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you know that the truck. was a population in the wild one step back of the tours northwesterly work on that story coming up. and on people stream it with your school roger federer announces he will not play at the french open that's after the 20 time grand slam champion reveals he has undergone need surgery. but 1st a former advisor to the u.s. president donald trump has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison roger stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into whether trump's campaign with russia is also feed and urges to pay

a fine of $20000.00 let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly whole kits for more on this kimberly that sentence has been handed down much shorter than the suggested sentence why is this. well it's certainly notable and judge amy burton jackson did say that she took both the initial recommendation of 7 to 9 years as well as the revised recommendation from department of justice prosecutors into account notable that she has struck a sentence somewhere in the middle as you pointed out there are 40 months or 3 years 4 months as well as a 24 month probation period that's a $20000.00 fine the judge in this case had a lot to say about how she came to her decision on that sentence she said that roger stone has not been prosecuted for standing up for president trump but instead for covering up for the president she pointed to the fact that he had lied to

congressional investigators she said when he said that he had no contact with one of the witnesses she called that a flat out lie in fact noting that there were documented up to 1500 texts and e-mails of communication she also went on to say that he brought this on himself that he inserted himself smack into the middle of one of the most incendiary issues of the day namely the investigation by robert muller into whether or not donald trump's presidential campaign had colluded with russia so she did take into account she said a number of letters from his friends and family who had requested lenience leniency but in the end she said that there were many things that roger stone had done himself that she could not ignore including the fact that he posted on instagram a picture of the judge next to a rifle scope and crosshairs templating and your police 3 intolerable in the

administration of justice guess i'm also watching the monitor as well as we continue to talk and that just to be clear that very last point i said was rather important it was essentially that she felt she had to make this sentence big. because to not do so would be intolerable to the administration of justice this was a very angry judge as she issued this sentence and as we watch these pictures you can see there roger stone a lot of media interest about this case getting into what looks like a an s.u.v. with a lot of security this is a man who has been at the heart of a lot of controversy making serious allegations against this judge as they pointed out not only posted on social media but also many of the supporters of president trump really seeing him is as a person who has been a victim of what they say is a politically loaded case they point to the fact the judge had been appointed by

the former democratic president barack obama she dismissed all of this and many of her supporters in the legal community also saying that when it comes to a sentence it comes down to strict sentencing guidelines we see there roger stone driving away but that's not the end of what we likely will hear from roger stone in fact there had been a gag order in this case i believe it has been lifted in fact the judge even saying the she expects that roger stone will have more to say about this case she said i expect he will keep talking. kimberly this so it's been it's been quite a a case that has been quite politicized shall we say perhaps because of the connections or just one has to the current u.s. presidents he has of course been reacting throughout the trial and write this suggested sentence being released and has there been any reaction that's how the sentences being handed daryn from the white house. you are absolutely right when

you say that roger stone is connected he's been a friend of president trumps for more than 3 decades some 35 years in fact the president did weigh in and that's what resulted in the initial downgrading of the recommended sentence the president called the recommended sentence a miscarriage of justice that's when the attorney general presumably weighed in of the prosecutors came up with a new sentencing recommendation piers the judge has gone somewhere down the middle but the president has been very vocal about this case in fact one of the things he said this morning in a tweet was they say roger stone lied to congress oh i see so did coley he's referring to the former f.b.i. director james comey he goes on to say f.b.i. exclamation point fairness question mark what is insinuating is that everybody lies to congress and why is this bad and not for another individual so expect the president may have something to say about this he has been doing a bit of a west coast tour and we expect that he may have something to say at

a rally when he speaks later on some hours from now in colorado but the bottom line is the judge addressed the highly partisan nature of this case saying that if roger stone go some polish it will not be a victory for any one party she said in the midst of all this everyone loses ok kimberly how could their life as i inside the white house for now i thank you very much indeed just reminds our fears of who wrote your story is and why he is so critical were his works with richard nixon ronald reagan george h.w. bush and george w. bush because his role in donald trump's campaign which has landed him in court in the warm up to the 20 $816.00 election he tried to launch a smear campaign against hillary clinton using the web site wiki leaks he was questioned about that last year during the movie or investigation and he law it's threatens another witness to do the same and hades documents for. investigators in

