i mean right now the nation is north feeling confident right now and people are disappointed with the bombing in moran's one hundred days on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. alarm has i'm sick of this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the democratic republic of congo suspends election campaigning in the capital just hours before an opposition rally is due to get under way. you pictures emerge of the suspected saudi hit team that was sent to kill journalist amounts to show in istanbul. south africa issues and arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former

first lady grace mugabe. a hard landing for softbank japan's biggest ever stock market float sinks on day one. campaigning for sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been suspended in the capital kinshasa this means a rally planned for later on wednesday by opposition leader martin for you to is now considered eagle is one of several candidates seeking to replace president joseph kabila opposition parties picked for you a former oil executive to be the unity candidate also vying for the top job is the man known as in force up emanuel. he is a former interior minister and candidates of the ruling people's party for reconstruction and democracy. felix chick assaidi was until

recently part of the opposition alliance the supported for you lou but he backed out of that deal and is now running for president. for the first time electronic voting machines will be used in those elections but as katherine sawyer reports now the opposition is worried they'll be used to rig the results of the conversation in tea shops such as this one on the edge of the river is all about sunday's election and electronic voting machines. to see if they're concerned by the general lack of information and what's expected on them on voting day. we don't know what to expect we might do the wrong thing they should have told us what to do before now we'll just learn on polling day. in another village on the outskirts of kinshasa. who lives next to this polling station has similar concerns about. people in my

village no nothing no proper explanation just forts and hope for the best some opposition leaders and civil society groups fear the south korean voting machines being used for the first time here could be manipulated to rig the election. people across the country have never seen this machine and that's why we are worried they are asking what shall we do it how will we know if we have been cheated so some in their areas have not even seen us money on the votes in the place i'm concerned the election is already set up for dispute and violence the electoral commission says the process is fairly simple and takes about a minute one hundred five thousand machines are being installed in eighty thousand polling stations a logistical nightmare for africa second largest country with bad droids limited electricity poor security and any damage in the. on top of a fire in the capital is causing controversy both immaterial the us still being

distributed to different parts of the country but a warehouse here in kinshasa where the fleet is warning machines were being stored was gunned down last. we are destroying most of the material the want to be used on fourteen day the building has been killed off police are investigating but politicians far more of blaming each other for the fire the various problems i increasing election tension nation white. they just want a fair election as well as a leader who will help make their lives a little more bearable. a new pictures have emerged on turkish media showing the fifteen men suspected of murdering saudi journalists. the images show the man arriving at the istanbul airport and the saudi consulate before and after killing in october saudi arabia

has rejected turkey's request to extradite the suspects for trial earlier this week the u.n. secretary general renewed his call for what he called a credible investigation into the case he said those responsible must be punished. is the managing editor at an english newspaper in turkey enjoys a survivor skype now from istanbul thanks for being with us so why are we learning about these images now and what do they tell us. well first of all this is an ongoing investigation there's these new images are coming from nearly a hundred fifty c.c.t.v. c.c.t.v. cameras in the surrounding area and as part of the investigation so there is about three thousand five hundred hours of footage that the investigators are actually looking into saw due to the fact that this is taking time and there is new evidence

come in notes we get these leaks once in a while due to the fact that. you know investigators are going through to what they are searching very thoroughly so we have these images came out this morning through a model agency they show. fifteen people that are coming into the consulate and how they arrive to turkey into different groups so the footage from the airport at two different times and also when they enter the causal so this is again ties into that whole. the claim that disses that was a disk was a pre mediated event rather than something that happened and you know it was a matter of a strangling. at the at the consulate so all these small pieces of evidence are tying into what turkey has claimed so far they are we are getting that

now and we will be getting more information and more evidence emerging since the investigation is going on so it takes time sometimes sometimes we get frequent evidences one right after the other but time wise i think this has a lot to do with the work that is we are following but i think at the same time i we if we look at it from the outside of that i think every piece of cleverness should remind us that this investigation is going on and must be kept alive all right. because there's a what about what sign or what about the political dimension to all of this because every time we get this release of new information about the case new pictures and so on it is seen as another attempt by. the turkish government to to apply some sort of pressure on the saudis tried to well it is about is the saudis and so on is is this another example of that this is another. step or another

