commission we sure are is formed by all our friends including the government which could then act as in to look the column now obviously this is not an easy issue to resolve i think that it is going to have his hands full in car who is going to have to convince president romney who has been as have his own conditions and unless this happens i think that we will not see a lot of progress on the other items that i mentioned earlier to brazil now where hundreds of people are feared dead after a dam at an iron ore mine collapsed causing one of the worst environmental disasters and the country's recent history rescue workers have found thirty four bodies so far and hundreds of people remain missing daniels from the reports from the town of broome a genial near the site of the dam burst. the heavy rain only makes moretti fraught rescue operation much worse many have been saved in the being cared for at this

center relieved distraught concerned about their missing loved ones. the feeling is that you're going to die at that it's the end of everything and you don't know which way to run. for the job olson are all visited the disaster area but didn't stay long his ministers are overseeing the rescue and relief efforts. see the mud is being monitored by local and national institutions at this moment the heavy part is moving more slowly as we have several monitoring points along the river and we are tracking its movement and investigation is underway into how the dam burst releasing millions of liters of ways from the iron ore mine the owners vale expressed their sorrow they've already been fined sixty six million dollars but they were also part owners of a mine were a little over three years ago a similar downburst one thousand people were killed damage to the environment was immense we still don't know the scale of this tragedy on either the human or the

environmental level what is know is that lessons were not learned from the last november two thousand and fifteen nobody was prosecuted nobody took responsibility many already asking whether they'll be ignored again there is this is there it's disheartening it's sad what carelessness where are the authorities spare the petitions how long are people going to die for things like this how long we'll be crying for our loved ones. were sent to the morgue in search of a missing husband angelo he wasn't there and he doesn't know where he is she may never know and will join others wondering how another down they were told was safe this cause such death and destruction a. moment guignol was ill let's get more on this now we're joined by johannes maya he's a reporter for the news agency a.f.p. and he is joining us live from virginia and the state of maine is very good to have you with us on al-jazeera we've been looking at absolutely devastating pictures

from where you are what have you been able to see there. well you lack education is really to describe what it what it looks like one with some garrett maybe two it's scenes of a massive tsunami like what we had and asia except this was a manmade disaster. it's always a giant game and just why are over a whole lot of the landscape place is beyond recognition everything is rounds you have on and it is saying my friend used to have. this one used to look at the and there's no way of telling because this is this brown mud all over and like you say it is a manmade disaster so how much anger is there towards the mining company valet which has been involved in which was involved in another dam disaster in two thousand and fifteen money on which was at the time called the worst environmental

disaster in the country's history yes obviously that is quite a lot of anger at the are obviously a lot of criticisms in the media from environmental groups that companies are under a lot of pressure from stakeholders people on the ground here are saying that they are too close attention to the media and to the shareholders and they're not caring enough about the families they are few people here. who lives here he believes in living all the mind and employed by the company who say you know we should give them a chance it's not the fall they've always been looking after us but overwhelmingly there's a lot of anger especially because this is happening now in less than four years in the same states and as we've been reporting something like around four hundred people are still missing so how are people in the town the wider area

everybody coping with this. it is one thing to interact with some people you can reject knives it has been crying for a long time as it closely looking their eyes these are reception area here same to families can go and try to find information about their loved ones but all they find out these lists and lists of people who are reported missing and yet they cling to hope that their loved ones will will still be found but you see they struggle to make scenes of what is happening and it is the uncertainty is is very difficult for people the fact that maybe the bodies of their loved ones will never be found my bag we really appreciate your time on the earth thank you very much that's the a.f.p.'s johanna's my live and from a chain your thank you. were plenty more ahead on the news hour including

searching for his brother but concern is growing among families of protesters detained in sudan. we meet the woman blazing a trail and transform unvetted life in the pacific on a nation on a walk to and sports naomi always makes it to. end of road by winning the australian open details coming up later in. the un's human rights investigation looking into the murder of saw the journalist jamal khashoggi has sought access to the crime scene and the saudi consulate in istanbul and miss kalamata has also asked to visit the kingdom bot hasn't received a reply from the authorities catamount has the un special rapporteur on executions is set to arrive in turkey on monday she says the inquiry is a crucial step towards full accountability for the well as the executive director

