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business with the u.s. government agencies. starting with breaking news out of libya this hour with the internationally recognized government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva on the same day warlord khalifa haftar forces attacked a port in tripoli the government of national called say the attacks on civilians showed after is not serious about working towards a resolution at least 3 people were killed in wednesday's attacks tripoli's port so important it's a gateway for food fuel and all sorts of imports for the country and libya's national oil company announces there will be major disruption to schools hospitals and power stations half his forces say the target of the shelling was an arms ship believed to be the 1st such attack in this offensive the city has been under attack by half his forces since april and now all fuel vessels have been ordered to leave

for safer waters as we said the attacks came on the go between the sides had been on the way in geneva the tripoli government insists though the u.n. mediated meetings cannot continue until the world's takes a clear stand when he. saying clear stand on have to violations as he says ok here's the team covering the story for us at the moment mahmoud up the 100 in tripoli will come to you shortly i want to start with james bays in geneva absolutely no surprise ideas james that the government of national court has decided to pull out of the talks does that mean the talks are dead in the water completely. it seems so for now but the u.n. i think will be trying to do damage them notation and try and resurrect things the moment that they were sitting down for the start of the 2nd round of what's called the joint military commission that's 5 representatives of the tripoli government

and 5 from the force of general half the that is exactly when the rockets at attacks on the port of tripoli were taking place and the whole point of these military talks is to try to get a juror will cease fire trying to convert a truce that often feels like a truce only in ne into a last thing ceasefire and clearly if that's going on while you are having those talks then you would obviously doubt whether the talks were in good faith and to leave that has been the position of the government of national accord 'd deciding for now to pull out of these cease fire talks the u.n. has responded the u.n. mission to libya un smil that people who are here in geneva running the talks process and put out a statement in the last few minutes we've been officially notified by the government of national accord of the decision to suspend participation in the ongoing talks in geneva following the deplorable attack on tripoli's seaport very

strong words there from the u.n. they always use very measured language and the u.n. is describing what happened today in tripoli is deplorable the statement goes on we'll reiterate says call that all parties especially the libyan national army to desist from escalation and provocation as exercising maximum restraint in refraining from targeting civilians of vital infrastructure crucial to the progress and success of the 3 he track intra libyan donald and that is what they're trying to do here not just the cease fire talks there was something much bigger in the pipeline for next week and that was the 1st part of the political track of these talks rather. 5 aside as we have now 5 of the jna 5 from have thought that we many more representatives here representing all different political. parties and complexities of the libyan political system coming here for wider talks the plan of

course of the u.n. eventually is to try and have elections in libya but what we've seen again and this is clearly what we saw back in april on the very day that the u.n. secretary general was getting libya and he just met general haftar and we see that again now as these talks were restarting his general highest afters or dayshift military action is once again up ended things scott back to the language you referred to the u.n. used the word deplorable which is strong given human standards the g.n.a.s. says they want a clear stand from the international community wants a clear stand in this case. well i think they want to denunciation all of what's gen half the is doing they feel that they came here in good faith to discuss this to discuss pace and he was waging war on the day that they were discussing peace remember that this process is not just the u.n.

process remember that we have other bodies invested in this 'd i was in munich just a couple of days ago where foreign ministers from 13 different countries including some of the top supporters of general haftar countries like the u.a.e. and egypt and russia were all saying that this process should go ahead remember that last week i was in new york last thursday when the u.n. security council passed finally a resolution again supporting this process so the international community is supposedly some of the some might say that some of their only giving lip service but they are behind this this effort and i suspect the government of national accord now want them to speak out very strongly against general hafta for railing for now this effort thank you james pace in geneva. ahead as we said he is in tripoli where all of this is happened we've got