that probe prosecutors said his crimes warrants it's up to 9 years in prison but that sorcery here from kimberly was all the rules by attorney general william bar shortly after tweets issued by president trump the war for prosecutors quits after that decision which many are calling a blatant pressure from the white house let's get more now from claire finkelstein she's the faculty director for the center of ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school a good to have you with us again on the news hour let's take a look at the sentence so far is it in line with these kind of crimes do you think justice has been served. well it's important to notice that the sentence was 40 months which is smack dab in the middle of the 2nd recommendation that the justice department made namely the recommendation that

occurred after the president tweeted and william barr stepped in and required his prosecutors to issue another sentencing memo there are recommendation was 37 to 46 months which was a huge reduction from the sentence that was originally. presented by the prosecutors and the judge in this case said that she thought that the original memo suggesting up to 9 years in prison was really too harsh despite the fact that she seemed to agree with all the enhanced saying factors that increase the sentence and was the basis for the original recommendation the question then is whether or not just spite her strong stance on this and the willingness of this judge to stand up to president trump as seen by her sentence of paul manna for whether or not she was in fact influenced by the controversy surrounding this case and the pressure that the president has been putting on both her and on the justice department to be

lenient with regard to his pal roger stone this is perhaps a critical issue is it not that nobody can have confidence in whatever sentence is handed down by this judge or unseats any judge i mean are we now to question the motives or judge ease in the united states. well she's been a very fair and very law and order judge after all what she did in the face of the pressure with regard to paul man of 4 was incredibly brave she took a lot of heat for it and she's been under constant pressure from this administration she also has a long history of being a fair reliable and very careful judge she gave a long speech today explaining that her sentence was not influenced by political factors and she was very very strong in rejecting both the president's behavior

and roger stone's behavior which really went to the heart of the kind of obstructive conduct that we see on a regular basis from this president roger stone had in the very trial itself ignored repeated orders from her for example he ignored the gag order and in the face of that gag order continue to tweet about it he also attempted to intimidate a witness by threatening to kill his dog and this kind of behavior really infects a trial and suggests that if it's allowed to stand that it is not possible to achieve justice so by taking a strong stance against this kind of obstruction she did score points for the rule of law but the question is whether or not the sentence was really harsh enough to reflect the enhanced wins that were validated by this kind of conduct particular finkelstein great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us there from

the university of pennsylvania law school. police in germany are treating a mass shooting in the western city of hama as an act of terrorism 9 people were killed when a gunman went on a shooting rampage on wednesday nights chancellor angela merkel has condemned the attack and says there are many signs the perpetrator axis of racism for more on this let's bring in dominic came his life or as in berlin dominic what morkie tell us about this case. hello i've no move from berlin to her now and behind me you see streams of people going past all stopping pausing to gaze at one of the venues where the shootings took place less than 24 hours ago innocent people just enjoying the time in the midnight shift when the person the perpetrator came in fact did an injury and then shot indiscriminately people you

see there are floral tributes of being placed here also there has been a memorial service in this town in the last hour or so the german federal president frankfurter steinmeyer was there to show his respects to pay his respects to the victims but also to warn of the dangers of far right violence in this country and as i've been finding out this is not an isolated incident over the last few years there have been many. this is where the shooting started one of 2 she should've asked to be targeted which were known to be frequented by members of the kurdish community the 43 year old perpetrator made his way into each place and then opened fire indiscriminately on innocent people finally fleeing the scene in a car to go home and kill his own mother before then taking his own life the shock of the local community is mirrored by that of government ministers who confirmed their primary line of inquiry is that i listened to norm the entire given that is

that everything is being done to clarify up to the last detail the background of these horrific killings there are many indications at the moment that the perpetrator acted on right wing extremist rice has marja us out of high trade towards people of other origins religion or parents. this is not the 1st violent attack to be associated with far right criminals in recent times. the 27 year old man is currently on trial for the murder of 2 people outside a synagogue in the city of hellen last autumn. and last summer the christian democrat mayor of a western german city was shot dead by a person with known links to the far right. the important thing to stress here is amongst the condemnation of what took place there has also been certainly from the german foreign minister heikal mass from the social democrat party he has said that the country must now come come to terms with the fact the far right violence is

