people 'd don't want to take it for their needs and if profundity strongman our song woman you're getting the growth of rejectionism of this world because the model doesn't work europe's forbidden colony episode 2 on al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes. more than 200 people are injured during a nice of defiant protests in lebanon's capital. libya's conflict threatens its or yearly infrastructure can the warring sides reach a compromise when they meet in berlin on sunday dozens of confirmed cases of

a mystery illness in china but 1500 more people could have contracted the virus and years of droughts months of bushfires now parts of australia are having to contend with torrential rain and flooding. and inspire us biggest drop connemara gregor makes his much anticipated return to action. on american donald sobrante later on saturday with hopes of winning for the 1st time in 3 years. for the thank you for joining us police have been firing water cannon and tear gas against protesters in beirut the man being a resolution to lebanon's economic crisis more than 200 people have been injured protests have increased over the past week because of delays in forming

a new cabinet is in a hold of reports now from beirut. rage in the streets of the capital in what might be a new phase in an uprising against lebanon's leadership that is now in its worst months fierce confrontations between anti-riot police and anti-establishment protesters turned downtown beirut into a war zone this is the epicenter of my protest movement that until a few days ago was relatively peaceful running battles began with demonstrators who want the political class they blame for mismanagement and corruption to leave power try to storm parliament building security forces responded with tear gas and i feel like the. protesters to back off and that they can't win and i think that the message of everybody here is that. lebanon's economy has been in turmoil for months a proposal to tax what's up calls which should be

a free service triggered the protests in mid october unemployment was rising and the lebanese local currency was losing value in an economy is everybody's going to get hungry everybody is going to get good reviews. i don't have to convince anybody about what's happening today it's clear what's happening who can get their money in the banks. there is anger at banks which imposed caps on withdrawals there is a shortage of dollars it's been almost 2 hours since the violence began anti-riot police have been using excessive amounts of tear gas to disperse the crowd but anti-establishment protesters are defiant the wounded were in the dozens of protesters and security forces were taken to hospitals there is a political vacuum many lebanese are growing impatient the politicians who are refusing to form an independent government free of the influence of political parties instead they are bickering among themselves for ministerial posts in the

next cabinet you know government alone. technocrats it was really just a smokescreen for the old ruling oligarchies elite so the protesters were really upset this is the 3rd night of violence since tuesday when activists said they planned to revive the momentum of the protest movement after a brief they announced what they called a week of rage they seem to be living up to that promise. the united nations has already described events in lebanon as dangerous chaos it is what comes next that many fears. they will not. go to libya now where the state oil firm says it's been forced to stop operations at 5 major oil ports in the east of the country the facilities have been under attack by forces loyal to the warlord highly for half tide who say the ports revenues are being used by the rival tripoli based government to pay turkish fighters as many as $8800000.00 barrels per day of output

could be lost and this less than 24 hours before talks in the german capital where world leaders hope that both have tied and the u.n. recognize government. will attend turkish president catch a favorite of the han has warned that if the libyan capital of tripoli were to fall to have tied it would become a fertile ground for other rebel groups turkey backs the government and has recently deployed troops to help against have tyrants forces while mom with a big weight has been following developments from tripoli he says the oil blockade has already had substantial effects on global markets. in less than 24 hours their libyan air dinar has lost about. 10 percent of its value compared to hard currency is b. because of the blockade of the terminals and oil exporting ports in the east of the

country the united nations' support the mission in libya has expressed concern over of the blue kade of the oil and as to lesions and it's sad that the. must not be part of the conflict and there and no see that's the state oil for the national oil corporation must stay neutral away from the current of the conflict that's going on the oil revenues of the bag borne of libya's national income and the national oil corporation is stressing that it's now losing about 800000 1000000000 barrels a day which is estimated at about $55000000.00 a day loss because of the bookie. well world leaders are gathering in the german capital where that peace conference to take place better has more now from berlin.

