be a better place religion disappeared yes. i know and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from doha with me elizabeth broderick coming up in the next sixty minutes truckloads of women and children leave the last remaining syrian stronghold ahead of its eminent. the president of pakistan a minister of. other there's a real risk of conflict with india after last week's bombing in the disputed region . a border tunnel project connecting italy and france as to what's being called the

lowest point of diplomatic ties since world war two. and four years after nigeria's president promised to clean up this oil mess we'll look at whether failure will push his reelection. and i'm with all of your support the united states announce former world number two golfer steve stricker as their captain for the twenty twenty writer cup i'll have that and more if you later this news hour. dozens of trucks carrying women and children have been leaving the last remaining i still held pocket in east and syria the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they expect to recapture the village of the group within days it's believed there are about three hundred isis fighters there who are using civilians as human shields and holding them hostage imran khan has the latest from gaza that's near the turkish syrian border. at least ten trucks

have left the alba whose village carrying women and children now the civilians have been a real concern for both the united nations and the syrian democratic forces in effect both the united nations on the center and democratic forces say i see a using those civilians as human shields now it's in ice was interesting keep the civilians there because it stops the s.t.'s from coming inside the village now the village most of it has actually been completely destroyed and the civilians and living in what is effectively tented camps in the outskirts of that village now given that they've now been able to leave yes the ethyl very confident they'll be able to go in and deal with isis fighters although the i suffices had a very long time to prepare for this fight they knew it was going to come at some point and they've asked to dig tunnels and what we're hearing is a lot of those are suffices in those tunnels so there's still be a very tough fight for the syrian democratic forces now as i say whilst all this goes on we still have the situation in iraq

a bond camp on camp is controlled by the f.s.a. there is a no man's land effectively about fifty five kilometers before you get to these russian and syrian opened kori doors now these corridors so-called humanitarian corridors allegedly going to allow syrians in the camp mostly women and children to be able to go north however there's a real suspicion let's hear what a few people have sight to see the crossings opened by the regime and the russian military police are claimed to be safe but the people here are not feeling any safety or stability people here feel as if they are drowning and looking for anything at all to rescue themselves the road to the camp has become my original i am for me personally if i leave it would be army to go from one death trap to another and if i found a safe place from a my kids in my family i would guard finishing the game on the shot by putting the crossing is a good step but we wanted to be our the same by the un because i'm. lies we've been

told before nobody believes these crossings are safe so despite the fact that there is a very desperate situation in the camp people are running low on food on oil. combination or water and they are living effectively on top of each other this is a very real suspicion of the russian and syrian motives and this although the window came to an end nine am this morning it was open for twenty four hours it's unclear whether the russians and the syrians will keep the corridors open for any longer. let's move on to other news now the trumpet ministration is facing an investigation into whether it's trying to sell sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia a bypass and legal norms a committee in the house of representatives led by the democrats says whistleblowers tipped them off with warnings that corporate interests are being pushed ahead of the north and the american people mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the twenty four page report is extensive and reach in detail providing names

dates and specific communications relating to u.s. nuclear technology in saudi arabia the oversight committee under representative elijah cummings based the report on what it calls whistleblower accounts evidence provided by career officials within the administration deeply concerned about what would appear to be a deeply corrupt process circumventing congress what is surprising us is the scope of u.s. government officials. directly involved and d.s. business to business talks. with out this close and potential economic interest in the work that they were doing and that is certainly what is new among those named in the report to president trump's son in law and adviser jared cushion or who refinanced a deeply indebted new york building with a company called brookfield business partners which had just acquired a nuclear services company westinghouse electric under scrutiny as well question

his ongoing relationship with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. and central to the report longtime trump supporter and one time national security advisor michael flynn who the report says was deeply involved in pushing a nuclear plan for saudi arabia that included the construction of as many as forty saudi nuclear plants the report says michael flynn was a paid advisor to a company known as i p three international during the presidential campaign through the transition period and even while serving as national security advisor the report ends on february the twelfth that is last week president trump participated in a white house meeting with private nuclear power developers initiated by i p three international and as a democrat led oversight committee commences

