take that away take that risk a week. hold a gun to the head of parliament which isn't to say to these of these trying to do as march the twenty ninth looms the prime minister's strategy appears to be to go back to brussels and test to the e.u. is willingness to risk a no deal bret's it but she is also testing the patience of this parliament and it's not to talk clear which side will flinch first paul brennan al-jazeera westminster was cross live now to lawrence lee who is outside the u.k. parliament in westminster laurence this is meant to be to reason may's plan b. you're outside westminster last week when her plan a was voted down you've been there a couple of hours now do you get the sense that anything has really changed. no absolutely nothing and for despite the size of her loss last last week it's unarguable now i think that her strategy as you heard in black for this goes nationally say in britain's report that is effectively how to hold

a gun to their heads of politicians know that there can be no ruling out no no deal because that might mean revoking that the leave the european union no that can be the long extension no there can be no second referendum because it would be in breach of the original referendum results and effectively in the end what she's doing is saying when p.s. look you know you've got some back my deal and if you don't then it'll be your fault if the u.k. leaves the european union with no deal and all the contingent economic and social damage that would cause and frankly the only reason that she can get away with it is because she knows that for all the firy among opposition m.p.'s particularly those who want a much softer deal don't want to leave it's all there's no actual coalescing around a single strategy yet the could overturn what she wants and ultimately that's what she's banking on but it is a terribly dangerous strategy because everybody from the international monetary

fund today and business leaders of screaming at her to say you've got to keep the supply lines open got to allow us to keep trading because otherwise they could be a gigantic economic crash in this country with a ripple effects around the global economy as well so it's very unclear what the full direction is but she just i think banking on the fact that the rest of parliament column coalesce around anything and in the events by the end of favor of the celts of march they will grudgingly have to accept what she said so often that one thing that the prime minister did change is that she's waived the eighty four dollars fee that would be charged to european citizens living in the u.k. for so-called settled status meaning that they could just stay in the u.k. now there's three million residents here but they can't vote in general elections or or referenda so what is the political value for do you think to this move if there is any. well i mean i think i think for a start it was agreed just be unfair to ask people to pay money to for what they've already got which is staying here but also i think more importantly politically

even though she's not shifted position almost at all she could say in parliament look i am listening of listens to this campaign group the three million which campaigns the rights abuses and of heard what they've said and i am in listening mode having said all of those things it doesn't guarantee the rights of the citizens at all because if the u.k. leaves out a deal then they become country citizens and the don't have rights even if the u.k. does stay in the plan the plan is for the to to reduce european immigration by eighty percent and so it's still pretty rocky times for europeans living in the u.k. whatever happens unless the u.k. does a complete about turn ends up staying in the european union have to rule and see outside westminster lawrence thank you so what is the reaction in brussels david chase or is there for us and david one of the main sticking points it's always been the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland now the poles have offered that the irish backstop could actually be renegotiated after five years

tell us more about that at all crucially could it work. well it's a straw which the british prime minister treason may has grabbed out like a drowning woman now this was mentioned by as you said the polish foreign minister here at a meeting in the e.u. council headquarters which had nothing to do with briggs it would of course inevitably brigs it is on every menu at the moment and he said essentially that why not because this is the sticking point the the backstop issue why not just put a time limit on it and he said it at five years but it was a major slap down by the the irish deputy prime minister he said no way this is not going to change it is needed to guarantee the relationship and the the deal on the table says that there can be no guaranteed out date on that it has to remain and

so this is not something that the reason may can develop here it's not something that she will develop here i think everybody in the e.u. will make it very clear to her when she comes here next week that this is not something they wish to discuss and the deal on the table that was already rejected by the house of commons in such an emphatic manner is still the only one that's available they need something cogent something coherent some new approach from the trees in may they need to they need to see from her that she's going to rub out some of these red lines which she surrounded herself with but she doesn't look as though she's going to do that they're going to see a plan a plan b. and a plan a will not give any meaningful negotiations for her to take part in which she comes to brussels next week they will change her with the latest from brussels david thank you and still ahead in this half hour a group of venezuelan. a group of venezuelan soldiers is held for me

over their video call for an uprising against president clinton. and the move. on earth and sun lined up to create a highly unusual eclipse known as the super lotto wolf. l.a. for a change the snow is not the real story of europe we've had significant rain or into the western part of the mediterranean for the barrier it's more recently said sardinia in sicily and italy is that arc of plant that this is snow is still snow running through ukraine but that's gone by tuesday and this is the picture of what's the next frontal system coming down through the u.k. into the low countries france and the norms by there's some snow in that because the air behind it is quite cold and the air in front isn't particularly warm either so a bit of proper winter swinging in from

a different direction i suppose and that maybe start the presses off again we'll see rain and start slow particularly for in the alps rain over the water over italy over the arcs again down the adriatic coast you're nurses with those spreading out through austria and cream once more if you're in northern germany it just remains cold so actions in the mediterranean which means the coasts of algeria in tunis here will catch some of that right and increasingly a strong wind which of course will bring the city up so temp to maybe irrelevant where we will be feeling very nice on wednesday and it will be good if you intend to go out on to the waters that so in fact that rains france region is here and you can see dips down into northern parts of libya ahead of it it's quite warm in egypt . i didn't know that corruption has reached a love like that before in our country. count side.

to president of the united states. the power was in the daytime we will the american people with the truth and nothing else to stop it. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a suicide car bombing in northeast syria that took place near a joint u.s. kurdish convoy has killed at least five people no american soldiers were killed and i was earlier israeli warplanes conducted air strikes on iranian military targets

in serious capital damascus at least forty three afghan troops have been killed in a taliban attack on a military base in my down shot near kabul and the u.k.'s prime minister to resign main says she'll try to break the deadlock over her breakfast deal by seeking further concessions from the european union. police in the northern irish city of london their ia peers have carried out a controlled explosion on a van in a cordoned off area police say the vehicle had been hijacked by three masked men who threw an object at it before abandoning it it follows a car bombing in the area on saturday in a vehicle also hijacked by masked men the main focus of the investigation is the new ira which opposes one thousand nine hundred ninety eight peace deal in the region. venezuela's supreme court says it's axing congressional measures that the clear the presidency of nicolas maduro illegitimate the pro-government justices

also ruled that the leadership of the opposition dominated congress itself is invalid opposition politician no one who was sworn in as the assemblies president earlier this month has been overseeing legislation accusing the doodle of usurping power of buddha was sworn in for a second six year term on january tenth despite widespread condemnation of his main opponents were banned from running against him and venezuela says it's captured a group of national guard officers who stole weapons and kidnapped four officials this hours after a video appeared on social media showing a sergeant demanding the removal of president maduro groups of protesters took to the streets and for security forces in the district of could access but the officers rebelled the army fired tear gas at the protesters the government has accused the sergeant in the video of being linked to the extreme right. on the same i mean i need the support of the venezuelan people take to the streets we're

here you asked for us to come out and to defend the constitution here we are we are here here the troops people take to the streets support us go on to the military to take to the streets to light the fuse we're here lighting the fuse but we need your support. ten sailors have been found dead and another fourteen were rescued after two ships caught fire in the care should straighten your crimea russia's transport ministry says survivors jumped into the sea to escape the fire it's thought that blaze may have broken out during the ship to ship fuel transfer both ships were under the tanzanian flag to members who turkey and india. for supporters of the necrotic republic of congo's presidential run up martin for you lou have been arrested police have blocked crowds from attending a rally of party headquarters in kinshasa on sunday d. or c. is highest court rejected for use the man for a recount of the vote and they cleared felix. the country's next president the

african union has postponed the high level visit itch to in response after saying it had serious doubts about the result an official from a party that backs for you lou says they'll keep the man doing a recount. we're going to continue until we get the truth through the ballot boxes we're not asking anyone that know where in the world have election results been published by block seven million in the article six million they need to be published progressively polling station by polling station or by tele center province by province this allows for the establishment of confidence and fair play. it's got to zimbabwe now where the country's high court says the government security minister had no authority to order mobile operators to shut down in turn and internet access during widespread protests last week a crackdown on protests is continuing with the arrest of the head of zimbabwe's

largest trade union just said more yo was arrested at robert mugabe international airport and this currently in a police station in the capital harare the union was behind the general strike that took place last week to protest against the fuel price hike the unrest sparked a crackdown in which at least twelve people were killed and more than six hundred arrested. whatsapp has announced that all users globally will only be allowed to forward a message five times instead of twenty the owner of the message service facebook says the move is to try and stop the spread of rumors and false information what's up as already implemented the restrictions in india after rumors that were spread on the af lead to killings and attacks by mobs the shooting of unarmed protesters in sudan is causing increasing controversy human rights groups say that dozens have died in the month long outcry against rising prices and the rule thirty

year rule of president omar al bashir the government is than eyeing any role in the killing of protesters that it describes as infiltrators among the dead is a doctor who was treating wounded protesters who is grieving family says he was killed by government forces home involves reports now from her to the home of dr bao because the two has seen a constant stream of mourners since he was shot dead during an anti-government protest on thursday his house has also become a meeting place for supporters and sympathizers. of my five children he's my only son he never had a problem with anyone but he was always wanting to help those in need. three of our sisters are also doctors they say he was shot by members of the security forces are to makeshift clinic that he set up in the capital. the family

showed us a photo of a man in civilian clothes pointing a gun to words the house while their brother was treating the wounded. soldiers of video of a shooting nearby at around the same time at least two protesters were going to. was a colleague try to rescue the doctor who was shot. there were people who were killed. killed because they did anything wrong look a single car broken not a single house broken the people who are going out. to say no. thank you very much was a forensic expert says the doctor was shot from behind with just exam. we found pieces of metal in the wound in the lower part of his lung they'll be

studied to determine the caliber and the type of weapon used. to have done security forces and police deny any role in the killing of protesters stormed the. us police never used any live fire to any protest sites or any other occasion we never use live bullets in any situation. the same denials have beery eatery today by the head of intelligence and the target of the protesters anger president omar and bashir. we now have arrested people who belong to the apple with the pressure and they acknowledged they were given orders to mix with protestors and to kill them in order to stoke conflict to destroy the country the government security does not kill people. well i wouldn't be aired by god i say it's the regime killed my son i will never doubt i said something about it but i get to know my media and i'm sure they purposely decided to kill doctors but my sister was arrested with the

others they detained this told them that they were specifically looking for doctors who helped protest. the type of force being used by the government to quell the protests is adding to the controversy and confusion about the killings the government has employed militia to help the army combat armed groups in sudan for decades what's attracting attention now is militiaman our mosque in their faces while attacking an arm of civilians in the streets of khartoum and other major cities and i think what they hope they take it then. if in adam and you abuse a maid then yeah i mean see that we mean what i what well i don't recall melissa language and having him back to yet for but. you see him move anyone with him in there who do works it means only home and out of what you know. kind of hi there who are my kind of old look at me to get them on with what you buy at happy hour.

as protesters chant peaceful peaceful they are drowned out by gunfire and tear gas scenes of collective punishment like these are say the government's opponents at the rio carlos. so is that break into homes are security forces severely beat anyone suspected of hiding protest as the government says twenty six people have been killed so far in a month of protests to demand the better life. rights groups say the total is at least double that. the government's announced the setting up of an official commission of inquiry but protests that broke out over the rising of the cost of living last month continue to testify and spread across the country and with every new protest to kill hundreds more turn out demanding an end to the thirty year rule of president bashir. or dizzy or come to.

the mind of the top stories on al-jazeera i source says it was behind a suicide car bombing in northeast syria that killed at least five people the bomb went off in the city of the as a joint convoy of u.s. troops and allied fighters from the syrian democratic forces passed by no american soldiers were killed or injured this happened just a few hours after before the attack in el shaddai the israeli warplanes conducted air strikes in syria's capital damascus israel says it was attacking iranian military targets of some a binge of eid has more now from. bring you more on that in later programs at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a coordinated attack by the taliban the reuters news agency says the death toll could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in my darling child which is just

outside kabul monday's attack is the latest in a series of assaults by the taliban hours after the attack the taliban said its representatives held a talk with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan. in cap. the u.k.'s prime minister of tourism a says she will try to break the bad luck over her breakfast deal by seeking further concessions from the european union at the heart of the talks will be possible changes on a backup plan to avoid a hard border between the republic of ireland the northern ireland maze initial plan on how the u.k. would exit the e.u. was the featured by a historic majority last week the country a shed told to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march and stargazers have been treated to a rare lunar eclipse known as a super blood wall for moon the phenomenon was visible visible all over europe asia and the americas and only lasted for a few hours if you missed it don't worry it will happen again in twenty thirty

seven there's a headlines coming up it's the screen which is looking a white one and the us are fighting over used clothes. rwanda is aiming to stop all imports of secondhand clothing by the end of twenty nineteen but how do you wonders who depend on these items money i'm femi oke and i'm really could be on today's stream a look at the country's efforts to boost homegrown industries and in the trade in hand me downs so your thoughts here twitter and you tube.

we're wondering government leaders say that refusing use clothes known locally as to goor and the tomba will restore dignity to rwandans used to sifting through piles of secondhand garments imported from around the world since twenty sixteen it is progressive leave its import taxes on used clothing before a total ban expected sometime this year the move hasn't been without cost in july the united states responded by suspending rwanda from importing clothing to the us tax free but the rwandan government has stood firm it says ending use close imports is necessary to rebuild its own clothing industry but the import restrictions have split opinion in rwanda with those who rely on cheap clothing and happy at the measures for more on this we're joined from the rwandan capital kigali by danny he is a communications coordinator motions that civil wind and fashion house these are row

is founder and editor in chief of the fashion law which provides analysis on the fashion industry she is in new york and we have linda she is founder and creative director of art and rwandan brand specializing in ethical fashion and jacqueline shaw is founder of the africa fashion guy that's a fashion she's a fashion designer by trade she's also author of the book fashion africa she joins us from london hello everybody it's good to have you here we're going to start with really good to have this conversation online so many fascinating tweets i want. start with just two so this is my way in the who says bold decision by the rwandan government for not allowing the us and the like to dump their secondhand clothing on the country this is a country that gives its people self worth so some strong words right out the gate bear but there's this question as to how we got here really in size in the d r c at least it still happens i was there in two thousand and ten and i couldn't understand this business of selling used clothing and shoes i thought it was

clothes that was donated but somehow got sold for profit so when did this practice start and why is it booming in africa julie want to take that one on for us. it started quite a while ago when roland in people and individuals across africa were in need of welding. second hand clothing in or. amount to a large portion of the clothing that exists in africa and. nouriel businessmen and women in the united states for instance opportunity took profit. monopolizing and coordinating shipping to africa even if those clothes were initially donated to billions here jack i am going to play this little clip from you for you and this comes from roy tests from the end

of last year when people in rwanda realized that secondhand clothing was about to become more expensive have a listen to this. the good thing about secondhand clothes was that even a little money you could still manage to buy something nice for your child even if it was just a shirt you could at least say that your child is well dressed but now i see some children in my neighborhood walking around naked because their parents cannot afford to buy these clothes others are walking around wearing torn clothes that never used to happen because people had access to secondhand clothes. i mean initially this seems like a really bold move by rwanda but there are repercussions jacqueline oh absolutely it's an industry that if the levels are higher. you'll have a great day. i think. and as well it goes down in. the main it is

all region so you know what i'm reaching. traders and. this really is a life so if that's the takeaway then you know and they joke. they won't have to say it's this is all. so much schooling so that's happening as much as it is equally now ready to fall to. some people it's it does have repercussions absolutely so and hearing that the repercussions and of course how sad that is for someone to say that they're seeing children walk around without clothes the flipside of it is that people online are saying it's the opposite the degradation comes from a second hand clothes so this is a which we did and several things for today show he writes second hand clothes degrade people also second hand clothes choke local industries right down to the producer of cotton and he goes on to say that this is something that he wishes

could change my thought to that rwanda is doing a good job in safeguarding her people and the great lakes region and so danny i wanted to give that one to you because this idea of degrading its people by allowing them to be able to buy second hand clothes talk to us about what that means. i think the bun is much about. dignity as a tease about policy formulation we are seeing a lot of. changes about how people approach the industry and how also they're willing to to spend their money so what fashion brands are doing in randa is to change that we're producing quality products we are producing quality clothes that can be worn by people and because when used to thicken one clothes it's just some people who wear those kind of clothes they don't even know what's

written on them they don't even know what the question is and so what you're doing this fashion brands run that we're trying to change that mindset they're trying to reframe dots by producing thing that we can personally wear and things that we know are giving god pride that i you know talking about two different types of customer that if you look incredibly smart well can doubt but we're also talking about people who has now been paying cash to see an applied cannot to incoming secondhand clothes cannot now afford to buy clothes for that caps are we not talking about a luxury market and then an everyday market for people who are just trying to turn up this. if you're trying to look at this and you will have to also see if there were to approach it because there's no way that you're going to the market and with something dot has words that you do not that are not really

giving value to you and so when we talk about the luxury market and people who buy from the high end fashion for fashion will buy high end fashion product you also have to look at the possibility of the fashion brands produce being. produced in octaves that can be affordable to different income classes and this is what we're trying to do special brands and granda we're looking at the way you can leverage different resources and also cater for people who cannot afford the projects that we're offering to those who are well off. and i think well i think yes tapping and then judy i was a scene trying to get into i had casually thought of yeah i think the release of ones and i think. from ten years ago and now it is almost fascist and i was looking

at the second closest. and i told trips to africa i went in this particular trip from work to ghana and i are because we have to know how people are thinking at different levels by cablegram yes they have minds they think you know secondhand clothes believe is into the eighty's it is kind of like a luxury item or two saying something that nobody else can says will always say the hierarchy will see it in the u.k. was different level and then when i spoke to those in england i was thinking i would have one to get in the lower class so i got became a mother want to why would you want somebody else's clothes although they all go so loud lois kerrigan. have. a likeness allowable she calls it big that what that what it's called off we can buy what they want so we could get me put out when i felt that way i would say it was good quality but not perfect to get

ran's going to the photos affordable so they're all different levels of markets want to sell you or cost them more than are also it grieved with wonder woman what misfortune. and dignity is saying hey self-sufficiency and manufacturing for oneself and the country it's subspecies in but it's not reliant on trade all these from a sixty second time it was the juiciest the well again that's going to be across the boards isn't done yesterday what we're going to say i don't think that this is a mere kill a exclusive issue where i think that there is in fact a need in many countries who are individuals to have access to truly a portable quoting it exists in the united states and so i think that that ban does give you a bit of a disservice while also serving to significantly bolster in the future.

the strength of domestic manufacturing especially and rwanda but i think. the time being it needs to be carefully measured to ensure that we're not to cry i think people of the ability to simply forward clothing and linda i want to bring you in here with these series of tweets one person who's handle a serial tweeter says what about jobs do you mind that the more you import a less price secondhand clothes or cloth it kills at least two job opportunities so some numbers would have to check there but that's his take on it he gets pushback of though almost immediately from someone who says so you seriously think that people will switch to buying locally clothes made overnight because there's a ban on second hand clothes president trump in the u.s. thought the same about chinese cheap products and go check how not so simple that is so linda talk to us about what the alternatives are for people who cannot necessarily afford designer locally made products i think this is an opportunity for those in

a super entrepreneur fashion designers and manufacturers to cater to different markets it's not going to mean that every brand is going to be affordable for every market but this pushes the button and back to. innovative but i think that also reeling it from only one end of the stick this is an opportunity to create jobs well those you're referring to in your original question could be a part of the value chain now the people that are consuming are able to make or by being part of the value chain and therefore are able to afford some of the clothing that's produced. so i think there's two sides to look at this not just focusing on the ban and what that means for consumers buying it but also being part of the value chain to produce these items that represent. danny i think yeah yeah go ahead jenny i think it's an opportunity for all wanted based businesses to start building in manufacturing systems that will ultimately be able to provide

a portable clothing manufacturing that might not exist as of now in part because he garment manufacturing is expensive and that's something that needs to be worked towards after times as a result of high quantities being made in order to lower the individual unit cost to the way he's seen that happen because it's funny is right now it's going to be twenty nineteen so there's a there's a gap right now where have you seen this happen successfully. i haven't seen it i can tell you i haven't seen it happen successfully and then in the united states ever since the united states started manufacturing such a large percentage of its clothing outside of the united states it in china and bangladesh it significantly more expensive to buy made in the u.s. garments which is part of why america first agenda is falling short in many

respects the reason that bangladesh is able to produce clothing so cheaply is because they produce so much of it the united states simply can't compete with that deck and what we're going to say can i just mention and yes we go and get sorry for you so you get the biggest story as well because we've got a few other confront jews who are pushing the made in general but you know even nigeria. looking put into walls and getting rich off by the chinese imports and folks in in nigeria garner as well kenya in the story which seems to be a trailblazer when cold war their agenda expands and. with gender well the document with actually this is one of the two truly. three trillion dollars it's it's the commute makes money in fact. but then you also have to remember if it's legal you need to see evil what is what is opportunity tax family history and

what i would think if the manufacturing judy was talking about. we have to look at places in regards to the supply chain especially is not just the manufacture it's a whole supply can break complex supply chain and something like the quick industry that in. the course already going to be that's why there's a big push to. process used to tears so we keep the value in the country on the consumer. process actually is that the cost is. well and one on the juice right that doesn't go jacking i hate and danny was trying to get in ahead danny but danny can i just show you something before you do that we were a team was in kigali earlier on today and asking people what they thought about the span of the upcoming band twenty nine thousand where it would cost you more to west

secondhand clothes and buy them in rwanda we find very optimistic people have to listen to them die so then petition of secondhand clubs is nothing but he's made. a good idea. so i just it's reduced our g.d.p. to increase to deal with the payments of our country to other countries i think their destruction of dame petition of does crowd days i mean they shall go out is a good digest because if we improve our production i mean demented runs our product will be improving we will be improving the developed the development of a country. time you are part of that made him a lanka push what he's doing yes i think i just know i'm the fun of these two young it is really of brilliant points and i wanted to. there's

something julie mentioned earlier of that there is a need to establish factories too to see how we can you know how we can satisfy the local market and i think this is something that has tightened brundle and the it's been you know we have different factories that are actually focusing on mass production and you see that one country one factory alone is employing more than two thousand people now doesn't appear to need to now we haven't job which into than running and this is something that i think the trend continues we are we are going to have a bigger employment i think where the problem is before we get very excited about the about the transition is we equipped with. the edge cutting technology and we having enough. material do we have enough equipment to actually drive this change and i think this

is where the that the high end fashion comes in now the high end fashion is not going to be dissolutions to the ultimate solution to this problem that we can all agree but i think with where we can help where we can support eve we have the team of creative people and the creative people can actually jump in with design concepts with different kind of. kinds of support to actually see how we can could even be from you know dealing with other companies dealing with. factories that can produce for the for the. big must and so this is this is where i think that we can if we think this through if we keep receiving the incentives from the government that's where we can actually get

around or incentives incentives wasn't accented from the government danny so this isn't a conjunctions. you know and i can touch on what denny sucking about because we've benefited from a lot of these incentives and public and private partnerships the government has put in both both sectors actually within deliberate efforts into investing into growing our infrastructure so there's opportunities like the export growth fund which we've enjoyed as a business and with industrial as just mr thirty and the business development funds these are. policies or opportunities in place to support growing our business service and growing made in iraq so i think there should not just be a focus on the band but what's being put in place in complex to compliment the general having towards establishing a very strong made in rwanda so i think you can focus on one end without highlighting the benefits that are coming as a result of the ban. so i think it's really important i think we can build on that

as well. before you do i want to bring in a couple of people who are on the same wavelength as you so any go says the government should have a plan in place to assist the affected traders those who are in the secondhand clothing industry another person writes and this isn't guy who says this is a good move but the government must try to subsidize locally made clothes or put price controls because local manufacturers have a tendency of hiking prices when they have no external competition is so two ideas of what the government can do incentives wise there danny your take. i think here the government it's really good to have the investment plan and also work closely it's one thing to have a plan but it's also another to work closely with interpreting you was and people in the fashion as well as the textile industry i think there is huge potential i

was reading a few days ago how the they do number of imports in clothing in two thousand and amounted to about seventeen million dollars so i thought back really and to try to imagine if we shift doc if we inject that money into local establishments into the local factories how many lives can we change not simply from what the web but also from what they are so it has to be also a collaboration there has become aberration in different levels and i think what i can what i agree is that i believe the members of the government to nurture side it these days by did not just rein in abruptly i think this is something that was contemplative the point on this is something dr they had to see to sit back and say

it's time for us to find the solutions it's it's time for for us to our culture to bed local. solutions so the government comes in but also doesn't stand alone has to be has to be passed by then to premier was as well as valid stakeholders really. listen it's next. i think it needs to be supported like you said by the government by entrepreneurs by consumers that the individuals who will be provided with jobs and therefore be provided with income this is one part of a larger ecosystem that will impact the economy and individuals on a very galley basis and that's not accomplished simply by a band there needs to be the core every step of the way and i think those

certain. policies in place that i helping us bring down our cost of reduced for example the packs exemption to bring in the raw materials as you know iran there's a landlocked country so why look getting our raw materials outside so they have to have been some thought into how do we bring in textiles the are able to produce locally at in the for the world cost jackie i'm just thinking if we come back to this top a king sized time a look at what one does of fashion and closing industry what do you think we might see. i definitely think there's going to be war because she knew that it's a dangerous they when they see all this how clearly she's like this is what it translates as well now if you could production that need to be. moral investors it's coming in to settle some of the big retailers but you have to . get a cheap route to feel. that they're actually that i see

a lot more what i wanted to just add on quickly that we can get you know the fashion industry is needed if you question for want direction to waste and you can see the major aspects of. the industry and it knowing that there is a unity it means that those in the west tend to think that they can just by last question really becomes the somebody to these african countries who are country so maybe we need to really set about how we think about clothing or over the world not just when but all over the world thank you so much gas for your contribution to our conversation today many our end with two sides of this debate online i don't know on twitter says i don't take this as degrading because a lot of people in uganda and rwanda cannot afford to buy new clothes therefore people should be allowed to buy second hand then on the other side of that debate

this to be a you tube radical nomad economic neo colonialism can be overcome by nurturing our own industries and ban second hand imports as offered a shameless when i was here next time take everybody. to.

