increasingly. japan's diversity was on display outside the palace people of all ages and backgrounds came just to be close to history and maybe catch a glimpse of the new emperor they'll get a better chance in october when a more elaborate ceremony is held and the imperial couple will travel around the capital city but japan is now in the age of the one hundred twenty sixth emperor of japan. tokyo. inherited by the new japanese the sacred sword called. the sword is regarded as a divine object in japanese culture traditions being kept alive. the. supervisor of need to home steelmakers. but morning to myth shinto gods the sun all descended upon the mountains here and

slew an eight forked serpent a sacred sword and i lurched from its body. the to steelmaking has more than a thousand years of history and tradition. the fire is a sacred flame of the bundle transforming iron sand and charcoal into quality jewel steel. the development of steel making contributed greatly to the prosperity of japanese culture and civilization. and we are here trying to preserve it and pass it on forty turnitin. we work for three days and nights. attending closely as though raising a child giving it. prepared to do what it takes to produce magnificent studio. are for you have to do or the heat when one it is very hot and dusty.

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how the our bloom is created. when the new steel is made after long days working. i feel elated as if my own child was born. ok let me bring you some breaking news out of the u.k. wiki leaks founder julian assange has been sentenced by a london court to fifty weeks in jail for skipping bail to avoid being sent to sweden over a rape allegation and here he defiantly raised his fist it's reported as he's arrived at southern crown court on wednesday sans could have been receiving the maximum sentence of a year in prison a judge at an earlier hearing had said the forty seven year old hackers offenses merited the maximum sentence that he still facing a separate court hearing on thursday that's over the u.s. extradition request on charges of conspiring to break into a pentagon computer system assigns had been asylum of the ecuadorian embassy since

two thousand and twelve but ecuador even. on april the eleventh. last. going to be here with.

that is time for the sports here's joe roth thank you very much and as you've been hearing and pick and well eight hundred me to champion cast this menu has lost her appeal against new testosterone rules in athletics meaning that as it stands she won't be able to defend her titles so many and i think south africa set a rule forcing the runner to take medication to lower the level of the whole line

switch events or run against men was unfair but the sport's governing body the all good it was needed to protect female sports and the court of arbitration for sport is a great. buy majority castronova has dismissed the request club iteration considering that justice to mean you know if you say you are unable to leave the distribution that the new regulations. and then found out the deal the regulations discriminatory but the majority of the time the found that on the basis of the evidence and it did by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is a necessary result of the will found the potion it means that she be the item but if subjective of preserving the integrity of female atlantic states some strike you dance international competitions that is from the hundred meters one might. well so

many as a response was much shorter but still powerful she tweeted this sometimes it's better tree act with no reaction i suppose correspondent lee wellings joins us now from london it's a criticism decision from cas but where does that leave the menu. cutlass ammonia finds herself in an extremely on satisfactory position in fact she would need to start taking medications and lower her testosterone rose within the next week in order to satisfy those rows and be eligible to defend eight hundred metre title in the world championships in doha later in the year this is not a situation that she's indicated it's hoshi be prepared to go along with to actually use chemicals to reduce those levels of testosterone and so what option does she have she other goes along with it or she starts to look at a permanent switch to another event beyond even the fifteen hundred metres which also comes under these rules she data look at long distance the five thousand or

ten thousand she has competed in to five thousand metre rices this year and she won the race in south africa last week at that distance but that is not a speciality by a long why i and therefore so many of really doesn't want to make that switch and as you can see from the tone of her statement this is something that goes way beyond just athletics and her career this is a human rights issue it also spills into an area where sport there's a spotlight on it now on the way that gender is treated all round but whilst the i w f the governing body of athletics are extremely pleased of course by this outcome and i'm winning this case and the men you're losing her appeal also questions will consist continue to be asked about how they have treated some men yet and whether they have been sensitive enough and compassionate enough with the human rights are rightly willing thanking. today marks twenty five years since the death of brazil's

three time formula one champion action center of the summer rain or grand prix senna raced in one hundred sixty one grand prix over ten years was world champion in eighty eight ninety and ninety one the thirty four year old was killed when his williams car hit the wall on the seventh lap of the race at imola in his native brazil said i was given a state funeral and he still remembered as a great driver his death led to new safety measures that have helped prevent any driver dying at the track since then it seems a key point for you to be. i mean yeah i don't know if you read on t.v. . or your memory. but maybe in terms of the degree to carry some a break you don't see it great to get thirty two. we see lovie. it was a deadly weekend at imola in one thousand nine hundred four sent his death overshadowed that of his rival ronald brett sumburgh who crashed in qualifying the

