already said that he's ready to take over as interim president and. from around the world. kids are doing what they can that's not the point of the government's decision to criminalize homelessness. this is zero. hello i'm and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate u.s. president donald trump says the total defeat of eisel is imminent. trump announces a new meeting with north korea's kim jong un look at reaction from asia. the united

nations says desperately needed aid is being used as a political pawn in venezuela. special place. from the european council president the british prime minister prepares to visit brussels. and in sports the refugee football is fighting extradition to reign is told he faces at least six more months in jail. while donald trump is predicting victory over eisel as early as next week the u.s. president says he expects a formal announcement to be made soon declaring all territory belonging to the armed group recaptured he was speaking at a summit of the global coalition set up to fight i saw in iraq and syria trump says

there's only a tiny percentage of ground left to take back the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate and u.s. secretary of state says the planned withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria won't be the end of america's fight there the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based it simply represents a new stage in an old fight the drawdown will be well coordinated and our policy approaches syria have remain unchanged joining us now live from washington d.c.

is our correspondent mike hanna mike what kind of reaction have we been seeing to trump's comments. well there has been great concern among members of the global coalition remembering that that december decision by president trump to withdraw from syria was a unilateral one there was no consultation with members of the global coalition there wasn't even any consultation with the secretary of defense who walked away resigned as a direct consequence of president trump's unilateral choice now importantly to another person who resigned in the wake of that decision was bread mcgurk he was the u.s. envoy to the school oberle coalition obviously not present at that meeting today but members are very concerned about the depth of the u.s. commitment and concern to about the president's apparent insistence that the defeat of ice all has occurred or is very near when members of his intelligence community continue to insist that i saw remains a threat to the u.s.

and to the rest of the world al jazeera as mike hanna speaking to us there from washington thank you mike well joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he joins us live now on skype from norman oklahoma joshua just how realistic are president trumps comments. they're quite realistic the caliphate is that is on the verge of being destroyed the area that is still being held and contested is about the size of central park if this is not big it's in a desert it's being smashed there's lots of refugees pouring out and captured isis soldiers are being processed the problem is that in this giant area the size of great britain there are tons of refugees many of the local fighters syrian iraqi have been able to escape back into the local population so if there is not proper

central state authority a police force that can continue to suppress isis and arrest isis members there may be a chance they'll come back if there's chaos in the handover as the united states leaves this region somebody has to step in and take charge just as you say we've had the reports of ifa fight as trying to go underground and tries and melt back into society is there a large difference between declaring victory over a cat caliphate of a territory as opposed to a victory of i feel. yes there is a big difference and that's what the president is clearly trying to draw by using the word the caliphate. so this is the work of defeating isis is not going to be done for years we know that there were forty fifty thousand fighters for isis many of those have been killed some of them have been captured but others have melted away they've gone to libya yemen and why there are still many places that have isis

fighters so that that war against terror is going to continue but the war against the state of isis that's coming to an end just as you say they is and there could be potential chaos during the smith troll has likely to step into the vacuum that it leaves. well the obvious candidate is the assad regime a syrian army and a syrian police force the kurds are in moscow right now negotiating a possible return of the syrian army they want of course a large measure of autonomy the syrian government does not want to give it to them but we know that there is confusion because the united states both the democrats and the republican party demanded that united states not withdraw from syria so the united states that the president is is defying both political parties he's defying some of his generals and administrators and so that and he won't say who it's going to be handed off to here originally said it would be head off the turks then we

roll that back but nobody wants to be taken by the syrians but there are the obvious choice so there could be some chaos as america withdraws if there is not you know some general agreement on who is going to step in to the breach and how the kurds going to relate to them which forces will share power because if they start fighting over this area then isis has a real chance of coming back and read as all of this leave the cads who at huge chunk of the u.s. sponsored fight against i feel look at the kurds are very unhappy there's no doubt about it they were hoping america would stay police the skies keep the turks and bay keep the syrians at bay and allow them to have a quasi independent state in northern syria. that's not going to happen now the syrian government is going to come back you know likely you know in all likelihood backed by russia and iran and they're going to have

