continued for the thirteenth week in a row thousands of march through the streets of belgrade demanding media freedom as a precondition for free and fair elections demonstrations began after an opposition politician was beaten up last november serbian opposition groups accuse president bush's government of violent intimidation. hundreds of croatian journalists have rallied in the capital have been demanding more press freedom in recent months more than a thousand lawsuits have been filed against journalists who say the cases are being used to censor them gracious public broadcaster has filed complaints against its own or other reporters critics said the broadcaster only serves the ruling party's interests and stone ians are heading to the polls in a parliamentary election that scene is a test for the far right center left prime minister and your rights as is the frontrunner in sunday's poll but he could face difficulties forming a parliamentary majority the nationalist stony and conservative people's party has been making gains since the migration crisis in two hundred fifteen. the elected

congolese president phoenix's. says he wants to free political prisoners within ten days he was pronounced winner of december's vote but that's being contested by the opposition is named easing tensions as a key goal of this first one hundred days. within ten days i will take a measure of granting a presidential pardon to political prisoners sentenced by decisions that have been . actively work to create the conditions for the early return of compact. outside the country for political reasons to carry out their activities in accordance with the law and the republican institutions. space x.'s first passenger capsule has successfully docked at the international space station the only passenger on the mission is a dummy named ripley carrying four hundred pounds of supplies dragon capsule will

be used to shuttle astronauts to and from the international space station later this year space x. began to receive nasa contracts after the agency suspended its month flight program in twenty eleven due to rising costs. they've been urged to leave their homes after bushfires destroyed at least five houses in the australian state of victoria and emergency warning was injured for for residents around the state park east of melbourne hundreds of firefighters are trying to control the fast moving blaze it's been the hottest start to autumn in the area in thirteen years still ahead an al-jazeera. this fighter makes mixed martial arts history the latest from the us. in sport. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in

a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean. i mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remaining people on al-jazeera. one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for it is you know it's very challenging liberally but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories i'll just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

conservations this in kenya say poaching is putting total species at risk they're working with local fishermen to try to stop the endangered reptile being caught on purpose or in their nets but the totals are also losing their breeding grounds to erosion and construction costs and so i reports for what tom on the eastern coast. a green tart all carefully covers eggs she's just laid back stone 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 maybe seen all and it's also an aphrodisiac this residence of atomic tuttle conservation group it's their job to guard the tuttles well the biggest threat is poaching where some people should be talking that's why we are patrolling to give the security for the nesting models they then tag them to keep count of how many are out there up to four hours of hard labor she is 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 eight. statistics we feel like we haven't done enough because we have done outreach with awareness of the people but still not really veggie to work with us many fisherman in what time will know that titles are protected. mohamad several have been trapped in his fishing net he hands him over to government wildlife wardens or conservationists in the area for a fee it's a program that has helped but does not cover the entire nesting stretch believe there will be protected i think it's very difficult to see a fisherman poaching. after two months to. make their way into the ocean

only one in one thousand five hundred to adult food catherine saw al-jazeera on the kenyan coast. and it's time for the sports rob thank you so much light heavyweight champion jon jones has retained his ultimate fighting championship title he defeated anthony smith in las vegas the two time champion dominated their main and then despite receiving a two point deduction for an illegal knee in the fourth round all three judges scored the contest forty eight to forty four. and then he was the most experienced person in there against. any show that experiences. he was extremely calm. positions most people would have freaked out and. he did a really great job. they were c.

is also crowned its first ever african born champion nigerian american fighter comer one the welterweight title with a one sided decision victory over tyson would only he now wants to make a difference outside the ring. in my village where i'm from there still not running water everywhere people are still struggling to get clean water so we're going to put something together i have an excellent team a great manager and we're going to put something together we're going to start to an amazing foundation and we're really going to change lives. baseball's most expensive player is made his official bow at the philadelphia phillies brice hyper has signed a contract worth more than three hundred million dollars but isn't promising his team championship success just yet says andy richardson reports. this is what a three hundred and thirty million dollars sportsman looks like bryce harper has

just completed the biggest deal in baseball history to become a philadelphia phillies player harper has signed a thirteen year contract that will take him up to his fortieth birthday so i want to be somewhere for a long period of time i want to finish my career somewhere. made that commitment to me and you know i can't wait to be a part of you know the phillies for a long. as a teenager he was already being described as the le bron james of baseball by sports illustrated magazine so far his pro career has been with the washington nationals a six time all star hop was named the league's most valuable player in twenty fifty eight i one thing that we know about bryce is he's an intense individual he plays a game especially hard. cares deeply about winning has historically cared deeply about his teammates and historically produced on the baseball field. one of the best players in baseball hoffa became

a free agent after seven seasons and one hundred eighty four home runs at the nationals in a neat symmetry one hundred eighty four million dollars is the amount harper will net after taxes with the phillies the payback has already started for the franchise fans bought one hundred eighty thousand tickets within two days of the deal being done. most negotiations whether it's the largest contract in the history of baseball or or something far smaller you're always going to have those moments and you know i won't you know necessarily comment on wednesday night specifically but i think throughout the process we had some some encouraging moments and some not so encouraging moments but the bottom line is at the at the very end we got where we needed to be a. big price tags bring big expectations the phillies have only won the world series twice the last time back in two thousand and eight. you know not that they were to come in this year and when when the world series or you know when the

