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super bowl for the 1st time since 1970 s. the 49 ers after the play that nobody wanted me to san francisco it's the biggest day in american sport. hello we begin this news hour in iraq that's where there are reports that protesters have been killed in the capital baghdad after police tried to break down barricades on the outskirts of the city dozens are said to be injured in the latest round of mass demonstrations rallies are also broken out in a number of cities in the south of the country including measure. protesters have cut off the south of the country by blockading major roads let's bring in imran khan who's joining us from baghdad and as we're reporting clashes have been taking place throughout the morning in iran and the numbers seem to be getting larger.

right where we are right now i'll just get that out the way to give you a closer look is about how off comments are way from where the clash is all taking place in effect a front line between the protesters on the police now you can see all of these little cause what they doing is they bringing people have been affected by the take 2 ambulances nearly hit in the last couple of hours i've seen about 15 people being brought to the suffering from the effects of the national security council also the police to try and go in less people but just take a look at the crowds huge how many people will be able to arrest remains unclear we haven't got a number of how many people the police. arrest what is going on here is that more and more people are arriving as they see the pages on the news this is now one of the largest demonstrations in recent weeks that we've seen it's also likely to be

one of the most violent. meanwhile around the protesters seem to have made good on . what effect is that having. province is that face for example. have actually been completely cut off the only vehicles that are getting through. and food supply trucks but we haven't seen the levels of violence in the south that we've seen here relatively peaceful what is the burning tires on the roads and the highways. anybody but the question is crucial the reason they're doing this is because they feel that the government isn't listening to them although there is a caretaker prime minister from is that he has said he will resign. until he resigns and there's a new prime minister in place elections can't be called on the protesters are getting very frustrated because they feel that they don't mean but now they cut off

these roads the question is how much more can they escalate how much pressure can they put on the government all right imran khan thank you for that update from baghdad let's speak about this with he's the head of policy analysis of the arab center for research studies joining us here in doha time around thanks for your time with us on the where is the protest movement headed to cutting off the south and the clashes that we're seeing taking place in baghdad how much of an escalation is this well this is a clear exclusion because. we thought we all actually thought that the killing of qassam something with an end to this protest movement which started as you know down in an october and the many so far to force the prime minister to resign and also to change the electoral law and also to change the commission which she was really over to see elections in and so far we haven't seen actually any brokenness

since the forced the prime minister to resign and they have been calling actually for one of the least. and they wanted an independent figure out of home d. would contribute to choosing as prime minister but also on the other hand we have seen actually the political class which they are demanding actually to be more is trying actually to undermine the whole protest movement by trying to buy time and more time actually in order either to the new with the mandate of the prime minister of the outgoing prime minister. caretaker prime minister. or to have a prime minister from then on choosing which is. most of the blocs within the parliament who are many a close to iran and particularly quite a few candidates for war but up with this actually have actually rejected rejected ok i think they are putting more pressure not to see if the government will actually stop their demands so if this is an escalation as you say it is then how

much longer can the government take its time well i think you know i mean in the biggest in the last few weeks actually they tried to. convince the president of the republic in order to approve one of the kind of put forward for the prime for the prime minister they have so far feel they tried actually to buy also some time after the killing of cause i'm sorry money. there also failed and now i think there will be trying to have within blocks within the bottle a man to agree on someone that can keep the structure of the political system in iraq intact on one hand and on the other hand try actually to fight to do to look very much like the art of meeting the demands of the of the protesters but then see if that is going to work anyway ok we'll leave it there thank you for much.

it's considering ways to support a ceasefire in libya including a possible military led mission on the ground for ministers are meeting in brussels . brought together libya's warring sides and several. fighting broke out south of tripoli just hours after that summit came to an end and . joseph burrell says any peace settlement will need the block support meanwhile oil prices have risen to more than $65.00 per barrel amid concerns over supplies out of and much of the country's oil infrastructure remains under blockade by have to forces the state oil firm has warned its output will be reduced by more than 90 percent. of the standing by for us in the libyan capital tripoli we'll get reaction in a moment but 1st let's bring in has who's been following diplomatic developments from berlin on what more burrell had to say hashem and particularly the e.u.'s point of view because the e.u.

