bizarre. the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar has been shut out by me in march the government won't allow her access to the country and is not cooperating so her work is confined to neighboring countries and bangladesh factors in greatly the u.n. says there are now more the nine hundred thousand will hinder refugees living here the bulk of them came during a spike of violence in august twenty seventh and now they are spread across a mag i can't here in cox's bazaar now it's the dry season the monsoons are behind people and life has become a little easier but as you can see sanitation lack of access to clean water and latrines can use to new to be concerned if you look here there are workers trying to prepare the can for floods that are inevitable in this part of the world there is also concern about a lost generation of children two to the lack of schools the mood here has improved

considerably since last november that is when the bangladeshi government abandoned a repatriation plan in an undisclosed agreement with the government of myanmar bangladesh had hoped to return about twenty two hundred refugees to me and bar the un warned that that could be a violation of international law there was a real outcry here and that play on it was halted so now the un special report her is shifting her attention to an island called bastion sorry it's a remote island and the government is hoping to shift a significant portion of the rohingya refugees here to that island it is in the path of typhoons and cycles it's prone to flooding it's literally called a floating island it's comprised primarily of silt but the bangladeshi government has already begun construction on housing and human rights groups say that refugees might not have access to basic services they've even called this island like living

in. prison so the u.s. has a reporter is hoping to go to boston char no word yet on whether or not she'll be allowed access people in taiwan who aren't feeling so well have for generations avoided going to a doctor and visited a traditional chinese medicine shop instead but thousands of shops are shut down in the past twenty years and store owners fear that when they die so will their industry catch up as what i am explains why bleach chilling dispenses traditional chinese medicine from this herbal store in taiwan natural medicine shops like this one have been used for generations as an alternative to visiting a doctor but the industry that depends on curing illnesses is designed taiwan's government hasn't issued a new operating license for twenty years. this profession in taiwan is on the decline it's become a so-called sunset industry older people have slowly left and younger ones don't

have a license it's all very uncertain the license shortage started in the one nine hundred ninety s. as the government trying to regulate traditional medicine shops government leaders feared combining western and eastern medicine could lead to unforeseen medical emergencies it was hoped train professionals would take jobs in traditional shops but that didn't happen will pay a limited benefits failed to attract young doctors and now more and more shops are closing down. good shrink who knows her dispensary will only remain open while her ailing father in law is alive when he goes so will his operating license be done. with chinese medicine shops are forced to close because the second generation cannot legally carry the operating license our livelihood will be in jeopardy but more importantly it will be the end of a taiwanese tradition and cultural icon that it will be a thing of the past it will be difficult for them to emerge again an estimated two

hundred taiwanese natural medicine stores shut down every year the total has been cut in half to about eight thousand in the last twenty years taiwan's approach is a stark contrast to china and hong kong where there has been a push to promote and export traditional medicine mounting concern and anger has led to protests in the capital taipei now the government says it's trying to find a solution with industry leaders but shop owners fear it may be too late and employees such as lead channeling worry that it's not only her livelihood at stake but also a tradition that's part of taiwan's culture katia locus of the young al-jazeera. the wintry conditions in china's trying dong province have created an icy spectacular plummeting temperatures have stopped the flow of a waterfall creating huge icicles visitors have been gathering to admire the eighty

meter high natural wonder on mount toy which is the country's most sacred mountain the phenomenon happens when atmospheric temperature is suddenly plunge well below zero stopping fast moving water and turning it into an array of icicles. still to come sports news including the champ is out for tell you all about one of the biggest upsets of the australian australian even if in so. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short personal stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. because four to four hundred people it was you know here to be one. savior if there are called keep it up because if that everybody wants al-jazeera selects

