but science holds all the answers in the world be a better place if religion disappeared tomorrow yes mehdi hasan time goes head to head with richard dawkins on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello there i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming out but in the next sixty minutes nigeria's president calls for an investigation into why the country's election has been postponed by a week as election campaigning resumes once more pakistan recalls that some bassett are from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continue to escalate . kurdish forces in syria warn of an i saw

a time bomb as its presence overflow with captured fighters. in doha with all the. toys and fury is in the money before behavior weighed world champion stands a multi-million dollar broad cause deal better more later in the program. we begin the news hour in nigeria where the president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week in the past few hours the election commission has approved a resumption of campaigning following the vote the late mohamed it will hari's ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital of on the election commission surprise the session to move the vote to saturday the nigerian leader criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after polling takes place.

where. we have. well some of the jury is leading presidential candidates have condemned the decision many blamed each other for the delay announced on saturday by the election commission just hours before polls were due to open there's also growing concern about the economic impact as a committed risk reports now from the northeastern city of my degree these days the only thing that would work are mom and dad's sitter cool or the children. he wants to work but no one is hiring because of the uncertainty around the elections to add to his problems is all the children have been sent back from boarding school until the vote has taken place. the struggle to feed the family is tough enough for

someone who depends on daily arguments it's been made had that now because no one is true of what will happen the disruption doesn't stop with people like you. prayed in borno state had been picking up over the last two years following attacks by book or of fighters on the security clampdown to stop the violence. centuries old trade routes between neighboring countries had reopened but if you want to do business during election season this is a major reminder market it's worth traders from cameroon chad is here to public and beyond come to find bargains but in the past few days not much transactions after you can place here those we talked to say most of the buyers from across the border i keep in wait until after the elections. most of us has seen his weekly earnings grow from eight thousand to a few hundred dollars mostly because no one will call up that illusion. will just

be done. a lot but we know about the hope now is for a quick and peaceful conclusion of the vote when income is affected. and it distributes your no income it's going to be just as it is not too difficult i just i think it will impact on the house the election commission as richard will national elections for saturday with state elections coming two weeks later the cost of the delay and the enzyte associated with it is difficult to estimate but businesses expect to be hit hard and any recovery will depend on who gets elected. al jazeera. nigeria will stay in nigeria authorities in the north of the country have confirmed that the sixty six people in a wave of violence which the president mohamed the bihari has called vial and barbaric police discovered the bodies an aid to villages across kaduna state on

friday twenty two of them were children mohammed adel met some of the survivors. is one of the survivors of the ball marked by hundreds of men armed with guns and machetes. ishaq was killed with a bullet wound to the arm but twenty two members of his family including his wife four children and is a limb other than further were killed. younger imagine example mike that you know well let's go back to no i have no hole or anyone left what wrong did we commit to deserve this brutality several villages in area in could do no state of north or no judio are tucked among the rules of bodies found while at least twenty two children under the age of ten these. at the hospital in could do nothing or tumor could die is taken care of two grandsons four year old. and two and a half year old but she'll both were injured in the attack they are the only

surviving members of my extended family doctors operated only brought him to remove at least thirty pellets in his interest bags in between tears she talks about the moment her life changed forever all those are the harder they give it as a community square my husband was the first to be beheaded anybody who tried to escape was shot he came to finish his all government office will say at least sixty six people were killed in the tuck it's a figure disputed by community leaders the county in is still on but assad yesterday is over sixty seven and the counting is the because over a hundred something and something are still missing yeah i mean most of the cows are not their position are where they are i'm not is not known. we met some of those who survived huddled together in the open they're still in shock scourged by

what they witnessed the killings beheadings and torching of houses. the pain of seeing their loved ones getting killed by the attack us is still vivid in the minds of these people there i've hear after a three day strike and now say they need help with food cruel thing and shelter against the cold nights. the killings in could do no shock the nation within hours president obama bahati called the vile and body was an attempt to say to stock religious conflict between christians and muslims in this region we're not g.d.s. muslim nor from its nigeria south is prone to religious tension how does a nick flannery a muslim muslim well the farmers a mostly christian where there is break down into community relations this had a kind of things that society so far from for the past twenty years has been neglect of you didn't and architecture for come on your square existence rule

