opinion polls that contradicted data that was leaked to the press they weren't accepted by opposition initially they weren't accepted by the african union slightly rejected the african union expressed felix's because he was and is here he spoke to the leaders after leaders who'd got it so this is really quite some indorsement for congo's new leader of the african union having expressed doubts about that election just a few weeks ago. malcolm webb live in others have a these european capital at the african union's annual summit thanks thank you very much. now to spain where thousands of people are demonstrating in the capital against the prime minister bedrest sanchez they're calling for tougher measures on catalonia is campaign to split from spain now the protests follow as prime minister sanchez saying he'll appoint a rapper ter to join talks to ease political tension with catalonia demonstrators say he's surrendering to pressure from the separatists. the father of the three

year old syrian refugee alan kurdi whose body washed up on turkey's shore in twenty fifteen is in new york or in spain abdullah has been there to rename a refugee rescue ship operating in the mediterranean the photograph of his dead toddler sparked a wave of outrage across europe and there to demands that more be done to protect those making the dangerous journey from north africa to europe. parts of india's young moon a river which flows through new delhi are so polluted so filthy that environmentalists say it's ted nothing to live in now while the government spending millions of dollars on treatment projects role sewage is continuing to pour into the river every day as manley now reports. at first it seems these fishermen are paddling to snow but the foam resting on the murky black

water is sewage parts of the eula river flowing through new delhi have been labeled dead there so polluted very life is able to survive yet many people depend on the river for their livelihood. on the pollution africa business left with nothing to fish used to try for now they cannot survive. because the entire city's waste is being dumped into the yemenite ever 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 and 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 delhi

government does not find a single case under the water act against any polluter so far as the human is concerned in the whole country was in not more than twenty years that existed under the provisions of the water prevention of pollution act which provides for imprisonment punishment for any person who is actually polluting. the hindu community considers through the sacred but it ceremonies carry their own breasts the gun that is a look at them it's people who doubted the river is the residents who made it in 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 baron badly al-jazeera. so the ground we got this was including the goal for entertaining the crowds with

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people know that one hundred zero has teams on the ground going to support this historic shift in american politics to bring you the real good we need documentaries and life. and online. service was used with leah thank you martine wolff your ski fan you know that one of the biggest sporting stars in the world lindsey vonn just raced for the last time the american ended her career at the world championships and or a sweden on the podium finishing third in the women's downhill. won that race finished with eighty two world cup wins just three short of the men's record held by in the marston mark who handed von flowers after the event fun or swedish colors

in his honor. now vonn is one of only six women who have won world cup races and all five disciplines of alpine scheme and the downhill super g. giant slalom slalom and super combined and she's taken the overall world cup title four times and her career but andrea's meant that success didn't translate to the olympic stage vonn won her only gold medal in the downhill at the vancouver olympics back in two thousand and ten and also picked up two bronze most recently in the downhill and pyong chain last year her success has helped her top prize money though one has sponsorship deals with the likes of red bull rolex and under armor meaning that last year she was estimated to have a net worth of six million dollars. earlier we spoke to tiger shah the president and c.e.o. of u.s. ski and snowboard who is in sweden he's keen to keep vonn involved in the sport. we're always open to any way in which she wants to stay involved and i think the

sporting world hopes that she will stay involved in her sport and ski racing in one way or another and we're looking forward to that just seem exposed to young up and coming naturally the male skiers and you know young men and women and the more that she can stay involved in you know youth competitions or neediness for the or potentially sports commentary t.v. you know you name it so any way in which he she touches us for i think she inspires young athletes to try to do what she has done much like those before her did the same for her and she can really make a difference in this sport more so than she already has she's been able to transcend skiing itself and become world known world renowned for all of the things that she's accomplished coming through injury and and adversity and perseverance in winning greater than eighty times well lindsay has a unique ability to focus when it counts i mean look at the number of times that she performed you know when it really really mattered and that's really the mark of

a world class skier won that can turn it on for that minute or two that really counts that's when you're measured that's when you bomb down the hill and you're the fastest you win and she did that a lot the other u.s. case dharma kailash a friend she's expected to beat bonds world cup records a twenty three year old won the super g. on tuesday and already has fixed fifty six victories over all but she did choose out choose to set out several events at these championships. mcalister got quite a jump i mean at the same age she is significantly more wins than lindsay did at the same time but this is war that it's hard to know what the outcomes going to be and certainly mckayla stays on this track she's going to be even more so the world's greatest athlete and she has john that so far she has incredible track and ability to focus on the win herself so yes we're very lucky to have both those amazing athletes have come through our programs and are in her race for the united