here to stay in germany and must be confronted and clearly that's a sentiment that many of the people who walking behind me seeing the venue where the shootings took place they echo that sentiment back to you ok dominic in their life as in hanau thank you. now the german parliament has recently approved a bill targeting hate speech on social media the government says there were nearly 9 fan isn't attacks by far right groups and individuals in the 1st half of last year that's an increase over thousands compared to the same period the year before $2185.00 states reported at least 3 right wing racist and anti jewish attacks per day the government says it stepped up efforts to tackle the problem last week 12 men were arrested for planning attacks against asylum seekers muslims and politicians and earlier this month the leader of the governing christian democrats said she's stepping down after a state premier joined forces with the far right alternative for germany party is

the 1st time that's happened since the 2nd world war as you are called schindler is a senior director at the cancer extremism project and a former german diplomats he says for right politics in the conflicts in ukraine have contributed to the rise in violence. the security services have been very clear that that is the rise in violence there's also a rise in the number of right wing individuals that the intelligence service is monitoring and that the state intelligence services in germany on one is going to be to actually have rising right wing problems while the same category of individuals on the terrorist islamist side and some state related is actually stuck meeting now for 2 years there's always been a big rock. stream is in germany and that has never really gone away since the 2nd world war what you had obviously changed the political landscape in the last 5

years with the rise of the alternative for germany up to that brought some of the movement into the war the political arena but we also had something that was quite well looked in a conflict where the right meaning extremist of your all actually engaged because much the same way that you had with the islamic state in syria that was the conflict in the ukraine worst are going to want to put a half 1000 europeans of non-rational origin fought on both sides of the conflict primarily to gain military experience and they are back now so all these individuals are in extreme risk factor and what is sleep in if you was a new level of willingness to violence into a right when it works in your all that goes beyond germany. police in london have arrested a man after a stabbing attack at the prison capital's biggest mosque details are still emerging but the victim a man in his seventy's who reportedly worked at

a mosque has been treated by paramedics and taken to hospital let's go straight to rory challenges live for us in central london rory what markie tell us. so 3 hours ago just after the beginning of of afternoon prayers when about 200 people were in attendance a man with a knife tried to stab in the mosque seems there in the middle a he didn't manage to start. managed to stab the more isn't a man who for 25 to 30 years here has calls for you to pray now the victim in his seventy's was taken to hospital and his condition as we understand is not thought to be life threatening now the man who is suspected of doing this was pinned to the flaw by other members of the

congregation the police arrived they took him away. obviously in the aftermath of what's happened in germany people who are very worried that this might be some kind of copycats event or ideologically linked in some way that the man who the police took away at 29 year old was white but now what the police are saying is they do not think that this is a terrorist incident and the reason we believe why they're saying that is because from what i've been gathering here by speaking to people the man who you think did this has been attending prayers here for some 6 months and they view this as something of a regular perhaps someone who has mental health issues or was otherwise a bit one of. the ok we're a challenge that life for us in central london thank you. there's plenty more so to

come on this news hour including. i'm simona in iraq's southern city of last 3 or 4 demonstrators have refused to give in despite growing pressure from other parties join us here on al-jazeera to learn why the city has played a key role in uprisings past and present. and a former top fee for official is charged with accepting. what's coming up with peter in sports. turkey says 2 of its soldiers have been killed and 5 injured in airstrikes near syria's in the province its military has been shelling syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sarah keep the government's captured the city from rebels 2 weeks ago as part of its push to betake the last rebel held area turkish present bunch of tired purdah one has issued an ultimatum for syrian troops to pull

outs or face retaliation. has been following the situation from hot say in turkey near the syrian border. the campaign is still and away with intense fighting but ticket in the on the outskirts of. the main city that is located on the intersection of the 2 major highways and 4 and 5 the rebels say that they have taken full control of the town over and they and that they are determined to continue their advances over also set up there however. the syrian army is denying those accounts saying that the fighting is still underway and that it managed to repel an attack by the rebels backed by turkey all started early in the morning with a barrage of artillery attacks by the turkish military position in the arts post in a province that pounded many see and government troops areas particularly inside