a lot of information from james about the timing of this attack tell us about how it actually happened and the importance of hitting the pause. well. first of all the 1st reaction to this attack as james has just noted that the government. notified the united nations support the mission in libya that it's suspending its parts. in the talks in geneva the government says that it cannot continue in any peace talks with. the capital is under attack the state facilities division that is the initial areas and also the port which is the government describes as the lifeline not only for people in the capital city but all libyans because this is the main and major port in the capital city and then you see that the state oil firm has declared that it has just moved

and evacuated all tankers that are loaded with fuel and gas in the port in order to prevent humanitarian and invented environmental disaster due to the multiple attacks by half to the forces on the port on tuesday now we're getting reports just about now that random rockets are landing in residential areas name the in bruce lee neighborhood deaths in the city center remember that the government of national accord has been routed rating that have to his forces have been violating the cease fire by targeting it is additional areas 8 facilities and also the only operational airport in the city of tripoli made airport over the past few weeks despite the international calls for adhering to the. fire also we're getting news from the health

ministry saying that 3 civilians were killed and 5 other. as wanted in these attacks on the poor to buy have to us forces on tuesday so as you know that the government is now pulling out or suspending its ports and the military track as you know that by virtue of but a lean commendations there are 3 major tracks including in terms of the peace talks the political track the economic track and the militarist track the method to track that word. military commissions from both sides 5 military commanders from the d.n.a. and 5 others with have to have been meeting including on tuesday in geneva so you're saying the government to say that it's our objecting

on the multiple attacks by have to his forces now does mahmoud are the one who'd gloated from tripoli thank you. more now with james more in a in an associate senior research fellow at the center for european policy studies previously served as a european union ambassador to libya as well as egypt and jordan he's on skype from brussels and we do appreciate your time i said this to james byrd's our correspondent i don't know if you heard but i mean there's no surprise that the gene a has decided to do this what is interesting again is that khalifa haftar is chosen a critical u.n. juncture moment just as he did when i was there back in april to talk later the whole thing. yes he's defeated doing it on a number of occasions of course so we also saw in moscow couple of months ago when the g n a has signed the cease fire agreement pulled away from it even though it was sponsored

by one of his main backers that is that russia his. record as a man of peace has got to be in doubt of the moment and one would very much hope that there will be condemnation from all sides of this attack today coming from the international community including the european union which i think must now be a little bit more robust pushing back against this sort of thing especially after the bar and misses the e.u. yesterday of decided at the political level anyway now to move on with this idea are all trying to please the u.n. arms embargo. do you think khalifa haftar has ever been really genuine about the idea of quote unquote peace talks i mean he he goes with this title of war disease called by some he has been attacking tripoli since april with the sole goal of taking over here as a forceful man wonder really if the idea of peace talks comes into it. well it only

comes naturally to him he's a military man by a background of source intelligence circles as well. as a politician somebody who's interested in making any kind of compromise that only becomes easy to him and it's not going to happen anytime soon unless some very clear signals are given to him and his forces that this is not the way there is no military solution here this has become something of a cliche but having lived sometimes myself back there last year couple of times it's very very clear to anyone who knows anything about this country there is absolutely no military way out continues to leave this it seems. is a dead end street so what can or should the quote unquote international community do here because. anyone who has got an interest in libya they have taken sides

already their arms being supplied on both sides while the government of national accord wants this stance from the international community is that even possible. well there's a couple of things as i said person foremost there should be wide of the widest possible combination of the attack today which lies in the because of the ongoing you know the inverses of your correspondents that pointed out just not that and i think also the e.u. is is on the right track in terms of trying to do more to police that u.n. arms and barbara now i know at the moment this is problematic for the d.n.a. now because they feel that it's not going to be effective so long as concentrating on only the sea lanes with less emphasis on the land and the air space where much of the weaponry of course but after is coming and they're working on it i don't know art of the you are in the meeting yesterday but i think it will be important that everything is done that can be done on the european side and possibly together