countries have really been divided when it comes to libya so so what extent are they now finding unity on the way forward particularly when it comes to this military mission. so there in this is what is happening on the diplomatic front after the conference where the e.u. in particular and the international community were trying to put up this facade of consensus about how to move forward when it come when it comes to grappling with how to enforce the cease fire agreement and the arms embargo to that they are now trying to figure out what is the most practical way to do it on the ground so that when it is someone who has been extremely critical of the recent evolvement of the russians or the turks in libya saying that we cannot afford to have or see those countries having. a permanent military presence in libya therefore it's up to us the european union to take

a front stage would have come to libya he's thinking about asking the e.u. bloc to reactivate the naval mission that was established in 2015 to curb the human smuggling of the coast of libya that mission was abandoned in 2019 against a backdrop of huge divisions between key players in the european union about how to deal with libya now when it comes to the ceasefire agreement does it boys talking about monitoring and managing the ceasefire it remains to be seen how they will be able to achieve that on the ground i was talking to libyan officials about that potential of this this been a discussion about a peacekeeping force deployed to libya but many libyans are divided about the presence of foreign troops to monitor a cease fire agreement i think the debate now is to try to convince libyans themselves and this is exactly what is going to happen in geneva in about a week or 2 weeks from now to bring all the different factions in libya to come to geneva to talk about how to put together all the mechanism to maintain

a permanent cease fire for the political process to start which is going to be a task monitored ultimately by the united nations ok hassam ahead about a thank you for that update let's bring in what i've been well had he is joining us from the libyan capital tripoli and we are getting reports that rival factions are now responding to the conclusions of that berlin conference with what we're hearing . will the fighting did not stop until this morning we have been hearing good sounds of heavy fire in southern tripoli over the past couple of days and as the berlin meeting was being killed the fighting did not stop but the situation here and as you can hear now there is just a heavy sound of probably artillery fire so both the question now is whether or not

both saraj and have to can reign in the arm with groups on the ground we know we have been speaking to military commanders on the ground they say that they cannot retreat until half the us forces pull out from southern tripoli as a prerequisite for any peace deal with the other faction meanwhile many people here look at berlin conference conclusions as at it of this agreement that the u.n. a brokered deal that was sealed in 2015 and brought about the 3 bodies here in libya their parliament their high state council and the government the government of national court many people here in the west of libya say that they believe in conference is not promising and that there is no practical or concrete result on the ground until. those who committed the work crimes are being tried they mean have the forces and they go on t.v.

that all the displaced people are returning to their homes and their full deescalation on the ground but on the other side many people here believe that they cannot speak make peace with the other side until have the forces pulled out from southern tripoli many military groups on the ground say that they are determined to move on to continue fighting until the late the other side the question now is whether or not key and the. show we'll put pressure on the law is libya to deescalate ok mahmoud thank you for that update from tripoli. at least 6 people have been killed by a series of russian air strikes in syria the attacks happened in western aleppo nearly 30000 civilians have been displaced over the last 3 days in the latest round of shelling in the area and the u.n. has called for an immediate end to hostilities saying the latest cease fire has yet again failed to protect civilians here with the news hour and al-jazeera there is

plenty more ahead including scrambling to contain the violence lebanon's president meets security officials after a weekend protests hundreds injured. claims africa's richest woman ripped off her country to enrich herself. it's coming up in sport tennis action from day one of the australian open including the moment when one player broke the net. but 1st the spread of a new and potentially deadly virus appears to be accelerating in asia south korea has become the latest country to confirm its 1st case of a new virus that has originated from china patient numbers have tripled and 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of han we'll speak to katrina you in beijing in just

a moment but 1st here is her report. stafford hospital are working around the clock to identify a mystery virus which has been linked to star's severe acute respiratory syndrome at least 3 people have died and the number of those confirmed have the virus is growing but chinese officials say the outbreak is under control. all the identified new cases have been a benefit to a visit native hospital and we have concentrated resources experts to treat patients in one place. the virus which causes pneumonia like symptoms originated in a meat market cases have been confirmed in beijing in shenzhen and found in chinese villages japan thailand and south korea human to human transmission has not been ruled out and that's a problem because this week marks the official beginning of china's busiest travel season hundreds of millions are using public transit ahead of chinese new year celebrations checks are being conducted in railway stations and airports but that