piece of evidence that coming out of the investigation that tookie is is you know maintaining its position on three different questions where's the body where's the . the actual decision maker in this and who is the local club or took you will keep pressuring saudi arabia to get answers for these and looking at it from a human tyrian and human human perspective because so far riyadh has not been cooperating which took you so you with every little piece of evidence that comes up to you will read to it its position and it will seek answers to this. you know complex investigation and complex issue and took you will also keep pressuring riyadh because. i mean this is now an international issue turkey wants to make sure that this remains a live at the international level and because and turkey is not alone in this actually you know seeking the answers i mean many of the foreign ministers have

also. kept their positions regarding the incident and also un is not seeking answers from riyadh but unfortunately we see a very static position in riyadh maintaining you know an uncooperative position and. you know willing to push this under the carpet basically could to speak in istanbul thanks for being with us. our warring parties in yemen are accusing each other of breaching a fragile ceasefire in the port city of a day that tuesday was the first day of the truce and there were four explosions in and around the city and it's not clear who is behind the blas how many june reports . pictures emerging from her data on tuesday show a relative calm at who the checkpoints documents were requested before people were allowed to pass in some areas streets were largely empty in others the

traffic slowed in the meantime and we are optimistic about the ceasefire decision but who is implementing the resolution brokered by the united nations who is implementing the decisions taken during this meeting negotiations the saudi aggression did not implement any of the decisions made in sweden yemenis are suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis where millions are facing starvation. aid workers say the situation remains desperate around her data the main gate way for eighty percent of much needed food and humanitarian aid in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government the president will months or had agreed not only to withdraw fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of un supervised neutral forces the redeployment from the ports of ho

data salif russy signed critical parts of the city associated with the humanitarian facilities shall be completed within two weeks after the cease fires entry into force the full mutual redeployment of all forces from the city of her data and the ports of her data salif and russ isa shall be completed within a maximum period of twenty one days after the cease fire enters into force it is a responsibility of the parties to fulfill the agreement local leaders in her day to say they're determined to ensure the truce no matter how fragile it is holds. and then the would have the whole island and sending the agreement that was discussed thank god we in the province of the data and the local authorities are committed to the ceasefire but there are somebody nations aircraft that are still flying over the city despite the reports of explosions and sporadic fighting yemenis in and around the besieged port city are for now at least feeling some small semblance of hope. all right plenty more ahead on this news

hour what's old is new again two former leaders return to the political scene in madagascar. and we meet the musicians musicians intent on determined to keep the thousand years of tradition alive. told us that they have a first police in south africa have issued an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe it's over an alleged assault in johannesburg last year the wife of former president robert mugabe is accused of hitting gabriel angles with an electrical cord in a hotel room south african model suffered a serious head injury gabi has said she was acting in self-defense. joins us live from hari so her any updates from the.

well we've just spoken to the government spokesperson and he said that we have not received any written communication from south africa when we do the government will consider it according to the laws of zimbabwe what we know is that grace is in the country she was in singapore recently she'd gone for treatment she's being protected and guarded by the state as the former first lady and as far as you know the last time she was in south africa was last year when that incident happened has been and how does this affect grace mugabi travel plans. well she's known here as gucci grace zimbabweans know her as a woman who loves to travel they joke she spends a lot of time on planes they say she loves to go shopping abroad so people now know that this could affect her travel options if this is taken seriously internationally for example if she goes to seven country if that country feels the

obligated to hand her over to the south africans that means you could be arrested and handed over to south africa as it limits her travel options she's not she's no stranger to controversy here in somalia for example it's allays she's grabbed lots of lots of land that belongs to people it's unless she's just stormed in and taken gold mines that belong to a private individual and she's fusing to give it back if you are going to court over it it's alleged she was involved in poaching of ivory allegations she has always denied but she's no stranger to controversy the key thing people of course are now watching is when the zimbabwe government get this written request from the south africans if it happens are they willing to hand over given the fact that she is a former first lady as a lot of thanks for that in harare our voting is under way for the presidential runoff election in madagascar former leaders andry rajoelina and marc ravalomanana are vying for the top job russia lena narrowly won the first

