on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most embarrassing a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live for i am martin that is coming up in the next sixty minutes but we will of t.l.c.'s still waiting to hear who will be the next president is election officials take hours to announce less important provincial results. crisis in the capital president trump storms out of a meeting with the democrats and the government shutdown continues. a wrecked

economy and millions of fled to venezuela prepares for president with daughters second six years. as a shooting star from the asian cup a touch of class by turkmenistan's captain raffles a tournament favorite. but first election officials in the democratic republic of congo started to announce the results from last month's elections but they started with the more than seven hundred local parliamentary results apparently leaving the most contentious the presidential votes until the end now the announcement of the winners of these local races started hours ago is not known when they'll get to the result that the country is most eagerly awaiting who will take over from joseph kabila in anticipation of unrest once that result is announced riot police with water cannon have been positioned on the. the capital kinshasa they've been several delays

already and they've been many complaints about the conduct of these elections let's go live now to our correspondent her so she is there in kinshasa we can see these election results or be wheeled out is taking al was the people of d.l.c. of the losing patience. well they just finished announcing that out of the legislature there were more than seven hundred names so took a while they have started the presidential. information coming in but i'm hearing that the opposition leader has the kitty is the one who looks like he's the one in terms of the provincial presidential result i can hear some people cheering inside and can confirm he actually has won the getty from the opposition iraqi people inside are cheering his supporters and are we waiting of course to get more details on how many actual votes he got into the presidential grandchildren today but it

seems the ruling party candidate emmanuel diary did not win and i'm hearing that. the opposition leader has won the election in terms of the provisional results one hundred ride ok you're saying provisional results how i mean how credible is that i mean is this the is this likely to be the final vote the felix the the leader of the largest coalition opposition coalition is actually the winner. i'm afraid we seem to have lost. communications with we've lost communications with her but what harris seem to be saying is that the provisional results from the presidential election india c seems to be favoring felix just a kennedy now that would be an extraordinary turnaround. let's speak to kembali massive early he's a spokesman for the friends of congo he's joining us from the united states from

north carolina via skype first of all your reaction is a provisional result but it seems to be pointing in favor of felix just a cat is being the winner in this kind of surprise. if they should bury id science is a new beginning we still have to wait to see what will come out from people context the results and hope that the process is going to be much lot a keener than the electoral process so that we don't i end up in a situation that surprising because people don't feel represented in the result they're just being released now it is quite a shock for everyone about it is that you beginning so let's wait to see what will happen we've called challenger and the final are countable right ok member that we have wealthy people not still counted right yes and this is this is a provisional result apparently how confident are you

that the result is a credible one given the numbers of number of complaints about the conduct of the poll and about the rather serious irregularities that were reported by many. indeed i mean it is a nice time as we are discussing the sign from russia that's coming on real time as we look at it much closer who just will be able to dissent or if those results are credible but as we discussed there lection are a naive and the result the fact that the chosen candidate from the cure and regime can be united in that will is a small victory but the goal is people can claim for the past two years defeat and the numbers in the streets they were able to push the court as government to organize elections now with these results now people have to try to readjust and figure out is it really look we know there are now what about those who didn't but

lot and can the people at the end of this electoral process actually trust the result that there will be determinant factor are if people will heed to street in demonstration for their voice to be heard or that we use it as a new beginning for the r.c. for better life for many police all right thank you for that kembali thank you for that we're going to go back to concerts and now. i'm afraid we're not going to get that concession with lost connection with our correspondent there but nonetheless give me an idea then of what your thoughts saw of the presidency being led by fittest as a caddy of course perhaps not mess famously known for his father etienne tshisekedi who was a veteran opposition leader. yes it is a i mean it is a very complex. politician in the r.c.c. because one of his background that he's pretty much as be cut the built into the

political scene because of the name of his father there isn't much to go on about these talents expertise in leading the country is being surrounded by some people who are considered to be ws like the documentary lucy actually you know how will you lead the country if that's the but a result of the people accept that but as far as i'm concerned looking at him i'm very surprised that isn't a leader there were already rumors during the day of the meeting that he had. twenty four hours ago we could be in a regime that speculation and i do not believe that actually this flap and but as he's now being declared the winner as i said the fight is not over people we'll i'm pretty confident people will actually challenge those results because the numbers does not reflect that he can win the elections there at least. in day because of

