cultures across the world. so many times when you call her and i'll just bring you the news and current from news that matter to you. al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm down in jordan this is the out of their news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes faceoff in venezuela opposition activists come from all the troops to the showdown looms of the getting in foreign aid. scramble to vote defied gunfire and explosions in a much delayed presidential election. angering

as the president declares a yearlong state of emotion see after months of anti-government protests. and from street kids to war room that is why this year's oscar nominated foreign films draw from real life. riot police in venezuela firing tear gas and opposition protesters near the border with colombia people are taking to the streets in the town of your red throwing rocks and burning tires. opposition leader. has called on the people to help trucks carrying u.s. aid to get into the country meanwhile president nicolas maduro has closed three crossings from colombia on the border with brazil to stop that from happening well last america at its. in fact we can now go to allison to run pity on the border just as what's been happening there we had us on there was a faceoff between protesters and the police. well there in this

situation is calm again now here on this human believe our bridges could be next thing. in colombia with sand and stone you know in venezuela but earlier there were first a group of people who were singing the national anthem in front of the venezuelan guards who are controlling the bridge and the possible entrance of the aid on the venezuelan side there but the most dramatic moments was when two armored vehicles rushed onto the bridge hitting the barriers right in the middle. before entering because along b.n. side they then stopped then at that moment three members of the national guard walked out of the bridge saying and walked out of their vehicle saying that they were defecting and they then walked down the colombian side and surrendered to the colombian police who were there these that were the first three guards that have

defected this morning we have now heard that a fourth member of the national guard the defected on another bridge or a few kilometers north from here the leader of the opposition. in his position as the self-appointed the interim president as ordered to the venezuelan army police and national guard to defect from the government of nicholas due to give up their position unless the aid in or going to have to see if more of these members of the guard will do so and if the opposition will indeed be able to move the aid that in there we also understand that regional leaders from countries like chile and paraguayan say they're going to help one glad i'll get the aid in there how significant is that. it is significant

this is a large international coalition more than forty countries now recognize why does the illegitimate to leave their venice where just a few kilometers from here on that bridge where the battling concerts were going on on friday that's where the warehouse is where the center by the united states in chile is being stored we know that the why is there right now with the president of columbia the president of chile and the president of product white together with the secretary general you're getting station of american states in that fourteen trucks have been lined up there in front of this where house and they will be loaded with the a and then roughly an hour or two hours from now a mass of people supporting the positions are expected to take over the bridges confront the national guard and see if they can make space for these trucks with

the aid to enter inside venezuela or dallas on their own petard on the colombian side of the border alexandra thank you for that let's cross over now to latin america and it's on the scene human she's in sun tonio on the venezuelan side of the border and we understand that gas has been fired at protesters that what more can you tell us in the home. and yes we can hear you we understand that tear gas has been fired at protesters there what more can you tell us. yes we're going to break that connection a godsend for what we were before. it's also known as well then you have bridge which is the first place that the conference began and they. demonstrated that support the opposition were trying to do prancer a very very very strong national guard blockade and started throwing rocks. from

such a long gun i think one direction well it's where later we understand. that the one that either from the judge did make a reference to. the cole or so far that we saw was gary very sad situation by the other three if you will before he got this the most important one the largest one. thousand and eleven the ins goes across every single day it's. actually loosely. found by. police as well as heavily armed police he will seize our hired military groups that are loyal to the government visiting them all around the edges. of the pool on the charge a day. of opposition. a lot of calls and

a work wait and see what is going on very very tense situation you see i mean how how tense of things on the ground at the moment so many missing some pictures as t.v. screens now how tense of things and how this like to play out in the hours ahead. i think that's just considered. all right some problems there willacy a newman latin america editor she was in san antonio some problems with our law and we're trying to come back to if we can a little bit later. now millions of voting in nigeria's delayed presidential and parliamentary elections. there were chaotic scenes at one polling station in the capital abou jahjah which opened late it follows days of frustration after electoral commission perspiring the vote last week blaming logistical problems.

