more than forty paramilitaries last month prompted the latest escalation of violence in the disputed kashmir territory it's one of the worst attacks a decades old group operating from inside pakistan claimed responsibility india's foreign minister speaking at the organization of islamic conference in abu dhabi as this guest of honor was clear about her country's approach to terror groups they have to go. national and because this newspaper editors says the government is key to play a bigger role of the international stage they want to be of the process of decision making in the muslim world because if you are there on the idea well then you go and influence things and also they. do some outside linebackers than. do somehow as you are going to a leading role in the muslim world india is heading towards a general election in twenty fourteen the issue of relations with pakistan was not

high on the election campaign agenda and with weeks to go just before that date is announced politicians are trying to work out how to internationally isolate pakistan while domestically build consensus that would help them with the election so hold on al-jazeera we telling. whether it's next but still ahead on al-jazeera. arabic. i saw as close to difference in feria but analysts say the battle is not over with young. and a united front afghan one and demand their rights are protected as the u.s. and the taliban meet in qatar. to us. with her. hello there our latest weather system is beginning to move away from the

middle east now so we both had some heavy rain while it was with us and for some of us in pakistan and afghanistan where a fair amount of disruption as well the whole system is clearing away there it should be a lot quieter for us as we head through the next few days couple they're getting to around seven degrees through us the west though there is more in the way of wet weather that's working its way heaviest probably over parts of syria and as we head through monday that system edges its way eastwards and it may just turn a little bit wintery over some of the higher ground a little bit further towards the south and here in doha the winds are likely to stay from the northwest over the next couple of days so it won't feel too hot particularly if you're out in that way to a top temperature during the day of around twenty three or maybe twenty four degrees and during the night dropping down to around fourteen say feeling really quite chilly for us so a lot of there will be milder and still quite humid a top temperature here of around twenty nine them towards the southern parts of africa and we've got a few showers in the east part of our map here but most of the showers

a further north rim and go all the way across towards mozambique and quite a few of them over madagascar as well i think this cluster of thunderstorms over parts of mozambique is looking particularly lybia over the next few days are expecting the heaviest rains here. who want to sponsor the town. presidents on down the time junior was promised damaging information about mueller and allocation want to see the station sit down to see the trouble. with russia did you at any time a barge former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form closer to backing down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour the u.s. and south korea ending their major joint military drills to support future talks with north korea on denuclearization the announcement comes just days after don't trump and kim jong un ended this on this and vietnam without a deal. donald trump has been speaking to supporters at the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the u.s. the president attacked democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and dismissed their attempts to look into his personal finances. there have been funerals for victims of the latest violence in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border selling between india and pakistan. the syrian democratic forces say they're closing in on the last remaining in the

village of buggers and while the group may soon suffer a territorial defeat analysts say it's still premature to declare victory and reports. exhausted hungry and sick thousands of women and children have fled their resort in southeastern syria in the last week ahead of a us back to salt on the last piece of ice was so cold caliphate the town. the mainly kurdish fighters of the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. say only those they call terrorists remain there now as fifteen thousand troops advance on the town and incendiary munitions rained down from the sky. we do not know what the clashes will lead to but the military operation will continue to eliminate terrorists inside if we notice any civilians we will try to avoid them and evacuate them during the ongoing military operation as the s.d.f. advance on five fronts they face more than a thousand hardened fighters difficult terrain suicide bombers mines and

a large tunnel network but even once bug falls and i still suffer what some are calling a final territorial defeat the group and its members will remain a serious threat this is not and of isis at all and we have seen. this and this kind of similar terrorist group. thriving in africa and i won't be surprised if these same groups when taught to get. the video they would have military operation inside you would order the united states of america because all the grudges and. political crisis that open that led to the emergence of this group. there are. all the battle for

is expected to end soon and commanders will declare the group defeated no one really knows for sure what happens after that and you should tell al-jazeera. high level talks between the united states and the taliban are continuing and doha u.s. envoy is said an earlier round ended with unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war the taliban is refusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government and once foreign forces to withdraw its delegation is led by the co-founder of the group the abdul ghani baradar dosage of bari has more from. before has wrapped up here in doha without any specific agreement being reached between the taliban and the u.s. but the taliban spokesperson is optimistic that they're on the right path he said that the have made progress but they haven't finalized any kind of agreements and of course at stake here is the future of over thirty five million people in afghanistan something the taliban wants to make sure that they are involved in