doesn't mean is the growing concern about the spread of the virus people here are looking to the government to do to keep them safe but i don't think the government is doing enough because i'm just not hear enough details about it i don't think they will give us the true number of those infected i'm worried and that's why i wear a mask when i'm out others say they trust the government's handling of the virus i believe the government or give us an accurate information i think they're more worried than the public they were have to figure out how to deal with it so i'm not worried but the outbreak has breathed back on easy memories of the 2003 saw outbreak which killed almost 800 people worldwide and left more than 8000 sick authorities initially withheld information about the epidemic leading some to question the chinese government's transparency around the virus british researchers say they could be as many as 7200 cases videos are circulating on chinese social

media of passengers being tested on flights from move on but the government has appealed to the public to remain calm 8 people were arrested earlier this month for spreading rumors about the outbreak online but preventing the spread of the virus may not be as straightforward as controlling the spread of information. joining us from beijing and there is a real concern about the spread of the virus and how it impacts on the upcoming holiday season and travel for millions of people. that's right the government has stepped up monitoring as you saw in that package and in public transport they're testing with infrared testers testing people's temperatures specially people who are coming out of but this is supposed to be a big celebrate celebration period people are having parties and gathering and actually in the city of itself people have been told to remain indoors as much as possible pay attention to their washing their hands and things like that so this is

really affecting some people's travel plans already we've had a colleague who's actually from one hand and he's decided not to bring his children back back home to her and just to prevent just a really minimize any risk so people are a saudi to have concerns especially those who are traveling from the south of china but as we also saw some people do believe that the government is doing its best to message from the government has been consistently that this is a control and a preventable outbreak and they're truly trying to manage public opinion about this to make sure that as much as possible they prevent any panic being spread through this very important holiday period ok katrina thank you for that update from the. let's speak to torak your service she's the spokesperson of the world health organization who's joining us from geneva thanks very much for your time with us on the news hour how do you explain the jump in cases because china is reporting 139 new cases of this virus and in 2 days. well this increase in cases was expected

as china has increased the surveillance and testing it is something that but we will see likely in coming days more cases inside china and maybe outside as we have seen in travelers what is really important is is to try to understand this a virus better it's a new virus we start still don't understand how easily it's being transmitted between humans we don't know what is the source and we are still looking into data about its severity so as we as we move forward we will get more information about the virus but for the time being it is important for all countries to be aware of this new virus to be ready to test. people who may have symptoms and who may have been coming from affected area and on and also to treat those who need medical care again this is this is something that it's new or do good points really is that

china was able to quickly identify duce new virus to share genetic sequence all countries could develop or gnostic best show you should already devise on infection pressure control measures in hospitals in a monetary and in in clinical treatment of cases as well as on a risk communication so i think that what is important really that countries are ready they make sure that their health systems can deal with any any cases of a new coronavirus yet you are not. by you i mean their world health organization is not currently recommending restrictions on travel or trade from what we understand but what is your of that ins to countries who said be or could be preparing for any outbreak. exactly at this time we are not advising any trouble or trade restrictions what we are really saying to governments is to

to be on a on alert. to to diagnose people to provide clinical care to or to make sure that the population has accurate information exactly as you were saying in your introduction we also recommend to people to take precautionary measures that are usually taken to avoid respiratory illnesses such as hand washing covering. awarding contact with people who obviously seek going to local markets to avoid unprotected contact with animals so this is what needs to be done now to understand the virus better but also the same time to to prevent further spread. introducing it that the measures that have been announced and we are commanded by the world health organization are right and we thank you very much your service for speaking to us from geneva. iran's foreign minister is threatening to pull out of

the treaty of the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons if its nuclear activities are reported to the united nations iran has denied claims it's violated the 2050 nuclear deal despite having rolled back its commitments to the pact iran's foreign ministry has also criticized european powers for failing to salvage the agreement to iran has been scaling back its commitments under the deal after the us withdrew in 2018 britain france and germany triggered it is mechanism this month citing iranian violations. lebanon's president is meeting with the heads of security agencies to discuss the recent wave of violent protests michelle golland says more needs to be done to preserve peace and stability after 2 nights of unrest left more than 500 people injured on sunday there were violent confrontations between riot police and protesters outside lebanon's parliament frustration has been growing

over a financial crisis and the failure of politicians to form a new government and let's bring in xenophobia she is joining us from beirut so how serious is the security crisis in the country. well for now it seems to be under control call has been restored yes over the past 2 nights violent scenes here in central beirut outside parliament square protesters and security forces engaged in hours long battles like you mentioned over 500 people injured on both sides not just the protesters the security forces as well protesters hurled stone sticks anything that they could find while these security forces used tear gas rubber bullets water talents to disperse the crowd but so far the number of protesters just really limited to a few 100 and the area of confrontations limited to this area the central beirut district the question is will the situation escalates will there be more