a large scale investigation the question is whether house republicans will commit to it as well. washington. well this is the latest example of how the u.s. president sees his relationship with saudi arabia which is the first country donald trump visited after becoming president he's often talked about the importance of arms sales to sell the and says they're worth more than one hundred billion dollars despite growing anger over the sale of the emraan war in yemen trump as opposed congressional efforts to stop u.s. involvement in the conflict despite international calls for an investigation into crown prince mohammed bin sultan monts role in the murder of journalist. the us president says relations with saudi arabia mustn't be undermined and trump has ignored a one hundred twenty day deadline for a report on kushal murder requested by the senate the iranian foreign minister referred to kushal tweeting first a dismembered journalist and now illicit sale of nuclear technology to solve the

arabia fully exposed u.s. hypocrisy let's get more on this now we're joined by mark fitzpatrick he spent twenty six years in the u.s. state department and is now the executive director of the international institute of strategic studies is joining us live from washington d.c. mr fitzpatrick always a pleasure to have you with us on our jazeera i want to talk more about what mohamed jobs every has been has been saying but before i do that as we mentioned what twenty six twenty seven years with the u.s. state department can you put what's in this report into context for us how usual or unusual the allegations in this report. these are very unusual because there is a clear legal obligation before selling any nuclear technology to get a congressional approval the administration submits a. request and then in ninety days if congress doesn't oppose and it goes through

but no approval was submitted secondly there's an ethical clear ethical violation of individuals in the administration who stood to profit from it advocating policy and then there are the proliferation concerns of even selling nuclear technology to saudi arabia which has made it clear its intentions to have a nuclear weapons option so there are strong reasons to be very concerned about this report and i guess amongst those reasons those very strong reasons what mohamed jobs the reef has been saying is probably lower down you know what he calls hypocrisy the sort of optics of looking at selling nuclear technology to saudi arabia while pulling out of a mock do you to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. yes i think that's also quite relevant and that's plays into the third important concern i raised about proliferation that the saudis have made it clear they want

technology in order to have an option for nuclear weapons and it's the exact reason why the trump administration has been so harsh on iran because iran has had a similar nuclear hedging strategy there was a deal done to try to control it and blew up the deal so on the one hand. damning iran for adhering to a deal and giving a free hand wanting to give a free hand to the saudis who haven't agreed to any limits on their nuclear technology is a real yes it's hypocrisy and what could come out of this investigation how damaging could it be for the trumpet ministration and for the individuals who are implicated and as some of them have now left the administration. well so i think that bringing this to light really. makes it impossible that the

congress would approve a nuclear technology transfer to saudi arabia but the way the law is now structured the congress would have to block it by a veto proof majority in order to prevent it from going ahead so there's still a chance that despite all this clearly an ethical behavior that a deal could still go through and it represents for the middle east and if the saudi arabia were to use technology for pursuing nuclear weapons would be horrible so you know i hope that the congress will be able to stop this deal or at least continue to investigate it and the trumpet ministration won't go ahead the raise some issues of legal concerns and yes but. if if the f.b.i. or the justice department were to bring suits against individuals who clearly violated ethical considerations i'm not sure that in the trumpet administration though the

f.b.i. or the justice department would do that mr fitzpatrick thank you as always for your time and your expertise we do appreciate it that is mark fitzpatrick live in washington d.c. thank you. now the president of pakistan administered kashmir has told al jazeera that there's a risk of war with india after last week's bombing in the disputed region forty one and the in power military soldiers were killed in the suicide attack. has claimed responsibility well earlier we sat down with. we reject the allegations that the indian government has made and we all saw denounced the kind of frenzy that indian ruling party and the extremist groups have victor up there in india and the kind of anti pakistan and ticklish mute sentiment that they are weeping up there is a very very negative and this is pushing the two countries to the brink of war and

we are against this kind of warmongering the other reaction that i want to give is that there is a bigger reality there is this incident of course and pakistan has denied any responsibility. but at the same time i would like to say that there is a bigger reality there and the bigger reality is that for the past seventy one jeers midis have been brutalized and about half a million views have been killed in the past. seventy one hears i think that the united nations secretary general and the united nations security council both must get involved and broker some sort of us deal between the two countries if you don't call it a deal in deed at least they should try to deescalate the situation because this is the responsibility of the united nations to remove any threats to international peace and security and there is

