or if you junk food is life it's not. sure 7 days in the. analogy 0. this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes libya's prime minister and warlord aletha hafter a both in moscow raising hopes for a political settlement to the country's conflict. in iran more rallies against the government over the shooting down of a ukrainian airliner. tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in the philippines as tal volcano spews ash and lava. we look at what's at stake as

france prepares to host african leaders grappling with a dramatic surge in violence in the so he'll reach. i'm paul race with the sport the corruption trial of former world athletics chief starts in paris with the 86 year old facing up to 10 years in jail. the leaders of libya's warring sides have arrived in russia's capital for talks after a cease fire came into force there's no suggestion list yet that warlord relief or hafter and the prime minister of the un recognized government fires are also ross will meet but the development is right he hopes the path to ending years of civil conflict international diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have stepped up in recent weeks a truce brokered by turkey and russia came into force on sunday. now libya has been

torn apart by conflict since long time ruler moammar gadhafi was overthrown in 2011 it's divided between militia groups which mostly backed through rival governments the u.n. . ignaz the ministration led by prime minister. is based in tripoli it's supported by turkey and most western nations including italy which is worried the fighting in the tripoli will force more people to cross the mediterranean in the east is the true brooke based government that's the center of power for war the word holy for half that he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support to his forces we have 3 correspondents covering this story mahmoud head is in tripoli jamal sayao is in the turkish capital ankara 1st we go to vasant in moscow and step joins us live now take a shrewd what is expected from these talks that. we seem to republish that they would come back to in just

a moment jamal ohio is standing by live for us in the turkish capital ankara we want tougher too much of what step up we get to here jamal but i do want to look at how this conflict has drawn in so many other powers and it's become very much a proxy conflict for regional powers and also international pals. for sure. the way things have unfolded over the past year especially with the conflict becoming a lot more militarized by the presence of different militia as well as weapons being flooded in from as you mentioned there france russia and other countries the united arab emirates and so forth has meant that those who see their national security and their foreign policy interests are aligned with some sort of stability or a specific outcome in libya have been forced to be a lot more active another forefront of that has been turkey turkey see is that with libya that it enjoys a maritime border that sees that there is

a lot of interest there not just in terms of security in establishing security there but also in terms of national resources and exploration for natural resources in the mediterranean sea and that's why we've had those agreements signed between un korea and tripoli over the past couple of months not just with regards to mutual defense but also with regards to that peroration of oil and gas extraction from the sea but circuits also interested in interested ensuring that there is some sort of pluralism within the political discourse that continues to evolve in the middle east prior to turkey playing that more forefront of a role you had essentially some arab countries that were maybe closely aligned to the u.s. foreign policy namely the united arab emirates saudi egypt there were a lot more intent on ensuring that their war specific or thorough tarion governments that continue to exist post the 2011 arab spring and on the other hand

you had iran and its influences through its proxies bits and lebanon yemen or other countries there was a missing dimension many amongst the arab streets would have felt with regards to having a representation for those who neither wanted to be part of the shia are blocked or wanted to be part of the sunni bloc that was more in favor of those military governments and that's where turkey has essentially. stepped in but it does have its own interests that it wants to pursue with regards to economic issues but also looking at the fact of as you mentioned there were talking about italy in the stream of refugees and migrants maybe leaving because of conflicts a lot of them also do poor through turkey and that's something that is how this impact on it's all turkey's working at this from many different angles to your political. and from security perspectives as well it's about thank you let's go to . who's going to join us live from tripoli can you give us a sense of how this is playing out on the ground concerns that the cease fire

itself may have been for a. while it's been very quiet on the front lines with the exception of the deployment and regrouping by half the us forces in many axes and southern tripoli that's according to military commanders with a government of national accord but other than that there hasn't been any fighting since yesterday since have those forces killed a pro-government fighter in a neighborhood which the government considered a breach of the seas fire call also military commanders on the ground along with their institutions of government government institutions including the villages indulgent. institution in the west of libya activists political parties they have all one condition for the government of national accord in these negotiations that it should stick to the condition of demanding that health status forces must

pull out from southern tripoli as a main prerequisite for any peace talks would have to as you know stand out to build trust between the rival factions that. may take a long time and efforts because many people here do not trust have to. the question remains whether or not these peace negotiations or how to control his allies as you know that he has been promising his allies inside libya including the remnants of the former regime who have been fighting along with his forces that they would be part of his regime in case he takes control of the country but the question again remains whether or not these negotiations will stop how bishan is of imposing a military rule in the country stan mahmud thank you. there live from tripoli we go back to vassar now who is in moscow and if you can give us an overview what these