communities of nigeria respect and resolutions how about red and with the demand for land growing by the day there are fears the violence will only intensify mohamed atta walsh's era kaduna nigeria. tensions are rising between india and pakistan after thursday's deadly attack on security forces in kashmir india has accused pakistan of orchestrating the suicide bombing prompting both countries to recall that. on monday fighting flared up in kashmir again. searched for those responsible. reports now from new delhi. another day of violence in indian administered kashmir among those killed four indian soldiers and a civilian after a prolonged gun battle between indian security forces and two gunmen who also died at least one of the gunmen is believed to have been

a member of the pakistani based armed group jaish e mohammed which claimed responsibility for thursday's suicide bombing that killed at least forty one indian paramilitary troops. this upsurge in violence is further raising tensions between the two countries and prompting protests india says jaish e mohammed than other armed groups are allowed to operate freely inside pakistan from where they launch attacks on indian forces baucus on denies its involvement and says it's being blamed without any proof and without any investigation but there's anger on the streets we should take revenge the separatist leaders of these rebel fighters are in touch with most of them. there should be a whole our soldiers by the border of being mahsud for the country the country should in one sweep take action this should be action india's prime minister says there will be retribution. but the mockery the attack and pull woman clearly demonstrates that the time for dialogue is long past now the whole world needs to

work together to take concrete steps to deal with terrorism and their supporters we should not hesitate to take action against terrorists and their anti-human values because if we don't it would mean we are encouraging them. but analysts are warning any escalation in the violence may work against the. permit well the government has . painted self into a corner where it does not have very many options they say prime minister modi has to strike a balance when taking action the challenge of course is to take action that will be seen to be sufficient by the domestic audience but will not seen be seen by pakistan as grave enough to water into an immediate response because in the immediate response that is the danger of that escalation. meantime the region remains on high alert pakistan has announced it's recalling its ambassador from new delhi for what it calls consultations analysts are seeing it as

a response to india's campaign to gather international support to blame islam about for the attacks but pakistan says there's no proof it was involved and there's been no investigation it says india should look into its own security and intelligence lapses instead as jamil al-jazeera new delhi. well hyder is monitoring developments from pakistan's capital islamabad. dangers are running high between india and ball gets done over the disputed kashmir day india is of course blaming the guest on for masterminding the deadly attack on an indian corn voyager story could go and also of course of aiding the kashmiri militants however progress on has said all along that there needs to be a raging lucian's of the few pockets on ready to draw on any differences with india across their day by the india of course refuting and what many people say as but have ploy by the indian government which ones do you do this issue because of the

upcoming election the budgets on these every quarter day high commissioner in new delhi for consultation this was a move prompted by the indians recalling the high commissioner for consultations however although the indians and august danis have been ordered over this issue india warns that the issue of kashmir should be something guided by laterally between the two countries however the so do foreign minister weighing in on that saying that they were tried their level best to try to deescalate tensions between these two nuclear armed neighborhood well it's kind of mentioned there the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone is now heading to india after visiting pakistan that was already been demonstrations in new delhi against his arrival protesters say the crown prince is responsible for killing thousands of civilians in yemen and

accuse him of ordering the murder of the saudi journalist a magician g's. so to come on the news hour from london venezuelans fleeing to brazil described how unbearable their lives have been even before this latest crisis a charity's report says u.n. peacekeepers stood by as violence erupted in central african republic and coming up in sports the best basketball players in the world show off their skills in the n.b.a. all star game peter will be here with the best of the action. but first two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifty more the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour has been hit by several bombings in recent months the

scores of people the city is controlled by the high. on which was formerly an affiliate of. the commander of the u.s. backed syrian the mccarty forces as called for up to fifteen hundred international soldiers to remain to help finish off i sold the kurdish led commander in chief made the remarks during a visit by general joseph otero the head of u.s. central command he also expressed hope that america would stop its plans for a total troop withdrawal but voters said the pullout is going. meanwhile kurdish authorities in northern syria say that they won't release the eight hundred foreign eisel fighters being held in prison insisting it's up to individual countries to take responsibility for their citizens but they've warned that there aren't enough jails for the captured fighters and they're worried about what could happen if the prisoners escape. meanwhile germany's government says it's in talks with transpiration and the u.s. about the return of foreign eisel finals u.s.

