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hostage during protests. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from dog ha. also coming up. escaping the nightmare and tennessee of african migrants returned home after a crackdown by president case i eat. u. s. conservatives made maryland as the contest to select. the republican party's 2024 presidential candidate heat sump. and the rice is on in the philippines to contain an oil spill from a tank of the sank. but the vessel has yet to be located. ah, columbia's president gustavo petro says all the hostages, as an oil facility have been released, i. d eyed people were taken hostage by protest, says in the southern province of ca, quit on thursday. a police officer and

a civilian were killed. protesters were demanding help to repair and bills, new roads in the area. hello, sandra ron p, a. t has more from the capital bogota. the announcements came after many hours of negotiations by the minister of defense, the minister of the interior, with the farmers and indigenous people that had retained the police officers and the oil workers. be those published by the defense ministry show. the police officers stepping off a truck and greeting he van velasquez. the defense minister. this development was obviously a huge relief, not only for the family of the hostages, but also for the government that had insisted that the release had to be the 1st steps for the government to negotiate with the protesters is from chris to it is a gesture that mislead reconsideration of many issues around in the treatment of

social conflict in columbia. i will personally dialogue with the farmers about their needs and the complaints the claims. and i asked the entire popular movement in general his and rural urban. to see that this is a government of dialogue, a government that belongs to them. and under these terms, violent actions only destroy the possibility of having a progressive and popular government. the protesters or farmers that live in a remote area along neglected by the state that also have to deal with drug trafficking activity. also the activity of armed the rebels fighters in the area. and that had been promised that infrastructure developments the paving of a major road in the area when the company moved in, but improve improvements that had never materialize. and in the end, this was a relatively quick resolution to what had turned out to be a major crisis. for the government and the way this government,

this trying to deal with social conflict in the country trying to use dialogue 1st and avoiding excessive use of for some part of the police. in this case though, that strategy had turned into a major tobacco for the colombian state forces and finally present several federal also said that now the attorney general will have to investigate and tried those responsible for the day. the un human rights office has urged columbia to speed up the dismantling of armed groups in the country. president gustavo petro has bound to implement the 2016 pace the court, and strike a new piece, deals with the remaining rebels and crime gangs. at least 450000 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced during 6 decades of armed conflict. you could okay, well, i'm getting a lemma. i believe columbia has profound human rights problems which will take a long time to resolve. we have seen the government openness to recognize human rights problems, discuss human rights problems and proposed solutions. these problems will not be

solved overnight. they require structural changes development to reach abandoned territories and institutions and the rule of law to reach these places. migrants from guinea now back home from tennessee, a say they were living in hell after a crackdown, ordered by prison chi side, he's been condemned for sang, hoards of illegal sub saharan migrants were changing the demographic make up of the country. nicholas hark reports from synagogues, capital dhaka, you'll love to see what the lesson was on social media, a video of another racist attack on black migrants in tunisia. such attacks are prohibited by law, but rights groups say they're condone by the countries president. last week, k say it said quote, hordes of sub saharan africans, we're changing the demographic makeup of the country, sparking racist attacks throughout the nation. this is what is left of one black woman's home after it was ransacked. black men and women say they are arbitrarily rounded up by police because of the color of their skin. all the need help from all

over the wall, because really suffering he had hundreds of ivory ins and unions are now beat repatriated, some injured and unable to walk after the beatings will be what not. we live in fear. people are scared to go out. even those that have the right paperwork that a doctor and for those that don't have visas, they get thrown out on the spot. many of them were hoping to make it to europe. most african migrants from senegal and west africa are not fleeing war, but poverty. but europeans don't want them on their continent that have signed agreements with north african countries, like kanisha to stop them from crossing the mediterranean. according to aid agencies, there are 30 to 50000 african migrants living in tunisia, illegally. genuine rights activist, miriam, my store says the art mistreated and do menial jobs that tunisians don't want to do

