title senator. this is al jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. this trial has pulled back the curtain on international drug dealing in a way that no other trial has. one of the world's biggest drug traffickers the mexican is found guilty on all ten counts but his trial in new york. thousands protest against the venezuelan president the opposition leader says aid will enter the country next week. catalan separatist leaders start their defense in court

against charges of rebellion. at the study not happy about it it's not going to trick. president trump says a second u.s. government shutdown is unlikely to find his skepticism about a congressional compromise. and i'm peter simmons in doha with all your sports including. our kids are really be the refuse the returns to australia after more than two months in jail in thailand we'll hear from him later in the program. mexico's most notorious drug lord has been found guilty of running an industrial scale smuggling operation. the guzman faced a three month trial packed with tales of gruesome killings jewel encrusted guns and cocaine hidden in her opinion cans

a sixty one year old shot to infamy ultra scaping jailed for the second time in twenty fourteen only to be recaptured two years later. his trial is. back the curtain on international drug dealing in a way that no other trial has. it revealed that guzman and his coconspirators were responsible for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine heroin methamphetamine marijuana into the united states. it also revealed that they were only able to operate on that scale because of demick corruption. this is unacceptable that will and. this is a day of reckoning but there are more days of reckoning to come. inside the courtroom and joins us live now from new york gave the men to stay in the global fight against drugs it really was and it was all meant to

stay in that brooklyn federal courthouse here as well i mean when the verdict was read. chapo guzman was in a gray shirt black. suit in a black tie and initially when the verdict was read he looked a little shocked but then a few moments later he looked over to his wife who is a former beauty queen who's been in the courtroom the whole time and he flashed her two thumbs up and then was quickly led out of the courtroom through a back door through the courthouse and that's the last we saw his wife then a few minutes later left the courthouse she was swarmed by media that are here from all around the world we asked her some questions what she thought about the verdict she did not respond any of those questions got in a car and was whisked away this was truly a momentous trial that as a prosecutor there said really did pull back the veil of el chapo guzman cinna low a cartel and the criminal organization that he ran for so many years from mexico

and this is a little bit how this trial went the last five weeks. a trial that lasted more than two months is finally over chalking guzman the way to known by his infamous nickname of el chapo or shorty was charged on ten criminal counts drug trafficking money laundering and leading a criminal organization just to name a few over the course of the trial the jury heard the following tales of guzman's dramatic escapes from authorities through underground tunnels one c. escaped naked through a specially built tunnel under a bath tub that escaped he was with his mistress who testified in court while guzman's wife watched on they saw pictures of guzman's diamond encrusted pistol and the jury heard stories about him ordering the killings of rivals including one for the crime of failing to shake guzman's hand but it was guzman sinhala

a drug cartel that often took center stage at the trial several of his former top level associates testified against him lifting the lid on a multimillion dollar smuggling operation that smuggled cocaine into the u.s. through tunnels in hollow penya pepper cans and even in bananas. and there were allegations of political corruption at the highest levels former mexican president now to keep union nikto was accused of receiving a one hundred million dollar bribe from guzman a new neck though denied it according to organized crime experts the trial has done nothing to curtail the activities of guzman cinna low a cartel nine out of ten politicians are funding their political campaign through dirty money. right now through surveys that we have conducted by interviewing politicians saw. you know a lot criminal network was the most powerful the most effective network still is.

capturing the political system in mexico and that network is intact has not been touch regardless. guzman's defense attorneys wanted to pivot the trial away from their client's alleged wrongdoing to focus on official corruption but the judge blocked their efforts leaving the defense with few options other than to argue chapo guzman was being set up as the fall guy. the defense attorneys who i spoke to when they left the courtroom said they will plan to appeal this decision they were trying to frame this trial really much as putting the mexican government on trial but it simply didn't work and. the jurors simply sided with the prosecution on all of the ten counts that chapo guzman faced now it is important to point out that the defense as they said faced an

overwhelming amount of evidence that the prosecution put on they put up over fifty six different cooperating witnesses and there were hundreds of supporting documents photos videos as we just talked about there so the defense said they simply tried their best but that they were just facing too much evidence by their client guzman now isn't going to point out also well it was months in a low a cartel is currently still alive and well and being run by two of guzman's adult sons gabriel is on to thank you very much indeed well the trial cost a harsh glare on the corruption that allowed his man's cantelupe to flourish john heilemann has the reaction from mexico city. the reaction emits code to the trial the way through really of talking. as being quite muted to the point when bringing up the head of press for the government for any sort of comment a little bit earlier he actually had to ask me what the verdict was tells you