round with thirty nine percent of the votes this is the first time the two faceoff since two thousand and nine when ravalomanana was forced from power by protests read by led by roger you know. the head of the european union's monitoring commission says the elections have been carried out peacefully. tuesday i've just come from two lines the two teams to represent the candidates there told us we are ready to accept the other side's victory so it's a pretty good atmosphere. i formerly is a consulting fellow at chatham house and covers madagascar he joins us now from london thanks for being with us so putting aside at the personalities what what is that these of these two men here what is the choice facing and madagascan what each of them stand for well in ideological terms they're pretty similar they both came from a business background before going into politics both as mayors of the capital city

and on the river. before later jumping up to the top of the state but there's a big difference rather low manana during his seven years in power before he was forced out did actually pursue a fairly coherent economic policy and really quite effective development program he seriously try to address some of the problems of rural under development in a country that's one of the poorest in the world russia alina was installed by the military after the forced takeover and presided over a four year transition when the economy shrank corruption reached even higher levels than it had before foreign aid was mostly frozen and the country really sore decline in development really pulling humanitarian problems and yet now he's trying to present himself as a new man as a sort of face of reform and rebuilding who could appeal to the younger generation

whereas reveller manana is trying to present himself as a bit more of a pragmatist so there is a clear difference between them and the pitches they're making and as is fred as he said then these two men go back quite a bit there's a deep personal history between the two of them so given that if this is a close result do you see it things could get ugly if the outcome is contested. well although there's been a bit of a history of madagascar protests and what you michel civil unrest things have relatively been contained through a whole series of political crises in the country so one could imagine demonstrations you could even do see the odd strike or protest but and some secondary violence but i don't think we're talking about a risk of major conflict here the bigger problem is really going to come when they

have parliamentary elections in a few weeks time because whoever is elected president then still has to get a majority in parliament so they can establish a stable government and pass laws and what happened to the last president was it took him months even years to get a stable parliamentary base and given the tight contest between these two contenders whoever wins the presidency is certainly not guaranteed to to get his supporters in power in parliament in the in the next few weeks so quite a few more weeks of uncertainty lie ahead for madagascar probably not massive instability but still a lot of tension and i'm sure a political confrontation if the race is tight could speak to the poll nearly there in london. let's bring you more on our top story the announcement out of the democratic republic of congo the campaigning suspended in the calf to ahead of sunday's presidential election catherine soy is live for us now in kinshasa so

katherine just update us on what's happening there. and then the. progress very quickly very the month after that led by the local authority that the spending all rally the capital they have not the elite back there that there would be they have information that there could be. in this well aware of much of that was the ghost of a grab bag martin but you look at the presidential candidate of all why least of all. we are being told that he's a convoy that was coming forward and then you watched this man. by police and joining with this. a youth leader one of the youth leaders of this quite a thank you for joining us why do you think

a local authority then it all rather than. you but we come here in this interview. that's missing and then we came here with all of the process a moment of. their meeting here. i don't know. there's a lot because of the meeting and we don't know what. the main period has been very chaotic. but you a little ballin has my company that's been in like a good many parts of the country. that have been violently despite. a lot of violence do you think that that could be the real than. the one on all. how i need that you said people get. elected and they wanted people to come to. know where it's coming here and that they will be but they don't like to make

trouble they're not correcting the problem it's all you did. when to publish the ball it. got that way of preventing the. writing in the bill because people. break even the shop they don't break the fast in the way they each take a lead is passed on convoy. unquote that was coming in. even that in any way going to get here because he's being blocked every point. pop up today because of what i know. of people like that move a little don't know if the guy is a problem i know it's going to reach the missing going to. worry about it all though they brought an old book which the president is going to point to myspace those people that when you saw that and it's. happening do you think.

it's going to we. know what they can see one of the what this happened. was when the other prevent a wait just stop in the great a little we can see if it if they didn't. mean that they want to you know they. are hoping that they will in the beginning this was all. the people or the. issue that will be really good to go out and just pop in even to listen to how the pledge is. all right thank you very much now under one arm of the men. of the place and all the. people here are and then us then. they're going to neighborhood and believe. many others are going. where i'm. going

