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board. a defiant israeli prime minister to continue operations in syria day after one of his warplanes was down. to be honest i'm not sure she really understands the food horror of what has happened here a call from britain's foreign minister. supervised the return of refugees to me in march plus. a month ago the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. and best and russia say they're looking at all possible causes as the hunt for clues began to why a plane crashed soon after take off all seventy one people on board were killed the difficulties investigators face can be seen in these pictures from the crash site near moscow wreckage of the plane is lying in fields covered with thick snow debris and human remains were spread over

a radius of one kilometer now the short haul flight took off from don't want to dover airport on sunday few minutes later it's in the air on the city on the way rather to the city of when it went missing from radars the plane crashed in the village of near moscow witnesses say they saw a burning aircraft fall from the sky or a challenge reports. the answer no their line out with sixty five passengers and six crew on board came down four minutes after it took off in bad weather conditions wreckage was scattered across snowy fields near the village of going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walk to the scene. i saw an explosion on the ground and i called emergency services they asked me many questions i told them there was a fire it was very visible and i did debris of the plane is spread over radios of

at least one kilometer investigators are using modern equipment taking into consideration the large territory. to get a view from the air the short hole set a lot of airlines jets took off from moscow's dumb idea of a sunday afternoon on its way to the city of or sq in the urals most of the sixty five passengers on board were from the region at the airport their family and friends of those on board the flight began to wait for news with little hope that anyone had survived. or to some who have found a breeze from an a n one for a plane and the bodies of two big tim's. is just the most important thing now is the organized collection of debris and remains of the big it was by ministry of emergency situations workers. transport to authorities soon confirmed everyone in the plane had died russia has suffered two major air crashes in recent years in

december two thousand and sixteen a t u one five four military aircraft crashed into the black sea with the loss of ninety two people it was blamed on pilot error in october two thousand and fifteen a russian air bus crashed in egypt's sinai peninsula killing all two hundred twenty four people on board i still said it placed a bomb in the aircraft. right to me putin has canceled a trip to sochi which was shut jeweled for monday he was due to meet the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas now that meeting will now take place in moscow from where putin will monitor the investigation investigators have found a flight recorder from the plane and this will be crucial in determining why this relatively new aircraft came promising out of the sky various causes are being considered including pilots era bad weather conditions well perhaps something else really chalons zero mosque. keith mckay is an aviation consultant with mackie

pardon me makee international he joins us via skype from ocala florida thank you very much for joining us so obviously witness accounts are going to be very important in something like this and when it's early on often there are conflicting reports but what the tickler things have you heard so far that really stick out to you well i rochelle or you know the aircraft wreckage just scattered over a very wide area and this indicates probably impacted. rather flat and broke up and a high rate of speed was the pieces were spread out we've heard report that there was fire on board the aircraft before it crashed we've also heard that the pilot was trying to divert to a nearby aurora for an emergency landing but none of these things are really concerned what will really do now the investigators will do is they'll attempt to recover both of those black boxes of they have won and they'll leave the other one

to do a complete investigation one of the black boxes is called the digital flight recorder and it records all the parameters of the airplane the power of the engines were producing the position of the flight controls anything at all regarding the airframe of the aircraft and the other is the cockpit voice recorder it records all the conversations that were taking place in the cockpit the radio transmissions and any communication between a pilot so in flight it's at so as of a very valuable sentimentally we're going to probably you know go ahead but the next thing that will be investigated i'm sure as the teams assemble of will be teams with various specialties like go weather power plants airframe structure human factors that packages that if i can enter effort aside because the video that we're showing right now i am there's so much snow that conditions are so

so bad there what's what role might weather play and something like bringing a plane down and again we don't know but when you see these pictures surely that's one of the first questions that people have. well the first thing they're going to want to do is see if the aircraft was partly d.i.'s it's been sitting over night it might have accumulated a great deal of ice if the ice wasn't properly removed that would have been a very bad thing. if the weather was bad presumably there on takeoff and climbing out if ice was a factor engine ice or something like that that should show up with the concept that voice recorder conversations the digital flight data recorder so that will be important no there were no thunderstorms obviously in the area so primarily we're going to be concerned with ice they got here warrants of visibility should not been an issue so they'll be able to sort through the weather things rather quickly as

