been given on the prime minister's plan to leave the e.u.

opposition party say that by limiting the information released ministers ignored a binding commons vote demanding that they release the full of vice julian moore is a lawyer and director of the good law project he was a petition in the article fifty eight revocation case at the european court of justice and joins us now live from london. the advocate general's opinion is just that isn't it is not the court's final judgement that's right i mean it's an opera seige or if you are an english lawyer anyway the advocate general issues an opinion that opinion doesn't bind the court but in practice it's followed about eighty percent of occasions i think this opinion is especially likely to be followed because the court will be fully aware of the political ramifications of the other returns opinion and i suspect. the opinion will have been formed after conversations with judges all had the same arguments

only last tuesday ok so the u.k. could cancel brigs it without the consent of other e.u. states that's the the opinion of the advocate general when the court does make its final ruling could could that opinion if it's translated into into the verdict come with caviar it's. i think it's very very likely that the final ruling will follow the opinion the other trend was i've indicated. the app in turn has been in also has caviar it's actually what the advocate general says is that if the united kingdom makes a genuine decision that it wants to remain in the e.u. in accordance with its own constitution requirements then that decision will be accepted by the by the e.u. in other words be you can't charge us a price account ask us to give up our rebate or join sharon or join the the euro these are important things actually because only last week michael gove was citing categorically that the u.k.

would have to give up all of those things in order to remain in the e.u. and us now seems very very unlikely to be to be true but the important point to note is that we can only cancel the article fifty notice if we have decided that we want to remind them that might happen because parliament so directs the government or it might happen after a referendum on whether or not we want to accept the deal that treason has managed to agree with with the counsel in the u.k. government to try to stop trying to prevent your case getting to the european court of justice why. if you're not living in the u.k. at the moment the political situation must seem very very odd to you this case was only ever about informing m.p.'s of the choices that have m.p.'s who are struggling with a decision of generation importance the united kingdom who obviously are troubled

by the way in which the campaign was run by the leave side troubled by the knowledge now that any form of bret's it will be bad for the united kingdom's economy particularly bad for those who are living on the margins and it's difficult to understand why a government should not want m.p.'s to know what options they have but i'm afraid you know that is the first way to put a plan in iraq and it's not very happy you know you can see that in your other lead story of this morning the fact that government is trying to ignore the binding expression of power than once will that the advice of the government is received on the irish backstop should be released to parliament think then we don't live in a dictatorship we live in a democracy and when m.p.'s. express their view in a binding way it is pretty remarkable that the government should seek to ignore them so could the court's ruling julian if it is in line with the advocate general's opinion which you think it probably will be could it be challenged or

appealed by the british government all by the european commission commission and the other european member states what does it mean for them. so after the advocate general handed down his decision a smalling we now wait for the court of justice to give its ruling when a court of justice gives its ruling that is an end of the matter there is no appeal against decision of the court of justice it is the highest constitutional court in europe where twenty eight judges are present at the hearing mass tuesday so that is it is it for the council is it for the commission is it for the other member states and also it for the united kingdom government the decision will be firmly in our own parliamentarians hands if they take the view that perhaps it is not in the national interest they will be able to cancel breakfast in the united kingdom will be able to remain in me you with the benefit of all of the opt outs and rebates or

the privileges that we presently enjoy. and you know ultimately the question is one for m.p.'s and you know that's how it should be and judges are not in any way telling m.p.'s what the answer should be they're just saying to him please look you have a question to answer and as the democratically elected representatives of the people it is for you to answer that question in a really good story to me thanks dave for being with us show you more of that of the good lord projects. here with the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program no way into the united states asylum seekers stuck in mexico a growing increasingly desperate. ethnic cleansing or genocide why language matters when investigating crimes committed against the door hinge. and greek after hitting the heights of the sports but success is coming at a huge cost the details coming up later in schools.

