hello i'm maryanne demasi welcome to the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes libyan warlord honey 5 to hold talks with turkey's regional rival greece ahead of sunday's peace summit in berlin. that. calls for national unity in iran the country supremely the ayatollah ali hum and naive delivers his 1st friday press and then in 8 years. ken starr the lawyer who led the impeachment investigation into bill clinton joins the legal team representing donald trump that his trial. and

a smoke emergency with 4 european cities ranking amongst the most polluted in the world protesters demand their governments take action. and i'm far in a smile have all the day's sport including carlos sands has won the dakar rally the spaniard winning the world's highest profile off road rally for a 3rd time. follow our top story today libyan warlord khalifa haftar is in greece for talks with the prime minister and the foreign minister of greece has criticised its exclusion from a un backed peace conference set to take place on sunday the internationally recognized tripoli government which have to is trying to overthrow recently signed a maritime and military cooperation deal with turkey angering greece prime minister attack as has. threatened to veto any libya agreement at the european union level

because of that maritime deal between turkey and the government in tripoli have to who heads the self declared libyan national army is scheduled to hold 2 days of talks in athens before flying to the sun based peace summit russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will both be at that conference when it's a good 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 for more now on those talks taking place in athens with her office. in general have to as meeting with because then there is the foreign minister mr bender has told reporters after. he and general have to

have agreed that among general have to aims at the peace conference to secure a cease fire and security in his country should be the pursuit of the. a blockade against any other reaching the warring sides a departure of foreign mercenaries that played such a large part in this war and also in a no mint of the maritime jurisdiction agreement reached by rival the government in tripoli with turkey last november that is an agreement greece has taken particular objection to because it infringes upon areas in the mediterranean that greece also sees as its maritime jurisdiction belonging to its eastern a.g.n. islands and so it wants that agreement and all that is its main concern in these talks but of course it is aligned with its european union allies and

partners in wanting international law to prevail in libya and an agreement that's acceptable to all sides meanwhile you have to has also contacted russia an effort to gain support from his longtime ally step vasant has the details on that from moscow. the press service of the kremlin has just made public that i have to have send a letter to president putin to reaffirm his willingness to go to moscow again to continue the dialogue the peace talks and he also said mr president my dear friend i wish to express my personal gratitude and appreciation to russia for efforts towards establishing peace and stability in libya and this is all of course very interesting because this latter comes a little over 4 days after have to pretty much embarrass president putin after he left moscow there were peace negotiations going on for more than 7 hours so russia

the prime minister of the u.s. backed government in libya had signed this cease fire agreement and have to ask some time until the morning to think about it and then suddenly in the middle of the night left moscow without any signature so this was seen as a failure of course for moscow and for president putin and this letter now seems to be safe face saving operation to make sure that russia is back in the game or the internationally recognized government in tripoli wants catherine tunisia to attend the berlin peace conference on sunday are puerto montt a good one had has more now from tripoli. foreign ministry in tripoli has sent an official letter to the german embassy in tripoli requesting that both qatar and tunisia be invited for the talks we know that the government of national accord is keen to include both countries to achieve

some kind of balance facing the other delegation supporting the warlords leave or have to do as you know at least 4 countries supporting the warlord khalifa haftar are invited to take part in the berlin talks on sunday including the united arab emirates egypt russia and france so by this move the government here in tripoli is trying to achieve balance it says that tunisia is very important to take part in these talks as tunisia not only as a neighboring country and being impacted and affected by the ongoing crisis in libya but it has been also hosting thousands of libyans if you did and as for qatar the government says that qatar has been all supporting the freedom revolution in libya since 2011 and the government believes that qatar is

