asia. pacific explorer. fascinating story one o one. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the. this is zero. carry this is the news hour coming up in the next sixty minutes victory is not winning for a party. victory is winning for our country. america first to donald trump says state of the union address with a call for unity. confirms

a second. vietnam. doctors in venezuela plead with the government to allow the delivery of medicine and other humanitarian aid now. and in sport australia steps up the pressure to release footballer. but thailand warns a refugee could still face months in prison. and still live a call for unity with the second state of the union address to congress that the president's demand for bipartisan bipartisanship pardon me did not register well with many democrats who say it's eighty two minute speech was one of division fear and false the speech was delayed by a week because of political bickering over the recent government shutdown also touched on the economy foreign policy immigration and the controversial border wall

with mexico by can a reports from washington now that the state of. the president of the united states . much has changed in the stream since president trump last spoke here sitting next to the vice president the new speaker nancy pelosi has been locked in a power struggle with the president since the democratic party took over the house and acknowledging this the president called for political. together we can break decades of political stalemate. we can bridge all divisions heal old wounds build new coalitions but on the issue that led to the partial shutdown no sign of any compromise the president adamant that his demand for a barrier remains unchanged congress has ten days left to pass a bill that will fund our government protect our homeland and secure our very

dangerous southern border if you can understand your pain calling on victims of crime by what he called an illegal alien to back his argument. simply put walls work and walls save lives so let's work together compromise and reach a deal that will truly make america safe. a standing ovation from the republican side while democrats wearing white in honor of women's rights stayed in this seats it is time to give our brave warriors in syria a warm welcome home on foreign policy a defense of his unilateral decisions to pull troops out of syria the claim that he's averted a major war with north korea announcing another summit with the north korean leader will take place in vietnam at the end of this month and despite calling for unity

from picking on an issue that is highly divisive to defend the dignity of every person i am asking congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late term abortion of. a mother thank you. an example of issues that democrats contend are seized upon by the president with the intent of division. this appoint brought up in the opposition response given by the democratic party's rising star stacey abrams the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values the one moment of real unity came when president trump left his prepared script we also have more women serving in congress then at any time to be with

republicans and democrats alike burst into applause but the vast majority of women are on the democratic side in terms of gender and race it's the most diverse democratic party caucus in congress tional history and despite a writ bipartisan moment it would appear this side of the house were a main intent on fighting the president every step of the way my kind of al-jazeera washington. governments across the globe are reacting to the u.s. president's speech japan and south korea welcome the news of a second summit between the u.s. and north korea so as are urging both sides to be more specific and practical when they meet in vietnam on the twenty seventh tokyo meanwhile says they hope the two day summit is more meaningful rob mcbride reports from seoul. after their first historic meeting in singapore last june all now looks set for round to him vietnam it's a neutral choice acceptable to both sides. it's also symbolically important as

a former enemy of the u.s. that now enjoys normalized relations and economic prosperity a possible path for north korea to follow since singapore negotiations have stalled but both leaders seem determined to meet again. march work remains to be done but my relationship with kim jong un is a good one chairman kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh and twenty eighth in vietnam. negotiators from both sides have been meeting knowing the next summit will have to produce something of substance following criticism that singapore was little more than a photo opportunity it probably won't be anything big maybe the decommissioning of some nuclear facilities under international monitoring in return for the security

guarantees that north korea craves and just possibly some relief from sanctions after the stalemate of the past half year anything that moves the process forward will counter success even partially being a collision or freezing it's a better then or to having nothing just waiting for ever for north korea to agree on completely which is almost impossible for a totalitarian regime whether this process is moving towards full denuclearization the more immediate need for trump and kim seems to be maintaining the narrative that it is bright al-jazeera seoul. also spoke about trade with china the world's two biggest economies have been at odds over a tray imposing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of each other's products. to build on our incredible economic success. one priority is paramount

reversing decades of calamitous trade policies so big that we are now make it it clear to china. that after years of targeting our industries and stealing our intellectual property the theft of american jobs and wealth has come to an end. and her brand has more from beijing. so once more president donald trump has taken aim at china but these are comments accusations the china's leaders have heard before particularly donald trump's claim that china is stealing u.s. jobs and that u.s. tough negotiating is making it harder for china to continue to do that president donald trump also spoke about his renewed call for china to make structural reforms to its industrial policy their president from is referring to the system whereby the chinese state continues to give huge subsidies to state owned companies that

