just like maybe rob matheson al-jazeera back to. well six time champion south korea progressed at the tournament after a really close call against bahrain south korea doesn't want to start now since one thousand nine hundred sixty when he gave them the lead just before half time and late in the second half buying school the equaliser sent the game into extra time south korea did survive though came to see you getting the win at final score so you want. an eight summer olympics champion saying bolt has announced his retirement from what was a pretty short lived football career the jamaican went on trial with several clubs including russia dortmund boat turned down a contract with central coast mariners in the australian elite and with a letter in. ok that is a sports looking fan house thanks very much and the you've been watching the observer news on with me so rahman and the richardson there in jordan is up next with another full half hour but you'll join him until it ends your time and your company. in september twenty seventh team

because the road protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. is there with me so rahman a reminder of our top stories the u.s. president's close ally roger stone has been arrested as part of special counsel robert miller's investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty six thousand election he's been charged with obstructing official proceedings making false statements and witness tampering the united nations special rapporteur on at me in yankee lean years calling on bangladesh to allow the un to make an assessment before writing the refugees a move to a remote island about one hundred thousand rangar are to be moved to boston char in the bay of bengal greece's parliament has voted to ratify a landmark agreement with its northern neighbor to change its name to north macedonia it was approved following days of heated debate protesters against the deal have been braving the rain outside parliament. the u.n. human rights chief is warning the situation in venezuela could spiral rapidly out of control with catastrophic

the color of protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. children ends in badly have described to al jazeera how they were beaten after being arrested during protests the army denies abusing detainees and says anyone guilty of such behavior isn't a real soldier. reports from harare. these children say they spent two nights in a police cell they are out on bail and have been charged with public violence for participating in last week's protests. and the eighteen police also accused of looting. this sixteen year old says he told them a new came to his house he's innocent but they beat him anyway i was able ads is saved. it was sore when they beat me and i'm still in pain and all find it hard to create one and sometimes it's. their lawyer says excessive force should not be used on minus we don't really know whether they really are all soldiers or police officers but the children were assaulted there using baton stieg still using chains and i think you saw that one of them is a go she was alleging that one of the male soldiers actually

the color of protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. in indonesia the number of people killed by floods and landslides has risen to fifty nine many villages living near an overflowing dam in the south sulawesi province had to be evacuated thousands more were forced to leave their homes since tuesday after tarantula rain triggered severe flooding across the region earlier this month another landslide in java kent thirty two people. meanwhile soaring temperatures in australia have spock's more than fifty bushfires across the southern island state of tasmania hundreds of firefighters have been brought in from other parts of the country to help contain them he ways from today emergency warnings in other cities separate as a forecast to reach forty four degrees celsius in melbourne the hottest in a decade and it's a very different story on the other side of the world where parts of niagara falls have froze them in basically cold winter conditions visitors have been coming from iran the world to get a look along the border between ca

the choleric protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad still ahead on al-jazeera. the point. returns. to life. with. the best. i was at the. continues with me going into a war zone he said the first thing i look for is the exit to get to get out that nobody sees your pictures there's no point going to these places. sattar has never been a real easy sell for an investment how much are the reserves are they understated or that. they own those shares your company for the people baas. hello again more than one hundred people have been detained in egypt that was last year for criticizing the government that's according to a report by amnesty international which says at least one hundred thirteen people were jailed for peacefully expressing their views adding critics are often sent to solitary confinement or face forced disappearances amnesty warns it's now the most dangerous time in egypt's recent history to speak out against the government there's been no immediate response from the egyptian government hossein by you means amnesty int

the color of protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad there is optimism in the democratic republic of congo as people welcomed their new leader despite the economic hurdles ahead and questions over the election that brought him to power all the public is eager to see how felix jessica they will deal with high unemployment corruption and fix poor services from some of the reports from kinshasa. it was just as former president joseph kabila took office eighteen years ago that abraham will open this roadside printing shop he says he started the business after he couldn't find a job in a country hit by high unemployment now that new president felix to security has been sworn in abraham says things may be different. i think with the new elected president things may change especially in the economy so that my business can grow but we will have the same individual sharing the wealth of the country i will be very disappointed to see katie controversially won the election in december with the result still disputed by rival martin for you

