people have been killed and millions more displaced in the decades long conflict in mindanao and despite the reconsider lesion 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 barry's afro jazz legend the national he will all of atlanta causing in front of thousands of adoring fans. i'm rich allen's incent petersburg russia formally lending gratin 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.

hello again it's good to have you back well here across the northern part of queens and we're still looking at some very heavy rain across the area now the ground is already saturated there so all the more rain that we get the more potential for flooding we're going to be seeing over the next you days the forecast map looks like this you can see anywhere from townsville towards the north we are looking at heavy rain there down towards the south though we do have a frontal boundary that is just to the north of melbourne still keeping quite warm in melbourne but we are going to be seeing possibly some showers there along the front down towards parts of tasmania it is the heat and it is the wildfires are still going on we do think probably until mid week where across the north and south island of new zealand we do have that same from the boundary that is coming into play for the south island and that is going to bring some rain showers here for christ church over the next few days temperature for christ church at twenty nine degrees auckland not looking too bad few at twenty five and as we go towards tuesday we're going to see that front slip to the north and the temperatures dropping from christchurch with a temperature of twenty two degrees and then very quickly here across parts of japan it is still going to be

a wintry mix across much of the area tokyo you can be seeing about thirteen degrees in the higher elevations though it is going to be a mix of snow as well as rain down towards the south though asuka's not looking too bad with the tempter eight and seoul partly cloudy at five degrees. a face can tell a story without uttering a single. unknowing glom. a simple touch in for. the young conventionality of life witness through the lens of the human eye. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera.

our mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera the search for up to two hundred fifty people still missing after a dam collapse in brazil has resumed after a second dam nearby was ruled safe venezuelan opposition supporters have been offering amnesty papers to soldiers in a bid to get them to switch sides president to do has been visiting his soldiers are joining them to stay loyal to bomb explosions have struck a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines according to the military at least twenty seven people have been killed isis claimed responsibility for the attack. more and to government protests have taken place in sudan's capital khartoum president omar al bashir has wrapped up a one day visit to egypt where he accused the media of exaggerating the extent of

the unrest this is an all the poncey withdrawals from the national government joining two others who have previously withdrawn it when morgan reports now from khartoum. it's his second visit outside his country in less than a week as to dance president obama bashir faces continuing calls back home to end his thirty year rule and step down calls that started six weeks ago and to which he has remained defiant to heed where with the early. on. there is a problem in sudan we cannot claim that we don't have a problem but some media take it out of size and dimension it is an attempt to close what is being called the arab spring in sudan it has the same slogans programmes and requests it also has the same use of social media however the sudanese people have learned the lessons they have seen what happened in some of the states that went through the so-called arab spring and its negative implications of covering the sudanese people are very alert and will not fall into anyone's trap to destabilize sudan. the demonstrations started in mid december in

the city of odds over rising bread crisis it could spread to other parts of the country with thousands taking to the streets demanding that and bashir who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred nine and his rule security forces are accused of using excessive force with bullets and tear gas used to disperse peaceful unarmed for testers the government says twenty nine have been killed since protests began rights groups say that number is at least fifty with dozens more injured. opposition to a bush years rule is not only in the streets some political parties have lend support to those protesting. and on sunday the federal party one of the parties in the national government announced that it's withdrawing its participation in the government becoming the third party to do so since the demonstrations began in. the regime has lost legitimacy and the ability to deal with the political crisis and trust in the regime has been lost we hope that the president steps down and

paves the way for an interim government that is agreed upon by all sides the protests are seen to be the biggest challenge to since he came to power and some analysts see the ruling party is running out of time to find ways to overcome and to harbor harbor. the withdrawal of the federal party today is a sign that the ruling party is weakening so it has to take a step back and find a solution to the wave of protest of was more political parties will withdraw from the government and join the opposition movements. a movement triggered by an economic crisis which has become a nationwide called for change and to which there seems to be no end in the horizon he more going to all just zero. the next round of talks between the united states and the taliban have been tentatively set for the twenty fifth of february that's according to qatar which has been hosting talks the u.s. envoy to afghanistan is in kabul within the government on progress made in his latest talks to end the seventeen year war on saturday the taliban said it had