are involved in technologies of the future things like artificial intelligence robotics and five g. the united states is saying that those heavy subsidies make it very hard for u.s. companies to compete that there's no level playing field this is all happening as the united states has confirmed that robert light hisor the chief u.s. trade representative and steve minucci and the u.s. trade secretary are returning to beijing next week to resume trade negotiations because according to an administration official china has agreed to start talking about things that intil now have been off the agenda that could mean that china is now prepared to discuss possible reforms to its industrial policy. iran is pressed pushing back against criticism from trump during his address iran's foreign minister says u.s. aggression has led to a support buttress and extremists who only brought ruin to the middle east here is

more for the president have to say. my administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor of terror the radical regime in iran it is a radical regime they do bear bared things to ensure this corrupt. dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons i would say drew the united states from the disasters iran's nuclear deal. or we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed by us on a country we will not overt our eyes for marusia that chants death to america and threatens genocide against the jewish

people avi goetia is a member of the bloomberg opinion editorial board he joins us now from london bobbie good to talk to you so let's let's dive right into this speech that by the state of the union is is supposed to be that it's a it's a comment it's a statement on how the country is doing and it's supposed to be to the entire country but the new york times wrote even mr trump's conciliatory phrases call kerry rather a partisan staying did it seem to you that he was speaking more to his base than to the country how would you characterize this speech. well unquestionably he was speaking to his base this talk about the speech being about unity this was leaked before the speech from the white house this was always a highly questionable idea he is the most divisive president. in my memory that the united states has ever heard and so the idea that he would be calling for unity is approved as professors and we saw in the speech that whereas

he used words like unity and come together he chose to focus on the issues that are in him actually very divisive knowing full well that it would raise the hackles of the democrats gratian abortions it was not so much a call for unity a call of compromise as a as a demand for compliance he wants the democrats to fall in line behind him behind his policies if you're really looking for unity and compromise you offer something you don't blame on the people do what you want and that was there were no offers from the president no sign that he was willing to give on anything this announcement of a date to meet with kim jong il and he said going to be the twenty seventh and vietnam how does that strike you considering there has been a consistent and halogens coming out saying that since the first summit not only it's not even the status quo in north korea they seem to actually be escalating their activities there is no did nuclearization that is happening how does it

strike you that he is going to have a nother meeting with him and clearly it's something he's proud of because he mentioned it in the state of the union. yes it's the only real piece of news that in that and speech the dates for the meeting in vietnam. look i think he regards the first meeting in singapore as the high point of his foreign policy performance so far that that was the one in his mind success that he can point to and say i did it but that means that the bar is sold much higher now in singapore he could get away without any substantive progress by simply having the photo opportunity with the with kim jong il and he could say look american but no american president has met the leader of north korea just meeting itself is progress whether you buy a bite or not that was an argument that the white house was able to make now in vietnam the bar is

a lot higher just meeting shaking hands and and mugging for the camera is not going to be enough this time he will have the president has to come back with something substantive something to show that north korea is indeed. retreating from it's a rogue position and making concessions that president trump has promised it would make it's hard to see the north koreans doing that for kim jong il and there's no downside if he gets to go to vietnam years and he doesn't get to go to many countries he gets to go to vietnam shake hands with the president then comes back and completely controls the message that is being that north koreans are allowed to see that country for president trump this time just a smiling photograph is not going to be enough and they in the past i think is a couple of weeks ago some of the intelligence chiefs testified on capitol hill about what they perceive what they say are the real threats to the u.s. obviously nothing on the southern border wall was mentioned at all and then fact

that they also said that iran was largely complying with the nuclear deal that president trying called the worst deal in the world. the fact that he. spent so much time talking about those two things specifically is that a rebuke of his own intelligence community. oh by good he says intelligence community almost on a daily basis he has he has declared them as being unsound of in the in the intelligence gathering and in the assessment of foreign policy he came that he knows more about these things than not just one or two but all of his intelligence chiefs together. he has been trying to make the conversation about iran not just about nukes but about other things around influence on the middle east iran's export of terror through his blood through hamas and iran's destabilizing activities in the region his argument and the argument from people around him has

