the movement of people the calling foot ferry is the only route across the lot people are crossing the border every day here between northern are in the republic for and for work in their daily lives the possibility of introducing any barriers to the free and seamless movements of vehicles and people. is a great concern to us for the past twenty years the border here along it is being very much. if no solution can be found most breaks in in either side of this law could soon be run by two distinctly different told authorities complicating the lives and livelihoods of those who depend upon these wars and the return of a hard border remains for now a worst case scenario but the crushing defeat of the british government's bricks it deal on choose day has set contingency plans in motion on both sides of the border yes we are making preparations for an scenario we have to do that now and that does include checks the ports and airports but we're not making preparations for checks

on border but having said that. the only way they can avoid a hard border long term isn't through good will isn't through the right words it has to be through an agreement with a more mountain sweep down to the sea they meet calling for the locks open. it is a landscape indifferent to past territorial disputes divisions few here on to ever witness again. calling for the lock. details are emerging about the sinking of a migrant boat which killed fifty three people the spanish charity coming monday from tara says coastguard spent six days searching for the boat which went down between spain and morocco it's interviewed the only survivor who says the vessel was struck by something during the nights he spent more than twenty four hours in the water before a fisherman came to his rescue more than four thousand migrants have reached europe

by seen so far this year almost double from the same period last year but fewer people have drowned leonard doyle is a spokesman for the international organization for migration he says european governments should work to provide safe ways for migrants to travel to europe and return home to regular migration is put these people putting their homes and lives in the hands of smugglers who are deeply exploited and then they really don't have a care in the world for what happens when they get the money and they get with these people and it's part of the ongoing tragedy of huge inequality and people seeking a better life would end up in these awful awful circumstances people's mothers are looking for opportunities to make money this is a money making racket at the end of the day and migrants are seeking desperately to sometimes are fleeing violence erupts produce or asylum seekers in violence are those the they're fleeing the impact of climate change or are these are the terrible economic inequalities and lack of opportunities so there is a market for people to to try and reach europe and indeed there is

a demand for work in europe the question is why found the policy makers not organize a way for people to come and work and then return home and rather than giving the money to the smugglers who are simply exploiting them let's give it to work to a proper transportation company so there needs to be new policies and new leave your pathways that will enable people to work and to return. european union chemicals experts are proposing banning some micro plastics to combat pollution the tiny pieces of plastic end up in waterways oceans and animals last year scientists found the first evidence of micro plastics in people but there's no research yet about the effect on our bodies microprocessor found in things such as cosmetics and detergents but the largest user is the agriculture industry fertilizers are wrapped in tiny plastic shells that emit them slowly into the soil but the plastic is left behind the european commission estimates up to some two hundred thousand tons of

micro plastics into the environment every year and the band could cut that by thirty thousand tonnes the u.s. and u.k. already have partial bans in force and the e.u. hopes its proposal could set a standard for industries around the world but the tiny particles are also created by the breakdown of bigger items such as bottles or plastic bags and the band won't change that critics argue that such measures aren't enough to deal with a problem that's reached epic proportions sharon together says head of programs at the plastic soup foundation he says while the ban is a good first step a lot of micro plastics come from sources that are harder to regulate. it intentionally added michael plastics to burn it's like cosmetics or detergents of fertilizer and you don't actually say that's a design merit just get rid of it that it's there that's actually the easy bucks and it's similar to the got about steaks or straws what's going on right now on a global scale and the bigger they should most of plastics from textiles or or all

kind of best materials you know our daily lives that's more complicated and if we don't you know why sure you're close and watching she you know never twice it's nine million by bush for example so that's enormous this might progress itself out everywhere in the trenches in the ocean but also on the tops of a millennium in the north pole in the south pole so you can basically say plastic is everywhere it's actually there the interesting thing with the european battle now and then she added michael plastics that you are being chemically agency is now investigating is that a risk for human health or the employment that we board that this at this months and it's very interesting because that's actually the first step in regulating the whole issue of michael plastics in the environment which would be a very good and very necessary case goes yet and there's too much press that go around we need to regulate it and met take steps.

it's time for sports. thank you very much twenty time grand slam champion and defending australian open men's champion roger federer breezed into this year's fourth round on friday he took the first set in emphatic fashion against american taylor fritz the sustained seemed to ease off the gas trying out some different

shots on the twenty one year old it led to a much more even second set federal clinching at seven five with some impressive winners a straight sets victory in the end for the wool number three who said that he's virtuous the display had just been experimentation rather than the zipper. try to relax and start playing more drop shots and play most of the volley in the disabled ones just to see how did it feel how to what is the opponent going to do but i don't do deliberately to make up our look bad or to be on the highlight reel because. i felt i was like this when i was younger you know teenager coming through on the tour and i was trying to do this great shots on court seventeen and you're like what he cares nobody cares you know you have to be on set of court to hit those you know so so that's where. i that's the mindset of hudson's a very very long time. rafael nadal beat local aussie alex stehman all six one six two six four in the third round encounter the last time the do have faced off was

