just the 2020 u.s. election. on disease. will. al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from headquarters and. coming up in the next 60 minutes acosta and 18 years of war the u.s. and afghan taliban are set to sign a historic peace deal we speak exclusively to the taliban. this is a reality check for every government on the planet. get ready the world health organization warns the global risk of coronavirus is now very high around 50 countries already affected. stocks in the

u.s. continue to slide as coronavirus takes its toll on global markets. major escalation in syria turkey hits back after 36 if its soldiers are killed by government forces in rebel held. hello after a week what was labeled a reduction of violence in afghanistan the u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a provisional peace deal that could put an end to america's longest running war president donald trump is sending his top diplomat to qatar for the historic signing and says the afghan people should embrace the chance for a new future but there's a long way to go the deal is seen as a possible 1st phase for the taliban to hold talks with the government in kabul to

decide the future course of the country so let's take a look at how we got to this point the talks began in september 28th seen with the appointment of the u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad himself an immigrant from of down the stun american diplomats military representatives on the taliban held dozens more than a dozen rounds of negotiations and with the talks briefly called off by president trump in september the u.s. team once of the taliban support and its counterterrorism efforts while the taliban demanded a full withdrawal of foreign forces from afghanistan and the us said it would only sign an agreement if the taliban called a ceasefire and scheduled negotiations directly with the afghan government some of and jeff aides spoke exclusively to the taliban spokesman so he. was hopeful this will be the start of bringing stability to the country. it is significant for our people for our country in the whole region. because for one people they will

have their independence they will. see their creation ending and i'll show for the original that when stability and peace return 12 months than there will be a phase for. commercial activities and do a lap and we have the attention of up when it's done so that's really really important and significant for us it has and of reduction of violence the plan is to expand it but there the attacks have not stopped taliban have attacked on ways off the afghan government there have been skirmishes there's been what makes you think that peace in the van is son is going to come about by the city and of course it was a deduction roylance as we call it to provide a secure it was in order went before the signing after agreement and that we did it

and and the other thing is that there was some kind of war you we have not attacked any conway in the year 2 trees in the 2 trees held by the coverlid ministration did the sum of 4 those convoys were attacked when they came out from the police and inter to our trees so that was a kind up or why nation and our. people on ground they stopped it you don't accept cobbles government as the legitimate government you call it a line that ministration how are you going to be talking to them because that is the biggest sticking point that the taliban would not agree to talk to the afghan government how have you come to terms with that as a god meant we did not regret equalize it. because we think. of a product of 4 and that is

a lot of the occupation which has been installed in impose on the people of our plan is something back to as a party to the conflict it is that e l e t and we accept that they are a party to the conflict and in that sense we were. doing neither in trouble we will talk to them besides our that i have on sites so this is the 1st phase where the taliban and the americans have agreed to some terms about the gradual withdrawal of u.s. forces as deliberate action violence what are the terms of that agreement and what happens next you know after the us after the signing of the agreement of course we will a kind of had their confidence building measure and during that $5000.00 prisoners of war they slam community about monies than in $1000.00 prisoners of the kabul administration will be released and when we finished our complected completed this

phase then we enter an other phase which is of our negotiation during that phase we will have a discussion among all of on sides and they will discuss the future islamic good mentor the fords him abilities in other agendas that they may bring to the table the allegations from the afghan side is that one does not accept on realities this fear is that when a son will go back if the taliban is allowed to rule it going to run on civil liberties on girls' education and basic rights on democracy what will you say it was sure the afghan people that this is good for afghans it won't reverse them and take them back 10 years from before. it is not really a reality when they see these are those people who are we call it spoilers of the peace. we have the person of the treaty of our plants that you see there is

peace and there is a. commercial activities there is schools so if you go out there. and it when the security is more in in those areas and there are control rather than in the main cities provincial cities that govern the capital kabul so about women's rights a woman one that the right to education and their right to work we both accept and give them as per the islamic rules but only that they observe the hague fully that so there is no problem with that about freedom of speech i think it is part of the islamic rules there should be constructive criticism of. the society. of shell's and that is not how we can make

