we spoke to the secretary general to do in this room retrenchment but has justice now been served for the victims rewind in a time of cholera on al jazeera. al-jazeera . you're watching the news hour live from headquarters and. coming up in the next 60 minutes as libya's warring groups meet in moscow the turkish and italian leaders call for a permanent ceasefire. jurors are killed the spike in violence sets off a meeting between the region's leaders and the french president. this is a very difficult journey for those who are trying to leave we're in the philippines

where tens of thousands are on the run from a volcanic eruption and paying with their lives the growing price for refugees attempting to make the desperate journey into europe. and. the corruption trial of former chief paris has been delayed with the 86 year old facing up to 10 years in jail. hello the leaders of libya's warring sides are in the russian capital for talks after a cease fire came into force now it's raised hopes of the warlords and if i have to and the prime minister of the un recognized government fire is a set will begin to find a path towards ending years of civil conflicts 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 morning and both turkey's president and italy's prime minister have announced that they will attend a libya peace conference in berlin later this month we support plans for the berlin conference and myself the russian president vladimir putin and the italian prime minister to separate kaante will all be in attendance mr putin and i agreed to reach a cease fire in libya the cease fire which began on sunday and our delegations are now in moscow to discuss this and i hope it will be permanent. we have 3 correspondents covering this story mahmoud had been washed head will join us from tripoli we have stuff vasant who's a moscow where the talks are happening right now but 1st we'll bring in jamal say all his journey joining us from the turkish capital ankara and as these meetings are underway right now in moscow jamal the turkish and italian leaders were in ankara what was the message that they sent out well there and they had.

earlier on monday where they discussed the way forward with regards to the situation in libya and it seems that at least based on the joint statement that was made between the president trying to run and italy's prime minister giuseppe can tell you that things are moving in a positive way in fact the. italian prime minister spends quite a lot of his time talking about how not just important the situation in libya was and how there was a dire need to bring about some sort of stability but also reiterating his belief that things were moving forward positively the situation in libya is very important and we've agreed there must be a ceasefire the turkey russia or agreement will help a lot in this regard and now we have a window of opportunity that's been opened and we want this window to pave the way for a lasting peace in the region. as far as it is concerned obviously it has specific concerns with regards to the instability and war there because any war results in

the displacement of people and a lot of migration has taken place from libya towards italy as a consequence obviously it has other interests considering it is a former colonizer of libya and still maintains a lot of interests economic particular with regards to the north african country turkey also has a lot of its national security as well as foreign policy agenda based on libya it's already has a military presence in the wider middle east and north africa region but has signed biological agreements with the government in tripoli which has allowed for it to send troops true libya that's probably arguably one of the major shifts in the power plays that have taken place that has allowed for maybe forced some sort of a discussion process to begin not least also to mention turkey's interest with regards to mining in extracting natural resources in the mediterranean sea

considering the 2 countries share maritime borders so turkey will be pursuing this very vigorously as it has over the past few weeks and all the signs show that as things gear up from the meetings that took place between erdogan and prime minister in istanbul 24 hours of or now these meetings that took place between him and the italian prime minister and then moving forward to this berlin conference that there is at least some semblance of a process that could provide some sort of hope that at least the fighting will end or at least pause for a while ok in general thank you for that update from ankara let's bring in steadfast and she's joining us from moscow to discuss more of that process that jamal was just referring to and particularly what's happening right now in moscow and if we have any information on whether have to inside hours themselves will be meeting. well all eyes are on moscow right now where the meeting has been going on for more than 6 hours

already and i have to say tension is building up a bit because there hasn't been a word coming from these close meetings since the beginning only from president one who was far away in ankara who said that there are some positive messages coming from this meeting we are actually waiting for a while already for a statement by the minister of foreign affairs from russia and foreign affairs from turkey who have actually initiating this this meeting and who started the meeting both libyan warring sides are in the ministries building as well we don't know for sure if they have met face to face or if they have met the allegations of the ministers separately this is all what we want to hear of course in this press they meant we also want to hear how this fragile situation in libya how did is going to be transformed in this cease fire and what they hope to achieve is that the signatures will actually be put under this cease fire somehow later today and this