this was the moment livia's archrivals was supposed to agree to a cease fire prime minister face the stars and warlord in moscow for a meeting brokered by vladimir putin and. but have walked out of the last minute the collapse of those talks has been a setback for international efforts to end the conflict many are now waiting to see whether leaders from 12 countries can achieve in berlin what eluded put in an hour in moscow and persuade rival factions to reach a truce while the bill in conference is trying to do is get agreement between the states meddling in libya to stop their support of the warring parties problem is that western states on what fareed put pressure on half that front office in particular the u.a.e. so the promise is that the foreign minister will make and billing it in ring hollow german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for a permanent ceasefire in libya and implementing an arms embargo but that may not be

an easy task libya has been marred by an armed conflict for years. is leading an offensive to capture tripoli backed by the u.a.e. arabia friends and russia the general has brushed aside reconciliation efforts. he's intent on defeating his opponent as prime minister of the international recognized government based in tripoli. any talks taking place when tripoli is under a question is an absolute disrespect for those who are killed for the sake of democracy it is a disrespect for those forced out of their villages and cities hotter has a list of demands he wants armed factions in the west to disband and his libyan national army to take over he's also. it is clear that the military and military services government signed with turkey should be scrapped for the leaders attending the berlin peace talks the libyan conflict has reached

a tipping point violence is on the rise and an arche has paved the way for a wave of mass in areas to join the conflict raising fears it could be prolonged and spillover threatening your security that's why the international committee is determined to end war in libya. well the un's envoy for libya is already in germany referring to earlier attempts to agree to a ceasefire which failed he said those at sunday's meeting should not forget the interests of the libyan people. i think there is too much talk about libya and not enough about libyans the libyans have the right to be taking care of as well and they are the main beneficiaries of this truce so we wanted to last as long as possible and i hope that in berlin we will have the opportunity to turn it into a proper cessation of hostilities over more on this we can speak to omar turby he found that the libyan human rights commission and he joins us live now from

california sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i'd like to pick up on something that we just heard from the u.n. envoy for libya saying more focus on the libyan people then on libya itself we've seen how it's become a proxy war in so many countries are involved how do you think that in berlin that focus can be switched so that the libyan people have more control over their future . very good point i want to say that i totally disagree with that analysis that were made by al jazeera which obviously it's a mouthpiece of the government who's supporting the jinnee in tripoli and i believe the d.n.a. in tripoli has absolutely no legitimacy they were given a mandate in 2015 to so this armed militias to stablish a national army and none of these things as if i can just take your money and not really exactly then what it is that you did not agree with in the analysis the

points well 1st of all 1st of all let me tell you. we need to look at things and much more realistic terms you cannot. you cannot describe for instance a general have to who was legitimately appointed by the parliament in eastern libya as the commander and and chief of the libyan army you cannot refer to him as a warlord that's that's actually a nonstarter that's not a good thing for sir that's move on many from the wording i'd just like to bring you back to the question that i asked you there is a meeting in berlin and i think most people involved want to find some kind of resolution and certainly ease the humanitarian impact that this is having on libya so if i can just repeat the question to you now what do you think should happen in

berlin on sunday to get all the sides and we all know that there's a lot of countries involved in libya right now what do you think should be at least tried to be achieved tomorrow. 1st of all i'm not very optimistic of what might be achieved and what is to be a one day i don't know if there is no talk about it taking more than one day and i'm sure that many of the participants are going to be tripping over each other you're so many countries i mean that sounds very very impressive conference taking place in berlin and i hope that there will be some good recommendations you're not going to like what you're going to hear from me i think the berlin conference should not diligent little the libyan national army though i don't really believe they should be doing that and because it has this specifically followed the geneva convention and its conduct in western libya it has control over 80

to 90 percent of the country this should work for that specific army to disarm the militias in tripoli and i think we should basically that what the berlin conference should actually focus on is to help the libyan people work on putting together is to to tional process that will within a time frame maybe 12 months maybe 24 months that would have the making of a democratic process that we will end up at some point with which a legitimate government which. that leads me to the original question i mean that may well be what most people want to end up with how do you do that. how do you do what i think the united the the governments that are getting together in berlin should have one voice and the voice is to recognize what the libyan people want what the

libyan people want they want stability they want peace and i really strongly believe that we should stand behind the libyan national army that is actually mandated to liberate the whole entire country from militias from terrorist groups and move on to establish a legitimate libyan government going forward otherwise. what are we doing here bring in militias the turks are bringing more militia into tripoli. obviously a very contentious government the g.n.a.t. government of national court is obviously the one that's recognized by the united nations and as the support of many nations but obviously the country is divided and it will be. from the from that meeting in berlin tomorrow more turby we're going to have to leave it there from the libyan human rights commission thank you for having

