point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness it hundred. this is al jazeera. has i'm sick and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes suicide attack at least twenty revolutionary guards have been killed in a bus bombing in southeastern iraq. spain's parliament rejects the government's budget paving the way for a possible early election. the fight to save their dignity hundreds of thousands of african men fought and died for britain during world war two now the

last of the survivors are hoping for proper compensation and in sport meet the young afghans dreaming of cricket glory as the national scene prepares for another world cup we look at the roots of afghanistan's success. follow a suicide bomb attack has killed twenty members of the elite revolutionary guards in southeastern iran the city of don is the capital of sistan baluchistan province where security forces repeatedly battle with drug smugglers and sunni fighters in this in predominantly shiite iran iranian state media are blaming an al-qaeda linked sunni group for the attack some twenty others were wounded and speak and speak now to most stuff. who is the editor in chief of the farce news agency joins

us now from tehran thanks very much for being with us so a tell us what you know about what happened here. hello. as a matter of fact some forty i.r.g.c. members were on board the bus traveling between the southeast and city of the provincial capital of zahid that's. just on province in southeastern iran when a truck loaded with explosives detonated it's not clear if this is going to suicide attack or the truck was a standing by on the side of the road and then when the bus was passing by they have detonated it through removed controlled explosion some to any g.c. members have been martyred in this incident two or any others have been wounded. the latest reports say that some two a new one civilians have also been killed in this attack the people who were in the

saying area and traveling on the same road so all together now we know that at least forty one have been killed but of course the i.r.g.c. has not officially released any details about the casualties of this incident and this isn't the first time that attacks like this have happened in this particular region is it just just tell us a little bit about this. and why it's so volatile. oh no of there are been too many terrorist attacks throughout the last decade in this part of iran normally the terrorist groups that are operating in this region of the hobby groups that source's i mean i remember quite well one of the parliamentary officials in kuwait some nine months ago said that these

groups are you know supported financially by saudi arabia they have been staging cross border attacks in one of the most notorious attacks they killed the i.r.g.c. ground force command there some seven eight years ago the brigade a general shoe steady and they've been staging frequent attacks on i.r.g.c. and also on the. civilian population in the southeastern province of system battle just on this group it's called the army of justice iranians call it the army of oppression zone. they are the remnants of a very notorious group known as the group was the commander of this terrorist group he was captured by i.r.g.c. some around six seven years ago and he was executed the number two man who was his

brother was also captured and the group was dismantled but now after you know some time they've revived and they have restructured in pakistan iran is you know has warned pakistan and various occasions that these terrorist groups are you know they had they are centered in southwestern pakistan and they are free to do you know to reorganize and restructure themselves and operate and they staged cross border attacks in iraq and skate into pakistan and iran has at least. on three separate occasions a war in pakistan that if they don't deal with this problem they could stage an attack very recently this year actually senior iranian officials started talks with the new government in pakistan to eventually put an end to the operation

of this terrorist group in there but something if we have time is interesting to me you know just a few hours ago the international court of justice voted in iran favor overruling u.s. objections with regard to the asset freeze of iran you know two billion dollars of iranian assets were seized by domestic courts in the united states in favor of the family members of the those u.s. marines who were killed in you know an attack on u.s. marines barracks in beirut lebanon and in the one nine hundred eighty s. and iran complained at the i.c.j. and i.c.j. has voted in iran's favor it's interesting somehow sarcastic or ironical that the same barracks of u.s. marines you know the incident there also happened by a truck loaded with explosives so i don't do not mean to blame the u.s.

but u.s. officials have repeatedly stressed that they support any kind of move against islamic republic we've got to leave it there prescience talking to us. thanks very much for being with us. of staying with iran the u.s. is leading a conference in poland on the security situation in the middle east and the threat posed by iran more than sixty nations are represented earlier dozens of protesters rallied in warsaw for a change of leadership in iran despite the presence of the u.s. secretary of state and vice president at the talks some key players snubbed a meeting russia is not attending and the european union has only sent low level delegates. it's another attempt by this stage to push through an obsession to get on that is not well founded and i think the fact that. they're not even aiming to produce any agree tex rather than just attempting to make