something about where it is on this current government's list of priorities and where it is on their radar and generally in the media here and in the sort of the minds of people it hasn't really been front page news all the way through and that's quite surprising in the way because this was a man that became the sort of shadowy face of organized crime in the country he was someone that outwitted the authorities a couple of times in escaping for jail and that to some people made him a sort of antihero against what they saw the sort of inefficient and corrupt governments but even when we went to the heartland of his cartel the sin aloa cartel even there it seemed more or less business as usual in that people were telling us that the cartels continue to move vast amounts of drugs but they were still doing business and it really spoke to the fact that despite what he became known as public enemy number one he wasn't the only leader of that cartel. douglas

century is the co-author of a book called hunting out chapo he also says guzman's sentencing will not affect drug crime in mexico i'm actually surprised the choco went and took a case to trial because usually the evidence so overwhelming that people plead guilty and yes a lot of these people were very high ranking norco's in their own right colombian narco traffickers guilty of tens of murders or dozens of murders so they were very unsavory people and they they gave up shop open because they're going to reduce their sentence in prison and that's of course the argument topples lawyers made is who are these people they're very they're on trust or are they but chapa himself is a as it came out a trial a very very disturbing person i mean allegations of torture murder and things that the jury wasn't allowed to hear about you know raping young girls was it was brought into evidence so i hope it punctures the myth of the sort of robin hood

narco that he's been portrayed to be john but was able to stay out as long as he did and he's co-equal partner in the sinhala cartel up. is still at large and these guys survive because of paying tens of millions to all level of local several and political those as i was there able to make billions of dollars and have that ability i don't think it's going to put a dent in the actual drug trafficking because they caught a big fish they caught the biggest fish the biggest narco to ever go on trial but as long as there's an appetite for cocaine in canada the united states great britain a western europe there will be other narcos maybe not as legendary as chapal but certainly equally bloodthirsty and willing to capitalize on that appetite and to bribe the officials in mexico. still to come on the. growing concern over the civilian death toll in the battle against in eastern syria dozens were killed as

they fled the fighting. nigeria's vote on saturday in general elections and for many in the country's northeast the threat from boko haram is their main concern. passions and lympics winning hope she's been diagnosed with leukemia. in sports coming up. russia's foreign minister has warned the u.s. against meddling in venezuela as the country grapples with a leadership crisis so also told us secretary of state might pump aoe in a phone call that russia is ready for consultations on venezuela the russian government has sided with president nicolas maduro in his standoff with the opposition icon on gado who's backed by washington earlier when on tuesday pompei insisted that moderate must go. i think that we're now to twenty european countries

which are supporting the interim president kwaito we hope that all nations will see it that way we believe this is the right thing for. freedom and democracy inside of venezuela the humanitarian conditions carol as you well know are catastrophic like that we're aiming to deliver humanitarian assistance into that country none of those things could happen none of those things could happen with material in charge of the country it is what has driven the devastation. said aid to enter venezuela next week after thousands of his supporters rallied in caracas the demonstrators have been demanding the aid be let into the country after president maduro turned down offers of help from foreign countries. they've decided that we bring you a very clear message today the time the future is on the side of democracy every day that passes we name a new a bastard or a new country recognises us we mobilize hundreds of thousands in millions all

across venezuela each passing day i remain in office as interim president of venezuela each of these days is a victory for venezuela. latin america and agility and human is in caracas certainly see if there were thousands of people on the streets how much impact will these protests have. that's right daryn it was a very very impressive show of support for one wide all far less impressive one for president nicolas maduro who called a parallel rally downtown near the presidential palace both spoke a short while ago in the case of president ma bhutto who said that the international media and the world is ignoring his supporters he says we may be invisible but we are invincible he looked cheerful but clearly seems to have the initiative right now the opposition feels very emboldened but as you say the question is can they make good on their vile by hook or by crook to quote the

opposition to bring in humanitarian aid or not humanitarian aid food and medicine which they call humanitarian aid which president my little calls political aid disk like a trojan horse that's been set up to try to undermine his government here they're going to use corridors human a human cargo he has to bring it through but the government has said that it will block the entrance all of the entrances from colombia into venezuela or from brazil into venezuela where that aid is is gathering now so this is going to be a very very complex chess game between now and the twenty third of february when why doest said that they will make their move so given a lot of the kind of resistance there's been from how realistic is going to claim that the aid will be in the country on the twenty. i think it's really much it's going to be a political outcome i mean we have to see just how much more pressure other

