design a map to help him to try in their daily lives can you believe the danny. life and one final match the mountain. this is al jazeera. this is the juice from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes and unforgivable mistake you ranz president admits his military shot down the ukrainian killing 176 people on. a long time for promoting peace in an unstable region. the transition of power has been swift to boost 1000 has already been sworn in as the country's new ruler. and china watchers close to

the sofa governing island of taiwan chooses its new press. into the final of the tepee out straight. after days of denali iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all $176.00 people on board but ukraine's president says quote full admission of guilt and an official apology still require that the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from tehran on wednesday the sign not iran launched missiles at rocky bases housing u.s. troops we begin our coverage with this report from catalog.

iran has admitted its military unintentionally shot down this ukrainian plane killing all 176 people on board president hassan rouhani has described it as a great tragedy and unforgivable mistake iran's foreign minister to vets the reef express his condolences human error he wrote at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster i state a readiness the fact that everybody is expecting some sort of retaliation from the us that some low level operator sitting in a missile battery ole miss all blip and launched a missile at it. for days they ran deny responsibility but the u.s. and other western countries said they had evidence that proved otherwise canada says it's investigators are waiting for to iran to give them full access to date the iranians have issued to visas and we expect the other visas will be granted

soon so we can begin providing consular services help with the advent of fixation of the victims and obviously participate in the investigation. criticism was raised when debris from the wreckage was moved from the crash site possibly tainting evidence but now the attention may turn to a political fall out for random doing political things behind the scenes to say ok if we say it was unfortunate accident what are the repercussions going to be because by now they should be looking at the major pieces of wreckage they may well have x. rayed the bodies the announcement comes a day after a brand gave a ukrainian team access to the plane's black boxes evidence that could be crucial for putting together a timeline for this measure camembert from the 1st we planned to begin with a reconstruction of the conversations that took place before the crash we also have access to the dispatcher's records of the flight control center tehran airport and

our pilots. hours before the plane crashed in iran launched missiles targeting a u.s. military in iraq and iran's air defense forces were on high alert with international pressure mounting nato began to weigh in on the investigation. the accidental strike on the plane has now sparked an international investigation that could complicate regional tensions even further. to the young al jazeera ukrainian president thought of me as a lenski has posted on facebook saying iran has pleaded guilty to crushing the ukrainian plane but we insist on a full admission of guilt we expect from iran a syrian says of a readiness for a full and open investigation bringing those responsible to justice the return of the bodies of the dead the payment of compensation and official apologies through diplomatic channels well i said by joins us now from tehran what more are we

learning about how this accident took place. more of the investigation in responding to what we're hearing already from ukraine. well the general staff of the armed forces issued a statement this morning he said that there was a mistake that actually was an uranian a defense system missile that hit the crimean airplane now he says that it was because the airplane took a sharp an unexpected turn towards a revolutionary guard sensitive site and he said that it was human error and the condolences are with the family now we've also had president hassan rouhani issue a statement he said that the islamic republic is very sorry your apologizes to the families but you also said that there needs to be a thorough investigation and that about how this happened and those responsible

must be prosecuted and the public made aware there's also reports from. media that the supreme leader khamenei was made aware that it was a reigning miss other than the plane yesterday afternoon he convened a national security meeting and said that the people you ring in people should be made aware of what actually happened now also reporting the media's also reporting the president the president has and rouhani was expected to make a statement last night but that was delayed for some reason but there are many questions that are being grazed at the moment why were there so many denials and why is it now that iran has come forward to claim responsibility is it because the ukraine vesa gators are in iran and had discovered evidence that it was a missile people here are still very very upset and shocked that this has happened so just on that point people they're angry at what's happened and also

are they angry that they weren't informed early enough either. for the much so let me just take you through some of the denials that we heard yesterday we had the head of the aviation authority here in iran say that it was scientifically impossible and illogical that a missile had struck the airplane he said that was these were all false rumors we had a government spokesman say that this was psychological warfare that the united states and its friends were rubbing salt in the roots of the families of the victims we had the foreign ministry spokesman a bus mousavi say that the western media were engaging in suspicious propaganda so we had all these lines coming out from the government and now this seems to be a u. turn to say that actually iran is responsible and this is very embarrassing for iran inside iran and also internationally we've already had the ambassador the iranian ambassador to the united kingdom apologized to the u.k.

