contact. the algorithm on the jersey of. the on. al-jazeera. have a very you were saying when you sat with me how the more easy home coming up. china's government allocates more than $10000000000.00 to fight the corona virus as the death toll surpasses the sars epidemic. more emerges about the motive of a toy soldier who went on a shooting rampage killing 29 people hello i'm maryam namazie in london with the top stories from europe including this is changing the shape of the multiplier shallots 6 items traditional place party upsets the electoral status quo so will

a 3 way tie mean political gridlock. also ahead the u.s. warns israel against any immediate moves on its lands in the occupied west bank. alan forest smile have all the day's sport news including pakistan 16 year old cricket sensation mizzima shah becomes the youngest board to take a task to track. well china is putting more than $10000000000.00 into the fights against corona virus which has now killed more people than a similar epidemic 17 years ago the death toll stands at $813.00 severe acute respiratory syndrome or sars killed 774 people as between 2002. and 2003 they were both cases most of the deaths were in china so

far the new virus is more infectious more than $37.00 size and people have contract aids virus but only 8 thousands fell ill with sars however sars was deadlier killing one in 10 patients the new viruses without surveillance is only around 3 percent meanwhile in hong kong thousands of passengers and crew on board a cruise ship have been cleared to disembark they had been quarantined since wednesday getting to your reports now from beijing. more than 6000 medical workers are being sent 200 from all over china they'll help overworked and understaffed teams struggling to cope with the coronavirus crisis the number of deaths from the outbreak has now surpassed those killed by sauce in 2003 a lack of resources has forced some doctors to turn patients away was a hold of you as

a senior doctor i felt terrible when i look into their eyes but i have to control myself to continue this fight against the epidemic chinese factories have in order to boost production of desperately needed medical supplies the government says it's allocating $10000000000.00 to fight be honest but criticism over its handling of the crisis is growing a group of academics has signed a letter demanding more freedom of speech and condemning the treatment of whistleblower dr li when leon who died from the virus this week. citizen journalist . was forced into quarantine after posting videos of overcrowded hospitals and behind the world health organization says the number of people with the virus appears to be stabilizing but it's still too early to know whether the outbreak has reached its peak the un agency is sending a team to china to observe its response to the virus as are minded global health authorities to ring vigilance experts in hong kong say existing measures arjun. to

prevent the outbreak spreading in the territory dozens of people there have been affected i thing for hong kong definitely it will be the beginning same as other part of the world maybe 4 maina is in the middle of the crisis are one of the epidemiologist already contacted by professor gabriel loan of hong kong arme university medical school he predicted that the disease may go on and the peak in may or a pro some time in that before the summer so we hope we think that the disease may still lingering on film. but while millions in china remain under lockdown it was good news at least for the passengers of this cruise ship docked in hong kong 15 allowed to leave after spending several days in quarantine could leave al-jazeera. vigils been held in the city in thailand for a soldier went on a shooting spree ansin military base and seized hostages in a shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people and wounded dozens of others in the city of correlates with our prime minister says the soldiers motive

was disputes over a property due when he has more from the capital bangkok. in the final dramatic moments of this 18 hour siege the last remaining people inside the mall for brought to safety they had spent a terrifying night hiding or trapped inside the building where a gunman roamed shooting at people as he went at that stage early sunday morning the shooter was still inside the building evading capture by security forces but that around 9 o'clock they killed him in the last burst of gunfire captured in this video say that. we have ended the perpetrators criminal acts at the moment we are gathering evidence and witness material to start an investigation to give justice to all sides this was the gunman 32 year old soldier . a trained sharpshooter with years of experience and he went on his killing spree

he posted updates on facebook before entering the mall late on saturday afternoon he could be seen spraying bullets towards people and passing cars as the siege dragged on into the night bursts of gunfire could be heard coming from inside the building hour after hour the situation became more tense and more desperate as the wounded were brought out under heavy protection. going to the quad. i was scared i'd hear gunfire and i was wondering if he was going to come near me because it felt like it was so close to where we were hiding with confirmation that the ordeal was over thailand's prime minister visited some of the injured in hospital and he sought to shed some light on what may have motivated the killer. it was a personal conflict over a house still he had an issue with money and fought for 3 days nobody expected turned violent. that dispute may have been the reason for the initial murders of a commanding army officer and another person but it doesn't explain why he then