this week's counting the cost the prime minister's briggs appeal is rejected as britain's towards a messy exit why zimbabwe's government wants people to buy less fuel plus ninety models moscow may cause worries about the trade bill. counting the cost as iraq. these are the top stories about a suicide bomber has drowned his car into a checkpoint in the kurdish controlled northeast syria killing at least five people the bomb went off in the city of the as a joint convoy of u.s. troops and allied fighters from the syrian democratic forces passed by but no

american soldiers were killed or injured i still says it's responsible and holder has this report from neighboring lebanon israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing information saying it's targeting the elite couldst force unit of the iranian revolutionary guards israel has lifted the veil and its message is that it has no intention of stopping the strikes. we have a permanent polsky to strike if you're a need entrenchment in syria and her whoever tries to hurt them. israel operates in syria with russia's approval moskow turns a blind eye when the strikes don't weaken the syrian government and when the israeli military gives the russian military prior notice the russian defense ministry doesn't usually comment on the operations but this time they didn't just provide details about syrian army casualties but that syrian air defenses destroyed

israeli missiles russia will send some messages to israel. course it will. continue providing syria with. more than missile systems or more. rockets. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at

german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last month plans to withdraw american troops israel was concerned the u.s. pullout would strengthen iran which has vowed to stay in syria as long as required but israel too made a promise and that is to keep up the airstrikes until iran leaves. beirut at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a coordinated attack by the taliban in wardak province that reuters news agency says the best toll could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in my down shot which is west of kabul monday's attack is the latest in

a series of assaults by the taliban hours after that attack the taliban said its representatives at health talks with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan. encounter. you can prime minister to resign maine says she'll try to break the deadlock over her bread by seeking further concessions from the european union at the heart of the talks will be possible changes on a backup plan to avoid a hard border in arlon these initial plan on how the u.k. would exit the e.u. was the feat of by a historic majority in parliament last week venezuela's supreme court has struck out congressional measures that the clear the presidents of nicolas maduro illegitimate the pro-government justices also ruled that the leadership of the opposition dominated congress itself is invalid and the head of zimbabwe's largest trade union has been arrested jeff it more you know was the thing that well but mugabe international airport the union was behind the general strike that took place last week to protest against

a fuel price writes those are the headlines we're going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next it's unfair game thank you for watching. the election of the forty fifth president of the united states raises ethical and potentially legal question. today mainstream media can easily be disrupted and personal online data easily accessed. how can this information be used to sway the outcome off an election. and can it undermine the basic tenets of democracy that are so cherished.

i think if americans knew this was happening they would be outraged. we just weren't mentally able at that point in time to see that. this is democracy taking place in darkness it's not democracy. i woke presenting the facts plainly and hottest. staten island to new york. in a state that's considered a stronghold for democrats this suburb is an exception. most of the people here

voted for donald trump. scott libido lives here patriots artists and a big supporter of the president's. is unconventional. i am unconventional i mean new york city artist i'm selling for forty five dollars because he's the forty fifth president there's a new sheriff in town knows we're going to get a clean house we can kick some ass did you need the media to win an election when a state that it was stacked against him you know it's always stacked against a republican no matter who won it's the media is like that and just like that than that the ugly hatred you know the exterior the obvious it's like you put on you know c.n.n. knows the psych alright alright alright alright but i'll flip around and it's like holy. you know it's and this and b c and it's like relentless they can't stand

bad he beat vam because they said he wasn't going to win. fed up with traditional media gets his information on the internet it's you know i'll spend like analogous had for go to sleep i'll have my phone on and you know i'll go from this to that and then all chant made a speech i didn't hear it today and here and now and i mean and sometimes it's i don't even honestly i don't look like who's giving it. like millions across america scott believe most of what he saw on the web with little question. for example this article trump believes millions voted illegally. or this one that hillary clinton received over eight hundred thousand illegal votes. i'm not saying all three million are but i'm sure a lot of them are absolutely you should not be able to vote if you are in

a league if you're not a legal citizen it's a child but that's how it works and then they want to change that like no that's not how it works. this information is of course false it would be nearly impossible for illegal immigrants to vote in the united states articles like the news or examples of what is now called fake news. scott is far from being the only one to refer to these sources. martin uses one such source known for its misleading stories. on breitbart we can trying to articles like this does feminism make women ugly. or this would you rather your child had feminism or cancer. breitbart is also obsessed with the west versus islam is the new cold war. or political correctness protects muslim

culture. its content has been called missile genetic xenophobic and racist by liberals and conservatives alike. breitbart is it you know it's a it's a right wing media outlet that was founded by the late andrew breitbart a conservative activist and commentator and journalist. breitbart is a real french publication it's a representative of what they call the old right you know people who want to take on this stuff. as quote politics but do so in a very divisive way they're rail against immigrants to this country they rail against people of muslim faith they you know devout use taxes to divide people on the basis of gender on the basis of race. breitbart became a main source of information for the american far right it's the sensually served as an organ for sort of the trap of men. the worldview projected by

breitbart was in line with donald trump's and it touched a nerve with his outlook towards. people wanted to describe the trump voters as angry i'm not sure they were angry i think they were more fearful worried concerned scared about about the future in the spring of two thousand and sixteen if we looked at the people who were voting in republican primaries these people were very concerned about terrorism very concerned about immigration they they saw the two of them working together as creating a threat an x. almost an x. essential threat to the to the united states and this was something that was being spoken about by donald trump and not necessarily by other republican candidates these concerns were heightened as trump played to existing anxieties.

ted division has been in politics for forty years for him it would be a mistake to think that fake news has no impact on american alex moral behavior here's what's happening in our politics people are consuming information entirely different ways that we used to you know when i started doing presidential campaigns when jimmy carter you know has an office i mean we turn on the news at six thirty at night and we'd watch three networks at once and that was the way america. essentially consume news now there is a constant flood of information both on television in the cable environment and particularly online you know that that online consumption of information is having a real effect on things because what's happening is the legitimate media is being supplanted by you know this fake news where people get information which sounds like it's real and true but has no basis in fact and in fact much of it is just made up and delivered you know by people who are attempting to you know affect the

outcome in the election by introducing false narrative and information into the flow of information so you know so yeah i think it does have a real impact. like of regard for the truth became more apparent than in any other us presidential campaign. according to politico fact an independent fact checking websites only four percent of donald trump statements during the campaign were true false information was constantly circulating in fact it became self property you have to look at our media landscape and how americans get their news nowadays conservatives get their news only from fox news or alternative sites like breitbart so that's the only news they see and they view the manged what they call the liberal media the mainstream media with distrust and they don't believe the kind of c.n.n. new york times washington post so they are only getting their news or law most of

their news from very slanted sources and so. what trump will say trump picks up his information from the same news sources these voters hear something conspiracy theory and breitbart news or something on fox trump hears it too says it and the voters i feel i've heard that for it on the news and i heard that from president trump so he must be telling the truth if they're in a silo and it's really hard to break that silence so it's a self reinforcing cycle of mr. it became more difficult to discern fact from fiction the traditional press was brushed aside sort of a way that these campaigns of you know traditionally been covered and. and that model of campaign coverage was not sort of created with donald trump in my hand trumps disregard for making true statements is something that a lot of reporters have had trouble dealing with as we're not used to it we're not

used to politicians or press people just sort of straight out lying the mainstream media is disrupted and because the mainstream media is disrupted truth is disrupted and if truth is disrupted you can just spread your. i didn't know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. eighty three eighty three will sure boulevard and address among the most prestigious offices in los angeles behind these windows at number one thousand or a few companies that would seem to have no connection. the first is brit regarded as a platform for the so-called right. the second is going to ring steel it's a small audio visual production company and these companies are linked to a billionaire who's rarely in the public eye. his name robert mercer.

he is co c.e.o. of a hedge fund firm renaissance technologies whose ranks has been climbing since one thousand nine hundred three. carol cadwallader has been investigating this computer engineer turned billionaire robot. he is an absolutely brilliant scientist did really pioneering work. in the sixty's and in the field of natural language processing which is the base of. basically and he was right at the start of it and working out how to do my machine translation between languages so that google translates which we use all the time. descendant of the work that he did you know he is with the brilliant computer engineer of his generation and

he was just an ordinary middle class guy doing a professional job and he got an offer from technologies this hedge fund. for them and he did. it was in the early ninety's that robert mercer left i.b.m. to work for run a song technologies. there he applied his methods of calculation on the stock exchange in order to predict its fluctuations. at technologies he pioneered. algorithmic trading which now is you know massive bill written. something which still remains a bit secret about hard to make profit in markets but the origin of it is in applying a computer techniques to the data without worrying about fear of where the economy

is going or what are the actual meaning of instruments or trading if you're buying wheat. or if you're buying a car company. you don't really care that it's a car company or that it's wheat you just look at the performance of these futures or these stocks and the key thing was to view this just as a set of numbers by applying his mathematical tools robert mercer revolutionized renaissance technologies investment methods making it the world's most profitable fund into this. mess it became very rich source because the performance of the fund which he had his own money and. was extraordinary i mean if it goes up thirty percent thirty five percent every year then pretty quickly you become very rich.

robert mercer is known to be very private he almost never speaks publicly. even google has a difficult time producing photos of the few that exist are always the same. there is also a poor quality video a public speech in twenty fourteen during a ceremony in his honor. found out after ike this i'm sure i'll accept this award but i would have to make it all right on some topic or other for an hour now which by the way is more than i typically talk and in a month. robert mercer might have quietly enjoyed his new fortune but he decided to invest in politics. he's been recognized as one of the most generous republican donors since twenty ten. merce's donations appear to be motivated by his own special interests.

the political system in america is so broken right now because of the special interest money which floods campaigns i mean what happens is when the special interests have an agenda or if you're annoyed company for example and you'd like to continue you know drilling for fossil fuel you know or your polluter and you want to make sure you can continue to pollute you go in you support politicians who believe in your agenda politicians who will say for example that you know climate change is not happening because of bad made activities you know they will they will promote that publicly because that protects the special interests who fund their campaigns. robert mercer set up his own foundation. the mercer family foundation. headed by his daughter rebecca. but what exactly are these special interests

he's protecting. it's hard to say since robert mercer never expresses his opinions publicly in a way you'll never know what's going on in robert nurses brain so just look that's what is funding a little money that way and i think that kind of builds of a picture. to understand the ideas that robert mercer wants to promote we can look at where he's been spending we can do so with tax documents declarations of the foundations fiscal allocations for the years twenty twelve to twenty fifteen mercer financed a number of institutes and lobbies among them the heritage foundation which fights taxes and economic regulation one point five million dollars. the media research center which fights leftist media bias twelve million dollars the government accountability institute which tracks government corruption and publishes books

again three hillary clinton three point seven million dollars the heartland institute which defends climate change skeptics two point eight million dollars. in new york he even paid for an ad denouncing the construction of a mosque near ground zero in just two years robert mercer became one of the ten most influential billionaires in politics according to the washington post's. and twenty eleven breitbart news the right wing online newspaper was in financial difficulty. mercer saw an opportunity and he invested ten million dollars in the web site. the executive chairman of breitbart was a prominent figure closely linked to trump's campaign stephen bannon. a former goldman sachs trader he became a hollywood producer in the late one nine hundred ninety. he wanted to make films

and t.v. series to promote his ultra conservative political views. mercer and bad and are very closely associated and by mercer associating himself with somebody like steve better that maybe that may be a clue to his interpreter merce's personal views. in a few months abandon made breitbart an outlet dedicated to reactionary ideas. you see that with the breitbart publications over the course of many years it was someone like bannon who just proclaims this publicly that they're going to take on these a situations and they're going to try to deconstruct the government of the united states to pursue the agenda that they have which is. to you know fundamentally change this nation and turn it into you know a place where people experience a level of division that i don't think we've seen since well going back to the

civil war. robert mercer had built a political media network. to promote his ideas he was only missing one thing i can did it. in twenty fifteen he began by supporting texas senator ted cruz a figurehead of the american far right. but after donald trump's surprise victory in the republican primaries he placed his bet on trump. robert mercer created a pro trump political action committee called make america number one endowed with fifteen million dollars his role in trump's campaign quickly expanded. in july twenty sixth seen a dinner was held in a hotel in new york. it brings together among others rebecca robert mercer's daughter and donald trump the dinner resulted in key campaign changes.

trump's campaign manager was replaced. the chair of making america number one rebecca mercer whose family also fund the super pac. was able to influence the trump campaign to hire stephen bannon as campaign c.e.o. . steve benen became donald trump's campaign director. kellyanne conway who headed the mercer political action committee for ted cruz became number two. david bossie a mercer family stalwart became number three. robert mercer has assembled team was in place. bannon basi and conway wood from this point forward steer the republican candidate strategy. when the merck nurses decide to support a candidate they expect the candidate to be responsive to their needs both in terms of how the candidate runs their campaign it also also after if the kid is

successful and there are and they are elected as an office holder it's reasonable to presume that the mercers expect that the office holder will be responsive to the mercer's needs needs as well and their policy preferences. robert mercer his plan was proving to be successful. but a mistake was made that made steve bannon's role controversial. here is what was discovered by looking at donald trump's official campaign books each of these lines corresponds to an expense during his five months tenure there was no trace of payments for steve bannon. but when we look at the payments made by robert mercer as political action committee one name appears several times. glittering steel a video production company. in total the company received three hundred two

thousand five hundred dollars from the committee in five months the company is run by steve bannon. that would mean that his work for trump's official campaign might have been paid by a glittering steel which would be illegal campaign financing. the campaign legal center decided to file a complaint. and . steve bannon faced a fine and an investigation by the justice department. we believe or we think it's possible that the super pac make america number one was subsidizing stephen bannon's work for the trump campaign by making payments abandoned through glittering steel at all see this consulting firms last movie

production company located in california at the same address as ben's own consulting firm. glittering steel and breitbart are not the only companies tied to the trump campaign eighty three eighty three will serve boulevard in los angeles also hosts cambridge analytics a company that came under the spotlight for its influence in politics around the globe. cambridge analytic claim to have revolutionary data modeling techniques that can change political campaigning. it was a subsidiary of an english firm and its role in donald trump's campaign is regarded as manipulation of public opinion. with. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of

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soldiers were killed or injured just a few hours before that attack in the israeli war planes conducted airstrikes in syria's capital damascus israel says it was attacking iranian military targets some of binge of it has more now from gaza and what it is done is that it is called the bluff of iranian commanders and the pressure that we've been seeing building inside syria after the repeated victories of the syrian government against opposition groups taking back a lot of areas and iran infringing itself inside syrian territory and building its military presence at shows that iranian presence inside syria is both vulnerable and at risk from not just israeli targets but also pressure from other allies such as russia which does not see eye to eye with everything that iran does inside syria so it's a it's a slice of the very complicated picture inside syria at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a coordinated attack by the taliban the reuters news agency says the death toll

could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in my down shot which is just outside couple hours after the attack the taliban said its representatives held the talks with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan xilai had in cata. the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may says she'll try to break the deadlock over her breaks a deal by seeking further concessions from the european union at the heart of the talks will be possible changes on a backup plan to avoid a hard bordering arland maze initial plan on how the u.k. would exit the e.u. was defeated by a historic majority. parliament. police in the northern irish londonderry have carried out a controlled explosion officers say the vehicle had been hijacked by masked men who object before it now those are the headlines and that have for you in the

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the election of the forty fifth president of the united states raised ethical and potentially legal questions. the possibility to undermine basic democratic principles has significantly increased. there will be no lies we will honor the american people with it truth and nothing else. the headquarters of a firm little known to the general public called s.c.l. group strategic communication laboratories is located in the heart of london.

in these offices data scientists compiled and analyzed terabytes of personal information. their objective was to determine what motivates human behavior in order to influence a. they specialize in psyops. which is. a military term psychological operations it's a whole discipline it's an academic subject it can be used in different ways. the vermin is very clear about it services on its. clients include nato the british ministry of defense the n.s.a. and the u.s. state department. s c l has helped identify key leaders in afghanistan

facilitating u.s. intervention. it's also organized communications for vaccination campaign in ghana. but the company's practices remain questionable. it's a way of not cheap people that's the working towards better outcomes for them but it also can be used to manipulate people without being aware and it can and has been used by authoritarian regimes. the company organized protests in nigeria in two thousand and seven to win fluence the elections. s e l also intervene during an election on the island of st vincent in the caribbean. as. it did for example it is not just on his own what it meant to have he just really moved it

clear program of a collision a stance pretty face could look candidate the survey can have a problem okies obama clinton four hundred two but for a player that has. ensured. c.l. sets up ultra targeted influenced strategies. the advent of the web and the vast amount of data circulating created an entirely new dimension of business. in order to extend their market as c.l. group created a new subsidiary in the us cambridge analytical tech seven i wanted to suggest that a structure just doesn't take into it is it does only it was it says you need can bridge and into the cue ball fit on the ball and i'm so just. to create cambridge analytic. partnered with the american billionaire robert mercer a mathematician specialized in data. steve

bannon served as vice president of the firm. from the outset the objective was clear nothing less than a revolution in the election campaign process despite multiple interview requests cambridge analytical has refused to speak with us. but it's possible to understand the work they did by simply watching their advertisements political campaigns have changed they're no longer about running the most t.v. spots sending out the most direct mail or spending the most money they're about who spends the smartest money in today's political world what campaigns are getting more expensive in elections are won by small but crucial numbers of votes putting the right message in front of the right person at the right moment is more important than ever this is where cambridge analytical in our revolutionary data modeling techniques can help. it sounds like

a more logical approach to campaign strategizing however the reality is more complex and above all much murkier than cambridge and in that it was willing to admit that. since coming to the. united states the firm embarked on an unprecedented operation to compile data on the american population without its knowledge here's how it works. imagine that inside this car is mr x. like anyone he leaves thousands of pieces of personal information on the internet his address age income hobbies purchases religion and whether or not he owns a gun. cambridge analytical legally bought this data from credit companies banks social security and web giants like facebook google and twitter.

in total the firm claim to possess about four to five thousand pieces of data for over two hundred thirty million adults living in the united states. this is how they plan to use its traditional political campaigns use geography and demographics like age and gender to break down voters into target groups this can work up to a point but it misses the important personal details that really drive voter behavior we combine geographic and demographic information with up to five thousand data points of national political consumer and lifestyle behavior for every voter in the united states then we add a unique extra layer of data about personality decision making and motivation. this creates an unparalleled rich and detailed view of voters in the issues they care about so you know exactly who to target with exactly what type of message we call this behavioral micro targeting our team of data scientists psychologists and

campaign experts can show you which individual voters you need to win over in order to secure victory. the idea is to give people psychological tests and then compare the results with the in for. nation they already have on them to know what motivates them and thus influence their vote it's a technique that existed before cambridge analytical one of its inventors teaches psychometrics at stanford university california his name is michelle kosinski metrics is basically a science of psychological measurement so basically have not is that instead of using question to ask you about your thoughts feelings experiences and past behavior such as are your well organized person you can basically look at your digital footprints and see whether you in fact i well organized person in real life . tests to determine

a person's psychological traits are called ocean tests they measure personality based on five criteria. openness conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism. it's done with seemingly innocuous questionnaires that can be completed online like these. in two thousand and eight michelle kosinski created the most famous of these tasks on facebook called my personality a questionnaire to learn more about yourself. became really popular we had over six million people to take the question there and a large fraction of these people also donated their facebook profile information to us and from this information you can use. algorithms to transform this

information into very detailed and very i curate intimate profiles so as a result michelle kosinski hospital largest psychometric database in the world. a database he can cross-reference with the facebook profiles of the six million people who respond it's. so basic you can turn your facebook likes into an actor it's a prediction of your political views religious views your personality intelligence happiness sexual intake or even whether your parents were divorced or not people often ask me how accurate those algorithms are at predicting our intimate traits and i think that a great example comes from our recent study where we have compared the curacy of algorithms with a curiosity of other people so what we did we took friends and family members of our participants and we asked these friends and family members to feel in

personality question as in the name of our participants now we would provide algorithm with a set of facebook likes and have it do the same thing so based on your facebook likes trying to predict your personality the results of this experiment are staggering by studying ten of your likes on facebook the algorithm knows you better than your call the. with one hundred likes it knows you better than your family. and with two hundred thirty likes it knows you better than your spouse. now given how much footprints how many footprints we're living every day while using internet and splaying of our phones. it basically means that computers can clearly know us better in many ways than even our close family member this. prediction of human behavior through the combination of personal data and

psychological tests is shockingly accurate. david garrow is a media professor at parsons university in new york. he battled for months to retrieve the data that cambridge analytical had on him. he was amazed by what he discovered. is the excel spreadsheet that they provided it is broken into three tabs core data election returns and models the model on the one hand personal data that the firm has gathered from the web and then my registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would normally be public in voter records but it it's all accurate it has the day i registered to vote it has figured out my birthday my address the zip code

down to you know all of my address it's connected to census information and it's connected to all the different kinds of elections so u.s. congressional state senate state house state legislative then you have some consumer information here like the designated mark information and f i p s it is another kind of consumer voter code and when you on the other hand the psychometric interpretation of his personality together that's how you can really zero in and target the model is my profile so you can see the different topics were ranked in order of importance my registered. artisanship my underage is your partisanship you clearly see who their client was it didn't measure me as a democrat or republican just a very unlikely republican and you can also see sort of the model itself is in the interest of sort of finding. conservative voters especially conservative voters who might be registered as a democrat but are actually going to vote republican so being able to go down to

the zip code level and then reus o.c. that to all other election districts allows you to geo target. so precisely and that's how you're going to move the needle in u.s. elections i think if americans knew this was happening and happening internationally they would be outraged. funded by robert mercer and headed by steve benen naturally cambridge on a lot of how would offer its services to candid donald trump. by late june twenty sixth seen the partnership with a done deal. on july the twenty ninth the first payment was sent to the company you can find it's in the campaign account. with four payments between july and october twenty sixth in cambridge an emoticon would receive nearly six million dollars. at the same time the political action committee for donald trump

funded by robert mercer paid cambridge analytic top five million dollars between november twenty fifth and november twenty sixth in. ultimately the firm would receive eleven million dollars to work with the trump campaign. a digital targeting strategy was made possible and set to run for donald trump. all that was needed was a way to put it to use in the american elections certainly beat some camp which include cambridge analytical saw something in the america. electorate that the clinton campaign and the media certainly did not see. it's been reported that thanks to cambridge analytic cuz knowledge of the electorate trumps advisors devise the highly targeted strategy based on the particularities of the us voting system. in the united states the president is not alike to directly by the people but by

the electoral college appointed in each of the fifty states not all states have the same number of electors making some states more important to win than others. the trump camp suspected that they would not win the national vote so with strategists decided to concentrate on key states. knowing that they would lose the national popular vote. how do you win well you win by capturing the electoral college how do you do that you try and figure out a way of where you can go to appeal to relatively small numbers of people he was going to places that a lot of people thought why is he doing that he shouldn't be doing that he should be going someplace someplace else we didn't there was a strategy of looking at places that had been thought of as consistently democratic states states like michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania all three of which mr trump

carried on in november. this was the strategy reportedly recommended by cambridge analytical not to try to convince millions of voters across the entire nation to vote for trump but rather to target only the tens of thousands but the firm knew through its analyses were hesitating. if you are somebody who's. clever. and you're just you're looking i mean what he does algorithmic trading it's all about finding the tiniest edge is that tiny tiny tiny edge that you have of your competitors that you can leverage and make a massive difference and that's why you make the money and i think this idea of using data and the potential manipulation through a platform facebook is that just enough to give you that edge that then you can

exploit through things like faith and all these other techniques and tactics. here are the techniques that motion by the data scientists i cambridge and. using the information they had on the other words they defined thirty two types of personalities throughout the country. it's believed that individualized messages were sent targeting those considered to be the most concerned about issues. was discussed by trump during his campaign. the firm identified many such voters in three states wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania three states bay believed could swing in favor of trump. in a press release cambridge analytical openly explained its strategy.