countries will put on nicole last month a little we'll also have to see if all these appeals both from the united states government and from wide law to the military who are key in all this will so well have some effect whether they will really crack and defect abandon president muddle and recognize one wide or as an interim president that could be the deal breaker many believe that that will be the tilting point but whether it's come to that or not is the big question and whether or not the united states or any other country especially colombia and brazil who have indicated they might be willing to cooperate will use it will try to give some kind of military support to the caravans to get this aid into the country you see in human thank you very much indeed. a politically charged trial has started in spain threatening to inflame tensions between the central government and pro independence catalans twelve catalan separatist politicians have appeared in court on charges of sedition rebellion and misuse of public funds they face up to twenty five years in prison

for their role in catalonia has bid for independence in twenty seventeen david chaytor reports from madrid. as the jailed catalan leaders arrived at the supreme court their supporters were calling it nothing but a political show trial the spanish authorities though live streamed the pictures as the trial began claiming the proceedings were free and open meaning when ali but the former president of catalonia now in exile had words of support for his former colleague sitting in the dock. d.v.c. an honorable and innocent people democrats people who have acted under parliamentary mandate sitting in the dark as if they were criminals i hope the court case will bring about the opportunity that's been still has to impose a fair sentence that is the acquittal. the rebellion charges facing some of the leaders will only stick if it's proved they'd cited the violent scene where the referendum took place in twenty seventeen defense lawyers refute the charge the

state's accusing the independent this movement to be violent but in the words no wonder the violence of. the pro process came from the states and came from the spanish police it's strange to see today that. hundreds of people hundreds of policemen will come to the court to testify and this is the same people who beat to voters the trial is set to last at least three months by then the government in spain may have changed the spanish prime minister sanchez needs the votes of the cattle and separatists m.p.'s to get his budget through parliament on wednesday . up. emotional video has been produced by the spanish government extolling the positive side of the country this is the real spain but extreme right wingers managed to penetrate police lines guarding the courts precinct message outlaw those who want to destroy spain they will soon dispersed david chaytor al

jazeera attrit. i'm joined now by public. lecture in spanish at aston invest in bombing and so this is already a divisive trial what kind of precedent are they for the kind of unusual charges that they're up against yeah there are unusual charges thing in particular the more extreme charges of treason and sedition are a quite extreme thing there are the charges that are maybe easier to prove perhaps a misuse of public funds but yeah it's i think it's a bad precedent but a the same time one way or another this was going to be a lose lose situation for the government you know to some extent you have to let the judiciary follow suit follow its course and be truly independent so what happens if they are sentenced what do you think the damage will be from the trial i think is going to be a huge damage of their sentence particular to the harsher sentences which i still think is going to be hard for them to prove they incited violence but i think if they are sentenced to the larger for the greater charge the charges then that would be very very damaging that would create further division between spain and got to

luna and unfortunately that's what we're seeing some some of the more extreme forces in madrid pushing towards the words that end really into what was the government's a i mean the prosecution's aim with this is what kind of a deterrent effect i think basically what they will be saying is that this is this is the law and untimely the right this is the law there is you know the constitution is quite clear i think that could have been perhaps a little bit of flexibility but then it's a very complicated balance within spain and the government is that a very tricky situation in which it has to be at least seen to let the judiciary be truly independent i think it's always going to be a difficult situation and what about the state of the kind of the spanish politics members there's a. suggestion they might lose a budget vote which could then be to calling a general election what kind of effect would that have on the whole cattle an issue where would that take it i think that's the problem i think if we have another election we would probably end up with a very similar result to what we had before that leaves the situation i mean there

is no clear majority either in catalonia or in the rest of spain one where the other and we're going to end up with a divided congress and i think elections will have to happen if not because of this issue with the budget on wednesday then that will happen at some point either late dizzy or early next year so there will have to be elections at some point and i think the outcome is probably going to be the same as right now yeah i mean in terms of the separatists i mean one of them the accused at the beginning said treated the trial against the vote begins and it's very much painted is as a kind of trial against the whole independence but what we're going to. tell the people watching at home in the kind of the audience in spain today do they agree with that or not i think this is i think if anything the independent is movement that's alone you have been very clever in framing d.c.s. the struggle against the state and the struggle of the little cat saloon you know against a big bad spanish state and to an extent there is some of that and obviously the history is not is not on the state side but on the other hand you know the constitution is quite clear in that you cannot have an independence referendum just

