just from this bit of luck that's unbelievable and see there's the vegetable of the sea right there. on al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes at least twenty seven reported dead in iraq after a suicide bombing targeting a boss carrying members of the revolutionary guard this says the u.s. conference. will focus on the common interest the war with iraq. the. capital and so after almost

a week of protests urging the president to resign which have left several dead spain's government on the brink after capital and separatist parties pulled their support during a crucial. time in rounds much of the season. against dutch side. at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed and several others injured in a suicide bombing the far as news agency says a sunni group separate operating in southeast iran has claimed responsibility for the attack that happened on the road between the city. and cash near the pakistan border an area where armed groups and drug smugglers frequently operate the force

said in a statement that a suicide bomber in a vehicle laden with explosives drove into a bus that was carrying members of the guards well the editor in chief of the far as news agency that's. says the system province is often under attack from armed groups including ones in neighboring pakistan. iranis you know has warned pakistan on various occasions that these terrorist groups are you know they are center in southwestern pakistan and they are free to do you know to reorganize and to restructure themselves and operate and they staged cross border attacks in iraq and skate into pakistan iran has at least on three separate occasions war in pakistan that if they don't deal with this problem they could you know stage an attack well the attack came as a u.s. sponsored two day conference gets underway in poland on the security situation in

the middle east and the threat posed by iran representatives from more than sixty nations are attending what has been widely labeled an anti iran conference despite the presence of the u.s. secretary of state and vice president russia isn't attending and the european union has only sent low level delegates but these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is there and has said the meeting will focus on what he calls the common interest of war with iran. well the french based group of this event are rainy and have been using the event as an opportunity to rally for regime change in half country but back in iran the foreign minister dismissed that meeting as they had on the five. it's another attempt by the united states to. an obsession we did on. this dog and i think the fact it. did not even aiming to produce any agree takes rather than just tempting to make

a statement by themselves. well earlier the international court of justice ruled that iran can proceed with its bid to recover billions of dollars of assets frozen by the united states judges that the un's top court rejected u.s. efforts to have the case thrown out the now hold further hearings to determine whether iran can get back the two billion dollars of frozen by the u.s. supreme court three years ago the u.s. wants the money to be given to victims of attacks that have been blamed on iran suck more about this with allie valets is the rector of the crisis group's iran project sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera first of all let's focus on this on this conference and it speaks volumes not only the countries that did go but also the level of delegation that they sent to israel sending the prime minister and a lot of european countries sending quite low level delegates what do you think will come out of it. well this is

a major diplomatic mistake by the united states of the united states look the objective of this meeting was initially to focus on iran then given the pushback by other countries and the european union the u.s. not to dilute the subject of the meeting and talk about peace and security in the middle east rather than just focus on iran but nevertheless they ended up with a very diluted list of participants this is supposed to be a ministerial meeting but in practice out of the sixty countries there are only only a few countries that have sent their menace thirds and a lot of other countries including u.s. allies in western europe are attending and much lower levels i don't think this is so far as ended up being a success for the trumpet ministration and the very fact that it is now overshadowed. by what you mentioned in your report which is a tweet by the prime minister of israel which talks about war with iran and as well

as presence of iranian dissident group this cult like group called you know hala which had a rally just outside of the conference and it's keynote speaker was president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani these two have really overshadowed the intentions of this conference and i guess if we look at the guest list so to speak of the conference say it's quite obvious which countries are strongly against iran is really mentioned while on saudi arabia u.a.e. the u.s. but what does it show us that sixty countries in total did go i mean do you think that this meeting will actually perhaps depend of regional and international coordination for the countries that do want to keep iran in check. look the u.s. is still the sole superpower of the world so if it insists countries participates but as we've seen they don't participate at the level that the us out of mind the

reality is that the trumpet ministration has come to the conclusion that it's maximum pressure campaign against iran is not going to work unless it has diplomatic and political isolation of iran also in addition to economic pressure that it's putting on the country and that requires other countries to join in the club which currently only has four members which are israel united states united arab emirates and. and saudi arabia i don't think at the end of this conference we would see an end large amount of that club which is the main objective of this meeting and the u.s. has repeatedly tried either in the security council or in other forums to enlarge just a group but it hasn't been able to do it because primarily of its violation of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal with iran that the rest of the international community still thinks is a net positive for the nonproliferation regime and so what do you think will be the impact of this conference and i mean i guess the visuals coming out of it for iran