there remains one question that the firm does not address just how did they reach these targeted voters. they did it using a little known facebook feature dark posts. they do sit in on top is when bashed his book for such a massage. and book readers should determine that because my search for certain movies you've said but you just wanna listen about but it's all of. those i cannot expect out of it if the decline of depth of but only design to yourself is a book i make them as such but also when they get if look on you that make critical mistakes are not so i thought as for this christmas as the above but i had the

manuscript it. is so dark posts are very personalized messages visible only to the person for whom they are intended how does that work exactly let's go back to mr x. analysis of his online data i can determine whether or not he's in favor of carrying firearms a message can then be created targeting him did you know that hillary clinton wants to take your gun away. he'll receive this message in his facebook news feed at a specific time porting to his happen and digital fingerprints. no one but him will see the targeted ads and it will disappear a few hours later. as no record of them you've got no way of investigating that you have no idea who saw what and this is democracy taking place in darkness it's

not democracy if you're going to have a political debate have you out in the open you know who is arguing what and here is being told what and the idea of just sort of like sneakily targeting people with who know what's on their phones and on their computer and with anything to make you think they could have been saying anything we'll never know because that's gone what is on facebook said is interesting thanks but they're not giving up. this digital strategy for the trump campaign was focused on the last few weeks. on november the eighth twenty sixteen against all odds trump took wisconsin by twenty three thousand votes michigan by eleven thousand and pennsylvania by forty three thousand. in total seventy seven thousand votes in these three key states kerry trying to victory when he was three million votes behind over the entire country.

the digital targeting strategy had proved effective we can see that approximately seventy thousand voters made the decision for everyone else because they were the ones in the districts that ended up deciding where they think this highlights as well our electoral college system is a vulnerability that if software and data allows the most important voters to be easily. found it and diminishing the vote of everyone else effectively. politics and democracy was the next industry to fall we knew that technology interrupted newspapers. and music and it was like actually harry is we've been talking all this time about how great you know technology is it thanks for the not disruptive technology and i was like well this is technology

disrupting politics and and it's not just politics it's democracy and. it's the great disruptor. after trump's election when two former employees of cambridge analytic claimed that the front collected the data of tens of millions of facebook users. collection was done in violation of privacy policies. christopher wiley was the first whistleblower he's the former director of research at cambridge analytics. britney kaiser the former business development director was the second. on march the twentieth twenty eighteen c.e.o. of cambridge analytic alexander nix was suspended after secret recordings were broadcast off next boasting if using fake news campaigns and honey traps to affect election campaigns globally. on may the second twenty eighteen s e l group

announced that it was filing for insolvency and closing all of its operations including its subsidiary cambridge analytical. cambridge analytical stated that it has been vilified for activities that are legal and widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arena as. however the acceptance of this digital strategy continues to be challenged as the manipulation of public opinion becomes clearer. donald trump's campaign strategy exposed democracy to new threats however it also drew more attention to data technologies role in politics around the globe. unless there were a significant change in privacy policies personal online data can continue to be

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at iran with syria the main battleground as it warns it will not allow a rainy and aggression. the taliban kills dozens of members of the afghan security forces hours before talks with the u.s. special envoy plus. this really does feel a bit like groundhog day persons prime minister presents her breakfast at plan b. to parliament but it looks a lot like plan a. and in sport three time champions saudi arabia had been knocked out of the asian cup japan beating down wind mill to reach the quarter finals up at tournaments. hello we begin the news hour in syria where a battle for power between regional rivals is threatening to sell the war into even more chaos and i saw a suicide bomber rammed. into

a checkpoint in the kurdish controlled war ceased as a joint convoy of u.s. and syrian democratic forces passed by at least five people were killed no u.s. troops were among the casualties but it is the second attack this week targeting american forces in syria just a few hours earlier the skies over the syrian capital blazed with explosions as israeli warplanes launched air strikes against the reigning military targets russia says its air defense system shot down thirty israeli cruise missiles and guided bombs over the last kiss but at least four syrian soldiers were killed in a hold of reports now from neighboring lebanon israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing information saying it's targeting the elite couldst force unit of the iranian revolutionary guards israel has lifted the veil and its message is that it

has no intention of stopping the strikes. we have a permanent poles need to strike if you're a need entrenchment in syria and her whoever tries to hurt. israel operates in syria with russia's approval moscow turns a blind eye when the strikes don't weaken the syrian government and when the israeli military gives the russian military prior notice the russian defense ministry doesn't usually comment on the operations but this time they didn't just provide details about syrian army casualties but that syrian air defenses destroyed israeli missiles russia will send. messages to israel. continue. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has

a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last month plans to withdraw american troops israel was concerned the u.s. pullout would strengthen iran which has vowed to stay in syria as long as required

but israel too made a promise and that is to keep up the airstrikes until iran leaves. beirut well as a mention there israel's announcement that it struck targets in its war torn neighbor was highly unusual as the government is normally very secretive about its activities in syria harry forces has more now. it was just eight days since the last time the israeli prime minister was speaking very openly about an israeli strike inside syria that came last sunday two days after that strike a much more limited one it was also the same weekend that the outgoing military chief gary isengard was detailing in a much more comprehensive way exactly what israel had been doing over the last few years targeting urania interests inside syria really putting an end it seemed or at least moving away from the policy of ambiguity which israel has been surrounding its activities for those years up until this point the reason for that change well

there are two explanations being posited here mainly one of them being domestic politics elections coming up on april the ninth benjamin netanyahu under serious pressure over three separate corruption investigations a potential decision by the attorney general re indictment coming within weeks it's expected and so it suits his political profile certainly to appear strong and in charge of israel's security at this time also the it may well be that the military wants to message iran and indeed syria that it is willing to do more and escalate its activities over syria further and messaging this before it does so certainly there has been analysis that changing this policy does run the risk of iran and syria potentially using that as a reason to be more open in their possible escalatory actions and that is certainly one risk that the israeli government the israeli military appears to deem worth

taking at the moment. residents of the house like a province in northeastern syria say there's been a surge in attacks on checkpoints in recent months kurdish fighters there are still battling to clear eisel from their last foothold in the region some of binge of it has more now from on the turkey syria border. this is the second attack in five days on u.s. forces and their allies inside. syrian territory just a few weeks after the us president declared that syria is for your vice and it's operation done and he will be pulling out pulling out his troops an assessment that not just his commanders but his own team does not see eye to eye with one of his envoys had to resign because he did not see that mission the mission has been accomplished in syria and with these attacks it's becoming clear that the united states might need to stay longer inside syrian territory this attack and came days after the attack in a town which is a bone of contention between the united states and turkey as it is falling out of

the so-called safe zone on the turkish syrian border there is a road map to member that is being discussed and the united states would like to see a rule of the no call entities there inside syria whether they are the kurds or the arabs to be part of the government which takes over rather than handing it over completely to turkey of turkey on the other hand has had this open communication again with the united states with the president calling the u.s. president saying that his forces are ready to take charge and also addressing a local audience here in turkey and telling that the durkee will be closely monitoring how are these promises going to pan out that have been promised to turkey it says it has been reported here that the turkish president says that in his forces are ready to take on an operation east of the euphrates river this is going to be all the all the way through out not just the turkish syrian border but the words the edge of the iraqi border as well so not that remains in this

complicated question of how and who will be pulling out and who will be left in charge. at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a coordinated attack by the taliban in the province the reuters news agency says that this toll could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in my down shot which is west of kabul when this attack is the latest in a series of assaults by the taliban and just after hours after the attack the taliban said its representatives had held the talks with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan's on my head in catherine suck more about this now with omar samad who is who was afghanistan's ambassador to france and canada under the last government he is now a senior fellow of the atlantic council and joins us from washington d.c. sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean the timing is certainly strange or or notable at any rate that the taliban should have this

attack which you know the numbers are still being disputed are not confirmed but we could be looking at just the round one hundred victims at a time when they are actually literally about to engage in talks with the u.s. what do you make of that strategy. well unfortunately yes this incident occurred today in reports from kabul say that as you mentioned it could be more than one hundred twenty but regardless i think one person described this as the taliban at this point holding in on one hand. a piece of branch and in the other hand their have a grenade or a suicide bomber and using both tactics in order to pursue their agenda i think that what we have seen in the past few weeks is an uptick in fighting in afghanistan this was sort of expected given the positions in the posturing that has taken place by the afghan government on one hand trying to show muscle and trying

to see if it can push its own agenda when on the other hand the americans are been trying to make a breakthrough in find a breakthrough in the afghan peace process as it's called even though it's not about peace yet it's mostly about what the taliban want is they want to change the venue from one place to the other and they also want to make sure that it's their agenda that is being discussed and not anybody else's and this is what has been happening today in doha where the taliban and the u.s. envoy have been discussing the next step and the agenda that is on the table but do you think that this attack by the taliban will have given it leverage doing these talks or do you think you might have been counterproductive. yes these attacks traditionally when they occur when there is political talk is viewed as trying to sort of strengthen your position your diplomatic or negotiate position and use

leverage but in this case i think that we see a trend for the past few weeks we've seen a lot of fighting this fighting is unfortunately bound to increase as we enter a new season of fighting i think that the taliban realize that the peace so-called peace talks and the overtures or go after be focused on what the americans and the taliban want to discuss therefore they want to put pressure on kabul and they want to put pressure on the afghan forces the uk and forces on the other hand now are being led by men who also or combative and they want to make sure that they put trade themselves as ready to fight the taliban so it's sort of a stalemate that is hardened at this point omar samad we're going to have to leave it there omar samad a senior fellow at the atlantic council sir thank you for sharing your he's with us thank you. so to come on the news hour the family of

a sudanese doctor killed while treating injured protesters say that they blame the government after decades of conflict to the people of mindanao in the southern philippines vote on greater autonomy and serena williams is looking back toward dominant bess the latest from the australian open in sport. the u.k.'s prime minister has returned to parliament to lay out her plan before how the u.k. should or will leave the e.u. after a week that plan a suffered a crushing defeat there three so my hopes her new proposals will convince for barely a from her own party and coalition partners to support her the plan includes more discussions on how to deal with the contentious issue of the hour of the irish border and scrapping registration fees for citizens in the u.k.

post-breakfast still several m.p.'s accuse the government of failing to present an acceptable plan many now want to take back control of the brics a process and they're considering a historic amendment that would let m.p.'s propose new legislation and force parliament to the bait the problem into is the plea divided over bricks with different factions calling for a range of options including leaving without a deal holding a second referendum or seeking a customs union with the e.u. paul brennan reports now from westminster. this was a prime minister in apparently conciliator remote i'm listening she said i will keep you informed she told m.p.'s but there is no plan b. for brics it's only more talks about salvaging her plan a will be more flexible open and inclusive in the future in how we engage parliament in our approach to negotiating our future partnership with the european union second we will invent the strongest possible protections on workers' rights and the environment and third

we will work to identify how we can ensure that our commitment to no hard border in north nonet and island can be delivered in a way that commands the support of this house and the european union the opposition labor party leader was unimpressed the prime minister's invitation to talks have been exposed as a p.r. sham every opposition party politician. or every opposition party politician came out of those meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister has just said there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing has changed. in brussels there's been a frosty reaction to the idea revisiting negotiations and is it too late for sisters i don't know i don't really know change with the old to cream and they would see more to it to cool because no willingness to open the door of books again and a polish suggestion about a five year time limit on the northern on

a backstop the insurance policy to avoid a hardboard on the island of ireland has been rejected by dublin i made it very clear of us putting a time limits on insurance mechanism mechanism which is what the backstop is effectively means there's not a backstop at all at westminster several different groups of m.p.'s are now devising ways of using a variety of parliamentary amendments to force the prime minister to change course if we don't find a way forward the u.k. is leaving the e.u. in the twenty ninth of march and us a basis of no deal so let's legislate to stop that let's take that away take that risk away. hold a gun to the head of parliament which isn't to say to reserve is trying to do as march the twenty ninth looms the prime minister's strategy appears to be to go back to brussels and test the e.u. is willingness to risk a no deal bret's it but he is also testing the patience of this parliament and it's not at all clear which side will flinch first paul brennan al-jazeera westminster.

well the e.u. which has an economy more than six times the size of that of the united kingdom says it wants an orderly prexy but senior officials have expressed frustration at london's deepening crisis they've changed her has more from brussels there was one straw in brussels that the british prime minister to resign may grab that like a drowning women and it came a suggestion from the polish foreign minister they're all meeting here this morning at the e.u. council headquarters on an entirely different issue but of course briggs it is on every menu at the moment the polish foreign minister suggested that perhaps the sticking point the the the the hard border or the soft border that the de backstop deal could be guaranteed to stop after five years but that was a major really knocked down by the deputy irish prime minister and he said

no way they can't open to go she's on that the irish backstop is a guarantee that there will be no hard border between the republic and northern ireland and so no that is not something that reason may can actually start negotiating with she comes here to brussels next week so there doesn't seem to be a new plan b it's plan a again and the e.u. voice already said that if they are going to open negotiations again there's got to be something coherent some new deal on the table before they start opening that pandora's box again so it looks as the moment is there is no luck anywhere no response anywhere to to resume a statement stalled in the house of commons and certainly not here in brussels. in the democratic republic of congo supporters of presidential runner up martin for you know have been arrested police blocked crowds from attending a rally at famous party headquarters in kinshasa on sunday dear sees highest court

rejected for use demand for a recount of the vote and declared felix she said k.d. the country's next president the african union postponed a high level visit in response after saying it had serious doubts about the result an official from a party that backs for you lou says they'll keep demanding a recount. we're going to continue until we get the truth through the ballot boxes we're not asking any more than that no where in the world have election results been published by block saying this will get seven million and the other good six million they need to be published progressively polling station by polling station or by tally center province by province this allows for the establishment of confidence and fair play killing a doctor means killing a nation the message from protesting doctors as they staged a rally in sudan's capital khartoum they are mourning the death of

a colleague who was shot last week for helping wounded protesters his grieving family has blamed the government which is the nine responsibility for any deaths during the month long protests against the sudanese president mohammed valve reports now from five to the home of dr bao because of the hamid in qatar has seen a constant stream of mourners since he was shot during an anti-government protest on thursday his house has also become a meeting place for supporters and sympathizers. oh i did then what he did with one of my five children he's my only son he never had a problem with anyone but he was always wanting to help those in need. or it was all well as well as to sort of the. three of the homies sisters are also doctors they say he was shot by members of the security forces or to makeshift clinic that he set up in the capital. the family showed us a photo of a man in civilian clothes pointing

a gun to words the house while their brother was teaching the wounded. those sorts of video of the shooting nearby at around the same time at least two protesters were wounded. was a colleague try to rescue the doctor who was shot. him as he was. the word that the people who were killed in sudan look killed because they did anything wrong look at single car broken not a single house broken the people who are going out. to say no. thank you very much was a forensic expert says the doctor was shot from behind when jenna exam. we found pieces of metal in the wound in the lower part of his lung they'll be studied to determine the caliber and the type of weapon used a. sedan security forces and police deny any role in the killing of protesters

with the. us police never used any live fire to any protest sites or any other occasion we never use live bullets in any situation. the same denials have beery eatery today by the head of intelligence and the target of the protesters anger president omar and bashir. we now have arrested people who belong here application alicia and they acknowledge they were given orders to mix with protesters and to kill them do not stop completely destroy the country the government security does not kill people. well i wouldn't. by god i say it's the regime that killed my son i will never doubt i said something about it but i get to know my media and i'm sure they purposely decided to kill doctors but my sister was arrested with the other. they detained this told them that they were specifically looking for doctors who helped protest that. the type of force being used by the

government to quell the protests is adding to the controversy and confusion about the killings the government has employed militia to help the army combat armed groups in sudan for decades. what's attracting attention now is militia men are mosque in their faces while attacking an arm of civilians in the streets of khartoum and other major cities and. then there is a very dangerous and unprecedented situation when the men in civilian clothes and carry guns back unseen amongst their faces to confront protestors this proves the existence of a shadow army which is seniors ruling party leader talked about and yet you see him move anyone with him in the who do. as protesters chant peaceful peaceful they are drowned out by gunfire and tear gas scenes of collective punishment like these are say the government's opponents at the local us. so is that breaking into

homes our security forces severely beat anyone suspected of hiding protesters the government says twenty six people have been killed so far in a month of protests to demand the better life. rights groups say the total isn't least double that the government's announced the setting up of an official commission of inquiry but protests that broke out over the rising of the cost of living last month continue it intensify and spread across the country and with every new protest to kill hundreds more turn out demanding an end to the thirty year rule of president bashir. dizzier cuttle. zimbabwe's high court has told the government it had no authority to order mobile operators to shut down internet access during widespread protests last week the largest phone company has already restored all internet and social media services

a crackdown on protests is continuing with the arrest of the head of zimbabwe's largest trade union geoff it more you who was arrested at robert mugabe international airport and now faces subversion charges the union was behind the general strike last week in protest that a massive fuel price hike at least twelve people were killed and more than six hundred arrested in the subsequent crackdown whatsapp has announced that all users globally will only be a law be allowed to for the message five times instead of twenty its owner facebook says it's trying to stop the spread of rumors and false information what's up as a ready implemented the restrictions in india after rumors spread on the app led to killings and the tax by moments. voters in the philippine island of mindanao have been taking part in a referendum on proposals to give greater autonomy to the territory it follows that codes of war by muslim rebels against government rules for many jamila and in duggan reports now from quote about the city where tensions have been high. from

bullets to ballots after decades of armed conflict millions of filipinos voted whether to accept or reject on the tunnel was government designed to provide greater powers for muslims in the southern philippines the more islamic liberation front the largest armed group in southeast asia negotiated for almost twenty years with several administrations in mandela and what's called the b o l the bangsamoro organic law may finally be ratified by president clinton to go to terra to. cast their votes you know we very. often. will be right to fight and among some of. the stuff. the m i

l f is committing itself to the democratic process after decades of war against the philippine government's armed forces new autonomy would pave the way for an estimated thirty thousand m.i.l.f. fighters to give up their weapons the island of mindanao has been held back by decades of armed conflicts since the muslim rebellion began in the one nine hundred sixty is more than one hundred thousand filipinos have been killed and millions more displaced as the referendum began army commanders reassured voters they were in control but some voters became impatient. in one of the precincts. a growing crowd signalled the need for the military to intervene in the us soldiers asked voters who cast their ballots to leave but some refused others said they've been waiting for hours and weren't given the chance to vote right outside the

precincts where hundreds of voters they say are upset because they were not allowed to vote polls just closed at exactly three o'clock local time here in this that they had been waiting they are chanting yes. mom i'm only believing more money so called yes well. some m.i.l.f. supporters say they are ready to return to war if the referendum result doesn't turn out to be favorable to the rebel group the result is expected to be announced in the weeks time until then government leaders are appealing for calm. in the region with a reputation for violence and electoral fraud peace is precarious here jim duggan al jazeera cut about the city's southern philippines. that's why still to

come in this hour we're. on the same. twenty seven when when is well and soldiers arrested for mutiny over a video call for an uprising against president led little and the presidential contender joins an increasingly crowded field in the race to be the democratic challenger to donald trump in twenty twentieth's. and then sports browns fans are heading back to the n.f.l.'s biggest game for the first time since two thousand and two. for a change the snow is not the real story of europe we've had significant rain or into the western part of the mediterranean for the body alex more recently said sudden here in sicily and italy is that arc of this is snow still snow running through

ukraine but that's gone by tuesday and this is the picture of what's the next frontal system coming down through the u.k. into the low countries france and the norms by there's some snow in that because the air behind it is quiet calm and the air in front isn't particularly warm either so a bit of proper winter swinging in from a different direction i suppose and that maybe start the presses off again we'll see rain and start slow particularly for in the alps rain over the water over italy over the arcs again down the adriatic coast you're nurses with those spreading out through austria and cream once more if you're in northern germany it just remains cold so our actions in the mediterranean which means the coasts of algeria in tunis here will catch some of that right and increasingly a strong wind which of course will bring the city up so attempt to maybe irrelevant where we won't be feeding very nice or wednesday and it won't be good if you intend to get out of the waters that so in fact that rains france region is here and you can see it dips down into northern parts of libya ahead of it it's quite warm in

