i would rather have a fantasy growing on al jazeera. al jazeera. hello i'm adrian forgetting this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. officials say a reduction in violence deal has been agreed with the taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan. china's government horn's anyone returning to beijing must be quarantined for 14 days to prevent the spread of the coronavirus or they'll be punished. a syrian government helicopter was shot down as fighting intensifies a province. on. a

virtual reunion how a mother and her dead daughter have been brought back together. i'm joined again. by african football play from one of the country's major titles away from home soil to find out with. u.s. officials say that they've reached an agreement with the taliban which could soon lead to with the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a senior official at a security conference in munich has told reporters that if the weeklong agreement is successful it could be followed by the signing more pub and peace deal let's go live to our diplomatic editor james bays who's in munich at that security conference james what more do we know about this proposal. well adrian this is something that's been in the works for a long time over

a year you remember back in september though they came very close to a signing ceremony at camp david and then president trump pulled a hole to wall of the talks of an attack that killed 12 people one of them a u.s. serviceman but since then the talks have started again and in recent days it's been pretty clear that they'd be making some very good progress what's happened since then is that the afghan president bush afghani's been informed about this by phone he's now come here to munich for a much more detailed meeting of what's going to happen next and the afghan president was briefed here by the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or. the u.s. secretary of defense also by the commander of u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan scott miller and by zalmay how is that who is the u.s. special envoy the man who's been doing the talks with the taliban what we understand is that at some point very soon they'll start a period of 7 days

a reduction of violence now that's not a cease fire they're not using the cease fire word and certainly afghan government had wanted it to be a ceasefire after that though after that 7 days then we're told within another 10 days or so top should start then between the taliban and all of the rest of the afghan political system the afghan government and other afghan political parties are and so the afghan president has been briefed on this how might the afghans respond. well i think they're going to be somewhat cautious about this because the afghan government has been wary about this process all along because they've been left out of it this has been very much a deal between the u.s. and the taliban and there are lots of unanswered questions certainly it's not going to be a cease fire and that was something the afghan government wanted we also don't know how many u.s. troop troops are going to withdraw and when we know in the original deal that was

stopped in september it was $5400.00 troops that were going to be withdrawn in a matter of months it's worth telling you since september they've actually gone ahead and withdrawn 2000 troops so if they're sticking to the original plan will perhaps see $3400.00 or so troops withdrawn some time soon the afghan government's going to be very very wary no official response on this although president ghani tweeted when he was 1st phoned by secretary of state pump that he was he would look forward to see positively if there was any ensuring reduction of violence ways words suggest how significant a development is this. in the that the prospects of ending violence in afghanistan completely. well it could be nothing this could all fall of the 1st hurdle but if this is the

start of the withdrawal of u.s. troops after 19 years of war remember the u.s. went into afghanistan to chase down al qaida after 911 then this could be very very significant to remember in that period more than 2300 u.s. servicemen have died and we've seen the last 19 years a continuation of the conflict that's gone on in afghanistan for some 40 years we don't know the exact number of afghans that have died president johnny said about a year ago 45000 had died in his 1st 4 years of office that's afghan servicemen on the un only started counting civilians in 2009 and it says since 2009 until the end of last year 100000 afghan civilians have died this could be important but it's very very early days for this deal out as there is diplomatic editor james

pace reporting live there from munich james many thanks one other development to tell you about from the meeting security conference serbia and kosovo have signed a deal to restore rail and road links off to more than 2 decades the agreement brokered by the u.s. was scient at that security conference in munich on friday it comes off of the 2 agreed in january to launch direct commercial flights serbia still doesn't recognize kosovo's independence and considers it part of its territory talks to normalize relations between the 2 ended in november 28th or i can say on behalf of the. republic of sort of you're the former force of will feel. much better in the future and we'll be able to. stabilize the region and secure the peace for the next decades which is a phenomenal significance for all the inhabitants of the us about. what we are signing today gives another positive message that there will be more peace more

stability more development and board jobs exactly what corsa vote serbia and the whole region need now to the coronavirus china is stepping up its war on the outbreak as the number of deaths rises to nearly 1400 the government says the people returning to beijing must quarantine themselves for 14 days or face punishment president xi jinping is vowing to boost virus prevention measures and fix problems exposed by the crisis which it was in whom the national health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control of corona virus infections within medical institutions and we've given a special notice on virus control for key areas and the fever departments of the hospitals through these documents we have imposed special requirements on hearts in the personal protection of medical workers hundreds more military medics of started to work at hospitals in will handle the epicenter of the epidemic but there's