itself. well look iranians are obviously under tremendous pressure economically and they feel that there is a collusion against them in the region and the terrorist attack that took place today in iran exacerbates their fears about trumpet ministration and its allies in the region designs for regime change so it definitely would increase tensions in the region but in practical terms i don't think it would change the name of the game forty iranians which is to wait out the trumpet ministration and hope that trump loses the elections in two thousand and twenty and the next u.s. president would come back into compliance with the nuclear deal and that the iranians would be able to find mutually beneficial arrangements would be united states and maybe would some of their neighbors and reach levis the rector of the crisis groups around projects or thank you thank you venezuela's opposition on

call rest has appointed new board members of the state oil company p.t. vs say and that's us subsidiaries the move puts further pressure on president to do is leadership of the oil rich nation meanwhile pope francis has told my daughter that the conditions are right for him to mediate one as well as a political crisis but there are revealed in an interview that he requested the poll to have self in launching talks with the opposition and italian newspaper says the pope wrote a letter to lead a little turning down his request the pope wants to be a mediator bought at his conditions and he sees my daughter with a very soft diplomatic jargon typical of the vatican that in the past actually it might do it all. didn't respect and comply with the pledges taken in. pasta agreements so beyond the soft language the pope is quite tough in saying

yes i can be a mediator but at my conditions. meanwhile the democratic chairman of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee has ruled out any u.s. military intervention in venezuela he dismissed such suggestions from president trump at a hearing on the country's crisis i do worry about the president saber rattling his hands that the u.s. military intervention remains an option i want to make clear to our witnesses in to everyone else watching us military intervention is not an option congress decides when we are in the u.s. military is usually around the world in congress would not support military intervention in venezuela venezuela's neighbors feel the same way a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more in this u.s. president donald trump is continuing to signal that all options are on the table when asked about military intervention by the united states in venezuela and as well of course borders on the colombian president was meeting with donald trump in

the oval office donald trump saying that the united states has many plans and there is a lot happening that people don't know about the colombian president yvonne do is also meeting with prominent members of congress and he is also going to meet with representatives of the world bank while he is in washington he says he is focused on continuing to build support in the western hemisphere to pressure the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro to step down saying the western hemisphere will give one why though the opposition leader the support that he needs to lead the transition that the obstruction of aid currently is a crime against humanity donald trump also stating that he believes that nicolas maduro is making a terrible mistake by not letting the food aid in well he will not telegraph next steps he continues to say that all options when it comes to u.s.

intervention is on the table. spain's opposition is urging prime minister pedro sanchez to call an early election after his government's budget was the fitted in a key parliamentary vote the bill failed after parties from the catalonia region refused to back it their support was conditional on having direct talks with madrid about self-determination for catalonia they've a change of reports from madrid. oh 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 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 thier 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 to be treated. as was the canal is a misnomer 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 socialists but they have decided last week to change their focus for the rest of the 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 the time a new right wing government could gain power with no intention of any compromises or. which would probably leave an open ended spanish politics for years to come. to al-jazeera but it. coming up on this news hour from london a thai opposition party is left fighting for its survival after nominating the king sr candidate for prime minister they fought alongside the british in world war two despite getting much lower pay calls for african soldiers to finally have their sacrifice recognized and in sports the new team hoping for a fast start to this year's formula one season. a journalist in the philippines who was one of several people named time magazine's

person of the year has been arrested on libel charges maria ressa is the c.e.o. of the news website rappler she has repeatedly clashed with president reagan to test their publishing news reports critical of his anti drug crackdown she says the case is meant to silence her website they know is i have not gotten an official copy of the. indictment we would have the chance to file a motion for reconsideration we should the fact that an arrest warrant has been issued well really interesting and i will follow i just shocked that the rule of law has been broken to the point that i can't see it. a type political party that wanted the king sister to run as its candidate for prime minister is now battling for survival judges are deciding whether a case the baron the party can go ahead the king intervene to stop princess arthur standing in next month's election the first since the military coup five years ago

