funding for this project was announced on jerusalem day in may last year part of a two billion dollars slew of projects the israeli government announced including trying to increase the uptake of the israeli education system in palestinian schools increase business infrastructure increase the amount of archeological digging in areas such as this one so many palestinians see this as part of a wider attempt to cement and solidify israeli control in occupied east jerusalem there's also been opposition from israeli architects and n.g.o.s who say this will be a blight on a beautiful landscape that the fifteen pylons that will be used will be much bigger much more obtrusive than are been argued by the proponents and they also are attacking the argument that this will reduce congestion in the area they say that will merely move that congestion to other parts of jerusalem nonetheless the plans are now published there are sixty days during which members of the public can either support suggest or oppose them before they're put for final submission romania has taken the rotating presidency of the european union for the first time

but it's already proving controversial the government is being accused of corruption and mismanagement environmental activists have also told al-jazeera that romania has been complicit in the destruction of some of europe's oldest and most important forests lawrence lee reports from the seven x. national forests. these high hills have proved rich pickings for people who show scant regard for the importance of ancient forests supposedly immune from exploitation they don't even try to hide their business it's all piled up on the roadside despite commercial logging in the national park being illegal nor did it take long to find the locus we'd been warned they might be so we kept our camera at a distance they insisted had won a government auction which allowed them to do this fairly. the environmental activists trying to stop it's say none of this could happen without the government knowing if you slogging conservations are most of the times approved by the state

but when we write letters and make complaints the minister herself is answering to our said there should be no logging in national parks so there is a little contradiction here they approve it and they say it's not legal at the same time but you can see it i mean we just drove up the track and it's here you can't you can't miss it all over in any nation are parked in the town which sits below the national park a huge steel works used to provide employment for nearly everyone but not anymore nothing was found to replace the jobs so it's easy to see why logging became such a large industry romania's forests are vast which is partly why the locals get away with it some of this woodland is among the oldest in europe but large areas have been cut out of it the government keeps secrets any records of what's legal and what isn't so global companies which buy romanian timber furniture cannot know the origin of the wood. alina worked for the forestry agency for fourteen years when

she complained about all of this she says she was intimidated and isolated ultimately forced to resign when force came out the law or the addict out of the bottle i was questioned by my directors as a biologist i was prevented from doing field work that didn't from going to logging areas in the park they kept me on minimum wage they did everything they could to stop me from being able to speak out they cut me off remain you're currently enjoys the privilege of holding the presidency of the council of the european union which means it has the opportunity to set policy objectives for the whole of the e.u. including on the environment and yet despite all the evidence to the contrary the remaining government still insists that nothing illegal has been happening inside its own protected forests their own ministers have been saying as much to the european parliament even though it has been presented with evidence suggesting the very opposite we are talking about illegal logging in private forests where there were no proper services for guarding these forests.

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time for sports policy or there's a big match in a couple of hours for that is indeed turin the biggest day in asian football is upon us four time continental champions japan taking on cats in the final of the asian cup here's the trophy they're playing for it's one that japan have won four times most recently in twenty eleven categories have never been to the final before but have been in scintillating form at this tournament scoring sixteen goals and conceding none they believe they've already shown the world what they can do on the pitch as they prepare to host the world cup in twenty twenty two o.b.s. leave to morrow we play a game and we get the result that give us that of course this will be the biggest achievement in football history doesn't matter what happens tomorrow we are feeling very proud of old them because the they're showing

a very high level in this competition playing against top teams sure we're going to try to to make the people in our country to moral have be again. to try to make the story. let's cross live to our sports correspondent lee wellings in london cats are pretty thrilled to show the world they can play football before they house the world cup just how important is that this for a world cup host nation. this issue extremely important that the host nation is at the very least competitive were expecting. qatar to go on and win the world cup or get through to in the seventies or quarter finals they might do the point is that right from the start of a tournament you want a competitive team it really helps each time there's a whole remember only one thing automatically is qualified for world com that's the host that used to be the winners of the previous told what went into it so what felix sanchez has done developing this team playing the football they have and

