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regime. and small be here with all the day's sport including india's cricket team wins a test series in australia first time and a. year wait. welcome to the program the bombs government says special forces have arrested soldiers who took over the national radio station in an apparent cool attempt the communications minister says the situation will be on the controls the soldiers broadcast messages criticizing president dimba and adds troops to take control of transport weapons. the message to the head of state. is that the bates on his health has reinforced doubts about the president's ability to handle the heavy burden of the responsibilities of his office. but things are good in the home that has given us

everything and made us the people we are we cannot abandon it so the patriotic movements of youth of put defense and security forces in order to preserve the integrity of the country as decided to take responsibility this stop the ongoing move to seize power by those who on the night of the disputed election in twenty sixteen killed our young compassionate with the support of illegal and illegitimate institutions where president. has been in power since two thousand and nine the fifty nine year old succeeded his father omar bongo who died after ruling the oil rich nation for more than forty years longer was reelected in twenty sixteen in a poll marred by allegations of fraud he won by fewer than six thousand votes but his win sparked violence between protesters and the police and parliament was even set on fire he said it found anomalies in bangor stronghold province of how to

where he won ninety five percent of the vote a large as it was for me was in gabon recently and joins us live now from johannesburg so just bring us up to date with the latest news reports that a coup leaders have now been arrested. well that's the latest that's coming out of kabul and based on what french media is saying and the government there claiming that they will restore control within the next few hours we haven't heard much from either the opposition or anywhere else from government regarding what has happened this is the first response we've heard but of course still nothing from president ali bongo who remains in morocco recovering from the stroke he had in october last year and of course this is very much what has triggered this action this attempted coup by these soldiers them saying that the president this disappearance essentially and the uncertainty around what is happening in the barn the government's there and the quality what they say the

cowardly actions by the president are relating to protests that took place two years ago this is why they say they are taking control to restore democracy but there's been a political crisis now in gabon for several months of course after the president's stroke and him not being in a barn there were attempts to change the constitution at one point the president of the constitutional court saying that the constitution would be changed to allow for the deputy president the vice president rather all the prime ministers to step in during early bongos absence opposition at that point saying that this was illegal the constitutional court has no right to do this and they of course resisted this change and it was seen by many because of the president of the constitutional courts a close relationship with the president this was seen as an attempt to protect this bongo doneness dynasty which which has been in place for more than fifty years now

so there has been opposition and a lot of resistance to some of the political moves being seen in gabon up to now and of this of course being the latest we're hearing there from the government saying that they are trying to regain control until he does so when was the last time president ali bongos actually spoken as you say he's been away for some time out of the country seeking medical help. he did appear on television on your new year's eve in an annual address and that was a much anticipated because people wanted to hear from. here exactly his state of health if you were still in charge of the government and what exactly would happen next at that point he had said that he is doing fine as i said he appeared on television and what must be pointed out also is a continues to be speculation around the state of his health because you know it could be seen that they were very much in movement from the president he what he

did appear on television these health though of course there remains many questions around it especially considering that isn't made out of the barn for so many months now that address didn't necessarily go down very well this group in particular of soldiers who have tried to stage this attempted coup had said that it didn't offer much reassurance that the government was acting in a cowardly fashion and this address by the president was much to go on and now it's time to restore democracy as they put it the president in that message to some of his words he didn't move his right arm so of course leading to continued speculation around the state of his health and what exactly happens next these soldiers it appears taking advantage of the absence of bongo and i suppose the power vacuum in go bond at the stage for me the middle of the live for us from johannesburg for me to thank you let's cross. below she's at it's of africa

international and joins us live from the french capital paris so we're now getting reports from french media that the coup leaders have been arrested could this thing be over before it's even begun. that is probably it was a desperate attempt to to do something in the face of what has been happening in the board for wia i mean the immediate cozies that. president ali bongo or has been has suffered a stroke and as we all know he's not in a condition to to run the country he's been away for over two months now and as of the reporter said each day try to change the constitution so that he he had the appearance of ruling although he's not in a in a in a in a position to do so so that the clan can can continue. having

