i didn't see of the british when i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes a major escalation in northern syria turkey says it as we palliatives after turkish soldiers and civilians are killed in syria and shelling hong kong shot several crossings that link it to mainland china in response to the coronavirus an election victory overturned allow weise constitutional court nullifies the 2019 result

saying a new votes must be held in 150 days and a lifeline for yemenis in need of urgent care center airport is partially reopened the sick patients can be flown out. in sports a 50 year wait is over for the kansas city chiefs. to start. to see. the chief speech in the san francisco 49 ers to win the super bowl. turkey says its military has had thousands of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in syria's rebel held the province well turkey has now sent more reinforcements to adlib and is threatening further action priyanka reports.

towns and villages and don't press syria under attack by government jack it's. a grim reality throughout the 9 year civil war. and for the 1st time the government assaulted. has put turkey on the syrian regime in a direct military confrontation. os off to turkey sent military reinforcements into syria which he says was to prevent more bloodshed in the province its soldiers and civilians came under attack prompting a retaliation from ancora yeah a good day. how is all of us in a what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces an adlib which resulted in a people dying by soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that it was unacceptable and retaliation was carried out. the un says its along this

escalation underscores yet again the threat to regional and international peace and security paused caused by the ongoing conflict in syria. we also remain deeply concerned by the continue reports of civilian casualties large scale displacement of civilians. turkey says nearly a 1000000 people are moving towards its border to escape the relentless bombing campaign by the syrian government it's fast capturing towns and villages in it live and aleppo provinces leaving destroyed neighborhoods and devastated families homeless once again in syria's harsh winter. this found the if 9 never stood a chance or do you know that a general can in as he these people were coming they were displaced we heard the air strike we came running and found the bus burning inside it there were bodies small children. over the past few weeks syrian government forces have been trying

to secure 2 major highways that link cities under government control and isolate the rebels the m 4 highway runs from west to east and the m 5 highway from north to south connecting aleppo to the capital damascus and latakia after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts built to monitor a cease fire niblett are now surrounded the russians are saying nothing really happened now turkey bombardment kind of in denial meaning that. we use we going space to try and find some kind of magic formula to prevent the herd on collision the russian military 1st say have their own political interests inside syria where there with one help the syrian regime to quins out their. strategies on the battlefield with dangerous consequences and

a tragic human cost priyanka gupta our dizzier said fasten is in moscow for us she says that russia is trying to contain the situation. russia has been very much downplaying this whole incident initially even denying that someone some turkish soldiers got killed they were only talking about injuries and also they're sort of blaming the turkish forces for not notifying the russian military so they got caught up in this this assault and the attack by the syrian forces so basically saying it it's a it's an accident and also not bluntly denying actually death of turkish forces are now attacking syrian forces as a retaliation a russia said there was nothing like that but in another africa to downplay this whole incident the russian foreign ministry has now come up with a statement about the phone calls between the 2 foreign ministers also saying that the only solution and the only alternative for this situation in italy is

a political diplomatic solution so clearly not a military one and they also stressed that the agreements between turkey and russia which have been signed several times and i stand are also in such in 2018 to observe this deescalation zone these agreements have to be observed and russia specifically mentions urges again turkey to separate what they call the moderate opposition from the terrorist forces in libya and that's what they've been complaining about for a long time already that it's these so-called terrorist forces that are attacking the syrian and russian forces and that's why they have to fight back and this ceasefire never actually stood the whole the very long. well for more on this we can speak to fire the whole cool right he manages the turkey project that's chatham house and joins me here in the studio thank you so much for being with us your analysis there it's very rare and certainly on the scale that you see

a kind of direct confrontation between turkey and and syria. from what we've heard would assume the both sides are trying to deescalate now but are conflicts a dis inevitable then and where does it leave the 2 countries i think that the likelihood of the syrian army confronting the turkish military is likely to increase in the future given that the assad wants to retake the whole of dilip and the remainder of aleppo something that turkey is trying to prevent naturally with the russian support so my expectation is that we further confrontations of this kind going forward i mean you mentioned russia which of course is the key player here because it's not just about turkey and syria russia of course very much on on syria side and i suppose if you're turkey yes you want to stand up for yourself the way that we're seeing at the do now they're you aware that you and sincerely want to anger the russians so where does that leaves turkey turkey is really being squeezed between a rock and