media he said yesterday to the u.k. media i conveyed the official findings of iran is that i apologize and regret for conveying such wrong findings incredibly embarrassing but also it was in 1988 that the united states navy shot down an iranian plane killing 290 people and just days ago president hassan rouhani tweeted donald trump reminding them of that fact and that and that incident is in the memory of many iranians and iran has reminded the united states and question them how they couldn't tell the difference between a military aircraft and a civilian aircraft now it seems like iran has made the same mistake. that also raises questions now given the timing of this about what this means for relations with the united states given the backdrop of everything we've seen over the past week or so. yes of course this this

incident took place just hours after iran launched the missiles towards u.s. targets inside iraq and that was a response to the assassination of general hossam so the money and questions here are being raised why did iran not close down the airspace why were flights not grounded but also. there's been increased tensions between the united states and iran and back in 1988 when the united states navy shut down during an airline that it kind of ended hostilities to a certain extent that crisis then and some people here that think that this could happen this could repeat itself because it was in the united states to shut down this airplane the iranians have been blaming western media and foreign governments for making up lies and actually the blame falls on the iranians and and this could deescalate matters in terms of a conflict between the united states and iran but in terms of the international

fall out it's incredibly embarrassing ukraine has already said that they want compensation and president rouhani has said that he's instructed government departments to compensate the victims so thank us a very joining us live there from tehran where rob reynolds is in washington d.c. he says iran's admission is likely to be met with a firm response from the u.s. . there will be some pretty vigorous pushback against any employee implying by the iranians that the u.s. was somehow culpable in the end for the shooting down of the airplane of course it was the assassination by a u.s. drone strike of a general qassam solo monny that brought the region into crisis and eventually brought about a response by iran firing missiles at us iraqi bases in iraq and then this tragedy unfolded we have not had any response here to our inquiries

for comment but in canada prime minister justin trudeau has issued a statement after saying 1st off that that the iranians had acknowledged that their armed forces brought down flight 752 mr truro said our focus remains closure accountability transparency and justice for the families of the loved ones of the victims this is a national tragedy and all canadians are mourning together we will continue working with our partners around the world to ensure a complete and thorough investigation and the prime minister says the canadian government expects full cooperation from iranian authorities. and we want to bring you some information that's just been coming in right now now of the general from the iran republican guard general of the house was right he has apologized to the

iranian nation and says that the iranian republican god accepts full responsibility for this incident the shooting down of that airliner of course $176.00 people killed in that crash site of the iranian republican guard apologizing to the iranian people and accepting for responsibility well he is a professor at the university of tehran he believes they will be fallout in iran over this crash. i think it's hugely embarrassing i mean a lot of uranium zork up today to the news that the army was responsible for the downing of the passenger airline i think a lot of iranians are now upset or sad and even perhaps angry. the new iranian army has said that the investigation took this long in the investigation is ongoing and nevertheless i think had they come out and said made this public earlier it would have been better in terms of the media war between

iran and the united states announcing it so late essentially has given the americans a a card to play against iran in the into war again for the international public opinion and i think even internally in iran this is going to have severe consequences the iranian government as well as the iranian army has said that this was an accident and it was the result of human error nevertheless i think a lot of uranium expect a full investigation and perhaps the proper prosecution of those responsible for this. grave error this is not something that can be swept under the rug iraq's prime minister is in the kurdish regional capital bill to discuss the withdrawal of foreign troops. he is holding talks with members of the regional government at the presidential palace iraq's parliament hill

a non-binding vote to expel all foreign forces after the assassination of iranian military commander customs on the money in baghdad last week. joins us now live from bill what more can you tell us about these talks. well these talks are underway but certainly they are quite important and yeah after remember that this is the 1st time the love them by the comes to the kurdish region and he's coming now in the capacity of a caretaker prime minister not a prime minister by these are difficult times and you do need the kurds on board you are mentioning this non-binding vote taken by the iraqi parliament but the kurds have completely abstained of that and they made it very clear that they are against any withdrawal of the coalition troops from this country they say that at the moment there is a resurgence of as if they have noticed that the borders of their region and