day before the austrian and only started one chrome pray in his four win on korea but off to send his death an austrian flag was found inside the president's cockpit center had planned to raise the flag an honor for at sumburgh as he crossed the finish line. football's concussion protocols are once again in the spotlight also taught and defend the young for tongan was allowed to play on despite a serious clash of heads the tongue collided with teammate toby elder wild during their first leg defeat to i.x. in their champions league semifinal he had a bloody nose and needed lengthy treatment medical staff judged him fit to continue but forty seconds later he came often was visibly unwell struggling to stand as he was led down the tunnel told his manager and sis they followed the correct procedures. medical stuff for the protocol i never was in both. the decision was the doctor. the referee asked for the one sided to go in in the

next section when we need to put him out because if it were the n.b.a. playoffs and the milwaukee bucks have squared the series against the boston celtics yes that's gone but it was the standout player for the bucs with twenty nine points in front of a home crowd as they went on to win by twenty one the seven game series is now locks that one of peace with game three coming up on friday in boston elsewhere the golden state warriors beat the houston rockets to go to up in this series. is great. but i noticed your stay humble. gave three on the road now you know every game is going to get tougher and seven seven they keep playing. just one out and hope you get good three. well it's playoff time in the n.h.l. to show was the stuff this time as they shots he scored the first half of his career and leads him to victory i was with the colorado avalanche the final score was four two means the sharks now only two one in their western conference

semifinal series in full is thursday. over in ohio the columbus blue jackets beat the boston bruins two one being generous old first and not just ten the second. now and the savings to one game for all will be tight again in ohio. all right that is . joe thanks very much indeed martin is going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories including of course that breaking news that we can leagues founder julian assange being sentenced to fifty weeks in jail for skipping bail got sentencing being done by a london courts just in the last hour or so on world markets and about for not.

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libyan. forces detained two turkish nationals accusing them of spying. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha. coming up. olympic and world champion cast this emmanuel loses her legal case over her high testosterone levels. wiki leaks founder julian assange sentence london court to fifteen weeks in jail first. standoff in sudan as the african union calls on the military council to hand power to civilians within sixty days.

but we'll start with breaking news from libya where two turkish nationals have been detained by forces loyal to the libyan warlord holly for half the vulcan al to nocca mehmet dimia were taken from the south of tripoli and accused of being spies a charge turkey denies all monday the turkish president roger tie a bedouin had described half the advance towards the libyan capital as a plot against libyan people more than three hundred forty people have been killed in the battle for the capital since fighting started almost a month ago. we've got two correspondents on the story we've got seen them cause here lou she's our correspondent in istanbul first so let's go to the libyan capital tripoli and speak to my head mahmoud give us the very latest as to what's happened to these two men who they are and where we think they're being held.

well marty unearthed we learned that the two. men. are now kit grown our prison in the eastern city which is under the control of forces loyal to the warlords have been and by the way this is a very infamous prison some people here call it it's like a prison in in iraq and there are many people who have been imprisoned in there in. a horrible stories about torture and human rights violations there and there is no human rights organization has been able to reach prison have to his forces control. it and. they were captured by have to his forces on the twelfth of april and guess have been

a hold of tripoli when the air moved on the capital tripoli from the southern part and. accused them actually according to. media outlets they accuse the two workers at the restaurant workers the accuse them of are being spies which. to officers to officials denied and the also confirm that first of the officials confirming that the two men have no relation with the neither the government the government nor the turkish intelligence we know that this is not the first time nationals get detained or kidnapped in november two thousand and seventeen also three. engineers they were kidnapped in the south of libya and they were kept for like seven month before they were released now we know that have to have been

always accusing turkey of supporting groups. and the west of libya and the spokesman of have to his forces there general ominous mahdi has been accusing turkey in most of his press conferences he has been referring to turkey as a major supporter of the poor and opulence in the west of libya the military brigades led by the us government of national called in the west of libya the two. restaurant workers who are now kept in the east of libya and their families say that they have not heard from them since they were arrested and.