of the arabs and to washington d.c. and he says there is growing pressure on the united nations to pursue its own investigation. there has been a lot of international pressure directed at the particularly office of the secretary general at the un to initiate some response if you will some initiate some investigation on behalf of the international community with regards to the murders so recently the secretary general has appointed a group of three representatives to kind of represent him and the united nations are showing this inventive investigation the group is headed by again this column up as you just stated in addition to helena kennedy a member of parliament and wanted to know if the portuguese investigator and saw these people have requested if you will that group has requested access

to the saudi consulate the site of the scene of the crime in istanbul so that they can begin their investigation an admission to a visit to the kingdom of saudi arabia to be briefed about the investigation in terms of the saudi investigation in this regard and they have been turned down the u.n. as again one and that the whole of effigies and they can all be sent but young young man because it still isn't safe a special rapporteur on human rights has been visiting vaish says the crisis could have global consequences and been reports from the oppa. these rohingya experienced the evils of humanity in me and mark yet the lure of home is like a magnet and they long to return as citizens with equal rights the refugees reject any repatriation plan that can't guarantee that.

the release and we came here is seek justice. and. the un special rapporteur on human rights in me and maher yankee lease says can't return home for the foreseeable future and bangladesh must begin planning for hosting them long term around three quarters of a million refugees have streamed over the border since the me and our military crackdown began in august twenty seventh teen u.n. investigators call it a genocide against this predominantly muslim minority the refugee relief and repatriation commissioner says more people are arriving at a rate of about forty thousand a year. the camps in cox's bizarre have become the largest refugee settlement in the world there congested they sit on an elephant migration route and the jungle is heavily forested the bangladeshi government says they can improve the situation by

transferring about one hundred thousand road he does to a remote uninhabited island. this is boston shark or floating island the bangladeshi government says refugees would be able to fish and farm and have access to education and health care but lisa says she's concerned about the isolation of the flood prone island and the safety of refugees she says not one should be forced to move there and atlanta the planet we may die there we came here to save our lives who will not go there to die. refugees say they're still struggling to survive many people are dying here to break los is another infectious diseases are spreading we're given russians but they're not adequate enough we stay mostly hungry with dim prospects of going home in the near future refugees hope the bangladeshi government will improve camp conditions and their lives will become

more tolerable latasha going to. yellow vests protesters in france are keeping up pressure on president emanuel macron several evening rallies were held across the country marking the eleventh week of protests against certain demonstrations called on the president of the roche and say he's out of touch with citizens so called yellowknife followed a day of marches around the french capital that erupted into a confrontation between demonstrators and police nigeria's main opposition party has halted election campaigning for three days it's in protest at president home of the harvey suspending the chief justice walter on a guns accused of failing to declare assets the opposition people's democratic party says the allegations are politically motivated the chief justice was likely will on any disputed results in next month's general election as he's reinstated families of anti-government protesters arrested and sadhana are demanding answers over their whereabouts hundreds of people have been detained and six weeks of

demonstrations against rising prices and president omar al bashir is twenty nine year old hipper morgan reports from carphone. starts his day in the capital with phone calls and internet searches he's hoping to hear some news about his brother muslim men who went missing on the twentieth of january after protests in sudan second largest city on demand. we don't know where he is we checked hospitals but he wasn't among those injured those who were with him during the protests said that he was arrested by armed masked men and trying to pick up we haven't seen or heard from him since. thanks six weeks of anti-government protests started on the nineteenth of december over rising food costs the cries for change into calls for president obama to end his thirty year rule. is refusing to hand over power security forces have been criticized for

firing bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters. the government says twenty nine have been killed since protests began rights groups say at least fifty have died widespread arrests have also been reported with activists and opposition figures targeted sometimes in their homes. there's growing concerns for their safety the government's long been criticized for torturing dissidents and activists sometimes resulting in death the number of activists who have been arrested since anti-government protests began in december is not known many remain in detention with no access to their families or their lawyers with reports of torture from those who have been released many families say they're concerned about the safety and health of their relatives and that they want to know who is holding them and where. political parties including members of the ruling coalition such as the popular congress party are adding to calls by rights groups for the release of protesters imprisoned. whatever the thought we want the government to let us know

