al-jazeera selects. there's no one way of telling a story keeping this topic right and to be i suspect it's great to get to know the person for me to. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha everyone on come on santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera that government says it's arrested soldiers who took over the national radio station in an attempted coup also concerned that a main suspect in the murder of jamal khashoggi may be roaming free and influencing the saudi investigation into his killing and the white house has just announced

donald trump will be visiting the u.s. southern border this wage as he pushes for his border wall and in sports a winning start for one of the favorites to lift the asian cup south korea beating the philippines. in their opening three. security forces in doubt on have a rest of the leader of the attempted coup is lieutenant kelly who's been on the run since seizing control of national radio and broadcasting anti-government messages two of the coup plotters have been killed as well in a military offensive the president of. was not in the country at the time the full story now with nicholas hawke. lieutenant calley from the presidential guards burst into the national radio and television center calling for a popular uprising against givens president bungles jinnah's about secret the eight

days a ride from the army has decided to put itself on the side of the paper in order to say. if you are eighteen stop if you have a get to. if you are sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors as want to take control of the street. outside gunshots electricity in the internet are shut down as get any special forces stormed the building in a statement the government spokesman says calm has returned the situation is under control the african union in france which maintains nine hundred troops in the country have condemned the attempted coup president goes in morocco seeking treatment after suffering a stroke last october and his new year's address to the nation he appeared frail a time slurring his words. go took over power in two thousand and nine after the death of his father who had ruled the country for forty one years. during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the bongo dynasty was challenged.

opposition leader jumping to claim victory but the constitutional court ruled in favor of congo in an interview with al jazeera after the court's ruling he said he was accountable to the people i was the candidate of equal chance you know giving really every guy when he has a chance to really make it i'm not the i'm not the candidate you know or to restore privileges and yet high unemployment and a sluggish economy heavily reliant on oil exports have made life more difficult and costly many young people are now calling for change seeing their leader as absent and distant has been a catastrophic. enjoying you know traveling all around all over the would bring the country go down the drain and you know everything is crisis education health care and everything so people want to do something about it. armed vehicles are now patrolling the streets of the capital. but with this latest coup

attempt the bongo dentist he's hold on power seems fragile and uncertain because hawk al jazeera. the thoughts now of valentine who is an analyst for west and central africa with the global consultancy control risks he told us the coup was fuel by president condition during his new year's message you have a president has not been in the country for the past two plus month a president who you know we've seen very few photos and pictures of him and so there's credible allegations as to his health status and is ability to run the country i think the government puts on now has done you know been able to maintain some sort of status quo you know we've seen pictures of the president he was able to deliver his speech on new year's eve and so they're essentially able to keep the status quo and to keep a sense of business as usual but they are you know legitimate questions as to what

his actual health status is which was fueled by his his conditions during his new year's message and just in the long term whether he's actually able to run the country and that is a question that will remain until you know there is tension or proof that he is well and he is able to rule essentially a bit more perspective now with his in johannesburg was in gotbaum not so long ago i mean what do you tell us about when you were there and what sort of feeling you got from the public towards the president at that time. well as you just heard of course continues to be concern around the president's condition and just trues running the country we understand that ministers haven't met appearing this period remains in morocco is recovering from the stroke he had in october last year and so cabaniss people are really looking for some reassurance around what is happening in the country what will happen next and that

the government isn't taxes of course it would appear as if those disaffected by the situation took this opportunity they say to restore democracy this isn't only about the most recent events this goes back to the protests that we saw by opposition members back in twenty sixteen and a reference was made to that incident where at least three people were killed after the elections in twenty sixteen where it was announced early bongo had won and this was despite a difference of just maybe six thousand votes between himself and opposition leader john ping the leaders in this attempted coup made reference to that period saying that this was about the injustices in that period about the attack on the young and this now being an opportunity to restore democracy as they claimed people in gabon very much at least a certain segment of society looking for answers around the president's condition

but also there is a significant call for change this is a dynasty that's been in place for just over fifty years from almost bango now his son ali bongo and people they say that they haven't benefited from this country's riches that the oil revenue brought in doesn't trickle down to people on the ground and while there is a political elite that is seeing the benefits there a significant portion of these people have two million people live in dire poverty . reporter for johannesburg there on the situation thank you. to other news saudi arabia where of course u.s. secretary of state might pay is expected to arrive in the next few days he will be pressing officials there about the murder of jamal. but a new report about one of the suspects accused of killing the saudi journalist is raising concern according to the washington post saudi authorities are refusing to