talks will be focusing on and whether in fact we will see her before have to at the libyan prime minister actually come face to face. well stan that's the main question of today as confirmed by the ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman on facebook both have for and to russia are actually inside the ministry right now there is a meeting going on already between the ministers of foreign affairs and defense of both russia and turkey and she rode that eventually those 2 leaders that libya will be attending this same meeting we're still waiting to hear from that at the meeting where expecting negotiations about a cease fire which was brokered between russia and turkey in istanbul last week and they hope to have a signature under this cease fire at the end of these it's also said that witnesses

from the united arab emirates and from egypt will be attending this meeting as well so it's very interesting that turkey and russia are now brokering this said this peace deal in libya and also interesting to see how fast to me put it has become one of the main peace brokers here in this libyan conflict after also being a main peace broker in syria step thank you so 1st joining us live from moscow. now to iran where a government spokesman has dismissed u.s. president donald trump's support of the iranian people as fake trump was tweeting in support of protests which are broken out in iran after to ron admitted its military mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner last week. or even when the people were mourning trump crocodile tears and tweeted in farsi to the people of iran. will not forget that this is the same person who after killing one of the most important commanders in iran also 3 said that he would have taken 52 locations it's going to us about now

who's live for us ron tell us more about what the government spokesperson has been signed. well i mean ruby was not his normal confident self today at times he was nervous that times his voice was shaking he expressed sorrow for the victims of the plane crash he said that he actually apologized and he said that it wasn't a cover up and the government was not lying he said that we need public trust and sympathy he went on to say that on one hand you have this heightened level of tension with donald trump threatening to target $52.00 sites in iran and then we had events of that night where iran had talked to u.s. assets u.s. targets inside iraq so there were a heightened level of threat he said that we were told that there was no missile involved now let me take you back to what ali ruby had said days after the pain accuse the united states of line he said that the united states and its friends

were knowingly or unknowingly rubbing salt in the rooms of the families of the victims now he was very remorseful today he said that the government and its officials including the presidency didn't know that the missile was involved until around friday afternoon after the investigation by the general stuff of the armed forces of that investigation that report was presented to the supreme national security council and then to the presidency and that's when they released a new cd apologized to the media and the iranian people and he said that the government was stuck in a vicious cycle of misinformation and a lack of communication and he said that we need reform in our communication structures because right now iraqi people that are angry frustrated and then and the morning because they want to know why this took so long why there were so many denials was it the case that the military was not communicating to the civil authorities or was it a case of a cover up bus farce the government is concerned this wasn't a cover up was just

a lack of communication between the military and the civil authorities but is very clear not to blame any organization especially the revolutionary guard said you talk about the anger of people and we're still seeing that on the streets what are the protesters are asking for in terms of accountability and tell us about those rival protests to outside the british embassy. yes so there have been protests over the last few days that has been angry chants some anti government some anti revolutionary guard but he said. that the people have a right to protest we understand that they are angry and that they are mourning he said that we have told police and security services to show restraint he said but he said that some people are deliberately trying to escalate the matter and trying to. force a confrontation with the police now the iranians are also upset at the british ambassador he was briefly detained at one of the vigils or protests the other day

from the iranian perspective this was an unknown foreigner that had attended a vigil not a vigil organized by the government or diplomats the invited to this was organized over social media now he said that the british ambassador's actions were unprofessional and diplomatic and he actually warned the british to stay away from the internal affairs of iran he said that britain has a long history of interfering in iran now if i may just give a brief history lesson about this issue because back in 1953 there was a cia and british backed coup against the then democratically elected prime minister mohammed mosaddeq who had nationalized oil industry and even the b.b.c. has admitted at the time that they had broadcast propaganda inside iran and even the code word for the initiation of that military coup was broadcast over the b.b.c. a fact that iranians have not forgotten and that's why we see this outpouring of

anger outside the british embassy against the british and he said that the britain should just because of that reason should refrain from commenting or getting involved in the internal affairs of iran so thank you for that joining us live from tehran. there's plenty more ahead on the new saudi including on the lookout in the mountains of northern iraq where i so find his remains on the run. also the road in greece which is littered with dangerous for asylum seekers seeking escape. in sport 42 year old vince tata box a decade at number 4 in the n.b.a. but the school display against his old saying poor but more of that might. tell you to walk to the philippines is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee the highlands tal volcano in targets i about 70 kilometers south of the capital manila started spewing ash and lava on sunday night 1000 people have already been