they conduct the investigation all right keith mackey joining us from ocala and florida thank you very much appreciate it you're welcome rachelle u.s. president onil trump has questioned israel's commitment to peace with the palestinians he did this in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire and backer sheldon adelson the us president says israel settlements in the occupied west bank are complicating the peace process and also threatened again to withhold aid to the palestinians unless they agree to talk israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to continue military operations inside syria a day after one of its f. sixteen warplanes was shot down by enemy fire israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes on what it said or iranian targets in syria on saturday that yahoo says the operation was a serious blow to iran a fossil report some western islam. israeli soldiers collected debris on sunday at

the site where an air force f. sixteen fighter crashed a day earlier while the investigation continues the army told al-jazeera it had confirmed the plane was struck by a syrian anti-aircraft missile the first israeli fighter shot down since one thousand nine hundred two. at the border israeli media reported anti missile batteries have been increased after extensive israeli counterstrikes the day before inside syrian territory. but on the show yesterday we landed hard blows in forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot we will continue to hit back for every attempt to holler for any blown flick to join us this is been our policy and this remain our policy. the incident began with the downing of what israel says was an iranian drone launched from syria that had crossed into israeli air space iran continues to deny the charge the secretary of the national security council saying the

allegations by zionists that they hit iranian bases in syria is a lie we are in syria as consultants we don't have the kind of military presence for them to make this allegation the years israel's government has been talking about a mounting iranian threat on its northern borders i don't think we we that we were not to vulnerable but we certainly didn't expect it to happen this quickly so that's why i'm saying it's a wake up call for the future the army knows how to respond. in a way or want to create an escalation. the only way it will create. what's in this collision israeli politicians have been praising what they've called a current public reaction to this incident but they're also aware that it highlights increasingly complex and difficult relationship with russia and its role inside syria israel struck targets close to where russian forces are based on saturday. prompting a statement from russia's foreign ministry calling it absolutely unacceptable to

endanger the lives of russian soldiers inside syria. this after months of diplomatic efforts to convince russia to help constrain iranian activity there. the one former senior israeli military intelligence officer the loss of the plane and the extent of the retaliation don't represent a new phase in the conflict rather a reminder of its stakes. in the longer run but look the long the arena presents in syria should come to an end and we expect russia and the united states to make sure that this is going to be the end result israel says its military response is now complete but this weekend has put the dangers of a largescale cross border conflict into sharp focus ari force it out his ear a west jerusalem the british foreign minister has urged me on mars later on sponsored to allow the un to supervise the return of her head to refugees or is johnson made the plea after visiting displaced muslim villagers in rakhine state

and refugee camps in bangladesh it toward an area and me and mar where homes were destroyed and new ones are being built johnson says a search he appears to be removed from the reality on the ground. i'm not sure she really understands the full horror of what has happened up here i don't think she's been in a helicopter to see what we have seen today and really what i was trying to get over to is the importance of her leadership i believe in her and i believe in her leadership i think she's done incredible things in her life i'm very sad to see what's happening to burma now and to see the direction the country is going i believe she can still make a change and make a difference but to do that she needs to show lead get the agencies in get the refugees back home in a way that is safe and voluntary and and dignified north korea is a one point delegation has left seoul leaving the south korean government to consider an offer of a summit n.p.r.

the group which included the powerful sister of north korean leader kim jong il and in its visit by joining south korean president moon j.n. at a concert given by a north korean arch for the two sides have been holding talks on the sidelines of the winter games on saturday kim kim jong un extended a rare invitation to president to visit. natasha going to aim has more from seoul. even as athletes competed on the snow and ice diplomatic developments continue to steal at least some of the spotlight during what's being called the peace olympics the last three days have been historic and a high point in interest and relations north korean leader kim jong un sister kim jong became the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war she came with an invitation kim jong un is asking the south korean president in to visit pyongyang at a convenient time soon if this meeting transpires it would be the first time that

