unesco says it has nothing to do with them.tics say he is bent on destroying everything created by his arch rival. >> aggression. it's a policy that begins by destroying everything. it's closed the metropolitan museum museum cancel all cultural activities including children readings in the museum. >> citizens like he are furious. >> the mayor is wrong by this. he should have taken into account the people's opinions who now are crying out for the murals to be valued. >> critics say instead of having a political battle the mayor should focus on walls like this if you will of graphisttiti and they hardly have any artistic value. >> the mayor hasn't backed down. he has allowed only two memories muslim one depicting one of the most famous singers. meanwhile, tupac and others have taken their case to the government's intellectual agency and he is summoned to explain his rationale. lima peru. >> catch up by visiting our website, aljazeera.com. and watch us by clicking on the "watch live" icon. again, aljazeera.com. ♪ >> they work in t

unesco has condemned this as a war crime.mosul, the second largest city, fighters have destroyed statues and carvings atmosul museum. is ill believes they are faults idols that should be destroyed. an iraqi sunni cleric has condemned is ill's attacks. >> the ugly crime committed by the islamic state group is in destroying the heritage of iraq and mesopotamia, the backbone of arabs and muslims. the acts represent a heinous crime. it's an episode in a series of crimes committed by islamic state to destroy the civilization of iraq and mesopotamia. >> abdul joins us from london via skype. why is is ill destroying this iraqi history? >> because they are applying the most literal interpretation of islam in our history, and those people actually consider this kind of heritage unlawfully and unislamic, and they are saying that the prophet? >> mohammed, destroyed all of the statues when he managed to open mecca. they are trying to say we are following our ancestors, the prophet, mohammed but this kind of heritage was there for 2000 ye

the city is more than two thous years old and a unesco world heritage site. on thursday, another city was the target for isil as they looted and bulldozed the ruins there. unesco condemned it as a war crime. fighters destroyed statues and carvings at the mosul museum. isil said they are false idols and should be destroyed. our political analyst is with me on set. isil seems to be destroying systematically the cultural heritage of northern iraq. >> to say they are false idols as if anyone today in iraq and syria and all that part of the world worships any of these things. no one worships most of what's or all of what's being destroyed. this is part of iraq, syria and the arab world's heritage. what's happening is what some would like to call cult cultural genocide, cultural slynessing. that's a political vision to say i need to destroy everything before me in order to build something new. it is referred to that to reunite with the divine, i have to destroy everything. it's apack littical. >> they are destroying all of the middle east, because this is one of th

unesco says it has nothing to do with them. he said they are bent on destroying everything created by hi arch rival. >> it's an aggression, a policy that begins by destroying everything. cancel all cultural activities including children's reading less options in the museum. >> citizens like trujillo are furious >> he should have taken into account the people's opinions. >> critics say instead of having a political battle, the mayor should be focusing on walls like this, if you will of graffiti all over the historic center and hardly have any artisting value. >> despite criticism, the mayor hasn't backed down. he is only allowed two murals to remain. meanwhile, tupac and others have taken their case to the government's intell he can't july property act see and he himself, is due to be summoned to the country's congress to explain his rationale. al jazeera peru. >> sanaa with sport. you? >> thank you lauren. there have been 229 classico meetings. late later on sunday comes another that will have a huge bearing on the spanish titl

unesco condemns the disruption of the ancient iraqi city as a war crime.the local council votes to restructure the dam. the controversial project here in the southwest of france is to be downsized. it is time for a check of the day's business news. kate: much-needed good news is what we are seeing. there is a lot of data to digest. the overall message is that the recovery is finally taking hold in the eurozone. new figures confirm the eurozone gdp grew 3% in the fourth quarter and at an overall pace of 0.9% for 2014. the ecb upgraded its forecast for 2015, predicting the eurozone economy will grow 1.5%. there is an even stronger forecast for 2016. an upbeat prognosis. another post -- boost still to come. the ecb will begin quantitative easing this monday. the bank will begin buying government bonds and other assets -- about 60 billion euros a month -- for a total of $1.1 trillion. european markets have had a fairly muted reaction to all that. the german economy released strong industry data that shows the recovery is indeed continuing there. the ftse is st