evacuated from the island on which the volcano sits with thousands more leaving toadstool towns to mellow out in dargon has more now from talisa. we are in but on this province about 16 kilometers from out of ok no the roads are slippery this is a very difficult journey for those who are trying to flee evacuation this started as early as sunday afternoon and thousands have already fled the priority according to the government is to secure those within the 14 kilometer range of out ok no. police a problem for me therefore your funny little boy in all. of this this try sicko. is an entire family. from

police site they have been trying to evacuated since sunday afternoon we're seeing vehicles cars full of family members those who have tried their very best to bring whatever they can of their belongings. this year has declared 3 days of mourning over the deaths of $89.00 soldiers in an attack on the base it happened on thursday near the border with mali it's the latest incident in african seville region which is becoming increasingly violent so here leaders will meet france's president emmanuel macron in power in the south west on monday to decide on the future of the french military presence there after the dress joins us now live from the un that the capital of nazir tell us a little bit more about this meeting and what the expectations are. well basically this meeting with shuttle towards last year but because of the

attack in new. are along the border with mali that killed the $71.00 soyuz last year that we so the french president postponed it and total this year generally prick to be precise and that's why. they say held 5 countries of the. heading to now the expectation of the lead is that the french will play a more active role to bring to an end cut to a better minimum these attacks that have been on the increase in the last 2 years the violence in the saddle has tried not only from mali where most of the attacks are coming from but to countries like nis yeah which already was facing it all problems with that spilled over from nigeria with which until 3 or 4 years ago was some kind of an island of stability in west africa and into countries like chad and other neighboring countries where we've seen these armed fighters growing more and

more bold the targeting military positions specially and in the process displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians in addition to the millions of civilians needing help in terms of food in terms of shelter in the region in the region as well as the lake chad region already there are more than. 2.72.5000000 people who have been either displeased or needing food and shelter sisters in the region of wood thank you for that our creditors joining us live there let's discuss this further now with maureen biggie who's the regional director for the central and west africa regional office of the norwegian refugee council she joins us by skype from dhaka i want to talk as well about the humanitarian crisis we're seeing unfolding in this region but let's just look immediately at the threats from these groups and what is needed to make that we have this museum we know that france is playing a very strong role there is already a strong international presence there but we're still seeing increasing number of

attacks and increasing strength among these groups why is that it is true that we have seen quite an investment in the military response across the show helped however as you mentioned we are still seeing a negative impact on the population. hundreds of thousands of families have been forced to flee this is not only this is due to many causes including the impact of military operations just isn't as an example and mali and 2019 our teams and other teams on the ground when we are assisting families who've been forced to flee we ask them what is the cause and one 3rd of those families said they've been forced to flee because of military operation and we need to recognize that these military operations have humanitarian consequences as well they do indeed and part of the reason that we're seeing a strengthening of these groups or we're seeing a persistence of these attacks is because of the weakness of the governments in the countries here that are involved particularly in remote areas that requires a

a multifaceted response doesn't it more than just a military one. absolutely yes there is a need for urgent humanitarian response and burkina faso we've seen a 500 percent increase of the number of people forced to flee their homes last year but there's also a need for a longer term development response in areas including rural areas across the country basic services need to be provided to the populations and what about the requirement of the international community to be involved in that if it and let's remove remember. it is difficult sometimes to reach these groups and to provide the sort of relief that is required is not. absolutely and the employer of the problem across the state how has reached an unprecedented level so there is really a need for all stakeholders to be involved my organization as well as many other

n.g.o.s we spend a considerable amount of time in negotiating access and ensuring that we can reach the most vulnerable people in the hardest to reach area. and more and is it also not the case and i've heard others speak to this that in some of the more remote areas where the various groups that we're talking about the insurgent groups have a real stronghold they are actually better at providing some of the much needed assistance than than the national governments. i mean from a humanitarian point of view our main concern is that vulnerable families particularly women and children have access to their basic needs this means a safe place to sleep just means food just means that basic supplies in order to prepare that food and that kids can continue to receive access to education more and bigger it's good to have you on the program discussing what was a very important a very dramatic situation facing something many people in that part of the world