and nato but it seems that they are determined this this time to take over those areas and reverse the gains that were made by the syrian army over the last 2 weeks things have dramatically changed on the ground now with this military operation which is likely to further exacerbate the humanitarian situation but at least hinder the work of the international aid agencies who are under growing pressure to move in as quick as possible to deliver aid to people in official say talks aimed at reaching a cease fire in libya will restart on friday they were suspended this week after forces loyal to warlord 24 have to attack tripoli's main ports or diplomatic editor james bays has more from geneva. when these talks resume don't choose that exactly the same time general have to us forces launched a barrage of rockets aimed at tripoli's seaport and then later in the day aimed at

mitiga airport on the outskirts of tripoli following that the government of national accords delegation said they were suspending their participation in the talks but all the time since then they've stayed in geneva the un has been trying to pick up the pieces talking to the g.n.a.s. delegation to persuade them to stay and we're now told by un's will spokesman john alarm but the talks have resumed it is though a very ambitious timeline that the u.n. are pursuing here these talks aimed at getting a durable cease fire that's why the jna were so upset by the attack while they were taking place and in just a week's time the u.n. want to have wider talks political talks involving all the political factions in libya the next stage of a peace process the u.n. is hoping will come to fruition eventually they hope to have u.n. brokered elections in the country when civilians in the foreign line more than 200

schools in the conflict zones have shut and this chance stratford explains from tripoli that means thousands of children are not getting the education they need to mean b. and his family were forced to flee their home in april when fighting on the outskirts of tripoli started they along with more than 30 other families are sheltering at this old school dorm and 100 they says there's a ceasefire but that's not true they're still heavy artillery and any time one side could hit the other. the school where the children used to go is also near the front line and was forced to close the media is worried about the disruption this conflict is causing to his boys education akin to what happened of course it affects them they're not used to their surroundings in the students at school they're moved to they're surrounded by stories of violence and war many of the

schools like this one have had to close in order to provide shelter to people who have fled the fighting in fear and. they talk to me about war they talk to me about kalashnikovs they talk to me about rockets this is the culture of our 9 and 10 year olds. the un backed government here in tripoli says schools in safer areas that are still open are becoming increasingly overcrowded because of the number of children who along with their families have fled the conflict zone the u.n. says at least 200 schools have been forced to close since renegade general who. started his offensive on tripoli more than 10 months ago. computers destroyed or abandoned playgrounds deserted this is one of a number of schools that have been hit during the fighting in southern tripoli a warehouse that used to store books to be distributed to schools across the capital was also destroyed a look at this war has affected the education sector very much teachers and

students have had to move many schools we can't even visit because there are areas where there are clashes more children are expected at the shelter the education and development put on hold libya as a country says the un where around half a 1000000 children have been affected in some way by the civil war. that al-jazeera tripoli. still to come on now says syria a systematic destruction of plans for 2 state solution palestinian president hits back at benjamin netanyahu we'll tell you why. always i can say i support the plan percent. and manchester city's manager varies to stay at the club regardless of the outcome of an appeal against the team's champions league ban all the details for you in sports.

welcome back has for a look at weather conditions across the arabian peninsula massive cloud further towards the north that's giving some snowfall across parts of iraq and more particularly iran but it is clearing the way as we head through friday but we still got a bit of a shower when during the course of the temperatures just pick back a little bit doha looking at highs of 24 and that cool air flow coming in from the north has certainly made a big dent in the temperatures for riyadh in saudi arabia just 20 degrees during the course of friday also worth mentioning that still quite a strong wind blowing down through the red sea at times so that will gradually ease later in the day as we head on into south fine temperatures recovering and riyadh slightly otherwise fine conditions for the most part moving across into northern and central parts of africa it's a largely fine picture but i'm standing in front of significant weather so let me

move and show you the showers affecting the likes of ghana ivory coast and also liberia so largely coastal areas but want to pushing further inland as you move down into southern portions of africa plenty share activity here still looking fairly wet at times along the western coast of madagascar in particular and so if we could still see further heavy showers during the course of day quite a wet one expected invent with highs here of 25. australia is on the person injured fire season has killed more than a 1000000000 and a. 101 ace investigates a wild one from urgency. on al-jazeera joining the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channels morning talkers and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the states