kim jong il has met with the south korean president since taking office in twenty eleven president moon says he'll begin arranging the conditions to make that visit happen but he stresses that any rebuilding of interest korean relations must involve dialogue between the united states and north korea u.s. vice president mike pence sat very close to the north korean delegation during the opening ceremony he m. a north koreans rebuffed president moon's attempts to facilitate a midi skeptics say that this north korean charm offensive is heavy on the symbolism but they doubt that it will result in anything substantive they say this is an attempt by the north koreans to drive a wedge between the united states and the south koreans into an advance their own agenda but for now president moon and many south koreans are encouraged by the prospect that what we've been seeing could be the beginning of

a reboot of injury in relations robert hellacious a professor of political science and diplomacy at the sun national university he's skeptical that the past few days of diplomacy will lead to an actual breakthrough. the best thing that the olympics can do right now is sort of for stall the march to war that seemed to be taking place last year as long as the olympics make a look at the north and south are talking to one another then becomes much harder for donald trump and the trump white house to on t.v. and advocate for for strikes right we know that some people are some pretty seriously thinking about it they just vetoed for example just a couple weeks ago they vetoed a highly qualified potential ambassador pick for south korea someone is quite a hawk but apparently wasn't hawkish enough because the trump people are generally considering the strikes well as long as the north and south are talking you know the americans need south korean buy in on the strikes as long as the north and south are talking they won't get it so that's sort of one of the things i think that moon is doing right this gives him time to figure out how to respond to the americans if we can do some small things like cultural events and sports and music and things like that and that kind of generates

a few small steps that lead to that larger steps and so on that's great right i mean if this is what it takes to get the north koreans in the room and talking so much the better and i don't particularly mind one way or the other but we've had these kinds of things before and they haven't really worked right and i'm not really sure that sort of cultural interaction can actually generate any meaningful concessions on either side the political gaps are pretty big but we should always keep trying right it's certainly better than we were a year ago when you know with fire and fury and all that. but in my head of the news hour including the scandal surrounding a leading british charity oxfam deepens what revelations staff and africa used prostitutes in a lawsuit filed by new york's attorney general is the latest problem for hollywood producer harvey weinstein and his former company and sport. speed skating legend that is makes history at the winter olympics.

iran's president has called for a year of unity country celebrates thirty nine years since the islamic revolution it comes just weeks after anti-government protests in cities across the country. called on all political parties to put aside their differences and look to the future. report from tehran. in a state of the union speech iran's president listed the government's successes rouhani focused mostly on domestic issues speaking about things like economic growth what iran is doing to address the impact of climate change and iran's ability to manufacture military hardware like tanks and anti-aircraft missile defense systems all part of a successful effort he said to have security independence and a larger role in the region. in the course of the last year we overcame terrorism we achieved great victories i've i still in the region help to the people of iraq and syria through had good results and the people of the region got rid of evil

terrorists indirectly addressing recent protests by opposition groups rouhani acknowledged shortcomings saying the government must do more to resolve what he described as a backlog of economic issues show yet. the government needs to be more transparent and we need to result banking issues address taxation and budgeting in and correct the economic structure of the country. for the hundreds of thousands of iranians who joined a celebratory rallies thirty nine years later the islamic revolution is a continuing way of life honey told the crowd that they were the most important part of ensuring the success of the islamic form of government in iran that our. elections are the biggest part of protecting the islamic revolution people voting in their leaders in parliamentary and presidential elections but when someone is elected the opposition and the youth elite should respect the choice of the people

instead of chanting slogans go to the ballot box. as he often does the iranian president extolled the virtues of dialogue over conflict he said the lasting solution to region wide problems is political settlement and as far as internal conflict honey said iranians should not hold grudges rouhani said victory in the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution was like a train with many passengers some stayed on some got off now he said was the time to bring everyone back on the train again. a prominent iranian canadian professor has died in prison in tehran sixty three year old environmental activists say mommy was arrested last month he was accused of being part of a spy ring police say he committed suicide a claim disputed by his family human rights groups say detainees in iran are routinely tortured and killed iraqis hoping to raise billions of dollars at a donor's conference starting on monday in kuwait to fund reconstruction after its

