lifesaving worked continue the crossing of the mediterranean that is at its most deadly effort two thousand people alone of have lost their lives this year and as your reporter said that's that's the tip of the iceberg that's only the ones that we know about and it's just not acceptable to be leaving people to drown as a deterrent to genuine refugees and asylum seekers fleeing for their lives and trying to make that crossing he said he wanted to appeal to european governments is there any leader that you see that could possibly be. open to the case or trying to make. we're looking at the european union as a whole i mean it's really of course has received a large number of people over the last year is european governments have pretty much left italy isolated to deal to deal with those numbers that does need to be a relocation program across europe whereby people's claims can be examined the

majority of people making the crossing have genuine needs for protection they are trafficked women or they're refugees plying for violence and conflicts even if they're not they don't deserve to die on the way they deserve humane and dignified treatment and to be returned to their country of origin so all of europe including including the u.k. where i'm talking from you now needs to play a role in that so what now for them. well clearly there's going to be more people who will die people are not going to stop trying to make that crossing because the push factors are so strong we will see more people returned to the depravity of the detention centers in libya i visited those detention centers myself in two thousand and seventeen i've never seen anything quite so appalling more people will be returned into that situation where

they're subject to exploitation and abuse and violence and european governments including the u.k. of paying the libyan coast guard in in order to intercept them and return them into immigration detention system that they know is well below international standards. vickie hawkins thank you for talking to us about the situation we appreciate it. germany's ruling a christian democrat party is set to elect a new leader in a few hours to replace the choice they make will shape the future of charmin politics and many may rather determine how long or honest chancellor dominic hand looks at the candidates and merits the weeks these three have been speaking to packed told us at stake the leadership of their party but perhaps also its political soul and direction on the pragmatic wing stance and a great company the process going to america and seen by many is the continuity

candidate us this fear that this is a fear competition there must be no doubt that there are no political opponents inside our own party opponents must be in the other party. the most credible opponent these people this melts he was marginalized by medical ten years ago but is now back with the powerful endorsement of former finance minister voce gang. matz's using rhetoric sits uncomfortably with merkel's more humanitarian approach he looks like an outsider. for some time i believe that we must be prepared to discuss the constitutional right to asylum openly if we seriously want to repeat immigration and refugee policy deep ideological divides are not normally associated with the c.d.u. their leadership battles were always just about power and they were always about who is most likely to get us the biggest share of the vote so the c.d.u.

was always very pragmatic about programs and ideology and now it seems for the first time to have an actual ideological lead fused programatic debate that is also manifested in different personalities and that's very new for the c.d.u. ironically the candidate most likely to lose on friday is the one who has everything to gain in the long run. is seen by some as a potential leader in future but not now so if there's no clear winner after the first round of voting who his supporters opt for could be decisive. for more now let's go to dominic cain is joining us from hamburg so dominic is this effectively really iraq friends i'm on merkel's time as chancellor. yes very much so richelle she's not to candidates it's all in this election but her legacy certainly is as you heard in my report and the compound bow is very much a part of the continuity kinds of though as i was saying the interesting point to make here is the most recent survey of members of the c.d.u.

who perhaps would have a vote in this conference today but it says look rap's forty seven percent of the delegates might vote for her next in that line would be sleeping with mts the man who was the rival as you were hearing in my report that a rival who was frozen out by angle americal well point to be made that he would be on thirty seven percent and the young contender on twelve percent crucially what will be the decision here will then need to be a second round of voting if there is where all bets are off how will you vote says decides who will they opt for that's the central question here and the point is it's almost like a battle of beliefs that's going on in this in this party is angela merkel speaking now the point she will be stressing is the need for continuity the question for her party members here right now is well which way do they want to time so donna whoever ends up winning what effect will this have on german politics.

