has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dried riverbeds 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. this is al-jazeera. this is a news hour live from the headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the joint resolution is passed the u.s. house of representatives votes to end support for the war in yemen at least twenty seven revolutionary guards are killed in a suicide bomb attack in iran this as the u.s. organizes

a conference in poland widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran also this hour how racism and death threats led a group of people to sue u.s. contra and general motors. thank you for joining us we begin this news hour in the u.s. where the house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen is 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 will veto it shabba tansey reports from 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 is responsible for the murder of journalist jamal to shogi. the murder of last october has moved allies 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 a country that would have been nice if our friends were equally concerned with president obama actually was committing us the 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

solomon 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 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 taking 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 has. called direct sales just foreign policy a u.s. advocacy group lobbying congress to find an end to yemen's war he says the house saltines likely to add leverage to negotiations on the ground. 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 griffis was able to secure a cease fire between the two sides the hobbies and the hoof these because of the

congressional pressure on the trumpet ministration in 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 martin griffiths is in who data province right now in the harbor on the 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 the data 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. 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 on group. has claimed

responsibility that the attack happened as a u.s. sponsored two day summit gets under way in poland the focus is security in the middle east but it's been widely labeled an untie iran conference dozens of iranians use the meeting as an opportunity to call for a change of leadership while israel's prime minister caused controversy with his explanation of the summit because. we've got this meeting is not in see 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 are at the meeting in warsaw including the u.s. secretary of state and vice president but russia isn't attending and the e.u. has only sent level delegates child reports from washoe. 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 see the iranian government's protest was held in warsaw addressed by one of america's most ardent pro israel politicians former new york mayor rudy giuliani who i believe there has to be complete change i had a change of regime there has to be a democratic. regime that respects human rights that for a non-nuclear iran that's for a peaceful around and 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 at this stage 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 in the case 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 that the u.s. is 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 combat. groups like i saw but when it comes to those conflicts true there is a lack of diversity in representation with russia and the who she is for example not attending. high expectations held by the us for the warsaw comics knows just as

much cynicism being expressed by countries who continue to roll in the middle east has. been rather than positive and now the trump administration 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 who are trying to drive their destruction. meanwhile the u.s. has issued new iran related sanctions are nine people in two companies it's also charge a former u.s. air force officer with spying for iran this comes as the international court of justice ruled iran can proceed with its bed 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 let's now speak to

a traitor parsi in fairfax virginia is the author of losing an enemy obama iran and the tyrants of democracy thank you so much for being with us traitor so this conference in war so what do you make of it is objective is clearly to focus on iran prime minister national actually talks about war with iran do you think this strategy of maximum pressure economic pressure in addition to differ magic and political pressure the isolation of iran will it work. well it's not worked in the last forty years i mean this is not the first time the united states would try to organize a conference with the aim of creating an anti you wrong coalition that would put iran and prolong isolation it's been tried several times before yet it has always failed even during the moments when the united states actually was at the apex of its power and iran was much weaker and today of course the united states is much much weaker than it was in the one nine hundred ninety s. it is somewhat isolated internationally we saw that with the lack of high

representation at this conference and the iranians are in a much more advantageous position in the region and internationally so there's really no facts on the ground that would indicate that this would be working the fact that they're trying it yet again is an interesting question in of itself perhaps if they are of this conference will pave the way for further escalation and perhaps that is the actual objective with this but sixty countries are attending this meeting even if some as you say are at a ministerial level could we actually not see deepening regional and international ford nation from the countries that want to keep iran in check or even perhaps an enlargement of the book i very much doubt it i mean many of these countries are going there for the simple reason not wanting to anger the united states but they're not buying into the agenda if they did they would have sent their foreign ministers it was the foreign ministers that were invited the only head of state that is there is binyamin netanyahu of israel turkey is not there russia is not

