all of these cases create a fear among people like people are afraid to express their views and opinions especially about established such as the monarchy and no one dares to do anything even to demand the rights of the dead. so me not was arrested before the coup and spent seven years in jail for criticizing the royal family in articles published in his magazine and i mean you know he says when he was released last year he found that human rights had to rewrite to dramatically under military rule inspiring him to continue fighting for democracy and free speech the government has used several laws to try to stifle dissent charging people with sedition or violating the computer crimes act to things they're posted online and after the coup there was a surge in the number of people charged with insulting the monarchy if the military has also used less overt tactics like harassment to silence critics for the past ten years the hosts of this web show have divided thailand's politicians since the

coup the being summoned by soldiers and continue to be watched closely. angry. these intimidation and during these time. they still. come in the form of information officer. on my twitter. facebook. my instagram or my wife you know i'm confident the election and the reintroduction of opposition voices to parliament will help ease restrictions but others on sure anything will change because of a constitution that allows an elected senators and even an appointed prime minister . in the near future is still hopeless for thailand we should brace for more chaos and conflict because i don't think a truly civilian government will be formed. until it is those whose voices haven't been silenced say they'll continue to use their words and actions to push for

change as thailand begins another episode of its turbulent political story wayne hay al jazeera bangkok parts of india in a river which flows through the capital new delhi so polluted environmentalists say no marine life can survive nor about manly has more. at first it seems these fishermen are paddling to snow but the foam resting on the murky black water is sewage parts of the human river flowing through new delhi have been labeled dead best so polluted no marine life is able to survive yet many people depend on the river for their livelihood. or the pollution africa business left with the fish used to try now they cannot survive. because the entire city's base is being dumped into the yemenite over the government doesn't do anything to clean it. it's illegal yet industrial waste rubbish and untreated

sewage are dumped into the. overseas four hundred million liters of sewage comes from new delhi every day of more than half of that is left untreated. prime minister narendra modi's government has been pumping millions of dollars into projects to clean up india's rivers. but environmental experts say it's not working the believe government has been not five years under the water act against any polluter so far as the human is concerned in the country was it not more than twenty three is that existed under the provisions of the what the prevention of pollution act which provides for him but isn't meant by michelin for any person who is actually polluting our river. the hindu community considers through the sacred but it ceremonies carry their own breasts the gun the design you look at it then

it's people who doubted the river is the residents who made it impure but for me it's not dirty i drink this water too. for many the river kinds is the spirit but the mix of sewage and pollution is also damaging health and destroying livelihoods laura doesn't badly al-jazeera. still ahead and then big scale legend lindsay vonn is less than a day away from her retirement and there will have more in force. to .

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second position in the spanish league standings after a three one win over their local rivals athletico on saturday casimir opened the scoring for santiago so are his men before the home team equalised but sergio ramos and gareth bale one hundred goal from madrid wrapped up a three one when you see him play it as he thought he got on the outer madrid always plays to win we always come to terms with the very end obviously at least he committed to continue fighting for the title because they are a fantastic team with a great coach so now that we are second we must maintain our winning streak liverpool have restored their place at the top of the english premier league standings after a three mail win over bournemouth on saturday said the georgian you know why i know them and mohamed salah all found the back of the net for the reds there leading rivals for the title manchester city face chelsea on sunday but for now you're going tops men lead the way we want to play a convincing football we want to perform that's how it is and it was of course that

was the reaction we wanted to show today for us and the boys did outstanding now so i'm really. manchester united will also be keeping an eye on that chelsea man city game on sunday after their three no went over full and united are back in the top four but chelsea would just need a draw to overtake ole gunnar so shires men let's just make sure we stayed till four and we'll do that if if we get some help but we did it just comes of it all ourselves and that's what we do and. we can't really think about what owned or controlled anything that all the teams. arsenal were also on the winning side on saturday against bottom of the table hunters field and cardiff are out of the relegation zone after a two one win at southampton who have now dropped into the bottom three well the nation is in mourning after ten young footballers were killed in a fire at the flamingo football training ground in brazil on saturday friends and