a key. player in the peace talks in berlin while in other stories we're following this hour at least one person has been killed 25 others injured in clashes in iraq security forces fired tear gas to break up a crowd of demonstrators trying to breach baghdad's al center grange it's closer to a square where thousands have been camped out for months now demanding political change recent clashes forcing authorities to restrict access to the crossing hundreds of people have been killed since mass protests began in october. well now some news from yemen protesters in the city of thais a calling on the government to do more to end nearly 4 years of conflict a crowd formed in ties city's freedom square demanding an end to fighting southern region is on the front line of yemen's conflict in a struggled with famine and poverty pro iran who see rebels in saudi u.a.e. backed fighters are battling for control of the city iran's supreme

leader says european countries cannot be trusted in negotiations over the 2015 nuclear deal. made the comments during friday pres it's the 1st time he has let the sun into iran in 80 is a setback has more now from the iranian capital. the day's events began with the customary flag and the chants of death to america as thousands of faithful flock to friday prayers to hear this supreme leader ayatollah khomeini speak the last time he did this was in 2012 in the midst of the arab spring now the spiritual and political leader of iran turned its focus to the united states and europe with the europeans having triggered the dispute because of the 2050 nuclear deal and referred to iran to the united nations where you got to be on germany france and the evil government of the u.k. responded to their threat after the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal i said i don't trust them and that they're american servants and clients of these countries will to bring the iranian nation

to its knees and the u.s. which is your most couldn't do anything let alone you who are smaller we can pull in the negotiations with those a steel hand in a building glove they cannot be trusted we have no problem with talks but not with the us. but domestically the country has seen protests against fuel price rises and in the last week condemnation of the downing of the ukrainian press indigent after it left the fraud with the loss of 176 lives the message one of regret and condolence hopes will die will be more the plane crash was a bitter accident but through a whole lot next month iran has parliamentary elections polls show that the turnout could be very low an obvious concern for the legitimacy of the political system here in iran better than as he's firing as he's made my dear brothers and sisters my d.n.a. should have iran in the presence of the iranian people is the most important factor of this president says power many places one of the most important goals is the

election as. the cessation of military commander general qassam so the money by the united states had resulted in a wave of support throughout iran but that changed when its military shut down the ukrainian airline ayatollah khamenei decided to speak at a time when the country is experiencing intense pressure externally and domestic this. was about rallying support calling the situation and getting iranians to face up to the challenges that the coming months and years this country may face. the her own. united states meanwhile is sanctioning one of the iranian revolutionary guards brigadier generals for his involvement in a violent crackdown on protesters in november at least 300 people were killed when nationwide protests erupted over the rise in fuel prices the united states is listing i.r.g.c. brigadier general husain shove or poor. under section 7031 c.

visa sanctions general shop or committed gross violations of human rights against protesters in musher shar he oversaw the massacre of 148 helpless iranians in the mush our region last november general shot a poor was in command of units responsible for the violent crackdown and lethal repression around musher shar well in all the stories we're following turkish president russia type one is accused the syrian government of breaking a ceasefire agreement and killing 20 people in the opposition held province of idlib the deal came into effect last sunday but the violence has continued pushing more people from their homes and protest as to the streets shot at betis reports. the ceasefire deal was short lived in a loop syria's last opposition on play. brokered by turkey and russia it

came into effect on sunday. this was filmed on thursday it shows a russian jet in the syrian army pounding opposition positions they say they were provoked. but the. military operations resolved on southeastern front after the insurgents violated the truce and targeted humanitarian corridors. the insurgents a rebels aligned with the syrian opposition the last fighters in a war that began nearly 9 years ago is supported by turkey president responded to the escalation after friday prayers. unfortunately this is clear proof that the syrian regime is not abiding by the steps that we took regarding the ceasefire and the excuse is always ready this is the excuse terrorist organizations are doing this or that these are all lies. you are

living in this province a 3000000 people it's the last opposition strongholds with little recourse they sing of the suffering heart full of not for fear. this is as much a protest as a funeral they say despite the ceasefire 2 bombs killed their friends here on wednesday. and in the shadows 350000 syrians who fled their homes since early december like a harsh the found shelter in mosques across the province and that then we have no one on a bit knocked on the door in the morning and took us with him myself and my younger brother he pushed us here as we were living on relief aid. life is stark here in the winter many refugees seem to just building carcasses the snow he. looked at the identity of the father from the how does it all how little we are waiting for someone to have mercy on us come to help us here we committed no crime to be

