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report on the campaign to save cultural treasures in iraq after years of war. thank you for joining as we begin this news hour with breaking news out of the u.s. where the house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's a direct rebuke of the trump administration's support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate and trump says he'll veto it she had written zero for some washington. this is a five minute vote this is the vote that the house of representatives then controlled by the republicans refused to allow last year with control having shifted to the democrats passage of a resolution ending u.s. involvement in the yemen war it was never in doubt nearly all of the bombs that

have fallen say the same thing made in the united states of america they fall on weddings they fall on hospitals and on homes they fall on funerals rep you refuse g. camps and school busses i am mindful that this debate is taking place a day after the president disregarded the law and failed to report to congress who was responsible for the murder of journalist jamal to shogi. the murder of dramatic last october has mobilized members of congress against the saudi led war in yemen in fact as one republican noted democrats didn't seem concerned when the previous president began helping the bombardment of the country and would have been nice if our friends were as equally concerned with president obama actually was committing us to kinds of activities we're talking about but things have changed and if anything anger has grown on capitol hill for several reasons the white house is

refusal to meet a congressional deadline to definitively conclude whether crown prince mohammed bin salman was responsible for the killing a new york times report that revealed u.s. intelligence had intercepted a phone call in which the crown prince threatened to put a bullet into the journalist reports that despite having been officially fired as a result of his role in the killing of the chaudry south alcatel he remains a close aide of the crown prince and the reported u.s. weapons supplied to saudi arabia have ended up in the hands of al qaeda fighters in yemen but it was seen as a split between conservative and progressive democrats the republicans did manage to get bipartisan support for an amendment to the bill allowing the president to continue what it calls appropriate information sharing with the saudis last year a similar resolution was passed in the republican controlled senate an unprecedented assertion of congressional authority limiting the powers of a president to make war under the war powers act the resolution sponsors are hopeful it will pass again in the senate however without

a two thirds majority from both chambers of congress president trump can and has indicated he will veto the bill the first veto of his term and the administration maintains it is acting appropriately america's not caring for america's taken more action in response to the tragic murder of jamal khashoggi i will continue to take more action but if the white house had hoped that opposition to saudi arabia would dissipate in washington in twenty nineteen they've been disappointed she ever tansey al-jazeera washington. live now to al-jazeera is mike hanna in washington so mike a historic vote every due to the president's alliance with saudi arabia but what does this resolution actually do well it's very much a historic vote it's the first time the congress has successfully invoked the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act so certainly this in itself is a significant what is also significant is that eighteen republicans joined the democrats in voting for this measure

a clear sign of the bipartisan nature of this ongoing arguing went about u.s. support for saudi arabia what does that mean well it's likely to go to the senate in coming days or indeed weeks one must remember that last year in december the senate easily passed a very similar motion that was never taken up by the house which was at that stage controlled by republicans so it can be expected that this bill will get fairly easy passage through the senate although not likely to get the two thirds majority that is needed as she had mentioned in both house and senate to avoid a veto by president trump yeah i was going to ask you about the process i mean even if it gets through the senate the president has promised to veto it so then what happens after that. well essentially what the house has done is signaled saudi arabia of its dissatisfaction and something that the senate will do as well the use of very powerful messages given the nature of the relationship between the u.s.

and saudi arabia that somewhat face saving measure to include a edition that says that intelligence gathering or intelligence sharing will continue part of a bid to get some kind of republican support but if even if president trump does veto this legislation that in itself will carry a political cost he'll be once again taking on congress of what is a highly bipartisan issue this may have a deep political impact on his administration his administration the absolutely insists that the president would be in his rights to veto it insists that there are no u.s. troops in actual conta combat in the yemen aiding the saudis so as far as the administration is concerned it's on solid ground but certainly there will be a political cost for president trump to pay should he veto what is something that the majority in both houses of congress appear to agree on thank you very much for