a report in the society that is i think part and parcel of they slimmy course or pakistan's foreign minister will be at the signing of that deal between the u.s. and the taliban scheduled in cats are on saturday some moves caray she also sat down with al-jazeera and insisted that a political settlement is the only way to end the conflict. but pakistan has played the role of a facilitator pakistan as you know has suffered a lot because of the situation in the region you've paid a huge price in human terms and in economic terms and we have already been advocating that there is nobody solution to the of han conflict what you need is the heated political settlement yet lad that the world has finally can work with that point of view and now the talks. then took off there were 10 rounds of difficult box but finally seems that you're nearing an agreement and

hopefully it will be signed. it's very soon. let's get more from roles in jordan she's joining us from washington and from where you are also what more you hearing about the contents of that deal and the future of u.s. troops in afghanistan. well certainly the taliban would like to see all u.s. forces leaving afghanistan that is something which the us president donald trump has campaigned on but realistically the 12213000 u.s. troops are probably going to be cut by about a 3rd or so the pentagon has said repeatedly that it would feel comfortable having about 858600 u.s. troops inside afghanistan for counterterrorism purposes and to provide ongoing training and advising support to the afghan military the other issue which still

has to be worked out apparently is what happens to the taliban fighters who were taken into custody by the afghan military essentially prisoners of war certainly the taliban would like those people to be released but there is concern apparently of kabul for having these people removed from custody and possibly capable of carrying out security activities against the government or against the afghan people again those things should be spelled out in more detail on saturday after the signing ceremony it's also important to note that no matter how long it takes to actually carry out the prisoner swap it does not look as if any u.s. forces will be leaving afghanistan any time soon and is the expectation then that this deal lays the groundwork for longer term peace in afghanistan. well certainly that is what the u.s.

is hoping that the ground has been laid you've seen all week long statements coming from the trumpet ministration urging all sides in the afghan population to take advantage of this moment but there is also a realization that it's going to take considerable outside pressure to really make certain that all parties are dealing with this issue of a negotiated peace in an honest and transparent manner and that they're not simply saying something just for the sake of getting good press as it were there is still some lingering concern here in washington about the political transition yes gandhi the president has won a new term but is he going to have the unity that he needs in order to negotiate credibly with the taliban now that this peace agreement with the u.s. is at hand all right rosen thank you for that update from washington well the world health organization has now raised the risk assessments of the coronavirus to its

highest level across the world but officials did stop short of calling the outbreak of pandemic saying they believe containment efforts could still work does alexy o'brien reports the 1st sickness has now been confirmed in subsaharan africa. in the biggest city of africa's most populous country the 1st case of coronaviruses was. an italian man flew into lagos nigeria from the mom this week we have started working to identify all the contacts of the haitian. since the end of nigeria and even with the. nigeria's large population and high rates of poverty make it vulnerable to outbreaks like these when the world health organization declared the virus a global health emergency last month it was because of concern it could hit countries with weak health systems on friday the day upgraded the risk of the virus

is global for it to very high and i think this is a reality check for every government on the planet wake up get ready this fire is maybe on its way and you need to be ready you know with judy dear citizens you have a duty to the world to be ready. he pointed to the increase in cases and affected countries some struggling to contain the virus the 1st cases have been announced in dane markets tonia little way any of the netherlands and mexico all linked to the outbreak in italy. it's reported hundreds of cases and is the a.p. center of the virus outside asia it's famous square empty of the new show and trains are being disinfected in a bid to slow the virus is spread. out over the city still seems to be a little asleep in a negative way i don't see many people around and i'm sorry to see that people have

been so long on it. in switzerland geneva international moshe shows being cancelled after the government banned all events involving more than a 1000 people and in iran and state of crowds of worshippers they were workers in hazmat suits in this holy shrine and friday prayers but canceled across much of iran where the virus has killed dozens of people and infected hundreds more china though where the virus began recorded the lowest number of new cases and more than a month more than 36000 people have already been discharged from hospital after recovering from the disease. like the recent success in controlling the epidemic is hard earned the situation is still grim and complex and with an increase of people going back to work in school we are facing the risk of the epidemic rebounding we cannot afford to take chances. that warning is now being willed wide awake so brian al jazeera. well there are signs that the corona virus

is spreading in the us a 2nd person in california has been infected with no known travel history or contact with those already affected by brunell's has the latest from los angeles this is a person who is in northern california described as a woman who had some underlying respiratory disease problems and her doctor sent her to the hospital she was tested there and tested positive for the corona virus she has now what the important thing here is that she didn't get it on a cruise ship she didn't meet with someone who just got off a plane from will hon she hasn't been to italy or iran or south korea or any of the other places she got coronavirus here in the united states and now in addition this person lives in a community about 145 kilometers from the 1st possible community transmission case in who was identified earlier this week so that seems that there's 2 at least