president don from france or pm allies to take them back and put them on trial germany wants to prosecute its citizens who joined i saw but says it will be difficult to organize their recapturing in one khan is more natural on the turkey syria border. a member of the foreign relations committee for the syrian democratic forces a kurdish group has been speaking he says he's very concerned about the eight hundred foreign fighters isis fighters that they have in their custody also says that there are about fifteen hundred women and children in camps who were married to myself i says that this is becoming a problem for them they simply don't have enough prison space to be able to hold them all and that dozens more myself being arrested or surrendering every single day he's asked the international community to step up to france and germany and britain however we don't know exactly how many of those are still fighters belong to france germany or britain is likely to be

a lot more fighters that come from say countries like pakistan or iraq or. pakistan now as all of this is happened the germans have been speaking as well the german interior ministry had a press conference and they said it was a fundamental right for every german citizen to be able to return back to germany but they didn't give any details about how that might happen the germans had said that they're going to send. the offices to those prisons in held areas to be able to provide consular services and to be able to bring them back britain has been a little bit more resistant it's ruled out the idea that it will send any of its consulates to prison saying instead if. the wives and children can get to embassies within iraq or turkey they will. offered consular services so there's a real concern from the syrian democratic forces that their prisons vulnerable

because they're vulnerable they're worried that they might be subject to an outside it's hard to free those are so fighters those are supporters we had to regroup amount of touch with in a city of terror. over more on this i'm joined by dr lena head of the middle east and north africa program at chatham house thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera it's great to see you i mean here in the u.k. we know that there's been a lot of talk over the past few days of one particular case and one thousand year old woman that went to syria at the age of fifteen married to a fighter at their lived in islamic state is now in a refugee camp she had the sort of baby to have died huge debate here as to whether she should even be allowed to come back where do you stand that a lot of these fighters should they be allowed to go back to their home countries i think the way to approach this is to saying what are we doing with any criminal in the u.k. who is a british citizen do we deport these criminals to other countries to deal with no

what we do is prosecute them so of course these factors i think should come back because it's the responsibility of the british state to deal with them however they should not come back and be free to just roam around and do whatever they like there has to be accountability so as long as there's accountability and full monitoring of their activities and prosecution where where appropriate of course i mean obviously i think there's two issues there's the ethical moral side if you will in the legal side legal legal aspect focusing on the legal aspect you talk about prosecution but the reality is it would be incredibly difficult time consuming and expensive if possible at all to go to syria and actually find evidence of a lot of the atrocities committed so i mean yes we would bring them back to the european countries but what what are the chances that actually under european laws . we would be able to prosecute successfully prosecute yeah absolutely this is very difficult because finding hard evidence is one of the hardest things faced by

courts in these kinds of cases very often people are given criminal charges instead of terrorism charges because that's basically what courts can prove but i think we should think more broadly about this process it's not just about putting them in prison it's also about what comes later because even if you prosecute them put them in prison what next you know after they serve their sentence so i think we're talking a long comprehensive directly. and reengagement processes for these individuals yes it's going to be extent expensive and it will take a very long period of time but we should think about the alternative which is to leave them out there to have more children that they're going to bring up with an extremist ideology while bearing a grudge towards the united kingdom or european countries or or whatever i mean just focusing on that because of course says the european countries are perhaps having the ethical moral debate there we have president from pretty much saying you

know it's up to you guys or we will release the mobile the kurdish and of the us backed kurdish fighters what do you think the dangers are of leaving these you know extra hardest or brides or whatever and their children you think it's bizarrely risky or for countries like the u.k. to leave these people in syria wherever they may end up yeah absolutely because if you leave them there the conditions that made them and brace the islamic state will still be there and keep them radicalized and they will raise a new generation of radicalized children so for every individual if each individual has at least one child you can only imagine the problem is multiplying whereas over here at least the children can be at least want to by social services these individuals can be monitored and many cases i think can be reintegrated into society after a long process of the radicalization. again here in the u.k. the case of got a lot of attention and she's given a few interviews and it's quite shocking i guess that's the what i think i would