power over the country so i think the major reason of this was is back to a twenty sixteen when. there was this rigged election where very apparently mr shopping won election and it was rigged so and nothing happened i mean and good good get away with it and now and he's been a catastrophic leader. enjoying you know traveling all around the country all over the world and leaving the country good around the drain and you know everything is crazy let me let me just jump in health care and everything so the young people want to do something about it being a gentleman is jump in there for a second because you talk about the bombo family i mean this is a this is a family has been in power for over fifty years it's very influential in this oil rich country does this attempt to take up indicate that perhaps they've lost

influence in favor with the army do you think now you can say that actually. you know funnily people wear not really against the borgo clan or some of the people wear but maybe not the majority they wear somewhere expecting that they would go on having some kind of stability and that they will be reforms and in a soft manner you know in a smooth way but what they saw in that anybody who was doing. just nothing for the people and that the country has been left loose for for now seventy over seventy years and. you know the country is in deep crisis so the question about the current ruling over is now stronger than ever because people just feel they had a need to change ok you cannot just go on like that and the opportunity that he he

just. he had that had condition and that he's out of. that he's not able to run again i was opening a window but nothing happened let me just jump in there this is accomplished for a limited company for the final time ok let me just jump in for a final time or yours just a final thought from your i mean how will the international community be viewing this i mean the african union has already come out and strongly condemned this coup attempt but of course kabbalah is part of the francophone umbrella so when the french try to support the bomber family or will they be looking for change perhaps . oh you know well the french had a new form of have a very big influence in that home but since president mccall they don't want to interfere actually and. if the civil society and the political

class there on the ground is able to make a change nobody will do anything and i believe i even believe that if the cool had succeeded nobody would have tried to revert it. and you know of the african union is right to condemn coup because it's not something which should be accepted i'm just trying to explain why those guys are not just exasperate and that they felt that they have to do something because the opposition is very weak we didn't see them coming out. while mr burrel is staying on your job. thank you thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you. now a delegation of u.s. officials is in china for talks aimed at resolving a trade war the us president says he's optimistic about the new round of negotiations and only last year the u.s. impose tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods beijing

retaliated and hit the u.s. with one hundred ten billion dollars of tariffs will america's farmers the car industry and small money functions have been particularly hurt by the levies both sides have agreed to a ninety day truce on imposing new terms which will expire in march when it's been in pauline lou she's managing director asia analytical where she covers china's political economy she joins us live from hong kong pauline both sides of course have agreed to this ninety day truce with no more tariffs so how much pressure to resolve this trade war before the truce expires and very quickly what are the main issues here. well basically i think the americans are under less pressure than the chinese for the trumpet ministration it it's a question of is this trade war dragging on for too long what's going to happen to my will to base and things like that but for china it's very serious this trade

fight has couldn't have come out of a worse time for china its economy is in trouble not just cyclical structural already done lots of trouble the. you know it's got a dense mountain that history times that of g.d.p. n.p.l. sobbed non-performing loans are up. and or the banks are in serious trouble worrying about what is going to happen next so china definitely does want ok to make an agreement as soon as possible and pauline i mean the temperate truce has provided some relief but there's clearly much skepticism that they'll make any kind of breakthrough over the next two days i mean both sides are pretty far apart on. well they are far apart in that both once you know if you think a big bite out of the other guy so yes they are far apart but there's still need

for them to come to an agreement in two days or if they did to tell anyone about it they have got until march this troops and i think both sides are going to want to squeeze everything they can a juror in this this time to get the best out of you know the times that are remaining so i did not expect anything dramatic to be announced before march just a final thought from you i mean how much concern is the about the ongoing impact of this trade war on the global economy the bigger picture i mean there are already worries about a slowdown and stock market volatility and as you say china slowing down as well well there's a difference between stock market and the real economy stock markets go up and die of all sorts of reasons but basically the economy the chinese economy has been

slowing down for some time the problems that they are facing is well known and that is that should not come as a surprise to anyone at all so what is going to happen with this trade war if they don't have some sort of a resolution is that things are going to come to a head much sooner than expected rather than dragging on for much longer but i do think they will come to some sort of a new breman in march because china i think really really wants to stop this very debilitating fight thank you very much for your time. oh i don't know what's coming up on the news hour including preparing for the worst a trial run in southern england to make sure things go smoothly in case of a no deal breaks it. raises government goes in for crowd funding to keep its navy afloat. and in sports the longest on the road losing streak in the n.b.a.