to. get you ended up on people because that is potentially going to be taken into the courts. and the police. are right catherine thanks for that catherine sawyer live for us in kinshasa. donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars to build a wall along the border with mexico the u.s. president has been threatening to shut down the government if his demands were not met the failure to agree on a budget could see eight hundred thousand government workers sent home without pay just before christmas funding for several agencies expires on friday mike hanna has more from washington. well a week ago president trump said he would be proud to shutdown the government should he not get the five billion dollars for his border wall in the budget however he now appears to be retreating from this rather extreme position implications are

that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say we're looking at every avenue available to us possible the president's asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used to protect our borders and for that to give the president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people the having a secure border but a shutdown still not a verb democrats of turned down a compromise republican offer of a one point five billion dollar amount for border security not the wall but democratic leader nancy pelosi says this would amount to give being president trump a one billion dollars slush fund as she put it but neither side of the aisle once a shutdown just before christmas and both observers believe that there will be some kind of short term extension agreed on and one of the world's biggest stock market flotations as made a disappointing debut. softbank well almost

fifteen percent of the telecoms company made its debut on the tokyo stock exchange softbank hope to raise twenty four billion dollars but investors were not impressed analysts blame the disappointing start on recent network glitches and links with china's telecoms company who are way university professor seijiro takeshita says investors are questioning soft banks growth strategies. i would be a little sympathetic considering the fact the market itself environment had been very bad as you seen in the united states in japan following that i mean nikkei has reached his nine month low and december alone the market has dropped by six percent and that sense it was a very very weak environment to start out with i think one real big worry amongst the larger investors are that this musical chair game that you know the south bank i'm playing on a growth after growth after growth expansion after expansion they're all worried

when the music will stop it hasn't and they've been working out quite eloquently but if you look at the external environment of the telecommunications side in japan for example the mobile carrier i would say contract has dropped the growth is definitely winding down on top of it you've got the conventional competition from entity docomo and get it and also a new company to come from iraq and so the environment itself where it's maturing and you've got the pressure from the competition and you've got the government basically trying to lower the price so you have quite a lot of pressure surrounding this industry as a whole facebook has deleted more than four hundred pages it says a link to me and last military and its crackdown on the hinge of muslims social media company has been criticized for not doing enough to block inflammatory material against the minority group facebook says its removed chat groups and personal accounts in his third and biggest purge to date will the seven hundred

thousand have escaped military violence in western neon mob of the past year. time for the weather now has cabin that's right we've been talking about those pacific storms the united states and one of these storms is definite cause a lot of problems i want to take you over here towards port orchard just on the outside of seattle washington where they have seen quite a bit of damage in terms of tornadoes the satellite shows the storms pushing through but i want to show you on the video what it actually looked like because seattle in that area washed in only seas about three tornadoes a whole year this one came on shore and it made a lot of damage across many neighborhoods and homes destroyed as well as a lot of businesses good news is there was no casualties or anybody hurt because of these tornadoes but still a lot of cleanup going on because there's going to be a lot of bad weather over the next few days in this area also tomorrow starts a trend of very busy travel across united states sixteen days because the two holidays that we're talking about also tomorrow and friday will be part of the busiest of those and we're talking about one one hundred two million people on the

roads as well as forty five million people are going to be in the air so tomorrow we're looking at some very busy weather down here towards the south the center of low pressure in parts of texas is going to develop and it is going to develop and get even stronger over the next few days as we go towards tomorrow we're looking at very heavy winds as well across parts of atlanta and that is going to cause problems at hartsfield. thanks karen still ahead on al-jazeera the relative calm off to the storm of protests in nicaragua as the u.s. issues and you threat. denmark under pressure to decide where it stands on a huge energy project in europe. and winning streak another home victory in denver brings the nuggets round to seventy as i like since. they wanted forty three billion pounds worth of weaponry that was six billion

pounds in commission. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small bowl of people for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. the latest news as the plane takes the. will continue on into the night but into next week with detailed coverage classical criticism of capitalist economics to a fifty six billion dollar i am manslaughter argentina from around the world these are the victims of one of the world's most forgotten conflicts and without agent help they could become a lost generation. again

you're watching or just a reminder of our top stories this hour election campaigning has been suspended in kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo opposition candidate martin had been due to hold a rally the city's governor says there's evidence people are preparing for confrontations before sunday's vote. new pictures on turkish media showing the fifteen men suspected of murdering saudi journalists. they showed the man arriving at the istanbul airport and the saudi consulate before and after killing in october. police in south africa have issued an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's