there so it is by no means the type of a coalition that the united states needs if it wants to succeed with this objective and by no means is it the same type of a coalition that the u.s. actually have managed to put together in the past and even then this strategy did not work so what is the strategy of the rainy and stem is it to wait out the trump administration. i think precisely because they think time is on their side and that they can take some of this pressure for now and then at least granted that the trumpet construction is only going to be in office for another two years their strategy is to wait they have no strong incentives to change right now because they are in an advantageous position in the region then continuing to implement the nuclear deal has increased their international standing because there's still a hearing to deal despite the fact that the u.s. isn't so as long as the u.s. doesn't manage to really ramp up the oil sanctions and put much more of iran's oil

off of the market i don't foresee the iranians changing the strategy of essentially just being patient great now but what about internally what's happening in iran right now you say they are in a strong position originally but what about internally how is the government standing right now. well internally the pressure from the outside and the economic sanctions combined with the government's own mismanagement and corruption in the economy has had a terrible effect for the ordinary iranians so they are the real victims here they are suffering tremendously as a result of this pressure and it's going to be very tough two years ahead of for them and the government is calculating that they're essentially having enough money to be able to keep things relatively stable for the next two years but that does not mean that it's going to be easy for the iranians and it's certainly not going to be easy for the iranian people which is why so many iranians are upset at the trumpet missed ration because by walking out of the nuclear deal in re imposing

sanctions he's making their life so much harder while pretending as if he actually cares for them but if he did he would actually listen to them and they would be telling him overwhelmingly that they want this nuclear deal they want this because they want to improve relations with the west rather than to extend this excuse this era of tensions and confrontation posse very interesting to talk to you thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera traits of policy is the author of losing an enemy obama iran and the triumph of diplomacy thank you. plenty more ahead on this news hour including. the. alleged systematic corruption and rising million costs leads to our return to violence on the streets of haiti plus we have more on the man on a mission to strike a deal between the world's two largest economies before march first in school lewis hamilton has hit has his first drive in the car he hopes can power him to a six formula one world.

but first a u.s. judge says donald trump's former campaign chief has breaches by lying to investigators whole matter for has been found in violation of his agreement with special counsel robert mueller who is investigating busha interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election the judge ruled that man a four intentionally lied about his contacts with a russian associate joining the presidential campaign and after trump was elected let's go live to mike hanna in washington mike so another twist it seems in the russian investigators and just how big of a deal is this one. well that's a very very strong victory for the special prosecutor's office the prosecutors argued that paul mona first lied on a number of occasions with regard to a number of subjects and the judge has upheld largely all the prosecutor's argument there was one point of difference where she felt that they had not produced enough

evidence to indicate that none of ford lied about his contacts with the trump campaign following his stepping down as the special representative for trump on that particular campaign at one particular stage but certainly this is a very strong victory for robert muller and the same judge is going to be sentencing manner forward now on the thirteenth of next month and given that this plea deal nol falls away he's likely to get a very severe sentence indeed and one must remember to he's facing sentencing in a separate case concerning financial crimes that had been put on hold pending the outcome of these plea hearings so certainly future looks very gloomy for paul man a furred but also very clearly the special prosecutor's investigation is producing a pace and where are we with this investigation the overall investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election the acting attorney general is

saying a few weeks ago that the investigation was winding down is that the case. well we simply don't know that the investigation is kept behind closed doors even these people are going hearings were done by sealed documentation behind closed doors in the judge's chambers but as you said the acting attorney general had indicated that the special prosecutor was near releasing the report but once again that is pure as we simply do not know at this particular point there is no time frame of what he is doing what we do know is that he has secured a number of convictions to dave coleman afoot is just the latest in a long line of people who are associated with the trump campaign importantly to in this particular plea hearing is mention a power pole metaphor lied about his relationship and his dealings with another of the accused believed to be a russian intelligence or links to russian intelligence constantine consumer select this is once again very central to the mill investigation and all indications are

