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backed forces begin moving civilians out of a key village. also a new challenge for to reason may as three of her piece quit the party over bricks it and the vatican prepares for a conference on sexual abuse some survivors say the church isn't listening to their concerns. welcome to the news hour those stories in a moment but first a devastating fire is raced through several buildings in the old part of the bangladeshi capital dhaka we're told at least fifty six people are dead fire officials say the blaze broke out on wednesday night in one building and still isn't under control local media are reporting that the four story structure was home to at least seven families as well as plastic and chemical warehouses that the death toll is expected to rise as emergency crews are still searching the area and

of course we'll bring you more on that story as we get it from our correspondents there in the bangladeshi capital. let's go on to our top story now as well and president donald trump has directed the state department to stop an american born woman who joined eisel from returning to the u.s. harder more tanner's says that she made a mistake joining the armed group and wants to return to america with her eighteen month old son but secretary of state mike pompous as the twenty four year old has no legal basis to claim american citizenship her family's lawyer her son should be says maternal wants to be held accountable for her decision. i personally spoke to the f.b.i. on sunday and i said listen. wants to turn herself into american authorities we simply want the legal process that we believe in to play itself out and she's willing to pay whatever debts she has to society she's not asking for a free pass we were you know on behalf of her family we were the ones who contacted

the f.b.i. when we first learned that would have went to syria this is something that we absolutely condemn in the strong this of terms and the families always wanted her to come back and to face the legal system that we all believe in and now she's willing to do that and the government of i think is missing out on a tremendous opportunity to one gain intelligence from her and to really be able to utilize her as a strong voice against a monstrous groups like isis that have brainwashed many individuals and manipulated them to do horrible things that i think somebody like could. sing isis speaking out against them at great risk to her personal life is a sign a victory for the u.s. i think it's very hypocritical in fact why did her to get so much attention recently was exactly because donald trump tweeted that europe should take back its citizens who have joined isis so for him on one day to claim europe should take its citizens back because it would be dangerous to leave them just out and about and then for him to hypocritically almost the very next day deny taking back an

american citizen who wants to turn herself in it just simply doesn't make sense i also think it speaks to a broader problem of presidential overreach which will affect more than just who it affects all americans when the president claims the authority now to direct the sector of state to strip citizen ship of americans that's a very very scary thing that u.s. citizenship is the most sacred thing and you don't lose it even by coming the worst of crimes i mean the united states you have people who commit murder mass murder and even get out of jail after serving twenty twenty five years and having paid their debt to society under their state laws and they still retain their citizenship this is a young woman she made serious mistakes that we condemn that frankly discussed us and her family but she's willing to pay the price and she want to speak out to make sure nobody else repeats those mistakes. a british teenager who fled london to join isel will not be allowed into bangladesh on tuesday the. u.k. citizenship believing she also holds bangladeshi nationality or has more from london. finding that. 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 eisel in syria she married a dutch eisel fighter soon after arriving and to be living in i saw last stronghold before arriving at the camp can i say to you i think british prime minister said the decision to revoke begum 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 are 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 east end the case is divided opinion here . there's just so many factors in this and i'm actually quite bit torn to that one hundred it was the truth but this is the 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 terrorists agree. only fifteen when she left for syria there are some including the

former head of britain's foreign intelligence service m i six to believe that 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 radicalization program. but he says she doesn't regret traveling to syria she's also described the twenty seventeen 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 took him as 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. al-jazeera london. nice thoughts controlled most of eastern

syria and the third of iraq but it's now on the brink of defeat with its territory reduced to just a sliver u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have started to move civilians from syria's eastern village of guus is a crucial sign that the standoff is in its final phases and could end soon several trucks have left the besieged area with men women and children it's believed deisel fighters used civilians as human shields arsalan iftikhar is a human rights lawyer and senior editor at islamic monthly joins me now via skype from sterling in virginia near washington d.c. good to have you with us as far as your concerned and as far as your understanding is is harder ton of the american at the center of the recent controversy is she an american national because her nationality is what's confusing certainly the state department and the president. well first of all there are a lot of things. president no no which you know obviously trumps and unintended

what we're dealing with. and i was born in east hackensack new jersey mention any worse after other initiatives and you're as a diplomat. u.s. earth's he knew in that sport and according to david leopold former president of the american immigration lawyers association is. that i must travel there's nothing that donald trump or secretary might consider. there then she is an american citizen who should be afforded that your process of law here in american courts indeed well then let's just move this forward because there is an issue of sort of double standards here because only what less than a year ago two u.s. citizens charged in separate cases regarding their involvement in syria under the were transferred we believe to the custody of the u.s. and one of them has been or will be soon in a court of law in the u.s.

