0. 3. 0. 00 i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. a deadly confrontation between a u.s. patrol and villagers inside syria as turkey warns it will strike hard if its soldiers are targeted again. china reports a drop in cases of coronavirus but the world health organization warns too early to tell whether the worst is over. italy's former deputy prime minister is set to go on trial for keeping migrants at sea as the country's senate stripped his immunity

. 16 people are dead dozens missing after a boat carrying him to refugees camps capsizes in the bay of bengal. turkey has been sending more reinforcements to its observation post in northern syria as tensions with government forces there continue to escalate present wretch a type or 2 on his warning he will strike back against any attacks on turkish troops by advancing syrian forces and it live province syria's ally russia accuses ankara aggravating the situation in the last rebel held region by having its military on the ground there while syrian civilian has been killed in a confrontation between american troops and government supporters bara has more from istanbul. the russian patrol in east syria. after u.s. troops in the air. opened fire killing one civilian. the u.s.

issued a statement saying they came under attack and had to open fire the incident is now under investigation. that attack came on the same day turkey's president issued a warning to the syrian government and its russian allies. one of them of the president was up to her and has given damascus and till the end of february to pull out beyond turkish observation posts it. says if talks with russia failed to stop syrian troops targeting turkish forces will respond harshly she was very strong the color we are determined to remove the syrian regime to beyond the boundaries of the thought she agreement that is behind our observation post by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation without wavering on land and by

air damascus has dismissed the comments saying turkey is out of touch with reality but despite his anger and frustration president is still hoping he would be able to narrow differences with russian president vladimir putin the 2 signed agreements into $1018.00 which allowed for save lives and respect of the rebels' movements the deals also prevent a syrian president bashar assad from launching a military campaign to take over the last stronghold of the rebels as turkish russian relations remain strained the u.s. has stepped in during a meeting with turkish officials u.s. syria ovoid james jeffrey delivered a sharp rebuke of russia iran and the syrian government which the us blamed for the escalation. us tension turkey sending more troops into it live more out

opposed to the 12 already established after that agreement with russia and iran 2 years ago. the syrian government has been increasing its offensive in the north taking over crucial highways and towns from rebels but it's called only do this with a close support of russia's military and its up to the russians and to the turks to decide what happens in syria next. is the board and saying costello is in the town and in syria she explains the positions held by syrian and turkish forces in that area. the syrian government is 1st bombarding the areas and pushing to civilians out of the areas and then entering those villages and it seems they are eager to continue from south to the north and take over a full control inside it that in the pits of this collation zone the spy it's a multilateral agreement that it should be

a de conflict zone it's to be at the arms area and the civilians shall be able to freely move here so given the situation given the record the advance by observing government and the very harsh weather conditions there is a humanitarian crisis on the ground which has been there actually for many years there are at least 4000000 people right behind turkish borders. and. at least 1000000 or by the border in our area and there is in there there is not enough space left for any more civilians and as the syrian government offensive continue there are more and more people displaced over the every day and despite all these this is a proxy war the military experts say and both the syrian government and the turkish cover government are devoted to continue their reinforcements for their military bases of course so it is an no whether this is going to be a direct war

a bilateral war between the muskets or will they end up with a primitive solution the world health organization says the number of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus and china has stabilized but they were an agency says it's too early to say when this outbreak and its director general says coordinated global efforts are needed to contain the spread of the illness there are 44730 cases of 19 in china. 1114. outside china there are 441 cases from 20 countries and one death. the number of newly confirmed cases reported from china has destabilized over the past week. but that is to me that much to be interpreted with extreme caution this outbreak could still go in any direction china's government has announced

a series of measures to boost economic production while fighting this outbreak but formula one has confirmed a chinese grand prix in shanghai originally scheduled for april well be postponed has more from beijing. and the beijing's noisiest and detainment districts is now silent and these restaurants karaoke rooms and nightclubs have been closed until further notice or to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus who were killed this street has everything for us to eat drink and have fun we live here in the past we couldn't rest because it was too busy and noisy but now it's so quiet and you feel you are these really has really affected daily life but these closures at her event the virus i think the right decision some local governments say businesses must apply for permission before reopening punishing those who ignore the rules across china more than 80 cities have been partially locked down and people's movement is