well that is the sixty four thousand dollars question as it were a shelf because i'm going to market it's been ever present in german politics now for decades effectively since the end of the of the cold war she rose to prominence she ousted her opponents in her own party rose to be party leader then became chance that she has directed politics in her party and many would say in her country for a very considerable amount of time other parties have suffered when they've gone into coalition with so whoever emerges as the leader of this party to take it forward into the next election which on the face of it would be in twenty twenty one to try to to establish themselves in the eyes of the german electorate as being different wrangle americal and that it's going to be quite difficult for four and come talent who has been so associated with for us to think that amounts what's the simple he says the party's got to go back towards the right it has to reengage with voters who were dissatisfied with the refugee crisis in the way and of america

handled the problem here is that the delegates now are deciding right now but they won't actually get a new chancellor as a result of this election then it's down to wrangle america decide when she really wants to go all right dominic hang my friends and i thank you. and if you don't let's play we'll have the weather with cabin but still ahead on al-jazeera. we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want to follow through with one of us well known journalist in the philippines faces a legal fight to prevent being silenced and in sport for plates players train and madrid but still told they've been denied home advantage for the copa libertadores final so we'll have that in just a bit. from doing ski sunsets if you disproving superman. to summarize

a token asian metropolis. well the last four days across the eastern parts of the mediterranean have been very very stormy and deadly in some locations take a look the satellite image you notice here that rolling of clouds across that area brings some very heavy rain not only for turkey but also here in cyprus and i'm going to take you there into parts of say first and show you the video that has come out and also the deadly flooding that we were dealing with the waters have been on for just several days here causing the flash flooding to be very stream deadly flooding there three people have been confirmed dead one person still missing across that region that's the area of low pressure that is causing the problems now today we're still going to be dealing with very heavy rain just adverse in parts of turkey we've already seen well over one hundred millimeters of rain in the last twenty four hours falling in that area we do expect to see more rain across turkey parts of cyprus as well as into parts of lebanon that's going to continue today but as we go towards tomorrow things are going to be getting better

and many of those locations will be drying out the other system we are dealing with is one that is pushing across parts of eastern parts of eastern europe right now that is going to bring some very heavy rain as well as windy conditions over the next few days tempers are really not dropping too much still in the high single digits here in parts of germany with rain still in the forecast of the temperature of nine. there with sponsored by the time nice. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said the closure of guantanamo bay and its detainees going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of an email high value detention center i'm afraid that we're sharing the conditions to return back to practices that were tally in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited part two on al jazeera. it is an appalling crime that destroys the dignity of

individuals and tears apart the fabric of communities. activists not e m a rod and congolese gun ecologist dennis mccuaig have been awarded the twenty eight hundred nobel peace prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in conflict zones. in an exclusive interview live from oslo we talked to this year's laureates about their fight for justice the nobel interview and al jazeera exclusive. back. russian al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now a second day of talks aimed at ending the war in yemen is due to begin in sweden within the next hour day one saw

a promising start with the viable sides agreeing to exchange prisoners turkey's intelligence chief has briefed u.s. senators about his country's investigation into the murder of saudi journalist small associate and there is growing pressure on the white house to hold on the homines ahmad responsible for the killing aid groups say they've been forced to stop the last rescue ship operating in the mediterranean after a smear campaign by e.u. governments last month the thai and prosecutors ordered the seizure of the aquarius accusing it to be legally something waste. a veteran journalist in the philippines has declared her innocence and says she will fight back after appearing in court on tax evasion charges rearrested says the case is politically motivated or news agency rapport has been critical of president robert going to tear his government who's branded it a real alan arkin has more from manila. maria ressa is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most in battle. and the news

agency she co-founded called rappler have been inducted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with their day calling rappler a feat use outlet. for maria and her supporters this is persecution from a government that sees journalists as the enemy we're going to hold but it makes me think that we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want us to follow through with. we just keep doing our jobs you know we keep looking we try to maintain the news agenda recently but the government insists the warrant issued against media is not political persecution months after due to tear was sworn into office the government set up a special task force to focus on media security proof it says of its commitment to

press freedom it meant rappler scase is different. you do not believe that rather than using. their claim to really. say that they are. but then again we have to check into their loss. last year reporters without borders called the philippines the deadliest country for media in asia and what is happening here reflects growing on the mosty towards journalists worldwide and that. openly encouraged by political leaders and authoritarian regimes pose a threat to democracy the center for media freedom and responsibility focuses on the rights of filipino journalists it says there have been more than eighty attacks on journalists since president assumed office in two thousand and sixteen we should not forget that the despite of the big pattern and the pattern had been set march earlier. when president began to demonize