because you want to that doesn't mean the constitution is right just means you have to change the constitution and that's unfortunately where we're at the moment don't republicans that are not yes thank you very much indeed for coming to talk to us we should thank you oh yes president donald trump says he's not happy with their proposed funding agreement but does not expect another shutdown like the one earlier this year the deal agreed by democrats and republicans includes money for transport a wall but no in near the full amount the president had demanded. i have to study here i'm not happy about it it's not doing the trick but airing things to it or when you hear whatever i have to air it's all it's all going to happen we're going to build a very beautiful big strong wall that's not going to lead criminals and traffickers and drug dealers and drugs into our country it's very simple it's very simple mike hanna is in washington d.c. isn't happy about the deal but shutdown is not necessarily going to happen again is

it well there are indications that president trump is going to accept the steel that has been made by members of congress you heard there saying that he could change a few things in at the deal's taken days to hammer out the compromise reached between senior republicans and democrats in both the house and the senate in that deal as well it is fun so just over one billion dollars for border repairs border fencing not specifying the wall that president trump wants and certainly a lot below that five and a half billion dollar that president trump insisted on and which led to the last thirty five day partial government shutdown now the deadline for funding of some twenty percent of government agencies is friday midnight members of congress hopeful that they will get the legislation in place before then and hoping hoping

that there is no presidential veto and what sort of reaction has there been from migrant families already in the u.s. . well there have been a series of demonstrations in washington in the course of the day for a dominant lee by people with temporary protected status now these are immigrants who have been allowed to reside legally in the country for a period of time because of conditions in a number of this ignited countries now some of these immigrants have been living illegally in the united states and protected status for more than two decades but the trumpet ministration is pushing back on this that is a launched a series of court maneuvers to try and expel all these illegal immigrants as it puts the people themselves seeing themselves very much as legal seeking are some form of legislation in congress that would change their temporary protected status to a permanent one hopeful to a degree with the change in the house of representatives democrats and of the in

control but also mindful that any legislation that could go through the house or indeed the senate may face that veto by president trump mike hanna thank you very much indeed for more on the center now by simon rosenberg who's the president and founder of the new democrat network he also served as an advisor to the obama administration so what are your thoughts you think this is going to go through an end. i do i think the president's really been given an ultimatum here by his own party and it's really clear that he's lost this debate and more broadly he's a weakened political figure in the united states in a way that he just hasn't been since this raucous presidency the began more than two years ago he's now lost a series of debates on things from terrorists to nato to syria and afghanistan there are bills being put forward by republicans challenging his authority across

the board so he's in a different place and i think this is a sign that he's going to have to recalibrate his presidency or he's going to face a bumpy bumpy time had so much of a hit do you think he's taken in particular from the i mean there was this whole shutdown issue and then there's the war issue and i suppose he takes a hit from different different constituencies doesn't he on both of those issues. i mean just looking at polling he's five points lower in today's polling than he was on election day when democrats had an extraordinary showing so he's in one of the lowest periods of his presidency he hasn't recovered since his big state of the union speech he's sort of stuck in a very low place and you know the republicans have to be getting worried i mean i think the other thing that mitch mcconnell and the political professionals who run the republican party here have to be wondering is whether or not the president's really lost his game a little bit there they don't trust his political leadership of the party you're seeing the party rebuff him more aggressively this is

a new thing here i mean the party had been in lock step with him for two years and you're now seeing much more willingness to sort of go it alone and to let him to isolate trump that's a big new development we'll see how it plays out as we get further into congress and edition we just look at those pictures of him playing at the moment while we talk to the slogan as to finish the wall rather than build it is i mean is that the thing is that actually in the end he can always move the messaging to suit what he has a will have. what's so hard about this is that you know much of what the president's been saying is delusional or is a fable or a story that isn't really connected to the reality of what's happened not the the border the american border with mexico for a long time we have hundreds of miles of wall we've already built walls in the places where there are lots of people where there's high traffic the parts of the border that are that don't have walls are the remote areas there and mountains