will pave the way for this international conference in libya which was germany hoping to organize within a week from now but it's a very of course crucial meeting and we can see that turkey and russia here have a very important role in brokering dissidence cease fire ok a step or cross back to you a little later for the time being thank you let's bring in joining us from tripoli so all these meetings taking place outside of libya discussing libya and what happens really what's important is what happens on the ground where you are we understand there is a ceasefire that's meant to be in place just bring us up to speed with what you're hearing. well durian the situation has changed on the front lines this deescalation has been very notable during the past 24 hours with the exception of deployment deployment and also regrouping positioning

by have to the forces in civil acces in southern tripoli that's according to government military sources and meanwhile people here in tripoli are hopeful that these peace peace talks will come up with a solution to this conflict here also they were the only operational airport in tripoli that was closed down because of multiple attacks by have to us forces over the past months has now. been taking the opportunity of the deescalation atmosphere but in fact the government of national called the has repeatedly called for have their forces to pull out from southern tripoli as a prerequisite for any peaceful talks but meanwhile here in the west of libya this is the camp led by the government of national called many institutions including political parties and along with the religious indictment institution here. they

have one also one demand is to. have those forces should pull out from southern trip southern tripoli as a condition for these peace negotiations to go on but meanwhile it seems that the gap between the 2 camps is very wide and it's it needs a lot of time and effort to be bridged we're getting reports from the city of the major supporter of the world have to in fact it has a central command for have those forces there that the elderly counsel is now blaming her for what they call not. consulting them in this meeting he has not spoken with them before he decided to go to moscow and meet with the mediators but meanwhile we're getting also reports from moscow darien that the 2 delegations have not met face to face and there have to his delegation is until now

is rejecting the to be the mediator in this cease fire call in all cases that in this situation remains very tense and south of simply this fight despite the fact that it has been quiet over the past 24 hours about all eyes like to step sad are now to see what conclusions will come out of this meeting yeah and we'll wait to see what comes out of moscow and let you go for now from the time being thank you for that update from tripoli itself let's speak to mr fetzer or his a libyan academic is also a contributor to his joining us via skype from paris good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour what are the chances of success coming out of moscow. thank you for having me back i think the turn up of the we know more than that i think we moved to thinking more in the bold new. board the whole job in the office

could just suggested that we could this issue being how the boards will go through the week and of course i will see the topic of the step that could be should be going to them who need could mean the praetorian. we men should really build them and should develop to sit with their own bought the ticket and with the thought of jabalia. the main blind born to control board coauthored forces and because if she leaves that there you would there would be there would be the french against it when they moved and that's why we are here so i don't certainly see in how we could accept any condition that means. that the goal would be goal for those who would be able to long. lost the same thing and later think that's how start is not willing to accept a precondition of backing away from aaa to pre april days then what is he willing

to back away from and if he is not going to accept any conditions then why would he participate in these meetings. well let's see where do you think she is the only because we're going to we're going to see is bride ok that's fine but the blunt is she's my goal is to have. a good mission go along with them and i would i would imagine that it's not up there with the bullying would well only accept something like a limited would go where the horses would sell them to be say like 20 feet in which there is a way to put the kid meters away but those who seem to think a good boy who is old the way back to the positions they were controlled and so on with any event what so what is he hoping to achieve when i go through the cd the entire thing will be the whole of the i think boldly

what most doctors trying to achieve in this case did so i have to say during the upcoming bombing and compared whatever it takes at least because we have seen before that the germans all look those good for her inclined if you like to invite him neither of her daughters under nor nor burn them does the crime or no it is a different joke the but we will be one of the names we use the name of said will need to have some time or at least to say that they have tried to have these volubly read the book and waited for me but the other side in this case the government rushing record did not accept that ok we'll leave it there we thank you very much most of us are in for speaking to us from france. there is no thank you let's not bring in what i want to show to his al jazeera senior political analyst joining us right here and no ha so what is the significance of the convergence of