traveled more than 20 kilometers to the center of town entered a packed shopping mall and elevated his killing to another level when hey al jazeera bangkok iran's 1st imagery satellites has failed to reach orbit after being launched earlier on sunday nonetheless the attempts consent tensions soaring again with the u.s. washington's raise concerns in the past about tehran's satellite program saying it's a cover for ballistic missile tests iran denies this let's get more from our big he joins us live from tehran. was happens. so what we do know is that this rocket had a flight time of 9 minutes it was supposed to get this satellite into space now that hasn't happened we know that the rocket came down in the indian ocean but we're told that the satellite did manage to transmit some sort of signal but the

spokes person of from the defense ministries aerospace division has issued a statement that he said in the last stage of the flight the rocket was unable to reach the required speed and therefore the satellite was sent into orbit but he went on to say that most of the objectives have been achieved that this was just a research launch and about 90 percent of the objectives have been increased achieved sorry now that's one way of saying that it's unsuccessful the entire aim of this project was to get that satellite in space now that's clearly not happened this launch was delayed 2 expecting it was the end of last week it took place today and they haven't been successful this satellite was supposed to go into space and take pictures of iran of possible oil fields mines forests agricultural sites and also to help iran with dealing with natural disasters and assets and they're claiming it's been successful the satellites obviously know what in or just what sort of impact do you think this will have on iran's space program moving

forward. well there were already 2 failed launch is last year. bill says that they will continue that they have put satellites into space before at the center monkey into space to say they want to send an astronaut into space possibly with the help of russian telecommunications minister to do that a picture of a iranian space suit so they're still very much invested in this program so it will be seen as a setback though this program has been going on for the last 3 years we are told that 80 researchers and scientists were involved ron is pushing ahead this is a think of national pride for them that they are under sanctions that these rockets and these satellites are developed domestically but tensions are high in the united states believes that space program is a cover for iran's ballistic missiles program that also said that iran is in

violation of u.n. resolutions that prohibit them from undertaking any activity that deals with ballistic missiles able to carry nuclear weapons now iran says that they're a space program is peaceful that they have no intention of developing nuclear weapons or to put those kinds of weapons on missiles but also iran's missile program is a red line for iran it's non-negotiable and that was a part of the 2015 nuclear deal and that's part of the reason why u.s. president donald trump pulled the united states out of the deal because iran's ballistic missile program was a part of that but they will be really not since we'll be looking closely at what's going on here with iran's ballistic missiles there they released a new unveiled a new ballistic missile today but also looking closely at iran's aerospace program and probably looking at this unsuccessful launch and hoping that they don't have any success in future launches but iran is pushing ahead they are invested in this and they say that they will continue and possibly later on in the year around june

to do a launch of this offer to which is the upgrade of this current satellite and rocket ok i said big life isn't iran and i thank you. for the canting is underway in arlen's general election but the result is anything but clear for more let's cross night somare in the marcy and islands and broadcast center. yeah that's right thanks hala it's looking like 3 parties are tied on the same amount of support where the left wing shin fein making a historic breakthrough party leader says additional front runners in a gale and fan a foil on listening to islands call for change but with a complex system for sharing out parliamentary seats the task of actually forming a government could be tricky reports now from dublin. action from the leader mary lou mcdonald whose book come to the dublin county like a hero to the left wing nationalists for a campaign of eye catching pledges on housing and pensions which caught the

imagination of an electorate crying out for an alternative to the 2 biggest opposition parties seen a foil and fiona gale its peak say considering she says it makes statements that this is now $102.00 person system it's statements that he told runs a different type of confidence i think you have for a confidence in us and i i say that with all the menace written off by some as a party just for those with short memories shin fein confounded the conventional wisdom i think because of their legacy of being connected to violence it really is quite surprising to see that they are the most popular party with every age group other than the over 65 here if there was in the build up to the election people saying oh this is young people who don't remember the troubles in northern ireland and i think that we see that's not the case it's only the much older voters who stick with uniformity together so in the long run if i was seen for a few gael member i'd be pretty worried about what that means about your future past links to the republican paramilitary group the ira linger as evidenced by