russia says it's partially reopened to ukrainian seaports on the as of seat ukraine's government says that at least seventeen ships are waiting to go through tension though remains high in the region after russia seized three ukrainian ships and twenty four sailors last month near the curch strait the president of ukraine has met with family members of the sailors that have been detained we'll have more on the family's meeting with the president on the ports opening from al-jazeera andrew symonds who's in kiev in just a few moments but first let's join the club in brussels. what's been happening there at nato today natasha. well we heard a short while ago from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or who is here in brussels making a rather wide ranging speech on american foreign policy talking about how and the

trumpet ministration america hopes to try and create a new global world order by pulling the us out of things like the climate deal the paris accord and the iran deal he will later come here to nato headquarters might compare to joint other nato foreign ministers where one of the top talking points one of the main points on the agenda will most certainly be the crisis between russia and ukraine we heard a bit earlier from yen stoltenberg and it really seems the key word is going to be really deescalation how to diffuse this crisis between russia and ukraine and make sure that it doesn't end up in some form of military conflict now stoltenberg said that he is calling on russia to release the sailors and the ships he is urging calm on all sides and later these foreign ministers will be meeting some representatives from ukraine to talk about the situation further on that i should many thanks to let's go live then to work andrew simmons who's in kiev under tell us more about

this this partial unlocking then of the curch streets partially reopened to ships by russian. yes it's on the face of it looks positive although one has to really be somewhat cautious because under the conventions the treaties that allow russia and ukraine to share the as of c. there are clauses in which either side can inspect one's ships at any point now the russians are making the most of this in the sense that they are deliberately using this is a delay tactic on the shipping spending a lot of time to inspect ships and what we're hearing now is that according to the infrastructure minister here in ukraine there has been this partial unblocking and that i assume means that the russians are turning things around slightly faster than they were seventeen ships have been waiting to enter the as of sea from the

black sea along the kurt straits nine adult imports and we're hearing now from. that's the smaller of the two ports in ukraine. planning to lay off three hundred doctors because the situation is so bad in terms of traffic and trade effectively the position in that part of ukraine is rather desperately economically because of the slowness of the ships coming in and out of delays of sometimes up to two to three days building up and up and up and there are now companies are now using fewer shipments to actually export steel and grain so it's a really critical position right now in ukraine and it's not getting much easier so the short answer to your question is a very guarded positive sign maybe president poroshenko has been meeting with the

families of the sailors who have been detained by russia what's the significance in the significance of that andrea. well it's very significant as far as those farmers are concerned they've been in a desperate situation looking for information in particular of a c.v. soroka he's the twenty seven year old intelligence officer s.b.u. officer who is now believed to be held in moscow and he's really sick he's gravely ill he's described as by the s.b. used his father is an s.b.u. officer himself and he is among up to twenty family members who have seen president poroshenko this morning a few hours ago in fact we've just seen a still picture of them all together a very large group now and we've also got a tweet through just a few minutes ago from. in which he's stressing that there is no truth there's no

justice from russia and that a russian court can't pass justice on these men because of the geneva convention now this is a point that was made by the foreign minister a few days back that the geneva convention as far as ukraine is concerned applies to all of these men twenty four of them in total because this is a war now you might think that would be countered by the fact that there has been no declaration of war but according to the geneva conventions it is still possible to apply the legislation of the geneva conventions even if war is not declared now that appears to be the case according to all the legal advice that the ukrainians are received we've not heard back formally from russia on this point and it is a major point of contention between the two states really you know brussels is discussing this now in great detail as far as ukraine is concerned not enough is being done not enough is being done to actually put pressure on russia to release

the twenty four men and the three boats and are many thanks. to mexico now where the slowing the flow of asylum seekers towards the united states is an aim of new president andres manuel lopez obrador says he hopes to attract investment from the u.s. and canada in return for helping to stop migrants leaving home more than eight thousand asylum seekers who've walked all the way from honduras and neighboring countries a camp near the u.s. border i do joe castro reports from tijuana. the fence is three meters tall the american soldiers on the other side carry guns some central americans have made it across and are waiting to be picked up and ask for asylum. but back at the migrant shelter in t. wanna a steel knows what it's like to try and fail she's been through all of this before she says in two thousand and thirteen gang members burned down her house in