their future and their governments that is the issue here is the idea of u.s. withdrawals there's a u.s. troop withdrawal that is there's over fourteen thousand u.s. troops in afghanistan and the taliban wants them to leave their country the other main issue is the taliban does not recognize the current government in office ashraf ghani as legitimate they are not negotiating with him they're not being represented here and that is something the americans hope they can work on to bring the two sides together to have a dialogue that will discuss the future of their country with all parties involved . well thousands of women have met in provinces across afghanistan to ensure their rights are protected during those negotiations and they voiced their demands at a conference in kabul al jazeera is shot at best reports. afghan woman a refusing to be left behind in political negotiations they say they want to present a unified front as the taliban in the united states hold talks to end seventeen

years of who today there are four women behind them a fifteen thousand other ground they spoke after the largest ever national women's jirga council as the taliban met with the u.s. and doha this was a parallel meeting except men were replaced by woman whom i did everyone came to see their perspective it was a proud moment for me among these women we cannot travel to other provinces because of security but this allowed us to be united the national women's jirga was the result of a grassroots movement that began in kabul in august and spirit to all of afghanistan's thirty four provinces influential women from each province late the meetings the format included a question and answer session where they discussed women's legal and constitutional rights their role in islam and afghan culture then each province wrote a statement of their demands for peace these declarations lined what they want and will fight for should the u.s.

and taliban agree to a deal a scene a sufi is the acting minister of information and culture the government backs the woman's jirga but she denied they were all president danny supporters they were not all government to they were all women who believed in who have analyzed their involvement from different social economic political and nonpolitical government non-government civil society addresses where they would. see that we have federal. there is concern the taliban could roll back women's rights but many women so it's conservative values they're running against a need protection from the provincial meetings were held in secret to protect women from any backlash the woman highly guarded be said most people are not among the taliban but they are like taliban just to suit and ties we can understand from

their words that we are in danger they have the old conservative mentality that it's a threat for us and we feel they may try to kill us president is organizing the loya jirga in mid march with four thousand people mean and women it's a national council to discuss their priorities in future negotiations these women will be there to determine that their voices are not forgotten. hundreds of people are believed to be stranded by flash flooding in southern afghanistan the heavy rain hit kandahar city and six districts on friday at least twenty people have died as the un says two thousand homes were engulfed in water some families have been taken to secure areas but up to five hundred people are thought to be stranded rival groups have confronted each other in the israeli city of tel aviv over plans to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel's attorney general has said a decision to prosecute netanyahu will be made within six weeks some demonstrators

held signs condemning netanyahu as the crime minister supporters said he is the victim of a witch hunt who faces possible charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust. protesters in turkey have denounced the recent executions of nine men in egypt hundreds of people demonstrated outside the egyptian consulate in istanbul saying wednesday's killings what legal turkish president has criticized egypt's leader of the over the executions rights groups have also condemned the deaths saying the men were convicted in trials mobbed by torture allegations we're here today to protest about. hangings and killing starts have been happening in egypt by a so-called president which is actually not everything over there happening it is. and we need to have our words said to be this is we need to be heard

the new york times is reporting that a jewel u.s. saudi position has been tortured by the saudis were for a cheese the newspaper alleges that will lead for to hey i was beaten and subjected to electric shocks during his imprisonment as a hotel in riyadh he was one of hundreds of people arrested and twenty seventeen and what saudi crown prince mohammed bin said was a crackdown on corruption is believed to still be in detention saudi officials have denied any mistreatment of detainees while cobol can felt as the director of advocacy at the project on middle east i'm ocracy he says the case is unlikely to affect the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia. but i think what this does is continue to add criticism to the relationship right i mean as we've seen. has not gone away and now this is just the latest carries over again with the u.s. citizen unfold it will just increase pressure i think on the saudis it's very difficult to see them being active on this one in any way publicly if and if this

gets resolved in any way it's going to be very private very behind closed doors you're not going to see any kind of public criticism i think from the administration but that said you know they have they have shown this willingness to get involved with u.s. citizens before and so we may see some of the doors progress is yellow vest protesters are keeping up their demands for french president emanuel to quit they've managed to for a sixteenth weekend in a row the protests began over a proposal to increase fuel taxes which has since been scrapped but the movement's grown into anti government rallies and in serbia thousands have protested against the government there for a thirteenth week in a row they've marched in the capital belgrade against president alexandrovitch he's accused of eroding media freedoms and intimidation critical opponents and up to two hundred thousand people have lost their lunch through the italian city of milan against government policies they say promote racism and discrimination there was