growing concern about the availability of medical supplies as the number of infections rises almost all of the 65000 cases worldwide are in a province in china egypt's health ministry has just confirmed the 1st case of corona virus there making it the 1st in africa well on friday officials in china confirmed that 6 health care workers have died from the illness the world health organization says that it's taking a closer look at those cases. understanding is that the cases are most health workers peaked in the 3rd and 4th week of january and there's been a rapid falloff in the number of cases that were occurred in and health workers in the last 2 weeks this may reflect increased levels of training increased levels of protection and also increased levels of awareness remember this outbreak has come expanded very quickly in an unsuspecting health system so we also need to look at how many of those health workers were exposed on knowingly within a clinical environment millions of people have been ordered to stay at home in her

bed province the epicenter of the outbreak as the government tries to stop the spread of the virus journalists are restricted from traveling there but al jazeera obtained exclusive pictures from a resident who is trapped as a trader you report stuff beijing. empty streets and an increasingly empty fridge there are plenty of vegetables but not much meat for the one family's next meal during the coronavirus lockdown speaking via video call from who pay one should tell us his family was doing it's best not to panic. when we go home with this infection liquid all over our bodies well we go out we wear masks we don't know if we go out we come back with a virus stuck our clothes so we do see in fact every day he lives in judgment a city neighborhood the epicenter of the virus outbreak for 3 weeks the family's been ordered to stay indoors movement is increasingly restricted once every 3 days

one family member is allowed to leave the house to pick up groceries supplies and a limited shop a stand in lines one meter apart waiting to enter. it's been almost a month since wanks saw his daughters who are staying with relatives in southeast china is it true that there are few relief that my wife and daughters are not there who are now we chat online every day they're doing ok just worry about me the vast majority of confirmed coronavirus cases more than 50000 are in a province patients have been sharing videos and social media of life inside makeshift hospitals and quarantine sentence at least 1700 medical staff are among the infected. elsewhere in china people taking any chances. wanks in hopes leaders will learn their lesson from the outbreak. at the

beginning nobody paid enough attention everyone thought it was under control until it was too late. and looks forward to life under lockdown coming to an end. al-jazeera beijing the to go as vice president at the center for china and globalization he george starr live from london good to have you with us victor china has been widely criticized at least over its initial handling of the virus outbreak are those criticisms valid. no i would say that china is now faced with his very massive public health crisis and we need to do whatever we can to fight against the coronavirus and put the whole crisis behind us of course in the 1st phase leading all the way to generate the 20th lots of mistakes were made by different levels in the cover and a hierarchy and. precious time was lost and this added to the

magnitude of this crisis to start with but i think ever since jan there is a trend is china is on the right track and the whole country is being mobilized to do whatever it needs to be done to fight against the coronavirus and we are doing whatever we can to put this crisis behind us and also please allow me to express my condolences for more than 1000 chinese nationals or have passed away because of the . time nation with these coronavirus and also please allow me to express my solid territory and full support to all those heroes why are now fighting in the frontline against the current of our as they include not only nurses doctors etc but also a lot of other people or take a low risk in fighting against this corona virus china cannot afford to lose this battle we have to win this battle against the coronavirus you talk about them the mishandling of the situation by local officials at least in the early days of the

crisis while people further up the power chain in china taking responsibility why have there only been sackings a local level. i think eventually there will be a day when there will be a very detail the core knowledge of being written out and responsibilities be checked out for example we can do that another day rather than in the middle of this fight against the girl in a virus i think the local government officials wasted a lot of time. they were very dangerous ground because this coronavirus or something new even today we do not have all the scientific knowledge about the corona virus so they probably thought that they should move forward more cautiously they need to really wait until for the instructions from beijing for example however now we know that in face it with this kind of curled up virus not

a single minute should be wasted and every minute should be seamless to a fight in this virus victor victor how do you answer the criticism the chinese government is. as far as some people are concerned more concerned about restricting the spread of information about the virus than it is about tackling the virus itself. that's untrue i think if anyone with the decency of the mind with the objectivity of his mind looking at what china is doing for example imposing quarantined not only the city with a population of 12000000 people but more or less on the whole province of problems which has a population of 60000000000 people and then if you look at many other cities or voluntarily impose quarantined and restrict the movement of the people you are see that we are really leaving no stalls on turned in the fight against this coral now virus i think this demonstrates that china has really put