honduras she fled to the u.s. where she was detained for more than a year as she waited for an answer to her asylum claim. that it is that they didn't give me asylum they the port took me to one duress but i couldn't stay there because the gang the burnt my house was still looking for me. so she mediately left again and for the last five years has been living in monterrey mexico where she cleans houses. she says she joined the caravan hoping the u.s. would open its borders to a group of so many but she was wrong now she's warning first time asylum seekers do not get their hopes up that look beyond you know if i tell everyone if you have your children with you maybe you have a chance but if you're an adult by yourself you want to make it ok i mean. at a base camp at the foot of the u.s. border wall most people here say they would rather not try to cross the border illegally they prefer to endure the months long wait it takes to submit an asylum

claim at an official u.s. port of entry but as that wait grows so too does the desperation look at the conditions especially in these two largest camps that really speaks for themselves because no one would bring their children to walk on foot for weeks at a time live under these kind of conditions where where there's garbage where there's no drainage where it's impossible to keep dry or they're cold if they weren't fleeing something that was so terrible that they had no other choice of living to do that for a steal and now there is only one choice she'll have to stay in mexico she's joined the long line of central americans applying for mexican work permits as they wait facing an uncertain future. castro al-jazeera t. want to mexico. weather steps here next with news of storm systems moving through new zealand and australia. already situation but the

u.n. says yemen's humanitarian crisis is expected to worsen next year plus. going talking about slavery has been a body. meet the nobel peace laureate so make a taking his mission against child labor to hold you audience. at the good times roll in new orleans but sadly not for the pelicans the details coming up in twenty minutes and. from the sky. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city. it has been incredibly stormy for some of us in new zealand over the last twenty four hours or so these pictures are from port you can see all the lightning that we've had that we actually had around two thousand lightning strikes in oakland itself and twenty thousand across the north island and

the surrounding seas so late a system is putting away towards the east in the skies are clearing behind it but it's not going to stay dry for too long we've got plenty more wet weather with this so during the day on wednesday then most of the areas of rain will be across the south island still the chance of seeing more lightning and then that gradually pushes its way northward as we head through wednesday and into thursday and by thursday then they'll start the south island should be a fair amount brighter but the north and in this time is where the disturbed weather is so that's where there's the risk of seeing some more gusty winds and pretty heavy downpours at times to everyone not satellite picture again but this time looking at the west we can see that we've got another cluster of cloud that's working its way eastwards over the central parts of australia making its way steadily eastwards but while it was over western australia it gave us a lot of lightning as well these pictures are taken no it's a little bit flashy but you can see all the lightning we saw systems heading its way eastwards is more rain still to come. the weather is sponsored by gatto and

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winning documentaries and live news on it and online. and i get adrian finnegan here in doha but the news from al-jazeera our top story is an armed group from a remote part of indonesia is being blamed for the disappearance of thirty one construction workers for a feared dead gunboat attacked a bridge project in a remote part of papua province on sunday. latest reports from france said that the government is about to announce a freeze on its proposed diesel fuel tax so-called yellow vest protest for protests over the rising price of fuel for motorists sport streets to

a standstill nationwide over the past three weekends at the israeli army is starting to destroy tunnels under the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to stop or sporter attacks by hezbollah fighters into northern israel. the director of the cia is to use a brief senate leaders in washington and a few us on the killing of the saudi journalist. gina hospital's absence last week from a trumpet ministration briefing on u.s. relations with saudi arabia cost control to see leaked reports of the cia assessment said the current principal had been solid months ordered the operations of mo to his critics in istanbul two months ago to zero as john hendren reports from washington. cia director gina haskell will speak to members of the u.s. senate about the murder of jamal khashoggi that is after she did not appear last

