in september twenty seventh team the people of the kurdish region of northern iraq voted in favor of independence from baghdad. but joy was short lived as the iraqi government reacted forcefully against any idea of separation. al-jazeera world travels to the kurdish regional capital of overbuild to investigate independence and the iraqi kurds on al-jazeera. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in that's something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working round the clock to make sure that we bring events as accurately as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do

well. the pacific island nation of ghana watts who has a long history of community mass is being settled by tribal village chiefs who are usually men but the first time a woman has been appointed chairperson of a tribal council on the island of mosul as part of her plans to transform village life she's applying a strict environment environmentalist agenda which includes or even park and cracking down on illegal logging my name is lame eileen is the pastor and i'm a nurse. of a tribal council in vanuatu it's always been i'm in the position

my husband son goal for we are about childless to give me the right to ponting. the i come from totally different islands and try and different. customs and culture somewhere happy somewhere not puppy at the end of the day that she lives. as the lessee my husband and i go to capitol hill every day to bring kids to school but those so for work and for shopping. for enough in hospitality institution in florida when i look around me i see the destruction of forests and my really lives after the cycle and everybody relies on the government handouts so the council decides that would go away. it's we have to do

something to orce. so in our community we put all these by laws in place the first thing is the shelter that can shelter the families that don't have psycho on parole hormones our fear is also the thing tides the sea water rise just keep coming in we introduce nearby lowes or to stop people making guidance around riva to protect them what the source we have a problem with people chopping down trees for charcoal and files to sell so we introduce the by laws to protect our forests we also introduce a buyer for people to have their own gardens so that they don't have to rely on the processed food one of the things we decided to do is to introduce the marine but they did area we care about the lives of. the turtle as the sea cucumber

does but i do glance we took it for granted but now in this generation we come to realize that the future for the environment is important for our kids and the future generation everything that lives around us is important it's part of our lives. now let's get all the day's news with peter. jenny thank you very much for that djokovic has won he's recalled seven full stride in open championship and third consecutive grand slam title he beat rafael nadal in straight sets to claim his fifteenth major trophy for a small reports record oh look at. some emerging names have attempted to challenge the status quo at the first grand slam of the year but rafa nadal and novak john the fish are still setting the standards in world tennis. in their fifty

third career meeting the match was expected to be an epic showdown between the top two players on the planet but jock a bitch the reigning wimbledon in u.s. open champion had other plans for his spanish opponent the dow hadn't dropped a set on the way to the final but now he was outclassed jock veges wrapping up the first set in thirty minutes i was ruthless dominants continued in the second putting on a masterclass performance made down had no answer. a flicker of life for an adele and the third was quickly damned when jock a bitch fought off a break point and eventually sealed a six three six two six three victory i win the pair matt in the australian open final back in two thousand and twelve jock which needed nearly six hours to win. this time though the serve was so remotely as he only needed to. decide to hold templates on on the journey in the last

twelve months because. as rough i've been through a surgery and quite a major injury myself last couple of years but i had the surgery exactly twelve months ago and to be standing now here in front of you today and managing to win this title and three out of four slams this is a truly. amazing hi i'm i. speech. this time last year jock rich was dealing with a career threatening injury is now playing some of the bath tennis of his life far is al-jazeera. and soccer has been basking in the glow of her women's final when she showed off the trophy at melbourne's brighton beach on sunday the japanese will be world number one on monday after beating patrick of it for her second grand slam title in a row they are mostly scored for

a sixth consecutive spanish league match as league leaders barcelona be cheered on a on sunday bosses nelson said or same to the visitors into the lead in the line for minute leaguers top scorer messi doubled their lead in the sixty eight from the to ninety s. eighteenth league goal of the season it finished to no to boss or and puts them five points clear at the top of the table. the semifinals of the twenty nine hundred eighteen cup kicks off on monday in the u.a.e. first up iran faced japan before cutter play the hosts in the second semifinal on tuesday with four asian cup titles japan the most successful nation in the history of the tournament the samurai blue or unbeaten in the tournament so far been one all five of their matches by one goal margins iran also unbeaten but did draw against iraq in their final group game it was the only match they didn't win the iranians haven't won the tournament since one thousand nine hundred six. we need to play we do need to be ourselves play with confidence we trust we have our own

arguments and weapons to play but of course we need to pay attention to the japanese to manage that try to control the strong points that they have and they have a lot but the most important thing it is to be ourselves we don't know. i think iran's main strength is that they have the it will be to keep the ball also they can feed long passes randomly and the reactions to these passes are very quick so i think it will be important for us to adjust to work to this kind of situations . pakistan's cricket captain suffers all made has been handed a four match ban but the sport's governing body softens was caught on camera during a one day international against south africa directing a racially charged comments while the thirty one year old has apologized to pressure quo as well as the south african team and he's absence pakistan were able to beat south africa by eight wickets on sunday in the fourth o.d.i.