division of course we all want that to happen that's your goal when you walk in the spring that's a goal the fans it's goal of everybody but good things take time as well his first targets will be getting the phillies into the playoffs for the first time since twenty eleven and the richardson al-jazeera liverpool have the chance to retake top spots in the english premier league when they face fierce rivals everton later it's one of three matches on sunday brendan rodgers has lost his first game in charge of leicester they lost two one against what fired the host chelsea in just a few minutes time and then it's that huge match between liverpool and everton. that the fans. doesn't want us to win anything and probably all events for them it's the same on the other side so that's how it is but in the game you know it's only very emotional very very passionate and all that stuff and all that would be like that's that's all football should be the event has boss max alegria has warned his team that they've still got plenty of work to do to seal this area title the

turin club are looking to win their eighth consecutive skitt at zero later on sunday they face their closest rival second place napoli the gap between them is huge they leave them by thirteen points with only thirteen games left to play. and there will be some of them i said i've got it on sunday we have an amazing match to play and we have not won the title yet we still need seven to eight wins even though this match will be an important watershed barcelona have won their second classico against fierce rivals around madrid inside a week having already knocked them out of the copa del rey are so all but ended rails faintly title hopes i've been racketing got the only goal as they won one nil the win takes bar say ten points clear at the top of my league. david beckham left his mark on the opening day of the m.l.s. season in north america back and was at his former club the l.a. galaxy to unveil a statue of himself he went to m.l.s. titles during his time with the team forty three year old is one of the owners

behind a new franchise in miami that set to join the league next year. you expected me not one of your own i was proud to represent the l.a. galaxy of the six years. but my proudest moment was giving you guys the championship. the women's world cup kicks off in france in three months time and some of the favorites to win that title are facing each other in the united states the u.s. are the reigning world champions and they took on england in the second round of the games in the she believes cop megan rapinoe gave the home team the lead in the shell and was reached the semifinals of the world cup four years ago and they have back to go to one up but the game finished two two a second straight draw for the u.s. who play brazil the west indies batting legend chris gayle is looking good ahead of this year's world cup gael had a nineteen ball half century and

a big win over england in space st lucia it was the fastest one day fifty and his country's history this series finished in a two two draw. and that's all your support for now it's now back to you. thanks very much indeed i'll be back in a couple of minutes with more all balls as it is news but that's it for. whether online. with the answer for them will not be granted or if you join us on saturday all of us have been calling it in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue react talking about a legal front you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the phone off and some people are secular out everyone has a voice from the fear of our fear twitter and you could be on the thrid join the colobus conversation amount is iraq. if you want to learn about the world might

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can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates and the best of al-jazeera stock human trees the struggle continues. to go on it's continuing with australia's most generation ever covering. is a really important issue suicide writes do a mind very high still twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera. protests break out again in algeria to try to force the country's long serving leader to drop his plan to run again.

i'm about to sin and this is obviously a lie from doha also coming up. the u.s. and south korea and their joint military exercises to ease tensions on the korean peninsula. do not is an ideology it's an idea you can join the regional leaders in kashmir heads out of the indian government's crackdown against separatist groups. and we look at one group that's trying to keep its traditions alive after it fled venezuela. we're going for tens of thousands are protesting against plans by the president to seek a fifth term in office a deadline is looming for abdelaziz bouteflika to formally submit his candidate papers for april's election all indications say he'll put in the paperwork by the end of sunday despite ten days of unprecedented demonstrations in dozens of cities

on saturday he's sacked and replaced his unpopular campaign chief eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in twenty thirteen. the protests in algeria have triggered a show of solidarity in france which has a large algerian population hundreds of demonstrating in paris more protests are also expected and most say i mean he was a protester from the it took us citizen movement and she says audience are demonstrating in paris because they feel a great sense of solidarity with those back home. jury and in paris have a strong bond with their homeland and most all during the paris have been either been here for the longest time since the independence days or they're young people like me who came here for studies or for economic opportunities to find jobs and were we all has very strong ties to our homeland. it is very important to mobilize

here because we have to be an echo for what's going on in algeria and use elder's everyone is here where he is and family there also here it's very important to not only say no to a fifth terms of presidency with the no to a regime that has taken us all hostage for so long for all these decades well it's a rare show of dissent in algeria where demonstrations are banned the protests are by far the biggest since president bush came to power twenty years ago supporters say he restored political and economic stability after the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. his time in office coincided with high oil prices but the economy has since suffered with a flick of amended the constitution in twenty zero eight to remove two term limits on one the twenty fourteen election without a personal campaign geoff porter is the founder of north africa risk consulting he does not think the protests will escalate into conflict. you know reasoning by