week when the secretary of state and secretary of defense held a closed door briefing with members of the senate several members of the senate afterwards republicans and democrats alike said they were unsatisfied and unpersuaded by what they heard in that room afterward madison pompei oh that is jim met at the defense secretary and mike pompei of the secretary of state came out and said there was no smoking gun that links the crown prince of saudi arabia mohamed been to the killing of chris shoji. reports that the cia has concluded with a high level of confidence that the crown prince did in fact order that killing so members of the senate were dissatisfied they said they wanted to hear from tina haskell the cia director and actually flew to istanbul and listened to the tapes of that killing that the turkish government provided so they believe she will have more information and that she will be more frank with them so they passed a measure that would lead to

a vote later on invoking the war powers act that would allow the senate to cut off u.s. aid to the saudi war in yemen that would be an extreme step and it's very far from being ultimately passed but the threat of that scene. to be what is motivating to trump administration to make has been available to speak to members of the senate that is likely to be a closed door briefing as the briefing was last week but members of the senate and administration official are likely to speak about it afterward so i think we are likely to know what was said in that room before a cia officer glenn call says he's not expecting any big revelations from gina. since the report has leaked some i think that she will speak clearly to that and i don't expect that she would go any further than anything that we know she'll never reveal in a briefing like this the sources or or the methods which she will reveal the substance the main point here is that this you can look at that at this two ways

it's the trump administration just as our colleague in washington bruce an excellent briefing said now it's the from administration backing water or or trying to get out from some of the pressure that it is now under from the congress and it is congress's effort to reassert its part prerogatives that's that's really the news here with trump's continuing to try to carry the water for him on been some if trump can bury it he will clearly what he's doing is trying to relieve the pressure on him from congress with gestures. his standard pattern is to say to deny and then to make a cosmetic change or backing down to tout that and to change the subject and then to move on so he will do what he can to maintain his. shockingly intimate relationship and solomon while congress may pressure him son some more but the

advantage in foreign policy always rests with the executive. supreme court has begun hearing a case aimed at reversing the president's decision to dissolve parliament and cold snap elections. service say this move has been blocked until the case is heard it's the latest developments in a political crisis that's gripped the nation since late october al-jazeera has been al fernandes reports now from outside sri lanka's supreme court. a seven judge bench of the supreme court headed by the chief justice is sitting in the supreme court of the building you see behind me looking into a series of fundamental rights petitions now those petitions challenging president by three policy forty two to dissolve parliament the decision he took to dissolve the parliament by way of an extraordinary gas of the point that the petitioners are making is that the constitution of this country is following the nineteenth

amendment incidentally brought in by the seriously in the government that it does not allow the president to dissolve parliament less than four and a half years into it still i'm at the point that president seriously in the dissolved parliament it had over a year to go to reach that time limit now the president has repeatedly said that he has acted in accordance with the constitution in accordance with the law but the supreme court initially stated the dissolution of parliament which is why parliament continues to function until it finishes these hearings starting today for three days at the end of which we will hear their decision on president seriously and his decision to dissolve parliament another reason that all eyes on the court complex today in the rajapaksa was restrained by the court of appeal yesterday again by a writ petition by hundred twenty two members of parliament mainly from the vicar missing a faction saying that he has no authority to hold the office of prime minister and

neither does his cabinet ministers and deputy ministers he has said he will appeal the supreme court to set aside that injunction so a lot happening at supreme court today and over the days to come its national human rights law organization contracted by the u.s. state department is calling for a criminal tribunal to investigate crimes against muslims in myanmar legal analysts say the use of the term genocide by the group will put pressure on the u.s. to take a harder stance mike hanna reports from washington. this says the public international law and policy group report was genocide in late august last year the armed forces of myanmar launched what they euphemistically labeled a clearance operation within a few months more than seven hundred thousand had fled their homes to seek refuge across the border in eastern bangladesh military helicopters fired on the being refugees the navy attacked over crowded ferries the report continues gang rape and