a very serious threat to international and regional peace and security in the region well there is a security analyst and director of the society for policy studies in new delhi and he says world powers can apply pressure on pakistan to take action against those responsible for the attack. i think what india would expect from the global community is that the united nations security council ward prevailed upon pakistan to do whatever is expected in relation to the mamma and the leader of the group as i said muscled used to be listed by the un france is likely to move a proposal to the un security council very sore but we are aware that china has played a negative role in not allowing the listing of muscled so this is the indian expectation from the global community and if the un s.c. is able to i would a consensus i think that would help definitely in ensuring that baathist on

complies with what the global community expects from me. how many kashmiris working and studying and other parts of india so they have been harassed threatened and assaulted since last week's bombing and many blame t.v. news channels and social media for stalking and violence has to mean reports from new delhi coming in from the tops of the suspect something was standing here they are working hand in us wishing that for our soldiers this is one of many videos posted on social media targeting anyone in india even suspected of being unpatriotic because mary's living in india have become prime targets with many telling stories of being harassed threatened and worse. or this kashmiri student was studying in an indian university when a local mob forced him and other kashmiris to flee he doesn't want to be identified for fear of reprisals against him and other students. he says the violence began

after a twitter post celebrating the deaths of indian troops in kashmir was spread on campus he believes the post was fake but the damage has been done and the people reported the. spreading hatred. like many marys he says he left kashmir because of violence there made him feel unsafe but later what's happening to them in india. you know nobody wants to stay i'll try and question you know some kashmiri say it's not just social media that stoking hatred against mary's in india they see the mainstream indian media as adding to the tensions and that's leading to more violence several television channels have had near continuous coverage of the attack on indian troops some parents feel the media is partly to blame for cautionary students now being targeted. the way indian media is provoking people and trying to incite trouble i

don't think kashmiris are safe in india. but others blame india's leadership for not cracking down on the violence criticizing prime minister narendra modi for not condemning attacks against kashmiris or even appealing for calm the silence had been designed precisely. to give give space to every kind of hit it took on the out. looks and grand crevices and crannies every prejudice. the great it is the people used to be ashamed of in the past are now being glorified. the result of that is being felt by kashmiris across india as many now make their way back to. say for being in india. there are plenty more head of news including. collapse. many venezuelans

seeking treatment and will be here with action from the. ships including. russia's president as one of the united states against stationing its missiles in europe speaking during his annual address to parliament and said moscow wasn't looking for confrontation with washington after both countries pulled out of a cold war era arms treaty the persian said russia would respond to any u.s. deployment. russia will be forced to create and develop weapons that can be used not only towards those territories that would threaten us directly also against the decision making centers that are behind the missile systems which threaten our. three pro european union politicians have resigned from the u.k.'s ruling conservative party over what they describe as the prime minister's disastrous

handling it they're joining a new independent made up of labor politicians who left their party and anti semitism it adds to the pressure on tourism and she struggles to get parliament to approve her withdrawal deal before the brics a deadline on march twenty ninth paul brennan has more from london. the question now is just what impact it's going to have politically as far as persuading the prime minister to change her political negotiating stance with brussels i think that's unlikely to recent may has proved itself to be absolutely adamant that her way is the right way and her belief it may have a significant impact on the labor side with jeremy corbyn under significant pressure to start advocating now a people's vote another referendum on bracks it's the dissidents who have joined this independent group are certainly firmly pressing for that the question is though whether they can then take it on and become

a fully fledged independent political party and i think at the moment that looks unlikely they haven't registered as a party it's an independent group and it's difficult to see how they could reconcile the left and right leaning politics in ordinaries in ordinary life and the conservatives have said they are still prepared to vote for example with the conservatives on matters of the economy on security things like that so they're not totally dispensing with their concern conservative ideology just yet nonetheless the timing of this is extremely interesting and as we enter as i say the last four five weeks of the process before this march twenty ninth deadline there is no coincidence that these m.p.'s believe that the timing of their decision to go independent is going to have the maximum impact on the political debate. well then as well as health system is close to collapse with an acute shortage of medical supplies and doctors many suffer from easily treatable problems they've had to travel to neighboring countries for care home and spoke to patients in the