a group of jubilant shin fein supporters singing a rebel song at the count center in dublin. but the party has evolved but to contain the typical break clever things one was gerry adams tare pretty good mary lou mcdonald is in no way associated with the troubles in the morgue. dot's you know strategically terms of marketing communication guts were really about it's a major setback for the current irish leader lay over a history in a gale party focused on economic growth and success in the go see to deal with the u.k. for a leader me how martin looks most likely to become the next leader but a minority government would be inherently unstable to teach a cliche unfeigned may prefer to buy the time rather than be a minority partner in a coalition government with the outcome as close as it seems now wrangling could last for weeks and such is the nature of irish politics with the ballot boxes being

packed away now could be back out again in just a couple of months paul brennan al-jazeera. is live for us in dublin as well and so it looks like it is going to be very tight if this exit poll is to be believed but. will be very pleased. i'm sure they will soon feign is so far confounded the polls completely if those exit polls are to be believed then they are currently illegal level pegging with the 2 parties of power that have dominated politics in ireland for generations phina go for both of them a centrist parties but there is a bit of a coward as well sinn fein is actually only fielded 42 candidates in this election and may end up may not translate to aligned share of the seats in the irish parliament the dollar aaron it does mean the coalition building is inevitable

the discussion now behind the scenes is what kind of shape on lin's government will take and who will work with who considering the feet again if you know for all said ahead of this election that they wouldn't a school ever consider going into coalition which sinn fein but who knows some of those promises may well be regretted in order to try and forge ahead with a government to maintain a presence here in irish politics well for more on this let me introduce christina family who's a journalist for jerk journal dot i.e. here in ireland the senior thanks for joining us firstly how do you explain this apparent surge in support for sim fein what we're seeing today is a real breakdown of the 2 partially establishment air at that is dominate out 6 for decades the shin fein search has come to a surprise i think even to shane fein they didn't do very well in the local elections in the summer they'll only field it's 42 candidates as you said they do not have enough seats to fail and

a majority which is why this need it's here to form a government the way i would explain is housing and health there has to huge issues here in our land and i just don't think that to establish a artie's did enough to put up out of the box thinking insulations for his sense of young people here who struggle to pay rent and to get on the property ladder they were looking for real solutions ones that weren't going to take years. unfitting alan fianna fáil just weren't offering those solutions to the electorate it's interesting to see that shane fay has become one of the most popular parsis from people aged 18 or it's right up into the people that age 60 here so you're talking about people who do remember the times the troubles in northern ireland and which fein has has really you know struggle to deal with in the last number of years but those issues don't seem to have been coming up on the doorsteps people want to real solutions to things that mattered in their lives and they just didn't fail on finding out and were offering those solutions who knows what the days are over so

you know a right window is explained to the all who had process of forming a coalition will begin as soon as we have an idea of the final result even though it could take time kind of partnerships are likely to emerge if any yet well it's very difficult to say because fiona fought in finding out doing any business with meredith macdonald the leader of sinn fein before this election kicked off the house been softening of those words in the last couple of hours from paul martin later in the fall and a number of his t.d.'s say electric this lectures has spoken and you know they'll have to respect that and there was some indication that the door would be opened that would be a huge step into the unknown for irish politics but the way it could play out it's been a fall off to cobble together some sort of government with some smaller parties but then you're really looking at the election over be in the not too distant future it's going to be hard to going to be hard to please everybody in this election ok thank you very much for your insight well you've heard it it's very very difficult

to imagine what kind of configuration of government may take shape as soon as we have an idea of the final results and it may if they cone reach any kind of agreement between the 2 main parties and say in the ground from the room it would appear at least in this election that we may well find ourselves back in the position where voters back at the ballot box people. and of the. unpredictable isn't it moment thank you very much for the latest from dublin neve barca now the other big story in the region storm care or is it hit in europe with high winds and heavy rains 30000 homes in britain are now without power and flights and trains have also been cancelled so again go has more. sounding the sirens warning residents in this northern english town of the young coming flood across the region storm c.r.l.