a festive mood as the crowd snakes towards the door in the cathedral it he's seen an increase in racially motivated attacks since the far right government came to power last year more than fifty people are missing after an oil pipeline exploded in southern nigeria the blast caused a stampede and resulted in a huge spillage me an m.b.a. on the large delta it's not clear if the pipeline which carries crude oil to the nearest export terminal has been shut down. conservationists on the kenyan coast say poaching is putting turtle species at risk they're working with local fisherman to try to stop the endangered reptile being caught on purpose or in their nets but the turtles are also losing their breeding grounds to erosion and construction al-jazeera as catherine sawyer reports from what tara a green tart all carefully covers eggs she's just laid down we have to be careful distracting how with bright lights may force her to stop what she's doing this

stretch of beach in what time on the kenyan coast is a nesting site for hundreds of green and all you've really tuttle's both endangered species. every time they come out of the ocean to nest there life is in danger hunting them is illegal but some people here do for meat and or oil which they say is made the scene and it's also an aphrodisiac this residence of atomic tuttle conservation group it's their job to guard the tuttles but the biggest threat is poaching where some people should be talking that's why we are patrolling to give the security for the nesting mothers they then target them to keep count of how many are out there up to four hours of hard labor she's done and has covered up eggs the best way she can to protect them from predators she's lucky that she's in a protected area many titles that come up to nest in other parts of the beach are

in most danger of being hunted down for food by people another tart all lead her eggs in what is considered a danger zone this part of the beach is too exposed the title watchers have to move the eggs to a safe area it's a delicate process. they have to make sure the eggs are well protected from poachers and direct sunlight. during the nesting season they carry out by weekly surveys which they say are often green last week. that we did we collected a total of a chat with news considering the statistics we feel like we haven't done enough because we have done outreach with awareness of the people but still not really ready to work with us many fisherman in what time will know that titles are protected files muhammad several have been trapped in his fishing net he hands them over to government wildlife wardens or conservationists in the area for a few it's

a program that has helped but does not cover the entire nesting stretch with the protected i think it's very difficult to see a fisherman poaching. after two months total hot make their way into the ocean only one in a thousand will survive into adult food catherine soil jazeera tom on the kenyan coast people have been urged to leave their homes as bushfires raging the astray and state of victoria an emergency warning was issued for residents around bunya state park east of melbourne there are twenty five fires burning across the state and it's believed lightning strikes caused many of them. hello i'm a star here ten doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. and south korea are ending their major joint military drills to support future

talks with north korea on denuclearization the announcement comes just days after donald trump and kim jong un ended their summit in vietnam without a deal robert bryant has more from seoul. i think it's certainly going to be welcomed by the south korean government of president moon j. and who as we know is offered once more to act as mediator between the u.s. and north korea to try to get things back on track and is really looking for help from any quarter right now especially given the disappointment of the failure of the how noise summit will also help his personal efforts to try to improve into a korean relations that he's been working all alongside trying to reestablish good relations between the u.s. and north korea donald trump has been speaking to supporters at the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the u.s. the president attacked democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and dismissed their attempts to look into his personal finances making confident noises

about challenging trump is bernie sanders in his second bid for the presidency launching his campaign in brooklyn seventy seven year old saunders told supporters he expected to win the democratic nomination. there have been funerals for victims of the latest violence in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border shelling between india and pakistan. algeria's president of the us is pacifica is refusing to bow to protesters demands that he doesn't seek a fifth term instead of the eighty two year old has sacked an unpopular campaign chief and named a replacement for next month's elections up to two hundred thousand people have marched through the italian city of milan against government policies they say promote racism and discrimination at least seen an increase in racially motivated attacks since the far right five star led government came to power last year. and people have been urged to leave their homes after bushfires destroyed at least five

houses in the australian state of victoria an emergency warning was issued for residents around bunyan state park east of melbourne well those are the headlines i'll be back here with more news after techno. i mean to every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on al-jazeera. this is the fact the smallest porpoise on the planet one that could soon be lost forever. with an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen now it's a race against time to try and save a species. without intervention. i would say about us to this is the hail mary or. this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives we're going to explore the

intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. the vet keita is the most endangered marine mammal is a naturally elusive this has never been captured tagged was studied up close by marine biologists. techno is married to davison and chris would take a crisis that's in the motions to stave off extinction the gulf of california one of the most beautiful marine sanctuaries in the world it is here in the target gulf waters at the edge of the baja california desert the world's smallest cetacean has found a home power when all the money that one of the earth everybody does yes. america because of the motive. what you have and the wreckage is found nowhere else right

this is the only place that it exists yes exactly this is the only place this is and they make these issues. whether someone is with ok only we can find it here on the place in the war mexico we are so lucky to have these as these. belongs in mexico you know if they buy get a berth here if you are. given us in a hole so is an acoustic researcher for mexico's government sponsored iraqi to rescue project today to stop when his team plan to deploy several submerged will see pods or underwater listening devices the pods are used to track but keep us his research picked up the early warning signs that indicated the bucky the population was crushing the data is sent to researchers in san diego crystal dilworth has that part of the story tell me what is that the key to and why do you love them so much

the keepers are especially i think a lovely part because they have a nice paint job they have sort of like black mascara black lipstick serve a god look going. few scientists have studied the key to as intended. as barbara taylor she heads up in advance genetic laboratory based at the u.s. national oceanic and atmospheric administration in san diego california her main partner there and so real has braccio who heads up the mexican project is equally passionate about saving the key to losing the key to know in a way this just a minute eunice a masterpiece if someone destroys the chick on the road that are beautiful to enjoy whatever the world be expecting is that nothing is going to change you're going to wake up in the morning you're going to help but the world is going to be poorer in many many ways and i think that's a situation. i think where enzo and i always thought we could save them you know we

knew it was one issue it was throughout was and we thought we could change it and it's. it's a hard thing to to see you it's not it's not happening. so what is killing the vicki according to scientists the main culprit is gill nets used to capture and another endangered species found the gulf of california a fish named the twelve according to the environmental investigation agency demand for to can be traced to china bird has sold illegally and we got a tip off about the concorde which is also in southern china is on the coast which is said to be a major center for trade in terms of the fish more some chinese believe the dry swim bladder at the to twelve improve skin in liver conditions and figure a circulation and stops bleeding none of this has been proven medically but the illegal trade into twelve is extremely lucrative. twaddle fishing in the gulf is

illegal because the same nets used to catch and snare the keytar they have decimated that they key to population tech knows merida davidson don't have the proof that they were cuba cannot but there is this world of know in their work for the brain where they work if they can get in time with their hair here or there or to free him so obviously there are no good to refer to the surface and then they get things so they just get stuck here with you when they perish they are going to . found three adult that it actually does since we started operation milagro and two new nets pre-born. and i don't like you to answer all of them were neck crapsey and

the results of this examination show that they all die of as asphyxiation and all had leg marks of nets under skin so they dying because of the that is for sure you know leo is captain of the sea shepherd a marine conservation group that voluntarily patrols the opera gulf four to twelve a nutz. five dead lucky to us were found in the gulf from january to may two thousand and seventy it's a horrific to see how much sea creatures are trapped on those nets it's heartbreaking for these protected marine mammals are dying for no reason and they're just dying to still to live on it it's horrible. the story of the vacuum is a classic collapse of a species scientists began tracking us in the late one nine hundred ninety s.

and we determined twenty years ago that the fishing ban was unsustainable for bakita bay would we predicted that they would be declining about this problem for twenty years. well i mean the people who originally found them found them dead on the beach. from fishing nets and said hey here's a porpoise nobody's ever found a porpoise here it can't be very common and it's dying in fishing nets and so yes he's was discovered because it was dying yeah it was found dead on beaches and in fishing dubs you know it's sort of odd that people wouldn't see it but the more you get to know this sharia animal the more you understand that you really have to know what you're looking for and you really have to look for them to see them because they avoid any motorized vessel and they're really small they're only in groups of one or two so they're really difficult to see they are like the flashy dolphins and come up and ride your bow and you know you get to see every aspect of their lives the porpoises are very shy they move away and so you really have to look for them