thank you so much thank you very much. 4 iraqi soldiers have been injured after rockets were fired at balad air base on sunday night the facility north of baghdad also hosts american forces it comes amid heightened tensions between the u.s. and iran and the iraqi parliament now wants to expel all foreign troops but in the kurdish region of northern iraq you're a few years any withdrawal could lead to a resurgence in i saw. reports these rugged and bear in mountain have become or how i still sleeper cells about 250 fighters are estimated to be hiding here including some foreign fighters who crossed back from syria there you know after. what happened here in venice should you have too many foreigners reference the. we on the mountain the. once under control of myself and natural

protective boundary that overlooks the vast territory claimed by both iraq and the kurds residents of the kurdish peshmerga. fighters. the mountain ridge is a territory for sleeper cells to lay low kurdish officials say the fighters have dug a network of tunnels to connect some of them and are taking advantage of a security vacuum. eisel as a terrorist organization is not finished but it's changing its way of operating at last territory and now it's organized in small cells on the move in 2018 there were $456.00 attacks and 1242 killed 2900 there were 238 attacks and 1058 casualties and it continues. they happen mainly induced so-called disputed territories

a vulnerable belt along the borders of the kurdish region the kurds are against the withdrawal of foreign troops they have boycotted the non-binding vote held by iraq's parliament currently. we think this decision was one of emotion rather than logic it was hastily taken there are realities on the ground there are financial security issues that have to be taken into account i don't think pressure from sears and political parties in iraq or the killing of custom soleimani and abu mahdi army 100 were strong enough reason for the vote to take place in joint operations are key to prevent i said from regrouping here one carried out in the hand remount is near kirkuk days before the assassination of qassam soliman forces under his command have also played a key role in the fight against isis sincerely manny's death the fight against eisel continues but at a slower pace kurds and those living in places like chalk and behold fear that i

still could take advantage to strengthen its foothold on the area once again that had me in northern iraq. it is time for the weather now he's rolled and his seems all to that we should be talking about rain smashing his father which is effectively mostly desert but rain we are talking about it caused flooding over the weekend all the way from counsel down towards oman and then more recently in pakistan but it's turned a little bit nasty in that to be quite honest in pakistan it wasn't just rain it was also starting block this time particularly and question is what we're looking at here now it was freezing and they do get skin snow they get snow every year but the amount that fell in this short time was enough to cause death is faulty i think so far reported it's a sudden change in the course conditions are not very good when they change that quickly in actual fact we got a meter of snow but it fell in about 24 hours so this event hasn't told nor this depth in recorded for about 20 years this is because it's hardly ground for much of

pakistan the story has been of rain and for the rest of the day it is still rain for the eastern side of pakistan of course when the ground rises in the north in kashmir we're seeing mostly snow already in islamabad has been over 30 millimeters was half of what you might expect for a whole month or so this last a day for took you know 24 hours it's gone again and we have a dries up that probably isn't the end of it given this winter's reputation very little rain so far for the whole area expect to see more stuff thank you for that rob still ahead on. sounding the alarm in sudan how the government is making headlines by shutting down newspapers then we take a closer look at the toll the astroid in fires have had on the country's most vulnerable inhabitants. the world's top badminton player into a motor is injured in a road accident the cuties drive the poor will have those details in spain.

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a bomb to the lodge and they were ready to detonate it beyond the war part 2 on al jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories this hour the leaders of libya's war in sides are in the russian capital for talks that's off to a 6 by time into force of the weekend it's not done yet where the problem is the firehouse raj and the war to leave will actually nato. has been a 2nd day of protests in iran of the government admitted its military mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner last week to bring 176 people demonstrate to something defying

a heavy police presence in the capital tehran. of all tending to rocks in the philippines is forcing tens of thousands of people flee their homes 8000 people have already been evacuated from the island of talisay with the volcano sits with thousands more leaving coastal towns. let's go back now to our top story this hour libya's warring sides in russia for talks something handy is the editor in chief of the international interest a current affairs and alice's magazine which focuses on the middle east and he joins us live from london good to have you with us let me just ask you right off the top how much you expect to come out of this matey. 1st of all i think russia got exactly what it wanted this was precisely what russia wanted with its involvement in libya it wanted to show power it wanted to show that it can be a viable viable power broker it wanted to repeat the syria process in libya whereby it might not be allies is the syria talks in a stand and now it wants to monopolize this that libyan talks with turkey in moscow