. she says she and her husband have also experienced abuse for racism is a, has a long history in julia against black people. even if a black people are like 10 or 15 percent of the population, now people engineered there are in social and economic crisis. so the, the president, he uses a black people as the scapegoats tunisians are out on the streets denouncing the attack, holding sign thing, tunisians come in all colors. it's not only a reminder of the diversity of the country, but a call for unity in the faith of growing bigotry and division. nicholas hawk al jazeera corn synagogue of anson shatara is director of the global migration center . he says president, case site is using migrants as a distraction from tennessee, as domestic problems well known in europe in was there. we still

states focusing on my grounds to avoid i likings is a real issue. so clearly you're again migrant. asa ideal is. ready to avoid the real issue that takes place to either or resident you send them in and such, many of them are walking in a formal sector and in fact, they are on. so some really bushel money in tunisia and those are important abortion of several migrant. i'm psyched students on an important elements and not all are indicative and of course, so it was the community the are used to, to, to work in domestic work and or, or,

or tradition. angry practice has continued in greece over choose a train crash that live dozens of people did the much as anticipating the key and ethan's erupted into violence, break away groups through petrol, bombs of police, who responded with tear gas. protests, blame the government for the poor condition. of greece's rail system, while unions say a fatal accident was inevitable. the latest protests happened as hundreds of mourners attended the 5th funeral for a crash victim. so for 52 of the 57 confirmed victims have been identified. mostly with dna. 350 people were on the passenger train when it collided with a freight train on the same track. i wanted to get on, we should become the voice of the dead. were truly outraged and showing our rage because of all the deficiencies that exist in all aspects of our lives. this crime will not be forgotten. our dead classmate will not be forgotten, nor any of those who died in this accident. and we will continue to that nothing is

covered up and those responsible are being held accountable. jim and chancellor, olaf schultz is on one day trip to the us where he made president joe biden, the war and you crime was top of the agenda during the friday meeting in the oval office sholtes and been bound to continue the support for you cried together work lock step to supply critical security systems, you crate and everything from what we've done in lock step ammunition or jewelry, armor tags, air defense systems. we've been together throughout this. let me just say this is a very, very important. yeah. because of the very dangerous threat piece that comes from russia, ukraine. and it's really important that we act together organized a step that we made to feasible that we can give the necessary support of ukraine

doing all the time. and that this time i think it is very important that we get the message that we will continue to do so as long as it takes and as long as it's necessary and that we are ready for staying with the ukrainians as and as long as it's necessary to the united states now where republican party members are holding the 2nd day of the conservative political action conference had seen as an early test for those seeking to challenge donald trump to the parties. presidential nomination. alan fisher is at the meeting and oxen hill, maryland. why if you want to judge who got the best reception over the last few hours, it was steve bannon. the man fired by donald trump is still very close to the former president. when he talked about donald trump winning election in the next presidential election that brought the crowd to their feet. certainly by far and away the biggest response, we've seen it. if you what runs the holes here. you will see many people wearing compet competition, selling trump portraits. he's still very much the dominant figure here in the

republican park, you know, to potential appointments for him in the republican party. i've already spoken. first of all, we had from mike from peel, the former secretary of state. he wasn't afraid to take on donald trump by name, saying that donald trump added to the national debt when he was an office. and that is something that has to be rectified. and then he talked about rejecting celebrity leaders with fragile egos. who could he possibly be talking about? as for nicky healey, she of course is a declared candidate. but this was our 1st real test. she was out of the comfort bubble of supporters in south carolina coming here to what essentially was a less than half fool whole to speak to the rank and file. and she started her speech with a criticism of both joe biden and donald trump. when i lights my campaign, i said, every politician over 75 years, all and should be required to take a mental competency test. have you seen daisy lately?