use to hear this young woman that's had two children dying two islamic state you know that she says she saw you know severed heads in beans in wasn't shocked by didn't seem to show any remorse didn't really seem to show any appreciation for the safety that she would find in the u.k. or socially for her child can you understand i mean as an expert as a u.k. citizen as well why that might maybe shock people and that would be a lot of people in europe saying well these you know these people made their beds these chose to become enemies of the state when that's what they should say yeah i mean this case is i think is not helpful at all because we have to bear in mind that she is also speaking while being surrounded by other women who are very sympathetic to. organization that really g. camp in syria are usually and so we don't know for sure whether everything she said is actually how she really feels but even if that were the case that she is indeed without remorse of course we also have to remember why is she being paraded in the

media like this why is she parading herself in the media like this there are multiple ethical problems with with her case and of course with the media focusing on her situation it's i think causing some degree of moral panic amongst the population who are probably imagining thousands of people like her coming back to the u.k. which is why a lot of people are saying we don't want her back i would have said moral outrage rather than moral panic but i hear you saying. from the head of the middle east in north africa program at chatham house as always thank you. now several members of the european parliament have urged the e.u. to suspend contact with venezuela's government after they were blocked from entering the country the group was invited to meet venezuela's national assembly by the opposition leader one when i was also trying to enlist volunteers to confront the government blockade of u.s. aid at the border hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to try to the fi the blockade by carrying supplies across the border on saturday but restorable

parliament audio. of parliamentary group demands that the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in brussels decide to withdraw from the international context group we had our passports taken and we were sent back to our plane without reason we did not go there is tourists to create any problem we were responding as members of the european parliament to an institutional invitation from the famous well in parliament to have a working meeting with its president who is also the interim president this in human joins us live now from caracas to see a good to see you help us out here they're calling for the e.u. to suspend contact with the venezuelan government how likely is that actually happened. hello barbara well actually it's not very likely first let me just say that venezuela's foreign minister jorge r.e.x.x. had warned this delegation of european parliament deputies not to come he says

because they were coming here to conspire against venezuela now the top diplomat for the european union says that while she laments their expulsion she will go ahead with a delegation that said to come here on thursday we understand to try to see if there is any way that they can kickstart some kind of a dialogue or negotiations between the opposition and president nicolas maduro this according to the european union to try to avert what she called an escalation of the risk of a of the. intervention of the violence both from the inside here in venezuela and from abroad so curiously enough the the. the opposition leader wide all says that they're welcome to come that anybody who is here to of bring forward to move forward the agenda that they have which is to hold new presidential elections under international supervision is welcome to do so but he didn't seem

particularly enthusiastic or particularly. if it didn't seem to have a lot of faith that this was going to work we have heard from president nicolas maduro again that he wants to have a dialogue with the opposition but he is not offering to make any of the kind of concessions that they are asking for so meanwhile what we have is both sides preparing to confront each other at the border over the weekend about the entrance or not of aid that is supposed to be coming over into this country and which president has shall not pass barbara and so neither side is backing down meanwhile of course hundreds of people continue to escape and as well because of the dreadful economic situation there what do you think is next in this ongoing crisis what will the breaking point be do you think. i have no idea but one of the breaking points could be as i said on saturday february the twenty third is the deadline put set by the opposition and boss says that come hell or high

water they will be bringing in tons of food and medicine that is being a cumulated right now on the venezuelan side of the border also very soon on the brazilian side of the border with venezuela and also coming in from could have understand all of this is supposed to converge they can try to put it to get it passed here that the government is blocking the entrances to all the bridges into venezuela. they're not giving away much of the details of how they think they're going to get that through and in the meantime we have richard branson the internationally well known tycoon saying that he is going to help sponsor an international money concerts and international concert with well known singers on the colombian side of the border while on the other side we've just heard the even israeli government is going to hold a concert of its own not to be outdone simultaneously on saturday barbara the scene human with the latest from caracas the c.s. thank you well as the standoff intensifies between wedo and president nicolas

