million dollars under the projected costs of sochi chung's winning bets. they'll hope that not hitting people in the pocket will have the hosts queuing up to twenty thirty pull reese al-jazeera or to sweden. friess asking is a firm crowd favorite at any way tara let the ex and you can see why from these competitors at the world championships in utah maxim bar off of russia to gold in the men's aerials valorous is aleksandra rehman oh sky i captured her first major title in the women's competition. and that's all you can out for shall back to you i thank you very much thank you for joining me for the news hour keep it here much more news on the other side of the break with my colleague adrian and again.

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we've had victory after victory after victory donald trump's bold prediction eisel has been defeated in iraq and syria a formal declaration is imminent. i know i didn't think of this is as they are alive and also coming up the united nations is warning against using humanitarian aid as a political weapon in venezuela's leadership crisis. a race to find survivors after a building in istanbul collapses. and the fear factor why striking teachers in zimbabwe's. say the government is trying to intimidate them for staying home.

the defeat of i saw in syria and iraq is imminent that's the bold prediction from donald trump who says that a formal announcement will come next week while the us president believes the armed group has been decimated in both countries military officials warn that thousands of eisel faces remain in syria one hour from mike hanna in washington. smiles all round as members of the coalition gather for a group photograph much has happened since they last met most importantly president trump surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance 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 president trump argued at the time that eisel had been

defeated a position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be made soon 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. many members of the coalition warned that this may not mean an end to the fight and then he added well alum and i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country and to help iraq restore instability and return the liberated area to what they used to be in order for terrorism not to exist delegates at this conference taking note of the view of u.s. intelligence chiefs at odds with that of their president their opinion given to the

senate intelligence committee last month i saw remains a formidable organization and is still capable of attacking the united states mike hanna al jazeera washington one iraqi city which was under the control of ice will for a long time is mosul it was taken over by the armed group in twenty fourteen they were driven out three years later but the fight between eisel and iraqi forces left large parts of the city in ruins al-jazeera as well matheson reports from baghdad. the iraqi government is very concerned that these comments by donald trump might be the precursor to the same sort of pullout that he's talking about from syria and the government doesn't want that but it's in a kind of cleft stick here is why there's a large section of the iraqi parliament which has ties and links to iran and makes no secret of the fact and iran does not want to see american troops or

foreign troops on the ground on its doorstep in iraq as well there's a large block led by. the leading shia cleric who's describing himself as a nationalist he doesn't want to see any foreign troops on the ground in iraq but the government is in a difficult position as i say because on the one hand it has to reflect the views of those members of parliament but at the same time it knows it needs the american and foreign troops to be able to deal with a potential threat from myself and also to be able to train its own troops to deal with cells and attacks around the country that meanwhile the city of mosul is trying to rebuild itself there's a big government program at the moment to try to move a lot of the rubble and people are starting to rebuild their lives but thousands are still homeless. small shops are surrounded by devastation. the wreckage of the iraqi military's battle to regain the city of mosul from i saw

a gunman as i said the other day. i still kidnapped and then killed my husband when they stormed the city back in twenty fourteen and ever since i've been struggling to end a living and feed my children i still sees mosul in twenty fourteen but after a hard fought battle the iraqi military won it back three years later this is all that's left of what's known as the old city. the united nations says it'll take ten years to clear the rubble. it's a good sign the rubble is being removed it gives people like me a chance to go back to where their house was and start rebuilding their lives the international committee of the red cross says there are about one point eight million people in iraq who can't return home often that's because their homes simply don't exist they've been destroyed in the fighting between the iraqi military and i saw but the i.c.r.c.

also says it's not enough just to build houses it says people need a wide variety of different types of help before they can start again it is important that they are protected from further harm and that their basic needs in housing in health in education and work in finding jobs are met. there's also pressure on iraq's government to give more financial help. in the old city of mosul there are more than sixteen thousand destroyed homes the government needs to do more to compensate people and support them to rebuild mosul . opened her shop using donations from charities she and her two sons have taken their first steps towards a normal life thousands more like he's still have nowhere to go what matheson al-jazeera back down now to the crisis in venezuela nicolas maduro says that he supports dialogue in the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis are doing or is

hinting that he's ready to take part in any process that would lead to national agreements it comes ahead of a meeting in europe why by a newly formed international group that aims to solve the crisis it involves eight european countries and several last american nations. i rather thought the support of the full stage plan of the montevideo is mechanism integrated by the government of mexico fourteen countries of the caribbean i believe is proposing. ready to participate in the process of sovereign and. look for a national agenda of agreements and understanding. meanwhile the un is warning against using humanitarian aid as a political weapon in venezuela the u.s. says the trucks carrying supplies have arrived in neighboring colombia and are ready to cross the border they were sent there after a request by venezuela's self declared interim president but the opposition says the military has blocked

a bridge where the aid is meant to pass. the reports now from the colombia venezuela border. the promised a doesn't even reach the venezuelan border but the government of nicolas maduro is already taking steps to stop it entering the country fences huge shipping containers and armed soldiers are blocking crossings into venice where. the united states and neighboring colombia are leading an effort to move tens of millions of dollars worth of aid into linux well it includes desperately needed medicines and food. president has long denied this country faces any such crisis and regards the aid offer as the first step towards any invasion of the country in the eyes of venus well as opposition it's no more dinner an act of compassion. humanitarian aid is humanitarian aid is to take care of the emergency it doesn't resolve the problem of food it's important to say that it's to attend to the most