when he has more now from bangkok a warning his report that's containing flashing images. two weeks ago the tire rocks a chart 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 sidhu nomination was in violation of rule 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 taksin shinawatra who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup. talks in china

what has spent his political career fighting the establishment and on friday ties 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 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 tax an ally told al-jazeera about his concerns that the campaign and next month's election won't be free and fair is designed in the first. so that the. will be able to extend its power. thailand's military leaders have formed the government since the latest coup in two thousand and fourteen removed texan's main party the 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 charred party came the day after a t.v. station owned by the chena wants was ordered off the air for fifteen days the government's national broadcasting body said voice t.v. showing provocative content that caused confusion and social division 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 when hey al-jazeera bangkok. nigeria's election commission is promising that 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 the story of thousands of voting machines in the stake

president mohamed is running for a second term he's facing businessman and former vice president. and around seventy other candidates several people were killed. witnesses say the rush happened after the president had finished addressing the crowd in the southern city of port harcourt. to have signed the peace accord pledging to participate in free and fair elections the leaders of nigeria's most popular political parties had worried observers with accusations of blocking access to campaign rallies and vote rigging plans. i am saying there had been. an exit. and outside nigeria. future. country. that this is evidence the. disposition to

electoral outcomes while a rise in boko haram attacks is forcing thousands of nigerians to move to neighboring cameroon the un says thirty thousand people from the northeastern borno state have fled in recent days fearing more attacks by the on group the violence has displaced more than two million people since two thousand and nine well in central n.j. area violence of another kind has left people displaced the conflict this 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 admitted risk reports now from the city of jokes. after a hard day's work benjamin moses and robot a colleague what not of the streets of their patent neighborhood in jaws in central nigeria. fifteen years of conflict between muslims and christians here

a change there for use of many communities as people move to areas they feel safe in this is my 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 him to be i don't i don't i don't to god please i was to dogs if i die just gets a little because all my life lived in this part of a bottle of benjamin a schoolteacher and khalid a taxi driver are inseparable if anything is about to open we are here protecting you and anything that is helpful like that wanted to help you we can also i also went through few was approaching towards is very easy if you're. in central large area 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 well it's because i said that peace for them have all the things that the people raise as a source of the conflict well this 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 not just a city why nigeria's north it's ours 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 blood just 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 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 . in haiti at least six people have now died in almost a week of anti-government demonstrations dozens of inmates of also broken out of jail as protesters prevented police from reaching the prison we saw angry at people rather angry about rising costs economic stagnation and corruption that a strange one the president has given in moyes to step down or a bird and rally has more. a man shot dead by police his

body lying near the presidential palace as angry crowds gather in protest. hundreds have arrived from haiti slums to the capital approach of ponds with a message for president jovan i'm willing to step down. i want to believe that i know everyone in haiti is asking for jordan to leave but he refuses we ask ourselves does he want to die in power or does he want people to put the country down like the let us come up on the court i mean this situation because a president juvenal was a come go to school he's a thief and he must go if not will burn down the whole country where in the streets until he leaves. for haiti suffering from a failing economy and skyrocketing inflation president morsy is being accused of systematic corruption and official ordered his report in january implicates him in the embezzlement of phones it also accused former ministers of

a possible misuse of development money loaned by venezuela. what the government makes the budget just for them this is not how you provide change the government took their money and spent it on themselves on people who don't deserve it. during his election campaign noise a promise food on every plate a money in every pocket. we went to elections a part of the population voted i am president i am ready to speak to all my brothers and sisters over the difficulties the country is facing to my brothers and sisters in the opposition the doors open so as to reach a solution you know. since moises inauguration two years ago inflation has risen to fifteen percent. bakeries have closed people can't get a loaf of bread. many people are calling the protests food riots saying they can no

longer live without the basics for the u.s. has recalled all non-emergency past now and the u.n. busy i was three nations according on the cover. to engage in talks so the president has remained silent but the protests say they will not stop until they get talks or. laura out to see. what's more still to come this hour including how mexico is reacting to the conviction of drug cartel leader at chapel after a trial which captured the world's attention the end of any year as nasa announces that it's powering down its mars of rover opportunity and then sport the heavyweight boxing champion who's stepping into unknown territory and the what that story and why.