that mike hanna in washington d.c. for us now for more on what this resolution could mean for the war in yemen we're now joined by hasn't in washington d.c. also is the co-director of jess foreign policy and u.s. advocacy group that has been nobby in congress to find an end to the war in yemen thank you so much for being with us so your reaction how do you view that the passing of this resolution does it bring us any closer to seeing an end to the war in yemen. this is a historic passage the first time since the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act so it's definitely significant and what your previous guest said i i agree with pretty much everything he said it's a wonderful bipartisan moment let's take a look at what's happening on the ground in yemen right now on december thirteenth u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths was able to secure a cease fire between the two sides the hobbies and the who these because of the

congressional pressure on the trump administration and saudi arabia now that has been a fragile cease fire the suffering in yemen remains on the biblical scale twelve million people on the brink of famine and talks are resuming again right now they're actually griffiths's in who data province right now in the harbor on a boat talking to both sides they're trying to agree to the prisoner exchange fifteen thousand prisoners to be exchanged between the two sides and also to have the forces inside who dated province redeployed now so this vote the timing of this vote creates tremendous leverage for those peace talks so i think you have a real of impact on the ground but there's an amendment in the resolution that would permit the u.s. to continue sharing intelligence with the saudis the saudis rely on u.s. intelligence for targeting flash strikes so how does the resolution actually help what's happening on the ground as far as the fighting. so this would cut

off u.s. support now we are talking about military assistance through midair refueling which allegedly stopped in november and logistical and targeting assistance now this bill is no it's not passed yet we essentially have to have the senate vote on its virgine version and there's a chance to actually modify the language so we still could have a resolution that's modified by both the house and senate that doesn't have that language in there right but even still this is a major victory for the peace movement major victory but president trump as you know has said he would veto the resolution if it passes in the house and the senate why is it in your view that the administration is adamant that the u.s. continues to support the saudis in yemen to continues to support this very unpopular war yeah i mean so it's it's to me it's still unclear what he actually does trump does one thing and says another and says

something and doesn't other so it's i think that still unclear to me what exactly is going to happen if he does veto congress still has a chance to overturn that veto now if they can't if they don't get the votes they still know that there is a majority in both the house and senate that one end of this war so we can go after this via appropriations so we can actually defund all the operations that we're doing in yemen as far as you know supporting the saudi led coalition just via appropriations so we still still have a chance to and this has. thank you so much for sharing your views of s. thank you for being on al-jazeera has is with jess foreign policy live there from washington thank you. in other world news at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the country's border with pakistan the attacker drove

a vehicle filled with explosives into a bus carrying the guards local media say the sunni. has claimed responsibility that the attack happened as a u.s. sponsored two day summit got under way in poland the focus is security in the middle east but it's widely seen and labelled as an anti iran conference dozens of iranians use the meeting as an opportunity to call for a change of leadership while israel's prime minister cost controversy with his explanation of the summit take a listen because. we've gotten the message this meeting is not in secret this is an open meeting with representatives of leading arab countries that are sitting down together with israel in order to advance the common interest with iran. while representatives from sixty nations at the summit in warsaw including the u.s. secretary of state and the u.s. vice president but russia isn't attending and the e.u. has only sent no level delegates to reports from warsaw.

representatives from sixty nations but almost no head of state the much anticipated u.s. led conference to promote peace and security in the middle east convened on wednesday evening in the polish capital warsaw with a little clarity as to what it's in to achieve initially washington had said the conference was being organized to confront what it described as the iranian threats that didn't sit well with several european countries forcing president donald trump's administration to rename the meeting. despite this a small yet well funded and governments protest was held in warsaw addressed by one of america's most ardent pro israel politicians former new york mayor rudy giuliani well i believe there has to be complete change or i have a change of regime there has to be a democratic. regime that respects human rights that is for a non-nuclear iran that for a peaceful around then we can solve the problem the middle east the absence of world leaders and

a trumpet ministrations perceived pro israeli bias when it comes to dealing with the middle east is proof the iranians say that the meeting will fail on the course of war so conference i believe it's dead on arrival or dead before arrival i don't think it would do any think it's another attempt by the united states to pursue an obsession with iran that is not well founded and i think the fact that. they're not even aiming to produce any agreed text they're just attempting to make a statement by themselves on behalf of everybody indicates to you they don't even believe it's a serious affair palestinian leaders to have been critical of the meeting urging federal arab nations to downgrade their representation at the conference they remain angered at the u.s. his decision to move its embassy to illegally occupied jerusalem and are questioning its ability to act as a mediator for peace secretary of state pompei or has said participants will also focus on discussing the wars in yemen and syria and come. in groups like isis but