all these sort of regional and international terrorists coming together to discuss libya. well this was the plan the plan advanced by the united nations several months ago was that there needs to be a 3 phase process and that's why apparently or just did not get the 3 phase process involves 1st a cease fire cease fire meaning stop shooting. second there will be a meeting in berlin and the meeting a 1000000000 is for the stakeholders the nun libyans who have been influencing the situation in libya one way or another so that they agree on the general guidelines about what is required from the libyans themselves on the road map of sort of the deal which takes us to the 3rd phase when the parties within the bia namely seraph and huffed and their allies need to get together and speak about a political solution because in the end of the day the ceasefire is temporary what

libya needs is a permanent solution and that requires the international and regional stakeholders agreeing and then bringing in the libyan parties in order to talk about long term solution does that sound see you from what you've seen today like they are agreeing because there are several who have different stakes and if you have the libya and it's actually worse than the i mean you know allow me to vent because we've been talking about this for 8 months for 8 months the world was recognizing a legitimate government in tripoli except on the ground and some of the world states were supporting a warlord called after a warlord he was not recognized by anyone. until the some regional parties like the united arab emirates egypt and other stepped inside supporting him and when that happened he started making advances and that's when all the parties that were sitting on their hands sitting on their hands like the italians like the french and

others starting a piecing after and we just saw the images and we're seeing them now the images of conti the iranian prime minister the italian prime minister with the libyan warlord total appeasement of someone who's supposed to be recognized as a warlord. that's what we got today we got today because the turks and the needs to be given credit. the turks decided that this was time to step in and support that you earn the recognized government in order to balance the situation in libya in order to lead to a ceasefire and then do something and i think that turkish decision to get involved is the one that got everyone off their hands and start talking seriously about a ceasefire and a solution in libya and hence the russian and the turks sort of embracing if you will hosting this effort at this point in time that will take us to berlin where the others will also participate looks to me like they are the best of bad options

in order to move the process forward so there's that sounds to me then like you're optimistic that something is going to come out of moscow if the turks are using their leverage and the russians use their leverage i think sooner or later it's going to be clear that once the the sort of this kind of international pressure and leverage comes brings comes to bear that in the end of a half there would have little option but to play along because what would an agreement look like not for now it's a ceasefire ceasefire mainly with let's all stop shooting and let's then take certain confidence building measures to return to certain lines at a certain stage will within a certain timeline that allows more confidence building measures and berlin's going to happen before the end of the month that berlin conference and if the stakeholders those who support have to and those who supports the writers will be hopefully making more positive instead of the last 8 months of negative

contribution to the libyan situation again what we've learned in this region i think with the libyans are learning this slowly but surely no one wins a civil war civil war leaves everyone destroyed lives the country destroyed an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind and sooner or later they need to come together and what will the end game looks like even several months from now or years because this will. time now the ceasefire the political solution right libya is going to need a national army because the problem now in the east and west of libya is that we have militias puff that leads on but of militias and so russia needs a number of militias the country is divided among militias and warlords what libya needs today after the west intervened in order to protect the libyan people was the destruction of the libyan national army so what libya needs in the next several months maybe years is to build a national army out of or without the militias in order them to have the stability

that the country needs to move forward ok thank you very much. well the future of francis presence in the sahara region is being discussed at a meeting between leaders of the 5 west african nations and emmanuelle mccomb 4 and a half 1000 french troops are deployed there to aid the fight against armed groups but anti french sentiment is rising as a security situation is worsening a new president has sacked the army chief after 89 soldiers were killed in the latest attack. standing by for us in power that's in southwest france in the french president has called for the summit so what is he hoping for natasha. back in december 13 french soldiers were killed in

