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2 on have to say. well he focused his words when it came to syria on the need for this cease fire that was agreed between russia or brokered rather by russia and turkey with regards to the last remaining stronghold or territory under the control of the armed opposition that this ceasefire needs to continue he spoke of the dire consequences that have come as a result of the years long war he spoke of the amount of refugees that turkey has hosted and why there was it was so important but what was more this time was that he said his country would ensure that the syrian regime i either government of bashar assad would not break were breached the ceasefire this time whether that's a reference to the numerous cease fires before that have come and gone and been brokered the not really lost or broken rather not really lost along or whether that

is maybe an expression of a more adamant intention by the turkish president to say enough is enough particularly considering how the issue or the fire or the topic of the syrian refugees has become such an important and powerful one in domestic turkish politics we're not quite sure but definitely a slight change in rhetoric there when it came to syria and on the issue of libya of course turkey has had a role in brokering that cease fire earlier on the weekend and then officials went on to moscow to work on a longer term deal which we know now has failed what's turkey saying about why that deal hasn't has failed. well they're not really saying they're in that it's 1st of all they're saying that obviously it's not going ahead they would have lived in the sense that whilst one side namely that of renegade general hurley 401 hasn't signed it there is still some semblance of

a process that is going on which is the russians are still talking with how there is this alleged summit that's meant to take place in berlin in a few days time and there is one side that did agree to a cease fire and on the ground as i'm sure we'll hear from our reporters in libya there still seems to be some sort of a reduction if not a cessation in fighting there about what we're hearing is that even though the russians had agreed and had got some sort of initial agreement from have to sign this deal an open ended cease fire that would allow for discussions or negotiations in a political process to begin decided to change his mind at the last minutes were hearing different reasons for that some are stipulating respect relating that it was under the influence of the united arab emirates essentially the architect of the. counter revolutionary forces that existed post 2011 of which half that is considered to be

one that they influenced him not to others are saying it is because him and his delegation had clear issues with specific details within that deal but what we have heard from the turkish president is that he will not give up essentially in pursuit of his country's foreign policy vis a vis libya he explained it to the parliamentarians who were present in that address he referenced turkey's role in libya from back in the ottoman days to the founder of modern turkey to talk to even conversations that he had with the late libyan dictator moammar gadhafi so he tried to find all the different justifications as far as he was concerned over the. not least mentioning the economic issues there in the. deal signed between the tripoli government and uncorrupt and it seems that he is insistence that this conference will take place in berlin and that there will be some sort of a cease fire agreement albeit right now it's looking as precarious situation with

the withdrawal of half that or at least his refusal to sign that deal ok general thank you for breaking that down for us from ankara let's find out how all of this is impacting on the ground in libya and speak to one of the he's joining us from tripoli so we are getting reports mahmoud about a half stars of forces that have been troop movements rather for have those forces near the capital what are you hearing. we'll do all facts on the ground indicate that these seas fire is very for a jail and until now at least for the time being we've been getting reports from the front lines in confirming that have to us forces have been recently. over the past 24 hours regrouping sending reinforcement to the front lines repositioning. also in other axes meanwhile the government forces say that they are on high alert

to the pill any possible out tack by half the force of this the fighting is. between the rival factions in southern. as you know that have to as forces have been recently also moving towards areas in central libya taken control of the coastal city of sirte it but they're here in the west of libya this is the areas under the recognized a government of national accord everybody says that half the us forces should pull from southern tripoli as a prerequisite for any peaceful settlement to this conflict which forces have categorically rejected are rejecting the other directing to pull out from southern tripoli it seems that the situation will remain very tense and as you know daryn that the government forces say that half of this was to have violated the

cease fire over the past 48 hours and overnight a pro-government fighter was killed by a poor sniper so it seems that the situation is still very tense all the ground and this is this is fire is. ok mom would have been well had thank you for about updates from tripoli that's because he's a senior fellow and director of the brookings doha center he's joining us here and thanks very much for your time with us. on the news hour so without a cease fire in place or a permanent and lasting cease fire what does this mean for the berlin conference that's scheduled for sunday precisely the question in fact steps towards the berlin conference would have accelerated in the last few days in anticipation of a signed cease fire deal now that the cease fire deal has not been agreed to by one side and there may be setbacks in the field as has been reported from tripoli depending on how at the plans his next move but lynn may not happen after all so

