al-jazeera. get into how with the al-jazeera news are coming up. libyan warlord culliver have to use forces for rocket sunday tripoli ports as the warring sides resume talks in geneva to save their tattered truth's. airstrikes hit more hospitals schools and displacement camps in northwest syria prompting new un questions about war crimes. images of nurses having their head shaved highlights the intense pressure

on the frontline of china's coronavirus battle i'm in london with the top stories from europe including some of the most intense fighting in ukraine since the peak of the conflict means one soldier on the peace process race. and i'm far a smile after all the day's sport including a reality check for the new australian open champion american 50 a candidate loses her 1st deputy to one match following her triumph in melbourne. but when talks resumes in geneva earlier to get a lasting cease fire in the bia the un envoy said he was feeling some mystic but 2200 kilometers away smoke has been rising above libya's capital further threatening the existing truce that's on most accounts is hanging by

a thread diplomat scared sir james bays begins our coverage. the ports in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general have to us forces carried out the indiscriminate strikes about the same time that 5 of his representatives sat down at the u.n. in geneva for talks with 5 from the g.n.a.t. the internationally recognized government. it's now 10 months since general have to appended the international community's peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met the u.n. secretary general and tonio good terra's who is visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons of continue to pour into the country despite this the secretary general's envoy is keen to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan

has never left the track it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i better have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition the reason next week is important as mr salamis ambitious plan to bring representatives of all the libyan factions here to geneva those talks supposed to start on the 26th james outages era of the united nations in geneva. the one head is in tripoli. once again forces loyal to the world a lot of highly for have to violate the fire on tuesday they targeted the main port in the capital tripoli with the civil rockets and employees of the port say that you have been trying to move the tankers in the port loaded with gas and fuel to

prevent an invader mental disaster from happening due to the multiple attacks by. forces these attacks happened while the 5 plus 5 military commission from both foreign factions is meeting in geneva 2 in an effort to fix the ceasefire and the head of the united nations support the mission in libya. just spoke stating that they have documented $150.00 violations of the cease fire since both warring factions stated that they are adhering to the ceasefire on the 12th of january the situation remains very tense around the port and the government of national accord is accusing have to this forces of committing war crimes war crimes by targeting civilian facilities the government says that have the us forces have been targeting

also other civilian facilities including the only operational airport in the capital city airport. it's been a long diplomatic rules up to the negotiations in geneva in january germany who said talks in berlin also with the goal of turning the fragile truce into a permanent cease fire an agreement was drafted but what if i have to refuse to sign it 2018 have to and the leader of the libya's u.n. recognized government fires are met in italy but no agreements were reached and a year earlier french president emmanuel mccall who sincere arjen have to paris they agreed to find a political solution but nothing came of it well let's get more now from jason pak he's the founder of libya analysis l.l.c. a political affairs think tank and joins us on skype from in the u.s. state of new jersey good to get your thoughts on this the these talks because there

have been lots of attempts at diplomacy lots of attempts at peace talks even the u.n. are trying to cobble something together but it appears that the sides aren't interested you think these peace talks are predator. i would just look at it as the libya conflict has 2 layers one is the international diplomatic layer and the other is the fighting on the ground and you need to desegregate them they're not really connected so what's called a ceasefire the russian turkish january 12th ceasefire is not really about stopping fighting on the ground neither is the fight commission it's about establishing diplomatic diplomatic momentum so yes you could say that they're too early because each other is a blanket arms embargo that's actually enforced and sanctions on violators. all of what's coming out of these talks is going to be just hot air ever in terms of the process or having these talks to you think the right people are talking to the

right interlocutors because you mentioned there's this arms embargo which frankly isn't being implemented and previous attempts to get the actual warring factions to come around the table are simply not working so where do you think the emphasis needs to be do you think it needs to be the international partners the ones who are not imposing these arms and bar course or do you think that the focus needs to be on the actual warring sides. well that's a great question and you clarified the matter these days because there is no willingness of the coalition that supports the russian the coalition that supports after to actually have a truce you need to help create a mutually hurting stalemate and the way to do that is only at the international level and the domestic libyan actors don't need to come in at this stage so you need to do is have concrete in forcible penalties to punish those who violate the

cease fire and yes there's been concrete steps and we need to be slightly better about rewarding the actors who've made those steps so the e.u. active surveillance mission that was announced that's a step in the right direction but it's meaningless unless it has concrete penalties in other words yes if we catch the u.a.e. flying jets into benita and benghazi and then if we catch the turks with a naval deployment of arms the sanctions are going to be imposed in a multilateral way by the u.s. u.k. blah blah blah blah blah and until we see those sanctions being imposed on those who violate the arms embargo then it's all just words and has no meaning and in terms of this attack itself it comes as various parties are meeting in geneva other than being rather embarrassing what's the make them what what sort of message do you think is being sent by attacking this port.