last year the dull one same school the spaniard will face thomas but it's next in the full flower. women's defending champion caroline wozniacki has been knocked out of the australian open who defeat came at the hands of maria sharapova like was an iraqi is a former world number one there was little to divide them throughout the match the cherub hope his aggression had the danish champ chasing round the court in the first set was almost equal to everything the russian threw at her only almost. i was sheriff over winning the first six four before wozniacki hit back to take the second but the same score. i showed over though is hungry for her first grand slam title in five years and brought that a step closer as she closed out the match six four four six six three should go straight is actually pretty stiff was is definitely. a match that i look forward to and john came out of his head to get there. first and

so did she but yeah i thought it was as usual as expected a physical match. didn't have to be some ways but felt like even longer rallies i did a great job. of winning those put a lot of pressure on her and you know those are the rallies that i think many years ago she used to win and i thought i did a great job of getting a high percentage of wins in the. second seed angele curva celebrated her birthday by dropping just one game against the two hundred forty a threat wild card entry kimberly burrell at the australian open the one six one six love then turned thirty one on the same day that will play danielle collins in the fourth round. english premier league leaders live in. play crystal palace on saturday as they look to increase their lead in the standings over manchester city you only play on sunday but palace represent

a different kind of challenge they're actually the last team to have beaten liverpool in the league at their home ground enfield back in april twenty seventh at the end we have to we have to deliver and i'm really really excited about that because it will be it will be a tough one again and. having a lot of results in the past at all that's good but the only result of interest is the one so plenty of action to look forward to then in the premier league on saturday wolves and leicester kick it all off manchester united will be hoping to continue their foreign run of form since early going to solve over as k take a manager when they host brighton the late game sees arsenal host chelsea in another blockbuster fixture in spain slowly got twelve time european champions real madrid will be looking to overtake severe in the standings on saturday fourth placed rail host third placed severe in the first match of the day something other solari side of behind on goal difference only so when it would move them into third place however they would still be way behind arch rivals barcelona who lead the

table at a card to ten points ahead of madrid. well just you know one them will be in that piece of it and whatever they have many strengths they've been playing well since the beginning of the season they start world the good in the midfield good in attack and good under pressure they have many strengths will have to play a great game in order to beat them and dominate them lightning struck the singapore open suspending around for the third time this week. paul casey end. of the halfway lead when play resumed england's casey anti-sex on scene set the pace to take the clubhouse lead on seven under par following rounds of seventy and sixty seven respectively and would you believe the remainder of the second round was then suspended because of the sunset. american skier lindsey vonn is back from an injury and competed in the world cup downhill on friday but the hype of her return lot into nothing she finished outside the top ten austrian skier ramona siebenhaar for came in first vonn hurt her knee during practice in november

. and that's all the support we have the for now another update is coming up again later. you can find much more on our top stories including the ongoing anti-government protests in sudan on our web site at that stuff al-jazeera dot cotton. that's it for mena star detail for this news hour but i'll be back in just a moment. in the next episode of science in a golden age of exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of engineering. the heights of sophistication in

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a day for america american justice system a former chicago police officer who faced a ninety six years in jail is sentenced to eighty one months to the mother of a black teenager. mourners turned on sudanese police at the funeral of a man killed during anti-government demonstrations. plus the tiny plastic particles and everyday products and why the european union wants to ban them. u.s. president donald trump will hold another summit with north korean leader kim jong un next month the announcement came just a day after a pentagon report said pyongyang still poses an extraordinary threat plans for the second round of talks were laid out with north korea's top nuclear negotiator kim jung troll during his visit to washington d.c.

he met trump and secretary of state mike pompei on friday after the first summit in singapore seven months ago trump declared the new kid threat from north korea was over but negotiations over denuclearization have stalled since then there have been disagreements about security guarantees and u.s. sanctions culhane has been. bassist from washington d.c. . this mob for the cameras quickly and then got back to the top u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh and north korean negotiator kim young then went off to the white house behind closed doors a ninety minute meeting with president donald trump the white house claimed progress the united states is going to continue to keep pressure and sanctions on north korea until we see fully and verified denuclearization we've had very good steps in good faith from the north koreans in releasing the hostages and other moves and so we're going to continue those conversations in the present looks forward to next his next debate in the white house says that will be

a to get to be disclosed location at the end of february the state department announced the discussions continued for hours after secretary pompei o treated the north korean delegation to lunch at their d.c. hotel the last time the two leaders met the president declared the problem solved north korea did nuclearize but since then satellite images show work continues on their missile delivery sites but the white house says the focus should be on what the north hasn't done test any new nukes or missiles the problem wasn't solved after the first summit so now it appears the two sides will try again and soon patty klein al-jazeera washington erica him as as a defense and foreign policy analyst at the cato institute he says the upcoming meeting as likely to be more successful than the singapore summit. i think that will be a top priority for the united states going into the summit is trying to get a more concrete road map with certain. thresholds or certain actions that we can