incidents of violence as long as the economy continues its freefall and people continue to lose their jobs and you mentioned the president meeting with these security agencies that's of the security agencies as well as the army according to the national news agency they're going to be discussing how to bring about peace and stability now we know what the position of the internal security forces is that yes we will allow protesters to vent their anger peacefully but we will not allow them to quote assault the security forces. damage public and private property but human rights groups are criticizing the security forces for quote their actions saying they use the excessive force excessive amounts of tear gas and the very fact that they the rubber bullets were hitting the eyes of the protesters their injuries to the eyes so security forces also coming under criticism for the way that they reacted to the protesters who in turn were provoking the security forces and what's

being said by officials in on why there is through a delay in the announcement off a new government and a government formation. those in power the ruling alliance the politicians who the protesters want to leave power are bickering amongst themselves over shares in the next cabinet they're not in agreement on who is going to get what and in the interim this political vacuum it's been since the end of october that lebanon has had no government no economic plan to save the country which their state is in near bankruptcy and this is why people have become more and more angry and frustrated they say that their politicians are you know competing over seats in the next cabinet and not addressing the issues that should be addressed so there is no agreement in the horizon at least for the time being

there were a lot of meetings yesterday between the prime minister designate the president and the house speaker so so far no government a political vacuum a country in economic turmoil and fears that the security situation could worsen in the days and weeks ahead ok xenophobes or thank you. more thunderstorms are for cost across australia that's where the heaviest rain in months is already flooded areas that were burning just days ago. issued severe weather warnings in new south wales southern queensland parts of victoria andrew thomas reports. for weeks australia burnt and choking smoke filled the air but this is dust a huge dust storm rolled across the towns of dubbo and parks over the weekend dramatic but not dangerous and elsewhere it's now flooding in melbourne to run chill rain storms and hail stones the size of golf balls

qualifying matches at the australian open were abandoned smoke from bushfires had been a big worry for players now it's further rain interruptions this story obviously. you know would have a lot of troubles if they had to cancel matches and you know luckily they have 3 close. courts with a with a roof. still has so many matches so many players. let's hope they're through the worst of. the rain has also been heavy in parts of the states of queensland and new south wales for those tackling the bushfires it's just what was needed vote dozens of fires are still burning the water has dampened them and none of the threatening homes or lives but the economic impact of the fires is still being felt tourism in summer is usually the backbone of kangaroo island's economy but this cruise ship is

the 1st to visit the island of australia's south coast since the fires earlier this month most tourists are staying away they think. and that's not so we really need to send that message out that they are and so accessible australia is huge varied weather is normal but the start of 2020 has been exceptional. andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney let's not check in with kevin and get an update on the forecast that australia have that's right those thunderstorms very welcome but of course they're coming with a big punch as you saw in the video we're talking about thunderstorms severe thunderstorms very gusty winds flooding as well as some of these hail stones that are coming out of these storms are quite large i want to take you you saw some video there of the flooding i want to take you specifically over here towards camera the capital of the area look at the hail that has come down across much of the capital city now some of these hail stones were anywhere between 60 and 70

millimeters in diameter of course you can see the damage they caused with these vehicles we did have a lot of delays at the airports as well as on the rails because of this and they also are dealing with some very heavy rain in this area now we're still dealing with very heavy rain across parts of new south wales as well as victoria this is currently where those rain showers are this is all dealing with a storm system that's making its way over here towards the tasman sea now as the system makes its way towards the east we'll start to see the rain show subside across much of the area temps wise we will be seeing those terms just start to pop back up particularly melbourne here as we go towards wednesday $32.00 degrees is expected high but we do have a front that's going to be pushing in from the bite that's going to bring some very gusty winds as well but take a look a 5 day forecast here for sydney we expect to see kind of a roller coaster in terms of the temperatures 31 degrees on tuesday popping up to 37 on thursday then dropping down to normal as we go towards the end of the week back to you daryn kevin thank you very much for that well still ahead on the

al-jazeera news hour we join a caravan of central american asylum seekers trying to reach the u.s. . coming up in sports out of an all this still to show yet again it's. all the details the little. journey personal discovery. which is the kochi of a letter not c. germany addressed to my grandfather al-jazeera. traces of family links back to the regime of benito mussolini and asks is fascism returned to italian post freshest in the family it makes me sick this letter. i found. on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. and. that. hello again the top story at this hour there are reports that protesters have been killed in the capital baghdad after police tried to break down very caves on the outskirts of the city.