heavily restricted but president xi jinping says some of these measures have gone too far warning that it could harm the economy susan thing must walk a fine line between controlling the epidemic and minimizing its impact on the economy prior to the outbreak time is already struggling with slowing economic growth and the pressure to prevent a downturn now they have a clear message to the chinese public. 160000000 people nationwide are expected to return to major cities over the next week officials are trying to reassure the public that it's safe to travel and go back to work. we've tried to lower derisive action by preventing passengers from sitting next to each other in vehicles trying. and the implementing ventilation. these infection temperature monitoring chinese factories are beginning to resume production but the damage has been done. say the service and manufacturing sectors

will be the hardest hit. to the virus that will be contained by and large then we would expect on some signs of recovery from drawing for recovery won't start into the 2nd quarter of 20 or $21.00 and the reason for that it would take some time for industries to adjust the production patterns to recruit new yorkers and a lot of them. the economic impact of the outbreak is being felt lewdly i phone maker apple and south korean car brand here are among those expecting losses and outbound tourism could drop by an estimated 30 percent this year with many chinese choosing will be forced to stay home country you al-jazeera beijing. a major technology conference has been cancelled as concerns over the virus as collate in real world mobile congress was due to be held in barcelona and 2 weeks but major firms including facebook amazon and sony have withdrawn from the event the biggest

participants often spend tens of millions of dollars to take part in that show meanwhile another $39.00 people onboard a cruise ship docked in japan have been infected with corona virus so that brings the total to $175.00 the japanese health ministry says the new cases include a quarantine officer the ship has the highest concentration of cases outside of china where the virus originated the diamond princess has been under quarantine since february 3rd after a passenger who got off the ship was diagnosed with the virus at another cruise ship that was turned away by 4 countries over coronavirus fears how's about dock in cambodia the m.s. westerdam is carrying more than $2200.00 passengers it's been at sea for days now japan taiwan the philippines and thailand all refused entry to the ship despite there being no confirmed cases on board and singapore's largest bank t.b.'s has evacuated 300 staff from its head office after one of its employees was infected

with the coronavirus 50 confirmed cases have been reported in the city state. it was democrats vying to be president to be the presidential challenger to donald trump have turned their attention to nevada and south carolina following the new hampshire primary for months senator bernie sanders narrowly beat people in sunday's tuesday's vote pardon me while senator amy closure surged into 3rd place elizabeth warren came in 4th former vice president joe biden trailed at 5th and next votes in the state by state battle will take place later this month. the head of the u.s. department of justice william barr has agreed to testify before the house judiciary committee to answer questions regarding president donald trump's close ally roger stone the veteran political consultant was sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to congress but the justice department says that it would reduce that sentence or else correspondent kimberly halkett has more. not backing down i want

to thank the justice department u.s. president donald trump is praising his attorney general william bar after bars justice department took the unusual step of recommending a reduced sentence for trump ally and close friend roger stone. government prosecutors had requested stone serve almost a decade in jail after being found guilty last november of lying to congress during its broader investigation into whether trump's presidential campaign had colluded with russia you have murders and drug addicts in a good 9 years 9 years for doing something that nobody can defy what he did trump weighed in on twitter calling the potential sentence horrible and very unfair and a miscarriage of justice that's when the justice department changed its recommendation to less jail time prompting 4 justice department prosecutors to quit the case in protest now there are questions about whether trump may pardon stone i

don't want to say that democrats are calling for an independent investigation into the stone case they allege the president who was last week acquitted in the senate for abuse of power is acting with impunity they point to trump's firing of white house officials who testified against him during the impeachment inquiry as further evidence of the abuse of presidential power left to his own devices president trump would turn america into a banana republic where the dictator can do what ever. warrants and the justice department is the president's personal law firm as outrage builds an online petition with tens of thousands of names is also calling for the justice department's internal watchdog to review with the protocols were followed in the stone case go to a white woman but such criticism is unlikely to hurt trump among his supporters

that's because donald trump promised on the campaign trail to drain the swamp essentially push back on the so-called washington establishment that includes judges and prosecutors that the president believes are out to get him and his conservative allies can really help at al-jazeera the white house when you were head of the news hour a look at how hundreds of former iceland members could be left stateless after indonesia bans them from returning home. less course of companies with links to eat legal israeli settlements the u.n. says their activities raise from the rights concerns. and sport will have more on the chinese grand prix being postponed because of the run of violence happening. and security council has adopted a resolution calling for

a lasting cease fire in libya earlier the u.n. said forces loyal to war locally for hoft are have blocked flights carrying it staff to and from libya more now from our diplomatic editor james bond. this resolution has taken a long time to negotiate almost 4 weeks since the burgman summit russia had a number of problems with the text particularly the mention of mercenaries operating in libya and we know the wagon the group a russian company does have people in the country russia in the end abstained in the resolution has passed which means attention now goes to geneva next week for the next stage of military talks the so-called 5 plus 5 talks between the 2 sides in libya to try and work out the details for a cease fire in the country which according to the international community is the next stage of the process if there is a cease fire then attention goes back to new york and to the secretary general of