punished this way no one is looking at us and mercy my husband and son the both disabled our life is destroyed this was meant to be temporary now the cease fire has broken the queue. dallas which is 0. it with the news out live from london while still ahead families with nothing left to lose hope for a better future outside guatemala. flying over an erupting crater we joined the 1st helicopter mission of the devastating volcano. and in sport the striker who had to be on his toes to accept a gift from the goalkeeper carol have. in store. now u.s. president donald trump has announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial this includes kenneth starr the prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill

clinton 22 years ago and celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz who has represented jeffrey epstein o.j. simpson roman polanski and mike tyson the trial will be led by white house counsel parts of polonia and trumps lawyer. the legal process was set in motion in the senate on thursday ok but i was on those following events for us from washington and these new additions to trump's legal team are prominent household names there in the u.s. what's the reaction been. yeah i think there's a lot of people that are looking at this and saying bad boy trump is putting on nothing to chance here he's bringing in the best legal minds that he thinks he has access to because clearly he's taking this very very seriously i mean these are celebrity lawyers that are very well known in washington and really throughout the united states alan dershowitz a long time harvard law school professor considered one of the best legal minds in

the country when it comes to constitutional law interestingly enough he's a democrat that actually a voted for hillary clinton in the last election he says but he's come out very vocal in support of trump saying that in his view this is unconstitutional this legal impeachment against donald trump and then it's being done in in proper ways and that's why he's caught donald trump's attention and also dershowitz has been on t.v. a lot he's a legal analyst here and so he's used to being in the media spotlight and you also of course have kenneth starr who is somewhat being brought out of retirement in the late ninety's as you mentioned he was the special counsel prosecuting then president bill clinton during his impeachment trial in the late ninety's so you've got 2 of the best legal minds in the united states when it comes to the impeachment and constitutional law and these are 2 people that are now going to be defending donald trump so i think what you're getting here is

a sense that donald trump is taking this very very seriously and he wants people who have been doing this before know constitutional law but also to people they very much are used to being in the media spotlight this isn't just a senate trial is it we know the president is up for re-election and this is going to be an important part of the campaign. it most definitely is this is going to be a very critical moment in the campaign because this is the 1st time we've ever had an impeachment in the senate it's only the 2nd time in history an impeachment is gone of the senate but this time what makes it so critical and so important and so different like nothing we've ever seen before is because it's happening in an election year the key number here is 20 the jury in this trial is going to be the 100 u.s. senators that will ultimately decide this trial the key number 20 because in order for trump to be convicted and taken out of office there's need to be 2 thirds of

the senators of that vote to convict him right now there are 53 republicans in the senate 45 democrats so you do some quick math that would mean that 20 republicans need to switch basically and vote to to convict trump in order for him to be taken out of office it looks unlikely at this point but it's basically down to a numbers game 20 is the key number that's the number of republicans that would need to vote to convict trump in order to for him to be removed from office now a big week coming up thank you very much. in washington a caravan of almost 3000 people is heading north through guatemala toward the mexican border with the aim of reaching the united states most people are escaping extreme poverty and gang violence in honduras but it's not likely they'll ever get the chance to step on u.s. soil as john home and now reports from guatemala city. a caravan of