course at the end of in the run up in the run up to the elections of course martin five was polling a mess strongly of all the opposition candidates and of course he was the one who seemingly was prevented from from campaigning in so many places. exactly and that's that's the sheer that actually out of my will the people trust the results if there is a context a contest of the results on that a lot of course did have higher polling being that we now do than actions but you know let us wait to see that struck continue to emphasize while the result may sound complex how did this happen. we had challenges in elections around the world as well but for the our seat because of the importance of this election because of the many communities where we lost their lives to see this selection because the fact that we could be like did not want to leave power you want to extend this

power beyond these two days ago she term limits this is a small victory that really should plan while we still have the electorate challenge challenge of finding out if this is actually true the true results of the elections right as we congress what will actually goes on the ground we wait to see what value will do all other opposition in the windy to make sure that the force of the committees to police the art all right kembali thank you for that thank you very much we are now i'm told able to go back to kinshasa and speak to her in the tosser our correspondent there harry quite a surprise then if indeed these provisional results a bone out when they say provisional what do we mean i mean at what stage do they become official results from the election for the president india the beyond missing the analysts and the five hundred that on the phone call have done anything with

a little light in the heart of the hotel from in fact that really made. we don't seem to be having very much dr to do with her image but again this is breaking news quite a surprising result provisional result it would appear that felix she's a kennedy and his coalition has won the presidential poll in the democratic republic of congo camberley most certainly is still with us thank goodness thank you for holding on can barley so that we can run all these ideas by you because of course you alluded to a rumor that was sweeping around earlier in the week and that was the possibility the finishes of katie and his coalition or about to cut a deal with it could be because nobody is completely confident that it could be that is prepared to step down he might step aside but some say that he wants to retain his position of power and he might be able to do that using katie what do

you think of that as a theory. those are speculation i can throughout the week with the results i'm sure many more people will rehash this discussion but what made it even much more obvious wars are some of the information that's pretty sick of himself. provided to the media where he will they said things such as the president can be. someone who's not finally giving up power will think about how to make him in m.s.n. or in the cold war he has a role to play to the future of the congo but the reality of our community being powerless not just that you will out of political life after he leaves many colleagues a wedding that he does not have presidential unity so it will be travel to crimes that the stimulus and for some of the ill gotten gains that he has had some published on the financial times and that list yes but let these are allegations of

course the president could be in a very mentally denies what do you make of the fact that the catholic church the catholic church which as we know is very influential with india say they announced that they knew who the winner walls they they were not allowed to actually declare the name of the winner but it is reported that has been reported that they considered martin say you and to have been the winner of the presidential election in deal see what happens now. see what the church will do i do believe that for those who will know the results particularly central. led by the catholic church if the results that their share of names for and diplomats we should be in the made public to the population despise suite if it's not the result that's been announced ice clear that that would demands for the true result to be there to be presented not only damn. lay leaders also put out a statement yesterday around the result that would be published and that less that

many is also if that's not the result that's the reflect actually look people fought for a free and fair elections with the result that reflect their will they will mobilize the population so this announcement of the recent results is only a beginning of a larger process and that's what we'll see the mill the opposition leader definitely done and assess that we are going to challenge the results we'll look at the church mobilize all those things to be seen as the as i mentioned earlier on of this is happening right live right and you see the response of the discussion already kembali thank you so much for that now i am told that we can at least hear from a. correspondent is in concessive he's going to join us on the line hiring a give us more detail than about this preliminary result that has been released by the election with our it isn't going to. well it's an official faith and if you

take eighty one about seventy million of the second like modify you know another opposition leader he got six million and the ruling party candidates in magnus adare got four million about they say that it while it is a business where they pretty much saw that this will be the final thing that anyone read that is here with this result can go to court and challenge the result. what i'm seeing on the streets of phoenix just just outside of you that your commission supporters affiliates that kids are coming onto the street singing dancing south celebrating soldiers as riot police are deploying to various parts of the city the scene in the process i think when i was just trying to control the. suppose if they come onto the street in a few minutes time it came as a surprise this is a lot of people who didn't have much faith in the electrical mission really thought