a helicopter crash in mali they came from a barracks in this city of poor in the southwest of france and their memory there i should say the french president alongside his counterparts from the sile paying tribute to those of the soldiers as we speak now the deaths of those soldiers really shook the french public in france and really led many people here to question why france is actually in this so hell and should it continue to be there at the same time the french president talked about how he felt increasingly frustrated with what he called rising anti french sentiments in the region not being condemned by leaders in the style so he called this summit with these leaders from these 5 nations to talk about whether or not they want french troops to continue fighting alongside their own in the style whether or not his troops just continue to take risks in such a violent region whether they are welcome there is little doubt that the public in this style has suffered very much particularly in recent months violence has

surgeon there been an increasing number of attacks against civilians and the military. in december the bodies of 71 soldiers from the later military base in the capital niamey grim reflection of growing violence in a silo they were killed in an attack claimed by i saw in the west of the country. i decided to come myself to give my nation's gratitude inconsolable but not all defeated to these men plucked from the affection of their loved ones in the prime of life for what they are to us are heroes or martyrs the french president emmanuel macro visited me shared to pay his respects. it's just 3 weeks earlier in paris macron led a memorial for 13 french soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in mali more than 4000 french troops are fighting armed groups in the syal alongside forces from the share bikini fast so chad mauritania and mali

the g 5 countries but is the casualties mount so his hostility against former colonial power france on the should not be possibility i notice and too many countries an anti french sentiment is no prospering without any clear political condemnation but i cannot accept sending our soldiers into the field in countries where our presence is not clearly requested by the french president has invited g 5 leaders to a summit to clarify whether they want french troops to remain in their countries the deployment is not only being questioned in the region though but also here in france where the mission is poorly understood by the public and there's growing pressure on michael to justify france's involvement so this is open for 6 years with opera about cannes france has been in the saddle and it seems were the tipping point there are no real results people in sile are positive about the situation the threat hasn't been eradicated so the g 5 saw how countries are asking themselves if

france is really the only country that has solutions maybe other countries can help people wonder if it's time to stop increasing a french military presence that is costly to africans and france macross says if french troops are to continue fighting in sile he wants a greater commitment from g 5 leaders he's expected to achieve that for now but what's less clear is for how long. what we are expecting the presence of the g 5 countries to recommit to farces presence alongside fighting alongside their forces but there's little doubt that the security challenges. are enormous it is of course in the threats come from armed groups. there is of course widespread poverty climate change also compounding an already very fragile situation so what the leaders gathering here today in poor are also

expected to do is call on the international community for more support particularly for european nations to provide more logistical support more support in terms of troops equipment and training but african leaders also want perhaps a change of strategy in the future what they say is although they would like an international support they would like at some point before an troops to withdraw if you like for african troops to really be the only ones fighting on the ground but with international backup ok natasha thank you for that update from. let's take a closer look at the region we're actually talking about so this. is just saying refers to the vast area covering western and central africa the militaries of 5 countries in that region mauritania. make up this g 5 joint force and it aims to maintain regional control against the fighters of the violence in the region has only been getting worse the number of people killed in attacks and burkina faso mali. from 770 in 2016 to more than

4000 last year it's largely because of a combination of attacks by armed groups and intercommunal violence remote areas where the state's presence is weak or especially vulnerable the humanitarian cost is also growing the u.n. estimates half a $1000000.00 people have been displaced a tenfold increase in 3 years. was a geo political and security analyst is joining us live from boucher via skype thanks very much for joining us on the news hour so challenges just sounds immense what do you expect to happen in that meeting currently taking place between mccaul and some african leaders do you expect to see some sort of change of strategy. yeah busy busy busy i think what france really wants from from the summit is just reassurance that is up to come partners they are still committed to combating

terrorism in the region so it's really it's really not. that is a restraint of strategy but more more of you know france because on reassurances that surrounds is an enemy on the african say there you go in there to try to discuss it from better with is that if you come to the canoe to block it the people in the region because we have to be from this i wholly say look the south the region in its fleet of countries are. neutral so say it is so people don't even trust the governments down government you see them in military or the armies of this country's us political tools of control new in some parts of mali the armies along with. luck legitimacy so i think there are so many facets to it that have problems with everybody does of course who fronts or they are discussing with france help them even you know. the people understand what france is doing on the