that he is proceeding apace and that he may according to the acting attorney general be about ready to release that report whether it's public or not that's going to be another issue thank you very much for that mike can i live for us in washington d.c. the u.s. treasury secretary is in china to shine and a trade war between the world's two largest economies steve a new chain and u.s. negotiators are hoping to reach an agreement on terrorists before an early march deadline without a deal u.s. taxes on chinese goods will rise to twenty five percent as speak to our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing for is so is this the best then last chance to do a deal adrian. well foley may be valentine's day here in china but there's little love lost between the trade negotiators from china and the united states but there may not be much love between these two but there's going to have to be some goodwill for these talks to achieve something at the moment both sides

are trying to agree on a framework that they can put to the presidents of china and the united states to sign off on but the sticking point at the moment really for the united states is is verification making sure that china keeps its word making sure that china sticks to what is agreed here in beijing if that doesn't happen then i think it's quite possible we may not have agreement total agreement here in china i think the best that we can look forward to from these talks foley is a sort of partial sort of superficial deal on the issue of tariffs but the united states also wants to address some of the structural issues in china's economy it is very upset very concerned that you know the chinese government continues to give vast subsidies to domestic companies here in china and the united states insists that creates a level playing field the trouble is an issue like that can't be really sort of

dealt with in just a few days it's going to take you know weeks months and possibly years it could end up being like you know the brics it negotiations but i think it's fair to say that both trump and cheating ping do want to deal trump because the u.s. stock market is continuing to fall u.s. companies based here in china are seeing their profitability fall and of course president xi jinping has concerns about his own economy because economic growth is slowing consumer spending is basically flat lining and recent figures show that in manufacturing output is continuing to contract so yes both men want to deal whether we can do one here whether one can be done here in beijing in just a few days or. of course you know really remains to be seen thank you for that adrian brown live for us in beijing now to counter china's growing influence in the south pacific australia's prime minister says he wants to step up his country's

engagement there recently scott morrison visited the tiny island of vanuatu where he discussed how the two countries can work closer together andrew thomas reports from port vila in vanuatu for. most road works around are overseen by someone from china and it's money from china that is paying for this either through loans on generous terms or as are you there by a huge convention center paid for by china is having its car park resurfaced across pacific island countries state link chinese companies are becoming increasingly active china has been around for a long time but the nature of its engagement has definitely changed in the last few years both in terms of the quantity and the diversification analysts see projects like the u.s. as a way for china to win friends and with those recipient countries help project its power and influence we continue to try to maximise the opportunities for development for our country and also of course we are happy to support aspirations

of friends when they need us to support them with boats and so on in the united nations they have been rumors that china wants to take its pacific relationships further and establish a military base in the pacific island country there's concern too that china could strategically important assets if the pacific island countries are unable to pay back the debts used to build them analysts in beijing though dismissed such concerns we are. even if these countries are in debt to china they can still make independent decisions they won't listen to china just because china is their debt collector that's very unrealistic even so the big western power in the south pacific australia is concerned it's. prime minister says his country should be the partner of choice in the south pacific this is the first visit final rightly and prime minister of an offer you want to friday has made it almost thirty years so for us in full face

a lot of stretching out in this region many say the long overdue australian i eat in vanuatu is more about human than physical investment in port vila australian paramedics are training their counterparts but elsewhere in the pacific australia in partnership with the united states has just announced it will establish a naval base on papua new guinea's amount of silence you say hand on heart but this stepping up would be happening if china's presence wasn't being felt here. because we believe in the region and always have and we will continue to be here because we believe in the peace and prosperity and stability and independence and sovereignty of our region analysts say australia sees china's implodes as a potential threat to sovereignty independence stability and maybe even to peace which is why the battle for influence and power in the pacific has begun under thomas al-jazeera. venezuela's opposition controlled congress has named new boards

of directors to the state owned oil company opposition leader one announced the appointments of directors at males to venezuela and if the u.s. subsidiary citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of the oil industry which venezuela relies heavily on last month the us which backs quite doe impose sanctions on the country's oil sector adore a cold or immoral and criminal meanwhile aides it remains blocks from entering venezuela a u.s. president donald trump says my door is making a terrible mistake by not allowing it to come in he repeated that all options are on the table to force the venezuelan president to step down the senior lucy and human resource some kind of. opposition leader one way door sunk confident that nothing will stop him from bringing food and medical aid into than his will on for every twenty third from across the colombian and brazilian borders. the president nicholas my little vows to use the army to block it calling the main the usaid an