former first lady grace mugabe the wife of the former president robert mugabe is accused of hitting a model in johannesburg last year. the un's it world food program is cutting food aid to more than one hundred ninety thousand people in gaza and the occupied west bank it is blaming a severe funding shortfall the u.n. is asking for three hundred fifty million dollars in funding to help one point four million people across palestinian territories. now there's one hundred days to go before britain is due to leave the european union and the countdown to bragg's it is getting increasingly chaotic prime minister to resign may as told m.p.'s further negotiations with the e.u. are still possible despite e.u. leaders saying that's not an option. the prime minister mr speaker has thrown away two years on her botched negotiations she's now recklessly wasting

four billion pounds of public money she's holding parliament and the country to ransom. thank you thank you mr speaker they said they put down of those no confidence then they said they wouldn't then they said they would then they did it but it wasn't effective i know there's the christmas season and the pantomime season and the want to be seen from the labor frontbencher the right on budget and he's going to put a confidence vote oh yes years. the scene there from prime minister's questions earlier at the same time the european union has power pressure on may saying a no deal bragg's it could mean british goods being subject to e.u. customs controls at the border and may says her deal is the best available where politicians from all parties say it is a disaster she's delayed the final vote by m.p.'s to accept or reject the deal until the middle of next month with joins us live now from london with more on this

sunday what is the prime minister said about no deal planning then. well as i'm as you were just hearing she's saying that this is actually irresponsible step and this is in light of severe criticism from many quarters saying that at the moment the responsible government has to be doing what they have as an announce they're doing with this injection of over two billion pounds of new funding for bret to preparations including for this no deal scenario this she says includes three and a half thousand soldiers being put on standby hiring thousands more civil servants to get ready by just on wednesday we've heard in a statement from some of the biggest business organizations that they are looking on in horror at what they call chaos in westminster saying this is not the right

approach that it's up to parliament to to really get some kind of consensus to avoid the no deal scenario saying that many businesses up and down the u.k. simply have not started to get ready for that prospect and will not have time between now and next march of course trees are made turning around to jeremy colvin the opposition leader there saying well the alternative is back my deal but then she stands accused of trying to blackmail parliament and blackmail the whole country effectively into supporting a deal which does not really have the majority of parliament behind it unless she wins concessions from brussels which are unlikely to come you are just saying brussels has been outlining steps it's taking to try to reduce friction in terms of the trade relationship with britain after breaks it but it is saying that there will be some impact it is saying clearly that there will be for example a negative impact on transport and on ports there will be severe delays which will hit both sides or significantly just in the last few hours we've heard that labor

would like is trying to bring in an emergency give bait on that no deal planning but what is their leverage trees amaze calling their bluff saying look why don't you just call a motion of no confidence in my government which is something they're not refusing to do while they're not sure they will win the rest of the opposition in westminster once labor to do that but so far it's not going that far. all right the dean thanks for that nadine baba live for us in london our belgium's prime minister has resigned after losing a confidence vote child michel had been leading a minority government for a week when his coalition partners walked out of the alliance the flemish nationalist party quit in anger over me shows decision to sign a un migration pact critics say it will increase the number of migrants coming into you. e.u. member states have agreed on a preliminary deal to clamp down on money laundering the proposed agreement would

give more power to the european banking authority to force banks to take measures if police international in their in their own countries do not act it follows recent cases of money laundering across the block of ten people have been arrested in estonia over two hundred twenty seven billion dollar laundering money laundering scandal investigators in the country plus denmark britain and the united states are looking into payments made to denmark's danske a bank at its estonian branch between two thousand and seven and two thousand and fifteen those detained were former employees of the bank and police say the number of arrests will likely go up a russia iran and turkey have failed to agree on the makeup of a committee to rewrite syria's constitution and help in the war and foreign ministers met the outgoing un special envoy for serious the funded must order in

geneva they're aiming to get a committee together by the beginning of next year so they can pave the way for elections and a lasting political solution in syria. a yemeni mother unable to travel to the u.s. to visit her dying son has gotten special permission to do so she is banned from entering the u.s. due to the travel restriction on the on mostly muslim countries placed by the trumpet ministration john hendren to travel to oakland in california to talk to the two year olds follow. here in a california hospital the u.s. travel ban his left a two year old motherless as a rare brain disorder carries him into the final days of his life his second day in and the u.s. took him to the hospital and they were shocked how skinny you were as they were us were those doctors and the nurse. when they were seen and like this all time this is what's happening back in yemen like his father an american citizen is among the