the united nations because under the resolution he's supposed to come up with a monitoring mechanism for any cease fire could there be u.n. monitors put into libya that's one possibility i'm also told there's a possibility of monitors from either the african union or the european union a protest has been held outside libya's national oil corporation headquarters in tripoli against the closure and blockade of many of the country's oil assets by forces loyal to khalifa haftar our analysts say more than a $1000000000.00 worth of oil revenues had been lost since the blockade began a month ago tell ahead was at a protest in tripoli explains why demonstrators fear the blockade will affect their livelihoods. we're now in front of the headquarters of libya's national oil for food ration this is the state oil firm and the people the protesters you can see here behind me. the n.s.c. staff along with union workers staff and also people from several categories

of the libyan society including civil society organizations activists that are here calling on the united nations support the mission in libya along with the international institutions that the european union to put pressure on have to his forces to immediately lift the blockade that they imposed on the oil terminals in the east of the country a month ago the protesters we spoke to here say that their total losses of this located has mounted to about $1320000000.00 so far and many people here say that old they're libyan categories of the libyan society they realize mainly on the salad is from the government and this blockade will definitely affect their salaries the people here as you can see if they had at the best dating experience before with the oil blockade as you know that the oil terminals were blockaded before for 3 years from 2013 until 2016 and that's because

the libyan truly about $1500000000.00 they say now that they cannot accept this located or this loss to be repeated again palestinians how welcomed the united nations report listing companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank the u.n. says it's identify more than $100.00 firms including the u.s. u.s. based home renting company air b.n. b. israel has described the publication as shameful or board mainly reports. look up into the hills of much of the occupied west bank there are illegal settlements block after block these are home to more than 600000 israeli settlers on palestinian land while international law stipulates they're illegal the un has gone a step further and listed companies with ties to settlements in the end from an initial $321.00 companies whose names are submitted to us and whose activities we

reviewed the report identifies 112 companies. it's important to know that it is not some claim a blacklist nor does it qualify any company's activities as illegal that would be a separate and highly complicated terminations and something which ultimately could only be decided on a case by case basis through a competent judicial process this list's includes well known international companies such as a p m p although the report doesn't state that the company's activities are illegal israeli politicians say they may now be targeted by the activist group boycott divestment and sanctions palestinian say this list to prove useful we need to war with the with the office of high commission not the high commissioner because he has to do a bit this list and he willy we need to work with the states with countries toward

build their responsibilities and to hold and as you move their responsibilities to talk to these companies telling them that what they are doing is illegal in the statement is ready prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the un human rights council is a biased and influential body instead of dealing with human rights this body is trying to blacken israel's name we reject any such attempt in the strongest terms and with disgust the proposed u.s. peace plan released last month drew palestinian condemnation for agreeing to let israel maintain control of the settlements most countries and the u.n. view illegal israeli settlements as one of the most contentious issues in the conflict israel now says considering an excessive amounts palestinian say they won't ever allow that to happen nor about manly al-jazeera. security forces have reopened a bridge in central baghdad that had been blocked since anti-government protests started in october as part of government efforts to restore normality to the city

and comes less than 2 weeks after mohammed tuffy a while he was named prime minister designate as you know fulton has more from baghdad. sinnett bridge here in baghdad has reopened for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began and of october you can once again see traffic is moving across this bridge over the river tigris now of course this bridge has been extremely important throughout the protests and has been the location of some of the major standoffs between protesters and government forces we have seen some major attacks against the most heinous occur on this bridge so as of now we only have one bridge that still remains closed here in the battle of course what the demonstrators have been trying to do here is to obstruct bridges and roads as part of a civil disobedience campaign to try to bring the daily life to

a hold they want to prevent people from going about going to work they want to prevent businesses from operating all as part of an effort to try to force the government to listen to their demands now since the appointment of mohamed tawfik allow me as the prime minister designate she had cleric mulcted al sadr who has until now mostly supported the demonstrators has called on them to open up roads to open up bridges for penalties against those who don't comply and of course the demonstrators will not be happy about the opening of this bridge but some people are likely to welcome this move because as you can see here there are a lot of businesses who are located in proximity to this bridge in proximity to this road and they have suffered greatly as a result of this closure they have been called up inside clashes between the demonstrators and security forces we have seen even some of these shops being burned in the clashes between those 2 sides so these business owners are likely to welcome the return of normal life like it's really to see an increase in business