has finally broken far away here with all those details coming up. not down trump's national security adviser is heading to turkey after a two day visit to israel to discuss the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria on sunday john bolton said the pulled out was conditional on turkey not taking any military action against kurdish fighters the u.s. military has been backing them in the fight against eisel both and also said u.s. troops won't leave until the group is completely defeated he also said there's no timetable for the pullout we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw but to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated it is not able to. revive itself and become a threat again and to make sure that the. defense of israel and other friends in

the region is absolutely assured mammadov though has more now from the turkey syria border. he is expected here later today and tomorrow is when he is going to be holding talks with the turkish leadership of course home and. in israel have largely been turned. to mean that things continue azi usual what they are saying i mean he meant by extension president donald trump don't hold your breath for a quick withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria they realize what's at stake look only putting in check the influence turkey and russia will be one hundred on a silver platter but also iran something israel is very worried about of course these comments from coming from uncut out the presidential spokesperson saying that

the comments on protection for the cards that came from bolton in good faith and said that turkey has no problem with the entire population in syria but just with the two groups why p.d. and d.k.k. that it's. a terrorist groups the u.n. special envoy for yemen's due to meet yemeni government officials in the saudi capital riyadh martin griffiths met with the representatives on sunday he wants to convince both sides in the civil war to fully comply with the cease fire agreement chris his hopes then agreed to meet later on this month possibly in kuwait to follow up on the progress made in sweden in december now thai police say they will not deport a saudi woman trying to escape alleged abuse by a family against her wishes. i was detained while in transit on the way to australia where she wants to claim asylum online couldn't express fear of being killed if she was sent back to saudi arabia but earlier she posted this message on

her twitter account. i'm not leaving my own until i see here u n h c r i won't. know more than a hundred trucks are taking part in a trial in southeast england to prevent long queues at the port of dover should the u.k. crash out of the e.u. with no deal something of the lines could be as long as forty five kilometers the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities the test involves trucks driving between the ports and a disused airport in kent to see where the traffic flow can be maintained were journalism manston can for us live now jonah so just talk us through this live testing what's the point of this exercise. well the reason for this exercise daryn is the sort of stock realize ation in the weeks before christmas that britain may not be able to avoid exiting the european union without a deal covering its future relations with the european union in other words overnight on march the twenty ninth becoming

a third country and among the many issues that would be associated with that would be trade that would be customs checks having to be implemented at border posts with thirty three kilometers where i'm standing here from dover the port one of the main trade arteries to the continent the estimate is that heavy haulage trucks held up by customs checks there would stretch back forty kilometers or more along the m twenty that's a big artery out of london heading south so what's happening here is a live exercise where they're diverting that truck traffic to manston airfield behind me over there it's a disused airfield in kent about thirty three kilometers from dover it has a capacity for forty six thousand trucks so using one hundred fifty or so in today's exercise and the idea is to divert them there and then see how in a phased way they can disperse that traffic through the kent countryside along a secondary road to dover and keep the m twenty running they're doing it in two

phases you can see them lining up there for the second phase the first was during the rush hour and i have to say the evidence of how it's all gone was not good talking to a taxi driver who brought us to this point who experienced the rush hour this morning just as people go back from their christmas break to work to school he said look if this was to become a daily occurrence which of course it would be under a no deal scenario he said you simply wouldn't be able to live in this countryside you would be out to get to work you wouldn't have to get to school and john as you say there just twelve weeks to go until briggs that is a little rather late in the day for this type of exercise. it's extremely late in the day there are lots of critics of what's going on here among them the road all ages sociate and who are doing this in conjunction with the department of transport they say that they see the need for this sort of testing for this sort of contingency planning to take place of course but they say it should have happened months and months ago and the reality is that months and months ago and for most of the last two years the government has been so focused

among other things on internal rivalries on internal divisions but focused also on getting a deal with the european union which juries america was eventually did towards the end of last year only to realize that that deal had very little chance of passing through parliament and therefore the possibility of a no deal exit even by default becomes much more much more apparent critics would say perhaps that this is all a bit of visual theater designed to show critics of the plan doubting m.p.'s the deal rather the sort of chaos that would ensue under a no deal scenario and to say look if you want to avoid this chaos you've got to vote for the deal but it's hard to escape beside that of course the play knowledge that if there is to be a no deal there's got to be no deal planning this is it it is a scenario that many believe would be a national disaster jonah thank you now u.s.