youngest immigrants to suffer from the american travel ban since he arrived in the u.s. in october of dollars you many mother has been unable to see him because of the trumpet ministrations ban on travelers from yemen and six other mostly muslim nations on tuesday the u.s. granted his mother's waiver and a chance to hold of dilla once again but for two years nothing happened until monday when ali hassen in the council on american islamic relations called a news conference to appeal directly to the american people you know we've got a lot of foreign service officers deployed all over the world that are making these decisions on a daily basis and they're trying very hard to do the right thing at all times for the house and the wait has been traumatic ali hassan says it's hard for him to tell such a personal story but he decided if he didn't go public his son would die without ever seeing his mother again and she would regret the bed that she gave it to me on

september that's when the last time she said she would regret everything so if you had not gone public. what would have happened. i would just see my son dying on the on or taking off our mayor mom on. without his mother without his mother after marrying his wife shaimaa two years ago ali was told her visa would soon be approved. then came the trump travel ban which brought protesters into the streets and airport waiting rooms until a few months ago little of dildoes stayed with his mother in yemen growing thinner sicker and sharing hospitals with thousands of victims of the war in yemen. desperate ali brought his son to cairo and then the u.s. for care of my son go through. it's really hard for him i mean he was the number from the mother and then his face in just it's crazy you know no matter what color you are. family should be together no matter what this fall stopped breathing on

his own then closed his eyes for the last time and stop responding entirely doctors say the end is days away a bill is strength and the speed of his mother's plane will determine whether on wednesday evening the hudson family will get that chance john hendren el jazeera oakland california it's becoming an increasingly dangerous world for journalists to do their job the number of revenge killings nearly doubled this year the annual report from the committee to protect journalists found thirty four well murdered in retaliation for their work that sixteen more than last year nineteen others were killed while covering conflict and violent protests the committee is blaming a lack of international leadership on the rights and safety of journalists one example is the murder of washington post columnist. in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october thirteen journalists were killed in afghanistan this year

making it the most dangerous country to report from but the number of reports as killed in war zones fell to its lowest level in seven years. a president is being also approved new u.s. sanctions on anyone in nicaragua involved in state sponsored repression of human rights violations attacks against government critics in the media have increased since peaceful protests against the president began in a four man republican force now from the capital managua. to the i the streets of managua are calm but tension remains the presence of security forces is now the norm ready to quickly put down any acts of anti-government dissent like that that there are no protests because you'll get thrown in prison that's why this country has more than six hundred political prisoners in jail and he is a vocal critic of nicaraguan president then they go. this is her being thrown into the back of a police vehicle the last time

a public protest was held in when i was. in a similar manner i actually broke my foot in that moment then they took every one of us away in an act of absurdity and in front of all the members of the press. in the wake of the crackdown government critics and journalists run the risk of attack by pro-government forces i found here i am now from the start of troubles which began over proposed reforms to a national pension program prison in order to go has underlined his commitment to human rights he says the violent scene so far is part of a right wing conspiracy against him. former nicaraguan ambassador to the oas who said we still ask is says that's nonsense. so much. this is more than a police state this is a state that acts completely arbitrarily the rule of law in the longer exists in the hands of hitmen it's like an orioles novel where they speak in newspeak where

war means peace and freedom in slavery that's what happened here large protests are no longer allowed civic and business leaders along with mediators from the catholic church have all pleaded. with president order to return to the negotiating table despite international condemnation and sanctions imposed by the united states there's no sign the president or thing is willing to accept early elections a condition demanded by the national opposition human rights observers warn the political crisis will continue to deepen pushing the country further toward a situation similar to that of venezuela for activists like an m.r.e. getty to however what matters is continuing the resistance against the government. but. i we're going to continue until daniel ortega is gone if neither and when history has taught me anything it's that whenever i when people say enough it means in math. that sentiment means the calm on the streets right now maybe no more just a phase and you get i was political crisis went up

a little dizzy when i was. world leaders vie for a say in europe's energy market one country is caught in the middle denmark's consent is required before the final section of a controversial russian pipeline can be completed but opinion there is divided reports from copenhagen. a new pipeline which could double the amount of gas russia delivers directly to germany has kept world leaders busy arguing if europe might become too dependent on russia so about thirty thousand pipes here in carson but in this harbor down in sweden near the danish border where departure stuart the economic benefits of the pipeline construction outweigh the concerns i have a course on the people here in karl's home think it's a great idea they're happy with it it creates a lot of jobs but in the rest of sweden they're afraid and they said if you let the russians into your harbor the pipeline is divided europe and its allies into those who are for and those against in september u.s.