once again now it remains to be seen how to demonstrators who will react to this move and whether they will try to retake this bridge of course we have. seen at the front lines if you want to call them all of these demonstrations have shifted from one place to another but the cynic which has always been very important for the demonstrators and some of them have said that they will try to take it back to what we have to watch and see how the security forces will react we have seen security forces the ploy on top of this bridge and it remains to be seen whether one protesters will try to retake this area where the security forces will use force to make sure that this bridge and the streets remain open and nato defense ministers are discussing an increase in the alliances training mission in iraq international troops who train and forces but do not engage in operations could be redeployed under nato command a comes after u.s. president to put pressure on the alliance to expand its middle east presence.

italy's former deputy prime minister could be put on trial for kidnapping over a ban he imposed on migrants or perhaps a parliament has stripped the immunity of the tales of the prosecuted over his decision to or more than $100.00 people aboard a coast guard ship last year shot a hole reports. as italy's interior minister. had promised his rightwing support base that he would reduce immigration across the mediterranean from libya. so in july last year when he refused to allow $131.00 migrants to disembark in sicily selvin he was keeping his word but prosecutors say he was also breaking the law and a vote that has narrowly gone against him in the italian senate means his immunity as a former minister is lifted and a trial can go ahead. the migrants spent 6 more days aboard the bruno gregory to rescue ship or salvini waited for other european nations to take them in italy even

sisted would no longer shoulder the migrant burden alone now at a sensitive time in italian politics with regional elections due on sunday may try to turn the possibility of legal action to his advantage. my children have the right to know that their father is often away from home not because he's spending time kidnapping human beings but because he is defending the borders and security of his country and that this was his precise duty it was not his right it was his duty. this is a kind of historic thing in italy. used to do the same thing so when he was under trial he was accusing. the judges and the prosecutors trying to boost his popularity this way depict there's a victim of the system what selvin e did could have fateful consequences for the far right politician who hopes one day to be prime minister charges of illegally detaining migrants on the gregory

kidnapping in other words could result in a jail sentence of up to 15 years a conviction would in cell beanies political career journal how al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera that france's dismisses a controversial proposal to ordain a married man as priests more than social media firms to account being paid everyone has plans to regulate the internet. and its board former l.a. lakers star kobe bryant is buried 2 weeks after he was killed in a helicopter and. how i was still looking at some very lively weather across the southeastern corner of the u.s. a lot of clouds showing up through the deep south over towards the mid atlantic states as quite

a temperature contrast imply at the moment minus 18 the full winnipeg 17 celsius there in atlanta so a big contrast in those temperatures lively outbreaks of friday further flooding sunny a possibility we have seen some flooding into the southeastern corner this west the weather that's going to continue making its way further responses guys do come back in behind in the stars to quieten down to start to lose that temperature contrast minus 6 in winnipeg warming up nicely here plus 9 there for atlanta so a little cold will fresh enough a little bit they'll be some wintry weather over the rockies i would towards the pacific northwest some clouds spinning it here north of the border basi could see some outbreaks of rain sleet and snow over the next couple of days may well dry its logic watch across the caribbean we've got a few showers just around the lesser antilles just around the leeward slim we want to see showers that was just was trinidad and tobago georgie the shot was lucky to push their way into the western side of the region will see somewhat a weather coming through here and just notice some rather heavy rain for

a tie for southern parts of mexico. the controversial leader of islamic jihad has cut he is one of the most one turns to the street of israel to come to terms on his alleged extra judicial killings by israeli television and assad says being caught in the must use the outcome is only death if someone tried to get to chicago immediately soo many times and was shut down the borders to go to kill him in damascus on al-jazeera in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions in the hearts and lives of what you want to put across the country and as a dark side in the 12 is reducing the grit from his office the majesty of the hindu fish into something more like the team i didn't see of the british today 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. war. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now turkey has sent more reinforcements to its observation post in northern syria as tensions with government forces there continue to escalate syria's ally russia accusing her of aggravating the situation in the last rebel held region by having its military on the ground will help organizations as coronavirus numbers are stabilizing but it's urging caution with there might not be any end in sight to the outbreak at least we

