the saudi journalist that is put them in the spotlight if they come forward and tell the whole truth of what happened if not. they may be faced with harsh. economic sanctions. and if that's the case the market. seems to be saying well saudi arabia's economy is going to fall off a cliff. asama been reporting there and you can watch that full al-jazeera news special iran code the company and the states on friday at twenty hundred hours g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera a u.s. senator cory booker has put his heart in the ring for the democratic presidential nomination the forty nine year old african-american is the youngest senator to join the twenty twenty race to the white house the new jersey senator has been one of the most vocal critics of donald trump booker joins a crowded growing democratic field of candidates all vying for the party's

nomination. north korea has agreed to dismantle two if its military sites and open them for outside inspections that's ahead of an expected summit between donald trump and kim jong un the u.s. special envoy will meet north korean officials next week to discuss the next steps washington has a list of demands for pyongyang including the destruction of all of its your rein him in richmond facilities trump is expected to announce details of the next leaders' summit on tuesday. taiwan's government is struggling to deal with air pollution that's shrouding the capital schools across bangkok were closed for two days this week because of the hazardous air quality environmental activists say the government isn't taking the issue seriously when hay has more. face masks have become a necessary fashion accessory in bangkok the thai capital and its people a choking and a heavy air pollution. going on with them this makes me gravely concerned about my

health every time i'm outside i feel i shouldn't breathe air at all i hope the situation won't last long. i think the government should have better measures like free days that would help reduce pollution closing the schools helps and offering discounts on public transport would also schools were ordered to close to two days but some here say the government's response has been slow and at times bizarre it spied water into the air and launched drones to spray water from the air i think your finger on to combat being polluted. from many respect the. fact is a p.r. stunt the government has defended its actions but doesn't seem to have a long term plan to fix the problem the bangkok administration has called for help from experts there are many causes of the pollution which is made worse at this time of year because of the still dry where the conditions of the fields they

respect treat pollution and of course bangkok's no more. it's become a. time

for the sports news and peter green thank you very much we all are just minutes away now from kickoff in the biggest match in consuls football history they're up against japan in the final of the asian cup our reporter andy richardson is down at doha as a spy appalled to cover the game for us andy there's been a big boost for cuts ahead of the scale. that's right so the signing of complaints by the united arab emirates and so they're going to have a couple of cuts all eyes could be seen as interesting to say the least the u.a.e. able also one of the countries that is blockading them i would say cuts off but i'd rather he beat me every day for nail in the semifinals in front of

a very easy crowd but i wouldn't see rouseabout getting finishing playing made a party system out of it saying i want to see what it's like they would make their own marks out. of us tomorrow you see players or the ball on the sideline but i always saw you. if you were up and sit down and look at whatever players think that we're going to stop or cincinnati and it makes one sees that it was the place that came. to finish their schooling my game surely the national assume our academy would she could not just about see behind me and they played it cats are a danger but all throughout their career i know we stop wishing innocent it would have started but some i mean you are talking about it could be seen as something to do if you want to be stabilized can't solve the problem ahead if this is all i know the police may have to see a formal complaint or a short skinny on detail in terms of why he wanted to be rejected or even what little details as to what the complaint was or balance but but. in summary good players and get so free to play in this final because i have really performed

brilliantly throughout this tournament how surprising is this run of those two the final. look coming into place this sort of a shot summers ago sure if you absolutely know mate if they are you know they're not going to. quarter finals people that runs outside it's all said in asia down in knowing c three in the global rankings or it looks a little bit in other words signs of the sustained rise up to shows around two thirds of the starting same the majority. of the common thread that's also how supply and national academies are ambitious project i said i could see it thousand and fourteen a lot of young players not just in football but across a number of the people basically the same and in the last few days you seem to have a history of cheese that is getting really well five years ago on the other ninety nine. percent want to fund the under twenty world cup. three event and now we're hearing it in the cd and same doing so well just in the buildup to this to literally switzerland could have been a friendly one now which is