network c.b.s. has broadcast an interview with egyptian president despite a request by cairo not to air it abdel fattah el-sisi told sixty minutes his country's military was cooperated with the israelis in the sinai and he also denied human rights abuses done estabrook reports. u.s. television network c.b.s. said the egyptian government demanded it not air an interview with journalist scott pelley in which egyptian president el-sisi said his government and israel are cooperating in the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant would you say that this is the deepest and closest cooperation that you've ever had with israel side that is correct. the air force sometimes needs to cross to the israeli side and that's why we have a wide range of coordination with israel other than a slightly futile sequence it's been estimated there are about a thousand terrorists and showing up with more than a billion dollars in u.s. military aid to every year why haven't you wipe them out where they measured up the

stuff that went in and why hasn't the u.s. eliminated the terrorists in afghanistan after seventeen years and spending a trillion dollars l c c's comments could inflame public opinion in his country which regards the jewish state as an occupier of arab lands the two countries have a forty year old peace treaty and diplomatic relations but despite that many egyptians still think of israel as the traditional enemy last year egypt's military denied press reports that it was cooperating with israel to root out i still affiliated fighting groups in the mountainous sinai region bordering the two countries it's been estimated that pelly also questioned about a human rights watch report that claims egypt is detaining sixty thousand political prisoners many of whom belong to the muslim brotherhood the political party outlawed i want to name i don't know where they got that figure i said there are no

political prisoners in egypt whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers. l.c.c. claimed any extremists that were being held would receive a fair. contradiction for rights activists who say many are in prison and face long detentions c.b.s. says the interview with the egyptian president was taped a few months ago but didn't say why it had been held until sunday dion estabrook al-jazeera joining the studio as mohamed el masry he's chair of the journalism program at the doha institute for graduate studies good to have you back many people are asking why did the egyptian president sit down and do this interview in the first place only to then demand that c.b.s. not everything as well though it is not i was initially stunned when i found out that he was going to do this interview with c.b.s. and to me it just reflects a profound lack of awareness of what sixty minutes is what c.b.s.

news is and how the news media work and in the united states it almost seems as though sisi and his advisors thought that this was going to be you know like any other news interview that he does with the egyptian news networks right the propaganda the propaganda networks but he has a really poor track record with interviews particularly you know news you know western newspapers the egyptian government has committed an awful lot of human rights violations the government is well aware of this it's published in human rights reports in news media and in scholarly publications so for all those reasons it was misguided to say the least so him to go on yes so let's just talk about some of those controversial topics then given for talked about the level of cooperation with israel in the sinai but in a country that regards israel as an occupied arab lands i mean that's going to cause i'm going to egypt anyway right and there again i think this is just i guess i can only describe it as a stunning lack of awareness for an arab leader to sit up and admit publicly what

quite frankly scholars and analysts already know but which the masses of egyptians might not know or might not or you know might not be willing to to admit or grapple with cooperating with israel is a no no for a lot of reasons and. for him to sit up and say so on international television again it reflects a lack of awareness and touch briefly on the human rights issue and c.c. said that the human rights watch report that claims that egypt is holding about sixty thousand political prisoners in their jails is false but i mean that contradicts what all the rights activists is saying that thousands are held in jails even without charge or trial it doesn't just contradict what the human rights people are saying i actually wrote an article about this a couple of years ago in zero in response to what foreign minister had said at the time which is similar to what sisi is saying now that we don't have all these people in jail what i did in that article is i went back to the egyptian interior ministry's own statements to demonstrate that they had admitted arresting tens of