brazilian city of ballbuster near the venezuelan border. free of the body but full of spirit rafael majorca exudes the kind of calm determination most people in his condition would find hard to muster. before being transported to this hospital in neighboring brazil the thirty year old venezuelan was at death's door and while he's still extremely weak he's also much improved. why the just sexy he had skin rashes pneumonia and all of his conditions would derive from his diabetes which was uncontrolled that's most probably because access to things like insulin is rhea and venezuela is insulin a medication for diabetes patients readily available in most countries the world over but rafael whose aunt watches over him now just as she had prayed over him when he was in a coma wasn't so lucky i've been afraid in venezuela we can't get anything life

just isn't good we can't get medicine we can't get insulin nothing had stayed there he wouldn't be alive today. for the time being rafael is unable to speak but he is communicative his doctor who studied medicine in venezuela still finds it hard to believe things have gotten so bad in her patient's homeland. when i was a student venezuela had to acknowledge that we couldn't find in brazil not just equipment but also medicine we now see that in only a few years the house system deteriorated to the point that they don't even have the most basic needs. in this relatively poor part of brazil the influx of so many even israel is in need of medical care has put further strain on the area's already stretched healthcare facilities walking through crowded corridors of where i'm a general hospital the director general shows me how they no longer have space for all the patients sadly rafael is one of many of them as well as at this hospital

suffering from a medical condition that should have been easily treatable another stark reminder of the near complete collapse of the health care system in venezuela. before coming to brazil thirty four year old ricci cordoba kept going to see the doctor about the pain in his abdomen he was assured many times it was nothing serious but months after arriving here in the city of boa vista he got the proper diagnosis appendicitis and an old server and i mean in my job in a salon it's a shame venezuelans have to leave the country we will because of the economic situation and because of the lack of medicines for illness and go to other countries who receive us with a friendly embrace. some may call it an embrace others may call it treatment for many ailing venezuelans though it's a much needed road to recovery they simply cannot find at home mohammed atta.

in her i'm a state brazil. saudi state media says full soldiers have been killed while fighting with her feet rebels on the border with yemen they say they are continuing their offensive at the border taking sell their positions. and a large number of weapons ban. assault them erotic coalition intervened in yemen so on twenty fifth day in fighting against the hope these in an effort to restore the government. now a new phone app which links patients with blood donors says helping thousands of lebanese suffer from for here is a war but one of the biggest problems now a storage hospitals and health centers have few facilities and getting the blood to those who need it and time. as proving a huge challenge ahead reports. when a brain cutoff learned his blood type was the right match he rushed to help the patient i know a little girl. her family called him after he joined a new blood donation and. chief of the village people suffering from cancer and

diabetes and other diseases call me for help i register my number in the app and people can just call me directly i ask where they're based and go to donate blood. the app connects those in need of blood to the closest donors. is an engineering student and came up with the idea after his friend was diagnosed with cancer and needed a transfusion. to work offline as the entire database can be downloaded on users if the person is in need of blood a donor with the same blood group can be easily found in contact at any time. i think this is vital in a country at war where the internet often does not work during food or years of conflict yemen struggle to keep its hospitals and clinics open many have been destroyed and with a growing number of patients the health system continues to deteriorate and the land then i cannot even afford the means of transportation to the hospital as a result of an air strike my wife died and i have shocks of

a kidney failure i have seven children to feed and house rent to pay i am helpless only god knows my situation. of not living in a new app is providing much needed help and there are many donors but the real difficulty is finally a way to preserve blood needed for transfusions and get it to the patients before it's out of date. the war has made travel difficult and even if they should seek a clinic there is no guarantee the blood will be available now there are fears that the mean transfusion center in the capital sana'a may be forced to close. down and we have a supply of solutions sufficient for one week only and of no help is provided the center will come to a halt many patients and beneficiaries will be affected including those suffering from cancer kidney failure and fallacy mia from victims to the war. in the transfusion centers across yemen are facing similar conditions leaving the sick and

their families with nowhere else to go and bring him out as. still ahead on the news. tunnel trouble more on the diplomatic route one of the creation of one of europe's most expensive train lines. i'm wayne hay in phnom penh where one of the strongest economies in the world is expected to continue its growth this year but we'll tell you why there's concern about a particularly vulnerable section of society and coming up in sports practice makes perfect on the no one wants champion gets to grips with as you miss eighty. and i was a weather warning out throughout afghanistan the moment for rain and snow and it's rainy in pakistan this entire system is going to be active for the next twenty four