a sign of just how good they seem to want to go to the problems in sanaa it seems often absolute don't get a lot of time to get a risk player but these guys what they have grown up together they've played in the academy together all but one of the smaller now playing that domestic football here and how it's all so they know each other very well and i'm sure it helped galvanize name what is a really difficult situation playing some of these games and pretty much about atmosphere in the u.a.e. and that is the role of the coach felix sanchez who came over to get something basilar ninety thousand and six and has grown up with these players each pain i don't know senior citizens i cannot show called i'm in the last eighteen months or so at least not when these guys that i tell them he was the guy to demonstrate to the succession in the ninety's so well you wouldn't expect that but some of the plastic you're going to want to know why they hate the fact that they are doing so well it's a long term plan that these countries had in place for many years and they will leave a big. thank you so much always good talking to you. the bahraini refugee football

player. is due before a criminal court in bangkok on monday this comes after thailand's attorney general approved bahrain's extradition request these protesters rallied on friday in australia where he's played for portions twenty fourteen calling for his release. is likely to reject the request and will be detained for an extra sixty days while his lawyers build the case of a.b. was arrested last year while on honeymoon the bahraini government sentenced him to ten years in jail for his legend role in the arab spring protests a fifteen day amnesty by the international cricket council 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 mel fernandez reports from colombo. a new generation of cricketers training under one of sri lanka senior coaches nurse and mendez has nurtured dozens of top players during his fifty eight years of coaching he scathing about corruption in cricket it's nothing but

money money and the pasta and the passion and the power which literally to the good through the game of cricket unfortunate previously it was nil of that cricket around the world has been plagued by match fixing and corruption sri lanka is no exception allegations of corruption here appears so serious 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. is 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. so if you want 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 do you know cricket or the political people who have qualities politicians also must look at it i'm thinking seriously and you know we're going to run for a long haul with our brand. back at the grounds coach knows and continues his work with young players is helping none of them experience the negative side of the game in order to ensure that those in charge of the game here to cheer lanka cricket

must take the lead in stamping out corruption at all levels. colombo. we're just two days away from the super bowl where the new england patriots will take on the los angeles or rams both teams are practicing in atlanta in preparation for sunday well the rams have won the big game once the patriots are making a habit of that with five titles much of it thanks to quarterback tom brady this is he's ninth super bowl appearance. you know there's obviously a lot of games long season and it's a lot like climbing a mountain it's not like running a marathon. you have some really great bone moments of achievement then you have some disappointed things that happen and you've got to kind of figure out your way as you go and the goal is to reach the top and only one team really reaches the top top we're pretty close bron james is back in action of the sitting out seventeen games with an injury you look fresh from the start coming in hot with twenty four points and fourteen rebounds just shy of a triple double the l.a.

lakers with six and eleven doing the longest absence of these three and also struggled in this match against the clock but james was able to save the team again scoring the winning bosket in overtime. and we'll have more sport later poor east will have a new sporty doing the fifteen hundred g.m.t. our ok thank you very much peter for that thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera back in just a moment with more news coming your way see you in minutes. flying

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with the various security forces trying to get. water spraying drones in the sky fire trucks on the ground. to clear the air. or from home as their. final. happening right now. hello the u.s. involvement in a decades old nuclear missile pact saying russia is violating its secretary of state my pompei i made the official announcement long ago saying there is now a six month window to salvage the treaty. russia has jeopardized the united states'

security interest and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates it. if russia does not return to full compliance with the treaty within the six month period verifiably destroying its oil with the missiles there launchers and associated equipment the treaty will terminate live to our white house correspondent kimberly so what more the pompei would have to say what was the message that he was sending out. well it seems this message and we've had this backed up by a statement coming from the white house press secretary is that the united states view is that russia is misrepresenting its position with regard to this treaty according to my pump a oh the united states raised the issue of what it believes is russia's noncompliance with the treaty agreement at least thirty times and that russia refused compliance and as a result a statement coming out of the white house in just the last hour the u.s.