thousands of people so they have to admit to having all these people behind bars because they've published this information they've released it to the public to the news media the the other issue is the you know is kind of the semantic game what do we call these people so they don't want to call them political prisoners right but in reality when you actually dig into the law and you look at why these people were arrested that's exactly what they are you know exactly exactly i mean for instance egypt's anti terror law if you disrupt public order that is a crime of terrorism if the journalist disagrees with what the government wrote or published on a terrorist attack that is an act of terrorism just a last thought from you mohammed has this interview then backfired on caesium and didn't sort of controversial nature and his spat with c.b.s. you know running anyway yeah well i don't think there's any question as evidenced by what you said in the lead up that they called c.b.s. and tried to get the interview killed right he wouldn't do that unless he recognized that this was going to cause kind of an uproar in side of egypt and now

they're really trying to do they do what they can to make sure that he doesn't imitation yeah and to make sure you don't watch the interview thank you very much for talking to us. now in a few minutes we'll have the weather with rob mccallum but still ahead here on al-jazeera a wave of iraqi women are climbing back their place in society. and we will rock you a film about the british rock group queen wins the top prize of the golden globe awards . on the latest from the hottest off-road rally in the world taking place on the podium sunday stay with us. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. the avalanche risk in our part in europe remains high and it's not going to change but you can get worse the start of circulation of all these cloud in the east let

me just give you much of a clue but this is cold and the tired just continually brings no because this one in particular is a frontal system that's where you tend to get all the action so the pictures it stands at the moment then this is southern germany and western australia you can pick any pass you like they're closing roads because when you get some like a meter or even some place one point seven mists of snow falling in a two three days is not what she can do about it oversee you do what you can and this is a beautiful site for those who like power to screen not so much if you don't say is the division then this is all zero or some cedar and this is west and you have to fall apart from in the mountains now the pictures we hold them over this little patch just their knees rather more than it looks that is still where the heaviest snow is falling we've had that the cold air produced no further south throughout the balkans answer turkey as well as even fall down to see devon for example they stumbled as a picture from istanbul earlier this morning but as i said that small patch might

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anybody is the only field. goals people who see every two years something to invest a profit of they want all up to the last drop on al-jazeera. bang. bang bang bang . welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour the bombs government says special forces have a rest of soldiers who took over the national radio station in an apparent attempt to soldiers broadcast messages criticizing the president. while he was abroad for medical treatment. government representatives in the u.s. and china met in beijing for trade talks ninety day truce on imposing new tariffs

expires in march unless a deal can be made. on the u.s. national security advisor is heading to turkey to discuss the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria john bolton has said the pullout was conditional on turkey not taking any military action against syrian kurdish fighters. now celebrations are being held in cambodia to mark forty years since the fall of the camero it's estimated around two million people were killed under its rule john of the seventh is known as a victory of a genocide day or simply nation day reports from phnom penh. a victory day celebration at national olympic stadium here in phnom penh forty years since the overthrow of the camero rouge regime marked by cultural performances and speeches but it's also a day of reflection and there's a generational divide as to how it's view. cambodian father and son reflecting on the darkest of times for this nation as it marks forty years since the fall of the

camaro rouge seen by many here as a rebirth for the country. at sixty eight is lucky during the four years the camaro rouge ruled cambodia from one thousand nine hundred five to seventy nine almost one in five people died that's nearly two million from either execution starvation or disease lisa says he still has to feed his family and was tortured when he was caught. i am thankful for what happened and you know what has happened it's the end my family from starvation. but this the i don't feel that we had the freedom from the floor and we lost that authority to the vietnamese but i did some feel that regardless of the deep emotional and physical scars from the camaro rouge regime those four years need to be remembered through education and memorials like it one of the infamous killing fields just outside penn and it's. at this very high even though you want to change but we cannot.