with like really big binoculars with bucky just on the brink of extinction the team made a decision that was as bold as it was all day shoots in order to save the bookie the remaining population now numbering less than thirty would have to be taken into captivity the plan was implemented in november two thousand and sixteen. at the eighth meeting of sort of an international committee to save the bucky the only option is separate but peter from the main reese factor voted skilling them. for twelve arguments at this point in time and also i mean there are of knowns but what we really know is that if we don't take them out they wouldn't get so this is the lesser of two evils you know so it's black or white and techno was given preliminary plans that spell out how to capture the elusive but keep us and bring them to the northernmost cove in the gulf where they would be held in sea pens and

kept under guard twenty four hours a day seven days a week there are also plans for land based tanks systems and support apparatus to keep the captured porpoises alive in case of emergency where we've brought in this amazing team we're going to have about forty people from all over the world all with different levels of expertise and we have specialists and capturing harbor porpoises from denmark and the netherlands we have veterinarians that have worked with porpoises from hong kong to to the netherlands we have people who have specialized in taking capturing so we have that that team that we have the team of people who i work with that are experts in finding them will be using both acoustics and visual and we're even going to be bringing in maybe dolphins to help us try to track this really elusive species the u.s. navy's marine mammal program utilizes bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater sea

mines little is known about the vacuum no one has ever tagged them or been able to study them up close the problem of how to capture them and large but during a scientific team meeting a breakthrough from a scientist who works with the navy program in here that you can ever think of using maybe don't fence or miller you're not going to. it's completely out of my my toolbox and he said well you know if they can find divers and objects in the water i'm sure they could find what you. next day we went to the navy facility yes they trained the dolphins they took them to the golden gate in san francisco where they have harbor park to swimming in the dolphins wherever to find it so when we solve that part who would seem to be the most difficult when they well there we are there . i'm floating in the middle of the bucket the refuge area here in the gulf of

california now this refuge was set up by the mexican government to protect the populations or what's left of them they've set up here because over the past several years through observation and through acoustic recordings this is where the rocky does really tend to hang out at least recently we've been out here for a while trying to see if we can find any wreckage that's no surprise to me that we haven't seen any and that really underscores how difficult and complex this mission is really going to be stuff as data analysis indicates the remaining bucky the population may be concentrating across three sections in the upper part of the gulf today's sea pod drop we'll try to confirm those locations so we've just arrived at one of the points where they're going to drop down a moring and attach to that is going to be potus so it's the acoustic measuring device that they leave for four months here to measure and and pick up the sounds of the vacuum clicks so that's what we've done we've we've navigated here via via

g.p.s. it's a really vast area and they've set up at the kitchen please eighty seven they're going to put out eighty seven of the c. pods right now we're putting up the last eight. later back on shore stubble showed us a computer program that allows us to hear the bucky humans can't hear the clicks because they're too high frequency but there's a way for you to modify them so that we actually could have me listen to this of course local walk around my. base in more than five. and. wow for. the bucky the refuge measures in area sixty four by nearly one hundred kilometers along the upper third of the gulf of california when you are in it the refuge seems vast and problematic to police effectively. since two thousand

and five gill net fishing has been banned here but the real story is much different especially at night it is pretty dramatic and crazy every night it's so busy it never stops we have radars on our bridge of the time time when and if. and under us radars we can see the new activity at nights because poachers really go out at night the night of march eleventh two thousand and seventeen was busier than. the sea shepards farley mowat here on patrol for poachers spotted a small fishing boat in the back of the wreckage. and when we see a target of a piece we get our ship as close as possible and then the drone team is going to be ready to drop the drone was able to film is illegal fishermen with what appeared to be a boat load of twelve of the fishermen noticed the trone and began hurling objects

at it then we get the fourth age. fisherman retreating to two odd minutes getting to a two hour bus i call the authorities tell them to position. tell them what we're seeing at the same time and and then they calm and they tried to arrest them the next day the ship caught another seemingly bolder group fishing in broad daylight this was the first time the drone was able to capture full daylight images of a boatload of coached and. can the big problem is money just like always. illegal fishing activity for to to i about brings out a lot of money because china is opening the black market that is attracting a lot of organized crime says it's a two of us and batteries sold for more than twenty thousand dollars a kilo of course when you come to those fishing villages where the minimum wage is

so low and they can make our five thousand dollars a kilo locally with a with one kill swim bladder the mexican government has invested so far over a billion pixels in compensating fisherman and fords isn't a scientist but he co-chairs the baccy the rescue program in mexico he created a plan to use economic incentives to keep gill nets out of the gulf for the past two years mexico has paid fishermen not to fish until alternative gear that don't kill becky could be developed you can imagine going through the communities. trying to convince families not to go back and fish which is what they have been doing for generations that's who they are right as part of their identity i would say and that's the whole purpose of these programs to have them go back and fish but being able to do so without arguing but you know. it's important for mexico to

