al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm stan grant this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes seeking peace in libya greece just war lord holy for after to work towards a cease fire and expel mercenaries from his fighting force. china reports its slowest annual growth in nearly 30 years as it is embroiled in a trade war with the u.s. . we fly by the tal volcano in the philippines getting a bird's eye view of the damage caused what is a ruptured. at

a show of support for the gambia is ousted president thousands rallied calling for those we turn from exile. and in sport color sciences won the dakar rally the spaniard winning the world's highest profile off-road race for 3rd son. libyan warlord have a for have to has held talks with greece's prime minister in athens as part of international efforts to win the conflict in his country after is in greece ahead of a peace conference on libya that will be held in berlin on sunday. criticised its own exclusion from the un backed talks it says it should be included because tripoli has signed a maritime and military deal with its regional rival turkey well let's go live now to john psaropoulos who's standing by for. in athens john tell us what you're

hearing about these talks. the prime minister and general if i have to still in session those talks started about 2 hours ago and we haven't heard what the result of those has been presumably will be statements but we did hear what emerged from the discussion between general have to and the greek foreign minister nikos then the us earlier in the day the then the us announced that he and the general had agreed that the general should travel to these talks in a constructive spirit to achieve a cease fire that achieves some security for libya that removes foreign mercenaries from libyan soil that in force is an arms embargo to prevent the influx of new weapons to the 2 sides and that. the turkey libyan maritime agreement which ruffled the feathers of the government here last november demarcating a corridor of water across the mediterranean which sits on top of greece's maritime

jurisdiction and. greatly exacerbates the standing dispute between greece and turkey over these maritime jurisdictions in the eastern mediterranean those things mr then there said were agreed by both sides and presumably general have to will uphold those positions and talks on this maritime agreeing that obviously is crucial to greece is the case that greece believes that it has merits on law on its side in any dispute that may arise. yes the greek side i mean greece is a signatory to the international law of the sea under the united nations turkey is not cyprus also is a signatory cyprus along with its eastern mediterranean partners did delineate exclusive economic zones and continental shelves in conformity with international maritime law the law of the sea greece has not done this greece and turkey have had

an open views about this since 1973. those talks did resume briefly in 20022002. and then carried on for a few years thereafter and much diminished form nothing much from them officially but on officially. foreign ministry officials on both sides had reached a certain level of understanding it's very unclear whether the 2 sides would pick up where they left off if as the greek side has been requesting they ever came together now to talk about where they would set their continental shelves and exclusive economic zones these govern the exploitation of maritime well such as fisheries but also undersea well such as gas and oil and there's a lot of drilling activity going on in the eastern mediterranean now the greeks have also sold certain blocks concessions in their southern and western waters to

foreign companies where they expect exploration to start soon and the turkish state exploration company says it plans to start exploration this year in waters that are also claimed by greece so clearly this is the big issue behind the dispute at the moment john thank you john psaropoulos live there let's go to tripoli mahmoud abdul wahed head then a sense that fighting has continued in libya despite diplomatic efforts. but we remember that since. turkey started deploying deploying troops and also providing the government with weapons have those forces have been striving to proceed further into this city southern neighborhoods but remember that also the russian medicine that is from the wagner's company fighting along would have to forces they were taking the lead in the battle in several neighborhoods in

southern tripoli but they were told by the government forces led by turkish experts and military experts and also military leaders on the ground this is the way she remains very dangerous this by. the truce being put in place as the n.o.c. that's the national oil corporation stated that civil trucks were set on fire by a random rocket that was launched by have to us forces and head on oil storage tanks in southern tripoli and also one worker was injured in that attack. well russia's top diplomat says no matter the outcome of the berlin peace conference more is needed to bridge the divide gravity the most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the security

council supports the conclusions from the conference if the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other as of now the relationships between them are very strange they don't even want to be in the same rooms let alone speak or meet each other. china's president has arrived in me about his 1st official visit school children lined the streets in the capital nightly door to grow. expected to sign a $1300000000.00 deal to build a port in retired state that's where a 1000000 bars military is suspected of carrying out a genocidal campaign which is forced more than $700000.00 people from the minority rohingya to flee to neighboring bangladesh in 2017 well al jazeera is katrina a year joins us live from beijing to train a obviously trade is important there what else is on the agenda for seating being in mandel. that's why it's full she is

