market crystal salumi as well from new york. the next generation samsung smartphone will also serve as a tablet which is folded as 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 fold 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 we call 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 to date on 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. l.s.p. now to adrian mars he is a technology journalist he joins us live now from london thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of this this folding phone is this a potential game changer or is this just a gimmick i think it's a game changer. two thousand dollars it's not something that's in mediately going to change the game we've got other manufacturers probably at mobile world congress which is coming up in in barcelona which is where all the mobile phone companies meet announced new products so we've got other companies like war way expect going

to announce similar phones it'll be a little while before most of us can afford one but i think this is the future of mobile phones who doesn't want a phone that can also be a tablet it's terrific and actually is for the first time in a long time and actually a feature to get excited about something that differentiates one phone from last year's phone it's lovely but we had we heard from christians report there about this you know the cell phone mobile phone for tikkun how saturated the market is right now are is is this a phone that's going to going to address that is going to is going to make any difference for people. i don't think this is going to at this price point it's not going to make a difference it's going to be a few years before this technology can be produced in sufficient quantity with a sufficient yield is put part of the problem is when you're producing displays is

the number you have to throw away if you just get one or two pixels that light up. it's a faulty display and you have to throw it and it takes a while when you manufacturing new display technology is before you can reliably manufacture it and that's often why displays new displays are very expensive but now it will happen we will get new phones five g. will create a demand for new phones but that won't be widespread for about seven to ten years so manufacturers need something in the meantime because on the whole the phone you've got is probably the phone you need and you probably don't need a flagship phone you can get a perfectly good phone for two three hundred dollars these days wrong other than the sort of price of an s. ten which is seven nine nine or eight nine nine dollars which is colossal so we're grading less often the market is relatively saturated the price of flagship phones which was really led by apple seem to work for

a while but not for very long has gone up enormously in all of that puts consumers off and it's allowed the chinese manufacturers to gain market share we've seen a war way in zero me take their market share up by about both by about a third in fact who always just chasing samsung in third place where is some sort of lost market share the last year by a percent an apple a down three point two percent so these all of these these things are bad for the major glamorous flagship phone makers who make a lot of their money from the really top end of the range or i could speak the regime are joining us there from london. google says it's made an error by failing to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its home security device consumers only found out about the nes cards built in microphone when google unveiled a new voice command assistant the company says it was never intended to be

a secret and it should have been listed as one of the products features of voters in senegal turning to satire to find out more about the candidates for the presidency the nation goes to the polls on sunday in other african nations comedians making fun of politicians of often found themselves in jail that's not the case in senegal nicholas hawke reports from the capital dhaka. there may be no televised presidential debate but there is special election coverage. this in italy's comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president monkey sol on the campaign trail. follows cells every move poking fun at the president who for nouns seems to be the favorite in the race. the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run

a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race thanks laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. getting the daily news in around the political satire show on the election the aim is to hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls you can live people just achieve your goals in a stand what. are we not we're not. we're not running for governor we're not running for mayor we'll run for the ring for the people. as each

candidate tries to stand out comedians bring them down to an even footing where they're powerful president or a candidate running for office in the end seems to say out loud what many politicians perhaps think but wouldn't say in public nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car. coming up in sport we'll find out about the formula one team struggling to even make it to the start line.

all right you with the news good news great let's find out what people are talking about in sport today thank you very much has one of formula one's most famous teams facing a crisis before the new season has even begun whims that have admitted it was embarrassing to miss it to days of testing the one time world champions failed to get their new car ready for the start of the week session and barcelona it finally made it onto the track on wednesday it seemed suffered the worst of a season in twenty eighteen finishing last george russell and rob it could be the

team's drivers this year with the first concrete taking place in melbourne next month but we've had a very strange atmosphere it williams but that's not to talk about team spirit you know we were very lucky last year with the spirit that we still had despite being in the position that we were in and that spirit has come out again during this really hurts you know a few days for us and few weeks for us you know everybody has worked so hard i wish people understood how difficult it is to get the formula one car to a chap particularly now that we have such a short amount of time to do it well it's not just mechanical problems that are causing concerns for some of the teams brags it may also have an impact on the world of formula one the majority of f one setups including lewis hamilton's mercy this team are based in the u.k. the teams are reliant on a people parts and equipment coming in and out of the european union at short notice ferrari alfa romeo and tiller also have their headquarters outside of the

