we do expect to see attempt a few about seven degrees there. there's no one way of telling. right and. it's great to know the person for. kerry 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. president calls for unity across party lines as he outlines his priorities.

round two. met with north korea's vietnam. and harsh words from the european council about ahead of a visit by the british prime minister. and. six more months in jail. being held in thailand. extradition back to his home country. to live a call for unity in the divided u.s. congress some democrats denounce the state of the union address as one of the fifth division fear and false hoods the president was due to make the major speech last month but was delayed by the longest u.s. government shutdown in history as congress continues to refuse to fund a border wall to mexico trump insisted he will still get built by canada. reports

from washington madam stated. that the president of the united states. much has changed in the stranger since president trump last spoke here sitting next to the vice president a 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 most 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 over. thank god thank you with an example of issues that democrats contend are seized upon by the president with the intent of division this is a point 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 if you will

republicans and democrats alike burst into applause but the vast majority of women 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. iran is pushing back against criticism that trump made during his address iran's foreign minister says u.s. aggression has led it to support butchers and extremists who were only brought ruin to the middle east here's more of what the president had 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 bad bad things to ensure this corrupt

dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons i withdrew the united states from the disasters iran's nuclear deal. for we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed by us on a country we will not overt our eyes from a regime that chants death to america and threatens genocide against the jewish people all right let's get more now from mantra simons who is in tehran so. it's not new that president trump has harsh words for iran but on such a big stage such as this he still ramped up the rhetoric and bad what is the reaction there in tehran. well as ever. made

a very sharp reaction wasted no time at all to make a reaction saying that these remarks were totally unfounded he said that really as far as he was concerned that the president represented terrorism in many forms right the way across the world but particularly the middle east and of course he also said because not only was the remarks we've just heard offensive to the iranians he also went on to say in this is a bit of a new twist and maybe misrepresented but he did talk about the genocide attempts to force the genocide of the jewish people and then very quickly started making remarks about the attack of the shooting attack in pittsburgh last year in which a u.s. man actually shot eleven people dead now that was almost it would seem

a reference to iran and it's been taken that way because now iran has been making references to its jewish population its minority population of persian jews or rainy and jews who have rights now it's not a huge community it only amounts to something between ten and fifteen thousand it was over one hundred thousand before the revolution but he made remarks about the fact that they were being protected and there has been a follow up a statement from the foreign ministry spokesperson really condemning america it does put the heat up in an already tense situation between the u.s. and iran at a very important time with the fortieth celebration of the revolution the iranian revolution but the president has some rouhani having talks with the syrian foreign minister today about the trying to end the war in syria had nothing to say on the

subject so this looks as if it's going to pass as another round of vicious rhetoric all right anderson and live press in tehran andrea thank you. now after the state of the union address to congress journalists and analyze they have been combing through donald trump's eighty two minute speech to see if he got his facts right where he'll is here with the breakdown for us on that we're here thanks for shell well house speaker nancy pelosi tweeted saying that it would take days to fact check all the misrepresentations made by the u.s. president but here's what we found so far when it comes to the economy trump said his administration launched an unprecedented economic boom creating five point three million new jobs and six hundred thousand in manufacturing but that all sorted in two thousand and nine after the financial crisis and seven years before his election the economy has expanded under trump but it follows a trend that actually began under former president barack obama and immigration was also a major theme in the speech trump has pushed hard for his border wall with mexico

since taking office in twenty sixteen but the wall itself has changed from a concrete structure to a steel barrier which democrats refused to support trying did say he wants people to come to the u.s. in large numbers but they have to come in illegally. and this report by politico indicates that the top administration has made moves to crack down on illegal immigration as well or you see this map here policy changes have made it harder for employers to hire foreign workers the number of issues visas actually issued have reduced and also arrests along the u.s. exit book mexico border continue to rise as well while the president has was also quick to reiterate that the u.s. has more women in the workforce than ever before and also in congress but this is correct although it does reflect the increasing size of the u.s. population also important to point out that the huge applause came from democratic