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time for sport to his far lauren thank you so much the asian cops number one ranked team around have booked their spot in the quarter finals they beat oman to nail in abu dhabi the iranians are looking to win the asian cup for a fourth time the last of their chimes coming back in one thousand nine hundred seventy six. of vietnam produced a surprise when to become the first team to reach the last eight after the game against jordan finished in a one one draw the one the tie and a penalty shoot outs. is history for good or for good news for the board. and we're really happy about this result we are trying hard hundred twenty minutes and have a lot in the in been able to shrieking so we are so happy. china came back from a goal down to avoid an upset against thailand the hosts for the next edition of the tournaments scored twice inside five minutes to win two one china are looking

to be asian champions for the very first time. premier league champions manchester city have closed the gap behind leaders liverpool to just four points they crushed bottom side huddersfield three male away danielle zero redeem sterling and leroy sana with the goals city have some tricky tasks in the title race coming up their next three e.p.l. games include trips to arsenal and chelsea. lifting the first fifty twenty minutes. was the best minutes we played today and that's a good result of the season we suffer a lot here and today we will make a better result but. hopefully we can improve in exams. and here's how the table looks with fifteen games to go liverpool they're leading the pack tottenham also winning on sunday they beat fullam two one thanks to an injury time winner by harry winks. teatime defending champion roger federer has suffered

a shock to seat at the australian open the swiss crashing out in the fourth round on a day that also saw a huge upset in the women's strong so hell malik has more was it was the day of major casualties that the australian open. if you would have expected twenty time grand slam winner roger federer to crush out was. but the swiss went down to twenty year old greek fourteenth seeds to fan the city past. the defeat and spread risk quest for a third straight title in melbourne. of massive regret you know tonight i might not look the part but. more predictable as rafael nadal's advance only one of his seventeen grand slam titles have been won at this bent back in two thousand and nine was the darling easy winner this time out beating thomas burdick in straight sets. next stop when the dog is francis to your foe. you can expect in

a quarter finals of a grand slam you can't expect you can not despair and he might. just can say from my side i happen to be in that round. women's world number two angelica of a never look close to the sort of form that seen her win three grand slam titles. the german beaten in this fourth round much by american daniel collins a player prior to this tournament had never been past the first round of a grand slam event. i had to her mindset of what i was going to do and from the very first point i showed her that i was going to lead her into the match and i was going to dictate the entire way through and i stuck to my game plan and clearly worked out well for me and pretty much made sailing throughout the entire thing and i was feeling really great number five seed sloane stephens is also out despite winning the first that the american went down in three to understudy publishing co it was the first ever defeat for stevens against the russian.

player actually barty's entering new territory it's been more than forty years since an australian won the tournament in melbourne but bharti is now a step closer she's into the last eight after a three set win over maria sharapova so he'll molly. well maria share pobre took offense when her past was dragged up in her post match press conference the u. thirty one year old russian who served a fifteen month ban for a doping offense was asked if not taking mel dhoni on was affecting her performance she was also in no mood to answer questions about her seven minute long toilet break during the match. if you take the kind of currency and since it was days and a bit you really came out of that for the very beginning the second. time but they seem to think they would. see to that there's a pretty hominess a question. other than just the truth because i think that's

a silly question to ask really you know the duty of legally for ten years to deal with your health problem is i want to just know that it's burns you can do all that is a struggle physically to deal with the demands of the grandson for is there another question manny pacquiao has won his first fight as a forty year old the filipino retain his debbie be a welterweight title after beating american ager in brown are on points despite being more than ten years older than his opponent pacquiao three twice as many hunches is also won titles and eight weight divisions and this was the sixty first win of his career after the victory packie has said he was keen for a rematch with floyd mayweather beat him four years ago you know i'm i'm still up to win and it be you go back to the ring in a new want to fight challenge me i'm a champion he didn't go back i mean. you but the doing it will fight again if you

want. well this was the scene in the filipino capital manila as that decision was announced in las vegas this was the seventieth. pro career which began back in one thousand nine hundred five faqir was also elected senator and could run for president and twenty twenty two. and lindsey vonn may have competed in her last race the american who is considered one of the greatest skiers of all time failed to finish a world cup super g. race on sunday the thirty four year old didn't complete her final run in corteen at a place where she's won a record twelve times before vonn say she is battling pain in both her knees but had planned on retiring at the end of the season however a draw now says an immediate retirement is a possibility her compared trait mckayla share friend won the race her first at the italian support. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to lauren and

london. thank you very much indeed and a quick reminder you can always catch up with all sport and of course news we're reporting on by checking out our website not just about his home and he also watches libel now by clicking on the live icon. that's it from a don't tell if it's news or back in a minute with another round by half. in the next episode of science in a golden age on me exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islam a period in the field of chemistry they transformed the superstition of alchemy