a premium on human lives we cannot afford to lose this by the current of ours all the others are secondary fighting against the growth of ours and winning this war is the most important enough and finally the drawn 1st that we saw that revision excuse me of infection rates and death rates due to. a different way of. confirming whether someone actually has the virus a child has claims to being completely open and honest about the infection and death rates credible. i think ever since the 2nd phase started on january the 20th i think. government agencies throughout china at different levels of the government hierarchy are doing their best to come up with disclosure full disclosure and this is very important in fighting against the grown up virus now the way how the contraction is defined is a very much of a medical and scientific away and i think the day before yesterday the huge boost

in the number of contract it cases is a reflection of using a more pragmatic way to define contract in the raid and i think this will actually put more people who may have suspicious symptoms be included in the contraction this is actually good for all of us because we were nor how many people are being contracted and this will have the medical personnel on the ground any other parts of china to do a better job in fighting against this core of our virus on to win this war many thanks indeed for to going there as you were having me thank you. this is the news from al jazeera still to come on the program making the job impossible a rare rebuke of donald trump's tweets by the u.s. attorney general. a show of strength by female supporters of the iraqi cleric but. others to fight his call to stop protesting alongside men. and one of england's

oldest football clubs heads for liquidation that's coming up along with the rest of the sport the job a little later. the syrian government helicopter has been shot down in the northwest of the country state media reports that all crew were killed it's not yet clear who is responsible but rebels say that they shot it down government forces are trying to retake the remaining rebel held areas of the country al jazeera. is at the turkey syria border and says the downing of the helicopter comes at a time when turkish and syrian forces are risking further direct confrontation. the helicopter was taking part in a major government offensive to take over areas on the west of. the government managed to retake some villages from the rebels and crucial military

bases when the helicopter was shot down the rubble say that they were the ones who opened fire on the helicopter however government sources say that the syrian government sources people obviously with them their supporters all insist that this is the work of turkish military outposts operating in this terms as these turkish military is sending more reinforcement into living different parts of the province to try to hold the advance of the syrian government which says it's just a matter of time before it takes over the whole territory including in libya which is the rebels last stronghold in syria about 140000 syrians fled their homes over the last 4 days and they are now on the border with turkey joining the almost 1000000 people stranded on the border area we're talking about a huge number of people and the international aid agencies are grappling with how to deal with this situation we're talking about areas with near military operations

where the government is on the move to take over rebel territories as a very delicate situation we've been talking to activists and basically they say it's already a tragic humanitarian situation. in a rare repeat of donald trump u.s. attorney general william barres criticized the president's use of twitter a series of tweets by trump called for reduced prison sentence for his close i want to stone stone is trump's former campaign adviser who's been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice all for federal prosecutors quit on tuesday after the justice department said that it would reduce their recommended sentence of up to 9 years. you have public statements and tweets made about the department about. people in the department our men and women here about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we

have cases. make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the in the department that we're doing our work with integrity a white house correspondent kimberly heloc and says the boss unusual critique of trump has raised many questions it's enormously surprising it's very rare public criticism from one of the president's biggest defenders and so that's what makes it so on usual because donald trump is a president that while he doesn't offer it he demands loyalty we've seen others in his cabinet who have sort of broken ranks eventually quietly being dismissed sometimes not so quietly the former attorney general jeff sessions also the former chief of staff john kelly so there's a lot of speculation in washington right now about why william barr might be doing this is it to protect his own reputation were simply left to speculate but there is some thinking that perhaps this was coordinated and calculated given the fact that

william barr has seen the departure of 4 attorneys from the department of justice that he oversees as a result of that stone case and whether or not there's concern that more attorneys might leave and what that could do to the integrity of the department so there certainly is some concern but we're also watching very carefully to see what donald trump says in return because he often will still about these types of things for days and then lash out we do know that the president is scheduled to leave the white house later on this afternoon here in washington he does have the opportunity to speak to cameras whether or not he'll choose to respond to his attorney general publicly is still unclear. when a shot is a republican strategist and consultant chase says it's a highly unusual situation what we know right now is that attorney general bill bars words are that are expressing frustration he's frustrated that the president kind of won't keep his mouth shut but what's really tally is what barb will say and