a statement by themselves or to manage say yele is in a war sore for so jim and what's been happening there. well has them as you mentioned it is a controversial summit to say the least the fact that there are several key players missing would seem to indicate that it will be very limited in its scope in terms of trying to achieve anything tangible when you look at the main issues within the middle east so you have a month side obviously perceived iranian satisfy sussing gulf countries in the united states you have the palestinian question the continued illegal occupation of palestinian land that you have obviously the wars but continues to take place both in yemen and syria on all those fronts you will have to use one of the key stakeholders not present so the ring is obviously not present of options not present in terms of syria obviously your don't have several sides in what is a multitude of sides about something get out there not the presence of the palestinian issue the palestinian authority their foreign minister the other maliki

had encouraged the arab delegations to downgrade their representation here in warsaw because of what they perceive to be a bias by the trumpet ministration manifested in the u.s. is moving of its embassy through illegally occupied jerusalem earlier on and that continued support for illegally occupied or rather illegal settlements in the occupied nuns there when you're looking at yemen for example obviously is a coup he's not being present here as well so it is very difficult to see what exactly the u.s. can achieve the most notable presence in terms of seniority is that sort of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is obviously mike pence the u.s. vice president also we are hearing rumors that maybe this much talked about deal of a century that has been concocted by trump's son in law and special advisor gerard krishna maybe we'll hear more about that's over the next twenty four hours but obviously that's still not quite clear so

a lot of hype with regard to this conference obviously the u.s. will be. it will be in its interest to show that this is a success the trumpet ministration has demonstrated in the past it's admiration for these summits to try and portray itself as a world leader but in terms of tangible things to come out of it it's very difficult to see what exactly we will see. all right jim thanks for that jim in warsaw the venezuelan opposition leader one guy i don't know has demanded the armed forces allow the delivery of aid from the united states within the next ten days president nicolas maduro who still has military backing says threats of invasion must stop both pro and anti government protesters have held mass marches in the capital that isobel reports from caracas. he wants to keep up with the pressure on the government of nikola my little that's why venezuela self declared interim president one way they will called his followers to take to the streets once again

. we are nonstate february third is the day for humanitarian aid to intervene as well are we stand by all sectors delivery drivers nurses medics to get ourselves organized. all the way from berlin her son was killed during the protests two years ago. and. i am demanding justice i am demanding freedom i am honoring all the children that have died i am here for everything that is happening in this country people are dying of hunger and a lack of medicines. food and medical supplies mostly coming from the u.s. have arrived at the border between venezuela and colombia why though says more is on its way there are thousands and thousands of people in this part of the city that it's difficult to move the specific demand in this demonstration is that they want to force the government to allow aid into the country the other demand is that they would like for free and fair elections to take place in venezuela because they believe that last year's election process was filled with irregularities i was

towards the center of the capital government supporters were also on the streets to voice their opposition to any type of foreign intervention for the last four months . has been part of the government's militia he says he's ready to defend his country from foreign aggression on the border. i cannot trust in humanitarian aid that has not been requested in venezuela we didn't have an earthquake or a war that justifies them forcing aid into the country we want to solve our problems if they want to help us they should give us back the money they are withholding that's in the banks in europe in the u.s. . but support for the president does not appear to be as high as it once was the economic crisis has left millions of people struggling to buy basics and a medicines and that's why many in traditional. have joined the protests one guy old one of the he the look we are protesting for the old people because their name

madison's because we want a free country freedom to do and what we want the opposition is calling on the military to rise against people. and allow the following donated supplies in the scenario seriously believe. military and civilian employees that of the border we request that you allow the humanitarian aid without drama without confrontation and fulfill that meant to have you need to allow the aid in to save the lives of. either the problems of the solution and life. but the military leadership remains loyal to the widow and they played a paypal's whole role in his administration. the opposition says they will continue pushing to break that relationship. that is have all got access. or carlos leckie oh is chief diplomat in the us for one transitional government he joins us now from washington d.c.