it's in jeopardy it is in jeopardy right and in fact the next potential reversal on the ground could be one that sets back the russian and to use diplomacy and provides a big opportunity and a test in my view forward to its commitment to defending the government in tripoli will turkey deploy its forces commit. itself to defending the capital of have to does not agree to the cease fire and relaunch is his advance on the capital so from your understanding what is the sticking point here and why do you think that have the sided not to sign this deal this is a it was a puzzle. last night for many people who are who thought this was a done deal after all it was just a cease fire agreement and it didn't stipulate any conditions on any other sides just called for a cease fire an indefinite cease fire that will be open sort of by international

potties. speculation in libya speculation also abroad given the tough that is not accountable to anyone in libya is that his external sponsors other than russia may have put pressure on him to delay to postpone to try to impose pressure or to make some gains within the cease fire agreement which would have been unacceptable to the russians to the turks certainly to the government of national accord and so we would be finding out in the next day or 2 what how this plays out will he in fact sign go back and sign the agreement after all or will he. provoke. a violation of a cease fire and an open the front lines again what is the convergence of all these players coming together russia and turkey in moscow and then we saw the turkish officials and italian officials in turkey itself all in the space of 24 hours what does the convergence of them tell you about how difficult the situation in is in

libya and how so many powers have a stake in it i think it tells me that so many powers have a stake in libya's stability and prosperity. but it also tells me that libya's internal conflict is a fully internationalized one right have to. is a proxy for a number of other countries who have interests in libya but interests also in the broader region this makes a conflict or a settlement of this conflict all the more difficult and challenging but given the stakes of the geopolitical level for europeans for libya's neighbors and for the region at large you would think that that is sufficient international will. not only to impose or to push and pressure the various parties to agree to cease fire or to hold them accountable and impose sanctions were necessary or threaten with other measures which are within the ability of certainly big international powers

to do but on the issue of the europeans how much leverage the europeans actually have because what we've seen over the past couple days in the past couple of weeks is that the libya file if you can call it that has been moved into the hands of russia turkey russia and turkey has certainly dislodged the europeans but on the political process and this is where berlin becomes important it was thought that the europeans will be able to play a very significant role partly because they've been vested in the in the country in the political process if worked with the u.n. they can bring a host of other issues economic security migration demilitarization the europeans can be very useful but it is true that this is now potentially largely a russian to fish affair and given that have to has probably embedded star shines in moscow by not agreeing to a deal after all he's one of their one of his sponsors on the scene the search the russians would have to respond and their response will i think set the tone for what's likely to come in the coming few days ok thank you very much for giving us

your analysis our. now iran's president says all those responsible for the shooting down a few ukrainian airliner will be punished after a 3rd day of protests in iran on monday in a televised address hassan rouhani also said no single person could be blamed for what he's calling and on for give a ball error 176 people died when the military mistakenly shot down a passenger jet last wednesday. that top do you think it's right in this incident was that without precedent in the history of our country there has never been a time when a person in charge of our air defense systems or an officer has committed such an error against a passenger plane in the country's capital and so close to the international airport munns him now that of the sympathizing with all the dear families that were hit by this major tragedy i tell them that we will continue this path until discovering all the aspects of the incident and punishing those involved and

finally reassuring the people that such an incident will not happen again. because more from to. president rouhani expressed remorse and condolences for those people killed in the plane crash and he said that he had attempted to shorten the length of the investigation once he knew the cause of the crash he had asked officials to let people know straight away but he also said that this was unprecedented mistake and he said he promised that the government would carry on pursuing this case and he called on the judiciary to form an independent tribunal with an independent judge to look into this case but you also said it was a positive move that the armed forces had accepted responsibility and apologized and that's reflected here in iran many people feel it's a watershed moment they're not used to their own forces accepting responsibility or apologizing or saying that they've made a mistake but again president rouhani did say that this wasn't the responsibility

or a mistake of one individual those operating the missile but there was a series of mistakes but ultimately he did repeat the line coming out of iran that this is the united states the united states is to blame setting off the cycle of events after the assassination of general costs and so the money the heightened tensions on the evening the airplane was brought down they said this is an excuse for them to not pay attention disease case and he said that needs to be an investigation and reform to the air defense system if required but he said that this was and i quote unprecedented for such a grave mistake in the history of our country now the u.s. is removing china from a list of countries it chooses of manipulating their currency it's happening just days before they're expected to sign the 1st stage of a trade deal u.s. president donald trump has long accused china of keeping the one at a low level to get an unfair trade advantage alan fischer is in washington and tells us what this could mean for the trade for. go back 4 years donald trump when