i think you know where we are right now is a moment in which we have to be skeptical the president has just survived being removed by us and he's acquitted for all intensive purposes he's feeling rather emboldened and he takes to twitter when he's feeling confident strong and wants to get his point across so what we learned from his tweets is that he is going to operate how he always did as a private citizen and and as a candidate as somebody who's hands issuing the white house and of course somebody who's now producing reelection he wants to use his bully pulpit to show that he doesn't believe he's a he doesn't believe that the law is something that touches him he does believe there are and i think there are many general sense in terms of get me to say you know mr president it. in canada trains are of a standstill because of a blockade by protesters against a gas pipeline which is going to run through indigenous land the government's

urging a rapid solution as the cost of the nationwide demonstrations rises al-jazeera as they call it gauge reports. it may look like a small protest but groups like the scene ontario and all across canada have brought north america's 3rd largest rial network to a standstill protest is angry at the building of a gas pipeline have blocked trial lines for 6 successive days forcing c.n.n. rial to shut its network in the country's east hundreds of passenger and freight trains have been cancelled it's got to. be the last route to do it but this isn't we have to take the approved pop line owned by t.c. energy corps is planned to carry natural gas from dawson creek in british columbia southwest were a fine or a new key to matt for shipment to asian markets the pop line is central to a $40000000000.00 export project it also runs through traditional indigenous lands

of signed agreements where they don't have the authority of the greens they play the game that the province in canada played for years in nova scotia in canada's far east demonstrators block telephonic city hall prime minister justin trudeau has recognised the right to protest but he's pushing for a swift resolution industry groups are worried about the cost to canada's economy and are urging the restarting of train services i'm not here to advocate for a project i'm here to advocate for a process that make sure that we don't fail to allow canadians to be heard effectively through the examination fair and full of these types of data cations. if the pipeline outcry continues c.n.n. rial says temporary layoffs are possible nicola gage al-jazeera. we'll get

a weather update next on the news hour still to come marking a year of protests in algeria demonstrates is this a they feel betrayed by a lack of progress. journalists take to the streets in the philippines against government plans to shut down the country's largest t.v. network. and despite a lack of snow shortening the race the rani of sweden finally gets underway that's coming up a little later in sport the job. having off the cold blast of air that brought snow to baghdad and dropped the tensions and as an example things are slowly warming up here but it's a bit more start to come for the finals the syrian navy northern iraq in the next song that has been welcome to be honest but maybe not so much where you see these blue things these big thunderstorms running through turkey once again was the

forecast of snow still to come not widespread style but yet more snow to talk about than storms of rain that come through lebanon syria dancer was fos after i think is north and egypt where that no sleep reason eventually dropped temperatures down the valley of the kings not a lot but a bit more than you might expect but the chill that's the picture for north africa that's what's currently developing and the east and you know the result of that a northerly reason to eastern libya and egypt to the west nothing is relatively warm and about 90 degrees it's almost hot in the gambia deca being on the coast is only about $25.00 degrees or so was much hotter but week or 2 ago the heaviest rain though still far south is showing itself rather more in balawi and up in parts tanzania bodhran de for example and congo blue orange top thunderstorms are the big ones to the south of that still a few in south africa but again not many. but

. in an increasingly globalized interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment 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. video of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges in 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 is due to sions and the

international federation of journalists. to. it's good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to hit doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines u.s. officials say that they've reached an agreement with the taliban which could soon lead to the withdrawal of american troops in afghanistan a senior official at a security conference in munich told reporters that if the weeklong agreement is successful it could be followed by the signing of a more public a peace deal. china's government is ordering all people returning to the capital beijing quarantine themselves for 14 days to prevent the spread of the coronavirus

official support those who refuse will be punished. the syrian government helicopter has been shot down in the country's northwest state television says that all crew members on board were killed government forces are trying to retake the country's last rebel held territory. a source on that one of our top stories the corona virus outbreak dr mohammad is of the role of just of lancaster university and says that efforts to lock down the city of will hon were largely successful but the still pressure on the chinese authorities to do more. in the majority of the cases those been our own the word they are directly or indirectly associated with the law and order who bear provisions and because probably that was the reason that the majority of the efforts were really to contain and to isolate and to lock down the people in that groove ins and since the application of those approaches the what are the number of cases that we see. are in their own the word start to