imperialist trojan horse. so what is plan b. in israel as army remains loyal to mother little. one suggestion from opposition coalition leader my idea. is to accuse smug little of crimes against humanity if you blocks the aids passage when there is a genocide or crimes against humanity the world can no say in the front what we are asking is. peace a peace mission that helps these food and medicines being delivered to those who are mostly need she couldn't say whether that meant using military force but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump refused to rule it out when he met colombian president even a key ally and staunch opponent of mughal i just want to thank the president for working with us. we're working together our militaries are very focused on working

together. let's see how it all turns out. my little strongman near the colombia border says that business is ready to defend itself from what he believes is the likeliest threat military aggression from colombia freddy but now argues colombia's leader is taking orders from his mentor former president. a sworn enemy of my little. buddy bases colombia doesn't need the americans to invade venezuela because the colombian armed forces are ready to do it all they need is logistical support from the us. why though insists he wants to avoid a military conflict but he's hoping the threat of one might convince venezuela's military to turn on muddle this as more calls for dialogue appear to fall on deaf ears the clock is ticking and there are absolutely no signs of a compromise on either side and significantly for the first time the opposition

appears to be united in that the only thing it's willing to discuss with president mahmoud abbas is the time and manner of his departure. and that something muddle insists is non-negotiable as the high stakes power struggle as collates. you see in human i'll just see that actress 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 are angry about rising costs economic stagnation and corruption on tuesday seven hundred inmates escaped from a prison in the southern city of aqim during protests and now also reports of looting in the capital manual rapinoe 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 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. 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. in a head on al-jazeera. over a not as. her body failed by a trailblazer mission comes to an end and scored the heavyweight boxing champion who is stepping into unknown territory and he will have that story coming up to stay with us.

had i watched this snowed in beijing and that snow has really big for the south the cold contrasting with the warmth for the south has done what it normally does is produced a bit of rain and the area of rain dony a bit patchy his you can see it's like his friend baxter who bites was a suspect sichuan during friday and briefly that cloud would extend the way down towards hong kong so your thursday map it will cloudy little bit more humid than your friday at twenty four and rain seems likely in shanghai the temp even the eight on friday is well south of this it it's quiet at the moment through almost all of southeast asia you see occasional showers particularly get down to into these but even these big ones a lot to be suppressed of the next day or so nevertheless the sort of way sea and

gets a job or maybe bali showers are likely to be around but the bourne iraq the less so for presence in malaysia probably drawing and that's maybe not true for sumatra as well an unusual occurrence i suppose that's true there for the next couple days can't root out the showers completely but they are going to be a rare event not so for afghanistan northern pakistan northern india this clouds going to keep regenerating itself producing snow at heart but showers as well rain showers maybe as far south as a profession later even behind. the weather sponsored by catalyst. a face can tell a story without uttering a single one. and now england. can guide us. a simpler time. inform us. the unconventionality of life witness through the lens of the human eye. is what inspires us. witness

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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 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 guards local media say the sunni group has claimed responsibility the attack came as a u.s. sponsored call friends opened in poland on the security situation in the middle east but is widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran israeli prime minister benjamin its now says the new. will focus on what he calls common interests in a war with iran. that it was largest is offering a twenty five thousand dollars reward for information about a string of racist threats at one of its plants graffiti and nooses were found at

a general motors factory in ohio almost two years ago now the company's being sued by former employees who say it did little to combat racism john hendren has a story from toledo. marcus boyd's promotion at general motors was followed by a warning the next day there was a noose over an area to any black man in america the meaning is clear and this is a sign of. this he says white subordinates refused to work for him one threatened him with a heavy clutch assembly and was suspended for one day gun magazines were left on his desk these were. eventually he chose unemployment over harassment quitting his six figure supervisor position in going jobless for eight months nine black workers suing general motors for their treatment at its toledo ohio plant say secretly placed nooses barriers to