save the the from extinction and i would do if we won to the same efforts as china has been doing to save panda mexico's efforts have seen mixed results progress has been made but the numbers don't lie the barkeeper is almost gone there recently that we are where we are it's because our fishing overages have failed to come with alternative fishing gear for two decades i mean that's incredible they haven't. being able to do it i can tell you had twenty years ago if i had hired at mit or who would have already something but the barman has a monopole embury the only one tests alternative here so with that's horrible. it is early morning in ensign on the mexican techno has been invited to travel out to the pacific ocean to see where the bucket the rescue plan is truly taking shape

these pens belong to bottle farms a mexican tuna farming company the back teeth a rescue team turned to them for help where where the natural these big we have the big danger of losing the back you know so we are aware of that we are delighted to be part of or. is the operations manager of. a sea pen designed to give tourists an up close view of the tuna farming business this plan is currently located off the coast of ensign out of mexico on the pacific side of baja california and contains hundreds of bluefin tuna but before long it will be moved to the gulf of california and if all goes well with a back to the rescue effort instead of china there will be by keep us swimming within it be bunko provided renderings of the redesigned bucket the pen which feature two observation tubs this tourist attraction will become

a floating laboratory. you know we're looking at the tuna in the observation area it struck me that they're feeding very close to the surface and that's not normally how they feed right. so they've had to learn a new way of feeding and that will essentially be the case for them i keep them i suppose so. that's what i say you know the rocky days eating the same thing that the dolphins two of the open ocean and i mean they are. small fish and sweet things play out there for when those kind of organisms of the ocean differently they recognize you and is going to learn how to eat the rocky the pen will be taken here to the northernmost end of the gulf in an area called much shore a cove gustava showed us the area during our gulf tour the blue building i'm sure is an old trim processing plant that will be converted to an on site veterinary

care center so you think that's the best shot absolutely it's not only the best shot but it's the only shot that we have we're going to have facilities in the ocean and we're going to have some also. and we're also looking to one of the. most important pieces of these projects was to have a facility right in the heart of the of a key. area where we can have vets where we can have twenty four seven care for but keep those there we could be monitoring them we can learn a little bit more about it but he thought there is a little opposition to the rescue plan within the scientific community the conservation groups led by the sea shepherd society believes the problem should be solved without captivity scheiber has always been fighting against cultivates and for me it's not a solution and first ship is not a solution because saving anymore is not having it in a swimming pool and it should be free and leaving its life and contributing to. eco

system plan a maybe it's not working right now and plan b. those means known to man. there were many questions surrounding the capture program but if scientists are successful the next step in the process will be to try and breed that the key to scientists in san diego are getting ready these will be the ancestors of all the cute and into the future this breeding program so we need to make sure that we know what we've got and keep that variation that natural genetic variation in that population into the future phillip more in we're expected to keep the rescue team in san diego his research molecular geneticist is that the key to can be successfully bred in captivity he will have to figure out how to make the genetics where so they keep us special because it lacks this genetic diversity that other species do how is it managed to survive for so long so what we believe

happens in a population like species like the key to is that they've been in a small population size for a long time so the bad person has slowly been purged from the species so that means they have less of the bad diversity they also have less of the good diversity. but in a stable environment like the northern gulf of california they've managed to survive and there is still diversity is not to say they have none because of this lack of diversity in the vicki is it possible to accidentally do harm to the species through the breeding programs that you're developing. yes yeah i mean there is no way to avoid that we're going to lose diversity. there's no way to avoid that because we're collapsing the population from thousands down to a few and then they're going to have to breed to some extent with the same individuals in order to build that population up. more and has been studying the key to using tissue samples stored in the deep freeze at the san diego fisheries

science center it's cold in here minus twenty degrees celsius and besides myself in this open here there's about two hundred thousand tissue samples from a variety of marion's forty five of those samples are from the clutha and that's the hope that those samples contain some still current and i think information that can help save that species and how long the samples keep at this time well these samples are about thirty years old wow and we're still extracting d.n.a. from them. so we're hoping they're going to last a long time so it's like science evolves just the right time to be able to help the big key to right before it they go extinct the ability to culture cells and transform them is changing right now so that if we get living cells from the skins of of these kittens are brought into captivity we can keep them alive in the lab we can transform them into any types of cells we want so even if we catch an animal.