war with eisel and estimated one hundred billion dollars is needed to rebuild cities and infrastructure destroyed in the three year conflict orange parts of iraq's second largest city of mosul are still in ruins more than six months after or three taken by the government the u.n. says about forty thousand homes there need to be rebuilt or are stored but many residents doubt that money raised at the conference will actually reach them. everyone here is rebuilding with their own money no one has received any money from the government or anybody else no one has given us any compensation and there won't be any either a little while oxfam is facing new allegations that its staff use prostitutes in the african nation of chad in two thousand and six it follows growing criticism for the way it handled accusations of sexual misconduct by its workers in haiti where the charity was working in the aftermath of that two thousand and ten earthquake its own investigation led to four people being fired and the resignation of three

others ok government is now threatening to withdraw funding from oxfam it doesn't matter how good the safeguarding practice is all in an organization if that organization does not have the moral leadership to do the right thing and where in particular they have evidence of criminal activity to pulse that information to the relevant all sources including prosecuting authorities that's that's an absolute absence of leadership. oxfam has apologized over the sexual misconduct allegations but also defended its operations in haiti well i'm apologizing for is that nine oxfam staff behaved in a way that was totally unacceptable and country to a values and that then led much more responsible stuff to make decisions which i'm no seen as being by some margin or inappropriate but i'm not supposed to judging for the fact that oxfam tried to continue its work in haiti the

planned sale of some parts of the company of disgraced u.s. film producer harvey weinstein have been put on hold that's after the new york state attorney general filed a lawsuit against the company it says the firm and its co-founders are paid only broke laws by failing to protect its employees from sexual harassment intimidation and discrimination or harvey weinstein was one of hollywood's most influential men before more than seventy women accused him of sexual misconduct including rape which he denies it's more now from mike hanna is covering this he is in washington d.c. so mike as we understand there are police investigations into harvey weinstein but this is separate and apart from a criminal investigation so explain what this is. yes indeed this is the result of the four month investigation by new york's attorney general are all schneiderman and he has now filed suit in the new york county supreme court now suit has been

filed not only against harvey weinstein personally and his brother robert but also the weinstein company now the reason for this is that the attorney general's deeply concerned that the sale of the cunt of the company was imminent that victims would not be compensated that those within the company may still be empowered despite their wrongdoings in the past so this is a reason for this very quick filing of this particular action but it provides immense details of what happened within the company itself it makes very clear that there were various levels of executives within the company who have to accept responsibility numerous complaints were filed with the. department for example not one of these was investigated so the new york attorney general making very clear that he does not want this company sold until all those who have some responsibility in the actions of harvey weinstein and indeed his brother are dealt

with in some way in addition as well he wants to make absolutely certain that the many victims we're talking about more than eighty that he interviewed in the course of the investigation receive some form of compensation in the future ok so that's where the attorney general's looking for but. there have not been well let me rephrase is the question is that not actually sure there haven't been charges filed against him yet though that's still something that police are looking into is that right. that indeed that is a separate issue what we are looking at here is an action against the company and harvey weinstein and his brother's role as principal shareholders in the company for violating specific new york laws that are supposed to safeguard the safety of employees now that is what the issue is at present in this particular indictment however within it as well it shows actions by harvey weinstein that are far more

detailed than any we have seen in the past it reports how he created groups of predominantly female employees in different groups who would facilitate his sexual encounters another group would attempt to fire or hire those who repudiated or accept it is advances it was a very structured system that we saw in place within the weinstein organization and what the attorney general is doing is highlighting this fact that although weinstein was the most important predator as the attorney general puts it there were many within the organization who empowered him and they too must accept some form of culpability and responsibility and it is a system that allows things like that to flourish mike hanna live for us in washington thank you at least eight people have died in four of the forty others have been injured in a gas explosion at a carnival parade and bolivia place

a three children were among those killed in saturday's explosion in the city of or oh authorities believe hot oil spilled into four and a house connected to a gas canister that's what caused the explosion. force across the world are under threat according to the world wildlife fund forest area public to twenty seven football fields is being lost to logging agriculture development each minute and environmental activists in costa rica are fighting back and gallagher has their story. few places in the world can boast the kind of biodiversity found in costa rica's forests you'll find unique species and unique climates but deforestation is taking its toll over the last seventy years about eighty percent of costa rica's forest has been lost. the bridge nature reserve researches and volunteers of fighting back we've got the river that in just a few short years they've replanted and we grown large parts of this rain forest