a hard place turkey's trying to maintain the status quo in italy and to prevent syrian refugees streaming over the border into turkey it's becoming a real hot potato politically for president and the turkish government but there's not but what we tend to see is that we see a military escalation with russian air support and then a temporary ceasefire followed by another escalation and inevitably i think that the syrian army may be able will be able to take it live over over the course of time you mentioned there that one of turkey's issues is of course trying to avoid more people come to the border in the report that we played just before our interview apparently a 1000000 are heading to the border desperate people just trying to find safety. from a war that's been going on for years but the status quo seems to be that turkey will eventually if syria continues the way it's going with russia's help as you mentioned they will regain it so again the question is where will that leave turkey

because it seems that the status quo is favoring syria i think what russia wants is for greater political engagement between present. and it and assad in damascus for example recently must call engineered the meeting between the turkish head of intelligence a country done and the head of the syrian intelligence so what what russia wants is closer coordination between damascus and. to avert any kind of a showdown in italy and for turkey to accept the fact that assad will regain. it glib and that turkey needs as such support to prevent any syrian refugees crossing over the border into turkey turkey will accept that i think that we're beginning to see some steps of rapprochement between assad between damascus and. albeit extremely reluctantly from the turkish side i think that there's not much

that turkey can do in the longer term to contain the situation ok when it comes to this particular sort of skirmish and of course the deaths that we've seen do you think they will step back in the next hours and days from it i suspect the that the syrian forces will step back to put pressure from moscow but i don't think that any kind of cease fire at best will be ad hoc and temporary until the next escalation by by due to attempts to retake it leap 30 her career from the turkey project to at the same time chatham house huge. now coming up on al-jazeera this news hour and a leaked recording appears to suggest that iran did immediately know it showed that if you create an airliner despite claims to the contrary excluded from war chris protections human rights groups say a quarter of a 1000000 migrants in lebanon are vulnerable to abuse and in sports the teenage

goalscoring sensation getting ready to make is that german. the air but 1st pressure is growing on hong kong to contain the new coronavirus with the territory shutting down most of its borders with mainland china chief executive kerry lam says suspending 10 out of 13 entry points should mean fewer people cross into hong kong while freight can continue to enter earlier monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border be shut completely so far hong kong has confirmed 14 cases of the vibes. well later and brown is in hall call looking at why the territories being all but cut off from mainland china. well this is causeway bay one of the busiest areas of hong kong and

one of the few places where you can now buy facemasks it's a case of supply and demand little supply and plenty of demand it's the same story across the border in mainland china where the government on monday appealed to the international community for more medical supplies especially face masks also on monday hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb gave more details of her decision to close down more sections of the border between hong kong and china it now means there are just 2 places where you can cross from hong kong into china excluding the international airport and this was why she said she was taking this qualified decision our strategy is really to consol a day as much as possible a day existing control points now is really down to excluding the airport there are only 21 is the sense and they the other is hong kong bridge and the additional benefit of doing that is we are channelling all cross by the traffic into alisa to

cross border control points and because of the inconvenience we have cost to people as a result so the numbers will come down kerry land has been under pressure from a group of striking medical workers to close the border in its entirety also on monday hong kong confirmed its 1st person to person transmission of the virus a man returning from move to hong kong infecting his mother who hadn't been to the mainland this week of course hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens who've been across the border celebrating chinese new year will be returning raising the prospect of more infections. but meanwhile the world health organization says that more than 17000 people now have the virus globally the majority of those cases are of course in china and in war where the virus actually originated a new hospital has been built in. specific. chinese authorities hope that

it will calm that it is not doing enough to stop the spread of. the 1400 army medics are now in ruhani ready to work in a newly built hospital for corona virus patients completed in just 9 days the images of supplies on the way and more medical help on hand the chinese government wants its people and the world to see china has criticised the united states for no substantive help with the outbreak and accused the us government of spreading fear and panic the new facility is modeled after a similar hospital built outside beijing during the sars crisis 17 years ago the number of dead from the corona virus now exceeds that of sars a 2nd hospital is expected to be finished by the end of the week together they will have 2500 beds for those infected with the virus there's frustration and anger on social media over conditions for the infected and doctors in ruhani china's central government the 1st day back for essential workers after the prolonged holiday