a very limited autonomy and that's it that's bad news for them the good news is that isis has been destroyed because isis was wiping out the kurds two hundred thousand got driven out of cote bani a big city on the border with turkey turkey was it lending crisis to do this because turkey didn't like the white p.g. believes that they're part of this larger terrorist organization that take a case so the kurds have been saved by the united states that's the good news they owe america big debt they're very upset that america is going to take them all the way to a large degree of autonomy and possible independence joshua landis from the university of oklahoma there speaking to us thank you very much joshua it's a pleasure well syria was just one of the topics that donald trump discussed in his state of the union address on tuesday the overall message was a call for unity in a divided u.s. congress but some democrats denounce the speech as one filled with fear and also

holds and as congress continues to refuse to fund a border war with mexico trump insists he will get it built one time also confound a second summit with north korea's leader at the end of this month this time and get naam south korea and japan have welcomed the news that they want this meeting to be in their words more meaningful specific and practical robert pride has more from the south korean capital i want you know that 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 us 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 partial being equal or freezing it's apparent or to having nothing just go 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 broad al-jazeera soul. iran has accused the u.s. of supporting dictators but as an extremist has brought ruin to the middle east its foreign minister made the comments after donald trump criticized iran during his state of the union speech calling it the wild leading state sponsor of terror. 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 bared things to ensure this corrupt. dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons i would say drew the united states from

the disastrous iran nuclear deal we're. told 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 there is growing pressure on trump to escalate his response to the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi leading democrats are planning to seek fresh legislation designed to impose stronger action against u.s. ally saudi arabia four months ago twenty two senators from both parties invoked the magnitsky act of twenty sixteen which gave trump one hundred twenty days to make a decision on new sanctions related to construct is mad in saudi arabia's consulate

in istanbul. plenty more ahead on this news allen commuting. why the reopening of a religious school could help end a visit dispute between greece and turkey. how a group of doctors in syria is trying to make up for the shortfall in desperately needed medical care. and in sport the event that takes competitors to the top of the wilds and then expect them to jump all. the united nations has warned against using aid as a pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying supplies have arrived in colombia the delivery to venezuela it's at the request of. last month declared himself interim president venezuela's opposition is accusing the military which backs president nicolas maduro of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to

allow deliveries of much needed food medicine and other essentials the u.s. says it's considering lifting sanctions on venezuelan military officers who back. from colombia's border with venezuela he has more. the government of any color my due to remain steadfast in its refusal to let any aid to into venezuela despite the international effort to do so and none of the aid so far has reached here the city of kuta on the border between colombia and venezuela we're hearing from the colombian outlawry thieves that the first convoy with food and i jean supplies sent by usa id the united states the relief agency should leave the capital of colombia bogota at some point to on a wednesday and arrive here on thursday there's no information about medicine

having arrived to colombia and a number of government having promised the millions of dollars in aid the feeling here is that it will take many days for the collection center to be ready here at the border and so far column in authorities are telling us that there's no concrete plan on how to cross this aid into venezuela unless there is a change of mind on part of president nicolas maduro or the military inside venezuela that so far remains mostly loyal to the president from along with chachi joins us live on skype from miami florida he was a foreman met in caracas in venezuela ramon is this bridge turning into the latest frontline in this broader political crisis. yeah absolutely we are very close to leaving high calling of tension between equal last my little

and of and it's within a position including the us. at this point it is not only about the much needed humanitarian help but it's also about a contest of wills power between mother and the opposition. so i guess we should be prepared to see a lot of tension developing in the next few days in that particular place between cope with and sundry so out in the border or. for a long president trump hasn't ruled out the use of minute seaforth to get aid into venezuela what's the opposition's position on that as. well they say we are absolutely committed to bringing that relief to ben israel and let's let me remind our audience that baby strollers are starving and dying because of the libel masing in some cases so we really need to have that humanitarian help there is no way they