achieving far more than i think even he would have expected to in this tournament remember cats would never reached the semifinals of an asian cup before before that for no where no over the united arab emirates but now into the final i think expectations are there now that they might go in and win the trophy but this is a very strong team from japan who have won the tournament of course four times before they've been there and done it so i think whatever the results in this much i think already it's been important to shift the spotlight away from matters off the pitch on to what this qatar team are capable of and some of the football they have played has been the most exciting of the asian cup and that football's all come in very difficult circumstances for cats in the u.a.e. which is one of the countries blockading qatar of course the problems haven't ended with that win over the hosts in the. well the thing we've done is to make sure they can just concentrate on what they're doing on the field there's nothing they can do

about the situation there and of course they haven't had any support inside the stadia they haven't been told journalists as well and fish oils that one hand is not an easy situation for them to be in but also it would have enabled them to just start surely not feel the pressure and concentrate on what they're doing even in a situation where we saw in the sub before in a way shoes were being thrown on to the pitch they managed to hold their composure and that's something that's really stood out in the overall situation is that obviously football looking at what's happened in the asian cup and i do think yet again that should question this idea of having expounded told me in twenty twenty two because clearly there are many issues still to be resolved in the region. or just just very quickly les maybe about thirty seconds left left with the house asian football improved it is improving i would say it's not improving quite fast enough that the impact of asia in terms of world

cups hasn't been good enough when japan did really well the last time or korea have before but actually the only team from asia ranked in the top fifty the fee for rankings is actually japan and they're down in fifty before this told with their rise a bit so i do think we need to see a proper improvement from this confederation above all the confederations and maybe we'll get that before twenty twenty two or rightly welling's live for us in london will of course be covering the asian cup final throughout the day. thailand's attorney general has approved bahrain's extradition request for their former national football player hakim our ib protesters rallied in australia on friday calling for his release he's been in detention in bangkok since november haven't gone to thailand on honeymoon. refugee status in australia having fled there in twenty fourteen from bahrain where he said he was tortured is due in court in thailand on monday when he's likely to be detained for an extra sixty days a fifteen day amnesty to report corrupt practices in sri lankan cricket ends on

thursday it comes as corruption allegations have left the former world champions with a lot of soul searching on the future of the game in elf among those reports from colombo. a new generation of cricketers training under one of sri lanka's senior cultures nelson mendez has nurtured dozens of top players during his fifty eight years of coaching he's scathing about corruption in cricket it's nothing but money. money and the porsche and the porsche and the power which you the good rule the game of cricket unfortunate previously it was miller that cricket around the world has been plagued by match fixing and corruption sri lanka is no exception allegations of corruption here appears saucy areas that the international governing body has sent a team to investigate. it also launched a fifteen day amnesty for those who failed to report any approach to take part in

corrupt practices earlier this week the international cricket council said we have seen a positive response with several people providing new and important information this has assisted existing investigation and resulted in some new cases the man in charge of sri lankan cricket says authorities are waiting to see the i.c.c. as findings but stressed it will take more than rules we can impose a law and they will thing and we can take legal action but i don't think that really be the that will be the. only solution for this. that's going to blow cricket on the spot ok and it should come from the bottom of the heart that's a view echoed by a former administrator who headed cricket during sri lanka's nine hundred ninety six world cup victory has to be a lot of forethought training from everyone. from all fields in the management and

of cricket not only from our cricket board to politico who could have qualities politicians also must look at it i'm picking seriously and you know we're going to run for a long haul with our brand. back at the groans coach knows and continues his work with young is hoping none of them experience the negative side of the game in order to ensure that those in charge of the game here to cricket must take the lead in stamping out corruption at all levels. le bron james is back in action after sitting out seventeen games injured he looks fresh from the start coming in hot with twenty four points and fourteen rebounds just shy of a triple double the l.a. lakers were six eleven during the longest absence of his career and also struggled in this game against the clippers but james was able to save the team again scoring the winning baskets in overtime. where just two days away from the super bowl where