there are big the river happens to be very wide there and it's not where anyone is is traveling and so one of the reason there was so much resistance to the president's call to basically wall the rest of the border is that it was going to be very expensive and it wasn't going to net any kind of real return for the country because these are parts of the of the border that no one is traveling over and by the way they've never produced any data showing that there's been some kind of significant increase in human traffic or drug traffic over these remote areas of the border and so i think the president's lost the debate with the country he's lost it in his own party and we'll see how he picks out you know we know that donald trump though tomorrow will be back out again right this guy has a lot of energy he's fighting hard for the things that he believes in and but i think on this one he suffered a tremendous up back thank you very much indeed time to take the time to talk to an auctioneer sure thank you so much. so to come on the news hour

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across a good parts of western turkey in c. the eastern side of the mediterranean snow further north one celsius in moscow on the mild side if some snow over tools both states with the proper mild weather lovely weather outside which was west london twelve degrees celsius stepha paris some light winds as a pleasant sunshine it really will feel like spring i will the next couple days might even see a few flowers starting to bloom and have a celsius in paris as we go on through thursday not a bad day for and with them well it's even much of the pushing up of scotland fairing quite nicely little breezy here plenty of breeze data to the east side of the med with that rain starts to push away from greece but it will still bring some wet weather into a cypress somewhat weather also affecting the fall of libya. for benghazi on wednesday off natal ease as well little further east which as we go through thursday telling some behind.

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again are none of the top stories. the world's most infamous cartel boss has been convicted of drug trafficking in the u.s. . could face life in prison after jurors in a brooklyn court found him guilty on all ten counts. but his right in opposition to one by door has said aid will enter the country on february twenty third next week after thousands of his supporters rallied in caracas. a dozen separatist leaders from the spanish region of catalonia have gone on trial for rebellion they face up to twenty five years in prison for their role in catalonia for independence in

twenty seventeen. and the seventeen people fleeing u.s. led airstrikes have reportedly been killed in eastern syria including seven children this comes as the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are continuing their fight against arsenal as a group hold on to its last remaining enclave on the border with iraq iran khan has the latest from close to the turkish syrian border. coalition air strikes its hardest thing i saw fighters in eldar who's. the villages their last remaining stronghold in northeastern syria the safety of civilians caught up in the fighting is becoming a major concern. during a lull in fighting on the ground kurdish led syrian democratic forces and i saw fighters are reportedly negotiating a monetary encouraged to let civilians out there is a way out if you know the right people and can afford it to wives of isis fighters

both french paid smugglers to get them out of the village. we have nothing to eat only iraqis are locked have food they're allowed to go outside while we're locked inside i just have to keep my children alive. s.t.'s commanders say the majority of the estimated six hundred two thousand eisel fighters who remain are foreigners with plenty of combat experience. there are two factors that have a direct impact of this battle first of all the terrorists here are the base the terrorist group has from different foreign nationalities including europeans afghans pakistanis and iraqis these are all professionals and have past experiences in other terrorist groups including al qaeda and so on the second factor is that they are defending their last headquarters. is very concerned about the civilian population within the village and says the battle is being slowed down because of it it says that the fighters are using the civilian population as human

shields and that though your poison will take longer than we originally estimated for you guys in one car well deserved dozens are. still in syria seven people including three policemen have been injured by a car bomb at the crossing on the border with turkey the crossing is an area under the control of turkey backed rebels fighting against eisel the acting u.s. defense secretary has reassured iraq's leaders about the presence of u.s. troops in the country patrick shanahan has been meeting iraq's prime minister adela due monday in baghdad last month president trump angered many by saying he wanted to keep troops in iraq to keep an eye on iran shanahan told iraqi leaders he respected the country's sovereignty afghan interpreters who worked with british soldiers a pre-teen with the u.k. government to grant him asylum many are in hiding after getting death threats from the taliban which sees them as traitors turnabout he reports from kabul. it

intimated that we were on the frontlines with nato forces in afghanistan but now they and their families hide in the shadows hunted by the taliban which calls them traitors i'm scared of that and i'm sure if the kids me they would kill me because the have you have evidence of them when interpreters. i don't of there has been kids so did is no different for them for the taliban they're too scared to show their faces too terrified to give their real names these men serve british forces as interpreters often in the most dangerous provinces but the u.k. government has refused to give them asylum even though their lives are in danger why do people have been abandoned by the british government what is their forte where are the human rights where that a high ranking officer they don't care about us or way the british parliament don't care about us why they have turned on their plant blind eye i honest they have