decline and all those cases that appear afterward were through indirect route light from singapore or from other countries where in fact that people have transmitted the virus so overall it appear that the control of europe that was put in place they started to work and therefore the overall impact is decreasing day by day however as we have seen the number of cases are not declining within china so this also indicates that there is still a pressure on to the to the government authorities to really take a little more cautionary. you know scenario to controlling the infection within within the vulnerable population so there are still a lot to be done to really claim that all the control in the year that needed to be put in place are being placed because until we start significant decline in the number of cases we can't really say that all those are really up to the mark it was all smiles in cambodia as passion's as to some

a cruise ship has been turned away by 4 asian governments of affairs of the virus there are no confirmed cases among the more than 2000 people on board the west of them as way to a report from say who feel ports where the ship is docked. there was celebration and relief as passengers finally received would they were allowed to begin disembarking from the wish to damn a serum only a welcome in cambodia marks the end of a 2 week journey around asia as port up to portray rejected the ship's request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew was. fantastic we had a very good time considering the circumstances everything was very nice it's nice to be able to get home field family good but me with must say on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table to us well so we didn't suffer at all and we knew it was no ylvis at book. cambodia's prime minister who flew in for the occasion he's consistently downplayed concerns about coronavirus and did so again

on the dock in sihanoukville when other government said no to the ship he said yes and he wasn't about to let this opportunity slip by. people asked if there are people on the ship that have coronavirus would allow them to dock i can respond very clearly that if there are people with the virus on the ship i would allow them to dock as soon as possible but there were no confirmed cases on board blood taken from 20 passengers who were unwell when the ship arrived in cambodian waters on thursday tested negative these are among the 1st passengers to disembark and sit 4th on land for the 1st time in 2 weeks the whole process of getting everybody off the ship is expected to take around 3 days so for many on board the frustrating waits will continue the plight of the westerdam was another blow to the cruise ship industry which is being hit hard by coronavirus its own a carnival is the largest cruise operator in the world and says its share price may

tumble this year by more than a half because of cancellations it also learns the diamond princess which is docked in new york a hummer japan with thousands quarantined on board and many confirmed infections among passengers and crew experts say the potential for transmission of the virus on a ship is high so they're not surprised the industry is suffering so if you are in a confined environment like in a cruise ship or in a train then if you are exposed to like you know within the family or with your next to the cabin of the infected person then you can get infected for those on the wish to damn a bizarre cruise around asia is over ending with a welcome and a farewell in cambodia they'll never forget wayne hey al jazeera center phil. journalists in the philippines are demonstrating against attempts to close down the country's largest t.v. network a government lawyer filed a petition to cancel the franchise of a.b.s.

c.b.s. corporation on monday the network has been a fierce critic of president bush drink go to take out a serious jungle island dog was at the rally. they're calling this the red friday protests hundreds of journalists and activists are taking to the streets right outside basically the main headquarters of the biggest media network in the country calling on the public to support and for the government basically to respect the country's and the people's right to press freedom and freedom of speech over the last few years the charity has basically threatened to shut down and not bring you the franchise of a.b. a c.b.s. he has accused it of bias and impartiality and for not be airing his campaign videos during the 2016 elections now activists and journalists they remain defiant and they remain committed to doing their very best in providing and reporting the very best possible of information to the public it's another tool really.

the best. somebody. even. most come to know most logical. kumba and as always we bring no observers say the philippine government and the president in particular has grown intolerant of critical media and dissent people say basically that the efforts of the government our calibrated attempts to him to mediate the press now this is not the 1st time that the b.s.c. beyond has been threatened it was shut down during the martial law years of former president ford in a market and was reopened after the people coward revolution happened since then maybe a c.b.i. has grown to become the biggest media network in the country covering every single . important piece of history over the last few decades no journalist say they can sing you to remain committed to reporting the truth and they bear basically calling

on the government to remain committed to its mandate basically to respect freedom of speech and their right to information in algeria it's the 1st anniversary of the beginning of the mass movement but the country's longest serving leader president. was removed in april protest as a still the landing freedom and democracy as well as the removal of those they call the ruling elite victoria he reports. every friday for the last year they've been demanding an overhaul of algeria's entire political establishment. many algerian say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government. algerian political crisis began last february when president after lizzie's beautifully announced he wanted a 5th term in office the 82 year old had ruled for 20 years but was rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke and 20. 2 weeks of protests calling for him to step down the army