more than 2700 home brewed 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 in 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 one day you 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 only you are. losing a son would hit me more than anything else with already made the decision even if they don't let us pass we can't go back. to now at the cost of 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 me one up they have to know 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 it won't let them through those who do manage to get to the us border find disappointment right at the moment with this caravan upon gordon's trying to get through guatemala and eventually to the united states plane loads of their countrymen are actually being sent back and already got there and asked for asylum to hear what the mother and that tells you how little they chances are of actually being accepted for asylum at the end of this journey miles here knows that he's one of those who've gotten past caravans without success ask him why he's trying again not believe them or not putting one foot on the. 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 growing or. john joins us live now so clearly john these migrants are facing really massive pressure from conditions back home in honduras also and guatemala and then from in terms of u.s. policy on immigrants as well just tell us what you've been hearing from some of the migrants that are queuing there behind you. i think these are people that fresh air rights and they just curing to get into the shelter and i think they'll tell you a lot from what we've been hearing from the people that we spoke to last night a lot of people are fleeing for economic reasons things in honduras have been bad economically and they're getting worse a lot of unemployment a lot of people struggling especially those who work in the countryside and then on

the other hand a lot of people that are fleeing boylan's honduras has gangs that suit to be extorted and killing the population and that's been the case for some time in the country you heard the lady that was in the piece that you just saw saying i can't go back i think they're going to kill my son and there's other people that we've been interviewing that don't want to go on camera obviously because they feel that they're in risk even hearing guatemala so there's quite a strong sort of things that are propelling people from out to get out of what the mother but on the other hand mexico has said that these people can see going into the shelter here at the moment probably full of some sort of hope that they might be able to get to the united states saying that it won't let them pass that it won't let them try and see if it will perhaps let them into the country if they want to ask for asylum there but that's it and the united states even more so has the door firmly closed basically saying that even if they arrive in the united states and ask for asylum that asylum request will be outsourced back here to

guatemala so a lot of hope at the moment but most quoted this depressing situation because these people are probably not going to have a little chance of getting and staying in the united states and what's remarkable is that they're willing to make the journey anyway even though to the prospects of bleak for them president comes of putting a lot of pressure on governments in the region to. to crack down on immigrants what happens then to hondurans who are sent back from the u.s. to guatemala. give us sort of the thing that's happening in the same. time is like 3 fronts meeting each other and in a way that shows the sort of the destiny of these people the u.s. is sending planeloads of hondurans to guatemala and what it's saying is that guatemala is a safe country it's calling it a safe country to send these people where they can ask for asylum should mention at the same time that there's a u.s. travel advisory saying for its own citizens to be careful in guatemala because

those gangs they could get extorted the police always capable of opposing the rule of law that's the same country that is sending people from honduras the arrived in the u.s. that's where it's sending them to ask for asylum we actually spoke to a couple of those people today and we said to them if if if if you'd have been told this when you're on your way to the united states you've been told they're just going to send you to guatemala which you still have gone and they said yeah we probably wouldn't believe them we were so desperate in that moment to escape from honduras for financial reasons that we would have gone anyways that snowstorm that's going to stop this migration this caravan of more than 2700 people but their chances again of getting asylum in the us are very unlikely thank you with the latest from guatemala city john holliman thank you john well now to a story in the philippines we've been following tens of thousands of people displaced by an erupting volcano on sunday they are being advised not to return to

their homes despite an apparent lull in its activity vulcanologists say it might take up to 2 weeks to decide whether the tumble is finally safe but to a safe for the moment to fly over the crater and doug was invited to join the 1st helicopter mission. 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 and it was killed when kabul came no spewed steam and lava farmlands this choice to communities damage to a province in crisis but in the middle of the destruction some are tearing to return for many visits all that they have left. we finally reach the volcano screecher. this is what alert level for looks like up close experts are warning their eruption is imminent. seconds later a fountain of plaques erupts and the pilot has to mcgiver quickly to escape a reminder of how the child the situation is. the very 1st 3 fights of officials from the philippines. that hour and how long the script coppery the

areas affected by the how both you know eruption and what they had so far they face . what we saw you. expect. the people. and it was heartbreaking to see the devastation last us for us the military is concerned we know that the. the need to be done in the. arse in the sense. and focus more than 50000 people have been evacuated from a 40 kilometer danger zone. but beyond the physical discomfort officials say it is the uncertainty of what might happen next that breaches the government to prepare for the worst volcanic eruptions are difficult to accurately predict but more are expected and government officials say they're leaving nothing to chance. al-jazeera but on this province northern philippines. now the news hour live from