whether we will see genuine traction with regards to these talks i think this time yes we will i think that have to it will be hard pressed to listen to the russians you will he will have to this is what the russians a say to him because they are the power that allowed him to make all those gains within tripoli we have to remember that for 8 months despite u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and france back after he was struggling to get into tripoli it was only when the vegan a group when russia allowed its messages to help him that he actually made the advances for several hours he has to listen to the talks because he has no allies left except techie he went to brussels a few days ago to speak to the e.u. leaders hoping that they would be able to host negotiations hoping they would empathise with him but all they were focused on was the deals that you made with turkey essentially he came back from brussels a very disappointed so now you know it already has a techie tech is going to push him to make sure that these negotiations succeed and russia will push after to make sure these negotiations succeed and i think these

will be far more fruitful negotiations than any to go she has that have taken place before in europe when you talk about successful negotiations it does lead to the question of what a successful outcome actually looks like we know that the the reality on the ground has changed particularly in recent weeks because of the advance of have to us forces but how do you see a settlement is there power sharing is it is a divided geographically and how what does a settlement look like. a settlement looks like a new government a transitional government that will lead to elections in in a few years that's what a successful transition looks like a successful negotiations the problem now here is the e.u. the e.u. have been shafted by russia and turkey turkey is trying to divide the e.u. by inviting the italian foreign minister to uncle italy is very upset with the way france has conducted itself france is trying to back after them wholeheartedly e.u.

feels it's been shafted the only way the e.u. can rescue itself in libya is by removing saddam not necessarily by half that but by empowering other militias whether that's misurata as in 10 'd whether it's individual militias within tripoli to try to get settlers replaced and to bring somebody in who would rescind those turkish agreements in other words the e.u. now it didn't or could position where it could be the prime party that scuppers any potential settlement or potential negotiations but the in terms of the settler that i expect that will come out in the future the from russia or from from the e.u. would be this idea of a transitional government probably under a new leader not necessarily under saddle depends how the tech you negotiate this house there will have some say in how this government is formed they will try to go to elections these elections may not necessarily succeed by the way maybe that we never get to elections because it may be like the yemeni model the yemeni model they all got together they all agreed on a government then just before elections 3 months before 4 months before elections

the whole of these took over the capital and took over most of yemen by force but in terms of what we're expecting from negotiations i think we're going towards this trajectory but what you're outlining there some in the lead in precisely what my next question is going to be and that is that transition periods as we've seen elsewhere are very very volatile periods and there are countries here with a lot at stake people on the ground with a lot at stake and how much territory you can capture who can gain the upper hand how much power you can bring to negotiations is critical so even though we may see a cease fire we may see successful negotiations and you also saying that the transition period itself could be very rocky. i think the libya is very strange in that everything anything can happen i mean let's take for example have to be 76 years old if let's suppose i mean i don't wish even on anyone but let's suppose have to die is tomorrow or dies in a year's time the whole situation changes let's also remember that half that may

control a sizeable territory but he does or through the backing of sudanese mercenary of russian mercenaries not necessarily via libyan tribes algeria now it has to belittle domestically now it's entering libya full force it has extensive ties with libyan tribes historically it has extensive influence the turks are now involved they would like to stay for a while though and have some sort of military presence in libya in other words there are so many dynamics at play but what is clear is that everybody at some point is going to want peace they're going to once a full to negotiations the problem is who will they bring to the negotiating table these parties may not survive for long whether it's have to whether it's this is why i think we're going through a transitional period and we may actually go through towards elections of course if we go towards that period of elections just before hand we may have a new militia emerging but the reason why i'm relatively optimistic if we do get a transitional period i'm relatively optimistic because i have to endure libya seed

is the only person capable of uniting mercenaries of uniting sets of libyan tribes in order to push forward i think we may even see see if we didn't get there feel safe in islam get their feet come out once more and try to emerge the russians have always held him as some sort of card so of his intent militias there are a lot of dynamics but i do think as i said before we're going through a trajectory of a transitional government we will see people planning elections before and but everything still remains rocky what is significant in this period of time that we should all be looking out for is russia and turkey will try to monopolize the government and now if the e.u. is in a weird situation whereby they were once the power brokers they are now on the verge of no longer becoming power brokers here and in order to become power brokers ok they have to scupper the negotiations in moscow so they have to be the party that exacerbates the conflict let's see what the e.u. will do we have to leave this abbi thank you so much not something i do joining us there. well refugees and migrants trying to make their journey into europe are

facing increasing the hostile conditions forcing them to take huge risks to their safety closed borders police brutality and a suspicious public are combining to make already desperate journeys often impossible in the 1st of a series of reports on the main overland route from greece to croatia lawrence lee found refugees becoming increasingly reliant on organized people smuggling. midwinter in the furthest reaches of northeastern greece gale force winds and bitter cold in this vast barely inhabited wilderness there are plenty of places to hide but break cover and you risk everything. or the hospital mortuary is evidence of the risk sisters from somalia who froze to death in each other's arms 2 among dozens who recently perished many more though have been killed in car accidents as the police have tried to chase down the smugglers and.