with others perhaps an entire which was involved in the original intervention in 2000 and everything is that it can be done and. a properly balanced policing of the u.n. arms and barber to tone down the the very hard working and excellent hasn't salami and his u.n. team. in the center of that james i know it's getting out there in brussels so we really do appreciate your time thanks for joining us on the news hour so a pleasure. let's have a look at what else is coming up on this news are declared the winner of afghanistan's disputed presidential election but the opposition is calling it a coup against democracy also we're in canada where escalating protests against the pipeline are causing nationwide disruption in sport the strain open champion loses her 1st w.t.f. to a match following a trial and. we're

moving on to syria where the u.n. says nearly 300 civilians have been killed in the northwest since the beginning of the year as the government tries to capture the last rebel strongholds. of the. united nations says schools hospitals camps for the internally displaced they've all been hit and says the russian backed government offensive is quote beyond belief of call for the immediate creation of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. which suggests to me they can't all be accidental. and at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of proportionality necessity caution and so on. all of which can contribute to something being an attribute if there's a war crime it's cruel beyond belief that civilians mostly women and children

living under scraps of plastic sheeting in freezing conditions are being bombed. reports now on the plight of those displaced by these attacks he is on the turkish syrian border. but is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a woman in the east of where it was taken over by government forces the building is unfinished and the family has little for nature 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 target cause schools we cannot send our children to schools anymore they are bombing the area nonstop it's insane as government forces close in football 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 in 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. and his family have just arrived from the outer nor man the rebel stronghold south of. the city was a cup church by the syrian army 2 weeks ago a shelling and flared up many civilians escaped the army on one day we counted 400 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 who they'd lost track of during the escape this is how northern italy and the outskirts of aleppo look like. long lines of syrians piled 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 hope. to cross into turkey if syrian government troops continue their advance the battle for it live might turn into the worst confrontation since the start of the conflict 9 years ago the syrian army is determined the burbles must surrender but they are defiant civilians have nowhere to go and if it falls 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. delivered as a win turkey's border with syria in afghanistan ashraf ghani has won another term as president after being declared the winner of last september's disputed election the results have been delayed for months tutor attacks polling stations allegations

of rigging and technical problems this report from chance. since september afghanistan's election commission has been sifting complaints and contested votes trying to work out whether ashraf ghani has the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff he does it's finally announced but only just but that she has said i had to open it according to the constitution we declared mr ashraf ghani who recovered 923592 votes which is equal to 50.64 percent of the country's total vote in the election as the president elect of the government of the islamic republic of afghanistan. the incumbent is naturally celebrating. the matter. but i'm dedicating this victory of the people to the people and as the 1st servants with our united seem we will always safeguard the

rights of the afghan people but although the decision puts months of electoral uncertainty to rest it opens a new chapter of danger just like when gandhi was ruled the winner in 2014 his main rival abdullah abdullah is calling the result illegitimate that's. the result they announced today was the result of election law a coup against democracy the betrayal of the will of the people and we considered it to be illegal. in 2014 the u.s. brokered a power sharing agreement with garni president and of diller chief executive. this time around the u.s. is doing deals with the taliban there near an agreement in doha which could be announced soon if an initial reduction in violence is successfully observed the u.s. wants to bring its troops home. with the taliban also says gone these reelection is illegal and contravenes the peace process will reach alan's al-jazeera. yemen now

and the un security council has been warned of a marked increase in violence after reports of hundreds of civilian casualties a special envoy says peace efforts are at risk of collapsing mike hanna reports from the u.n. in new york these regular briefings on yemen have for months been marked by an air of optimism but this was not the case on the stay the special envoy to yemen has told the u.n. security council that the upsurge in violence could reverse the gains made in peace efforts over the past year and warns there are signs the conflict is spreading during the past month which we last met the military situation has grown increasingly dire both sides have announced expensive military goals and exchanged fierce rhetoric most of the heavy fighting is taking place in the home district of the governor of sana'a and also of marble and saddam