will not remain constrained by the terms of this agreement will russia misc represents that actions we cannot be the only country unilaterally bound by this treaty we will move forward with developing our own military response options and we will work with nato and other allies and partners to deny russia any military advantage from this on lawful conduct very strong language coming out of the white house backing up what we saw from the secretary of state we are expecting there will be a background call with reporters where we will be able to ask further questions about next steps regarding this but the criticism of the united states is that the u.s. is not exhausted all of its diplomatic options to try and salvage this treaty the u.s. defending that saying in fact it has but the fear being that there really is beyond withdrawal no strategy from the united states moving forward to prevent russia from building intermediate range missiles now that this agreement appears to be

unraveling and the withdrawal will eventually happen kimberly in six months time so there is the six month window one wonders if the deal can be salvaged. and it appears that perhaps this is been the strategy of the trumpet ministration on so many topics that they try to take sort of a hardline approach we've seen this with china trade with the implementation of tariffs and the escalating war to kind of force the other side to kind of. given to u.s. demands and so perhaps this is a tactic gets being taken certainly we're going to try to explore this more but in the background of all of this and i bring up china because there is this great concern and then it was sort of intimated in that statement i just read from the white house a moment ago which is of the growing military might of china on the world stage the

feeling being that in fact china not being bound by these treaty limits is deploying large numbers of missiles with ranges beyond the treaty mitt limits and this is giving the u.s. the ability to counter that chinese influence if it withdraws from this treaty so well there is the six month window to try and salvage it it's not clear that the u.s. is one hundred percent. working towards that end state can really help it thank you . gives us the view 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 m. 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 four team arms control. standards are maintained

and if there are consequent. standards so parties are. standard. by by that standard the other parties are allowed to demand a. standard that undermines all of our arms control. last ditch talks as an international nonproliferation conference in beijing failed 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. 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. senior figures in turkey's ruling ak party have met the un special rapporteur who is looking into the murder of saudi journalists. they say agnes calmar shares 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 consulates 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 government 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 february first marks six months since the start of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says there have been seven hundred forty three confirmed cases with more than four hundred sixty deaths as a result of the disease it's the worst outbreak in the country's history and the response has been hampered by violence as well as resistance from some communities

like ryan is the assistant director general for emergencies at the world health organization he says a bowl of vaccines are proving highly effective in combating the spread of the disease. this particular vaccine. has been proven in west africa to be effective in trials so and we are seeing that that same process unfold in congo where using a strategy of vaccinating along social networks contacts of cases contacts of those contacts so we're tracking the virus along the route which it spreads in the community and using that targeted approach and using intense community engagement over ninety eight percent of people who are eligible for the vaccine are willing to accept it that's a very very high vaccine coverage in the most high risk people so we're beginning to see the fruits of that endeavor and certainly we believe that that two x. initial strategy is is why we are seeing cases of course we believe that that

vaccination strategy is helping us to avoid many many more cases that would have occurred up to now had we not had the vaccine in place. qatar and japan have just kicked off asian cup football final. this is the first time the gulf nation has made this far in the tournament while japan has won four times categories are banned from attending the match due to the blockade being imposed upon qatar by hosts the u.a.e. as well as three other nations there is a fan zone here in doha where we can see fans glued to the screen behind you. yes it's very tense in the first few minutes of the game it started just a short while ago but regardless of the outcome of this game the mood here is one of celebration many of the people i spoke to say for them there has already won despite the outcomes of the finals they called important game which took place on tuesday between qatar newey was what really impressed many friends here they say

just by all the obstacles they face qatar has maintained a poise and united see which is something they're very proud of and the fact that this team is seen as the underdog of this entire asian cup gauge they managed to maintain a clean net so they scored sixteen goals so far in six games and they have yet to concede one game that's something that that many of the fencer say they're very proud of and they're also looking forward to welcoming them back home despite the outcome of the final game which is going on as we speak and as you're saying dorset has been a difficult environment for the cats a reteam playing in the u.a.e. the u.a.e. of course being one of the countries that are blockading qatar. yes u.a.e. along with the trip to saudi arabia and bahrain imposed the air land and sea blockade on qatar in june of two thousand and seventeen accusing the country of its political ambitions in the region and sponsoring terrorism something qatar has

minimal denied that being said this game in this championship game. and all the games getting here has been seen as somewhat of a political side event because many of the fans could not make the trip to the u.a.e. to support their team we spoke to people who were here today saying they wish they could be in the wings to support has hard but given the political climate they just chose to stay here and support them from here knowing that the team's coach also felix sanchez said that the team is very well aware of the environment that they're playing in they don't have any fans in the stadium according to how. you. look so i. looks like qatar was just for a one zero against japan and that's just awful. but stay with us because for.