now it's still i suppose midwinter has been a warming trend going on in europe the real cold has been chucked over the border into western russia been snowing heavily in moscow not this cloud is fading it is still cold enough to see a little bit of snow on the high ground northern turkey otherwise i was talking rain here and was single figures you sing well that's on the border and you'd be right to think that in the balkans for example maybe the cup presidents that might be some mountain tops now and again i'm going to friday night was to go snow on the hog on the turkey most of the talking radio and for the rest of europe which i've been covering standing in the thames has been rising and nothing else has been happening that is have fifty in madrid fourteen in london they respond right in coming to western ports commission the but otherwise it's his rather more like early spring. don't tell anybody so that's the case then also now gerry tunisia and morocco temp is quite hard about twenty three whereas you still got that on shore breeze from eastern libya and then of course from all major and the levant has

tensions in the middle teens and breeze brings rain in crowd with it a disappointing picture i'm constantly different from those places for the west or indeed for the south indeed you've got to get to the tropics in africa to pick up any significant chasse from or let's get on to uganda. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how why will raise influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the mouth of a hundred just eight miles over what bailable believe oppressed people look at me and continue to think that negroes would be different that what you mean by that about malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face on zero zero.

only jews here on. entry. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera at least twenty seven revolutionary guards have been killed and several others injured in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in southeast they were the fars news agency reports that

a sunni group. says it was behind the attack a u.s. sponsored conference is open in poland on the security situation in the middle east and what's termed the threat posed by iran israeli prime minister benjamin it's in the ouse says it will focus on what he calls an interest in a war with iran and pope francis has reportedly told president nicolas maduro that the conditions aren't right for him to mediate in venezuela's political crisis but the request that the pontiff help in launching talks with the opposition. the presidents of russia turkey and iran will meet in the russian city of sochi on thursday to the sky syria they last met in september and since then the u.s. has announced plans to withdraw from syria's northeast and while turkey wants to fill that void russia and iran believe the syrian government should take back control cinna holder has more now from ten. they last met in teheran in september the presidents of russia iran and turkey are partners in the so-called

asked on a process on syria since then the us announced plans to withdraw its troops from the north east a corner of syria which is under the control of the kurdish armed groups the white turkey wants to fill the void and create what it calls a safe zone in syria along its borders iran however shares russia's position allies of the syrian government are referring to the one nine hundred ninety eight at an agreement between syria and turkey the best way. to defend syrian turkish borders. legitimate concerns of turkish neighbors about terrorist attacks from syrian territory to make sure that the syrian government has control of its territory we have a framework they are gonna agreement and we can see how best we can use that agreement the kremlin has been encouraging talks between syria and the wife for

a peaceful handover but it is also trying to push for direct contact between syria and turkey and that is where the ad in a dream and comes in that agreement and that syrian government support for the p.k. k. the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers a terrorist organization russia's message was that turkey can rely on syria to reign in the white peachey which turkey says is an offshoot of the p.k. k. or up between the once close allies is seen as a positive development by iran i think. all of them can remind the. mend. changed. erdogan has talked about low level contact with the syrian government through the intelligence services russia iran and turkey their differences but their strategic interests means they find common ground none of the countries want

to risk rupturing their relationship russia doesn't want turkey to move to the us iran wants turkey to remain an economic lifeline turkey wants a seat on the table the defense ministers of turkey and russia have been meeting to determine the roadmap for the post u.s. period the fate of now under the control of what many in the international community regard as an al qaida linked group seems to be a park in egypt russia has been pressuring turkey to act against them to avert a syrian government offensive that could cause a humanitarian crisis on its border. deals are in the making russia promise to move to wipe e.g. from the border it may promise turkey security karen or it could allow turkey to set up a temporary safe zone that is all on the table when the three presidents meet in

sochi. the european commission has proposed adding seven countries including saudi arabia to the money laundering blacklist the list focuses on governments that the things do little to swarthy swart the financing of the illegal armed groups and organized crime tensions between the e.u. and riyadh have increased in the wake of the murder of the sound of journalist john ashaji inclusion on the list means european banks have to apply tighter controls on transactions france and britain are against adding saudi arabia. a nationwide strike in belgium is paralyzing air traffic seaports and train services all flights in and out of the country have been cancelled for twenty four hours tens of thousands of airline passengers are affected the strikes have been called by belgians three major trade unions which are demanding an increase in wages benefits