can justify not only generating that you money tyrant crisis inside minnesota but also blocky a bridge just to him to to to make it impossible for the help to get to venezuela we will try we will try to slowly but if we look forward to use any and every option to be able to break these health interventions which are right now that that ideal scenario for for everybody will be for the spanish harlem army for the soldiers to offer them the roads and to allow to get that help is to end this with well mr glad is also suggested the establishment of connection points and outside venezuela is that happening. i'm sorry that i missed a quite a had also suggested the establishment of aid collection points outside venezuela

venezuelans had already crossed the border is that happening yet and that we can usually expect to see a lot of efforts to really help from different points along the border or low b. i don't but i see so a couple but it's just one point but we should have several different all and again in colombia brasil but all three lists are really so we may see you see for logistical if we're to really to help bottom line but you see even by air you know that little preying on them for periods and a willingness to help those from the us from colombia. i'm betting we will get a lot of help from the. and as an opposition politician who is living abroad outside of the venezuela and your mind how much support does missed in the doura

have at the moment in the country. well i think it's clear that in the last popular support a long time ago that's one reason why. they will cry election eve cry the election will be held in belief that makes you they. will not be able to we and the seizure will little when very cold we're really it's a muddle essentially we have one bit of the emperor saying hyperinflation destiny and you are correct to go to the very clear example figures are very very hard in villages where millions have the country we just one truly get to really feel the country and be able to be in one of the greatest places on air or to meet and that's business with rum on the chacha who is a former mer of an opposition stronghold in caracas venezuela thanks so much for

speaking to us. well brazil's former president there was in osceola the silver has been given an extra fat teen years of jail time for corruption and money laundering he's already serving a twelve year prison sentence for another corruption conviction the latest involves a farmhouse in sao paolo a state a court found him guilty of allowing construction fans to renovate the property in exchange for contracts with state oil company petrobras he denies the charges saying they're politically motivated the european council president has condemned british politicians who pushed for the u.k. to leave the e.u. without working out how to do it fast donald tusk has been speaking in brussels where he also pledged to do his best to find a solution to the brics that crisis our reporter paul brennan listened in to those comments from belfast where prime if the theresa may has been missing more than islands this quality this we'll hear from him in a minute but first let's listen to what to ask had to say. that the second i have

spoken about the necessary actions in case of no deal. i know that you will also be discussing this shocking with the european commission. by the way and i've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted great state result even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely now those incendiary comments have quite predictably caused a reaction certainly from breakfast supporting m.p.'s and journalists in london but let's just have a little look at a video clip as they stood up to leave you can just about hear an exchange between layover i guess and donald tusk where they almost anticipate the reaction that's coming let's have a look at this. if you. like. now

let's bring it back to where i'm standing in belfast which is where the prime minister has been she's going to brussels on thursday but the purpose of her visit here is a try to work out exactly what the parties will accept and it seems a very confused picture is emerging chin fane the republican party which has seven seats in the westminster parliament but doesn't actually sit and vote in london refuses to do so it is accused to recently of bad faith for trying to reopen the withdrawal agreement and change the backstop arrangement however the d u p which does sit in london and upon which to research may realise for her parliamentary majority has insisted that to tinker all try to reform the backstop but leave it in place is not enough they want the backstop totally replaced they're not happy with it being in the ritual agreements it's all. amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups in yemen the rights group

says the u.a.e. diverts billions of dollars worth of after buying them from the west many of the groups they supply have been accused of war crimes the amnesty report for follows calls into the u.s. in the us i'm sorry for an investigation into entering yemen the u.s. military has expressed concern over allegations and american weapons have fallen into the hands of yemeni armed groups well the u.n. says its efforts to forge an agreement between yemen's government and the rebels is beginning to pay off while diplomats sound optimistic hundreds of thousands of yemeni civilians remain caught up in the fighting 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 hutu rebels for more than four years around two hundred thousand civilians are caught up in the fighting. for her is one of them after fleeing fighting in her village made her way to tyreese 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 simlins of shelter they feel far from see that end it and. i was sleeping here 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 a year like all yemenis she hopes for