that was in what july twenty eighth why is it that those u.s. citizens can come back to the united states and how to baton or has a slightly written blankly refused. so here to get that is it amazing question there have been several people who have been repatriated back to the united states to face trial for supporting isis several books young men in the minneapolis st paul suburbs have been brought i don't know if it is friend of. the show me a big gun case in the u.k. which is quite different and there are american constitutional legal system provides for due process and what the cause for fourteenth amendment and most importantly to renounce american citizenship you basically need to walk into it and miss it somewhere and publicly were not sit in front of people and none of which she did and she wants to face the american legal system again and you know she doesn't want to speak she wants american justice and that is exactly what you

should get your in the united states and of course there is this issue of you know coming back to the united states being presented within and in front of a court of law how long how difficult is that whole process and are people in the united states worried generally about the fact that you've got a former ice all individual coming back to the country or that it's just going to cost a lot of taxpayers' money for something that may not to incarcerate an individual that once didn't like the united states and wanted to destroy the united states. well firstly it made abundantly clear that isis is not the x.-men they're not transformers these are human beings who make terrible mistakes and like many human beings make terrible mistakes in her case she actually wants that these just you know she might come back and plead guilty after which there would be no trial you

know this is quite a bad thing because you know we've already repatriated several former isis fighters to the united states here is somebody who was the nicest you know there's no indication that she took part in any military hostilities and so against you know the paper and there's a great deal of hypocrisy from the tribe that ministration as you know if you weeks ago he said that europe should repeat over eight hundred european i said that there are countries to this trial because he once said that it would create chaos in the region if he isn't really and say why don't you know twenty something year old girl from alabama back into the country to face trial again it's just another piece of the odyssey from the trial just finally and i think i asked another contributor early in our show jewel of al jazeera news bulletins throughout the day that it is it a case that you you can't always work out or tell who is an eyesore fighter who is an eyesore sympathizer or who is an innocent victim and to prove this getting the

information getting the evidence together from syria for a court of law or anywhere else the world is always going to be very difficult for the element of doubt will always be in the minds of any american when somebody who was an american of was with eisel comes back to the mainland. oh at first glance you know that's not entirely true and you know i think the vast majority of americans are very negative. and so i don't think they're going to give her or anyone else any but it's i don't know if we have brought back people who are so self professed fighters you know surely we can bring somebody who is certainly lower a little taller allegheny just another piece of the congress the only chance that ministration or they're willing to lecture the european union and the rest of the world on things that we're not able to do i mean we want to he wants to make america great again well how about the american justice system which has been pretty great for a while we'll see what happens for the last one if the car thanks so much for joining us from the united states. thank you. the case like that from the european

union has been thrown into further chaos after three m.p.'s quit the ruling party over the prime minister's brecht's that strategy they've joined eight other m.p.'s from the opposition who formed a new political group meanwhile three the may has just wrapped up talks in brussels where she is trying to break the deadlock over bricks that paul brown and possible . britain and the e.u. are careering towards a bracks a deadline in less than forty days and the political tempo is only becoming more frantic and more uncertain and the british parliament internal party divisions have accelerated into full blown resignations three conservatives now joining eight labor m.p.'s in going independent i also hope it gives courage to members of the government who are deeply concerned about this no deal becoming a real a real possibility and it will give them the coverage next week to do it but frankly some of them should on a long time. in their joint resignation letter the three former conservatives say

that their final straw was the government's disastrous handling of it it was unconscionable they wrote that a conservative government was recklessly marching the country to the cliff edge of no deal and they lamented the failure of politics in general the resignations of the elephant in the room at the weekly session of prime minister's questions despite the eleven new independent tempi sitting very noticeably in new seats in the chamber by the theresa may nor jeremy corbyn acknowledge them here mark hurd. this place as at war with itself the tories and the labor party are employed to scotland deserves better of we. are here in france for a refund if the british prime minister's way out was to travel from london to brussels to meet the european commission president. and his chief negotiator michel barnier they did not shake hands for the cameras and in fact the fancy dress unicom protesters outside looked more optimistic than the diplomats inside. no