and the result a promising when we finally captured a jaguar on the camera trap he was hired by big cat that was a huge step for us when we walked through the areas that we planted in and you see the tree is large enough to make it on its own in the forces changing. that's a huge step easy. to get there like biologists from around the world now come here to study what this kind of regeneration can achieve the return of species once lost to agriculture and logging is for many i don't forget a bill experience i'm sure there is you know success stories in other countries and other places but having been able to experience it firsthand here for so long for sure it's going to be something that i look back on tell people about you know it works i the tower bridge reserve is now an example of what simple techniques patience and preservation can achieve a country wide shoot progress is being made it's astounding to see what fifteen years of we growth can look like and according to the united nations reforestation

is the best way to combine climate change and it's something costa rica's done very effectively through various incentives and government programs they've managed to reclaim almost a. quarter of what was lost. costa rica's rich natural heritage has long been a draw for students and tourists alike for this nation's reforestation if its stand as a testament to what can be achieved at a time when the environment faces its greatest challenges and a gallica al-jazeera at the bridge reserve in costa rica. and more ahead on al-jazeera including indian trips in kashmir fight with separatist fighters to take back control of an army base. research has launched an ambitious project in qatar to find cures for diseases plus. i'm laboring very young john and i were talking to the people here this but site says they volunteer about how they're fighting off a cold to my case winter olympics a big success. been

a vast amount of snow running around the great lakes and then rain to the south of that is a contrast an area of warm and cold along that you put a frontal system just defines the difference or do you see the difference ninety degrees in washington minus four chicago somewhere in there there's a big gradient that's for all the weather comes out and snow is moving north but the rain is still falling we still got something of a contrast which means there's more snow to come for the appalachians however come daybreak it should be still on the ground and blue skies still monist still about sixteen in washington cloudy and probably damp one all this time i've been standing in the way with what's been happening further west breaks of like the snow really

not a huge amount of in the californian high ground. as you can see most of that b.c. and northern california washington oregon montana they're all looking fine dry and in the sunshine school down in washington by this time than three degrees the total has gone through there's been an increase in the number of showers all the persistence of clarridge and rain on the caribbean side of the isthmus here so from costa rica up to believe you cannot expect daily a certain amount of rain. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems they're challenging systems and shaping new one it's about

creative thinkers shaping their continence future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. running six continents across the deep. zeros corresponding bringing the story so that if you have the other you know if you lose the boat there's not a lesser you. were at the bridge of the russian camp for palestinian refugee agency or. news.

watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now investigators in russia say they're looking at all possible causes as the hunt for clues ganz into why a plane crashed soon after takeoff from an airport in moscow all seventy one people on board were killed israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to continue military operations inside syria a day after one of his f. sixteen warplanes was shot down israel carried out a series of cross border strikes on saturday on what it says are syrian government and iranian assets and syria. and britain's foreign secretary has urged me marse leader on some sochi to allow the u.n. to supervise the return of a hedger refugees or a chance and made the plea after visiting his place muslim villagers villagers and me and maurice are kind state and refugee camps and bangladesh johnson says such he appears to be removed from the reality on the ground. separatist fighters and

indian soldiers are fighting n.c.i. an army base and get in ministered kashmir the fighters breached the military compound early on saturday so far ten people. quoting four of the attackers have been killed in the assault in the city of him oh charlotte tell us reports. soldiers prepare for battle inside the base in indian administered kashmir they were ambushed by an unknown number of finds is in a pre-dawn raid on saturday commanders say the from jesse mohamad which wants pakistan to control kashmir so. that. deliberate and professionally. operation army is taking all precautions. and we don't want anything. attackers shot at guards on the perimeter before moving toward soldiers' homes inside the camp indian security forces evacuated families while helicopters search for the intruders hundreds of reinforcements were called in india's army chief flow