he was campaigning to become president said that in this 1st year in the white house he would clear china to be a currency manipulator well he eventually got round to just 5 months ago now it really was a symbolic gesture it didn't really have much impact it could have opened china up to greater scrutiny from the international monetary fund but it didn't really happen this was at the height of donald trump's trade war you'll remember he imposed targets or in billions of dollars worth of chinese goods he said that china was poor in billions of dollars in fees into the u.s. treasury in fact if you look at a report that came out just last week it said that 100 percent of the cost of tad of swizz being borne by american families $1.00 survey said american families were about $800.00 a year watch saw so this sure is that things between china and the united states

are getting better in the markets have responded well to that it's up again in the united states at the close of business on monday so it seems as if things are improving but there is criticism of donald trump not surprisingly it comes from the democrats chuck schumer is the leader of the democrats in the senate he said look china is still a currency manipulator the united states shouldn't be taking that tab away and it says we're giving away a lot and not getting a lot in return calling into question whether or not donald trump really is the great negotiator that he says he is or katrina you is in beijing and she has more on the reaction from there. one way to describe it is that china and the u.s. have a rocky stormy relationship and this this currency manipulator announcement this phase one trade deal is one bright spot it's a break in the rain it's a break in the lightning in the storm but this is not the short answer is no this is not the end to the trade on here state media and what we're reading analysts

here also believe that this trade war is going to last for months if not years because we've seen that you know these trade talks have been going on you had more than a dozen talks with the chinese listing goshi ages and they almost collapsed last year so you get the sense that phase one was really the low hanging fruit the things that the u.s. and china were able to agree on and that china was able to happily agree on everything that they wanted social they basically just pushed that to phase 2 but phase 2 they're going to have to discuss the real thing is that really at the heart of this trade war that getting to the u.s. the technology race for example some structural changes that china has pretty much said no one been very reluctant to change so there is quite a lot of pessimism as to whether we will even get to a phase 2 let alone a fair use 3 but for now i think china at least the state media here are focusing on the fact that look this is not the end but we're still working on it and that's

the good things are so far that's a that's what we've seen from beijing. the news hour on al-jazeera there's plenty more ahead coming up including the death toll from multiple. 50. and driven to suicide mental health crisis. in europe. spanish football. coach. details coming up with sports. but 1st we go back to one of our main stories those remarks made by iranian president hassan rouhani into iran just a few hours ago as well as sharp criticism of the lack of press freedom in the country coming from some of the country's own journalists let's make some he's the head of american studies department at the university of tehran who's joining us live from the iranian capital thanks for your time with us on the al-jazeera news

hour so rouhani has been saying that those responsible would be the government is going to be held accountable to the people as a result of that plane crash and the next step what we understand is for the judiciary to look into the case and form a tribe you know is this going to be enough to appease people who are clearly very upset and angry at the incidents. well we have to admit that remains to be seen but of course the initial anger we saw in iran was partially due to the persian language media control the known by the united states and western countries like b.b.c. or persian b o a to achieve l a persian and the so the iran international b were peddling rumors that there was a cover up and then gradually came out the iranians had from the very beginning invited international teams from places like ukraine france in the united

states to. participate in the investigation and if there was going to be a cover up they wouldn't have done so also the black box was carefully protected and. you know this gradually showed to the public these accusations who weren't accurate and also recently just recently last night we saw in the new york times also pointed out that the transponder for the plane was not working for the last 30 or 30 seconds before it was hit by a missile so there are lots of questions now being raised about the actual circumstances of what happened but ultimately a great one of the most of them weren't i want to know exactly what. one of the most important questions as well that team used to be asked why iran didn't close its airspace when there were tensions with the united states particularly in that time but how is this all impacting the government in iran that's right.

well it has had an impact and that is one of the questions that needs to be answered but i think the biggest question that was upsetting to many people was was the accusation of a cover up but i think that is gradually disappearing all to me i think one of the things that we have to keep in mind is that in iran there are a host of different political parties newspapers because you are talking about freedom of press and there is a huge debate going on right now in iran about who's to blame what should be done what's the way forward and so i think it's often this is something that's missing in the western media because there is this caricature of iran where it's a closed society in fact iran and there are more media outlets that are actually beamed in from western countries that are very hostile towards iran than the actual media outlets that are that exists inside the country especially t.v.