as it's considering ways to support a ceasefire in libya including a possible military mission on the ground fighting broke out south of the capital hours after a. south korea 3rd country took its for its 1st place a new corona virus that has originated from china numbers have tripled and 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of. operating off the west coast of africa have doubled the number of ships they've hijacked in the last year the international maritime bureau is warning the gulf of guinea has become notorious for piracy with 90 percent of kidnappings reported taking place over there mabel chiefs from west african countries are meeting in senegal to try to find a solution to this growing threats. reports from jeff carter. it's

a calling she often finds hard to explain it comes from a deep desire to defend her country and its waters after visiting senegal's naval headquarters on a school field trip 16 year old has made up her mind she'll be joining the navy in the since it's a noble cause protecting the ocean from polluting vessels and saving people's lives at sea even if it's dangerous i want to be part of the mission the navy is on a drive to recruit more soldiers at sea while piracy globally has dropped the number of boats attacked in the gulf of guinea has doubled in the last year this has become the world's most dangerous waters not only is it a major transit route for cargo ships the shores of senegal are also rich in marine life attracting illegal deep sea fishing vessels that are polluting the sea floor shows promise of the bus problem 90 percent of the world's trade happens on water we need to protect the oceans to protect our economies and the trade most attacks are taking place off the coast of nigeria in angola to oil exporting countries the

attackers are gangs often made up of poor fishermen frustrated in seeing this wealth they have no access to taking away from their shores senegal discovered 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and a 1000000000 barrels of oil it has just allocated exportation rights to multinationals. the drilling has been started by there's this expectation that this newfound wealth will be equally redistributed among all senegalese especially among the fishermen communities who have suffered from illegal fishing on these waters they say the ocean is a precious resource that needs to be protected. while the trumpet ministrations says it's pulling back u.s. troops in africa in march the u.s. navy organized its largest naval games in africa and the gulf of guinea with $3000.00 troops $33.00 countries including senegal. there are no physical boundaries on our territory a war says and so to protect it we need men power and soldiers willing to take

action and neutralize the enemy when needed. and so this will require a new strategy for senegal and the region with fresh recruits willing to take risks needed to protect the ocean and its untapped well. and let's bring in nicholas now he's joining us from that conference to talk talk us through what participants are hoping to achieve nicholas. well one of the aim of this conference is to get these navies these countries that don't usually talk to each other some of them see each other as rivals to dialogue to share information because what they have to protect is not the ocean it's a precious resource for many of them just to give you an example senegal in mauritania for a long time saw each other as rivals even as foes now they have to act as friends because they have a common resource to protect oil and gas and that's one of the main interest of these conferences to get these these these armies these navies to dialogue and also

these are navies that are ill equipped that don't have the equipment to deal with this growing threat that we describe in the story now they're on a buying spree trying to equip themself with this growing threat of piracy and one of the leading companies that is providing ships here is israeli shipyard now they've been providing ships to these really defense forces for the last 60 years and they've just provided 2 ships to the sinegal navy they have dozens of contract through west africa and joining us now is mr brier prior evo are. your company has been selling ships to west african countries what are these countries looking for these countries are looking for securing the easy which is an enormous area for each country contains a lot of. important. products for the country like oil and gas etc looking for securing the. money come because of the policy i want you to secure it

either by maybe. by coast guards oh by any lawyer foremost unit that should do that for them to show us a little bit what you're selling to them i mean this is one of the ships you write that you know that you've sold to be used to open the 45 which is a move to put up a vessel that can carry a lot of a lot of type of. payload for example. which is about a 7 allows them to bolt suspicious to check. every not they have to be nice they want to control a weapon so what are the cynical army or navy going to use this boat for which the aim of getting the texting the easy. coastal area. making sure the disavowed any is shown on to do a region no. fishery stealing no. entity to do it what else without any