been that it's the nuclear deal was too narrow it's in it's in its framing that just just iran not making nukes is not enough iran should be should be sort of forced into a much tighter strait jacket so that its overall behavior can be can be managed by the west if such a thing is possible. so it's not just about nukes and that's why he keeps using the phrase it's the it's the largest exporter of. state that exports terrorism around the world he talks about iran's anti israel although in this time he framed it as anti jewish i think what he means was anti israel rhetoric coming from different parts of the iranian regime and that's what it's about with the the larger issue of whether or not he can actually influence iran's. behavior he's depending on the the sanctions to do all of that as we saw just this

past week of the europeans have come up with a macand ism that might just might allow some european companies to do to sort of skirt around those sanctions we'll see if that gives iran a work around but right now the trumpet decision thinks that it has its. the mc of this regime ok and it's not employing to look good i do want to touch briefly before we're done on our response a democratic party picked stacy abrams who lost in a very very close race to be governor. of georgia he still lived there i don't know why i play what's your take on on her being the choice and what she had to say. well the democratic party was sending a message by choosing the first black woman to deliver the rebuttal to the state of the union i think she did find that the the biggest banana skin in the state of

the state of the union rebuttals is that you can you can screw up you can. we have seen that. it we've seen we've seen previous people who give that speech make mistakes and their political careers as a result sort of go off the rails i think stacy abrams is unknown to most of the world outside the united states in the u.s. she's known to a fairly small. group of people who follow politics closely this is her big moment i think she didn't love her lies she she delivered them with that with aplomb and confidence this is not quite the same thing as a big breakout moment that let's say barack obama had when he gave this speech in al gore's inauguration that everyone remembered i don't think people come away from the speech to give hope she's going to be a presidential candidate one day but she acquitted herself well she she she she went through all the talking points of the democrats care about she delivered a fairly effective rebuttal to the president. really appreciate your time in your

insight good to talk to you. anymore head on the news hour thank looting but temperatures plunging in iraq there are calls to protect children living in displacement camps. more rain in the forecast a lot of homeowners in australia are hoping the worst is over. and going going to be incredible lindsey vonn crashes at her last ever a vet but she hasn't quite finished yet details coming up in a bed in sport. and israel's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia south clare president juan has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much needed. medicine and other essentials traceable has more from the capital caracas. employee said this maternity hospital in the capital caracas say they are in desperate need of aid

they say their hospital urgently needs basic medicines and medical equipment they say the venezuelan government shouldn't get in the way of international aid entering the country. only. this hospital had the best doctors the businesses could best of everything and now we are seeing a complete deterioration with shortages of medicine food for patients and cleaning products the self declared interim president why though says the president. is illegitimate he's pushing for legislation in the opposition controlled national assembly to be passed to remove the roadblocks on humanitarian aid members of the national assembly say that they would like to create a humanitarian corridor composed of n.g.o.s religious groups and doctors that will allow the aid to reach those who needed the most but it won't be easy because the government says that the humanitarian aid is a political show by the opposition that will allow the united states to intervene in the country where. he's in charge of coordinating the push for aid in the

national assembly he says is wrong. though it is not only the united states that is an evolved it is the labor group that meeting canada nobody can cite justin trudeau is the extreme right or pedro cinches and spain i want to see the message to the world venus why this constitutional order is broken one legislative elections and i took our wife from us we asked for a referendum and they did not want it they do not want to get out of power what we are offering is not a liberation army just the ability to choose our future and a new election in the same building but in another room met the rival constituent assembly the legislative body created by. government to years ago to redraft the constitution now it is proposing to call for legislative elections to replace the opposition controlled. mandate expires next year you know he said you are going to