channels. ok and in the context of all of this what we've seen over the past week is that trump has been doubling down on on sanctions as you know iran has been dealing with the embarrassment of the flights and with the admission of responsibility 1st denial of course how much pressure is this putting iran under. i don't think iran is under a great deal of pressure i mean again this is something that we usually see in western countries it's west wishful thinking that iran is a has been is weak is collapsing it's falling apart i've been hearing this for the last 40 years. we saw in the funeral where 5 to 7000000 people in tehran alone participated in an iconic figure of this republic of iran and that it shows the high degree of legitimacy of the islamic republic and the united states is blamed

universally by iranians for the downing of the plane whatever the circumstances because the united states carried out a war against the iranians by murdering the chinese restaurant you can you deny and . surely you cannot be denying that iranians are upset with their government's own handling of the crisis and the fact that this incident happened in iran and we we've spoken to people from iran and we've spoken to our reporters on the ground who say there is a sense of grief and anger in the country at this incident. yes but i guess. making 2 points one is because you were talking about trump and iran 1st of all i think it's quite obvious that iranians blame the united states 1st and foremost 2nd of all a lot of the anger has subsided now that it's becoming clear to people that the iran that there was no cover up contrary to the rumor rumors promoted by the

persian language media outlet funded in own by western governments that the government from the very beginning invited international teams for the investigation if there was going to be a cover up they wouldn't have done that that the government had the armed forces protected the black box they could have damaged it beyond recognition and say that it was destroyed in the in the crimes they didn't do so they protected it so gradually people came to understand that the truth was very different from that which was being presented to them by iran's untag and this and in addition now we are hearing that the transponder was not working for the last 30 seconds before the missiles hit and that is a crucial point and people are raising questions about what exactly then did happen where for the iranian surface to air missiles why were they if they were fired why was the transponder off who turned off the transponder what caused the transponder

to be turned off ok all right there are more complications than initially meets the eye we'll have to leave it there mohammad marandi thank you for speaking to us from tehran. scientists are urging the total evacuation of nearly a 1000000 people living close to an erupting volcano in the philippines. volcanic tremors have been felt in nearby areas tens of thousands of are already fled their homes since love started spewing on sunday all because of the geography experts have warned of what they call a volcanic tsunami that's when the force from a violent under. water eruption causes destructive waves and in an explosive eruption magma violently spews out instead of losing out this along with heavy ash and tremors has caused the mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people while it's been dormant for 40 years tall has erupted 33 times since 1572 in 1011 an

eruption killed more than 1300 people in general and oregon is an province where people have been evacuated so. we are you know going see how currently in crisis we had just arrived about 10 minutes ago when we were told that we cannot go any further and there are really no civilians left here now most of them are just workers from the local government helping to clear the area but we were told that the water in the lake is going up that it has some levels in the street for the route we were hoping to get to some of the communities i don't feel it's only about 1510 to 15 kilometers from the meat of the book you know it's really clear thinker so i think that which is which means basically that there has are just eruption is imminent making it difficult most specially for local workers who are trying to get the area to meet me just fix cost of. now

a series of avalanches in pakistan administered kashmir over the past 24 hours has killed at least 57 people many more are missing and search and rescue crews save their being slowed by the extreme weather in pakistan heavy snow and rain has contributed to the deaths of dozens of people several main roads are closed and more snow is in the forecast let's get an update from come on haidar who's joining us from the pakistani capital islamabad what are you hearing about the situation. where over the last 24. it has been raining heavily and of course records have been broken graney 5 to 35 year old a direct threat demo create dipping below freezing point and also the heavy snow is encourage made in baluchistan and in the mountainous area of getting got by just on but these are areas which are why you did it but it's because the infrastructure in

grey paul and roared back sometimes a problem especially when did heavy snow is so that imports coming from neelam which is in progress on the administered case made that 57 bodies have been poured out from the collapse of collapsed through because of avalanches and landslides sometimes triggered by the fact that there's been a heavy deforestation india area and because the population is scattered and not going here and traded in one area that they a.d.a.'s quite prone to avignon kids and landslides. ok come on hi guys thank you for that update from islamabad. let's get a check on the weather with kevin that's right daryn and the one thing that we have been missing in australia is rain the good news is we have some rain coming into the forecast of the next few days for the southeastern part of australia we're going to take a look 1st of all i want to tell you down here across the southeast possible australia we are dealing with some very very poor air quality of course with the