president ma model bihari seeking a second with more than seventy presidential candidates it's a crowded field but the election is widely seen as a two horse race the other leading candidate is former vice president. with pledging to revamp nigeria's struggling economy well just hours before polls open gunmen attacked a town in northeast nigeria many residents fled the town of dam several explosions were also in my degree that's the capital of borno state that follows warnings from the arm group that it would disrupt the vote well we've got reporters across the country covering the story in the commercial capital lagos in an address in my degree in the northeast but first let's go to join a whole who's in the capital city a buddha journey so how is the one week postponement been affecting voting there tell us what's been happening. while here where i'm standing in it's been pretty efficient to be honest the people behind me there you

will see a crowd substantially thinned out from what it was a little earlier they are effectively the last people who will vote in this polling station because this polling station has now closed at two pm just a few minutes ago but those people in the queue will be allowed of course to vote this polling station opened on time so it's closing on time but many many others across the country opened late they've been closed late it's an indication that this election is going efficiently and well in some parts but proving still to be a challenge for the independent electoral commission in other parts of the country well let me bring in my guest now hamza lowell joins me he's the chief executive of code that's one of the accredited poll observer organizations thanks for joining me there been indications some indications of irregularities both sides of the two main camps of course of accuse the other of rigging the vote what have you seen so far well so far we've seen that. the citizens themselves have. to cast their

ballots yes they've been if you is particularly with a cadre of sin in some polling you need to lead a cadre don't have malfunction but the good thing was i know it was understand bytes and sent personnel to go and rectify the issues so but so far so good citizens are quite excited they came out on time to vote and we're hopeful that everything will eventually turn up when the card reader of course to explain to our viewers is what is used here to verify each person's vote with their private voter card they stick it in the card reader they get their ballot paper we had one malfunctioning here a little earlier. you know there was the delay last week people talked about damage to nigeria's reputation its democracy and so on as far as what you've seen how has that delay affected turnout has it emboldened encouraged people to come out in ever greater numbers or hindered them do you think has actually encouraged. well to turn out last week there was a lot of anger there was

a lot of frustration but will soon that citizens have turned his anger and frustration into energy and they've used that energy not just to come out but they also mobilize other people who lost hope and feed the fact that it was postponed so today in large turned out and hopefully we're going to see that actually that the ballot would count and citizens would get their voice to be had in one area maybe another day or two at least before we hear the results of those voices karst worth reflecting before we go with the delay with all that's been said and done in the last week a couple of weeks i mean this is in effect the biggest exercise in democracy ever to take place on the african continent that's something to to be proud of isn't it oh yes it's something to be proud of because we're a population of close to two hundred million people who registered to vote was over eighty million people. over seventy million so yes this is the biggest election in our history of africa and this. is somewhat to reflect on and of course there's

a lot of opportunity because our next election in twenty twenty thirty would definitely be better than this and we have much more cities and i'm quite excited because it's my generation doubt decide the outcome of this election because when you look at the statistics fifty one point one percent that's over forty million young voters between eighteen to thirty five or yes. thanks so much very enthusiastic where an election that i've been told by others will be decided by the youth and another voice. of the young vote here in nigeria all right to join a whole the thank you let's cross over now to address it joins us live from my degree that's in northeast nigeria so what more can you tell us about these early attacks that took place near my degree. well basically two attacks two significant attacks happened in the north although the security forces the army and the police are saying that the other was not actually an attack it was more like a military exercise but residents are saying otherwise they saying that yes it was

an attack it was read later responded by the security forces the army issued a statement alongside with the police saying that it was an exercise a show of force of sorts to deter insurgents planning to attack voters on voting day however in neighboring state of your base we've seen and heard about gunfire there as fighters five to infiltrate the town of gave them where the governor of that state was coming from they have launched attacks around four am local time that's around three o'clock g.m.t. and then that sent a lot of people a lot of potential voters out of the town although the military issued a statement confirming that attack and saying that it has brought the situation under control a lot of people came back to get them and voted i spoke to and a resident earlier who told me that everything is calm down now engage them people are going about their normal business is human to vehicular traffic where on and in

these same city of may degree while we are right now the expectation was that the loud explosions we heard more than a dozen in the early hours of today would be enough to discourage people we saw people coming out in large numbers to exercise their right to vote and we spoke to a sixty five year old man who said he have seen and heard worse from boko haram so he's not deterred and he pointed to the number of crowds of people queuing up to vote saying that this is some kind of defiance to they promise to disrupt the elections but we are coming out to vote and that's the movie here in borno state a state that has suffered or bill bore the brunt of this insurgency for. almost ten years now all right ultimate address there in my degree ahmed thank you let's cross over now to her matushka she joins us live from nigeria as commercial capital that's lagos how rusa lagos is an extremely populous city what's been happening