maduro venezuelans continue to leave the country the crumbling economy is already forced more than three million to seek a new life aboard mohamed jhoom spoke to some of them in the brazilian border town the fact that i'm a where hundreds of crossing every day. on brazil's border with venezuela the migrants continue to arrive many of them relieved at least for the moment to have seemingly put their desperation behind them back home jackson maria just twenty three years old had quit school to work in a bakery on a little organise an awesome way young people like us couldn't achieve our goals in venezuela i had to stop by a couldn't make studies because it became a choice between studying and eating. but even that choice difficult as it may have been didn't make things much easier. the money i made from one week was only enough to buy me one kilo for ice his friend i modified also twenty three tells me things

were unbearable well before the current political crisis and can't help but laugh when describing the dark absurdity of the past few weeks and even the so you say. people are now saying we have two presidents one issues in order the other refuses it one last for eight the other says the eight one pos it's public disorder in politics and neither of them is looking out for the welfare of the people. but at this processing center in the town of pocket i'ma run by brazil's federal government and supported by the united nations refugee agency exhaustion is also palpable officials tell us that today alone over six hundred venezuelans cross from venezuela into brazil and many of those migrants will be applying for asylum and many of them will be seeking medical care but now we see more people arriving in very bad conditions arriving with the urgent need of medical attention so

a lot of people who arrive here in a kind of you need to immediately transported to board these different care some people arrive and we actually do nothing but they're opposed to wearing stefania decided to leave when she realized it would be too expensive to have another baby in venezuela analytics and to get them medicine but as a villain my sister said she couldn't believe i was leaving i said yes i'm going i took my child and left time i got here by getting rides and travelling for two days and. like many others here she's happy for a brief respite in this very temporary setting where children play with soldiers and things do albeit fleetingly seem a little bit better. and pocket i'ma on brazil's border with venezuela. still ahead. we visit a southern town at the heart of the immigration debate and libya marks

a year since the beginning of the revolution we speak to those whose lives were turned around class in sports peter will be here to tell you more about alleged saudi interest in taking over english premier league club manchester united. we got more of that lovely mild weather spring like weather across much of europe hot freshest and chatted about clear skies across a good part of the cold little more cloud over towards the the east the far east of the region but even in moscow that dry and bright here dry bright weather extends all the way across some mainland europe push up into the british isles with a little more cloud around here it has to be said that clouds and rain will sink a little further south was and a switch so they'll be some wet weather to come for

a time across the low countries pushing across into. a backyard level twelve celsius for london and paris up into double figures two for berlin and also for war so glorious weather here then to the southeast beginning to seventeen in athens as some warm sunshine coming back in here at long last and that will remain the case as we go on through wet instead little more cloud up towards a bowl to states but again the mild weather continues to be in moscow as bad here as well twelve to favor the cloud by the way the state just pushing across the british isles and all the piles of england scotland could see some damp weather but otherwise don't see about it so tell us a little bit whether it's a winter the far north west of africa seventeen celsius the full rabbet holding up to a lovely ninety by wednesday afternoon. whether it's cute and cuddly in australia wild and ferocious in bangladesh

earthrise redresses the balance between endangered wildlife and the noisy neighbors . in the forests right there and there's nothing between how you have and i'm a human habitat learning to live together on al-jazeera how many people here have seen a tiger but they've been. really. at the time it was the worst environmental disaster in brazil's history but it was also a tragic for taste of what was to follow. people in power investigates claims of warnings ignored. i'm the disturbing tars between lawmakers and the mining industry that catastrophe you are on trial for. corruption charges brazil river of mud.

welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera nigeria's president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by the nigerian leader criticize the election commission surprise decision saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence pakistan has recalled its ambassador from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continue to escalate at least four indian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in a gun battle in kashmir is that northern for want this spring and germany's government says it's in talks with france britain and the us about the return of prosecution of foreign i so fight.

roving passive spectators than sauer prominent international aid agency has described u.n. peacekeepers the ploy to during days of violence in central african republic doctors without borders says the force that not protect civilians in the city of baton gaff or at least fifteen people were killed in the violence and more than twenty thousand were displaced when their homes were burned to the ground priyanka group that has more on the allegations. of these homes and bought and good food were meant to shelter people displaced by conflict in central african republic but now these houses status a reminder of six days of murder arson. that began last october. there were six days that brought what the un described as an unacceptable humanitarian tragedy it began as isolated attacks by the mainly christian group