mainstream press since one nine hundred eighty six more than one hundred sixty journalists have been killed in the philippines most of them worked in the provinces or observers say media protection is virtually nonexistent. the massacre in two thousand and nine is the single worst attack against journalists anywhere in the world thirty two were shot mutilated and buried while on their way to an electoral event in the southern philippines those accused of being behind the killings reportedly have strong political ties to the government grieving families are angry no one's yet been convicted almost ten years after the massacre and they are losing hope. manila. he is the director of the asian pacific program at the end or national commission of jurists he joins us now from bangkok thank you for your time is there any chance that this is actually

about tax evasion. there is no chance that this is actually about tax evasion this is a creator instance of harassment and it fits a pattern rappler and. one of the few journalistic outfits that are reporting regularly on the extrajudicial killings being conducted by the government and they have been a target of detectives since the very beginning. he has spoken out against them he has sought to ban their reporters from the presidential palace earlier this year a action brought by the security and exchange commission sought to deregister them and failed so this fits this fits into a broader pattern of harassment of rappler specifically and of the media more generally in the philippines so what message do you think the territory and his government are trying to send. well look this is this is part of a broader attack not just on not just on journalists it's it's part of an attack on

democratic institutions more generally the detective has sought to. dear we just lost frederick roski unfortunately we will try to establish that connection again since a very important conversation to have about the attack on journalists let's move on to our next story an executive of chinese tech giant who way is due to face court in canada after being arrested at the request of the united states and one zero as detention has rattled global stocks because analysts fear could worsen the trade dispute between the u.s. and china had to call home reports. from the very start it was going to be a day of losses stocks losing value at a fast clip on concerns the u.s. and china trade dispute is only going to get worse this is happening after news broke that at the request of the u.s. canada arrested when joe the chief financial officer of wall way the giant chinese technology company she is also the daughter of its founder quote way is

a really big company and china and munch so is considered you know tech royalty she is the c.e.o. of the company and so she's a big deal in china her arrest happened saturday the same time that u.s. president donald trump was meeting with his counterpart president paying hoping to calm fears of an escalating trade war announcing a ninety day truce of sorts in an interview with national public radio the u.s. national security adviser was asked if the president knew about the arrest during the dinner i don't know the answer that i knew in advance but this is something that that we get from the justice department and that these kinds of things happen with some frequency we certainly don't inform the president on every one of them and bolton wouldn't say nor would anyone else in the u.s. government what she was arrested for although some senators implied it had to do with the. violating sanctions on iran the canadian prime minister seemed to add to the mystery of the appropriate authorities took the decisions in this case we were

advised by them with a few days notice that this was in the works but of course there was no engagement or involvement in the political level the chinese are condemning this and demanding her release the timing of the arrest on the same day as the meeting could be seen as a deliberate move to send a message but experts say that might not be the case though on foresman processes work on their own schedule and people sometimes don't understand that about the united states is the department of justice does not consult with the president when they're going to make an arrest we'll know more on friday when mom makes her first appearance in court what happens there could impact more than just her freedom but fortunes across the globe. al-jazeera washington let's bring back now fred the the director of the asian pacific program at the international commission of jurists joining us from bangkok we apologize for what happened

a moment ago but we were talking about the the arrest and prosecution of maria ressa a prominent journalist and critic of their ivory go to terror government and white where you left off i believe you were explaining why this isn't just about what's happening to journalists this is a bigger issue about freedom and democracy. yes this is part of a broader campaign to prevent any accountability for the crimes that are being committed by the government particularly the extradition will executions part of the as part of the war on drugs that is included attacks on the supreme court has included the imprisonment of senators in attacks on legislators calls for the dissolution of the national unites commission it's an across the board attempt to avoid accountability for what appeared to be very very serious crimes possibly crimes under international law what's chance does actually have a really fighting these charges will look the philippines