who's killing the protesters who's arresting them and where they are being held they should be released or charged if they committed a crime or peaceful protesting is in the constitution and it is their right and they shouldn't be arrested or you know lose her in the middle of the ruling national congress party it makes the arrests of activists but if he says them of inciting violence and says they will be charged and tried in court atop deferred. yes there are people who have been arrested they were calling for protests without getting legal permits they were trying to stabilize the situation and they will be charged but that those who are arrested are in touch with their lawyers because it's in the right we make sure they're in good health and i still think he. has and doesn't mind if his brother appears in court as long as he turns up alive and well he will morgan al-jazeera sort of. still ahead on the news the hard won peace agreement under threat from dissident republicans and the uncertainty of a prank set facebook's plan to merge its messaging platforms and what it could mean

for privacy and peter will begin to tell you about the young skier hated up the slopes in europe details coming up and support. from cool brisk noise and fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello it remains quiet and still with some persistent fog in a good part of central and southern china at the moment nice weather in hong kong with a breeze coming out the northeast is typically low twenty's and that's the case here on sunday and shanghai has come back up to about ten degrees everywhere is apparently perfect it does go below freezing at night of course particularly in the land otherwise it's just a steady quiet picture which is what you might expect of winter unlike the last couple of weeks south of this in the heaviest rain has been showing itself

obviously in sulawesi where there is still flooding in the science but through java as well so a good part of indonesia still got a risk of fairly frequent and heavy showers with that's true of some possibilities year as well and increasingly of the southern philippines the fun of cloud you know it is coming towards sudden vietnam maybe no more than just a bit of cloud generating water to showers it shouldn't be wet at this time of the year in thailand laos cambodia or vietnam and it isn't really for again that's different to the last couple of weeks and he's all the difference nor should it be raining in this part of india in the middle of winter the middle of the northeast monsoon but it is the showers of falling they've already fallen and jessica when we began to under protest for both sunday i'm indeed for monday. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. as it takes a tougher line on migrants organized crime is making fast profits from their misery . people and power investigates the state funded reception center is where the

helpless are reduced to commodities ripe for exploitation. and the migrants on. the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. other kingdom the company inseparable here the world's largest oil producer and you don't list in the world's largest stock exchange that definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arabic over the company and the state on al-jazeera.

good to have you with us on the al-jazeera new sound these are our top stories six days of talks between the u.s. and the afghan taliban have ended and after a promise of more discussions washington's on what is now heading to. the government and couple thirty four people have been confirmed dead in prison after friday's collapse of a dam holding waste of an eye and. rescue workers are searching for hundreds of people who remain missing. spain germany france and russia have to live in an ultimatum to venezuela. they say he must pull elections within eight days that recognize opposition leader on why bill as interim president of the u.s. has a history of intervention and latin america washington has long been accused of trying to and show that governments challenge its power but many say that this time its

backing of venezuela's office is different she has a pool. and. u.s. is recognition of an elected opposition leader as president of venezuela even latin american historians accustomed to washington's long history of overthrowing governments south of the border this is unprecedented not only in venezuelan history but in latin america the only similarity of this story and then i can recall was with the bay of pigs in which part of the u.s. plan in landing troops in have that in cuba was to declare a government in exile and then that government in exile up in arms would request u.s. military assistance and the u.s. would then land troops parados could also be drawn with the u.s. as support for the ousting of salt with the democratically elected socialist president of chile in the early seventy's president nixon vowed to make truly is a colony scream in order to set the groundwork for a military coup the us encouraged the business community to the state. the country

through the hoarding of food and through strikes meanwhile it slashed foreign aid and poured millions into the opposition the economy was soon in ruins. when donald trump came into office he intensified sanctions already imposed by the obama administration preventing caracas from restructuring its debts importing food and medicine and stopping u.s. based venezuelan petrol companies citgo from repatriating its profits the venezuelan economy was already in terrible due to falling oil prices and mismanagement of the currency now it was devastated the government is fully aware that it needs to carry out some significant structural reforms to the economy and without international lines of credit and the ability to build up foreign reserves just as any normal country usually can do in these conditions it's really impossible for the venezuelan government government to do this. the u.s. is also alone funded venezuela's opposition through the national endowment for