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in america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera israeli warplanes have pounded iranian military targets and serious congress will damascus with the prime minister warning that he won't allow iranian aggression at least forty three afghan troops have been killed in a taliban attack on a military base in the out of that province near kabul some estimates put the best toll much higher and the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may says she'll try to break the deadlock over her breck's a deal by seeking further concessions from the european union. the

mexican police say three gunmen have shelled that seven people at a house in kent qunu an apparent dispute between drug dealers the body of a radio journalist has also been found dumped along a roadside in the western town of widget all this as official figures show the war a record thirty three thousand three hundred forty one murders in mexico last year that's up significantly from the twenty eight thousand eight hundred sixty six people who were killed in two thousand and seventeen the new record shows the huge challenge facing president under a split away and that lopez over the daughter who took office just the sender with a promise specifically to curb violence a drug drug crime there have been more than two hundred thousand homicides in mexico since the government the ploy the army to fight drug trafficking in two thousand and six. well for more on this son joined by mariano my chain the

international at that scene coordinator for the n.g.o.s set up as which works with victims of violence thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera defeat at. the numbers are astonishing i mean they were astonishing anyway in astonishing there's been a five thousand plus increase in the number of dead from two thousand and seventeen to two thousand and eighteen where is the government going wrong. where you think the new government led by president lopez obrador is not understanding well the challenge that he's facing he published recently will be some security program in november with some interesting points but so far the key interest of the new government has been in the establishment of a militarized national guard a new security agency in the country composed mostly of soldiers and navy marines

and we think this has been the drudgery that has failed in mexico for the last twelve years the seriously broadband of soldiers across the country in order to tackle crime has not led to the reduction in our solution of the problem but it has deteriorated the situation. i mean you mentioned that strategy of creating a national guard where the civilian police units will come under military control but in fairness to overshadow it is only been in power for a few months and obviously the figures that we're seeing here dating back to two thousand and seventeen two thousand nine hundred for the comparison but even before our staggering two hundred thousand people killed in the past twelve years or so well so what do you think of the other factors that make this such a difficult issue to deal with mexico. certainly president lopez obrador is not responsible for these figures he's responsible for not seeming to be understanding the challenge and to be exploring

some of the interesting idea that that his plan also includes fighting corruption promoting human rights and we think those. factors are probably closer to the real solutions that mexico needs than to the establishment of a militarized national guard in mexico there are more than there were last year more than thirty three thousand homicides but there are also more than forty thousand disappeared people the vast majority of these cases have happened over the last twelve years as well. and so i mean you mentioned that some of those ideas work what other things do you think need doing at all levels of society to try to combat this. well the key issue for us is to combat impunity in mexico ninety nine percent of all crimes go unpunished and that includes all homicides if the new government does not prioritize fighting

impunity that is carrying out effective and thorough investigations into all serious crimes including homicides and disappearances then the root causes of the problems will not go away mariano much ayn international advocacy coordinator of the ngo set up as the works with victims of violence thank you so much for your time. the venezuela's supreme court says its throwing out recent measures by the opposition led the national assembly which declared the presidency of nicolas maduro illegitimate the pro-government justices also ruled that the leadership of the congress itself is invalid opposition politician one who was sworn in as the president earlier this month has been overseeing legislation accusing me of usurping power but bhutto was sworn in for a second six year term on january tenth meanwhile government officials say twenty seven soldiers from the national guard had been arrested after

a video appeared on social media showing a sergeant demanding president who was removal as the story. so you notice. these are members of the bolivarian national guard in venezuela they say they do not recognize the government of the real leader. we need the support of the people of venezuela take to the streets here we are this is what you wanted us to defend the constitution here we are here the troop it is today becoming what if it happened at a military base in got the sack i guess the ministry of defense said forty people had been detained. people from the area took to the streets to protest they set up roadblocks some barricades the national guard responded with tear gas and rubber bullets that the men are there are some of them i have relatives in the house over there i have an aunt who's with her children they're practically kidnapped and they're showing right for them to die of hunger the people have to go out to defend

their rights but i the incident took place stenches in venezuela increased once again after he was sworn in for a second time in office was the opposition and countries in the region including the united states say they won't recognize his presidency because the elections in may last year were filled with irregularities and that's why they have been calling on the military to rise up against the government. there offering immunity to all of the military personnel all polish modeled off that he says the opposition and the united states are trying to overthrow a legitimate government. this is not the first time a group of members of the security services rise up against. last year a helicopter pilot. was killed after throwing grenades at government buildings. the model is believed to have the loyalty of his top military command that plays

a crucial role in his administration and that's why the opposite. is hoping it is the regular troops that will change. the summer antecedent. ecuador says it will ask venezuelan migrants to present their criminal records when they enter the country it follows the murder of a pregnant ecuadorian woman by a venezuelan man which triggered protests and violence the killing in the northern city of the batter was the first reported murder committed by evidence when an immigrant from ecuador since hundreds of thousands arrived after fleeing and in cologne the crisis ecuador estimates that one point three million venezuelans entered last year. california democratic senator camilla harris who has launched her campaign to become president of the united states in the twenty twenty election harris a former california state lawyer has become popular among liberal activists after her tough questioning of donald trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh she's

the eight stem a crowd to enter the race for the white house alongside massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and former obama housing secretary julian castro let's go live now to shepparton c. in washington d.c. tell us a little bit more about carla harris says she have and also what are her chances realistically. well i don't think it's a coincidence that she announced her candidacy on martin luther king jr day a federal holiday here in the us she's another sign of that increasing diversity in the democratic party she's of tamil and jamaican descent she is she was a federal prosecutor in san francisco she was a district attorney there she was also the attorney general of california but she is a first term senator but now barack obama that isn't seen as an impediment to running for the highest office in the land despite relative inexperience in washington she's presenting themselves as a bridge between left and right and being able to bring the diverse factions within

the democratic party together she has recently taken on a number of progressive positions like universal health care which is what the bernie saunders wing is in favor off but interesting late in the old days that route to the presidency of the presidential nomination of the democratic party was dominated by the viewpoints of centrist and center right people in the party like the clinton wing for example that has changed the sound of success in twenty sixteen so even though. if she was if you had ambitions before to become president they may have they may have played out when she was attorney general california for example by being really tough having a really hard line on lauren order on criminal justice reform she opposed a lot of liberal criminal justice reform for example shop held the death penalty she protected the police when they were under is under scrutiny so ironically even though she would have she might have done all that so she would be accused of being some wishy washy lefty that's actually coming back to haunt and amongst the

progressive wing of the democratic party was saying wait a second you're pretending to be a left wing person now because we're we're in the ascendant but what about your record in california you are incredibly right wing among normal tissue so it's a really interesting question which does actually sum up a lot of the problems that some candidates are having right now this early stage and among the other candidates have declared because it's quite a few. have implied that they that they hope to have any merging stop anyone you'd put your money on even though i know it's pretty early early days. yeah i could completely pointless i think even if you question you have to tell you because you know also many of the people the candidates who are who are announcing now is thought to be the ones who might have the most work to do to establish themselves once the real front runners who are the ones who've already been anointed as front runners do emerge and there's a great expectation that bernie sanders for example run again the joe biden would run again and those are the two wings of the party or maybe that we're looking at here that left wing progressive wing that is thought to be in the ascendant who

seems to be leading a lot of the organization against donald trump whose ideas about universal health care free college education that the time appears to have come as far as they're concerned and the old wing of the democratic party close to wall street opposed to any radical change basically mainly running simply against not not being donald trump more of the hillary clinton saying which the left has lost last time so those candidates who are announcing now are the ones who are trying to say before these established figures come in come into play so this is where we stand and now they've got to thread that needle though between appearing progressive enough for that left wing as embodied by bernie sanders but also perhaps trying to downplay but not scare off the center right wing who they were probably intending to impress in the first place before bernie sanders even emerged on the scene so they have a difficult job too which is perhaps why the clearing so early shippers hansie with the latest on that from washington thank you saying in the u.s. it's they certainly one of the government shutdown and hundreds of thousands of

federal employees are temporarily out of a job and that of cash many are having to find work to plug the gap until the standoff between president trump and democrat leaders is resolved on the reports that from a job fair in rockville maryland. jamie rinehart seemingly has it all in life a wife three young daughters a home and a car and a ph d. in oceanography what's missing is his job after he was sent home without pay from his post as a federal government marine research scientists jamie is a victim of the government shutdown so he's now at this education job fair applying to be a substitute teacher i've been interviewed with i think she must have been either an administrator or a teacher or they've asked me some questions regarding you know my experience is related to working with kids and and how i would respond in certain teaching situations and then obviously there's benefits to those of us who

are furloughed and are looking we are you know looking to earn a little bit of money we're offering a building service position is clerical position and so forth transportation glass striker's these are the faces of the victims of the government shutdown and accountant applying to be a high school math teacher a lawyer applying to be a school bus driver people that unexpectedly find themselves out of a job for no fault of their own like darrell burton an investigator at the postal service now applying to be a school security officer a mensch then is the cure in that position among some accounting schools because my background over the last ten years nearly it's been an investigations this is the second day they've held this job fair on the first day there are more than two hundred people that were here looking for work today when the doors opened at ten am there were already a hundred people waiting in line to get in with no indeed in sight the government

shutdown the number of people looking for work is high several school districts are holding similar job fairs for federal employees schools normally providing education for. may now also supply jobs for their parents our goal is really to say . if there is a temporary gap that people had we have opportunities as for jamie rinehart his interview is over he waits for a call back in the meantime he's become a driver for a ride share app to make some extra money to support his family. but he's hoping that the shutdown will end so he sued can drive back to work gabriel's onto al-jazeera rockville maryland economic growth in china has slumped to a twenty year low as the trade war with the united states takes its toll the world's second largest economy expanded by only six point six percent last year

while g.d.p. in the fourth quarter grew at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis and that's the spike government measured measures to try to stimulate the economy investors are concerned the beijing's problems could drag down growth worldwide. ten sailors have died in the other fourteen have been rescued after two ships caught fire in the kurdish strait crimea russia's transport ministry says survivors jumped into the sea to escape the fire it's told the blaze may have broken out during a ship a ship to ship fuel transfer both ships were under the tanzania and flagged with crewmembers from turkey and india. public trust in russian president vladimir putin has fallen to its lowest level in thirteen years a poll by the public opinion research center found trust in him a drop to thirty three point four percent bush in one a landslide election victory and the new six year mandate in march his overall approval rating has fallen from nearly ninety three just over sixty percent only

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champion saudi arabia have been knocked out of the asian cup japan beat them one nil to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament for the eighth consecutive time a first half goal by tacky hero tom ieyasu was enough to send the samurai blues through where they'll face see vietnam in the last eight shapin other tournaments most successful side and are looking to be asian champions for a fifth time was a. good shot on them and i'm happy that we were able to win against one of the best teams in asia and our players were able to play strong with tenacity because of that we were able to keep a clean sheet and win the match. defend we played most of the time to danger half and we controlled the ball on how to position but we lacked the final touch and determination to transfer the position into goals but i would like to repeat that i'm still something to fight with their performance their main goal for a head coach like me is to come up with ideas for the players and they have to be

implemented on the pitch and they think they did it well with the defending champions australia are through but only just they struggled to create chances in their match against is back a sun the game and no well after extra time the socceroos eventually scraping through forty one penalties. you know were in the quarter final so you know the men were in their opposition and you know it's a bit it's going to take a big squad to get the job done the obvious suspensions in your injuries playing a part so it's really important we recover neo of c. enjoy the occasion to not because you know penalties are such a tough occasion but then obviously tomorrow we focus on the next game. australia face host nation the u.a.e. next the amorality is bounced back from a late equaliser converting a penalty in extra time to twenty three two they only just hung on kurdistan glowing a great chance to send it right at the end. event as have re-established their nine point lead at the top douglas costa getting the first goal of the season as the

champions crushed bottom side he will train l. even will expect a much tougher game next time out they faced six place but. sort of williams has made him phatic statement of intent of the australian open the american well the one small how been three sets to move into the quarter finals in melbourne so hell malik reports. serena williams has taken a major step in reestablishing herself as the player to beat in women's tennis. to move on to the quarterfinals in melbourne the american had to be world number one simona halep and it looked early on that things would be easier than expected williams dominating the first six one. how it didn't capitulate though she responded showing the kind of form the got into last year's final she took the second six for the comeback was on stage but after saving three breakpoints williams would go on to break color and take a pool really would. she served out the ceiling at six

four to claim the match was williams is now a step closer to winning an eighth australian open title on the twenty fourth the grand slam overall she faces carolyn discover in the next room she's always someone that comes out. and plays well i've got to return a little bit better to the extent that we play a potential semifinal opponent for the woman that dominated her in last year's u.s. open final naomi osaka was the japanese is through to the last eight she got there by beating the stars or service over in three sets the twenty one year old will now face the leanest with alina next. it was a day of frustration for alexander's they're of in the men's draw the fourth seed have never been to the court finds in melbourne and you have to wait till next year to change to. the top finals champion was beaten by militant round it and. the

canadian swept him aside in three sets and will now face france's lukas pool next fall's rev however the wait for a first grand slam title continues to show all of mine grow. this nation like. we never want to know much as. she was. calling issue corey is also into the last day he came back from to sit down to be a problem. in the near five hour marathon. the japanese planes been to the quarterfinals three times before melbourne but has never got any further he faces a mammoth task to progress though as he'll be facing world number one novak djokovic. the serbian be done he'll medvedev in forces to progress. djokovic just chasing history if he wins the tournament it will be his seventh triumph in melbourne making him the australian open is most successful player of all time so he'll mallett al-jazeera. tom brady's new england patriots are back in

the super bowl for a third straight year the patriots will take on the l.a. rams on february the third both the a.f.c. and n.f.c. championship games were decided in overtime rex burkhead ran in the winning touchdown for the pats against the kansas city chiefs in a thirty seven to thirty one victory brady now has the chance to win a record sixth super bowl title. in the n.f.c. decider the rams spent the entire game playing catch up against new orleans saints gregg's airlines fifty seven yard field goal benchley gave the rams a twenty six to twenty three overtime win at thirty two shaun mcveigh is the youngest head coach to lead a team to the super bowl. i've never coached an atmosphere like that ever and it was so well you know we had some communication issues from the start we've dealt with big time adversity and it kind of personifies would say this this is been really throughout the course of the year fell behind guys just kept competing kept

swinging didn't wasn't always perfect but guys made enough plays and i think really the over time periods personifies what this team is really all about. fans in l.a. have every right to be excited as an l.a. franchise it's been close to four decades since the rams made it to the super bowl the rams did win the title in two thousand but that was then the team was based in st louis. where t.g.c. peabody there's been. no you. think is the best going to be. the ramp that. they've been working to get back it is working now. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to barbara in london thank you now stargazers have been treated to a royal lunar eclipse known as a super blood wolf moon the phenomenon was visible all over europe asia and the americans and it only lasted for

a few hours if you missed it don't worry it will happen again in twenty thirty seven. or of course you can see images on our website if you don't want to wait that long al-jazeera dot com that's it for this news hour please do stay with us i'm going to be back with more news in just a few minutes thanks for watching. russian filmmaker under a necker self continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life was like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and

separatists i told flew the locals in the southeast with all our side when i arrived i don't do something completely different someone to leave russia but for others the russian possible means hope and the challenge of happens in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. driven by outrage and spanning generations the real hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like us so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty idea if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world. rewind returns to care bring

your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries in libya was the both of us and the like and the others through the rewind continues with children of conflict gaza would love some peace in the school or especially in care sick children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera. israel strikes back at iran with syria the main battleground as it warns it will not allow iranian aggression.

alone barbarous area watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program the taliban kills dozens of members of the afghan security forces hours before talks with the u.s. special envoy the family of a sudanese doctor killed while treating injured protesters say they are sure he was killed by the government close is really does feel a bit like groundhog day. for reasons prime minister presents her breakfast at plan b. to parliament but it looks on awful lot like planning. thank you for joining us we begin in syria where a battle for power between regional rivals is threatening to throw the war into even more chaos and i saw a suicide bomber rammed this car into a checkpoint in the kurdish controlled northeast as a joint convoy of u.s. and that syrian democratic forces passed by at least five people were killed no

u.s. troops were among the casualties but this is the second attack just this week targeting american forces in syria just a few hours earlier the skies over the syrian capital blazed with explosions as israeli warplanes launched airstrikes against the rain and military targets russia says it's a are defense system shot down thirty years really cruise missiles and guided bombs over the mascot's but at least four syrian soldiers were killed in a hold of reports now from neighboring lebanon. israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing information saying it's targeting the elite couldst force unit of the iranian revolutionary guards israel has lifted the veil and its message is that it has no intention of stopping the strikes because one of the new we have a permanent palsy to strike of uranium entrenchment in syria and her whoever tries to hurt us israel operates in syria with russia's approval moscow turns

a blind eye when the strikes don't weaken the syrian government and when the israeli military gives the russian military prior notice the russian defense ministry doesn't usually comment on the operations but this time they didn't just provide details about syrian army casualties but that syrian air defenses destroyed israeli missiles russia will send. some messages to israel. course it will. continue providing. them more than missile systems or more. rockets. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials

have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last month plans to withdraw american troops israel was concerned the u.s. pullout would strengthen iran which has vowed to stay in syria as long as required but israel too made a promise and that is to keep up the airstrikes until iran leaves. beirut.

residents of has a province in northeastern syria say there's been a surge in attacks on checkpoints in recent months critics fighters there are still battling to clear eisel from their last foothold in the region some of them giant has more now on tap on the turkey syria border this is a second attack in five days on u.s. forces and their allies inside syrian territory just a few weeks after the u.s. president declared that syria is for your vice and it's operation done and he will be pulling out pulling out his troops an assessment that not just his commanders but is own team does not see eye to eye with one of his envoys had to resign because he did not see that mission the mission has been accomplished in syria and with these attacks it's becoming clear that the united states might need to stay longer inside syrian territory this attack and came days after the attack in a town which is a bone of contention between the united states and turkey as it is falling out of

this so-called safe zone on the turkish syrian border there is a road map to member that is being discussed and the united states would like to see a rule of the no call entities there inside syria whether they are the kurds or the arabs to be part of the government which takes over rather than handing it over completely to turkey of turkey on the other hand has had this open communication again with the united states today president calling the u.s. president saying that his forces are ready to take charge and also addressing a local audience here in turkey and telling that the durkee will be closely monitoring how are these promises going to pan out that have been promised to turkey it says it has been reported here that the turkish president says that in his forces are ready to take on an operation east of the euphrates river this is going to be all the all the way throughout not just the turkish syrian border but the words the edge of the iraqi border as well so are not that remains in this complicated question of how and who will be pulling out and who will be left in

charge. at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a coordinated attack by the taliban in the province the reuters news agency says the best toll could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in my then shot which is west of kabul hours after the attack the taliban said its representatives had held the talks with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan in cata well omar samad is a senior research fellow at the atlantic council and the former afghan ambassador to france france and canada he spoke to me a little bit earlier about the significance of the attack happening as the representatives for the taliban are in qatar for suppose a peace talks. i think one person described this as the taliban at this point

holding in on one hand. a piece of branch and in the other hand they have a grenade or a suicide bomber and using both tactics in order to pursue their agenda what we have seen in the past few weeks is an uptick in the fighting in afghanistan this was sort of expected given the positions in the posturing that has taken place by the afghan government on one hand trying to show muscle in trying to see if it can push its own agenda and one on the other hand the americans of been trying to make a breakthrough in finally breakthrough in the afghan peace process as it's called even though it's not about peace yet it's mostly about what the taliban want is they want to change the venue from one place to the other and they also want to make sure that it's their agenda that is being discussed and not anybody else's and this is what has been happening today in doha where the taliban and the u.s.

envoy have been discussing the next step and the agenda that is on the table. well with time running out for a deal to be struck on the terms of britain's withdrawal from the e.u. the u.k.'s prime minister says she's going back to brussels to seek additional concessions the agreement reason may came to with the e.u. in november was overwhelmingly rejected by the u.k. parliament last week earlier the prime minister unveiled her plan before breaks it but guess what it looks remarkably similar to plan a paul brennan reports from westminster. this was a prime minister in apparently conciliator remote i'm listening she said i will keep you informed she told m.p.'s but there is no plan b. for brics it's only more talks about salvaging helped plan a we will be more flexible open and inclusive in the future in how we engage parliament in our approach to negotiating our future partnership with the european union second we will invent the strongest possible protections on workers' rights

and the environment and third we will work to identify how we can ensure that our commitment to no hard border in north on it and island can be delivered in a way that commands the support of this house and the european union the opposition labor party leader was unimpressed the prime minister's invitation to talks have been exposed as a p.r. sham every opposition party politician. or the every opposition party politician came out of those meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister has just said there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing has changed. in brussels there's been a frosty reaction to the idea revisiting negotiations and is it too late for sisters i don't know i don't really know change with the world to cream and they would see motor it to cool because no willingness to open the front door books

again and a polish suggestion about a five year time limit on the northern on a backstop the insurance policy to avoid a hard. on the island of ireland has been rejected by dublin i made it very clear that putting a time limits on an insurance mechanism mechanism which is what the backstop is effectively means that it's not a backstop at all at westminster several different groups of m.p.'s are now devising ways of using a variety of parliamentary amendments to force the prime minister to change course if we don't find a way forward the u.k. is leaving the twenty ninth of march and on some basis of no deal so let's legislate to stop that let's take that away take that risk away. to the head of parliament which is in effect to reserve is trying to do as march the twenty ninth looms the prime minister's strategy appears to be to go back to brussels and test to the e.u. is willingness to risk a no deal bret's it but she is also testing the patience of this paula months and it's not to talk clear which side will flinch first. al-jazeera westminster. it

watching our jazeera still to come. on the scene of. twenty seven venezuelan soldiers arrested for over a video called uprising president. and the presidential contender harris joins an increasingly crowded field in the race to be democratic challenger to donald trump in time. hello the hottest place yesterday australia was west and straight about forty seven degrees not in perth no one in perth but west all the same to the east where that heat is moving once again particularly in new south wales maybe even southern queens and the heat generate some big afternoon showers around

a c t two and the temperature has crept the temp the thralls are up in belle went up to about thirty two this won't necessarily last but the wind change will bring it down to twenty six come wednesday but the heat is still there from adelaide across talk new south wales to camera and to sydney and beyond perth by complete contrast is back down to twenty two mark as the clouds start to gather once more as a new zealand it's always been south island weather eight hundred forty recently has been coming from this direction and it looks like the same story continues so if you're in south on the go down to the tip to get the cloud properly no rain it's all low twenty's rock and wellington probably christ church as well and then the rain starts to gather again once more the driving forces from the west has come to the western side where it's wet east and i think if you're in wellington you've probably just about avoided if you're in oakland or quite looking to in the center of the high pressure could be a misty start today but enjoy it all the same. short

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a reminder of the top stories on our jazeera israeli warplanes have pounded iranian military targets in syria's capital damascus but the prime minister warning that he will not allow in reining aggression at least forty three afghan troops have been killed in a taliban attack on a military base in water back in your car and the u.k.'s prime minister to raise them a social try to break the deadlock over her breck's a deal is seeking further concessions from the european. killing a doctor means killing a nation the message from protesting doctors as they staged a rally in sudan's capital khartoum they are mourning the death of a colleague who was shot last week while helping wounded protesters his grieving family have blamed the government which is the nine responsibility for any deaths during the month protests against the sudanese president mohamed vall reports now from the heart to the home of dr bao because up at home he didn't come to see a constant stream of mourners since he was shot during an anti-government protest

on thursday his house has also become a meeting place for supporters of sympathizers who either didn't work he'd be one of my five children he's my only son he never had a problem with anyone but he was always wanting to help those in need. or it is all . three of the sisters are also doctors they say he was shot by members of the security forces are to makeshift clinic that he set up in the capital. the family showed us a photo of a man in civilian clothes pointing a gun to words the house while their brother was treating the wounded. those sorts of video of a shooting nearby at around the same time at least two protesters were wounded. was a colleague try to rescue the doctor who was shot. was

a message. of the word that the people who were killed in sudan looked killed because they did anything wrong look a single car broken not a single house broken the people who are going out. to say no. thank you very much was a forensic expert says the doctor was shot from behind with just exam. we found pieces of metal in the wound in the lower part of his lung they'll be studied to determine the caliber and the type of weapon used a. sedan a security forces and police deny any role in the killing of protesters with the. us police never used any live fire to any protest sites or any other occasion we never use live bullets in any situation. the same denials have beery eatery today by the head of intelligence and the target of the protesters anger president omar

and bashir. we now have arrested people who belong to application alicia and they acknowledge they were given orders to mix with protestors and to kill them you know to stop completely destroy the country the government security does not kill people. well i'm a little. by god i say it's the regime that killed my son i will never doubt i said something about it but i caved in on with my media and i'm sure they purposely decided to kill doctors but my sister was arrested with the other. they detained this told them that they were specifically looking for doctors who helped protest that. the type of force being used by the government to quell the protests is adding to the controversy and confusion about the killings the government has employed militia to help the army combat armed groups in sudan for decades. what's attracting attention now is militia men are mosque in their faces while attacking

an arm of civilians in the streets of khartoum and other major cities and i think what they what they think it then there is a very dangerous and unprecedented situation now when the men in civilian clothes and carry guns baton seen a mass their faces to confront protesters this proves the existence of a shadow army which is seniors ruling party leader talked about and yet you see him move anyone with him in there who do. as protesters chant peaceful peaceful they are drowned out by gunfire and tear gas scenes of collective punishment like this are say the government's opponents at the local us. so is the break into homes our security forces severely beat anyone suspected of hiding protesters the government says twenty six people have been killed so far in a month of protests to demand the better life. rights groups say the total is at least double that the government's announced the setting up of an official

commission of inquiry but protests that broke out over the rising of the cost of living last month continue it intensify and spread across the country and with every new protest to kill hundreds more turn out demanding an end to the thirty year rule of president bashir. dizzier khartoum. basically police say three gunmen have shot dead seven people at a house in kent kuhn in the parents' dispute between drug dealers the body of a radio journalist has also been found dumped along the roadside in the western town of one edge in all this as official figures show that the war there was a record thirty three thousand three hundred forty one murders in mexico last year that's up significantly from the twenty eight thousand eight hundred sixty six people who were killed in two thousand and seventeen the new record shows the huge challenge facing president and the rest went away looking as over the border who took office in the summer with

a promise to curb violence to drug crime material machine is the international advocacy coordinator for the ngo set up paths which works with victims of violence he says the mexican president's strategy of creating a national guard doesn't go far enough to address the problem in mexico there are he said more than there were last year more than thirty three thousand homicides but there are also more than forty thousand disappeared people the vast majority of these cases have happened over the last twelve years as well the key issue for us is to come but impunity in mexico ninety nine percent of all crimes go unpunished and that includes of homicides if the new government does not prioritize fighting impunity that is carrying out effective and thorough investigations into all serious crimes including homicides and disappearances then their root causes of the problems will not go away. venezuela's supreme court says it's throwing out recent