breakthrough was predicted and by the time the prime minister's convoy departed no compromise had been reached but there is a growing sense of time running out and some suggest that the emergence of the independent group will embolden other dissenters we don't know how it will impact how it all turns out. it does make it look but now there's a new independent group of l. make more independent action from other m.p.'s more rather than less likely perhaps the most interesting aspect of the resignations of these eleven m.p.c. is not their individual grievances but the collective grievance that politics in the u.k. is broken and that the political landscape dominated by just two main parties is ill equipped to deal with the polarizing nature of the brics it debates the real test will be how many more m.p.'s they can persuade to join them ahead of the meaningful vote on the next step for brics it next week. paul brennan al-jazeera westminster so a lot more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including

a twenty five year since a mass shooting in a west bank mosque we report on how the consequences are still unfolding. also depleted but not defeated the afghan army prepares for a spring offensive in the hope of taking back territory from the taliban the group has seized control of twenty one districts and the united states announced that captain paul the twenty twenty ryder cup we'll have that story in sports. now the head of the catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse before a four day conference at the vatican he begins now the pope was due to meet victims on wednesday ahead of the meeting with senior clergy but he didn't show up alan's has moved in vatican city. each of these people have stories to tell their own stories or other people's stories of years of suffering of the hands of catholic

priests bishops and cardinals. on the eve of an unprecedented meeting on sexual abuse at the vatican they brought their stories to tell pope francis. speaking to journalists earlier in the day survivors explained what they wanted but zero tolerance if you've abused a child you're not going to be a priest anymore and if you've covered up for that abuse or. you two are not going to be a priest anymore. starting from when he was seven peter saunders was abused by three different men it was it was sexual assault i don't need i don't need to go into graphic detail but i was sexually assaulted by these characters and whilst i have recovered in the physical sense it didn't have any long lasting effect on the what these creatures did to me i still actually have a weekly therapy session because it messes your mind up it's abuse like this that the vatican says it's determined to put

a stop to and that the four day meeting is vital in impressing on senior clarity who've come from around the world that it's their shared responsibility to do so but although cardinals and bishops will hear video testimony from victims of sexual abuse no survivors have been given the chance to speak their own person so they were putting great importance on their expected separate meeting with the pope but it didn't go as planned first of all pope francis wasn't there but made it very clear some of us that's not ok where as a victim see it as a sign of disrespect that the leader of the catholic church sent bishops instead this vatican summits on sexual abuse may be unprecedented in its size and its scope but survivors have still told us that they are skeptical that it's going to lead to any meaningful change and their experiences on wednesday have only reinforced that feeling for them the summit has got off to a bad start before it's even begun to reach alan's al-jazeera the vatican.

church historian and visiting italian professor of theology and religious studies at villanova university he says the meeting is important to raise awareness. it's a big crisis that has entered a new phase in twenty eighteen because as you mentioned the case of cardinal mccarrick the case of chile and because the pontificate of pope francis has been remarkably honest on some issues regarding sexuality and i'm sexuality so this meeting happens in a very different context for the sex abuse crisis compared to just a few years ago this meeting ease unprecedented but we shouldn't expect the production of new laws in these four days the most important aspect will be to raise. awareness especially in those countries were the situation is not like in the west's or in canada australia were held of work has been included

in my own in italy in my own country the situation is compared to the other states twenty or thirty years beyond i saw here it's a problem of raising the level of consciousness in the global church because having a meeting in the vatican means that the vatican finally acknowledges that egypt global problem not just a few isolated cases. let's go to asia now where afghan army commanders say they're confident a spring offensive will regain large areas of territory from taliban twenty one districts have fallen under taliban control in recent months fighting has resulted in the afghan army is highest ever losses while its strength has fallen to its lowest level in twenty berkeley has more from kabul. this remote afghan army outpost is one of thousands nationwide often isolated and in inhospitable areas