a better future and that adam realty again and any i'm manic and i want the wall to stop and the situation to attend back to normal as it used to be we want peace and we do not want wool we want the situation to calm down an old people to attend to the towns and villages. for now however like so many other yemenis worries that won't happen any time soon. as. still ahead on al-jazeera both tell you why the philippines new muslim majority autonomous region is getting a chance to expand. a danish man has just been sentenced to six years in a russian prison his crime being ajor hope his witness on burrito is in moscow keep watching to find out more on the crackdown on a religious organization that in russia is classed as extremist. and we'll hear from the reigning tour de france champion has been defending the anti doping record

at his sports and his team. welcomes another look at the international focus because severe storms moving across central parts of the u.s. at the moment anywhere from the lakes upper midwest roy down into the southwest and corning to see that they sting this band of plant now ahead of it it's miles decent temperatures twenty five celsius for atlanta and from miami getting up to twenty one in dallas remember that twenty one in doubt assessment for the north minus twenty two the full winnipeg so quite a big contrast temperature contrast across the country and this is where we got the most severe storms that around the midwest pushing into the appalachians over the next couple of days icing problems around the midwest further north well still a fair bit of snow that will drive its way further east was twenty one in dallas

we're looking at six for friday so quite a change in least it will be dry by this stage that disturbed weather makes its way eastwards. for new jersey pushing wrought up across new england eastern sort of kind of the seeing some rather disturbed weather we hang on to that modest twenty two in winnipeg temperatures not changing too quickly killed enough over towards the western side of the country fifteen in l.a. that's around five or six degrees below the seasonal average so it is a little chilly here much of the sunshine for the caribbean it's fine dry warm and sunny kingston with a high of twenty nine. in the first thailand's of home in mesopotamia where the first settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people have depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution outages or world reveals how the

manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing. fortune or to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the story in a way that is important to our viewers. everyone has a story worth hearing. to cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent wide joins us now.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour the united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying goods have a rived in colombia to deliver it to venezuela at the opposition is accusing the military which backs president nicolas maduro of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia. victory over eisel as early as next week u.s. president donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all of the territory previously held by the group in syria. and then his second state of the union address trump called for more unity while at the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration. what about three quarters of americans who watched state of the union address on tuesday reacted positively john hendren went to gauge public response and a traditionally democratic city of chicago. for many in middle america the

president's speech was more popular than the men who delivered it thought it was a very good speech and he said. you know points that should be discussed about the very serious problems of the you know the human trafficking in drugs that are coming up that should be addressed in the most divided congress in recent history one that could lurch from one government shutdown to the next within days the president urged unity. together we can break decades of political stalemate. but on capitol hill for much of the speech while republicans celebrated . democrats sat on their hands yet somehow across the u.s. in the midwest where president trump won many of his votes in two thousand and sixteen and here in the shadow of chicago's trump tower it resonated in poll after poll about three quarters of americans say they viewed the address positively i

thought he put across a good positive message. i think that he's really interested in working with both sides to make sure that the working for us and not just for the party it's a striking contrast despite that reception president trump is the only american president in recent history whose popularity has never reached fifty percent with a majority of americans disapproving of his job performance you're not a fan. oh no. i mean the billy goat tavern answer chicago institution and you might be surprised how many people we talked to in this overwhelmingly democratic city who gave the president's speech a thumbs up. all of. america. and . proud to be american and the fact that i think that people are.

down and about running the country. that's not the view of everyone here but the annual ritual of the state of the union left a number of americans feeling slightly more optimistic the question is just how long that feeling will last john hendren al jazeera chicago. well tom also used to state of the union speech to push for funding for his border war with mexico he spoke of a dangerous southern border and court and legal immigration and national crisis robonaut sent us this update from the us mexico border in california this is calexico it's a small town of about forty thousand people it's not very much different from the other towns in imperial county which has a stubbornly high unemployment rate of sixteen percent but what sets this town apart is this a four point five meter tall metal wall that runs parallel to the main shopping

street right on the other side that is mexico cali a city of one million people now people in calexico civic leaders and merchants will tell you that they're almost entirely dependent upon the visitors from mexico for their economy people come here to shop to work to go to school and to work in the farms and fields of imperial county so when president trump talks about declaring a state of emergency shutting down the order entirely that really strikes fear into the hearts of many people in this community now what will the president do next it's really unknown he called for compromise in his state of the union speech he seems determined to build the wall but the democratic party seems equally determined to prevent him from doing so by not allocating any money could he declare a state of emergency could he even initiate another government shutdown all of