measures by the opposition led national assembly which they clear the presidency of nicolas maduro illegitimate the pro-government justices also ruled that the leadership of the chorus itself is invalid opposition politician while who was sworn in as president earlier this month has been overseeing legislation accusing me of usurping power was sworn in for a second six year term on january first meanwhile government officials say twenty seven soldiers from the national guard have been arrested after a video appeared on social media showing a sergeant demanding president with the israel press abort reports. these are members of the believer in national guard in venezuela they say they do not recognize the government of the real leader. we need the support of the people of venezuela take to the streets here we are this is what you wanted oath to defend the constitution here we are here the troop it is today becoming what if it

happened at a military base in got the sack i guess the ministry of defense said forty people had been detained. people from the area took to the streets to protest the set of road blocks some barricades the national guard responded with tear gas and rubber bullets that the men are there over there i have relatives in the house over there i've been on who's with the children they're practically kidnapped and should we wait for them to die of hunger the people have to go out to defend their rights. i the incident took place stenches in venezuela increased once again after he was sworn in for a second time in office. the opposition and countries in the region including the united states say they won't recognize his presidency because the elections in may last year were filled with irregularities and that's why. they have been calling on the military to rise up against the government. there offering immunity to all of

the military personnel who will pull smuggled off. he says the opposition and the united states are trying to overthrow a legitimate government. this is not the first time a group of members of the security services rise up against my will last year a helicopter pilot. was killed after throwing grenades at government buildings. is believed to have the loyalty of his top military command that plays a crucial role in his administration and that's why the opposition is hoping it is the regular troops that will push change. there is i will. bring a hindu refugees in bangladesh are pleading to be sent back home to me and live there among hundreds of thousands who fled after being attacked by me and military well straying are muslim but the community also has

a persecuted hindu minority that reports cox is bizarre. you can see it in their smiles and even in the way they walk the real hunger who endured atrocities in medium are now feel safe here in the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh but there's a group of four hundred fifty people who live isolated and are guarded almost around the clock they're a hindu minority among the persecuted muslim minority population they say in twenty seventeen they fled out of fear of reprisals for refusing to join and our group and amnesty international report says almost one hundred hindus were massacred hindus we spoke to say they believe it's now safe to return home to me and are not a we don't have any peace of mind by living here our soul is crying aloud for our homeland and. for most of these refugees returning home is

a terrifying thought last november there was widespread panic and protest after the bangladeshi government announced it would reach an agreement with me in march to repatriate about twenty two hundred refugees the u.n. war and forcing them to return would be a violation of international law when no one volunteered to go the repatriation plan was halted sixty five hindus were on the list according to the bangladesh refugee relief and repatriation commission how about it if they got it we have got we were already in packed up but no bus or anyone from administration showed up. the commissioner says that's because it couldn't meet accord to me and of the hindus doesn't want to differentiate between them and the rest of the routing the refugees he says it would be easy to transport them all at once as they've demanded

however ultimately this hinges on the me in mark of vermont if that is a result and we're not going to get ourselves the readiness for all of them to go bit and no. other form and it isn't completed here. for now the hindus have no choice but to try to adapt to life within the protected confines of their camp i don't know whenever we want to have any fear once we're able to land our fate on the border will gain our strength back. until then they like the rest of the rohingya refugees here must wait for governments to decide their fate it's the talk sugar name al-jazeera cox's bazaar bangladesh. the california senator khalil harriss is the latest to enter an increasingly cow crowded and diverse freights race to be the democratic candidate in the twenty twenty us presidential vote about

a dozen runners have already announced or are considered extremely likely to announce whether or not the twelve who will well join them she can see takes a look now at how some of the leading contenders are positioning themselves. of tamil i'm jamaican descent senator come on harris claims to be in tune with the progressive left wing of the party i am running for president i say but that's precisely where she's facing skepticism she's recently adopted left wing positions like free health care for all but her record all included opposition to progressive criminal justice reform this is the problem for many of the democrats who have officially announced or signaling that they're going to run things have changed since bernie sanders one forty three percent of the democratic party base is vote with his left wing platform against hillary clinton for the nomination in two thousand and sixteen for years the route to the nomination was courting the center right wing of the party now the left are demanding a say too i'm going to run for president the united states kristen gillibrand early

right wing positions on immigration gay rights and guns are a liability even though she says she's trained the closest wall street is a particular problem texas politician better or route often billed as a progressive by mainstream outlets hasn't supported universal health care or free college education is also a member of the clinton like a corporate friendly new democrats and launching an exploratory committee has even elizabeth warren long a champion for holding corporations to account has been received skeptically for her pledges that she is simply a capitalist who wants to give corporations the trans do the right thing she's also had to shift to foreign policy in recent months no longer to see expressed kneejerk support for israel for example and she supports a u.s. withdrawal from syria i have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week that. democrat has lois spoused she supported sanders in twenty sixteen but the extremely conservative views on homosexuality she once supported and her comments on torture and what she calls

a radical islam have raised suspicions on the left the candidates who announced early are often the ones who have the most work to do before the perceived front runner has declared so they have to establish themselves with the progressive left before this makes his decision please please please don't give up. but many have records closer to the center and the right of the party and former vice president joe biden is currently perceived to be the leader there and frankly until we know whether those two are running the outcome of this race is pointless to predict she ever turns the al-jazeera washington. and now reminder of the top stories on our eisel says it was behind the suicide car bombing in northeast syria that killed at least five people the bomb went off in the city of. joint convoy of u.s. troops and allied fighters from the syrian democratic forces passed by no american

soldiers were killed or injured well just a few hours before the attack and the israeli warplanes conducted their strikes in syria's capital damascus israel says it was attacking in rainy and military targets with some of. those. what it is done is that it is called the bluff of iranian commanders and the pressure that we've been seen building inside syria after the repeated victories of the syrian government against opposition groups taking back a lot of areas and iran infringing itself inside syrian territory and building its military presence it kills that iranian presence inside syria is both vulnerable and at risk from not just israeli targets but also pressure from other allies such as russia which does not see eye to eye with everything that iran does inside syria so it's a it's a slice of the very complicated picture inside syria at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in

a coordinated attack by the taliban the reuters news agency says that the toll could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in mind than the shot just outside kabul monday's attack is the latest in a series of assaults by the taliban hours after the attack the taliban said its representatives held talks with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan in catarrh. the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may's says she'll try to break that block over her breaks a deal by seeking further concessions from the european union at the heart of the talks will be possible changes on a backup plan to avoid a hard bordering arland mase initial plan on how the u.k. would exit the e.u. was the featured by a historic majority in parliament last week the country to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march. well those are the headlines coming up three short documentaries that capture the experiences of refugees in europe and the middle

east a.j. selects is coming next be more news in half an hour and i'll see you tomorrow thanks for watching. sat here has never been a real easy sell for an investment how much are the reserved after all are they understated or overstated they own those shares in your company for the people by the. no there was a team all in. the

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and kurdish forces in syria just after israel fired missiles at iranian targets because. dozens are killed in a taliban attack in afghanistan ahead of another round of direct u.s. negotiations with the group. may present another version of hope but it's not much different from an already rejected proposal. plus open for business one of the older streets in baghdad gets a new lease of life. so u.s. troops based in syria have become the target of i saw fighters for the second time in less than a week a bomber rammed his car into a checkpoint in syria's kurdish controlled northeast just as a joint convoy of u.s. and kurdish forces passed by at least five people were killed no u.s. troops were among the casualties the incident comes just weeks after the u.s. president announced the pullout of troops from syria. well monday's incident

happened in her soccer province where residents say there's been a surge in attacks on checkpoints in recent months kurdish fighters there are still battling to clear eisel from the last footholds in the region and on a binge of aid has more now from gaza into well the turkish syrian border this is a second attack in five days on u.s. forces and their allies inside syrian territory just a few weeks after the u.s. president declared that syria is for your vice and it's operation done and he will be pulling out pulling out his troops an assessment that not just his commanders but his own team does not see eye to eye with one of his envoys had to resign because he did not see that mission the mission has been accomplished in syria and with these attacks it's becoming clear that the united states might need to stay longer inside syrian territory this attack and came days after the attack in a town which is a bone of contention between the united states and turkey as it is falling out of

this so-called safe zone on the turkish syrian border there is a road map to member that is being discussed and the united states would like to see a role of the no call entities there inside syria whether they are the kurds or the arabs to be part of the government which takes over rather than handing it over completely to turkey of turkey on the other hand has had this open communication again with the united states today president calling the u.s. president saying that his forces are ready to take charge and also addressing a local audience here in turkey and telling that the durkee will be closely monitoring how are these promises going to pan out that have been promised to turkey it says it has been reported here that the turkish president says that in his forces are ready to take on an operation east of the euphrates river this is going to be all the all the way throughout not just the turkish syrian border but the words the edge of the iraqi border as well so

a not that remains in this complicated question of how and who will be pulling out and who will be left in charge. what if you have the skies over the syrian capital lit up with explosions as israeli warplanes launched as strikes against iranian military targets has more on that. israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing information saying it's targeting the elite couldst force unit of the iranian revolutionary guards israel has lifted the veil and its message is that it has no intention of stopping the strikes. we have a permanent poles you to strike at uranium entrenchment in syria and her whoever tries to hurt. israel operates in syria with russia's approval moscow turns a blind eye when the strikes don't weaken the syrian government and when the israeli military gives the russian military prior notice the russian defense

ministry doesn't usually comment on the operations but this time they didn't just provide details about syrian army casualties but that syrian air defenses destroyed israeli missiles russia will send. messages to israel. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to

syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing. on sunday the hannah air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last month plans to withdraw american troops israel was concerned the u.s. pullout would strengthen iran which has vowed to stay in syria as long as required but israel to made a promise and that is to keep up the airstrikes until iran leaves senator al jazeera beirut where let's hear now from our forces has more on the israeli airstrikes from there a lot. it was just eight days since the last time the israeli prime minister was speaking very openly about an israeli air strike inside syria that came last sunday

two days after that airstrike a much more limited one it was also the same weekend that the outgoing military chief gary isengard was detailing in a much more comprehensive way exactly what israel had been doing over the last few years targeting iranian interests inside syria really putting an end it seemed or at least moving away from the policy of ambiguity which israel has been surrounding its activities for those years up until this point the reason for that change well there are two explanations being posited here mainly one of them being domestic politics elections coming up on april the ninth benjamin netanyahu under serious pressure over three separate corruption investigations a potential decision by the attorney general re indictment coming within weeks it's expected and so it suits his political profile certainly to appear strong and in charge of israel's security at this time also the it may well be that the military wants to message iran and indeed syria that it is willing to do more and escalate

its activities over syria further and messaging this before it does so certainly there has been analysis that changing this policy does run the risk of iran and syria potentially using that as a reason to be more open in their possible escalatory actions and that is certainly one risk that the israeli government the israeli military appears to deem worth taking at the moment. her friends are reporting that now a taliban suicide bomb and gun attack has killed dozens of intelligence and security personnel in afghanistan happened near my unshod the capital of wardak province southwest of kabul a truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency after the explosion other taliban fighters dressed in police uniforms stormed the base some reports say the number of those killed could be more than one hundred. well the attack came hours

before the taliban announced the resumption of talks with american officials the taliban released a statement saying its representatives met with u.s. diplomats in cuts where they have a political office talks between the two sides of a momentum over the last six months the u.s. appointed special envoys on michaela's eve to leave to go see a sions in september now the taliban insists the u.s. must leave afghanistan seventeen is after they invaded the country in response to the september eleventh attacks and a sticking point in negotiations is inclusion of the afghan government in the peace process the taliban regard it as illegitimate and insists they will only negotiate directly with washington let's take this on we can speak now to david said me who's a former deputy u.s. assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan and pakistan joins us live now from washington d.c. this is said they welcome to the program not exactly helpful to the prospects of these talks being successful this latest event is a well it's certainly not only not helpful but it's tragic the loss of life

in this attack as in the many other attacks that have occurred recently is something to be a rep regretted by all unfortunately in the run up to peace talks whether it's in the afghan conflict or other it's common for one side or another usually the side that is weaker to mount amount greater off military operations to try and strengthen its hand for the negotiations and this appears to be one one other reason for this kind of attack by the taliban at the same time as negotiations are slowly proceeding forward all right slowly proceeding forward they'd likely to gain momentum are they likely to lead anywhere we've got elections coming up soon. i think the talks have really done quite well so far this is a war that's been going on one way or another for over forty years and the fact

that the talks continue even in this case where the taleban yesterday said they would not talk to the u.s. and then yesterday they did talk are today they did talk with the u.s. shows that the talks are proceeding now will they achieve anything or they won't achieve anything until the taliban and other afghans sit down together and really discuss peace the taliban have used this excuse of not wanting to talk to the afghan government is a way to essentially the flecked real talks real peace talks can only come when afghan sit down with afghans but as long as the taliban are talking to somebody in this case the u.s. that shows that there is a possibility of the real peace happening and in many ways the role of pakistan is key the u.s. a negotiator ambassador zalmay khalilzad was just in pakistan for several days before he went to doha and the pakistani prime minister imran khan is visiting doha as well it's not clear exactly what role pakistan is playing but they may be

playing a newly positive role we'll have to see what happens tomorrow to what degree is the taliban's power and reach increased in recent years and how much leverage does that give them or not in these talks. well the taliban control more territory but fewer people afghanistan has become a much more urban country and so a much greater percentage of the people live in the cities so the taliban have extended their reach which gives them maybe a little bit of leverage there in terms of amount of territory but the vast number of afghans over eighty percent continue to oppose a columbine do not want the taliban to return most of them live in cities where the taliban do not have any effect of control in any of the even small cities so i would actually say that the current the taliban are a little bit worried this week saw the registration of about ten major tickets for

the upcoming afghan elections the taliban are not represented in any of these electoral lion says there were some surprising alliances. a former head of the intelligence services signed on as the first vice president candidate with president danny mr saleh as well know as a strongly anti taliban pakistan politician i think that the taliban may be worried that with this movement towards elections they may be getting left out in the cold they've said it is great to get your perspective on this do appreciate it thanks very much thank you for the shooting of unarmed protesters in sudan is causing more control to see human rights groups say dozens have died during the month long demonstrations against rising prices and the thirty year rule of the president bashir the government is denying any role in the killing of protesters describing them as infiltrates is reports now from the capital khartoum . the home of doctor about the cop and how he didn't come to my house seen

a constant stream of mona's since he was shot dead during an anti-government protest on thursday. his house has also become a meeting place for supporters and sympathizers. who are well within what he did one of my five children he's my only son he never had a problem with anyone but he was always wanting to help those in need. three of the sisters are also doctors they say he was shot by members of the security forces are to makeshift clinic that he set up in the capital the family showed us a photo of a man in civilian clothes pointing a gun to words the house where their brother was teaching the wounded. those sorts of video of the shooting nearby at around the same time at least two protesters were wounded. was a colleague try to rescue the doctor who was shot. in busy.

on the word that the people who were killed in sudan looked killed because they did anything wrong look i think it's got broken not a single house broken the people who are going out. to say you know if you screw it . i was a forensic expert says the doctor was shot from behind. we found pieces of metal in the room and in the lower part of his lung they'd be studied to determine the caliber and the type of weapon used and. so then the security forces and police deny any role in the killing of protesters with the. us police never used any live fire to any protest sites or any other occasion we never use live bullets in any situation. the same denials of beer eater rated by the head of intelligence and the target of the protestors anger president on bashir.

we now have arrested people who belong to apple or his militia and they acknowledge they were given orders to mix with protestors and to kill them in order to stoke conflict and destroy the country the government security does not kill people. by god i say it's the regime that killed my son i will never doubt my certainty about it but i give in with our media and i'm sure they purposefully decided to kill doctors but my sister was arrested with the others they detained this told them that they were specifically looking for doctors who helped protest. the type of force being used by the government to quell the protests is adding to the controversy and confusion about the killings the government has employed militia to help the army combat armed groups in sudan for decades what's attracting attention now is militia men are mosque in their faces while attacking an army of civilians in the streets of khartoum and other major cities and. then there is

a very dangerous and unprecedented situation when many in civilian clothes can carry guns battens a mass their faces to confront protesters this proves the existence of a shadow army which is seen years ruling party leader talked about and yet you see him move anyone with him in the who do. as protesters chant peaceful peaceful they are drowned out by gunfire and tear gas. scenes of collective punishment like this are say the government's opponents a daily occurrence. so is the break into homes our security forces severely beat anyone suspected of hiding protesters. the government says twenty six people have been killed so far in a month of protests to demand a better life rights groups say the total is at least double that. the government's announced the setting up of an official commission of inquiry but protests that

broke out over the rising of the cost of living last month continue to intensify and spread across the country and with every new protests to kill hundreds more turn out demanding an end to the thirty year rule of president bashir. or or dizzy. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including we'll tell you why this video venezuelan soldiers led to their sacking. the presidential runner up in the democrats or republic of congo and his supporters remained firm in their demand for a recount despite a court order. and a host nation the u.a.e. given a real scare at the asian cup of the action. britain's prime minister to resign may has returned to parliament to lay out her plan b. for how the u.k. will leave the you just a week after her break that deal suffered

a crushing defeat it includes more discussions on how to deal with the contentious issue of the irish border and scrapping registration fees for citizens in the u.k. post breaks it still several m.p.'s accuse me of failing to present an acceptable backup plan many now want to take back control of the brics process and are considering a historic amendment that would let m.p.'s propose new legislation and force parliament to debate it the house of commons remains deeply divided from with different factions calling for a range of options including leaving without a deal holding a second referendum or seeking a customs union with the public and reports now from london. this was a prime minister in apparently conciliator remote i'm listening she said i will keep you informed she told m.p.'s but there is no plan b. for bracks it's only more talks about salvaging her plan a we will be more flexible open it inclusive in the future in how we engage parliament in our approach to

negotiating our future partnership with the european union secondly we're going bend the strongest possible protections on workers' rights and the environment and third we were trying to find how we can ensure that our commitments no hard border in north manage and on and can be delivered in a way that commands the support of this. house and the european union the opposition labor party leader was unimpressed the prime minister's invitation to talks have been exposed as a p.r. sham every opposition party politician. wants to be a very opposition party politician came out of those meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister has just said there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing has changed. in brussels there's been a frosty reaction to the idea revisiting negotiations and is it too late versus the i don't know i don't really know change with the old they would see more to it to

cool because no willingness to open the door of books again and a polish suggestion about a five year time limit on the northern ireland backstop the insurance policy to avoid a hardboard on the island of ireland has been rejected by dublin i made it very clear that putting a time limit on an insurance mechanism mechanism which is what the backstop is effectively means there's not a backstop at all at westminster several different groups of m.p.'s are now devising ways of using a variety of parliamentary amendments to force the prime minister to change course if we don't find a way forward the u.k. is leaving the e.u. and the twenty ninth of march and that's basis of no deal so let's legislate to stop that let's take that we take that risk and we. hold a gun to the head of parliament which is in effect to these that he's trying to do as march the twenty ninth looms the prime minister's strategy appears to be to go back to brussels and test to the e.u.

his willingness to risk a no deal bret's it but he is also testing the patience of this parliament and it's not to talk clear which side will flinch first paul brennan al-jazeera westminster . it did not go back on is a in a sense as an associate professor at dublin city university and he says both the republican violent and northern ireland want to avoid the return to a hard border well we don't even have to imagine we only have to be old enough like myself to go back twenty thirty years and there was a hard border as a result of conflict in northern ireland which in itself was this waged by joint membership and they were about twenty zero fishel border crossings between north and south now there are almost three hundred open border crossings between north and south and it seems it's fiction you don't know yet you're caught in between north and south not as a facilitator to a whole range of cultural political economic interaction between the communities north and south who it might be stressed are not in favor of the kind of current

situation they they want to backstop they didn't want. people living in the republican party it's also the majority of people of northern are somewhat obscured by the fact that trees amazingly missing to one side of the argument in or around us to do you keep because it's parliamentary arithmetic in the house of commons police in northern ireland city of london very appear to have carried out a controlled explosion on a van they say the vehicle had been hijacked by three most men who threw an object at it before banding it and follows a car bombing in the same city on saturday in a vehicle also hijacked by mossman the main focus of that investigation is the new ira a group which opposes in one thousand nine hundred eight nine hundred ninety eight peace deal in the region. in the democratic republic of congo for supporters of the presidential runner up being arrested police brought crowds from attending a rally at multan for unity's party headquarters in the capital kinshasa on sunday

the highest court rejected fired his demand for a recount of the vote and declared a feeling she should carry the next president and african union delegation to spain to visit after initially saying it had serious doubts about the election result for me to miller has more from can show us around. two groups of supporters have been gathering in this area into chestnut just across from the national stadium on the side of the road supporters of martin for you too who had challenge the election result of the constitutional court saying they won that election his challenge was dismissed he supports his yes say he was robbed of the victory they say that the outcome of the election was determined not by the vote but by a nomination people from the side of the road will run across to the other side of the road where they started throwing stones at supporters of felix she say katie he's been named the president by the constitutional court and he's true to be sworn in this week that's when police intervened firing rubber bullets on.

these protesters say felix chase a kid he was named the winner of the election off to striking a deal with outgoing president joseph kabila fairly exactly said he never met john lott today felix who is calling himself the president is behind kabila our worry is that the shadow of joseph kabila is behind felix she security it is not felix who will lead the country it is kabila it is kabila who will run the government lets up with the absolute felix of not when he is not our president because we did not vote for him everyone around the world knows that our president is for you lord that we will continue to come out until our rights are restored if guns are needed we will use guns to claim our victory protest has blocked the road and threw stones outside the headquarters of the. m.l.c. is part of the opposition coalition that put for you to forward as a presidential candidate he was expected to address supporters here but did not appear we construct the secret internationally needed because these effective

results we have too little too little if we needed it done to me we face this kind of further court that xan leave for negotiation regarding that we got a list showing dick. aren't you going to be lead call it that while we slides all this this field do we have to change a really change the mood coalition is appealing to the international community for help but influential african states like south africa and kenya have congratulated president elect feel extra security on his when the southern african development community says the d r c should be allowed to transitional peacefully. but these protesters say if the elections didn't work they will bring change the head of the main trade union confederation in zimbabwe has been arrested jeff union was behind a general strike last week over

a steep hike in the price of fuel hundreds of arrests were made and at least five people were killed in the protests. so the hare and hounds are doing whatever it takes to make ends meet we talk to people out of work due to the u.s. government shutdown. the world health organization sounds the alarm on the health issues facing migrants in europe. and serina williams looking back to a dominant bess the latest from the australian that coming up and. hello no sooner has one storm gone and this is it is very obvious good shot package the next one is coming and that's coming from a ridge in the pacific it's picked itself up to have a high ground over the rockies nazca trust central northern plains this is again

going to be snow but maybe not to the same extent of the last from but it is proper snow is very the rain to the south of it not really much chance of thunderstorms generating any really nasty weather look at the times is that we've recovered we weren't really down below freezing never coming up again so just ahead of the state coming in washington's up to eight new york's up to plus five behind it there's not much of a contrast chicago still a plus to these our day max but you've got to go a bit further north minneapolis to have a real cold feel so this is going to be rather wet sticky horrible stuff it will cause travel disruption again to the south of that there was a inactive end of a cold front to sing here the rain is falling out of it is rather static and persistent but optically heavy's a facade in cuba turks and caicos and for a time in honduras it's moving up towards billie's as well preventing results were just takes a few showers with it now the rain pattern further south and south america has changed somewhat it's rather dry in the south of brazil in europe and argentina the wetness is in northern brazil.