go to the opposition once elections so we could call for a legislative elections because parliament is controlled by the extreme right at that stage in a coup by the only power that has not been revalidated recently. and that sentiment was shared by supporters of the. who surrounded the national assembly building during the session. if one way the once the chair then you can buy it at the store because here no one would allow him to sit on the presidential seat a political crisis where nobody really knows how or when it is going to end. but francis says the vatican is willing to mediate in venezuela but only if both sides ask president a letter asking for his help and resolving the crisis. the will of both sides is necessary both sides have to ask for it that is what happened in the case of argentina and chile. there were small steps that are needed in diplomacy and the

last one is mediation. negotiators they need to move closer together to begin the possibilities of dialogue this is how diplomacy is carried out. talks with the u.s. and the taliban have stirred up next feelings among afghans the two sides have been holding talks to try and bring an end to the eighteen year long conflict some call it surrender some are concerned about just what sort of peace agreement if any will come out in the end when rights women's groups rather fear the taliban might insist on limiting their role in society twenty reports in kabul. a year ago president trump didn't mince his words when he talked about the taliban there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to fight. well we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish we're going to be able to do it this is what he said a few days ago after the us did just that and talked with the taliban and for the first time they're talking about settling they're talking about making an agreement

and we bring our people back home if that happened despite spending fifty billion dollars a year and dropping thousands of tons of bombs the u.s. is not winning this war and cannot finish militarily what others failed to do the taliban is gaining ground inflicting yet more casualties and showing no signs of capitulating some of the say even for the u.s. to sit down and talk with the taliban smacks of surrender and the idea of a sustainable achievable peace is mere wishful thinking and the departure of u.s. forces will neither guarantee a stable power sharing government nor the prevention of so-called terrorist groups from operating on afghan soil the speed of the talks in qatar has led some afghans to believe the president trumps america first policy is ignoring the interests of afghanistan for some people it's like a friend because now and they're going to have two options whether they have to

flee and leave afghanistan or whether they have to make a type of deal would like to hop in it's not a very successful case in that really people in afghanistan. the afghan president ashraf ghani is understandably worried the taliban refused to negotiate with his government and he's only too well aware of what the taliban did to the former president. when they seized power in one thousand nine hundred ninety six they hanged him from a lamppost it's going to be the afghan people who are going to be implementing the peace agreement so in my opinion sidelining the afghan people and government is no solution for this on the streets of kabul there's a mixture of hope and fear. i am very optimistic because all these parties the us taliban and afghan government have enough experience here even with their personal interests in the end they will agree on a peace deal. they've killed a lot of innocent people and have taken part in talks before but with no result

they will not accept a peace deal we don't trust them at all many women fear that if the taliban hasn't changed it will seek to impose the old doctrines that subjugated women and close girls both the u.s. and the afghans stress that no peace deal has yet been signed the war is not over but for the u.s. at least the end may be in sight tony berkeley al jazeera. the u.n. says its push for an agreement between yemen's government and who the rebels is beginning to pay off it says days of talks between the warring sides are bringing them closer to a deal to pull back their forces from the city of her the port is crucial for getting food aid into the country newly appointed head of the un's mission to monitor a truce agreement has arrived in yemen a facilitator further to go from onboard a ship in the red sea. how on earth in the flooded city of townsville and australia are hoping the worst is over and the poor caster say more monsoon raid could be on the way to queensland but nothing like the record breaking deluge

a few days ago means lenders returning to their ruined homes had been speaking to our reporter andrew thomas. this is what you see in front of houses all over townsville now the floodwaters have largely gone down but anything that people weren't able to get out of their house in time things like fridge freezer well they're really in there that waiting to be picked up as rubbish well this house belongs to kevin. you've been clearing up your place all day kevin help it so i can see everything on the ground was really how high was the water in here probably are from right around man when i you know i came up pretty quick and it didn't come up with out things that there was. spiders you know i meant it came with it you saw us night i did i was eight o'clock at night it was fact i had a small lot and a different relation when it disappeared so as you're clearing out if you were watching which happens you i was fairly left and. i don't know whether it's a foreign land or