well that's a very sophisticated message because after is attacked a cook islands flag but turkish owned that's all and his narrative that turkish invasion forces are coming and that there's a needle out of an occupation of libya has been playing very well in the libyan social media space so yes he may be seen to violate the truce but he gets a lot of media points for how he's done it what's scary is that this is an escalation which we haven't seen to date. in all of the civil war over the last 5 years there's never been a naval attack on tripoli port so i wonder if this is like the frog in the boiling water because the water only gets gradually hot the frog never jumps out so although this is a major escalation it's one in a pattern of oh ever so slightly more escalations and is the frog ever going to

jump out meaning is the international community going to say no this was too much now and we'll really going to have concrete penalties and maybe have to has very sophisticated lee calculated this that the international community won't act even though when attacked on tripoli poor is actually a causus belli for a real international war and should necessitate a response we'll have to wait and see what kind of response comes from it but for now jason patric great to get your thoughts and your analysis thank you always a pleasure. cruel beyond belief that the un human rights chief is describing a major russian backed syrian government's offensive michelle bestially says schools and hospitals are being targeted in the last remaining rebel held areas she's calling for the immediate creation or humanitarian corridors to allies civilians to escape the violence. reports from the turkish syrian border.

football man had burnt is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a bomb a key in the east of where it was taken over by government forces the building is unfinished and the family has little for nature the cannot afford to buy a stove to heat the place. and we pray someone will defend us please help us to kill our children they targets cause schools we cannot send our children to schools anymore they are bombing the area nonstop it's insane as government forces close in has already backed the tractor outside he's ready if the situation gets worse. i have seen hopeless faces crying out of fear and humiliation i am asking the arabs and the muslims where are you why are you silent come here and see the women and children living in the open people are on the run

they leave it live hoping for a better place sam and his family have just arrived from the outer norman the rebel stronghold south of it live the city was a couple should by the syrian army 2 weeks ago a shelling an air strikes flared many civilians escaped. on one day we counted $400.00 rockets fired at the city in addition to airstrikes many were killed we fled under the cover of darkness it was so chaotic many were looking for loved ones whom they've lost track of during the escape this is how more than and the outskirts of aleppo look like. long lines of syrians biled on tracks their destination is the border with turkey they join hundreds of thousands of people who have gathered in small areas and empty fields hoping to cross into turkey if syrian government troops continue their advance the. live might turn into

the worst confrontations is the start of the conflict 9 years ago the serial army is determined the bubble's must surrender but they are defiant civilians have nowhere to go and if forced into the hands of the government they're likely to pay a price the millions who live in the province who are stranded near the border with turkey will have to abandon the dream they've carried for many years a syria without bashar assad has about a 0. on turkey's border with syria well earlier i spoke to mark cutts the u.n. deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the syrian crisis i asked him how worried he is about the un's inability to stop the bloodshed of course we worried we are not just worried we are shocked we are horrified at what is going on this is you know i've been doing this work for more than 30 years i've worked in many war zones

around the world and i've never seen a situation where the international community seems to be so powerless to stop a massive military onslaught on those on the civilian population in this way so yes something needs to be done our humanitarian leaders have been briefing the security council repeatedly over the last year warning of this and we've been calling for a complete cessation of hostilities our separate general has called for the cessation of hostilities that's what we need there's no other option to protect these people at the moment. afghanistan's leader ashraf ghani has been declared the winner over last year's presidential election it will be his 2nd term in office after winning just over 50 percent of the vote the election was held last september but results were 2 lanes after allegations of vote rigging forced a recount. more still to come only use our including us judges hold an

emergency meeting to discuss president donald trump's commentry a ballots a sensitive case. in the cayman islands the u.s. switzerland and find out who else to talk with a list of countries helping the super rich by it's their money. and screw have more on the draw a very nice survived a huge crash at the daytona 500 for a we'll have all the details for you in sports. where both sides in ukraine's conflicts have blamed each other after a violent clash for more on that let's cross to sue turton in arlen's a new center thanks hala as ukraine's president says they have a fighting in the eastern donbass region will not hamper efforts to end the conflict with russian backed separatists the flare up has left one ukrainian