lashed with horror and force winds more than 100 kilometers per hour a company tried to wrench and reign as police closed the roads people scramble to avoid the worst 149 flood warning alerts which issued but for some residents the response was not enough to get approval to really been told the full. hold over. from the u.k. to the north continental european coast all shipping was suspended but it's not just sea transport that's been affected rail travel to this central london station forced to close because of overcrowding cancelled services and disruptions caused by the storm. as well as air travel as across northern europe many flights were cancelled the effects of c.r. will likely continue until tuesday fanning out further over central europe less

rain but more violent windy conditions across the continent so need i go out to sara i have more from london a bit later on in about 40 minutes time let's get back to her in doha. thank you marianne there's lots more still to come on this news are including calls in cameron for an election boy caught in a vote disrupted by a surge in violence. pakistan's plague of locusts a national emergency is declared as billions of insects warm. and in sports one of the rising stars of tellus celebrates a team success oh i'll be here later to tell us more. my. how the u.s. ambassador to israel has cautioned the governments against unilaterally and extend settlements in the occupied west bank david friedman says no such move should be

made without america's consent or this comes after the release of u.s. president donald trump's middle east plan which in visit is israel keeping vast swathes of occupied territory where palestinians seek their own states but between 1967 and 27 seen israel built more than 200 settlements considered illegal under international law in the west bank and estimated 620000 israelis live in them and around 215000 israelis or an enclave built in palestinian neighborhoods in occupies east jerusalem when the trump plan was unveiled last month israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu said he'd push ahead with an accession plans within days but he's no more fake about the timetable or mustapha barghouti is secretary general of the palestinian national initiative he joins us from ramallah in the west bank gets have you with us here on al-jazeera this appears to be

something of a u.-turn by the americans would you say this is good news. nah nah nah this is not a u.-turn at all friedman has been one of the most supportive people of land illegal an exception of the west bank on the 8th of january we remember how he advocated that israel has the right to annex big parts of the of the west bank he said the same thing in an interview which was published by new york times at the same time and he has been an advocate of an exception but all he's saying is that there is a committee that consists of americans and israelis only that will map the process of an exception to give it an american legitimacy and he wants those israeli side to coordinate with the american side but he's practically promoting the annexation he he promoted and held the annexation of east jerusalem the recognition of the

exertion of voodoo the limb and extreme rapid building of settlements and now he's promoting again an exception only wanted to be called the need to do the united states and in other also he is helping his friend not to now because not an arrow is being barred with criticism that he promised to start an exertion and so he's giving an excuse to not on your own in the election process that there is a need to deliver on existing but there is no doubt that he and prams administration are supporting the an exertion of nor less than 50 percent of the west bank so why the delay what was behind the still a here what's the strategy do you think and why do you think palestinians will be able to respond to that. i think we should look not on the issue of an exemption but the whole american brands plan the plan is nothing but

a process to kill the possibility of 2 state solution totally to prevent palestinians from having a state of their own a sovereign state and substituted with a system of apartheid the american mob that was published gives israel the right to an excess as i said no less than 50 percent of the west bank practically. transforms the palestinian into t. into clusters of ghettos and planted stones much worse than what prevailed in south africa a system of apartheid ok so that's what we should fight against so well and the policy is have been clear they didn't want to fight against them so i mean what options did the palestinians have to challenge this so-called peace plan the 1st thing the palestinian authority should do is to stop immediately the security coordination and all forms of called the nation that israel is benefiting from we need to unify our forces unify ourselves in this horrible internal

palestinian division but the one message has to be to the world and to mr trump and every israeli as well and many israelis are worried about that which is that if you kill the palestinian statehood the potential for 2 state solution we will have no option but to struggle against the enslavement of apartheid and demand one state solution with equal rights for everybody if that's what they want then most will come but we're not leaving this country which staying here our numbers today are bigger than the number of israeli jewish people will stand here and we will fight for equality we will never accept to be slaves of a system for protect stuff about good sector general of the palestinian national initiative thank you very much for joining us live from ramallah in the west bank. now the annual african union summit is underway in ethiopia during 2 days of talks leaders from $55.00 countries will focus on ways to end regional violence hoping to

unlock the continent's economic potential the conflict in libya is high only agenda as well as growing instability in the sun hold region. the democratic republic of congo is also on high on their list of priorities rebels have been attacking villages and towns in the east for months now as catherine sawyer reports. another attack has happened in a village in the eastern democratic republic of congo. people in the town of bani are preparing once more to bury loved ones villages here say armed men to them with machetes and guns security forces blame the democratic forces a.d.f. a rebel group in the area with roots in uganda its fighters are accused of killing at least 5000 congolese in the last few years and more than 100 in the past week. they were dressed in the same uniform as they killed my husband in our kitchen when i 1st heard gunshots. but i met them and they told me to get back inside.