permission they're going to use it to see who is coming in who's going out who's doing a lot to money told the area and to particular now these boats costs millions of dollars in many of these countries can't afford them hardly going to pay for for a boat like this basically you are right this is not the cheapest in the market but . the idea is that we have time to head down which in 2 main ways the 1st one is financial packages that we are offering to customers and we are allowing them all enabling them to do it along a longer period in the better way for them and the other one is we have time to share wisdom to know how and make sure that they would be able to do it by themselves at the end of horses in their own country and it brought here from the israeli shipyard thank you very much and of course we're talking to many of these heads of navies one of the challenges in tackling the piracy is the fact that there's a long legal cases that take place for instance you have lots of shipping vessels

merchant navy. that would rather pay the ransom to piracy or pay. pirates rather than that get the navies of these countries involved in impounding those ships the reason why is because oftentimes there's a long legal matter that takes place and so these merchant navies lose money so those are some of the issues that will be discussed in this conference among the heads of navies is not just to try to stop pirates but also try to enforce the law because this is a growing problem especially here in the gulf of guinea 90 percent of the world's trades continues to happen on water and this is a precious resource that people here want to see protected during right nicholas thank you. lee documents suggest africa has wealthiest women siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of angolan government money to offshore accounts a journalist organization says the papers implicate the former president's daughter

isabel dos santos alexei o'brien explains. this is the woman at the center of an investigation dubbed the wonder lakes isabella santosh the daughter of angola's former president a billionaire and africa's richest woman success she argues is self-made but a group of journalists say documents prove she ripped off a country to enrich himself our investigation which took 8 months and more than 100 journalists to complete found that santos aided by her sort of qadri of western advisors funneled hundreds of millions of dollars and offshore shell companies and from there into all kinds of assets including luxury homes and big business and. the father. of santos rule the country for almost 40 years until 27 tane the group says he gave her a big chunks of some of angola's most valuable resources and she built

a business empire that stretched from telecommunications to banking and construction she used to head angola's national oil company so not go before being forced out by her father's successor and so his government has suspended some of her projects and seized in a stimulated 1000000000 dollars worth of assets and a corruption drive earlier this month she told al-jazeera it was a political vendetta definitely this is a politically motivated attack there's no doubt about that my father was on the former ruler of angola he was president for a very long time and he chose not to stand for this election and he chose not to stand in 2017 believing that it was important to have a transition it was important for someone new to come and unfortunately the nuclear who came on board has now trying to. is politically motivated attacks on his family and specially on his children last month isabel's half brother joe say philomena to

santosh went on trial for corruption he's pleaded not guilty. angola is rich in oil and diamonds but it remains one of the world's poorest countries with a staggering wealth gap the i.c.i. j. accuses angolan government officials as well as waste in financial firms lawyers and accountants of helping isabel to some to stash away public funds the portuguese authorities are possibly investigating and other governments around the globe are likely to take a closer look at some of the money that's flowing through their financial systems despite her legal troubles is about to santos remains defiant she's even considering running for president and in goal is next election and 2022 election o'brian al-jazeera. as well as opposition leader has defied a travel ban flying to colombia ahead of his meeting with the u.s. secretary of state by pompei on monday it's the latest show of support from washington which says is the rightful leader of venezuela he's been barred from

leaving venezuela since proclaiming himself president a year ago and trying to oust president nicolas maduro who remains in power despite a major economic crisis. thousands of people from honduras have left their homes in the last few days hoping to reach the united states some have reached the guatemala border town of. trying to cross over into mexico but many of them don't know that as they're trying to leave guatemala the u.s. is sending planes filled with their country men back john heilemann has more from. some fool 1000 home during as you just beginning a long journey north passing through what tamal are sleeping rough and enjoying blistering heat for them the angolans worth of asylum in the u.s. but there's something many don't know and it's this even if they do reach the u.s. border it's likely they'll be flown back to guatemala to seek refuge here instead

it's part of a u.s. plan that's been operating since november but in 4 days spent with the caravan hardly anyone we asked was aware of it. you know i didn't know that until now sending us to a country that we don't know where there's not much well why don't they just send us home. those in the queue waiting to get into a shelter russo unaware and taken about once they found out someone get them when we don't feel safe here it's a violent country like undoing us that's not what we made the sacrifice to help our families fall in guatemala city we talked to one of the one durance we've really been same fact although he was too scared to go on camera to look for them or the problems with the gangs and one door if i go back there they could kill me he's now requesting asylum in guatemala but he says he was sent here under false pretenses and they're going to show up in my life they told me to go to guatemala and wait and then come back for my u.s. court date they never told me i was being deported here for good migrant defenders