thanks very much for being with us so when i ask you first of all how are you going to get the aid through because the venezuelan military essential he said forget it it's not happening if after those ten days are up and nothing changes what's your plan. well and thank you for having me i mean this is an opportunity to send a message to the military force if they want to be on the side of the dictator or if they want to be on the side of the constitution with the people who need that food a magazine. shows you how the cruelty of their mother or regime he doesn't care about the food or medicine because he doesn't need it he has you know that all the privilege chung he want to keep that about the majority of the soldiers the troops they need that food and medicine because they are venezuelans that they are suffering the same thing that the ordinary people are suffering in our work country and that's why we are just putting that tension inside of the military for saying you need to allow those food and medicine to get into the our

work country because that's the right decision to be with our people so we will continue to put in all the pressure not only under streets but also from the national assembly and of course getting the support from them or the international community this is see a humanitarian crisis is a manmade crisis and we need to resolve it and we do in this because we would like to stop and i leave the suffering of the venezuelans the speaking of pressure who want to go i don't know several days ago called for the military in the military in venezuela to get behind him and to abandon. for the most part that simply hasn't happened with the exception of a few military leaders. what is it going to take for that to change what sort of pressure will it take for people in the military to abandon nicolas maduro. well circumstances have been changing so quickly i mean we need to keep that in mind on

news we have we will keep the pressure in three different levels one under streets a few. recently we have had many demonstrations normally the main capital of qatar got in the most important cities across the country including a village just on a small down does give you a sense that the venice ones are looking for a change this period of change is there and we will continue to solve then we will also put pressure from the nationalism of the only elected democratic institution in venezuela and will continue passing laws a resolution to. put pressure. on the military institution and of course from the international community when the free world is speak that also send a message to the military force to their to the venezuelans to the to the inner circle of. the that that will force you know the conscious of any of the

venezuelan to understand that it's not going anywhere and it must it will be much better for our country to be on the side of the constitution to find a peaceful solution so we will continue putting pressure in three different levels in these three different levels. and i fully confident that the change is there we have an open window we need to take advantage of this and this is the right moment to put whatever we can do in order to bring to restore democracy in venezuela president trump has said that all options remain on the table in venezuela including military action have you had any discussions with anyone in or you or anybody else for that and anybody else in your team for that matter had any discussions with anyone in the trumpet ministration about military action in venezuela. i haven't i haven't had that discussion personally i have a clear instruction from a president one where you go we have

a clear again that this is a movement led by venezuelans we have put our work priorities and now we have been asking for the support internationally of the international community to impose our word again that we have been very clear we want to put an end of the usurpation off by word of mother is the only way to resolve the venezuelan crisis then we want to set a transitional government toward democracy to restore democratic core existence and third we want to call for a free and fair election as soon as possible this is. again that these are our priorities and that's why we have been asking for this support of the international community and will continue to do so on we hope that we can achieve a peaceful solution soon because that would be better for the venezuelans we talk a lot their support are you getting from the international community but you don't have the support of russia or china to two of the major powers in the world up to now of continuing to support nicolas maduro have you had any discussions with the

chinese about trying to get them to your side we have sent clear messages to then clear messages there is a process of change in venezuela. and they they have to the side in which side they want to they would like to be or if in the side of the tater or in the side of the constitution on with the support of the people of venezuela they change will come might go to redeem could it could extend the agony but never would be able will be able to change to stop the change so the change will come and russia and china must understand that we would like to have a clear and transparent relationship with all countries within the rule for respect with a view of mutual cooperation that's what we want but they have to send a clear message is that they cannot be supporting. a dismount an entire on time and

they must understand that they need to facilitate as well the transition and support the free world which is fighting against their mother regime colace vecchia thank you for your time. thank you plenty more ahead on this news hour including. the time party that wanted a princess to run for prime minister faces being banned from the election next month. the cost of religious and ethnic division in nigeria and the slow process of reconciliation. and later in sport real madrid restart barefoot to win a fourth consecutive champions league title. so all are still ahead but first voters in spain are facing the prospect of their third general election within four years that's after members of parliament

defeated the budget plans of the ruling socialist government one hundred ninety one of the three hundred fifty m.p.'s voted against prime minister pedro sanchez including parties from the catalonia region their support had been conditional on having direct talks about independence for catalonia david chaytor reports from madrid. it was an emphatic defeat for the socialist prime minister petra sanchez wasted little time in leaving the parliament where one hundred ninety one of the three hundred fifty m.p.'s voted against his budget an early election is now looming but his cabinet will decide when they meet on friday all of them are aware of the dangers ahead. of this we are seeing the rise of the far right parties in the rest of the european union xenophobic racist sexist homophobic parties which don't believe in the values of freedom and we are gaining ground in europe the minister was referring to one particular party in spain called fox they gained