going to my own are to to celebrate this 70 of the 70 years of relations between my yanmar and china. my own as one of the 1st countries to of recognize china after its founding as a as a republic and she didn't thing as written in the man in the papers about how close these 2 countries are so china sees itself as sort of a big brother role in my own mind mandarin turn have really literally rolled out the welcome mat for xi jinping the welcoming him as well as all the chinese investment that he's going to bring in my i am a very much needs this as as you mentioned there's been a lot of criticism of the landmine government's handling of the root crisis and a lot of western investment has dried up so china bringing in this this $1000000000.00 more than a $1000000000.00 worth of investment is something that's very much needed and they'll be talking about various projects there's a deep seaport to those railway projects as also commercial zones and young gone

and she didn't think it's also going to want to try to kickstart or restart the development of a controversial dam project that's been idle since about 2011 because the local community there protested against its building protested against having to be roped relocated for the dam to be built so while we have seen some very enthusiastic welcome for xi jinping today we are expecting also conversely some protests tomorrow with some people who are not very happy that he's there there is also some concern that with china being there pouring all this investment now we have to remember that china's mine must biggest trading partner already there are also fears that my most becoming overreliant on beijing as well as the way that beijing is conducting some of the the projects in my arm are some say that it's not exactly a win for them and my people it's more win for china to trade if i could ask you the story there is from the bring you some news on. china's economy growth there

was slowed to almost 3 a 3 decade low its g.d.p. grew by just 6 point one percent in $29.00 that's the lowest since $990.00 but still within the government's target the world's 2nd largest economy has been stifled by the ongoing trade war with the u.s. exporters have been facing steep american tariffs on wednesday the 2 sides signed phase one of a try deal to ease the tensions katrina just tell us if you could from there what the view is of this trade deal whether that will put a floor under what we've seen is easing of economic growth within china. well yesterday the chinese government held the trail the trade deal with the u.s. and today we saw the g.d.p. figures china is really selling this at least to the chinese public as a week of positive news for the chinese economy for weeks now we've actually been

seeing sort of editorials and articles in chinese newspapers kind of prepping the chinese public saying look we know that we cannot sort of maintain the levels of growth the the speed of growth we had in the last 10 years in the last 20 years so sort of preparing people for maybe a figure that was not very high so here the news today with the 6 point one percent in g.d.p. was actually seen as a positive thing as positive news that the government succeeded indeed in meeting its target of which they forecast earlier last year which was between the 6 percent and the 6.5 percent as you mentioned now no mention of the trade war playing any part in the sort of slowing of china's growth think china has been very reluctant to say that the trade wars have any had any negative impact although we've seen some very obvious negative impact with a lot of factories along china's southern manufacturing belt having to close since the trade war began china is trying to push this as look we can't have the same

levels of growth but we still have had some wins for example monthly consumer spending is now 50 times more than it was 30 years ago per capita income is more than $10000.00 u.s. dollars which is the highest it's ever been in which is in line with xi jinping is planned to create in china a moderately prosperous society so that's the way china saying it but of course the reality is look this growth number is 30 years. the slowest we are the lowest we've seen in 30 years and there are some other problems that they're tackling running unemployment more financial risk so the government is going to really work hard this year to put some measures in place to to sort of put off the downturn things like a monetary stimulus as well as some tax cuts. katrina thank you katrina you live for us in beijing let's take a look now at how china's economy has performed in the last 3 decades china's economic rise took shape in the 990 s. it began with a relatively low growth rate of 3.9 percent of $990.00 it soon hit

a high of 14.2 percent and that was in just 2 years but the asian market crash in the late ninety's saw the g.d.p. slowed to 7.7 in the last year of that decade growth once again picked up in the 1st years of the next decade the 2008 financial crisis though the economy hard as demand for chinese exports fill but g.d.p. still grew at 9.7 percent much the most industrialized economies china's economy has not grown above the 7 percent mark in the last 5 years and as we've been reporting as now he is. 30 year low of 6 point one percent who are green is a child around a list of the research consultancy ts long he joins us from london it's nice to have you with us you know of course there's some hand-wringing about this lowest number in 30 years but 6 percent it's double the average global growth in any developed economy would be celebrating with those sorts of numbers there are signs

of some stabilise ation is this really cause for concern. hi stan yeah i would agree of the the number is it's the lowest in 29 years but we see some very positive signs of stabilization you certainly look at it the comparison between the chew 3 in the queue for numbers for g.d.p. and i'm for china's industrial production retail say i was investment you can see are real clear improvement in there is none of us so we actually think that in the china in chinese economy of bottomed out in a cent for a relatively stable period out of of strong stable to strong period of economic growth that said though rory there are some real the troubling potentially troubling underlines use year you've got an aging or cornel me is an aging tom tree is be knowledge there's a load birth right consumers are not spending as much there is been low growth in wages and when you trying to transition economy from being heavily invested in