advancement in racist graffiti in language were prevail they found bananas and monkey dolls on their desks live on sledge says blacks were called boy in worse than africans all i've heard some of the older older white. chorus of course all the time doesn't happen no. i mean. swastikas and racist graffiti were so prevalent in one men's room that g.m. had to close it the company said it has responded working to end workplace bigotry i'm outraged our leadership is outraged that this kind of behavior might exist anywhere it's not who we are at general motors is not who we are in manufacturing and i think everyone is working hard to rid this kind of behavior from our workplace completely not everybody the ohio civil rights commission found but we do not believe that the company did enough to get to troll or to even stop this type

of behavior we were thinking could not be that big is that bad and it's worse she says the incidents have continued in twenty nine teams the wires of all rights commissions is moved really when they investigate a case like this the incidents stop but in this case they say nooses kept through appearing even after they launched their investigation marcus boyd says he's suing to change dmce corporate culture blakeman all out hate crimes happen and right here in the player in that there has been their response is your management you're supposed to handle this this is what we do for general motors is in a privileged position right now they have an opportunity at this point to show that there are global leaders sledge says he hopes g.m. takes that opportunity he still works at the plant and of the end of each shift he says he fears what tomorrow might bring john hendren al-jazeera toledo ohio. a

journalist in the philippines who was named as one of time magazine's person of the year has been arrested for libel maria is a c.e.o. of the news website she's repeatedly clash with president or dre go to ten publishing news reports critical of his crackdown press freedom advocates say her arrest is an act of persecution. constitutional court judges in thailand have been asked to ban a political party linked to deposed prime minister attacks in june a lot of party nominees the king sr as its candidate for prime minister but the royal family has topped her bid for power in next month's general election when he has more from bangkok. 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 to follow in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics. princess was ruled ineligible after the palace nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup. taxon chyna 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 it is designed in the first players so that he point out will be able to extend its power. to thailand's military leaders who form the government since the latest coup in two thousand and fourteen removed texans main party who are thai it's still able to take part in next month's vote. the decision by the election commission to ban the thai rocks a chant party came the day after a t.v. station owned by the chena watts was ordered off the air for fifteen days the government's national broadcasting body said voice t.v. was showing provocative content that caused confusion and social division and the fact that the punishment is dealt out at this time you are right about when we were

heading towards a potential return to democracy. it's highly inappropriate. there are 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 two main presidential candidates mamadou bihari an article or book are signed a peace accord maging 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 present bihari is running for a second term. workers have been marching in cities across south africa to demand an end to job cuts they have been protesting against what trade union leaders are calling a jobs right bath especially in state run industries the unions are normally allied

with the ruling in c. party but that seems to be changing malcolm webb joined the march in johannesburg. 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 it has nearly two million members the president has said lot about corruption but people are sick and tired of the promises and commitments they want to see action and union leaders say job since day one industries and in the private sector must be protected efficient unemployment rate twenty seven percent. to. three point. was

a. particular demonstrations are opposed. and restructuring at 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 that the congress the south african trade union supporters swindled over many one of the reasons a little bit members think its leaders haven't been very effective at lobbying the government at the african national congress to actually pass legislation that helps workers. and see needs the support of the trade unions in general elections in may but president's here around opposes also 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 president of the of the republic you cater to

different constituencies. then serialize is that as as much as they can claim to be leftist. they do need business and i think everyone realizes and then see that the majority of new jobs that have to be created created by the private sector and 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. voters in spain are facing the prospect of a snappy election after members of parliament voted down the government's budget proposal among the m.p.'s who voted against prime minister federal sanchez where parties from the catalonia region their support had been

a condition on having direct talks with leaders in madrid about independence if an election goes ahead it will be the third vote held in four years. the second world war one hundred f. hundreds of thousands of african men joined the british army they were treated poorly and paid less than british soldiers and with a number of living african veterans when their cost to finally acknowledge the sacrifice they made before it's too late to catch up is high on recourse. 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 would take a message home so we're going to and who could import into who called mark to us our job is of course these are ours these are good. british and our thoughts.