2 separate clusters of transmission in northern california this is called community transmission and what it means is that it's circulating in the community one person gets sick another person will get sick another person will pass that on to others and then this is what happened in italy in south korea etc important to note that no one has been placed under any kind of quarantine in northern california except for the 2 patients who are receiving care in hospitals and mexico says it's confirmed its 1st cases of corona virus in 2 men who had recently traveled to italy it's a 2nd country in latin america to register the virus. has the latest from mexico city. mexico's deputy health minister has said that the person that was diagnosed with that confirmed case of corona virus is currently in isolation along with

members of his family at the national institute of respiratory disease here in mexico city now the deputy health minister also said that this individual is being held for epidemic logical reasons not for medical reasons saying that his symptoms are mild not severe warning people not to panic or urging people rather not to panic here not to cause a sort of sensationalism around this 1st confirmed case now there are 3 other suspicious cases not confirmed cases one in the state of sinaloa and 2 others here in central mexico in the case of that confirmed case of the virus that individual appears to have contracted the virus while on a visit to italy within the 3rd week of february but the government is saying that they were they as of today they were going to hold daily press conferences to update the population on the progress and on the management of this now global outbreak there are fears coronavirus will tip the world's economy into recess and

china's manufacturing activity has fallen to its lowest level on record while global stock markets have ended the week down in new york the dow jones is on its worst run and more than a decade's christmas salumi reports. the smiles at the new york stock exchange couldn't masked what was a disastrous week for world stock markets friday's trading only deepening the losses the dow jones index ended down 13 percent from record highs with u.s. markets seeing their biggest weekly selloff since the 2008 financial crisis it's been a similar story for london's main footsie 100 index in stocks in europe while no fewer than 7 markets in asia have lost more than 10 percent of their value fuelling the plunge the spread of the coronavirus outside of china deserted streets in milan heightening concerns that coated 19 is making an inevitable march across the globe

and raising fears about the negative effects that efforts to stop the disease could have on the u.s. economy fears the white house again trying to tamp down on friday everybody whether you're an investor or with your you know ordinary main street person if you will should not overreact it's proving to be a huge test for larry could lows boss president trump who since he took office has championed record high stocks as an endorsement of his presidency. but conversely sees a falling market as someone else's fault namely the democrats competing to unseat him in this year's election i think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves and they say if we have a president like this i think that is a huge effective but world health experts including in the us continue to warn about the dangers of the virus and critics like his democratic presidential

challengers have slammed trump's downplaying of the threat saying that he cares more about the market reaction rather than containing the virus itself experts say uncertainty surrounding the threat is causing jitters it's not an economic effect exactly it's a virus and it's not a blind faith you want to have in the central banking structures of the world virus and epidemiology a little bit outside their general mandate and no matter how much you want to ignore political risk when countries and industries started to collapse with an epidemic it's hard to know how to do this week's losses put an end to an unprecedented period of growth for u.s. markets whether or not the panic selloff continues will depend only on the spread of the coronavirus but also messages coming out of the white house christian salumi al-jazeera new york plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including a show of strength when you take a look at how donald trump has reshaped the image of the republican party. we meet

a family fighting the justice system in the rust saw and what amnesty international says is one of thousands of cases of fabricated criminal charges and it will get an update on the sports is with peter to see how you know facts of its battled back from a scare in the device in the finals. the u.s. is reviewing options to support the turkish army in northwest. syria dozens of turkish troops were killed by russian backed syrian forces on thursday in what the u.n. chief has described as one of the most alarming moments in the 9 year war so a new round of shelling took place late on friday and the turkish soldier was killed 2 others wounded the presidents of turkey and russia have since poken in an effort to defuse tensions and they're looking at holding an emergency an urgent meeting to discuss new measures to normalize the situation well turkey wants