they are the first line of defense against taliban and i saw fighters as well as the most wonderful flags mark the grays of fallen soldiers since the u.s. pulled out its ground forces three years ago the afghan army has borne the brunt of the fighting with the taliban and the casualties inflicting ever greater casualties to the armed forces who are now the number of casualties or dozens every day people have lost. the meaning of body counting we have become indifferent officially the government says forty five thousand members of the security services have been killed since two thousand and fifteen and officially afghan analysts say that number could easily be doubled the overall army strength has dropped to its lowest level in years as the military confronts his biggest ever crisis but army chiefs maintain that morale remains good. we have a volunteer army but it's their own choice to serve beer is no doubt that we suffer a lot. of disabled but our morale is high because the goal is freedom and to serve

the people of afghanistan and. in the past few months the military has lost control of more than twenty areas to taliban fighters who seem able to strike anywhere. in total we have lost twenty one districts in all of afghanistan it is because of the change in tactics on the ground so we are planning a spring offensive where it will take two to three months to retake all these districts from the taliban but real reimposed the rule of law. eight thousand recruits every year pass out of this training center in the capital kabul most of them are trained by afghan instructors taught by western military experts who despite the high casualty rate young men are still volunteering to fight it's partly out of a sense of passion to see it but it's also because of the dire economic situation here they face the stark choice either stay at home and enjoy your poverty or face

the taliban and risk death or injury and that from the e.s.m. it's my duty to fight for my country to win our freedom i'm not afraid of the taliban for the magazine other stuff i hadn't gone to the army i had nothing else planned professional soldiers say ideally training should last a minimum of a year in afghanistan it's three months that. we would like more time but we make the most of what time we do have and when they. leave here there are able to fight the taliban. but the question is how able are they to fight effectively army pay is low the conditions poor and since the american ground forces left backup is limited recruits are taught to shoot but equally importantly they are taught emergency battlefront first aid increasingly important because of the shortage of medivac helicopters. was a bomb disposal experts for seven years until an explosion blew off both his legs he's one of a growing number of disabled war veterans discharged from the military and when

this. i have no regret i am proud that i have contributed to the fans of michael three and my second was in pursuit of peace my people and my country but there is little help for heroes in afghanistan the father of four receives a meager disability pension of two hundred seventy dollars a year but he hasn't received any money for eight months and he can't afford further medical treatment. the afghan military has come a long way in the last eighteen years but is it far enough and if and when the u.s. forces finally withdraw completely will the afghans be able to stand alone tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. well still ahead here the al-jazeera news from long saving treatment to minor elements but israel is a crisis that forces people to seek treatment anywhere but at home plus the tech industries answer to foreign sounds the phone that you can hold in heart but is it

worth two thousand dollars. and williams finally get their account for pre-season testing we will be here to tell you that story. hello there it's going to be very wet for some of us in china over the next few days already the satellite picture is showing all the clouds working its way up across shanghai that's already given us a fair amount of rain and there's plenty more still to come thursday definitely looking like a wet day for many places then and in the north of our map we'll even see some of that turn to snow the whole thing is moving through fairly readily those are by the time we get to friday most of us will have a dry a day shanghai there will still be under that cloud rain and went for warm in not wind

a wet weather even before the towards the south of the many of us here there's more in the way of dry weather but the showers have got going recently in the southern parts of our map so for some of us impose a born in a three job and some outre is pretty west at times and we're looking at more very sharp showers as we head through thursday and friday still on thursday and friday is the north where we've got the driest weather a most of us here should get away with a draw a day as we head out towards the west we've got quite an active weather system making its way across at the moment making its way across pakistan into the no. in parts of india absolute pulse of afghanistan as well heavy rain and snow out of this in fact we could see well over one meter of snow in the northern parts of india as we head through the next few days for the south that was largely dry including in sri lanka. the weather sponsored. going green bacteria in the board tree and superheated gas escaping from boca in points and this is really the fault. in the for what happened to experiments both

exploring and inefficient by to tell counter the impacts of climate change the science of capturing cult that using nature i'm a science to come back i'm a tape and i might just have to contend. on or to zero. al-jazeera. every year.