russian filmmaker under a necker soft continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life was like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and separatists i told little locals in the se world when i arrived i don't do something completely different someone to leave russia but for others the russian passport means hope and the challenge of happens in search of putin's russia all knowledge is zero. right out of the last script examining the headline which began with the fractious issue of palestine and israel and the us news of the setting the discussions what makes them different as far as you're concerned sharing casanova stories with a global audience nobody feels safe explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform motivate and inspire. the world is watching

on al-jazeera. how i knew what a reminder of the top stories this hour and i saw it says it carried out a suicide car bombing that targeted a u.s. patrol in northern syria now u.s. troops were among the casualties the incident comes just weeks after the u.s. president announced a pullout of troops from syria. a taliban attack has killed thousands of intelligence and security personnel in afghanistan a truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency becomes came out just

before the taliban announced they had resume negotiations with the u.s. officials in qatar. british prime minister tourism a has presented alternative breaks it planned to parliament just a week after the first deal was overwhelmingly rejected it includes more discussions on how to deal with the irish border and scrapping registration fees from e.u. citizens in the who just wrecked. but it's way the supreme court says it's axing congressional measure that declared the presidency of nicolas maduro illegitimate the judges also ruled that the leadership of the opposition dominated congress itself is invalid but there i was sworn in for a second six year term on january the tenth despite widespread condemnation after his main opponents were banned from running against him. meanwhile government officials say twenty seven soldiers from the national guard have been arrested after a video appeared on social media showing a sergeant demanding president with their eyes removal turned about has this report . these are members of the believer in national guard in venezuela they

say they do not recognize the government of. leader. we need the support of the people of venezuela take to the streets here we are this is what you wanted to defend the constitution here we are here the troop it is today because it happened at a military base in got the sec attack us the ministry of defense said forty people had been detained. people from the area took to the streets to protest they set up roadblocks some barricades the national guard responded with tear gas and rubber bullets some of them are there are some of them i have relatives in a house over there i have an aunt who's with her children they're practically kidnapped and they're showing right for them to die of hunger the people have to go out to defend their rights i the incident took place stenches in venezuela increased once again after he was sworn in for

a second time in office was the opposition and countries in the region including the united states say they won't recognize his presidency because the elections in may last year were filled with irregularities and that's why they have been calling on the military to rise up against the government was there offering immunity to all of the military personnel all polls model would offset that he says the opposition and the united states are trying to overthrow a legitimate government. this is not the first time a group of members of the security services rise up against. last year a helicopter pilot. was killed after three. grenades at government buildings. metal is believed to have the loyalty of his top military command that plays a crucial role in his administration and that's why the opposition is hoping it is

the regular troops that will push change and. that is how will. now let's speak to him on which archer who is the former mayor of a district in venezuela's capital caracas who joins us via skype from miami or amman it's good to have you here on the program what do you make of this these arrests and where do you think it's leading now well thank you need it's a pleasure to be with you there are several important things going on but it's very light right now and i think for the next forty eight hours we may see someone interesting stock taking place what happened today that a small group of soldiers try to reveal a gaze mother was a government this is a very important because that exactly what that awful situation has been calling the armed forces to do let me remind you that right now we have

a very special situation even its way that the. new democracies of the world do not recognize. but they do regret now at least the congress and mr weiner christenings and these guys mr wade all have been calling for this soldier's military to do exactly feet to reveal and gaze the words of bridget now what chance do you think there is of that happening because of the moment that they appear to be aligned with maduro but what's the chance of them slipping sides and then what would it mean for. well that's a great question unfortunately i would say chances have mean various small do in the last ten or twenty years in fact i would say it remains very difficult for the venezuelan it military to take

action against most do it all and be successful part of the problem here it's that nico last mughal had have that large of a up people are people willing to keel and to be healed defending the revolution and defending my little let me explain these he have not only the military and the armed forces but he also have what we call calling the rules it's your first sibilia us army to the same mother will and then we have the middle east and it's gonna but not other means of c.d.'s with military . ready to protect and mother who took us there is and it would have the q one is normal exactly but the short story is that there is a lot of people willy to the faint motherwell and used our course and dance and they have been using so going to your question nobody knows but it's definitely not

easy for the military and that even for civilians ball to take over mother it's very hard article passed. it's great to get your perspective on this we do appreciate it thank you very much indeed thank you. colombia's last remaining rebel group the e l and says it was responsible for the deadliest bomb attack in bogota in fifteen years president even duke a joined marches in the capital to condemn the killing of twenty one people at a police academy on thursday the president has pressured cuba to turn over rebel leaders who had been on the island for peace talks as on the reports now from bogota. nobody here in colombia is buying the argument to get their act tac what's lawful within the laws of war. that the police academy attacked was a military installation and that the police cadets were combatants week for

most colombians this was a massacre and they considered responsible for dnd. the peace but furthermore one of the consequences here could be strengthening the most radical part of the government coalition that believes that only a strengthening of the military campaign against the can be response and also this brings back politically colombe into a context of the war on terror furthermore this is having international consequences now colombia is demanding that cuba the country that was hosting the peace talks with the i rest and extradite. leaders on the island almost has no precedent in is that. the agreements that colombia made with the guarantee their countries while they were trying to restart peace

negotiations with this rebel group it puts cuba in a very difficult and awkward position especially after seven or eight years in which cuba at great expense has helped the colombia as much as they could and their efforts to reach peace first with the peace negotiations with the largest rebel group in the country and until now with the. no end in sight to the longest government shutdown in the united states and many federal employees are being forced to find new jobs to make ends meet in the state of maryland which borders the u.s. capitol many schools are organizing job fairs to help unemployed parents struggling to pay the bills. on the. jamie rinehart seemingly has it all in life a wife three young daughters a home and a car and a ph d. in oceanography what's missing is his job after he was sent home without pay from

his post as a federal government marine research scientists jamie is a victim of the government shutdown so he's now at this education job fair applying to be a substitute teacher i've been interviewed with and i think she must have been either an administrator or a teacher they've asked me some questions regarding you know my experience is related to working with kids and and how i would respond in certain teaching situations and then obviously there's benefits to those of us who are furloughed and are looking at our you know looking to earn a little bit of money we're offering buildings service position is clerical position and so forth transportation last striker's these are the faces of the victims of the government shutdown an accountant applying to be a high school math teacher a lawyer applying to be a school bus driver people that unexpectedly find themselves out of a job for no fault of their own like darrell burton an investigator at the postal

service now applying to be a school security officer a mensch thing with the cure in it because this war mongering county schools because my background over the last ten years nearly it's been an investigations this is the second day they've held this job fair on the first day there are more than two hundred people that were here looking for work today when the doors opened at ten am there were already a hundred people waiting in line to get in with no end in sight the government shutdown a number of people looking for work as high several school districts are holding similar job fairs for federal employees schools normally providing education for. children may now also supply jobs for their parents our goal is really to say. if there is a temporary gap that people had we have opportunities as for jamie rinehart his

interview is over he waits for a call back in the meantime he's become a driver for a ride share app to make some extra money to support his family. but he's hoping that the shutdown will in so he soon can drive back to work gabriel's onto al-jazeera rockville maryland the annual meeting of the world economic forum will be held this week in the swiss alps known called me by the name of the town which i use it which is that most of the meeting is missing some big players this year who are staying at home to sort out domestic issues diplomatic at a james base has more now from the us. what is notable about this year's davos is not just who's here but who's not here and some of the key figures on the world stage not attending most notable among them of course is the us president donald trump but also not here is the british prime minister the reason may she has stayed in the u.k. i don't think she was ever going to come here because we're so close to that

deadline for breaks it's emmanuel mccraw the french president trouble at home turmoil there with those protests he is also not at this year's dabbles but of course all the attention is on president trump who a year ago was here doing a victory lap it seemed around the buildings here in davos the economy looking very different a year on he is not here because of the government shutdown in the united states but the whole economic climate looking different one year on and certainly there's be early talk here in davos about that about the figures that have come out in china worries about chinese growth worries about a possible trade war between the u.s. and china and of course that is a big worry for president trump who's now in that crucial part of an administration the last two years next year election year the nightmare of course for u.s. president is to get a recession in his last year when he's facing reelection and that is something that

now is a possibility a number of asylum seekers from saudi arabia has tripled according to the united nations high commissioner for refugees the u.n. agency says there were more than eight hundred cases reported in two thousand and seventeen there were less than two hundred in two thousand and twelve a number of saudi men and women have reportedly fled the kingdom due to fear of process accused in or a political activism the recent case of the saudi teenager rough mohammed who was granted refuge in canada has drawn international attention. well both for money is professor at the university of waterloo kind of and she says the number of asylum seekers is linked to riyadh's crackdown on activism and i think it coincides with generally the arab spring writ large and really many people feeling as though that frankly you know political commentary free thought is frankly no longer welcomed in

the post arab spring entire middle east in many ways it's not just saudi arabia but certainly i think there is something to be worried about here because of course saudi arabia is indeed increasingly rounding up many people activists many women's rights activists of course predominantly but there is also everything from poets to intellectuals to writers so there is a great feeling that there is a clamping down on let's say political thought at the same time and at some point to point this out that there's a lot of social reforms and economic reforms that may in fact be welcomed by the vast majority of many saudis hundreds of immigrants in australian detention centers or into the second week of a hunger strike detainees in brisbane in melbourne joined others in western australia who've been protesting for eight days they accuse the gods of brutality and intimidation as well as separating from religious. every third of the global migrant

a refugee population is living in europe now for the first time the world health organization is launching a program specifically to monitor and address their health needs in a new report the w.h.o. says that migrants and refugees are at low risk of passing on disease to people in host countries migrants refugees have rates of heart disease stroke diabetes and cancer but the longer they stay in their host countries the higher the risk of those illnesses and there is still a need to address mental health disorders among these populations santina seventy is the public health and migration coordinator for the world health organization in europe and he says the report helps to dispel myths about refugees now we have been solid data proving that most of the false me that generating concern in the public health sector are actually now not true and the approach of limited access to produce the migrants in enjoying health care sadly says this is

also at least key be a viewer because then to expose them to a higher possibility of contracting the disease and failing heal because of the living condition under this mission place indeed the report also gave clear idea that the migration process playing a very important role in the den meaning for possible communicate diseases while the lifestyle of the i will point is certainly the major source of risk factors that can expose my answer if we just leaving especially doors of the first generation in western countries for possible chronic diseases. the oldest streets in iraq's capital is finally reopened after being blocked off a seventeen years street was once the center of baghdad social and business life but it was closed during the u.s. led invasion well now the government has opened it up to try to show that the city is safe matheson as this report. this is our rush street it's one of the most

iconic streets in central baghdad there's been a street all in this route for the best part of a hundred years it dates back to the early days of the ottoman empire in the sixteenth century but all rashid street came into being what about nine hundred sixteen that's when the british suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the autumn ones to the south of baghdad to commemorate that victory the military governor of baghdad coming up pasha said that this street should be built during the u.s. led invasion of iraq the street was closed and that's because it's a very strategic importance for baghdad it links the al rough idea of the central bank behind me to baghdad's main based business district which is just a few kilometers on the other side that was very important and it was very likely that it was going to be a significant targets of the street was closed but seventeen years later it's reopened for decades all of the sheet street was at the center of baghdad social

life there was cinemas here and restaurants and cafes and hundreds of small businesses its heyday was in the one nine hundred fifty s. when money from oil started to make its way into the iraqi economy and people had more money to spend but over the years the buildings have fallen into disrepair particularly during the years when the streets being closed the government is hoping that this by reopening the street will send two messages first of all that the proxy i think problems in the center of baghdad might get a little bit easier but perhaps more importantly that the city of baghdad is getting back to normal and it's safe. still ahead. find out why this tennis player lost his cool this. john.

thanks very much three time champion saudi arabia have been knocked out of the asian cup japan beat them one nil to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament for the eighth consecutive time a first half goal by tacky hero tom ieyasu was enough to send the samurai blues through where they'll face see vietnam in the last eight to pan other tournaments most successful side and are looking to be asian champions for a fifth time. i mean i'm happy that we were able to win against one of the best teams in asia and our players were able to play strong with tenacity because of that we were able to keep a clean sheet and win the match. defend we played most of the time to gain their

half and we controlled the ball and had position but we like to find a touch and determination to transfer the position into goals but i would like to repeat that i'm still something to fight with their performance the main goal for a head coach like me is to come up with ideas for the blues and they have to be implemented on the pitch and they think they did it well with the defending champions australia are through but only just they struggle to create chances in their match against is bacchus on the game and it will after extra time the socceroos eventually scrapings through four two one penalties. you know we're in the quarterfinals you know the men were in their opposition and you know it's a bit it's going to take a big score to get the job done you know with the suspensions in. playing a part so it's really important we recover no i've seen joy the occasion to not because you know penalties are such a tough occasion but then obviously tomorrow we focus on the next game. australia

face host nation the u.a.e. next the amorality is bounce back from a late equaliser converting a penalty in extra time to twenty three to the only just tongue on kurdistan glowing a great chance to send it right at the end. event as have re-established their nine point lead at the top douglas costa getting the first goal of the season as the champions crushed bottom side he able to prevail even will expect a much tougher game next time out they faced six place but. sort of williams has made him phatic statement of intent of the australian open the american be well the one small how it been three sets to move into the quarter finals in melbourne so hell malik reports. serena williams has taken a major step in reestablishing herself as the player to beat in women's tennis. to move on to the quarterfinals in melbourne the american had to be world number one simona halep and it looked early on that things would be easier than expected

williams dominating the first six one. how it didn't capitulate though she responded showing the kind of form the got into last year's final she took the second six four and the comeback was on the wood but after saving three break points williams would go on to break color and take a pool to relieve would. she served out the ceiling at six four to claim the match was williams is now a step closer to winning an eighth australian open title and a twenty fourth round slam overall she faces carolina discover in the next round she's always someone that comes out and plays well i've got to return a little bit better to the extent that we play a potential semifinal opponent for the woman that dominated her in last year's u.s. open final naomie of soccer i was the japaneses through to the last eight she got

there by beating the stars are serviced over in three sets the twenty one year old will now face the leanest with alina next. it was a day of frustration for alexander's very of in the men's draw the fourth seed have never been to the court finds in melbourne and you have to wait till next year to change that the top finals champion was beaten by militant round it and. the canadian swept him aside in three sets and will now face france's lukas pool next fall's rev however the wait for a first grand slam title continues. his mission like. we never want to know much as. she watched the match and call in issue corey is also into the last day he came back from to sit down to be public arena in the near five hour marathon. the japanese planes been to the quarterfinals three times before melbourne but has never got any further he faces

a mammoth task to progress though as he'll be facing world number one novak djokovic. the serbian be danielle medvedev in forces to progress. djokovic just chasing history if he wins the tournament it will be his seventh triumph in melbourne making him the australian open as most successful player of all time so he'll mallett al-jazeera. tom brady's new england patriots are back in the super bowl for a third straight year the patriots will take on the l.a. rams on february the third both the a.f.c. and n.f.c. championship games were decided in overtime rex burkhead ran in the winning touchdown for the pats against the kansas city chiefs in a thirty seven to thirty one victory brady now has the chance to win a record sixth super bowl title. in the n.f.c. decider the rams spent the entire game playing catch up against new orleans saints gregg's airlines fifty seven yard field goal benchley gave the rams a twenty six to twenty three overtime win at thirty two shaun mcveigh is the

youngest head coach to lead a team to the super bowl. i've never goes in an atmosphere like that. ever and it was so loud you know we had some communication issues from the start we've dealt with big time adversity and it kind of personifies woods i think team this this is been really throughout the course of the year fell behind guys just kept competing kept swinging in wasn't always perfect but guys made enough plays and i think really the over time periods personifies what this team is really all about. fans in l.a. have every right to be excited as an l.a. franchise it's been close to four decades since the rams made the super bowl the rams did win the title in two thousand but that was then the team was based in st louis. were teenagers stupidity let's get. another you. think is the best they can happen. to really ramp that they feel. they've been

working to get back to this point when no time and that's all your support for now more later for thanks very much does just about it for this news out don't forget website a nudge in that direction al jazeera dot com is the address oldest always have been covering plenty of coming to the analysis to you and not just about cricket i'll be back in a couple minutes with more the day's news see them after. the

final. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in due time. seems to defy gravity every beauty's is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brittany's happiness is what we ensure it's if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has.

if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what he sees writes is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pay for the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be so realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. another islip tank against the u.s. in kurdish forces in syria just hours after israel fired missiles at iranian targets and to mask this. this is live from doha also coming up dozens are killed in

a taliban attack in afghanistan ahead of another round of direct u.s. because jason's with the group. tourism a presents another should have breaks a plan but it's not much different from an already rejected proposal. open for business one of the oldest streets in baghdad gets a new lease of life. so that u.s. u.s. troops based in syria have become the apparent target if i still fight as for the second time in less than a week a boma rammed his car into a checkpoint in syria's kurdish controlled northeast just as a joint convoy of u.s. and coded forces passed by at least five people were killed no u.s. troops were among the casualties the incident comes just weeks after the u.s. president announced to put out of troops from syria well monday's incident happened

and has a province where residents say there's been a surge in attacks on checkpoints in recent months kurdish fighters there are still battling to clear eisel from the last foothold in the region and binge of aid has more now from doesn't up on the turkish syrian border. this is a second attack in five days on u.s. forces and their allies inside syrian territory just a few weeks after the u.s. president declared that syria is for your vice and it's operation done and he will be pulling out pulling out his troops an assessment that not just his commanders but his own team does not see eye to eye with one of his envoys had to resign because he did not see that mission the mission has been accomplished in syria and with these attacks it's becoming clear that the united states might need to stay longer inside syrian territory this attack and came days after the attack in a town which is a bone of contention between the united states and turkey as it is falling out of this so-called safe zone on the turkish city of border there is

a road map to member that is being discussed and the united states would like to see a role of the no call entities there inside syria whether they are the kurds or the arabs to be part of the government which takes over rather than handing it over completely to turkey of turkey on the other hand has had this open communication again with the united states today president calling the u.s. president saying that his forces are ready to take charge and also addressing a local audience here in turkey and telling that the durkee will be closely monitoring how are these promises going to pan out that have been promised to turkey it says it has been reported here that the turkish president says that in his forces are ready to take on an operation east of the euphrates river this is going to be all the all the way throughout not just the turkish syrian border but the words the edge of the iraqi border as well so a not that remains in this complicated question of how and who will be pulling out

and who will be left in charge well a few hours earlier the skies over the syrian capital lit up with explosions as israeli warplanes launched air strikes against iranian military targets and then has more in the. israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing information saying it's targeting the elite couldst force unit of the iranian revolutionary guards israel has lifted the veil and its message is that it has no intention of stopping the strikes. we have a permanent palsy to strike if uranium entrenchment in syria and her whoever tries to hurt us israel operates in syria with russia's approval moscow turns a blind eye when the strikes don't weaken the syrian government and when the israeli military gives the russian military prior notice the russian defense ministry doesn't usually comment on the operations but this time they didn't just

provide details about syrian army casualties but that syrian air defenses destroyed israeli missiles russia will send. some messages to israel. of course it will. continue providing. more. rockets. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to iran to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s.

sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last month plans to withdraw american troops israel was concerned the u.s. pullout would strengthen iran which has vowed to stay in syria as long as required but israel too made a promise and that is to keep up the airstrikes until iran leaves. beirut well it's up more now from her. reporting from there a lot. it was just eight days since the last time the israeli prime minister was speaking very openly about an israeli air strike inside syria that came last sunday two days after that airstrike a much more limited one it was also the same weekend that the outgoing military

chief gary isengard was detailing in a much more comprehensive way exactly what israel had been doing over the last few years targeting iranian interests inside syria really putting an end it seemed or at least moving away from the policy of ambiguity which israel has been surrounding its activities for those years up until this point the reason for that change well there are two explanations being posited here mainly one of them being domestic politics elections coming up on april the ninth benjamin netanyahu under serious pressure over three separate corruption investigations a potential decision by the attorney general re indictment coming within weeks it's expected and so it suits his political profile certainly to appear strong and in charge of israel's security at this time also the it may well be that the military wants to message iran and indeed syria that it is willing to do more and escalate its activities over syria further and messaging this before it does so certainly

there has been analysis that changing this policy does run the risk of iran and syria potentially using that as a reason to be more open in their possible escalatory actions and that is certainly one risk that the israeli government the israeli military appears to deem worth taking at the moment. the taliban suicide bomb and gun attack has killed dozens of intelligence and security personnel in afghanistan it happened in maidan shahr the capital of water province southwest of kabul a truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency after the explosion other taliban fighters dressed in police uniforms stormed the base some reports say the number of those killed could be more than one hundred. came hours before the taliban announce resumption of talks with american officials the taliban released a statement saying its representatives met with u.s.

diplomats in qatar where they have a political office of talks between the two sides of game momentum over the last six months u.s. appointed special envoy zalmay khalilzad to lead negotiations in september thought about insists that the u.s. must leave afghanistan seventeen years after they invaded the country in response to the september eleventh attacks the sticking point in negotiations is the inclusion of the afghan government in the peace process the taliban regard it as illegitimate and insists they will only negotiate directly with washington but david seventy is a former deputy u.s. assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan and pakistan and he says he's not surprised to see attacks during talks with the taliban. in the run up to peace talks whether it's in the afghan conflict or other it's common for one side or another usually the side that is weaker to mount amount greater off military operations to try and strengthen its hand for the negotiations this appears to be

one one other at reason for this kind of attack by the taliban at the same time as negotiations are slowly proceeding forward this is a war that's been going on one way or another for over forty years and the fact that the talks continue even this case where the taleban yesterday said they would not talk to the u.s. and then yesterday they did talk are today they did talk with the u.s. shows that the talks are proceeding now will they achieve anything or they won't achieve anything until the taliban and other afghan sit down together and really discuss peace the taliban have used this excuse of not wanting to talk to the afghan government as a way to essentially the flecked real talks real peace talks can only come when afghans sit down with afghans but as long as the taliban are talking to somebody in this case the u.s. that shows that there is a possibility of the real peace happening and in many ways the role of pakistan is key the u.s.

a negotiator ambassador zalmay khalilzad was just in pakistan for several days before he went to doha and the pakistani prime minister imran khan is visiting doha as well it's not clear exactly what role pakistan is playing but they may be playing a newly positive role thousands of rallied in sudan of the announcement that a student protesters had died of his wounds he was shot alongside a doctor on thursday the opposition says forty seven people have been killed in the last five weeks and that more than one hundred cities have taken part how to develop has this report now call to. the home of dr bao because of the hamid in ca two has seen a constant stream of mourners since he was shot dead during an anti-government protest on thursday his house has also become a meeting place for supporters and sympathizers. who are within what he did out of my five children he's my only son he never had a problem with anyone but he was always wanting to help those in need. three of the

sisters are also doctors they say he was shot by members of the security forces are to makeshift clinic that he set up in the capital the family showed us a photo of a man in civilian clothes pointing a gun to words the house where their brother was treating the wounded. those sorts of video of the shooting nearby are around the same time at least two protesters were wounded. was a colleague try to rescue the doctor who was shot. eventually. the word that the people who were killed in sudan look killed because they did anything wrong look i think it's got broken not a single house broken you people who are going out. to say you know if you screw it . i was a forensic expert says the doctor was shot from behind. we found pieces of metal in

the room and in the lower part of his lung they'd be studied to determine the caliber and the type of weapon used and. so then the security forces and police deny any role in the killing of protesters with the. us police never used any live fire to any protest sites or in any other occasion we never use live bullets in any situation. the same denials have beery eater rated by the head of intelligence and the target of the protesters anger president on bashir. we now have arrested people who belong to apple or his militia and they acknowledge they were given orders to mix with protestors and to kill them in order to stoke conflict and destroy the country the government security does not kill people. by god i say it's the regime that killed my son i will never doubt my certainty about

it but i get to know my media and i'm sure they purposefully decided to kill doctors but my sister was arrested with the others they detained this told them that they were specifically looking for doctors who help protesters. the type of force being used by the government to quell the protests is adding to the controversy and confusion about the killings the government has employed militia to help the army combat armed groups in sudan for decades what's attracting attention now is militia men are mosque in their faces while attacking unarmed civilians in the streets of khartoum and other major cities and i think what they what they think it then there is a very dangerous and unprecedented situation when men in civilian clothes can carry guns battens a mask their faces to confront protestors this proves the existence of a shadow army which is seniors ruling party leader talked about and yet you see him move anyone with him in the who do. as protesters chant peaceful peaceful they are

drowned out by gunfire and tear gas. scenes of collective punishment like this are say the government's opponents a daily occurrence. so is the break into homes our security forces severely beat anyone suspected of hiding protesters. the government says twenty six people have been killed so far in a month of protests to demand a better life rights groups say the total is at least double that the government's announced the setting up of an official commission of inquiry but protests that broke out over the rising of the cost of living last month continue to intensify and spread across the country and with every new protests to kill hundreds more turn out demanding an end to the thirty year rule of president bashir. and dizzee are. still ahead on the program the presidential runner up in the democratic

republic of congo and its supporters remained firm in their demand for a recount despite a court order. we'll tell you why this video venezuelan soldiers led to this sacking. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. and they were as you probably know it should be dry in china at this time the we've had at least three pairs or has not been in the cloud that is still his just well maybe we're number one but no the forecast is now for a dry couple of days the temp is hovering from what you say ten in shanghai to twenty in hong kong yes and persistent morning mist and forbidden smog in places where otherwise it's fine looking weather raining breeze further science those that are adding to the strength of the showers into more of a tropical depression has even been given

a name but this is the remnants of now to the eastern side you notice of the philippines has come in and it's gone back again that is a bit of a gap before you pick up the more usual shastra it more or less malaysia and indonesia but there's a bit of focus here more into these here in java the southern part of borneo look particularly and so the ways in which you can't even see as these are for cross cloud as the philippines central philippines once again from the east we get battered with a persistence of rather a slow moving clump of thunderstorms and on the subject of slow moving tops thunderstorms there is one it was significant rain through pakistan it's concentrating now on the far north in jammu and kashmir on the indian side significant rain and snow maybe a meters with. the weather sponsored by cats are always. russian filmmaker under a neck or soft continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life was like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and

separatists i thought flew the locals in the southeast with all our side when i arrived and on to something completely different someone to leave petitions russia but for others a russian passport means hope and the challenge of happens in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. i mean you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour i saw says it carried out a suicide car bombing the targeted a u.s. patrol in northern syria no u.s. troops were among the casualties the incident comes just weeks after the u.s. president announced the pullout of troops from syria. a taliban attack has killed

dozens of intelligence and security personnel in afghanistan truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency became hours before the taliban announced they had resume negotiations with u.s. officials in qatar. britain's prime minister's reason may his return to parliament to plan b. for how britain will leave the e.u. just a week after her breaks a deal suffered a crushing defeat that includes more discussions on how to deal with the contentious issue of the irish border and scrapping registration fees fit e.u. citizens in the u.k. post breaks that still several m.p.'s accused may have failing to present an acceptable backup plan many now want to take back control of the brakes a process and are considering a historic amendment that would let m.p.'s propose new legislation and force parliament to debate it the house of commons remains deeply divided with different factions calling for a range of options including leaving without a deal holding a second referendum or seeking a customs union with the e.u.

