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see has won her 1st saw a little of the year both she wouldn't be adelaide international she builds up the season's opening round swimsuit. now u.s. president donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate and among them are 3 high profile lawyers ken starr led the latest in the last impeachment investigation into president bill clinton and he was also a part of the legal team for a convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein robert w. ray has also joined the team he succeeded star as independent counsel and negotiated a settlement with clinton as he left the white house and then there's also celebrity lawyer and former harvard law school professor alan dershowitz his clients have included o.j. simpson mike tyson and harvey weinstein while our correspondent cable elizondo is

in washington d.c. and he says trump isn't taking any chances with this legal team. trump is taking this very very seriously i mean these 2 lawyers that he brought in to be part of this team are celebrity lawyers that are very very well known in washington and have a long history in this city and really in the nation 1st looking at alan dershowitz a long time a law professor at harvard he's considered one of the preeminent constitutional lawyers in the u.s. dershowitz is actually a democrat voted for hillary clinton however he has come out very strong over the last 3 to 4 months or so even if before that saying that he believes that this impeachment trial is something that should not be pursued constitutionally and that there are no high crimes and so-called misdemeanors and so that's really caught trump's attention and i think that's probably why he brought dershowitz on his team also dershowitz is piers on television here in the united states as a legal analyst a lot so he's very adept with the media spotlight and i think that's something that

trump probably appreciates also you have ken starr who was from the late ninety's where you're well known in washington d.c. as you mentioned briefly he was the independent counsel that helped to prosecute or bring the trial impeachment trial against event president bill clinton and so i think starr is very well known to and i think that's why he was probably brought on this team as well i think you can read into this that trump wants the absolute best people that he can get his hands on. bruce fein is a constitutional lawyer and a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and he says despite hiring a top to legal team it's likely trump supporters will rely on distracting people from the proceedings. the strategy of the republicans is as follows they will hope that the american people will get bored after the opening arguments in the presentation of the evidence that's already in play and after several weeks they'll

say we just need to get to a verdict the 2nd element that militates in favor of delay on mr trump's part is that i believe as happened in the nixon and clinton impeachment there will be a national security crisis that will develop and mr trump will maybe assassinate someone like saul the many they'll be an escalation of tensions in the middle east or a strait of for most it will be said that we can't afford an impeachment trial we need to bring this to closure remember that's what mr nixon did in the yom kippur war he put us on def con 3 that was the highest nuclear alert stage with the soviet union mr clinton bombed iraq for 6 months hoping to deflect attention from his impeachment ordeal and i believe mr trump will not be reluctant to follow those examples so of look for a national security crisis in the next weeks now 3 u.s. airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from rouhani in china for a new virus that has so far killed 2 people new york's j.f.k. airport along with those in a sanchez and san francisco or

a noun taking passengers temperatures and asking them about symptoms china says almost 50 people have been infected but resents by london's imperial college suggests that could be more than a 1700 cases. i have read some news about it and heard about the. problems and i think. that the fact others it's. just too late cashews about it and make sure it's a real thing don't spread it around a little bit. nothing no verse but you know i don't know because i got to go to china maybe who knows. i might get the flu. but i'm going to be careful well our correspondent katrina you joins us now live from beijing katrina clearly mounting concern about this virus beyond china's borders what do you now hearing from the chinese government.

the chinese government's message has very much been as is not surprising that everything is contained and under control so they've released figures saying there are 45 people affected 100 people continue about 100 people continue to be monitored 600 who were initially quarantined have now been let go because they have no symptoms of this coronavirus so the chinese government they are very much trying to keep a lid on any sort of widespread panic they're trying to say that everyone who is associated with this particular seafood wholesale market which seems to be connected all the people who have been affected so far have been been closely watched or have been tested and that everything is is under control that they've said that everyone who is affected is from is from one and so far it hasn't broken out into other areas now of course the government is trying to do this because we're entering the chinese new year period is not a small city 11000000 people live there and during this period there are about