certainly now that custom silly money has gone who and he played a big role certainly at the beginning when they were when isis sort of stormed central iraq he take his tactics made a difference on the ground with the help of the. coalition forces from the sky and according to the kurds of from their point of view well if you remove all of that then iraq would be very vulnerable to every surges from isolate and that's a big concern for the kurds here and how to just on the question of vulnerability now the caretaker prime minister has made it clear throughout that this is a question of iraq's sovereignty but that the rises to the questions of where the riverwalk is capable of exercising that sovereignty whether the scope of meeting any potential threats without an american president presence and whether it's also able to maintain its integrity without iranian influence.

well certainly that is a big issue you know the prime minister caretaker prime minister is not only discussing the presence of the foreign troops here is also discussing the formation of a new government at the moment the kurds are not on board with any of the candidates put forward relations between the 2 sides have become very difficult they were never really good but lately ever since the sort of a referendum on independence that they could tell 2 years ago things have become much worse the kurds say we are not capable of securing our region let alone securing the rest of iraq coalition forces for them are not only a guarantee in the fight against isis but they're also a guarantee of their own that they keep their autonomous region as is if not they get more out of it this is a time word because again we'll be considered kingmakers in the future of iraq they are the 2nd bloc in parliament we mustn't forget that and at the moment they have

the sudanese with them and both of them are sort of stepping back saying no this vote that happened in parliament is a she have a vote they look at it also as a vote by the parties that are heavily back from iran not a sovereign vote and the rocky vote as they put it so they will certainly be holding back from supporting anything happening in baghdad at the moment even though their position is extremely important how to thank you for that. there was plenty more ahead on the news hour including. why the death of a journalist has led to a new leader for the nation of malta. africa's 1st narco state join us next as we follow an. operation inside the capital international airport. losing streak.

it is a day of dramatic transition in a few hours ago suit on taboos been side passed away he had reigned for nearly half a century and was the only leader most on bodies of even on long uncertainties surrounding the success of 2 couples who had no children and of a publicly named but as the day has unfolded the transition of power has been swift even as the country into 3 official days of mourning we begin with rob matheson who looks at the blues life and legacy. it was an only son born in 1942 a life of royal privilege and to a father he would overthrow 30 years later sort unco bourse was educated in oman and then at a private school in the u.k.

before graduating from sandhurst military academy and serving in the british army for several months on his return to a man in 1966 his determination to modernize his country is said to have been ignored by his father. 4 years later backed by the british sultan qaboos seize the throne he was immediately plunged into his 1st crisis an uprising by communists in though far in the south of a man who wanted independence it took a further 6 years before the fighting ended with the man being supported by forces from britain jordan and iran. are man's links with iran as well as its foreign policy of maintaining good relations with other neighboring countries have made it one of the main negotiators in the gulf that flexible foreign policy has been controversial in october 28th sort on caboose met israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the omani capital muscat the meeting dismayed critics who

said arab states should not be hosting israeli leaders until peace was established between israel and the palestinians a man's foreign minister said his country was simply facilitating efforts towards negotiations so it had rarely been seen in public since he went through lengthy medical treatment in germany in 2015 he was unmarried and had neither children nor siblings and he did not publicly name a successor. bin tariq alcide has pledged to maintain the light so towns policies of peace and non interfere. what a scene if. we remain guided by the late sultans wisdom going forward we will preserve and embark on the achievements he made this is what we are adamant to do to follow in his footsteps with respect to international relations we will follow in the same course set out by the late sultan we will embrace foreign policies

based on peaceful coexistence without any interference in domestic affairs of other states we will continue as we always did during the lifetime of sultan qaboos. well to discuss all of this i'm joined by which honors a car he's an assistant professor of gulf politics at the gulf studies center at katter university and our correspondent who has long covered computers and politics here in the gulf region and i should let me just ask you 1st of all of have this transition that we've seen play out today there was a lot of speculation will you on about who this is this would be it moved very quickly didn't very quickly it was swift and smooth to dispel international concerns about uncertainty and instability in one of the oldest dynasties in this part of the world the old that the longest running arab leader in the longest. has been in power since 970 but the choice fell on. them been part of what i think many reasons he comes from one of the most powerful clans within the us