withdrew its support algeria's longest serving president eventually resigned the speaker of the upper house of parliament up till cardiff and salah was appointed interim president that faced a daunting task. the replacement was accused of corruption trading and poor governance and seen by many algerians as belonging to the same elite in salah cool for unity as well as transparent and fair elections but discontent continued with protesters determined to push for genuine change. the presidential election of originally shed jews from last july finally happened in december and with boycotted by many algerians millions described the election as a sham and less than 40. the scent of the 24000000 eligible voters took pot. the election was won by abdul majid to be

a former prime minister the military backed interim government hoped he would end months of protests safe that hasn't happened the block lasy the local officials are still in place the in the fight against corruption did not go far enough or deep enough you know julia in the economic social problem of student does. 58 years after independence from france many algerian say they're still fighting for freedom they want a clean sweep of the political establishment and a national unity government to bring democracy victoria gate and be out there. the president of the roost says that he's facing increasing pressure from moscow to join russia in a unified state for 2 months russia has cut all supplies to better routes which relies on its neighbor 80 percent of its energy president alexander lukashenko says it's part of russia's push to merge the countries look at shanghai who faces

re-election this year and has governed for 2 decades says that he'll find alternative markets for oil. turkey's president has expressed solidarity with pakistan's stance on indian administered kashmir. has been holding talks with pakistan's prime minister in non-con in islamabad addressing parliament said that he stood with the people of kashmir india revoked the disputed regions or thomas status last august. a court in istanbul has acquitted a renowned turkish novelist on charges of membership of an armed group earlier one was arrested in 2016 as possible investigation into alleged links to outlawed kurdish fighters she was among 2 dozen employees who worked for the pro kurdish goonda newspaper which was shut down 3 years ago by the government the case a spot of concern among rights groups who advocated for press freedom in turkey. iraqi women have to fight a call by a leading cleric to stop protesting alongside men. is calling for the segregation

of men and women because of nudity alcohol drinking and illegal drug taking and mixed sex antigovernment rallies of 0 as rob matheson reports from baghdad. iraqi women standing together but not standing alongside men this is how the leading shia cleric knocked out of solder says iraqis should protest against government corruption high unemployment and u.s. troops based in the flooded market or cider is not against women protesting but he is against some illegitimate acts that happen in the protest camps. us artist says protests should be segregated he tweeted the demonstrations have become mired in nudity promiscuity drunkenness and drug use some of all saddam's female supporters on this march in baghdad sutter city a green national shattuck now feel what we've been protesting since october with

our songs on brothers according to the ways accepted by islam would protest and create a revolution but within limits on values which are accepted by our religion. us and our lead armed groups against us forces during the 2003 iraq war now he leads a shia political bloc in iraq's parliament. first backed anti-government rallies when the reignited in tolbert but when demonstrators refused to accept muhammad a lovely assad as favorite to succeed the current prime minister abdullah abdullah mocked the also to stop supporting the anti-government protests as part of military forces are accused of turning on the protesters they were originally protecting. assad as demand for gender segregation in protest was largely ignored in rallies in baghdad on thursday by men and women who marched together. after his last tweet. i thought it was positive because no one responded to it all the people see

segregation between gente is as an old idea which leads to more problems and submissions. several weeks ago my daughter called for on the 1000000 march but the numbers which turned up to that one and nothing like what it hoped for the numbers of protests generally have been dwindling since they began back in october but people are going to be watching very carefully about the numbers who turn up at this protest in case it might give some sort of integration about whether or not the shia clerics influence in iraq is changing. men and women who protest in iraq say they share a common purpose in opposing the government and demanding change but they seem divided about how they should make their voices heard rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad and mexico government leaders are being accused of giving only half hearted support to families of people killed in the drug cartel war as al-jazeera is not a hollow reports now from that a crew was heartbroken families say that they're forced to rely on volunteers to