say when the people in. got our. or gram and then who were how do they hi it's 17 people in a car i don't know the more hostile europe becomes the better business gets for the smugglers on the edge of ross river the border between turkey and greece they're using the same big rubber boats that take people over the sea on land fleets a vehicle seized by the police tell a story of the increasing industrialization of illegal migration into the european union they have on our part or seriously. the training migrants to be guides they leave cars on the hills for them and tell one of the migrants to be the driver some of them are children and don't even know how to drive properly. refugees are guided to deserted buildings sleeping in the rat droppings with the windows open to escape

if the army arrives locals filmed them as they pass in small groups but barely a word is spoken europe has become a hostile environments for asylum seekers and these are the consequences if the bed of this farm it's a lot it means that dogs the greek police the military and followed the smugglers instructions stayed off the roads stayed on the trucks but it's at least another 100 kilometers from here to any form of civilization several 100 more until they get to the border with north macedonia nazia who come all the way from afghanistan made it through the wilderness did anybody help you know nobody can help us when we have fall down when we have our injuries and our body not and nobody can help us we just help ourselves that's it thousands are still coming across the success of the smugglers and difficulty for the police in covering vast areas means far more

people get through than die they're out there somewhere lawrence lee al jazeera northeastern greece one of the 4 suspects in the murder trial of a slovakian investigative journalist has admitted in court to killing him young to jack and his fiance was shot and killed at their home near the capital bratislava in 2018 prosecutors accused prominent businessman. of ordering the murder let's go now to gaspar he joins us from of live from his you know i guess but this is a case that has ignited so much interest protests political change in the country even and of course so much expected to come out during the trial itself tell us more about that. yes slovak media calls this trial the trial of the century really it's changed a lot after the murder of yonkers lark

a journalist investigative journalist. after his murder and his fiance in 2000 thinkin a lot of change socially a lot of change in the syrian society there was a lot of modernization on the on one hand but not so much in the political sense of the of the world saw of. course. because of his writing because he drew some lines between control show controversial businessmen cauchon or he had good ties to police politicians and also italian mafia so just to give you know illustration caution or it was good to be there one of the main prosecutors and they agreed that there would be a video camera in his office so caution to really know what's going on even in his office after after the murder there was a big mobilization of public prime minister robert fits our head to resign but on

the other hand he stayed as a president of his party smatter populist social democratic party and he's confident was installed as prime minister so in that sense nothing really happened politically on the other hand there is a simple there was a symbolic wein for the public and for this model ised civil society in march last year when activist and lawyer in liberal lawyer was elected as a lactate for president so that gave some hope for this part of the public and now we should just we should just see what will happen at the end of the genera in parliamentary elections due to be the key moment to see if there will be a lot of changes in slow. but with the party off robert still in the lead and there is a lot of political fragmentation in slovakia it thing it's hard to say well what

happened at the couple of months couple of weeks from now just a thank you guess probably by joining us there instead the new government's defending the closure of 4 newspapers and t.v. stations which it says were funded by the former ruling party journalists say the closures are a grave assault on media freedom morgan has the story from the capital khartoum for nearly 5 years it has worked as a news writer she says it's more than a job for her seeing her work printed in the morning papers in order to give her a sense of accomplishment a sense she says was taken away a week ago when sudan's transitional government seized the paper she worked for. i was working on a news piece when i heard that a decision was made to shut down some media outlets including the one i worked for then a military uniform came in and said we had 30 minutes to take our personal belongings and leave this is something we were used to under the former regime but one of the

slogans of the new government was freedom road to freedom inviting us from working . the newspaper is called and sudan and it's one of 4 media outlets the government has seized the new administration came to power in august after months of anti-government protests led to the military overthrow of president i'm going to be here and after a power sharing deal between the military and protest leaders in late november the government dissolved the shias form a party and announced that it will seize all its assets and money. if hopeful sofie we are not targeting the major outlets because of the editorial lines below are used to seize them is based on the law to dismantle assets of the former ruling party return the state funds that they have used to prop them up we've got that information to play that the atlas have been funded or have received funds from the former regime. the move has been rejected by the sudanese journalists' union which