confirm the whereabouts of the nie in november the kingdom confirmed he was being investigated and forbid him to leave the country there are concerns now that he could be influencing the investigation itself subtle company was a top aides to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman he was fired in october just days after the murder of khashoggi came to light he was among seventeen saudis sanctioned by the u.s. government over the murder and also played a central role in efforts to bring exiled critics like back to the country where we have got a lot of human rights activists with us now from dublin is. to talk about this. does this surprise you to any degree that the saudi narrative seems to be that he is well disappeared and don't know where he is. actually this is what as expected from the saudi regime so we as we noticed

since the beginning go to mount i should say and students there was a constant stream of flies coming out from the saudi government some training from saying he was there to lend out this send us only on employee or us up our talk to go on to where his will and after two weeks when they edited this and said it was so that's all the government had no reason all or any more to to really crack this crime because that's all the courts does. does get this the same sentence or so of the dissidents inside so we have a couple of so it's a bit so what none byline and who are asking for it just some reforms and the government who want. a punished with a capital punishment and some not all of that is now in prison and the government is asking for help that honest man is even if he's not our informer like the

ceremony case and so this is that government way to do it to deal with a different opinion people will ask people who are present they ship. was it was for a year before he was killed until saudi arabia right and a gun so went to kill and to kill him and now are on the run trial they didn't have any personal motive to kill them out they were overcome by the system this is the system ordering them and this is that not all i did at that most circle of bottom up and some not so i see everybody everything is about protecting said. everything's about to take on one hundred and some i was that right but. sorry everything is basically about protecting mohamed bin selman then you don't believe there's any. way any sort of justice with the trials in saudi arabia.

they you i and and the united states both have stated. what is happening as a result of the. claim that saudi arabia said it's just. looking for justice this is not what's happening over there and yes so i guess i was monarchy mohamed bin someone is not part of my government that's what because they messed up things you know he will stay there so there is no reason for the government to say that he is but this is not the issue and they should even though it was under i am with this he is not to any punish them because he's punishing his own and that will let him alone was all or because and saudi arabia you have to notice that this is a small minority that control the people that take the come to. take this all the people as a host so when you hear stories about torturing woman over

a baby sexually harassing them and jails does this represent us all and you don't know so the people are if i think well their rights and they are imprisoned for it but this small circle cannot be a home they are super rich super bowl of course and they really think they are all about bellow inside them so their idea of a whole lot and then wait a bit just not allow it and then it's ok. joining us from dublin there thank you for your time. so here is the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking in west jerusalem this was billed. and this was the israelis saying it themselves some sort of dramatic announcement a special announcement made by the prime minister to coincide with evening news broadcasts there seems to be. and we've seen this from sources at the washington post and various other ones about. benjamin netanyahu hitting back about the

corruption charges against him i'm just reading a quote see i was refused the chance to challenge the state witnesses face to face he's saying the seems to be benjamin netanyahu saying he's basically been treated unfairly by law enforcement in israel so we had heard about this didn't know what it was that seems to be it with us monitoring this speech as it goes on and will speak to. one and in fact we've got harry falls that can stop talking and i can carry forth that in with what else are you hearing. yes just as you were outlining there it does seem to be very much about these corruption probes that are lining up against him the attorney general a high mental blip is due to according to reports to decide whether to indict netanyahu on these three corruption cases next month in february and of course the elections to be held on april the ninth senate has been long arguing that

having an indictment recommendation or a decision from the attorney general which would then require a pretrial hearing report or an indictment hearing rather that that would be unfair in the midst of an election campaign that they could not be resolved before the deciding vote in that election and therefore it could taint that electoral process what we understand he's saying here so far at least in this statement is that as you say he hasn't been given the chance he says to debate his accusers the people who turned state witness against him and he according to one report at least a translation that i've seen is asking for some kind of live t.v. debate against his accusers so if he's saying that the that the process the prosecution process has been politicized against him well it seems that he

wants to try and do submit a sizing of his own to try and defend himself by getting his accusers live on television i'm not sure how much legal weight such a call could carry in israeli law but so far at least we understand what he's been saying ok thanks for that harry force that in west or isn't. now senior officials there's a new round of talks when yemen's warring factions biotech place soon in jordan u.n. envoy martin griffiths before heading to riyadh as he tries to ensure a recent deal reached in sweden is fully implemented more from hashem. peace in yemen won't be easy but the united nations envoy martin griffiths remains confident it will one day become a reality griffith's is triggering the region to ensure all the parties will implement the agreement reached in sweden last month the deal calls for the who are