joined us. coming up on al-jazeera at this news hour tension at the border between mexico and guatemala and thousands of like rense pursue their dream of a new life in the u.s. . returning to peano's evacuated from the base of the volcano are allowed back to their homes but only for a few hours and danger creeps closer to you bend this at the top of the pile and you are a. several people have been killed in airstrikes in the rebel held syrian progressively it's the latest in a series of breaches of a russian and turkish brokered ceasefire for the region that was reached last weekend russia has denied breaking the. lescott here lopez hall the young reports went on. a desperate rush to save lives but this shelter for

displaced people was one of several sites hit by recent airstrikes in syria syria was inside is a family including several young children who have been arjan see crews take the injured to hospital come across some of the missiles hit several towns in the northern province of aleppo. but for others it's too late for the new year because some of the airstrikes hit this house which was for displaced people they came here looking for shelter trying to escape the bombing when we arrived we found 4 bodies on the ground. turkey's president recent high apparent on says syria's government violated the cease fire brokered by turkey and russia. the target it live province is the last territory controlled by rebel groups in syria's northwest region. thousands of civilians are caught in the violence the u.n. says more than 300000 syrians have been forced from their homes over the last 10

weeks women men and children simply carrying out everyday activities at the workplace in markets and at schools being killed and maimed in senseless violence was these protesters say they've had enough they are tired of short of cease fire agreements that go ignored i'm in more for those of us living in syria we know the talks of cease fire turned out to be lies there is no ceasefire a few days ago there was a massacre here that killed civilians. many families are now packing their belongings in leaving so many don't yet know where they can go and be safe katia locus of a young al-jazeera. several people have been killed by a car bomb that exploded in an apparent attack on turkish contractors in somalia it happened in the town of a northwest of the capital mogadishu the turkish engineers were having lunch with

somali police at the time of the attack al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the bomb. iran says it will send the black boxes of a downed ukrainian airliner to kiev for examination once there it says experts from france canada and the u.s. will try to read their flight recorder data 176 people were killed when the boeing jet was accidentally shot down by the ukrainian military earlier this month canaday ukraine sweden afghanistan and the united kingdom have all been pushing for full access during an investigation into the crash. now after a season of devastating bush fires severe flooding is now sweeping through parts of australia heavy rain as soaked coastal areas of queensland the new south wales for the last few days charlotte bellis reports. from fire now carry from floods last week bushfires came within 10 kilometers of the strain. never got

it. since the heavy rain has left parts of australia east coast for queensland and new south wales plagued by record breaking bushfires this was welcome relief. in new south wales a wounded kuala licks water off the road roof sued rain fell across most of its 5 dozen still it's just beautiful listening to a. roof it's a long time since we've had it. up to 300 millimeters of rain fell in southern queensland forcing commuters to get creative. 70 percent of queensland is affected by drought. this was the 1st time 14 month old lacey soon had ever seen right here much of australia's been in drought for a good 23 percent across the area where the fires of been at their worst if you're

looking at really heavy rainfall coming in on parts ground the trees obviously been damaged if not destroyed so then i will to soak up the water the ground struck hard they will tend to just wash off so that's why you do essentially get to the flooding. for many astray eons flooding is a small price to pay the price shipments farmers in the grips of drought he's been hand feeding his cash to keep them alive. i love it i don't care how weird it is i can ride old all awake as far as i'm concerned we've never had so much rain in so many. new 7 a new. the rain is expected to move south over the next few days and bring relief to the state of victoria where firefighters continue to be dogged by flames

and they could use more help from above charlotte dallas. u.s. authorities of announce they will start screening passengers flying in from the central chinese city of wine where it's believed the mystery illness originated chinese authorities believe the virus originated from animal products in the seafood market in december but researchers are worried about the likelihood of human to human transmission so far 2 people have died china has confirmed that 45 people have contracted the virus but with 2 cases reported in thailand and one in japan scientists say that that number is likely higher around 1700 officials have concluded the infection is a coronavirus mild cases cause common cold but can also be as serious as sars that's the severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed nearly 800 people worldwide back in 2003 katrina you is in beijing she explains the government's response to the outbreak the chinese government in 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 connecting 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 and that they've said that everyone who is affected is from is from rouhani 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 2000000 trips made across china if there's any panic sparked around this corona virus that it could lead to all sorts of cale's 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 their message so far. well for more on this we can speak