when to monitor your peroration. generation mohammed has a history of stoking teaches between india and pakistan the group was founded by mehsud seen here in two thousand after release from prison in exchange for passengers of a hijacked indian airlines plane sixteen years later he launched the deadliest assaults on indian security forces into decay it too was a predawn ambush on a military base in indian administered kashmir nine hundred soldiers were killed. india accuses pakistan of supporting such attacks pakistan denies the allegations kashmir has been disputed since independence nine hundred forty seven pakistan and india claim is in full rule isn't possible. and both continued to defeat the territories bellus. a human rights activist known as the iron lady of

pakistan has died. suffered a heart attack in the eastern city of lahore late on saturday and died a few hours later she was a fierce defender of women and minorities and openly criticized the pakistani military and teligent and right wing religious parties the former u.n. special operator was also chair of pakistan's human rights commission and had served as president of the supreme court's bar association. here was sixty six years old. at least six civilians including two children have been killed and syrian government air strikes are the capital damascus the attacks targeted several towns in the rubble held suburb of eastern ghouta falls within a so-called deescalation zone agreed to by turkey russia and iran syrian government and russian air strikes have killed more than two hundred forty people and rebel held areas this week the u.n. says some of the attacks may be war crimes the u.s.

also calling for the immediate deescalation of fighting in syria to address a worsening humanitarian crisis according to its food agency nine million people need food assistance current as they syria country to rector for world food program he says any truce needs to last for at least a month at the moment. i'm going to these places to east. to east to fighting the security of all stuff of calls. but all this will be and it's dangerous to come in and collect for example food if days fighting going on so we need a pause in the fighting and both of us for months. already their houses are. all crimes of the supposed people every day recent assistance in the country and we can easily. if you have an opening to these areas start we haven't reached

full as i say it's two months no. turkey's pro kurdish people's democratic party has elected new co-leaders at its party conference and ankara this comes after one of the former joint leaders announced he was stepping down last month after more than a year in prison or was at the event in the capital ankara. the new leaders of the people's the most what's a party or a cheapie entered the hall to an end to see a sick welcome from supporters perrin bulled on and says i are the new co-chairs of the party following their rest of their predecessors so. we will fight together we will win together a little reach our destination. similar to us isn't jail awaiting trial on multiple charges including allegedly links with the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. turkey the e.u. and us list the p.k. k.

as a terrorist organization. its role is purely political but it regards the as freedom fighters for the kurdish goes. these tens of thousands who turned out here the signal for freedom democracy and the turkish government and the p.k. k. agreed on a ceasefire years ago guns were laid down but the peace process collapse in two thousand and fifteen. d.p. had gained support in successive elections and became the second largest opposition party in the turkish parliament the turkish government said the h.d. peace policies have become more. and started to accuse it of being aligned with the p k k. we lean on the y.p. why p.j. and pay why day we're comfortable with. one of the parties new co-chairs is a key figure in kurdish politics piven bull don has been well received by the party

grassroots her. husband was murdered by unknown assailants a ninety nine to four during the most heated times of the conflict between the p.k. k. and the turkish state a conflict that has cost thirty thousand lives on both sides. of the front door to. the small. consequence of pro time the new courts share will not on the have to deal with the fact that against it are to the toughest challenge will be needed another response to. this not. in line with the ongoing military operation in. turkey has been targeting what it says are why fiji fighters in africa for three weeks the government stays the y.p. g.'s the syrian branch of the p.k. k. and to modern day enemy from a conflict that's been going for forty years. al-jazeera.

had a south africa's ruling a national african national congress says party leaders are preparing to finalize a deal that will result in president jacob zuma quitting office so as under increasing pressure to leave over a number of corruption allegations and see leader cyril ramaphosa says officials meeting on monday will decide on a swift transition of power south africa's office ition has criticized the private talks between zuma and a.n.c. leaders saying he should get immunity from prosecution and exchange for leaving. tanya a as a political commentator for a talk radio seven o two and johannesburg she thinks her mother has a doesn't have many options over when president zuma might step down. the defining moments came at the agency's national conference last year in december where president wit currently now similar on my post i was elected as president of the a.n.c. which is the ruling party and the conversation started coming up about