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then started to slovenia northern a dramatic snow on the northern edge the blue is rain this march of course start to nudge the fog out of the way that's been sitting in the balkan valleys recently now that is the picture for saturday not extreme in any event but if we go into sunday and look again it's. by in the western men down here that is developing system which i think eventually one into quite a storm once again for the barracks and the north of africa and the east of space at the moment it's the 2 ends the metroid it will see active weather it's been pretty nasty here for cyprus and the levant in the last 3 or 4 days and of course in the next couple was that slowly disappears and it will be slowly with that breeze to occur stronger into libya and egypt it's the western side where you'll find the effect is felt in morocco algeria and eventually tunisia.

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growth in young on how to 0. look at the headlines now libyan war 3 faffed has made an unexpected trip to athens for talks with turkey's regional rival greece athens has criticized its exclusion from a un backed peace conference set to take place in germany on sunday. iran supremely to says that european countries can't be trusted in negotiations over the 2050 nuclear deal. made the comments during friday prayers the 1st time he's led this in teheran in 8 years. and u.s.

president donald trump has announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial see includes kenneth starr the prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago and the celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz who has represented jeffrey epstein o.j. simpson roman polanski and mike tyson. who are now on our top story peace efforts in libya we can speak to william laurance a professor of political science and international affairs at the american university in washington so we have this summit taking place in berlin this weekend at a time when. his major preoccupation is consolidating the territory he holds and the push for tripoli and also countering turkey support for the government in tripoli one of the one of the prospects for progress then in ballin. not too good we've had several attempts over the years at such a deal most notably 2015 the libya peace accord there was an attempt out of the

palermo conference in italy out of i will davian the failed moscow negotiations so this is sort of a 5th shot at the libya peace accord and we've even scaled back the expectations because while there was a ceasefire we were talking about peace talks in berlin and now we're talking about an international conference designed to move towards an eventual ceasefire but not with any sort of face to face negotiations have to are is feeling strong and feels he has the upper hand while he did. sort of injure putin's efforts by walking out of the moscow conference he. definitely trying to reassure everyone including moscow that he has the upper hand they've sent a lot of ministry about how angry how angry is russia about. i think it's a dispute among friends they definitely had egg on their face they had brokered

a cease fire with turkey and seemed very much to have the upper hand and not only did have to ask for a delay and then sort of walk out in the middle of the night but he didn't really make any indication going forward that he was ready to make a deal interesting lee he was also outmaneuvered in moscow by the western government which made many promises to moscow which actually was designed in part to make to drive a wedge between have tar and and moscow meanwhile that helps explain why have tears in greece trying to drive a wedge between the european union and the western governments over the maritime we have seen as i said a lot of international intrigue here so we have one so-called sort of ceasefire a peace summit taking place after another meanwhile behind the scenes the picture couldn't be more different could it with this ongoing power play. after his external back have the leverage to push if they choose to exercise it absolutely and most of his backers whether russia or egypt or france

talk to both sides and are being a playing sort of a bit of a double game we're working with both sides here whereas it's only the emirates who played a real role in scuttling the muska negotiation have chosen only one side in this conflict and they've indicated on several occasions they're willing to walk away from have to have something better can can come away but as you know have to has the upper hand in terms of territory in terms of air power and a number of other factors and so it really is complicated but i think the most important thing to say is the main locus of action in the libyan civil war right now is not on the front lines it's in all of these negotiations behind the scenes both internationally and domestically in libya you may know that to get to take over syria have to are bought off some some solid. guards there basically and have them change sidon and then game to the city so it's all about the negotiations and much less about fighting on the front lines i know will be honcho will be speaking