focused on easing concern over the supply of needed medical equipment it also looked to build confidence in the economy the 2nd largest in the world after factories have been shut and businesses closed because of the virus. as far as we know many export companies are now quickly resuming their production capacity and very slow calories are also taking targeted measures to help create a sound and favorable business environment the central authorities and local governments have all made plans to introduce target measures to help businesses resume their operations. during the 1st day of trading since the lunar new year break the chinese mainland markets close sharply down around 8 percent shy of the 10 percent one day decrease limit set by the markets. to help curb the slide china's central bank injected $174000000000.00 into the market but the spread of the virus is far from over in the lock down of millions of chinese still does not have an end date so the virus is impact in the future of china's financial markets

and economy remains unclear it's got to either al-jazeera beijing. doctors in thailand have seen promising results treating the coronavirus using medication normally used for hiv for all just so are working to decode the virus and develop a reliable cure alexy o'brien reports. in labs around the world the scientists are racing to understand the new coronavirus they want to know where it came from and how to stop it and to get the answers they need they've turned to beds 75 ops infected this is can farm. animal that can carry their wireless says without seem to. look healthy but it best can pass me last to other animal to human doctors who has been studying these viruses for years to thailand's

chulalongkorn university the corona virus spreading now she is almost 100 percent d.n.a. match with another one found in bats and she hopes that study in wildlife can help us prevent and control outbreaks in humans to super corn help decode the genome for the 1st confirmed case of the new virus outside china behind the store researchers are working with patients of the corona virus and they're taking steps to make the fragments safer to work with by killing the virus but keeping its d.n.a. and tact we can't go in here because it's too dangerous. doctors say a new approach of treating some of those who do get sick appears to be working using a cocktail of flu and hiv drugs that's after one chinese woman treated in a hospital in bangkok recovered but other patients didn't and the government says it's too early to say whether that mix of drugs is effective. in medical system we can only do case reports always and this report to. the medical journals and also

the. research. in order for them to. continue further and a treatment can't come soon enough thailand is seen as one of the countries most at risk from this new virus because of the number of chinese visitors it perceives each year and because in recent weeks some came from. the center of the outbreak planes flying in and out of the mainland cleaned and disinfected shopping centers are using thermal imaging cameras to taste for those who may have a fever hand sanitizers are a common sight so too are masks in bangkok's chinatown which is one of the biggest chinese own clubs in the world it's both a major tourist attraction and popular with locals. i've seen a decline in the number of tourists with daschle in the past few days since the news broke about the virus when chinese tourists easier some type people don't come

because they're scared of getting infected while people try everything they can to protect themselves they're looking to doctors and scientists around the world who urgently trying to find a solution to a problem that's growing by the day alexia brian al jazeera bangkok at least 13 children have been killed in a stampede at a primary school in western kenya least 39 others were seriously injured police say that the stampede was caused when panic broke out as students were leaving the school it's unclear though what caused the alarm but an investigation is on the way while i was constitutional court has voted to nullify the results of last year's disputed presidential election sizing widespread irregularities the vote in may have returned to get the power for a 2nd term sparking opposition protests. 5 judges ruled that people with erica did not win maybe election did nullified that

result if they think elections must be held within 150 days some of the concerns they had about the election was that there was just too many inconsistency that jeopardize the credibility of the result the judges say this is baked some people may have voted more than once they say there was evidence of ballot stuffing and if they come numbers some results were changed using typewriter correction fluid and this is a huge occasion for the people of malawi history in the making so to speak of the 1st time an election here has been nullified is the 1st time you have an africa even if it happens in the rest of africa most recently it happened in kenya in 2017 when a quantity order rerun after that election was found to have told many irregularities but right now the feeling of course it's a way to be how people are going to react supporters of the reading party and support of the opposition we know they plan to be celebrations tonight into tomorrow tuesday from the opposition people waving the reaction from the ruling

party and what the way forward for them is going to be next in the security officials have arrested 3 members of any iranian opposition group and charged them with spying on behalf of saudi arabia so the activists had been under investigation for over a year the case prompted then works foreign minister to summon the saudi arabian ambassador yet they call for this says that it has been made unmistakably clear that espionage activities on danish soil are completely alexa. a leaked the audio recording appears to suggest that iran immediately knew it had shot down a ukrainian airliner despite the 9 it for days exchanged between in the rain and traffic controller and another domestic pilot has been acknowledged by ukrainian investigators as genuine but iran now says it will not share material on the crash after the leak all $176.00 people on board the ukrainian jet were killed when it was brought down last month.