that the ruling party candidate. backed by president joseph kabila would win this he obviously didn't the opposition leader did and a lot of people a mixture of surprise but those who do support an ecstatic as i said though the coming on the street patting zillah brakes mounting and i suppose critical to this entire process will be how martin for you lose the main opposition leader how he responds to the news the finishes because you have apparently won. exactly that is going to be key is he going to fifth is he going to maybe try to work with she's a kennedy who knows that we know that in the in the next few hours he was meant to have a press conference to find out more about his plan they can just see like the katie does have a point so i think to see in the next coming days a lot more celebration that opposition protests to his win in other parts the country for example baby like

a tonka region you might get people they who maybe support martin are you different they may feel they felt cheated they may want to maybe protest opposing what to come out of the electoral results but again the next few hours will be telling the key thing of course is i mean actually what is the ruling party going to do are they going to accept that joseph kabila is still the president and so will his a katie is sworn in and this the court change that result so the key thing of course is is he going to accept the fact that his bank. is he going to go gradually katie what is the way for still for a lot of things up in the air right now but for now the it is the response we seeing on the glass front just getting support has is jubilation and celebration watching her in the tough thank you very much. right will keep you right up to date with developments in the congolese capital i'm beyond of course is a vast country but news as it filters out the man feeling she's

a cathy and his largest opposition coalition have won the presidential election in democratic republic of congo to keep the right up to date with reaction to that news. now at least three people have been killed in more anti-government demonstrations in sudan protests as are angry about rising food prices as well as the unstable economy they want president omar al bashir to step down but he remains defiant as a correspondent in the capital. was that. for three weeks now this has been the scene in many parts of sudan people coming out to protest against president all metal bashir is twenty nine year rule and demanding that he step down was the one targeted whether we are under a dictatorship for thirty years they have used religion to stand power now is the right time for people to come out and protest you can see them firing tear gas you

could even be a weird agent we citizens just want our rights to eat and drink and live with dignity like anyone else in the world. on wednesday thousands came out once again to protest in amman as they attempted to make their with the latest latest employee to hand the memo demanding that the president resign was was the police responded using tear gas was an live ammunition to disperse the crowd. as seen different than the one in the capital khartoum where the first pro-government rally was held since protests began in mid december president bashir addressed his supporters blaming the protest on what he described as external forces that you know. we are all together hand in hand joining forces to maintain stability however some are adopting foreign agendas being operated by outside forces in a mes to the saddam however we reiterate those who are seeking power they are welcome however there is only one route to grab power it is the ballot box it is

only through transparent free elections and it's up to you the sudanese people to decide but elections are more than a year away and those protesting say they want him to step down sooner rather than later one thing it's done is in a way a reflection of the state of the nation he must. against the government on one side demanding president obama to bush years that down and a pro-government rally on the other with the president and his supporters defiant in the face of those protests i read scripts say forty people have been killed in anti-government protests the government puts the figure at nineteen with protesters echoing slogans from the arab spring the revolutions that toppled governments in neighboring countries some analysts say the current state of the country could last for some time so some reader has a little bit of his sudan you know this will continue for a while until the government finds an economic and political solution because it's not just the economy of that has driven people to protest the government has to offer some compromise or the demonstrations will continue. and never in his twenty

nine year rule have protest against him lasted for this long president bashir may be determined to stay in power i think these protesters see him just as determined to see him go he will morgan al-jazeera tom. we've got a lot of common this al-jazeera news hour including right. the british parliament sassy basing trees amaze breck said deal with the make or break vote sheffield for next week. and a significant beat in the investigation to state sponsored drug use by russian athletes peta will have their developments later in school. the president has walked out of a meeting with the democrats after they again refused to fund a border war with mexico the standoff has seen the government in a partial shutdown now for two and a half weeks mike hanna has more from washington d.c.