continent micron in so would want you know strong strong words coming from the african side to reassure french people who send in all who are wondering what the french forces are doing in in this a.o. so what sort of issues would you like to see that perhaps have not been address to yet because many analysts and people that we speak to say well what we've seen so far is a military solution. according quote solution to the conflict yet that's not working . yeah it's not because what what what we see in hell is mostly just a muscular effort you know there's really almost no discourse on on in the building confidence that our lives are looked at a look at look at it is a community where this violence is taking place where even political reforms of such a proper social reform will have to be very very in

a practical about this the terrorising turn it seems to be it seems to be a military image a popular win on the battlefield right but fundamentally the drivers of this conflict the conflict is watch more than. the military can handle the style is vastly vastly on that on that develop your people are poor is it time to time the food shortages the drought that there are so many other issues that these militant groups capitalize on in order to just the support and by you know the some form of influence in the localities because most of these regions were also part of the country in the regions don't even understand what is going on at the center of the tent that if you disconnected from the from the federal government so i think we have to look at 100 this issue from a piece beauty point of view but others of our size and on military support yes of

course we need to be dignified style and is a part i lock for the luck will of course cause coordination both are the same time they need to be a full range of diplomatic efforts to actually improve you know the situation is a little goes beyond when you win the battle and in this in the fight against much more than the ok we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera. thank you . 3 teachers have been killed in kenya in a suspected attack by al-shabaab fighters the primary school was attacked in a nearby police station set on fire and your recent county near the somali border. is linked to al-qaeda has killed hundreds of people in both so malia and kenya in years if attacks aimed at imposing its version of islamic law. still ahead on the outs during his hour on the hunt for ice so fighters in the mountains of northern iraq. and the world's top badminton player can tell momotaro is injured in

a road accident that killed his driver peter has more now it's coming up in sports only. how it rained in the mission all blue that is the weather down the gulf you can see the clouds to with it quite steadily so we've still got some weather in the form of a few showers in iran but as we can down the gulf those bringing showers with it which means attempts to rise a little in for example the hot but the heavy rain in moscow which we saw that all go may well start reappear on wednesday the change in the wind direction or this part of a man possibly puts the u.a.e. we'll see showers and thunderstorms once again with that change in wind direction generally dry picture further north and back towards the end part for a shower or 2 it's largely bright or sunny skies not particularly warm but ok what

we have got developing to the west of that in the gulf of say it is a circulation off the coast of too dizzy and then drifting towards benghazi to reduce libya we're talking about here for the next day or so i was significant wind and rain moving only very slowly to be honest in this part without dr reef much to the north of rest of north africa we still got showers stretching from kenya down towards our goal seasonally the forecast heavy showers us through zambia towards zimbabwe and also mozambique south of that very few showers in south africa. 0 explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how why will recent influence the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the america of nonviolent resistance they've rolled over the work of variable to

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well again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the leaders of libya's warring sides are holding talks in the russian capital after a cease fire came into force it's not known whether prime minister. meanwhile the leaders of turkey and italy are calling for a permanent ceasefire in libya they've confirmed conference next week in berlin russian president vladimir putin will also attend. the leaders of 5 west african countries are meeting the french president to discuss the future of france's presence in the region 89 soldiers were killed in the latest attack there and the president the country's army chief. there's been more protests in iran after the government admitted its military mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner last week killing 176 people demonstrators have been defying