2000000000 trips made across china and if there are real for this if there's any panic sparked around this corona virus then it could lead to all sorts of kills so the government is very much interested in trying to spread the message that it is all ok if you have any symptoms get tested because we're not ruling out human to human transmission but at the same time don't panic and just go about a business that's that's the message there for katrina where already seeing these screening measures that u.s. airports now when you're talking about people going home for chinese new year what kinds of procedures are being put in place to try to limit transmission inside china. well that's the thing there's no no similar measures have been formally implemented i think all hospitals have been alerted the government says that if you have any of these symptoms for years go directly to the hospital to get checked but we haven't seen any sort of limits on travel no sort of public scans or anything like that in that and that's led some

people to be concerned because of course we've had the chinese government saying all the cases in china has so far restricted to the province of the studio but then we've had cases even we've had those cases in japan and in thailand so people here are starting to ask questions how is it that the virus could end up in thailand and japan but not end up in any other places in china but so far there have been at least 8 people who have actually been arrested for spreading rumors about the seriousness of this of this virus so there are concerns i think people so far because there haven't been any formal measures put in place they tend to say ok well let's just go about our business but they are there are mounting concerns and we do see that in social media as we had the sols outbreak in 2003 and the government wasn't honest at the beginning of that outbreak and we had hundreds of people die from that so there are concerns as well and people are really making their own personal precautions but nothing on the governmental scale as yet katrina

you there across that story for us from beijing thank you katrina well let's take a closer look at this mystery virus it's being identified and a class of viruses that can cause the common cold but can also be as serious as saw as severe acute respiratory syndrome and that killed nearly 800 people worldwide back in 2003 chinese authorities suspect the virus originated in the seafood market in the city of new harm it's thought the virus has spread from species to species chinese officials say there are no cases of it being passed yet from one person to another there is a 10 day delay between infection and detection that's made up of an incubation period and then a further delay before hospital admission. let's find out a little bit more about this with dr mohammad to me at his electra and bio med center at lancaster university and he joins us now via skype from lancaster dr when i went out saying cases a pair in other countries outside china katrina was just saying thailand and japan there how quickly could this spread and how worried should we be so the virus is as

we've been discussing is similar to like to be a c. or d. . most of their lives to suit lives have a great potential to mutate and to evolve into something that would lead to transmission between one person to another person and therefore if they have potential to move between communities so definitely at the moment there is no confirmed report of human to human transmission but if you really look into the history of the. most of the cases that we have seen so far have some direct or indirect links with one city and the big has been in a smaller between family members so there are evidence of the last week between one person to another person so there is no reason to believe that these kind of autistics have a bit i'm sure it will last maybe like a few minutes let me ask you a bit more about that documentary because china has been denying that there's been person to person transmission as we've been saying that there are some experts who

are saying the opposite and presumably that makes it incredibly more difficult to contain and could any delay in admitting that could could that wesson the spread. oh absolutely because these kind of viruses they are highly contagious they can force which from one person to another person very quickly in the short possible time and with lethal impact so arguably detect them better prepared we will be any action against them to any delay in detection would be grammatically neato and as you can remember there initially we didn't know the cause of this one therefore probably the largest has moved on to more places than if we knew the pause then we would have done something about it and well we're already beginning to see deaths so let me ask you how infectious when you say very infectious but how dangerous is this virus how likely is it for instance that you'll die if you get infected so please warn the larose is soon it is our own 80 percent similar to the sauce or the loss that has caused problems of more allergies and took them to where it was this

week so if you really look at the genetic maybe makeup they are very similar to each other and if we look onto the communicants followings because the previous source and this warm source for life says they do cause a similar kind of disease so the kind of information we have at the moment they're all highly likely that these viruses have a great potential to cause a much more equal infection that what we are seeing at the moment but more information is coming all which will probably have a little more in the coming weeks well i understand this virus jumped the species barrier that's the current theory and by my understanding it becomes much easier to contain that once you identify which animal it came from and as we're saying this began at a market in one hand so there are a number of different possibilities here how is that process going to try to identify that animal. it even if we identify them animals once it is already transmitted to the human population then it's the record for containing within the human population because we have many to force the warm city which patients have