a dynasty his brother for example. was one of the top advisors to. was widely seen as the most likely the guy to succeed him so he comes from a very established clan within the dynasty his and he was. he had the blessing of kabul and calvin's of course richard pryor was also a cousin and he has served in many parts for years in the past minister of. culture and heritage and culture he was in the missile foreign affairs and he was instrumental in putting together a vision 24 tenths of the crucial for the moment is because they have the the lesson they learned following the arab spring was basically that its oil and gas resources are dwindling how to move forward to do that you need to survive the economy to diversify the economy have to allow more tourists to a lot more so if you have to open up the society you're talking about uncharted territory who's going to be the man to do that so far i was decided my cousin. is likely to want to do it or come to the question of whether he's in fact up to that

job in just a moment with let's look at the life of sudan he took power from his father in a coup supported by the british was a very deep. a civil war a country that is unrecognizable today why did he feel he had to take that action against his father well. commonly accepted that he wanted to modernize the country and his father to wharton not in the mood for this kind of the limitation he was educated in the u.k. so he was more interested in making a country like the others in the state of the became more modern and more open to western technologies and when with certain kinds of investments and policies. he reach to power when the country was mainly divided there were different. fighting within the country there was this war war in the south so he needed to deal with the many challenges to make them on what is this car it's today it's one thing to

have a vision. it's another thing to be young and in pitch to think that you have the person deliver that but to be able to deliver that. is an extraordinary transformation to a country today that is unrecognisable from what it was when he well he got the support from different sources from external sources from internal sources the u.k. supported that other groups that really they supported his force he was able to use a combination of soft power to. eliminate the legitimacy of the the made to concentrate this for him he was able to also to the different ethnic groups. people from african origin that they all form part of a man making everybody to feel within their money their money nation. and he was able to see that this this but were the promise of this but was mainly

based on his own personality and this is one of the main challenges in the future is just a lot more to come back to discuss we'll be coming back and covering the story of course throughout. the hour and throughout our coverage throughout the day i will leave it there for now as i come back and discuss this again in future news bulletins i do want to bring you though so news that has just been coming in and that's from iran's revolutionary guard they're making a televised statement after today's admission by the government that the ukrainian airliner was shot down we're looking at this as it is happening right now this is brigadier general amir has our day now he's the commander of the revolutionary guard aerospace force because i have a little this and see what his son. so at 12. am they were deployed there and they were ready this is mom khomeini airport and when the plane takes off it's flying towards this direction and this is

where it was hit due to the information we got from this operator and this is a critical moment and our crews there are has been fired. so he have the responsibility to contact us this. about this but during those critical moments. his communication was somehow. stopped or distracted somehow he couldn't make contact he had 10 seconds to make a decision. he could. shoot down or he shouldn't unfortunately he made this wrong mistake. and. was fired and the airplane was a hit around this area and it was the flap plane landed here i would like to

mention a few points here. aviation. they were defending very well and they said that this was not due to. attack the plane didn't come down because of that they were. saying this but. saying this based on their information they did not know about this incident. wednesday friday this was reported to those responsible they told us they hit a target but they didn't know anything else about it immediately moved towards iran and i called those responsible. he said we i believe that we must have shut down an airplane so i

reported it and a team was formed to investigate this issue this incident so that those. who are involved they are. basically kept everything hiding we were not told to. leak or disclose anything to anyone but it took some time for this news to become. to be published in media. so anyway it was assessed on friday morning by friday morning all the information was gathered and it was player that what the issue was about 10 then. following that the. general

staff. so i reported it to the authorities i soon as possible and they. should have assessed. the situation and incident. and our dare. those in every nation who were denying they were saying this based on their findings and i repeat that they are not to blame it's us who are to blame the airplane was on its way it did not have any error and no mistake everyone worked where he well efficiently it was who made the mistake. and we are responsible we should accept responsibility and accountability basically after that assessment of friends came and.