when it comes to those conflicts truth there is a lack of diversity and representation with russia and the forces for example not attending for all the high expectations held by the us for the warsaw summits knows just as much cynicism being expressed by countries who continue to use you answers role in the middle east is the stabilizing rather than positive now the trumpet ministration will point to the fact that the israeli prime minister will be meeting with representatives of arab regimes in public but that will have little impact on the daily reality of the millions of arabs who continue to live there under illegal occupation or trying to survive there and destruction. works or. is a policy fellow for the middle east and north africa program at the european council on foreign relations she explains why the summit is being held in poland when much of europe is against iran policies. poland we know has been trying to make an

outreach with president trump and the u.s. administration on security and defense issues and so this measure would have been possibly a measure of goodwill on the part of poland to hold this sort of a summit especially at a time where the united states feels quite isolated on middle east policy for i think a lot of other european capitals this is seen as an attempt by the united states actually divide and conquer european countries particularly on the issue of iran which has been unprecedented unity amongst member states in the european union for the last year we mustn't forget that the ether the the european countries that are party to this nuclear deal that's germany france and the u.k. or very angered by the u.s. decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal not just start but also wider middle east policy for example the u.s. move its embassy to jerusalem the stance of the u.s.

president personally on the qatar saudi crisis and a number of other instances in the middle east including the announced withdrawal from syria that has left a lot of european capitals feeling angry and frustrated that the u.s. doesn't really have a strategy or a middle east peace plan and so there's a lot of questions about what europeans would actually gain from showing up at this event and it's not just the europeans but apparently the turks some we know also the russians have also said no to attending this meeting at ministerial level so it's really i think a failure on the part of the united states to get this coalition international coalition against iran in a formidable way and in related news the u.s. has issued new iran related sanctions on nine people and two companies it's also charge a former u.s. air force officer with spying for you ron this comes as the international court of justice ruled iran can proceed with its beak to recover billions of dollars of

assets from the u.s. the money was frozen by the supreme court three years ago the u.s. wants the money to be given to victims of attacks blamed on iran. until on this news hour including the costs of religious and ethnic division in nigeria and the still process of free consultation as a country prepares to vote in general election it's. sports lewis hamilton has his first drive in the car he hopes can power him to a six formula one world title. venezuela's opposition controlled congress has names new boards of directors to the state oil and oil company opposition leader. the appointments of directors at its romeo's the venezuelan and its u.s. subsidiaries citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of an

industry that is the economic backbone of the country the us which backs quite zero impose sanctions on venezuela's oil sector president nicolas maduro says the sanctions are immoral and criminal u.s. president donald trump says maduro is making a terrible mistake by blocking u.s. aides from entering venezuela trump made the comments as he host cities colombian counterpart at the white house and on b. a is one of the ten latin american countries which has endorsed opposition leader as venezuela's interim president there currently stockpiles of aid on colombia's border with venezuela which my dural is refusing to allow in. the democratic chairman of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee meanwhile has ruled out any u.s. military intervention in venezuela he dismissed such suggestions from president trump at a hearing on venezuela. 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 and now 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 here's our white house correspondent kimberly hockett with more from washington 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 and 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 even do k. is also meeting with prominent members of congress 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. at least six people have died after nearly a week of anti-government protests in haiti the demonstrators are calling on president to step down they're angry about rising costs economic stagnation and corruption on tuesday seventy eight inmates escaped from a prison in the southern city of hakim during protests and there are also reports