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president on the trump has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison for just stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing a congressional investigation. german officials say they're treating the shooting in the western city of hama as terrorism a government believed to be motivated by far right beliefs shocked and 10 people at several sites the 43 year old suspect was later found dead in his home. and turkey says 2 of its soldiers have been killed and 5 injured in airstrikes through serious in the province it comes after its military shelled syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sirte keep search president richard sipe out of one has issued an ultimatum for syrian troops to pull lights or face retaliation. so let's get more on this story from ken and rahmani he's the advocacy manager at the syrian campaign and joins us live from irvine california kids have you with us we have

a rapidly deteriorating situation in it lead but particularly for the civilians who are trapped in the middle of this with nowhere to flee what is your organization calling for. right now our organization is calling for an immediate end to the hostilities which have been waged by the assad regime and the russian government since april of last year turkey obviously is now involved because it is trying to deter and stop this horrible offensive by the assad regime which by the way has resulted in 1000000 people forced to flee their homes these are civilians more than half are women and children in fact there are over half a 1000000 children who have been forced out of their homes just in the past 2 months the u.n. has said that this is the worst humanitarian crisis since 2011 and that we are now facing

a possibility in which there might be more syrians outside of syria than inside the country because of these continued hostilities so what we're calling for the syria campaign 1st of all is for secretary general is to go to the response of the call from hundreds of medical workers and rescue workers who are calling on the secretary general to come to live in order to ensure that the hostilities stop. would that not be using sex to get terrorists as a human shield because as experience thus far suggests these hostilities are not going to stop until the ferry ends so given that situation. the fact that these refugees have nowhere to go to court next. well this is a moment of moral crisis for the international community are we all as

a as an international community in will world leaders just sit in and watch as millions of people are driven from their homes and thousands of people continue to be killed in what is the worst humanitarian crisis of our lifetimes or will countries come together and enforce a cease fire so the civilians can be safe what i think that will cost them millions have nowhere to run this is really world leaders what the book which world leaders . would say part because this is being this civil war has been going on for 9 years now. the fact that hospitals and schools have been bombed is nothing new at this stage do you have any confidence at all and any countries stepping in so help the syrian people at this stage if history is any guide then unfortunately the answer is no in 9 years no country has stepped in to

protect civilians but we do not think it's too late for that to change we applaud any world leaders that call now for an end to these hostilities who support a cease fire and who invest real political capital to in to put economic and military consequences on those that continue to target civilians the costs have to be very high for russia and for the assad regime that if they continue to target hospitals if they continue to kill civilians and children then there have to be costs and that's what we hope that world leaders will will follow through on do you want turkey to open its ports or to a lot of people to flee into turkey. absolutely we believe the borders should be open it is absolutely horrific the conditions under which syrians are now having to live but we also recognize that turkey has welcomed over 3000000 syrian refugees into its country and we cannot possibly expects

turkey to bring every syrian the 4000000 or so who are now in it live into turkey just because the assad regime and russia have no respect whatsoever for international law and they continue the war crimes with absolute impunity what now is needed is a ceasefire the right yes the border should be open but what's more important is for the hostilities to stop because syrians do not want to be forced out of their homes they don't want to be refugees in turkey or in europe those are last case scenarios 'd in which if they have no other resort then they will have to flee to another country ok thank you so much for joining us here and i'll just can on rahmani from the syria campaign. so sudan's president salva kiir has announced he will form a transitional government's with his rival our thoughts the u.n. has accused both sides of too liberally starving their citizens for political gain

that could gauge as more. after 2 failed attempts south sudan's political rivals finally reach an agreement president salva kiir and his former deputy riek machar say they will form a unity coalition government on saturday ending years of conflict not an idealism i say that race after the president resolve the issues of states we have agreed to form a government on the 22nd of february without any further delay so congratulations to all of us. civil war broke out in 2013 less than 2 years after the country gained independence from sudan after decades of fighting here accused of attempting a coup that led to a political dispute deteriorating into a years long conflict killing tens of thousands of people and displacing millions