disclosed this information. but they are not military personnel they based on the experience they had. so the plane was. shot and very. not on every. so this was a very small. so. that's why the airplane had the time to not to land sort of and crash it did not explode straight away so those they were not i were i didn't know to defend them. so our military forces neither. i or j it was

a very about that but we had regretful and we also. are in pain and we share their pain for those families who lost their loved ones so. basically this happened due to the heene years activities of america that that night we were ready to confront and anyway there was a prediction that anything could have happened because there were so many airplanes and there are some aircraft fighter jets and there was a possibility for missiles to fire that so we were already. into a toilet but unfortunately based on a very. small decision made by some individual

this tragedy happened i have a question for you. wouldn't it be possible. due to the fact that we were. shooting. wasn't it possible that for a few hours that countries like the air as you said. could have been cleared wasn't it possible. passenger aircraft could have been halted flights could have been halted. i'm not blaming anyone but those are who are responsible they should. carry out an investigation and they will do that and find out but in my view when it's critical in the situation and things like this well. now

there was no problem as far as the aviation was concerned it's the. defense forces this has our fault and we accept. we take full liability and no one else has any responsibility or they are to blame. but it was not our duty and they should have managed this. at those who are ordering the missile strikes so there were other friends who were responsible for this which they should have done but unfortunately this individual made this mistake and which led to this. tragic incident.

yes we seem to have lost that line there we've been hearing from the iranian revolutionary guard brigadier general amir. zardari he was very clear in saying that the fault here is the fault of the military it is the iranian republican guards fault it excepts in his words full responsibility and there will be full accountability you have remember earlier iran had denied that in fact this plane the plane had been brought down by a missile it was denying that now the general says that dinar came from the department of aviation that he says are not to blame it is the fault of the republican guard and the republican god alone is going to join us now from tehran to talk more about this slowly we hearing more and more information coming out we were just hearing there from general hajizada saying it appears to have been a small misawa that struck the plane which is why it was i would to try to land and

did not explode immediately and also significantly excepting for responsibility how is this going to be received in iraq. well that's difficult to tell them simply because there were so many days that the government continued to deny that it was iran that brought down the plane out this morning we did hear from the general of the armed forces to say that it was a missile that it was a mistake that it was human error and the revolutionary guard had been told that they must go into state t.v. and explain to the people what had happened that's what's happened here is come he said that there are regretful that they're sorry and they accept full blame but just to run you some through some of the details that he some of the things that he said he said that i wish i was dead and such an incident hadn't taken place he said that these revolutionary guard accept all responsibility and are ready to implement implement any decision made by the establishment he said that they had asked for

a no fly zone considering the circumstances of iran striking u.s. targets in iraq just a few hours before but that wasn't approved for some reason he said that the air defense sent a message to the plane but after it didn't receive a response for 10 seconds it decided to shoot the. which is we have heard this before this is new information we didn't hear this from the previous spokespeople we did hear this from the general of the armed forces this is that revolutionary guard telling the iranian people more details about how this plane was brought down the air defense operator had been told a cruise missile had been fired at iran he has mistaken the passenger plane with a cruise missile and after his message to the plane was not answered probably over communications he shouted no this is shocking information

because he because he was asked i believe by a reporter was an easier just to ground all claims it was an easier just to close the airspace over iran over the whole. and around the civilian aircraft considering that iran was there was a there was a chance that the united states could retaliate against the airstrikes this trust iran had carried out but the head of the judiciary here has asked 'd as you know i'm sorry us want to stop you there because we do have that line back now to iran if you could stay they will come back to you but let's have a listen again to brigadier general amir just. take action there were certain officials who had abandoned quad to take access. to the west of the country taking this possibility of the operation targeted to words targeting certain objects. other officers were at that point responsible for taking

such action and handing down the destruction it's. now we seem to have lost it once again as you can understand that we understand that that is the typed message and we were listening to it in real time and just to wonder long once again the iranian republican guard accepting full responsibility for what happened let's go back to west a bug and i said you were running through for us before we went back to tehran you were running through for us the the number of errors that seem to have taken place here it wasn't just one there were multiple failures here that led to this plane being shot down. yes absolutely the there was the fact that the airspace over iran was not close it was a fact that the civilian aircraft were not grounded. in the military the individual who shot the missile was told that there was