states and and only time will tell but we can't wait to see how far mchale is going to get she's outstanding you know she's very very strong and has a mind of her own she's going to do exactly what she wants to do pick and choose where she's going to compete how she's going to compete and she's going to win a lot she has won a lot she's going to continue winning a lot so you really have to hand it to her she is one heck of an athlete switching over to football manchester city play chelsea in the english premier league later on sunday looking for when to take them back to the top of the standings liverpool currently lead the way after three male went over bournemouth on saturday said yamani georgina why now them and mohamed salah all found the back of the net for your can cops when we want to play a convincing football we want to perform that's how it is and it was of course that that was the reaction we wanted to show today for us and the boys did that and i'll tell you miles i really. manchester united will also be keeping an eye on that

chelsea man city game on sunday after their three male went over full on united are back in the top four but chelsea just need a draw to overtake ole gunnar so shires team. let's just make sure we stay in the top four and we'll do that if we get some help but we've got to just concentrate on ourselves and that's what we don't. we can't really think about what or control anything the other teams do. arsenal were also on the winning side on saturday against bottom of the table huddersfield and cardiff are out of the relegation zone after a two one win at southampton who have now dropped into the bottom three. real madrid moved into second place in the spanish league standings after a three one win over their local rivals athletico on saturday because mir opened the scoring for santiago salaries men before the home team equalised but sergio ramos and gareth bale hundredth goal for madrid wrapped up three one with.

madrid always plays to win we always called the times we live very and obviously have to continue fighting for the title because they are a fantastic team with a great coach so now but we are sick and we must maintain our winning streak well funerals have started for the victims of the flamingo soccer academy in brazil. the first to be buried as arthur vinous yes one of the ten players killed in the fire that destroyed the team's training center on friday the club says an air conditioning unit sparked flames the funeral was held and finishes his hometown on what would have been his fifteenth birthday. the last name ria half of him was at the door to the training center he took my hand to any case to it and said give me a placing my i said be placed my son i touched him on the net and. to golf now in

england's paul casey leaves by three shots at the pebble beach pro am the california course is one of the most beautiful in world golf and casey hold six birdies and his third round to get to fifteen under par for the tournament his nearest challenger is phil mickelson to produce some trademark shots like this one out of the bunker the ball overshooting the green but spinning back to set up a birdie he's three shots back on twelve under. now here's something you don't see every day this is a korean player hung song choice making his debut on the p.g.a. tour and as you can see he's got quite a unique swing the forty five year old missed a few fairways but still managed a respectable round of five over par his or my small fishing village and many have described. as a fisherman swaim he provided entertainment with his two but did go on to miss the cut joy said his first experience in america was a great learning experience and hopes to return one day.

and v.a. the oklahoma city thunder pulled off a comeback win over the houston rockets on saturday james harden led the rockets with forty two points and at one stage they led by twenty six but the thunder overcame the largest deficit they've had all season paul george scored forty five points and russell westbrook got his ninth straight triple double to match the n.b.a. record oklahoma winning this one one seventeen one twelve forty and the george. the boston celtics were going well against the l.a. clippers until they lost kyrie irving with a nice sprain in the second quarter of the game things then on ravelled for the celtics the clippers came from twenty eight points down with two turnovers in the final two minutes to win one twenty three one twelve. it's a tough one well boston are also host to the crisis cross championships the high adrenaline sport is made made at stadium debut in fenway park home of the boston red sox crushed ice features some of the best skaters in the world racing for at

a time shoulder to shoulder and reaching speeds of up to fifty miles an hour lucky for us though they also each wear go pro cameras the americans were the clear leaders going in for the men and women. that's now headed back to martine thank you very much indeed for the news hour but don't go the way i'll be back in just a moment with much more of the day's news. take the worst possible material eurabia ground into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live there is a cause colossal event. as well and so many people are thinking this is the file in cuba but doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and

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hello again i'm sure with al-jazeera live from down coming up. the final push to force out eisel from syria u.s. backed forces prepare for a ground battle. african leaders begin their summit in ethiopia with an agenda focusing on refugees unconscionably white house it seems. israel says it will implement a controversial law that would cost palestinians millions of dollars. the u.s. and russia have come up with counter proposals to end the political crisis in venezuela the u.s. is calling for fresh elections while maduro is still president and in a draft resolution at the u.n. says security council it's also seeking to mandate the delivery of aid russia's plan though that's expressing concern any outside intervention that would

force the toppling of maturer and put in power a no day has been set for any security council meeting meanwhile thousands of venezuelans continue to cross over into colombia any way they can some routes are open and those who could afford it go to buy goods that they can't find it. meanwhile aid from the united states has become part of the crisis president maduro says it's a ploy by washington just stage a coup and the organizations that usually deal with aids they're staying away some of them are saying what the u.s. is sending is quote political aide and as today's a bow reports from the capital caracas people are divided by this offer of help. yankees go home is the message of this gathering in plus i want to ask. these are

supporters of president. who want to reassure the world that there are precedents won't be leaving office any time soon. and old our revolution is here to stay twenty years of unique process in latin america we are going to be again the ladies 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 wedded to sending aid in cooperation with a self declared president while your aid 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 is trying to take control of this country's natural resources and that's why they have come here to this last hour to sign a document that requests the united states to respect venezuela's sovereignty but he bit thirty 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. 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 i'm. 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 in a politically confronting situation on the humanitarian aid and this is the reason why i decided to come as soon as possible just two days ago i arrived here in trying to fix and to ask both sides to clean the table from the discussion. because