a balance of power and the a.n.c. right now is facing an election in twenty nineteen and jacob zuma hasn't really been that good for the agencies the perception of the public opinion around jacob zuma is that he is a corrupt man he has seven hundred eighty three counts of corruption record tearing and money laundering just to me tomorrow that special any c. meeting we definitely hope to hear from them opposite to say yes the president will be stepping down yes we need to we need to confirm a date for the state of the nation address you'll remember that the official opening of parliament has still been on hold because of these discussions that are happening so we really need to have you know a clear idea of what is president jacob zuma fuchsia will he be stepping down and what are his conditions because we do know that part of these long discussions are about how he will step down and what his future will be doctors in qatar hoping to

improve everyone's health by mapping out the genetic makeup of the entire population the citron medical research center is using state of the art technology to work on in new ways to prevent or treat illness some avenge of a reports. her mom has a heart condition but she's now able to walk around easily thanks to a clinical trial a new valve allows her heart to pump blood properly. that i am i was not able to sleep at night i was frail and couldn't even climb the stairs now after the operation i can sleep comfortably i can now carry things and walk normally the heart valve trial is that said the first of its kind medical and research center for women and children and other what sets of their apart is not just clinical trials but also the use of smart technology this is the three d. print out of a human heart where doctors have been able to plant well of not just one but seven patients and this particular trial is being carried out in five countries. doctors

here want to expand research into new techniques of therapy besides the new valve doctors yet the jersey wants to test absorbable implants called stents hopefully to reduce the number of operations for children with heart disease it's made from polymers and synthetic materials that you can put initially in the blood vessel it does the job by opening the blood listen but within about a year and a half it dissolves it disappears and the area where the distant was it remodels the citrus specialized hospital is also innovating prevention of diabetes which affects seventeen percent of properties there's been no real studies looking at it in the knowledge of childhood diabetes once vandalize the data and once we know the exact cause of the diabetes we have so tailor make personalized therapy for each child for example is that in some trouble we might have to stop the injections of insulin they have and i should give them or medications genetic

disorders and birth defects are relatively high because about half of all marriages across gulf nations are between cousins but they're small population is giving researchers a unique chance to map the genetics of the whole population if emissions are realized it will create a genetic reference not only of useful for but there's population but for all similar ethnic populations worldwide right now all the resources that exist around the world come from you know highly studied populations mostly europeans caucasians some africans and some east asians there's very little representation from our part of the middle eastern populations and so what we've started to do here over the last decade is to basically work towards building a representation because people here often travel abroad for diagnostics and therapy doctors report a patient dream from the middle east they're hoping to reverse that trend with their scientific research some of the job it under there though. still ahead on al-jazeera we've been mad to six to five years while this new companionship and friendship and important to me u.k.

develops a program that reaches out to the more than two hundred thousand elderly and isolated. and sport manchester united at newcastle has all the details coming out. it was oriol upon which modern day venezuela was a stoppage. for over a century this lucrative resorts has divided the people both less than those with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time on. discover a willful would winning programming from around the world. challenge your

perception if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better plan than facebook. documentaries debate and discussion this country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point al-jazeera. the u.k. has appointed a minister for loneliness to help the vulnerable in society who feel isolated it's estimated two hundred thousand senior citizens in britain had not had a conversation with a friend or relative a more than a month or than half of those over seventy five years old live alone or u.k.

correspondent marty phillips has a story my wife died about two and a half years ago and i miss. read. another has to give almost love john who is ninety had felt increasingly isolated the death of his wife left a void we've been married for sixty five years so obviously companionship and friendship and important to me. the solution arranged by a charity was for john to give a room to poppy a twenty one year old student she helps with shopping cooking going for its mutually beneficial most importantly they like each other in simplest terms i probably won't be able to afford to live where i am if i wasn't working and living with john as a young person or the conversations we have i come out learning something new he's had such an interesting life. loneliness is subjective individuals and societies

feel it in different ways but says this expert its impact on health can be measured having predisposes health conditions so there's been a matter that looked at showed that it was bad for your health. today people that are more likely to get heart disease and start. their early onset of dementia. many mental health issues amateur depression suicide. cocktails in care an unlikely mixture but another simple idea bringing young people into care homes for the elderly in britain three quarters of older people say they feel lonely almost half say t.v. is their main companion these evenings everyone reaches out to everyone else.