seats in the region assembly and andrew fear for the first time helping to break a thirty six year grip on power by the socialists in the south but it was the vote of the catalonians separatists members of parliament who helped break the grip of petro sanchez on the parliament of the trid. it's very if the leaders were stuck in their lives in this town he refused to talk about independence just autonomy in a bottle and in the alec displays although he spoke about dialogue a limit was put on this dialogue it's not that we have abandoned the socialist. but they have decided last week to change their focus for the rest of their term the budget vote defeat came twenty four hours after the start of what's being described as the trial of the century twelve catalan separatists faced twenty five years in jail if convicted of rebellion as additions to the televised trial in the supreme court here richard is expected to last three months by that time

a new right wing government could have gained power with no intention of any compromises of catalonia which would probably leave an open wound in spanish politics for years to come david chaytor al-jazeera madrid. a constitutional court judges in thailand have been asked to ban a political party linked to deposed prime minister attacks the party nominated the king sister as a candidate for prime minister but the royal family has stopped her bid for power in next month's general election when a has more from bangkok. two weeks ago the thai rak said charge party entered the political spotlight as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate. but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved to be an innovation too far in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics. princess who was ruled

ineligible after the palace says her nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister attacks inch in a what who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup. taxon chynna what has spent his political career fighting the establishment and on friday thais thought he had staged. a major coup himself by having a member of the royal family fronting the campaign for one of his parties but it appears to have been a major miscalculation for dissolution would also mean the members of the party's executive committee would be banned from politics for a minimum of ten years. last week the party's advisor and a long time taxon ally told al-jazeera about his concerns that the campaign and

next month's election won't be free and fair it is designed in the first players so that the contact will be able to extend its power. to thailand's military leaders who form the government since the latest coup in two thousand and fourteen removed texans main party per thai it's still able to take part in next month's votes. the decision by the election commission to ban the thai rocks a chant party came the day after a t.v. station owned by the chena watts was ordered off the air for fifteen days the government's national broadcasting body said voice t.v. was showing provocative content that caused confusion and social division and the fact that the punishment dealt out at this time. right about when we were heading towards a potential return to democracy. is highly inappropriate. there

are a few guarantees in thai politics but it's likely there will be more volatility before the election due on march the twenty fourth wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. are still ahead on al-jazeera we're in iraq where the campaign is on to save its cultural heritage and traces of the years of war. later in sport another frustrating night full of bron james and the l.a. lakers and he's here with best. and there was in quite a bit of wet weather across the middle east at the moment here's the latest area of cloud working its way over parts of iran and working its way into afghanistan as well and that will give us a fair amount of rain and snow in afghanistan which is very welcome because we are

in quite an extreme drought at the moment that's no also extends further north all the way up into our marty behind it it's a lot quieter and till the next system that's already making its way in so over parts of turkey and down through parts of syria and into lebanon lots of what weather here and then that system gradually edges its way eastwards as we head into friday so another system bringing us yet more rain and some rather strong winds as well that system will be affecting us for the south to say a bit of cloud forest on thursday that is making its way across parts of saudi arabia but as that sinks its way southwards it could also bring a few showers even for bahrain or maybe here in doha as well and that cloud will be affecting us over the u.a.e. tooth of still the risk of seeing a few showers here as well down towards the southern parts of africa here there's plenty more in the way of cloud lots of wet weather here all centered over the central belt here but when it does bend background towards the eastern parts of south africa and this is the region again we're expecting the wettest of the weather as we head through the day on thursday.