that may be too old to reproduce or only reproduces once and for it can't reproduce a more if we have those cells it's possible we can convert those into damn eats into sperm and egg cells in the future and use them put them back in the population as if that in the most alive. advanced genetics may end up being the game changer for that the key to san diego's frozen c two has played a key role in trying to save many nearly extinct species a porpoise and a right nasir abas might not seem to have that much in common but scientists here at the frozen zoo at san diego zoo global are working to save the noise. they're in white right now and techniques they developed could act as a blueprint to save that the key to we are pretty confident that if we get a good quality sample will be able to grow and successfully freeze the cells that's going to tell us more about the vicki to it's going to say something about its population history it will provide may be. very useful information

about whether there's enough genetic diversity in the remaining population to allow it to recover and expand all of a writer is director of the frozen soup it holds more than ten thousand living cell cultures if nothing else works the frozen samples would become a last resort for an extinct species the vicky is such an endgame at the end of the day all we may have are cells and we mustn't though. ignore that. we're engaging in a. in an enterprise that we don't know ultimately. time is running out for the science maybe it's not the type but it comes with the price tag the rescue effort is expected to cost five million u.s. dollars the u.s. national marine mammal foundation says it has four point five million on hand three

million will come from the mexican government the rest from private donors many of the scientists the donating the tiny hole to give the key to a fighting chance for tech and she so mara. this is a boon for point people right now in technology there is so much going to help people it's from thanks for calling i read this is there and what are you looking for today we get to assist the blind with their day to day tasks and give them more

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go in jay's finances we're going to jackies deals we're going to check these people a sick president on trying to live as a blistering speech to his support base. attacking political rivals on the mall or investigation. course in the line of fire more injuries and deaths in the disputed kashmir region where tensions remain high between india and pakistan. and the campaign to save an endangered reptile rejoin a neighbor of love in kenya. well just days after talks between donald trump and kim jong un broke down there's been a significant move towards lowering military tension with north korea the u.s. and south korea say they're ending major joint military drills which has been a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong un soul and washington say

it's part of an effort to support more talks with north korea on denuclearization a two day summit between the u.s. president and kim finished early on thursday without an agreement robin wright has more from south korea's capital seoul. effectively joint military exercises in south korea have been scaled back since president donald trump announced after the single poor summit last june that he was no fan of these war games as he called them that they were a waste of money but this confirmation that key resolve and foal eagle these spring exercises involving tens of thousands of troops of war planes ships and tanks will effectively come to an end is seen as a big concession they'll be replaced by a much smaller less high profile exercises these exercises have always enraged the north koreans who see them as a possible credit to war seems the joint militaries of south korea and the u.s.

of now agreed at least in part with that saying that they do indeed lead to a rise in tension that these exercises are being ended as a way of supporting the diplomatic efforts this will be welcome by president moon j.n. of south korea who's once again standing in as a possible mediator between north korea and the u.s. to get things back on track it will also possibly help his personal initiative to try to help into korean relations go move forward to the next step he has stated in the last couple of days that despite the disappointment of the hanoi summit he's still determined to try to resume economic and tourism projects with north korea we still wants to try to go ahead with that although it's difficult to see just how without getting sanctions relief from the united states. donald trump has launched a furious attack against his democratic opponents and the murder investigation in

a speech to supporters the longest of his presidency so far his address to the annual conservative political action conference or c. pac came after a bad week for the u.s. president his second summit with north korea's kim jong un ended in failure while his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him a racist a con man and a cheat in his testimony to congress trump attacked the democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and used blunt language to describe efforts to look into his personal finances we had the greatest of all time now we have people that lost . unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a certain they're trying to take you out with ok. and he has more from the conference in oxon hill maryland the president donald

trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea already is foremost it's a michael cohen giving damning testimony before congress here at sea park this is his base and he's been talking to them about all the usual issues his relationship with china the booming economy and also immigration but he did touch briefly on the miller report let's listen to what the president had to say. they fight so hard on this witch hunt this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia there's no collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done we're going to go into his finances we're going to check his deals we get it checked these people is sick this is. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. it's a first time he went into a meeting and he shared we're going to look into his finance i said where did that