. >> it started more than 300 years ago, it's an registered as an intangible cultural heritage by unescobut they're now facing challenges. at the administrative reforms, they've led to cuts in government subsidies, called traditional japanese arts. the artists have been enlisting the help of script writers and directors from other fields. to try to expand their audience s s. the puppets made a surprise appearance in the modern opera, using voice synthesizer ss. young people not familiar with the art form enjoy the real at motion fear. >> i hope we could make more people familiar and inspire them to come back to the theater. i really hope to continue our efforts. >> performers will hold another outdoor performance in october. they want to take it on the road staging a performance at the 2016 olympics. >> as we've been reporting, a german wings passenger plane has crashed in the french alps. there were 150 people on board, french police are waiting until wednesday morning to continue their recovery effort. whether plays a crucial role in that effort, our meteorologist tells us what he's se

fires damaged a tourist attraction in russia capitol, the bell tower in moscow is a unesco world heritaged a blaze started in a wooden skaf -- scaffolding. galleries around the world get to showcase pieces at hong kong's artwork and we report on a new art fair that is promising attention on local artists. >> reporter: for a couple million dollars this two meter bronze pumpkin is yours and it has a golden bridge to a stack of colorful cakes along with well-known iconic pieces from pop artist andy warhol $3 billion is expected to change hands here and it put hong kong on the art investor circuit but they say the event has left little for local artists. >> hold people are not so outgoing and don't really love to go to events or meet like new clients or meet people. they are a bit shy. for us a lot of these artists is we approach them. >> reporter: that is what hong kong's newest art fair will do by the harbor and 20% are local and you don't need a pile of money for art and it's the more affordable and edgy art fair with lesser known talents and vivian's work for the first time will be seen b

. >> saito's photographs of the stone faces have been compiled by unesco for use as a reference materialages will also be kept at a new museum opening this summer. saito hopes they will inspire the local people to protect the ruins and feel pride in their cultural legacy. >> fascinating work there. it is time now to get a check of the weather. people in northern japan are dealing with a late winter storm. meteorologist robert speta tells us how long the bad weather will last. >> at least through the next 24 hours out here. and we go to a satellite picture. you can see where the cloud cover is right now. it is moving across much of northern portions of honshu over there toward hokkaido. let's take a look at the wind reports and the rainfall reports over the past 24 hours because it really shows how intense this storm system is. some areas have been seeing wind gusts as high as 120 kilometers per hour. we've also been seeing that heavy rainfall 147 millimeters. in the past 24 hours out here. as we continue to look ahead through wednesday we're still going to be seeing this storm system int

the unesco world heritage site has been undergoing renovation work. >>> china accounts for nearly a quarterales in the art and antiques market. so galleries around the world are eager to showcase their pieces at hong kong's art week. divya reports on a new art fair that's promising to turn the spotlight back onto local artists. >> reporter: for a couple of million dollars this two-meter bronze pumpkin is yours. or takes all forms here from, a golden bridge to a stack of colorful cakes along with well-known iconic pieces like this one from pop artist andy warhol. more than $3 billion is expected to change hands at this year's art show. it has put hong kong firmly on the art investors circuit but critics say the glitz is a events has done had for local artists . >> hong kong people are just not so outgoing. we don't love to go to event or meet new clients or meet people. they are a bit shy. for us a lot of the artists we approach them. >> reporter: so that's what hong kong's newest art fair set out to do under big white tent by the harbor, 20% of the artists are local. you don't need a pile o

the scal his art grew with such works as a mural at harrd university and "the wall ofhe sun" for unesco in pas. as his work grew in size, miro continued what he termed "a process of simplification." he stated, "little by little, i have managed to reach a point at which i use no more than a small number of forms d colors." this process found a culminating expression in his eight-foot-high painting "femme," the maquette for the tialallery's tapestry. miro entered the project with much enthusim, stating "i'll go into this and fight it through with everything i have." over my months, the tapestry took shape in his imagination. finally, in 1976 it waset down rapidly as a maquette. in the ancient catalan city of tarragona, joan miro meets with young master weaver josep royo to discuss the transformation of his painting into a 10-meter-high tapestry. studying a photograph of the maquette, they consider how best to translate miro's art into a heavily- textured weaving which would capture the spirit of his concept. royo has an enormous task before him. in this converted flour mill in tarragona,