family lined up to pay their respects at a memorial for the boys all the players who died were between fourteen and sixteen years old while the cause of the fire is unknown government officials say the club did not have permission to house the students were focusing on skeen and the end of an era for some we've seen one of the sport's biggest stars take to the slopes for the final time norway's ox along spend zero fought hard to the very end at the world championships in for us we then he narrowly missed out on winning a record third world downhill title at the championships he finished second by two hundred of the second behind his fellow countryman shuttle young through spend all still goes home with silver to go with two alum pick and five world golds across all disciplines i was just really focused because i was a little nervous some morning to i wanted to pull off a good race so. that's super focused just looking out to know what was coming up me and trying to execute on my plan. in the finish or that was

a lot more emotional because i mean when you're able to race in front of a crime like this you got to be thankful because this is pretty special. as for the man in first place this is young through his first ever world title to go with his alone think super g. gold from sochi four years ago and to make it more impressive he did it with a broken hand which he got on a training run and kit's ball in late january. and tomorrow it's lindsey vonn turns to hang up her ski boots the thirty four year old has been forced to retire after multiple debilitating injuries while it's not the retirement she wanted she does have eighty two world cup points to her name and is the most successful female skier of all time the downhill will be her last race ever and she said she's still going to go out for throttle even after wiping out and getting a black eye in the super g. earlier this week here's former olympic skier graeme bell but there is an expression that you know the queen is dead long live the quake in and mccain is different is the one that's going to come through and place lindsay but it no

because different would never be able to get to the stage that she is about have been for i don't see long being that inspirational force and she's not just for the u.s. ski team it's for all of the good she's really lifted the sport over the years that she's complete because it did it and she's become bigger than the sport she's one perhaps the most famous winter sports athletes ahead of you know ahead of shaun white and of you know of everyone really. the fact that she can have these crashes and and pick yourself back up. is a real inspiration to a lot of people out there as well. while lindsey vonn will not break the record of eighty six world cup wins american mckayla shifrin is certainly trying to the twenty three year old already has fifty six wins and is expected to break bronze records but she also just pulled out of several events at the world championships

vonn said she doesn't understand why shiffrin would pull out and said she could have gone on to win everything schifrin then responded on instagram and twitter saying many people believe i'm approaching my career in a way that nobody has before and people don't understand it but you know what that is fine by me because i am me and no one else. young chain winter olympics were hailed as a big success in paving the way for a friendlier relations between south and north korea but as celebrations begin marking the first anniversary there is ongoing controversy over the use of the games venues south korea correspondent rob mcbride reports from. on this first anniversary seen as a just cause for celebration. the so-called peace olympics are credited with the stablish ing friendly relations between north and south korea and history may show they lead to a long term reconciliation between north korea and the us i am torn between the

construction of infrastructure for the china lympics is helping to bring in more tourists. more more than anything the olympics pave the way for improving the into korean relations and promoting peace it became a starting point in resolving the nuclear issue. as one of the olympic hubs the coastal city of hosted the ice rink events new roads and high speed rail links mean it's now just a couple of hours from the more developed side of the korean peninsula and the local government is looking at ways of using the specially built for news. with the peace process moved away from the threat of war the province was not well known overseas but with the olympics last year three million foreigners visited here. but drive up into the mountains around peeling chiang itself and the olympic legacy loses some of its glamour people and business owners have criticised the

failure to maintain some of the facilities here. the main stadium which stage the opening ceremony is now gone with just a statue marking its location. celebrations to mark the first anniversary combined with the lunar new year holiday means that visitor numbers are up again but whether that can be sustained is far from certain the mountain that was once the venue for the downhill skiing events now lies bare local residents of set up a protest camp here they want the government to keep the chairlift and other facilities going to keep the visitors coming. the country as a whole benefited from the olympics and relations with the north improved as well but people here have been forgotten about they may come to be remembered well

beyond pyong chang as the games that lead to peace but for people living in the shadow of the imposing venue's their legacy will be far more mixed rob mcbride al jazeera young chang south korea and that's all your sport for now but we'll have more later. and that's it from me in a study a tape that you can read more on our website al jazeera dot com and so rahman will be here in a moment with more news. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go for. this and that. plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them