the new england patriots will take on the los angeles rams the rams of won the big game once patriots are making habits of it with five totals much for it thanks to quarterback tom brady this is his ninth super bowl a parent's. ok about soil sports through a report will check in with you later thank you for the time being and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera laura kyle is with you in just a moment you have more news coming your way thanks for watching but i. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars join the medieval

islamic period in the field of medicine. science to to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together. to such like a magical and the more i learn about the more i respect science in a golden age with professor jim miller on a. new leaders place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds the work as mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is silliness do you hope an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we

find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. faced with growing financial burdens have separate money for student loan pay this chase credit card leaves me twenty nine dollars and thirty one cents. i don't have a husband left me upon shan my future scares me because i don't want to struggle as the dream of retirement fades away i will clear you gotta do something you know try to keep it above water hog and on al-jazeera. it's been a centerpiece of superpower control now the u.s. is preparing to withdraw from the treaty accusing russia of breaking it.

down more of coalesces ounces or life and also coming up members of his ruling bossie meet the un special wanted to use looking into the mud of saudi john this jamal khashoggi. forty years on iran mocks its revolution and the return of the ayatollah a supreme leader. plus venezuela's self declared leader a tense exchange with the very security forces he's trying to get on his side. the u.s. is expected to announce within hours that it will stop observing a decade's old nuclear missile parts accusing russia of violating it and denies that and says the trump administration made up the allegation to get out of the treaty and develop new missiles or italians reports from moscow. it's

a version of this russian cruise missile that's brought an end to one of the nuclear age is most important arms control agreements when russia displayed the nine am seven to eight last week it insisted the range of its update the nine m. seven to nine is too short to fall into the ban zone for the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i am af but the us hasn't believed that since it first raised concerns in twenty fourteen. standards are. consequent to. the standards so parties are. standard. that. standard other parties are allowed to manage. standard that undermines all of our arms control. last ditch talks as an international nonproliferation conference in beijing fails later on friday the u.s.

is expected to say russia has not complied with its february second deadline to come back to the i.n.f. treaty and therefore the us is suspending compliance itself it has support from nato and e.u. allies when it was signed by the united states in the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seven the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty banned a whole class of weaponry both pledged to give up possession and development of land based crews and ballistic missiles with a range of five hundred to five thousand five hundred kilometers but in recent years the agreements been pushed past breaking point the united states says the russia has been lying about the capabilities of its newest cruise missiles russia says that isn't true that it's the united states that is violated the i.n.f. treaty and that washington has long wanted to start a new arms race. it's also accused the us of blackmail tactics.

here. as far as russia is concerned we're not to blame for anything we're open for talks on all issues even the most acute problems and we're willing to be as open as we possibly can. the united states says it will take six months to complete the i.n.f. withdrawal process where we shall and al-jazeera. role in this let's go to candy she's live for us in washington d.c. and can be when we're actually expecting this announcement and what will evolve. yeah we're expecting that the u.s. secretary of state make one pair will make this announcement sometime around thirteen thirty g.m.t. as we've been discussing this is expected to be a withdrawal from this treaty and what this would do would allow the united states to develop an intercontinental missile essentially this treaty has been the real centerpiece for superpower arms control since the cold war so this is certainly significant donald trump has been hinting about this for many months as recently as

back in october he was very strong in his comments when he said that russia has been violating this treaty for years so we're going to terminate this agreement it's significant when you put into context this is something that was signed by ronald reagan mackell gorbachev so been in place for a long time but certainly now with this imminent announcement appearing to be in doubt moving forward there's still a six month window isn't that before the u.s. would actually withdraw or is the any chance or let's hope that the treaty will be saved in the time. well certainly there is hope that there can be some discussions but at the same time the very strong and clear view not just of donald trump but also of the obama administration is that russia has not been abiding by these terms that while the united states has been and has ceased production. producing weapons and. russia has been in turn doing just the opposite has been putting in place and

developing new missile system technology etc so this is something that has been of concern not just to the united states but also to european allies who of course will be very nervous that this could provoke some sort of arms race akin to the one nine hundred eighty s. ok kimberly from washington d.c. on the thanks very much kitty. senior figures in turkey's running x. policy have met the un human rights investigator who's looking into the mud a journalist. they say i've missed says their frustrations and fears that there won't be full justice for everyone suspected of involvement the kingdom insists its rulers had no knowledge of the killing inside its consulate in istanbul last october. the united nations delegation has shown that their