a python and i know you were able to get sentimental items and electronics you know it was very nice rifle it's just finely anything to it was only grain yeah probably trade and a whole idea is just you know what you are. really struggling off and just gaining and i think you clearing bedrooms out you have to carry mattresses you ripping up the carpets i guess you need to dry out everything before you can even start thinking about replacing but you aren't sure yeah well good luck good luck with the cleanup this is a situation being repeated all over townsville on the wednesday the worst of the rain. has moved south but still waits and there's a lot of cleaning up today. all right coming up in just a bit on al-jazeera we will have the weather. cabin. and also we'll tell you why the philippines new muslim majority region is getting a chance to expand. trade after the super bowl in the palace and why the

game as it often is that's coming up and. of course we've been talking about the flooding in queensland but i want to go back to a story that we were covering earlier and that is the fires that are burning in tasmania because of the heat because of the dry situation this is what we're dealing with right now this is the latest here coming out of nelson tasmania right now are up to about eight hundred hectares that have been burning only started on tuesday now they're trying to get a grip on this but also with this fire we have another fifteen fires that are burning across parts of the region and we're going to be seeing more of that over the next few days but the good news is we do have some rain that is coming into the region as you can see right there across parts of hope are now temperatures about

twenty seven degrees for those temperatures are going to be coming down as more rain starts to filter in i also want to talk about the temperatures out here over here towards the west perth thirty degrees on thursday on wednesday we reached up to about thirty six now of the next few days we do expect those temperatures to stay quite hot we do expect to see here on friday thirty seven degrees as we go towards saturday we expect to see about thirty nine if we hit another over thirty five degree day on sunday that's going to be a stretch of five days that we haven't seen in the last five years so very very hot conditions and very dry conditions to the west. the weather sponsored by qatar and . the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. all the kingdom of 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

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watching the top stories right now u.s. president donald trump called for political unity in his state of the union address to congress and a wide ranging speech he told republicans and democrats they must join forces to confront the security crisis on the border with mexico. also confirmed he will hold a second summit with north korean leader kim jong un at the end of this month the two day meeting. began on february twenty seventh the president has been seeking another summit to firm up north korea's commitment to nuclearization. and israel's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia and. the president one point zero call for help as the country faces severe food and medicine shortages. more now on the save the union address donald trump announced that he is sending an additional three

thousand seven hundred fifty troops to the southern border the deployment is expected to last for ninety days wants congress to approve funding for a wall along the border with mexico but democrats on the hill are refusing in the past most of the people in this room voted for a wall but the proper wall never got built i will get it built. this is a smart strategic see through steel barrier not just a simple concrete wall it will be deployed in the areas identified by the border agents as having the greatest need and these agents will tell you where walls go up illegal crossings go way way down. robert all supports from calexico city and california. many people here at the border take

issue with president trump's depiction of this region is rife with crime and instability and tension they say that doesn't represent the reality that they know and many people who are listening to president trump tonight to see whether he would lay down some sort of ultimatum would he say that he might declare a state of emergency in order to get wall funding or even threaten to shut down the government again in order to do that he did neither instead he rehashed much of the rhetoric he's deployed in the past about a flood of drugs criminals sex traffickers and gang members flooding over though the mexican border into the united states because he did not speak in terms of the wall is something that he demanded that he must get the money for or else instead merely as something that he wanted now in the past of course during the presidential campaign president trump said that mexico would pay for the wall he's

retreated on that he no longer speaks about that at all he also said that the wall would be a concrete barrier that would go along the entire length of the border now he says it will only be a see through metal barrier that will be built only in certain places where the border patrol says it will be necessary so the president is retreating steadily on his demands for a border wall no longer saying that the democrats must give him the funding for it and it is no longer immediately clear what he will do or where he will turn next in order to deal with this very very important issue a very important part of his presidency hospitals in rebel held areas of northern. struggling to a lack of funds international health has slowed because donors are wary of control

by. despite doctors. health desperately needed care to millions of syrians. and the syrian border. with. emergency responders follow similar protocols everywhere. do you. hear a little girl with a head injury needs to be transported to a hospital she needs an m.r.i. scan the setting only begins to look out of the ordinary when you notice the makeshift blast proof examination room medics say they never know when an airstrike or artillery shell could target them this hospital isn't it the city the new home to millions of syrians displaced by the war it's run by the directorate a rare example of an operational institution in a rebel held area its director says they were ridiculed for even attempting to oversee the help needs of