certificates of commendation medals awarded to them they were the eyes and ears of british units in the frontlines and their work was essential to operational safety it made them hated by the taliban and i saw definitely said they will not talk to us anymore so they were still there they would kill us not only me everyone because they did fall in the past you saw him and saw this the biggest they are not leave us alone they've been refused sanctuary in the u.k. and denied protection by the afghan government they have reason to be afraid. sec'y dad afghan was an interpreter for the americans he was abducted tortured and killed by the taliban and his body left on a kabul street as a warning he is one of many afghan interpreters who be murdered the interpreters who work for the british victims of a hardline immigration policy introduced by prime minister to resign may when she was home secretary afghan interpreters are only allowed to settle in the u.k. if they served in helmand province for one year between two thousand and eleven and

two thousand and twelve most of these men serve for up to six years but before that period the united states and other nato countries have be more sympathetic to afghans who work for them in afghanistan the us for example granted asylum to nine thousand former employees and seventeen thousand dependents britain by contrast has given sanctuary to just over a thousand and their position has been widely condemned by many including ex-military i think were treated very badly interferes gave it gave a lot of their lives to the people injured were being killed by without we could not have done our work in afghanistan and so for them i think i believe they were genuine and honor. to them abdul served the british for four years three of them in helmand to escape from his home in logar province because of taliban death threats he now lives in hiding with his wife and seven children was in that of how could

the we have a lot of enemies we are hiding and we are moving from one place to another we are all in danger including the children we always worry about what will happen when we leave home because there are many taliban spies around abdul says he's not resentful towards the british government but he wonders how it can abandon those who loyally served with little thought for the consequences tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. as nigeria proposed to vote for its next government on saturday many people in the northeast is still under threat from. president. to power in twenty fifteen with the promise of defeating the armed group but four years on is surging back and many are questioning if they can vote for bihari again going to dress reports from one degree where security remains top of the agenda. despite stitches services

here and surgery desirable worker track for two days with a triplets to escape. at the end of last year the children were barely two weeks old when the family fled back for the second time she arrived my degree a city the family left six months are yet to rebuild their lives. by the recent attack was more ferocious i came face to face with boko haram i saw them i was very frightened that he's one of several thousand people displaced by the renewed fighting. the nigerian army has recovered at the areas briefly occupied by the fighters and says it's consolidating its gains by motivating and rearming its troops. for missions new formations to come from the new challenges the. us which is facing is indeed across the country but

despite recent successes by the army displaced people like zara and considering their return to baghdad. we're not going back we went back and nearly lost our lives will stay in my degree. launched an insurgency in northeast nigeria in two thousand and nine aiming to establish a caliphate. the violence in the decade old conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than two million people one african affiliated with ice on has claimed responsibility for most of your thoughts with their targets if you made me sick or fals is a government agency if you want to exploit say the governments of trouble trying to zero nigeria need to order to deliver the product. supporting it was in nigeria including the united states said earlier we want of possible attacks my book romp ahead of the elections and with a few days to the vote that is in sight in some communities in nigeria's northeast . greece i does iraq by decree nigeria february twelfth marks

international day against child soldiers in the past seven years a number of children being forced into combat has risen more than one hundred fifty percent between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen the rights group child soldiers international found un data had recorded more than twenty nine thousand cases of children being recruited into conflicts those cases were spread across seventeen different countries in africa the middle east and southern asia exploitation of girls has also increased with many being used in support roles and as domestic and sexual slaves soldier olsen is a program manager child soldiers international she says more effort should be made to welcome such children back into society. firstly what's quite important to remember is that these cases that we call verified they often are helped or released by by un and their partners but there's a large number of children who will never be identified by these actors and will

escape on their own accord and for them it's it's much more difficult to access any type of assistance so what we need to do is work together and support the communities of return to which the children come back home to so that they are able to cope and take care of their children. it's also interesting it's also important to remember that if a child even having lived through these traumatic experiences receives proper support from the family from the community and an opportunity to to go back to a normal life so an opportunity to go back to school for example they will recover and they will be able to to go on living their lives as their peers macedonia has officially been renamed north macedonia and a decades long dispute with greece from wednesday north macedonia will be included in road signs starting with one on its border with greece disputes between the two countries began not to macedonia formally a yugoslav republic became