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bit. of money in the air. well said by gays in tehran and says the recording puts the iranian government in a very difficult position. the narrative coming out of the front has been that it was the revolutionary guard that shut down the aircraft with a missile and it took them 3 days to investigate and then inform the government but this conversation between air traffic control and this domestic airline pilot shows that someone within the civil aviation authority must have known and if they didn't know why wasn't the government informed or if the simulation authority heads didn't know why was it that information fed up the chain of command so it puts the ring in government in a very difficult position because they've put out a narrative that they didn't know that the government didn't know it was the

military that knew and it took them 3 days to come out with the information but this audiotape says otherwise. but now speak to my co-chair of coffee's a global affairs analyst who worked on the investigation into the down the mh 17 aircraft in ukraine sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera once again just talk to us through how damaging you think this leak is not only to the current investigation but i guess to future cooperation between the countries involved. sure good to be with you well i wouldn't say it's a collapse of the investigation but it's certainly a significant setback look at the koreans were there at the crash site very early on they had very good access they were collecting very very good evidence and sending it back to kiev before the iranians could get their hands on it so they were really key to this investigation and for them to be sidelined or frozen out from a key documentation or evidence is not a very good development indeed but i have to say our expectations were very low

from the time we saw those images of the iranians clearing the crash site with that bulldozer and then also their flip flopping over who is going to download and get called the black boxes so hopes were very low to begin with but this is really not a welcome development whatsoever you know i suppose and you know we've just heard that it obviously puts the iranian government in a difficult position which knowing full well what we know the rad is perhaps not surprising in light of that are you surprised that this leak happened in the 1st place it was highly predictable i guess that it would have the sense that that in whose interest you think the sleek walls. sure well a couple of thoughts there i mean in many many crash investigations no matter where in the world they happened you do have leaks i mean it's inevitable but you know i kind of smile because i know ukraine very well and leaks happen every day in fact it's unusual not to have a leak on a particular day and i remember barbara during the time that that makes 17 there

were many leaks especially of top phone calls between russian backed rebels and officials in moscow so it's very common in ukraine but i think it's something that the rain authorities aren't used to having that kind of open interaction between politicians and officials in the media so they must be quite taken aback at this but hopefully we'll get past this and they will try as much as possible to you know deliver that international professional transparent investigation yes one hopes so especially for the relatives who have lost loved ones on that flight if you could just remind us of what's actually happening to the investigation. itself and you know it's perhaps that you know the human remains as well of people that were all that flight. sure well i was just informed today that a human remains are beginning their difficult journey back to canada something of

course that's going to be fair welcomed by their relatives in the grieving nation but also you know there are questions too barbara about again why was the civilian aerospace open and i know our transport minister and kind of a marker no is looking into questions on whether the airspace was deliberately kept open to so that severely near liners could act as a kind of a human shield now these are only questions but it is something that has been raised by canada and one last thought if i can i think by the looks of it this will be an oppressed occasion that takes many years to complete as is the mh shot 17 investigation m.h. 17 relatives are only going to start the criminal trial or attend the criminal trial rather in a few weeks from now in the netherlands and if you can believe it it was 2014 where that airplane went down so it's been a long and painful wait and i'm fraid we're facing the same thing here michael much ark of global affairs analyst who works on the investigation into that down the mh

17 aircraft crane sir thank you for sharing your views with us later at the european union's foreign policy chief has held talks in iran in the attempt to salvage the nuclear deal as regional tensions rise so set the bar also to the iranian president hassan rouhani who said rad is still ready to cooperate with the e.u. to resolve issues iran has gradually scaled back its commitments to the deal ever since u.s. president gul tromp withdrew from the agreement in 2018 military tensions have grown since the us assassination of military commander in the money last month's. still to come on i'll just say this news our indigenous leaders from the amazon appealed to the u.k. prime minister for his help in protecting their land and in sports field here from the australian open champion is moves a step closer to roger federer's all time round slam record.