a whole province. what makes the directorate special is that it's observing two hundred medical centers and thirty three facilities directly if it wasn't for oss essential projects will collapse like vaccination centers for four hundred seventy two thousand children but the war in its eighth year money from international donors is running out. without funding we cannot continue we need diesel an expense is covered all of the employees have homes and children they cannot volunteer for more than two or three months. many international organizations are rare you know. or each of the largest group which controls most of the city it's linked to either and used to be known as a list of front. the health director it says it's been able to fight off h.g.'s as interference. and we said if you interfere one more time we will close it. and within a span of two hours this is ok fine fine of backing off because if we suspend the

people turn against them we want to give medicine box nation we want to treat patients who are prisons and we want to do it away from politics the director also runs a pharmaceutical control department to detect fake drugs and says ten million doses of medicines have been checked in the last two years to follow european and american drugs standards doctors say the checks out essential and not just for syrians under member disease crosses borders diseases do not understand checkpoints if the case isn't done this a threat for everyone in the world we are the frontline fighting all these diseases diseases and we are ready to continue doing that and we believe that our donors will not just abandon us because of lack of funding people in the are being asked to pay for health services many of them are refugees in their own country and can't even afford to pay for two meals a day people in advance are hoping for a political settlement so aid agencies can resume humanitarian aid for them some of

the job aid others here are. iraq's prime minister is head back at one of the u.s. president's comments about using a military base to keep an eye on neighboring iran. there is no such american base . was that if. we disagree with what the american said there are no american military bases in iraq we have said that several times their military trainers within the framework of an international coalition whose main task is to train the iraqi forces and fight against myself. warned of dire consequences if more children and iraq. could be fatal for some of the one hundred fifty thousand children in displacement camps it's also calling for more money to be spent on education matheson reports from baghdad. some of these children may not live through the plunging temperatures of iraq's winter. the un's children's agency is warning that

those already weakened by hypothermia and disease after severe flooding in november might not survive the horrors cold. we need a lot to be done health is the lifeline of our society but we're not seeing much happening people organize rallies but our calls are falling on deaf ears unicef says iraq spends just under six percent of its annual budget on education even though many young children are determined to go to school. open across the city of mosul our school is one of several which have more than six hundred students we can barely cope with unicef says that a big improvement when it comes to health care for children it says less than one percent of children. and that's because eighty five percent are now in hospitals it also says ninety two friends of the rockies children like these children kindergarten. are likely to go into primary school but he says that number

drops significantly when they get to secondary school a particularly in areas which would be badly affected by called. according to unicef in areas such as the northern province of nineveh province to the south only one child in every form goes to secondary school instead many have to work to help support their families there must've challenges the if the situation continues as it is today in iraq the children of the future. i have very little future how are you going to play today so they have a future for tomorrow how you going to invest in them so they can aspire for a future a future that they are part of the government has set over three hundred million dollars fund to help the poorest people in areas hardest hit by conflict but unicef insists more needs to be done to stop children like these becoming iraq's last

generation rob matheson. back to. britain's prime minister is due in brussels on thursday for more talks especially about the so-called backstop theresa may has been in northern ireland to emphasize she is committed to preventing a hard border with the republic and this out. of course in belfast. northern ireland has the u.k.'s only land border with the european union and the businesses of this province of feeling the uncertainty of it wrecks it more through for the most threesome a promise an unshakable commitment to avoiding a hard border northern ireland does not have to rely on the government or the european union to prevent a return to borders of the past the u.k. government will not let that happen i will not let that happen to resubmit a speech offered reassurances that the business leaders here found it less than reassuring and there were no new specifics about what alternative arrangements

might be found to the northern ireland backstop. the biggest fear is a no deal that we cannot sleep walk into a new deal situation so and our best guess is across the u.k. are not prepared for a new deal situation so i don't think anyone can really prepare it's very difficult to prepare for what would a new data look like if it doesn't work then we have to go back and i've seen military students to you know what what is going to work and what is a compromise solution and they've all committed and everybody doesn't want to see a border crack in northern ireland so they have to come up with that solution if if her efforts in europe don't succeed this week effort there is a hard border we're talking a. it is the systematic dust and the grisham of supply that has been built up over twenty years of pace but over forty years of membership of the. recent i will go to brussels later this week determined to avoid a hot border the e.u. has the same determination but each has very different ideas on how to guarantee that outcome old brennan al-jazeera belfast

a former ivory coast president has been released on bail after his acquittal by the international criminal court in the netherlands last month has been living in belgium since then and will stay there pending an appeal he spent seven years in custody at the i.c.c. and was the first former head of state to go on trial there it was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed two thousand and ten election. and sports.