welcome back to the i was there a news hour with me it's a whole rama reminder of our top stories a fire has raced through several buildings in an old part of the bangladeshi capital dhaka at least fifty six people are known to be dead but that toll is expected to rise the buildings house both residential apartments and also plastics and chemical warehouses western governments are ruling on whether i still fighters and their families can return home nineteen year olds from me i'm a big government has been stripped of her british citizenship and donald trump has directed the state department to stop american born. from attorney homes while. u.k. prime minister trees may has visited brussels for more talks aimed at breaking the deadlock visit came as a pro european union politicians broke away from her ruling conservative party over

may's strategy. tech giant google says its failure to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its nest guard home security device was and we quote an era on its past it emerged the product had built in microphones when google announced it would soon start supporting the firm's voice commanded assistance. google says the microphones have to be activated and are included to work with future updates alexis hancock is stuff technologist at electronic frontier foundation she joins me now on skype from something cisco's very good to have you with us on al-jazeera i mean we expect sort of to talk and receive replies from android office and home assistants and apple's version siri but not from a piece of technology that's supposed to be a home security device i mean what are we to make of the admission by google and there are policy well things to

consider here is that there was obviously really there ran a communication occur with google where they implemented something that they didn't quite make clear to the users that was available in the device already. people who are very concerned about their privacy so being able to actually said are all the spectators for a device would be the more sensible thing to do in the beginning where people are concerned about their privacy if. there's a capability to listen you should think they're clear so i think that's the main takeaway from this is being able to communicate to users and consumers that there are devices in your there are devices available that can listen to make sure that you know can also have speakers and you know a lot of measurements you know also have audio and anyway if you don't list what audio is there then you know that can become

a really great concern i think you've raised that point about how important it is for the consumer to you want to read the small print but many consumers don't read that small print turn perhaps haven't learned the lessons about privacy that we've been hearing so much about whether it's privacy details that we give when we are registering for good so whether we're registering for some sort of social media page what lessons can we learn from this particular instance and this particular piece of technology that google has presented to us. i think no less than a consumer's can take away is taking inventory of what's in your home and who do you trust and who has a good track record who doesn't and if a company hasn't had a good track record with privacy i think along the way is being more cognizant of what you actually buy as a consumer and whether or not you're comfortable with products in your home that

are internet connected regardless of what company it comes from so i think there's a great take away to take inventory what's going on and also being able to voice when there is a privacy concern to the companies in making sure that you alert to them that you are not comfortable if there is something that you found out about a device later on before you even bought it it's one thing for a device that can sort of listen to you pursue a but issues of trust and privacy sort of come into play here especially when companies that are going to focus too much on facebook but often being accused of using subscribers personal information for their benefit here we're talking about vocal information vocal evidence you might say all of the that could perhaps be potentially used in a as part of a recording and that's quite worrying. yes it

is i think when it comes down to hardware that something that you place in your home you know and consumers who place things their home there's a greater amount of trust that you encroach upon upon the user themselves in a consumer themselves. it's the difference between using an application and using a website versus putting something into your home that you trust so that's concerns a lot of users and i think in that way because of the fact that if you like someone has invaded their home and there's something existed there that they didn't realize what was already there they claim that you know that that microphone was disabled and that you can enable it on your own but is just a matter of having that knowledge of what's in your home is most important indeed interesting stuff from the e f f thanks so much for joining us from san francisco. as a smartphone but you can probably didn't haul off some soon has just unveiled its next generation of devices including the galaxy fold but will it be the full the

industry leader to overcome a shrinking market system salumi a small new york. the next generation samsung smartphone will also serve as a tablet just fold it has a four point six inch display it's compact and perfectly portable but. when the device opens up your world does too not surprisingly samsung's newest device is called the fuld and it was unveiled with all of the fanfare you've come to expect from the world's leading smartphone maker. but shares with things get really caught it goes on sale in april but it and samsung's new as tannen as ten plus are being released amid faltering worldwide sales people have a little bit of phone fatigue all the phones look the same they feel the same this new galaxy s ten is not really going to break the mold but we've seen some hints of things that are coming in the future that might get people really excited the issue

whether buying samsung or an apple device is increasingly price with the fold costing about two thousand dollars samsung will have to convince consumers that they just have to have it pretty much all of the price to perform the performance of their own looking for. for a replacement phone every three or four years i'm not within the eighteen to twenty four month update cycle i'm not rich enough or that the global smartphone market is shrinking after years of rapid growth with consumers waiting for the next game changing feature and major markets like here in the united states that saturation still smartphone sales are a vital part of the global economy. in two thousand and seventeen smartphone sales reached nearly four hundred sixty billion dollars but the rising price tag for the better known smartphones is not just an issue in the developed world and there is heavy headwind against the high and smartphones we saw that the i phone and the sales but not that great some macro issues as well china is slowing down. but