government front lines which had. we inquired after several months of being drawn into the escalation of the truths that had been observed in al jawf for months was shattered this past weekend by saudi led air strikes at least 30 civilians were killed and dozens injured including women and children more than $35000.00 people have been displaced in the last month alone this escalation in addition to clashes in other places has reversed the trend towards decreasing civilian casualties that we had seen in previous months in january assessments suggest that more than $160.00 civilians were killed or wounded across yemen the council is united on the need for the violence to end but is reluctant to apportion blame for the current crisis we goddess of who started the violence it is clear that have sought to

exploit the situation and this is an acceptable the situation is further complicated by accusations of the reigne an involvement in the conflict these accusations make yemen part of a far wider crisis and the gate the possibility of achieving a purely regional truce there's concern to over allegations that who thieves are misusing aid with the us warning that it could suspend all assistance to northern yemen as soon as next month mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. an update on corona virus now and russia is temporarily banning chinese citizens from entering the country to try to stop the virus from spreading this is the most extreme travel ban we've seen yet from a foreign country the ban comes into effect on thursday it applies to chinese people traveling to russia for work study and tourism at this stage corona virus has now killed more than 2000 people chinese who are province reported another 132

deaths on wednesday and all up more than 74000 people have been infected and he was the secretary state my pompei was called for more transparency from china around the outbreak which chinese government is also introduced tough measures to deal with the outbreak thousands of medical workers have been infected and choose the death of one of the most senior doctors was also confirmed the details now from sarah clarke in hong kong. officials go door to door in a city wide sweep in one hand to identify anyone infected with the virus 10 more crime 10 centers of being set up in districts in the city they offer 11 and a half 1000 beds for 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 there are still a large number of severe cases in which and there are also some objective reasons like the lack of emergency care facilities and insufficient pressure of oxygen supplies one of we're hands most senior doctors meaning has now died after contracting the corona virus more than $3000.00 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 though it is. 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 reserve beds for emergency use. on tuesday china announced it would exempt tariffs on

nearly $700.00 u.s. 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. and more than 170000 health care workers are on the front lines of this corona virus outbreak in china some medics are criticizing the government for the harsh working conditions with hospitals on the starved and a shortage of supplies of the 3000 infected with the virus 7 have died. associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university who told us it's difficult to get a clear picture of what medics in china are actually dealing with. it's hard to

know what's happening in china or in terms of both cases and our healthcare workers are being treated because of the frantic nature of this outbreak what i would say is certainly in terms of the proportion of health care workers and they do if you look at the sars outbreak 80 percent of the cases in china for sars were healthcare workers it's much less for this outbreak it's about 3 percent certainly it is very important when health care workers are engaging with people with. a serious infection that requires 1st look to take protective equipment that they are adequately resourced that they are fresh and that actually a mind and if those 3 are being at sea then you're not doing the right thing by doctors in the us it's in the news ahead the youth organization boy scouts of america files for bankruptcy following a scandal over sexual abuse claims also some of the most intense fighting in

ukraine since the peak of the conflict this one soldier dead and the peace process at risk and in sport the spritzing in ford makes itself the toast of tokyo it's in champions league action coming up at about 10 to. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast all of the next few days things are going to be changing here across northern parts of japan a little bit messy here as we go towards tuesday and the reason being is we have a system coming out of the russian maritimes and into the northern part of japan that's going to bring a lot of snow over the next day particularly in the overnight hours but really just lasting one day by the time we do get towards wednesday the system pulls out quite quickly into the pacific it's going to be a little bit cooler but it's going to be a little bit brighter across much of the area tokyo at about. 12 degrees here on

wednesday and a sucka at about 11 to greece you there well down towards indonesia it's going to be a lot of rain over the next few days you can see that quite clearly on our satellite that will continue we're talking about jakarta up here towards parts of singapore as well but we are watching a rain system a storm system pushing through parts of thailand that's going to be some heavy rain maybe towards book at as well bangkok you'll be on the northern end of that we do expect to see a tempter on tuesday of $31.00 degrees but it is going to be warming up as we go towards when say to about 34 degrees for you there and then here across india and down torture lanka things are very quiet they were made quiet over the next few days plenty of sun not a lot of clouds over the next few days up towards new delhi temperatures are on the rise $27.00 degrees for you there and colombo at about $31.00. quarter an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize

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on the news hour and these are the top stories libya is that you and recognize the government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva after tripoli's port was targeted by forces loyal to warlord how they for have to at least 3 civilians were killed in the shelling. the united nations has nearly $300.00 civilians have now been killed in northwest syria since the start of this year almost all of them in attacks by the government and russia it has denounced the fence of as cool beyond belief and after months of delay a shutdown has been declared the winner of afghanistan's presidential election with just over 50 percent of the vote was actually held back in september but results were held up when allegations of folk rigging forced a recount. a u.s.

federal judge has thrown out the chinese tech giant while as lawsuits challenging the law restricting its business this case relates to a law which bars while away from doing business with the u.s. federal government agencies and contractors many in washington say wow i could use its networks to spy on behalf of the chinese government while white one of the world's biggest smartphone makers as well denies any of these allegations. following this one in washington just how significant is today's ruling heidi. well this certainly is a win for the american government and its campaign against while way which we've seen unfold since president trump took office it and his administration as you said believe that huawei may allow the chinese government to essentially use its infrastructure and equipment to spy on american users which is something that huawei adamantly denies and today's ruling really is from a judge who essentially threw out while waves argument that

a law passed last year which had prohibited it for him a good while away from doing business directly with the federal government or with contractors while we soon saying that was unconstitutional but the judge today ruled that the federal government has a right to spend money however it wants to and huawei has expressed its disappointment and it very likely will appeal this court decision heidi what's the bigger picture here it's hard to see why why backing down i mean it can point to the limited success and limited role it will have in the u.k. which is controversial there as well but what about this battle between the u.s. and what way. well this lawsuit alone is only one of many fronts that huawei facing in its conflict with the us government we know that just last month the u.s. justice department indicted while way for conspiring to steal trade secrets from

american firms which while way denies and there's also another lawsuit pending the federal communications commission has also banned american telecommunications firms from buying weiwei equipment using federal subsidies and while waves of that law is unconstitutional as well that lawsuit is currently pending but like you said the bigger picture here is there is no solution any time soon and in fact all of this only puts into question how effectively these 2 nations will be able to implement that trade deal that was just so recently signed on the construct of the latest on the hallway in the u.s. thank you. we will the u.s. justice department is locked in a dispute with an association of judges over the handling of the trial of president trump's former advisor raja started some judges have expressed concern about alleged intervention by trump and his attorney general william barr in politically sensitive cases trump wants all cases stemming from the motor investigation into

russian interference to be thrown out he says he has total confidence in bar i think he's doing it actually job he's just wrong guy i never spoke to you about the roger stone situation roger stone just so you know that the work he did work for my campaign might have been a time way early long before i announced where he was somehow involved a little bit but he was not involved in our campaign at all and i think it was a very very rough thing that happened to roger's down more now from a white house correspondent kimberly how could this is donald trump is being accused of presidential overreach. there's real concern and considerable growing backlash against the president that he is once again the allegations are alleging that the president is abusing presidential powers that is as you recall was one of the articles of impeachment the president was acquitted on just under 2 weeks ago but now there is real concern that the president seems to be disregarding the

boundaries of the presidency when it comes to his influence of judicial cases and so that's why you have not only a group representing judges meeting very concerned the president has been weighing in on what they call politically sensitive cases but also you have just the day before about 24 hours ago notification of 2000 former you department of justice officials saying that the attorney general needs to resign now the u.s. president as you heard there he has been speaking about all of this he is defending his actions in fact he even made the claim many consider outrageous say that he is the chief law enforcement officer of the united states i can tell you that's not the case it is the attorney general william barr but even william barr is actions coming into question given the fact that he has really you'll did to donald trump's urgings that intervene in the case of roger stone the president's friend former