never been tempted to see for supermarkets so this means that the lives of living among humans somehow so once even if we knew we are the lightest as we can really being started at this moment a major concern was how to stow transmission between the human and also spread from one of them to do another country so it is a no no we'll benefit at this stage to really investigate where the virus has come from however that would have great benefit in the future emergence of the disease and there is some seeming disparity when it comes to china's official think is about infection and what else experts at estimating a huge difference in fact what are the dangers of beijing trying to downplay or if this is what it would be a little too early to say that bone clinical program has been that in the beginning when the disease of merge and from the 1st 31st of december at that time we didn't know really the cause of this why and said that because of this one we didn't know

how to detect and we're going to find there because of that since the wife says we didn't get fired by isolation now we have a detection at safe so that when we can we please easily and a broad scale kind of by those tests to detect build infection so therefore i think in big in coming few weeks the number of cases with exponentially not just because we have more tools and resources to look into but also the i mean that's right a lot more than it has been before absent and lots of travel coming up lots of paper in china dr mohammad ling is that from lancaster university thanks for joining us on al-jazeera. plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including we speak to libyans about what they think about the prospects for peace ahead of an international conference to try to end the fighting. in the danger zone and we'll have the latest from the erupting volcano in the philippines.

and sport a new hire for the ultimate fighting championship biggest commercial draw. hundreds of people have been demonstrating in the libyan capital tripoli against world khalifa haftar they say he shouldn't be included in an international conference being held in germany on sunday to try to end the war protesters held signs calling have the devil's messenger but there was support for house to in the eastern city of benghazi people chanted and he took his slogans there and demanded a halt to oil exports they say oil revenues only benefit the tripoli based administration libya's national oil corporation has warned any disruption will have far reaching consequences for the country and preparations are underway for that peace conference in berlin on sunday representatives from a number of nations will meet in the latest effort to end months of fighting in

libya diplomats are expected to push for a truce agreement and a u.n. monitoring mission on the ground well let's go to mark without the wahid who joins us now live from tripoli would give us a sense of the feeling that people presumably do want an outcome from this conference but they also don't want to have to go. we'll remember this is a long time conflict and everybody knows that disses not going to be solved that soon here in the western a camp led by the you and the government of national accord people have been calling for calm but at the same time the r. rated rating that they are calling for the international community to put pressure on have started to pull out his forces from southern tripoli as a prerequisite for any peaceful settlement to this conflict but meanwhile the our people took to the streets yesterday they have been. welcoming the military

cooperation between turkey and the government of national accord but meanwhile the government here the government of national accord is trying to stress. is trying to stress on the fact that both tunisia and qatar should be invited to take part in their meeting in berlin because of the fact that the other to delegate the other camp led by have has it supporters key players taking part in the berlin talks including the united arab emirates egypt france and russia but on the other side only turkey the only country supporting the government of national called the invited to this conference in berlin so the government here gives a pretext for inviting qatar and tunisia saying that qatar has been always supporting

the freedom revolutions that ousted $44.00 decades of dictatorship of them and money and the government also says it believes that qatar is a key player in achieving peace in libya and as for tunisia the government says that is not only an able in country that has a right to be part of the n.e.p. . for settlement to the conflict in libya but also tunisia has been hostile in the thousands of libya refugees and as a neighboring country has been impacted and affected by what's going on in libya here and the worst of the country and national oil corporation has rated that the oil sector should be neutralized it should not be used as a pressuring tool in this conflict that's following the blockade of the oil terminals and. oil port in the east of libya. head to there for us in tripoli thank you. well jason pak is founder of the

consultancy libya analysis and he explains why the conflict now involves so many countries ever since have to attack tripoli in april 29th. the nature of the civil war in libya changed for the last 4 years before then you had a proxy war the different libyan coalitions were fighting with outside actors supported one side or the other but now what's happened is. it's really the outside actors who are running the show and the different libyan coalitions are fighting and huffed are has many supporters egypt russia the u.a.e. saudi arabia jordan and to some extent even france where as the g. and a has not been able to get military support from its traditional allies the u.s. u.k. and italy so it's been between a rock and a hard place and desperately only the turks have stepped up to the plate with the