hours but west of that things are improving i suppose is the best argument for so that rain and snow fades and survey shows itself the sun's out as far back as the coast of lebanon there are occasional showers possible here otherwise looking pretty good twenty one in baghdad fifteen in aleppo and tehran slowly warming as well the sun is in the sky apart from occasional but a cloud nothing much is going on and that's true saudi arabia produces a wind still blowing a northerly in the gulf and then more of a suddenly up through western society riyadh's up to twenty one dollars twenty three doesn't feel as warm as it could because he is dry but is that normally breeze dies it warms up in qatar and the u.a.e. has about twenty four didn't feel right to be good i suspect south of all this on the active rain in africa has been through madagascar and through central was a big concern and tanzania that's still where it is with the biggest rainfall in the last twenty four hours being in madagascar and nearly one hundred millimeters overseas

a risk of landslides because of that but the right if anything is going to slowly ease in madagascar maybe not so in tanzania. welcome to autumn vines. a soviet era automobile manufacturing booky both. with a decades old blue book is being torn up and we will buy side. and western style management and socialist worker does appear destined for a cockroach. the russian enjoy a witness documentary on al-jazeera. donald trump as told of a special bowl with kim jong un. now the u.s. president and north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very honored to eight months after making history in singapore and they strike

a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally end the korean war follow us on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on the al jazeera news al and these are our top stories dozens of trucks carrying women and children have been leaving the last remaining territory in. the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they expect to recapture the village of days. the leader of pakistan administered kashmir has told al jazeera that he fears there's a risk of war with india after last week's attack in the disputed region forty one

indian power in the killed in the car bombing the. group has claimed responsibility three conservative politicians in the u.k. have resigned over what they call prime minister tourism a disastrous handling of bricks that the trio who support remaining in the e.u. instead of joining a new independent group made up of former labor politicians now costing nearly ten billion dollars the transit will be one of europe's most expensive train lines once finished the rail link will reduce travel time between milan and paris from almost seven to just four hours but the tunnel could now for what to call in relations between france and italy they would change the reports from the french alps. it's europe's most ambitious engineering project a high speed train link being cut beneath the alps separating france and italy but as diplomatic relations continue to unravel it's proving to be

a tunnel too far at the heart of the ten billion dollar peroration is this drilling machine two thousand four hundred tons of steel churning to the rock nonstop towards italy. this is really the project of my life i hope to keep on and finish the tunnel. but emerging from a citizens' guardhouse on the italian side of the border it's fulvio is a lifetime ambition to make sure the tunnel never breaks through for years now thousands of locals here have been taking part in demonstrations against it the see me. of so many things to be down things attributed to the community and let's say for progress what is being done with this tunnel is a waste of frowns we waste a montane of found wasted. and fulvio has some backing in high political circles it leads deputy prime minister luigi mio head of the populous five star movement he's

done most to fray relations with paris by meeting with members of the l. a vest rebellion besieging president macron the five stars deputy mayor of children described the project as insanity. the problem in our country the whole of europe and france with a get a vest is that their recent need for public investment but they must be for what needs must. back in france president emanuel macro is struggling to keep the on torrent. he didn't help when he described new populist movements as a form of political leprosy lest the u.s. to do to how it will be any transport links between the west and the east and that's why it is crucial and strategic once it's finished it will connect all the countries between portugal in eastern europe it's like a small reconstruction of europe's version of the silk road. that tell you we've got that the others are making nine. dollars in europe

one day. things. like that about europe but at the moment the. lightning hit me. every day telling no one. each slab inserted into the tunnel goal was meant to cement relationships between france and italy instead a fiasco is in the making in the heart of europe david chase down to zero under the french outs. now the debate over the town's future is adding to already tense diplomatic ties between italy and france it's being described as the lowest point in relations since the second world war things reached boiling point earlier this month when as his deputy prime minister travel to france to make the anti-government yellow vest protest is luigi demaio claimed on twitter that the wind of change has crossed the alps and that prompted powers to recall that some

bastard had to run saying it's fed up with repeated baseless attacks by italian leaders early a man who met crown accused as in his populist government of being cynical and irresponsible for her venting rescue boats with refugees on board from docking as he lays right wing interior minister matteo sound very cool back on a hypocrite accusing paris of preventing migrants from entering let's get more on all of this now we're joined by materia dyleski is a professor. politics at the pensée university in rome and he's joining us from the italian capital now very good to have you with us on al-jazeera side this tunnel could it be a casualty of the tensions between france and italy or other problems with the tunnel due more to domestic and fighting hello i think it's more the mastic problem now we have european election in the few months and the moon feist's is looking for a solution because they are losing ground comparing with north and north of the