search for the remains of their relatives. a search party has assembled on the grounds of a catholic church in vera cruz most of the volunteers of the family members of missing persons nationwide more than 60000 people have disappeared since the start of the war on drugs in 2006 most are believed to be the big domes of criminal gangs or corrupt authorities there in recent years it's become commonplace for the families of the disappeared to participate in organized searches for possible clandestine gravesites. the recent discovery of a human bone fragment in this field means other human remains could be hidden nearby. might yet that is hello there is traveled nearly 2000 kilometers from her home in sonora to join the search. so this is one of. the sometimes for a family member being given just a small piece of bone can make them feel better because they'll know that that's

their family that fragment can mean some months parents or children can finally have peace. false alarms are not uncommon. but a few volunteers like it have gotten quite good at spotting clues. he says he can't remember exactly how many bodies have helped to uncover in that time i mean yes they are not any neil the families of the missing that have learned and are now teaching the government how to conduct a search these families don't have forensics training but we're the ones find new bodies this should be an embarrassment to the mexican government. there are fishel observers and police keeping watch over the search brigade but it's the volunteers digging holes and sifting through the soil that seem to be doing most of the work. one of the most common things that we've heard from members of the search brigade is that it's the mexican government that should be out here in the heat and the sun searching for human remains and if it is again i guess this is the 5th time

a national brigade has gathered for this kind of search and it's the largest one to date. by the end of the day authorities arrived to examine the scene and determine whether or not this site will be counted among the more than $600.00 clandestine graves discovered in better coups in recent years madrid up a little. bit accuse. the u.s. has blacklisted trying because on the chief chavez for alleged human rights abuses of 10 a general is accused of extradition extrajudicial killings in 2009 during sri lanka's civil war rights groups say that some 40000 deaths tunnels or massacred as government forces seized the predominantly of the sanctions boss over his family members from entering the united states. a controversial project in south korea is taking virtual reality to new lengths while becoming the subject of fierce debate the studio involved has worked to reunite

a grieving mother with her deceased doorstop laurie chalons reports. well. in the 21st century ghosts do exist oh. oh my. after 4 years she can see her again. she can hear her again. but as hard as she tries jang song khan's touch her dead daughter now you're on for this is a digital recreation of the girl who died from leukemia in 2016 age 7 just pixels in a headset and a voice in some headphones. meeting her daughter's avatar has been a complex and deeply emotional experience for this grieving mother i say to you if now your own life should now be 11 years old and it's heartbreaking to see the time

is stopped at the age of 7 going to critical but i was so happy to see how that way . the reunion has been made possible by advances in virtual reality is that one thing is what i was another one and then people often think that technology is code we decided to participate in this project to see if the technology can comfort and warm people's minds when it is used for people in. the south korean studio used photos and her mother's memories of now yawn and the movements of a child actor. it was filmed in a 2 part documentary for south korean broadcaster n.b.c. called meeting new the film's been a big hit but producers have had to defend themselves against accusations they've emotionally manipulated a distraught family viewer ratings. and we thought about the ways in which people can make their lost family members if they were to meet what can they talk about what do they want to talk about this is the biggest motivation of this project jang

says her last wish was to tell now you're on she loved her and has never forgotten . rory chalons how does iraq. a new record high temperature has been set for the 2nd time in a week almost 21 degrees celsius was recorded for the 1st time ever that's hotter currently as in madrid in spain or dallas in texas florida reports the polar desert if antarctica is the coldest place on earth but its northern peninsula is among the fastest warming regions in the world brazilian scientists on say more island off the coast of the peninsula say they've never seen a temperature as high in the topped. $20.00 degrees celsius exceeds 20 degrees for the 1st time the island's temperatures

a usually far lower ranging between minus $21.00 and $1.00 degree celsius but scientists warn there's not enough data to predict whether it's just an unusual summer weather event the record appears to be likely associated with what we call a regional fire an event a rapid warming of air coming down a slope or mountain scientists say warming temperatures have course 9 out of 10 places in the region to shrink and we know that the ice sheet is beginning to lose mass that's me means it's not saying and it no order is contributing to say the rise and it's doing that with an exhilarating right and we expect there to continue to the southwest the same or island is the pine island glacier. their european space agency satellite images show an iceberg breaking off this week it measures more than 300 square kilometers that's almost the size of malta before it shatters

into pieces climate scientists mock drinkwater says the daily dot history reveals the dramatic pace at which climate is redefining the face of antarctica he's among many scientists who warn global warming could melt ice sheets across the south pole . the paris climate accord signed by $196.00 nations in 2015 m. to limit global warming to one and a half degrees rise by the end of the century but many fear the damage already done may be irreversible. al-jazeera. just ahead on the news in sports the n.b.a. player emulating his a limping gold medal winning system with this. gentle behavior but i still.