of looting in the capital port au prince rania rapido has more from port au prince . anti-government demonstrations have reached day seven in haiti clashes between demonstrators and police continue and we should mention that the that the situation on the ground is rather tense apart from tear gas police have been using live direct live rounds to disperse protesters we can confirm that at least eight people have been killed within the context of this current political crisis we most recently heard of a journalist that was shot in the arm earlier this afternoon now there have been attacks against the presidential palace there was an attempted attack outside of the airport today there's been looting of stores even just driving around the city of port au prince there's roadblocks scattered across the city there's dry wood and tires presumably waiting to be set on fire in the vent that more clashes take place and what we're hearing from people from locals here overwhelmingly is a call for the president to step down unfortunately we haven't heard any sort of speech or any or any statement from president movies he says there was word that

the government ministers would be meeting this afternoon although even there we still haven't heard of what that meeting was about or any sort of statement from government ministers members of the president's political opposition have joined in on the demonstrations that are taking part in these in these protests and once again there's a very unified call for the president to step down and there's one more thing that we should mention that very important is that port au prince itself the city is being brought to its knees it's pretty much at a standstill schools are closed shops are closed supermarkets are closed government services are halted and speaking to an economist earlier today he's told us that just in the last seven days the impact the economic impact of the political crisis could be measured in the tens of millions of dollars that's a staggering amount of money considering that haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere certainly the poorest country in latin america so the sense that we get is that not only will these protests continue in the coming days there's still room for the political crisis itself to worsen. nigeria's election commission

is promising that saturday's frys eventual votes will go ahead despite another fire at one of its offices this was a third blaze of its kind within the last two weeks and it destroys thousands of voting machines in a number of states president mahmoud abbas is running for a second term his main rival is businessman and former vice president. hari and abubakar have signed a 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 rocking access to campaign rallies and vote rigging plans now in central nigeria violence has left thousands of people displaced the conflict is fueled by competition for land as well as religious and ethnic divisions and it underlines the security challenges that will be faced by whoever wins the presidency has this report from the city of joss. after

a hard day's work benjamin moses and what a colleague at work the narrow streets of the batek neighborhood in jos in central idea. fifteen years of conflict between muslims and christians here has changed the face of many communities as people move to areas they feel safe this is. but benjamin says he refused to leave his house in 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 i don't go out please our students if i don't discuss. this all my life was lived in this horrid benjamin a school teacher and khalid a taxi driver are inseparable if. i want to. hear cruelty. and anything that is helpful like i wanted to hopefully we can also i also went. rooting towards is very serious. in central nigeria two thousand and eighteen was

a year many here say they will never forget. competition for land between farmers and cattle herd is in addition to decades of struggle for power and if no city led to nearly three thousand deaths. thousands of people were forced from their homes because of violence and are still living in camps and out of the well it's because i said this for them having this all the things that the people raise as a source of the conflict we'll address is a damned 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 with all of its thousands 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 applied to state 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 and a 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 . just nigeria. workers have been marching in cities across south africa to demand an end to job cuts are protesting against what trade union leaders are calling a jobs bloodbath especially in state run industries the unions i know many allied

with the ruling a.n.c. party but that seems to be changing mark and webb joined them on change on a spec eve hundreds marched into central johannesburg to demand an end to job cuts and the prosecution of corrupt officials and business leaders part of a nationwide strike by the congress of south african trade unions has nearly two million members the president has said a lot about corruption but people are sick and tired of the promises and commitments they want to see action and union leaders say childes in state run industries and in the private sector must be protected and efficient unemployment rate to twenty seven percent i was. able to play was a way to was to say thanks where was this is my point. when there's one thing.

i think you demonstrators are opposed to of and restructuring at the state and electricity company called eskom employees nearly fifty thousand people unions say the government's plan to privatization and job cuts. the organizers said fifteen thousand people would come with probably only about a tenth of that the congress the south african trade union supporters dwindled over many years 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 iran opposes research trying to please big business and foreign investors to i want to start off in his state of the nation address last week he promised economic growth and jobs. of the republic you cater to different

constituencies. realizes that is as much as they can claim to be leftist. they do need business and i think everyone realizes that the majority of new jobs that have to be created created by the private sector. it's 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. sport. the world tennis tournament in rotterdam.