drones air support and mercenaries that the g.n.a.t. needs and in exchange for that they demanded you need to sign this maritime m.-o. you and the maritime m.-o. you violates the international law of the sea known as un costs in giving a turkish libyan shared zone of economic influence between south western anatolia and the libyan coast and of course that has enraged greece and cyprus because they've been prospecting for natural gas in those waters. now mexico's government is promising jobs to nearly $3000.00 migrants hoping to get into the u.s. at the moment they are in guatemala as they make their way north towards mexico or central american countries have come under increasing pressure from washington to stop migrants from crossing into the united states john heilemann reports from guatemala city. die another dead mother from honduras thought the

family had finally made it when they reached the u.s. not for asylum instead you simply shoes sent them to guatemala they say without their consent you know you don't know if you're much better than they gave us papers to saying they would in english when we asked what the where they said they just had her details on them when we saw the asylum officer the next day he told us we st our consent to go back to. they're not alone the u.s. is now shipping hondurans and salvadorans who arrive at its border to guatemala to apply for asylum there instead of the $100.00 so far in the running for a mouse they're not being informed of what's going on in the u.s. they're being told they're going higher and it's a surprise for them to arrive in guatemala. president trumps of ministration says the country is safe for asylum seekers and the question. in the 2019 fiscal year what the mala was actually the biggest source of migrants detained at the u.s.

border over the years it struggled to keep its own population from leaving let alone taking care of asylum seekers coming in here. the country is one of the poorest in the hemisphere and the u.s. travel department itself warns but crime such as armed robbery murder is common gang activity such as extortion violent street crime and narcotics trafficking is widespread he added to that the asylum system here is skeletal there are only a dozen case officers meanwhile. n.g.o.s are picking up the slack and the little said we said that. we have had to provide the migrants with legal aid and medical aid food everything so we know the state doesn't have the resources to offer asylum or even conduct the process we asked the u.s. department of homeland security for comment we didn't hear back. but it's reach similar agreements with honduras and el salvador hoping to reduce pressure on

a cloaked up immigration system that means asylum seekers could soon be sent to the world's most violent countries after a night at a migrant shelter. edmar and their children are trying to get the bus fare together to get home they were dropped in guatemala with nothing but the clothes they're wearing john homan how does it or what tamala city. now turkey's president. has accused the syrian government of breaking a ceasefire agreement and killing 20 people and the last opposition held province. the deal came into effect last sunday but violence has continued pushing more people from their homes solid balance 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 result on southeastern fronts after the insurgents violated the truce and targeted humanitarian corridors. the insurgents a rebels aligned with the syrian opposition the last fight 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 3000000 people it's the last opposition stronghold with little recourse they sing of the suffering. not.

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 michael hart the found shelter in mosques across the province. that we have no one our neighbor knocked on the door in the morning and took us with him myself and my younger brother he pushed us here as we're living on relief aid. life is stark here in the winter many refugees seem to suggest building carcasses there's no heat. let me get back a little from the how does it all know what are we 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 of both disabled our life is

destroyed this was meant to be temporary now the cease fire has broken again. dallas al-jazeera and. thousands of people in the philippines forced to leave their homes after a volcanic eruption had been allowed to go back briefly they can only stay for a few hours a day to collect their belongings and to start cleaning up the pride reports from the town of talisay in the danger. the to holler option has turned this part of tel aside into a ghost town population normally in the thousands it's now deserted its residents are only allowed to come back a few hours each morning to collect belongings and start the daunting task of trying to fix up their homes. very light tanguy leaks shows us the thickness of the layer of debra left behind by the eruption with his children the 1st priority is making their home livable again before even thinking of restarting the family

business. or my long walk it's depressing i want to cry it'll take such a long time for us to recover it makes you lose hope when. the town is just 5 kilometers from the volcano and boats from here used to take tourists on day trips to the island but this is as close as it is allowed to get. he has a herd of cattle on the island but can't retrieve them. this is our source of livelihood and what will happen after this tragedy if we can get our cattle we can start a new life when the volcano erupted the prevailing winds pushed the plume of ash and dust in this direction completely covering towns like this one forcing its residents to flee to safety well over 50000 people lost still sheltering in evacuation centers around this province many towns like this one are allowing