many homes have been deserted people are too afraid to go back. there talks are frequent and happening as a congo and one of the largest when peacekeeping missions in the walled. are carrying out an offensive against the rebel group those forces are now working with a local militia called my my to help defeat the a.t.f. the other group shows us the comp and equipment they say they've captured from an a.d.f. base deep in the forests. this is our country we will not allow a foreigner to rise our people will continue to fight the supporting the african leaders are discussing how armed violence can be stopped in africa and not just in this country the region has been infiltrated by groups allied and al-qaeda hundreds of people have been killed and millions displaced in the lake chad basin

african forces are fighting inside then these conflict in the central african republic somalia south sudan and the least goes on impunity and lack of accountability for proper traitors of new models violations in the context of conflicts and some of which are to rise to crimes under international law including walk crimes and crimes against humanity. this lack of imputing this lack of accountability the impunity for papa traitors is part of the reasons why there is a cycle of violence across the continent in ethiopia many kilometers away from benny the heads of state are gathered for a conference labeled silencing the guns in 2020 and beyond it's an ambitious lark and many here are oblivious of that meeting and what if anything it can achieve but like millions of others living in conflict areas across the continent they say they just want to be in safety catch in saudi al-jazeera. still to come on

al-jazeera a decade of dry to know when's in signs chill is epic drawing spell enters a critical phase also. hollywood is trying to diversify our but it's slower than it should be a poor year for diversity rebalance the oscars so white debates. and a special gold piles on even more misery for natalie action film it's in his top division coming up in sport. we got more coal where sad at times when she weather and see the middle east over the next couple of days a fair bit of cloud just around here around the levant that eastern side of the mediterranean we've had a fair bit of rain here actually and in fact in the northern gaza strip well we

have seen some localized flooding some really nasty conditions going on here with some outbreaks of heavy rain and i think we may well see a few more showers as we go on through the next day or so as a base and places of damp weather wintry weather pushing over towards iran just 5 celsius there for tara sixes and sevens for jerusalem and for damascus shippey into the may taste so it is certainly on the cool side of that cold weather will make its way down across the right information here in doha and choose day around 18 degrees celsius be lucky to get to 1516 as we go on into wednesday with a brisk setting in so it's going to feel a little on the cool side here as well meanwhile across northern africa is generally fine and dry plenty of sunshine coming through the showers there into central areas of africa democratic republic of congo pushing over towards the gulf of guinea and notice wanted to shells also stretching their way up towards mali could see the shouty just around sierra leone and liberia.

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from impassioned filmmakers. like the witness on al-jazeera. more. this is al-jazeera our minds are all the headlines this hour china is putting more than $10000000000.00 into the fights against corona virus which has now killed more people than the sars epidemic 17 years ago the death toll stands at 813 in offices of people poor in scenes on board a cruise ship in hong kong have no been allowed to leave. iran's 1st imagery satellite has failed to reach orbit stuff to be launched earlier on sunday the u.s.

is based concerns in the past about iran satellite program saying it's a cover for ballistic missile tests iran denies this. and the irish nationalists partition fane has demanded a place in coalition talks as early election results indicate a major surge in support to center right parties have dominated irish politics for a century but both have ruled out sharing power machine fate. well polls have also closed in cameroons local and legislative elections the 1st in 7 years bartz it comes at a time of political division and concerns over security there are reports that the votes being disrupted by separatists in under a full on. and the irish nationalists partition fane has demanded a place in coalition talks as early election results indicate a major surge in support to center right parties have dominated our which all it

takes for a century but both powerful to share in power the shin fein. well polls have also closed in cameron's local and legislative elections the 1st in 7 years bartz it comes at a time of political division and concerns over security there are reports that the votes been disrupted by separatists in under full or well the ruling cameron peoples democratic movement supports president paul beer he's ruled for 37 years as one of the world's longest serving leaders the main opposition party has refused to field any candidates its leader morris come to was jailed for 9 months after his defeat in the 28000 presidential elections and he no lives abroad and as we mentioned there is the ongoing conflicts in the english speaking northwest and southwest regions millions living there want to break away and form