. the bill is passed another spending bill is passed in the house significantly ake republicans break ranks and vote to the democrat majority but there's little possibility this legislation will go to the senate the republican leader there insistent he will not allow the passage of any bill that does not have the approval of the president who continues to insist he will veto any measure that does not include funding for the border wall you can never have border security or less you have a steel barrier a concrete floor whatever you want but without it you will never have you can have the greatest challenge in the world you will never ever in a million years you will not have more secure care that the majority of federal employees who will not be paid this week would appear to disagree some being urged to speak out by democrats we are the faces behind this shutdown we are the real people who work in the bureau of prisons and the transportation security

administration and other federal agencies today doing so without federal pay. democrat leaders went to the white house for another round of talks but the meeting ended in failure when the president abruptly walked out then sending out this tweet in reference to democrat leaders of senate and house just left a meeting with chuck and nancy a total waste of time he says i asked what's going to happen in thirty days if i quickly opened things up are you going to approve border security which includes a wall all steel beriah nancy said no i said bye bye nothing else works it's cold out here and the temperature wasn't much warmer in the situation room again we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way and he just walked out of the meeting the vice president asserted that was the democrats who were blocking reopening the government not president trump yes speaker pelosi that if he opened

things up quickly if we reopen the government quickly would she be willing to agree to funding for a wall or a barrier on the southern border and when she said no the president said good bye. earlier the president walked up to the hill for a meeting with the republican caucus and deny that was any division within the party the democrats have lost support there is tremendous republican support unwavering as you probably know thank you very much but the republicans who wavered and voted with democrats in the house sent a different signal that this standoff is no longer one on purely partisan lines or let's go live now to mike a mike understand that the president is due to go to the border himself later today that says say what exactly does he had to achieve with this trip. well this would appear to be yet another move by president trump to try and get the attention and the support of the american people for his position on that border wall he had

a nationally televised address tuesday night this yet another move it would appear some p.r. stunt essentially to get the attention of the american people one of his assistants saying he will use that big megaphone to pass on the message that the country needs a wall on the southern border so certainly that will be one of the reasons why he was there he is significantly taking along the top white house counsel that supply loney who's the constitutional expert in the white house and he is likely to be advising the president on the legality of his various options one of which president trump continues to maintain could be the declaration of a national state of emergency but it is interesting as well to point out that one person who will not be with president trump during the visit is the republican house representative for that particular area will hurt in fact is in the house and

has just voted with the democrats to reopen government supporting them in the funding bill one of the republicans repudiating president trump indicating the possibility of a split wide a split within the republican party mike hanna live in washington thank you now jazeera has learned that texas prosecutor is working on a list of saudi suspects accused of murdering jamal khashoggi and that indicates that a trial in an censure is likely to take place in the country where he was killed just a few days ago in saudi arabia an ounce it's own trial for eleven suspects that they didn't name thursday marks one hundred days since the german this murder. still to come here on the news hour find out why prosecutors are calling for the alleged female victims of a popular us sing out on kelly to come forward. oh you got it thank

you. i'm again serving up a treat for roger federer at the fab we'll have the details coming up in smoke. from a long flowing i mean when it's to an enchanting desert breeze. how that streak of i have to season rain has come up really for me and stretched up towards shanghai's there visible on satellite picture is cloud stretching slowly sas now it is dying out of the forecast point views to exists from union right up towards shanghai but avoids hong kong the snow in the northern quarter it's sporadic right now but it's really should be there in january a tool but it clearly is and the snow is going to be noticeable just outside one hand where the kodak starts to tuck in hong kong all this time steady twenty three the winds turning in so i think it might be cloudy rather than sunny there's

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have a look at the top stories here of the. election officials in the democratic republic of congo have declared the opposition leader felix. the winner of the presidential race. a bracing for possible protests in response to the election results. sudan's president is vying to same power as protests continue in the country omar al bashir held a rally with his supporters only when say at least nineteen people have died in anti-government protests which began over the rising price of bread. president trumbull's walked out of a meeting with the democrats after they again refused to fund a border war with mexico the standoff has seen the government jim a partial shutdown for two and a half weeks. forty years is the united states and china formally

normalize diplomatic relations but now that relationship between the two countries has become fractious the late seventy's agreement between u.s. president jimmy carter and the then chinese leader dung shopping. brought about decades of peace stability and prosperity i'm all china's she junk paying and u.s. president donald trump of knowledge a historic milestone in relations between the two nations certainly aren't what they were a decade ago we can go live now to katrina you who's in beijing for a sense katrina it all started off rather whirl didn't it between president she and donald trump they were really good friends but it very quickly turned sour. that's right well if you look further back actually when when donald trump was doing his presidential campaign actually it was very poor the prospects for