along with other unions was also ordered to disband in december the international federation of journalists has condemned the move calling it a grave assault on press freedom and the fundamental right of freedom of association the seizure of media outlets has not only lead to accusations the government is cracking down on press freedom but has also brought in another argument while sudan's transitional administration says the move is part of an investigation to find sources of funds many here especially other journalists are asking if the movie even legal. some say the government should do more to prove its case before taking such actions. this is a decision was based on a decree to dissolve the ruling party but even using that to hold the work of 2 newspapers and t.v. stations gives room for this to be taken as a crackdown on press freedom the body that issued the decision said that the owners of the media outlets to receive funds from the sudanese government but they didn't give any evidence musharraf says she was told her income want to be affected but

she wants to know why she's paying the price of a political move that has prevented her and her colleagues from doing their jobs he will morgan al-jazeera heard from the head of human rights watch is accusing china's government of an intensifying assault so banning him from visiting hong kong kenneth roth was jus the following months advantage of the protests condemning increasing control of the communist leadership in beijing. i'm standing here in hong kong international airport i had flown in from new york with the hope of holding a press conference on wednesday to release human rights watch is the annual world report and the focus of the report this year was going to be how the chinese government is really trying to deliberately undermine. not simply suppress the rights of people at home but also undermine the ability of anybody else to try to hold china to human rights standards sadly as they arrived

here the chinese government decided it didn't want to so even though i've been able to enter. before this time for the 1st time they blocked me a german company siemens says it will on a deal to provide infrastructure for a coal mine in australia that's despite growing pressure from environmental groups which linked missions to the bushfires devastating large parts of the country there have been protests in australia and other countries since the firms signed the deal in december but siemens boss says there is no legally and economically responsible way out of the agreement to supply rail infrastructure for the dunny mine 3rd destroyed his government has pledged at least $34000000.00 to help knight of plants and animals recover from the country's devastating bushfires some ecologists estimate that 1000000000 animals have died much of the drought damage caused by fires by be irreparable al-jazeera jesco washington reports from new south wales

one of the worst hit areas fleeing from the flames this possum is just one of many animals around australia seeing its habitat go up in smoke. a surely as native fauna and flora are accustomed to bush vias but this season has been unprecedented landscapes usually left on scathed have been decimated. on the new south wales south coast this native bird has been brought in for treatment at the local wildlife park it's called a car and its wings are singed and broken people preserve birds are going to be ok because they just sort of floor off where would. and what is going to be area just about everything that sort of is a ground well or some description would really struggle because it you don't have a look now and there's no wonder story to the to the bush in the surrounding area so i don't think there was a space is there was exempt field teams are going into the bush looking for injured

animals and assessing the areas affected by the fires as surely as famed plants and animals are strong part of the country's identity many of its species of found nowhere else in the world and the extent of the damage isn't clear yet this bushfires season has been through millions of hecht as of land destroying the habitats of many native animals some of these forests will take decades to regenerate and others may never recover. some plants like eucalyptus trees have adapted to survive fires but the combination of drought and extreme temperatures raises concerns about even those species. before they fawaz where audience of your drought so populations of many different species would have been declawed and already at large levels prods of the fawaz these baby kangaroos joeys orphans then now in care but for many animals who do make it out of the fire is

they soon face other problems. coming to the right side and the homes that have some glass in order to eat and. then they are vulnerable to cats and dogs and and the car crash for those who do survive it's a long and painful road to recovery jessica washington al-jazeera mogo a stray leah. well still ahead on al-jazeera the cowboys earning big bucks on the ball writing circuit in chicago and we'll have all the back coming up in sport.

that is transport now he's. thank you very much they corruption trial of the former head of world outlet 6 starts empower us today the 86 year old from senegal faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty which can go straight to our sports correspondent welling's to give us some context lay it's a while since i held his position just remind us who he is and what he's charged with. well lemon diac was one of the most powerful figures in world sport for a long period of time he was in charge of the i w a f world athletics governing body for 16 years and also an influential member of the international olympic committee even though he stood down from all of them because of an honorary role when these allegations became charges and these allegations involve russian don't paint that issue that's poisoned world sport and diac is effectively accused of taking over $3000000.00 it's

a coverup the russians don't pay and allow them to be in a position to compete so all of the people would expect him to be a guardian and a custodian of the sport because accused of the very opposite that this trial in paris doesn't just involve him it also involves in absence his son papa saturday acca marketing director at the center of many corruption allegations and also. reported to be heavily involved in this and that's where he's ended up as part of this case and also there is a russian influence here in terms of the people in the dark the. treasure of violence. also one of the men who tried in paris in a case is expected to last around 2 rigs now what's been the impact on the sport of athletics. well over many years is there it's had a big impact because trust has been lost by the public clearly mainly around the