see the north koreans doing i think access to north korean nuclear sites will also be another top priority to make sure that we verify that they're doing what they say they're doing again the inner korean peace process could offer a potentially welcome example here with the military agreement that was reached between the two koreas back at near the end of twenty eighteen when. the and the north koreans in the south koreans agreed to very specific steps to reduce military confrontation and to build confidence with one another and north korea and south korea have both followed through on the promises that they made there so if you can get specific details on paper the north koreans might be willing to follow through we just have to do the negotiations and get them on paper donald trump has denied reports that he directed his former personal noir michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build the trump tower and moscow democrats say they'll verify the allegations which if true will suggest the president committed a crime and will from our white house correspondent can really help. it's an

explosive report based on allegations by investigators if true the claims against u.s. president donald trump are the most direct proof that he broke the law and could potentially end his presidency the damning report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress hording to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over a trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false the report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the project a claim he's repeatedly denied there is absolutely no scholars or no collusion no

collusion no solution with the russian cohen was sentenced in december for various crimes which included false statements to the f.b.i. something tweeted about in response to the latest allegations pointing out cohen is a proven liar but the latest claims published in the online publication buzz feed site to unnamed law enforcement officials and state that cohen's testimony is backed by tax and e-mails already in possession by special counsel robert muller looking into trunk campaign ties to the kremlin not only that and then peach of a fence but that could actually be something that could senate republicans to actually begin to to break from this president earlier this week trump's nominee for attorney general bill barr admitted directing someone to lie would amount to obstruction of justice you wrote on page one that a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction is that right. the. yes

ok o. ne ne well you know any person who pretend it's another it's ok in a statement the new house intelligence committee chair adam schiff said the allegations of a cover up are the most serious to date and valid to do what's necessary to find out if it's true michael cohen is scheduled to testify publicly before congress next month but already some congressional democrats are threatening to start impeachment proceedings against the president based on these latest accusations kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house in the u.s. a white police officer has been sentenced to eighteen one months in prison for murdering a black teenager and a case what sparked mass protests against police brutality jason vandyke's shots in the quad mcdonald sixteen times four years ago the seventeen year old was carrying a knife down a chicago street when he was killed vandyke had been facing

a maximum of ninety six he is in prison al-jazeera is john hendren is live for us outside the courthouse in chicago john tell us how the sentence been has been received so far look when mcdonald's family has been speaking. yes indeed that sentence six years nine months was far more than they defended hoped for but it was far less than the family of look one mcdonald had asked for and they came out forcefully and after the verdict the family spokesman marvin hunter a pastor came out and said that this was a miscarriage of justice and he called for change here in the city of chicago in the state of illinois in response to these police shootings this is what he had to say. this man has clearly committed murder. and the murder which he committed has been shown all over the world everyone in the civil and conscious

mind knows that this is murder and the reality of it is we have to do something legislatively to change this we must begin the process to do something legislatively to change this so that police officers that commit the kinds of crimes that jason van dyke has done and the three of also this will be convicted properly for the crimes and what they could which they're committed just like any other citizen in the state of illinois or in disguise. john tell us about the significance of this case the whole country has been watching it very. it's true this was the trial of the half century in chicago it's been more than fifty years since chicago police officer was convicted for murder while wearing a uniform on the job and this case was very much galvanizing for the black lives matter movement across the nation not just here in chicago every network here in

the local area was broadcasting it live as it happened in the community was really in up for many people here especially among african-americans in chicago who were just tired of hearing so many stories of young black men being fatally shot by police officers but this was a complicated case it was one in which the koran mcdonald was shown walking away and police dash cam video with a knife in his hand apparently ignoring the commands of police officers who were telling him to drop it but his back was toward those police officers when jason vandyke the police officer who was sentenced today shot him sixteen times and in that video many of those shots seemed to happen while he's lying on the ground and that is one of the things that prosecutors seized on today they said wild van dyke's family spoke his daughter is sister his father is wife he talked about how badly this had been affected how difficult it is for

a police officer in the united states or anywhere to spend time in prison but in the end the prosecutors said that simply wasn't enough that a message had to be sent here that it's not ok just to shoot a man who is not posing a threat to police officers at what that does here in the streets of chicago we don't know because protesters have been talking about reacting to this verdict of a thought it was too light on the light and it could have been simply parole sorry probation that would have been essentially time. served on the every end it was ninety six years nobody really knew what was going to happen but chicago authorities hope that this will be enough to keep peace in the streets of chicago tonight and through this week it does here as john hendren live for us in chicago thank you for following the. mourners and police in sudan have force after the funeral of a man shot dead and anti-government protests in the capital activists say at least fifty people have died since demonstrations began last month mohammed al has more

from cutting. scenes of violence in the sudanese capital khartoum on friday morning as more people died at the hands of security forces police attacked mourners with gathered for the funeral of maja bashir the sixty year old died after being shot by police who had accused him of hiding protesters in his house in a suburb of the capital khartoum a police vehicle was overturned by the mourners as the confrontation got worse. there had been another funeral this for a doctor hundreds turned out for that but because he had been shot dead while trying to treat wounded for testers. overnight one protest of many around the country focused on the hospital where the doctor and the boy died a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief combined i believe many are still mourning i don't know what our demands are the demand.