hope brennan reports now from london. this was a prime minister in apparently conciliator remote i'm listening she said i will keep you informed she told m.p.'s but there is no plan b. for bracks it's only more talks about salvaging helped plan a will be more flexible and couldn't inclusive in the future and how we engage parliament in our approach to negotiating our future partnership with the european union secondly we're going bend the strongest possible protections on workers' rights in the involved. i meant and third we were tried and if i how we can ensure that our commitment to no hard border in north managed and island can be delivered in a way that commands the support of this house and the european union the opposition labor party leader was unimpressed the prime minister's invitation to talks have been exposed as a p.r. sham every opposition party politician. wants to be a very opposition party politician came out of those meetings with the same

response contrary to what the prime minister has just said there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing has changed. in brussels there's been a frosty reaction to the idea revisiting negotiations and is it too late for assistance i don't know i don't really know change with the old they would see more to it to cool because no willingness to open the door of books again and a polish suggestion about a five year time limit on the northern ireland backstop the insurance policy to avoid a hardboard on the island of ireland has been rejected by dublin i made it very clear that putting a time limits on an insurance mechanism mechanism which is what the backstop is effectively means there's not a backstop at all at westminster several different groups of m.p.'s are now devising ways of using a variety of parliamentary amendments to force the prime minister to change course

if we don't find a way forward the u.k. is leaving the e.u. and the twenty ninth of march on us basis of no deal so let's legislate to stop that let's take that we take that risk and we. hold a gun to the head of parliament which is in effect to these that he is trying to do as march the twenty ninth looms the prime minister's strategy appears to be to go back to brussels and test to the e.u. his willingness to risk a no deal bret's it but he is also testing the patience of this parliament and it's not to talk clear which side will flinch first paul brennan al-jazeera westminster . in the democratic republic of congo for supporters of the present presidential runner up of being arrested police blocked crowds from attending a rally at mountain for use party headquarters in the capital kinshasa on sunday the highest court rejected viola's demand for a recount of the votes and declared feeling she should be the next president and the african union delegation to spain to visit after initially saying it had serious doubts about the election result to me tim miller has more from the capital

kinshasa. two groups of supporters have been gathering in this area into chestnut just across from the national stadium on the side of the road supporters of martin for you too who are challenge the election result of the constitutional court saying he won that election his challenge was dismissed he supports his yes that he was robbed of the victory they say that the outcome of the election was determined not by the vote but by a nomination people from the side of the road ran across to the other side of the road where they started throwing stones at supporters of felix she say katie he's been named the president by the constitutional court and is true to be sworn in this week that's when police intervened firing rubber bullets on. these protesters say felix chase a kid he was named the winner of the election off to striking a deal with outgoing president joseph kabila fairly exactly said the king you never

met a lot today felix who is calling himself the president is behind kabila our worry is that the shadow of joseph kabila is behind felix the security it is not felix who will lead the country it is kabila it is kabila who will run the government then looks up as the absolute felix and not when he is not our president because we did not vote for him everyone around the world knows that our president is for you lord that we will continue to come out until our rights are restored if guns are needed we will use guns to claim our victory protesters blocked the road and threw stones outside the headquarters of the embassy party m.l.c. is part of the opposition coalition that put for you to forward as a presidential candidate he was expected to address supporters here but did not appear we transfer to secret international united because these effective results we have too little bit too little if we needed it done to me we face this kind of further court up shonn only for negotiation regarding that we got

a list showing dick. antitank to be lead call it that while we slides or load this the spirit will do we have it j.j. really change the mood coalition is appealing to the international community for help but influential african states like south africa and kenya have congratulated president elect feel extra security on his win the southern african development community says the d r c should be allowed to transmission peacefully. but these protesters say if the elections didn't work they will bring change in venezuela the supreme court is backing president nicolas maduro the ruling against the opposition controlled national assembly the justices also ruled that the leadership is invalid opposition politician one grade zero who was sworn in as the semi's president earlier this month has been overseeing legislation accusing the deer of usurping power and who was sworn in for

a second six year term last week meanwhile government officials say twenty seven soldiers from the national guard have been arrested after a video appeared on social media showing a sergeant demanding president materials removal to his abode has this report. so you know. these are members of the believe aryan national guard in venezuela they say they do not recognize the government of. we need the support of the people of venezuela take to the streets here we are this is what you wanted to defend the constitution here we are here the troop it is today but it happened at a military base in got the sack i guess the ministry of defense said forty people had been detained. people from the area took to the streets to protest they set up roadblocks some barricades the national guard responded with tear gas and rubber bullets some of them are there. i have relatives in the house over there i have an

aunt who's with her children they're practically kidnapped and showing right for them to die of hunger the people have to go out to defend their rights i the incident took place stenches in venezuela increased once again after he was sworn in for a second time in office was the opposition and countries in the region including the united states say they won't recognize his presidency because the elections in may last year were filled with irregularities and that's why they have been calling on the military to rise up against the government. there offering immunity to all of the military personnel all polls modeled off that he says the opposition and the united states are trying to overthrow a legitimate government. this is not the first time a group of members of the security services rise up against. last year

a helicopter pilot. was killed after throwing grenades at government buildings. model is believed to have the loyalty of his top military command that plays a crucial role in his administration and that's why the opposition is hoping it is the regular troops that will push change. there is how will. nearly one hundred fifty former diplomats and academics have signed an open letter to china's president calling for the immediate release of two canadians michael coverage in miko's paver were arrested in beijing last month on allegations of espionage and signatories from one thousand countries while in president xi jinping that the detentions will result in greater distrust of china. the oldest streets in iraq's capital is finally reopened off to being blocked off for seventeen years now rashid street was once the center of baghdad social and business life but it was closed during the u.s.

led invasion and many of the buildings on it fell into disrepair from madison has this. this is our rush the street it's one of the most iconic streets in central baghdad there's been a street all in this route for the best part of a hundred years it dates back to the early days of the ottoman empire in the sixteenth century but all rashid street came into being about about nine hundred sixteen that's when the british suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the autumn ones to the south of baghdad to commemorate that victory the military governor of baghdad coming up pasha said that this street should be built during the u.s. led invasion of iraq the street was closed and that's because it's a very strategic importance for baghdad it links the al rough idea of the central bank behind me to baghdad's main base the business district which is just a few kilometers on the other side that was very important and it was very likely that it was going to be a significant targets of the street was closed but seventeen years later it's

reopened for decades all of the sheet street was at the center of baghdad social life there were cinemas here and restaurants and cafes and hundreds of small businesses its heyday was in the one nine hundred fifty s. when money from oil started to make its way into the iraqi economy and people had more money to spend but over the years the buildings have fallen into disrepair particularly during the years when the streets being closed the government is hoping that this by reopening the street will send two messages first of all that the project problems in the center of baghdad might get a little bit easier but perhaps more importantly that the city of baghdad is getting back to normal and it's safe. so this is these are the top stories u.s. troops based in syria have become the apparent target of eisel fighters for the

second time in less than a week a bomber targeted a checkpoint in syria's kurdish controlled northeast just as a joint convoy of u.s. and kurdish forces passed by at least five people were killed no u.s. troops were among the casualties the incident comes just weeks after the u.s. president announced the pullout of troops from syria. has more in the last five days there have been two attacks on u.s. troops and their allies in northern syria where apparently i say it was defeated these troops that came under attack in hasek a province in northern syria is close to the turkish border an area where after the proposed u.s. pullout turkish forces would like to be in charge of this is an area which is complicated because it's not just isolate is entrenched there but is also home to kurdish fighters kurdish fighters who are allied with the united states but seen as terrorists by turkey a taliban attack has killed dozens of intelligence and security personnel in

afghanistan a truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency it came hours before the taliban announced they had resume negotiations with the u.s. officials in qatar thousands of people have rallied against the government in sudan and they turned out an on demand after an announcement that a student a died of his wounds he was shot said longside a doctor at a protest on thursday the opposition says forty seven people have now been killed in the last five weeks and that more than one hundred cities have taken park. british prime minister to reason may has presented her alternative plan to parliament a week after her first deal was overwhelmingly rejected it includes more discussions on how to deal with the irish border and scrapping registration fees for e.u. citizens in the u.k. breaks it may acknowledge that m.p.'s have not been consulted enough on the bracelet talks but she just missed schools for

a second referendum. where are you up to date with headlines here we've got more news coming up right after inside story. they are there to keep the peace but many are killed targeted by armed groups the latest to die un troops in mali so what hope is there for u.n. efforts to keep the peace in conflicts around the world this is inside story.

come to the program i'm richelle carey they are deployed to many of the world's trouble spots lightly armed with limited authority the united nations peacekeepers known as blue helmets have increasingly come under attack they've been repeatedly targeted and melly now the most dangerous mission to serve in on sunday ten soldiers from chad were killed when gunmen stormed the u.n. camp fair linked group says it carried out the attack and response to the gym president's decision to revive diplomatic ties with israel and reports a spike in violence against its peacekeepers the two thousand and seventeen fifty three were killed the highest number of deaths recorded by the international body so let's have a look at un peacekeeping missions more than one hundred thousand military police and civilian personnel from one hundred twenty five countries currently serving fifteen operations mainly in africa haiti kosovo cyprus india pakistan and the middle east the largest mission is in the democratic republic of congo over more

than sixteen thousand troops are the un's budget for peacekeeping is six point seven billion dollars less than half of one percent of global military spending the us pays almost thirty percent of the bill china and japan the next biggest contributors with twenty percent between them. get our guests in a moment first we'll talk to joanne adamson deputy special representative of the secretary general and the united nations multi-dimensional integrated stabilization force and malai she joins us via skype from palm thank you very much for joining us first of all very sorry about what has happened to your tear team there what more can you tell us about what happened thank you very much airshow for having me today so yes as you said we had a serious incident yesterday morning and early in the morning when our camp in hawk

in the very north of mali was attacked and unfortunately even though we feel very strongly and if repel an attack we lost ten all of our peacekeepers are chaldean peacekeeping and a number of them were injured so that that was what happened yesterday but i want to stress that we were involved in in a firefight and we did defend ourselves what is has been learned in the investigation to try to figure out how this happened we as we said there is a group that has claimed responsibility but what else have you learned since this has happened yes thanks on the first thing i would say is only about twenty four hours after this incident took place it's a little bit too soon for us we will have an investigation as we always do and incidents like this we've sent reforms mintz into the area and we also want to see how we can look after the population of alcohol because it's not just about an attack on office count but what that might mean to the muslim population so we are in the process of not community into what happened but we do know that all am all

troops on the ground and did fight back and repel the attack but unfortunately we do some peacekeepers i'm glad you brought up the broader community what is the relationship like between the u.n. u.n. peacekeepers and the local community what's that relationship like. well i would say that in general in mali we are very close cooperation with with the population in different parts of mali i mean. clearly we have a lot of people working in the north and one of our first concerns was what's the impact on the people i grew up hearing such as a fire fight so we are in touch with then and we've already heard from the government of mali there are regrets of what's happened and they're resolute resolve to to stay working with us so i would say that we cooperate very closely and our mission is about having the mali and to be able to stabilize that country to implement the peace accord but also to be able to offer basic services to

ordinary citizens of money is that mission. in crisis right now is it under threat no i wouldn't say it's in crisis i mean obviously they yesterday and any peacekeeper last is awful for us but i think you also have to look at the other things that we're doing an option and one of our big roles is to how implemented peace accords signed in twenty fifteen and we've actually seen some progress on that over the last twelve to eighteen months we had elections last year in mali which the u.n. has had to support at the party sir peace accord and now talking to each other we had a disarmament and demobilization campaign towards the end of last month with some of the former fighters getting in their weapons and being reintegrated into society or into the mali an army so i would say of course we always look when we have an incident like this why it happened and we try as quickly as possible to send

reinforcements we grieve with the families who are affected from this but we stay focused on our mission which covers security and political issues but also development and bringing change to ordinary people of mali john adams and thank you so much for joining us appreciate it very much. thank you let's bring in our other guests now from new york adam day head of programs at the center for policy research at united nations university he's a former senior political advisor to minutes ago in the congo and served in peace operations in sudan in the middle east also in new york by skype a sobering up to say are author of peace land conflict resolution and the every day politics of international intervention and professor of political science at barnard college university thank you both for joining us so adam i'll start with you what with the similar question that i put to joe in. our u.n. peacekeeping efforts as a whole in crisis well if it is

a crisis it's a crisis has been happening for quite a long time i mean i think the incident in mali now pushes the number of casualties in that mission of over one hundred eighty over the last few years so it's certainly a trend that has been developing over time where as peacekeepers have been asked to do more and asked to use force more robustly at the same time they become greater targets for the other armed actors on the ground and so i'm not sure if i'd characterize it as a crisis but it's certainly a trend that has prompted the secretary general to be very worried and to try and put in place some reforms to change the way peacekeeping is done and i was just to add that the former force commander in mali said that the mission was a counterterrorism mission without a counterterrorism mandate or resources and i think looking at how the mandate in the expectations and the resources do or do not match up this is the conversation that's being taken place right now so easy is that what that what you just said

that that type of conflict specific to malley or do what you described do you think that that applies to other missions as well where they have a certain task ahead of them but it's not necessarily married to the resources to make it happen. exactly i think that's exactly the right way to put it over time the large missions the the one in congo the one in central african republic the one in south sudan they all face very very large multidimensional mandates where the expectations of extension of state authority stabilisation protection of civilians are enormous and some of the reforms that are necessary. to end those mandates are something that are thought of in decades rather than short periods of time and so over time the expectations and the breadth of mandates of these missions i think is really gone beyond what the resources that are given to them can really can really meet that doesn't mean missions are unable to do

a lot of things but i think when you think of the transformation at a national level that's expected in a place like congo or south sudan there is that there is a gap that needs to be considered ok you gave us a lot to circle back and and talk about but first i want to put a similar question to the severing would you characterize the status of current peacekeeping efforts by the u.n. in a state of crisis how would you characterize it. i don't know if i would use the word crisis but there are not certainly a lot of difficulties and i think that it's not necessarily based only on the resources that is converse hassle of course the christerson we're talking about a budget in terms of financial resources that seems huge seven billion when in fact it will point one per cent of all military spending we're talking about the lower just a military source to be deployed to road after the us military and again with that

just peacekeepers are expected to resolve a quarter of all of the world's comes so that means and it problem in terms of resources but the problem to me in the eyes is if you want to use that it's more in the way these resources are used to usually as we've heard the united nations focuses on in beeks them focus on organizing general elections they focus on results in conflict from the. i talking with governments working with the governmental be with rebel leaders and most of them and the don't spend enough attention working with people on the wrong and interacting with local communities and that creates such a connect and in spreading do you think oh peacekeepers to do their job and to do all of the tasks that adam was mentioning severin that's a great point that you brought up and i know you've talked a lot about this that you say that there is

a lot of focus on top down as opposed to bottom up when you say focusing local from the bottom up what do you mean what type of thing show the really important things for us and so for instance in many capital great are important tracks trafficking is very important in terms of vocal conflicts in terms of the reasons why people are fighting on the front and also why strong. there are opposing united nations peacekeepers all when you look at this is that congo that that we just mentioned conjunto very learned over who's going to have to have to spend who's going to be the big chief the traditional chief of the district these are the reasons why people are fighting most of the time when they meet with battens where there i mean stand with i mean close i mean to the left and tell me they're not fighting to know who's going to be the next presidential the next rebel did yours most people are fighting because they want to know who's going to control

the plan but so thanks for the hell because that's repent it's up to them that they can come to a big bill they can feed their families they can send your children to school there are often fine things for you all ready know whole accent that in addition to the national and international issues that are always these things and bench united nations peacekeeping mission always focused on adam i see you nodding it seems that you are in agreement with severing on that if you want to add something. yeah absolute agreement not just add also the top down or the focus on state institutions and governments which is the traditional un way of dealing with conflicts has increasingly put the un in a difficult position with what we kind of mildly called difficult governments so if you look at a place like darfur or currently in south sudan or in congo the engagement in the support to state institutions that are run by by governments that have shown

themselves willing to displace and kill thousands of people puts the u.n. in an incredibly difficult position and often the use of force alongside the troops of those governments in a place like congo from the local perspective aligns the u.n. with the government in a way that can put peacekeepers at risk so i think what severino is pointing to in the lack of engagement with the local community i think the un does often engage with the local communities in certain ways but i think the converse which is that focus on supporting state institutions is often putting the u.n. in a difficult for position when it comes to the perception of impartiality in these countries and that's made more difficult by the robust use of force and in some cases ok and yet you talk about the tension that there may be with the local community obviously that tension is exacerbated when something happens that is what we have found by and investigations in the last few years that some u.n. peacekeepers have been committing crimes against some of the locals those types of

things that i'm sure exacerbates how some locals feel about the u.n. severing has there been a robust enough effort to get to the bottom of those things that for there to be some accountability so that the u.n. does have credibility with the local community. unfortunately everybody i talk to at the u.n. tell me that these efforts are kill our way too superficial that there hasn't been enough and most importantly. to have them have been. actually counterproductive so far in sense that we're going to have rules that forbid all of the peacekeepers on the run to have a drink. with members of the local population or to going to search results or to going to church and this was our men to choose british and sexual exploitation in the future but in fact if you are an actual predator you have you know you i mean it's not a result that's a live event you come from doing what you want to the people of commission thank

the law and just not interacting with the local people and then just being forced to defend it twenty years and no opposition it transfers and i've been told hundreds and what's going on the run them they don't have all of the ending of the local conflicts we're talking of they don't have a good relationship with the communities they don't have the intention that they need to to prevent that acts like the one that we saw in many yet today so it makes the peacekeepers much well going are both much more much better and then prevent sexual exploitation and abuse bigger than by the polls people who really want to arm the will publish and the girl who will men and children and men that it's not about the prevent them from doing such out of and and to that point i mean i'm curious what you would like to add to that do you think that the u.n. even began strong grasp what it what it would take for them to stop those types of

things from happening it comes back to what severin has been saying and what you're been saying it seems like that this is so much more about about really understanding the local communities were where you are. yeah and i agree with severin again and i think it's an interesting conundrum though because i remember being in eastern congo and talking to some of the troops and talking about their engagement in the communities and when you have instances of sexual exploitation abuse the tendency of the mission is to say ok reduce the contact with communities to to keep that distance but exactly talking to people in the communities and engaging with the people in the communities is what needs to be done to understand the local dynamic and so it creates this tension within the mission where you want to be engaged and part of the community but also have enough distance to avoid those kind of situations so i do think it's a dilemma where there isn't an easy. answer and i think that there is the zero tolerance policy and some of that is being implemented but again. really

understanding the limits of peacekeeping in some of these situations is part of the story and really having implementing that zero tolerance policy and being willing to send troops home if they violate it is part of the story as well so we talked a lot about how it would be very important to have a focus on you know from the bottom up but clearly. the top to the bottom is also important how do those two things work in n. tand adam out put that to you first and then we'll go to separate. well i just came back from south sudan and i think there's an interesting dynamic there where i think the mission is doing work at the local level to do conflict resolution around issues of cattle land riverine rights and seeing that as related to the national peace process in south sudan seeing that for example roughly eighty percent of the cattle actually have partial ownership by the powerbrokers in juba and

understanding that resolution of local conflicts can filter back up and help stabilize situations to support the peace process but also that when the leaders of a country like salva kiir and react machar make a statement that they're willing to explore peace there is the possibility for greater reconciliation at the local level and i think that the civil affairs for example in an miss is doing an excellent job in seeing those links and beginning to tease them out it doesn't mean it solves the problem but that that analysis of understanding that there is no distinction between local and national in the minds of the people that are involved in this is a i think a first step and and defining that analysis is something i do see happening in some of the missions today severing d.c. some of the same. yes except that the friends they have who hunt trying to brutal conflict resolution into practice in united nations peacekeeping mission they always tell me that it is a result of resistance from their colleagues from the united nations leadership in

new york would tell them oh i am with you your priority should be interacting with the need to be interacting with government entities that again to me and who are a friend a huge problem because if you want result in the armed or not in congo like he finally met you and you want to rid of all of the local comp they are adamant i have been working out you need to do that and rest would rebel and most important. i and yours rank united nations if it were diplomats who didn't know who will come thank you. well you can imagine you and i or at the moment we cannot go to the news or congolese elites and say oh we know what's going on and we're going to solution your problem but it would be incomplete as your work sensing that your great united nations work. usually in the great work is done relying on the edges in people from foreign countries in the pacific the later when it becomes straight and do we how

does additions to your problem and then tell you what we're going to do you resolve your problem and we of course read a lot of resentment among local people and also at the need to know how do we resolve the conflicts within those everybodys i think that will hopefully be able to get more local hires getting more local hires what would make a difference not necessary yes yes local hires would be good that was really important in the number of people that it's the responsibility given because you do have a lot of local people who work within the united nations peacekeeping mission and they work and buy a protest security course as the french are based on people who are implementing projects total consigned by foreigners and what i think we need is to political will people in decision making positions to give them any responsibility in finding the programs they don't bear a little bit on your understanding of the local conditions out of it as you said as

the secretary general is keenly aware and concerned about what's going on there is this you know general talk of reforms but what type of reforms and we've talked a whole a lot about the types of the things that you all are talking about take time what what what can you see happening and media late to make a difference if anything prank with very little immediately will make a huge difference one one reform that i think is sometimes on the scene but they could make a big difference is on the management side which is there's an idea to give greater delegated authority to missions to make decisions about how they use their. any and what i've found is exactly the dynamic that severance referred to as is the closer you get to the field the better understanding you have about what the dynamics are and the better able you are to respond to it delegating authority into the field and giving them greater autonomy to be more flexible in dynamic with their use of funds could help there that could be a fairly quick. answer i think there are certain capacities that the secretary

general has prioritized. if you see if you think of peacekeeping as roughly shrinking over time now having a smaller static footprint greater mobility assets helicopters the ability to get out to some of these areas faster could have a quick response and impact in a place like mali as well where i think they're considering that so there are there are some kind of operational things that could shift i think really what would make a difference is a different form of engagement with countries ahead of sending a mission in and really testing the political will before you decide to send a big mission in and understanding that in some countries you may not have much political traction from the beginning and be willing to look that in the face and say maybe sending peacekeepers in at this point isn't the best option so the thinking about mandating and understanding the context or going into testing political will with governments early i think is one of the key things that could be done quite right away actually i didn't mention interesting points that severing

how about that how about the idea of a little more analysis being a little more sober minded about about what it is you're going to do before you even go to these places. then it would be wrong to fill in and the other reform that i then was mentioning giving more autonomy to peacekeeping missions to peacekeepers on the ground that would also be and tactic but i would like to add one more thing i think the un can also make a region want to be a trick or treat in human resources in that the one thing left in poland that they send to the c.e.o. and all of the criteria they use to recruit people to the way things work right now and does one reason all come about to be m.p.'s so the people who are going to be the gratings of the nation who implemented a lot of the programs that we were talking about in terms of its authority in terms of elections and then terror and turn action of nation all of the people are

recruited based on what they call what angle the schematics on whether the no bad center of human life is a bunch of election potential and not about whether they know something about the club three of the real age where they're going to be working so you mentioned you have a ph d. in of gender studies all and you're sent to a home to work on gender in maggie or in congo the thing about money or bust it's really difficult for you to do anything and yet you can go on the job going take a lot of time and you know enough above the local conditions to be effective at you know you both with pig or what you do to the local context and so the first end of implementing hands and arms and the kind of cut and paste responses that if you do well in it and then they they use again in congo and then it's like them yeah and then you then well you're going to really need to recruit people could know about

the local conditions for so she's talking yes apologies political scientists it's the all of them after all this and these others to be on tree are stuck a convent. yeah but. i'm so sorry severino i could let you talk all day because you have. such a great perspective but that will have to be the last for both of you is a wonderful important conversation thank you so much adam day and severino to sara appreciate it and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time if you get our website al-jazeera dot com for the discussion of our facebook page that's facebook dot com board slash a.j. and side story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at ha inside story for me richelle carey the entire team i put out.