don't know when yet and while china has announced a series of measures to try to minimize economic losses during the albury and italy senate has voted to lift the immunity a former deputy prime minister silvio the tale salvini clears the way for the far right politician to go on trial over accusations he illegally detained migrants at sea last year. hundreds of indonesians who left the country to join i saw will not be able to return the government ban affects nearly 700 men women and children most of them in syria critics say the move means hundreds will be stranded and stateless and that may violate indonesia's constitution observations or washington reports from jakarta. fashion as family is incomplete and torn apart by a decision ho brother made nearly 4 years ago he left you can't go without notice taking his wife and daughter with him to join i saw. my brother isn't

a violent person my family even liked us i was shocked when they left if you've known of course i wouldn't have approved. he's now in jail in syria the indonesian government's decision to ban former eisel fighters and their families from returning means she will likely never see her brother again. i want them back here i want them to have a normal life in indonesia again. among those stuck in syria and other countries are hundreds of indonesian i saw fighters and sympathizes and the question of what to do with them is one the government has considered for months. but the government has the responsibility to keep more than 267000000 people safe that's our priority and that's why we want to take these foreign fighters back armed groups are major concern in indonesia and i saw has been linked to dozens of attacks around the country in 2018

a family of suicide bombers carried out attacks on churches in surprise they were part of an eisel inspired armed group and there are fears returning foreign fighters could pose a security risk but some human rights activists say barring them from returning to indonesia is illegal in mexico situations. in the. country is too perfect perfect world to me including the criminals or if they're clean or best the strong stance of the indonesian government will leave hundreds stranded with no prospect of returning home but the fate of young children many of them often remains unclear the government says their situation will be considered on a case by case basis leaving the door open for their potential return. according to u.s. intelligence 689 people left indonesia to join i saw indonesian authorities are

working to identify them just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. australia has identified more than 100 animals species that need urgent help after the recent bushfires qualis and wallabies are among those at the top of the lists to say some species face a minute risk of extinction because almost all of their habitat was destroyed researchers have previously estimated more than a 1000000000 animals may have died in the fires boeing says it's working to rebuild trust in the brand after it failed to book any new aircraft orders in january now the aircraft china's struggling to save its reputation after grounding its 737 max planes last march following 2 crashes or instantly reports in the singapore air show. it was once boeing's best selling plane but no one is placing new orders for the 737 max these days the planes have been grounded for 11 months after 2 crashes within 5 months killed 346 people for boeing the single is

a chance to put out a message that it's handling this crisis head on we absolutely have to rebuild confidence in the airplane and that starts with getting it certified bringing it back to service convincing the regulators that we've done the right thing that the changes to the airplane are right the manuals are right the training is right its focus is to have the max back in service by the middle of this year one of the 1st things that has to happen before the 737 max can fly again it's a certification test flight 500 u.s. aviation regulator the head of that agency has hinted at a test flight could take place soon but the still no timetable for the lifting of the ban approval to fly will also have to be obtained from dozens of aviation authorities with more than $400.00 planes grounded around the world process to get all of those back in the air is not going to happen overnight is probably more like a year or 2 at least because they've got to go in they've got to service those

playings it may not just be the impasse software that needs to be updated they may need to update software for the engines or lots of the other systems that are on the plane some supplies of boeing are laying off workers off to production of the 737 max was suspended last month and lines have had to cancel routes or keep in service for longer one analyst says some adeline's could use this as an opportunity to reassess plans we could see you know air power lines that you know especially in this region that maybe don't need the airplanes immediate future defer their deliveries so the for taking a plane that would have been you know taken this year or next year for a few years the better manager. but many of. say the longer the mag stays grounded the worse it will be not just for boeing but also the aviation industry florence $30.00 singapore. a pakistani court has sentenced the man accused of planning the

2008 room by attacks to 5 and a half years in prison if he's saeed was found guilty of collecting funds for a terrorist group where the 160 people were killed when members of the group carried out a shooting and bombing attack or 4 days in india's financial hub mumbai. the sinking of the migrant boat in the bay of bengal has highlighted the risk and taken by thousands of bangladeshis and trying to get to malaysia and indonesia i see every year at least 15 people died when the vessel capsized on tuesday average hartree has more. some 130 people mainly women and children were packed on the fishing trawler that capsized relatives wait anxiously outside the police station to find more information on the missing so be a big i was one of the survivor but she lost her 8 year old daughter in the tragedy she was planning to join her husband who lives in malaysia. when the boat capsized