industrial output in exports and focusing more on domestic consumption then not good signals are though that is correct china is in a very tricky transition period or it's as you say is trying to shift away from a credit fueled investment driven economy towards a more high tech consumption. fueled growth model and at the moment it's kind of caught in the middle of the consumption is not strong enough the technology upgrading has been carried out at such a high pace so it's still having to rely on investment and credit to to boost economic growth again continues to build up problems within the system debt continues to grow and until this transition successfully occurs china is very tricky balancing act to maintain here and debts growing as you say and yet we're

still hearing that there may be room for more more stimulus a need for more stimulus how does china manage that balancing act between worries about did and the and the need to continue to boost that economy. the new buzzword is scientific stimulus they're looking to do very much sort of targeted measures really sort of a much smaller the level of credit growth of fiscal spending than in the past but much more effective so this year the emphasis is going to be more on government local government infrastructure spending whereas last year was a big tax cut so the tax cut was larger but the multiplier effect is much lower than winning directly spent on infrastructure so they're looking to do much more targeted stimulus efforts to keep growth ticking along who are growing a pleasure to have you on the program thank you andy. well as i just mentioned

birth rights in china have reached the lowest level since the beginning of communist rule in 949 it's adding to concerns about aging society a string king workforce the chinese government the last district one child policy in 2016 this wide that the number of births is for one every year since there was plenty more hate on the news hour including hoping to reach america hundreds of migrants into guatemala to join a rapidly growing towers that. lives taken by groups in music and the toll on the families left behind. at school is an imperfect terror for the basketball team or used to sitting in the games highest standards. for the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump will resume on tuesday the legal process was set in motion

in the senate on thursday after house democrats read out the charges that trump faces he has denounced the trial as a cong job by the democrats castro has more from washington d.c. . the ceremony laden impeachment trial of president donald trump is now under way very eerie. all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. using the powers of his high office president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government ukraine in the 2020 united states presidential election john roberts the chief justice of the us supreme court has taken an oath to become presiding officer i do in turn swearing in the members of the senate just to become impartial jurors so help you god. but an impeachment trial under u.s. law is not just a judicial proceeding it is

a proceeding that is both legal and political with most of the jurists who will decide the president's guilt or innocence being members of his own political party and in an election year there is little reason to believe that republican senators when a vote to remove their own leader from the white house in the recent polling shows most americans expect a fair trial in the senate distro not one rigged in the president's favor the democrats say to get that they need to open the proceedings to new witnesses and new evidence that appear to incriminate trump further the president is blocking them and again the american people just about all of them are asking the question what is the president hiding this chamber exist perseid sleep for schussler not a president so that we can look past the daily dramas and understand how our actions will reverberate for generations so that we can put aside

animal reflexes and animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country now the senate has summoned president trump to answer the impeachment charges it's a hoax it's a hoax everybody knows that but it's unlikely he'll make an appearance it's his attorneys who will plead his innocence in opening arguments scheduled for next week heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well president trump apparently knew about if it's to percy ukraine into investigating former vice president joe biden and his son that's according to a former associate of trump's personal lawyer president trump know exactly what was going on he was aware of all my movements live parness worked with rudy giuliani and admits he personally delivered messages from the president to the ukrainians trump's supporters made up the allegations to avoid federal charges that he's facing trump has denied knowing him. i don't know partners other that i guess i had pictures taken which i do with thousands of people including people today that i

didn't meet but just better i don't know him at all don't know what he's about don't know where he comes from don't know think about him. more than 2000 people have entered guatemala in the fast growing migrant caravan heading to the u.s. most are escaping poverty or gang violence in honduras but as john holmes reports it's unlikely they'll ever even step on u.s. soil. a caravan of more than 2700 homebrewed and hoping to get to the u.s. . it's one of several that have set out from honduras since 2018 carrying many seeking to escape violence and extreme poverty i was among also men where i meet is a coffee grower is traveling with his youngest son he says they've no choice and then what they don't know i have big debts and one douras that i just can't pay because your work doesn't pay enough to support even yourself. this woman says her