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now. use districts rewind on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks the difference is that in both bottles ossified this that authentic in the ritz with the this time those were truth does not come up with details coverage though has already. that he's ready to take over at intel in precedent and. from around the world volunteers are doing what they can that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness it hundred. twenty thousand civilians fleeing rebel forces work to push from its last scrap of territory in eastern syria.

when you're watching all of their life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes venezuelan stream across the colombian border while foreign aid remains stuck in the standoff between the president maduro and the u.s. warnings from an international rights group egypt's leader prepares to take over the reins of the african union plus. i am. all the while. ignoring a call over her native american ancestry elizabeth warren formally launches a bid to unseat u.s. president. welcome to the program the u.s. bank syrian democratic forces say they're trying to push myself out of the last piece of territory that holds the fighting is going on near iraq's border and

twenty thousand civilians have fled including i still find his families and. the stage is set for what's being called the final ground battle against ice all the kurdish led syrian democratic forces were casting out of the. of american air power and i saw it's surrounded. already been exchanges of fire commanders are confident that this will be i sold last. month this battle will be sealed in the next coming days. most of the terrorist in. the last two months most two hundred rested they were. there are varying numbers. maybe around a thousand civilians and between five hundred six hundred terrorists so that means that maybe close to two thousand or three thousand civilians. eisel once controlled large parts of iraq in syria but

a concerted campaign by regional and international forces has forced them back to a small area around the village of bugaboos. well s.d.f. military commanders are promoting this as the end of eisel many experts believe the group will continue to pose a threat president trump has been very clear to say that this is to kill off it that is being destroyed not isis the terrorist group which will continue to survive and as we know isis members have fled to yemen to libya nigeria they're there they're scattered about the middle east but of course this is the we believe there are several thousand left scattered around iraq in syria and many of them are foreign fighters the coming battle will be a milestone in syria's war but humanitarian challenges will continue long after the fighting ends around twenty thousand people have been forced from their homes ahead of the assault on both groups including the families of eisel fighters. will join

thousands more in refugee camps where conditions are dire due to chronic shortages of food and medicine and much of the country's infrastructure is in ruins these people won't know when they'll be able to return home into monaghan al-jazeera and the delicate as the u.s. perspective from washington d.c. . well in essence donald trump already has declared victory against isolette look at the timeline from december when he first made that announcement and that i saw had been defeated and in fact he was going to bring the two thousand or so u.s. troops back from syria and that's really the key question here is the fate of those u.s. boots on the ground in syria donald trump has made it fairly clear that he wants to bring them back but that has had consequences he's gone against advice from his own generals in fact his secretary of defense at the time jim matters resigned over that and other global policy issues his own generals are still saying it's not a good idea let's not take any rash action here and then within the last couple of

weeks his own party the republican party develop a pretty harsh rebuke when they disagreed with his wish to bring those two thousand troops back from syria so what we've had since december since all tom made that surprise announcement that he was going to withdraw those troops is the president swinging backwards and forwards saying he may bring them back immediately he may bring the back in the next few months we can get back there if we need to or we're just going to keep them there for now so it's a very confusing situation the overall sense is that as commander in chief he does want to withdraw those forces. little crosses rocking venezuela has turned into a standoff over consignment of u.s. aid which is sitting on the colombian border side of the border the opposition is trying to work out how to get it into the country after it was blocked by the venezuelan military. yankees go home is the message of this gathering in. these are supporters of president.