to hugh pennington is an emeritus professor of bacteria at the university of aberdeen any joins us live thank you so much for being with us so in light of what we know already how worried do you think that people should be about this virus. not too worried at this point we're still learning about it after all it's the 1st new virus of the 20 twentieth's he's only appeared at the right at the end of last year so there's still a long way to go before we have the sort of full science although we have a lot already full credit to all the people who'd be looking at this virus they've sequenced its genome they've developed tests so that we know whether somebody has been infected with it and this is very rapid progress in you know in about 2 weeks you know we've got that far with it but there are many unanswered questions the big one is human to human transmission doesn't happen if it happens how often does it happen how close do you have to be to somebody to catch the virus we know that

almost certainly it's spread on the wind it's spread by the air which is quite a difficult thing to prevent it's not like something probably in food or water and so on so there are these are these are problems which they're grappling with at the moment do we have controls at airports people taking people's temperatures not what you or i just wanted to forgive me for interrupting i just wanted to to go to that question because there's a lot that we still don't know what you think the preventative measures should be that are in place well i think at the moment it's it's watch and see what happens to see whether it's worth bringing in these preventive measures because the preventive measures themselves are quite expensive they don't always work they create a lot of inconvenience and so on one doesn't want to do that unnecessarily but on the other hand doesn't put want to put it off too late so at the moment we're very much in a learning curve sort of period about this virus what so far we know is that it's not as nasty in terms of mortality as sars which unfortunately killed about 10

percent of the people who got infected it doesn't seem to be as nasty as that although we have had some fatalities well though it can travel as far as we found you know it's going to thailand it's going to japan and based on that we think there are many more cases. on the ones that have been diagnosed so far in a way that might be good news because many of those cases might have been very mild and not come to medical attention that it's too early to really be certain about that so at the moment i think it's watch and i don't really keep a very very close eye on it will health organization chinese government and other health authorities are looking very carefully to see whether they need to bring in airport checks in particular because that's one useful way of minimizing not stopping but in minimizing spread there are no drugs that can stop it there's no vaccine so it's much more these traditional preventive measures if we have to bring them in those are the ones who have to use it and from what we know what are the signs of this virus that jalapeno well basically causes in human ear as you have

trouble breathing i have a temperature and so on so it seems to be a response to a virus that really is those are the essential carry and of clinical features and of course the problem with that is that there are many other causes of pneumonia as well so just by getting a case of pneumonia you can't say this person has got this new coronavirus you have to do the tests to be absolutely certain about that but of course if somebody has come from who had it particularly if somebody has been associated with that food market there which aren't i understand as being close for quite a while that of course would raise the index of suspicion and make you have a very very aggressive approach to doing the tests that the tests are rather specialized but but but now there are very little dish you know the gene sequences is going out on the internet and all that kind of stuff so that right throughout the world those tests can be developed and done without too much problem.

professor hugh pennington amasses professor of bacteriology at the university of aberdeen joining us from aberdeen sir thank you. thank you as the come on al-jazeera for the news hour how a battle selling political life terms in hong kong is affecting traditional chinese new year's markets that's for people a that desperate system europe's refugee crisis leaves cyprus at breaking point and rugby unions european champions are punished for overspending on players' salaries by being relegated to the english 2nd division. there were still being played by the cloud that fog across the southeastern regions of europe but there's

a bit change on the cards you can see plenty of cloud in the last as really actually making headway even as far as central areas of europe but even so they having said all of that this is serbia you can bet again see the landscape and then across into kosovo send a story you can see there how cold it is as well because we have actual some fossil around as well as the fog now as we go through sunday we've got more rain through the eastern end of the mediterranean mostly care across the southeast to say we have got that morning folk problem and then we've got a little areas of rain the main area as we go through sunday is going to be through the western and the mediterranean some. snow piling up into eastern areas of spain but what we have goes a ridge of high pressure in extending very nice across much of the u.k. the low countries france germany this keep things dry for the next couple of days temperatures are a bit lower sixty's across into london that's good because it doesn't mean the good guys the nice sunshine meanwhile that rain continuing through the western med it could well lead to flooding maybe 160 millimeters accumulating into areas of spain