nephews were killed over christmas and she's left so they can't get her son to she's too scared to let us film her face when you are. losing a son would hit me more than anything else we've already made the decision even if they don't let us pass we can't go back. to now at the cost and then we could run to shelter in guatemala city is safe and have medical care food and a place to sleep even if it is only under the top pulled in that $5.00 of them out of the center direct through setting up he expected more than a 1000 i asked how they were going to fit in the mother they have to do what else are we going to do we have to work miracles here that's the situation we're in those in the caravan would be more miracles heading north mexico under pressure from u.s. president donald trump has said he won't let them through those who do manage to get to the u.s. border find disappointment right at the moment the 1st caravan of congo to is trying to get through guatemala and eventually to the united states plane loads of

their countrymen are actually being sent back you already got there and asked for asylum to hear what the mother and that tells you how little. they chances are of that actually being accepted for asylum at the end of this journey mouse here knows that he's one of those who've gone past caravans without success ask him why he's trying again not believe them or not put the lid on them and then we have nothing to lose because in honduras we have nothing you understand our lives are at risk in honduras as we leave the shelter people are queuing to get in they know their journey is only going to get harder but they're still going on john home and how does it work tamala city. well the tal volcano in the philippines has had fewer tremors and weaker emissions but it still poses a threat that's why people are being urged to leave the high risk areas al-jazeera is jamila island dogan joined government officials who took flight to monitor the volcano is quite a. these government officials want a closer look at the rumbling

a volcano so they've come to this military air base in the town this province the plan to fly over the crater of the top. and decide how to respond to the threat it continues to pose it's been days since that erupted but the crisis is far from over. we flew over the past city towards our late what we saw there was beyond human comprehension. of what was once a popular tourist destination is now on recognizable. from above we can see the end it was killed when it came no spewing steam and lava farmlands this is showing communities damaged profitless in crisis but in the middle of the destruction some are tearing to return for many this is all that they have left

. we finally reach the volcano squitieri. this is what alert level for looks like up close experts are warning their eruption is imminent. seconds later a fountain of plaques steam. and the pilot has to mcgiver quickly to escape a reminder of how child the situation is. the very 1st bite of the fish from the philippines. that hour and how long the script called very open areas affected by now ok no eruption and what they had so far they say. what we saw you. expect. the people. and it was heartbreaking to see the devastation. as far as the military is concerned we know that a lot though. to be done in the. distance. and focus more

than 50000 people have been evacuated from a 40 kilometer zone. but beyond the physical discomfort officials say it is the uncertainty of what might happen next that the government to prepare for the worst will can it eruptions are difficult to accurately predict but more are expected and government officials see there leaving nothing to chance. but on this province northern philippines. let's check the weather now we can use for a strike yes some welcome news to see right and in fact there's more about to come as well because we're talking of course about the rain else the pushing into the southeast over the last few days out it is actually lingering in the southeast as well so that is some good news not just of this because this is southwest queensland massive dust storm erupted here it was ahead of some thunderstorms and

then look at this this is somewhere else in queensland and you can see all this mud so i guess you call it kind of mud skiing really but out imagine after the recent dry spell of course people are very very keen on pleased to see this rain now this is a ses where the system is this is the current weather conditions even see this massive band of rain just sitting there off the eastern side of new south wales and queensland as well we have seen some showers across victoria but the rain the north as heavy and then as we actually take it forward and look at what's happened with the rain will this is unfortunately what is one of the downsides this rain this is actually some is b. which is in new south wales and the has been some tremendous flooding some flash floods so this is actually reptiles and that's rescue of the koalas it's actually that had to close the part the 1st time only since 2007 when the floods close it before there is a rain through saturday very heavy just sitting off the coast but really beginning to accumulate whole way up into queensland so for the next. few days in brisbane we

have got scattered showers and thunderstorms it's all pretty good but the only downside againstand really is the accumulation in some areas could see turning 50 millimeters that of course could lead to some flooding but at least 50 to 100000000 says it's better than nothing it's a land of extremes by countries that are from one to the other. still ahead on al-jazeera we speak to a polish judge who is being labeled an enemy of the studies and is not the only one we're going to find out why and why venezuelans are increasingly turning away from their talents to the ball of and chasing the u.s. dollar instead in sport the 5 time major title with it is out to prove he can still be a gulf in. the form of the burning inspired you to pin dreams of peace and democracy but how many came to pass they transformed from communist the social democrats but it was

a fake democracy people in power travels through the former eastern bloc to ask why post cold war optimism has succumbed to darker more storage area in reality the police called a cop or brought a bomb to the notch and they were ready to detonate beyond the wall part 2 on al jazeera in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children. over 20 years. where insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of mean continues with good morning groups india on how to 0.