into the science of chemistry. many of his chemical procedures and all those which most of the use today. all while science in a golden age with professor jim allee on al-jazeera. resort is one of nigeria's top tourist destinations but in the shadow of the mountain some nigerians continue an ancient tradition with child protection workers say condemns young girls to a life of slavery and sexual exploitation five year old miracle was married for money just a few weeks ago joan leaves with some missionaries who says she's proved many marriages happen i couldn't reach it is a missionary or rescues goals the money goes to buy it get outrightly an oak or a newborn be trucked to gil before she's born there what if it takes forty years you get mondays that brought us constant go to get money away if you are looking at

this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this gross is that a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no limit. i view myself as a capital on. trying to break the world smaller. we don't want to be realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy. on al-jazeera. the u.s. says it's killed fifty two members of al shabaab in an asteroid in response to recent attacks. dante this is live from london also coming up.

tensions in greece as thousands protest in athens of the proposed name change deal to normalize relations with macedonia. sudanese security forces fired tear gas to break up protests in khartoum and. angry u.s. federal workers demanding their politicians work together for a compromise to reopen government. you know the u.s. military says it carried out an ass truck in somalia that killed fifty two fighters it was no worst after the group attacked a somali army base still controls large parts of rural southern and central somalia and continues to carry out high profile attacks in the capital mogadishu and elsewhere since twenty seventeen the u.s. military has stepped up air raids against the group in somalia carrying out forty

seven strikes last year. as fighting to overthrow the internationally backed government in mogadishu. reports and a warning you may find some of the images distressing. the destruction caused by u.s. warplanes targeting al shabaab fighters near the port city of kiss my you in southern somalia bodies and beyond all shells of the equal slice through not a moment remind us of the intensity of the strikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes as fifty two militants the somalia missy's the total is hide how long we managed to kill at least seventy five ship bad militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about that victory today the aesthetics came hours after a fight to storm to somalia i mean base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the point where the. somali commanders say six soldiers were killed in the town and two others died when

a booby trapped vehicle blew up as the army but told for hours to take up to the base u.s. military helicopters were sent to help the pentagon has increased the rate of strikes in somalia and recent tease partly because president donald trump has loosened restrictions on when the u.s. military can take action against what are described as terrorist targets the number of u.s. forces in somalia increased in the past two days us about fighters who are linked to al qaida retain a strong presence in parts of south and central somalia they also regularly at talk targets in neighboring kenya updates and trips to somalia as part of one african union peacekeeping force al-shabaab say's it was behind tuesday's hotel up talkin a little bit we have forgotten and a suicide bomber killed twenty one. five suspects appeared in court on friday connection with the tuck police say all but one of the five gunmen who carried out the uk taka and something that is raising the threat of homegrown terrorism

mohammad on the wall jazeera nairobi. david autor is a security consultant he says and it's to be a regional effort to defeat al shabaab but has been a lot of you know issues about you know the effectiveness you know of some of these prevent strategies that some of these governments are using that you talk about corruption which doesn't actually allow you know some of these programs to generate defectiveness that the should so the lack of proper governance you know within somalia but not just within somalia in the in all the east african countries that are vulnerable to al-shabaab attacks you know makes it really difficult for some of these programs that could actually deal with the online crises that gives room for people to join al shabaab to to actually you know work effectively so i think there is a huge need for all these regional governments to come together and come up with an effective strategy somalia can't do it alone kenya can do it alone none of those countries can do it alone it has to be a regional effort. and he's in athens and he has tear gas to prevent i repressed

says from entering greece's parliament building thousands of people have been rallying against the proposed name change to where the former yugoslav republic of macedonia drones are a press reports. it took only an hour of peaceful protest before a small group of demonstrators clashed with police detonating fireworks over the heads police responded with volleys of tear gas clearing crowds off the square in front of parliament but most of the thousands of demonstrators here would peaceful including families with young children many had traveled overnight from far flung corners of greece to oppose a government that last week survived a vote of confidence with a razor thin majority one hundred fifty one m.p.'s in the three hundred seat legislature that's majority is likely to pass the message only a name change deal by the end of the week i must have to a kid years to suppress to write out one hundred fifty times there is only one