president donald trump criticize germany over the plan and germany will become totally dependent. on russian energy if it does not immediately change course the twelve hundred kilometer route runs under the baltic sea the pipeline will be able to supply to european markets giving russian alternative to bypass existing pipelines running through ukraine with which it has poor relations poland and the baltic states are against a project saying it will damage their economies and leave them vulnerable to russia the pipeline cries permission from scandinavian countries as it will pass through their international waters feelings in sweden have already agreed but denmark the last country to approve is hesitant we have been pressured from all thought and we are very small countries russia have been more and more aggressive they have annexed crimea. actually waging war as we say against ukraine and then actually also building up militarily against the baltic states were among our

one of our dearest and closest friends denmark doesn't need the gas its energy policy calls for self-sufficiency by the year two thousand and fifty but it doesn't want to damage relations with its neighboring countries either this is one of the major foreign policy decisions since the cold war it is because it will somehow signal if we belong still belong to the american camp or we are more dupion german following germany so therefore it's. it's a very important politicians in denmark are looking to brussels for an agreement that she'll start country against critics of the pipeline with their neighbors supporting the projects they feel left undone in this decision and their response has been to play for time. the company building to pipeline has proposed a different route that runs just outside danish territorial waters where a commercial project it is

a highway of gas that is going to europe with a supply of gas that is needed in the future. of the pipeline is supposed to be completed by late next year and those building it seem determined to continue no matter how the politics play out. copenhagen denmark all right still ahead when we come back. at the world trade organization.

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a founding years and i like his report in our series from the central asian country charles stratford went to a music school in the capital the shan day to find out how musicians are keeping their traditions alive. the name of this ancient times folk song is dollar killick. legend has it that it was first song by a mother whose daughter married a man in a village on the other side of a river but there was no bridge to cross. the mother would stand on the bank can sing it in the hope her daughter would reply. means like this you. know month month. month this is a gift from god to me and i'm thankful to god for this and so through my fingers i

share this with everyone this is not just for me. shelf comedy shows me around the go to means museum a music school in. the capital city of tajikistan. the school was opened by go to mange zulkey because of a movie star and musician who became famous in the one nine hundred forty s. during the soviet era this is a rhubarb believed to be one hundred years old from bought a show on a region that stretches from southern tajikistan into northern afghanistan these type of instruments is believed to have first been played almost a thousand years ago as you can imagine there are stories to be told about these instruments this for example is a traditional sheikh tongue boar it's believed to be around four hundred fifty years old traditionally the leather supposed to be taken from a killed pregnant horse the strings from a killed

a pregnant goat and the main body here the wood taken from an apricot tree that is just about to go into full bloom and the belief is that when the instrument is played you can hear the voices of the infant goat and horse calling for their mothers. not only plays these instruments but he makes them to. yeah she had made craftsmanship is very hard especially drilling you have to do everything with your hands from the moment i see the wood i imagine how that use truman will sound out of money he's joined by fairly musicians in his group called sambal beating sky. show plays a revolver and cena plays the dark which is

a type of drum. group of over the years to europe and america. they play a piece called the soft border the core is strong composed of the one nine hundred forty s. means news from the mountains. that al-jazeera. tajikistan all right skittles for now his leah thank you has them the world trade organization says it's launching an investigation into allegations that saudi arabia failed to protect sports broadcasting rights saudi arabia is one of the country's blockading qatar since twenty seventeen and since then qatar's b.n. sports content has been blocked in the kingdom be as content has recently been rebroadcast under the brand be out cue the qatari network holds regional broadcasting rights for much the world's high profile events including this year's world cup saudi arabia has claimed the sports broadcasts are blocked for national security reasons