these to hand over control of yemen's red sea port of her data of the warring factions remain divided over who should step in and run the facility where much of the food aid comes in. the exiled government says it's ready to take over and move dismissed by the who these who don't recognize the government of president opt out of the muscle handy. we hope peace efforts kick off a gratian comes to an end debility prevails in airports reopen. the un wants to bring yemen's rival factions to a new round of talks to discuss ways to improve the economy and tackle the deteriorating humanitarian situation on his arrival martin griffiths was shown children affected by the almost four year old conflict. the war has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes yemen faces

the worst humanitarian catastrophe in warden times according to recent estimates as many as eighty five thousand children may have died of hunger since the start of the saudi u.a.e. led war against the houthi as the deal that was reached in sweden was the first breakthrough since the start of the war in two thousand and fourteen but the deal remains fragile fighting has resumed in some areas and a prisoner exchange is on hold. the internationally recognized government insists the who these must hand over their weapons and put out of the capital sana'a before there is any final peace deal but the whole thieves who control most of the country remain adamant there are humans just a bit leaders. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour forty years after

the fall of the camaro rouge and cambodia struggles to move past the divisions caused by that brutal regime how wave of iraqi women are fighting for their place in society. and in sport strive to peru to find out what lies ahead for competitors at this year's dakar rally. so in the middle of the u.s. government shutdown which for the record is now into a seventeenth day president donald trump is going to be traveling to the u.s. southern border later this week remember after he's been demanding funding for a wall along that border white house spokes woman sarah sundin's announced on twitter that trump will meet those on the front lines of the national security and humanitarian crisis let's check in with kimberly how quiet on this one it shows the president's absolute dog attachment to this war doesn't he has this shutdown goes

on in the focus arguably should be on washington and the people who are out of work there he's heading to the border. it's not just people in washington who are out of work it's people all across the country federal workers some eight hundred thousand affected and you're talking about the record books well as of the end of today this will be the second longest running us partial shutdown in history and by saturday canal it will be the longest so certainly donald trump will have to own that he seems to be digging in his heels making the case as he sends a letter to congress once again asking for five point seven billion in funding this time for a steel barrier previously he had asked for one made of concrete he's also asking for funding for humanitarian needs but. not only is it the president that's digging in his heels democrats also are digging in their heels nancy pelosi has a record saying she believes that a wall

a physical barrier is immoral and so this looks like it is not going to be resolved in the short term as many had hoped or even thought and just compounding all of this is the fact that congress is not even in session today so there doesn't seem to be the sense of urgency on either side or the recognition that people are already starting to feel the impacts of this and it's going to hit families very hard in the united states. told so i want to ask you about the prospect of talks but i think i know the answer because they've been they've been trying and it's just. a brick wall every time isn't it. yeah look at they are talking over the weekend vice president mike pence was talking to aides trying to work this out didn't seem there was any progress made and there will be efforts by the democrats in the house of representatives in particular to try and pass civil piecemeal pieces of legislation to open or reopen sections of the government

republicans already said look at we're not going to do this piecemeal it's all or nothing so we see this sort of case being made by republicans that this is a crisis that's why you see the president in his press secretary sarah sanders announcing that there is this effort to go to the board of this week to try and project this if we pull back from all of this though i have to tell you having watched these fights in washington before in some respects both sides are playing politics and you know depends which side you're on who's playing it more but the fact of the matter is well democrats say that you know a physical barrier is a moral they have in the past proved funding for sections of physical barrier along the border and republicans are being somewhat hypocritical because they say there must be a wall yet they have in the past approved funding for things like drones aerial surveillance the fact is that there's room for both and what we're seeing again with this fight as we see so many times in washington is absolute gridlock because there is a refusal to come to compromise and at this point the wall has simply become

a symbol of that fight and perhaps that's why you see the president going down to making the trip to the wall the southern border we believe on thursday in order to try and win the war using that symbol to make his case ok kimberly how could in washington thank you. the european commission has again said there will be no renegotiation of the brig's that deal that was agreed with britain's government just twelve weeks to go now to lead a u.k. leaves the u.n. commission presidential include negotiations are over british prime minister teresa mayes expected to put the deal to a vote in parliament next week remember should put off a december vote to facing opposition from many m.p.'s in her own policy. we'll be setting out measures which will be specific to northern ireland will be setting out proposals for a greater role for parliament as we move into the next stage of the negotiations and we're continuing to work on further assurances on further undertakings from the