u.s. national security advisor john bolton says he's worried his forthcoming book could be suppressed by the white house it's believed his book will include new details about president trump's campaign to get damaging information on his democratic rival turbine from ukraine bolton did not testify in trump's impeachment trial remember despite efforts by democrats to call him a witness. ukraine's president says heavy fighting in the eastern donbass region won't hamper efforts to end the conflict with russian banks separatists affair has left one ukrainian soldier dead and several others wounded some of the worst fighting in virtually in the region since the peace talks were held in december and both sides are blaming each other. we have a powerful army provocations happen but the army responded firmly the situation is completely under control because 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 as. well as all happened ukrainian positions near 2 villages northwest of the city of lu hanscom the east of the country the positions are on the 500 kilometer long front line between the russian backed separatists and the ukrainians which was agreed as part of the minsk protocol in 2015 they also live 10 kilometers inside of one of the 3 pilot signs which both sides agreed to withdraw from late last year more than 13000 people have been killed since the fighting began 6 years ago but there had been reason hopes of deescalation after both the russian and ukrainian presidents met in paris in december and agreed on prisoner swaps and phased troop withdrawals well a 2nd round of talks is expected in berlin in the coming months but despite the optimism from ukraine renewed tensions could stall the peace process as

a step fasten explains now from moscow. parties both the ukrainian army and the separatists backed by russia are blaming each other for this attack as usual the official confirmation is one soldier died but the unofficial reports say that more people have died and the president alinsky was so worried that he has convened this emergency security council meeting he sat off the words that he won't be deterred from proceeding with the peace process change immediately dismounting after the attack took place the kremlin spokesman said that they were unsure what was going on didn't they needed more details but of course russia couldn't be blamed because obviously russia is not involved and this is of course the line they have been maintaining since the invasion in eastern ukraine and the backing of the discipline . rebels there that that's always been the line but of course there's an overwhelming evidence of that the chose the contrary it's also important to note

that this peace process has been going very slowly from the beginning because russia is insisting that ukraine organizes elections in eastern ukraine and also give a special status to dumbass and that's something very difficult because ukraine says we can only hold elections when there's no forces there in that area and also when we have control over that border which is basically still controlled by the russian backed separatists and so this is a major point and a major debt block to this whole process which just today gone back again very far and it doesn't look very optimistic right now. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will go on trial for corruption on march 17th 2 weeks after the national elections the justice ministry says the prime minister must be in court to hear the charges against him the one who was fully formally indicted last month. on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust the charges relate to his relationships with

several business men he is israel's 1st sitting prime minister to be charged with a crime protests against the natural gas pipeline in canada have shut down large parts of the country's rail networks causing massive disruptions for passengers and for freight indigenous groups against the project of blocking key rail lines across the country for nearly 2 weeks c.n. rail the 3rd largest rail network in north america shut parts of the eastern track and work the ira rail have has suspended most passenger runs across the country from minister justin trudeau urging the demonstrators to resolve the situation with trust and respect. the planned route runs through traditional indigenous lands to carry natural gas from dawson creek in the canadian province of british columbia to a coastal refinery. from there it will be shipped on to asian markets alan fisher is there for us and as negotiations to end the process have made very little

progress. well you can see one of the protests and the dotted all over canada are just behind me the very clever the no actually on the real we align itself but they're close enough that means the railway company doesn't want to run trains up and down here because the concern that people might get injured now these come started springing up after the original camps which were part near where the pipeline was going to go on native indigenous land known as 1st nations here in canada were moved forcibly by the police so that led many more to come to spring up on the railway lines to be going on for about 2 weeks $5000000.00 commuters have been impacted but it's also got bigger economic impact the not for example food supplies getting to distribution centers and so that means that there could be food shortages people who export things like farmers who send grain out of the country they can't get their stuff to the ports and there's also