about this again but for now thank you very much professor william laurance taking the time appreciative of leisure. tech companies have been accused of withholding data on how social media and internet use can potentially affect the mental health of children a panel of leading psychiatry swan's there is growing evidence that increased screen use is hurting kids but it can't be properly researched unless that data is released a report published by the college of psychiatrists found that there is evidence of a complex relationship between technology use and depression but it called for urgent funding so that the relationship can be investigated properly it suggested a levy on tech companies could fund independent research as well as training packages the people working with children and young people the report also noted that gaming disorder was now classified internationally as a disease and that clinicians should be aware of the addictive nature of online games so i'm now joined by dr john golden who is involved in compiling this report

and another as well coal technologies and the mental health of children and young people so why don't i start there how much or how little is known about the relationship between screen time or the use of social media and technology and the the mental health of children well good evening 1st of all i should say that screen time is a rather crude measure so when you're on a screen you could be doing your homework you could be looking up research your studies or you could be looking at homeschool content related to so more eating disorders so the screen time per se is a rather unhelpful measure we do know that there is a correlation between the amount of time spent on social media and mental health difficulties we know that there's some correlation over the last 10 years for example people have been using social media more and young people's mental health difficulties a book been on the increase but we don't know that one causes the other. ok but so

what you're saying is that it's the amount of time spent on social media specifically that's where the correlation lies with mental health but you simply don't have the information all the evidence to gauge how strong that the connection is you know we know their associations as i say that over the last 10 years we know there's been an increase in the amount of mental health difficulties in young people and an increase in the amount of social media but we can't say for sure that using social media spending more time online causes mental health difficulties it could be that people are more vulnerable to difficulties or to mental health nature spend more time online so what we need is more data from the social media companies to research this more fully and understand more clearly what is causing what is it realistic for social media to release that data it's not exactly in their interests as well we think the social media company should move the mental health of young people higher up their privacy list seems that at the moment their priorities are

making money increasing advertising revenue increasing the numbers of users which is understandable is their business but the reality is that a lot of young people are suffering through access to social media and online for example if they have an eating disorder there are these algorithms which will push more content related to eating disorders other people who have eating disorders might encourage people to go online and look up eating disorders to be a better anorexic for example and that's the sort of thing that is not helpful we think they should be rather encouraged to access more positive was orses that might support someone within it in the sort of the algorithms don't necessarily work like that at the moment so we do think that there should be an independent regulator witty that can be required to release data from social media companies for the benefit of research into this area what's the likelihood of that happening. well the government published a consultation on a white paper back in the summer of last year and we timed the release of this

report to coincide with them. responding to this consultation so it depends on the government really to what extent they produce a white paper that has a certain amount of teeth as it were in relation to the independent regulator so this independent regulator needs to be able to find social media companies that are not taking down harmful content and we believe they should require social media companies to share their data in an anonymous way i do realize that people might be concerned about privacy and issues like that and we're not suggesting sharing data that can be traced back to any individuals that sharing data on a national and international level so we can understand the problem in more detail i think it's fair to say by the way that there's a kind of double standard in relation to protecting children or in line in offline if there was a home being done to a child offline social services would step in we want to you know look after that child we seem to not manage that so well when it comes to the online world children are suffering various homes when they're online and we don't seem to be doing

enough to protect an important story thank you for sharing your thoughts with us dr john golden my pleasure athan crying the president brought in as a lansky has not accepted his prime minister's resignation after leskie hunter uk criticized the former comedians and limited political experience and audio recordings of voice sounding like contracts as head sank selenski knows nothing about the economy and has not confirmed the voice is actually his but he has offered to step down and said he would give one track a 2nd chance to avoid political change or instability in the country. when to small is an annual misery across the balkans region of europe widespread where lights on coal and wood 5 has a severe impact on equity but this year a growing number of citizens across the region taking to the streets to demand government action paul brennan reports. belgrade sarajevo pristina and scorpio in