party women in the chamber who dressed in white the color of the suffrage x. . and when it comes to foreign policy a lot of attention was on iran and the nuclear deal trump singled out iran as a radical regime and the sizing that the u.s. imposed the strongest sanctions european countries such as germany and france have refused to comply with the u.s. policy which could stifle the sanctions they have actually created a work around that allows them to continue doing business with the country and finally this north korea where trump said i quote if i had not been elected president of the united states we would right now in my opinion be in a major war with north korea and this is thought strong reaction online most analysts think that north korea's reason for having nuclear weapons is for survival of the regime and there's no evidence to prove that it's trump which is stopping a war we would love to get your thoughts on the state of the union address tweet us at aging lesh in the meantime though back to your shell i really think you now

south korea and japan are welcoming the news of donald trump's second summit with north korea's leader they want the meeting at the end of the month and vietnam to be in their words more meaningful specific and practical and pride has more from the south korean capital. after their first historic meeting in singapore last june all now looks set for round two in vietnam it's a neutral choice acceptable to both sides it's also symbolically important as a former enemy of the us that now enjoys normalized relations and economic prosperity a possible path for north korea to follow since singapore negotiations stalled but both leaders seem determined to meet again. march work remains to be done but my relationship with kim jong il is a good one german 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 single pole 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 and the thing that moves the process forward will count as success even partial denuclearization or freezing it's a better then or to having nothing just go waiting for ever for north korea to agree on completing which is almost impossible for a totalitarian regime whether this process is moving towards full denuclearization

the mole remediate need for trump and kim seems to be maintaining the narrative that it is broad al-jazeera so it's. funny more ahead on the news hour including the philippines a muslim majority region make it a chance to expand. and support going going vonna lindsey vonn crashes at her last event but says her career isn't over just yet. the president of the european council has accused u.k. politicians of supporting a campaign to leave the european union without a concrete plan i'll test says he will do everything in his power to help solve britain's crisis of how to leave the european union but he also says preparations are being made in case the u.k. leaves the e.u. without a deal. joins us now from belfast theresa may is has been very very busy where you

are but attention is really pivoted to brussels now paul tell us more about these comments from donald tusk. yes it's to just to see strands going in parallel here theresa may the u.k. prime minister here in northern ireland but the real action today at least has been in brussels where the irish t. shirt the prime minister of violent layover and because been meeting with donald tusk for work out what to do with just fifty one days left before the deadline day of britain juicer leave the european union and just the threats in two months and it seems that the previous two years of negotiations have been pointless and fruitless because the recent intends to go back to brussels tomorrow thursday in order to try to renegotiate to reopen the withdrawal agreement that brussels thought was signed sealed and delivered back in november of last year exasperate

from brussels was evident in what donald tusk said he used very undiplomatic language to describe those people that have advocated breck's it and left us fifty one days away from deadline with no clear solution as to how it's going to be delivered let's have a listen. by the way i've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted great feat without even a sketch of a plan how to carly it's safely extraordinary language that from donald tusk this is a seasoned diplomat they just don't use words like that unless something is really really bugging them and this is really bugging brussels believe me now he went on to say things like there was no indication of any willingness of the european union to reopen the withdrawal agreements he still believes that a common solution was possible but with the sense of responsibility said the

european union was preparing what he described as a possible fiasco. really really blunt language from as you pointed out a diplomat is usually very very measured so let's talk about where you are as raissa may has been they're having talks. how is it going there. very difficult to tell to be honest she has been meeting behind closed doors with the five main parties here in northern ireland it is the northern island backstop this insurance policy that's intended to prevent a hard boiled up between island northern ireland it would be the u.k. is only land border with the european union after brics it's the indications from the policies that have met with very sketchy indeed to do you piece which is the main policy that's propping up the reason may in the u.k. parliament came out and insisted that the backstop needed to be replaced not just rework despite what to recently said yesterday shoot through some of these seem to

suggest that it might kind of be amended somehow but still stay in place that's not the view of the do you peak and shin fein which has seven seats in the u.k. parliament in london but doesn't sit in them. keeps itself absence they said the following they had a direct meeting with the pm who came away empty handed and with the same old rhetoric we all know for the forward knowing what to recently is going to say in brussels on thursday all right paul brennan live for us in belfast paul thank you. rights group amnesty international is calling on governments to stop supplying weapons to any party involved in the war and yet the group joins the head of the u.s. central command in the middle east and calling for an investigation into allegations american weapons are making their way to armed groups and yet men general joseph to tell raised the concerns to a senate committee a recent media report alleges weapons provided by the u.s. to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are being transferred to al qaeda linked fighters and yemen a saudi led coalition is currently fighting in many who the rebels. we have not