there with the boat. when it's getting quieter now the lines are getting shorter you can be a few people still waiting in line they're trying to cast their vote in the election official some of them were telling me that they're disappointed that at this particular pointing station a turnout has been you know they don't know why that is happening but it could have to do with some issues early in the day this polling station in place by about two hours and with the voting we've arrived late and some of the voting machines didn't work to take a lot of people as a light but that did occur to the hoping that more people come up before the polls closed for those who did vote the main issue for nigerians all across the country really is the economy and what to do about it a lot of people voting in this election are young people they will determine could determine who wins this election they say they want jobs this is a poor neighborhood in and they got some house they don't have what he wants and a lot of the young unemployed and frustrated everyone has actually spoken thing

every election we have a great big promise of what our life will improve how they'll be eaten in infrastructure in the neighborhood and if they the frustrated that it's taking so long for that to happen and a lot of eyes on this election a lot of miles away to do we have a wins this election what will he do to improve the country but right now a lot of people just waiting patiently hosting. the movie in lagos we are hearing imports of some isolated cases of violence in rivers state that's where the oil rich delta is what we hear in that it's not into too many criminal gangs were trying to stop some people from voting but lagos in general it seems has been a relatively calm all right arup some too. plenty more still to come here on the news hour including concerns over the plight of china's we've got a muslim minority after the saudi crown prince backs beijing's right to fight against extremism. the battle for gender equality in

senegal women to decide the next president. baseball's three hundred million dollars gets to work in san diego that's all still to come. now india has deployed thousands of paramilitary troops to indian administered kashmir more than one hundred fifty separatist in the region have been arrested all comes a little over a week after an attack on a convoy of indian security personnel india has blamed pakistan's intelligence agency for the attack is not about though has denied this where tensions between the two nations have increased since then our reporter says jamil joins us now from india's capital new delhi offensive pressure is growing on the indian government just bring us up to date with what's been happening on the ground. well deron in the night between friday and saturday roughly one hundred fifty

people mostly belonging to the pro separatist group jamaat e islami have been arrested by security forces now this comes as just as you mentioned that roughly ten thousand indian paramilitary troops have been brought into the region now people on the ground have told al-jazeera they believe the troops are actually there ahead of next week's supreme court hearing of article thirty five eight thirty five a is a part of the call indian constitution that gives indian music and being administered kashmir its autonomy gives its law allows its legislatures to grant special rights including that only indigenous residents can own property now several special interest groups have brought the case forward saying that special status violates the constitution and they want to struck down but that clause has actually brought quite a bit of peace to the region and many critics are worried that striking down that section may only inflame tensions out next week's hearing is only about if the case will move forward that's enough to at tensions to the region also on saturday

indian prime minister narendra modi held a pre-election rally in the state of roger stone and there he called for people to stop targeting mary's studying and working around the country since the attacks last week where forty one indian paramilitary troops were killed by suicide bomber and even minister to sheer many fish marys have complained about being attacked around india they say some have been thrown out of college hostels some of you in been threatened or beaten up by local mobs and some are welcoming him prime minister move these words but critics say that this is the first time he said anything about kashmiris being targeted since the attacks took place and we had though have been reporting these attacks in the first few days since the suicide bombing and even in the last few days some senior government officials and agencies have denied that there's any targeting of kashmir is taking place in india and say that anything beyond a few instances are just fake news and all of this is just only adding tensions and

mistrust in the region. all right a first in new delhi says thank you. meanwhile thousands are protesting in the pakistani city of karachi against what they call indian atrocities committed in kashmir people gathered as part of a rally in support of the pakistani army. now protesters in sudan's capital have denounced the president's state of emergency omar al bashir announced he was dissolving the government but just hours later appointed six new ministers of a series of measures to counter weeks of nationwide rallies against the government as the latest. they're calling for an end to their president's will. and denouncing his latest move only hours after omar bashir made an announcement that reflects how much these protests have shaken the government. are to clear the following to impose