over trying to stay in my child was on my lap so that he slipped and washed by the wave i cried out my child my child but she was gone by then marriage is another layer of the smugglers commonly use 17 year old muslim a bigamous fiance lives in malaysia her fiance made all the arrangement with the smuggler she managed to survive and now regrets ever attempting the trip. at around 3 in the morning the boat carrying us hit a coral reef most of us were kept in 3 separate holes in the boat but suddenly people started shouting there was water entering please open the hatch once the boat started sinking we were let out and eventually rescued. bangladesh's security services said they have intercepted at least $500.00 rowing a refugees from around its shores since last year but security agency that made its a major challenge. we have been able to identify many of those who are involved in this human trafficking business so far we have arrested at least 8 of them after

this incident and taken preemptive actions against others we also have increased patrolling and surveillance along with the other security agencies more than 730000 growing are muslims who fled brutal military. crackdown in myanmar in 2017 currently leaving a crowded and cox bazaar facing an uncertain future facing increasing restriction on their movement communication blackout and desperate condition in the camps many joining the referee dues are now turning to human smugglers to ferry them across a broad to fit better life willing to take a dangerous journey through the bay of bengal bangladesh's government says it is working hard to tackle the problem but it meets it's a huge task. cox's bazar bangladesh mexico says the number of migrants awaiting the outcome of their u.s. immigration cases has fallen from 50000 to about 2500 migrant crossings at the

shared border with the u.s. will drop by 75 percent since the start of last year the tampa ministration as and sending many central american and cuban migrants to mexico the policy has been a key element of trump's push to curb waves of migrants seeking asylum as an associate policy analyst at the migration policy institute he says migrants in northern mexico are not given the protection they need while waiting for their asylum cases to process. well we've heard a lot from the advocates and others on the ground is that the conditions on the northern border northern parts of mexico are actually quite dangerous for the migrants waiting there and many of them for the last few months have been seeking to return voluntarily to their countries now that may be a smaller share over the total flow of people under under this program policy it's also paul very possible that migrants because they are tired of waiting in mexico may have otherwise tried to enter the country through other illegal points of entry

one of the key things that they're poor highlights is that the vulnerability of the migrants again that they're experiencing in mexico makes it more difficult for them to actually wait to see their case while they wait to hear from the united states to do something that's compelling factors and we've seen this program in the beginning of last year try to grow and become a larger permanent policy mexico has had this concerns for a while and they have they have said to increase their own protections for these migrants but the evidence would show that are you suggest that some of these migrants are not still having a bit the protections they need for them to actually follow up to their cases before they tried to see if they can enter the united states. and as well as opposition leader has called president nicolas maduro a coward for allegedly detaining his uncle was one who say mark has went missing shortly after they both arrived back in caracas on tuesday ending a 3 week international tour he says mark has cleared immigration that was held for

review by the country's tax agency ideas recognized by more than 50 countries has venezuela's legitimate president and campaigning for majority to step step down the ending oh me a little they retain a member of my family a father with 5 children who is concerned about his family that is his only crime he's a person who has been kidnapped by the cowardly dictatorship president maduro is a coward who does not show his face who does not dare to step in a public square without security. he does not dare walk onto a street in our city because they treat him like a pariah so he mounts an attack against my family and that of the roman catholic church pope francis has dismissed a proposal to ordain married men into the priesthood they should from latin america put forward the controversial plan to address the sort of shortage of priests in the amazon and would have challenge the roman catholic tradition of priests being celibate but the pontiff says the solution to the shortage is to send missionaries to the region john heilemann has more from rio de janeiro. the program will be

a bit of disappointment especially as it was latin american bishops that put forward this proposal last october i think important to clarify the proposal wasn't the priests who were already all day and should be allowed to then get married it was for all the sorts of married men of some standing in these communities be allowed to them the old thing to make up for a bit of a chronic shortage of priests in the ahmanson region this is a region that's composed of knowing countries really have parts of themselves in the summers and region and it's estimated that at least 85 percent all villages in the amazon region on able to celebrate mass every week so there is a real sure to cheer in this was one of the ideas to try and get to grips with it now the pope's instead said another solution could be sending missionaries to this area instead of going for the other option which was older married men be being able to become priests and there will sort of

a thaw in the move conservative part of the catholic church that this might be the thin end of the wedge that even the right now is very specific to the armors and region the worry was that it could spread and start to end the tradition of celibacy in the catholic church and a rare public address camerons president paul by a has urged young people to end the armed separatist movement in english speaking regions the company is waiting for the about some discipline parliamentary elections after sunday's vote. on the economic capital to. celebrating cameron's use with the parade for its aging leader the march to the portrait of their 87 year old president who by the time he leaves power will be in his mid ninety's making him the oldest living state leader that's if he's able to finish his time in office. because in the country's english speaking region young people are taking up arms joining a separatist movement they want to break away from cameroon to create their own country and as. home to 4000000 people in the size of switzerland the english