and pensions. workers in south africa have also been on strike the man being an end to all job cuts they've marched in cities nationwide against what trade union leaders are calling a jobs jobs bloodbath especially in state run industries the allies of the ruling a.n.c. accuse leaders of condoning corruption deepening poverty and creating a record unemployment welcome web joined the march in johannesburg. hundreds marched into central johannesburg to demand an end to job cuts and prosecution of corrupt officials and business leaders part of a nationwide strike by the congress of south african trade unions have nearly two million members the president does not know about caught up she brought people are sick and tired of the problems is a comment made they want to see action and. leaders in state ground industries

and in the private sector must be protected unemployment rate twenty seven percent . it. was a way that was a. way to. make money. be particular demonstrators are opposed to it and restructuring of the state and electricity company called eskom employees nearly fifty thousand people unions say the government's plan will lead to privatization and more job cuts. the organizers said fifteen thousand people would come that's probably only about a tenth of the congress the south african trade union supporters dwindled over many one of the reasons a little bit members think its leaders haven't been very effective at lobbying the government of the african national congress to actually pass legislation that helps

workers. see needs the support of the trade unions in general elections in may the president's iraq poses also trying to please big business and foreign investors to i want to start in his state of the nation address last week he promised economic growth and jobs. of the republic. of different constituencies. there realizes that as as much as they can claim to be leftist. they do need business nothing of running our lives and then see that the majority of new jobs that have to be created created by the private sector. would be tough for the a.n.c. to please investors and keep the unions onside khamees election is expected to win fewer votes than ever before is even a chance it'll lose power for the first time since apartheid ended in one thousand nine hundred four so support of the unions is critical. malcolm webb al-jazeera

johannesburg south africa. hearing the second world war hundreds of thousands of african men joined the british army many endured prejudice during the war and they collect afterwards now the makers of a special program for al-jazeera have uncovered a document in britain's national archives which reveals that they were paid up to three times less than british soldiers and received much smaller pensions and with the number of living african veterans dwindling their record struck knowledge the sacrifice they made. reports. just in khost survived the harras 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 wasn't sabia to pay his respects to the african veterans just in hopes the prince would take a message home. to paul doodoo mark.

readers and our thoughts. you thought for him to give an. outdoor new comeback i will not go forward to anyone you never forget me because we thought we have. had a war grave cemetery near mount kenya veterans like you say 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 gave me an i.v. and they gave me. i says we can go on as. the colonial regime

placed a different value on african life and when you're a parent memories of war are at times overshadowed by the life of poverty we should be ashamed. for for all countries all living in poverty we have an opportunity and that twilight is to get it right and it's not too late we could still make a bad as 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 eighteen britain announced a package of about fifteen million dollars to help impoverished veterans in a widow's from commonwealth countries senior officials stress the money is eight not compensation it's not designed to time what it is designed to do is provide some very practical support what my department core mission is to alleviate extreme

poverty about hall of a couple of friends out there 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 the hope that when they die this time in history will not die with them. this is the young al jazeera which is the journalist who made the documentary the forgotten heroes of empire for his era he says the united kingdom must make amends before it's too late this is a period of britain's history which is generally because by many many people more than half a million african soldiers were recruited by person during world war two white

soldiers could get around three times the amount of the water security or lump sum they were paid for their service a black private would get three and a half shillings for each month the service a white private would get ten shillings compensation and an official apology needs to be made and it needs to made to be made before it's too late and you can see the full report of that investigation at twenty two thirty g.m.t. and people in power the forgotten heroes of empire it's bring you some breaking news now from the u.s. where the house of representatives has just voted to limit u.s. involvement in the war in yemen it's a reg you to president trump over his alliance world saudi arabia. on tuesday the mexican drug lord known as el chapo was convicted on all ten counts that he faced in a drug trafficking trial in new york which captured the world's attention but back home in mexico things already seem to have moved on as john holdren reports. in the