more a deal to end the fighting was signed in ethiopia in 2018 with a partner in the there are a few things that are still outstanding but we will resolve them together through the transitional government in the meantime things like security and protection of all opposition members in juba are not my full control. the world food program has been handing out aid packages in some towns food has been scarce since the conflict began a un report has accused all parties of deliberately starving millions of people for political gain it says government forces and other armed groups have denied displaced people access to wide by diverting millions of dollars elsewhere and that constitutes a war crime this crime of starvation which involves destroying essential elements for the survival of the civilian population has been used by both sides in the conflict as a way of getting people to be to displace as well as

a way of intimidating the civilian population. the un has called the situation. in south sudan a humanitarian crisis but there's hope the new unity government will bring about positive change because a gauge algis iraq. and a neighboring sit on the army has cause of several roads in the capital khartoum to stop protesters from getting close to its headquarters demonstrators are angry over the trees decision to dismiss a number of soldiers those sacks include officers who protected civilians during a crackdown last year when several people were killed they've been placed on an early retirement scheme. candidates in togo are holding their final campaign rallies ahead of saturday's presidential elections incumbent leader for ignace in bail is seeking a 4th term in office with new constitutional rules will allow him to stay in office until 2030 if reelected while the opposition is a difficulty rallying behind

a single candidate's. israel's prime minister has approved $2200.00 new illegal settlements in occupied east jerusalem and even a senior who says he also intends to approve a further $4000.00 units in another settlement in the same area a spokesman for the palestinian president has condemned the decision calling netanyahu move a systematic destruction of plans for a 2 state solution. campaigning has officially ended in iran ahead of friday's parliamentary election thousands of candidates have been disqualified from running including dozens of members of the outgoing paula meant i said big reports from to her on. who to vote for among the sea of candidates whether to vote at all this seems to be the choice the nearly $58000000.00 eligible voters face and the political establishment is edging iranians to come out and cast their ballots supreme leader's televised speech telling people it's their religious duty to vote

was despite the disqualification of many of his reformist allies president hassan rouhani has echoed a similar message a small boy we can defeat the u.s. with our solidarity and power high turnout on election day will make the u.s. angry and upset low turnout would make them happy but with fears that turnout will be lower than usual other words enough to convince the iranians to see. yes certainly i've been looked i believe vote for someone who i know and have done some research to see if they're an accountable person or not to society or some problems which must be fixed. i mean as a reunion you a religious duty is recommend us to participate and make appropriate decisions about our country i vote so we can choose a representative who can reflect the people in the parliament. in a cafe in north to herat they see little point in taking part. i'm not

supporting what is the point. because of everything is hard work has gone up a car cost more how do we get by no one is our descendants issues. the iranian economy has struggled under us sanctions since donald trump pulled out the nuclear deal in 2018. inflation for last year was nearly 40 percent. many don't have enough money to buy fresh fruit just. by damaged stale fruits some even steel the purchasing power has dropped. just in the last 2 weeks the price of meat has increased some people just end up eating less meat because they can't afford it. these concerns seem to have been reflected in the candidate's campaigns despite talk of the threat posed by the u.s. the sanctions and potential conflict it's the bread and butter issues that seem to be of major concern to voters here the state of the economy the rising cost of living and delivering meaningful change regardless of which political faction wins

a majority of seats they will have to address the economic concerns of the people but with limited options at their disposal. al-jazeera the front. the rocky city of nasiriya has been the epicenter of the anti-government protests in the south people there are refusing to back down despite increasing pressure from with overseas and as some wonderful team reports it wants one of their own appointed as prime minister. these protesters in austria have defied bullets kidnappings infiltration attempts and most recently the threat of penalties if they continue their civil disobedience in their nato now there are the men of nasiriyah and the proto squares need us we will be there every day they chant after the announcement of mohamed allow as iraq's prime minister designate earlier this month off already s. and followers of the powerful shiite cleric marked it outside or try to end the protests