league it's more than five star issue there the whole was being against the tunnel because they are a populist movement they say it's a waste of money we should invest this money all their way and so they're trying to pose the ally in allies in their government and they're trying to challenge the north only on the on the issue because the north early is very close to the business community in the north of italy so it's now in this case it's more a domestic affairs than frying france italy attention and if we look at the france italy tensions how much of you know what's being described as the lowest point in france italy relations since the second world war would you say is due to the the current italian government and the fact that you know they are more populist and

they represent a very different world view to that of the french president and government. the road three sources of tension between france and one is libya because frankly speaking now we are supporting different factions we are in the french the second point is immigration and the third point is an economic issue. schipper is growing by a french ship or. the french are afraid that v. country will be too powerful so in this case now of course this populist government is. the it's very i mean micron is alive the perfect enemy for them they are supporting jeweler joan and they think that they talk and people are closer to your own issues and topics and they are trying to.

look like france of digitals they think that is what the was the major. european elite you mentioned the two countries supporting different factions different governments competing governments in fact in libya why is that such a source of tension between the two countries the fact that they support different governments in a completely different country and how much of that is because of all those countries france and italy is oil interests in the media. is losing iran and that's a real problem for younger and but it happened even with previous government what happen now is that maybe italy is weaker in the. italy on the world is weaker on the world stage and that's a problem for italian economy in fact in the interests of mr dyleski thank you very much for your time and your insights on this very appreciated that is actually live

in brian thank you. now survivors of clerical child sex abuse are demanding transparency and accountability from the catholic church activists have gathered in rome ahead of a four day meeting of church leaders on that issue which starts on thursday ahead of the missing senior vatican figures met several survivors to hear their stories the catholic church has been hit by a series of abuse scandals in recent years and critics say the pope has been slow to act. meanwhile there are conservative factions within the church that disagree with how the pope is handling the scandals cardinals raymond the ball to brand well i have issued an open letter saying the problem isn't with catholic institutions but with growing tolerance of homosexuality they're demanding immediate action on what they call the plague of the homosexual agenda in the church. a british teenager who joined. when she was fifteen years old. doesn't ship.

was one of three girls from east london who went to syria and twenty fifteen has more from london. finding. decision this is how nineteen year old shamima begum learned that she was being stripped of her british citizenship from a copy of a letter from the british home office begum is in a refugee camp in syria where she was discovered earlier this month and. in twenty fifteen she and two friends left the u.k. to join i saw in syria she married a dutch eisel fighter soon after arriving and to be living in i saw the hold before arriving at the camp can i say. i think british prime minister said the decision to revoke citizenship had been carefully considered the overall point my friend makes

is absolutely right which is how important it is for this government and this country to make very clear that we will take action against those who are involved in terrorism the british government can withdraw a person citizenship if they deemed a security risk providing it doesn't leave them stateless it's believed begum has bangladeshi heritage and is eligible for citizenship but when asked about the case the country's foreign ministry said teenager is not a bangladeshi citizen there is no question of begum being allowed to enter bangladesh bacon's infant son is a british national by birth the british government says his rights and unaffected. this is bethnal green where she grew up an area with a large bangladeshi community in london's eastend the case is divided opinion here . there's just so many factors in this and i'm actually quite bit torn to the one hundred it was the truth but this is a ship i want them to bring her in the baby ava but the other hand i'm like she did

go away and she did join you know terrorist groups. only fifteen when she left for syria there were some including the former head of britain's foreign intelligence service m i six people leave the british society should be strong enough to give her a second chance others want her to come to the u.k. to stand trial to possibly face a prison sentence and enter into a deal radicalize ation program. but says she doesn't regret traveling to syria she's also described the twenty seventy manchester arena bomb attack is justified retaliation the comments haven't won her much sympathy but one former senior police officer believes begum should be seen as a victim you know we talking about sexual exploitation we were talking about individuals that were on the on the internet being radicalized parents had no idea whatsoever what was happening. an estimated nine hundred british nationals have joined eisel but only forty of being prosecuted the government wants to send