these are good questions but the president has proved himself to be unpredictable in the past and there are at the moment no good answers. one of the largest aid convoys since the start of syria's war has reached a remote refugee camp on the border with jordan more than one hundred trucks brought food and medical supplies to thousands of syrians stranded in camp aid workers will also provide an emergency vaccination campaign to ten thousand children meanwhile the hospitals in rebel held areas of northern syria are struggling due to a lack of funds international help has slowed because donors a wary of the presence of fighters linked to al qaeda osama bin jawad has more from gaza in turkey near the syrian border. emergency responders follow similar protocols everywhere. here 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 is in the city the new home to millions of syrians displaced by the war it's run by the it live help directorate a real example of an operational institution in 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 us essential projects will collapse like vaccination centers for four hundred seventy two thousand children with the war in its eighth year money from international donors is running out. without funding we cannot continue we need sponsors 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 have hair or e.t.s. the largest group which controls most of it the city it's linked to either and used to be known as a list of front. the help directorate says it's been able to fight off h.g.'s as interference. and we said if you don't feel one more time we will close it. and within a span of two hours you find find a backing off because if we suspend the people will turn against them we want to give medicine box nation we want to treat patients who are prisons and we want to do it from politics to the directorate 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. 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 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 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 there doesn't until. the united states senate has passed a bill defining u.s. security policy in the middle east the legislation allows states to penalize businesses that boycott israel critics say it runs contrary to principles of free speech which include the right to boycott the bill still needs to be passed by the house of representatives before becoming law the country now known as north

macedonia is a step closer to joining nato. i'm vite the present the deal of the lake and public to sign the existing principle. greece has given its approval for the former yugoslav republic to join the military alliance and extension protocol of ceremony was signed in brussels starting the ratification process four years athens had blocked the country's membership over its proposed name change. a russian court has sentenced a danish jehovah's witness to six years in jail the christian group was banned in twenty seventeen and classified as an extremist organization many others are in pretrial detention the cases are raising concern amongst human rights groups about religious freedom in russia where a challenge has more from moscow. dennis christensen had arrived in good spirits to hear the verdict on wednesday. but do you. view. thank you

very much for you but after cameras and supporters were told to leave the court the judge in the town of oriel sentenced the dane to six years for extremism it's a conviction he intends to appeal. to the stage i thank you everybody for coming i'm very happy that you're here thank you. dennis christensen may be the first jehovah's witness to be given jail time in russia but he's certainly not the only one in trouble we filmed worship at their main moscow meeting hall in two thousand and seventeen just before russia supreme court outlawed the jihad as witnesses as an extremist organization before we were banned this building was used very intensively but as you can see. since then the doors have been shot to them we have about twenty two people in prison. hundred the rates in. many under whole areas many under investigation why russians or thirty c.

the country's one hundred seventy five thousand jobs as witnesses as a threat is something of a mystery it's been suggested that they're under suspicion because perhaps that's seen as a western influence maybe that they're too independent from the russian government and the russian orthodox church and these are the age but he was asked in december why the state was cracking down on them although he said classifying jehovah's witnesses as extremist. it was completely absurd arrests have continued this human rights advocate doesn't want history to repeat itself he says soviets and nazis both trials religious persecution with attacks on the jehovah's witnesses. have the authorities started with them it's likely to be a test case to see how society will react i don't have any illusions about the future of other religious confessions i think it's only beginning and it will depend on how much sense people actually have. under russia's constitution the

freedom of religion is guaranteed by the countries or has witnesses discovered that guarantee means little will reach allan's now to zero mosque or. the greek prime minister has bested a long running campaign to reopen a christian theological school in many muslim turkey alexis tsipras of visited healthy seminary in istanbul and used to be the main school of theology for the eastern orthodox church in the country until the turkish government shutdown in one nine hundred seventy one so then cacio reports from istanbul. is an orthodox community it celebrates the peace day of san fortress the patent saint of the seminary. founded in one thousand nine hundred to four on her belly of the island it served as the main school of theology of the eastern orthodox church ecumenical patriarch eight until one thousand nine hundred seven to one. big greek author talks church which has many worshippers and turkey's neighbor is part of the world's third largest christian church the seminary was closed when the turkish