you're watching al-jazeera his reminder of our top stories libyan wall orderly for half the has held talks with greek prime minister and foreign minister in athens it's part of the latest international effort to win the conflict in libya a conference on the be a bit on the way in germany on sunday. china's president is in may and bob for his 1st official visit schoolchildren lined the streets to welcome in china is expected to invest in the kind state that's where a 1000000 miles military town carried out of 10 planes against the growth minority . china's economic growth has slowed to almost 3 decades lower its g.d.p. grew by 6 point one percent in 2019 that's the lowest since 99 the world's 2nd largest economy has been hit by the ongoing trade war with the u.s. . the u.s.

military has confirmed that some of its soldiers were injured in an iranian attack in iraq will be this month washington had initially denied anyone was hurt the missiles targeted the. military base north of baghdad they were launched in retaliation to the assassination of iranian military commander qassam so the money it a u.s. drone strike the u.s. says $11.00 soldiers have been treated for contention in kuwait and germany gabrial is on dover's in washington d.c. and he says the troops are expected to return to iraq after their treatment. it does not appear to be serious injuries nevertheless this is what the pentagon is telling us they say that after the missile attacks on the base many of the service members were screened for concussions which they say is very common the blast from missiles can cause buildings to shake and rattle and and can cause potentially

concussions in people that are even outside of the immediate impact zone once these tests were done on multiple service members that were at that base that needed further screening they showed signs of some sort of concussions that were they suffered after the blasts from those missile rocket launches the service members have been transported to a u.s. air base in germany to a u.s. air base in kuwait and they say they're doing further testing the military says this is all part of standard procedure no one is in any sort of life threatening injuries or anything like that in fact the military says that they are expected after the screening is complete to be sent back to iraq so that's what we know now there are injuries or i should say there were injuries that this is the 1st time that it was being disclosed i should point out but it does not appear to be very serious but some a binge of a visit. just a few days ago he has more now on the strike and what it reveals about the

capabilities of iran's military. the kind of destruction we saw was a reminder that this could have gone. in the opposite direction and the extent of the damage was quite a lot of soldiers there were telling us that they were not there training prepares them for the worst case scenario and there is nothing that prepares them for a ballistic missile strike it also showed you the kind of defense mechanisms that they had in the base many were afraid that this is going to be a rocket attack which will be followed by a ground incursion so those are the kind of fear is that they had on site and the the the damage was so extensive those big t. was that you see being set up by a large cranes were taken off like lego blocks and they had fallen on at least one of the bunkers which was adjacent to sleeping quarters of some soldiers where one contractor was inside and that was one of the people who was injured as well so it does show that they came very close to a conflict where u.s.

servicemen are contractors could have been killed but it also does show according to military analysts the kind of capability that iran has developed over the years because it can hit precise targets it perhaps did not want to kill u.s. soldiers but wanted to show that it can launch missiles from iran hit u.s. targets in the region and get away with it because it does not want to create a situation where many u.s. servicemen would have been killed as you've seen from the u.s. president saying that if a u.s. citizen is killed he is going to respond in force ukraine's prime minister has offered his resignation of relief recording in which he criticized the president a list key honcho or to the village of the hood saying the volodymyr selenski knows nothing about the economy on facebook and sharks since he submitted his resignation to remove any doubt that he respects and trusts the president. well supporters of

the gambians ousted leader have demonstrated in the capital to demand his return has been living in exile iniquitous oriel guinea since losing the presidential election in 2016 nicholas uk has more. they want him back. yeah maybe loathed by many gambians for his repressive 22 year long rule in which human rights organizations believe thousands were tortured and killed but this crowd loves him calling him the builder of bridges they're members of his political party the alliance for patriotic reorientation and construction also known as the a p.r.c. he can come as a private citizen and he stands for. them to president but most and we want to be in front to be the president of this country we see what you've done to this country and in town hall one we've seen it is a busy month. 3 years ago he said he would rule the gambia for

a 1000000000 years he was forced out of power into exile when west african forces intervened when he refused to concede defeat after losing the 2016 presidential election it is from the comfort of his farm in equitorial guinea that the 54 year old former president is watching events unfold in his country with many disappointed with current president adam a barrow's leadership you are no supreme leader you want him here among his supporters are nostalgic for the stability that came with his regime and so in a recorded phone conversation to party leaders he says he wants to come home. john may believes he has an agreement to with the african union and west african leaders allowing him to return to the gambia while he may get a hero's welcome from his party supporters victims of torture and those that lost