who want to reassure the world that their precedent won't be leaving office any time soon. and old our revolution is here to stay twenty years of unique crisis in latin america we are going to be again the latest of a movement that will take freedom to other countries in the world the rally is happening as the united states and canada are getting ready to send in humanitarian aid in cooperation with a self declared president one. aide is perceived here as a form of intervention people here say that the confrontation is not with the opposition but with a united states who's trying to take control of this country's natural resources and that's why they have come here to this to sign a document that requests the united states to respect venezuela sovereignty but one of the largest barriers in latin america but totally said says people need almost everything all her family has already left the country she says hyperinflation

makes it difficult for her to eat every day the resoled saw no water gas or health clinic where she lives an example of the enormous deterioration that has taken over venezuela's capital the. year since died the situation got worse and worse now it's horrible i cannot say i'm going to buy chicken because i can't afford it i live on pension of six dollars a month and that's why people like the border i waiting for any assistance they may get not caring where it comes from. the u.s. is already sending food and medicines to the border but how it makes it into the country remains to be seen international organizations fear the consequences of using humanitarian aid politically confronting situation on the humanitarian aid and this is the reason why i have decided to come as soon as possible just two days ago i arrived here in trying to fix and to ask to both sides to clean the table

from these useless discussion. because there isn't a greece got in politicizing the humanitarian aid we want to use our you might channel without any involvement in the. aid because they say we should call. it not to you money and you money damages and we'll talk by definition. in a country as polarized as venezuela neutrality is difficult to find. and that's why assistance from abroad is being used by both sides for the government it's the evidence it's under attack for the opposition the possibility of showing it can bring some type of relief to people's lives. and just got back us . that haiti had thrown rocks at the president's home and fought with police. and to government demonstrations at least three people have died since the rally

started in the capital port au prince on thursday demonstrators are calling for haitian president to resign but angry over the economic mismanagement and allegations of corruption or protests are expected on sunday when one of the. president and all of his cabinet must resign he's not thinking or acting in the interest of the people going one way or another we want him gone. u.s. democratic party senator elizabeth warren has officially begun her bid to take the white house from u.s. president donald trump in twenty twenty she's hoping for a fresh start after facing criticism for her claims of native american heritage before and took to the stage twenty twenty campaign team denounced her as a fraud warren is a prominent figure for the democrat progressive wing and will turn pain or workers' rights and want to access to health care. this is the fight of our lives the fight to build an america where dreams are possible an

america that works for everyone. was above. and that is flying i stand here today to declare that i am a candidate for president i had was the owners of four news part of an increasingly crowded and diverse field democrats vying for the chance to challenge trump thing clue to jersey senator cory booker longtime prosecutor and california senator camilla harris and barack obama's former housing secretary julian castro several others have also signaled their interest twenty sixteen democratic candidate and the moment senator bernie sanders is expected to run again and the former vice president joe biden said in december that he's the most qualified person for the job. well the party though is in

crisis in the state of virginia where the governor is defined calls to resign over a racism scandal rolls law the ministry apologized after all photos of the merge showing a picture of two men one in black face another dressed in a clue klux klan costume he since denied he was in the picture but at mit's two wearing black face at another college party. well that's political success for a fellow democrat has been accused of sexual assault. from virginia's state capital richmond. the turmoil engulfing virginia's president has roots in the state's racist past a century and a half ago as virginia led fellow slave owning states into the american civil war white actors painted their faces black to walk and humiliate enslaved blacks the war ended slavery but not blackface but john was most popular character jim crow became the symbol of racial segregation that continued into the one nine hundred

fifty s. and now these photos tied to virginia's current political leaders connect that racism to the present there's always necessarily been a belief that black people were inferior to justify slavery and segregation and to and to i don't want to say excuse but explain why they are lower in society in terms of income and education and so when you put on black face you're essentially making a caricature of someone that you think is lesser then you governor ralph northam continues to resist calls to resign he's wavered on whether it's him in the photo from his college yearbook but says he did wear black face on another occasion i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that virginia's attorney general admitted this week he also wore black face in the eighty's in the states senate majority leader.