agreed a draft agreement which would see foreign forces leave the country in eighteen months in yemen dozens of mothers have been protesting in the southern port city of aden calling on the government to give them information about their missing sons women have been demonstrating almost daily rallied outside the home of interior minister refuting claims that yemen has no secret jails is that most of the men are being held in detention captured since the outbreak of the ongoing civil war in some of the control of the un recognized government led by president so hadi. thousands of people once again been protesting on the streets of the french capital paris but this time the demonstration is against the yellow vest movement which has been rallying against president call their opponents have joined together to call for an end to the violence threats of verbal abuse which they say characterized the recent protests dash about the reports from paris. a new citizens movement in

france created online and now on the streets of paris they call themselves the red scarves and they say they're fighting back against months of finance and disruption by yellow fest protesters thousands marched through the city to demand an end to the yellow vest blockades and demonstrations they had unity and respect for fraud says democracy and institutions will no doubt bordering on the not i see it we are here to so i know there are laws in france and in europe i should be respected and the violence must stop and this detestable image affronts great boy minority of people. of course demonstration is right i appreciate the right of the most special will demonstrate. it does not i would say justify violence some people here say they used to support the yellow vests and many share their concerns over the rising cost of living but they say the weekly scenes of unrest are too

much on saturday police and yellow vests demonstrators clashed again in several cities across france since the movement began in november eleven people have been killed dozens injured. as the red scarves reached by steal a symbol of the french revolution the divisions between the two movements was clear behind those results. no memory test has me stumped here in the past in our best days not here on the steps of your house or yellow face protesters and it's something of a standoff with both sides taking each of the see the right if the movement was really against violence than most yellow vests would have proved were not for violence obviously but listening to their slogans and when you look at them it seems more like a pro micromanaged to me emmanuel mccall has been promoting his national debate initiative aimed at quelling the yellow face demonstrations by giving people more of a say in the way that france is rum opinion polls suggest the french president is regaining

some popularity off to months of low ratings micro hasn't commented on the red scarf movement but he might hope it is a sign that the target is turning in his favor the al-jazeera paris long time ally we're just stone who was arrested on friday says he will not be alive cooperating with special counsel robert moses investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election stone is accused of trying to obtain stolen e-mails from wiki leaks in coordination with chung campaign officials if there is wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that i don't know about which i know of no one but if there is i would certainly testify honestly i'd also testify honestly about any other matter including any communications with the president it's true that we spoke on the phone but those communications are political in nature there but now i and there is there is no certainly no conspiracy with russia i am estabrook has more

now from washington. well roger stone does seem to be hedging a bit on friday when he was indicted he said that he would not bear witness against president trump now today as he made the rounds on the sunday talk show he said that he may consult with his attorneys and he may have a conversation with a special prosecutor what we don't know is what else robert muller may have up his sleeve he may have additional charges that he could bring against roger stone that what might compel him to turn evidence against the president we just don't know at this point we've kind of seen this thing play out over and over again where people close to the president like his attorney michael cohen and his former campaign manager paul man a fourth say that they would not talk and then ended up flipping against the president and we could see that again play out with roger stone federal employees in the u.s. and reopen national parks and museums for the first time in more than five weeks

hundreds of thousands of government workers have gone back to work following the end of the partial government shutdown to a sick advantage in washington d.c. and across the country president trump says he's ready to shut the government again if no agreement is reached within the three weeks of funding his proposed wall along the mexican border. certainly for most employees there's a there's a sense of relief not only the opportunity to get back to work and the work that they love to do but the relief to the uncertainty of when their next paycheck is coming in has been taken care of russia's been marking seventy five uses since this end of the second world war siege of leningrad for nearly nine hundred days the former russian capital was cut off fina see troops hundreds of thousands of people starved to death as the german army pounded the city which is known as petersburg we shall and reports. natalee every attention is ninety seven years old

but both she and her memories of the siege of leningrad remain shop a former tennis star she says dreams of competing again kept her alive but natalia's father and four other relatives starve to death. at this. in january we had our last decent meal real well made a soup from furniture glue that my father had cores the smell was awful to disguise it we use. since then of the war no matter what i cook i've never used either black pepper or paley with. from september nine hundred forty one to january nine hundred forty four german forces and their finnish allies surrounded leningrad the u.s.s.r. second city had to fend for itself by the time soviet troops broke the nazi siege seventy five years ago on sunday hunger disease bombs and shells that killed more than half a million civilians. most of buried here in