for a family funeral so off we go to muscat oman the capital robots rob matheson is there for us amman just first of all rob it's an interesting one the sort of quiet to diplomatic play of the gulf but strategically important just by geography exactly that's absolutely right just from where i'm standing just a few kilometers to the east there is the straits of hormuz and down the state the center of the strait of hormuz shares a maritime border with iran to the west again just a few kilometers away its western border is shared with the united arab emirates with saudi arabia and with the yemen that's meant that oman over the last few decades has had to maintain a very delicate balance between these very significant players in the middle east not only from a security point of view but from a trades point of view as well in oman does business with iran oman does business with saudi arabia yemen and with the u.a.e. and other countries on the western side of the gulf and among them all does not want to upset that balance but this whole message that the secretary of state has been putting fo

and so is the number of addicts particularly in poverty stricken parts of the south are just as rob matheson has more now from baghdad. this is one of the front lines in iraq's latest battle the fight against illegal drugs such as heroin and crystal meth. it's a makeshift treatment center run by police in the southern city of basra trying to help addicts such as haasan. i have been an addict for more than seventeen months and then i got arrested by police while i was buying large quantities of drugs to use every day my entire family has disowned me. drug smugglers have been crossing parts of the border with iran which were left with little protection during the four year war against isis importing mainly cannabis and methamphetamines drugs factories have also been discovered on the iraqi side of the border in plantations and orchards in bass or province highlands. so we're tightening security to prevent the smuggling of drugs and narcotics doing as much as we can to stop it but there are ways smugglers are getting past this the treatment center in basra run by the police is one of two unoffi

just like maybe rob matheson back to. and let's just take a quick look at the video doing the rounds on sweats is that i reminding us all about the progress of you saying balls football career the eight simon pick sprint champion chasing after manchester united sure that's the club he's always dreamt of playing for but instead he setting the world record for the quickest football career. sorry to report the dream has died for bolt after retiring from athletics in twenty seven saying the jamaican did go on trial with several clubs including doormen there he actually turned down a contract with the central coast mariners and australia under the team in malta but he's decided to call it a day will not be focusing on his business interests. there will be plenty more sports in the eighteen hundred g.m.c. news or if you were to get in touch with me on one and they are underscore sports or you can use the hash tag news grid but for now one hundred thank you mr rich that much pretty good and if you want to get in touch with us on

accused both sides of failing to all of the terms of the deal which calls for all sides to withdraw rob matheson takes a look at the fragile truce. rare smiles in the yemeni port city of hiding on the streets cautious optimism about the un brokered cease fire which appeared to be holding in the closing days of december. during the almost four year conflict in yemen data and the people who live here have been bombed and shot at. as opposing sides of the battle to control the city the port of her data is yemen's lifeline where most food imports equipment or medical supplies arrive desperately needed by hospitals like this one in the city of ties in western yemen which patients including fired one hundred rely on to survive. i'm from our marker and there's no renal dialysis the most important thing is my treatment without it i'll die. much of tell us has been destroyed as have many other parts of yemen at least sixty thousand yemenis are reported killed in fighting nationwide between warring factions including hooty rebels and pro-government forces backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the

just like me rob matheson back to. has announced his retirement from what that was a very short lived football career. with several clubs including german leaders and turned down a contract to a central coast. and that's it for me thanks and you've been watching me. on the other side of the break until and for me on the news hour time accompli. why because i always an experience the words like never before. cats are in place going places together. a face can tell a story without uttering a single hand. and now england. can guide us. a simple touch inform us. the un convention manatee of life witness through the lens of the human nine. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. and the next episode of techno the team travels to the heart of the amazon. where we are now should be re-enforced to investigate illegal gold mining mercury had a very unique characteristic of binding the goal for a minor it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact is what we end up doing

also admit it's hard to stop people making and selling drugs when the only alternative is poverty rob matheson all jazzy of baghdad. welcome back a plate of prawns from thailand makes a tasty meal so does all sorts of all the thai seafood that a geisha is a fishing boats using slave labor and overfishing didn't go down well in brussels the european union threatened the ban on seafood imports that so-called yellow card warning has just been lifted so high the reports from bangkok thailand fishing and seafood industry is big business it's the third largest export or in the world. so in two thousand and fifteen when the european commission issued a so-called yellow card warning over unsustainable fishing practices the threat of a ban on exports to the european union was a major blow anough to cause the military government to launch a major overhaul of the industry and a crackdown on illegal fishing implementing everything from vessel monitoring systems to tougher laws against the ill treatment of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers mainly from myanmar even sinking confiscated boats to create