macedonia and it's his greek and my kids and i'm after all my grandfather force in macedonia we cannot allow it to be sold out we are losing our values some people of the shoeing a new order they want to access the sea through the port of cecille any truckie will be the next to go then will lose a chunk of greece to albania. greece is an original position was that it would not allow a neighboring state to use the name of its northern region of macedonia a decade ago it agreed to allow use of that name along with an adjective and last year recognized north of macedonia but that country has now russified the deal and it is now greece's. but the agreement has angered many here because it allows the people of north macedonia to call themselves macedonians rather the north massacre and recognizes that language as macedonia and. with the preface agreement to have. it where the north macedonia. and at the same time we give the rights to the

citizens of these states to more noble lies the word macedonia for their citizens if you give the nationality if you give the long words this is called identity. and we do not want to offer it to one of the states of the area the right to monopolize the macedonian and then. the agreement is a bitter pill for most greeks some have decided to swallow it but many have not these demonstrations have reverted to the original hard line position and they want prime minister alexis tsipras to declare a referendum is unlikely to take that route he knows the deal is unpopular but vows to push it through parliament with his one vote majority by the end of the week jumps are open us algis or athens. certainly security forces of tear gas to break up protests in the capital khartoum and the city of monks trucks carrying security

personnel were deployed to undermine after protesters blocked streets demanding the resignation of president bashir the near daily demonstrations began in december in response to the rising cost of bread activists say dozens are being killed the sheriff says the protests are being organized by traitors and has rejected claims that security forces were responsible for the death of protesters sucky i learned in our freedom some young men wanted to express themselves in protest following but there were some infiltrators and she took the opportunity to play their way they are the ones who are burning in destroying public properties they are the ones who infiltrated these protests to kill demonstrators. why involve has more from cutting . more protests broke out today in khartoum and also in the city of on demand protesters have been planning to converge on the parliament and once again demand the government to step down and the president omar bashir but soon they were

dispersed by security personnel using heavy tear gas or so in other parts of the man in the forty third street where i was there heavy to gas how has been used and a cameraman working for dizzier has been as a freelancer has been apprehended and that's a part of a systematic crocodile on journalists particularly if they used t.v. cameras and t.v. cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protests that he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a part of says and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are pretended recently said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of

things and to put blame on the government tax president tired added one has told a u.s. president that turkey is ready to take over security in member agents syria without delay at all one says an attack that left four u.s. troops dead last week in man page was an act of provocation aimed at affecting donald trump's decision to withdraw from syria mendacious controlled by a militia allied to the u.s. backed kurdish y.p. gene the u.s. has previously said it wants assurances that turkey will not attack the kurds when it withdraws. a television news camera man has been killed in libya who had been highly for work as a freelancer for around his era and other leading news organizations the thirty five year old was hit by a stray shell fire on saturday whilst on assignment following a libyan militia hundreds of people have been killed in fighting between rival groups since the fall of moammar gadhafi seven years ago. still to come on his era

the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election calls for nationwide protests after the top court declares his rival the winner. aiming industry the chinese medicine shops that are now in poor health themselves. that i was forty two degrees in perth on sunday not much else happens you can't see anything generated from it's just dry heat there is cloud further east and that has in fact dropped the temp is in various places so it's a generous and pretty big showers around sydney north of camber as well that might be repeated but the heat has gone from perth down to thirty two now and it's running through south australia eventually it'll start to warm places like adelaide have already it's thirty two and it will get warmer this is come tuesday and once

again when he was terrified raj across the dawsons due south wales and again towards city in a city where is the rain that you might think this should be the wet season the rain has been avoiding the last friday for a couple of weeks it's on its way just hasn't got there yet as the new zealand well another pretty hard temps across churches ten above average not again on sunday probably for an effect the sea the clouds on the west side the mountains it dries up in the air warms as it comes down on the eastern side nevertheless the picture is about twenty three in all can the wellington widespread cloud of not so strong wind in the west bit of rain in the south of science on that is on monday come to see that's probably largely gone and the sun will look rather more prevalent so again trust church might be particularly warm. a face can tell a story without touching.