and no surprise to continue south was across into marco and algeria. a searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. and the news that were put in place to control it in this country it is not right so if you restrict the rights of latest got orders you're not solving the problem of criminality of the kind of peace because these are not the people who are committing the crime. who are your customers a lot of people but has the violence actually got worse rewind stray bullets on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation i've used the term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussion that's how unique a lovin 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 programs to inspire and. on al-jazeera. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera more than $200.00 people have been injured in protests in the lebanese capital beirut demonstrators are demanding an urgent end to the country's economic and political crisis libya state oil firm says it's been forced to stop operations of 5 major oil ports in the east of the country the facilities have been under attack by forces loyal to the warlord. world leaders

will gather for ceasefire talks in berlin on sunday for his have announced that they will start screening passengers flying in from the central china. where a mystery illness is believed to have a originated from 2 people have died there so far. that members of venezuela's opposition party say that they have transcripts of government officials offering them bribes they say audio recordings reveal $700000.00 was offered to each of them to turn on the opposition leader one or latin america reports. a new twist in the hostile takeover of the news whalers opposition controlled parliament. 2 weeks ago soldiers prevented opposition. from entering the legislature. while a small group of dissident deputies installed their own man as speaker of the house with the government's full support. now the majority opposition leadership is

showing would it says is proof of how the government tried to buy off deputies to. including. the things we read on 700. dollars initially there was another proposition of $1000000.00 i suggested $1.00 but they came back with $500.00 and said no that's unacceptable so we arrived a bill ground of $700000.00 which is still money you know. kina says he met and taped. a deputy who'd been expelled from his opposition party offering him the bribe just ahead of the january 5th vote for control of parliament he says only 16 out of more than 100 deputies took the bait and that he and others who refused are now in danger. today i am being seriously threatened in my physical integrity and that of my family al-jazeera tried without success to speak to

noriega who nevertheless responded to the accusations on twitter calling the recording a hoax and threatening to take his accusers to court for slander he added if deputy might have had this audio why didn't he make it public 2 weeks ago after the election of the director of the national assembly he didn't because he didn't have what is a vulgar montage we asked mccain not the very same question and he responded that it was because of fears for his and other deputies safety now that they've gone public he says that if anything happens to them they will hold president nicolas maduro personally responsible the white house has accused the venezuelan government of using bribery tactics to oust what it regards as the legitimate opposition leadership and slap sanctions on deputy no idea that according to the voice transcript the so-called turncoat deputies met with president mahmoud a person early the night before the bribe offer was made to calculate how many

votes were needed. none of this is admissible in a court of law but then it's the court of public opinion that the opposition is trying to win over. you see in human al-jazeera. people in hong kong are preparing to celebrate chinese new year fearing continued anti-government unrest or forty's of canceled some of the main events they've also banned the sale of items with any political reference but as sarah clarke reports it's not enough to stop some activists. the streets a decorated in traditional chinese new year style markets of victoria park essential to the busy and colorful festival plants and flowers signifying hope and promise for a new year. but the government is bad the sile of water known as dry goods any items with a political reference that hasn't stopped pro-democracy groups holding their own independent markets because of the protests and also we think that people with

their tech more control on their own freedom and in the moment so we plan to set up this market. hopefully hong kong people can have their freedom on how to use their money they said. this is one of a number of crowd funded markets being held across the city called burn fees on sila handicrafts and products highlighting the anti-government message that still hold those cain to reaffirm their political stance in a pos hong kong that is that raising some problems with police. we want to leave us a message to happy chinese feel again and then let them feel happy and the progress can show the homicide there are around 15 independent organized markets being held by the chinese new year holiday break the location of some of them is not being shared publicly you have to register 1st to get those details in the current climate organizers fear any politicize the band will be targeted by police

security checks are in place across the mind festival locations but the government isn't taking any chances the annual fireworks display has been cancelled so too has the traditional chinese new year from right what was once considered the most significant festival of the year in hong kong is rather low key 2020 antigovernment protests is a planning another rally on sunday which might further dampen the celebrations circling al-jazeera hong kong. china and myanmar have signed the dozens of infrastructure deals during a state visit by chinese president paying the agreement between g l n cents and she has filled the void left by western investors were pulled out of the country over myanmar street treatment of muslims 33 agreements were made including on a major port in rakhine state that's where me and mars military is accused of carrying out a genocidal campaign against the 100 people. now people from villages and towns