president for donald trump the china was a very easy target he even at one point accused china of raping the u.s. with unfair trade policies but then as you said he came to power and we saw what was kind of like a honeymoon period between president xi jinping and president donald trump in two thousand and seventeen president xi visited donald trump and he also came to beijing and they were lauding the strength of the relationship donald trump repeatedly said how much he admired president xi jinping and how determined he was to work together with him to strengthen this very important relationship but that unfortunately was the high point of their relationship because eventually donald trump did come through on his promise to really pursue this issue of trade with the u.s. with china sorry and we have ended in this very ongoing escalated tense trade war that we're seeing now indeed it didn't the bromance if you like was rocks wasn't it

in the first senses by accusations the president trump was making against the chinese with regard to the the the in this of their policy towards north korea so he didn't like that duty but that it very quickly turned to masses of trade and now they seem locked in this kind of tit for tat battle of tyrus which must be alarming the chinese given that there are so many warnings about the slowdown affecting their economy. absolutely i mean it's certainly something that's exacerbating the flow down of the chinese economy is a real concern for china and this week we just saw the end of trade talks between washington and beijing there was a washington delegation here this week and this morning china's commerce ministry released a statement saying that those talks were deep and extensive and laid the groundwork for some real resolutions but it was very light on detail this these talks spilled

into a third day instead of the expected two days and that was seen or interpreted quite positively and we saw yesterday the u.s. trade office trade representative office released a statement saying that during these talks china agreed to purchasing more u.s. agricultural products more manufacturing products and services but we didn't hear any word on the thornier issues that the u.s. is complaining about in terms of forced technology transfer concerns over the protection of intellectual property etc but we do have to remember that these talks are fairly low level the first time that china and the u.s. met on these issues since the meeting of president xi jinping in donald trump last year in one of zara's where they decided on the ninety day trade true so it could be laying the foundation for high level talks and we could see china's top economic negotiator you know her head to washington himself over the next few weeks on this all right from katrina you beijing thank you. now venezuela's president is due to

be sworn into office for a second six year term and there's a nicolas maduro has warned it could take diplomatic measures against any latin american nation which doesn't recognize his leadership last week a regional group including brazil argentina and colombia declared his second term illegitimate the forty member lima group said last year's election was neither free nor fair thanks martha. follower of another that washington a coup ordered by washington and the lima group is underway against the legitimate and constitutional government over which i preside and i say to you the venezuelan people will know how to respond to any attempt any action they intend for today tomorrow or whenever they intend it the ball of aryan revolution has been getting prepared to confront and mort any traitors who intend violence against venezuela. more now from our correspondent today is a bow who's in caracas. everything is ready here in cuttack us for this swearing

ceremony of nicola mother would show some differing dignitaries have arrived here to the venezuelan capital and the place where this is going to happen is something there have shock to many here in this country the constitution says that the swearing ceremony should take place at the national assembly well this is not going to happen because the national assembly is considered to be in contempt and that's not recognized by the venezuelan government so this is going to be happening at the supreme court's finish is going through an enormous political and economic crisis when you go around the venezuelan kept there's long lines of people lining up to get some of their basic supplies some staple food among other things hyperinflation expected to be over one million percent the prices of things are changing by the hour over three million people have left this country escaping the economic crises earlier this wednesday president calamita gave

a press conference where he accused the united states of trying to overthrow him and said that any attempts to get him out of office will not succeed the opposition as it stands right now is that most the position leaders have either been detained or they have been persecuted or left the country accused of treason and plotting against the government so now they're focusing on the national assembly and assembly that they controlled but that is not recognized by the government they are saying that they won't recognize the governments of nicolas maduro and are planning a transition about what will happen in venezuela if nicolas modo where to leave office of course the precedents and several members of his cabinet have said that if they continue through this past the national assembly could be shut down the british prime minister terry's amazing deal has suffered a second setback in as many days column and has given to just three days to come up with a new play. and for the u.k.'s departure from the european union if the deal is rejected