has a strong judiciary there have been some ups and downs but it has shown its independence in impartiality you can look at recent decisions the conviction of imelda marcos the conviction of police officers that had killed. the question of an arrest warrant for a prominent senator who was a critique critic of detected so we have we have quite enough evidence that the court can act independently in a partially and we hope that it will do so here are going to territory has called arrests as a news agency rappler is called it fake news obviously fake news is a term that the us president donald trump has very much mainstream and they are just words how concerning is that term fake news to you. it's enormously concerning and there's obviously a kind of camaraderie across trump and new territory and other authoritarian

populous in the world and this has become a very powerful and important tool which allows leaders to make accusations and deal with media without really offering any evidence so i think we need to be we need to be cognizant that this is a global trend and and that these leaders are influencing one another but it's even more important in that case that that the judiciary in particular here steps in and acts as an objective arbiter of these sorts of issues and ensures that. puts an end to this kind of harassment all right fred thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it we're getting reports that seventeen people have been killed in a democratic republic of congo a local official says that happened during an attack by an armed group we will bring you more information on that just as soon as we have it the wife of ukrainian intelligence officer to tame by russia has appealed to president vladimir putin for his release rocco was one of twenty three servicemen held after three ukrainian

boats were fired upon in the black sea last month was accused of orchestrating the confrontation and says the boats were in russian waters and are simmons has this exclusive report from dessa this two year old bully wants to do why he is full of the procedures so rule doesn't come home and he will. the two were inseparable until the left for work two weeks ago boxer rochas mother. didn't know where his father had gone but it was twenty four hours before she found out he beat at sea and was injured and captured by the russians jenna i don't want to even think about him going to jail i hope there are reasonable people that can help us get out of this situation and survive this ordeal this torture that's my only hope i don't want to think about him standing trial. if you were able to pull message through to vote in the person what would have been. i would ask putin don't explain

to me where my husband is try to explain it to my son why is he running towards the door waiting for his daddy why after each phone call he hopes his daddy is calling him let him try to explain to a two year old child why his father is so far away from his family irina's husband has worked for ukraine security services the s.b.u. for the past three years he's never divulge the exact nature of his work she fears that he's in more danger than the rest of the men because of his status as a counter intelligence officer vassily is reported to have a serious arm or hand injury and is in a medical unit with a moscow detention center his father has had access to intelligence reports saying he's been heavily drugged as part of his interrogation from him from our pleasure of the latest information is that the security services are using second tropic

substances on the captured officers including my son i urge russian officers if you still have a drop of dignity of honor stop of using the prisoners of war. back at the family home the rena says it seems as if time is standing still. there. i can hold on and keep a grip on things only because i'm looking off to my son i feel like i'm living in a nightmare and i call you a cop i've lost touch with reality i don't know what day it is and i'm like the politician rena says it's pointless laying the blame on anyone i'm drew simmons al-jazeera adesa ukraine the oil producing group opec is trying to reach an agreement with russia on how much it will cut it's what output that is of crude oil ministers from member countries meeting in vienna have a greater reduced oil production due to an oversupply russia which is not an opec

has opposed the cuts on thursday oil prices tumbled as a result of the deadlock brennan has more from vienna. a highly unusual situation if not unprecedented here at opec headquarters with the day's meeting ending with no formal announcements about oil production cuts is expected now it's left the journalists in the analysts here somewhat perplexed what exactly is going to be the policy of fact going forward but i think it's also an indication that opec is no longer the person is no longer the body the calls the shots in the global oil markets but the bigger body opec plus and indeed there's no pick states such as the united states their influence now is massive and opec's monopoly of power i. think of the past now what we're expecting on friday is the opec plus members that's ten non opec members but closely aligned with the opec block they're going to come here to vienna join the discussions and the expectation is that then figures will be put

on exactly how much opec and its allies will cut production into twenty nineteen but as the saudi energy minister highly doubt father said it's not a done deal it's still if as opposed to a when still had and sports talk task take the. victory over the houston rockets and the n.b.a. chad will be here with more. time

for joe was for michelle thank you a young afghan boy nicknamed little messi has been forced to flee his home after