parliament enough to know banning primates higher education patrick bartha limo is the spiritual leader for the estimated three hundred million orthodox church worshippers worldwide. when the school reopens it will be a big and happy day not only for the patriarch it's all the orthodox christian world but also for the civilisation culture and our country. with alexis she presents the first greek prime minister to formalisms of the school since one nine hundred thirty three it's seen to be a potential step to persuading a rethink on its closure he hopes his next visit will be with turkey's president to believe in the cinema the message we want to show today here from this historic place is that the reopening of the how to school will not constitute an object of discord or division but a message of friendship understanding and brotherhood between our peoples. a

possible solution is the turkish the just need to link the school with one of the national universities that with a void amending the constitution but the church doesn't agree. since hawkie orthodox christian theological school was shut down by the turkish government forty eight years ago there has been an international campaign to reopen it during his visit to turkey in two thousand nine hundred former us president barack obama made a call for the school to reopen to ensure religious freedom to just leaders including president john were positive then what the school for means closed some tricks a turkey's leaders should allow more religious freedom it is late and i come here often with my kid we live in a secular country i believe it would be right to have such a seminary in a country where religion is free but that's opposed by turkish nationalists who have leverage on the ruling government they're against the idea of reopening whether degree can turkish leadership can find common ground remains open to

question c n n q so although al-jazeera has been out island istanbul rescue teams in turkey are searching for survivors of a building collapse in istanbul at least two people were killed several others are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble of the eight story apartment block an investigation has been launched into the course of the collapse. a group of british anti deportation campaign has who change themselves to a plane to stop it taking off have escaped prison sentences the so-called stanstead fifteen broke through a fence trying to reach the jet taking people to nigeria ghana and sierra leone the judge decided not to imprison them saying they were motivated by genuine reasons lawrence lee reports from the court in england. emerging from court the relief on their faces was obvious the case had time going over them for two years and they've been charged with offenses technically carrying a life term in prison but there was still an outrage that it's rather come to this

the fight isn't one you know there's still a lot more for us to continue fighting for and until there's been a for acquiring to the hostile environment and to put a sions and detention centers than the people firing at our flight was just with a small window into a mob suspect a systemic problem we need to sign up for all of the asylum claims the home office refuses overhaul for the day is a right for ten dollars pail and what the government does at the time that we stopped the fight there was a policy of the first appeal later by. the fifteen activists to plant themselves through a plane at stansted airport near london in the knowledge that some of the people on board would face death threats if they were deported some of those people have since been granted the right to stay in britain this woman had already told us they saved her life why do you want to put me i came to this contre because i was really abused the need. if i wasn't in this country probably wouldn't be here to sit in

history recalled the actions of people who put themselves in harm's way for human rights as heroes think of emily davison who threw herself to her death under the king's horse for women's rights or the lone protester in tiananmen square facing down the chinese tanks but trying to stop illegal deportations in the u.k. nowadays is not viewed in the same. well. we're very familiar with this kind of excessive charge often terrorism related charges being brought against nonviolent human rights defenders we haven't seen that in the u.k. for a very long time and that's one of the reasons why we're watching this case so closely so all i want to do is stop it isn't only the u.k. criminalizing anti deportation activists this woman is currently being prosecuted in sweden for refusing to take a seat on the plane to stop an afghan on board from being deported but the u.k. is much broader so-called hostile environment shows no sign of ending the

deportation flight still go on with all the questions about human rights abuses there's a certain sort of air of victory here which is peculiar since all that's happened is that a group of people have escaped going to prison for trying to stop the illegal deportations of asylum seekers but they still have the terrorism conviction to their names and this is one of the now say that it's her means to try to overturn. the al-jazeera chelmsford crown calls. a new autonomous region in the southern philippines could be expanded further when an indigenous tribe for its own whether to join the to duraid tribes say they want to make sure the rulers of the muslim majority territory return their ancestral lands to them jamelle and i can reports. get the money bush can. call them 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 and 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 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 be sistering that when the law our people especially those who are most affected by what is going to be which means of us from our people we feel that yes this is the right paul said this is the right.