however got some cooler weather pushing into europe over the next couple days after incredibly mild weather so far as a cloud still tumbling in from the atlantic weather systems will introduce some cloud and right in this next system makes its way across the british isles just starting to see something more of a north westerly wind feeding in as we go on through the next couple of days and that will drive its way down across the low countries through a good part of germany snow there over the alps some parts could see maybe 70 centimeters of snow so quite a bit of it and that will make its way down into their accounts as well the balkan states and right sleet and snow will push why all the way over towards the black sea so we'll see some wet weather coming into rumania temperatures 40 away in the process i 10 cell just football caressed by the time we come to well where to stay

6 celsius in bucharest and little further north as temperatures go down it's a single figures now losing the double figure values that we've seen in recent days will be something of a change it'll start to up again as we go on into the weekend but some nasty weather into the east the start of the mediterranean some rain sleet and snow so any cost posset greece and also into on the other side of the maddest lotty fine and dry with plenty of warm sunshine for all. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement is found alive and well on the terraces of a build bound stadium. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform an ideology with violent football hooligans. and read all

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welcome back he is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkey says its military is hit dozens of syrian government targets in the remaining troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling it the. pressure is growing in hong kong to contain the new coronavirus with the territory shutting down most of its borders were made on china chief executive terry latin suspended 10 out of 13 entry points in a bid to reduce the flow of oil and then if security officials arrested 3 members of any radiant opposition groups and charged them with spying on behalf of saudi arabia the 3 activists had been under investigation for more than a year. iraq's president brought him sunday appointed mohamed healthy callao we as new prime minister on saturday in a move that has divided the country's protest movement since the appointment the influential shia cleric milked of southern who controls one of the largest blocks

in parliament has withdrawn his support for protesters in baghdad he is indorsing allow and penalties against those who continue to engage in civil disobedience similar to fulton reports now from back that. if the square is the heart of iraq's protest movement this building called the turkish restaurant has been its nerve center from its upper floors you can observe the entire square the river tigris and front lines on strategic bridges but the protesters are no longer in charge of it last saturday supporters of shiite cleric. wearing blue hats took the building and since then there's spirit day might seize control of the entire movement these young men say sutter supporters forcibly evicted demonstrators beating those who resisted now they're no longer allowed to enter the. market for the protests square the most important building is that building because we can watch

everyone from the turkish restaurant when there is an attack against us we were able to confront that but now we don't know where they think we don't see who's coming on who can enter. the eviction coincided with the appointment of mohamed healthy allow we as prime minister designate many here firmly reject him looked at our side or however has endorsed and demonstrators fear that the sudras now want to curtail any opposition to their candidate perhaps even and the protests. the worries of we don't know their intentions maybe taking the restaurant on the stage which is to 1st we don't know if they are with us or against us inside the turkish restaurant floors that once teamed with demonstrators stand largely empty except for a few blue hats conducting cleanup operations they say their take over it was necessary to remove those they call a rogue elements of the movement who used drugs and violence. the turkish

restaurant was closed to the real demonstrators the infiltrators controlled and even the families don't want to go inside it became difficult to come inside because there was violence in attacks by molotov cocktails over the months later has repeatedly changed his position on the protests. for now it appears he has decided that it's time for things to return to normal and i thought of that it's been 3 and a half months there's been bloodshed killing and exhaustion the security forces are exhausted demonstrators are exhausted sutter supporters say that a law will only serve for a transitional period until early elections are held these protesters however accused her of using their movement to meet his political ends they are determined to stay until their demands for an independent candidate are met. the takeover of the turkish restaurant signals a growing rift of in the protest movement between the followers of looked at the starter who support allow we as prime minister designate and others who reject him

and some are concerned that these tensions could lead to confrontation especially if the sudras incorporation of security forces attempts to clear more protest sites simona fulton al jazeera. after 2 weeks of arguments both sides have rested their cases in the impeachment trial of president donald trump trump pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival and whistled u.s. security and as leverage from spain charged with abuse of power and obstruction of congress. on the closing arguments the senate will convene as recorded in pietschmann chaplain will lead us and pray for the final time democrats serving as president trumps prosecutors made the case for his removal he has betrayed our national security and he will do so again he has compromised our elections and he will do so again you will not change him you cannot constrain him he is who he is truth matters little to him what's right matters even less and decency matters not