threats from the taliban would toss a muddy captured hearts around the world two years ago when he was photographed wearing a blue and white plastic bag with name written in pen it was even invited to be meet messi and served as a mascot for the superstar player but since that dream moment his life like thousands of other afghans has turned into a nightmare the now seven year old ahmadi has fled afghanistan's gaffney province because of fighting fighting his family is living in a room in the capital kabul among them many possessions left behind at the football and jersey signed by messi the family have also heard that the taliban is searching for the young boy by name. jennifer that some in which i sing are saying ever since they son has become famous they have become rich and messy has given them a lot of money we didn't care but when the taliban got closer to our place then our lives were in danger kind of work you know as this was i don't know why the taliban's become as enemy since he's been famous the taliban say if they capture

him he'll be cut into pieces this is a pleasure. i like messi a lot i want to live close to him when he should take me out of this place so. when i see him i will say salaam and how are you but he will reply saying thank you and be safe then i will go with him to the pitch where he would play and i would watch him. river plate have trained for the first time after arriving in madrid for their couple about their us final against their city rivals book genius river were meant to be hosting the second leg of the final but the match was called off when their fans attacked the book of genius boss and want to say it is two weeks ago madrid has since been chosen as a neutral venue river still unhappy or missing out on home advantage the first leg a book a stadium finished two two zero and. we would have liked to have played this much as the home team at the river pitch with our friends who deserve this but the decision is made so we'll just offer them the best we'll offer them this title that

we deserve that the fans deserve and that everyone who supports us deserves well some of the bucket team were injured during the bus attack in one aside as captain public perez was cut by broken glass while others suffer the effects of pepper spray used by police to control funds although offit supply in santiago bernabéu on sunday is enough you know. it's kind of a weird final and as a player it's important not to lose focus because like a said the lives of doris final played in madrid reverses baka it's weird but the most important thing now is to concentrate on what will happen in the game. the president of perris football federation has appeared in court after being arrested in connection with the bribery investigation prosecutors have accused edwin oviedo of giving a high ranking judge cash and world cup tickets in exchange for immunity from a murder probe both of them have denied any wrongdoing earlier this year oversaw

peru's return to the world cup for the first time in nearly four decades. if alan champions event is already in danger of running away with the italian said the title by a still on beat i'm going into the game against third place milan on friday you guys coach massively on her leg reset and a title in a row is still a long way off. prissy we're not supposed cause so we must continue on our path with great calm right now the numbers might be saying that you ventus is killing syria but you've interested not kill syria at all you don't kill syria you want it and you want to and may it's impossible to do it before that time or the numbers say that if you make around ninety points you need to one thirty matches more or less so you have to play thirty matches and we've only played fourteen so it's impossible that you venters killed syria it's just mathematics a lawyer representing victims of abuse at the hands of usa gymnastics dr larry nasa

has called the organization selfish for filing for bankruptcy usa gymnastics faces one hundred lawsuits from over three hundred fifty outlets who blame it for failing to supervise nasa the doctor is serving life sentences to sexually abusing women and go under the guise of medical treatment this bankruptcy filing was done for two reasons one is because they wanted to they want to deny the current survivors the truth about what happened and who knew what when the reason for that is if if people really knew what usa gymnastics was up to there be a crowd outside their office with torches and pitchforks demanding arrests. second is they don't want any future survivors to get any money and at the end of the bankruptcy what's going to happen is there's going to be a discharge of their claims so they did this for very selfish reasons. the utah jazz overcame the early loss of style center to beat the houston rockets in the

n.b.a. . ejected less than three minutes into the game for dashing a cup to the ground after collecting a couple of personal fouls his teammates didn't seem dante exomes suv publicist set up derek favors for the dunk to give them a thirty three point lead in the third has had twenty four points and ten rebounds off the bench as you told me the rockets one hundred eighteen to ninety one. boston's caria of ing had led his team to a full straight win despite a shoulder injury of ng has now averaged twenty four point eight points a game since the start of november he was benched also hurting his shoulder and said it wasn't going to keep him out of action he school twenty two points in this one hundred twenty eight's one hundred win the first cricket test between australia and india is finally poised after the second day's play in adelaide travis head was on sixty one as the aussies reached one hundred ninety one for a seven day trial india's first inning schooled by fifty nine runs going into day

three all right that is very useful for now is that your show or thank you very much and thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera our web site is al-jazeera very easy to find that keep it here much more news on the other side of the break my colleague martine denis. in the darkest of times brave men and women stood up. when oppressed they

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