a state of emergency for one year to dissolve the national unity government to dissolve the provincial governments and we will continue to take measures to implement what i have resolved our country requires us to stand together it demands of to remain united patient and tolerant i am certain we will be an example to follow. for over two months people in sudan have been taking to the streets their anger ignited by an economic crisis they've demanded that omar al bashir step down according to sit downs constitution a state of emergency would allow security forces to arrest those deemed as a threat to the country and its political and economic stability. and you government will be formed which the president says will work on fixing the economy as he called for dialogue some say his announcements are far from what those who have been demonstrating want to see happen i think that demonstrations are likely to continue on this year where you see for two reasons they cannot make situation

is not going to improve and the demonstrations are basically based on. cashiers so it's not just for him to say calm down it's how when the. economy has not been. so the most patients are likely to continue regardless of their state from agency. has rules for nearly three decades he came to power in a bloodless military coup in one thousand nine hundred nine overthrowing a democratically elected government. since two thousand and twelve anti-government protests grew over rising costs for the. security forces responded each time using tear gas and live ammunition hundreds die. the protests that started in december last year have become the long this wave of anti-government demonstrations since the country's independence with a state of emergency declared protests may be harder to sustain. and bashir may

have found a way to end the biggest challenge to his presidency. dorsetshire pari al jazeera. now the saudi crown prince says china has the right to fight against extremism to protect its own national security mom had been salamanders remarks during a visit to beijing being interpreted as a reference to china's crackdown against the we go muslim minority rights groups say china has detained an estimated one million weak is not beijing says reeducation camp so let's bring in ryan barry's policy coordinator for the world we've got a congress that's an organization advocating human rights for the week as he joins us via skype from munich and so what can we read into mama been statement that china has a right to crackdown on extremism to protect its national security what do you think he means by that. hello good afternoon. we think that's a tacit approval for china's or at the treatment. it is not to say this directly

but unfortunately it seems that it's referring to the weakest situation that's incredibly disappointing but unfortunate surprising given that saudi arabia has shown extreme reluctance to raise this issue a number of occasions and now is going so far as to be complicit in the situation so in terms of the global response i mean not many muslim majority countries are spoken out about the chinese crackdown on the week as why do you think muslim countries are not being more vocal about this. there's a number of reasons so far only malaysia and turkey have spoken out publicly and condemn the camps which is incredibly disappointing is that a ring that one or two million we've got so many of them muslims maybe what their islamic leaves are these are these in terms of games it's incredibly disappointing there exists this apocryphally in a double standard for example during the un human rights of you of china saudi arabia was didn't say anything about. human rights crisis about the religious

persecution you did the vast majority of muslim states almost nobody said anything . however they were happy to condemn the situation that we and our government that their oppression of the injured and they're happy to condense in the netherlands and the u.k. for discrimination against muslims and while they should do this the fact that they don't mention one of the most grave your rights prices the denial of the religious freedom of millions of people is a huge shame ok so let's just talk about your umbrella organization the world we got a conference of advocates for better human rights for we get so what's your message to saddam arabia and the wider world and what do you think needs to be done to better highlight applied to weakness in china. well i think they have to end this double standard first of all these muslim leaders people are looking to them for example for the for the narrative overall and they really need to step up and speak out about the camp to condemn the camps it's a huge shame that they're doing almost nothing so far they have

a moral and human responsibility to raise this issue and they really must do so or else we could will continue to suffer on the other hand the public in these countries this civil society is a pressure on their organization and their leaders and their organizations on their governments to take action and to speak out to end this tragic incident ryan barry thank you very much indeed for talking to our desire. thank you very much there is there now wouldn't be surprised to hear that flagstaff in the state of arizona is one of the snowiest cities in the us to know that rob i didn't i was a process find as well you think you know deserts place it wouldn't at least nobody does i mean the winter is just how it's snowiest february day and he's a treat for you we don't often show you videos of dogs because they're a reason to but here's one just to prove the depths of the snow in flagstaff one black dog in white snow about to disappear it's a part ninety centimeters deep snow in flagstaff and say it snow his favorite day all right all the snow has indeed moved all my hair but it was quite