we shall start with jo vine and we shouldn't stop there. if you want to talk about the elephant, not in the room, then that's the florida governor on desantis, nor many people would suspect that he would be a very strong opponent for donald trump if he were to run. and many people think he will declare. but he's decided to opt out of c park, he's going to make a big speech in texas on saturday. but there are supporters here. and if you put donald trump up against ron de santis, who is very popular in florida and is brought in some policies that are very popular with the rank and file of the republican party, he does very well. but still the overwhelming favorite at this point to win, the republican nomination would be donald trump. and this hall will be packed on saturday evening when he comes here to speak to c panel with china is gearing out for its most important annual political gathering. delegates at the national people's congress will begin meeting on sunday to lay out the country's policy for the upcoming year. katrina,

you reports from beijing top chinese leaders were gathered on sunday for the 1st national people's congress since the start of the pandemic. in recent years, the meeting has been postponed or shortened, but in 2023, a full program is in place and it'll include an overhaul of communist party leadership under president sheet. and king lead chung will officially be confirmed as premier taking over the could child who's held the role for 10 years. a slew of top economic and political positions will also be filled, including central bank, governor, vice and state ministers, all by officials reportedly close to see the re shuffle followed the 20th communist party congress in october, where he secured an unprecedented burton as china's supreme leader. for the 1st time in 10 years, that agent paying is going to have his people leading all of the major organs of state power in china. so the outside of that is that we could see more efficient

policy implementation of c's priorities. but the downside is that after trans party, congress has become pretty clear that stage and paying wants to continue taking china in a more ideologically controlled, more economically status and more diplomatically assertive direction. there will also be an extensive reorganization of state and party institutions, giving she more control of china's financial system. last year's growth rate of 3 percent was the slowest and half a century, a new target for gross domestic product, all g d p will be announced. economists say are relatively high, figure 6 percent may point to more aggressive po, growth policies ahead. the one thing that the government can control is to make the state such a stronger, not necessarily bigger, but certainly more competitive and stronger in order to provide enough support for growth. this is, congress comes as trying to face is increasing headwinds at home. the government is

grappling with an aging population and unemployment crisis abroad. beijing is navigating and increasingly adversarial relationship with united states and sanctions on technology threaten it's access to the global market. oh, it also fuller's widespread protest against east 3 years. 0 corvette policy analysts are divided over how far they damaged confidence in the president's leadership. what is clear is following this meeting. she didn't things grip on power will be more comprehensive and consolidated than ever before. katrina, you, i'll da 0 teaching still ahead on al jazeera and jessica washington and hong kong were environmental groups looking to save the territories damaged oyster. ah.

with here's your weather update in a minute 15. good to have year long. we're going to begin this one in the middle east where it is all about the wind. it's coming out of the south, so that's going to boost temperatures. we go in for a closer look, good catch $22.00 because it is also spinning around the sand and does for a huge swath of saudi arabia. but look what it does to the temperature and kuwait pushes the up to $32.00 degrees. temperatures are also running above average in karachi at $35.00. same goes for ask about his while warm pocket of air here stop temperature of 26 on saturday. wet weather is happening over the gm pushing in to that western side of turkey a. so that means some showers in the forecast here, not showers, but snow and ice for the northeast of algeria on saturday, and the heat picking back up again for egypt. so cairo at $32.00. so most 10 above where you should be for this that the year central africa, most of the what weather rate along the coast here for the gulf of guinea and an update now on what was tropical cyclone freddy remnants leftovers of. it's still

wobbling around in the mozambique channel. this thing's been go and the site quo now for about 2627 days shows no signs of slowing down. and it is going to pour some what, whether into that west coast of madagascar, also showers in storms across south africa. over the course of the weekend. ah, talk to al jazeera, we ask, what should they not be more oversight? perhaps a foundations like yours. we listen when it comes to diversification, we don't do it in our be gets rid of the rational, none of the sources. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera, a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of on