support for its involvement in ad lib in a bid to pressure the e.u. warned it won't stick to a deal to prevent refugees from crossing into europe that's prompted greece sambal garia to step up security on their side of the border the un security council has held an emergency session following the attack on turkish forces in ad lib gabrielle is also reports from the un headquarters in new york u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez described the killing of over 30 turkish troops in northwest syria as one of the most alarming moments in the almost decade long conflict the most pressing needs is in the media at ceasefire before the situation gets entirely out of control. you know my contacts with those involved i am sad when simple message step back from the edge of escalation just hours later gutierrez again delivered that message during an emergency meeting of the security council this is the council's 3rd session in the last 10 days on the syrian

conflict a sign of how dire conditions are on the ground the u.s. along with the e.u. and u.k. asked for the meeting and made it clear it stands by turkey and against what it calls syrian and russian aggression in the days ahead the united states' commitment to our nato ally turkey will not waver turkey has our full support to respond in self-defense to unjustified attacks on turkish observation post that resulted in the deaths of their own forces russia dismissed the notion that turkish forces had been intentionally targeted forgot to give up a bit in the the coordinates conveyed didn't mention areas where ultimately turkish soldiers died as soon as it became clear that it happened the russian side took exhaustive measures to seesaw civilities turkey's ambassador had a different account let me on the line that turkish forces that were

a dog were a log in that. the logical conclusion of that is that they were deliberately. we're grown coordination in writing with russian forces it won't look as you know. and is tonight's going to newt despite all immediate warnings right of the dimity version of the clearly the secretary general wants to end the bloodshed but when he was asked if the warring parties are ready for an immediate cease fire he answered simply i don't think we're there yet i hope or there in the near future gabriels on doe al-jazeera at the united nations well during the course of the war thousands of syrians have fled the country across its border with turkey in face of intensifying battles that killed and wounded dozens of turkish troops that's also where they met one of them in istanbul. they know the buses final stop but the

syrian refugees don't know where their journeys might and as they head toward yet another border they kept their loads light we used to you ladies and small can you buy today or come we are leaving like from fares they are pouring in syria we are like these we don't know we are going we don't know what's happening is more this man will call mohammad is carrying a burden he says he's worried about family in syria and he hasn't seen in 2 years worried about what awaits him as he tries to cross into europe the artist says he's certain of one thing he won't be leaving turkey by sea. this is one of 2 places in istanbul we found were syrian refugees are coming to hop on one of these free buses or pay about $20.00 to get into a van and go to the turkey greek border they tell us after watching the news all day and learning that the turkish government told border security in the coast

guard to stand down and allow refugees to cross they had to seize this opportunity to leave the country from morning to evening syrian refugees packed into buses to get to a durned near the greek border mohamed waited with friends who opted to stay behind and watched bus after bus pull up to the curb fill with people and drive away. i don't have a choice i assure you and i can be like just like surrendering stay and doing nothing and being like this we should like hell we should fire actually not fire has gone no or mine or soldiers or mohammad eventually found a ride leaving behind the small refugee family he's made in a country that offered a life but little future natasha going to name al-jazeera is stumble. still ahead on al-jazeera polls open in south carolina it's the site of the next u.s.

presidential primaries in just a few hours and super tuesday is just around the corner ethiopia's controversal down project takes shape on the nile as talks of the egypt stumbled yet again and argentina may have given the world some of its best footballers but it's ball makers are struggling not stories coming up in sports. we've got more clout and rain into central parts of china running right back towards the southwest and that's pushing across the east china sea the odyssey through the korean peninsula into southern parts of japan so there will be more wet weather in store here over the next a day or so shanghai right 12 degrees celsius it sinks a little further south which as we go on through sunday hong kong just clinging on

for the time being to the dry by the 2nd half of the weekend i suspect the rain will gradually set in right as guys dry weather does push back in behind as you can see too bad in japan by the time we come to sunday afternoon what about across the philippines dry his'n showers longer spells of rain pushing into the south of the country the wettest weather is through borneo indonesia still seeing those heat of the day show was of course. plenty of showers rolling through here as well and this is similar picture repeat performance as we go on into sunday want to see showers to into south asia but not too much to speak of the wetter weather has been towards the northern plains states and cloud of rain moving across north america sinking further south was a little colder in new delhi around 25 celsius that west and westerly disturbance continues to make its way further race which through saturday and sunday.