democracy and usa id what unifies the us is opposition to the venezuelan government the overthrow of our end in chile and the bay of pigs is washington's determination to prevent any threats to u.s. corporate interests in the region as governments reassert authority over their economies and redistribute wealth when the obama administration supported the coups against the democratically elected leaders of on your wrists and paraguayan the same dynamics were in play through former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate the trumpet ministrations actions against venezuela should come as no surprise them but the overt manner in which it is doing so would appear to be an emphatic message as decades of leftist rule in the region recede washington is back she had her town see al-jazeera. funerals been held for an eight year old guatemalan boy who died in u.s. custody after crossing the border with mexico philippe go amiss alonzo was the second

child to die while being held by american authorities last month. after being detained with his father they traveled to the border from their remote village of bor hotch. israeli. attack. and. in one of the first military exercises of the year. the weapons of war the same. experts were israel. between the two countries is no secret since the early days of the syrian war eight years ago israeli forces have targeted iranian allies of the government. but continuing israeli strikes. in syria means what started out as

a sidebar to the war runs the risk of becoming a parallel conflict. we have been fighting israel in different ways to forty years now there is a direct contact because of their borders we are monitoring their activities and we are capable of retaliation so far we have not decided to enter a direct war with israel because we believe the syrian government should make this decision they haven't yet but it may happen and if it does we should expect a direct and very wide war on the ground. with no immediate borders between them open conflict with israel would probably look like proxy battles of the past like. experts say strikes on each other cities is also a possibility but the most dangerous escalation would come from the involvement of israel. and iran and the united states if that were to happen many experts warn the conflict could become. there is perhaps no clearer sign of the distrust between iran and israel than this monument to their mutual animosity in a speech

a few years ago iran's supreme leader. predicted the end of israel giving the country twenty five years until it destroyed it. his supporters did the math and put a clock in palestine square in downtown tehran for those who take the word of the supreme leader as literal and divine this countdown clock is more than just a publicity stunt for many iranians it is a real time countdown to the end of israel as we know it. but iranians still bear the scars of the eight year war with neighboring iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. and even with israel a rush to who're seems unwanted. first of all war is not a good thing because all countries involved take a loss and if there is a war we won't start it but we will fight until i last drop of blood to defend our country and even read it from iran won't go for what iran is just defending itself we don't say war will never happen every moment we expect it but we will defend

ourselves and we will surely when. better to avoid war as much as possible is better things can be solved by talks without any perception of. skirmishes with israel inside syria may worsen in iran there still seems to be as much talk of peace as there is for war despite open hostility towards israel for now most people don't appear to want another large scale conflict. thousands of people have marched in the serbian capital for an eighth week to protest against president alexandre vote just as government demonstrators want the government to ease restrictions on media and acquired from freedom of speech and made their way through snowy valley quiet streets blocking traffic and the city center. now recent bombing and several hijackings a northern ireland second largest city have raised fears of a new paramilitary threat police are looking at the suspected involvement of dissident republican group the new ira which wants to end russia's control of the

province of disney reports from londonderry that may destabilize things even more. father michael carey is a catholic priest in northern ireland second city during decades of upheaval community leaders played a vital role in easing tensions many hope violence was a thing of the past but after saturday's car bombing some fear it could be a sign of things to come there's more horrible time a horrendous time and we're up little better nurse. and or people families pitted against families because some people supported the struggle other people opposed the struggle for families were torn apart as a personal view that while there is a british presence in ireland i think there were always be people who will resist that and people will try to have the british out of ireland i force the bomb was crude and highly unstable

a delivery vehicle was hijacked and left outside london dairies courthouse this is the moment it went off there was no loss of life and little damage but the bombs reopened old wounds two more days of security alerts followed including two further hijackings of vehicles by masked men five people were arrested and later released no groups claimed responsibility but police suspect a hard line republican group the new are a. very sore some of the worst fighting during thirty years of sectarian violence it was a conflict between nationalists mostly catholics who favor a united ireland or unionists mainly protestants who want northern ireland to remain british and twenty years ago opposing sides signed the good friday agreement bringing an end to the fighting but this isn't where the story ends some rejected the peace deal and in the past twenty years distant republican groups of periodic lee resurfaced in an attempt to reignite violence which is what police suspect may