also admit it's hard to stop people making and selling drugs when the only alternative is poverty rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad survivors of the auschwitz death camp gathered at the site to mark holocaust remembrance day it comes after a year which is seen an increase in anti semitic attacks including the fatal stabbing of an eighty five year old holocaust survivor in france in october a gunman killed eleven jews in a synagogue in pittsburgh the deadliest attack in its kind in u.s. history a plate of prawns from tyler makes a tasty meal so there's all sorts of other thai food but a geisha is of fishing boats using slave labor and overfishing didn't go down well in brussels the european union threatened the ban on seafood imports so-called yellow card warnings just been lifted the reports from bangkok thailand fishing and seafood industry is big business it's the third largest export are in the world. so in two thousand and fifteen when the european commission issued a so-called yellow card warning over unsustainable fishing practices the threat of a ban on exports to the european union was a

buildings fell into disrepair now the government has opened it up trying to show baghdad is secure rob matheson explains this is our rashid street it's one of the most iconic streets in central baghdad there's been a street all in this route for the best part of a hundred years it dates back to the early days of the ottoman empire in the sixteenth century but all rashid street came into being right about nine hundred sixteen that's when the british suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the ottomans to the south of baghdad to commemorate that victory the military governor of baghdad. said that this street should be built during the u.s. led invasion of iraq the street was closed and that's because it's a very strategic importance for baghdad it links we are off for a day in the central bank behind me to baghdad's main base business district which is just a few kilometers on the other side that was very important and it was very likely that it was going to be a significant targets of the street was closed but seventeen years later it's reopened for decades all over she'd street was the center

new year ukraine's orthodox churches begin a newly independent and some feel uncertain future rob matheson odyssey the u.k. prime minister to resign may has admitted the nation will be in uncharted territory if had a deal to leave the european union is rejected by parliament is that we start debating a brecht's it deal next week and of the vote from december parliament in the public remain deeply divided over leaving the e.u. but lawrence lee reports from london one unexpected community is still firmly behind bricks it. this part of south london is home to people from all over the world afghans sell fruits and vegetables to eastern europeans and africans who rub along perfectly happily with british people who have lived here for generations you might assume this multicultural pockets of the capital is entirely against a brick say it's often portrayed as a defense of whites britain but not so for this nigerian restaurant there is a quiet satisfaction at the prospect of the u.k. cutting its ties with europe and starting to pay more attention to its historical friends in the commonwealth if t

also admit it's hard to stop people making and selling drugs when the only alternative is poverty rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad u.s. senator coming harris is known to twenty twenty white house campaign with attacks on president donald trump's policies she's criticize the administration's separation of thousands of immigrant children from their parents of the southern border are as is presenting a self as the leader who can unite a divided country a longtime ally of donald trump says he'll consider cooperating with the russian investigation by special counsel robert muller roger stone was arrested on friday and denies charges of lying to congress and witness tampering if there is wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that i don't know about which i know of no one but if there is i would certainly testify honestly i'd also testify honestly about any other matter including any communications with the president it's true that we spoke on the phone but those communications are political in nature there but now i and there is there is certainly no conspiracy with russia done estabrook has mor

also admit it's hard to stop people making and selling drugs when the only alternative is poverty rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad opposition protesters in bolivia have tried to disrupt primary elections called by the government of president as they call for voters to abstain while the first round was held on sunday ponce the vote is aimed at the just amazing the president's bid for a fourth term which they claim is a new constitutional. law a longtime ally of president donald trump has said he will consider cooperating with special counsel robert muller's russia investigation roger stone who was arrested on friday has denied charges of lying to congress and witness tampering. if there is wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that i know about which i know of no one but if there is i would certainly testify honestly i'd also testify honestly about any other matter including any communications with the president it's true that we spoke on the phone but those communications are political in nature there but now i and there is there is certainly no conspiracy with russia no place of programs