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 special 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 that said to 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 under this new political autonomy they will finally be properly represented some refer to the.

they are counting on the government's promise that under this new autonomy the land of their ancestors will be returned to. still ahead on al-jazeera find out if one of skating's old time greats can end his career with championship gold.

it's time for sports here. thank you very much man just to city have gone top of

the english premier league the defending champions beat everton to move ahead of liverpool in the table and they clap and this is where the score is and the two know when at goodison park city or tall pile on goal difference above have played a game more than their title rivals liverpool and three men barcelona forward misses started on the subs a bench for the first leg of the spanish cup semifinal with real madrid messi did join the action in the second half of finish one one at camp in the german a cup. into the last eighteen for the first time in their history they beat forsberg one male thanks to an early goal of a brazilian forward so. a tie official has warned that her a new football a hacky a mother a b. faces at least six more months in prison as he fights extradition to his home

country r.e.b. was arrested in november while on holiday at the request of behind who want him to serve a ten year prison sentence for events in his i'm a twenty five year old is a refugee who lives in australia says he fled behind because of political pressure and all of us on the twenty three football team has counseled a trip to thailand in protest what i've also stressed is that he's drowning people in the top 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 these matters handle that relationship between the time to strike and people were affected are 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. all supporters of other a.b.

have criticized president john ensign tino for not taken a more active role in backing the football this case you know is set for a second time at the top of football's governing body it's been confirmed he's the only come to the fold the june election which will put him in charge of fisa until at least twenty twenty three. the former head of guatemalan football has been fined three hundred fifty thousand dollars for his part in a few corruption scandal. was one of more than thirty top football officials swept up in a twenty fifteen investigation into a sale of media rights for games across the americas i mean this was also giving 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 of fifo 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. to france champion thomas says his sport is asking as it's ever been believes that he wouldn't have been able to win the race if riders were still doping thomas is part of britain's team sky report it used it of crossing the ethical line by using permitted. to boost the performance of previous two and a bradley wiggins will form a team dr richard freeman is now facing a medical tribunals to being charged with ordering a banned substance for an unnamed twenty eleven. they are going to like stand up and sing a song and dance about you know and you know scream and that's not you know i do everything the right way and i just. you know that's

a train out work hard and you know i have a lot of support around me and. that's what i do and you know obviously if people. do stuff that you know how do i think about that and i'm sure that. that sort of mindset of how it's on is certainly shifted a lot since the dark ages. it is only if as has won his first ever title at skins a world championships of the twenty nine year old took gold in the super g. event in sweden has had the previously it won the silver medal at the twenty fifth championships. it was one of my great biggest dreams too to winning a medal and a gold medal that's what's. the most important medal so. i didn't expect but for me means a lot for my career. to be champion x.l.

and stand finished outside the medals in the penultimate to grace of history a event criticized comments made by the head of well skiing. or has said it's easier to deal with dictators that rather than environmentalist when true thing venues for major events. come from people saying something that is so stupid you don't need to comment on it because everyone would oppose this promotes that it's complete to the shuttle it's something it's almost that good because when people go to get the experimental goals you the most. you know no one misses anything. and the free ride world who made this latest stop and kind of those walking mountains counts as best as have one shots each to add descending they say set the route through the natural obstacles as chosen by the individual rider or the panel of judges deciding who the winner is lesser as well for me i will have more later

on and that's it for me in astrology attire for this news hour but i'll be back in just a moment with more of the day's news. the

frustration. if. you leave this place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home take the worst possible material you radio for granted into dust comparable to flour and make up. and put it into a place where people live think is a colossal event. as well and so many people here.

but does it make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. u.s. president donald trump says the total defeat of i.c.l. is imminent. hello i'm and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. trump announces a new meeting with north korea's kim jong un we'll look at reaction from asia. the united nation.