a surprise you can see some of this massive white cloud up towards colorado and what's falling all is find out whether the snow stay on the ground for a while because it be cold at night and it's moved on as i say in fact forecast shows in colorado movie up towards the central plains states winter is still going on in the u.s. was another concern not so much the snow which is maybe a sing that's used to buy in a matter of rain it's form and particularly look at columbia which is in tennessee not far from the capital there is flooding here has been a lot of rain in tennessee kentucky mississippi even ohio over the whole winter and just recently flooding is come back to haunt us and there is still rain falling at the moment the mountains fall not she's quite significant just over the border in mississippi two hundred seventy four millimeters in the last four days now luckily it's a bike to finish so it hasn't yet finished but we get i think to sunday the sun should be actually over the floods daryn rob thank you very much well last most of to come

here and al-jazeera including. instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed the sensational details of a cover up of the first of a conference on sex abuse by some catholic priests and rights groups fear a new force designed to protect mexicans might do the exact opposite. and in a sport tiger woods moves up the leaderboard in mexico far away here with all the golfing up on that stage. i made it official every week a new sankoh brings a seemingly simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the outstanding ace that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the an aisle ation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they were caught on the story that matter the most impact

is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how and why bill reads influence the course of history the assault that did not get enough credit for ending up but if you want to be the big historical figure but he was mandela the biggest icon in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on.

welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera riot police in venezuela fight. to. protest with. the people to have. to get into the country. millions of people are voting in nigeria is delayed presidential and parliamentary elections there were chaotic scenes at one polling station. which opened late electoral commission on the vote last week blaming. the president's state of emergency. dissolving the government. appointed six new ministers a series of measures to counter weeks of nationwide rallies let's take a closer look at what sort of state of emergency actually means it gives security forces including the military the right to raid houses and buildings without warrants and put institutions under surveillance and property or financial assets

can be seized if it's deemed they were used in illegal activities and all groups can be banned or regulated and have the transport and telecommunications control well let's bring in ali is a political analyst and joins us live now from saddam's capital khartoum how significant is this move by president bashir and what do you think is behind him calling a state of emergency right now why is he doing this. i think it is a strengthening the security approach to the to the protest. from two two months it's going for about two months now and there was no new political approach or political response to meet only security. response. and it is clear now even after the president is reach existing strengthening the same approach or good by declaring the state of marriage is he is giving full power does it security organs including even we be the army this time the side that i would support force beside

the police to face the protester. because clear that he doesn't have any political solution maybe even a political proposal only this it could it responds to the protests so so given all these new powers that security forces will have how concerned when the protest movement be will they worry that the state of emergency means a broader crackdown against them. of course it is they said it is it will be me more power for the security organs but the disposal actually kim. that italy after he finished his that there is. about two in t twenty five areas around how to him that we would rent out on the streets and they are we getting his address and his of others and they are with the state of emergency by things that they are not worried they don't afraid of going in the

streets again again and again and even this fear that has done his professional association that is a body which is leading the protest for the last two months issued then a statement saying that the protests will continue regardless of the state of emergency. i think we have to wait for one or two days to see if this is state of emergency really frightened the protesters or not ok and after the president announced he was sacking all the state governors i mean he then said that military officers would be used to replace them i mean does this show that bashir is now using the military to consolidate his power and so that. yes that's true actually he considered it is for his bowl for the executive because now he does so of the government is a need the president only the presidency now is only an institution in the government there is no council of ministers and now he's appointed he had already

appointed eighteen military rulers to the states or the states of soledad i think he's given this military. featured with this government the he's sending a message saying that he's going to do been more and more on down me he's different you can go out more than his political party dainty or the other political institutions and i think that is also. again saying that he's going to use the security approach more than any political approach is now using is army in the states is using the state of million see he does he did not have or did not actually give any political. proposal to the protesters he is going to face them by the state of emergency and the military. thank you very much for talking to our desire. now a top catholic cardinal has admitted that church files on priests who sexually

abused children were destroyed or never even created the german cardinal reinhard mogs was speaking at a meeting in vatican city that's looking at paedophilia in the clergy they have been called for a new culture of accountability in the catholic church which led the pope to call the four day conference on thursday he presented an action plan but some abuse survivor saying it's not enough the sexual abuse of children and youth is in no small measure due to the abuse of power in the area of administration in this regard administration has not contributed to fulfilling the mission of the church but of the country has obscured discredited and made it impossible for those that could have document the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed or not even created instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed. the stipulated procedures and processes