bush fires that are burning now so the worse air quality right now across the world is in australia and here in omeo for toria this is on the eastern part of toria they are now reporting $440.00 as a numerical value this is hazardous in around parts of melbourne we're talking $275.00 to $300.00 which is very unhealthy across that area in terms of when the rain is going to start what we have and there of low pressure just to the north of tasmania that's beginning to spin bringing up some instability across the region notice here as we go towards parts of wednesday we are picking up the rain showers that is starting to form it's really as we go towards thursday the heavier rain forms through parts of victoria into new south wales up to queens and as well we are going to be seeing some thunderstorms of social of this as we go towards the next couple of days some of these are going to be quite heavy in terms of the amount of rain that they do produce in terms of how much rain well it could be anywhere between $25.50 millimeters of rain per day and for sydney that means we

are going to be seeing rain here on thursday friday saturday as well as sunday back to you. kevin thank you well still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour a new study says the world's oceans are warming at an alarming rate we'll tell you why the scenes are one of the clearest indicators of the depth of climate change. and the 2 popes could a papal class prevent roman catholic priests from getting married priests. and that's a dog's life in the french alps says musharraf's race over 750 kilometers of mountain ranges all will have more on that story coming up in sports. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wiping out all of the climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 school

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hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our. president has issued a warning to. refrain from teaching have to his forces continue to attack tripoli it follows the breakdown of ceasefire talks between warring sides in moscow iran's president says everyone responsible for the shooting down of the ukrainian airliner last week will be punished. as a special tribunal should investigate what he's calling unforgivable mistake. scientists are urging the total evacuation of nearly a 1000000 people living close to an erupting volcano in the philippines tens of thousands have already fled their homes started spewing on sunday.

as the smoke from bushfires in eastern australia has risen into the lower stratosphere and will stretch around the globe to eventually reach western australia satellite images show the haze drifting over argentina that's 11000 kilometers from australia's east coast rain and cooler conditions are aiding firefighters for now months of some of the worst bushfires on record have killed $28.00 people they've destroyed 2000 homes and raised huge areas of flattened. and the world's oceans have their highest temperature is on record last year and the rate at which they're warming up is speeding up a new study says the amount of heat humans are putting into the water can be compared to a 5 atomic bombs every 2nd warmer oceans lead to a stronger storms and more extreme weather and oceans are the clearest measure of

climate change since they absorb 90 percent off the worlds he. lets me to will steffen he's a climate change expert at the australian national university he's joining us live from canberra via skype thanks very much for your time with us so some astonishing allegations put out by this report what stood out for you well i think what it shows is that when we look at when most of the heat is going as you say actually that over 90 percent goes into the ocean the record is absolutely clear when you look at a 30 year period from the 1950s to the 19 eighties and compare it to the next 30 year period from the 1980 s. to the present the oceans no warming florida has times faster than it was back in the mid 20th century so that showing not only is climate change. the really big issue but it speeding up and speeding up probably more than we've expected and put this into context for us and tell us why it's important to look at the temperature

of the ocean. well it affects many things 1st of all there are many valued ecosystems in the coastal oceans for example coral reefs sea grass beds killed origins and so on they're being decimated by the warming ocean for example 50 percent of the great barrier reef has been killed by a very pleasing events and that's likely to rise very quickly toward 100 percent as the ocean continues to warm in antarctica some of the biggest glaciers that are contributing the sea level rise they're actually grounded below the surface of the ocean so as the surface ocean waters heat up they're melting the glaciers from underneath the stabilizing them increasing the rate of sea level rise and also of course the ocean in the atmosphere the ocean the atmosphere are linked so as the ocean warms it's changing weather patterns it's making droughts more severe it's making rainfall more severe it's changing weather patterns and so on so those of us

like humans who live on land we get affected by a warming ocean as well. and to expect this report to be some sort of a wake up call because we often and more often than not that is talk about these reports that are put out on a regular basis so what do you think this report is actually going to achieve. well hopefully it will add to the other events that are occurring like the bushfires in history lia other events around the world as a wake up call to say we are running out of talent it's a bit like the titanic the titanic of course crashed into the iceberg in the 1920 s. and so on by the time they realized they were getting close to that iceberg it was too late they couldn't change the course of the ship we saw it this is saying it's really getting late now it's almost getting too late and if we don't start changing our behavior our use of fossil fuels and cetera we could past the point of no return where feedbacks internal dynamics in the earth may continue to warm it even