what if any statements come out of this and what the tone of those statements are rob thank you rob matheson live for us in muscat let's me now to educate a senior political analyst a model under shot and he joins me on sat now so much the whole purpose of this this trip by the u.s. secretary of state which is now winding down was to kind of clarify u.s. policy in the region particularly after that sudden decision by president trump on troops in syria yet now his boss in washington is once again tweeting threats to turkey this time and it's seems if we would come back to square one again well look i mean there is a strategic decision that's for sure so i mean let's leave it with the rhetoric the style aside there is a switch is a decision to draw down slash would drove venture early the troops from syria and i think that's a bit of a trump commitment during the campaign it's trump's commitment to his base and in fact this drops mindset nuts withdrawal even today he said something about let's end all wars and so on and so forth so this is his mindset now when you talk about style and speciall

the russian church is said to have broken all links now with its ukrainian parish is more from rob matheson. with a simple sweep of the pan ukraine's orthodox churches gain their independence or autocephaly a move likely to infuriate russian religious leaders and deepening of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the author talks church worldwide denied he'd been given bribes to authorize the separation however he admitted to a group of children he had been given chocolates by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. according to an agreement made two centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia. but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to sever ties since the country became independent from russia in one thousand nine hundred one.

the color of protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. let's just take you over to gaza now live pictures coming in from the gaza israel border where israeli forces are firing tear gas at palestinians staging there late as friday protests more than two hundred palestinians have been killed during the demonstrations which began last march palestinians are demanding a right to return to their ancestral lands that they were expelled from when israel was created more than seventy years ago. well it's time for sport is peter. i don't mind block up a very minute i accept your apology we still had to be australian open in a match or tennis fans have been waiting for world number one novak djokovic said of a final these old rival rafael nadal cruised through the semifinal against luke up we beating the frenchman in straight sets six love six two and six to talk about she's aiming for the seventh title in melbourne and a reunion with no dogs thoughts. you know he's my biggest rival. you know in my career played so many matches against him

because the rock protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. all to sudan now where the leader of the largest opposition party has called on the government to bow to mass protests and give up power saw that day addressed hundreds of supporters at a mosque in hard to human rights groups say more than forty protesters have been killed since demonstrations began last month the rally started out as protests against rising food prices that have gone into an uprising calling for the end of president tomorrow bashir is thirty year rule. why do you feel the seller mullard really show me. the demands of the government to step down and be replaced by a national interest government whose job is to achieve comprehensive peace freedom and human rights and implemented emergency economic program lift the suffering of the people that are more on the story now from head to logan is in heart in. following friday prayers dozens came out to protest against the government of president armitage bashir people have been doing straining for five weeks

also admit it's hard to stop people making and selling drugs when the only alternative is poverty rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad gunmen never attacked a village and became a fast killing ten people it happened in the northern side hell region but in a fast so seen a surge in attacks by armed groups in recent years after it began supporting a un peacekeeping mission in neighboring mali a wildfire swept across cape town's famous lion's head mountain in south africa firefighters have been battling throughout sunday night trying to bring the blaze under control as the fire moved towards residential areas a number of people evacuated their homes cape town suffered drought conditions for almost all of last year thailand's fishing and seafood industry has been criticized for poor regulations bad working conditions and unsustainable practices but it's received some good news this month the european commission is lifting its yellow card warning it's got hard reports on what that means for the industry. thailand's fishing and seafood industry is big business it's the third largest export or in the worl

just like maybe rob matheson back down. to push for the release of the hand. for him to be sent to australia where he has refugee status since he was arrested in the. the i.f.c. and president shake salmond have been completely silent for about this whole process and chip in on good enough. on here today at the remand center to show faith but the players have come to say hi came at the bios are standing up for him and that we are prepared to come here to bangkok to fight for his rights and we ask . what are you doing what is it that you are going to do for hakimullah right be how are you going to uphold your human rights policy. you want to strike a christian or another has admitted to committing tax fraud or nadal has attended a court hearing in madrid on tuesday he charges related to his time a real madrid were not agreed to pay a fine of more than twenty million dollars and received a suspended twenty three month jail sentence he was found to have used companies outside of spain to hide some of his income. has booked his spot in the semifinals of the austral