mass murder were used as a formal military tactic it is clear from our intense legal review that there is in fact a legal basis to conclude that the reading go for the victims of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide. the u.s. holocaust museum too has long argued that genocide has been committed and join the law group in calling for immediate action to establish accountability in addition insisting on the need for direct action to be taken to curb myanmar's military they're not listening to anyone and so it is important that like us government and other e.u. countries and international community must qualitative action to intervene to stop these generals and the state department continues to use the term ethnic cleansing the reason once accused has the word genocide the us is campoli in terms of

international law to take immediate cubit of action despite months of debate this is something the trump administration is clearly unwilling to do an earlier report by un investigators also came to the conclusion that myanmar's military was guilty of genocide but under the threat of russian and chinese veto the security council has today taken no action to impose punitive sanctions or even refer the findings to the international criminal court which together with the u.s. reluctance to formally declare a genocide of has little hope to the hundreds of thousands of survivors in refugee camps and no justice for those killed in what the report made public on this day says it was a highly coordinated military campaign aimed not just to expel but to exterminate. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. economists say the ninety day

truce in the u.s. china trade war will have little impacts president donald trump has delayed increasing tariffs on chinese goods shojo for january eight after his meeting with xi jinping at the g. twenty summit in argentina analysts say that three months is not enough time to agree on major areas dispute like intellectual property theft and subsidies for strategic chinese industries a u.s. spacecraft has finally reached a distant asteroid after a two year chase it's part of nasa's attempts to gather asteroid samples that it says will help scientists understand more about the origins of the universe and life on earth will bring ripples. we have arrived. at fives all around at the mission control center as nasa spacecraft cyrus rex moved into position alongside the asteroid benu one hundred and thirty million kilometers from earth launched two

years ago cyrus rex's mission is to map the giant space rock analyze its chemical make up and bring back some of its material for scientists to study it may reveal secrets about the formation of planets and the origins of life this is a dark asteroid that we have found and that we're going to hunt down we're going to orbit we're going to take a good look at it and we're going to bring back a sample this is a fantastic mission benu about five hundred meters in diameter is a remnant of the earliest material that coalesced billions of years ago to form the earth and other planets oh cyrus rex will study the asteroid at close range using mapping technology and spectroscope that provide information about what it's made of that phase of the mission will last more than a year then in twenty twenty the spacecraft will approach the new surface there's

two additional maneuvers that we do that both match the asteroid spin rate and then put us on a trajectory where we go down towards the asteroid so we actually do take thrusters and push ourselves gently towards the asteroid an arm will reach out to touch its rocky face with a blast of nitrogen gas the contraption will collect some dust and rock that container will then be sealed and it was cyrus will speed back to earth ejecting its extraterrestrial cargo which will land by parachute in the utah desert in september two thousand and twenty three scientists hope their study of the material will reveal whether it contains certain organic molecules called a me. you know acids that are essential building blocks of all forms of life if they are found in high concentrations on benue it could mean that the universe as a whole is more likely to contain life forms in ancient egyptian myth cyrus was the

god of rebirth who ruled over the darkness beyond our world and taught humanity the arts of civilization the deities twenty first century namesake may help us learn much about the origin of the universe and ourselves robert oulds al-jazeera nobel peace prize recipient and renowned children rights activists such as he is taking his message to the big screen with a documentary filmmaker is telling a story at this year's film festival in doha organize us a pledging to help him reach his goal of ending child slavery also jabari reports. that's why i have been missing for seven months the tide has been taken to get. this is why. we have been a dog. the price of free and award winning documentary has been online for only a few days and already it's been seen by more than two and a half million people. goes looking back