transform. almost seventy percent of cambodia population is under the age of thirty born at least ten years after the fall of the camaro rouge now most of them feel as though this country's dark period shouldn't and cannot be forgotten but that the government and the nation must not dwell on the past leeson any met was born after the camaro rouge regime he now has a son all three generations are hoping for more. i make an effort today for the next generation with my son to help them have much more than i did try not to compare things in the past too much because even in my time things have changed so much. the only surviving senior camaro rouge leaders were found guilty of genocide just two months ago by war crimes tribunals. while the brutal regime came to an end thanks to

a vietnamese led invasion the government underlines the need for independence conflict of the forty years ago was a mistake for an independent and it was a mistake a cold war so that's why to prevent to have. a new young state i think so going to be and dignity and independent is a must. it's a cambodian tradition to release birds to shed bad luck as the people here feel lucky that the chapter of oppression and genocide is behind them many still are hoping for more more freedom and more opportunity and cambodia faces big challenges ahead its political process is on shaky ground its prime minister who once it has been in power for thirty four years the main opposition party has been deemed illegal and there's a growing political influence in economic or lights on china. now the incumbent prime minister of bangladesh a casino is about to be sworn enough to winning office for a third consecutive term december's election sauciness party win more than ninety

five percent of seats in parliament the opposition labelled the vote accuse the government of widespread rigging the time the child who joins us live now from the capital dhaka just talk us through what we can expect from this new cabinet and what challenges they face. well she's got at least thirty one new faces in this new cabinet some of the old then god politician from mom will no longer be in her cabinet one of the biggest challenge she faces is of course the economy that's our mandate that was a campaign speech she did well last five years at a place over six percent growth rate so that would be one of the biggest challenge yet climate is one of the major issues there was a lot of students under arrest coterie from students on. student on rest because of transport sector and other issues also she faces a major issues like they're weighing a repaired trade crisis close to a million refugees here she needs to resolve that crisis is another problem she has

to face is balancing the geopolitical strategic game between india and china she is right now balancing between those two regional power of of the issues like garment workers wages infrastructure these are also very important areas that she has to tackle and also to the idea that the opposition has basically rejected this election as something that was rigged and not fair there is down the road a crisis possibly political opposition will be more active they're mobilizing themselves these are some of they should still face as coming years new cabinet looks robust we'll see how they deal with the ministries as they are appointed today as for the opposition goes there still sort of in a shell shock but then not coming out in the street that decided not to go into state in fear of arrest and detention what they're doing is that taking this battle

to a diplomatic form they had a meeting with at least thirty diplomats yesterday what they said is presented in dosia's video evidence of rigging clashes and violence as well as what ballot stuffing all those things what we need to see is how that magazines european union . and the u.n. reacts to it they haven't given any conclusive or decisive comments yet they said they're happy with the inclusive election but they're concerned about the violence and the rigging but nothing falling short of well coming despite the fact that india china and many of the arab countries japan have signed well coming messages this three. bodies a un and european union an american decisive moments will ultimately rather give our side of relief we still have to wait what their comments will be however everything save there is a crack in the democratic process and the institution as well as there are going to be a crack in the stability of the country if everyone is not included in this political

process thank you. now china now u.n. officials to visit the western side of jenin junk after global condemnation of its treatment of we get muslims beijing has been accused of them turning up to a million we go from prison like detention camps and forcing them to renounce their religion and native language some of them pushed into forced labor with little or no ok china says u.n. officials are welcome to visit the region as long as they respect proper procedures . and the rights of women in iraq have come under the spotlight as more females take on bigger roles in society but activists say there's a long way to go before women are treated equally to men women can report from baghdad. it's been fifteen years but finally the iraqi women's wrestling team is back on the mat. the team like many other sports teams was disbanded after the u.s. led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three but much more than

that it's part of a wave of women taking bigger roles in iraq a society that unfortunately our society does not accept women sports but many iraqi women are defying these restrictions and adamant to bring achievements to iraq by raising its flag by women in international tournaments and it's not just in sports in southern iraq a former ambassador wants to revolutionize the farming industry. she's aiming to grow tomatoes and other vegetables in greenhouses without fertilizers in other words to be completely organic. as a woman i took up the responsibility to cultivate my lens and aim to achieve progress as a female farmer i want to break up the stereotypes and restrictions on women in tribal society and will support the role of female foreigners. rights activists are increasingly hopeful that things are changing for iraqi women but they still feel those in charge are resisting the change they turn to that we are facing and that