soldier dead and several others wounded in some of the worst fighting seen in the region since peace talks were held in december president saleh may as a landscape is says the violence was an attempt to disrupt the peace process a 2nd round of talks is expected in berlin in the coming months. we have a powerful army provocations happen but the army responded firmly the situation is completely under control because of the show we are confident that this provocation will not change the course towards ending the conflict as one can only sit at the negotiation table with a strong army. because forward is to go ahead and stop the war and reach peace. the new clashes happened at ukrainian positions near 2 villages northwest of the city of the hanse in the east of the country they lie on the 500 kilometer long front line between the russian backed separatists and ukrainians which was agreed

as part of the protocol in 2015 they also aligned 10 kilometers inside one of 3 pilot zones which both sides agreed to withdraw from late last year more than 13000 people have been killed since fighting began 6 years ago but there had been recent hopes of deescalation after the russian and ukrainian presidents met in paris in december and agreed on prisoner swaps and phased troop withdrawals dr andrew fox hole is the director of the russia and eurasia studies center at the henry jackson society and joins me now here in the studio thanks very much for coming in just 1st of all pick up on the president's sort of remarks are saying no no this really doesn't pushes off the peace process this just shows we have a strong army but i'm sure we can just keep going in the hope that they can deescalate any conflicts do you think putin sees it that way i think the president . and president putin have very different understandings of what's happening in

eastern ukraine president selenski during his campaign to become president of ukraine when he was elected last year made a big play on the fact that for him victory in his eyes would involve meaningful cease fire and exchange of political prisoners between russia and ukraine president putin by contrast simply. seeks to maintain russian control over the donbass while it is within the territorial state of ukraine so the 2 presidents a very different they seek to achieve very very different things from a resolution to the conflict and that clearly puts them in a degree of tension right now and i understand president bush has put a new envoy in which direction will that push it how it will even fluence that the balance there is at the moment you're quite right so what happened within the last couple of weeks is that president putin has appointed dmitri cause envoy to quote unquote envoy to the dom busts the replacement of so-called who would in a sense been president putin's point man to the region since 2014

a cause like it is a pragmatist only seen as a pragmatist but he's also somebody who dealt with moldova in the early 2000 and really push the federalization it's sort of a de facto adjustment to ukrainians authority moldova constitution on chissano and the might be reasonable to expect that to me because it might do something similar with with ukraine now i suppose the key thing people in that particular region want to know is is this a sign of escalating or is this just a friction that's been going on obviously since even the cease fire was agreed well the key thing that comes out of today's that it reminds us that there is a war being waged in europe the unity the war as you said earlier in which 13000 people have died it is a war that is now one of the most bloodiest or the most bloody in europe since the water company the fragmentation of yugoslavia in the early 1990 s. and it is also now one of the longest running wars in europe in the best part of a century it's also a war that from its very beginning russia has demonstrated that it is it is able to

control the people who are waging it but also the intensity of when fighting takes place and where the times are fossil thank you so much for that. the london based bank h.s.b.c. says it will x. or around $35000.00 jobs worldwide reducing its workforce by 15 percent after a significant fall in profits while announcing the cuts the company issued a warning about the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in asia the bank reported a 33 percent fall in pretax profit for 2019 and aims to make 4 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of cost cuts in 2020 by 2022 h.s.b.c. currently operates in more than 60 countries in north america europe the middle east and asia and employs more than 40000 people in the u.k. . public transport has been brought to a standstill in the greek capital by staff striking against pension reforms around $10000.00 people marched through athens angry at reforms including encouraging

employees to work for longer they say the proposal which has been submitted to parliament will drive pensioners into poverty pension reforms is a contentious issue in greece which is how the decade of international bailouts and austerity measures. ireland's coast guard house warn the public to stay away from a large cargo ship which washed up after a large storm the 77 meter vessel was abandoned in the atlantic ocean over a year ago washed up on the coast of county cork in the aftermath of storm dennis which cause widespread damage across the u.k. and ireland over the last few days the boat called the ulta was there by its crew author muta in september 28th team from london in the next bulletin for now expect in doha. thanks lee now the u.s. justice department found attorney general are in a growing disputes over the trial of president donald trump's longtime advisor