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a difference. oh . please. hurry on the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to the nearly 2 decade long war president donald trump is sundering secretary of state my compared to doha with the agreement expected to be signed on saturday. a 2nd person in california with no travel history or contacts with existing cases has been infected with corona virus the world health organization has raised its risk assessment of the old. at the highest level across the world. the u.n. secretary general and so on it's harris is calling for an immediate truce after

dozens of turkish soldiers were killed in a syrian government strike meanwhile the presidents of spoken to try to find ways of easing tensions in syria's northwest. democratic presidential hopefuls are wrapping up their campaigning in south carolina head of saturday's primary it's being seen as a test for the current front runner bernie sanders but could also signal the end for his rivals like joe biden meanwhile president donald trump is also in south carolina rally his supporters speaking to cheering crowds who taunted the democratic candidates accusing them of politicizing the corona virus outbreak let's speak to our son he's a democratic political strategist he's also a former executive director of howard dean's political organization democracy for america he's joining us from burlington vermont and we're going to talk to you about the democratic candidates not anything to say about the coronavirus arshad so south carolina to what extent does it. make it or break it moment for.

with absolute i think that's absolutely nailed it is make it or break it for biden he hasn't prevailed in any of the previous 3 contests in fact he's gotten 4th or 5th place in them and this is after a year of of other sort of talking heads and pundits saying that he'd be the man to beat this is his one contest to show they really has something so how will he do in south carolina particularly after he sort of got a boost this week a lot of people are saying with the endorsement of by jim clyburn the highest ranking african-american in congress. well so that endorsement came after his polls are already rising sounds like he's been doing some real work in south carolina but the expectations are so high for him that he really has to win and really clear the field has to win by a significant amount right now what's happening is that bernie sanders a candidate who many in the establishment said did not have support from the

important african-american his agency he's actually doing very well in this one so biden has to be able to clear the entire field and particularly bernie sanders just to stay in it ok so is this what you're going to be looking out for in the south carolina primary. i will be so it will 1st look to see if biden is clearing the field we'll see if bernie is actually doing well so even a strong 2nd place showing from bernie will keep him in the race he's doing extraordinarily well and then we should see as well as the rest of the field see how much african-american support they can really consolidate it really can't be understated how important race is in american politics and in particular this is the 1st time the african-american constituency will really be able to express itself in any of these contests so it will be a key indicator of support among the democratic base for any of the candidates and look ahead for us to super tuesday how well what happens in south carolina

impacts super tuesday. well super tuesday is coming up in just a few days after south carolina so south carolina's results will dominate the news for a few days but super tuesday is about a quarter of all of the democratic delegates will be decided on this one day so i imagine on the wednesday after super tuesday we'll be talking about the 15 or so states that will be voting this is an indicator if if as they say the candidates can actually consolidate one of the key constituencies but super tuesday will test candidates nationwide will really see a new narrative shape up after that tuesday and one more candidate that we haven't really spoken about as bloomberg i mean how do we assess bloomberg chances considering that he spent so much money so far in his campaign we will actually see anything from bloomberg really until super tuesday because here's the risky move that he made in getting in so late he decided that he

wouldn't contest any of the 1st 4 states he's not even on the ballot in south carolina so really his 1st chance will be this coming tuesday he's flooded the field with enormous unprecedented amounts of money just in my own home i had 4 or 5 mailers in the last few days in my house in vermont so he's really putting everything on the line for just this tuesday and you know for the benefit of our international audience our side just give us a sense of in your point of view and in your assessment i mean why is super tuesday considered so important and so significant particularly for this election. well our dominant contests are a little odd because they're staggered 1st we have iowa new hampshire then we have nevada and south carolina but super tuesday is called this because a quarter of all of the eligible nominating votes we need 4000 delegates a quarter of that will be just decided on this one day and now

a number of other states will vote after that but because so many delegates will be already been decided and because the narrative has really been shaped by the 1st few races this is the last chance that many candidates will have to make an impact really even make themselves known after super tuesday you should see the field winnow down a number of people will drop out to our side house and we thank you very much for speaking to us on the new. well the annual conservative political action conference or so is happening just outside washington d.c. president donald trump will address his supporters there on saturday he's expected to be welcomed with enthusiasm a sign of his solid control of the republican party. as a pastor has more. this is not the republican party of 5 years ago. this is the party of john will trump i'm here for one reason and one reason. and