at all but these arguments are mere formality the conclusion all but certain that the republican senators making up the jury's majority will vote to acquit trump they said so themselves i think what he did is a long way from treason bribery high crimes and misdemeanors democrats have known from the beginning their effort to remove trump was a long shot they argue they've nevertheless tried because the constitution required it the question now is how this impeachment will impact trumps reelection bid in november trumps lawyers maintain american voters should be who decides the president's fate if you do not like the policies were particularly ministration or particular candidate you are free and welcome to vote for another candidate but the answer is elections not impeachment. trumps approval rating is currently the highest it's been since he took office on tuesday he'll tell his

administration's accomplishments at his annual state of the union address a chance to revel in his impending acquittal how did joe castro al-jazeera washington. voters in the u.s. state of iowa are taking part in the iowa caucuses the 1st electoral test for democratic candidates who want to challenge donald trump for the white house what happens in iowa does not decide the next president but they can indicate how well a candidate might do going forward unlike primaries caucuses a run by the parties themselves voters meet in small gatherings in churches and town halls rather than in official polling places the focus in iowa is on the face to face of the state is predominantly white and gray and critics say it is not representative of the wider voting population the iowa caucuses are being held in more than 1600 locations and the record turnout is expected it's good

it's go to john hendren and now we joins us from there so john what can we expect tonight. well you might ask why i'm standing in a basketball arena this is actually one of more than 1600 caucus sites around the state of iowa as it happens this is the biggest one more than a 1000 people are expected to be gathering here behind me and they will form in groups listening to people pitch the case for their candidates they'll have one vote at the beginning of the night and then after those who are eliminated who don't have 15 percent they'll vote again and in the end we'll get a final vote tally that'll happen all around the state at small places and large libraries private homes some as fuz just dozens of people but you heard enough from me let me introduce somebody who's actually going to be caucusing tonight this is tanner halloran he is a student at drake university and he's going to be caucusing tonight let me ask you 1st of all you say you're undecided what's your assessment of the candidates. so i

think a lot of candidates are going to have a really great ground game tonight i mean we're seeing different ways of approaching voters this year you know getting unique with organizing and reaching new folks so along with this i think we're going to see high turnout. and just. topping the polls most of the polls that we've seen are joe biden bernie sanders elizabeth warren. but you held a mock caucus here and that's not how it came out what happened in that mock caucus as a great question so the mock caucus last week that we hosted here on campus senator warren and mayor people to judge and it up being a lot of delegates bernie sanders was the 2nd closest to that remained on viable after both realigning periods and viable meaning his group didn't get 15 percent of the vote so they were eliminated what happened after that correct by that it made

the bernie supporters chose not to realign only 3 chose 18 remains and chose not to realign so. they centrally left the caucus not having their votes counted and that's one of the worries people have is that instead of backing some other democrat those people who are eliminated since one play ball is that the kind of thing you expect might happen tonight yeah i think it's kind of uncertain we saw a little bit of this in 2016 as well you're going to hear the bernie or bust i'm hoping. the bernie supporters if they're on viable would choose to realign and still participate in the process but ultimately we don't know until tonight there's a really advantage in living in iowa which the it's the 1st state to vote so you get a lot of candidates here nobody skips iowa or very few do are you able to see the candidates how is it for all the students here to see that yeah the candidates here in iowa are very accessible half the time you just walk down the street and you

know there's a candidate there all across the state and both rural and urban areas and so yeah this is something that iowans kind of take seriously and candidates come here expecting to be challenged you major in politics and this is playing out for you in real life is what you have learned in school as a prepared you for the process here does this look like democracy to you because it's very different from what happens in other states yeah i mean this process is definitely different we are only one of 2 states to host a caucus in iowa nevada so yeah the process is different. but yeah i mean i think we can still take the classroom to fly here you see things such as identity politics. all right well that's the view from here in iowa in just a few hours we're going to see this caucus happen and you can come back to us and we'll show you just what it's like we definitely for the moment tell him thank you . that human rights groups say around a quarter of a 1000000 migrant for kurds in lebanon are excluded from labor law protections that