european union in relation to the concern that's been expressed by parliamentarians where my more than one 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 the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities the test involves trucks striving to train the port and a disused airport in kent to see where the traffic flow can be maintained back in two thousand and seventeen dover handle the bout one hundred fifty five billion dollars of trade seventeen percent of the u.k.'s total trade dover handles most imports of fresh food medicines and parts for time sensitive manufacturing things that the auto industry bringing in safety checks something dover has no capacity to do could hugely disrupt the trade in perishable goods more on all of this with jonah. well we're just twelve weeks to go now to march the twenty ninth over there is live contingency planning taking place for the possibility now ever

more realistic of a no deal exit for britain from the european union there is apparent deadlock in parliament tickly over to reason may's bragg's a deal to be voted on in the next ten days or so if it's voted down no deal becomes as i said ever more possible that means customs checks at borders dover port of course main artery way to the continent they would be tailbacks queues of trucks like that forty kilometers along one of britain's busiest highways this is a contingency putting them all in an unused airfield in kent and then feeding them slowly along a secondary route through the kent countryside well there are two phase. so this happening here on monday the first during rush hour this morning and evidence it has to be said of how it's all gone is not good taxi driver i spoke to a short while ago said look there was such gridlock on that two five six in the kent countryside if you lived here and this would have become

a daily occurrence which no deal scenario it quite possibly would he said you'd simply have to move you wouldn't be able to get to work you wouldn't be able to get to screw the american network c.b.s. news broadcast its interview with the egyptian president even requested it not to air. he told sixty minutes there are no political prisoners in egypt and denied any human rights abuses he also said egypt's forces were closely cooperating with the israeli military the full story with diana stroke u.s. television network c.b.s. said the egyptian government demanded it not air an interview with journalist scott pelley it would spell a question egyptian president el-sisi 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 l.c.c. outlawed a lot of. 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 trial a contradiction for rights activists who say many are in prison and face long detentions. pelley also questioned about his government and israel 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 and therefore 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. with more than a billion dollars in us military aid to every year why haven't you wipe them out with them as an up to stuff that went on and why hasn't the us 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 israel 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 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. still ahead on this news are greece's government goes in for crowd funding to keep its navy afloat. we are the champions a film about the british rock group queen wins the top prize of these golden globe

awards. thanks. it's a big celebrations there in sport india's cricket team has won a historic test series in australia. how the rain has been falling of the last few days in afghanistan worthwhile rain but it has caused a few landslides in this bit more to come although i think in the immediate future it is snow in the matches the north of kabul in this fine largely fine back through round but once more a significant storm systems brewed up in the eastern med that darker green hitting the shores of lebanon israel on the up through syria will be substantial rain may he yet again miserable a lot of snow in turkey that's present the high ground northern syria northern iraq

and into iran leaving fine weather behind but not until wednesday and further south the same system producing significant rain through kuwait and shuras in the western side of iran south of that it should be cloud the power for occasional light showers which are a possibility particularly in oman it's just a bit of a breeze in particular in the eastern side is saudi in qatar and bahrain where dust could be a thing once again not much is done the it has to be said significant showers have been showing themselves once again in zambia in zimbabwe to some degree most on beacon certain towns in the air and can you spot the island of madagascar probably not too can fairly wet here after say with occasional big showers further west in devon. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think

that the european commission would be very very glad this was a problem on anybody stanley kids. those people who see every two years something to invest the profit of a one dollar. to the last drop on al-jazeera discover a wealth of old lord winning programming from around the globe. fearless journalist the government will still have less cultural the balance of power is no favor of the. debates and discussion you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the un across the globe powerful documentary. see the world from a different perspective. only on al-jazeera. or

on the news i hear at al-jazeera and these are the top stories security forces and never arrested a leader of an attempted coup the tenant. was on the run ever since season control of national radio and then broadcasting and government messages there are concerns one of the main people accused of the murder of jamal khashoggi might be running free and interfering with the investigation the washington post says saudi authorities are refusing to confirm the whereabouts of saddam than a former advisor to the crown prince muhammad bin salman. and the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths is in saudi arabia as part of an effort to convince both sides in the civil war in yemen. to fully comply with the cease fire agreement . the rights of women in iraq of come under the spotlight as more females take on bigger roles in iraq a society activists are saying is