that is that our management our party and america needs. years of president john. line the program for this year's meeting of american conservatives is an echo chamber of trump's grievances toward his political enemies and yet another victory lap following his impeachment acquittal in early february the lone republican who had voted to convict trump in the impeachment trial senator mitt romney saw his invitation to see packed with drawn but his name still came up to be jeered. correct answer by the way correct every time his name is mentioned you should respond that way it was a dramatic turnaround for romney who had previously won the c. pac unofficial poll for president who are times we now are existing in a world of parties as teams and they look at presidents as quarterbacks and what we see is that political parties are not allowing broad or diverse coalitions the

republican party has its roots more than a century and a half ago in the presidency of abraham lincoln the president who abolished slavery and stood for equal rights modern republicans still proudly call themselves the party of lincoln but some say trump republican party is the antithesis of lincoln's ideals we know that many of you millions of you struggle with what you are she every day wondering what this party has become and like you we know that what we are witnessing is not normal it is not ok. it is. this is not a seat back event but the people on this stage in new york call themselves the true republicans their leaders of the lincoln project a group focused on promoting conservatism while ending the trump presidency but their renegades they don't like the i don't like them either by the way from calls

any republican who opposes him and never trumper off in the end of their political career and at c pac disloyalty will not be tolerated i do joe castro al-jazeera washington thousands in russia are expected to protest against constitutional amendments that president putin in power after his term expires in 2024 the changes also aim to give the president more power over judges stuff awesome reports from st petersburg. these 2 glass artist nikolai and to jana never expected they would spend their days fighting russia's justice system but that's exactly what they have been doing for the past 2 years after their son julian was arrested and charged with terrorism together with 10 others he's accused of plotting attacks during the world cup and presidential elections charges his father called observed really beating him up to make him say what was needed but he didn't

say any scenes then transferred him to a different cell with conduct of 2 people a bunch of criminals whose job is to be testimony out of someone recently it's a kind of air this is police is in charge every day people get beaten up with their heads against the wall beaten with a stick and their legs heals tailbone and they go out of there and give any testimony they need it's a factory lawyers representing the families have filed the complaints of torture at the european court for human rights police denied these claims. at the court and some petersburg supporters called for julian's freedom the trial is a rare opportunity for his parents and wife who he married in prison to see him julian and victor feeling thoughts are the last 2 to stand trial in the case that has shocked many around russia and has seen sentences of up to 18 years in prison for family and friends of those on trial say that despite their fears they will continue to support them and so have many others around russia fabricated cases

like these are allegedly on the rise and rise of fear that would put its last official years as a president who will be more repression amnesty international sas thousands in russia have been convicted on fabricated charges according to the rights group it's a way for judges and prosecutors to be promoted and for the country's leadership to send a stern warning but the truth doesn't really matter all that matters is. outcome the people have to be found guilty no matter what they actually did and the methods for. this verdict they don't matter like nikolai and to john or other parents in this case have complained for the release of their children young men they described as nonviolent activists fighting against what they saw as the rise of nationalism and fascism. he participated in the rally against animal torture

the article is called this cruel russian circus they were demanding not to use animals and circus and now this article describes our lives it's the same crawl circus but with people instead what they do tara boys has become a circus many fear that president putin to plan to give the constitution priority over international courts will give them even less protection against cases like this as families soon might have nowhere to go to seek justice step faster al-jazeera simply to work. in togo police and demonstrators have class during protests against the l come of last week's election president far of nursing bay won with 72 percent of the votes his opponents call to the protests claiming election fraud one of the truths was of the protests in the capital alone. one of the young men out of several that have been arrested at the sent joseph college in loamy the police accuse them of throwing stones at them when the police fired tear

gas the part of the small group of demonstrators who were trying to organize to walk through the streets of normal to protest what they called fraud in the february 22nd presidential election here. earlier the police fired tear gas at the students on the responded by throwing back the canisters back at the police as well as stones when they run into this school dissent joseph's college here in rome and the police moved in with buttons and tear gas and. working from room to room trying to take the students all the protesters. throwing stones at them all who they accuse of breaking the law here because they want to march to protest what they call the fold irregularities of the presidential election so several students are actually in this building and the police are trying to take them out. there has announced it will not attend this week's latest round of u.s. brokered talks on a disputed nile down project with egypt on saddam on al-jazeera has been to western