at times using force but while turnout has decreased elsewhere nicely as people have persevered we'll be back in columbus ohio object of we have not reached a much we do know what a controversial prime minister we want someone from our protest movement who understands the suffering that iraqis were in times. there's no shortage of grievances here the car is one of iraq's most marginalized provinces nearly half of its population lives in poverty like mohammed many young people don't have stayed. jobs he says has been in the central square since day one cooking meals for protesters showed up in miami. there are some iraqi man who can't even buy a cigarette or a sandwich iraq has so many resources and yet young men can't cobble together a 1000 dinars over the past weeks however several people have offered him jobs if he agreed to give up the cause but johnny how much more oh i don't know so many groups came to us offering us jobs so we would abandon our tents and the revolution

but we refused i don't know when i'll die i was threatened many times but so far they haven't succeeded the revolution in either death or victory. was given birth to many political movements and its people have been at the forefront of many uprisings against the british occupation saddam hussein's regime the 2003 american invasion and most recently the fight against i saw it seems to be this revolutionary mindset coupled with the moral and armed support from the tribes that has turned this city into the bastion of the protest movement. nasiriyah has also put forth a candidate for prime minister in what many until now have called a leaderless movement i was graduated a lot a pharmacist has been nominated by a committee of protest leaders as an alternative to prime minister designate that allowed after many threats and assignation attempts he sleeps in a different location every night at least 4 or 5 times i could be did by

direct bullets i don't know why i am still alive to know to be our prime minister or anyone it needs you to be to have to be strong to be extremely courage to face. what we call it the political political many issues. in an attempt to meet protesters demands prime minister designate allow we reached out to recopy and other protest leaders to offer them positions in his cabinet we say no we will not be a part of your cabinet you do not represent the iraqi people you came supported by the same forces from inside the parliament they changed the face but they did not change the principles. because he says he wants to focus on building a political movement that can contest the next elections

a long and tedious road towards the systemic change that protesters have to manage it whether or not the people of nasiriya and there are in the streets until then protest leaders here are adamant that the seeds for future change have been laid. now the waters off cats are our homes the 2nd largest population of do go in the worlds and see that it's underwater grass well usually the looks of the move alone or in a small group bounce there's a phenomenon happening off doesn't happen anywhere else stephanie decker has this exclusive reports. we are heading out to sea of katter's northwestern coast in search of something special until now we don't know what the reason we did maybe they come for feeding me that we don't know until now we have thought we are a lot further than going into the 30 why they came here during the time. we see dolphins. that we want to find something much more camera shy we have in

the region the 2nd largest group in the war last year around this time dr mussen captured these incredible and rare images few of us know much about the dougal or sea cow a gentle marine mammal that can grow up to 3 metres in length and way around 350 kilos research into this population here has been happening for the past few years what we've discovered is that seasonally hundreds of do gongs come together in one or 2 large herds just off the carteret coast and we don't see this anywhere else in the world it's a very undue gong like behavior we don't know why they're doing it we've just been funded by qatar national research fund for the next 3 years to actually answer this very question. we didn't find them on this day. or 2 days later by a stroke of luck we get a phone call and raced back up north. they found the herd hundreds of 2

gangs. coming really close to our boat now and you can actually hear them come up ferry can hear them breathe and you can see their tusks and also their tails as they come up and down. it's really quite amazing to see. it's so rare to see such a large herd and so near by so history the 1st time you see them so. this is the 1st time last before 3 years with on from the helicopter that you've never been a very interesting thing costly to see when the very very close to them and i have the shell of my drone we can count them also is it hard to see them this close on the boat it's rare you can yeah yeah this is. a good day and we are lucky from above a clearer view crucial for their research for dr mussen it's the 2nd time in years

that he sees them so close. but you can't close up to them. really. it's a huge number but the last. thing to see them that close. but the reality is that these mammals are endangered. on a deserted beach in the north of cattle or a hint at why their numbers are decreasing. the majority drown after getting in tangled in fisherman's nets. how do you stop this from happening. just to protect their feeding area where the sea grass and just to inform the people there are like marine mammals they are under endangered species we should protect them we should do something. it is said that the legend of the mermaid comes from sailors mistaking the dew going for a siren after many months at sea and were told to do go on fossil has been found

here that dates back 20000000 years scientists have told us much more needs to be done to protect their habitat so that these gentle sea creatures don't disappear forever stephanie decker al-jazeera on the waters of northwestern qatar. still to come here on al-jazeera a feisty face fell for fury and while the head of there i think he said will be out next if the sports.