a hundred and eighty six mass graves of their pisk audio sky memorial cemetery flowers bred in toys with some of the gifts left there by mourners on saturday russian president vladimir putin paid his own respects there on sunday his older brother died in the siege. another event schools brought students to light candles forming nine hundred on the isis impeaches birds waterfront the brocade lost it nearly that number of terrible days . long not more than this age was a great case of heroism we should remember until our children about it so that. my younger daughter learned in school and was amazed that we had such heroes in our country who went through such hardships we should hold events like this to remember . soldiers and modern weapons paraded through the center

of the city now calls in petersburg on sunday in today's russia world war two anniversaries are frequently used to display current military might. look there's no widespread opposition to this from russia but by the way. they bring the right way honoring the ending of one of the biggest tragedies of the second world war. but the russian state things differently it wants citizens and the world to believe that such a thing would never be allowed to happen again rory schilens al-jazeera sin petersburg formerly leningrad. the afro jazz legend known as the son of africa has been laid to rest at a state funeral in zimbabwe all over could see died on wednesday at the age of sixty six from complications resulting from diabetes from his hometown in months earlier howard tasa has the story.

saying goodbye to zimbabwe's and one of africa's iconic musicians the bass way they know how the song and dance. all of them were to could see officially known as to who died on wednesday after a four decades long career doing what he loved one of my favorite things that he said was that he wants to tell stories and he's a poet is telling those stories and the music is just an accompaniment to telling those stories by. all of them were to get he started performing in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven singing protest music during the war to end a white minority rule more than forty years and sixty seven albums later his knees it inspired generations around the world. in as much as it's a sad time that he's gone what he leaves us is

a legacy of his music so in wellington than in the message of the music there's a lot of proverb there's a lot of in. looking at african cultural beats here really new many many different beats within zimbabwe and further afield and those he tapped into so his music is authentic and substantive and. the. it. was. there. were too busy songs largely stayed clear of politics he chose to mainly sing about people's struggles and hopes in zimbabwe with its huge economic and political challenges he was seen as an entertainer teacher and unifying issues certainly rest in peace and that is about winston with los angeles really a unifying spirit but i think that we should take advantage of having had such a person. to then build it up. which took as he was given

a state funeral by zimbabwe's government which has declared him a national hero as a u.n. goodwill ambassador he said he wanted to spread hope through his music his fans say they'll remember him for his inspirational songs that try to make some bubbly africa and beyond a better place al-jazeera zimbabwe well you can find out much more about the stories we are following on our web site the address of course i'm sure you already know it. al-jazeera dot com i'll just be back in one set with the headlines. let's take another look then at those top stories the search for m two hundred fifty people still missing after a dam collapse in brazil has resumed hopes of finding survivors are fading fast earlier the rescue operation was halted over fears that another nearby down by the

same mining company was at risk of collapse thirty seven people have been confirmed dead so far but that number is expected to rise significantly and we did more than two at boy. 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 in helping 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. when biden who swore himself in as interim president of venezuela on wednesday is stepping up his appeals to the military to defect from president nicolas maduro his supporters have been visiting military bases around the country handing out amnesty papers to troops but madieu remains defiant he's been on tours of two military bases west of caracas where he urged soldiers to stay loyal to his government. two bomb explosions have struck

a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines according to the military at least twenty seven people have been killed and injured many more claimed responsibility for the sunday mass attacks on the predominantly muslim island of horrible testers have been marching again in sudan's capital khartoum against rising prices in a six week of demonstrations against the thirty year rule as president obama all bushehr earlier he was in cairo for talks with his egyptian counterpart or he blamed the media for exaggerating the unrest and sit down. the next round of talks between the united states and the taliban have been tentatively set for the twenty fifth of february that's according to cuts our which has been hosting talks on saturday the taliban said it had agreed to a draft agreement which would see foreign forces leave the country in eighteen months you are completely up to date those are our top headlines currently stay

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