pro-government forces are to withdraw from the city and the law agencies to distribute much needed aid rob matheson to. look at the fried. rare smiles in the yemeni port city of hadera on the streets cautious optimism about the un brokered cease fire which appeared to be holding in the closing days of december. during the almost four year conflict in yemen data and the people who live here have been bombed and shot at. as opposing sides of the battle to control the city the port of her data is yemen's lifeline where most food imports equipment or medical supplies arrive desperately needed by hospitals like this one in the city of ties in western yemen which patients including fired one hundred rely on to survive. i'm from our marker and there's no renal dialysis the most important thing is my treatment without it die. much of tell us has been destroyed as have many other parts of yemen at least sixty thousand yemenis are reported killed in fighting nationwide between warring factions including hooty rebels and pro-government forces backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emira

on may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad. where the u.s. senate has again failed to end the partial government shutdown the republican and democratic parties tried to pass competing bills but neither had enough votes president trump is refusing to fund government departments until he gets billions of dollars for a wall alecks can border well about eight hundred thousand government workers are about to miss that second monthly paycheck because of the shutdown and many say they're drowning in bills. spoke to one such woman in kansas city for defeating hansen the bills just keep piling up that's because she was sent home without pay a month ago from a customer service job at the u.s. tax agency field office in kansas city the longer the shutdown lasts the more pressure she feels my life we'll have two hundred thousand dollars a month. or so with to pay half the light b.-o. and half my heating b.-o. because it's cold. to buy food or to medicine chiquita goldsby has worked for the tax agency for twenty five years and without pay s

for a family funeral so off we go to muscat oman the capital robots rob matheson is there for us i'm on just first of all rob is that it's an interesting one the sort of quiet to diplomatic play of the gulf but so strategically important just by geography exactly that's absolutely right just from where i'm standing just a few kilometers to the east there is the straits of hormuz and down the state the center of the strait of hormuz all man shares a maritime border.

title of asian champions for the first and only time in two thousand and seven our correspondent rob matheson is in baghdad where hopes are high. all over iraq football fans are going to be coming to school is a phrase like this already anywhere it's got a large screen t.v. that's going to be showing a good match between iraq and qatar in the sixty's running off an asian cup two thousand and nineteen but the date that's going to be on everybody's mind is criticizing a seventy one and only time that iraq managed to win in asia cup the managed to defeat sides in history of south korea even managed to different saudi arabia in the finals and let's not forget this was a time when iraq was struggling after the two thousand and three iraq war much of the country has been devastated the government didn't have enough money to invest in football and yet iraq is still able to pull off that effectively and let's scroll forward twelve years and actually the situation is pretty much the same only this time we had the conflict with i saw the country still need sleep building and the government still doesn'

there have been months of protests there against corruption and poor services so al-jazeera is rob matheson has spoken to demonstrators who say they now want to get war going to rise and unite with other groups and they're embracing that movement the yellow vests movement that began in france ahead to al jazeera dot com to watch rob's reports from iraq. the pacific island nation of van watts who has a long history of community matters being settled by village chiefs usually men and now for the first time a woman has been anointed head of the tribal council on the island of mo so she wants to transform village lie but says that can't happen unless there are environments protected here's her story my name is les marlene is that and i'm a. constant in vanuatu it's always been i'm in the position my husband sound. is about childless he gives me the right to want to. be i come from a totally different islands and try and different. just farm and culture somewhere happy somewhere not at the end of the day that she. has the lessee my husband and i go to capitol hill every day to bring kids to scho

granting independence a russian church is said to have broken all links with its ukrainian parishes rob matheson has more. for the simple sweep of a plan ukraine's orthodox church has gained their independence or autocephaly a move likely to infuriate russian religious leaders and deepening of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the author talks church worldwide denied he'd been given bribes to authorize the separation however he admitted to a group of children he had been given chocolates by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. according to an agreement made to centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia branch but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to sever ties since the country became independent from russia in one thousand

into disrepair but now the government's opened it all up again trying to show the baghdad is safe rob matheson went for a walk. this is all of rush the street it's one of the most iconic streets in central baghdad there's been a street all in this route for the best part of a hundred years it dates back to the early days of the ottoman empire in the sixteenth century but all rasheed streets came into being about about nine hundred sixteen that's when the british suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the autumn ones to the south of baghdad to commemorate that victory the military governor of baghdad coming up atia said that this street should be built during the u.s. led invasion of iraq the streets was closed and that's because it's a very strategic importance for baghdad it links. in the central bank it's behind me to baghdad's main base to business district which is just a few kilometers on the other side that was very important and it was very likely that it was going to be a significant targets of the street was closed but seventeen years later it's reopened for decades all of us shoul