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it's time for the sport here's peter thank you very much roger federer will miss the french open off the i'm going nice surgery the 38 year old had keyhole surgery on his right knee in switzerland he said it had been bothering him for a while but he hopes to be back for the grass court season federer is the most successful player ever with 20 grand slam titles. fever's former secretary general jerome valcke a has been charged with accepting bribes criminal mismanagement and falsifying documents by the swiss as any general it follows an investigation into the awarding of media rights for various world cup and he for confederations cup tournaments while he was in the post for 9 years until $2161.00 charge has been laid against the chairman of the b. in media group of hell a fee he was also president of para sentiment football club he says the allegations have no basis in fact all or. manchester city manager bit guardiola has spoken for

the 1st time since the side were given a 2 year ban from the champions league the spaniard says he'll stay at the club no matter what european football's governing body handed down the ban after finding the premier league champions guilty of serious breaches of financial fair play rule city deny the allegations and are appealing the decision speaking after their 2 no winner west ham insisted he had complete trust in the club and is confident they will play in europe next season is a sensitive issue to talk about the legal action because i have the know it i'm not professional and that i'm not a lawyer who can do is win the games so we have to wait and after when the sentence ok it's enough that we 'd are going to talk about the situation but i spoke with the club with my chairman and. the micio. i followed believe in them i know will be the result but i cannot touch them or i'm

sorry so i'm not a lawyer so always i can say i support the club 100 percent. star player says he won't leave barcelona despite the problems that the spanish giants have been rocked by internal disputes since former coach and leicester where they were sacked last month and have struggled in the league they also have not won the champions league his 2015 day long injury list as also forced them into an emergency signing denmark striker martin pref weight arriving from leganes for $19000000.00 that's thanks to a rule in spain that allows clubs with injury problems to sign players outside the transfer window formula one's pre-season testing took an unusual turn on tuesday when the mercedes team was spotted trying out a new steering system hot spot here but world champion lewis hamilton is pushing the steering wheel backwards and forwards rather than side to side the dual axis steering system have the most healthy rules to realign it remains to be seen

whether or not they will be allowed to race with the. pakistan batsman who has been suspended for breaching the anticorruption code of his country's cricket board the 29 year old is unable to take part in any cricket related activity until after an investigation is complete although stronger punishment could follow this is also a blow to defending pakistan's super league champions but gladiators who will be without a smile when they face islamabad united in the years opening game that one started a few minutes ago 4 time tour de france winner chris froome returns to competition this weekend for the 1st time since slamming into a wall during training last june the kenyan born birth has recovered from multiple fractures and will compete in the united arab emirates to a full new team any us still hopes to win a record equalling tour de france title. david pasternack is now

tied for the most n.h.l. goals of the season after scoring the winner in overtime for the boston bruins the bruins forward now has 43 goals after securing the 21 win against the edmonton oilers boston leads the atlantic division and have one day last 4 games in a. 4.0 with just days to go an hour before the heavyweight rematch in las vegas things are again getting heated between tyson fury and the and say wilder this was their final news conference before saturday's fight in the lead for the 1st time since their controversial draw in december 28th while there is the w.b.c. world heavyweight champion well furious the lineal heavyweight champion but before trading blows it was all about the fighting talk i provided food and put food on your table for your family to eat and i'm doing it for the 2nd time so if you don't ever forget that i brought you to a big box and i'm around a year for me to see the initial contribution of. true that's.

not. going to talk to. the young player while the a little girl but she gave me an opportunity today i gave him his biggest paydays of his whole life taught him a big contract with showtime brought him to the biggest stage in the well being off a guess and here is now a functioning he's got a whole lot of appreciation for someone who's faheem looked after in a pot millions and he's a con very nice person day you know you won't me every fed i bring you to this level welcome to big time boxing. ok we'll leave it there for now i'll be back here in about 3 hours time with another sports news update. thank you very much indeed peter we will look forward set follow that set for me at how much it's a you are going to hand over to the same end runs a night warren taylor will be with you on the other side of this break here on al-jazeera.

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