area of russian doping of course it's not just russia it's a sport that's had so many problems to face and with diac being in charge of that if this man has ended up in the dock you can see that as a public relations exercise it's not salute disaster for fed ex and world sport but really uncomfortable for the current president of the i w f sebastian coe he's served under diac and his failure to be part of something that exposed this has that much criticism and no one's accusing mr coe of corruption but they're saying if he's not involved in that why was he not in a position to help uncover what was happening for many years allegedly within that organization so it's going to be awfully uncomfortable for him for the i.o.c. and for others in world sport they will be watching closely what happens in paris in that courtroom lee wellings our sports correspondent in london thank you i'm sure be back to you as this trial goes on the world's top badminton player japan's

kanto promoter is in a stable condition after being involved in a fatal road accident just hours after winning the malaysian masters he was travelling to kuala lumpur international airport when the van he was in collided with a 30 ton truck at about 4 40 am local time the driver was killed in the crash but the motor and 3 others on board his coach physio and the world badminton official sustained no major injuries they were taken to hospital. at the moment. more days stevo. this there's rumors of human having broken bones and all that so those are all untrue but. nice to dream and know we did all this the doctors are working very hard. to football and christiane arnold i scored yet again as events return to the top of italy's syria they beat roma 21 it was mary who got the 1st goal for you right. now they added

a penalty which was his 9th goal in 6 games eventis chasing the 9th straight title are 2 points clear of into milan. kyrie irving returned for the brooklyn nets after a 2 month injury layoff and immediately showed the n.b.a. what it's been missing the former celtics and cavaliers man was out for $26.00 games with a right shoulder problem but that wasn't a problem of this play mesmerizing the atlanta hawks defense and finished it off with his left and even the brooklyn bench not quite believing their eyes it was a blast from the past as well altie 2 year old vince carter working some magic for the hawks. this is the last time he'll play at the nets carter is still 3rd on the all time scoring charts after leaving the franchise 11 years ago 108 to 86 the final score here for the kansas city chiefs mounted one of the greatest comebacks in n.f.l. playoff history they had been 24 points down against the houston texans on sunday they ended up winning 51 to 31 making them the 1st team to win

a playoff game by more than 20 after trailing by more than 20 kansas city will now play the tennessee titans for a place in the super bowl elsewhere the seattle seahawks loss to the green bay packers you take on son francisco next week. it's proving a very successful youth winter olympics former swiss ski on home snow 17 year old emily clip from stein won the women's super g. on this the opening day of the competition and now she's taken her 2nd gold medal as well this time in the giant slalom also in lowe's and there was success for japan in the men's figure skating for 16 year old human. he's coached by his dad and says the victories give him confidence to pick for gold medals at the senior winter games in beijing in 2022. australian golf a cameron smith said his 1st p.g.a. tour victory mensah little bit more because of the bushfire crisis back home smith's uncle lost his home in the fires smith the $1500.00 for every birdie at the

sony open in hawaii $21.00 of them altogether which adds up to more than $10000.00 smith had been 2 shots behind with 2 holes to play the mice to force a playoff and win the 1st extra hole. and you know it's been you know this week i think way down this morning over an asia. you know may rain winning here hope that just brings a little bit of joy to some people that gantries some tough stance. now to a sport that's probably on the opposite end of the scale to golf bull riding is big in the states and staying on the back of these beasts for a few seconds can that ride is some serious books on as of this event in chicago 20 year old dale on swearing in took $37.00 files and dollars he was scored for grace and poise as well not just for clinging on the boat was given some hank. all right is all your sport for now back to stone baseball that's it for me for the use of

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on air and online 3 years after cholera was discovered in haiti this is just one example of how the death toll from this epidemic could be much higher than anyone knows and al-jazeera and best to geisha into who should be held responsible travel to the united nations headquarters in new york. we spoke to the secretary general again in this room i'm going to try to touch mentality but has justice now been served for the victims rewind haiti in a time of cholera on al jazeera. what went wrong in society that opened up the space for the image get out but she is the european parliament that's not accountable and it's impossible for the people but it is for link up our people 'd don't want to take. that lead that it profit a stronger man or song woman who was getting the growth of rejectionism of this world because of all those of europe's forbidden colony episode 2 on al-jazeera.

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