authorize saudi arabia or the emirates to transfer any of this equipment to other parties on the ground in in yemen and is as you are well aware when we do provide equipment whether comes government a government or commercially provided. that the recipients do have to agree to certain stipulations on the use of those they were and has its efforts to forge an agreement between yemen's government and hit the rebels is beginning to pay off all diplomat sound optimistic to many say lost everything in the war are refugees in their own country mohammed reports. with his arrival in yemen a renewed sense of cautious optimism michael lawless guard the newly appointed head of the united nations mission to monitor the temporary ceasefire in her data landed in the capital sanaa as the u.n. says its push for a permanent peace agreement between the warring sides is beginning to pay off no

matter what ultimately happens in her data which is vitally important for humanitarian aid imports the suffering being experienced by yemenis nationwide is not expected to abate anytime soon. take yemen second largest city of tire is for example besieged by hooty rebels for more than four years around two hundred thousand civilians are caught up in the fighting. for what is one of them after fleeing fighting in her village made her way to ties with nowhere to live she and her husband took up residence on the side of a road and while this abandoned truck provides them a small semblance of shelter they feel far from safe. that any. i was sleeping when a bullet came from this direction and hit me low on food they struggle to get by the u.n. says yemen is home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis which is no surprise to

fuck are you. like all yemenis she hopes for a better future. and am democratic i want the will to stop and the situation to return back to normal as it used to be we want peace and we do not want will we want the situation to calm down and old people to return to the towns and villages for now however like so many other yemenis worries that won't happen any time soon. just here. turkey has reacted angrily to france's decision to make april twenty fourth a national day of commemoration of the armenian mass killings present a member made the announcement some eighteen years after his country was one of the first in europe to recognize the mass killings of armenians during world war one as what it calls a genocide turkey has always denied the killings were systematically orchestrated during the ottoman era ankara says mccrone is turning historical events until

a political matter often referred to by armenians as the first genocide and says one point five million of them were killed by the ottoman empire starting in one nine hundred fifteen turkey has only ever accepted that many armenians were killed but denies it was systematically orchestrated the issue has been the cause of constant tension between ankara and the e.u. that is france officially recognize the mass killings as a genocide in two thousand and one to date twenty nine countries call the killings genocide including brazil canada and russia for its dyson's an associate analyst who covers turkey for the consultancy control risks and he joins us now from london we appreciate your time very much so why is the government doing this. well that hitler could be a number of reasons going on. behind the calculation on the part of my contour this now beyond the just simply did date is coming up and it was

a campaign promise of my cons to do this. he's facing a lot of problems at home we've got. everyone in for him very closely the best movement that's creating a lot of problems for his government. as this was a campaign promise we could see in this gesture in this act. seeking to demonstrate to. voters that he fulfills promises so beyond just appealing to the armenian armenian voters in france. that he's trying to show more generally that he will do what he has said he will do. and this is the same time as well we've seen this could be an attempt to make an overtures towards kurdish groups fighting in syria by driving tensions with turkey france can show that it's sort of not on turkey's side in this and. trying to secure surnames through these coast groups as well so it's in the context you would just describe it it seems that you are. seem

to be implying that it really is political i think if we want to if if we want to look for political motivation there are there are there are there are the ones to be fined. beyond the simple fact that this was a campaign promise we are two months roughly before the the day in april that will be the commemoration day the timing in that sense just seems practical but but yes i think if we. if we look into in that sense there are a number of motivations that could be apparent chiefly would be around the universe movement to redirect the conversation around his government domestically and internationally away from the protests what are the implications then for. relationships between the two countries i doubt long term this will seriously change relations between turkey and france. france's actions in two

thousand and eleven already damaged relations they have recovered and remain largely pragmatic both sides are interested in trade over interested in maintaining open relations we make certain see a little bit of a dip over the coming months but we're not expecting french businesses operating in turkey or vice versa the turkish businesses in france to face significant problems as a result of this are right george dyson thank you so much for joining us from london we appreciate it. and wales opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia south korea president juan quite so has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much needed food medicine and other essential. 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 live. the russian 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 the my little government two years ago to redraft the constitution now it is proposing to call for legislative elections to replace the opposition controlled by a man whose mandate expires next year i you know he said you are going to go to the opposition wants elections so we could call for 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 an equal of my little 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 when nobody really knows how or when it is going to end he said well i'll just ask. the right time for whether what happened that's right richelle we have two big storms here across united states and they're bringing some mixed weather in also some spring like weather in some locations are going to show you what's happening but first what we're going to start with what's happening here along the west coast yesterday i showed you video of icing in seattle washington now going to go to same cisco where they're seeing snow they haven't seen snow in this is a little bit higher just to the outside of simms has go but they haven't seen snow here in about eight years so it's