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a lot quieter we have seen some big showers recently and they're going to gather i think over for example cuba jamaica and up through the bahamas but that takes some of the strain away from honduras and yucatan where the rain's been fairly heavy recently and even these showers are drifting slowly east was giving a fine day for cuba on friday and you should join them in the bahamas. battling against addiction very thing that brought her down now she can teach people how to come back i know it's hard for me to believe that he's going to get a full time job in radio but i have to be supportive family afternoon put my pride aside in just say ok there we have our issues but we have to lease and how i'm going to keep on working part time is no more than feel good hard. on al-jazeera.

and the reported world. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas it west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour the u.s.

house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's a direct rebuke of the trump administration's support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious hold in the senate and tom says he will veto it at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the country's border with pakistan drove a vehicle filled with explosives into a bus carrying members of the gods local media the sunni group has claimed responsibility this happened as a u.s. sponsored conference opened in poland on the security situation in the middle east but it's widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran israeli prime minister benjamin its now says the meeting will focus on what he calls common interests in a war with iran. meanwhile the presidents of russia turkey and iran will meet in the russian city of sochi on various aid to discuss the war in syria they last met in september and since then the u.s.

has. the way they draw from syria's northeast and while turkey wants to fill that void russia and iran believe the syrian government should take control then a hard every for some terror. 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 e.g. 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. case 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 approach more between the ones close allies is seen as a positive development by iran i think by. all of the. mend.

changed. erdogan has talked about low level contact with the syrian government through the intelligence services russia iran and turkey have 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 into the us camp 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. voters in spain are facing the prospect of their third general election within four years 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 federal sanchez including parties from the castle in your region and their support had been conditional on having direct talks about independence for catalonia david has a report 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 to 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 dilemma that we are seeing the rise of the far right parties in the rest of the european union xenophobic racist sexist homophobic about this we still 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 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 it will help break the grip of petro sanchez on the parliament to be treated. it brilliantly the press were still clearly is going to tell you 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 of 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 but brit. now the trial of the notorious drug lord el chapo was big news in the u.s. and around the world but in his home country of mexico his story is more of a cautionary tale akim guzman which is a top of his real name was convicted in

a court in new york on tuesday for drug trafficking and other crimes john home and reports from mexico. 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. it's a lesson that's real happiness isn't money or material things luxury and fame real happiness is being a 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 couldn't make him bite simply because to get it right is it possible better 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 the two after his full it simply got on with its lucrative business 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 after kingpins in his time walking guzman was undoubtedly the most

famous of the movie he escaped prison twice and went from poverty to the forbes rich list it brought him respect to some he was an. but that's just part of his legacy the other is his involvement in a brutal drug war this scene hundreds of thousands of men to a many others don't unidentified in mass graves across the country i'm not what living grieving families here are more likely to remember him john home and see the mexico city. a journalist in the philippines who was named as one of time magazine's person of the year has been arrested for libel maria ressa is a c.e.o. of the news website she has repeatedly clash with president rodrigo to test a publishing news reports quite a call of his untied drug crackdown press freedom advocates say her arrest is an act of. the second world war hundreds of thousands of african men joined the british army many enjoyed prejudiced during the war and neglect afterwards they

were paid less than british soldiers and received much smaller pensions and with a number of living african veterans to ending their calls to finally acknowledge the sacrifice they made before it's too late. has a story. 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 we're going to end whom will be poured into cuckold mark so as our job is of course these are ours is your good. british and our thought. you thoughts are going to give an. outdoor new come back. before work to anyone

you'll never forget me because we thought. at a war graves cemetery near mount kenya veterans like you say of 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 nothing. i didn't go on as. a colonial regime placed a different value on african life and when your parents memories of war are at times overshadowed by the life of poverty we should be ashamed that the prince who fought for our country all living in poverty we have an opportunity in that

twilight to get it right it's not too late we could still make a beds 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 and 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 all core mission is to alleviate extreme poverty but hall of a couple of friends out there we're living in 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 little bit so they yearn al-jazeera of jack nausia is a journalist who produced the al-jazeera investigative documentary on this story called the forgotten heroes of empire he says the united kingdom must give the african soldiers more support before it's too late this is a period of britain's history which is generally for course and by many many people more than half a million african soldiers were recruited by person jury award or two white soldiers could get around three times the amount of the war charity or lump sum they were paid for this service a black private would get three and a half shillings for each month to service a white private would get ten shillings compensation and an official apology needs

to be made and it needs to be to be made before it's too late and you can watch the full documentary on people in power the forgotten heroes of empire on photos the act as there are nine thirty g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera. long time was regarded as mythical but verified. more than a century have been taken in kenya remote cameras. hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi the.