a new nation in one hundred ninety one adopting the same name as the greek region unfinished houses empty highrises and row upon row of homes fit for royalty and these will become symbols of turkey's struggling economy construction has been the turbine behind the country's growth but hunt vacation and a devalued currency are threatening to make the industry go from boom to bust stephanie decker reports. and little fantasy some gothic a bit of disney and a touch of turkish history that's how this rather unique spire housing development has been described to us by its creator but this mountain castle kingdom has been less fairy tale and more nightmare for its developers they filed for bankruptcy protection because they couldn't afford their payments to the bank in essence gaining time the project will go ahead they tell us the economy is struggling largely because of the devalued turkish lira and high inflation work here is now on

hold i'm talking on the sort of muscle we made some mistakes that we had conduct of the project in phases and not all at once we would have opened the site long ago but there was high demand so we thought we could easily sell them all this is why we are facing problems now around three hundred of these castles have been sold we're told and there are around seven hundred thirty in total now one of these units have still not been finished in this project in particular is aimed at buyers from gulf countries but what is happening here is indicative of a wider trend of the struggling construction industry across the country in istanbul turkey is economic capital partially finished building stand idle there are no workers in the cranes to move the construction sector used to be the driving force behind turkey's economy a policy adopted by president regift a party jobs mean votes now we're told people are losing their jobs or haven't been

paid in months. vicky building houses mega projects and now they're not being sold so the government introduced measures like lowering mortgage interest rates they looked at the arab states to sell but it only goes so far worse these are ahead. economists we spoke to are just as pessimistic. as they've got the fastest job losses are happening in the construction sector and also the fastest bankruptcies but the real collapse will take place after the local elections on march the. first for both the government and the banks of the fearing the big collapse the government has introduced several measures to ease the crisis cutting real estate taxes ordering state banks to lower interest mortgages and offering foreign buyers citizenship but so far nothing seems to work this mosque is the proud project the president aired on the company behind it now also bankrupt it remains unfinished many business men say they're waiting for the local elections to

be over then hopefully things will improve banking on a young population that will push domestic demand but that has to be in the right economic climate most of the economic predictions indicate that things could get worse stephanie decker al-jazeera turkey still. to preview two groundbreaking sudanese films. and meet the new face of. the twenty three year old up for the challenge will have more. business updates. going places together.

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a movie that the death of sudanese cinema director has fight to revive it has been screened at the bet in film festival it's one of two new documentaries we're going to read. behind the headlines. picking up relics of a bygone era the sudanese filmmakers started out in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's now they're determined to revive interest in their country's neglected cinema or industry. as easier said than done as the film talking about trees makes clear. it follows their efforts to screen forgotten classics in khartoum something that riles plenty of curiosity that this is a very old name in this era and they would look and see us regularly here when the

real can really stand and see. maisons they're doing on the moon in the cinema. and when you see when they're in winter's you know that of the daily question as well as bringing their story to berlin so hey guys mulberry has helped them restore some of their groundbreaking films made decades ago and they're also showing in the festival. the question of hope hope you can regenerate. like this and a limit on them the value of friendship real friendship the value of sometimes taking that you choose. to take the difficult. for my eyes use of i do my syllabi have a listen yeah it might be ok. if i did take out the other might be a different generation in a different struggle in how to morph side by mar was a governess yes and i think it follows a group of women who find solidarity through playing football despite skepticism

from some quarters of them rather. than having to laugh at. the difficulties they face from family traditions to politics to religion or echoed in the way the director had to operate. and had the luxury if you would go onto the streets with a hand-held camera completely by himself no crew not to be seen as conspicuous for quite a small camera and was just filming and observing society observing football games and so you see that in the documentary you know it's very shaky scenes and hand-held scene but it's a roof that is just a sense of being that. audiences here have been treated to films from across the middle east and africa for many years now but these sudanese filmmakers hope that soon people will be talking about their country for more than just political unrest and conflicts that involve al-jazeera will it. now almost fall with peter.