loved ones at the hands of job security forces want to see him back in the country as well but to face justice nicholas hawk al-jazeera. iran's supreme leader has criticized several european states saying they can't be trusted in negotiations over the 25th day nuclear deal. made the comments during friday prayers it's the 1st time he's led the men in tehran in years been a told thousands of worshipers that european states were servants of the u.s. on tuesday france britain and germany triggered a formal disappears in the nuclear agreement and that could lead to un sanctions being reimbursed. catheter is living a campaign of pressure on iran for it to be held fully accountable for downing a ukrainian passenger jet prime minister justin trudeau will speak again about the crash on friday $63.00 of the 176 people on board the flight were canadian ministers from countries who lost citizens made in london was their. a moment of

reflection for the 176 victims of flight p.s. 752 countries united in grief together in the british capital that demanding accountability compensation and eventual closure canada lost 57 people it's the merged as the leading voice in the fight for justice there are many many questions families want answers all of the countries assembled here today want and serves and the international community wants and search the world is waiting for those answers and who will not rest until we get to them iran initially denied responsibility for the crash a plane technical failure but later admitted that it shot down the aircraft mistaking it for a u.s. cruise missile it happened several hours after iran launched

a ballistic missile strike against u.s. forces in iraq it was sponsor the u.s. drone killing of top iranian general kassam selim ani and investigations now underway in iran experts from several countries have been allowed to provide technical assistance in the probe ukrainian experts are analyzing the plane's black box data recorders but so far few details have been released getting to the heart of what happened to flight p.s. 752 will require cooperation between all of the countries involved but in recent days rhetoric surrounding iran's controversial nuclear program has escalated and now the u.k. france and germany threatening new sanctions against the country. the deal was agreed in 2015 to limit the country's nuclear capability to return for lifting economic sanctions washington withdrew from the agreement in 2018 iran's been dropping its commitments ever since and is now enriching more you radium them before the nuclear deal responding to the threat of fresh sanctions president has

done ruini said european soldiers in the middle east could be in danger this tense political climate of mutual distrust and suspicion could hamper investigators working together to establish how and why so many lives were lost. in london. activists in this year calling for action against attacks by armed groups in the same hill at least 170 soldiers have been killed in less than 2 months and thousands of people have been displaced and as our reports from the capital niamey mounting casualties left many families struggle. the images on edu motors mobile phone are the only memories left of 20 year old up to lizzie's was drafted into the nature of the. it was one of the casualties of the latest attack on religious soldiers e.d. a retired military officer was the last member of the family to speak with them.

in his last call to us he requested us to pray for him when you lose someone and see the corpse that's gives you closure like not for us we've not seen these bodies for us that's like killing twice is not among those whose bodies were found. he wants government to investigate the circumstances of the attack and why his body has not been found. recently lost at least 160 soldiers into attacks carried out by fighters linked to the group has claimed it killed more than 100 soldiers in the attack on chino gaudet alone. the continuing violence has left many families struggling with the emotional and economic impact. who's husband was killed in the conflict runs a support organization walking with affected families. but. we don't need to

say oh it's hard to explain to you how it feels to lose a husband to experience it to know what i mean and that's the reality of all families affected by this conflict she fears more hurts will be broken as this conflict rages on. as well as the increasing number of killings in the chair and the rest of us how more than half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes in the past few words they are in addition to more than 2000000 people displaced by the war fighters in the electorate regions like countries like. nigeria international aid agencies are saying that the situation is becoming increasingly desperate. and action from the government to gain traction in asia has a wide impact of the violence. is sung yet when breadwinners are killed for one reason or the other obviously you will have unprecedented suffering in the country those who have been killed took care of not only the immediate but

extended family in the army today we fear a situation of demoralization and if that happens it will embolden the terrorists the government as he shot that moral amongst his troops is high and that it's doing everything it can to support them but with the security situation in the sahara are you reaching fast that is growing concern in the region that i'm groups may be preparing to launch more attacks how many trees. in the army. indigenous leaders in brazil's fighting to preserve their land and culture they've been meeting in the amazon region for 4 days to find a way to counter president jaya bows and arrows environmental policies which they say are devastating their communities katia lopez hardy has more on the war in the heart of brazil's rain forest dozens of indigenous leaders me to form an alliance together they want to stop government policies they say are putting their livelihoods at risk president also not all wants to open up the amazons