and mostly muslim fighters. aid agency doctors without borders says the four were celica fighters soon at least a wave of violence civilians at each work has caught the middle it says you had peacekeepers deployed to protect civilians at the time to do much. you can well imagine shrieking since the un battalion which is supposed to protect the civilians has been inefficient when confronted with this violence we used to monetary and workers had to open the gate of our hospital so the population could take shelter because they found no other shelter. allegation group petered by the city's mayor and witnesses a lot over a year. so we were watching these arguments at the gate and they were just filming and they were smiling it's not serious. the blue helmets were in their vehicle and they were following the accel like a fighters they were on the roads and they were watching the rebels burning down

the i.d.p.'s site. the un peacekeeping operation said laughing public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians were armed groups control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with fourteen rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to give end to the six year conflict. al-jazeera. or the u.n. secretary general's deputy spokesman foreign harks says the report's findings will not be ignored you appreciate receiving this new information from medicines and frontier any sort of information that can help us do our work better is to be lauded actually and we will be studying these findings to see whether there is any truth to what can be improved if we fix but deficiencies with any particular

contingent we'll try to respond accordingly but right now we're the stage simply of studying what these new findings are. it's bring you some breaking news out of egypt just coming into us here at al-jazeera there's been a suicide attack in the capital cairo it's believed the man blew himself up during a police chase killing himself and two police officers it reportedly happened in the old part of the city this just in the past few minutes we'll of course bring more on this when we have it here. you know the news japanese carmaker honda plans to shut its british plant by twenty twenty two putting three and a half thousand jobs at risk the plant in swindon is at the come is the company's only factory in the e.u. more than ninety percent of the cars for deuce there are exported to europe and the u.s. it's reported the company plans to consolidate production in japan and didn't take the decision because of brits it it was once heralded as

a model of successful racial integration but now residents of reaction say it faces ruin hundreds of refugees who helped bring they tani in town back to life have been ordered to leave and it's suspended mayer is now awaiting trial for aiding illegal immigration from the southern italian town of reaction go reports these quite streets were once bustling with activity people and purpose but reaction has become a shadow of its former self. raffia has been living here for four years she came from pakistan her family made this place their home and they are one of the few migrant families that remain here because before the project is through everything's good. you just everything's to help us. the maize finish the project is finished crumbling buildings were turned into shops restaurants and homes now lie empty again the occupants left after pressure from the old thirties

those that live here say riyadh she had once been full of optimism now no more. this playground used to be full of children now nothing no ones left here. last year the mayor there when he was arrested for allegedly encouraging illegal immigration the main accusation that he arranged a marriage between a talian man and a nigerian woman who had been forced into prostitution so that she could remain in the country the action is integration model breathed new life into this village but it became a target immigration politicians including the deputy prime minister met rini who frequently has voiced his antagonism towards this project so now once again the actual lies practically deserted and all the effort that went into rejuvenating

this place is now wasted. well the mayor was praised for pioneering a model of integration that benefited the area matteo salvini led a campaign to stop the movement of humanitarian rescue ships out of italy's ports and reveled on social media what mr mcconnell was arrested for. no longer allowed to set foot in riyadh mr lucado is awaiting trial and says he is being used as an example for those who do not meet the new immigration policies. the message that came from here was that for once it was possible to create a diverse multi-ethnic society and that wasn't allowed. instead they created political success from propaganda which turned the least people against each other the quietness here a reflection of the new normal immigration is no longer an issue of assistance but of control those who remain say it is a sad place hope of new life has been abandoned and the welcome it once promised no

longer allowed sunny diag al-jazeera reaction southern italy gibraltar has this mist actions by a spanish naval ship as a childish attempt to bully the territory the warship ordered commercial boats to leave the waters around the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns of the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched two vessels in response madrid has long claimed the tiny should be under spanish control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole of gibraltar. celebrations are taking place across libya to mark eighty years since the revolution that toppled one market darcey since then parts of the country have to send it into conflict with rival governments and on groups all vying for power but many still believe that ousting gaddafi did liberate libya by ending his forty two year autocratic rule the one that did what he has more now