by m.p.'s they started debating the deal before a vote next week lawrence e reports from london. outside parliament's everyone's getting ready for what's supposed to be the endgame parliament will vote next week on whether to accept the deal thrashed out on the u.k. leaving the european union breck's is a sub told the life out of the air waves some months and people are sick to death of its unfortunately though it doesn't look like the end is insights. inside the mother of parliaments the debate song where the u.k. should go are beginning again among the six hundred fifty m.p.'s at least five different groupings arguing for different outcomes and there is no sign it's all of any one shifting position so if her deal is defeated next week as i hope and expect it will will the prime minister do the right thing and let the people have

a real say and call a general election. you. know we put it good deal on the table that protects jobs and security but i notice i notice. that we still don't know what brett's a plan the right honorable gentleman. it's supposed to be decision time the european union's bored to death with all this yet is total gridlock as things stand at the moment parliament has decided that it doesn't want to leave the european union with no deal but apparently it doesn't like the prime minister's deal either nor can it present any sort of alternative strategy for what to do instead what it means is that if you ask any politician here or any of the journalists camped out here no one has the first clue what's going to happen next. lends to the theory that ideas currently being ruled out may end up having to be accepted at the very

least suspending the process of leaving everything is up and everything's implausible so when you have a series of implausible outcomes one thing that is currently implausible will necessarily become the reality so even though the general election card experience likely that could happen even those that the referendum looks unlikely that it happened i don't assert that is the most parts cool thing to do because palm of his dead lot that makes sense to give about the people. on. the ice to the right three hundred eight the debate itself was preceded by the government gets a game losing the vote this time demanding that the prime minister say within three days what her plan b. is if she loses her vote next week the oh you have it the guys have it gradually parliament is exerting control over a dysfunctional government the problem remains that parliament doesn't know what it wants only lawrence li al jazeera you know. a leading figure in egypt's twenty eleven revolution has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison following

a retrial with duma was also fined three hundred forty five thousand dollars for inciting violence during protests that forced hosni mubarak out of office at his first trial in twenty fifteen duma received a life sentence along with two hundred twenty nine others who were convicted in absentia. the u.s. secretary of state has promised to ensure kurdish fighters are protected when u.s. troops withdraw from syria might compare made the comments during an unannounced visit to iraq where he met leaders in baghdad as well as in the kurdish regional capital bill pompei is on an eight states tour of the middle east is trying to reassure allies about president trump's plans to pull out of syria turkey has repeatedly vowed to crush kurdish y p g feiss which it considers a terrorist group. saudi arabia plans to lower its oil exports this month and is promising even further cuts in the near future saudi's energy minister made the

announcement when say the kingdom plans to cut its oil exports by eight hundred thousand barrels a day in january and by one hundred thousand in february saudi arabia is the world's top crude supplier the move is meant to restore its market share after a fall in oil prices. now for decades women and young girls have accused up to the u.s. singer kenny of sexual abuse kelly was acquitted of child pornography charges in two thousand and eight but now a new documentary highlighting the stories of his alleged victims is drawing the attention of prosecutor says john hendren reports from chicago. to me too movement might have finally caught up with one of the world's most legendary r. and b. singers. over. two decades rumors of swirled about r.

kelly's entourage said to be made up in part of young women in under-age girls who attend recording sessions held in this studio and at another in atlanta now prosecutors in both cities are asking for help their recent allegations against entertainer r. kelly and the recent lifetime dr who series are deeply deeply disturbing cook county prosecutor kym fox says she's been in contact with the chicago police department in families who say kelley abused their girls but she says she needs the victims to help pursue charges against the fifty two year old singer that enough was enough. to come forward there is nothing that can be done to investigate these allegations without the cooperation of both victims and witnesses we cannot seek justice without you the probes were spurred by a series of allegations compiled in a documentary called surviving r. kelly broadcast in the u.s.