speaking regions are on lockdown since sunday's local elections violence there has killed 3000 people and left a 1000000 displaced most of them children in a rare public address b. i called on young people to lay down their arms calling for dialogue going to once again i urge them to come out of the bush and rejoin their fellow young citizens who are leading normal lives in our society this is right for both sarah who was arrested in an opposition rally and his music he's an outspoken critic of the government calling on the president to work for the people not against them and accusing the aging elite of leaving the young and their aspirations behind. the government says people here are free to express themselves but when it comes to president paul b. or the english speaking regions it's another matter and so anti terror laws are being used to arrest people who are critical of the government and say young people are having to use other ways to express themselves or treatment is going to bring

order to take ways originally from the english speaking regions his exhibition the hard way the only way is about his personal struggles but also the need for peace among the cameroonian people. i'm not happy of the situation on. the 9 i mean i'm dying policemen's i'm dying. is no really good so i'm really feeling bad because that is where i came from. for french speaking our decision and every good day art can do what politics cannot and await the masses this is the city where the law society. alters the mirror of society and the issue here is that we have not successfully united the english and french cameroon it is something that can be easily resolved with a little world power to artists when vision painting a nation struggling to find unity where a young majority feels silenced and disconnected from its all the leaders now wanting to take control of their own future the.

irish prime minister lee of red car says he's likely to be the next leader of the opposition following last week's election but hasn't ruled out a place for his party and government he says the onus is on sion fein party leader mary lou mcdonald to put together a coalition of what could be weeks of negotiations left when irish nationalist party won the most votes but not the most seats. clayson northern ireland say they have charged a 52 year old man with the murder of journalist mckay she was shot dead last april during riots in london derry a suspect is believed to be part of a group of 3 men who were arrested on tuesday under the terrorism act. the u.k. is said to become one only a few countries to regulate social media companies the government says it will make social media companies responsible for arm for content on their sites companies and executives could face substantial fines or prison sentences if they fail to act or brennan has more findings make it had pressurised to send

a nude photograph of herself to a boy at school within a day meghan hinton's private image had been circulated across the internet it can take days even weeks to be removed for social media sites so that could have a devastating impact you know when something's up the irony is out in the wide web people can save it's their phone so even when the social media company remains it's still in people's possessions social media is largely self-regulating platforms like facebook you tube instagram and tick talk largely set their own rules and standards sometimes relying on the platform users themselves to flag up anything inappropriate the u.k. government has been consulting since last summer on how to introduce a new online home's law to put the responsibility on social media companies to remove harmful content child protection charities certainly support that ultimately regulation is required that's what we would argue the big tech giants need to be

held to account the regulator needs teeth so they not only need to monitor what's going on and talk about it publicly but also hold to account these multi-billion pound platforms one of the social media giants were available for interview prefer an issue written statements the boss of you tube u.k. said to help keep our community safe we haven't waited for regulation we. created new technology hired expert reviewers worked with external specialists and reviewed our policies to ensure they're fit for the evolving challenges we face online facebook's head of public policy said we have clear rules about what is and isn't allowed on our part forms and are investing billions in safety we look forward to carrying on the discussion with the government parliament and the rest of industry as this process continues the regulation of web content is a complex area which touches on issues such as freedom of speech censorship and jurisdiction and there's also the question of defining what is subjectively offensive and what actually qualifies as harmful but it seems the u.k.

government is prepared to try to tackle the issue and the full details of the new law will be published later in the spring paul brennan al-jazeera london. still hadn't spork a portuguese big wave surfer is lucky to be alive after an accident in one of the world's most dangerous and pants for so know how that story and more on the other side of the break.

time for sport. thank you so much the chinese grand prix has been postponed because of the corona virus outbreak the rate had been shed yours for april 19th in shanghai but there is no word yet of a replacement date so in a long list of sporting events to have been cancelled because of the virus which has killed over 1100 'd people in all of this in mainland china a loss there one race to be postponed with the bahrain grand prix in 2011 because of the arab spring uprisings. in a statement formula one save the promoters in china officially requested the postponement of the discussions with chinese motor sport bodies f one and the governing body the f.i.a. jointly decided to accept their request to ensure the health and safety of the traveling staff drivers and fans it ended by saying alternative dates are being considered for later in the year if the situation improves and i was challenging at this point to try and figure out how to let me turn into a tight you know tight schedule that's pretty packed and realistically we still