boccia stone the federal judge's association is concerned about trump's commentry of running the trial and whether it amounts to an intervention where white house correspondent can buy the whole cuts is live for us in d.c. i can really just how unusual is it to see churches weighing in on a case that doesn't involve them it's highly unusual but it shows just how concerned many in the legal community are for what they say is sort of a growing sense of alarm about the president's involvement in a number of legal cases you take for example the case involving his friend roger stone who is said to be sentenced we now know on thursday just last week when those recommendations were put forward the president criticizing them on twitter resulting in his own attorney general reducing those recommendations that has outraged the legal community and just today there is also concern about the actions

of a pardon by this president for another one of his friends a owner of a football team here in the united states who had pled guilty of financial fraud getting the presidential pardon there is this sense that the president since his acquittal on impeachment charges has basically been flouting the law and what not just the judges association is saying but also more than 2000 former department of justice officials are saying is that they believe that the president's actions essentially run counter to equal justice under the law ok kember whole life for us there in washington d.c. for thank you very much indeed. china sensor for disease control has released what it's described as the most detailed coronavirus studies since the outbreak began diseases based 144000 patients the census says as of february

11th the vast majority of infections almost easy one percent are classified as mild 30.8 percent were severe while under 5 percent were considered critical the fatality raises little bird it increases sharply with age the highest 50 percent is among patients over 80 we want china's government is implementing ever tougher measures to deal with the outbreak more than 800 people have died and 70000 are infected sarah clarke reports. officials go door to door in a city wide sweep in one hand to identify anyone infected with the virus 10 more quarantine centers are being set up in districts in the city they offer 11 and a half 1000 beds but those showing mild symptoms the number of people infected outside the epicenter of the outbreak may be falling but inside here by province the situation is still serious more than 50000 cases have been confirmed there you

go shoot a woman children that being the and that there are still a large number of severe cases in and there are also some objective reasons like the lack of emergency care facilities and insufficient pressure of oxygen supplies . one of where hands most senior doctors meaning has now died after contracting the corona virus more than 3000 health workers have also been infected. medical teams from the guangdong province and tidbit and now are being sent to the city to assist staff struggling to treat the high numbers of patients across china hospitals are also expanding clinics and opening up new centers to ease the pressure across the country but it is about then don't do it in response to the potential epidemic we have activated the hospital facilities that we built with the shanghai public health clinical center back in 2004 and we've renovated around $200.00 reserve beds for emergency use on tuesday china announced it would exempt

tariffs on nearly $700.00 us goods from the beginning of march that's intended to avoid shortages of products including pork beef soybeans and crude oil the fallout from this outbreak is being felt across asia with some countries describing it as an economic emergency south korea's president has flagged new measures to cushion the financial impact so too has hong kong as a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon a means sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. thousands of nurses mainly women are paying a very petty personal price on the front lines of the outbreak as they are hoarding explains. the faces of the women fighting corona virus are trending online the virus is taking a physical toll on medical staff in china many have deep blinds on their faces from surgical masks digging into their skin some hospital staff and even wearing adult

diapers to save time from taking bathroom breaks on we bow a social media platform in china a topic called sisters go fight the virus we've got your back has reached over 228000000 views one organization has even raise money to provide the female nurses with 180000 sanitary pads however one volunteer said those donations are only helping a 3rd of the women others are cutting their hair to avoid cross infection and to cut down on the time it takes to put on and take off their protective suits this video went viral posted by the chinese newspaper guns who daily it shows 15 women getting their ponytails cut off before being sent to aids patients in rwanda some of them were crying they were hailed as heroes in headlines but the move sparked outrage online with people calling it unnecessary and sexist one user said it's cruel and asked why do people need to cry to become heroes the original video has

since been deleted there are campaigns to help these nurses some are taking to social media to ask for others to provide the nurses with meals other patients say they wouldn't have made it through quarantine without help from the medical team and when it got worse i really thought i was going to die but the doctors did not give up on me and the nurses were on hand every day i could feel that my condition was getting better day by day i feel so good and i want to say thank you to the medical workers for their care and love thank you so much these nurses are at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus emergency and they do it at great personal risk. well it's more still to come only news hour including the escalating protests against the pipeline in canada including a rail book case causing nationwide destruction. on the wife of the cc's prime minister appears in court in connection with the murder of the former 1st lady bus since sports liverpool get ready to return to the stadium where they won last