last week. as. the six part documentary explores the cult like following of r. kelly and allegations of physical sexual and emotional abuse of young women and underage girls by the singer in one nine hundred ninety four his illegal marriage to then fifteen year old singer aaliyah was an old. it's a theme kelly leads to in his music. this is one of the studios where our kelly is alleged to have held women in a sex cult his representatives say that any women who lived with him did so voluntarily he has denied allegations of abuse but he hasn't spoken out since the documentary came out on january third now prosecutors hope to get him to do just that under oath. protesters with a group called mute or kelly gathered outside studio on wednesday. i discussed

it as a black woman fight for those girls and said they returned to their parents some observers say there are reasons out like asians that go back decades have drawn little scrutiny until now. there are certainly some responsibility on his family is primarily. black folks. and so we weren't ok with it. disappeared a long time ago. whether held responsible depends on whether the alleged victims prosecutors are seeking respond to their calls and what they have to say john hendren zero. and one of the world's most famous comic book characters was first published ninety years ago generations of young readers around the world have followed tintin's international escapades but some anti-racism campaigners say the

book's a filled with offensive racial stereotypes and reports from belgium. with his distinctive hairstyle and fluffy dog tintin is one of the world's most recognizable comic book characters belgian artist l.j. created the intrepid young reporter whose adventures were first published in one thousand nine hundred twenty nine ninety years on he continues to install fans and at the l.j. museum in belgium anniversary preparations are underway. tintin is an invisible link between children across the world the books have been translated into two hundred languages and two hundred million books have been sold his character continues to fascinate people. tintin solves mysteries across the world from china to north america and even further afield ninety years after his creationism tao the temptation is still very popular but in recent years some of the stories have become controversial with some readers saying they propagate

racial stereotypes like this one tintin in congo. when this was created congo was a belgian colony the story reflects a colonial vision of africa congolese people often sketched a savage is stupid or lazy tintin is portrayed as the intellectual and cultural superior this author says that l.j. wasn't racist but simply drew on the colonial materials available at the time he's published a book that puts tintin in congo in what he calls historical context. and what was created in one thousand days values is artificial of course there are things that we. cannot just throw it away in the dustbin of history. for more than a decade this activist has waged a legal battle in belgium to have the book banned he says it's offensive and could negatively influence the way children view africans i know this book was

a tool to motivate belgians to go to congo it gave them a sense of superiority so how can a book that serve to commit crimes be accepted in this way without any discussion of books like tintin in congo on acceptable and should be banned for children. gained independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty for some campaign nation has yet to face the brutal reality of its. they say that assessing the impact of. would be a small but significant step. all

right as promised it's time for this point see is now with peter. thank you very much one of the powerhouses at football's asian cup japan have come from behind to beat a team ranked one hundred twenty seventh in the world and it was a stunning strike from turkmenistan's captain that pretty soon in france up to twenty seven minutes past one more after a man off with an early favorite for goal of the tournament in the united arab emirates japan didn't hit back ten minutes into the second half you all suck or the first of these two goals of the full time champion struck three times in fifteen minutes but the miners weren't finished a goal from the penalty spot ensuring japan battled till the end for greece to win

in abu dhabi. we had to win the money more talking i think we may have overdone our brand of beautiful football in the first time we couldn't put pressure on the opponent in the second half we were able to fix this and school goals i think will be better if we mix both beautiful and basically put it all together. it was a surprising result for us we knew the japanese team were good in position but i would like to say well done to my players because they did their best but players lost their concentration in the second half so we have to reflect on that point back east on our second in the group behind japan on goal difference off the pace for tussle with a man with the scores locked at one all algo shot modeled off struck in the eighty sixth minute soon after coming on as a substitute but that wasn't the end of the drama in sharjah was based on clinging on in stoppage time after eagle cremates was saying so for a deliberate foul on oman's goal by mohamed al gus sonnie

a man were left ruing first chance. i think they deserve the points that's just the asian cup this is international football that's what exactly what i said i thought my players also if you play so good you deserve at least the point you have to reward yourself you made it very difficult because we all know that japan is probably the best team in asia i've heard turkmenistan did fairly well also so we have a tough. tough games to go and has been a bright start for cuts on pool play but the twenty twenty two world cup hosts didn't know that easy against lebannon they thought they'd struck first in the referee disallowing the goal offer a foul in the penalty box after breaking the deadlock with the second half goals including a free kick from some. and there's another dispute over the screening of live matches from the asian cup qatar based be in as broadcasting rights for the tournament but reuters is reporting the