a new country called brazil india with 3 years of separatist conflict has killed more than 3000 people and displaced 700000 more the president though says these elections are a chance for fresh starts. i have accomplished my civic duty and i'm happy about it i seize this opportunity to call on my compatriots to do the same despite calls to boycott by some small political parties in any case democrats are on a forward march and cameron and i can gradually cameroonians for this. now let's bring in man of the can say he's a lecturer at the university of aberdeen and the author of complex adaptive systems resilience and security in cameroon joins us now by skype from aberdeen good to have you with us on the news are the president there has been saying it's time for a fresh starts but a fresh start for him. for the many come around and the elections are this a

a deja vu elections have been postponed for top 2 times now and they're taking place 2 years after doing origin of the show george for. us you can use you mentioned in your. video that the elections are taken in the background of violence in the north with the book or arm violence in the 2 under a foreign regions in an election where their ruling party has never lost an election since the 1992 when they introduce more to elections. you already said. the one of the key parties that participated in the just past presidential elections in 20 team has called for a boy court of this particular elections well the like but it's good on so it's not you off i'm sorry to cut you off and say what about the boycott is actually

quite interesting is it not because as you've been outlining the stakes in this election are pretty high given that what's the point of a boycott surely you have to take parts and be kind sit sit have the views of who you represent put across. yes there's the argument just wanted to point out that this particular party that called for a boy court actually has only one member of parliament saw in the legislative and municipal elections this party is not the main party the actual main party in parliament main opposition party in parliament is the social democratic front of the s.d.f. . i think it's 18 members of parliament and they are participating in this elections or they key element to parties which is the c.p.m. d.p.c.

infringe and as d.f. actually participating in the elections all. it both. a ruling party and an opposition taking part ok and given the challenges that there are in the country of cameroon this is especially the the regions which are hoping to break away. how do you see this election panning out. based on the politics of cameron it's already clear who is going to win saudi ruling parties going to when. the government has talked about a special state use for the regions that is fighting but they haven't been proper details for what that special status actually means it means some of the legislation that was passed before this election has actually devolved some power to the local or diminished support councils that will be elected so there reese

some change but the. still waiting for the details of what does fish will to state who's actually mean. but it has to be pointed out local elections and they'll be a lot of local people participating in the elections. they'll be new people coming into politics for the 1st time they'll be people getting out of politics so there's actually excitement on the ground in the local parties but the region is still very quiet today a very few people have gone out to vote and they're still worried the separatists of. lockdown so everybody still indoors are not being able to participate as fully as the government would have wished ok interesting results still to come when those results are released but for. couldn't say thank you so much for sharing your

thoughts and your analysis with us here on al-jazeera thank you very much for having me. syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the northwest the soldiers are advancing in the southern part of aleppo province along 2 major highways events of could open up a direct routes to rebel held areas of western aleppo and it led. going to. over the past few days. forces have managed to make significant achievements the troops that were coming from eastern little had met with the advance forces from southern aleppo and managed to regain control of the geographical area of more than 600 square kilometers. a severe droughts in central chile is entering its 10th year the country's longest ever drawing spell animals are dying many reservoirs are draw and almost half a 1000000 people have no direct access to water for drinking and domestic use are

latin america adds to the sea and human reports from till 2. every tuesday this cistern truck makes its way through rule. it delivers water to communities that haven't had any for at least 5 years. francisco candia is relieved every time the truck arrives he used to grow fruit trees and raised goats and donkeys. sleep yeovil give us all this area was famous for its donkeys i used them to take people's produce to market but that was before the drop destroyed everything i had to reinvent myself so mill a make these donkeys to sell on the highway to remind us again we had a lot of animals. further off that highway lives this lower the 74 year old rancher used to have more than 100 goats but the drought has dried up all the grass and bushes they needed to eat and so now she only has

a few animals left so i said in one year. it's been more than a year since you saw the moffitt because we couldn't afford to buy them food and the water we get is only supposed to be for our personal use it's like a desert here now. cities for child central region known for its mediterranean climate is suffering its longest drought in history no rain in winter means that there's no snow in the andes mountains to melt in the summer to supply wells aquifers and reservoirs which are now critically low i'm standing in what was the wrong there reservoir once upon a time there were sailboats and jet skis here but now as you can see there's nothing but dried dirt. and it's not just because of the drought but because the measures needed to protect water in this area were never take. despite the increasing water scarcity chile's central valley is still used for high intensity