residents back for short periods but by 10 am it's time for people to leave again and the police roadblocks are back in place. those displaced are being supported by relief supplies but what they really want is to know when they can return to their homes permanently. the tank will leak family finished their clean up for another day but will be back tomorrow. returning to live in their house is one thing getting their lives back together that's far more of a challenge to robert bryant al-jazeera batangas province northern philippines. well now it's time for the weather and everyone's going to tell us about stormy weather in europe yeah that's right the stars are storm clouds gathering across western parts of europe you can see this area of cloud just out across the bay of biscay that's making its way further east was nettle slot its way through the peyronie's northern parts of spain pushing down into the western med really choppy

waters and some vomit storms coming through but it's not all bad news further north of this lovely little ridge of high pressure just nosing its way up towards the northwest there through the british isles through the low countries squatting down here so we're going to see more of the out dry weather and sunshine for the british isles for the low countries germany into france temperatures in london in paris and on 7 days here has that wetter weather that we have just arrived in the southwest of france pushing into those northern areas of spain quite a bit of rain on this one as it makes its way further south what's a nice words over the next 24 hours big downpours coming through the way some snow over the peyronie's some very heavy rainfall into that western side of the mediterranean big waves very choppy waters force winds to some as well temperatures in madrid 9 degrees celsius in the kind of temperatures that london and paris you know to central parts of europe on the other hand we lost the fog in driest settle

and it is sunny we go on into monday more the same here but here's that western weather raging away that western side of the mediterranean with more storms to come the stasia. well thanks very much have isn't well still ahead on al-jazeera declassified f.b.i. documents reveal how saudi arabia is helping its citizens to escape justice in the u.s. . one of asia's most important rivers is running dry we'll tell you why a placement. and miami are playing their hardest basketball in the is n.b.a. action coming up and off. the floor of the burning spawn utopian 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 thorough tarion realities the

police called a cop or who brought a bomb to the march and they were ready to detonate it beyond the war part 2 on 00 . 00000 effort you. write. downs.

well again i missed. a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate that includes ken starr who led the last impeachment investigation into bill clinton. rival protests have been held in libya ahead of a u.n. backed peace conference to try to end months of fighting demonstrators in the capital tripoli say eastern baseball appealing. should not be included in sunday's talks and balin his supporters rallied in the city of benghazi. and 3 u.s. airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from china for a new virus that is so far 2 people that china says almost 50 people have been infected but experts believe the true scale of the outbreak it's all began. now an f.b.i. memory says saudi arabia's government orchestrated secret missions to help its

citizens escape the united states the heavily censored documents suggest saudi saudi officials almost sesson the assist u.s. base saudi citizens to the united states legal system the f.b.i. says saudi officials perceive the embarrassment of saudi citizens during the u.s. judicial process being grace than the embarrassment of being caught evading u.s. law who detoxify document lists alleged crimes ranging from traffic violations to child pornography rape america to u.s. senators jeff merkley and ron wives and pushed for the f.b.i. letter to be released they warn saudi will continue its behavior if trump's administration doesn't act. the trump administration and government doesn't get tough now it will happen again and again and again so what i'm going to be pushing for is to trump the ministration to step up to fabius are supposed to be our allies well that's fine but they're not above the law and i'm going to make sure the

ministration pushes now to protect the people who are going to our country ukraine's president saddam is lenski has rejected the resignation of the prime minister on friday all askew offered to step down after all the recordings were leaked where he criticizes the president's limited political experience has not confirmed the voice of his boss on social media he said that he also to step down to remove any doubt that he respects and trusts the president. now water levels and one of asia's longest rivers the have dipped sharply after china began testing equipment and one of the rivers up the dams the mekong flows through china and 5 other countries including cambodia where levels are expected to promise far in 3 reports from cambodia's company chum province. paul stross has been fishing in the mekong river for more than 20 years just like his father did before

him. the used to be a lot more fish we only had the castanets and there before we used to catch about $70.00 to $80.00 kilos each time but now there's hardly any. he says fish used to be abundant even in the dry season but not since the last couple of years he's also noticed more extreme fluctuations in water levels there are 11 dams in the upper reaches of the river in china environmental advocates say these have had an impact on the river and the life in it so i went to prison them. meaning that then my quit. and 1000 in vietnam all the way up to not and part of thailand so they depend lastly on the. water level of the meco driven by day drought and flat sokol in early january china issued a statement to say its testing equipment in one of its dams increasing outflow by