season's european champions league. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where we have been talking about storm dennis over the last 4 or 5 days and we're still going to be seeing some rain out here towards the sets with the storm system right there a trailing front down across parts of central europe and for the u.k. though we're going to see a break here on tuesday going into wednesday but unfortunately as we go towards later wednesday we are going to be seeing more rain in the forecast that's coming in from the atlantic and you can see here in our forecast map by wednesday afternoon into the evening time it is going to be northern ireland ireland as well as up here towards scotland they were going to see more rain coming into play there now the cold front is going to be trailing down pushing through parts of the u.k. as we go towards thursday that front will move through parts of london as we go

towards thursday afternoon the good news is we will see a break coming in as we go towards thursday evening so the rain is going to be ending it's really going to be about a 36 hour event of rain as we go through the next couple of days better conditions here on thursday with london at about 11 degrees there down towards the southeast though we are going to be seeing a persistent air of low pressure bring some rain across much of the areas for istanbul the rain's going to continue here on thursday and as we go towards friday we are going to be seeing a little bit better conditions by the afternoon with a temperature of about 10 and overnight lows at about 6 degrees. an estimated 100000 lives cruelly ended over a century ago. a distant past not to the descendants of the sawtooth. a tale of colonialism and racial supremacy unravels in the quest for justice and

recognition of the sacrifices of tribal people and then maybe. the skulls of my people a witness documentary on al-jazeera. australia's on the christian edge of fire season has killed more than a 1000000000 animals. one o one east investigates a wild one of them urgency. on al-jazeera. and all the parliamentary election it will intensify rivalries within its political establishment but ducked the escalating tensions a big us i continued protest with the results point to a new direction for next year's presidential election join us for coverage from that far as a one vote on al-jazeera. the .

this is al-jazeera could come out of the headlines this hour u.n. human rights chief says syrian government and russian forces appear to be targeting hospitals and schools in the northwest deliberately $900000.00 people have been displaced since december as the army and its allies fight to take back the last rebel held strongholds. or the truth after us forces have been shelling the ports in tripoli as talks resume in geneva to try and same. the tattered in libya's cease fire the u.n. envoy says he's so what's a mistake or making progress. in afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has been declared the winner of the 29000 election with just over 50 percent of the votes cast results from september's election which in later after allegations of vote rigging forced recounts. by the boy scouts of america one of the largest youth

organizations in the u.s. has filed for bankruptcy the group says it's to ensure a compensation for sexual abuse victims last year it was revealed that more than 12000 children has allegedly been abused while taking part in boy scouts of cities the stuff more than 7800 suspected paedophiles was to schools last month well the boy scouts of america was founded in 1910 and has chapters in every us states and close ties to the churches and other civic groups and at its peak in the 1970 s. the scouts of more than 4000000 members which we need is a 5 and 21 years olds those numbers have dwindled to approximately 2200000 today. well joining me now from seattle to discuss this in more detail is jason arma an attorney and partner at the law firm representing more than

300 of the alleged sex abuse victims good to have you with us or in the news are you representing the victims see your regard this bankruptcy as a victory of sorts for your clients. yeah. i guess it's a win and a bit of a loss for our clients it's a win because the boy scouts are finally on some level acknowledging responsibility for thousands of children being sexually abused over the past almost century now so on some level it's a victory for our clients. but on the other hand most of our clients they want fair compensation for what they went through but more importantly they they want to know what happened they want the truth to come out and they want to know who knew what when did they know it and how did this happen to them so the boy scouts making you know general statements now that they made some mistakes. really for individual

clients is not enough you know they want the boy scouts to acknowledge that in their particular case they made a big mistake and that big mistake is what led to their abuse so it's bittersweet for our clients in terms of the organization itself i mean the boy scouts of america this is a it's the american icon really it's not necessarily sheltering in stores but what do you think this development means for the the the group itself and the legacy at least. you know it well we'll see i mean a bankruptcy in the united states it doesn't necessarily mean that they shut down and that's really important for people to understand it also doesn't mean the boy scouts don't have any assets to compensate people what it means is that they know there are so many claims that they're facing now and that they may face in the future but they want to bankruptcy judge one judge to basically take all of the claims and and then decide what's