from tripoli. libya is free for that the people have paid a heavy price. worlds are broadcasting the language on public radio on the eighth anniversary of the seventeenth of february revolution m a z is were among the minorities persecuted on their good death is regina. i'm trying to convey my feelings to my fellow citizens as a reminder of the sacrifice a martyr is given to this revolution it's also a warning against foreign intervention which has contributed to the current division in the country. patriotic songs associated with the revolution are played to mark the end of four decades of dictatorship. but for so idle whom the struggle for freedom goes on our son was

killed three years ago and she was forced out from her home and been. evicted of the struggle for power which has continued since good death is death and. despite all that agony pain blood and tears we have lost over our loved ones we will continue marking the every year we're at the heart of this revolution where in the main a square in the capital tripoli where people have come out the celebrity town marking the anniversary despite years of conflict and divisions many libyans here that they hope will for a peaceful future but better than you would friend these days some of those who do that again a phenomenally good eighty years ago are now opposing the war lords. no military rule farewell to tyranny they chant former rebels from all parts of libya gather in tripoli to form

a coalition against what they say is the military and authoritarian rule of have in the east of the country their aim is to prevent huffed his forces moving any further west you. have to our forces have gained more territories during the last year at recently in the south of the country we are worried that through half their foreign powers can abuse libya's resources in the south. and have to do is supported by egypt the united arab emirates france and russia. eight years of instability have resulted in multiple political rivalries economic decline and lawlessness tripoli is home to the one government which is backed by the united nations but even there the threat of conflict between. remains.

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war and political instability in iraq has held back its economic development for decades and surprisingly investment in sports has also suffered one discipline in particular has great cultural significance for iraqis and the wider region stratford went to baghdad to find out more. it's called tent to taking an ancient horse riding skill believed to be practiced by armies around the world over two thousand years ago. and some of these iraqi writers a rather good at it. is a member of the iraqi equestrian team he writes an eight year old arabian far abroad called she has already. since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three until now i have won around forty five medals and four of them were gold but the equestrian sports here are no longer taken seriously and they

suffer lack of government support and of private investment iraq's equestrian federation used to be a sporting institution that the country was proud of his club was a favorite hangout for saddam hussein's sons to show off their wealth both owned horses worth millions of dollars which they kept at the stables years of war the political instability means the club's facilities fall on hard times iraq's a question federation was set up in one thousand nine hundred twenty two during the years of iraq's short lived more to keep the six thousand forces here at the time were raby and sorrow breeds the envy of the questions and breeders around the world now during the war that toppled saddam hussein all the horses here was stolen and even today the federation still struggles to survive. but a few of iraq's elite who didn't flee the country still come to ride

a secondary school student in shell assad harmeet writes an eleven year old horse called meebo in shallow represented iraq at the youth elin pigs held in argentina last year she came twenty fourth out of thirty participants in the horse jumping event i feel comfortable i feel i am or i am going to heaven when i am writing courses because it's my honest because it's a culture of our town because the horse is for the for the killings it's it's my history that strict international quarantine rules prevent iraqi writers like inshallah taking their horses abroad to compete in events instead they have to ride animals supplied by the host nation the world health organization says iraq relax sufficient expertise to deal with infectious a coin diseases. we cannot participate properly an international tournaments

because of these quarantine laws cannot show our true potential this is the biggest challenge we face. the writers here say despite the ban they will continue to strive towards international success and recognition and preserve a cultural tradition so in take rule to iraq only arab world traffic al-jazeera baghdad. and now for the latest for its news let's go over to peter in. barbara thank you very much former heavyweight world champion tyson fieri has signed a huge broadcast deal with e.s.p.n. reported to be with one hundred three million dollars but this could jeopardize a potential rematch with the on two while the or a fight with anthony joshua while they're already has a long term t.v. deal with e.s.p.n.'s rival showtime and joshua is signed up with the streaming service bizarre own theory and while there have been in negotiations since they first fight ended in a draw back in december well joshua said to make his us debut against general

miller at madison square garden in june here's more from boxing reports again with a davies. if you go back in history mike tyson and lennox lewis had separate t.v. deals with rival broadcasters they made it happen floyd mayweather and manny pacquiao exactly the same we don't want to wait as long as it took five years to make mayweather and pacquiao in the end they will way past their best fight sports are at their best when the best meet the best when that at their best so i do hope that sense prevails and the three different broadcasters and promotional groups align to to simulcast if you like and get these guys all three undefeated heavyweights tyson fury called the lineal champion anthony joshua with three belts do you want a world with the other principal belts that they do meet within the next eighteen months and i think that's what the fans are going to have to wait for if they may