have happened here outside dairies courthouse these are not new and aims but they do have a new political context. northern ireland's devolved power sharing government collapsed two years ago leaving a political vacuum in the province and breaks it happened opening up a fierce debate over the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland to the member the good friday agreement guaranteed an open border ending military checkpoints and customs posts a no deal breaks it could mean the return of hard infrastructure the new ira views any border as a target should frame was once the political wing of the provisional ira they signed up for the good friday peace deal renounce violence and are now at the center of northern irish politics we believe that the rule of law and a great irony and a story they express wishes of the people of ireland and the democratic nature the bombings being condemned across northern ireland's entire political spectrum peace

here was hard won but it remains fragile leave barca out zero terry facebook has announced plans to integrate three of the world's biggest messaging applications whatsapp instagram and facebook messenger the company's working to get the three applications talking to each other while remaining separate services the plan as an s. early stages could be completed by the end of this year or early twenty twenty. well facebook borscht the photo sharing app instagram and twenty twelve for a billion dollars picked up whatsapp two years later for a whopping sixteen billion dollars in cash and stocks all three services a pop you know with an estimated two point six billion users between them but you have to be the same application to connect and this merger project will change that but it is happening as facebook is already under pressure other users privacy it's faced repeated investigations of how it's handled dacha now idle balcombe is a coda and developer who's created ad online privacy tool and he says users need

ethical alternatives to facebook's messaging apps. this is facebook's business model this is how they make money by gathering data on you by adeline's ing it profile you and then using this intimate insight to manipulate your behavior for profit that's how they make their billions we have to stop being surprised when surveillance capitalists like facebook act like surveillance capitalists they are factory farms for human beings they farm us for our data that's their job that's how they make money so let's not be surprised when they act exactly as their business model demands facebook incorporated by its very existence exists to erode our privacy so nothing that they do protects our privacy they make money by your roading our privacy so there's really no fix for this as long as we have facebook and instagram and they have this business model what we can do is we can

fund ethical alternatives to these businesses silicon valley is not going to fund them it's not going to come out of venture capital because they fund facebook and google and they're very lucrative you know this this business model is very fine actually lucrative but we can fund it from the commons so why don't we use money from the commons to create ethical technologies that belongs to the commons we need to start thinking differently in europe especially. and outside of the us outside of silicon valley if we're going to solve this problem we can't solve it within a the bounds of the same system that created the problem itself. now an annual ice a fishing event in south korea is expected to break attendance record with the cia with nine hundred too many investors has it as the last weekend of the three week festival in the county off latch on close to the border with north korea and it's probably five a poll says khalid that day political fall on the peninsula well main even take a krauts in the future. it's everything you can think of doing with ice and then

some sliding down its role. over it just staying up all it most especially fishing through it. county trades on the tourism potential of being one of the coldest places in south korea in winter by the end of the festival some twenty thousand fishing holes have been drilled so you'll has just caught her first fish it takes a long time she says at the next hole parks and juno's it. has to freezing aside one's boyfriend has brought her here for a special treat this is my first time. i can't one pull on the line is a good feeling. and for those who dare there's the chance to strip off those restricting layers and brave the near freezing water to catch them and hold on to them any way you can it's definitely for the adventurous for those who simply don't

want to wait for a while to get in there with their. parents or take. probably. for sixteen years has been building its brand helped by the humble mountain trout by the truckload they're released cotton then along the frozen river if ice is what you've got ice is what you do look says the county chief it's forty centimeters thick you could drive a tank across it but that's just what this town doesn't want less than thirty kilometers from the developed rhizome frontier with north korea the current peace moves are good for business. like to be able to farm in the child free use in the festival in the north and see north koreans come here to take part to see an era of peace has always been my hope for south koreans the intriguing possibility of going

north beyond the wire i'd like to maybe even visit north korea one day winters there are colder still but even the prospect of a warm north korean welcome until recently was unthinkable rob mcbride al-jazeera county south korea. coming up in sports peter will be here with the story of a dream doubles debut twenty meant at the a strain you know that. market .