a miss cruise missile coming towards iran the operator contacted the airplane and didn't receive a response according to the commander for 10 seconds and that's why he shut the missiles now this again does not explain why iran continued to deny this for a number of days and only now that information is coming out we heard from government spokespeople calling what the united states was saying yes lies the said that western media engaging in suspicious propaganda you had the head of the aviation authority here in iran say that it was scientifically impossible and illogical that this plane was brought down by a missile that this iran could have come out now because they've only just found out or it could be that because of the ukrainian investigators on the ground and the videos out on social media and being reported by international media that they thought that it would get out sooner or later so it's best to own this mistake but there is

a lot of anger here in iran there's people that want accountability and they want this people that want justice said thank you for that as a bug joining us starve there from tehran and once again just repeating what we've been hearing out of iran from general hodges our day who is from the iranian republican guard same very explicitly that the republican guard excepts for responsibility and critically full accountability for shooting down this plane and 176 people killed aboard that aircraft saying it was struck by a misako and there were multiple layers of confusion and misinformation that led up to that moment of course the investigation is continuing and the rest of the world is white in particular those countries to break the involved waiting to see what further response we get from iran we'll start with the story of course here on al-jazeera. vote counting is now underway in taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections the election is seen as a choice between moving closer to china or continuing to resist by jeanne's push

for reunification opinion polls suggest that president tying win who's pro independence he's likely to win a 2nd term but scott highlight is live outside and sighing winds democratic progressive bodies headquarters in taipei and scott watching on very closely is by jeanne give us a sense of the mood that you will picking up there on the streets today i can see people behind you why having banners and flags. all the mood right here or even the ruling party had it wanes they have had orders and you can hear they know she's behind me what's been going on for the last at least i'd say 90 minutes we've been here and that is they're slowly trickling out exit polls that the party is really she you know again these are no official numbers coming out from the election commission right like that but there are now based on exit polling kind of the tally as we go forward no sign when the end the d.p.p.

won the presidential election that 4 years ago with about just under 7000000 votes right now they are saying they have about 4000000 votes and the opposition has almost 3000000 votes so obviously there's a sizable lead that's why the crowd here is so very happy but again we're far from happy for me to know that exactly where we're going to be going tonight but obviously if you take in the crowd their enthusiasm yeah and scott the group will stay with you of course a lot of noise there behind you but i think what's really important here is to reflect on what we're seeing in taiwan in the mood there set against what we've seen in hong kong and the resistance in taiwan to food the encroachment by beijing . oh absolutely no that is you know that this election has been cooling as a referendum on the stance taiwan takes. with china now something that's quite interesting the party of the p.b.r. was really struggling just a year ago when. she was even being counted by some of the senior party members who

are now one of the election then china's reaction crack down to those. protesters at the moment that change the tide that she's a lot of the rhetoric. why we're seeing such strong support for the you can't go into this election day they were favored and so far right now it. yeah we've we've lost scott there are obviously a very very loud where he is at the progressive bodies headquarters in the scott was reporting there above that d. and that the progressive party has opened up a lead a significant lead of the opposition party there in this presidential election that as he said he's very much a referendum on the increasing influence of beijing and potential reunification with china the progressive party favoring more independent groups. well the verdict has been delivered in guinea in the trial of 12 people charged for smuggling 2 tons

of cocaine last year the biggest hole in the nation's history the cases highlighted the tiny west african country has become an international hub for drug trafficking nicolas sarkozy joined an anti narcotics operation at the airport in the capital. acting on a tip off from brazil's anti narcotics officers as police believe pounce injuries on board this flight from lisbon are smuggling cocaine detectives believe or com and his team are looking for 3 individuals one of them is this man wearing a yellow jersey again in national from who lives in the brazilian city of south paulo he doesn't know it yet but he's about to be pulled aside for questioning. where you coming from are you carrying anything illicit drugs who are you visiting here where are you staying detective is already building his case this was going to sell these are the product of this noise because the people who smuggle drugs are often vulnerable and from paul backgrounds but they're not stupid they know it's