for the prosecution of fences were deliberately not complied with but instead cancelled overridden me not on the streets of rome some of those abused by the clergy including some death victims marched towards vatican city to demand justice on the day of the meeting being held by leaders of the catholic church of rome chalons joins us live now from vatican city roy i mean some extraordinary revelations from the german cardinal marks that the church files on sex abuse were destroyed and in and in some instances not even created them and what more have we been hearing at the summit today that. well each of the days of this summer that has gone possibly has a theme to be had responsibility we have accountability and also we have had transparency so we have been getting a series of speeches by

a high up members of the clergy essentially examining the failings of the catholic church over decades in dealing with this crisis and as we heard there from cardinal reinhold monts there of germany he believes that these failings have made this situation worse now this admission that the church either destroyed or never actually created files relating to a piece of priests is certainly something serious but we know that there have been cover ups in the church because in all of the cases that have come out so many of the cases that have come out there has been cover up of the crime that has been going on for years we have heard from survivors that we've been speaking to here about how in some countries where abuse took place the church would move the offending priest to

a different country so that they could if they prosecution in the country where the abuse took place this kind of problem it has been evident for some time and it is. essentially what the pope is trying to do here with this historic meeting he's trying to draw a line under that to find a way that the church can. put into place practical actions to make sure that it never happens again and says some try to satisfy the victims of abuse who are calling for zero tolerance policy that's basically any priest that abuses minors will be thrown out of the priesthood and anyone that comes up for that abuse of course will be thrown out of the priesthood as well thank you. trade negotiations between the world's two biggest economies have an extended through the weekend after progress was made during the first two days of

talks in washington officials have been trying to end a seven month long trade war between the u.s. and china president trump has indicated a march one deadline to resolve the dispute could be extended he says he would likely meet china's shipping in march to finalize the agreement. now there are concerns the mexican president may backtrack over his promise to appoint a civilian as the head of the new national guard a controversial fifty thousand strong force is supposed to fight rising crime home and has more now from mexico city. its president lopez obrador has big plan to beat the record levels of violence in mexico the fifty thousand strong national guard made up of military personnel and federal police and they cleared a big hurdle when the senate approved unanimously on thursday provided ok here you are part of. the opposition and then goes have demanded that the force be headed by civilian rather than

a military officer before they go after months of negotiations when the bill was passed and gone but on friday morning the president pulled them up sure that. the faculty for naming the head of the national guard is with the president and it could be a civilian or military officer retired or active it's important to clear that up. if he does name a military head of the force it would be an added concern to those already worried that the bill in shrines the permanent presence of the military on the streets over the next five years and gives them increased powers. the public does trust the armed forces more than the police they seem is less corrupt but they've also run up a tally of human rights abuses since the start of the drug war the military have been in many instances acting as sources of violence in their own right and they have been massacres and it's just the way they operate and trained to do things is

to destroy the enemy as they would say themselves are necessary to construe so you introduce another violent act or in an already violent context there's also been criticism that this is all been tried before and failed the last administration also kept the military on the country streets. it also mooted an elite force that was in the end scaled back and said that it would concentrate on homicides rather than going after kingpins exactly the same tactics the president. has announced at the start of his term the end result for the last administration the worst murder rate. security experts have long advocated for better training and conditions for local police forces but that takes time and political will the president included some of his beer but it's clear that his priority is his new militarized police force john home in. mexico city now at least eighty four people have died and

hundreds are in hospital after drinking contaminated liquor in the state of the northeast india the victims were many tea plantation workers the alcohol was laced with a chemical that attacks the body's central nervous system a similar case in the northern state of in this month led to the deaths of more than a hundred people women in senegal could decide the country's next president when voters head to the polls on sunday a majority of eligible voters are female candidates have made women's issues part of their key campaign platforms but for the first time in twenty six years there's no female candidate running reports from. the final stretch in the campaign trail for a candidate. running for a second term in office with. together sharing a common hope with. a slogan to attract women because there are more women are

eligible to vote than men. electrical technician is too busy working to attend political rallies but she says promising hope is not enough change is what women want. i wasn't happy times have changed we are a work force like any other and i expect our new president to give us the same rights as men. and. women are not just paid less than men they're also taxed more inheritance and family laws favor men over women. and although a law was introduced in two thousand and ten women to have a bigger role in politics there are big gaps between the sexes senegal has yet to adopt a gender discrimination law that the first three did because there we have a body since two thousand and ten and we have we have one of the feel confident enough because it has it and even in the war we have a national assembly that is made of forty to be put on a form and that doesn't translate into what you see patients are going to get back