as we get our greenhouse gases down so there is there is a tipping point a point of no return in the system and we're concerned that the risk that we're coming close to that is increasing this evidence of what's happening in the ocean is a very important very big piece of evidence to say that we are really entering dangerous waters all right we'll leave it there will stephan thank you for speaking to us from cambra thank you my pleasure. now haiti's government is in disarray and president john l. moise says he may have to rule by decree until new elections are held but that's got people worried about what it could mean for haiti's fragile democracy at a time of severe economic hardship terrorism reports from port au prince. president. will be facing some tough questions in the next few days maurice could be running the country on his own from now on after the mandate of congress and 2

thirds of the senate expired on monday maurice blamed congressman for the current situation that has left the country without a legit image government. under snow in 2018 a cold on palm and to an extraordinary session to vote on the electoral law this did not happen and again in november and 28 we seem to budget the parliament there were millions of dollars for elections in january the budget was sent back to the executive that was supposed to vote for the electoral law and the prime minister and they never did the president didn't say when elections will take place and announced he will use the money spent on congressman salaries to build schools the failure to hold elections has left haiti in a constitutional back when the president says that this is a unique opportunity to push for structural reforms that would help this country move forward but there are lots of fear that this could lead to abuse of power 6. these people say they want more yeas and the congressman out they blame them for

the current economic situation that millions of patients face every day was told that mismanagement of the fund which is the program of subsidize always from venezuela angered many here 6. we asked for a clean slate because we want everybody to go they stole money from petrograd e bay and built themselves next to the beach but nothing else the un says that the terror rate in. konami conditions including low growth high inflation and then increase in the cost of basic food items have had a negative impact on the humanitarian situation millions are going hungry because. there is no investment in the public sector there is no of this move to the private sector so we are in a situation of total fracture of the economy and this effect is situational for actioning we need to work on a national reorganization and this cannot be done with juvenile moisi because he

has shown his capacity to rule. the organization of american states and members of the international community say they're negotiating with all political parties to prevent chaos in the country. but there are many who claim the international community has prevented real political change because it has supported a political class that has been unable to resolve the serious conditions haitians face every day. and port au prince anti-corruption investigators in malawi say they're looking into allegations that judges were offered bribes to switch the results of the presidential election peter with a rico was reelected last may despite a legal challenge by opposition leaders who tried to a no result because of vote tampering. france and its partner nations in africa region have agreed to unite their troops under one command to better fight armed

groups at a summit in southwest france the leaders of mali burkina faso nazaire mauritania and chad also asked the u.s. not to pull troops out of the region a move the pentagon is considering francis' to send $220.00 more soldiers. prelate the city they say the priority is the islamic state of the greatest harwich doesn't prevent us from fighting against all terrorist groups but this is the main enemy because the most dangerous as we have seen to reach the subject of we are changing methods by implementing a joint military coalition between biocon and the joint forces of the g 5 and concentrating our efforts in the. south sudan's warring factions have agreed to a ceasefire from wednesday after talks in rome opposition leaders representatives from president salva kiir as government say they've signed a deal to stop the violence fighting has kong. but there are still frequent

outbreaks tens of thousands of people have been killed since the civil war began in 2013 that's just 2 years after south sudan gained independence greece is toughening it stands on asylum seekers taking away their rights to health care and social security payments it's a reflection of tension between greek society and refugees the 2nd of a series of reports of the main overland route from greece through craig lawrence lee went to one greek village where refugees growing sense of isolation is having tragic consequences. like many greek villages mauritius is mostly. they were preparing for a funeral when we arrived. but in this village of 600 people they have other worries than the dead in the hotel over the railway line 400 refugees are being housed it isn't going well. the 1st time i saw them i felt

fear i saw faces full of anger i could see them thinking that i would say from my house why we suffering. i used to keep my daughter's bicycle outside but one of them tried to take it they've got to know if they don't understand anything. the other day the villages met and told the police they were feeling unprotected and said they were thinking about themselves with guns against the refugees. obviously everyone has to do something and if we don't have a weapon we'll find something else other hotel they know all about this but it's not the main problem there's a mental health crisis to contend with. the same took us to the place where a few days ago an afghan man who'd been wrongly told his wife and children had been moved somewhere else without him hanged himself from a tree the next day hussein's friend riyadh hanged himself inside the hotel his