it dates from the 17th century and is a unesco world heritage site. 24 hours to go until the israelis their election. points for a win for the zionist union but doesn't mean it will form the next government. our editor explains. elliot: after the government imploded two years before time, israelis will vote for a new one march 17. up for grabs, 120 seats in israel's 20th knesset or parliament and the chance to be israel's 19th prime minister. no party has ever won a majority. coalition is inevitable and where things get interested. of the 26 parties running fewer than half are expected to get more than 3.25% of the vote, the minimum needed to win a seat. those that do may find themselves as kingmakers either in a right wing government led by benjamin netanyahu or by a coalition led by isaac herzog who leads the zionist union. it there is one possibility they join forces to form a government of national unity. in israeli politics you never know. bloomberg, tel aviv. guy: for more on the israeli election and how results could impact the country's business climate. let's go live to ellio

. >>> the convent dates back from the 15 hundreds and is a -- 1500s and is a unesco heritage site.ikita khrushchev are among those buried there. it's not clear how bad the damage is or whether anyone of hurt. >>> the kremlin is trying to shut down rumors about russian president vladimir putin's whereabouts and his health. they released these photos here on friday of mr. putin meeting with the head of the supreme court there. >> but putin hasn't been seen in public for more than a week. and in that time he canceled several appearances that were previously scheduled. now the big where is putin question could actually be answered later today as he is scheduled to meet with the president of kyrgyzstan. for more i want to go to our senior international correspondent, matthew chance live in moscow. so obviously a lot of rumors swirling around. we've heard rumor that putin maybe stockton apparently his girlfriend may have -- putin may be sick to apparently his girlfriend may have gone birth. what is the kremlin doing to quash the rumors? >> reporter: it's just denying them. every time tha

have reportedly bulldozed the ancient assyrian city of nimrud, in northern iraq, in what the head of unesco has called a war crime. the ancient site was founded in the 13th century b.c. it's reported destruction comes a week after video showed isis militants smashing priceless statues at the mosul museum, northwest of nimrud. further south, meanwhile, iraqi forces and iranian-backed militias are continuing their bid to retake the city of tikrit from isil. the militants have set oil wells ablaze northwest of the city in a bid to slow the offensive. the united nations reports nearly half a million people were displaced from the darfur region of western sudan last year, the largest amount in a decade. the u.n. blames the uptick in violence on the sudanese government and government allied forces, which have ways to campaign against rebels and are for instance 2003. an estimated 300,000 people have been killed since 2003, when the sudanese president omar al-bashir has faced accusations of genocide and crimes against humanity, but the international criminal court suspended its probe in december.

an interpretation rejected by mainstream religious authorities unesco the u.n. for education, science and culture is condemning the attacks as, in its words, cultural cleansing. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon is going so far to declare the militant's rampage a war crime. none which street likely to dissuade a terrorist group which has already showed such little regard for the law and human life. too soon to know what the future holds for people living under the so-called islamic state. but it's clear they already have lost a great deal of their past. still to come. monarchs. by the millions. ♪ but next, hip-hop hamilton. hey, you forgot the milk! that's lactaid®. right. 100% real milk just without the lactose. so you can drink all you want... ...with no discomfort? exactly. here, try some... mmm, it is real milk. see? delicious. hoof bump! oh. right here girl, boom! lactaid®. 100% real milk. no discomfort. and for a tasty snack that's 100% real dairy try lactaid® cottage cheese. vo: 85 percent of people who travel will go someplace they've already been. wher

all the psychological sites unesco has put on its list have been looted.a, good morning. >> good morning. well, syria is home to some of the oldest civilizations in the world dating back many thousands of years, but the country's rich heritage has been badly damaged by four years of civil war, and we met a brave group of men who are trying to protect their country's history. a seventh century mosque is blasted by a shell. the scene seen in photos in 2011 now pot marked with the so-called robber holes of looters. here suspected regime soldiers load soldiers statues from pal miya onto trucks. this doctor is with shawnee state university in ohio. he and former colleagues and students inside syria began a race to record the destruction and prevent the theft. >> some who are archaeologists feel passionate about their own culture and history and it's part of their responsibility to protect this cultural heritage. >> armed only with cell phone cameras, note pads, and sand bags to protect fragile artifacts they batravely battle edd gunfire by isis. they say sellin