to patient or woman. for the first time since one thousand nine hundred ninety three there are no women running for the presidency and so the male candidates are making promises to women political newcomer song says if he's elected he will increase maternity leave and impose tougher penalties against sexual violence mikey says he has made health care free for mothers and their children. he wants to include more women in his cabinet in the civil service and is promising more jobs for young female graduates senegalese women are expected to come out and vote. on sunday because among them are made for. the key demographic in this election a challenge for president must be solved if he believes the candidates have security and change. among them is voted still undecided who to vote for she's unfazed by political promises or slogans but determined to make her vote

counts nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. going to come back with the sport wales get ready to host the game that could decide who wins the most important international title and will the masters well be one that stands. out on trends on donald trump jr was promised a damaging information about the hillary clinton allegation like to see the investigation to the troops did the trunk count colluding with russia did you at any time of the former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form a close sort of batten down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you well know. next question bottle field washington on al-jazeera. donald trump was told of a special bowl with kim jong un. now the u.s.

president a north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very foreigner to eight months off to making history in singapore and they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally and the korea will follow us on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera. welcome back it's the ninety first academy award ceremony on sunday hollywood's biggest party night and this year's spectacle and on the get some glamour may prove a little different foreign language films often overlooked in the past to dominate many of the headlines he has lined up described as movie making at its best real

life drama thanks to digital streaming the films are now seen by millions around the world as a preview. in capernaum lebanese director need to focus is on twelve year old zane who stands as a representative for the hundreds of millions of children worldwide war neglected abused and exploited zain is a tough beirut kid played by zain all rough eda he flees his uncaring family to wander through the slums you finds a makeshift family with an undocumented ethiopian immigrant and her baby the film is a harrowing journey into the depths and yet at the very end like some impossible flower blooming amid the filth there is a brilliant flash of hope. that unlike a different kind of family lives in director hirokazu kore it is shoplifters multiple generations cram into a ramshackle tokyo house we soon learned this is

a family born from necessity of the members are actually related but they've banded together to survive. that's. what i do when a crisis explodes the family the consequences are dire for all but cory ada shows how tenacious are the bonds of kindness and love obsessive tortured love is the theme of polish director pawel pawlikowski film cold war about an affair spanning decades on both sides of the aisle. and kurt in post-war poland a team of artists transforms folk culture into full throated stalinist propaganda jazz pianist victor played by thomas caught fall hopelessly in love with teenage singer zula the luminous joy in a coup league he plots their escape to the west but she did she see him in east

berlin decades later they meet again in paris and the spark is rekindled but their love is infected with a kind of bitterness and only mutual destruction can unite them forever. by mexico's alfonzo choro is a dreamily paced semi autograph it story of a fracturing family and the young domestic servant cleo who holds everyone together while fighting her own tragedies shot in black and white roma is a film whose images linger in the memory rounding out the category is florian henkel fun donors marks never look away a three hour long epic exploring art love and politics an artist played by tom shilling experiences nazi tyranny the total destruction of war and the suffocating grip of east germany's communist dictatorship cold war roma and shoplifters can all be seen on digital streaming platforms never look away and capernaum are not

currently available online robert oulds al-jazeera time for the sport on his far away there and thank you so much cricketing history has been made and south africa sri lanka have become the first asian side to claim a test series win in the country they dominated the second test in port elizabeth winning by eight wickets early on day three that completed a two nil series win against the second ranked team in the world who had won seven straight series at home and just to give you an idea of how big of an achievement this is india have only won three of their twenty test matches in south africa dating back to one thousand nine hundred other powerhouse. pakistan first played a test there in one thousand nine hundred five they want just two from fifteen trials means they become only the thirteen after england in australia to win a series and south africa. there's no excuse when trying to come here we have to we have to be a lot better allowed to play some good cricket but the cricket we have been playing

at home for the last two or three seasons if you were anywhere close to that we should have beaten this team and we weren't on top of our game we didn't score them on a runs but we wanted to add your magic batting collapse by england allowed the west indies to square up their one day series of wendy's bowlers producing an inspired fight back to win by twenty six runs in barbados david stokes has the action. after losing game one the west indies needed a good start and they got one chris gayle doing what he does best clearing the stands on the way to another one day fifty. but it was shimmer and het meyer who stole the show he smashed four sixes and seven fuller's to rack up a century in eighty three bullets was a twenty chain rope finished a bit of one hundred four and england needed two hundred ninety to win the tourists to chase down a record three sixty in the last game and they were cruising thanks to