puts them at risk of exploitation and abuse and assata hideouts reports now from beirut. situation has been made for some recent months because of a deepening economic crisis. mohamed isn't backing down on his prices the vegetable seller has been arguing with the customer for 15 minutes every bit of money he earns counts in these testing times the shortage of us dollars which the local currencies take to mean a large number of migrant workers like hundreds on able to transfer money home to their families in their love of i can't send money to bangladesh i can only afford to eat and drink 100 dollars is no only worth 15 this dollar crisis started 4 or 5 months ago and foreign workers here are suffering it's not just me. with a lack of dollars in the bank than the lebanese currencies value on the black market reduced some employees have been forced to pay their workers and lira instead of dollars almost having the value of their salaries for many migrant

workers 11 on sunday is a day of rest and some of them have come to this church to pray but they are clearly concerned as their weekly conversations have changed for catch ups it's a financial problem according to the international labor organization the average salary of a domestic worker in lebannon is less than $250.00 a month. but the financial downturn has affected us all but foreign workers are some of the most vulnerable especially because of the lack of the legal protection with a shortage of dollars some aren't receiving their salaries and are defaulting on their ground doubling the possibility of being exploited further. foreign domestic workers are excluded from lebanon's labor laws instead they're brought in on a sponsorship system one that some rights groups say leads to exploitation islamic are fairly rich. and the sponsorship system means many foreign workers are not only exploited in lebannon but also that employers or abusers get away with it without

being punished by law last week new labor minister lemieux ye mean want that lebanese citizens will need to take on low skilled jobs traditionally filled by micro workers to cope with the effects of economic crisis we contacted the ministry of labor and we're still waiting for comments on this story it's still not clear if lebanon's new government will reform bill a bill whose we're going to. sort of know a lot of this is the worst i've seen it in the 12 years i've lived here but only god knows what the future holds for now foreign workers like muhammad have little or should he go back home. al-jazeera. israel has announced it will begin to normalize relations with sudan and uganda it was announced after the prime minister benjamin netanyahu met uganda's president and the head of sudan's transitional military council abdel fattah sudan has been trying to reform its image and open and open the country to international investment since the overthrow

of longtime leader omar al bashir but less than 3 days after a break said the u.k. and the e.u. of outlined very different visions of their future relationship ahead of formal negotiations british prime minister boris johnson says the u.k. wants free trade but not at any cost insisting that his country would not align itself with all e.u. rules meanwhile europe's jeans negotiator michelle batton here says reciprocal access to fishing waters is inextricably linked to any trade agreement the pair have until the end of the year to agree a new relationship including trade deals. indigenous leaders from the amazon have called on the british government to stand up for their rights they visited the prime minister's official downing street home to ask that minerals and agricultural products from the amazon are not imported into britain go reports from london

it is known as the lungs of the earth and the richest source of biodiversity in the world but the amazon rain forest is facing unprecedented danger. deforestation. wildfires is disappearing at an alarming rate by 30 percent between 20182019 as ranchers and loggers raid areas all in the name of economic development acts encouraged by brazil's president. he may have announced a new amazon council to stand simply encourage sustainable development to the rainforest of a seen by a proponent of mining development but bolton are also ordered cuts to government agencies that enforce laws against illegal logging mining and land grabs all of those decisions taken without consulting the indigenous population.

the brazilian government is signaling a great danger to the world for indigenous peoples communities the great soul of the forest letting everything go to ruin by messing with the laws that were created in 1908 to protect and digitize peoples will be impossible to fix this once it's been destroyed. war attempting to stop the rot or trying to mobilize foreign leaders to pressure brazil to stop the exploitation of the amazon but it's a tough challenge also not all a right wing populist has hit back at leaders such as france's president. for daring to raise the issue publicly despite the urgent calls from those who live in the rain forest we have to listen to them who sees people understand the forest better than anybody you only have to look at satellite maps of the to see where indigenous rights land rights have been recognized those territories still have primary arms and rain forests and. where the border is there's complete devastation

they did you just leaders are hit to ask the british government prevent illegal mind products from entering into the u.k. but the concern here is that in the post brics it britain will striking up trade deals take precedence over environmental protections. the exploitation of the amazon for mining and intensive farming may have brought some economic production to the region but it is also brought with it the end of a way of life and destruction of a precious natural resource these days the political will to preserve it is so far taking a backseat leaving those who live at the mercy of a state renouncing a promise to protect its people sunny diagonal al-jazeera london. still to come in this news hour the chiefs are the toast of layout and the has more reaction to their historic super bowl victory.