a fair way to take the boy scouts assets and distribute them to abuse survivors to your question what does this mean for them in the future of this this american icon i don't know i mean i don't think the bankruptcy is going to be what causes the boy scouts to shut down the catholic bankruptcy there's been about 20 bankruptcies in the united states involving kept the catholic church. all of those entities emerged and continue to operate so i think the bigger issue is for the boy scouts is what it means for their reputation i mean boy scouts the name is equivalent to american pie right it is it is an american icon. now what you're seeing is people are finally understanding with this bankruptcy that not every scout leader was was a good guy right that that's their brand that's their reputation. and so i think that's the concern as parents today understanding now this big problem they have

and whether or not they want their kids to keep being in scouts on the other hand is is as you've mentioned their numbers are already doing right the scouts today you know a lot of parents don't necessarily want their kids to be in the the little uniforms right in obeying left and right like military right that's they really haven't evolved so if they don't survive i don't think it's going to be because this bankruptcy because of the the financial side of it i think it's just that they haven't evolved over time and they're just they've kind of lost touch with reality or society is today ok jason the kids get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us live from seattle to discuss this case. the indigenous groups in canada are protesting against the construction of a natural gas pipeline they've been blocking key rail lines across the country for nearly 2 weeks no c. and will the 3rd largest rail network in north america announced it would shut its

eastern track network following the protests prime minister justin trudeau recognize their right to protest but urged those involved to resolve the situation with trust and respect swirl the plant roots runs through traditional indigenous land sea carry natural gas from dawson creek in the canadian province of british columbia so of course the refinery near kitimat from there it will be shipped to asian markets let's get more now from alan fischer he joins us live from a thai and another in ontario province alan just so for us what are these protests or boats. well the overall idea of the pipeline was that it would go over indigenous lines and there were a number of protests close to the route that it would follow and they were broken up by the police at the beginning of february if the government hopes that that would be the issue going away they were wrong because all it did was sparked

protests across the country on real lines not actually on the real lines but like this one very close to the real line and that made the real companies very very nervous indeed and so they started canceling a number of routes no more than 150 routes are actually canceled around 5000000 commuters are impacted by this decision and there is no sign that these pick these camps are going to go away in fact in the last couple of hours well we've been here people have been coming in bringing people food and bringing them firewood so they can set fire which is not a bad thing because here it's subzero and the when the dust through here occasionally is very better indeed now there are economic issues attached to all of this because farmers aren't able to get their grain to the coast to sell to international markets food that's a problem as well because food isn't getting on the real network to distribution

points around canada and here's another issue as well propane gas is going to be a real shortage in the next couple of days and many many people here in canada heat their homes through putting gas so you can see what problem that would be particularly as we're standing here in subzero temperatures and the weather forecast for the next couple of days is for the temperatures to go even a lot more it sounds quite a critical situation there are and what sort of steps are being taken to resolve this. well there are people who are putting pressure on the prime minister to seal it you need to get the police to move when justin trudeau is putting his hands up saying look we're not getting involved in this because politicians don't direct the police it's really up to the company to go to the courts and in the courts to direct the police to enforce any injunctions they have to try and clear the camps but they don't particularly want to go in clear they can't speak because felix scared of coffeecup protests you already saw what happened at the beginning of the

month when the move the 1st few camps led to an explosion of protests across the country and they think the protests will get even bigger and they won't just be. stuck in areas around the railway lines so that's an issue for them as well here's another thing the 1st nations is they're called here the local indigenous population that the 5 tribes held a news conference in were probably just a few hours ago and they are saying look we are ready to discuss this we want to move this situation forward. scuse me we realize there are some hardships for people but the difficulty is we have an agenda too and it goes back not just the last few months because of this pipeline it goes but years when we have been ignored so that has to be addressed and the problem the fascination tribes have here is well is that they're concerned that outside groups are no hijacking their protest and it's more about not just the environment but other issues being brought into this is well so if they say yeah we're done in the protests are over those

groups might not give up the protest and they might continue so it's a really difficult balancing act for the canadian government for the companies involved and also for the 1st nation indigenous people here as well and there's no obvious sign of a solution and that was makes the whole transport issue an issue with food and the farmers and fuel just become even more exacerbated and the hoping that some hope in the next 2448 hours they can find some way to get a breakthrough and bring this to an end ok alan fischer there reporting from and thank you very much indeed stay warm. now the best places in the world to avoid tax have been revealed the tax justice network has released its annual list of worst offenders the cayman islands and stake in the top spots for the 1st time and the u.s. is the 2nd worst in enabling financial secrecy that's despite some american politicians