agriculture those who can afford it for freight more than 100 meters over exploiting aquifers and taking the little water that's left. and in the capital santiago no effective measures have been taken to reduce consumption and what we need is to understand our climactic diversity we have water in abundance in southern chile or not here we urgently need a strong regulatory framework and a culture to save rather than waste water green lawns and swimming pools and parks with grass are not compatible with this new reality. the drought began nearly a decade ago and studies suggest it will get worse not better as global temperatures continue to rise that could well make this area once famous for its prickly pears unfit even for cactuses you see in human al jesse that deal deal chilly millions of desert locusts of swarms and say you guns are the 1st such

invasion since the 1960 s. and they come from kenya and somalia where the damage they've already done is threatening to leave 10000000 people shorts of food. and look a certain ravaging farm lands east of pakistan problems in the prime minister's declare a national emergency there munching through cotton points and a maize crops the government says is the worst infestation for 2 decades hisor for has more from the eastern city of tara is small can. very large swarm of locusts that drive it from out for godzilla saudi arabia iran and has also moved through some of the pockets are the problem say right now the government in our state a wall against the rich can eat as much as. 4 day trip entire crop leaving them bad though i might if i started boarding exonerated both

the locust attacks have damaged our free crop and will cause huge losses we're trying our best to protect against it but we're unable to get rid of them the government must do something to help us if these crops are only means for survival the pakistani prime minister had already declared a state of emergency it had already asked the agriculture department to keep a close eye on the movement of low which are traveling through much of pakistan agricultural breadbox again it has a potential. damage extending. crop and not only the standing problem if it succeeds in getting i mean it's right to him the food coming crop season it damages it but the local stuff slams their presence and. if we fail to protect these crops then ultimately it affects the production the produce michel can lead us in through situation the government had indeed come up great depth and

solutions to solve that problem. protection given that all all war d.-i current district where we are trying to control be spared from moving further into other charities. practice nations against attack will limit the damage if it wanted to some could wipe out the whole cops. even white flags in a single day. they're very. prominent and then a question as to whether more should have been done the early days. where the government in the province decided to sleep or whatever and or do anything now it's an emergency situation 7 point. that is almost $50000000.00 to try and control a menace that chord in danger. security. then i

academy award ceremony ceremony will take place later on sunday but this year a lot of racial and gender diversity in the nominations has coles and cry it's a reminder all of 20152016 when the hash tag point was trending well reynolds reports tonight from los angeles. i don't know if you know extraordinary this is were it not for cynthia air of those nomination for best actress in harriet the oscar acting nominations this year would have been all white it's an embarrassing outcome for the academy of motion picture arts and sciences which is tried for several years to expand and diversify its overwhelmingly white older male membership you know hollywood is trying to diversify but it's slower than it should be and that's part of the nature of the film business from the film is very cautious because in television they take a lot more chances with things and so and so is there you see

a lot more diversity in television and in the emmy awards and the the oscars are still on diverse actors of color who were left out this year include aapl phina in the farewell jennifer lopez in hostler's lupita in young go. eddie murphy in dolomite is my name. and some con hole in parasite. not too much fun isn't typical it's a sharp contrast to 2019 when out of the 4 acting awards only one went to a white person ali would also has a serious gender gap the nominees for best director are all male female directors passed over include gretta gerwig for little women and lulu way for the farewell in 90 plus years of oscars just one woman has ever won best director i think by women directors. being hired for teacher films was about 6 percent 10 years ago and i

think it's about 6.5 percent now so it's like i mean it's injured up but not much it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because there haven't been any in the past there aren't many being hired today and you know again it's because i think the studios are very conservative and cautious financially cautious while the academy struggles with diversity the companies that make films in the way people watch them are changing rapidly streaming services are steadily taking the lead in hollywood's most prestigious event netflix has garnered $24.00 oscar nominations including 2 for best picture with marriage story and the irishman the stage is set for hollywood's biggest night but there will be fewer awards for an industry slow to embrace diversity robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. and the day is