recent weeks all 4 have been ranked in the top 10 list of the world's most polluted cities january has been a suffocating ordeal for the residents of the balkans. we await for the whole of mankind this is not good at sarajevo then belgrade and all of the city it is pleated because of cars and bad feel coal and like night. a recent un report agreed finding that more than 60 percent of people here rely on coal and fire wood stoves to heat their homes 20 percent of the region's premier choi deaths were directly linked to chronic air pollution the bosnian capital saudi avers sits in a valley ringed by high mountains and most of the past week pollution in the form of microscopic airborne particles has been at least twice and sometimes 8 times higher than the e.u. safe limits to d.c. we can hardly breathe when we go out it's especially hard for patients with heart and lung problems sometimes you can't even walk on the street even with

a scarf on it was suffocating. in the bosnian town of tuzla this week carrying banners saying we want to brief hundreds protested their anger at government inaction we were just showing seraphim the local authorities tell us stories about some nebulous temperature inversion and the like but we all know that the basic cause of pollution in this city is particle pollution and from individual heat and stoves the city is simply not investing enough. emotions that i came here to support these protests and to finally motivate people to enforce a change to show that they care about the city and about breathing with. governments and local authorities often downplay the issue some politicians refer to it as choking season simply typical for the time of year this year though campaigners are rejecting that narrative like never before and. clean energy be made more accessible that older polluting vehicles should be banned and regulations

on industry emissions from power plants be tightened all that requires money investment and with impeccable timing the european union last month announced a new green deal fund promising $1.00 trillion dollars of investment in the western balkans it can't come soon enough paul brennan al jazeera. meanwhile huge crowds of people have joined climate activists gratitude for a climate march in the swiss city of laws on demonstration was planned for the 1st anniversary of the climate strike movement inspired by it and bug demonstrators sang happy birthday to not the occasion for setting out on the march it proceeds next week's while the konami forum in davos which timberg is planning to attend. to the world leaders and those in power. i would like to say. that you haven't seen anything yet you have not seen the last of us we can assure you that it's. the in the.

end that is the message that we will bring to the world economic forum in davos was next week. the world health organization says hundreds of thousands of people are killed by fake medicine every year in africa the trade in west africa alone is worth some $200000000000.00 with the counterfeit drugs coming from china india and in nigeria now west african leaders are meeting in low made to sign an agreement cracking down on the trade nicolas hack reports from senegal's capital dhaka it started with a match and turned into. it was then factors are decided to get some medicine but to save money she bought pills from a man about her market. after taking them she found she couldn't walk she started vomiting and even lost her teeth she ended up in hospital in intensive care. the doctor told me i was going to die i had to tell them the truth i couldn't

afford to buy drugs in the pharmacy so i bought them on the street. to the pills from a market like this one cameras are not welcome here ours is concealed. we're soon approached this mountain has us he buys and sells medicine then shows us what he has among the drugs he's selling or the pills that poisoned far too he tells us it's good quality it's from france he says. this is the medicine that we bought inside the market we bought the exact same one at a local pharmacy now some of these drugs look completely different others are identical would be impossible to tell which one is real in which one isn't selling drugs outside of a pharmacy on the streets is illegal here in san diego and throughout most west african countries but the law is rarely enforced the world health organization says that the african continent is flooded with counterfeit medicine saying that at

least $100000.00 people die every year ingesting think medicine counterfeit drugs is a $200000000000.00 trade and it's said to be booming in west africa the fake medicines are made in china or india or nigeria pharmacist say their warnings about the counterfeit are too often ignored not if it's the state's responsibility to protect its citizens this is spoiling our health care system and this is having a devastating impact on our population. to no longer trust medicines she's focusing instead on the food. saying a good diet may be the best way to stay healthy nicholas heart al-jazeera car. so ahead we look at a struggle for land and culture brazil's indigenous groups fighting back against the government's environmental policies. and a warning factor going to football is to have a police coach says top clubs might lose interest in signing i is from the continent viro will have the details on that story in