a problem with propane gas no a lot of canadians use that to heat their home particularly in the winter on a deal like today when it is absolutely freezing subzero temperatures the wind whipping across the plain and it's very very cold well they're starting to see those propane supplies start to diminish so this is a real problem for the canadian government a real economic problem and of course the difficulty is that the people here do want to move until they get some sort of reassurance about the path of the pipeline and the government want to get the real moving as quickly as they can. one of the largest youth organizations in the united states has found her bankruptcy and is the 1st. step by the boy scouts of america towards creating a compensation fund for potentially thousands of victims of sexual abuse last year it was revealed more than $12000.00 children had allegedly been abused while taking part in boy scouts activities the boy scouts of america was founded way back in

1910 it has chapters in every u.s. state and close ties to churches and civic groups at its peak in the 1970 s. the scouts had more than 4000000 members and the ages of 5 to 21 those numbers have dwindled to around 2200000 today jason altmire is an attorney and partner at the law firm which is representing more than $300.00 of the alleged sexual abuse victims he says the scouts bankruptcy is it a sweet. 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 of 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 i don't think the bankruptcy is going to be what causes the boy scouts to shut down the catholic bankruptcy's 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 that 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 the london based bank h.s.b.c.

says it will act surround 35000 jobs worldwide reducing its workforce by 15 percent after a big fall in profits while announcing the cuts the company should a warning as well about the impact of coronavirus the bank reported a 33 percent full in pretax profit 2019 and names to make 4 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of cost cutting by 2022. arlen's coast guard has warn the public to stay away from a big cargo ship which is washed up on its southwestern shore after a massive storm it was abandoned in the atlantic ocean more than a year ago now washed up on the coast of county cork in the aftermath of storm dennis which caused widespread damage across ireland and the u.k. in the past few days. now a shadowy new group in parts of brazil's 2nd city appears to have become an even bigger force than the drugs gangs the group is known as the militia and it is said their influence is only growing john heilemann reports now from rio de janeiro. a

gunfight in rio de janeiro reputedly between drug traffickers and the love of fools in the city one that many might not heard of they're known as the militia they've been quietly expanding the areas they control to cover more than 2000000 of rio's inhabitants. said to be made up mainly of retired or off duty police officers soldiers and firefighters it all started as an attempt to protect the neighborhoods from criminal gangs that many say they've since become a mafia who control almost everything in the zone so they can say all you water and they can say oh you a martyr you have. a lot of options and. for these days militia is also selling drugs experts say they've even got into real estate illegally developing learned when 2 buildings collapse last year in a militia controlled neighborhood $24.00 people died but despite their grip on

parts of the city authorities have been reticent to speak about them this area is notorious for being run by the militia and the only reason that we're able to feed his safely is at the rio de janeiro governor wilson bit so just came here to give a speech about security in that speech he didn't mention the militia once even though everyone we talked to said they're more dangerous than the drug gangs no sense someone it's it's extortion you know you call because they are the police but one crime linked to militia members nearly 2 years ago demanded investigation this was the question that really shone a spotlight on the militia who ordered the killing of this woman money early franco she was a real big general council woman before for the city's minorities and when she was gunned down right here the investigation focused on some of the most north korea's militia figures in the city the suspects appeared to have links up the political

ladder this facebook pitches one of them with brazil's current president j. abel sonata an operation to detain targets in the franco case was called untouchables prosecutes a somali sybille yo headed it. these people need to be taken out of action they have to realize that the monopoly of power the monopoly of force is only in the hands of the state in an al-jazeera interview last year she described the militia leader on the suspicion expression forces policeman of the piano my god legs fowling i'm going to when you talk about captain i.g.r. no criminals are actually afraid of him because they know how much power he has not just in terms of fire power it was hoped he might be able to reveal who ordered my release killing instead he was shot dead by police at the beginning of this month john homan al-jazeera real degenerate. still more for you on this news on fox walters this coming up we're going to hear from the baseball players have come out

swinging. in response to the sports cheating scandal.