u.s. the outcome of the el chapo trial was headline news but the verdict on the man who for a decade symbolized organized crime in mexico barely caused a ripple in his homeland. some newspapers found space for him on their front pages but the president's daily press conference was an hour in before anyone trouble to bring him up the response was a little more than a morality tale is still knowledge young it's a lesson that's real happiness isn't money or material things cheap luxury and fame real happiness is being at peace with your conscience and with your neighbor. even the juicy trial testimony alleging that quacking guzman slipped to mexico's ex-president one hundred million dollars bribe could make him bite simply because to get it right is it by salad better only we can punish past errors but the best thing to do is to avoid future crimes i'm a believer in looking forward and starting a new era. this in a low

a cartel of which working guzman was a prominent leader seems a big believer in that too after his little it simply got on with its lucrative business of processing and shipping vast amounts of drugs in spite of arrest and conviction really organized crime is as was in mexico before so what we need to understand is that cartels are cartels do not function as top down vertical organizations which can be eradicated by eradicating the guy on top they are more to understood as alliances complex alliances of different groups different clans different interests and if you take out one guy doesn't mean that the whole structure will crumble. that's perhaps why the new president has said his priority would be to go up to king pins in his time walking guzman was undoubtedly the most famous of the move he escaped prison twice and went from poverty to the forbes rich list it brought timber. it to some he was an outlaw hero but that's just part of

his legacy the other is his involvement in a brutal drug scene hundreds of thousands of men to a many others don't unidentified in mass graves across the country and that's what many grieving families here are more likely to remember him john home and. mexico city it's the end of an iraq in mars exploration nasa has formally announced that the minds of its longest running rover on the red planet after a remarkable fifteen years the opportunity rover landed on mars back in two thousand and four with a projected mission of just three months but nasa obviously built it well as powered by its solar panels open it he was actually still going strong until communication finally ceased in a massive dust storm last june. they lasted so long in part because we built

the hardware ok and if you want to accuse us of overengineering i would plead guilty as charged. another thing was that we got lucky with the weather i mean alternately it was the weather the killed opportunity but before that for years and years and years we would have these gusts of wind that we clean dust off of the rover solar arrays of tiny harrison is the director of research at the new space initiative at arizona state university madame thank you so much for joining us as we were hearing i think air opportunity was meant to last only nine martian days but apparently lasted fifteen years and now it's fall and silent and after fifteen years and nasa said that it's actually transformed our understanding of how so. so opportunity was one of our first missions on the ground where we actually found direct evidence of liquid water in the history of mars so we'd seen a lot of evidence from orbit that there were rivers and oceans and lakes inside

craters but opportunity even a glimpse of that evidence on the ground and we were able to piece together a story of how many will water environments on mars that could have supported life as we know it so what's the next step then when it comes to mars exploration and that what rovers are there now so we've taken steps a spirit an opportunity the twin brokers their goal was to follow the water and then the next step that we had with the curiosity rover which landed in two thousand and twelve and is still operating today is specifically to look for signs of habitability so environments that could have supported life and then we're taking the next step with the mars twenty twenty rover that nasa is launching next year just pacifically cache samples so that we can look for signs of life the european space agency and china are also planning to send rovers in two thousand and twenty as well so it's going to be a busy place on mars and we have the nasa insight lander which just got to mars near the end of november of last year and that one is

a stationary lander that's going to hunt for mars quakes so basically the martian version of earthquakes to see if there's any type of internal activity going on ribbon around it and apparently when the last attempt was made to communicate with the opportunity last attempt where i guess people at nasa knew that beyond that that they would just write it off is that apparently it was quite emotional in the control room there were tears and there were hugs can you understand why that would be. it's a really emotional moment i think even more emotional than when we lost the spirit rover because at that point the team was still together they still have an opportunity to keep working on but this was the end of an era and the team members were all going to go their separate ways working on different missions and this mission lasted for fifteen years i mean there are people that come here and because of this mission there are children that were born because of this mission there are people like the deputy project scientist who was in high school when the mission landed and now she's one of the people running the mission it was active for so

long so it's been embedded in a lot of people's daily lives for a significant portion of their careers and so it leaves a whole behind having that mission now over kind of harrison the rector of research for the new space initiative at arizona state university not him thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us thank you thank you. go ahead in this in sports the tennis player is struggling to control his emotions at the world tennis tournament in the water. and the miss becomes a reality is the elusive black leopard. for the first time in a sentry. on. business updates. going places together.