know. how this plays out so. you know and everybody still until you really know how this plays out it's tough to say what you know you know what you know what can work what's possible what's not possible formula one isn't the only sporting events have been impacted by the spread of the coronavirus next month's world indoor athletics championships in nanjing have been postponed by a year a limpid qualifiers for women's football basketball and boxing have all been moved to different countries and the all electric formula emoter racing series abandon plans to hold the race in san year in march. death certificates have revealed that former l.a. lakers star kobe bryant and his daughter were buried on friday they and 7 others were killed when their helicopter crashed near los angeles 2 weeks ago the los angeles county medical examiner's office said a cause of death for all 9 people on board was blunt force trauma

a public memorial service will be held at the lakers home arena on february 24th the cleveland browns player who was suspended for ripping the helmet off of an opponent and hitting him with it has been reinstated by the n.f.l. browns defensive end myles garrett accused these pittsburgh steelers opponent mason rudolph of inciting him with a racial insult prior to their incident on nov 14th garrett was suspended indefinitely but after meeting the n.f.l. commissioner he has been cleared to return to action. n.h.l. ice hockey champions the st louis blues are praising the quick response of medical staff of the bo mr suffered a cardiac event during the game against the anaheim ducks the 36 year old defenseman collapsed on the bench towards the end of the 1st period but he received immediate medical attention and was conscious and alert as he was transported to hospital for further tests the game was postponed as a result of the emergency professional big wave surfer alex patel you know is lucky

to be alive after nearly drowning while being towed back to shore during an event at nazare in portugal these are the conditions that surfers were competing in off the portuguese coast on tuesday nazare has been so dangerous in the past that competitors are no longer allowed to paddle out but must get a jet ski from the beach and back but that's when tell you got in trouble he was on the back of this jet ski but it was caught between 2 breakers the portuguese surfer was rescued and taken unconscious to the shore the world surf league says he is now conscious in hospital and in a stable condition an australian olympic b.m.x. rider has been placed in an induced coma after suffering serious head injuries in a crash a cocky borrow fell world cup events in new south wales he had surgery and will likely remain in a medical coma for 2 weeks with his condition described as critical but stable so cocky bara and he's younger sister had both been tipped as medal contenders for the

olympics in tokyo a city where they spent part of their childhood but true to france champion eggen beard now sits in 8th place after the 2nd stage of his home race that sort of columbia finished with the peloton in the 152 kilometer stage and is 46 seconds behind the leader in ecuador jonathan criseyde all of the 6th ages are at a higher elevation than the tour de france is highest point the football season keeps getting tougher for barcelona of the slipping behind a real madrid in the league they have now. lost forward on them belay for 6 months the 22 year old frenchman has had surgery for a ruptured tendon in east by he also miss euro 2020 with france it's a bad month for boss or who are trying to keep hold of a messy after falling out with the club sporting director and former boss a star under 30 years the imprest stoney's asian champions league debut for japanese. the 35 year old set up to a big goals and

a 51 win over malaysian side jod of them k.g. 2 although our scoring a hat trick the defending champion of the rotterdam open go morphy's us through to the 2nd round of the beating our susan 'd in straight sets are way over the top seed was not as fortunate on wednesday rushers that value made the dave was eliminated by hospital 100 and 4th ranked canadian storming into a 6463 victory he plays philip coggan of. this week tiger woods returns to the riviera country club in los angeles where his life on the p.g.a. tour began there it is as a 16 year old amateur he's competed a since 1992 but amazingly it's the course he has played most times without ever winning but what a story it would be if he did do it this time as it would see him break the record for $83.00 victories on the tour. are played in number of events over the years and

for me not to win. our has meant so much to me and my hometown. i've done well and seeing you go. sure we're haven't done well here and so hopefully that i can but again this week. while great conversations on the climate change is being blamed for a lack of snow or french ski resort in the pyrenees it's the 2nd year that the muti resorts has had to close mid season there is growing concern that the trend of warming temperatures could mean ski resorts lower than 1600 meters on not even able to spray artificial snow as it will just about ok we'll leave it there for now more sports news on the way again later. and for an update on many of the stories for you brought to you in this newscast at our website al-jazeera dot com al-jazeera dot com and thanks for joining me keep it here i have one or is for you on the other side of the break.

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universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. i'm a drawing attention to increasing conflict libya last 9 years since the revolution the pull down longtime dictator one look at the al-jazeera explains the complexities of libya's civil and potential political solution special come on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation but i've used the term by setting the. genda for tomorrow's discussions how unique a moment is this in terms of modern american history when it comes to racism you have the makings of a meal fashion's most international filmmakers and world class journalists bring in

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