a long way to go before women are treated equally for encounters been looking at that story in 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 fill those in charge are resisting the change the talent is that we are facing that woman. is that there is no political among the politicians concerning women but suppressed 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 al-jazeera. incumbent prime minister of bangladesh has been sworn in

after winning office for a third consecutive term december's election social seen as he win one hundred ninety five percent of parliamentary seats the opposition accused the government of rigging the result and polls told the vote fosco. but the latest now from dhaka. takes over for time as prime minister of bangladesh she has a new cabinet at least forty seven ministers dep't a minister and state minister a lot of new faces thirty one so to speak a lot of the old gods are gone but a lot of challenges ahead our campaign was on economics she faces very high unemployment and there are issues like garment labor wages that are also way growing. and that's a major challenge for the government and also to tackle the opposition which are demanding a new election however we'll have to see how this new cabinet performs as for the opposition they are right now staying off the street in fear of arrest and

detention and however they are active in the diplomatic front yesterday they had a meeting with thirty diplomats what they say was that presented them with video and documentary evidence of vote rigging and violence we'll see how things process but they have to mobilize in order to make any impact in coming days bangladesh has a dent in its democratic process in this election and they'll be consigned for stability in coming years there are celebrations being held in cambodia to mark forty years since the fall of the brutal comair rouge regime run two million people were killed under their rule so january seventh is known as victory of genocide day or simply nation day scott hunt with us from from power. 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 oatley 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 least says he still kasama has to feed his family and was tortured when he was caught. and i am thankful for what happened and you know others have been it's the end my family from starbase son. but the the the i don't feel that we had the freedom from the floor and we lost that authority to the vietnamese but 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 at one of the infamous killing fields just outside penn. it's already. so it's. very hard even though you want to change but we cannot change so in that it would be.

transformed. 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 on the. congo and i know 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.

forty years ago was a mistake and it was a mistake a cold war so that's why to prevent to have. young state i think so going to be an dignity and independent is a must and it's a cambodian tradition to release birds to shed bad luck as the people here feel lucky the chapter of oppression and genocide is behind them many still are hoping for more more freedom and more opportunity scott either al jazeera phnom penh. greece is asking its taxpayers to contribute above what they owe so it can buy new was shipped and it may have to look approach for the money as well john the story 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 are now 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 crew in one thousand the george ball the name of its benefactor and. greece defeats the ottoman empire a 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 all supposedly one of the reasons of the greek fleet wants to wants to revise upwards

is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling sensually becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners a constantly helping the armed forces but fleet renewal costs many billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family jumpstart opal us from this. couple stories to tell you about out of the united states now first of all one that's been getting a lot of high profile attention tennessee's governor has granted clemency to some toy brown just days before his term in office and now brown was convicted as a teenager for killing a man while she said she was a sex trafficking victim governor bill asked him called brown's has a tragic and complex one human rights activists high profile celebrities they all

appeal to the governor for her release brown will be released on parole in august after having already served if dean years in prison. and also more than a million ex felons are expected to regain their voting rights in florida on tuesday amendment four as it's known was on the ballot during november's midterm elections most two thirds of voters supported the measure and it passed with an overwhelming majority sixty four percent ex felons were previously disenfranchised under state law however those convicted of murder or sexual offenses will still be unable to register to vote it's an interesting story we're going to talk to desmond made about it now president of the florida rights restoration coalition he actually led the campaign to restore wrote about voting rights well i guess congratulations are in order because this is a huge win for you and your supporters how much of a difference do you think could this make to the the makeup of the state the politics all these sorts of things. you know to groups i suppose you so much

for having me on a show and we're going to be looking forward to it very exciting they too are where we're planning on celebrating. we're planning on celebrating love. like we have to be with. politics and i like that. what type of impact it would have well you know when you talk about one point four million returning people who . have. already lived and have paid. you know what they work for most in their minds is not about the politics it's about the issues that impact the policies. of people with which is. what we are so sorry to interrupt you desmond what do you think it passed so overwhelmingly i mean sixty four percent is a pretty strong vote. yes that's a great question because i think what happened on november sixth. deserves