slavery has been abolished. the film explores chi lashed at the artes efforts to expose the plight of young children once who are trafficked into forced labor groups such the r.t. is now taking his mission to another level i am going to create to pay paul. all through this campaign that hundred million you want and children can become the chain may close and champions for the calls a hundred million left out sisters and brothers solve them and this for them is going to leave that process. that message was reiterated at the sixth annual film festival in doha as a special guest of the event such the r.t. was recognized for his work and took the opportunity to reach out to young people

who know me but the murder one of the growing. a chance to use an international platform for a global cause is also part of this year's festival's theme we should really give them hope and a sense often power meant that faye have. the courage and and the spirit should not know we should break it to you and the tools to make the change in the future it only gets more important every year. during the closing night celebrations six awards were handed out in various categories selected by. ages aged eight to twenty one the message of this house of all its nuclear arsenal man has the power to raise awareness. and injustice but also provide hope for the future. of mario's here at the. united nations appealing for billions of dollars to cope with the humanitarian crises worldwide

next year nearly twenty two billion is needed in total the largest amount required is four billion for the war relief in yemen and syria will need billions of dollars more the u.s. emergency relief coordinator says that one hundred thirty two million people worldwide need humanitarian assistance such as food shelter health care and protection one in every seventy people is caught up in some kind of crisis the average length of how long the crisis last says now nearly doubled from five years to my name the u.n. says that conflicts will remain the main cause all humanitarian needs next year not having enough to eat is also a major concern particularly in the yemen syria the democratic republic of congo and south sudan. is the united nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator he joins us now live from geneva good to have you with us as a local to this report makes a pretty grim reading twenty five or twenty two billion dollars depending on how

you read it is a lot of money where is it going to come from. well this report the global humanitarian a view which i'm launching today is the waste all thirty of sophisticated and comprehensive assessment of need how we can respond and the money we will aim to raise where it's going to come from is the general citizens and countries around the world who are not caught up in these crises and the good news is that in twenty eighty mm we've raised a record amount of money more than fourteen billion dollars so far towards the meeting all the needs that we have what we're finding is that as we improve the quality of our assessment of need as we improve our response plans we can raise more resources this year more than ten percent more than last year every year the same thing seems to happen though mark the u.n.

says we need a certain amount of money to make sure that everybody has the assistance they need that total is never quite reached what needs to happen in the future is make sure that humanitarian assistance needs are adequately funded i mean going cap in hand to donors year after year when the average time of response plans is growing too doesn't seem the most practical way of ensuring that needs are met. i think that mark is still unable to him unfortunately a well that's a shame. if we catch a break. in sports and historic football award six decades in the making.

ever since i was a little boy in india my dream was to meet bollywood films so five years ago i decided i was finally going to do it one man's quest to realise a lifelong ambition the studio choose the laws of my one village and transform issue going behind the lens as gautam singh brings his personal story to life. al-jazeera correspondent my own private bali. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline and illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished it's a big business boggling one that will take this year in through the sand is our very good you see the beautiful being behind it is something that's not so close to the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound was on al-jazeera.

again type of sport his far off adrian thank you so much crisis world cup star luca moderate has won football's ballon d'or award one of the game's most coveted individual prizes moriches led his country to their first ever world cup final appearance as part of the round madrid team that's one three straight champions league title is when ends a decade of ballon d'or dominance for lino massi and chris gianna rinaldo ronaldo came second in the vote while messi was down in fact. a little feeling not only because of this dual phenomenal players.