are going to give an. outdoor new come back. go forward to new and you never forget me because we thought. at a war graves cemetery near mount kenya veterans like you say 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 to give me no. i didn't go on as. a career regime placed a different african wife in european. memories of war are at times overshadowed by

the life of poverty we should be ashamed. for prince who fought for our country all . living in poverty we have an opportunity in that twilight to go right and it's not too late we could still make a bad 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 a team 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 attain 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 up 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 locus of the young al-jazeera. jack is a journalist and producer of the al-jazeera investigative documentary 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 cosen by many many people more than the whole of 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 of us a black private would get three and a half shooting 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 be to be made before it's too late and you can watch the documentary people empower the forgotten heroes of empire on thursday right here on al-jazeera at nine thirty g.m.t. . the end of an era in mars exploration naso has formally announced the demise 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 powered by solar panels opportunity was still going strong until communication finally seized in a massive sandstorm last june tanya harrison was a science team collaborator on the mars rover mission she says despite its demise not that we'll continue to have a robotic presence on the red planet it's so opportunity it 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 river isn't 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 mobile water environments on mars that could have supported life as we know it. so we've taken steps a spirit an opportunity the twin rovers 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 two thousand and 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 with the planet as an animal that for a long time was regarded as mythical but now the first very five pictures of black method for more than a century have 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 also known as the black panther has an extremely rare genetic mutation that turned sick coats jet black.

thank you very much what a late goal from marco asensio has given it real madrid a two one victory in the last sixteen champions league tie with i.x. carrying ben zimmer also on the score sheet for ray allen amsterdam aiming for a fall straight startling this competition tottenham beating russia dortmund three nil at wembley in wednesday's of a gang 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 them back i gave the french champions when an 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 frame of mind great form but of course it was a big book there they are quality from the until a strike you that was the reason being behind them being one of the favorites for the for the champions league with and then again nothing. but that's the level we need to aim for at this club or the last thirty two of the europa league get 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 mt. we know that. but. we will. the odds are against us towards our. eighty million. to a noble goals for the hundred fifty million to one or so the stuart's mr reality but. who will fool sinking a little into permanent so if 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 we have lots of our beliefs they. jump ship of the world but i'm looking forward to the new challenges two thousand and moving 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 same of one 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. well new on the grid this season all the racing 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 could have got full of volumes as well. have a great season carlino percival has become the fifth top twenty plates of plants of the cats are open due to injury australian open champ car sucker is another high

profile absence say it all means so on how up is the top seed in the twenty fourteen champion winning her opening match against yes sir ranko in straight sets if she wins this title the romanian will move from three to two in the world rankings. stefana said so far 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. but damage him her of bosnia and herzegovina was soo good for him in this one beating the world number twelve in three sets. down on medvedev experiencing the full range of emotions in his much. 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. not his only sport find out more later andy thank you very much that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera

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living brains the stories they tell you that this was not a good use of us nothing less this now. we're at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian al-jazeera through din world news recruited to win a war exploited to on the battlefield the call the new regime faced a different value an effort from the writing of them and their peers and then abandoned for a lifetime and we should be ashamed but for these three four for all country all division over to people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops begin tonight the forgotten heroes of empire on al-jazeera when the news breaks a few minutes ago we were able to hear a huge explosion fifty people are still missing when people who need to be hurt and the story needs to be told we need to invest in development removed from best

making sure the people are not left behind al-jazeera has teams on the ground join us for this historic step in american politics to bring you more allude winning documentaries and life moves on and online. the joint resolution is passed. the u.s. house of representatives votes to end support for the war in yemen. i'm sad may say the. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least twenty seven revolutionary guards are killed in a suicide bomb attack in iraq. how racism and death threats led to one group of

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