reservations for commercial mining and agriculture that's of great concern to many tribes who see it as a threat. brazil's most respected and revered indigenous leader chief ronnie is leading the resistance against the plants but he admits the issue has cause rifts within tribal communities. there all relatives who support both scenarios ideas so the president is causing a division but those who support him are making a mistake we are against him and we will defend ourselves deforestation rates have nearly doubled in the amazon since paul so narrow became president in january his critics believe the fires that devastated the amazon last year were a result at least in part of his policies but speaking before the un general assembly he downplayed the damage. it's a fallacy to say that the amazon is the heritage of humankind in a misconception confirmed by scientists to say that our amazonian forest of the

lungs of the world based on these fallacies certain countries is that of helping him but to media lies and behaved in a disrespectful manner with the colonialists spirit indigenous leaders are now looking for more support at home and abroad. we have to come together only through these alliances and movements we be able to bar this tragic agenda that reflects both scenarios government. about 900000 people make of brazil's native tribes the president has promised to integrate them into a modern day economy but these indigenous communities fear the price of doing so could lead to irreparable damage to the environment and their culture. katia llopis of the young al-jazeera. power was government has declared a health emergency over it upright of. hospitals in the capital. are struggling to cope with at least 1700 suspected cases in the area since one infected patient has

been confirmed dead health officials are investigating whether 9 other deaths were linked to the disease kills about 22000 people around the world every year. that is why is now the world's most devalued terence and why would battle populist government is banned from using u.s. dollars that is why lines themselves are increasingly turning to it as the reports from caracas. there's something very unusual in this retail store in caracas prices are all in u.s. dollars the same goes for this shoe shop in the country with the world's highest hyperinflation rate more than 50 percent of transactions are now being carried out in the currency of what the government calls the evil empire it will be a loss of. the government accepted its defeat against the dollar and has allowed it to emerge from the grassroots level in

a spontaneous dollar as asian process it's the venezuelans themselves have come up with this new payment system. everywhere prices are being calculated in dollars but it's complicated i'm negotiating to see if they can give me one avocado for $1.00 all right so we have it below because there's no change. i mean you know dollar isolation is a term that describes the u.s. dollar as a substitute for a country's local currency when it becomes almost worthless as is the case in venezuela but salaries and pensions equivalent to around $5.00 are still paid him believe it is which by very little so for a great many even his whalen's like a dunya elisa it means more famine than feast all of them said i'm a senior citizen i'm never handle dollars and so i'm in the clouds when they quote me prices in foreign currency. only 7 of them are not all going to go in december

somebody gave me a dollar and i said oh my how exciting a dollar and what can i buy with it. 2 pieces a bride that's all. her children help her try to understand the increasingly complicated system for using the government's crypto currency alternative the petro which requires using yes i'm proud to. but it's not widely accepted in fact spiked inflation those who can race to electronically transfer their believe that is which depreciate by the hour and by dollars on the black market. meanwhile dollars are pouring in not just from remittances sent by an estimated $4500000.00 venezuelan migrants but also illegal gold mining drug trafficking and money laundering it's a hard currency free for all but a formal dollarization of the economy is out of the question since american sanctions bar venezuela's government from using the u.s.

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judges in poland speaking out against a bill that would allow the government to discipline them if they criticize judicial reforms the proposed bill is the latest episode in a years long disagreement of the court reforms judge igor to has been fighting

against the government's campaign. so enjoy every of national israel put press where nor we're all up polish judges have lived under pressure for several years with every decision nor action there's not in line with what the politicians want is met with a tax this been hate speech against us or off families sometimes judges are intimidators on the street or we've had attacks on our homes but we've become more immune to the attacks and grown a thick skin now if we need to be brave we need to fight pasco a little paid poland's a member of the european union or but the situation with the judicial system here has nothing to do with european standards it's more similar to russia gross or other dictatorships in picked up order 10 all start the last protest march attended by so many regular citizens has shown

that people really care more a more people understand what's happening in our country of course we should be able to defend ourselves but help from the e.u. is also very important because we've used all the means we have to defend the judiciary now i think our last hope is the e.u. and or this argument saying most judges in poland ah communist criminals is funny simply because more the 90 percent of them are in their thirty's or forty's and came of age after polak became a democracy the institutions being destroyed today with thought up during the 1st solidarity move needs to have windows with the destruction of our judicial system is certainly a step towards polacks it because there can be no place for a democratic country in europe where the separation of powers is abused like this or that i'm a it's a drama and a tragedy but i believe we will win was of a gram of at the start of sport now we thank you so much tunnel color science has