recruited. exploited to on the battlefield the call the new regime for the different value and effort from the right and your peers then abandoned for a lifetime we should be ashamed. for the truth for for all country all the region over three people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops begin tonight the forgotten heroes of empire. era on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise you have to go for. us in something and increasingly migrant farm workers are 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

undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour a suicide bomb attack in southeastern iran has killed twenty seven members of the elite revolutionary guard it happened in the city of ziad on insist on baluchistan province security forces have repeatedly battled with drug smugglers and sunni fighters in predominantly shia. voters in spain are facing the prospect of their third general election in four years it's off the members of parliament

defeated the budget plans of the ruling socialist government. venezuelan opposition leader why don't. has ordered the armed forces to allow the delivery of aid sent by the united states within the next ten days president nicolas maduro who continues down the backing of the military says threats of invasion must stop. and the u.s. has issued new iran related sanctions on nine people and two companies the u.s. treasury says iran's revolutionary guard used one of the company's new horizon organization to collect intelligence and recruit a former u.s. counter intelligence agent has also been charged with sharing information with iran that could be a national security breach or let's get more on this now from heidi castro who's in washington for so id tell us more about this counterintelligence agent charged. right has i'm the indictment of this counterintelligence agent as monica which

she's a u.s. citizen who served in the as an intelligence asian in the u.s. air force for eleven years during which time she had top secret security clearance now she left a government job in two thousand and eight and continued for two more years as a contractor and according to the court filings against her in two thousand and thirteen which attended a conference in iran and then defected for ideological reasons the indictment also says that she revealed the existence and code name of a highly classified u.s. intelligence program and also revealed the real name of a u.s. intelligence agent then it goes on to say that hackers any ran with the help of monica where we're able to compile target packages that specifically targeted her former coworkers in the u.s. intelligence service which allowed them to be targeted by hackers trying to use

spyware and malware on their government computers the documents make it unclear whether or not those efforts were successful and how much of a breach or damage was caused however monica wit now is has a warrant out for her arrest and her whereabouts at the moment appear to be unknown to the u.s. government but she is believed to be in iran wasn't a woman or do we know about the new sanctions on iran. right those two are all connected because the conference that monica whitty is accused of having attended any rand was hosted by this new horizon organization one of those two companies you mentioned that is now the target of treasury saying sions so the organizers of that conference are accused of using it as a ploy to recruit intelligence from international attendees and the court documents appear to make the case that that is that is how monica witt was targeted back in

two thousand and thirteen now what's notable though is that these acts happened many years ago for five years ago and the question is what happened now to cause these charges to be leveled at the at this moment the evidence itself in the indictment does not make that clear but it's an open question whether the souring relationship between iran and the u.s. in the last few years was a contributing factor has i'm all right how does your castro life force there in washington thanks ali. during the second world war hundreds of thousands of african men joined the british army many injured prejudice during the war and neglect afterwards with lower pay and pensions katia lopez whole diane reports. justin cosa survived the horrors of war at ninety four he is one of nearly six hundred thousand african soldiers recruited from british colonies who fought for the

british army in the second world war he's been visited by prince harry who was insomnia to pay his respects to the african veterans just in hopes the prince will take a message home so he can turn the pool who poured into cuckold mark through their geometer of course these are ours these are good. readers and our thought. you thought for example given. out the one who come back. for work to anyone you never forget me because we thought. at a war graves cemetery near mount kenya veterans like you serve you and gershon honor their colleagues who died they survived but weren't properly compensated for their service. no where did when i got out they gave me nothing they should have known how much we'd help them they would have given something but that was not the case we were abandoned just like that. this document in britain's war archives

reveals that african personnel could be paid three times less than their white counterparts and some soldiers weren't paid at all they didn't mean they gave me no . i didn't go on as. the cover new regime placed a different value on african life and when your parents memories of war are at times overshadowed by their life of poverty we should be ashamed the prince who fought for our country all living in poverty we have an opportunity in that twilight to go. it's not too late we could still make of the after being overlooked for years there are signs the u.k. government is now recognizing their service of supporting the british empire in two thousand and eighteen britain announced a package of about fifteen million dollars to help impoverished veterans in a widows' from commonwealth countries senior officials stress the money is eight not compensation it's not designed to what it is designed to do is provide some

very practical support what my department does our core mission is to alleviate extreme poverty about hall of the commonwealth but since up we're living what we consider to be extreme poverty war has taken its toll on these veterans a painful journey magnified by discrimination during the war and a sense of abandonment in the years that followed yet there is still optimism that their service will be compensated even if it's in the last years of their lives a hope that when they die this time in history will not die with them. see a look at this so they yearn al-jazeera. will join us now from london is journalist and filmmaker jack lowe she produced analogies in the out zero investigative documentary called the forgotten heroes of empire thanks very much for being with