soldiers property, and we are uniquely suited to do that, and we have been doing that, and the role of unesco is doing that, particularly in light of what we are talking about, which is this nascent public-private partnership to build sustainable economic models for people, not just making a leave it -- making a living, but for people's capacity to be else, so they can contribute to their society, so they can see a ripple effect of this virtuous cycle, and that aspect of security is really important. you have areas in the north where we are working with coffee collectives that are under threat from an al-shabaab association, and when you have a state, and i am not saying anything new here, where it is failing, it is more vulnerable to that kind of extremism. and you have a state that is more prosperous, they are able to fight that better. speaking to what the admiral said, i am certainly no expert but when people say let's spend money this way before we spend money on bombs, this kind of training that is being talked about is something that we can do. without exception. sen. graham: so the re

you know the unesco director general today said that this is in effect a war crime. >> it certainly isow that only a few weeks ago, they went into a major museum in mosul and started destroying ancient artifacts, museum pieces just going crazy in there as well. here's the question. you covered this story for a long time. why would isis invest time and energy in destroying these priceless, these historic exhibits and indeed, this ancient biblical town? >> reporter: well we should also note here and let our viewers know that isis is also making money out of some of these sites as well by looting them and taking rich artifacts out, selling them. this is how they are buying their weapons in some cases. but what isis is involved here okay you have gotten the destruction there, you got a week ago the museum in mosul, you have had shrines destroyed, historic shrines destroyed by isis left and right through the areas they control. but not just that. we are seeing them just last week pushing out assyrians, an ancient christian community from their homes. we saw them last year driving out thousa

soldiers properly, and we are uniquely suited to do that, and we have been doing that, and the role of unesco is doing that, particularly in light of what we are talking about, which is this nascent public-private partnership to build sustainable economic models for people, not just making a living, but for people's capacity to be else, so they can contribute to their society, so they can see a ripple effect of this virtuous cycle, and that aspect of security is really important. you have areas in the north where we are working with coffee collectives that are under threat from an al-shabaab association, and when you have a state, and i am not saying anything new here, where it is failing, it is more vulnerable to that kind of extremism. and you have a state that is more prosperous, they are able to fight that better. speaking to what the admiral said, i am certainly no expert but when people say let's spend money this way before we spend money on bombs, this kind of training that is being talked about is something that we can do. without exception. sen. graham: so the reason i asked that que

chairman, it has not yet and the nprm as you was adopted about a unesco.. >> there's another issue that came up i was speaking at a group, and it involved this issue to allow small cable operators to operate as a buy-in group for the purchase of content. has not been acted on get? >> it has not. i voted on nprm i was about three years ago. the summer of 2012. i'm not sure the status of is but i stand ready to vote whenever it is keyed up for a vote. >> my understanding is the commission has not yet issued its quadrennial review of rules for 2010. i believe that's about five years ago, is that correct? >> five years ago but december 2007 was the last time the actual rules were adopted. >> so it's been eight years? isn't that a statutory obligation to? >> that's why we need to put the quad backend quadrennial. quadrennial. >> what about the work on the connect america fund? has the commission finish its work on how connect america will work in the mobile support mobile? >> my interest in it has not yet but work is underway. >> these are some the things that

money going to unesco. in every budget request since president obama has tried to restore the money in spite of the law. this would excuse the palestinians and the u.n. from the consequences of their actions. it sends a signal that the united states does not in fact, have israel's back. you know, vice president biden said don't tell me what you value. show me your budget and i'll tell you what you value. by that standard, it's obvious that president obama does not value supporting israel in the middle east peace negotiations. national security advisor susan rice said just last week that prime minister netanyahu's visit is too partisan and i quote destructive of the fabric of the relationship israel has with the united states. the members of congress disagree. we welcome the prime minister. we are eager to show our support, and republicans will continue to push for additional sanctions to keep the pressure on iran. we intend to do all that we can to ensure that the vital alliance between the united states an