europe is slowing down with the release of the full industry leaders seem convinced that continuing innovation and the ability to access five g. data networks in the near future will be enough to keep smartphone consumers coming back for. more christian salumi al jazeera new york. doldrums the u.s. could tax european car imports if it fails to broker a fair trade deal with the e.u. the american president gave the warning after a meeting with austrian chanceless of us to curt's at the white house the commerce department has been investigating whether imported cars and parts are a threat to u.s. national security it could clear the way for a tax on european cars of up to twenty five percent. french president manuel micro has announced new measures to fight anti semitism of a series of high profile incidents when kroll was attending the annual dinner of a jewish organization saying anti semitism has reached its worst level since world

war two in some parts of europe he says legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may it comes a day after thousands of people rallied in cities across france to denounce hostility towards jews. palestinians are preparing to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of a massacre in hebron with demonstrations on friday twenty nine palestinians were killed when an american israeli settler opened fire inside a mosque on the twenty fifth of february one nine hundred ninety four and sorry for the reports from the occupied west bank the consequences of that mass shooting still unfolding. even from a hillside overlooking her bronze old city it's clear that this is an ancient place rich in human heritage but also visible fault lines of human conflict according to the traditions of the abrahamic faiths judaism christianity and islam abraham himself along with his wife his sons and their wives are buried in the caves above which the mosque now stands since israel occupied the west bank in one thousand

nine hundred sixty seven jews and muslims have prayed here separately divided over the past twenty five years the division has deepened on the muslim side the call to prayer requires an israeli soldier to unlock a door israeli army cameras survey the interior of the mosques in mom says more than half of what he describes as an exclusively muslim site has been cut off. totally reject the division which isn't meant for protection the real protection comes from the fact that this is an old islamic mosque and the settlers to live. on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred four an american israeli far right settler goldstein into the mosque during prayers and started shooting he killed twenty nine worshipers and wounded nearly two hundred he himself was chased down and beaten to death the violence that stain on least here may have been over in a matter of minutes but its consequences a still deeply felt this was a seismic event in the history of this town and from the epicenter here the

fissures of that politically psychologically physically have spread out throughout . the immediate military lockdown forcing the palestinian market to close amid other restrictions was followed by the hebron agreement of one thousand nine hundred seventy eighty percent of the city is known as h one mostly the urban sprawl of the west bank's main economic center and of the palestinian authority the remaining twenty percent home to several hundred israeli settlers and forty thousand palestinians became h two under israeli military control the illegal settlements have swollen attracting some of the most right wing settlers in the occupied west bank some eight hundred and are registered as living here the crisscross intimate nature of the division heightens the friction hebron is often a flashpoint of violence jews here remember an early a massacre in one thousand twenty nine when sixty seven people were killed the small jewish community forced from the city. kamin what's happening now is a religious and historical homecoming under the protection of the israeli army

they're just doing their job to try to keep the tension. down because without them it would probably be much more terms so there we see we see them of the positive presence a few meters away a very different perspective run the gate has seen her home and her freedoms ever more constricted for the last two years by reinforced fence and a gate that soldiers can look at any time we used to go and go now they have as a historical tangling us we say prisoners are in prison but we're in a larger one twenty five years on from one of the deadliest days in the israeli palestinian conflict its legacy is undimmed in the daily reality of hostility disposition and division are a force that hebron in the occupied west bank that's the traffic in our nigeria's president mohammed who bihari came to power with a promise to clean up the niger delta but as he attempts re-election it's still a mess of oil spills making surrounding villages sick and destroying their

livelihoods as heroin tassel reports people living in this part of the niger delta say they contraband but when the sign was put up all they know is that the water and soil in the area is not safe the decades of oil spills and criminal groups sabotage 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. dying without having something to eat that is where our people normally go back into the polluted water to catch fish selfish gene quarter it. in here there is no option environmentalist say the niger delta is an ecological disaster zone scarred by decades of oil spills that a 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 have 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 a 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 mongrel forest. how it was then we have critics are we going to screech to a different species of fish. 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 they are demanding are jobs some of the money and better infrastructure. al-jazeera in the niger delta to the americas and venezuela opposition leader who says he's going ahead with plans to bring in u.s. medical and food aid defying the military backed government of president nicolas