a heavy police presence in the capital to who run officers have been using tear gas but the chief of police is urging restraint there have also been rallies against the u.k. by those who say its government is trying to stir up chaos. and he says the iranian government understands why protesters are angry. there have been protests over the last 2 days that has me angry chants some anti government some and the revolutionary guard but he said he said the people have a right to protest we understand that they are angry and that the morning 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 them back to and trying to. force a confrontation with the police now iran is 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 i've attended a vigil not a vigil organized by the government for diplomats invited to this is organized over social media that 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 into furring in iran 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 on getting involved in the internal affairs of iran the u.s. led coalition against eisel in iraq has opened up that sign and said military air base to international media revealing the damage from an iranian missile attack last week to her on long strikes on the base on wednesday in retaliation for the nation of the military commander a possum soleimani there raney an revolutionary guard says the strikes were meant

to damage the american military machine. and 4 iraqi soldiers have been injured after rockets were fired at the balad air base on sunday nights the facility also hosts american forces it comes as the rocky parliament seeks to expel all foreign troops but there are fears in the kurdish region of northern iraq that any withdrawal could lead to a resurgence of i saw the honey reports these rugged and barren mountains have become a hub for 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 for you know for instance the combat for that. we are. once under control of a natural protective boundary that overlooks

a vast territory claimed by both iraq and the kurds reasons the kurdish peshmerga. or. 5 kilometers away from. 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

a withdrawal of foreign troops they have boycotted the non-binding vote held by iraq's parliament. we think this decision was one of emotion rather than logic it was hastily taken there are realities on the ground there are financial and 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. were strong enough reason for the vote to take place. joint operations are key to prevent from regrouping here one carried out in the have remount is near kirkuk days before the assassination of kusum soliman the forces under his command have also played a key role in the fight against. 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.

in northern iraq. of all current corruption in the philippines is forcing tens of thousands of peoples are fleeing their homes taal volcano into a tie about 70 kilometers south of the capital manila started spewing ash and lava on sunday 8000 people have already been evacuated from the island on which the volcano sets of thousands more leverage leaving neighboring coastal towns and oregon has this report from nearby us province. there is fear and anxiety here thousands of people are fleeing their homes and looking for a safe place to go everything happened in an instant. no in the northern philippines spewed ashes. on sunday a violent activity not seen for decades and raising the threat not just to those

living in the provinces of the day but even in the capital manila where many people also woke up to a city covered in ash. driving to but down the us was a difficult journey we came across people desperate to flee gathering their families together and not bringing anything else except the clothes on their backs the only real being asked to leave and we had nowhere to go. or place and there are still people we left behind it isn't easy the roads are bad and we are constantly reminded that we are in a danger zone while speaking to some of the residents we felt another earthquake ok we're feeling. there is an earthquake mild we were told this is because of the volcanoes constant activity basically which is trying to say is that they are trying to make their way out of here so they can go to the next possible

town hoping to be able to commute and get to the nearest relative in the next province the philippine government says it is doing the best it can but admits resources are already stretched thousands of people have already been moved to different evacuation sites unsure when they will be able to return home boy like you know the situation here is difficult there is no electricity and water the roads are muddy making it difficult to people here even our trucks are struggling powerless one of the world's smallest active volcanoes it sits in the middle of a lake just a few hours from manila a popular tourist destination known for its unique landscape for people who have lived around the lake all the lives i was a volcano they were raised to love not one they thought they would be here one day

jim duggan al jazeera but then guess the northern philippines. 2 days of heavy snow and rain is being blamed for the deaths of at least 25 people in pakistan emergency services in baluchistan and punjab provinces say several people were killed after their roofs collapsed well it just stands governor has declared a state of emergency in several districts meanwhile the high court in pakistan has overturned the treason conviction of the former president pervez musharraf at a rule that the formation of a special tribunal that tried to shut off was unconstitutional he was sentenced to death in december after being found guilty on charges related to his declaration of a state of emergency in 2007 britain's prime minister is in northern ireland for talks with leaders of the newly restored power sharing agreement government rather boris johnson's described the politicians return to storm and for the 1st time in 3