a new autonomy for agent in the southern philippines could be expanded further when an indigenous tribes votes on whether to join it but they want to make sure the world or something muslim majority territory return their ancestral lands to them to mill allan's are going reports. they get the money bush can live with them and invoking the spirits of their ancestors that ted or i say they are grateful the hope peace has come to their land to us more than a hundred thousand of them voted to accept an autonomy us government designed to provide greater powers for muslims in mindanao. christian and indigenous communities like the to dry are also included in the new self rule region so after

decades of fighting leaders of the separatist rebel group the more islamic liberation front negotiated for almost twenty years with several administrations in the capital manila yes more than a hundred thousand filipinos have been killed and millions more displaced since the rebellion for mushroom rule began in the one nine hundred sixty s. it's very important that the it relates to will see a story that when the law. people especially boss who are most affected by what is going the way in which means of us from our people we feel that yes this is the right call to set the. this is the right the remains of what we have fought for and that this is the ground from which to begin a new future some of the to the rise and social lands are all complied but the more islamic liberation front and the philippine military they say they are prepared to

fight for their rights despite being one of the most in battle tribes in the country. but we have a seeing just like a crab with this being pursued inside its whole we may feel powerless sometimes but the crowd has claws you see and even with small claws we can fight back. like so many indigenous tribes in mindanao that derisive been fighting for their ancestral land for decades this is why they say they are always been supportive of this peace process and their expectations are high that under this new political autonomy they will finally be properly represented some referred to the to dry as a minority among minorities. they are counting on the government's promise that under this new autonomy the land of their ancestors will be returned to their. dog and al-jazeera mugging down the province southern philippines. part time for

sport now with fara richelle thank you so much a thai official has warned that football or hockey malory be faces up to six months more and a bangkok prison as he fights extradition to bahrain a spokesman for the attorney general says a court hearing his case will need two to three months to give its ruling after his next hearing in april al-arabiya he was arrested in november while on holiday on the request of bahrain who want him to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism the twenty five year old as a refugee who lives in australia and says he fled his home country because of political repression campaigners are worried he'll be tortured if he's returned to austria. is under twenty three football team has counseled a trip to thailand in protest and it's country's prime minister has again put pressure on his thai counterpart to release al-arabiya. what i've also distressed is that he's drawn in paypal and the thai people have a wonderful people to people relationship and i've stressed just how strongly as

dragons feel about this and i would i would be very disappointed. if it is a result of how this matter is handled that that relationship between the time people were affected i would be very disappointed about that so of appeal to the prime minister to take that into account but i do have the authority to use those executive controls for him to come out and so we're going to continue to work patiently and respectfully to secure that up to him of our head of guatemala in football has been fined three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for his part in the future corruption scandal bryan him in the us was one of more than thirty top footballers that shell swept up in a twenty fifteen investigation into the sale of media rights for a fee for games across america as he faced up to forty years in prison for racketeering and wire fraud but a judge in new york sentenced him as to time served and banned him from football

for life because he'd shown remorse this is. difficult the school of life fundamental change for everybody i think it's something very important to send a healthy message for the whole institution afifa everybody must contribute as humans we make mistakes i think i'm not part of it anymore and i hope that with these examples that we have now that there's a correction within soccer for everybody in general. there's a big game coming up in spain later and we know messi has given barcelona a boost ahead of their cup of del rey semifinal with real madrid he took part in training on chews day having missed the previous day's session because of injury messi heard his cast during saturday's draw with valencia but coach ernesto there says he'll make a late decision and won't take any risks with the club's all time top scorer now but again with us if united i don't think there's a favorite in the semifinal between barson and real madrid it's an open target we