a ninety nine one stands between i would morgan and ben stokes both of them past fifty and england were well on track eating just to run the ball to go to no luck in the series but the partnership broke and it all went wrong sheldon cultural and jason holder ripped through england's batsman the last six wickets falling for just thirty five runs in the old out the two hundred sixty three and the west indies had squared the series with fourteen goals to spare the third match takes place in grenada on monday david stakes and here cricket captain virat kohli says he will respect the decision of his government but forgot. adds to playing pakistan in the world cup this june his comments come after calls from india's cricket body to boycott the match a week ago a pox on based armed group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed forty indian paramilitary policemen in india administered kashmir to time fifty over world champions india are set to meet one thousand nine hundred two winners pakistan and one of the most anticipated matches of the world cup on june the

sixteenth and manchester. we really thought about what happened and really. sad about the incident that happened are standing. by would be nice and. going through it with a b. c. i decided to do and that is basically you have to be me and whatever the government and the board decide eventually we will go by that and we respect that. about tiger woods has moved up the leaderboard at the world golf championship in mexico city he holds six birdies to get within six shots of the lead it's his first time playing in mexico but tactics event seven times when it was played in the united states it's another american dustin johnson who leads the way the big hitting roll number three racked up four birdies and no bogeys on his way to a four under par a second round sixty seven that was enough to give him a two shot lead over rory mcilroy back richard who are tied for second.

and machado baseball's a three hundred million dollar man has been officially presented by the san diego padres the twenty six year old infielder was given his shirt after finalizing the move for thirty million a year for the next decade it's the largest free agent deal in the history of american sports charo is a four time all star and a two time gold glove award winner but he says there's more to come. from ownership to front office to coaching staff you know to the players you know the whole. the whole show bam was just so so so perfect just to come here as as a twenty six year old veteran to. you know just try to give my knowledge these guys and know hopefully get back to playoffs the city of san diego and you know bring bring a championship and. it didn't take long for my child to get down to work

he's already been busy practicing and introducing himself to his new teammates andres. in the world series. while leonard made the decisive contribution as he led the try to raptors to win over his former team the san antonio spurs to marta rosen's career has taken him in the opposite direction and he scored twenty three points for the spurs with fifteen seconds left on the clock laddered stole the ball from dros and took his chances to put the raptors had finished hundred twenty two one hundred and seventeen to toronto set second in the eastern conference the billionaire owner of super bowl winners a new england patriots has been charged with soliciting prostitution american robert kraft has denied the allegation seventy seven year old craft seen here at a parade for the n.f.l. champions in boston earlier this month is accused of two misdemeanor offenses florida police confirmed a six month surveillance operation has been in place as part of

a human trafficking investigation. he's being charged with the same offenses the the others and that is soliciting another to commit prostitution and how many how many. great game we have to. separate incidences that were visits to the work it's a vision of a small one gets a bit more learn from that one. two different visits or have to have a longtime friend of us president donald trump who gave this reaction to the charges well it's very sad i was very surprised to say that he's proclaimed his innocence totally and that but i had first price to say that he is just president has said that neymar and kilian him out they won't be sold in the foreseeable future despite an ongoing financial fair play investigation nasra khalifi was talking as the club signed a new shirt sponsorship deal with a french hospitality company p.s.g. are appealing to sports highest court after european football's governing body

reopen the case into whether the club had broken rules aimed at preventing overspending story to decide or not decide to buy or not to buy bales but then it will have little with the coach and see what you want. to sell but with the financial. dollars will always respect the fantasy of a u.f.o. to galician saw we're not sure that even with all the conflict but this control it will help balls and wales playing one later this saturday and a game that could go a long way to decide in the winners of the northern hemisphere is biggest international rugby title the teams have won both their six nations matches so far but it's wales with home advantage and an eleven game unbeaten record they haven't got the better of england to end this tournament for six years. and that's all your support for now i'll be back with much more coming up later on but for now it's back to you dear far it will see them thank you very much indeed well that's it for me down in jordan to this news hour but i'll be back in

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