networks journalist on al jazeera, ah ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the sour walden id police office is an oil work, as in columbia, who's been taken hostage have been freight. they were captured on thursday, during protests said, an oil facility in car quit the province. guineas. military leader has criticized what he called the degrading treatment of sub saharan african simpson. nicea dozens of giddeons have been repatriated, south tennessee, as president accused migrants of creating a crime. wife and angry protests have continued in greece over tuesdays train crash that lives at thousands of people. did protests as blame the government for the poor condition of chris's royal system. the you in human rights chief of vulcan

turk has criticized israel's finance minister, who called for the palestinian village of who were to be erased. took said the statement by biz allows small church is an incitement to violence and hostility. the attack was strongly condemned by the president of israel, who called it and i quote, criminal violence against innocence which harms us as a moral society and a lawful country. yet that finance minister publicly called for the town of who are to be wiped out an unfathomable statement of incitement to violence and hostility. israeli forces have fought tear gas on international and israeli demonstrators marching in solidarity with the palestinian residents of her wire and the occupied west bank. the sierra hot up reports the village remains under lockdown. well, we're here just outside of hell. why are the town that was pushed by hundreds of

israeli settlers earlier in the week? these ready forces have been inside hawaii for days now shop over on the lock down . and it's also a protest, hey, by israelis that i have, i said in solidarity with the palestinians on water who had their homes shop and their business is destroyed. now will be speaking to some of them there. you'll see them, they all coming through this road. they're going to end up at the main check point that just a few hours ago, the israeli posters was stopping them from coming in. now can we speak to some of the protesters? hey, why you hear protesting me. the reason is the program is few days ago on the so they can stay at home. i can also more journey to express my objection to occupation. okay. and how did you come to get him wherever you come

from? tell you not too far and all of you have come, especially for this solidarity much today course all met and came together. we're trying to get into how we asked the military to show core a show where military zone. busy are in not allowing us, but a refuse afterwards started to use violence including a brutal violence including a san grenade. and apparently, as someone that was arrested and hearing the radio, what they are trying to prevent these us going to how about because it didn't want to see a picture while we are. so you study dorothy with the victims of the pogroms of i'm sorry to say a jewish person, that is a descendant of holocaust survivors. but what happened unfortunately was a pure group, so not orchestrated by the israeli government, enabled by the israeli military. that was presence over there, and unfortunately, the international community is not doing anything in order to have his royal liar

boat for his crimes against a on aren't people and against humanity for what i was just down the road headed to the main road that takes you all the way it connects the northern parts of the west bank with the center of the west bank. it's also surrounded by several illegal israeli settlements. one of hundreds here in the occupied westbank west is our prize commodity in hong kong. but many traditional farms have been abandoned now consider conservationists are working to restore them as part of if it's to repair damaged reefs and protect marine wildlife. jessica washington reports on hong kong north western coast. tom chan spends his morning's trying to bring back a chapter of the territories past. we want to are we saw this abandon oyster, far bad to a more natural relocating habitat. so that example fired the ecological function as a normal i so riff this area was once part of an oyster

funding industry, dating back 700 years. many of these traditional farms were abandoned when more modern techniques were introduced. now conservation is so trying to restore them to help save the reefs on kong once had thriving, oyster reefs. but a number of factors including coastal reclamation, pollution and over exploitation have led to a decline in oyster populations. over the past, a 150 years, signed to say restoring the old farms is a fast and effective way to boost oyster populations. one of the big benefits with something like an an abandon noise to farm is that you've already got oysters growing. if you can consolidate that structure, bring it together to form more of a reef like structure. you've got a head start. researchers estimate about 80 percent of oyster reefs around the wills have been removed or damaged. professor russell says,

restoring them is important to revitalizing marine ecosystems. they form reefs, they formed big structures which provide habitat for other organisms. and so there's thousands of species which live in and around oyster reefs. oyster reeves also help mitigate coastal erosion and help reduce toxic alkie balloons. the researchers say restoring reefs and sustainable harvesting can go together because farmers can benefit from an increase in the number of oysters. in hong kong, bustling victoria hopper researchers are deploying a different method, putting oyster shells back in the ocean to attract alba marine life. so this is the us ensuring that we pit into the ocean. i'm 10 moms before. so i'm, we have like a company killer. it oyster shells and then we'd go them, assemble them and then put it into the ocean. so this i sal substrate. i'm for other mary organism to live on that. they say they want to teach people the haunted