told us the other one durance had similar stories meanwhile their countrymen continue north you might think that people would turn back once they found out that their chances of asylum in the us were. credibly slim that actually they'd likely be sent back here to guatemala but that wasn't the case for the people that we talked to once the in the situation said they carry on and i said if you never lose hope i'm still optimistic we can cross with god's help i was said we're going to try to anyway because we want to be a better future for our children. blind faith perhaps the borno desperation those who see few of the ways and it's a public see the danger zone home and how does it are to cooma. more than 70 inmates including members of brazil's most powerful gang have escaped from prison in part of wife through a tunnel the government's us prison officials must have been aware of the operation

and says hundreds of bags of earth were uncovered in some cells the prisons director was fired along with 6 other prison officials part of why his interior ministry says the tunnel may just be a ruse to make sure no officials involved are held accountable as many of the inmates walked out through the main gates space-x. has completed the last major test of a true capsule needed before it can launch. from u.s. soil. and there you just saw that trying to stand again and. really live cheery sierra nevada and california this task is looking great so far. the american aerospace manufacturer memory to launch failure off the florida coast it was testing whether the capsule could separate from a rocket and return the crew something went wrong space x. founder iran must says it was a picture perfect missile. super fired up this is great you know

it's really great here anyone who has an adventurous bone of the body is going to be very excited about this and i think it will help really a great interest in space. still ahead on al-jazeera we'll tell you what's causing the largest swarm of locusts in east africa in 70 years. and a bull surprise in store for its writer for transom trip to new well it's all details on that coming up in a moment. hello

again a plague of locusts is devastating crops in eastern africa threatening supplies of food in a region already facing shortages large swarms have now crossed from ethiopia and somalia and sick and the local communities there say a government's insecticide program isn't working malcolm webb reports from samburu county. and then these attempts to scare off this woman's locusts is completely futile. he's the chief of a community of herders here in eastern kenya. throbs and then it is finished you are going to want it because once the small small tribes. kind of come tormes crossed from neighboring somalia and ethiopia in recent weeks it's the worst plague of locusts to feck the region in 70 years one locust by

itself looks harmless but it can eat its body mass in matter every day if there were swarm of tens or even hundreds of millions can eat tons of food each day and that's devastating for the farmers and herders who live here it's dry for most of the year people depend on their animals to survive yet the moles depend on the plant and the plant being devoured the government started spraying insecticides which it says are harmless to people and livestock. it's released $2000000.00 to fund the fight against the locusts the un's also contributed. rym any farms in the neighboring province there the locusts could devastate food supplies and the economy the response is meant to stop that but it hasn't been working well we found this warm the day after it had been sprayed this

village administrator told us the actions taken so far haven't been effective and more must be done within the big number did they are going to give a very low number so i don't think that it will disease and that is what doesn't work. and so the locusts keep eating and their population keeps growing. but the agriculture minister told us the insecticide is now working and the swarms will soon be stopped the chemicals. i think is the mixing intensity of all the. ingredients that cuba. has a problem that has been corrected government through the good. times of this information scientists say it was on seasonal rains across the region last month that caused the locust population to bloom he watered the plants they eat and they'll soon start to threaten people's food security if their feasting isn't

stopped malcolm web al-jazeera county kenya let's get an update on the sports news with paul durant thank you very much the kansas city chiefs have reached the super bowl for the 1st time in 50 years they beat the tennessee titans in the a.f.c. championship game chiefs quarterback patrick mahoney through 33 touchdowns but this was the game's turning point as twinkle tide dashed down the sidelines to running one of his own kansas city winning 35 to 24 back in the big time for the 1st time since 97 take. san francisco running back to raw in my state proved a lot of people wrong on sunday he was cut by 6 teams before being signed by the 49 ers most leading them into the super bowl with 4 touchdowns and a $37.00 to $20.00 win over the green bay packers. yes it's crazy i've been all 7 different teams actually still i of. you know the cut days and i look at

every every before every game when i got i did have a lot of dollars and naysayers and. you know and you know i get to actually tell me look look where i'm at now you know i never gave up on my dream. well after the smoke from bushfires it's now rain that's disrupted day one of the australian open tennis more than 30 much is on the outside courts have been postponed today too but there was plenty of action on the roof david stocks reports. to be in a williams might to be to extra time to talk to she laces but she took next to no time to win the 1st set of her match against anastasio parts of a 6 love in just 19 minutes. gave her i didn't hang about in the 2nd set either dropping just 3 games on the way to a comfortable when the 7 time australian open champion just happy to be out on court nearby bushfires had bought the build up to the tournament but rainy weather