illegal and there are consequences to their actions but only the not the police and as you take sarah lives in sao paulo working in maintenance and earning $256.00 a month he says he's here to visit his family but the police believes he's hiding something so they ousted check his luggage. this is where most seizures take place at the airport and it's often over small quantities just a few grams of cocaine could lead the person that's being stopped 10 to 15 years in prison but most cases go unprosecuted. the united states drugs in foresman agency says guinea bissau is turning into what it calls a narco state the qs is latin american drug traffickers of bribing state officials to let cocaine destined to europe transit through the country and into the hell region where armed groups use the drugs to fund their fighting $75000000.00 worth of cocaine was seized last year some of it hidden in cat food fast this is

a war it's a threat to our country and to the region the traffic is a well organized and well financed it's difficult to fight them as investigators go through take serra's bag a bundle of drugs is found after urine test pick sarah admits to having swallowed 18 packets of drugs $5000.00 worth of cocaine lays in his stomach not the slightest doubt will be for the i'm not scared i'm doing this for my family i'll be freed. taken into detention at the police station take sarah stripped and searched now under arrest he risks decades in prison yet he seems calm he says this is not his 1st offense has been set free before. the powerful drug cartels are looking after him nicholas hard al jazeera is now where protesters in mali have gathered in the capital but marco demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops they want french

military and united nations forces to leave the country for failing to stop bollards thousands of going to the fighting that has spread to neighboring between the faso and news year france is due to host a summit on monday to discuss instability in west africa's region. it's uneasy in parliament has rejected the government of prime minister designate her generally political parties to field ministerial positions despite negotiations that lasted for months the president now has 10 days to choose a new prime minister the nominee will have to form a government that's acceptable to the legislature motor's governing party is voting to choose a new leader to replace prime minister joseph muscat he announced his resignation last month after his chief of staff was implicated in the murder of journalist daphne koller wanna go this year leave barca reports from the capital they had or it is forever summer in baltar but

a shadow looms over the mediterranean island allegations of crime and corruption in big business and high office and now people want change. journalist a blogger daphne quranic elisir delved deep and ended up dead killed by a car bomb in 2017 near her home her son matthew heard the blast when my model of the house and if you heard the last i knew straight away that this was a problem so i ran out of the how. i saw the fire i saw the smoke. was absolutely nothing else with a bit of. this criminal organization has think single lever of the state and this is using it to fire off my mother as though she were our country's greatest enemy. 3 men arrested in connection with the murder awaiting trial last november 1 of multis richest businessman you can fenech was arrested and charged

with being an accomplice to the killing he denies involvement fenech implicated the multis prime minister's chief of staff keith schembri as a coconspirator schembri was interrogated by police and released without charge he later resigned. revelations led to rare protests demanding prime minister joseph muskrat's immediate resignation many think his office had a hand in the journalist death. primness which must got bowed to public pressure and step down kick starting a race to replace him former health minister chris furness the clear favorite for a few expect he'll be able to cure voltar of its political ills i don't think there will be overnight change with regards to all structural issues i think the new leader which will be eventually been your prime minister of morals are. alone or will not be able and i don't i don't think there is even the will to change all this. in

a final address to supporters on friday joseph muscat says he took the decision to resign for unity to win over hate recent scandals have led to a political awakening here and also the my protest against the labor party yes sure it remains really huge and enthusiastic and may suppose there is a myth that most i have something like the image crisis on a global stage the question is was the change of leader will really make a difference in the european union's watching the crisis in its smallest member state closely it's accused baltar of allowing dirty money to flow into europe using the island as a back door multitude lose e.u. voting rights if its next leader doesn't bring crime under control neve park al-jazeera the letter. well still ahead in sport we'll show you how tennis is latest team tournament is proving a smash you as a 75 turn up the heat. when

investigating crime an admission of guilt is the ultimate corroboration. or is it there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit witness explores the shocking phenomenon of people incriminating themselves the person who falsely contrast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior false confessions on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation but i use the term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions how unique a low budget is this in terms of modern american history when it comes to racism you have the makings of a neo fascist mold international filmmakers and world class journalists bringing programmers to inspire you. on al-jazeera.