a tough signal to others hoping to return to the u.k. but every right or wrong decision the government makes sets a precedent for others leave barca al-jazeera london egypt has executed mine people who were convicted of assassinating a top prosecutor or were found guilty of taking part in the bombing that killed. twenty fifteen six others had their death sentences commuted to life in prison the government blamed the attack on the muslim brotherhood and hamas but both have denied any involvement. nigerian fuel suppliers have cut the price of petrol in a bid to encourage people to travel to vote in presidential elections this saturday the vote washoe to take place last saturday was delayed by a week just a few hours before due to open both of the main parties have expressed concern of the delay will result in

a reduced water turnout now nigeria's president mohamed the hardy came to power with a promise to clean up the niger delta but as he attempts reelection at a still a mess of oil spills making surrounding villages circ and destroying their livelihoods how to toss the reports of people living in this part of the niger delta say they can't remember when the sign was put up all they know is that the water and soil in the area is not safe after decades of oil spills and criminal groups sabotaging all pipelines millions of nigerians are unemployed fishing is how some family survive and despite the danger to their health many men venture into the creeks are people . having something to eat that is well if you. introduce water to catch fish selfish gene quarter. in here there's no actual environmentalist say the niger delta is an ecological

disaster zone scarred by decades of oil spills that are polluted the water killing animals trees and plants village elders say the last time this area was clean was more than ten years ago you can smell the crude oil and it's not pleasant people here say they feel forgotten by the government and exploited by oil companies. over the years some communities are taken all companies to court and were financially compensated blessing nor do has taken her case to a district court at the hague her husband was one of the nine activists killed with cancer we were in one thousand nine hundred five by nigeria's then military government she believes the oil company shell was complicit shell has always maintained the allegations are false. all i want is justice every time i go to the netherlands embassy for visa ad they say no i think some people don't want me to tell the truth about what they did to my husband others who remember what the place

used to look like just when the pollution of the region's water and soil to stop i was very little green i used to go with my uncle to fish. and this place used to be violent. like a desert used to be. mangrove forests i mean a very deep forest. it was there we have critics are we going to screech to a different species of fishes the oil companies nigeria's government the united nations and other agencies are sponsoring a cleanup campaign clearing dead foliage spilled oil and planting new mangroves but the work will take decades to complete if at all meanwhile amongst all the poverty all companies will keep pumping out as much as they can people in the community say they are not benefiting from the oil wealth some of the things are demanding our jobs some of the money and better infrastructure how to al-jazeera in the niger delta.

it is time for sport melania thank you liz will former golf world number two steve stricker will captain the united states in the two thousand and twenty writer cup against europe sugar was announced as the man to take over from gen jim few wrecked on wednesday the fifty one year old becomes the first man to captain the americans without having won a major during his career he did win twelve times on the p.g.a.

tour but had to wait until two thousand and eight at the age of forty one to play in his first right or cup the two thousand and twenty match will be played at whistling straits in wisconsin shirkers home state europe will be captain by pádraig harrington you're playing for your country you're playing for the other team mates and it's something you want to win. at such a high level that that it sometimes get in get you know your your your play is it's tough to bring out the best of your play you know when it's when you wanted so badly but from that point on i was hooked to play and wanted to make every team and to now captain the team is really really cool. meanwhile eccentric former two time major champion john daly also had an impact during the announcement of striker as u.s. ryder cup captain take a look at this. so. but then

on the floor. he wants only body that was you. know i got a. text from john daly there you go. i just saw his workout video i had no right to. question. tiger woods also congratulated stricker on his time out woods took time out of his own in mexico city where he's been practicing for this week's world golf championship event to send the new captain a message to steve there for me one more deserving just this camp and see no need for a very long time to play together and become. partners and we. want to share a loss or share but i've grown to love you and your family. you want to

see you start writing them down. even just midfielder sammy kundera has been ruled out of their champions league game against i'd let it go because of a heart condition he was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat on tuesday thirty one year old has stayed behind in italy and will be sidelined while he receives in treatment now the rest of the team are in spain to face atlantico in the last sixteen eventis hoping that christianity rinaldo can inspire them to their first champions league trophy since one thousand nine hundred six he's won it five times as a player there obviously for me during the last ten years the champions league has been all about we're now and i would messi so having him with us is an advantage but we need a good performance in football not every victory is guaranteed with christiane out but if you have rinaldo you have more chances to win because he's the best in the world. qatar's national football team were honored in doha for winning the asian cup last month and in turn meant that they played in the u.a.e.