u.k. and they may be handed a big advantage depending on how brics it plays out. well you know we spoke to crash dot net so for me i want to tell you about just how serious the issue could become but there's massive seven out and all of the formula one teams are based within the. main in there every weekend we've got teams drivers parts lots of lots lots to do with the team is passing in and out of the way and there's way also counting down to march twenty ninth there is still a lack of clarity and uncertainty as to what will happen and the f one teams are very very concerned say these team boss toto wolff you spoke earlier this week said the idea of a no deal bret's it will be a night neston are for formula one. the mother of all masses and there was very very concerned and he said that the same is is really really worried about how things are going to change if we get to that but without any real clarity a lot of the teams are already putting in the plans in place even down to smaller

city so we spoke with the racing point team boss the other days once more listening to the great but he said he was he was already making contingency plans for a no deal process teens at the last minute even the day before race they might have to quickly put together a pop factory put it on a plane get it out of the into wherever they may be racing and concerns like that teams don't know whether they're going to still do that is only enough quickly. and that a big worry for them but for the teams outside of the u.k. such as for r. and r. for america if they actually try to watch that it would be a big advantage for them because obviously they would be able to attract maybe some of the better talent better engineers better people to work with a car who maybe based outside of the a and happens and about moving to the way so yeah it's definitely massive massive concern for formula one and i think everyone in the paddock like everyone else i think is really looking for some clarity as to

what will happen. well breakdancing been inspired dance that translates to sports arena in the form of breaking may get a chance to sign at the paris twenty twenty four olympic games the sport was included in the youth a limpid games in buenos iris last year and it's now being sold listed by paris twenty twenty four organizes as one of four sports to be considered for their games climbing and skateboarding are also in the running the international olympic committee will have to give the final approval by december twenty twenty. well the idea of a limpet gold medals being awarded for breaking a has provoked a lot of social media reaction around santa saying well who knew back in the eighty's the b. boys and b. girls with cardboard boxes and boom box were setting the stage for an you pick a sport or another fan saying i would watch at the olympics for dance sports like breaking or break dance in that stuff is awesome others aren't as happy

sportswriter martin ziegler pointing out squash once more misses out on being a limp exporter as breakdancing is included for past twenty twenty four well of course a great disappointment that global sport is over looked again well let us know what you think of breakdancing should be included in the picks you can get in touch with me on twitter and use the hash tag news with more sport coming up at eighteen g.m.t. with lia but for now i had you back to hans and i sat on a limb picked great dancer who just thought it was going to do it for the newsgroup these are all the ways that you can get in touch with us we'll see you back here same time fifteen hundred g.m.t. on friday.

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a pause in the evacuation of civilians as u.s. backed forces prepared to play i still fight is from the last focus of territory in syria. and though i'm in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up. at least seventy people are dead after a devastating fire in the ancient parts of the capital of bangladesh. a poker chips to take concrete action against predator priest as the catholic church convenes a global summit on sexual abuse. and satire in sonic all the comedians playing that part in the democratic process ahead of the presidential election.

we begin in syria where there are reports that civilians will no longer leave the east village of day but last remaining stronghold and u.s. backed syrian democratic forces are preparing to launch a final assault the s.d.f. says i still is fighting to the death on wednesday more than two thousand men women and child. and fled but booze it's believed deisel fighters have been using them as human shields the s.d.f. is being helped by iraqi troops who are determined to stop i still members from fleeing across the border or the one hundred fifty fighters have been handed to iraqi security forces for investigation or live now to al-jazeera is imran khan who's been following the story from gaza on the turkey syria border iran what do we know about the reason why there has been a pause in the evacuation of civilians from. well in the am of thursday morning it was announced by the syrian democratic forces