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. with. indigenous leaders in brazil say they are fighting to preserve their land and culture they've been meeting in the amazon region for the past 4 days to find a way to counter the environmental policies of president john rable sonora which they say is devastating that communities catch up as her diane reports. oh 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 o. want 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 caused a rift 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 u.n. general assembly he downplayed the damage you know. 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 hoping and bottle media lies and behaved in a disrespectful manner with the colonialists spirit indigenous leaders are now looking for more support at home and abroad in the last i was going to we have to come together only through these alliances and movements we be able to bar this tragic agenda that reflects bilson our us government. or about 900000 people make a 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 a young al-jazeera. has now a far. mariyam thank you so much carlos sands has won the dakar rally for the 3rd

time the spaniard finished more than 6 minutes clear of defending champion of cats are the world's highest profile off-road rally was being held in saudi arabia for the 1st time with sans his previous 2 wins coming in south america the 57 year old winning by 6 minutes. who won the final stage and his 1st win of this doubt car. has been really died from the foot is a. 100 percent no no no d.c. . it's nicer when the bubble is so so so hot it is nice and. so different. but it brought. in the bikes category ricky made history by becoming the 1st american to win the dacor on 2 wheels since the insurance race began in 1979 beat out jose ignacio of chile by 53 seconds.

a week after reportedly turning down the job of coach but coach in barcelona hernandez on friday coached his team to victory in the catcher cup final but even a man of his long playing career would have seen many goals quite as bizarre as this one is long ball upfield looking easy for the do held to fans but then this up and. the keeper hitting it straight to our side striker baghdad who showed instant reactions to score outside winning 4 nailed to give shabby his 2nd trophy as coach. liverpool manager your going club has described the decision to move the africa cup of nations back to a winter date in 2021 as disastrous both for his team and for african players in general liverpool have 3 stars egypt's mohamed salah nabby keda of guinea and senegal is raining african player of the year saudi money would be called up to

play in cameroon klopp said the clubs would be less willing to sign talent from africa if they were absent for several weeks due to the tournaments the african government is going back to china in february which is. for us a catastrophe in that moment losing 3 players the other thing it doesn't that's true it doesn't help african players go we will not sell. more or not be well because they have a tournament in fed and general february of course not but if you have to make a decision about bringing in a player it's a massive form because you don't have a bit you will be policies already you haven't for 4 weeks run about you don't have it so that's normal process so as a club you have to think about things like that it doesn't help the players push one of. the golden state warriors nightmare season has got even worse the enemy's most dominant team of the last decade has slumped to a 10th straight defeat it's their 1st double digit losing streak for 18 years so

how malik reports it's been a miserable season for the golden state warriors with stars steph curry and clay thompson missing most of the 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 real 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. one right direction by jumping the veil scored the depleted warriors 68 to 51 in the 2nd half to take the game to overtime nicklaus joke at starring for them with 23 points overall that's a little bit. it just wasn't going to be golden state's night their 5 consecutive trips to the finals looking like a distant memory. for sure but 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 another night of pain for the warriors and their fans in store for him ali al jazeera. assembled cisco giants have made history by becoming the 1st major league baseball team to appoint a full time female coach les anakin a former softball player joined the giants in 2014 as an intern and has now been named one of the team's assistant coaches the m o b is lag behind the n.b.a. and n.f.l. which both already have several women on the benches. conor mcgregor will be back in the cage in las vegas on saturday night 15 months after losing his light weight championship fight against could be off the irishman hasn't fought since his defeat to the russians back in october 28th he has however had

several run ins with the law including being fined for punching an elderly man at a bar now again of sexual assault which he's denied gregor weighed in on friday for his welterweight fight with donald schroen e another u.f.c. veteran looking to make a comeback as 31 year old mcgregor was the u.f.c. is 1st to division champion the last fight he won was back in 2016. ok and that is all your sport for now it's now back to marry him and london right for thanks very much well that's it for the news hour but as always more on our website al-jazeera dot com plenty of comment and analysis that don't forget you can watch us on life streaming as well i will be back with a full bulletin in just a couple of minutes so you shortly.

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