but because of all other. big big players big talents great players like. name and all others. to win it this means that i did something really special on the pitch. and always ate out her the bag who plays as a striker for european champions league the first ever female ballon d'or prize. i mean i think there's some fantastic ones oh it's a start. it's a big step forward. forward. that's why you need to really cherish it and show the importance of you seeing young girls to pursue their dreams and in another category this year france and p.s.g. striker was named best young player. hosts portugal will face switzerland while england will take on the netherlands in the

semifinals of the inaugural european nations league the games will take place next june the last four draw was made in the republic of ireland the nations league began in september involved more than fifty countries in england's game worked with the dutch will be the first competitive meeting between the team since the european championships in one thousand nine hundred ninety six on that occasion an england side including current manager gareth southgate won a four one host nation and defending european champions sports gold plays switzerland on june the fifth with the other semi in the following day the final will take place on the ninth of june. we've seen the impacts of a successful national team can have on the nation last summer. and we've also seen the belief that is. being bred into young players from when you get used levels. of the senior team to be knocking on the door to stage

a major major finals this is crucial for us. the golden state warriors are back to winning ways after a two going slide they beat the atlanta hawks one hundred twenty eight to one hundred eleven over in new orleans the first the in-form clippers got an eighth when time they got the better of the pelicans that close game the byes harris top scoring for l.a. with twenty seven points as they ran over one hundred and twenty nine to one hundred and twenty six winners the clippers have the second best record in the western conference but detroit pistons suffered their worst loss of the season on monday they were beaten by twenty seven points one hundred ten to eighty three by oklahoma city it's a third straight win for the five day war third in the west. the greek economic crisis caused by the it's an enormous international debts of her just about everyone including gold medal winning athletes some receive little financial support and have poor training conditions john psaropoulos reports from athens.

from this basement element who has scaled the heights of the karate world championships she became the reigning champion in the women's sixty eight plus kilo category last month in madrid if karate were in the limbic events know the greek government would pay out a one hundred thousand dollars bonus for her gold medal but karate won't be an olympic sport until twenty twenty in tokyo that leaves those father who is also her trainer with unpaid debts from financing her career. if i were turkish or french or italian i'd get fifty and one hundred thousand dollars a year i'd be given a car and a house and i wouldn't have a job to do a be covered for life because i contribute by competing for my country but because i'm from greece i had to leave my country to work and pay for my tournaments and when i came back with medals i got nothing. thank you. has at least earned her bonus as greece is a little gold medalist in the twenty five meter pistol event she trains in this

disused tobacco warehouse. it's hot in summer cold in winter and the electricity from a nearby business often cuts out but it's better than what she had before. i had a small metal box which we filled with hot coals i would use it to will my hands every two or three shots because they were stiff as planks this was a basement and the temperature was below zero in winter in the old quarry shack we wired up red and green lights to the paper target behind me to simulate the lights used on a limb pick targets there was no power so we wired the lights up to the top battery sometimes the problem isn't money but state negligence the olympic shooting center behind me contains hundreds of electronic targets and could have benefited greatly from the use of one but the entire facility was given over to police special forces after the two thousand and four games a limp take athletes have been excluded from it. the government sport budget of

seventy million dollars is spent mostly on keeping existing facilities open even. my we should be for sport federations to spend more of their time building facilities for younger athletes so as to produce the base from which champions might spring up but it's not easy for the government to go and build a facility in which every area champion arises in a given sport. who are both coached by their fathers and nurtured by their families and they feel deeply patriotic until further financial support arrives family and country will have to take them as far as they can go jump al-jazeera athens and that's all your sport for now more later. official ceremonies taking place at the capitol in washington in tribute to the former u.s. president george h.w. bush his body will lie in state until his funeral on wednesday president donald trump and first lady melania have been among the mourners paying their respects mr bush sr died at his home in texas on friday. as i'm saying the news our next with

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very beginning of the. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera i thought this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of time of military and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest sedations author missed and packed for. the main things that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people what about ideas or politicians and what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect real people it's ok it's ok for something a. little more complicated don't put it up if this is not an act of clear i'm going to book the walking. down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave. some oversold spa even ski the speaker out

as a surprise but. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. putting out the fires in france new reports say the government is about to suspend the fuel tax that spot wheats of nationwide protests. this is live from dol also coming up indonesians are on the hunt for an armed group blamed for the disappearance of more than thirty construction workers. israel.