analogy is always a dangerous thing to do. you know and you know algeria is not tunisia algeria is not egypt it's not syria it's not libya this is not an arab spring this is its own. systemic algerian movement it's responding to specific conditions and i'm curious and it's not easily comparable to the circumstances that unfolded in the other countries that i just mentioned for example. you know booklet despite the protests that took place over the last week and especially on friday does have a base and he does remain popular is not similar to the indian men are you too easy for us mubarak egypt's if you go to the countryside popular if you ask the older generation popular if you ask women. especially secular women remains popular

he's a sympathetic figure he's not hated it unlike the other individuals that egypt and tunisia and syria for example or libya even sometimes talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. have concluded in doha the u.s. envoy is out me is describing unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war is that the taliban's co-founded the abdulla funny but a dud though such a body has been following the talks here in doha. they five has wrapped up here talks between the u.s. and it's how about in this hotel right behind me in doha now they have not reached an agreement yet we've spoken to officials from both sides the americans say there it doesn't look like they're going to have any kind of an agreement in the coming days so they're still working on it that's how the ban are adamant that they're only discussing the future of fourteen thousand u.s. troops currently in afghanistan this is the only subject they're discussing with the americans at this point and they want the troops to leave their country within

the next few months the americans however are proposing that their troops leave afghanistan in the coming years this is an issue that is being worked on here in doha and both sides are hopeful that they will reach an agreement in the coming days on the ground in afghanistan people are dying in record numbers a u.n. reports documented three thousand eight hundred civilian deaths and twenty eighteen including nearly one thousand children that's the highest number killed since record keeping began in twenty or nine charlotte has more from kabul. it's lunchtime when fifty eight year old mohammed hussein arrives to open a shop he sells drinks out of a container in the symmetry it doesn't get busy until the afternoon but it's busier than it's ever been. every day we're witnessing burials here there is no space left on this hill top we are suffering from these attacks. the u.n.

says thirty eight hundred civilians including one thousand children were killed in afghanistan last year it's a record for mohammed to those numbers come to life in the hills around him he's lived at the foot of the symmetry watching it expand for over a decade. it is very painful in a nightmare from now when they bring the bodies sometimes twenty thirty even forty to be buried. the u.n. says one of the reasons for the record number of civilian deaths is i saw suicide attacks they were particularly deadly last year and they often targeted the shia minority over here and western kabul resulting in a lot of people being brought up here to be symmetry which is quickly filling up. the u.n. report found the biggest killer of civilians was the taliban responsible for thirty seven percent of deaths the taliban rejects the un's finding somebody was. meeting of tribal elders former taliban commanders in kabul spoke out against it this week

they laid the blame on afghan and international forces. raids and killing innocent people people who reads people get killed in strikes. last year was the first on record that more than five hundred civilians were killed because of airstrikes mostly by international forces who say they do investigation review credible allegations of errors to learn and improve but in the blame game of the afghan war the un hopes they can be some accountability i think it's important that the stark reality of the costs of the conflict is put before the public and therefore does enter the calculations of those who are talking in that. endeavor to bring this conflict to a close it's a complex now and it's eighteenth year with everyone that passes the graves edge

closer to the ridge line behind the statistics beneath the snow my children and parents sunni and shia not fighters killed by them just the same ballasts al-jazeera kabul floods in southern pakistan and afghanistan are known to have killed at least fifty people i'm usually heavy rain in the last ten days has cut off tens of thousands of people relief workers to say the death toll could be much higher in kandahar in afghanistan the government says it's the worst flooding in seventy years. funerals have been held for some of the victims of the recent gun battles in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday in cross border shelly between india and pakistan tensions remain high after both sides said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday. which will leaders in kashmir are criticizing the indian government's crackdown against separatist groups in the disputed region one of them. members are accused of

supporting an armed resistance against india hundreds have been arrested and the leaders say their work for the region's most vulnerable children will not be affected so how raman reports from new delhi. it's a day early start for the students in srinagar they come to this religious school from some of the poorest families in the region this hot drink and snack is perhaps the only opportunity to eat or the cold winter morning. many live in isolated villages and farms so it's a chance to see friends and catch up before classes begin however they may not be able to study here for much longer. the government has banned jamaat e islami that runs this religious school and many more like it in the region it says the group supports armed resistance against india and is a threat to the country's stability. student says it's a disappointing setback to his education as a i want to do something in my life that benefits everyone i wasn't very religious

and wanted to know how to pray correctly i was embarrassed that i couldn't answer questions about my feet this has changed what importantly the school has taught me social skills are to be polite speak to strangers and my elders with respect. late last month the central government banned jamaat e islami arrested scores of its leaders and sealed off their homes an indian administered kashmir there's been widespread anger in the community many feel muslims are being deliberately targeted and accused of being sympathetic to so-called terror organizations it's an accusation people here deny and say the government in new delhi is vilifying them for their faith and beliefs. regional politicians and are challenging new delhi jaylen idea not is an ideology it's an idea you can't just so you know in a democracy it's a battle of ideas if you try to imprison everyone you can imprison the idea it is going to for the really need the people of kashmir.