well all have as we say mature sure miller interim battles if you like against people who aren't really on their level but we do need to find out who the number one in the division in this errors chelsea's does not run a form is continued with a two no f.a. cup fifth round defeat at home to manchester united and there and paul pogba with the goals for the away fied are going to fall to our men back to winning ways after their champions league defeat to paris st germain last week but a fourth defeat in six for chelsea meanwhile saudi arabia says it's not planning a bid to buy manchester united the english premier league club as me that the same to all the room and takeover over the last few days britain's sun newspaper reported that a four point nine billion dollars offer was expected from saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon of the country's information minister has called the report's completely false ticky al shaab on our tweeted that the kingdom sovereign

wealth fund did hold sponsorship talks with the team but they couldn't come to a deal. olympic eight hundred metre champion caster semenya is attempting to overturn a rule which would force her to take drugs to lower her to star levels if she wants to defend her olympic title the south african is challenging athletics governing body the idea for the court of arbitration for sport in switzerland last year the introduced rules stipulating female athletes with a naturally high testosterone levels would have to race against men change events or take medication to reduce it a decision is expected at the end of march. to question raise goes far beyond mere judicial considerations but i think that everybody knows that the very nature of this. rule raises ethical and for difficult questions this may not be considered straight away during witnesses or expert hearings but it will certainly be part of the discussions had during the deliberations the head of the sebastian coe to fight

their side of the case here's what he had to say. the core value for the idea of a layoff is the empowerment of girls and women through athletics the regulations that we are introducing are there to protect the sanctity of fair and open competition and that's really what we're here to defend. colin kaepernick slowey is predicting he'll return to the n.f.l. soon and named two teams who might sign him up attorney mark garagos believes he'd fit well there super bowl champions the new england patriots or the carolina panthers the thirty one year old quarterback settled a long running dispute with the n.f.l. on friday details of which are confidential teammate erik reed claimed they'd been excluded from the sport for kneeling during the national anthem to protest against social injustice in the united states reads just signed a three year deal with the panthers but cap'n a cousin played since leaving the san francisco forty nine is in twenty sixth. get ready for some spectacular basketball action from the n.b.a.

all star game the sports talk plays certainly did not disappoint david stocks as the story. the stage was set for the n.b.a. all stars in charlotte north carolina tina brown up against steve younis and it was yon issue. in the game the twenty three year old leading from the front was likely such a key to go with steph curry just one but choice here's colby because. i covered the turning on the style in his hometown of the spectacular moves which is too much for the opposition to deal with younis were up by twenty points at hop time but then the advent of shifty guy like. the broader review noted with his old pound weight began to fight back with the old teammate back to back show him. the three hunters with dropping two three years.

and it wasn't long before the schools will level. was. thirty one points become a jew run him and be paid for the second time in an all star game and in the end his team le bron ended up running away with it when comfortably by forty points they would start al-jazeera. tennis world number one i mean a soccer has opened up about sacking her longtime coach sasha byan since he became her coach she rose in the rankings to the top spot and won back to back grand slams she says the decision had nothing to do with money but more about spending time with people she is happy with. it's been nicknamed the great american race but for many competitors at the nascar season opening daytona five hundred it ended with ten laps to go after a huge crash. when our triggered a twenty one car accident that just kept going and going the failing daytona five

hundred champion austin dillon was among those who were caught in the pileup it brought out a red flag that stopped the race for a clean up luckily no one was hurt in the rig just sixteen cars out of forty finish the race twenty sixteen champion denny hammond clinching the win on a chaotic day. normally you need a slow for dog sledding but in the u.k. they came up with a different tactic. seems that the british siberian husky dog share which are poor sporting on dry land mushing one of the fastest growing dogs sports in the world no they're not chasing mars apparently each team races with two to eight dogs with sleds that look like try sickles these championships in norfolk will end in march with a lot more rain on the course then. now that's all the sport for now more later pete thank you very much and that is it for this news hour do stay with us though i have more news for you in just a few minutes i hope you'll be able to join me that thanks for watching.

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