a lot more intense note is getting what we seen on november sixth that we had a five point one million people who voted yes on the minute before and that was a million more people than voted did then vote for any candidate right and we were able to do so in a way that we don't both folks would not vote based on fear it wasn't vote based on faith but rather they were votes that were based on love and forgiveness and redemption and for one brief moment only member six this country got to see it when last did conquer all we did win against fear and if you ate and it showed up at the very powerful way i think we were able to do so because we were able to elevate this issue above partisan politics and and ritualised purity and prices that we were able to to embrace the spirit of humanity in our campaign to breach the spirit

of love and you know they call me a sucker for it but i do believe the love conquers all here's the thing you know the second guest i've spoken to today on this who has said that this has been elevated above partisan politics i don't know that i one hundred percent believe that because and what i'd like you to answer here is who is it really going to benefit politically speaking i know you said this goes beyond politics but surely this would benefit one party having the other. oh fie phil we from the very beginning we said that it didn't matter then not unless it is matter but what we were thinking about was that we wanted to place people over politics or someone but number two i think what we looked at was that people from all walks of life from all political persuasions this impact and so what to call it great the president was not how he was but in fact a party but rather how we can impact the person because what we were talking about here and what we're still talking minor of people whose lives you know well every

day since it's up this state of the country you know people who've made mistakes and or made to suffer at some point you don't even have to pin it and so it really was people over politics and what we're most concerned about was not how someone voted you know we used to say that we were fighting just as hard but that person i wanted to vote for down the truck and that person that was she for the for the for bronco obama who can we believe that every american citizen no matter how they think no matter what their political persuasions may be deserves an opportunity to have their voices heard that is what a more inclusive democracy is all about this man made a pleasure talking to you thanks for taking the time for us pleasure having me on thank you so much. it's a pleasure having you on the hollywood has kicked off this year's award season with the golden globes talk on the red carpet it was about spoiler hearing this a lot diversity and not just on screen. also behind the scenes as. the

stars showed up on the red carpet in beverly hills as the two thousand and one thousand a ward season kicked off with hollywood's first major award show the seventy sixth annual golden globes last year was the beginning of an ongoing with the not until everyone was safe for women so this year's time the times today where they're making an ass that's a 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. many movies sound like they go over. the civil rights bill 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 i thought prada. drinking. new 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 empathy 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. his for he could have the b.b.c. series a very english scandal actor ben wished. and 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 courage and

a defiance that i find completely inspiring he's a true queer 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 awards will karmaloop 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 gian al jazeera just a little update quickly before sport on the u.s. border wall situation donald trump's just tweeted saying he will be addressing the nation on the his words humanitarian and national security crisis on our southern border choose day night so tomorrow at nine pm eastern so an address to the nation on border security from donald trump before he heads down to the border himself all right let's check in sports now here is andy thank you so much come out with a high strength saying that the asian cup of made a winning start to the tournament three time champions iran too strong for yemen in

their group opener this game in abu dhabi finishing. around yemen of the lowest rate side at this year's event they were also making their tournament debut here on the looking good in their efforts to win this title for the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventy six vietnam and iraq are the other teams in this group and they play each other on choose day that's twenty fifteen runners up south korea struggle to overcome the philippines another team making that solomon managed by former england ivory coast and mexico bostonian eriksson the philippines had less than twenty percent possession but still had chances to pull off a huge upset. south korea eventually got the breakthrough they needed in the second half minute with the goal. some young men will join up with the squad for the final group game. where the philippines is just one of the teams to benefit from that form of the expanded from sixteen competing nations to include twenty four

countries fans in the capital nearly getting the chance to see that same compete at this level for the first time. koreas really you know technically they're so good tactically they're so good they're always going to have more possession than us. but we were defended we defended so well we had two really good chances from avi but the and just so close to almost getting a point there also in group c. china came from a goal down to be take a stand the third seen in action this month in my two asian cup debut kurdistan keeper have a matthew had a date so if it gets in our eye he scored an own goal with a chinese equaliser and another misjudgement right down it's a great scene when shaun asked improve on my runs to the quarterfinals four years ago. in less than an hour's time premier league leaders liverpool take on walls in the third round of the f.a. cup liverpool manager you can cop has made nine changes to his line up for this guy