come from he always talked about russia collusion with russia the collusion delusion so what the president was essentially doing he was energized doing his base he talked about the love that was in this room and this theme of this year's c pac really a's trump ism he talked a lot about the forthcoming twenty twenty alexion and he is a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe the days of opposition to democrats are socialists he talked about that in relation to venezuela he will talk about that once again in the future but in this room lots of love a president don't trump going forward for the twenty twenty large. political analyst eric hand says trump's speech highlights the extent of the divide in u.s. politics. walk for this president he has made his base he has made his home on the right on the far right and so now after a brutalising couple of weeks where he sees his declaration of emergency on the

u.s. border wall threaten michael cohen threatening both his administration and this organization and of course the southern district of new york closing in this is us a place where the president can be at home where he can be around his supporters and where he can feed red meat see pac has now become trumpet and it's a place of political conservative red meat today donald trump was the primary of the president's support now even among republicans is around eighty percent of very high and unfortunately what we're seeing with the president are among independents and democrats of course his numbers are at a astonishing low rate in fact if you look at texas a conservative state a state where no democrat has won and more than twenty years right now in a hypothetical match up with democratic challengers the president is in a dead heat with joe biden bernie sanders and camila harris and so right now we're

seeing the president if the election were held today it would be very difficult for this president to get to be all important two hundred seventy electoral votes so right now what the president needs to do is is he needs to ensure that his base hold strong because unfortunately that's all he has keep in mind this is a president who now we know has paid off porn stars we see the president under siege from politically legally and so unfortunately this has become normalized we are looking at the fraying of relations with allies the united states and have held for decades and so everything right now from our treaties from our allies even from the us constitution is being frayed is being. pushed to the break right now well donald trump may have told the conference he's confident of victory in twenty twenty but independent senator bernie sanders is determined to beat him and has launched his second bid for the presidency kicking

off his campaign in brooklyn the seventy seven year old told supporters he expects to win the democratic nomination he claims that trump is the most dangerous president in modern american history funerals are being held for some of the victims of the latest fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border shelling between india and pakistan tension remains high between the two countries with fighting resuming just hours after pakistan released an indian pilot in a gesture of peace while the pilot was captured on wednesday when his jet was shot down and he's now returned home to scenes of celebration hell raman reports from new delhi. the military pilot is back home and people are celebrating on the streets. the bugs fighter jet crashed in pakistan administered kashmir on wednesday after being shot out by pakistan's fools pakistan's prime minister it

brought current ordered his release as a goodwill gesture which was welcomed by new delhi it's the only story in term yet the government's message is clear pakistan is not off the hook. in the past twenty four hours there's been ongoing shelagh in the kashmir region indian administers kashmir officials claim three members of one family were reported to be killed in the area. at six in the evening pakistan started firing and shelling the shelling was going on for about three hours one of the shell fired by pakistan hit a house in which three members of a family were killed including two innocent children. fifty kilometers away in civilian to a blue to temporary accommodation after coming out to heavy shelling from pakistan's forces the suicide bombing that killed more than forty paramilitaries last month prompted the latest escalation of violence in the disputed kashmir territory it's one of the worst attacks a decades and odd group operating from inside pakistan claimed responsibility

india's foreign minister speaking at the organization of islamic conference in abu dhabi as its guest of honor was clear about her country's approach to terror groups they have to go. national newspaper editors says the government is keen to play a bigger role of the international stage they want to be of the process of decision making in the muslim world because if you are there on the idea when you go and influence things and also there. will be. somehow sidelined by. somehow as you are going to a leading role in the muslim world india is heading towards a general election in twenty fourteen the issue of relations with pakistan was not high on the election campaign agenda and with weeks to go just before that date is announced politicians are trying to work out how to internationally isolate

pakistan while domestically build consensus that helped them win the election so hold raman al jazeera delhi. well prime minister narendra modi is calling for indians to unite he is also challenging those who are questioning his leadership amid the current crisis ragas donna summers. these are those people who listen to statements from pakistani generals pakistan radio and they are saying there is evidence against india they are against me against modi and now they are damaging the country india and turning against the country i want to ask the people who do you believe us or not or do you believe those people who are sending to arrest and to our country. as a retired colonel in the indian army he says prime minister modi is approach carries a clear political message is playing that polarization game the recent strikes on pakistan for exam.