film critic and historian he says some progress is still being made i think we have to be careful in terms of just. i suppose adopting a position that films just simply get awards because that diverse i don't think that is the case been some. films of great quality that have missed out i think us for example a pizza some fortunate go through with a nomination also the performance of jennifer lopez which has been remarked upon in terms of hustlers i think what is was worthy of a nomination but. in general i think that quality will come to the surface at the end of the day there is genuine quality now being made and when i want to situation where even the. big kind of data is suggesting that the more mixed the film is the more diverse elements of it has actually the more money it's going to

make and that's something that gives me optimism. and al-jazeera is up for an oscar the film since the superman is nominated in a documentary consecrate is the story of bruce franks jr an activist and battle rapper it runs for office. you know if i don't have to work that. it's not you don't learn about this night something else happened on august 9th. to not respond to $1360.00 plus of me i saw my signing to tell. you that i may. not feel like you know at this my time to stand. and you can watch st louis superman and full on witness that's at 2230 g.m.t. and sunday february 9th our u.s. viewers can watch witness. and eddie. well still to come up in

sports there is a lot of drama on the slopes this think about ski events in germany buy into it humidity for the way. in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states of aliens increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on

social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. it's time for the sport far as here hala thank you so much pakistan's teenage cricket sensation is in shock made history on sunday the 16 year old boy has become the youngest player to take a test hat trick that came in the 2nd innings of the 1st test against bangladesh well candy shop breaking

a record that stood for 17. there is how by bangladesh. we did it at the age of 19 parks and are now in firm control of the match the tourist ending days 3 trailing by 86 runs with just 4 wickets lasts. it was an outstanding 2nd spell by nothing sure a teenager produced the best performance i really enjoyed watching him bowl in the field the best thing about nothing is that he bowls according to the plan and he's learning fast one of the biggest matches in world football happens a little later on in italy it's the milan darby and it's an important one that's because interest of the chance to go top of the table if they beat ac milan and tonio conti's side haven't been in their best form of late haven't drawn 3 of their last 4 league games showdown to san siro will also be the darby debut for interest new star signing christian eriksen for surely need to be told time and to

understand and the to go on into what i do football and it's important for the middle understand what they want defense league and if they sleep during the do d. but we're talking about an intelligent player a smart player we understand very well. football and. as i said before and we have video of humor we've got napoli are heading for their worst lee finish for over a decade scored some impressive balls to beat them 32 on sunday the result leaves napoli 11th in syria last on the end of the season in the bottom half with 2009 when they finished down in 12. spanish league leaders around the jura have extended their winning streak to 6 matches they recovered from a goal down to thrash also assume for one on sunday the win means they have a 6 point lead over barcelona who played best his later real last one in 2017.

the united states overcame 2 unexpected singles defeats to advance to the fed cup finals soviet had and bethany and the tech sound teamed up to be elaine austin penco and alice days yes ever so in the face of doubles match surely an open champion can in making amends after falling short early on saturday enter singles match against last go at the 21 year old bounce back to help put her country through to april's new look finals. singles matches played really well but i was ready to fight for the team and you know we got the job done i was fired up and probably probably the best of my life today so. here is a man i had. earlier serena williams stumbled in her singles encounter the 23 time grand slam champion was beaten by 7 story intrigues that it was the 1st time williams had ever lost a fred cup singles match thank you very much former houston astros manager a.j. hench has admitted he didn't do enough to stop his former team from cheating and

the investigation found the astros' used an illegal sign stealing system during their 2017 championship winning season this game allowed players to still pitch fines from opposing catchers interest with a one year ban and fired by the astros to accept the team's achievements mean now be tainted. it's a fair question and people are going to have to draw their own conclusions unfortunately we open that door. as a group and in that question i may never be as we may never know. when we're going to have to live and move forward and be be better. cranes that are has secured her 1st career win and a women's world cup super g. event in germany italy is syfy again jia suffered a heavy fall during her rai she got tangled up in the netting by managed to get down in white sheets it was it or who won this race a month after clinching her 1st downhill competition the swiss is 5th in the

overall sadness with mikael a chef friend of the united states still top the defending champion is taking a break from competition after the death of her father last week. ok and that is all your sport for now hala back to you thank you so much for it well let us it from this new start from doha at 102 colleagues in london mario minimizing is standing by good luck the game to be able to see where it's even going to be on skates by and i. in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication

technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face arrest in states railings increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. talk to al jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption. we

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