more than half the mekong river commission and into governmental organization warned countries in the lower reaches of the river including cambodia to expect lower water levels this week this season's drought has caused the water level in the mix to fall to its lowest in 60 years and there's been an exceptionally low flow of water in most parts of the river basin the 6 months. further from the me is in mark a village one that relies mostly on rice farming here people rely on water stored in horns during the dry season but even these have dried up. when there's no water there's lots of problems we have to spend a lot of money to drill a well equipped small pump isn't good enough we have to get a bigger one it already spent double of what i normally would the mekong river commission and china have said they'll conduct a study to identify the causes and impacts of the season strout but with more dams

being planned for the mekong it's communities who rely on the river who continue to pay the price florence al-jazeera province cambodia and the balkans winter aslaug is a yearly misery but this year people have had enough a growing number of people across the region are demanding government action to improve air quality. the really the problem is the communication between the governments and the citizens both in boston herzegovina and in serbia for example here in belgrade the president of serbia. days off to the very polluted air here in belgrade. where is the minister of environmental protection leary's is he alive is he going to say something we see going to do something and this minister should have called a press conference today but he canceled and he meanwhile the serbian president

said that this pollution is a result of the standard here is sort of below so everyone can afford to drive the car so that's why the air is to so this kind of commons to make people more even more angry so do news from the government is that prime minister said that serbian government to the coordinates all of them is ation involved in the air protection during the days they're coming so we should get some more information saval that. cyprus is seeing a huge influx of migrants and refugees most get on boats from turkey and then across the border from the self declared republic of northern cyprus cypriot say they've had more than they can cope with the need help from the e.u. but some say the country is deliberately making things on pleasant for asylum seekers in order to prevent more from coming rory chalons reports. oma has

experienced much misery she's not giving her real name to protect family back in syria bashar assad's massacres forced her to leave via lebanon to cyprus but life here is not happy so do you think the government do you think cyprus as a country once here. you know it's a racist country the day after their ship arrived 4 months ago omar's husband was arrested he's not being prosecuted but police won't say why they're not releasing him only that they think he's a security threat and. we came from an unjust country we came from oppression from bashar al assad syria and we came to this country thinking there's justice democracy and human rights things aren't much better for many other asylum seekers people queue for menial jobs and migo welfare coupons through the night to be one of the lucky few seen by

a handful of staff during office hours asylum applications can take many years to complete it's an overwhelms and confusing system as more arduous routes into europe are restricted the relatively simple journey from turkey to the self declared republic of northern cyprus then into the south becomes more travelled 15000 now have refugee status here upwards of 15000 more applications are pending now these aren't huge numbers on the global scheme of things certainly compared to the millions of refugees in turkey but cyprus is a tiny country and it now has the highest number of asylum seekers per capita of anywhere in the european union cyprus is interior minister says they need european help because the system is at breaking point if turkey is who is continuously. pushing people to across the green line to cyprus they are entering the european

territory it's not a cyprus problem anymore. the migration is it's a european problem but some on the ground see things differently doris polycarp who runs keysar a refugee focused and geo he's critical of europe's inaction but he says cyprus has created a hostile environment to make itself a less attractive destination if you don't do you our job and you are in fear that this will say they will blame you for the situation is very easy to say you're a busy responsible for not showing so you don't even instead of saying that we missed and we didn't do what we should do as with all refugees stories where the governments around able or unwilling to cope it's real people who suffer very chalons al-jazeera cyprus and india hinders from the lowest rung of the faith cost herrick hierarchy have joined protests against a controversial citizenship your head of a citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims and

they're not the only ones feeling threatened and salvor are reports from the state of order pradesh. 22 year old is going around his village in the northern state of utter predation to convince parents to send their children for free education. the classes are organized by a community called the army which was formed in 2014 to tackle the problems faced with upper caste hindus. delegates are at the bottom rung of the caste system and say they are often violently discriminated against our local wants all delegates to know their rights but now there is added concern about the new citizenship law because it is a. man this be the big government that mean opposition is against ducard. muslims and l. it the a community is worried that today they are targeting muslims tomorrow it will be us