time for source here vandy thank you very much what a late goal from mark or a sense she has given it real madrid a two one victory in the last sixteen champions league time with i.x. carrying ben zimmer also on the scoresheet for a hour in amsterdam rail aiming for a fall straight sightless competition and beating brusha dortmund three nil at wembley 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 president compare and killing him but he gave the french champions a win it all trafford things got worse few nights when paul pogba 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. we came into this game in a great frame of mind great form but of course it was because that book they are quality from the deeper until a strike. there is a reason 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 this club or the 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 an aside an hour in sweden to take on mount. we know. not really.

because the. only. basis. is it but when we were. the odds are against us the odds are. eighty million. turnover against for the hundred fifty million to him over so stuart as to reality but who were fools thinking that lester winter primally so anything could happen in football world heavyweight champion anthony joshua has admitted defeat finale in his efforts to set up a contest there 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 is full of books and politics but you know. the punches you know would have lots of our bodies stadium on this beach upset for the world but i'm looking forward to the new challenges two thousand and nineteen asked new challenges and this is one of the masters and it is. reigning formula one world champion lewis hamilton has had his first drive in the car he hopes can power him to a six drive this title hamilton said his new mercedes out for a spin on britain's silverstone circuits that seam of won the last five constructors championships the season begins in melbourne next month with imus 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

gone of course as this things that we can continue to work on but you know so many people work tirelessly to make to pull this car together when you're on the grid this season of the race in point 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 sergio perth of mexico we are aiming for at least fourth this year when you can see the level of competition that it's in the midfield with such a big star on big money factors is 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. carolyn a post giver has become the fifth top twenty players of points of the cats are open due to injury australian open champ sucker is another high profile absent 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 sets a par suffered a surprise first round of feats of the world tennis tournament in rotterdam since first beat roger federer on his way to the semifinals at the australian open but damaging 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 never the less than impressed with his own form against the shoddy affronts of the russian did manage to regain his composure to eventually win in straights it's. ok that is only sport for now more later andy thank you very much the fight against i so has left many of iraq's most important archaeological sites in war in now european experts are

helping iraqis protect what's left of their heritage very poor some back that this is all that's left of memory the syrian city founded three thousand years ago i shall fight has seized lodged areas of territory in north western iraq five years ago. destroying historical sites and art of works they regarded as islamic. this was nimrod before eisel arrived considered one of the world's great archaeological treasures once home to an assyrian king god by giant stone carvings a winged beasts known as. 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 a little it was just ten days after the site was the great it so i discovered what it means a site which has just been taken back from this so we have course discovered the magnitude of their the midges but we saw it saw 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 if it's a 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 help the iraqis protect after decades of war thousands of years of iraqi history lies in ruins in a region often called the cradle of civilization the challenge now is to save what's left chance trumpet al jazeera baghdad. as it for this news hour on

al-jazeera but do stay with us for that plenty more world news coming up after the break on. a story of revolution defiance and murder on top of. a major figure in the war against the french occupation of belgium the french. one whose bravery even impressed his enemies and who inspired others in the fight for independence after his death that if you do you talk i'll be getting i allow to be ben mcgeady the

algerian revolutionary on al-jazeera. with the utmost billion people in the world production is under increasing strain to communicate with a growing global population al-jazeera is environmental solutions program discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. eighty thousand just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable to see there's the vegetable of the scene right there.

on al-jazeera. the joint resolution is passed with the u.s. house of representatives votes to end support for the war in yemen. for the bad boy are watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead at least twenty seven revolutionary guards are killed in a suicide bomb attack in a blonde this as the u.s. all denies is a conference in poland widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran plus the end of an

iraq as nasr announces that it's powering down.