the president of qatar's football association. been ahmed and fanny was present to greet the team with the number twenty two jersey at the year of the next world cup even with the recent victory of the team's coach felix sanchez is already looking ahead to prepare his young team for the twenty twenty two world cup which will be hosted in qatar well now that the next that to prepare them for the world cup it's going to be that the better america we know already the. opposition in the group stage so we know it's going to be very hard but we're going to try to prepare as best as possible to write very. good conditions to compete well against these strong teams and to have this experience that these are going to be key for a lot of players to arrive. with a good experience and for the world cup usa gymnastics has hired its fourth c.e.o. in just under two years as the organization tries to rebuild itself following one of the biggest sex abuse scandals in sport takes the helm having previously been

a vice president of the n.b.a. and a former junior gymnast she says her priority will be to settle lawsuits with victims of larry nasser a former team dr nasser is serving a life sentence for multiple sex abuse charges under the guise of medical treatment he's accused of abusing hundreds of women and girls including olympic gymnast simone biles alli raisman and jordan weaver weaver to name a few have strongly criticize usa gymnastics for failing to protect them and in some cases helping even cover up his crimes. that's been a turbulent two years for us a.g. steve penny quit as c.e.o. at the height of the nasser scandal and twenty seventeen after twelve years in charge penny was arrested last october and accused of tampering with evidence he's pleaded not guilty and we have carrie perry she lasted nine months she was forced out after failing to make big changes to the organization in the wake of the nassar case and former house of representatives member mary bono came in as interim chief in october but she was forced out after only five days she worked with

a law firm that was helping advise us a.g. at the beginning of the nasser case she was also slammed by olympic gymnast known biles for posting a tweet critical of nike sponsorship of collin capper nick the former n.f.l. quarterback whose protested racial injustice all while usa was without a sport sponsorship of their own now to add the usa gymnastics problems the federation has filed for bankruptcy and the u.s. olympic committee is trying to strip it of its role as a sports national governing body world number two simona halep has progressed to the quarter finals at the dubai tennis championships on wednesday the romanian face soaring go of the ukraine how to winning this one in relatively straightforward fashion six three and seven five the score to the twenty seven year old. tova is also through to the quarter finals in dubai but her win on wednesday was decidedly more complicated after taking the first set seven five against american

qualifier and world number one seventeen jennifer brady the czech surrendered the second set six one gave it to a spot back in third to take the honor six three and book her place in the final eight. well the williams f one car finally arrived in barcelona and made its way around the circuit two days after its rivals began their pre-season testing for those who are out on the track the last two days have seen for r.t. top the time sheets it was however not the case on wednesday but a former for a driver was still fastest to me right in driving for alpha male these days was the fastest in the morning session world champion lewis hamilton was also on the track but of course most of the attention was on the failings of williams yeah we've been very lucky george a robot have been very understanding clearly it's not the start that they wanted in the start that we wanted for them we wanted to get in the race car and one day that

they could get as many laps under their belts before starting in australia that they could but that hasn't happened and we can't keep thinking about that now we've got to look forward and we've got to capitalise on the time that we do have and. they've been great. tempers flared in new york as anthony joshua and gerald miller launched their upcoming world heavyweight title they don't meet until june first but things nearly got going straight away at madison square garden. remember giving just a big shove ahead of the press conference joshua is the unbeaten champion with four of the heavyweight belts but this will be his debut in the u.s. miller known as big baby is also one. i'm ready. sleep. i've got a picture of him. i'm going to pick. up

in the morning josh. many have criticized joshua for taking this fight instead of setting up a more high profile one against w.b.c. champion deonte wilder or the unbeaten tyson fury but joshua says he isn't in any rush. just give me time of. what i've been dreaming to do with the time the time was forty flights free been professional for eleven years had one good with a case klitschko and now he's a book. for everyone says my sixty five in the space of four to five years. coming here to prove anything specific but show if you can see. i think that'll be a good fight well that's all yours for now heads back over to the like you very much for that and that does it for this. for me it is a problem and a good time here and thank you very much for watching.

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