vulnerable that today are about to lose their lives. on wednesday the u.s. secretary of state in colombia's foreign ministers call them president maduro to change his mind. we're going to have been as well and people are calling for this humanitarian aid to arrive and what needs to do is not impede our being as well and brothers from getting the humanitarian aid they need this is the entrance to the bridge the main entry point for the aid arriving from the capital but we're still days away from being ready to operate as a humanitarian corridor the building there you see behind me is being adapted to properly store food and medicine that will arrive for the first trucks are still on their way from of over time they are expected here at some point on thursday and local authorities are telling us that even once all this will be ready they still

don't have a clear plan and how to move this into venezuela under venezuela side of the border hungry families were anxiously waiting for news of the ship mints. and even here in colombia venezuela who fled their home country are hoping to receive some help i don't know not be said to get here we were told we could receive some food and help here but no saying it needs to go into venezuela doable not let it in let's hope he will put a hand on his heart something that at least for now seems out of the question i listen to him. britain's prime minister is in brussels to urge e.u. leaders to accept changes to their briggs's agreement or face the prospect of the u.k. leaving the block without a deal to resume a was met by and he brags that protesters upon arrival britons due to leave the european union on the twenty ninth of march the border between northern ireland the

republic of ireland is the main sticking point neither side wants a hard border but the british parliament doesn't like the e.u.'s plan to keep u.k. trade policy under the control of brussels if negotiations over their future relationship fail let's go live now to brussels al-jazeera is the uk is there for us leave the e.u. has been saying for quite some time now that would draw agreement is not open for renegotiation one has to wonder what on earth is the point of the reason may being there today. which is if a civil was because you have very little choice but to be a withdrawal agreement was resoundingly defeated by m.p.'s in the british parliament in the middle of january they then tabled amendments to the plan and one of them was to make a comeback kid of brussels to determine a rethink over the border between north and on the republic of ireland she's arrived he would very little fanfare she's not your code younker the head of the european commission sure as you mentioned came face to face with an angry demonstrator tried to throw himself in front of to reason may's calm before being

quickly whisked off the meeting is taking place in a back room of the european commission so as i said fred little by way of a red carpet for many bureaucrats here are simply seeing this is another example of political ground told today she is hoping first and foremost that the european union will reopen negotiations over this all important e.u. insurance policy to keep the border between northern islands and the republic of ireland open it's been hugely unpopular amongst m.p.'s in the u.k. first and foremost because the u.k. kong ounce of it unilaterally and there is no time limit to it just to remind you at the end of a two year transition period it would keep the u.k. aligned with e.u. policy if no solution to the border is found but as i mentioned there many leading figures here in the e.u. importantly don't want tough they have the european council has reiterated time and time again there's no way we're going back so there's no way where opening negotiations if it's about removing the backstop she's caught between a rock and

a hard place the e.u. on one side. policy on the other one options are open if any to the british government running. well there are a few hopes i think i think it's probably better to destroy those hopes as opposed to options she's hoping possibly for the e.u. to consider a sunset clause all this. insurance policy over the border over the backstop the you've already resoundingly said that they would not even consider that also possibly for the e.u. to accept the british hopes of being able to pull out of the backstop unilaterally at some point again we have preemptively saying that look this is not where considering we're not prepared to allow the u.k. to do that there is something else though called the house compromise after the british m.p. that came up with it it would cool essentially for an extension of the two year

transition period making it three years as opposed to allowing for more thinking time for an alternative arrangement to the backstop but of course the problem doesn't go away the end of three is still very much the prospects of the u.k. still being aligned with the e.u. policy if no solution is found to the northern irish border question it appears as if the goalpost may end up being moved even further simply to make sure the u.k. leaves the e.u. at the end of next month there are only fifty days left they have many things need back about my age in brussels. weather update next year on al-jazeera then how dozens of refugees stranded in cyprus for over twenty years afraid only getting their british past.

hello there the weather is quite quiet for many of us say the northern parts of asia at the moment we do have a fair amount of cloud that is drifting its way eastwards and that's giving us some rain and some snow but over the next few days the temperatures to some of it really going to drop so if you take here that eleven degrees will probably be our maximum on friday but as we head into saturday this time maximum will just be two and there's also the chance of seeing just a little bit of snow as well elsewhere in towards the west is cool and staying that way for saturday say minus nineteen as a maximum temperature in a bottle of beijing on maximum will be freezing a bit further towards the south and the temperatures here are dropping to say for shanghai a six will be our maximum dropping down to around five as we head into saturday for food here and will only be seventeen's that's a long way off what we've been seeing over the past few days i mean for the towards the south and the weather's all quite subdued over the southeastern parts of asia currently so plenty of sunshine for most of us in the philippines and for the

northeastern parts of borneo the chance to really start over the central paullus and across through job and we'll see the showers stick around as we head through friday and saturday even hit in between the showers there will be decent spells of sunshine as well with a a few showers all say further west i think want to see particularly heavy ones in the southern parts of somalia. the silence has been disturbed. beneath this. is one of scandinavia as largest iron ore deposits. and it's driving a wedge between those.