. in new delhi the beam army led the lights in a protest against the law. their leader. was arrested. the opposition says the indian government broke the new law to create a hindu muslim divide but it may have cause unintended splits many in the ballot community traditionally marginalized by upper caste hindus are now questioning the law their opposition along with that of muslims has the power to change governments go to the class activists say will be at a serious disadvantage if the government asks for multiple documents to prove their citizenship historically they have been the setlist landless people so which document they could possibly have the leads and the muslims are the water of change they represent change in the society. if they are being pushed to the wall

they will work for the change. our looks father believes the law is a way for the government to die worth attention from economic problems but it also provides an opportunity to target ballots. the thinking of those who are privatizing government is they will give jobs to the people. they want to serve them but these women are also members of a dalit community supports the new law. at it must be good i trust the prime minister he would have made a good will. the indian government says many of the religiously persecuted people it will grant citizenship to delhi. but i look says young who were able to work in the last elections were seduced by false promises made by the ruling nationalist b.g.p. . he says it won't happen again education will see to that arch of war al-jazeera. india. nepal's parliament has been unable to pass any laws for

3 months that's because a speaker was forced to resign in the wake of rape allegations but attempts to appoint someone new are being stalled by a dispute over who should replace him i reports from kathmandu. the ball's parliament has a series of new laws ready to be endorsed but there is a problem under way through there has to be a speaker present for them to be sent to the president and the post has been vacant for months in early october speaker of the house question about the model i was accused of rape and arrested and political leaders have not been able to agree on a replacement new bosses of the ruling communist party have asked the deputy speaker shiva to resign so a new speaker and deputy can be chosen but she says she should be appointed as the new speaker knew what i'm so good why should i pay the price for the wrongdoings of the speaker if they find a fault in my conduct they should impeach me this is about institutionalizing

a fist i'm the leaders cannot breach the constitution and the mabus says she's a victim of political horse trading and sexism them have is a member of nepal communist party that was formed from a merger with maoist follow guerillas in may 2082 of the past communist parties united to form a majority government but they created still has to chairperson and is clearly divided both factions 11 of their own people to be the speaker constitutionally have over the speaker ever deputy cannot be the same gender nor from the same political party both factions are proposing the more influential role of parliamentary speaker should go to a man and the post of deputy to a woman member of the opposition a poly congress which leaves the mandate out in the cold. way that. we were often told we're ready to give any position to women but they lack

a passage when it comes to doctor to pay she has all the qualities she's better qualified than all the male candidates her preferred by the leaders this issue has made us realize how important a women's caucus is for us. party leaders say they must be the ones to appoint the new speaker not activists but with the deputy speaker refusing to step down and both factions within the ruling party standing firm this dispute is in deadlock and that means so is not meant to be others iraq that men do. well still ahead on al-jazeera and in sports a costly double mess with a team of title hopefuls or portugal and they will be here that story. what went wrong in society that opened up the space for on the immigrant gracious is the european problem and it's not accountable and it's impossible for the people

to get it is for link up our people trying to take more of their lead at the forefront of strong demand our song moment while getting the growth of rejectionism of this world because the model those of us europe's forbidden colony episode 2 on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the term misinformation but i've used the term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions how unique aloma is this in terms of modern american history when it comes to racism you have the makings of a neo fascist moment international filmmakers and world class journalists bringing programmers to inspire you. on al-jazeera.

hundreds of thousands of people in africa are dying every year after taking counterfeit medicines that's according to the world health organization african leaders are hoping to change that they're meeting in togo's capital in may to sign an agreement to crack down on the illicit trade but it's big business and west africa learn the trade is worth $200000000000.00 nicholas hock reports from dakar in senegal it started with a match and turned into a rash it was then factories are decided to get some medicine but to save money she bought pills from a man and other 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 streets. to the pills from a market like this when cameras are not welcome here ours is concealed. were soon approached this mounted as he buys and sells medicine then shows us what he has among the drugs he's selling or the pills that poisoned fact to 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 and 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 india or nigeria pharmacist say their warnings about the counterfeit are too often ignored if it's the state's responsibility to protect its citizens this is poison in 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. well now it's time for sports and andy has some action from the tennis yes firm australia where tennis when the war actually party has won her 1st title of the year and her 1st solomon's on home soil the australian beating ukraine style you are not your strength in straight sets to secure the other lady in from the gulf is