a very rare phenomenon for them of course they get out there and they took advantage of the snow that they did see a course of wasn't enough to really cause too many problems but it was quite a sight to see there but we are going to be seeing some problems with the next two systems here across the area i want to show you what we are going to be seeing here with one system the eastern system this one is bringing some ice across parts of the great lakes right now so where you see the separation of rain and snow in that area is some very dangerous ice but that's not going to be lasting very long that was going to be. moving out into the atlantic very quickly it is the one to the west movie end very quickly and really starting to develop and deepen we're going to see is a very heavy snow across parts of chicago up towards minneapolis as well as into canada down to the south this is where we're going to be seeing severe weather there so thunderstorms gusty winds hail possibility of a tornado or two and then that system makes its way to the northeast and gets even stronger and heavy snow for parts a comeback. so ahead on al-jazeera

a group of doctors in syria is trying to make up for the shortfall and desperately needed medical care. and enjoy another super bowl parade but we'll tell you why there was a turn off for many. on line. for them. joining us on the set all of us have been calling. this is a dialogue talking about. you have seen what it can do to people using multiple drugs including and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice. could be on the street join the conversation. is a very important source of information for many people around the world. have gone

i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. of the top stories right now. called for political unity and the union address and a wide ranging speech. joined forces to confront what he's calling

a security crisis on the border with mexico trouble also confirmed a second summit with north korea's leader at the end of this month this time and vietnam today meeting with kim jong un began beginning on february twenty seventh aims to build on denuclearization talks started in singapore last june and venezuela's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia south declare president has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much needed food medicine and other essential. the u.s. senate has passed a bill that allows states to penalize businesses that boycott israel the senate also backed strengthening america's security in the middle east act by a vote of seventy seven twenty three but that was hours before president trump was to deliver his annual state of the union speech where he reaffirmed his promise to bring back troops from syria and afghanistan to become law the bill would need to

pass the democratic controlled house of representatives several israeli ministers have signed a declaration that's the ports the settlement of two million israelis in the occupied west bank the plan goes back to the time of the former prime minister yitzhak shamir who served in the eighty's let's go now to harry fawcett who is in western so harry what does this actually signify. well it's certainly interesting the fact that these very senior figures among them the culture minister the intelligence minister the public security minister the tourism minister all these senior members of the ruling that could party have signed this pledge it is something of a personal loyalty pledge talking about loyalty to the land of israel not to abandon the land of my parents and my grandparents and it says specifically pledging to work towards the plan of settling two million jews in the west bank now there is some wiggle room they're working towards

a plan is not the same as making an absolute ironclad commitment in terms of policy but it does signify i think what has happened to the likud party under benjamin netanyahu the mainstream of that party is moving ever further to the right and this is a pretty radical idea after more than twenty years twenty five years of the of the oslo accords and attempts to work towards a two state solution which of course have been stalled now for some time it also talks about the right would swing of mainstream israeli politics in general it also signifies though the period of time that we're in two months out from an election jew on the ninth of april there is a huge effort under way across israeli politics to court right wing voters and the sort of smaller right wing parties that that gather up some of the most extreme right wing votes they're also being looked for from a party such as they could and especially at this time when they have someone to try to define themselves against in the shape of benny gantz the former israeli

army chief who is really occupying the center ground and is presenting a stronger than imagined challenge to benjamin netanyahu he's polling extremely well lots of politicians on the right trying to outflank him on the right saying that his own settlements policies may well be too soft and too leftist for this new right would lean in israeli mainstream politics harry could this be adopted as policy after the election. it's hard to see that just yet one name that isn't on this declaration of course is the most important name that of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu it's also something that if he signed up to and instituted as israeli government policy in the short term that would really expose his good friend donald trump jerrod