us so i suppose the obvious question here is why has it taken this long. for these men to read to be recognized and the fact that there. they were discriminated for so long. thank you very much for having me on this is a period of britain's history which is generally for ghosts and by many many people more than half a million african soldiers were recruited by person during world war two they force in east africa ricans italians against pro nazi v.c. french forces in madagascar and against japanese imperial forces in burma the service was recognised at the time but quite soon after the end of the war the service and sacrifices they had made were soon quietly being brushed under the carpet the revelations that we discovered in my investigative documentary for out his era shows that they weren't treated the same as their white counterparts white

soldiers could get around three times the amount of the water security or lump sum they were paid for this service. a black corporal would get a black private would get three and a half shooting for each month to service a white private would get ten shillings. and a lot of people would perhaps be surprised that there were there were even black soldiers who fought in the second world war alongside which is soldiers how did you . begin gathering all the information to to to get to get to this documentary i mean what what what gave you the idea for this. it all began with a chance meeting during my own personal travel was in ethiopia in the somali region in a town called herat where a local man the invited by cell from some friends in for a dinner of camels do i suppose the message i take away from this is not to say no

to a dinner of chemistry because it was over that evening he shared the story of his father who was a kenyan somali who would so person during world war two this came as a surprise to me i was never taught about the service of african soldiers to britain during that war and he shared these les's that showed of a decades he had lobbied the british government for equal treatment for the same demobilisation pay so that would be treated the same as his white counterparts he died before the equal treatment ever happened in his name was use of city man and it was that that castle ised my investigation over the course of a year i then tracked down some of the last surviving veterans living in kenya and zambia these a man aged between ninety five and one hundred years olds who despite a decade since that the mobilization the sense of grievance the sense of betrayal

the sense of abandonment hasn't dimmed and it's hope now that the british government will make amends for what has happened just today three shadow secretaries of state in the british opposition have called on the government to code on that counterparts in the conservative policy to acknowledge that this racist policy existed and not only that to apologize for it to pay compensation to the few surviving veterans and also for the prime minister or the defense secretary gavin williamson to meet with those few surviving veterans before is too late given a year or two it will be too late these a very very out of you. i this it's time for their needs and their grievances to be redressed what sort of response did you get from the british government during the time that you were putting together this documentary and now says since this is coming to light. we spoke with the.

with the ministry for international development the secretary of state any more than did concede that there have been tremendous inequalities she also stressed that person was giving a new aid package to surviving veterans though she did insist that this wasn't meant as an act of atonement or compensation it was eight we also tried to get an interview with gavin williamson brits and secretary of state for defense he refused repeated requests for interview and it's now hope that he will break his silence on the issue and go on records and put this right there i d did issue a statement from a spokes person saying that person does acknowledge and value the sacrifices made by these african servicemen but some fear certainly in the opposition parties in person that that isn't enough compensation and an official apology needs to be

made and it needs to made to be made before it's too late thanks for talking to us and you can catch share that investigative documentary at twenty two thirty g.m.t. here on jack loesch thanks so much because thank you very much for your time now nigeria's election commission is promising saturday's presidential vote will go ahead despite another fire at one of its offices the third blaze of its kind within the last two weeks destroyed thousands of voting machines in and number of states president muhammadu buhari is running for a second term several people were killed in a stampede at one of his rallies on tuesday. and central nigeria violence has less thousands of people displaced the conflict is fueled by competition for land as well as religious and ethnic divisions it underlines the security challenges that will be faced by whoever wins the presidency as many reports from the city of joss

. after a hard day's work benjamin moses and robot a colleague work the narrow streets of their battered neighborhood in jaws in central idea. fifteen years of conflict between muslims and christians here change the for use of many communities as people move to areas they feel safe in this is. but benjamin says he refused to leave his house and this predominantly muslim area of the city is the only christian here he said his church and friends all wanted to be i don't i don't please i was two dogs if i die just because. because all my life i feel lived in this. benjamin a school teacher and. a taxi driver are inseparable if. we are here protecting. and anything that wanted to help we go our own son went.