or. the all. time for the sport now. thank you so much barbara while the kansas city chiefs have ended their 50th super bowl droughts quarterback punching the home was the star of the show as the chiefs fought back to beat the san francisco 49 is in miami woodstock's reports superball 54 from line with 100000000 watching worldwide the chiefs in the 49 ers did buffel on one of sport's biggest stages here we go. a lot

was expected from young chiefs quarterback patrick the holmes but he was frustrated by the 14 on his defense early on he was inside. the 24 year old dug deep throat and still managed to run in the game's 1st touchdown i just said francisco had success too soon it's used to think. that there was nothing in it at the halfway point with both teams looked on 10 points each. the game was in miami and the halftime show certainly had a latin flavor popstars jennifer lopez and shapiro providing the entertainment i but the main fireworks was still to come in the 3rd quarter he must force his way over to help the 49 ers open up a commanding lead they were 10 points ahead and time was running out for the chiefs but they'd come back in the 2 previous games and in the final quarter the homes started to fire tends to have to sit in the engine it 3 scoring drives in just over

5 minutes to turn the game completely on its head 21 unanswered points so the chiefs run away with a famous victory. for the 1st time i didn't. think. i would big celebrations but kansas city fans back home in missouri they've not seen their team lift the lombardi trophy since they beat the minnesota vikings in super bowl 4 back in 1970 was. was was. the party will continue for a few days no doubt but the chiefs and the fans will hope that it's not another half century before they do it again david stokes jazeera or chase course about

patching the homes truly is living the dream after that game winning performance here is a day later at disney world in florida as a teenager 7 years ago he wrote on twitter i bet it feels amazing to be the quarterback he says i'm going to disney world just after winning the super bowl holmes and his team will be part of a much bigger homecoming parade that's coming up in kansas city on wednesday. in reality you never could imagine what what this feels like i mean it's surreal. be a survival championed to know all the hard work to put in every single day has paid off and be in the champs and be in the chance for your brothers you can never think of that but i mean it's it's all it's awesome. did you spend time with the trophy did you sleep at all. really sleep last night. but i didn't spend it with a trophy why did i spoil sport with my trophy wife as i of romelu lukaku was up to 20 goals for the season as in some around the belgian

striker scoring seymour and when i. keep in so within 3 points of league need is your fences i our chance and your concept has invested heavily in experience during the january transfer window christian eriksen ashley young an online chelsea player victimizes all making their league debuts in this. week. of goalscoring sensation earning hollande is getting ready for his german cup debut. a 19 year old norwegian is now scored 7 goals in his 1st 3 bundles league it appearances despite saying he's still not fully fit brush a fiver to bremen on shoes day. in the english f.a. cup liverpool's under $23.00 coach neil critchley hailed take charge of the team for the replay against 3rd to shrewsbury manager yergin klopp and promised himself and his 1st team a proper rest during the premier league's winter break so a young line up will feature at anfield on tuesday. he gives is not only will

support. so i say i can speak to him whenever i like when i'm down here. he supports the employees on believably well as he's shown so far this season. so. is present even if. he is presents he is always full. i'm perry son jim and coach thomas sokol has criticised neymar for hosting his 28th birthday bash in the french capital on sunday the events was a white themed party taking place just 48 hours before a league game with months describing the party as a distraction. now america's webb simpson is celebrating his 6 page 8 or title this at the phoenix open he tiny fin hour in a playoff for the birdie on the 1st extra hole i subsist 1st win since the 2018 players championship i australian open champion never djokovic has moved back to

the top of the tennis world rankings after his record 8th title in melbourne so has been showing off his 17th grand slam title jock itch now just 3 behind roger federer is all time record of 20 today obviously is a different feeling the last night i was pretty exhausted him kind of deflated it was difficult to comprehend. and really kind of contemplate as well on the on the victory and the feeling and of course today you know i just feel relieved that. it's all over ok that is how the sport is looking for now let's get back to barbara in london and the thank you can find out much more on the sport and everything else that we've been covering on our website address al-jazeera dot com. the be back with more news in just a few minutes i hope you'll join me back. examining

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