entire family had been killed in iraq he complained his severe depression was being ignored his funeral wasn't quite so well attended as the one in the village had enough and. he told them what had happened to his family they gave me an injection and he was like a robot 20 came back he was saying every day i'm not ok i'm not ok and they did nothing for him. over the last few months the incoming center right greek government has scaled back medical and psychiatric support for refugees to prove to an increasingly hostile public that it's on their side here they can bandage their feet but not their minds. only about mental health care they need an operation a follow up after operations x. rays. it's much more difficult to find a place where the people and the sad truth is that the story of morris is in

microcosm a reflection of how europe has failed to get on top of refugee resettlement and to heal people even in hospitable greece these 2 groups of people are worlds apart lawrence lee al jazeera morris told in greece. wadah khanfar is trying to downplay a slip at the top of the roman catholic church over whether priests should be allowed to marry hope francis is considering easing some restrictions on celibacy to address a shortage of clergymen that prompted an extraordinary intervention from his predecessor as they've barker reports. it is a central question in the roman catholic church should priests maintain the centuries old stance on celibacy. now 2 popes past and present could find themselves on different sides of the debate. pope

benedict the 16th who pledged to remain hidden from the world when he retired in 2013 has broken his silence to passionately defend celibacy in a new book benedict who became the 1st pope in more than 600 years to resign because of ill health so the traditional hours priests to focus on. the comments come at a time when pope francis is considering easing a ban on married men serving as priests south american bishops have called for a change to help end a shortage of priests particularly in indigenous communities in the amazon. pope francis the 1st latin american pope is said to have an instinctive understanding of the region's challenges. it is pope francis who will make any final decision but the surprise intervention from pope benedict under schools fundamental divisions of the 1300000000 member church many catholics who ever deny francis and benedict have different views on married priests what benedict believes about priestly celibacy

is exactly the same as what pope francis believes the senate on the amazon asked him look at there are communities who don't get a priest even once a year could we consider ordaining some deacons who are there who are married with families and this is something the pope is considering and i said except. i'm sure that if he says yes benedict would be happy with it and he says the same. priests who converted to catholicism are allowed to carry on in their ministries but some traditionalists within the roman catholic church fear that pope francis is leading them in a direction they don't want to follow. the close is becoming pope francis has emerged as a reformer tackling sexual abuse and corruption within the church he also seems willing to consider loosening a grip on conservative values so important to his predecessors the. london sports is coming up in just

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hello again time for the sports news with paul during thank you very much the australian open tennis grand slam starts in less than a week but the bushfire crisis is threatening to derail the tournament qualifying was delayed in melbourne and when it did gets underway one player was forced to retire from how much because of smoke slovenia's delila cooper which needed oxygen

midway through how much that it didn't work and she was clearly in some distress struggling to breathe she was unable to continue and was helped off the colts canada's also needed medical treatment before winning her qualifier and across town an exhibition match involving maria sharapova was called off early. men's world number one rafael nadal was forced to practice indoors because of the smoke organizers last week said there's little chance of delaying the main told meant and that if necessary play would be confined to the 3 roof stadiums and 8 indoor courts tennis australia bosses defended the decision to allow play on tuesday. this morning when you got up the smoke haze was significant and and based on that advice we made a decision to suspend practice. and as a result to start the match as the qualifying matches in l.a. to then it was originally scheduled during the period when it's been a practice and we started the matches there was an improvement in the conditions.

and and also then we took the advice the medical advice as well as the sciences advice and that of the media logy and and made a decision to continue continue with play it. and we take into account a number of variables whether it be visibility particulate matter there are different levels of particular medicine pm 2 point 5 pm 10 and based on those based on those measures will be making a decision across a range based on medical advice as to whether we continue like that how bad. the quality was poor this morning and so based on the equality in the ratings on site we made the decision to suspend play a big cheating scandal has rocked american sports with the houston astros baseball team now forced to sack both their manager and general manager it's a far cry from these scenes just over 2 years ago. so i kept thinking i was sure. the 1st time

a fraction story this was the astros winning their 1st world series title back in 2017 but it's now emerged that joining that campaign they used a camera to steal pitching signals from opponents major league baseball says they damaged the integrity of the game so handed them the maximum $5000000.00 fine and stripped them of their 1st and 2nd draft picks. while these 2 men have taken the biggest hits as manager a.j. hench and general manager jeff learn how received a one year suspension by l.b. and have now been fired by the astros we want to be known as playing by the rules we broke the rules we accept the punishment and we're going to move forward it's very unfortunate neither one of those guys implemented this or pushed it through the system it really came from the bottom up it's pretty clear in the report how that happened but neither one of them did anything about it and that's unfortunate and the consequences are severe. and basketball bron james was up against his