series before much playing. denmark at the world handball champions the danes defeated scandinavian neighbors norway thirty one twenty two in sunday's final denmark were tournament co-hosts with germany and had the advantage of hosting the final in the city of turning and had come to the norwegians had to settle for second place for the second straight championship it was a perfect competition for denmark as they won all twelve of them matches in the event they are the current olympic champions but this is the first and the rule the handball championship title. in the sevens version of rugby there is little debate over the greatness of fiji and on sunday they were at a devastating base to win the new zealand leg of the world series they faced the united states in the final in hamilton the us still very little chance though jerry to our school twice as fiji ran in six tries the americans were not even able to put any points on the board thirty eight know the final school to the fijians it's

a second to none and win in a row but they share the top spot in the overall standings with the u.s. . austrian skier who will miss the world championships in february in sweden of the crashing during a world cup event in germany who is a speed specialist lost control during her run at the women's downhill in garmisch part incursion she said to be out of competition for four weeks a competitor it stephanie veneer won the events ahead of the limbic champion sophia . it's her first victory at a world cup level. nordic combined world cup leader ja magnus really is celebrating two victories at home after winning a ski jump event on saturday the twenty one year old norwegian staged a remarkable comeback to be virgins in his guy go on the last appeal of the cross-country track on sunday rebuilds eleventh at the start of the race but turned things around to beat the german by one point two seconds. and the n.h.l.'s biggest

stars came together for the league's all star game in san jose california pittsburgh penguins star sidney crosby scored two goals and had three assists on the night to lead his side the metropolitan division to a ten five victory over the central division crosby was named the game's m.v.p. the proceeds benefit the pension fund of the plays. and that's all the sport let me hand you back to london and julie peter thank you now merely two million people have been i would tell me i have can see for it seventeen and new ice fishing vessel which has become the biggest winter tourist attraction in south korea and it could become even bigger festivals across the north korean border and as rob reports it's hoped the fall in relations will draw even larger crimes in the future . it's everything you can think of doing with ice and. sliding down it rolling over it just staying up all it most especially fishing through it.

what your own 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 park's on june knows it. his son knows it too freezing aside one's boyfriend has brought her here for a special treat this is my first time and it's fun 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 face but want to get in there with their. parents

to take. probably. for sixteen years what john has been building its brand helped by the humble mountain trout by the truckload their farm and released cotton then served up 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 demilitarized zone front here with north korea the current peace moves are good for business. i 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. well that's it for me for this news hour i will be back in just sat with much more of the day's news saying that. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in due time tiger's next ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities 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 u.n. to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow the times example but how do you measure it many brits unease happiness is what we ensure it's if that is quantifiable of advice simply turning its pursuit into policy good time has done what no other country has. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in liberal i was the both of us and now and the other student rewind continues with mono and me going into a war zone he said the first thing i look for is the exit it's not how to get it it's how to get out that nobody sees your pictures there's no point going to these places rewind on al-jazeera. the plundering of armenia's natural riches

has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitats of some of europe's most endangered species. but the remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the country's investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on a. the search for survivors from a down collapse in brazil resumes after a second down is declared safe but anger and despair are growing. i know them joining with some of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up

venezuelan opposition supporters take amnesty papers to military bases while president may do a visit since soldiers and urges them to stay loyal. at least twenty seven dead after a cathedrals formed in the southern philippines region which just bolted for autonomy more protests in france this time though against the gavel best demonstrates as an off the government. the search has resumed for survivors from the down which burst on friday at a mine in brazil barring nearby villages under torrents of mud rescue efforts were suspended for most of sunday over fears a second dam in the complex was about to collapse so there's little hope of finding alive any of the estimated two hundred fifty people still not accounted for thirty seven bodies have been recovered so far from burma. reports. this is the result of the dam burst which you don't millions of liters of ways

someone on or mine in minutes it destroyed everything in its path legislation and infrastructure homes and lives. didn't come of this so three. but it is rich i'm just looking for a survivor or any sign of life in the wreckage at this house maybe a leg or a hand of the person i don't know the way the house was built and fell it's hard to see anything you'll throw to say there's little chance of finding survivors but families of the estimated two hundred fifty people on the counted four continue to . move. we found for the nunda looking for his brother pitocin a subcontractor at the mine obviously want to have come to the river to see if i can find some information someone who could tell me something or maybe do find a body and it might be my brother the mine owners valet have been fined sixty six million dollars the company said the recent inspection past the dam safe this is

just one tiny part of the huge devastation in this region a swathe of destruction that swept through this area destroying homes killing possibly hundreds of people many questions being asked about why lessons were not learned from the last such disaster in the nearby town of marianna in november two thousand and fifteen. the town the dean your remains tense these precautions taken with news of a possible second dam about to rupture the all through it is evacuated families in vulnerable areas and continue to distribute food water medicine and to. be dodgy has got view this is still a possibility it will find survivors until we find every single body the fire department works with the understanding that there are still people alive. some say they will not cannot give up this while there is still some hope. my mom cannot go

out she's on medications i'm the only one who can go out and look for information. on their al-jazeera roman genial brazil. the former environmental minister and presidential candidate marina silva has visited the site of the down collapse and we did for thirty two hour boyish deaths in federal and state government support to victims is very important taking measures to prevent situations like this is just as important as rescuing victims we can't become specialists and help and victims and consoling widows and orphans we have to anticipate such things there are ways to protect the society from this kind of crime this kind of calamity. and the avalanche of modern rock has crashed into a hotel in peru killing these fifteen people it happened in the southern city of a but can't say a wedding was being hosted a venue with a hundred guests attending when the acts of a butterfly broke through the walls of the hotel and thirty four people were