belongs to every one, including its oysters. jessica washington out to sara, hong kong, the navy and coast guard in the philippines are searching for a sunken tanker that's creating a huge oil spell. it's threatening protected marine areas and what's being described as a potential environmental disaster. the slick now mrs. more than 24 square kilometers, barnaby low has more from the oriental lipman, dora in the philippines. while the oil spill off the island of min, doro, which is where we are right now, has shrunk to about 3 kilometers long, from 6 kilometers in length yesterday. that's based on the aerial surveyed that the philippine coast guard did earlier in the day. officials of the philippine coast guard doubt theorizing that the bulk of that oil spill is a diesel oil from the engine of the oil tanker rather than from the 800000 liters of industrial fuel oil from that oil tanker. now it's important because industrial fuel oil is unrefined oil, so that would be more harmful to marine life here. although of course we're not

saying that these an oil is not harmful, they're still testing water samples. they have yet to determine whether it's diesel oil, really, or if it's industrial fuel oil. but the authorities are also saying that they are facing the number of problems right now, including strong currents and winds. that's preventing them from installing booms to contain the oil spill. but also more importantly, that oil tanker has completely sunk in so they can't pinpoint the exact location of this oil tanker. the waters here, very deep, almost twice as tall as the i feel tower. so they can't find it. they can't siphoned off the 800000 leaders of industrial fuel oil that, that oil tanker was carrying a 1st. it's beyond the capability of technical diapers. second, we don't have submersible mechanical equipment. now the problem isn't just at the main site of the oil spill. oil has been found in

a few coastal towns in this locality. the oil that has been found is a thick. it is smelly, and it is black, which are size that it could be industrial fuel, oil or unrefined oil. now within these localities are a number of marine protected areas. the university of the philippines, marine science institute warning that $24000.00 hectares of coral reef is at risk from this oil spill. why to below al jazeera orient. i mean dora the philippines. it's being billed as a game changing tournament for women's cricket and india. and beyond, the women's premier league is modeled on the money fuels glamour of the means. i p l. competition. and it's already broken all financial records and women's sport says public health reports. now my con is demanding the back increase. she's been playing cricket for a decade. it's by far the most popular sport in india con says it's the best time

for women to be playing the gentlemen's game, like format they are more platforms, more opportunities for girls. now. earlier, we only got a job in the indian railways. if we did well into misty cricket, may have many option of the new woman's premium will give us more money and a chance to make a name for ourselves. women's quick aid is getting a new tournament. the women's premier league or w, p l has 5 teams. games will be played in the t 20 format, and players will include indian and international stars. the biggest names tend to on up to around $400000.00 for 3 weeks work. that's 10 times as much as the woman's 100 competition in england and with the women's premier league is already one of the was most valuable women sporting franchisee leads. the teams will auction for more than half a $1000000000.00. that's more than what the men's engine premier league raised when it began 15 years ago, and brought gothright sold for more than

a $100000000.00. she deem owners also have franchises in the ip. daily captain says it's tapping into the growing demand for women sport. if you look at the ip address right now, to 45 percent of 45 percent of the ship comes from them. and so d, b ip is watched by those 2 to 40000000 have in there. so we are all very, very bullish that the commercial growth of this league is going to be phenomenal. india esteem has had a strong season. the under 94 recently won the t 20 woke up, and the senior players reached the semi final india cricket federation. the bcc, i recently announced equal match fees for international male and female players. the whole idea is to was the women could get because no, australia, new zealand, england, other countries there really was in women could get so with this, they didn't want to lag, did the good unless you put them,