near the philippine style volcano are briefly being allowed back to their homes they can only stay for a few hours a day to collect their belongings and start cleaning up the volcano began erupting last weekend shrouding thousands of homes and heavy volcanic ash bribe reports now from the town of police side which is in the danger zone. the to holler option has turned this part of tel a sign 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 the hose. reel a tight reliques shows us the thickness of the layer of debris 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 it's depressing i want to crying 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 like a double blind 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 eat family finish 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 mexico's government is promising jobs to nearly 3000 migrants hoping to get into the u.s. thousands of made it to the guatemalan mexico border where they try to push their way past security forces to cross to close the bridge in and turn mexican territory central american countries have come under increasing pressure from washington to

stop light planes from crossing into the u.s. meanwhile the united states is sending asylum seekers who arrive at its border to a safe 3rd country to seek refuge there that country is guatemala and for the last few weeks flights have been arriving there with honduran and salvador asylum seekers on board but there are doubts over whether what can actually provide for them or indeed protect them john holdren has more. die another and dead mother from honduras thought the family had finally made it when they reached the u.s. not for asylum instead u.s. officials sent them to guatemala they say without their consent you know you don't know if you know my husband they gave us papers to saying they would in english when we asked what the where they said they just had our details on them when we saw the asylum officer the next day he told us we st our consent to go back to quote him 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 more than $100.00 so far in the running for a less than 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 guatemala 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's one of the poorest in the hemisphere and the u.s. travel department itself warns bustling 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. little said research 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 reached similar agreements with honduras and el salvador hoping to reduce pressure on a clogged up immigration system that means asylum seekers could soon be sent to the world's most violent countries after a night at the migrant shelter. when the 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 heilemann now does it or what tamala city the 1st woman

to be appointed to a management position in the vatican says the she's looking forward to advancing a feminine point of view in her role but francis named francesca giovanni as the new undersecretary for multilateral affairs in the vatican secretary of state should be responsible for coordinating the holy see's relations with groups including the un ms the age of on a says her appointment is a reflection of the pope's support for women in the church. buckingham palace has announced an agreement for the future role of the duke and duchess of sussex prince harry and megan will keep will not keep their royal highness titles but will keep them but no longer use them in a statement from the palace queen elizabeth also said the couple will repay public money used to renovate their u.k. home last week harry and megan announced that they intended to step back a senior members of the royal family. there are hopes of a breakthrough in france's long running strike action with the transport union calling for the industrial action to end the monday oprah war workers on saturday

join the protest movement against the government pension reforms. the performers how do the latest in a string of creative demonstrations which have included a public ballet orchestra performances and flash mob dance routines on friday night president the man went across and had to be evacuated from paris's boof the north sea at her because protesters blocked the exits while singing and chanting. the cypriot government has called on the e.u. to help deal with increasingly large numbers of migrants and refugees arriving on the island most of them travel from turkey in then to the self declared republic of northern cyprus and then on to cyprus but once they get there those migrants and refugees say that they don't feel welcome as for a challenge reports now from the mediterranean island omar 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 lebanon to cyprus but life here is not happy so do you think the government do you think cyprus is a country ones who're. no 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 on is much better for many other asylum seekers people queue for menial jobs and me go 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 are 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 in my creation is it's

a european problem but some on the ground see things differently doris polycarp who runs kisa refugee focused and geo he's critical of europe's in action 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 this situation is very easy to say europe is the responsible for the north throwing so that even instead of saying that we need . and we didn't do what we should do as with all refugee stories whether governments around able or unwilling to cope it's real people who suffer for each islands al-jazeera cyprus water levels in one of asia's longest rivers that's the meat kong have fallen sharply after china began testing equipment in one of the rivers downs the mekong flows through china and 5 other countries including cambodia where levels are expected the plummet foreign slave reports now from

cambodia has come from problems. has been fishing in the mekong river for more than 20 years just like his father did before him we mourn matai from all the used to be a lot more fish we only had the cast on it and they'd be all 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 mekong river in china environmental advocates say these have had an impact on the river and the life in that 70 racin them. meaning that then my quit. and downstream in vietnam all the way up to not and part

of thailand so they depend lastly on the. water level of the driven by the drought and. 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 another 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 in quitman a small pump isn't good enough we have to get a bigger one i've 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 louis al-jazeera province cambodia. the most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years is spreading across east africa kenya is one of the worst affected countries where authorities say that there's been an extremely dangerous rise in swarm activity the insects fly together by the millions and have devoured hundreds of thousands of acres of crops unusual climate conditions are partly to blame for the outbreak still to come here on al-jazeera will have the sporting. champion chases her 1st win off the season.