with a look at the sport has far. thanks very much champions league holders liverpool have a tough task ahead of them if they were to avoid elimination from this year's competition they were beaten one nil away by athletico madrid in their last 16 1st leg tying the defeat comes at the very ground they won last year's tournament liverpool had

been on a 14 game undefeated run in all competitions early harlan put in a match winning performance for dortmund in their 1st leg tie against p.s.g. the norwegian striker scored twice for the been to sleep aside as they ran out to one winners at home a late goal from leandro game f.c. tokyo their 1st win in the asian champions league this season the brazilian scoring in the 82nd minute to give the japanese team a one nil victory over australian side perth glory with the win the last year's j league runners up moved to the top of the group. i've see so began their campaign with a 10 win over melbourne victory former arsenal striker are too young with the only goal of back to the south korean team are back in the group stages for the 1st time in 3 seasons. a goalkeeper of captors all do hell won't want to see replays of this again i mean come to greek block opening the door for all twang to score to

hill saudi opponents going on to win the match to nil to go top of group c. . that are sadder looking in good form they hammered around supper had an f.c. 3 nil to go top of group d. while saturday on the cattery side to ever win the competition having won it twice before. as car driver ryan newman is awake and speaking with family and doctors it comes a day after he suffered a huge crash at the ditto to 500 in florida newman was in the lead on the final lap of the event known as the great american race when he was bombed by fellow for driver ryan blaney blaney said afterwards he was trying to help push newman to victory a 42 year old won 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 you know him crossing the track there was a bad scenario in the 1st place but yeah it just. it's

a weird balance of you know excitement and happiness for yourself but obviously someone's health and their families you know bigger than any win any sport so you know we're just hoping for the best. nearly crowned australian open champion sophia cannon suffered a shock to feet in the 1st round of the dubai championships playing and her 1st. match since clinching the title in melbourne american was eliminated by un seeded alaina rebecca kena the 21 year old won the 1st set on a tie break but then lost the next 2 kazakstan has already reached 3 finals on the tour this season leader the 3 set victory in 2 hours. also eliminated defending champion belinda bennett church the swiss clearly unhappy with her performance at times in this match was being by anastasia probably trying to cover up a russian came from a set down to beat bennett church 166-1612 close out the victory in 90 minutes

although followed over the houston astros cheating scandal is dominating the build up to the new baseball season as teams return to spring training 2 of the sport's biggest stars have accused the game's governing body of being too lenient in its punishment david stokes reports same show 6 years ago so do you. think this was the moment the houston astros played the biggest prize in baseball the world series and 2017 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 are seen as 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 big to the title 3 years ago back. in spring training for the new season 3rd baseman justin thomas has played more than a 1000 korea 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 feel

agree. 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. see so much of. the tough things are not 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. and that tell us what for now war later. ok thank you for that we're back in about 2 and a half minutes time here on al-jazeera another full publishing of news that is news out of those collapsed peace talks in geneva between the warring sides in libya and an update on the latest coronavirus that's you know many.

americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. worked at al-jazeera english since it's law should have a principle. as a correspondent with any breaking news story in the world to hear from those people who would normally not get the voices heard on the international news channel one moment i'll be very proud of was when we covered the whole earth quake of 2050

a terrible natural disaster and the story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area to be there to tell the people story was very important at the time. a unique kid endangered biodiversity lives in the heart of one of the produce tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about the animals of the half year and now the probability is becoming by so their stuff conservation their communities al-jazeera journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist untouched team's efforts to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. al-jazeera.

libya's internationally recognized government pulls out of ceasefire talks in geneva after warlord coming for half his forces attacked tripoli port. welcome back to doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera the number of deaths in china's coronavirus crosses 2000 with the surge in fatalities in her by province the epicenter of the epidemic also the unique human rights bodies as recent attacks on schools and hospitals in syria are prompting questions about war crimes. and a u.s. court rejects the chinese telecom giant part ways appeal to ease restrictions on.