. greece got in politicizing the humanitarian aid we want to use our you money. without any involvement. because they say we should call a political not you money. 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 and possibly loaded all trying government saudi arabia is due to dock in venezuela within the next twenty four hours or so now it's a vessel that can carry up to two million barrels of oil all shipments between

saudi arabia and venezuela are extremely rare not for about two years or so i've been speaking to membership tuck in his new independent oil and energy consultant he's also a former opec official he says there's nothing really unusual about this transaction . they have their own light oil fields but maybe not enough to provide the mixture to for the little require area or for the already norco belt to do the provinces within a larger they have heavy oil and extra oil and their operations are very again i repeat that the fact that they could get used to get night oil from the united states now they could get it from somewhere else my guess at the beginning was that maybe the saudi carrier is bringing extra light oil from saudi arabia in anticipation of the us sanctions they've had a transition to buy it from the i don't know but this is normal under repeating that these limitations are unfortunate from the point of business as an oil company

person i think it would be sad to be hampered politics imposing these restrictions on their company management who want to do their best and optimize their operations internationally both american companies will be upset and they have to manage through these seeing has and will come as well as the venezuelan oil companies kurdish led forces backed by the us are trying to push eisel out of its last pocket of territory in eastern syria twenty thousand civilians have been evacuated from the area held by the armed groups but hundreds of people still thought to be inside but the offensive by the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. is a focus on the village of power goons that's close to the border with iraq fintan reports . the stage is set for what's being called the final ground battle against eisel the kurdish led syrian democratic forces who are casting out as the

backing of american airpower and eisel is surrounded. there already been exchanges of fire commanders are confident that this will be isolated last. when this battle will be sealed in the next coming days. most of the terrorist in fact is a foreigner in the last two months most two hundred in cells in were arrested they were foreign born with the full review and there are varying numbers the cone to civilians who are leaving by tuesday maybe about a thousand civilians in 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 a 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 them including the families of isis fighters. doing thousands more in refugee camps where conditions are dire due to chronic shortages of food and medicines much of the country's infrastructure is in ruins these people won't know when they'll be able to return home. al-jazeera. let's go live now

to our correspondent. who is in gaza and tap in southern turkey very close to the syrian border and what do we know what more have you found out then about this battle has it got underway. well according to. the head of the syrian democratic forces press office he just released a tweet in the last thirty minutes let me just read it to you it says yes the five advance on the northern and western access into since nineteen hundred yesterday evening that was capturing forty one positions of isis and destroying fortifications and i asked counterattack was followed at four am this morning heavy fighting is going on inside the lawful age at this moment so yes the effort right now inside the village of a push through those defenses that were put in place to try and slow that assault down that we have seen this type of tactic before but in syria and iraq when i saw

to set up booby traps in houses and also used car bombs that we have had the use of car bombs in this particular village at the moment but we do know we are hearing that there are houses and that's likely what they're referring to when they say fortifications but the fight is underway now the real concern now is about the civilians who are trapped in the village the reports vary wildly some say about thousand civilians others say up to about three thousand civilians we simply don't know what we do know is that at least two hundred civilians. from that village in the early hours of sunday morning and moved in to secure territory but the fight is underway say s.d.f. they are inside the village of but who's right now it's going to take them a while to be able to defeat is there because the people who were left there were the ones that they were the ones that were captured these are a very hard core of fighters in any arsenal propaganda you read suggests that these

guys want to fight to the last mile and don't have any idea as to how many they are how many fights is the s.t.'s forces having to confront. what still a number is going to be and that's going to matter actually because they have the inside of the village they have an advantage over the forces coming and they're able to funnel those forces into a village that way they want to do and then try and ambush them but we are hearing there's at least six hundred fighters within the village itself we can't confirm that but it's likely like i say given the types of bottles that we've seen before that the way they will use those fighting forces is to try and bring the s.d.f. through a very small corridor which will try to push them yes you have experience in fighting isis or they have great success in fighting isis so there is this well that's raging within that so it's almost not about the number of are so fighters within village but how heavily.