get talksport his job adrian thank you we'll start with some breaking news in the last few minutes european football's governing body wife has banned english premier league side munches city from club competitions for the next season's next season they were also been fined $32000000.00 in a state when you say the club committing serious breaches of its financial bulls well let's talk now to our sports correspondent lee wellings he joins us on the phone what else can you tell us. well it sounds like a very dramatic development but he has been counting and it's been coming for some time a collision cosc between mine just

a city one of the richest clubs in the world and your wife who wanted to really get tough with financial fair play regulations and i insist that mine should the city how can the broken down but trying to find ways to suck i'm not a guy the rules to try and bend the rules and i really have tried to type this tough line but of course a cheery abounded sounds extremely dramatic because we're talking about one of the 5 2 contenders for the champions league not the europa league not playing off of this season of course that ability to attract players that ability to have someone like guardiola in charge of dollars around the mrs to asian munches just achieve weren't expecting this to come their own way he released a comp statement to fight they're disappointed but not surprised by today's announcement by the lake adjudicatory chamber now vicious will inevitably end up with so many of these big issues in school during the course of all the charging

for sport in switzerland that will be the hump the skin type place and it will be resolved on a white bunch of the city booster which tell you how they rule as the next 2 seasons but in time fall not many season to start so it's something that people want to be resolved quickly but it also sends a message to old clubs like cole and find ways of suck another guy using this system i call found ways around it which sponsorship deals that all employees of wall chile the whole point of trying to find an even playing field for football is a new life i have been coming from and to cities to some calling all rightly wanting things to bring you up to date with that breaking news on your way to banning in this premier league 5 month city from all the club competition for the next season when it's like one of. oldest was in england is also heading for liquidation barry barry of c. which was founded in 1905 were expelled from the football league in august over the

club's 6 and a half $1000000.00 debt now the club's owner is defaulted on a plan to help settle them egyptian sides amalek have won one of africa's biggest club football competitions the caf super cup playing here in caps all the egyptians were too strong for to museum club esperance winning 31 the south crowd barely had time to find their seats before confederation cup holders the maalik opened the scoring in the 2nd minute to his income had their chance to equalise in the 50 years minute after the v.a. all there had been a handball in the box and they didn't waste it. double from. sharing runs with the runners up for a 2nd straight. liverpool manager you can call it says no decision has been made on whether mohamed salah will play for egypt at this year's olympics in tokyo solow was named in egypt's provisional squad but if liverpool give him permission to go to japan they'll be without him for the 1st few weeks of the next premier league

season they've already complained about losing players to the africa cup of nations next january we cannot discuss it really because we don't know anything about it and be. on not a lot about it actually but we heard about the things they said. matter of. what he said but. we have to get in contact all they have to conduct last night with ac speaking of the lympics the i.o.c. remains in close contact with the world health organization about the corona virus outbreak they say there's no need for a backup plan for tokyo 2020. the advice that we've received externally from w.h.o. is that it's not a case for any contingency plans of canceling the guise of moving the games. you asked me to go through most likely at the i.o.c. end and we continue to work closely with w.i. chair and we continue also to. monitor

particularly the chinese that will be coming here the n.b.a.'s number one pick resigned williamson had his best scoring night since his knee debut last month but was overshadowed by a player not knowing not mine for a shooting skills williamson score 32 for the new orleans pelicans as they took on the oklahoma city thunder. at the moment of the game came right on the whole time but the new zealander stephen admin's having a pop from long range. and you nailed it incredibly this is the 1st 3 pointer of his career his kind of many runs in the family is just a valerie is a 2 time olympic gold medalist in itself but it's all right that is like a sport for now will feel later adrian germany thanks dave time for us head to how to have a talk colleagues in london help bring you up to speed with the latest in just a few moments fire in a mosque in the hot seat we'll see again by foot. 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 railings and 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

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the world so much of what we use in college that matter to you. the u.s. says the taliban has agreed to a 7 day reduction in violence which could lead to a u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program china reveals that 6 medical staff of died and more than 1700 have been infected with the new coronavirus this is the city of war on enters its 4th week on the coronavirus locked out with residents keeping their distance as they queue for food. also a syrian military helicopter is.