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and who. and now here is and with the sport. thank you so much broader world around madrid have restarted their efforts on a fourth straight champions league title royal a taking on dutch side i.x. in the first leg of their last sixteen tie carrying ben zimmer gave the lead midway through the second half in this one but with full time approaching in amsterdam it's one one tottenham are three up against pressure dorman in wednesday's other game are going to seoul show has described his team's champions league loss to paris sanjay man as a reality check goals from fresno compare bay and killing them back i gave the french champions a to win it old trafford things got worse a few nights when paul popper was sent off lights on is the first time united have lost more than one goal in a home in europe inside the second leg is in paris on march the sixth.

great run in we came into this game in a great the frame of mind great form but of course it was a big book they have quality from the deep and illustrate you there is a reason being behind them being one of the favorites for the for the champions league with and then again nothing. but the level that we need to aim for at this club or last thirty two of the europa league it started on thursday with the competition taking on added significance for chelsea's under pressure manager marat sorry sorry last time out his team were beaten six nailed by manchester city in the premier league that was chelsea's biggest defeat in close to thirty years and saw them slide down to six in the table sorry in his side and now in sweden to take on mt. we know.

what. the odds are against us towards our. eighty million. to a noble goals for the hundred fifty million to more so the stuart's the sterility but who will fool sinking a little into permanent so anything can happen in football world heavyweight champion anthony joshua has admitted defeat for now in his efforts to set up a concept that would unify all the divisions belts instead the brits and will take on american general miller in new york on june the first it will be joshua's first fight in the united states joshua holds three versions of the heavyweight title with the fourth belonging to dion say wilder while there is lining up a rematch with tyson thierry following their draw last december you know the chorus

they are they have great division right now it's full of books and politics but you know. the punches you know would have lots of were because they. jump ship of the world but i'm looking forward to the new challenges two thousand and most seem new challenges and this is one of the masters and it is. raining formula one world champion lewis hamilton has had his first drive in the car he hopes can empower him to a six drive this title hamilton said his new mercedes out for a spin on britain's silverstone circuits that seem have won the last five constructors championships the season begins in melbourne next month with alex and once again racing alongside valtteri bottas us it was a great first date which is probably one of the best ones that. that we've had in all these years but what's really most impressive to see in the car coming together last night which is always impressive to see and then to see how smooth today has has gone of course there's there's things that we can continue to work on but you

know so many people worked tirelessly to make to pull this car together. when you're on the grid this season of the race important seeing their own is canada's lawrence strongly took over force india when it hit financial problems last year his son and former williams dr allowance will team up with surgery perth of mexico . we are aiming for at least for this year when you consider the level of competition that it's in the midfield with such a big star on big money factors isn't going to be easy but this team has done it before. i would be very pleased if we can have a couple of volumes as well. have a great season carolina post cover has become the fifth top twenty points of points of the cats are open due to injury australian open champ in soccer is another high profile absence say it all mean so on how up is the top seed in the x. one hundred fourteen champion winning her opening match against her in straight

sets if she wins this title the remaining will move from three to two in the world rankings. stefana sits about suffered a surprise first round defeat of the world tennis tournament in rotterdam since first beat roger federer on his way to the semifinals at the australian open the damage to her of bosnia and herzegovina was suited for him in this one it's in the world number twelve in three sets. down on medvedev experiencing the full range of emotions in his match medvedev less than impressed with his own form against the shoddy affronts of the russian did manage to regain his composure to eventually win straits it's. ok very sorry sport is looking for now let's get back to barbara in london andy thank you very much for that finally it's an animal that for a long time was regarded as nicole but now the first verified picture is of a black leopard for the sentry had been taken in kenya remote cameras captured

these images last month at a safari camp one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi the black leopard which is also known as the black panther has an extremely rare genetic mutation that turns its coat jet black the previous confirmed picture was taken in ethiopia way back in ninety nine and mazing oni's in a few minutes stay with us. from africa i've seen very little just featuring shots taken from very great distances or from the air or from these very low quality trail cameras the only shots i've seen i've never seen anything that was taken close up with a high quality camera and the combination of the nighttime nature of these photos you know this that this animal being black is just such a stunning subject to photograph at night so that and the fact they're in africa means that they're almost completely unique. that's it for me for this

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