now targeting a win in her home grand slam the australian open that starts in a mobile home but no one player has won but title of the forty's. i was always going to go into this try and open it with a smile on my face it's an incredible event to be a part of our i can't wait to get started on monday night and i know that you know the crowd support and the love diver saved is has been remarkable all throughout my career in and it's gone to a new level in over this last month overseas title rivals at the australian open will include serina williams who's aiming for a record equalling 24th grand slam title and defending champion army osaka the 22 year old describing $29.00 is the toughest year of her life she got used to life at the top of the tennis world. i really appreciate more every single win because i know what it took to get there so. of course i want to win every match and i want to go out there and do that and that's what i'm here for

but i think maybe last year was a little bit more. of iranian football federation claims the country has been banned from hosting any matches with foreign seems the federation explained that it received a letter from the asian football confederation requesting that all going involving iranian sides should be played in a neutral country but it wasn't made clear if this was due to security concerns the a.f.c. is yet some make an official statement. manchester city manager pep guardiola says he's not about to quit the club after winning 2 straight premier league titles city going to saturday's game against crystal palace trailing leaders of a poll by 14 points. even he's going the wrong rowing i don't know qualification because lincoln knew going in and going about. so i'm not a so the manager early in the good moment in that moment a little the manager when all the time all of a full manager you're going caught as described the decision to move the africa cup

of nations back to its january february slot in 2021 as disastrous liverpool have 3 players egypt's mohamed salah. guinea and senegal's reigning african player of the year saudi armani all of whom could be playing in cameroon events was originally due to take place in june and july but african government is going back to china february which is for us a catastrophe in that moment losing 3 players the other thing it does and that's true it doesn't help african players go we will not sell sorry oh more or not be now 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 but you will be policies already you haven't for 4 weeks runabout you don't have it so that's normal process so as a club we have to think about things like that it doesn't help the players push one

of our ports i paid the price for someone for penalty taking in portugal's top division on friday down one nil against braga they were awarded a spot kick just before half time. alex tallish star denied by braga keeper months years. they didn't another penalty after the break porto switching of the shooters for this one but it didn't have any impact to queen or missing this one they went down c. one in the end and they trailed league leaders benfica by 7 points. but it's been 6 years since the bron james to miami to their last n.b.a. finals before leaving but the hate finally looking like championship contenders once again they've been in great form this season currently 2nd the middle eastern conference on friday down the oklahoma city thunder 115 so you want to wait for a few of the you can with its 192 most of the damage scoring 22 points is a big turnaround from miami having failed to reach the playoffs last year 3 job.

running champions are strong so they are also on friday across the washington wizards 142111 the title holder sitting 4th in the east. rickie fowler and scotty schaeffer share the lead at the halfway stage of the american express tournament in california just behind them this man tony finn out in birdies 7 of his final 9 holes in a round of 62 despite shots like this tournament host and suits are going to phil mickelson is really struggling 13 strokes off. and brooke henderson has made a big move at the season opening events on the women's top the canadian hits a 5 under par round of $66.00 to take a share of the lead alongside in the park of south korea this is the sort of it's of champions in florida. khana mcgregor has come in it is heaviest ever u.f.c. fights in white as he returns to action after 15 months away from the oxygen.

well the former 2 division champion has moved up to well so waits for the very 1st time they are schmidt is taking on american dancer roni the u.s. sees biggest commercial draw hasn't won a fight though in all the 3 is. here to do good at this way i'm going to for all of them in this division it begins with donald that's gonna make sayah thank you all for the support i thank you for coming out i apologize already it's hard to get the kids ready i'm ready you know to be events so thank you all of your patience you know you for a great show tomorrow night. even a car convinced the kids to get out of the door on time that is how you sports looking for and they like they want time they are all that set for me in a style they're tave for this news hour but come on i will be here in just a moment the morning it's.

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