ethiopia to see. this scene of destitution is a few miles away from ethiopia granted any. local people here still live. with no one in what or electricity or decent homes. they say patiently wait for the benefit of the doubt. what patience is there to muster these workers need to finish the must pass a week. daytime shift as a work progresses. the project is made up of 3 parts civil works which are now 87 percent complete the steel works which are going a bit slow with 17 percent completed and the electromechanical works at 35 percent and all those 3 components show that the dam is 71.2 percent complete we're

planning to start filling the reservoir next june and will be able to start producing electricity a year later once finished these giant tubes will channel but if all waters down through turbines $9.10 which are still to be placed here the powerful jets rotate the turbines and the hydro power engines a link to them pass for the 2 to electricity each turbine going to produce 370 megawatts when all of the 30 turbines are completed that dam will be able to produce a little less than 6000 megawatt enough to satisfy ethiopia's needs to export electricity to regions as far away as southern africa and western europe as you can see behind me that to me the section hasn't yet been finished its one acquires 2000000 cubic meters of wrong to concrete slabs to raise it to the final height that's also where the 13 will be inserted 2 of them will become operational early

next year and that's when the 1st hydro power production begins if your piece says this is crucial for its economic development so. downed a passage country believes it has nothing to fear despite warnings by some of its sr experts but egypt that it was historic destination feels threatened since the dawn of time it had the lion's share of the blue nile waters but that there's a country described by your order to us as the gift of the night believes the dumb may deprive its population of its most vital source is especially if you're pure insists on healing the 74000000000 cubic meter reservoir if the is egypt has suggested it should take no less than 70 years as the talks in washington d.c. stumble at each other around time is of the essence to both nations meanwhile the historic dam continues to take its final shape for the legendary river this is a mighty handle that will control every drop of it for the 1st time in history

a river that flew freely in the wild for millions of years is from now on forced to squeeze its way through these narrow i and frames of brick and mortar. is future and perhaps the 2 of the millions of people in its path is not set in stone for ages to come mohammed but our desire at the grander nissan's done western ethiopia police in costa rica have raided presidents carlos alvarado his home as part of an investigation into the misuse of certain citizens' personal data the sense of like is a sense that he and other top level officials illegally access data under the guise of a special task force it's the 1st time the home of a sitting president has been searched. a major train station in paris has been evacuated after protesters started a fire to disrupt a concert by a congolese singer the demonstrators burned scooters on cars as they block

firefighters from cutting out the blaze but singer being too close to the democratic republic of congo's leaders to toss a butler has been following developments outside the station she says plumes of smoke could be seen right across central paris. where the get out early or train station is one of the main stations in central paris and of the ground level you can really get a sense of the damage you can see these motorbikes have been overturned and if you come over here a whole wrong move most of bikes completely burnt out just caucuses on the floor we've seen a smashed possibly see bus stops also in bits completely burnt out and what happened was it was about 6 o'clock in the evening local time here in paris when protesters say all these vehicles around the train station and the plumes of smoke the rose into the air were very impressive you could see them all over paris we were some 2 kilometers away and even we could see them we could smell the smoke in

the end it reminds me very much of the night the not for time cathedral. a moment where people are looking up to the sky and really wondering what happened in central paris well before a fight is you can see over there they're just some of the many that came to the scene they managed to put out those blazes pretty quickly but it must mean very frightening for the many people using the train station on a friday evening a very busy time of the evening the train station was evacuated but it has now been reopened. well several actresses have walked out of the french film awards after roman polanski won the says our prize for best director he's wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old in 1977 did not attend the event because a protest against him taking place outside the 87 year old's latest film an officer in the spy's nominated for 12 awards and the awards entire board stepped down this month in part because of

a backlash over his nomination. here's what's coming up on the news hour in just a moment the sports news in china as a limpet poster boy who has his career ended by an 8 year doping ban details coming up. frank assessments. about. really. climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate going on both through school and noise all about this argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of the new countries and we are. against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera from london is one of the most unfortunate cities in the world and decisions made here have an impact around the globe and so here it out is iraq we will show you the impact of those