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president saying that his forces are ready to take charge and also addressing a local audience here in turkey and telling that the durkee will be closely monitoring how are these promises going to pan out that have been promised to turkey it says it is being reported here that the turkish president says that in his forces are ready to take on an operation east of the euphrates river this is going to be all the all the way throughout not just the turkish syrian border but the words the edge of the iraqi border as well so a not that remains in this complicated question of how and who will be pulling out and who will be left in charge a taliban suicide bomb and gun attack has killed dozens of intelligence and security personnel in afghanistan it happened in might in shah the capital of wardak province southwest of kabul a truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency after the explosion of the taliban fighters dressed in police uniforms stormed the pace as some reports say

the number of those killed could be more than one hundred. british prime minister tourism a has presented her alternative bricks and plan to parliament a week after her first deal was overwhelmingly rejected it includes more discussions with the e.u. on how to deal with the irish order may dismiss calls for a second referendum and refused to rule out a new deal exit whilst i want to deliver a deal with the e.u. i cannot support the only other way in which to take no deal off the table which is to revoke article fifteen so my focus continues to be on what is needed to secure the support of this house in favor of the brics it deal with the e.u. and my sense so far is that the three peat changes are needed first we'll be more flexible open and inclusive in the future in how we engage parliament in our approach to negotiating our future partnerships with the european union second we will invent the strongest possible protections on workers' rights in the environment and we will work try gentrify how we can ensure that our commitment to

no hard border in northern ireland and island can be delivered in a way that commands the support of this house and the european union thousands of people have rallied against the government in sudan they turned out and a month after announcement that a student had died of his wounds he was shot alongside a doctor at a protest on thursday the opposition says forty seven people have been killed in the last five weeks and that more than one hundred cities have taken part. in the head of the main trade union confederation in zimbabwe has been arrested he was behind a general strike that took place last week over a steep hike in the price of fuel hundreds of arrests were made and at least five people were killed in the protests all right up to date with headlines here and others are up next it's in search of putin's russia.

i'm andrea cross of a filmmaker and journalist and i've spent the past year traveling my country trying to understand. the soviet union was almost as large as the russian

empire which spanned three continents in the nineteenth century. today's russia has lost many of the territories the towers conquered and the soviets regain but some are still part of russian business and no swedish finnish town of baber the soviet union invaded it and nine hundred thirty nine and finally and next this part of the famine in nineteen forty four. russia remains the largest country on earth even there only the ten most populous. it's still extremely diverse with about one hundred languages spoken by some hundred fifty catholicity. the former soviet republics are now independent states. yet russia still holds sway economically and culturally in some parts of the former empire bordering on the russian federation.

this is the famous gorky park muscovites are our celebration the twenty fifth anniversary of the russian federation when the soviet union collapsed and russia's new life began. the mood is cheerful no sense of crisis in the air and these are every to people representative of the great majority of the multi ethnic russian nation. and. even. the thoughts and in that way at. the. end i find their way to end our teaching

staff i am thinking that that. last night. was done and. we're proud that we make others fear us in a song that might not sound serious but many russians actually do mean it with dangerous where. and this bullish sentiment is deeply rooted in a ninety only take in fact shared by russia's christian establishment.

father to several a captain is a militant spokesman for the russian orthodox church which lent spiritual justification to the power of the russian state. their crews hoopers were commuter and he proves to the shoot was moved to spread leads to shoot. who is the book whose reason rules will rule the group who is moved from store. you're assuming it was group or new group we were is a woman where you move a bus to see you there was to produce solution new proust was the words were a reason commissions crew are going to sure in the summer breeze sure the slaughter drills were news to a cruiser and it was suitable for new berlioz or. old school moral to use when new but soon well to be

a new little near too soon as possible for which the computer world was observed we will reserve more all but all sort of most ability to sue would be the a polluter to inward so truth is reduced and. it was the birth of those words assisted was look we should birth a sort of flu so those two are those we resume or this is it the new or other new beautifully were you with welcome a short leash or was a looser it was a subaru from wood which was caused was islam is considered a super civil selves because it was us of suzhou who are the rules. early it was the worst of this of course which still blowtorch both musically to super disillusioned who is who is really good in a blue certain. part of several it says peace is not something to be defended at all costs the russian orthodox church supports the state and its political and even its military objectors in response to the perceived external

pressures on russia there's precious seem to have two main origins the west with its support for the ukraine and what russia perceives as a threat from radical islam. just past six o'clock. eight as a time when a. mosque and muslims a gathering of the festive. this. is simply. a sleepy big mosque and sponsors small souls have come here to pray.

i hear from right to show three. assemble one of them what i'm going to like move on to get the i boarded up and move wherever. i was there she did see was there already here globally most of of disgust of my life in europe because. i was there all day who was the most complete human pride was a. part of the family for months here and there's nothing like him because you never see you going to put it to the side of my niece just going in the media like she's been missing for more money by something more tenuous more we've been seeing here and there by six in the same month five years come forward and you're right it was a you come across number one but you still miss them is all right said mr spock.

he's going and you should know you know my space give someone all of your book about what you did you see all my humans for one who knew. me knew mostly in the. old. i set off to the north caucasus where dozens of small muslim nations try to coexist with russia. one of them the russian autonomous republic of dagestan is it so home to some thirty distinct ethnicities. deadpanned in ancient city in southern dagestan once had an arabic name. the gateway.

is through this city bordering on today's azerbaijan that islam started to spread into what is now russia as early as the seventh century. millenium later russia now and powerful empire conquered dogs down after a long and brutal war. cook asian muslim culture survived in the russian empire listserv each union and putin's russia mixing with some customs from russia's norm. at the nineteenth century to my mosque. told me about the legendary leader of dug a stone a mom sharmeen who fought the russians but then made peace with the tough. what was

the story they just made. which. is just. a book or book. and. spoke only for me. and. i was very encouraged to hear. young muslim from their bent be so positive about our cold existence in the russian federation especially because they know that many ethnic russians prejudiced against a muslim compadres from the caucuses. on the second day of the fitter i was honored to be invited to a mountainous village known for its long tradition of silversmithing.

the regime. i'm going. alibek could tire himself a simple smith took me to his cousin's house where the large extended family have gathered for a lavish celebration. try something more than good enough wood that some choice i would rather who thought this the sooner it will be over. for. sure because i blew it into the world remember the notes of william for this you don't suppose that this was renewal it only took a lot slower the symbol this is than the. sum of the sum or somehow it is the truth for the bottles.

of. cristal most of us is good to be teach. a. bit. more but the most to you what is most to you when you're just over the loons who cares most are serious he says the fiscal issues with. all fortunes good or just good luck tricia scorcher. ornge you know i'm going to go look in the courts if the supreme. court and the super bowl in the stands but it's a good soldiers go to go see this and there was reason for the war. i believe is sincere in saying that there's no conflict between his dog is tiny and identity and his russian citizenship. i

wonder if everyone in this small but ethnically complex republic is as happy about the coexistence of their culture with the russian state. twice since the fall of communism twenty five years ago russia has mounted brutal military campaigns in chechnya dagestan immediate neighbor and a fellow muslim nation in the caucasus. dug a stock has its own chechen minority since putin defeated independence fighters in chechnya and installed a pro russian veto that pockets of resistance to moscow rule on may be active in dagestan. and. you know what.

you know and. money. that. is because. things are going. for the circle for your mug a man who was in the armed resistance or as they say in the forest for a year agreed to talk to me. personally but the. first person. in the room with throughout the miss. america acoustic. we were the. principal. just

for business just there was a clear stand. that was. the story there was a truce just. so americans let us hear them and then we're going to do like i'm doing enough things a business of stone or this for a little skiff storm. and that's not. just almost alone on them but this. only more of a bust a move i mean what is the core of this cause that much of what's what you let's say coast to actually release quoted this to. the priest room william scimitar nutritive building should it be to the extent it astonishing to their nation to do that it could go on or another where you were. the only woman to do that but to know that it was still. shook up over a dozen knew it because things. units the river.

will move to the us where it was you know that people will think that's because it has to spinsterhood been a. huge issue is that it's in the. shop and bathroom and i don't want. or need a commercial one and you know hundreds of books. and i'm going to the one that. was the first of the next month it's fortunate that for them. what they did to pretty much the sort of the good. fortune if bristol for exhibit. which removed it that's when i was on there for the first do it through. the window poach the same park at the little porch there's

a restroom is that it's white but i just put that or same in the loo but yeah if the book is denied it don't look. at the destroy it just missed the degree. that this didn't just. through the little more launcher greens. the good it is being used but just getting the biggest end of the wisdom and how could anything if it could get old and learn to overdo it first do it through which we can use for building a new jury could there were through the. east and the shame to the poor that the boy is no. but legal. age be cheesy some little so now mind you freeze. over go to undermine their thoughts their bullshit is so the most level because it was. merely measures which are. a bit over go at us where sim is still discussion soil much the smug ways we need

bush for going to the potential social. well that have been spared through the most that will. he could suggest and put in this could see him just. could become used to. reckon it's because of that but that that's it remains reason. to ask the woods. which is an illusion. dump the whites of their cousins into other cars or and they're watching to kill us lesser than if some of them put up. we're trying to get through to the village of gary the home of douglas town's nineteenth century leader. and today the epicenter of tensions between muslims and federal forces and our guest on. the recent leader of muslim resistance. also known as the caucasus. is from here as well.

we're stopped at a checkpoint the guards identified as journalists and we're not allowed through. so we're told just missing from the embassy federal security service. but you're right if the vision if. you mean yes he might. i mean yes he might what's the matter with that if. i'm one of the enormous number itself is a burst of words so the shame. of them i suppose. that

it. was. that it. was it was. not allowed to go through. because it is a danger that might be kidnapped by some salafist. terrorists according to their spiel such as we talked. with might be able to. carry me on my last. checkpoint.

for better or worse i don't pay attention to the at this peace warning i wonder if a safety is the real reason for keeping us journalists away. off to a few detours we managed to get through to could village a frame in which like gary has been subjected to several so-called anti-terrorist operations the army and security forces are looking for seventeen resistance fighters including their leader.

a year later the villagers are still grieving for what they feel is barbaric aggression. i think some established enjoy exists and. no one unsubtle mr bush cuts in class will issue a starship that's a good book mr john and when the old one is a day oh but bush gets it to do so and it will bring the annual cuts in the is to make us at the moment it's i'm not some piling on you won't the squid still. who should decide to miss it so on purpose person posts a pleasure to hear stuff the pub class that's. not supplying is still there. and will deserve a cool to those the special committee of them done by god with that was that luke who gets up being able to do that supplying them that's a pretty big star scam on how the deal can become

a good one then they were pretty sure that with either the disc it was clear that it was that decision that they should really go and that i knew that would be doing well that's a. good sign that means i didn't national question what's taking the time you could only think you would on dollars or one that. was absolute numbers because there was a battle going to the thing. that's most. of them under oath so that's one of the still photos this. is just it so missed not just the world. you know. it was that you met me near is the near a quarter me kind of thing virtue non-person up to the.

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white house unfair game on al-jazeera. out of this is observe these are the top stories i saw has targeted u.s. forces in syria for the second time in a week car bomb hit a checkpoint in the kurdish controlled northeast as a convoy of u.s. and kurdish forces passed by at least five people were killed no u.s. troops were among the casualties on wednesday two u.s. soldiers were killed in members which is all a bunch of aid has more enough to. in the last five days there have been two attacks on u.s. troops and their allies in northern syria where apparently i say it was defeated these troops that came in town and the attack in hasek a province in northern syria is close to the turkish border an area where after the

proposed u.s. pullout turkish forces would like to be in charge of this is an area which is complicated because it's not just isolate is entrenched there but is also home to kurdish fighters kurdish fighters who are allies with the united states but seen as terrorists by turkey a taliban attack has killed dozens of intelligence and security personnel in afghanistan a truck packed with explosives was driven into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency it came hours before the taliban announced they had resumed negotiations with u.s. officials in qatar a british prime minister's reason may has presented her alternative plan to pollard's a week after a first deal was overwhelmingly rejected it includes more discussions with the e.u. on how to deal with the border may dismissed calls for a second referendum and refused to rule out a new deal exit venezuela has arrested twenty seven members of the national guard

accused of staging an uprising against the government protesters demonstrated in support of the group in caracas and arrested soldiers had posted a video on social media calling on the president nicolas maduro to stand down. well thousands of people have rallied against the government and soon they turned out and. after an announcement that the student had died of his ribs shot alongside a doctor at a protest on thursday the opposition says forty seven people have now been killed in the last five months zimbabwe's president has cut short a foreign trip to address the country's economic crisis he's been gone for a week seeking investment in russia and kazakhstan activists say twelve people have been killed in the protests during that time your state with the headlines next stop in putin's russia continues.

to. say i just. wish that they did what you said much did it. for us. this year. let us try and you can just go. get some knowledge you can say i've heard you know that just have to get him. he is gonna sit on my land but that's just us defining school because the game has a macadam first time just it was a day off and have some of us cause a lamp. post. being made.

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today and i could stop russian citizens of different cultures a free to follow their traditions and just. get what is freedom for some is a moral challenge for others. that freedom may be seen as an imposition by building especially in regions once added to the empire by force. brutal occupiers for some he read defenders from others in mainland russia on the settling of beds the sentiment of fervent loyalty and even poetry. that turn fans

like this one in the west in siberia. if you need a guild very. good. in his name. this must. live up to the good morning to. you. in the blue. sea you know. that she's missing. a few.

who. live. in the center of it inboard russia third largest city there's a monument to the local soldier the fellow in the wars and conflicts witnessed by current generations of russian guns done the trick is done chechnya feel. and now they don't but in the eastern ukraine where russian volunteers fight alongside pro russian locals who want independence from the pro western ukraine. the west accuses the russian government up supporting these volunteers and possibly even the direct military involvement. i waiting to meet blood to

marry a female a special. forces officer from you're getting back to trains and sends all enterprises to the eastern ukraine. every day. of all of when happens and then mutiny but if you just honestly thought. quarter of the. number of shots of those when you die both of them usable those are really so true just for the world series and why it's because it doesn't. just go into when yet because our list of. but almost a year's leave with. the. girl they live. on are worth reaching up more sickness and years as donors will for as it worsen i use the p.v.c. in the blood flow. in the with the more level was it she said. of

a push in your. brain but there is an idea that in this. year you could then you look over a period when you know. when you. look at there was i'm easily shown watching a serious case i use torture when you stand with the three violet pound. stone you're not the bullet missed. you mean you can see he's. still don't you but here's the thing when you put it as if it is your money john with his glass and grenades. and you move them to some guns it doesn't as good as in there's a subway. usually. doesn't it wasn't as good us in the subway you. know more than still years.

you wish stage door initially. grain them and guns go ballistic by jitter it. all chance of the broward oh my lear three. in the bloods or the moon. we russians are good at interpretive wars because purely defensive when that becomes difficult to argue with claim that an act of aggression was the soviet not strictly russian initiative to. be air rage in syria of course other first probably russian military operation for a long time and i wonder how long of take before new names will be added to this monument.

to conflict with the ukraine as dominated russia's political life four year and a half. russian the west accuse each other interfering in the crane. over a million refugees have already crossed into russia from the eastern ukraine. in an office where ukrainian refugees are helped with pretty straight and russian i look for someone prepared to tell me their story. victoria kolesnik of it is a small entrepreneur from the don't pass despite the difficulties of life as a refugee she is full of energy and has already found a job as a sales assistant when she becomes a russian citizen her career chances should improve. i was invited to victoria and sergey kolesnik of the new flat. just do not pass in the void leave thank you what

. i know so i had said it unless there is a crazy way out what nasa qatar is. less than him said was national have you seen the crane only need that new. some gave it the economy going after you got a little. business is just new has moved. come in yet a bloated porch first they really were. being absorbed. in the most polluted into the preceeding. years ago so you just could not prize and it's going to come from. musical groups into two groups also all. the other countries in the government is that if somebody had several of my say he's a leader on the. i'm not pushing you blow up a couple well you. just need please a story. we brought you to school. or

did a good thing. i thought it don't go there oh no it was true yeah i just googled regulus from when you could i knew you i could double to personal use your term but the well we did the right that would. give a piece richard company money to shame your stomach. with new business new banking didn't give a stone which is a bribe to you missed you out of the dinner. in the going to stay at your door you could go through the shallow water to work on their boards and. then you asked bill for some. friends here where you. were going. out of the market from out of the room when it was on your show or for those really. didn't want you. problem.

for me will be when you go with him when he continued you will see in the new book sheet to back it up but do you know yet what i'll say. oh yeah. which is it at the new year if your birth has been nuked the previous been weak when it was over actually seen by national convention something that they want to post the mention speak english their readings yet they did it again by then you can have all testing and even if you want to go for a quick check on the road to do things get worse in twenty three. was a chimp good these are two of them when you both got him to cool. me is not it the knievel kool still yelling there but i'm usually less business with them if i knew. what you say there's any one of these misname leslie but she had them so we would be new people will understand you think you should cook gnashing. of.

works. for you why did you have not. come to you since you were done by us when you push away what we did. a nice for should have done was still there well then yes i do know. well those opposed them then they have to be seen you see but i guess the one results of meeting the most you knew the chance of. shooting him because there. are different law schools in fact what you see is rather than the zoning use of muslims because the then there are the. this if i were thought of for postals movie. was a. private. think that i knew less than doing.

a which do not see today is a very special day the life of the college meet a family that you just missed but you didn't mean you. should have a deceptive. one be said. to have an appointment at the local police station to become no more no less citizens of russia. some of us have trouble the world and have seen more comfortable places than central russia. some long to leave putin's russia for the west. and. i know would think of what the site still longer does the dos showing us the field on the route of the west in years makes it more obvious to those who. are

russian passport means hope and the chance of athens that fit the late winner was telegraphed me a great. tension and violence continued in the ukraine. conflicting accounts of what's happening i mean it's hard for me to form a clear picture of the conflict. i hear of someone who has recently returned from fighting for don't buy. it feels unsafe to me to ponder dos q since he no longer shares the government's version oh. events can be a great. coach

because we're so good he'll she thought means more to us but who. grew from a dream bilbo's of sitting here with. you. and your should push for just it's almost no budget oh that's it niko but it's those of us that thanks to all those q i'm a beaut or so little skill in the city that i'm given. where you're going to pull the movie stupid or the. accuser to putus lansky but then you'll. know it was she has distorted. you couldn't your. research was good most ational stories of. your political solution to a stroller but it was more when they can see any of them would hold for those missions if you built them think you might be the only do you know of a good old lady and you. being so good to the senior. folks of you hole of

we will the police regional cuckold those two more meeting will come those will blow mr copas good morning as for middle school pushing out of your old so the old the new slope of the new little worlds the. good the more you have to pull the usual so they seal up the bill of a quote of to which he took the mulching magical little here if you will get it and you close up of the blue is an inch goes to show you. where it is possible to both m g n e being. was a disservice but almost alone for the middle of the city budget on top of all he took over the device you want us all in the bullshitters but we should have done was on those up all the way ships bullshit folks what if. it was to. i'm blue led me into seeing someone you know the letter c. janja legion that she chose on bush's mistake but on some of the last things to see

you. dream of going there you play with all chance think it's a bush with a team he's could be a bull in your sleep but it's going to the bush will do with you sure. you've been opposing since library door being opened but it's still with us multiple more a month with them so i just can see of choices for me what we have you know occurring you see me able look at the moment is still a little stiff likely chip or the thumb all the cues are a bit of a cushion for the residual mental. move business from the u.s.s. cole to bush it was a duty even while you belittling it on top of me a bit about this the beautiful and the overblown sizzling buildable of know what i need to give a new beetle. or . if there's

a more. sure . one to use before proposals go i did something would come up with something good left in the month of school mostly to do duty impossible to miss through one post but i think that he sits in the tour if you're into the courses it's all just. banded dirt off skis first hand account of his war experiences may be troubling for the man of the street. many of my fellow russians prefer

a more simplistic view of the world and its politics. because of the image gore of the more aggressive. in the mood and i'm sure that if i knew. i could ask the question on more of my service we would only look at the little boy members here in the city. nearly as it is a given. to other natural. oilers no one else but i was if there is a new yorker good ups the news one of them was one of. the grants and of course i'll go through. the way the books are here during our then you're one of the ones who was the most generous. i think. i see via the washing in that. the military show is one of the favorite pastimes for ordinary russians. i test one of the latest rifles from the famous kalashnikov company that i want in the devil.

despite western sanctions russia remains the second largest arms exporter in the world it has the world's best and largest fleet of tanks and the most sophisticated anti-aircraft defenses but those second american might on many counts russia is a formidable military force and an extremely proud one at the same time it sees itself as a benign power that uses force only in defense it will never admit to being an empire it's in numerable nations are supposed to be equal and happy to be part of a great country someone i met here alan has here from a city in the north caucuses express that view with astounding directness and i.

i'm going to sell you live i'm not sure if i will need a god that is a male one. that. feels really was what should i go usually don't worry it is the one. not only totally noble genuine. was more this did. so to no media and. such because that jury to pray for our state doesn't tell the whole story. in the next film of the series will deal with the culture of open to keep it dark at pages about history. as for the future it seems likely that the next generation will share the uncritically proud view of their homeland that prevails today.

russian filmmaker andrina christoph explodes had putin's russia impacts the very values of the nation the russians are famous for their cultural legacy but can tradition and conservative be the source of stagnation and authoritarian rule why does own the assume aided by the police to seize it crane says homosexuality the significance of booting to the russian elite is that he's like a fake you who controls the cobra in such a putin's russia on al-jazeera. hello

no sooner has one storm gong and this is it is very obvious good shot back as the next one is coming and that's coming from a ridge in the pacific it's picked itself up over the high ground over the rockies nazca trust central northern plains this is again going to be snow but maybe not the same extent of the loss from but it is proper snow is very the rain to the south of it not really much chance of thunderstorms generating any really nasty weather look at the times is that we've recovered we weren't really down below freezing never can have again so just ahead of the state coming in washington's up to eight new york's up to plus five behind it there's not much of a contrast chicago still a plus two these are day max but you've got to go a bit further north minneapolis to have a real cold feel so this is going to be rather wet sticky horrible stuff it will cause travel disruption again. to south of that there was an interactive end of

a cold front to sing here the rain is falling out of it is rather static and persistent but optically heavy as if a sudden cuba turks and caicos and for a time in honduras is moving up towards billy's as well preventing results were just takes a few showers with it now the rain pattern further south and south america has changed somewhat it's worth a try in the south of brazil in year to contain the wetness is in northern brazil. if you are looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what what is this rice is 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 limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pay for the world smaller and smaller we don't

want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. they're on the clock this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes and ice an attack against the u.s. and kurdish forces in syria hours off to israel fired missiles that iranian targets need to mask. dozens are killed in a taliban attack in afghanistan the u.s. begins another round of direct negotiations with the. presents another version of her breaks a plan but it's not much.