women in iraq is that there is no political among the politicians concerning woman but women equality this is one of the nor the hindrance of women progress in iraq women make up twenty five percent of iraq's parliament they come from across the political spectrum and it's in shrine and in law rights activists say that is crucial and they're hoping that women will play an increasingly larger role in iraq iran card. now greece is asking its taxpayers to contribute above what they can buy new warships and it may have to look abroad some money reports from athens. greece is thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of

a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations galligan fairly limitless those i call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still owes the government money. no i won't contribute the country has much bigger priorities than buying weapons we need better salaries better pensions better health care and education all the things that make a country civilized and where greece has fallen behind the european union is

a real union it will help with our defense of complicating matters to former defense ministers in jail for embezzlement one of them for the contracts that upgraded the frigate fleet with greeks overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs that enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this in one thousand the george r ver of ball the name of its benefactor and help greece defeats the ottoman empire. second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered well supposedly one of the reasons for the greek fleet wants to update last week. is the fact that it's now being

called upon to safeguard the easy between greece and cyprus which is an east med very far from where it's used to. becoming for what they call green water navy blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners a constantly helping the armed forces but renewal costs many billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family. friends. when we come back the philippines gets ready for an historic asian cup details with more on that stay with us.

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welcome back now hollywood's foreign press association has handed out this year's golden globe awards talk on the red carpet was diversity on the screen and behind the scenes. the stars showed up on the red carpet in beverly hills as the two thousand and one thousand award season kicked off with hollywood's first major award show the seventy six annual golden globes last year was the beginning of an ongoing with not until everyone was safe for women so the serious times the times today where they're making enough that to double the amount of people from minorities we not have women at the helm within this industry and within every industry and so simple to make sure that we keep the conversation going those conversations included unity in the united states solidarity in the world and equality in the entertainment industry host sandro calling attention to one an

expected blockbuster crazy rich asians made over two hundred million dollars at the box office sad asian moms everywhere. any movie sound like they go over. the civil rights film green book took home three prizes including best picture in the musical and comedy category and best original screenplay. it's got the movie and i want people to see this movie because this movie's united brings people together across product. drinking. new line regina king accepted the award for best supporting actress for if beale street could talk a film based on a novel by civil rights activist and writer james baldwin and directed by barry jenkins i love you with all my heart thank you for your employee thank you for telling stories so rich and thank you for giving us

a film that my son said to me when he saw it that it was the first time he really saw himself with the changes. he said he could b.b.c. series a very english scandal actor ben whishaw used his acceptance speech to applaud the l.g.b. g.q. minority he won the best supporting actor award for his role as norman scott who took on the establishment with a coverage and a defiance that i find completely inspiring he's a true hero an icon and norman this is for you. the golden globes are handed out by the hollywood foreign press association and they're usually indicative of which films will get an oscar nomination bohemian rhapsody. this year's warchild colonnade with the freddie mercury biopic bohemian rhapsody winning best picture in the drama category the full list of winners is on our website paul children on al-jazeera all right time for the sports are is here karen thank you so much and you have wanted test series in australia for the very first

time may also become the first asian side to ever win a series in cricket's longer format there the fourth test in sydney ended in anticlimactic fashion rain but no play was possible on the final day india not having the chance to bowl at australia who were over three hundred runs behind in their follow on with ten wickets left that means they took the series two one a victory that had eluded them since their first tour in australia seventy one years ago. it's obviously a very proud moment more so because. for the last twelve months me understand what we have gone through as a team we understand the kind of cricket that we have been able to play and i was just mentioning the fact that after losing to us as we have been in the competition throughout the games that we have lost. so we understood as a team we were on the right track but the fact that i did it ward has come in the most historic cities for indian cricket is you know

a cherry on top of the cake. earlier we spoke to indian cricket authors. who believe that the police captain seen this crucial for india's historic triumph for a nation most in history this is indeed a historic moment i can i can juggle some figures for you here in the year might in seventy one i did want to go steam did some wonderful cricket in england and west indies and seventy one years later we have been able to conquer australia predictably speaking in terms of cricket we haven't really conquered anyone but it's still the fact that we have had a great big today we could have made it three one in my opinion this is almost like a rewriting history and it was not been easy for indians to do something some great cricket there but the fact that we have been able to do it and very convincingly is great news this victory is extremely sweet because we had