decisions on people but how it affects their everyday that. we are free to put the money in to really engage the stories because we know there are only says interested not just in the mainstream news but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go under reported. again time for the sports news here scooter thank you very much china's most famous athlete the 3 time olympic swim champion sewn young has been handed the maximum 8 year ban for breaking anti doping rules the decision was made by the court of

arbitration for sport kaz son was found guilty of refusing to cooperate with sample collectors during a home visit back in 2018 a confrontation resulted in one of his blood vials being smashed with a hammer swimming's governing body phina initially only warned him but the world anti-doping agency asked kaz to impose a ban which has now been confirmed it was not for the athlete to decide alone that an anti-doping test shall be invalidated and the sample containers destroyed as a consequence when young committed an anti-doping rule violation by tampering with the doping control soon has given he's reaction to china's official news agency verse is unfair i firmly believe in my innocence i will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth the chinese swimming association says it deeply regrets

the ruling and fully support certain. well no more no that jacket which is through to the tennis championships final to seeing of them on feeds on friday it was the frenchman who looked more likely to qualify for saturday's final and 1st off east taking the 1st set 62 before pushing the serve all the way in the 2nd but eventually surrendering at 76 the then up the ante and blew the 3rd seed away 617 and since it's us is waiting for him in the final. and in doha the women's world number one has been knocked out of the cut open ashley barty suffered a 3 set the feeder bands appeared to convert over who had lost their previous 4 matches to the australia. argentina has given the world some of its biggest football stars like we are now messi and the amount of donor but it's bull manufacturing sector is in crisis with imports leaving hundreds of people out of work so that's a bow reports from belval in the province of cordoba. food to

bulls have helped arjun tines laugh and cry throughout the years but in this factory in bellville in the central province of court of the law they have played a much bigger role. and a metal commander has been producing them since he was 11 years old it was his 1st job and it's been his passion since then juggling i was raised in a factory and my 1st payment was a pair of jeans that was my salary i'm talking years ago and now i see they are importing balls and they blow up on their own because it's not the quality we have we want to make the best balls hand me that can make it to the league i am till the 1930 s. the bulls were closed with a leather feel that hurt players head but 3 friends from bellville invented the super bowl with an invisible seem that is currently used today this city is considered argentina as a ball capital and what makes this balls unique is that bare hand made something

that generates hundreds of jobs every. but the dire economic situation in the country and imports from china and pakistan are having a strong impact in factories like this one that are struggling to remain in the. family has owned this factory for years he says in the past for production has dropped dramatically the previous administration. allowed imported walls to take over the market. when the g 20 happened with all the presidents from around the world. president's made in china we have all these factories here that need to so. he says in these past 2 years he has been forced to reduce his staff more than half of those on us i had 104 years and now i have 15 working and like all small companies if we had a decree that we could fire everyone we should have done so we were working to remain open to those around 15 small companies in the area and they have

a big impact in the community as they hire local sewers to create the bull's body. that he learned how to sew bulls from his mother he has 5 children and says he can make a little extra cash every month. i started sewing balls when i was around 5 years old to help my mother this is the only job i have for now i don't have anything else aside from government help it's difficult these days to care for my children everything is expensive with inflation argentina needs around $4000000.00 a year factories like this one say they could survive by producing only 20 percent of what is needed there only waiting for the government to look their way. argentina. now a great bit of play in the n.b.a. is the los angeles lakers hammered the golden state warriors and they did it without le bron james he said with a grueling injury anthony davis managed just fine though he scored 23 points and

also contributed to this spectacular assist the set up crews many concede davis somehow manages to pass the ball before crashing into those cold side seats the lakers went on to win by 30 and the brawny clearly enjoy himself as they talk in the way it's to do the lakers as the warriors remain but. will just leave you know with what rather lucky goal short on the european tour years callum's shingle in at the amman open shanking the ball straight into some rocks but it bounced straight over them again and again nestling nicely at the side of the fairway. actually meant it. that's where we'll leave it for now more sports news coming up again later we'll see you then. that's it for the news hour on al-jazeera thanks very much for watching martin janice's with you in just a moment so how much more news coming our way about.

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a world where there was missing recently much of. egypt's fatherland on al-jazeera . as the u.s. and the taliban prepare to sign a preliminary peace deal the afghan armed group tells us it will uphold women's rights. of women one. that good. and they will work reports accept and give them a spur of the islamic course but only that they observe that your. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from doha dennis also coming up south korea report.