. that there would be trucks going back into but who's to pick up civilians and bring them back now we're hearing reports of those trucks actually came back empty and we don't know why that happened on wednesday some two thousand people civilians and some are still fighters were picked up by those same trucks. for processing now what happens is the isis fighters actually go to a prison where they interrogated and that's where they held the wives and children taken to the whole camp where they separated from the civilians of the area in a separate area and that's where they held the we don't know how many civilians are actually in village at the very beginning of this operation we heard there were at least six thousand civilians that were trapped there in effect being held hostage used as human shields by isis fighters we know a significant chunk of that of those civilians have actually left but we don't know how many civilians are still actually left in the area itself. the s.c.'s forces

have clearly been making progress and retaking. fighters have been on the back foot for some time now what do we know about remaining fighters in the territory. we have no idea of what kind of number that might be there is certainly a hardcore of isis fighters who if you look at any kind of ice will probably go into that they are going to fight to the death now to give you a sense of the area itself whose is a small village but the entire village is almost been destroyed by shelling and coalition strikes now the ice will fight to have known about this fight they have been prepared for this fight for a very long time they've dug tunnels underneath and that's likely where the hardcore of those fighters waiting for the s.d.f. to come in on the outskirts of the village there is ten to. area where the remaining civilians are the civilians there are real concerns of the s.d.f.

and to the united nations and that's why the s.d.f. haven't gone into the village itself this is only now about a square kilometer of territory remember two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and seventeen they controlled really a third of iraq and huge swathes of syria they're now down to about a square kilometer but the port for the square kilometer is proving incredibly tough thank you very much imran khan bring us all the latest on the story from gaza . elsewhere in syria two deadly bombings have taken place a suspected car bomb has killed at least twenty people including oil workers in the . resort area held by the s.t.'s dozens of others have been injured and then another suspected car bomb exploded in the city of affray in which is under the control of a turkish backed militia at least four people are thought to have died after the blasts in the city center earlier there was a military parade in the city a free syrian army recruits.

a fire has ripped through several buildings in bangladesh's capital dhaka killing at least seventy people a blaze started in an apartment building that was also used to store chemicals plastics and other highly combustible materials the government has repeatedly promised to crack down on the illegal warehouses as brian now. i. firefighters and dhaka struggle to bring the inferno under control battling a wall of flames amid the chaos of crowded alleyways i was the blaze broke out late on wednesday evening in the area of the bangladeshi capital and in the crammed old city it quickly spread to surrounding buildings by plastics and chemical warehouses . witnesses told local media that gas cylinders in the buildings exploded one after

another. and vehicles gridlocked in nearby streets were soon caught up in the flames. i saw with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with fire and shock waves totally destroyed the right side wall i was on a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is a log an evil. this mangled wreckage is all that's left now as emergency workers calm the rubble for bodies they don't expect to find any more survivors. in the hospital nearby distraught families crowd around lists of the living and the date it's a saying that's been repeated far too often in bangladesh building five a common because of holy and forced regulations for hundreds have been killed in recent years this latest only adding to that tally. on al-jazeera.

a hospital in the capital where victims of the fire have been taken. we are in the dock medical college hospital in there the morgue it's a very tragic scene out here we saw many people actually carried their loved ones in their coffin i spoke to the part is here police officer in charge who is supposed to identify and process this he said so far they were able to identify thirty seven bodies many other bodies might need even d.n.a. testing but a lot of relatives are waiting here they want to know and see if their loved one is among the dead bodies that is in the morgue a very really tragic scene. as far as the government goes the industry minister made a statement saying the cause of the explosion was not the chemical warehouse but rather the gas cylinder the bang of the human rights commission and made a statement. this is the third largest disaster in bangladesh which is quite

dramatic actually after round up and other chemical explosion near this one and today's one would be the third largest now as far. in the medical lot of the forty one patients there in the burn unit we went allowed to get in there we don't know their real condition we heard that several of them are critically injured and their relatives are also waiting to find out their condition . well to our other top story this hour pope francis has opened a landmark missing on child sex abuse in the catholic church by demanding concrete action against predator priests one hundred ninety cardinals bishops priests monks and nuns are attending the four day event decades of scandals have rocked the church but many catholic officials still either deny or downplay the problem francis called on the clergy to have the cry of the little ones he peach the justice. basing the plague of sexual abuse