cushion at all from son in law is jew we understand to announce something more firm about the timetable of the rolled out of the trump peace plan of course already the palestinians have very much rejected it in advance given some of the pronouncements and policies coming from the united states in their direction nonetheless if netanyahu were to announce a plan to put an extra one point five million jews in the occupied west bank that would really explode those chances the question is whether longer term it signals a direction of travel for a future israeli government harry fossil after us and thank you. u.s. secretary of state might pompei o is hosting a meeting to discuss the next phase of the campaign in iraq and syria and how to degrade isis networks and affiliates it comes to us months after or president trump . declared to clear the fate of eisel in syria kimberly halkett has the latest from

washington d.c. so i'm kimberly what can we expect from these meetings. yeah well the meeting essentially as you point out is to have some of the foreign ministers in this global coalition to defeat eisel talking about strategy essentially discussing this new phase of war but what this really is is an attempt by the united states to reassure some very nervous allies as the u.s. president december made that very abrupt announcement of the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria what this is a background call with reporters that took place in the last week between the state department official they said the message that what they're going to tell these foreign ministers is look the united states is not going to desert you what they're doing is repositioning it and changing their strategy shifting from a military focus to more of a diplomatic focus keeping up the pressure but at the same time not everyone

feeling comfortable with the u.s. announcement and so what this meeting is this not only to discuss strategy but also to essentially reaffirm the partnership that the united states says that it is committed to and as you just alluded to kimberly you know there is a bit of controversy about this i mean how is the u.s. policy goals there how is it being perhaps undermined potentially by president trump. yeah the president really sense a mixed messages in recent weeks or even since the abrupt announcement december of the troop withdrawal in fact it was so abrupt as you recall led to the resignation of his defense secretary james mattis we've heard more recently in testimony to congress the head of the central command general votel saying that the president did not consult with him in advance of making that announcement and certainly a stunning revelation that's not sitting well with a lot of members of congress and there are also a lot of fears not just among the military community but also lawmakers that simply

eisel is just waiting for u.s. soldiers leave the battlefield then it will regroup so donald trump is still continuing to express confidence over the weekend he gave interview here in the united states where he said that the caliphate has been almost knocked out it's almost ninety nine percent soon it will be at one hundred we can tell you as you have been discussing here in sort of the recent news stories in this bulletin that that is not a view that is shared by many members of congress and tuesday the u.s. senate in fact rebuked the president and his policy urging the president to keep u.s. troops not just in syria but also in afghanistan so a lot of controversy over this decision now the secretary of state might pompei a has a very tough challenge of trying to reassure nervous u.s. allies as a result of those announcements all right kimberly alkali for us at the white house thank you kimberly. hospitals and areas of northern syria are struggling to

a lack of funds international help because donors are wary of control by fighters linked to. some of. the syrian border. with. emergency responders follow similar protocols everywhere. 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 . this hospital is in the city the new home to millions of syrians displaced by the war it's run by the directorate a real example of an operation an 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. all of the employees have homes and children they cannot volunteer for more than two or three months. many international organizations are. the largest group which controls most of the city it's linked to either and used to be known as a loss for front. the health director it says it's been able to fight off h.g.'s as interference. and we said if you would feel one more time we would close it all and within a span of two hours ago you find find a backing off because if we suspend the people we're done against them we want to

give medicine bucks nation we want to treat patients who operate and we want to do it 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 out of the frontline fighting all these diseases diseases and we are ready to continue doing that and we believe that our donors would 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 conti would 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 or the other there are. how miners in the flooded city of townsville and australia are hoping the worst is over and the forecasters say more monsoon rain could be on the way to queensland but nothing like their record breaking deluge a few days ago queenslanders 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 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 a small lot and a different relation were distributing it out so as you're clearing out if you were watching which cabins you were i was fairly left and. i don't know whether it's a foreign or a well i think now i know you were able to get sentimental items and electronics you know it was very nice right it's just finally ending think it was only grain yeah probably trade and a whole idea is just you know what you are. really struggling office gaming and i think the clearing bedrooms that 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 yes or 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 is out of the monsoon has moved south but still waits and there's a lot of cleaning up to. macedonia as a step closer to joining nato. i'm void to present the deal older than the public