towards is very see if you're. in central nigeria two thousand and eighteen was the many here say they will never forget the competition for land between farmers and cattle herders in addition to decades of struggle. and ethnicity led to nearly three thousand deaths. thousands of people were forced from their homes because of violence and are still living in camps. a lot of it was. because i said that we hope is for them having this all the things that the people raise as a source of the conflict will address is a damned fool talk about forgiveness is double talk about the conciliation. healing the wounds of conflict is a slow process this road marks the divide between the mainly christian and predominantly muslim neighborhoods of just a city why nigeria's north itself thousands have been killed and homes and businesses destroyed trust among people here as their order and communities are

trying to rebuild that brick by brick. so three years ago participate began efforts to reconsider communities that have been at war with each other for fifty years it is a tough environment on the one hand but we are very excited about the prospects and the potential that these job holds for peace and security in the state because of how much our people are embracing these ideas of peace. for now the region is calm but with elections approaching there is tension and mutual suspicion and people here know from previous experience that it may only take a street fight once again through the entire region into another cycle of violence . just. all right still ahead when we come back. to control his emotions.

everything you do is being analyzed it's being weak and it's been measured by intelligence agencies are. to do things in secret that are a lawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from the n.s.a. they could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera.

and again many of iraq's most important i hear archeological sites lie in ruins after the battle against eisel conservation experts from the european union are now helping iraqis protect what's left of their heritage charles trafford reports from baghdad this is all that's left of nimrod the ancient assyrian city founded three thousand years ago i shall fight is seized launched an area is of territory in north western iraq five years ago. other than destroying historical sites and artifacts they regard it as on islamic faith this was nimrod before eisel arrived considered one of the world's great archaeological treasures once home to an assyrian king guarded by giant stone carvings a winged beasts known as. star of the smashing many of the artifacts using sledgehammers and power tools ice will detonate barrel bombs to blow up the city.

the explosion felt like an earthquake according to people who saw it. two years ago precisely i was in the middle of it was just ten days after the site was a great it so i discovered what i mean society test just been taken back from this so we have course discovered the magnitude of their the midges but we saw also the diversity of what we can define as a crime scene. the conservationist says it's been a challenge for the iraqi army to clear mines an improvised explosive devices from the area without causing even more destruction had a lot of people accessing the sites which was not found so you have a individuals who are needed to every policeman everybody and moving out of it so it's difficult to fathom the shocking level of destruction committed by ice all not only on iraq soccer logical heritage but on archaeological sites across the region

now in recent years a lot of artefacts have been stolen and it's believed many of them about themselves in the private collections intelligence services here are now saying that they believe a lot of the money is going towards funding terrorism. security experts from the european union advisory mission and iraq want to build a database to help track missing artifacts and return them to. iraq when we arrived here in two thousand and seventeen i already got the task from europe from brussels to do something on the protection of cultural heritage because the culture of this country is also the culture of europe it's the start of the civilization so we are very keen to show the rockiest project after decades of war thousands of years of iraq history lies in ruins in a region often called the cradle of civilization the challenge now is to save

what's left john strafford al-jazeera baghdad all right girls born now here's andy thanks so much as well that's give their teenage strike of innocence junior another chance to impress trial at second i.x. in the last sixteen of the european champions league the eighteen year old brazilian was signed for thirty million dollars from from one guy two years ago is now establishing himself in that first scene rail aiming for a full streitz champions league title the kickoff just over an hour away even typical attempt as one 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. real madrid. we see real madrid is a very good team with good ideas and tactics last week we saw they are improving a lot we have to do something about it and come up with solution as we don't just

have to look we also to focus on our game and that's very important in the night so the game pressure though i'm going to take you on tottenham at wembley brushes english jane sand shark causing want to see where she's first saying mates in the build up so this one eighth got his passports on the way outs causing it seems far from germany to be delayed on the pitch the eighteen year old it's not a break out season helping the same to the top of the pundits league. with sal and conscious opportunities and he has them for sure but he's he's still eighteen years old and he's done amazing at the moment. but i think that you know for him it's he's not where he's supposed to be he's a he's a rough diamond and he'll get there early going to soul shards and bait and run as manchester united manager has ended he described his team's champions league loss to paris st germain as a reality check goals from present compared barry and killing them by the french champions at suno when an old trafford things got even worse few nights it when paul pogba was sense of lights on is the first time you know i sort of lost by more