by the churches men against minors i thought to consult you because all together we should hear the holy spirit and listen to the cry of the young who want justice the way to pass on ecclesiastic responsibility which forces us to discuss this together is a burden on our meeting about how to face this evil which afflicts the church and the whole of humanity the holy people of god are watching us and wait not just a simple an expected conviction a concrete and effective measures. one of the cardinals attending the conference was reduced to tears while making a keynote speech the wounds of the recession carried the memory of illusion suffering but they also carry the memory of our weakness and should. if we want to be agents of healing let us not reject any and then see that this part of the

thinking that refuses to see and touch the wants of others which are prized. in the wood the people those who died by abusing the scandal lead to be strong in faith in this moment in our desires or in challenge has more now from vatican city. pope francis appears at least to be conscious that this is a moment of deep crisis for the catholic church and he says that this four day meeting is necessary as an attempt to try and restore the credibility of the church which of course has been roiled by this actually be scandal ongoing for years decades now so he has brought senior clergy from all across the world here to the vatican and the intent is to fold it is to impress on them the severity of what has been going on and the suffering that is

being. experienced by abuse survivors and also to impress on them that it is their shared responsibility to do something about it now whether that satisfies the survivors themselves is open to question they are not happy that yesterday when they expected to sit down and meet with the pope himself he wasn't there and they're also not happy that they are not really being invited into this meeting to speak one on one directly with the clergy themselves they want zero tolerance they want any priest that abuses children to be totally excluded from the priesthood and they want anyone that covers up that abuse to be excluded from the priesthood so that's the kind of direct action they want and going off the back of this meeting that is the sort of thing the clergy are going to be considering

leading into an organizing committee and hopefully for the survivors drawing up an action plan that will deliver things like that. still ahead for you on the program on the back foot afghanistan's army plans a spring offensive to retake areas lost to the taliban and facing down anti semitism the french president announces new measures after a series of high profile incidents. however still got a little bit whether it's central parts of china over the next day but it's much better than it has been recently here's our latest area clad easing over towards the east of the country still it's also want to see showers there for shanghai dry weather comes back in behind home called twenty seven celsius there will be some clouds and rain just sliding in as we go on into sas day having said that not

a savy as a sort of wet weather that we saw last week but the showers they are still there nevertheless a little cold in hong kong so you drive around twenty four celsius handle i will be largely dry with top tips in here of around twenty eight degrees meanwhile we've had some dry weather across a good part of south asia but up towards the north some big showers rolling through here it did lead to some flooding into the far north of the country really havey rain here so showers in that in the process of petering out want to two spots of rain a possibility to the north of new delhi as you can see twenty seven celsius in new delhi woman sunshine in that poor of about thirty eight degrees some of the picture as we go on into sassed i just notice it cools off a touch for new delhi the cloud just sinking a little further south was just freshen up a touch say high around twenty three celsius here in doha as well on friday some bits and pieces of cloud with the possibility of writing to the south.

when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. but in the meeting. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them but in all modern history one man when they. will be given survived the initial little. some of the books are this is you the. amount just zero. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories this hour now there are reports that civilians will no longer leave syria's east and village of by on thursday u.s.

backed rebels are preparing to launch a final assault on the area which is icily last wrong hold. at least seventy people have died in bangladesh's capital dhaka are after a five ripped through several buildings and pope francis has opened a landmark meeting on child sex abuse in the catholic church by demanding concrete action against predator priests. well in all the stories we're following india says that it will cost off water supplies to pakistan from rivers that come under a treaty between the two nations water of three rivers flowing into pakistan over which india has full rights to under a treaty will be diverted to the young moon or it will move is in retaliation to last week's attack in indian administered kashmir in which at least forty one indian troops were killed jeshua mohamad an armed group based in pakistan says it was behind the attack the indian government accuses pakistani authorities of supporting the group. following the story from new delhi water has always been

a contentious issue between india and pakistan that's why the world bank brokered this treaty in one nine hundred sixty.