years as historic the democratic unionist parties arlene foster has returned as 1st minister her deputy is michelle o'neill leader of the irish nationalist shin fein party. it's a good moment i'm very very pleased to see the progress that has been made a great leader. never bite the hand of history on my shoulder i see the hand when i had that history i see the hand of the future i see the hand of the future. with good will and culpable and hard work all sides it will be a very bright future. one of the 4 suspects in the murder trial of a slovakian investigative journalist has admitted to the killing in courts. and his fiance were a shot and killed at their home near the capital bratislava and 28 prosecutors accuse the prominent businessman kartchner of ordering the murder he was

a subject of reporting into fraud and political corruption. where the trial is taking place and he says the murder has mobilized political activists. slovak media calls this trial the trial of the century really it's changed a lot after the murder of sloc journalist investigative journalist. after his murder and his fiance in 2000 thinkin a lot of change socially a lot of change in the civil society there was a lot of mobilization on the on one hand but not so much in the political sense of the of the world saw. was killed because of his writing because he drew some lines between contro show contro should be this man called. he had good ties to police politicians and also italian mafia

so just to give you know illustration called schneider 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 in in his office after the after the murder there was a big mobilization of public a prime minister robert fits all had to resign but on the other hand he stayed as a president of his party samantha populist social democratic party and he is confident was installed as prime minister saw in that sense nothing really happened politically on the other hand there is assumed there was a symbolic wein for the public and for this mobilized civil society refugees and migrants trying to make their journey into europe are facing increasingly hostile conditions forcing them to take. their safety in the 1st of a series of reports on the main overland route from greece to croatia lawrence

leamer 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. say when the people in weingarten. or graham and then who will hear how do they hides 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 square they have on our part. of 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 film 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 there's a lot it means that dogs the greek police the military and follow 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 fall down when you have injuries in our body not that 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 there out there some with lawrence v al-jazeera northeastern greece police in colombia say they have killed 2 men planning to

assassinate the former commander of fark rebels security has been tightened around . police said dissident fighters ordered his killing on the head of human rights watch has been denied entry to hong kong where he was due to launch a report critical of china beijing has threatened to sanction groups it said perform badly in relation to antigovernment protests in hong kong a human rights watch is accusing the chinese government of an intensifying assaults on human rights. 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 growth report and the focus of the report this year was going to be how the chinese government is. deliberately undermine international human rights 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 that so even though i've been able to enter. before this time for the 1st time they blocked me. well german company simmons says it will honor a deal to provide infrastructure for a coal mine in australia. growing pressure from environmental groups which link carbon emissions to the bushfire is devastating large parts of the country have been protests in australia and other countries since the firm 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 advani mine. take a short break and we're back in just a moments right here on the news hour. hello

again time for the sports news let's bring in peter green thank you very much the former head of wool death latex let me finally appeared in court in paris on monday only for his trial on corruption and money laundering charges to be delayed 86 year old senegalese has seldom been seen since being placed under house arrest in the city since 2050 new testimony documents that were submitted to the court with the judge deciding to postpone the trial while they all reviewed who denies the charges faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty. the tac already continued in saudi

arabia on monday but without the riders in the motorbikes and quads categories the competitors agreed to stand down from racing on stage 8 out of respect for paolo going solve who was killed in a crash on sunday the other 3 categories did resume the race around the town of water. spain's call of science so he's leading the call rankings cut to 6 minutes 40 seconds all competitors on the ready took part in a tribute to consol this at the end of the day's racing we didn't start the motor cycle category today but. it's a hard one to take and fortunately we know the dangers in this board and. it's. just a hard day when that day arrives and. we were there for the world's top badminton player japan's came to motor is in a stable condition after being involved in

a fatal road accident just hours after winning the malaysia masters he was travelling to kuala lumpur international airport when the van he was in collided with a 30 ton truck at around 4 40 am the driver was killed in the crash but motor and the 3 others on board his coach physio and will badminton official suffered no major injuries they were taken to hospital but. at the moment. with a stable. there's there's rumor of him having broken bones and all that so those are all untrue but he's finished to do some treatment now to the doctors the doctors are working very hard. we'll have to move away from the sports bulletin to bring you some breaking news coming in and we're just getting reports that libya's warring factions have agreed on a. deal to end the conflict to sides belonging the 2