bloodsport well he's joined them thank you very much novak djokovic has at the serbians to the final of tennis is a.t.p. cup in australia the world number 2 is up against russia's daniel medvedev in his team's semi final time with just some layoffs having only one note up which found himself a breakdown in the 2nd set that wasn't the only thing to get broken is taking out his frustrations on his racquets. but boyd by a boisterous pro serbia crowded sydney who fought back in the 3rd set this is just

one of many brilliant rallies between the 2 thanks. joe british clinch the decider and with it a place in the inaugural final of this competition serbia will now play the winners of the other semi between australia and spain which is currently underway in spain that won one. period soccer's preparations for the australian open have hit something of a bomb the grand slam champion was knocked out of the brisbane open by titleholder carolina pliska the czechs saved a match point in the 2nd set and came back to beat a sock and 3 it ends the japanese players biggest 3 a winning streak for team victory. over new zealand top seed serena williams has reached the final of the a.s.b. classic in auckland she took just 45 minutes to be 18 year old amanda and the same over who wasn't born when williams won the 1st of 23 grand slam titles so you serina will play just a couple good luck for the time. le bron james helped the l.a.

lakers to their 7th straight win on friday. as they sit pretty at the top of the n.b.a.'s western conference it's not been looking so good for the brooklyn nets though they lost 7 straight as they took on the miami heat for a 2nd in the east miami were leading in the 3rd when spencer did when he began to get brooklyn on a roll the andre jordan finishing his al you did when he had a career best 16 assists to help his team out of their ruts nets winning this 117 to 113. that result means that miami from further behind the bucs in the eastern standings the strongest one vs the parts took an 18 point lead against the sacramento kings the kings did fight back to within a point but this was in vain works when bucs win 127 to 100 and. kenyan athletics has been hit by more doping allegations former marathon record holder wilson kipsang has been suspended from all competitions for breaking doping

rules yet its integrity unit has charged the 2 time london marathon champion the tampering with samples and failing to tell thora to ease his whereabouts kipsang is the latest high profile athlete from his country to fall foul of doping rules last month kenya said it's considering imposing criminal penalties on athletes caught doping. there are 3 matches in the italian set out on saturday's intimate and try to extend their lead over champions eventis at the top their city rivals are hoping for a 1st goal from swedish veteran slots an abraham of it on his return to the club ac haven't scored in 3 games and will try to move up out of 12 place when they travel to calgary the 38 year old brain which helps milan to their last title all the way back in 2011 english premier league leaders liverpool faced tottenham on saturday liverpool manager you can call it needed a google search after being asked who he thought had been the best a footballer out of him and spurs boss in your top played in germany 2nd division

or marino was just a semi pro. i don't know actually did talk to play there was a goalkeeper. does anybody know what was it morning already did you play come on the i want to know it i'll come away to google it now we have time. i have time. and the. story has it. all marine here has more in his mind than crops gibes not only is he without striking hurricane until april is being followed about by a documentary team that started filming when his predecessor pitino was still in the job. the cameras i feel because they're going to be in on my face. when i walk on the tunnel looking really on my face even before the game finished the companies on my face you guys there's this 24 hours for the. only when i go to the toilet they're not going with me part of their they're always. the world's oldest

professional footballer has just extended his contract for 35th season as a yoshimi euro who will turn 53 in february signed a new contract with yokohama f.c. on saturday after the team secured promotion to the top flight king can say as he's known played in just 3 matches last season but he still ready to play for the team when they call him up and a wild encounter between the pittsburgh penguins in the colorado avalanche was decided in overtime in denver colorado were celebrating a freak moment on friday when gabriel mendez called the park goal woods and court penguins goalie matt murray flat footed 21 to colorado at this point it was 33 after regulation before jared macand to a more direct route to goal for pittsburgh the 2nd in the metro division. all right that is useful for now i have to feel a to stand. and joe thank you for that that's it for this news out of back in just months i will bore the day's news.

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in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children. over 20 years. where insights into circumstances that shaped lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of mean starts with blogs and land to build a story on how to 0. displaced children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sick tarion violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence 10 year olds his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is a least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of 23000 people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions

and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. iran's revolutionary guards accept responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian airline that killed a 176 people. are you watching al-jazeera live from our global headquarters in doha and fully back t. ball also coming up more insult on cobbles sudden long time ruler known for promoting peace in an unstable region the transition of power has been swift oman's new want to missis to continue his make cars and spout off because last. time

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