push for measures to tackle the problem and switzerland is now ranks in 3rd place the other top 10 nations include hong kong singapore luxembourg and the u. a let's get more on this now from alex carbon he's the chief executive of the tax justice network and joins us live from london kids are you with us on the news or just talk us through what this means what why it's cylinders fall in places and the us is now in the top spot what's brought about this change in order that what we've seen in this edition of the index is for the 1st time actually significant global progress on transparency and switzerland is a case in point you know switzerland after years of defending its bank secrecy against all comers is no willingly exchanging information about the owners of financial accounts with almost 100 countries around the world now social is still

has a lot to do but that is good progress on the other hand while that progress has been happening generally we've seen the united states and cayman and indeed the u.k. actually backsliding going in the wrong direction and it's this anglo-american access of secrecy if you like that now poses the biggest global threat in terms of driving corruption and tax abuse all around the world will. that sit isn't it just explains why financial secrecy is such a bad thing and then why people aren't doing more to tackle it. sure what we're talking about here is the secrecy that extends to things like the ownership of companies and we've seen that anonymously and companies appear in really all of the big scandals from the loo and the leaks to the locks leaks the panama papers but also it's about the opacity of corporate accounts and that

features a lot in the looks leaks that's about multinational and tax avoiding and about the unwillingness of jurisdictions to exchange financial information with each other so it's about whether people and companies can basically go off shore and hide hide from regulation and hide from tax so what we see is that you know corruption isn't a problem of poor countries sometimes it's presented is actually a global problem that's driven by what are typically high income jurisdictions like the cayman islands but also of course the united states itself which is the the biggest provider of financial services to nonresidents levels and that is that countries are basically making money at the expense of everyone else as they undermine their systems crites rather than given this and given there is so much money to be made from enabling people to to highwinds their wealth do you think there's any real appetite to change this situation. there

is an as i say we have seen for the 1st time real progress glue believe this year something like a 7 percent reduction in global financial secrecy as we calculate it but what's needed now is for some of the big actors and that really means the european union i think is the only actor that big enough to stand up to the united states and say it's not ok for you to be going in the wrong direction to be driving a race to the bottom when everyone else is really focused on on making progress and that needs to bring with it all of the small jurisdictions that make up the united kingdom's secrecy network from the cayman islands to the likes of jersey and guernsey i think the e.u. especially now that with bricks at the u.k. is no longer able to influence directly the e.u. really has the power to insist on much higher level of transparency and accountability from these other jurisdictions and stand up against these global threats of corruption and tax abuse ok alex cobb i'm going to get your insight there thank you so much for joining us right from london thank you. the city's 1st

lady has appeared in court in connection with the murder of her husband's 2nd wife my cierto bonnie is charged with ordering the killing of lee paul their lawyer to bonnie in 2017 she's been granted bail was at court's in the capital for a pretrial hearing where mr miller felt the reports. in a case that's a rock to the small mountain kingdom of the suit to the 1st lady my c.i. to bonnie appears in court for murder she's charged with masterminding the killing of prime minister thomas to barney's as strange wife to palermo almost 3 years ago if found guilty by sia could face the death penalty the judge at the court in must 0 told her to return next month and she remains out on bail police are still investigating the case. reportedly refused to divorce her husband after he'd begun

a new relationship with myself the intrigue is not only caught the attention of the nation of more than 2000000 people but it's also lead to political tensions with police commission a whole lot more money bailey says to bonnie instructed that he be sacked as the investigation gained momentum a court ruled that his job be protected and will. give you. information or evidence. but. people are coming in. formation learning to live including my c.r. has been released on bail but some members of the to bonnie family want that decision reversed they say the brutality of the murder shows she's dangerous. it was here in hama sana de paulo to barneys home that people say she realized her life was in danger just days before her death someone tried to break into our home

but the attacker flared when her neighbors were alerted within days was shot and killed on verse rolled while travelling home with a friend witnesses say 4 men fired at a vehicle they're too afraid to speak to us on camera saying they fear for their safety both my cea and a lawyer declined requests for an interview but in court papers she's denied having anything to do with the murder and says the police have acted maliciously prime minister bonnie has been linked to the crime too but hasn't been charged police say a call was made to his mobile phone from the scene of following the murder he is not the kind of guy who would plot have been and still i stand to be corrected but i have different convictions in a slow and his new wife is concerned. the scandal has worsened divisions within the governing all of us who to convention party while some within the party support to bonnie others wanting to resign for people to listen to these developments may be

unprecedented but the main test for their democracy and the independence of its courts. al-jazeera suit to. with girls coming up next including the brazilian forward he's made himself the toast all tokyo fara. champions league action coming up next.