former team the cleveland cavaliers on monday and he didn't go easy on them scoring 31 points to set up another lakers when lebron was in majestic form against his hometown team dude who lost on a championship in 26 days that's his mission with the lakers now and he combined with fellow veteran joint howard to set out their title credentials. howard with 21 points but le bron can't be shown when he's in this mood his heart still in cleveland but his skills belong to the lakers that top of the west after 9 straight wins 128 to 99 the score in this one. spanish football champions barcelona have sacked their coach and velvety despite being at the top of a league he took training on monday but has paid the price for $3.00 draws and a defeat in the catalans last 5 games has already been replaced after the club made a very public search for a new coach while velvety was still in charge and this is the man who stepped straight into his shoes key was coach of real betis until last year but also has

the likes of equitorial guinea on his c.v. following a 20 year playing career he was reportedly passes 3rd choice after they approach their former players you have a hand as under ronald koeman before settling on such and on monday the son of barcelona's dutch legend johan cruyff your decrease has been appointed as the new head coach of ecuador you already had a 20 year playing career including spells at manchester united is worked as a coach for clubs in israel and china but this is his 1st major coaching role his 1st game in charge against little masses argentina march well this is clearly a very big deal in ecuador even the country's president leonine moreno turned up for cross unveiling in the capital quito he said a few words on stage. we remember the seventy's we had the immense pleasure to see how football was opening to a new era and it was done under the leadership of the great captain of clockwork

orange your father the great troy boxing now and tyson fury is predicting hill knock out within the 1st 6 minutes of the heavyweight rematch next month. came face to face at a press conference in los angeles which is where their 1st fight ended in a draw just over a year ago britain's fury felt he did enough to beat the american last time despite being knocked down twice so he's not leaving anything to chance this time around. i'm going to knock him out i don't knock him out the 1st time i look to get a decision get it you know knock him out this time. to help me where my focus. senses. blindfold so i can feel the punches to i'm ready now like i sort of only got 40 pounds so i'm really on set to what i want to be ok wait what is. going to be in fire like it was the 1st time i think the controversy this isn't that the referee gave me. a 2nd time around. so the youth olympics in

switzerland where the speed skating is underway despite concerns over the warm weather the event is being held on lake summer it's away from the host city there were worries that the lake wouldn't be frozen enough but as you can see it did go ahead and this was the netherlands murcia de boer winning gold in the women's 1500 meters. over to the french alps where one of the world's most challenging dog sledding races is underway the condo the say someone mobile is a 11 day marathon for the world's top mushers and their homes they travel 750 kilometers up and down the mountains both in sunlight and lamplight due to the short winter days with temperatures as low as minus $22.00 degrees celsius insurance wise the dogs are the total front saw fleets of the animal world needing 10000 calories a day to keep going. we'll see later on thank you very much for that update and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera folley back to both of you in just

a moment so how much more news coming your way thanks for watching by. the floor of the burning spied utopian dreams of peace and democracy but how many came to pass they transformed from the social democrats but it was a fake democracy people in power travels through the former eastern bloc to wasp-y. post cold war optimism to succumb to darker more authoritarian realities the police called a couple who brought a bomb to the march and they were ready to detonate beyond the wall part 2 on

al-jazeera. cultura downs thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to be abrasive need take their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are and whether. this is a suburb of the capital new delhi tibet so the refugees here since 1964 buttons here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up better businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. when paul in the open top the british m p h is the european parliament it's not a cold to pull in it's impossible for the people to build a school or link up our people 'd don't want to take. the lead that it falls on

a stronger man or song woman while getting the growth of rejectionism it's called it all because the model doesn't work europe's forbidden colony episode 2 on al-jazeera. turkey's president criticizes the failure of libya's cease fire talks saying moscow and after the breakdown in negotiations reports of a buildup of forces loyal to warlord ready for have to libya's capital tripoli. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back also coming up iran's president promises that everyone involved in the ukrainian plane tragedy will be punished. for cannick tremors wrong parts of

a philippines that's causing war to evacuate up to a 1000000 people.