to sign the system. agree said block macedonia's membership into the military alliance for a decade over a name dispute that was just recently resolved at then sees the former yugoslav republic as a threat to its own region which is also called macedonia greece has signed the nato a session protocol and giving its approval to macedonia as membership after it's been confirmed the country will be known as the north macedonia and the autonomy is region in the southern philippines could be expanded further when an indigenous tribe votes on whether to join it they want to make sure the ruling rulers that is of the muslim majority territory return their ancestral lands to them to mail allan's are going reports. get them in a bush. who didn't invoking the spirits of their ancestors the tedder 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 discover meant 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 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 yet. more than one 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 be sistering that when the law our people especially those who are most affected by what is going to be which means advancing more people will feel that yes this is the right tool set the this is the right for the nation of what we have fought for and that this is the ground from

which to begin a new future some of the ted the rise and social lands are occupied by 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. we have a saying just like a crab it is being pursued inside its hold we may feel powerless sometimes but the crab has claws you see and even with small claws we can fight back. like so many indigenous tribes in mindanao the tedder rice have 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. autonomy they will finally be properly represented. on the government. that.

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time for a sport with ana thank you very much rachelle well a tie official has won that the who any footballer had camelot faces at least six

more months in prison as he fights extradition to his home country. was arrested in november while on holiday at the inquest of the hand who want him to set a ten year prison sentence for vandalism twenty five year old is a refugee who lives in australia says that he fled to his home country because of political oppression australia's on twenty three football team has canceled a trip to thailand in protest. what i've also distressed is that he's drowning people in the top but he will 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 was handled that that relationship between the time to strike and play people were affected i'd be very disappointed about that some of the people to the prime minister to take that into account 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 after that he's a former head of kuantan football has been fined three hundred fifty thousand dollars for his spot in a fee for corruption scandal i had him as that was one of more than thirty top football officials swept up and the twenty fifteen investigation into the sale of media rights for fee for games across the americas to minister was also given a life. from football 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 and our message has given

barcelona a boost ahead of the copa del way semifinal of the real madrid it's a pause in training on tuesday having missed the previous day's session at because of injury messi hurt his jaring a saturday's leg draw with violence. sending english premier league champions manchester city have the chance to return to the top of the table when that everton will move them ahead of liverpool all goal difference three four days ago we had already done. the champion was liverpool no favorite 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 to win all games because. the contenders and contenders and all the teams had their abilities capacities in in the skills to make create problems. bron james has suffered the worst defeats of

his n.b.a. career his l.a. lakers team lost by a forty two point margin against the indiana pacers james who is playing his way back from injury school eighteen points becoming just the fifth player and league history to reach thirty two thousand points but the thirty four year old sat out the entire fourth quarter in indiana as the pace is wrapped up one hundred thirty six to ninety four when james said some of the lakers players that could have been distracted by ruelas ass trade deadline day approaches. you know what i know it has to be tough for a lot of our guys especially young guys you know right now there's never been a part of it and i want to hear it every single day and i noted. we're standing as you can do right now i'm going to social media and i don't have all young guys love social media so you know that deaf we can help. and in philadelphia it was a match up between the eastern conference is that top two teams the toronto raptors

were able to hold off the six is a point. that top scored to lead the raptors two hundred nineteen two hundred seventeen when philadelphia losing for just the sixth time in twenty seven home games this season. and the most successful wall cups of all time says she will compete and one more race despite crushing in her last ever check ins yvonne had a bad fall it during the super g. at the world championships in sweden she says though she'll still be able to compete in the downhill and aura on sunday from there reports. the beginning of the end wasn't meant to be like this. but seconds into the final world championships lindsey vonn super g. race followed the script of the rest of her farewell season the american crashing 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. feel like i've been hit by an eighteen wheeler but other than that and greet him our age 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 cartilage in her knee and choose days race 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 maybe regrets only ever 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 her within four of the all time record set by sweden's in the last stand mark thirty years ago. vonn celebrity has transcended skiing in 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 proceed to splash. her disappointment should be brief in the context of a career that has raced women skiing it's a new heights mckayla shifrin victory here completes her coronation as the new queen of alpine 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 al-jazeera or to sweden. an estimated one million people were on the streets of boston as the new england patriots returned from their latest super bowl trounce the thirteen to three victory over the rams that

was the sixth super bowl for the combination of coach bill belichick and forty one year old quarterback tom brady and the game wasn't turned off for many fans ninety eight million viewers tuned in to watch the game in the us that's down five percent from last year. new england patriots in the super bowl year after year people became tired of seeing them when i 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 i. will have a mall for you later on specially the e.p.l. game with the english premier league game man city playing everton and that's it for me shouting for it it's on to thank you very much thank you for joining me for

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