learn thank you very much britain's refugee footballer hakim maybe from bahrain i beg your pardon he's back in his adoptive home of australia after being detained for nearly three months in thailand. i. twenty five year old arrived in melbourne just hours after being released from jail in bangkok following the thai attorney general's decision to drop bahrain's extradition request has refugee status in australia he said bahrain twenty forty after being accused of crimes during the arab spring which he denies being sentenced to ten years in absentia and claims he faces torture or even death if he returns craig foster the former australian football captain spearheaded the campaign to get him released. the what's distinctive style of government would be what i would to take this is that it might feel much more than mine is. going to touch on i think it to be

such a deal because i think you'll always be modest around this country yes i would be strong yes just want to stand out here understand i did this my candidacy this didn't i didn't didn't see it yet but. i can't put it just yet i would be done in a study i don't strongly and thank you but at the time of the chair i already was wearing the football shirt of pascoe vale the semi pro team we play so in australia a club told us they're not expecting him back on the pitch in the near future. we saw and heard him so i'd be a great feeling to obviously spy on at the club for another year at least you might have to give him a couple years now we want to stay where you are being a lawyer being the great foster he said that he wasn't good you know and it was really struggling and lost a lot of white when i came to very solid. and pretty good and you looked

through for a job can imagine what is mental state it's like being held in jail probably thinking that you know he's lost we. can start climbing again and get back to daily routine and on our honeymoon but maybe. england's world cup winning goalkeeper gordon banks has died at the age of eighty one is former club stoke city and now it's these deaths saying banks passed away peacefully overnight the club say they are devastated but couldn't be more proud of him banks one seventy three caps for england then was part of the famous team that won the one nine hundred sixty six world cup on home soil beating west germany in the final he's also famous for one of the greatest saves in the history of football denying pele in the one nine hundred seventy world cup. ok it's champions league night last sixteen first leg ties all eyes on old trafford well manchester united are two no down at home

against paris st germain two very important away goals to take to paris for p.s.g. and then at the olympic stadium in rome rome are two one up against f.c. porter meanwhile four time champions league winners i.x. amsterdam are preparing for the daunting prospect of hosting the three time defending champions real madrid the dutch club have fallen behind europe's best since they last won the continent's top club competition in one thousand nine hundred five and after a difficult start of the season rael have improved they form quite substantially. real madrid. we see real madrid is a very good team with good ideas and tactics last week we saw that they are improving a lot we have to do something about it and come up with solutions we don't just have to look we also to focus on our game and that's very important even to. regarding our champions league match real madrid is always a favorite because of our track record in the competition and we are in good shape right now so we are happy about that of course that gives us confidence but we were

favorites this whole year and have been doing well. u.s. ski champion michela shifrin makes headlines when she races a end when she chooses not to the twenty three year old won last week super g. at the ski championships in order sweden and then set out several events this week she is now preparing to get gold in the upcoming giant slalom and slalom but after ski legend lindsey vonn retired on sunday schifrin says she has a lot to learn before stepping into a new role as the next face of sport. i would like to believe that just being a really like kind person and a good athlete and having success in the store is enough to really promote it but it's not really i mean there needs to be some some drama some excitement some some really big personalities and for me maybe i'm growing into that and right now i'm just trying as hard as i can to balance my own schedule and. ski as well as i can

because i'm a big goal is is not to be dramatic it's to be. in the start gate ready to win she was the star of the pool at last year's asian games in jakarta but now a japanese swimmer recalled koichi has announced she's been diagnosed with leukemia the eighteen year old won six gold medals in indonesia and was took to be one of the faces of the tokyo lympics in her home country next year he posted the news to her twitter account saying her diagnosis came after she returned feeling unwell off to a training trip to australia where the international olympic committee or in tokyo inspecting the progress of the venues for the twenty twenty one picks with five hundred twenty seven days to go some of the facilities are nearing completion the canoe arena is eighty percent finished with the volleyball arena about halfway done the gymnastics and aquatic centers among others have yet to be built and japan's tennis world number one soccer has split with her coach sasha by in the pair had

worked together since twenty seventeen and since then osaka has enjoyed an incredible rise to the top of the world rankings she won the us open in september and made it back to back grand slams winning the australian open last month. horseracing in britain will resume on wednesday after nearly a week of cancellations because of a quantum influenza the sport's governing body admits there is still some risk but says the decision was unanimously approved by the industry veteran route committee they would restrict biosecurity control measures in place that race meetings and horses that have not been vaccinated in the last six months will not be able to race this is good news for horse racing with the cheltenham festival just a month away ok that's all the sport for now back to laurin in london thanks very much indeed denigrated mind you can always catch up with all the news and sport on our website address that is al jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the live icon as information or and tell if there's news are back in a minute with another full run of the day's news thanks for watching.

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