although disruptive has at least improved air quality. that is still a concern for think pretty much everyone in you know every single day we get updates so that's been really good to see that the australian open take their stance on that defending champion namely osaka was also in action and like serena showed off a power game sometimes a bit too much power. this serve in the 2nd set actually ended up breaking the net but after a quick patch up job by the officials or soccer went on to wrap up her 1st round match against marie was koda in straight sets. after which the japanese star responded to a woman on twitter who unprovoked had heckled are calling her boring and annoying more all of her children think he's going to come on the internet for no reason in doing team i always wonder like people like this if they see you in person but wonder what they would do another rising star of the game is 15 year old american

coco golf for the 2nd time in a grand slam the youngest player in the tournament beat the oldest 39 year old venus williams golf won in straight sets and heads through to the 2nd round at the 1st australian open the. thank you guys so much i mean you guys were chanting my name and i only thought that would happen at u.s. open so for you guys to do that here in australia means a lot to me. i top seed and home favorite ashley barty made a shaky start to her campaign losing the 1st set against lacy a serene coach but she's top of the world rankings for a reason i'm recovered brilliantly to win the next 2 sets 6161 to storm into round 2. the melbourne crowd also got to cheer on 6 time when a roger federer chasing his 21st grand slam the swiss breeze through his opening match against america's steve johnson defending champion novak djokovic takes to the cool later on monday night david stokes al-jazeera to football and christiane

arnaldo scored twice as events as opened up a 4 point lead at the top of its lease area uva up against 7th place palma ensuring an all the open scoring just before half time. but just after the break palma did manage to level things up that had a from andreas cornelius. celebrations didn't last long though 3 minutes later back came eventis and rinaldo with another goal to secure the 21 win. which pieces scored in 7 straight league games to track for their 9th consecutive syria our title the closest challenge is enter through 11 at. all israel though turned on the style in exley no surprise single it all messi do the same in spain he scored the winner against granada as bassline went top of the league and got off to a winning start under new coach k. k. said jen belief from which then in the may see will go in the end having missed the makes things karma because he's been doing this for more than

a decade it's an advantage for any team to see when i stop and watch the game i'm sure i'll see things that we can improve but i'm very happy really with lots of the things that we saw in this game. in germany you're going klinsmann start as pets at berlin coach couldn't have been much worse they were thrashed 4 nil by his former team by munich and one of his form a protege is thomas muller one of the goals klinsmann gave his 1st bond as league starts back in 2008. to old play off rivals butted heads in the n.b.a. regular season on sunday the miami heat and san antonio spurs met in the finals 2 years running in the past decade and competition is still fierce despite mixed fortunes since then. it's the heat who've been on the rise this year but san antonio was giving one ground on home court spurs won the last the team's last championship meeting 2014 and they will miss game 172 and 2. not for the 17 year old golfer who just booked his place in the masters and the british open

argentina's. hold this but when the lights in american on a championship in mexico has a go since the 1st time to win the event from a small town outside one of salaries but will now compete on the biggest stage golf . of the sport of bull riding looks difficult enough to the best of times but one poll surprised its rider with an extra trick at a meeting in the u.s. brazil's josie vito lemay was going great guns on this based one slinging taze that is until he was suddenly swung straight on to the fence. recklessly he looked like he planned it all along at least take the folded the usual fate of defeated riders demonstrated by fellow brazilian amodeo come poss silva. how serious both during ok paul thank you very much we'll see you later and thanks for watching the news hour long i'll do the rest on the grounds with you in a moment we'll have more news coming your way thanks for watching but by.

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to their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are and whether. this is a suburb of the capital new delhi tibet so the refugees here since 1964 buttons here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up their a businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how why i've always influenced the course of history the cells that did not get enough credit for ending up but you want to be the biggest oracle figure but he was mandela the biggest icon in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up partite in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on i'll just see.

old. protesters clashed with security forces across iraq is that a government demonstrations intensify. our stan grant this is al jazeera lot also coming up as world powers back a ceasefire in libya the european union says a group considered military support to uphold any peace deal. as did the new virus spreads beyond china's borders there are fears it could be transmitted from human to human. jackies doubled in the gulf of guinea make me at the world's most dangerous waterway.