just won the dakar rife the 3rd time in his career the spaniard finishing more than 6 minutes clear of defending champion nasser all it's here the world's highest profile off road rally has been held in saudi arabia for the 1st time since his previous 2 wins coming in south america 2 time f one champion family and so 13th overall. the tennis world war national party looks to be hitting form just in time for her home grand slam party beating danielle collins to move into the final of the adelaide international 23 year old loss the opening set and then out to come through a 3rd sets high bright forty's building up to the australian open which gets underway on monday and she's enjoying having a home crowd behind us. was. incredible i mean it was another another sellout crowd unbelievable here in adelaide and it's seldom that i really get the crowd involved but you know tonight

it was an opportunity for me to really have some fire and it was incredible just to hear the volume out there was amazing it was a lot a lot of fun. to apply ukrainian teenager diana your strength in the final the 19 year old number succeed arenas of belarus 2 and straight sets to reach what is the biggest final of her career far. not just united have named england international harry maguire as their new captain it follows the departure of defender ashley young in some alarm their challenging eventis for the italian league title likewise signed for united from west to city in a $100000000.00 deal 5 months ago were actually you know is that if i win the summer. and if we get a 2 year contract somewhere. i think it's up to him to take we weren't ready to offer that. the golden state's warrior night season has got even worse the n.b.a.'s most dominant saying of the last decade of stunts with 10

straight defeats it's the warres 1st double digit losing streak for 18 years sal malik reports. it's been a miserable season for the golden state warriors with star stephan curry and clay thompson missing most their games through injury they've become the n.b.a.'s whipping boys but against denver on thursday they looked like they might be in for a rare win. despite losing their previous 9 the warriors started top taking a 17 point lead into halftime the nuggets though are the 2nd best team in the western conference this season and they weren't about to lay down. what right action by gender of a outscored the depleted warriors 68 to 51 in the 2nd half to take the game to overtime nicklaus daryn for them with 23 points overall that saw a little bit just that it just wasn't going to be golden state's night their 5 convective trips to the finals looking like

a distant memory i should. in the end they just didn't have enough the nuggets going on to win it by 3 taking golden state's losing streak to 10 games out another night of pain for the warriors and their fans through to hell malik al-jazeera. for the utah jazz a just 110 strike games but that run was brought to an end by the new orleans pelicans brandon ingram scored a career high 49 points in this 136127 when the jazz force in the western conference. outside of the playoff positions. now 5 time major winner phil mickelson is out to prove he can still be a goal thing for us the 49 year old has hit back at reports he may be about to step away from the main soul the american shooting at sea on a par round of 70 in his 1st tournament of the new year that left him 6 shots by. and leaders blair and mari grace and. of course in california. and the

start of the new women season in familiar fashion the world before continuing the import run of form he closed 2019 out with this time at the tournament of champions in florida the american shooting an opening round of 63 to take a 2 shot 1st round. in the n.h.l. the game known as the battle of new york has lived up to its reputation city rivals the rangers and islanders facing off on thursday they were level with less than 30 seconds left on the clock but chris prada settle things scoring a power play goal to win it 32 for the ranges and the people of tokyo have been given another reminder that sport's biggest show is on its way with just over 6 months to go until the tokyo games organizers of ships in a giant set of olympic rings to the city's waterfronts event itself gets underway in july. ok more sport throughout the day but that is it for me finast that's it for me as well for this news. just a moment with more of the day's news. or

joining. discovery. which is the copy of the letter germany addressed to my grandfather. to the regime. and asks these pressures in return they were terribly important pressures in the family. this letter. i found coming soon. in the heart of the amazon and believe me in family as cliques and lions in peril to harvest brazil nuts the french can sing the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it

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oh. for. seeking peace in libya greece just wall orderly faffed to work towards a cease fire and expel mercenaries from his fighting force. i'm stan grant this is al jazeera live also coming up china reports its slowest annual growth in the the 13 years as it's an broiled in a trade war with the u.s. . iran's supreme leader delivers his 1st friday sermon in 8 years condemning western powers and trying to unify his own country. we fly by the tel volcano in

the philippines getting a bird's eye view of the damage caused when it erupted.