than one goal in a home european side the second leg coming up in paris on march the sixth. great run and we came into this game in a great frame of mind great form but of course it was because that book they have quality from the db are on the list right. there is a reason being behind them being who are the favorites for the for the champions league with and then again nothing. but the level we need to aim for at this club well of bron james in the l.a. lakers are in danger of missing out on an n.b.a. playoff spot they lost the alonso hawks on choose de james itself put in a pretty impressive earth it's going to twenty eight points eleven rebounds and sixteen assist to his fifth triple double of the same simply couldn't save the lakers on his own john collins and trey young each school twenty two points to help atlanta to a one seventeen to one thirteen when the lakers have now lost for the last five games and six ten in the west and cough. or

afghanistan cricket same is preparing to take part in its second fifty over world cup it marks a remarkable achievement for the pyres many young afghans learned how to play in refugee camps and as tony burley reports from jalalabad cricket is also helping afghans cope with the trauma of war. no matter whether it's a cold winter when embury be hot summer in afghanistan is always the season for cricket even with no more than a piece of wood for a bat a rocky piece of ground for a pitch and a stone for the wickets most young boys and many men have been hooked by the phenomenon of cricket which has swept the country. these boys shout out the names of their cricketing heroes. years ago they would have been of pakistani players today they're all afghan it's a remarkable story that has taken afghanistan from the rocky outcrops to the best cricket grounds in the world in less than twenty years afghanistan has gone from

nothing to being the latest member of the international cricket council the i.c.c. and the elite group of twelve top cricketing nations. but in twenty eighteen we beat bangladesh and sri lanka we drew with india and we got a full membership of the i.c.c. these are amazing achievements for the afghan nation we are playing now on grounds where they had never heard of afghanistan before. the afghan cricket board now has five stadia in the country and a flourishing youth policy minus cricket we are nothing because when we were young we played on the cricket. we don't have any good opportunity for the education. kind of thing but the cricket was free for us so. i think a lot helped us then but now we are here. afghans started playing cricket in the refugee camps of pakistan and since then it's become more than just a sport it transcends political cultural and religious divides and if anything it's

become the one unifying factor in forty years of conflict could support cricket is the ambassador of peace the afghan cricket team has always given the message of unity and brotherhood to the entire nation and brought us together the afghan cricket team is the source of unity among afghans. we started recording. their love cricket and also. good support for cricket all of us in their time so that's why we are here cricket has its own followers and its own language and it doesn't involve wall cricket is a. tremendous force for other people across as far as one is it is i mean happiness if. it's happening. and in a country where so many have been traumatized by years of conflict cricket is providing therapeutic qualities that are helping relieve stress could noise. if afghans didn't have cricket they would take drugs or take part in war other

miserable things psychologically cricket takes their mind away from bad things people will participate in elections but they will in cricket has become essential to the afghan people. afghanistan can't entertain foreign teams on home soil because of the war that's another goal but for these boys the hope is one day they can emulate their heroes and play for the national team and in some of the biggest cricket leads in the world for one of those few afghan success stories how's that tony berkeley al-jazeera jalalabad. spirits the full range of emotions at the world tennis tournament in rotterdam medvedev seemed less than impressed with his own form in this first round match against germany shaadi of france but a russian did manage to regain his cocksure to win this one in straight sets. ok that is a sports looking finale quest of thanks andy and that is it for this news hour and for me hasn't. thanks for being with us our colleagues in london will have more

news for you in a couple. every dude is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured that's what intelligence agencies are tossed to do things in secret that are a lawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from the n.s.a. they could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera.

driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty idea if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries live close the floods and the like and the others through the green line continues with spirit child to do stories that have

impact on society i testify in the law to make sure that the bad guys behind bad ass so many people have gone to jail as a result of my work rewind on al-jazeera. at least twenty seven reported dead in iran after a suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying members of the revolutionary guard this says the u.s. stages a conference these really prime minister says will focus on the common interest of war with iraq. alone barbara sorry you're watching.