when people talk to me about civil way it always looks like we have to get each little thing if people going there for a couple would still say if you didn't win the premier league for five one of the twenty five years so that i would just and we cannot change what other people think and stuff like that we have to try our best every game we play and so far not only this is most special use and that's what the boys did. competitors of the corolla taking on one of the toughest courses in the history of the race the route will take drivers and riders through the peruvian desert and this year there's little restaurants in the way of mountains mud or trunks more than three hundred cars and trucks bikes and courts will aim to complete the five thousand kilometer course over the next ten days let's turn now to our correspondent marianna sun shows he's following the race for was marianna the competitors now on their way what sort of a challenge of a facing. will and the their competitors have already

reached the first point of this ten stage rally it's about three hundred thirty kilometers south of you mind the area of the school they have grown from the highway to the desert but the real difficult part of this really starts on tuesday when the competitors will be starting and all desert area and all those are two groups if you will what the. what the organizers of this rally tell us is that seventy percent of this rally will be is sand sand beaches very soft sand beaches sandy dunes usually the dakar is nine thousand kilometers now it will be five thousand only three thousand will be timed and it will be a short term shorter distance because what they say is that these these sandy beaches will be very hard and this will be a very challenging car and marianna you've been talking to

a lot of the people taking part there how important is experience in achieving success at this race. it is important you have a very experienced people from capital gains you know the spanish a winner of the dakar last year or two from qatar you have the french who have been competing for many many competitions in many that they have won many doctors but you also have one hundred thirty five ruki seen this in this competition people who are running for the first time people who are already making history like a look us about her own a young man who has down syndrome a woman twenty four year old genoa a lot of the who even have to gain weight to be able to carry her motorcycle however all of these picture the rally organizers tell us that it doesn't matter they have to be physically fit they have to be psychologically fit and all of them

no matter the experience they have will have to rely a lot on the navigational instruments to make it to the finish line. and marianna the route goes close to many archaeological sites how are they being protected. yes they're through is flooded with archaeological sites and a lot of these sites are on the way of the dakar they have the ministry of culture and the dakar organization has mapped out these forty four sites that have been put out of limits of limits and the route has been signed away from these sites however what many experts tell us is that the real danger to the archaeological sites is the people who come along the dock or who sometimes don't respect those areas so they have to be really vigilant and watch to protect this areas but however the ministry of culture has deployed park rangers and an archaeologist to be able to

watch throughout the route who are on a sunday shows so joining us there from the dakar rally improved thank you so much for that mariano. now india's cricketers are celebrating a famous victory vera kohli's team have won at says series in australia for the very first time the fourth test in sydney finished in a draw but meant india so the series two one no australians got a century during the series while india managed five is an achievement this eluded india since the first hole to australia seven years ago. i mean it seemed came to share their fans that got all the moves off the field as well the national team is failed in eleven previous attempts to win a series in australia this win underlining best status as the world's number one seed. we understood as a team we are on the right track but the fact that they do ward has come in the most historic cities for indian cricket is you know a cherry on top of the cake and something that as i said in the ten years that i've

played is the proudest moment that i've experienced and it was so happy for the whole team because the young bunch of guys in to have that belief and to keep striving for excellence on a daily basis and to get a reward like this. we definitely have to be happy that their suppliers stood up in in the big moments or when our falling on in a guy one of the good guys drag them back into the contest or when they are in front they good pliers put the foot on us and took us out of the game like they did here in melbourne sydney moments. but we can learn a lot from the why they went about it we're going to make sure we do and the l.a. charges have advanced to the n.f.l.'s divisional playoffs they beat the baltimore ravens twenty three to seventeen in a wild card game the chargers will now face the second seeds the new england patriots the philadelphia eagles they also made it through their wild card game they beat the chicago bears by a single points. ok that is how your sport is looking for now the law of late thank

you for that andy and that's the news hour from the team here and staying with us there is more news coming up from the new center in london with barbara starr and a team in just a few. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad was probably on anybody is the only

field. goals people who seem ever to do something to divest the profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness but it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow putin's example but how do you measure it many brits anees happiness is what we ensure it if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. when a french soldier was murdered in the so-called terrorist attacks. his mother returned . with love. speaking out against intolerance and

alienation she travels the world with the resolve of a grieving mother who lost a son but it don't do the generation. latifa of fighting. a witness documentary on al-jazeera. a military coup attempt fails in the ball and to suspect that plot has killed and five captured. hello this is al jazeera live from london also coming up president trump is to address the nation and visit the border with mexico as he digs in over funding for his war britain's government begins.