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sold to me so they're using my fault. the final episode of life sucks laughs on al-jazeera. and now it's time to go to far away doha for the sport thanks so much barbara you have seized biggest draw a corner mcgregor makes his much anticipated return to action in just a few hours time the 31 year old has come in that is heaviest ever fighting weight as he steps into the octagon for the 1st time in 15 months.

before merge 2 division champion is moved up to welterweight for the 1st time the irishman is taking on american donald surrounding in las vegas on saturday mcgregor hasn't won a fight in 3 years he's had several run ins with the law including being fined for punching an elderly man and allegations of sexual assault which he's denied. did it this way i'm going to hear all of them in this division it begins we're going to. tell you all the support now you've got a great show tomorrow only the dominant team in european rugby union will be relegated from england's top division this season after being punished for breaking rules on players' salaries but the club saracens are the reigning european champions and provided the bulk of the england team that reach last year's world cup final in japan but the english premiership announced on saturday that would demote them to 2nd tier next season on top of the $7000000.00 fine already handed out saracens have won for the past 5 premiership titles but were found to have

broken the competition salary cap in each of the last 3 seasons. italian football champions event is could have a new challenge to their dominance in syria as their 10th league win in a row on saturday the romans 51 win over sampdoria puts them just 3 points behind giving i just point behind in our milan he wins all now have looked the most likely contenders to great run of 83 titles lots you haven't lost in the league since september ciro mobile a with a hat trick of its. being wished primary league title looks more and more likely to go to liverpool this season defending champions manchester city slipped up again on saturday a delayed goals from sergio where a look tim given them a 21 win against crystal palace wilford forced an own goal for in a dino in the last minute to 2 the final score city 13 points behind liverpool

plane man united on sunday dispute i was there we tried and we tried again and we we came back it was a ph d. n. drop to plunge in his way but to trouble and you have to learn for deciduous. meanwhile in spain real madrid have gone top league or 2 goals from castle mero giving them a 21 win over sivia putting them 3 points above barcelona who play on sunday. men's tennis number one rafa nadal says he's confident australian open organizers won't let smoke from bushfires affect the players' concerns about air quality were heightened when one player was taken off court with breathing difficulties during qualifying the skies have been clear as fans arrived in melbourne ahead of monday's for sticky they told me that they have the right specialists here analyzing more of the rising give me 4 minutes there and there is a problem with those guys with some parameters we don't blame i really can not

believe that the most important committee in the world. ones. about help for for the competitors. caroline wozniak he admits saying goodbye to tennis will be emotional the former world number one is set to retire at the end of the australian open a 29 year old finally won her 1st grand slam in 20 team in melbourne but the dana since struggle she finished last season with no titles for the 1st time in 12 years i'm out here and i love the sport of them over everything they've given really i love being out there and competing but i'm ready to start a new chapter. britain's lee westwood has a one shot lead heading into the final round of the abu dhabi championship westwards round including an eagle on the 8th hole finished with a 65 on saturday to go 14 under. his one shot clear francesco left port of italy and austria as brand vice burger while top ranked brooks kept

the u.s. this time doubt in 40 being place. well top women's alpine skier of recent seasons mckayla shifrin has yet to win a race in 2020 the time olympic gold medalists quest for a 4th straight world cup title has hit a stumbling block italy's frederica bruneau ne and petra the whole of slovakia's hype for a giant slalom victory on saturday it was a 13 career world cup win for bruno in a different than ish 3rd by the smallest of margins the 24 year old was just 100 of the 2nd behind the joint winners in italy the american though still leads the overall standings. and that's all he's for for now it's now back to barbara in london fire thank you for that and that is it for this news that remember you can get much more on everything that we have been covering on the website there it is with of course one of our top stories the continuing violence in 11.

theft in the heart of the amazon of the libyan family is the family lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. but it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to believe me out. on al-jazeera.

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do. for. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. like witness on al-jazeera. more than $200.00 people injured during a night of the fire and protests in lebanon's capital. hello barbara sarah you're watching al-jazeera live from love but also coming up on the program libya's conflict threatens its oil infrastructure can the warring sides reach a compromise when. dozens of confirmed cases of a mystery illness in china but 1500 more people.