sides that is the one belonging to the warlords and if i have to and the prime minister of the u.n. recognized government. excuse me have agreed. i'm quoting here an unconditional and open ended cease fire let's bring in. for more on this story and what more are you hearing. well there was a joint press conference which is wrapping up right now between the foreign ministers of russia and turkey the 2 men powers who were able to bring both sides to the negotiation table be it separate discussions taking place not face to face however it seems that the earlier statements made by president. and the italian prime minister just happy continue of some sort of positive outcome from the meetings that were taking place in moscow have in fact become a reality or at least as far as the statements made by the foreign ministers as i

mentioned just now they're saying that they have agreed to a cease fire unconditionally and that they haven't set a time limit to this cease fire now whether that's to give it time to see where this political process is going to lead the country to particularly considering as we've been mentioning over the past few hours that it seems this much anticipated burden conference will be taking place in a few days time we'll wait and see but it is definitely positive at least that there are no conditions being made that it is not one that is tied down to a certain time limits or at least if indeed the words spoken in both moscow and to be translated on the ground in southern tripoli and other front lines in libya then it is going to be a very welcome news for the people of libya who have been suffering through this armed conflict for several years now and jamal just because this news is just coming in now. just according to the wires the turkish foreign minister during

a press conference a few moments ago said that half that had asked to give him on tell she's day mourning in fact to decide on this ceasefire agreement so it doesn't sound like a deal has been reached so far so there still could be sticking points. so what we understand is that there is no deal that has been signed so there's no agreement that has been signed but the statements that were coming out from the camps was that some sort of agreement or be verbal or at least a direction towards that ceasefire would be taking place but the reality is they're in even with have to maybe being dragged into this screaming as has been the case because they had rejected initially even participate in the russian turkish brokered process the reality is that without the regional powers have really doesn't have much of a choice because in the end of the day the vast amounts of money that have been

printed in russia were about libyan currency where half the required russian mint prints for him to be able to continue the operation of his run a good government in the east of the country the fact that he is dependent or depended rather on russian mercenaries to help his push towards the capital means that at some point he's going to make a lot of concessions to what moscow asks from and similarly is the case on the other side with regards to the governments of drugs even though it is recognized by the united nations it still depends heavily on support from countries like turkey be it military support to help repel the insurgency or of after or even in terms of logistical support and other economic support that comes from qur'an that's why we're seeing in the end of the day that the future of libya or at least the imminent short to medium term future of libya is being decided or at least is being orchestrated by those regional powers and not being decided domestically in

tripoli or here and how significant is turkey's role been in all of this because not only did to me just see this foreign minister over in moscow but earlier on today we saw turkish leaders meeting with italian leaders discussing libya. hugely significant and turkey's done is that since it's century intervened in the libyan crisis more directly by sending troops there after it signed that member of the bilateral deal of mutual friends with the government of tripoli that's essentially changed the whole balance of power there and it has given the government of tripoli an ability to live to fight another day essentially were not for turkish intervention than the likelihood would have been the militias that were loyal true. rather. would have probably captured the capital of the capital by now that's according to a lot of analysts turkey's involvement is also beyond the military aspect from an

economic one the deals were signed to do during the exploration of the mediterranean sea to extract natural resources between the 2 countries all of that means that turkey is a player as much as other countries if not more and that's why we're seeing countries like italy and its leadership in the form of the prime minister just have to continue coming 2 and korea essentially to agree or at least to find some sort of synergy with turkey's plans for libya obviously that doesn't negate how significant russia is how significant the united arab emirates or egypt or other players in the region even france are with regards to libya but it does definitely underpin or underline the role that turkey has carved for itself in this crisis ok it's about a let you go for now thank you for that update from ankara let's cross over to moscow and bring instead vasant she's joining us from there so so what has the foreign minister had to say on how much progress has actually been made.