a very poor performance in england and one of the cities was squared up many people had started doubting some of the batsman and bolos who had not performed up to the mark but i think thanks to read out clearly he's a young guy energetic broad and a great player and a great captain was fully charged all back to his firing he pushed the team to a great limit to make it to one and then he almost made it three one if the gods of the skies had not intervened so i think we need to give it to read out and his voice. all two of the favorites to win the asian cup in the u.a.e. begin their campaigns on monday the continent's top ranked team around play their first game later against yemen and d before that south korea face the philippines it's a historic game for the philippines it's their first ever match at the finals their opener against south korea is likely to be their toughest task china in kurdistan

face off shortly being the other teams in group c. and even though the philippines lack major tournament experience they've got a coach with plenty from goran eriksson has taken both england and the ivory coast to the world cup we have. a lot of good football players and. i'm sure of one thing they going out to more of the play is the eleven starting and then two plays coming home they're going out to give could a fight i quite sure about that they are professional proud. they're good they only chargers have advanced to the n.f.l. divisional playoffs they beat host the baltimore ravens twenty three and seventeen on sunday in a wild card game the chargers will now face second seed to new england patriots that will see l.a. quarterback philip rivers face off against tom brady their loss from his walker game shows it's good to keep it going we know you're

a tough task ahead next week because it is too typical of this team this year the way we won we won in so many different ways ugly pretty defensively offers usually tom from behind make a fair go at the buzzer. so many different ways it is a collective team when the day gets a great opponent. the chicago bears have been knocked out of the playoffs by the philadelphia eagles who held on for a sixteen to fifteen went over the host the defending super bowl champions will travel south to face a top seed in new orleans saints next. city founder had their three game winning streak now they were beaten at home by the washington wizards bradley beal scored twenty five points including seven in the third quarter where the with. their damage and thomas came back fifteen points lead the wizards to one hundred and six hundred ninety eight when breaking an eight game on the road losing streak. over in l.a. the clippers had a bit of

a slow start but eventually beat the orlando magic ellie's to bio tobias harris scored twenty eight points to leave the first one hundred and six to ninety six when they now want to eleven consecutive games against orlando. over the first time since the dakar rally switched from africa to south america it will be hosted by one country other countries pulled out because of a lack of budget mariana sanchez reports. their drivers the toughest race in the world with five hundred forty one competitors and three hundred thirty four. traditionally held in africa this year the latin american country of peru is the venue for the forty one year old rally. he says he's made it to the finish line nearly every time now he says he'll need to be very focused. very difficult even though it's a few

a day i think it will be very tough and several of us already know peru and we already know how difficult it is among the competitors one hundred thirty five who don't know what's it like to race in one of them. says he's trained for two years. writing. only have to learn every game in writing together and that's a big big thing. in writing. this one country. special the largest group of women seventeen are racing in various categories and for the first time a young man with down syndrome lucas maron will compete next to his father although not particularly challenging those pilots will. join them in apparel. nearly three thousand people will support

a diverse mix of vehicles along the way others will be their own mechanics because it is such a hard rally for many competitors the objective is not to win but to reach the finish line. we have to encourage the drivers and wish them well. many peruvians are thrilled at the five thousand kilometer race begins and ends in lima with. the way it could be held anywhere but having the race improved wonderful because we have culture traditions and history to show the world. although many critics say the darker ruins the cultural heritage for others the rally is an inspiration. and for crew vians a chance to showcase what their country has to offer and innocent to some to see that. and that's all your sport for now much more coming up later but for now it's back to you dare and farai thank you very much indeed well that's it for

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resolve of a grieving mother who lost a son but adopted a generation. of fighting hoss a witness documentary on al-jazeera. government says it's arrested soldiers who took over the national radio station an acoa time and while the president is abroad. i'm sami's a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. delegation holds told sing china to end the trade wall that threatens the global economy.