asian football federation has filed a lawsuit against saudi arabia's be out here for illegally airing games broadcast fee for world cup matches last year without having the rights on tuesday being announced it was holding its t.v. service in egypt egypt and saudi are among four countries that imposed a blockade on carter eighteen months ago. meanwhile cats are themselves busy getting ready to host the world cup in twenty twenty two the debate over whether the tournament will expand to forty eight teams doesn't seem to be going away because organizing officials say nothing is certain at this stage we have agreed with before that we will take a look at the feasibility study and until the feasibility is ready we will we will consider that. you know the agreement is for thirty two team world cup based here in qatar we're open for them for reading the feasibility of looking at it under stress and with fever but at the end the decision will be between ourselves

unilateral decision. is calling for a speedy into the case concerning a bahraini footballer who is in prison in thailand how came he is being detained while he awaits deportation to resume country where he was previously convicted of a criminal offense he has pleaded his innocence. professionally in australia and has refugee status in that country faith is calling on tire facials to allow to return to australia. now a significant step in the investigation into accusations of state sponsored drug cheating by russian athletes russia's anti doping agency says it will hand over crucial data from the bar trade it missed a deadline ten days ago but says it's reached a quote understanding with the world anti-doping agency officials have arrived in moscow and will begin collecting the material on thursday the information could lead to a filing doping charges against numerous russian athletes the kremlin's repeatedly denied state sponsored cheating. as far as we know intensive communications

with. are taking place through our sport departments we have reached understanding with water representatives regarding future interaction as you know the daughter was ready to transfer the last time as well indeed difficulties came up regarding what daughter storage devices are used and how they will be used and so on i would rather say these are not the questions of subject matter but the logic sticks. now this all started in twenty fifteen min a state sponsored doping program in russia was exposed its athletes were barred from international events and its anti-doping agency was suspended it was reinstated last year by water despite not fulfilling all the criteria for readmission it on the thirty first of december it missed its last deadline to allow water fishel full access to data at the moscow laboratory what is compliance review committee is due to meet in canada next week to decide if it should really impose sanctions on route solder so the back already now where there were some serious

movement in the overall standings after a tough third stage in the peruvian desert overnight leader from south africa general de villiers suffered a car breakdown a two thousand and nine champion seemingly having to deal with a broken oil pipe no such problems for two time dakar champion from cutter finished second behind stage when a steffen had to hand so that was enough to catapult him into first place overall there was hometown delight for benjamin call and then yellow all being at the parallel slalom mixed team world cup event on wednesday the austrian pay were up against iran marchand not of italy in the final in bad gushed on line being establishing a good leader last chance to allow the call to begin ahead of march and he never said when did the advantage call in the ring have won here before back in twenty seven they were also winners are the very same result. less than a week before the year's first grand slam tennis tournament the australian open

a set back for world number five sloane stephens the american was dumped out of the sydney international on wednesday in the second round the twenty seventeen us open winner started well by taking the first set six three against you here putin said are not that cause a qualifier found form soon enough after edging a second set time breaker she annihilated stephen six club in the food to progress to a quarter final against kiki burton's. world number two rafael nadal is getting set for the first major of the season the two thousand and nine champion says he's on target to be fit for melbourne after sitting out a warm up last week with a fine injury. is just unbelievable although all the things that the tournament is doing is just fantastic for the fans for the players or for the promotion of our sport and so everybody wants to play well here. i really hope that they're going to have a good week of preparation i think playing well and the dolls being on the mind of

world number one of a joke of it says he plays up for fans ahead of the tournament the serbian posing with these avatar at a pre-tournament promotion on the real joke about you saving for a seventh australian open title well i was actually talking with my wee one thousand yesterday about you know the most exciting matches that they witnessed you know whether it's me in and you know they all. went almost six hours in the two thousand and twelve finals of syrian open was the one that stands out and definitely stands out in my memory. is the greatest most exciting match that i was never part of djokovic is due to play a warm up match on thursday against scotland's andy murray who is beaten four times in the aussie open final another brits has been sharing treats with these practice partner roger federer world number fourteen khalid was given the cake twenty fourth birthday and we'll have another sporting update for you again later. stay with us

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