objective is to convey the facts and deliver true evidence in case to the whole world they have listened to my testimony as a friend of jamal khashoggi we have no hope of reaching justice as long as the first suspect saudi crown prince mohammed bin is in full control of all aspects of governance including the judiciary the united nations investigation team has the same suspicions and are trying to reach the truth objectively and therefore they are seeking help from turkey a correspondent stephanie decker is outside the consulate and istanbul. it was amusing that last around an hour and a half un special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings meeting with his a senior party advisor is also the first official that the fiance of jamal khashoggi called when she was outstanding outside here after he failed to reemerge almost four months ago now we understand from mr x.i.i. that he conveyed. that he believed that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin saw

a man who was responsible for ordering this killing we know from the un special rapporteur that she's been talking to also the chief prosecutor the man in charge of turkey's investigation trying to figure out what exactly it is turkey has discovered of the foreign minister friends of also his fiance trying to piece together get a sense really of what happened here key that she really wants at this point in time before she leaves is to listen to the order according to all the recordings that turkey has from that murder inside that consulate she's currently meeting with intelligence officials in ankara whether she will be played a copy of that will have to wait and see certainly mr act i believe that she will be hearing it before she leaves this is an investigation that. has taken upon herself to investigate in her remote as a role at the united nations because she says that neither the united nations nor any of the member states are pushing for an independent investigation this is of

course a hugely loaded political story it's a political minefield if you will and almost four months on there really seems to be no justice certainly the body of mr jamal khashoggi has not been found and still nobody knows who exactly ordered the murder. the u.a.e. has denied using spying software to help the i phones of what it called friendly countries if there is an investigation whether it is news agency which found hundreds of thousands of people was fined upon in two thousand and sixteen and seventeen voices says a team of former u.s. government intelligence operatives working for the hacks into the i phones of activists diplomats wyvil foreign leaders including capitals a man and a senior turkish official confirmed it has cyber capabilities and did not die deny the wider hacking allegations thousands of iranians have gathered as an important shrine in tehran to mount fuji is ruhollah khomeini return from exile and the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution and the weeks that followed holidays follows

took home loyalists of the shah including police and soldiers had fled at the high so violent protests against his reign across what was a best ravi has this update from tehran. we're here at the shrine of ayatollah ruhollah khomeini the founding father of the islamic republic of iran if and here there are thousands of iranians coming together to commemorate forty years to the day since he returned from exile and rocked the slow make revolution with now forty years later decades later the ideals of the revolution that he brought continue to you'll always see here in iran and it continues to be a sort of living thing from which iranian leaders across trying to for example rally support for foreign wars that iran is involved but they simultaneously speak of this revolution the something fragile and precious that needs to be protected

from external threats and while that may be the case that the revolution is also coming under criticism internally domestically the country's economy forty years later is suffering president hassan rouhani vice president visited this shrine just days ago and he said that iran's economy was one of the worst days that it's ever been and he could fall squarely on the show of the lyric and say all i can still write off even as supporters of the clerical system of government that khamenei established after the revolution come together to celebrate the anniversary this year there are a rival across the country who say that they feel left behind many people that we've spoken to who told us that they helped protest against the persian king their khamenei unseated as he took control of the country and at the time they were protesting and rallying in support of the role of from a need for change and for prosperity forty years later many of them say that the

caretakers of the revolution like am after the founding father of the sabah public all they feel those caretakers have let them down by their suffering i mentioned. who do you saw in many of the promises of the revolution you know have been broken . the u.s. senate has backs a bill amendment opposing president tom's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan the senate voted sixty eight twenty three on the measure put forth by majority leader mitch mcconnell and said pulling out could allow iceland al-qaeda to regroup and destabilize both countries it's a rare rebuke of trumps foreign policy by the republican controlled senate. the weather is next and then the face of a long fight against wartime sexual slavery south koreans farewell a much loved campaign and again demand an apology from japan. and only.