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champion severe canon suffered a shock defeat in the 1st round of the dubai championships playing in her 1st match since clinching the title in melbourne the american was eliminated by on seeded elena rebecca kena the 21 year old won the 1st set on a tiebreaker then lost the next 2 or became a kazakstan who has already reached 3 deputy finals this season completed the 3 set victory in 2 hours. also eliminated defending champion belinda bench itch the swiss killie only unhappy with her performance at times in the match was beaten by anastasia having to check over a rushing came from a set down to beat ben church 166161 and close out the victory in 90 minutes. liverpool manager you're going club says his team's upcoming champions league matches one of the toughest games in football the defending champions take on mathematical majority in the 1st leg of their last 16 tie in spain only playing at

the stadium where they won the trophy last season liverpool are 2425 points clear at the top of the premier league favorites to progress let it go or 4th in the spanish league liverpool manager you're going club will not be taking them for granted playing abroad to go is one of the most difficult things in the light in the life of a football player. really good organized result machine. squeezing results out of each game if possible yes people will tell me and told me already this year is not exactly what i want but it's a transition period that's normal. a lego from leandra grave f.c. tokyo their 1st win in the season's asians champions league the brazilian scoring the 82nd minute to give the japanese team a 10 victory over australian side perth glory with the win last year's jane league runners out moved to his heart of the group. as the sole began their

campaign with a 10 win over melbourne victory former arsenal striker perch you young with the only go other game the south korean team are back in the group stages for the 1st time in 3 seasons. beijing at sea or off to winning start in the competition the chinese super league side beat thailand's shangri-la united one nil away. by the goalkeeper of kantaras out of hell won't want to see replays of this again i mean the counties we block opening the door for out how to score details saudi opponents going on to win the match to mail to top group c. . all the followed over the houston astros cheating scandal is dominating the build up to the new baseball season it seems a return to spring training to the sport's biggest stars have accused the game's governing body of being too lenient in its punishment david stokes reports sanchez said it was so do you. think this was

the moment the houston astros played the biggest prize in baseball the world series and 27 team but since then they've admitted they cheated to win it using a camera to steal pitching signs to get their batters in that vantage major league baseball for the $5000000.00 the team's manager and general manager both lost their jobs but the players were given immunity for cooperating with the investigation and many in the game want tougher sanctions including stripping the franchise of the trophy league boss rob mumford disagrees the idea of you know an asterisk or asking for a piece of metal back. seems you know sort of a futile act those comments specifically about the trophy have not gone down well at the l.a. dodgers the team the astros beat to the title 3 years ago back in spring training for the new season 3rd baseman justin thomas has played more than a 1000 career games still without

a championship to his name i mean i don't know if the commissioner's ever won anything as life maybe but the reason every guys in this room the reason every guy is you know working out all offseason and showing up to camp early and putting in all the time and effort is specifically for that trophy you know we understand how difficult it is to win pretty evident to me that it wasn't and it's not something that you know a banner should be hung in their stadium a trophy should be put up wherever there is trophies go sorry world series championship is and it's it defines careers. it's not just the dodgers he'll agree l.a.'s of the team the angels are also back in training and their biggest star mike trout believes the astros players should be held accountable on the structure and. just to. see so much of. the tough things like that and they're always going to be called champions for now the houston astros keep their

2017 trophy but with anger growing within the sport major league bosses may well have to reconsider their punishment and take away that piece of metal after all david stokes al-jazeera. nascar driver ryan newman has suffered serious but non life threatening injuries after a huge crash at the daytona 500 for about him and was in the lead on the final lap of a dent known as the great american race was bumped by fellow for driver ryan blamey claims that after he was trying to help push newman to the victory 42 year old did win this race back in 2008 dale earnhardt's death 19 years ago was the last time a driver was killed in nascar's top series. ok and that is all your support for now how a bacteria thank you so much far away from me and that scene here in doha we're going to hand you over to suit senator it's on the guys only one time keep it here and al jazeera sees it.

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