have very good players including the one that we consider to be the best in the world and they also have great players some among the best in the world so if he will play and if not he will not play but this doesn't change the favorites are it's an open top. if any english premier league champions manchester city have the chance to return to the top of the table if they win at everton on wednesday both city and current leaders liverpool have dropped points in recent matches and city manager pep guardiola expects plenty more twist we turn now and the end of the season. three four days ago we had already done. the champion was and we were pulling no favorites and maybe in three days we are leading or we are seven points behind. so if you try to be calm in that situation i said my feeling in the last week so will be a lot of surprises and will be tough for every team too in all games because. the contenders and no contenders in all the teams had the abilities capacities and in

the skills to make create problems le bron james has suffered the worst defeat of his n.b.a. career his side the l.a. lakers were thrashed by forty two points by the indiana pacers james who was playing his way back from injury scored eighteen points becoming the fifth player in league history to reach thirty two thousand points but the thirty four year old sat out the entire fourth quarter in indiana as james knew he couldn't save his team the pacers winning a hundred and thirty six to ninety four as some of the lakers players could have been distracted by rumors as the league's trade deadline day approaches. i know it has to be tough for a lot of our guys especially young guys and you know right now there's never been a part of it and i want to hear it every single day and i noted. worst thing that you can do right now i'm going social media and i know all young guys love social read so i know that def we can help. and over in philadelphia was

a match up between the eastern conference is top two teams the trauma raptors were able to hold off the sixers squire leonard top scorer to lead the raptors to one hundred and nineteen to one hundred seventeen when philadelphia leasing. for just the sixth time in twenty seven home games this season. the most successful world cup scare of all time says she will compete in one more race by crashing and her last ever championship lindsey vonn had a bad fall during the super g. at the world championships in sweden she says though she will still be able to compete in the downhill in or on sunday from there paul race reports. the beginning of the end wasn't meant to be like this. but seconds into final world championships lindsey vonn super g. race followed the script of the rest of her farewell season the american crushing out with barely a glimpse of the talent and power that has made the most dominant skia of the

modern age yeah i've got a bit of a shiner. and i'm feel like i've been hit by an eighteen wheeler but other than that i'm great and now each thirty four valma has brought forward her retirement to make these world championships in sweden have final flourish a training run on monday saw her finish eleventh but the missing college in her knee and choose days rice merely underlined that it was nearly time to say goodbye it is what it is i can't change it i done my best my entire career i've worked as hard as humanly possible i've come back from way too many injuries and i'm not able to do it and that's just life you know it's not quite time to go yet still isn't ruling out with another world championship gold and some days downhill she already has two and may regrets only have a taking home warm olympic winner's medal. but it's her performance in the season

long growing of the world cup that will be remembered eighty two wins putting how within four of the all time record set by sweden's in the last stand thirty years ago. von celebrity has transcended skiing. the sport will be relieved to have what seems to be a tailor made replacement in the kayla schiffer and the twenty three year old winning the super g. at the world just for single moms. her disappointment should be brief in the context of a career that has raised women skiing to new heights mckayla shifrin victory here completes her coronation as the new queen of all points skiing but her roots the top has been carved out by lindsey vonn her crush may be one of her last memories of the sport but it's not what she'll be remembered for paul reese or one of the most familiar sights in sport as a new england patriots celebrating a super bowl victory an estimated one million people were on the streets of boston

as the patriots return from their latest triumph in atlanta the thirteen to three victory over the rams was the sixth super bowl for the combination of coach bill belichick and forty one year old quarterback tom brady but early data suggests the game was a turnoff for fans ninety eight million viewers tuned tuned in to watch in the u.s. that's down five percent from last year. skewing the patriots in the super bowl year after year people became tired of seeing them win think the other thing game was just not that competitive i think if you're a casual football fan you'd rather see forty five to forty instead of thirteen to three so i think the casual fan was just kind of checking out after a few quarters i think ultimately there were two traditional rivals that were going at it this year so the football fan that doesn't know much probably didn't have too much allegiance to either team and that's all you sport for now more coming up later but for now back to our thank you very much and you can figure our web site

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