and it says the w t o has no standing to hear the case. now manchester united have named their former striker ole gunnar sol shire as interim manager following the sacking of jose marino the norwegian played for the club between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and seven after retiring from playing he became a reserve team manager the only other top level role he's held in the u.k. was with cardiff city a short lived spell in twenty fourteen so shire will manage united until the end of the season alex ferguson's former assistant might feel and was appointed first team coach one of the favorites to take over as united boss permanently as tottenham manager. his spurs side face arch rivals arsenal away in the english league cup later with a place in the semifinals on the line for his loss against the gunners four two in the last the last time the sides met which was earlier this month in the e.p.l. but with tottenham sitting third in the league the arsenal manager doubts his

counterpart would be interested in the united job. yeah the. beleaguered. independent leak in the best pussy shone the much as the much just said united in the premier league. he's. performance in the ninety's baby. i don't know if he's thinking to change for another club. there's been high drama at the future world cup world cup semifinals and abu dhabi where a lion have become the first team from the united arab emirates to qualify for the final and own goal left south american champions river plate behind early on but two goals from rafael bora followed putting the score at two one then cut out script struck for the immorality club to level matters and force extra time the match eventually went to penalties when and missed a line one to progress to the final where they will play either real madrid for

years. barcelona star forward lendl messi has been awarded the golden shoe for the fifth time in his career but accolade is given to the player who scores the most schools across europe football leagues messi scored thirty four goals in the spanish league last season arjun time now moves clear of christianity rinaldo who'd been tied with messi on four gold and shoes you know. i love football this is the result of work effort and above all the help from my teammates i have the best team in the world my teammates are the best players in the world in their positions and that makes my job easier and it helps me with these awards the same way other teammates have won their own. zlatan abraham of each has signed a new contract with the l.a. galaxy which will see the striker return to the club for the twenty one thousand major league soccer season the thirty seven year old who joined galaxy from manchester united in march was named m.l.s.

newcomer of the year last month the swede finished the twenty eight hundred season with twenty two goals and ten assists in just twenty seven matches but still could not leave his side to the playoffs i came here to leave us. to make money. and i didn't get the first. name because they were ok my one. to the n.h.l. now where the blackhawks chicago blackhawks got a rare win in what has been a dismal run of games they came from behind to beat the nashville predators on tuesday trailing one zero gust of forcing equalized for chicago in the second period than erik gustafson scored the winner on a power play to seal it two one this was only the blackhawks second one in twelve games. and in the n.b.a. the denver nuggets have extended their home winning streak to seven games beating

the dallas mavericks one twenty six to one eighteen it's the best start for the nuggets since one thousand nine hundred seventy six season serbian center and drove tuesday's when with thirty two points in the fourth quarter jamal murray took a block back up court for it to pointer to seal the win after dallas had rallied trimming a fourteen point lead down to four the nuggets are topping the n.b.a.'s western conference closely followed by the golden state warriors. there was also a win for the atlanta hawks on tuesday they beat the washington wizards jeremy lin was the standout players scoring twelve of his sixteen points in the final period for atlanta final scores one eighteen to one ten. that's all for your sport back to house thanks very much and that's it for this news hour but as always there's lots more on our website c.n.n. dot com get the latest on all the stories we're following there i just wanted to come back in

a moment so with more of the day's news stay with us. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere asked we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is utopian on there is only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth serious an al-jazeera i thought this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of ton of ability and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest seditions all the maddest and packed full advantage over an act that may turn out not to be. the main thing

is that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people but about ideas or politicians or what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect the real people if they felt they took a. little more complicated offer to happen if this is not an act of creation i mean i remember walking. down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave. some over soul spa we have a scheme to speak out as a surprise that. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. kidnappings a mud as in crimea since russia's full stomach sation of the black sea in insular. i don't understand why he was kidnapped. schools of crimean totilas have been arrested tortured and killed most believe by russian security

forces. crimea russia's dirty secret on al-jazeera. i. fear of violence brings campaigning for sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo to a sudden hold. on guys i'm sick of this is our live from doha also coming up. the prime minister is recklessly running down the clock one hundred days to go before breaks it to rescind may and the opposition leader trade accusations over the u.k.'s plans to leave europe.