maduro the lack of supplies and medical staff has left venezuela's health system close to collapse forcing many patients to travel to neighboring countries for care . spoke to patients in the brazilian city of vista near the venezuelan border. frail of 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 on the my why that is 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 rare and venezuela is insulin a medication for diabetes patients readily available in most countries the world

over but rough ale 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 that in venezuela we can't get anything life just isn't good we can't get medicine to come get insulin nothing had verify all 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 patients homeland and i have to go when i was a student venezuela had technology 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 venezuelans at this hospital suffering from a medical condition that should have been. easily treatable another stark reminder of the near complete collapse of the healthcare 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 boy he got the proper diagnosis appendicitis and an all summer and i mean. it's a shame venezuelans have to leave their country. 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. in what i'm a state. well still ahead here on the usa gymnastics. president and on the sex abuse scandal but is the former gymnast the savior of the sport it's all about story after the break.

thank you so much former golf world number two steve stricker well kept in the united states in the twenty twenty ryder cup against europe stricker was announced as the man to take over from jim furyk 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 twenty twenty match will be played at whistling straits in wisconsin home state will be kept in by time. if 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 you're you're your play is it's tough to bring out the best of your play you know when it's when you want it so badly and but from that point on i was hooked to play and wanted to make every

team and to now captain a 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. sorry. what's going on. 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 new post woods took time out in mexico city where he has been practicing for this week's world golf championship event to send the new captain a message. to steve there may be one more deserving. this

campaign see no need for a very long time. play together because. partners have. water share loss or share but i've grown to love you and your family. more proud to see you start rubbing up the. english champions manchester city have completed a three two come from behind victory at german club shall cut in the champions league last sixteen first leg to. penalties handed the germans the lead before city had a man sent off even. so the ten men from manchester one three two and athletico madrid were two no winners against eventis in the night's other match the qataris national football team were honored in doha for winning the asian cup last month and the tournaments played in the u.a.e. that of qatar's football association share how much. money was present to greet the

team with the number twenty two jersey the year of the next world cup even with the recent victories of the team's coach felix sanchez he's already looking ahead to prepare his young team for the twenty twenty two world cup three hosted in qatar for the next that do to prepare the team for the world cup each one to be that the better america we know already that. their position 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 there's going to be key for a lot of players to arrive. with a good experience and for the welcome 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 taking 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 doctor 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 a limping gymnast some of them like simone alley raisman and joran weaver have strongly criticized usa gymnastics for failing to protect them and in some cases helping to cover up his crimes. two years for us ag steve penny quit as c.e.o. at the height of the nasser scandal and twenty seventeen after twelve years in charge he was arrested last october and was accused of tampering with evidence something he pleaded not guilty to carry perry then lasted nine months she was forced out after failing to make big changes to the organization in the wake of the nasser case and former house of representatives member mary bono came in as interim chief in october but was forced out after just 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 simone biles for posting a tweet critical of nike sponsorship of calling the former n.f.l. quarterback whose protested racial injustice all while usa was without a sport sponsorship of their own and to add to usa gymnastics problems the federation has filed for bankruptcy and the u.s. olympic committee is trying to strip it of its role as the sports national governing body world number two has progressed to the quarter finals at the dubai tennis championships on wednesday at the romanian face. of the ukraine this one in relatively straightforward fashion six three seven five the score to the twenty seven year old. 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 fought back in the third to take the honors six three and book her place in the final eight. 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 george russell managed to as many as twenty three laps on wednesday as williams finally got their car on the track the team finished bottom of the constructors' championship last year and the new season has not started very well with this delay in getting their car on the track daniel ricardo set the fastest time on wednesday before. that bettered that with the best time of the testing week so far 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 you know we can't keep thinking about that now we've got to look forward and we've got to capitalize on the time that we do have and. they've been great. mexico's president announced he's cutting state funding for the grand prix throwing and doubt if the race what happened at all the mexico city race was revived in two thousand and fourteen with a government subsidy of around twenty million dollars but the president says that money will now go towards a railway project. that's going to not just i don't know how the formula one contracts are if they're not signed we won't be able to continue with the mexican grown prix in some cases events like this were financed with funds from tourism promotions and that fund is already committed to the construction of the mine to train if it does not involve money is the issue is whether we have to contribute.

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