injured. to venezuela now where one wide old who swore himself in as interim president on wednesday says around one hundred opposition supporters have been arrested on sunday alone undeterred he stepped up his appeals to the military to defect from president nicholas when doing to him his supporters have been visiting military bases around the country handing out amnesty papers to troops on saturday venezuela's defense attash in washington defected from the duo arjan others in the armed forces to join him this was quite it was the latest appeal to the military if you will go it's all going as women soldiers and speaking to you it's time to get on the side of the constitution it's not the time for fear it's not the time to back you know in the winter when you. but madieu it remains defiant.

he's been on two tours of military bases west of caracas where he urged soldiers to stay loyal to his government event took the opportunity to show off the army's russian hardware saying the display shoulder world was backing the armed forces. for the final we are in the preparation for a deployment of force that's why i've come to shake your hands to exchange an understanding to tell you that in me as commander in chief you have the highest guarantee of national defense and independence in the guarantee of peace and independence of the civic military you know well keeping the support of the military is vital if present in the duel is to hold on to power in venezuela is pre-disaster who chavez was a former senior military officer and appointed former military colleagues to his government teresa whips a power in the one nine hundred ninety eight election would do is also highly dependent on the military support of high ranking officers have reportedly been allowed to get rich through corrupt activities during his rule military leaders

pledged allegiance to him on thursday the day after one swore himself in as interim president well since then why do has repeatedly which doubt to rank and file soldiers who like the majority of venezuela's population are suffering on the mcdougal's presidency. well jesse was latin america is in the sea and human is live for us in kuta on the venezuelan colombian a border and it seems of course that everything rests on the loyalty of the military is going out of his way to make these visits to you know military barracks because he feels the need to does he think that perhaps there are cracks in that loyalty as it stands. absolutely he is if there was ever any doubt that the loyalty of the armed forces was crucial to president nicolas mothers duration empower he dispelled those doubts by spending the whole day cozying up to the navy going out in boats then going to these impromptu military exercises in the state of god out warble where he repeated over

and over again that the only way to win the respect is to show force and he said that would show the world that it had to be respected by showing how powerful its armed forces is this is clearly a sign that he is having some doubts there have been defections over the past few years and months and in fact on saturday the military attache of the venezuelan embassy in the united states defected quite publicly so it is hurting and he's got to keep them by his side at the same time of course the opposition is also trying to seduce them to bring them over and it's not only offering amnesty to the rank and file of the army but of course also and more importantly to the upper echelons to the officers who command the troops as well as to members of the government who until now have remained loyal to president nicole last mughal so this is a high stakes bet on both sides of this political conflict so to see

a we heard from one talking about these well these alleged opposition arrests could we see a situation where perhaps he himself was arrested. that is the fifty million dollar question right now in fact the the. that is tracking the number of arrests in venezuela says that they have jumped just over the weekend from five hundred to nearly eight hundred including members of opposition political parties that have been taken from their homes but significantly one by dog has not been touched yet one reason clearly is that the president is being very very cautious he's treading very very delicately here not only because arresting him could ignite a powder keg inside the country but also because he received a very stern warning from the white house john bolton the white house's security adviser said that if anything was to happen to. the united states as recognized as

an interim president or to the national assembly the united states would issue what he called is significant response julie to see a new man the sea and human joining me there from caucus in a sea of thank you. now to bomb explosions have struck a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines that's according to the military at least twenty seven people have been killed and injured many more i saw has now claimed responsibility for the sunday mass attacks on the predominantly muslim island of holo when the blast happened six days after part of the mindanao region voted for autonomy in a referendum jimmy allen dorgan reports. the first blast was inside the cathedral as worshipers celebrated sunday mass that was followed by a second explosion in the car park a security forces were arriving there trying to disrupt the peace process they're trying to destabilize it it's like like for men things of this job is a sham and to show that the government will not be able to control the area

the the places that the various conflict the attack in the capital of sulu province comes six days after a referendum on them in the now region voters in the muslim dominated region overwhelmingly approved a deal for more self rule eighty five percent of voters backed an agreement between muslim fighters and government leaders in manila for a self administered area in mindanao which will be named bonsa model there are attempts to stalk up of communal conflict but the thing is so far none of these attacks on the churches have resulted in such type of hatred between muslims and christians. the predominantly catholic philippines has been plagued by decades of separatist conflict in mindanao more than one hundred thousand people have been killed and millions more in displaced in the decades long

conflict in mindanao and despite the rican silly asian process attacks like this show that armed groups still pose a threat to peace in the region dogon al jazeera manila. plenty more still to come including. zimbabwe baris jazz legend the national he will all of it in front of thousands of adoring fans. in st petersburg russia formally leningrad and it was seventy five years ago today that one of the most brutal exercise of the second world war came to an end the nazi siege of the city the last of nearly nine hundred days.