and. they. like loneliness itself the benefits of a scheme like this very hard to quantify but in gauging in conversation between generations makes almost all of us feel good it creates understanding it strengthens the ties which holds society to get. lonely there's often comes with feelings of shame but it is part of the human condition and on evenings like these some people discover that they have more in common than the thought of the phillips al-jazeera london.

let's find out what's happening at the winter olympics. thanks very much a seventeen year old has become the youngest american gold medalist at a winter olympics since one nine hundred twenty eight red gerard claimed an unexpected victory in the men's slopestyle snowboarding elise home in reports. if you would have known the name great to run before these olympic games but the teenager produced the run of his life in the men's slopestyle snowboarding event and seventeen he became the youngest olympic snowboarding champion ever was it was crazy it was really wild to me that i have first place those. jobs are upping canada's mark mcmorris won the bronze medal less than a year after he almost died during a training accident the twenty four year old fractured his jaw pelvis and left ruptured he spleen and suffered a collapsed lung all the emotions are definitely positive today just

being here at the olympics is a huge feat for me and being healthy is feel so good once again. dutch speedskating great sven cromwell became the first man to win three golds in the same speed skating event at an olympics the thirty one year old climbing the men's five thousand aces yet again. fans of biathlon was stunned when french tamasin for cut the world number one missed three of his opening five shots and would finish eighth in the men's ten kilometer sprint no one more stunned than germany's pesah who took home the gold. france didn't finish day two entirely empty handed purina phone won gold in the women's moguls those are just crazy i mean i really realized that just one day you're lame pigs and when you. when you blame the champions there was

a great fit in. the drama of the day care. i'm in the men's thirty kilometer ski at line seaman heads down kruger with laughter in the early stages have to think floored in a collision. but the norwegian recovered to take the lead on the penultimate lap and we go home and just era. germany are top of the medal table after two days of competition with three golds the netherlands are in fact and australia join the list of all the medal winning countries after a victory and them and. eleven gold medals are up for grabs in the biathlon at these games here's peters to take you through the events history and technicalities skiing and shooting seems like an unlikely combination for the winter olympics the roots of biathlon or in hunting techniques used by scandinavian countries and was contested between swedish and norwegian militaries in the eighteenth century in one nine hundred sixty it debuted as an official alone pick event so how does it work

what with a rifle strapped to their back the competitor will do lips around a cross country ski course these laps will vary from two and a half to four kilometers and at the end of each loop they stop take that rifle off their back and shoot a targets that are fifty meters away there are two types of required shooting one is standing with targets that are four and a half metres wide all lying on their stomachs shooting at targets that are not as big now if you miss a single target you are paralyzed in some even so that means you have to do a one hundred fifty meter penalty loop before continuing on the race in other events it's a one minute punishment overall race distances in individual events vary from ten to twenty kilometers in duration and depending on the distance that means racing from twenty minutes to over an hour there are five separate men's and women's events in pyongyang and naturally the first across the line takes gold. extreme

cold weather at the olympics has been a talking point of the games for athletes but spectators and thousands of volunteers are also affected we welling's reports on what goes into making the game . if a good lympics is based on the infusion of the hosts then the winter olympics in p.r. can already be judged a success. by the fifteen thousand volunteers cheerful in extreme conditions approaching minus twenty degrees working long hours out of ten of them are in their twenty's and simply wanted to be part of chung's big fortnight. enjoying being a volunteer yeah sure because you know whether it's. sports events. standing in the cold means the uniform logistics need to be perfect they're not a many have politely registered their complaints to the games organizers. that we

were a little bit long it's nine hours per cent and. there were a lot of problems with the transportation another issue to hit the games is an outbreak of the norovirus there were over one hundred cases around the olympic site mainly affecting security guards but now sport is finally starting to take the spotlight after the extraordinary political developments between south and north korea to define the opening of these twenty third winter games and korea could dream of a gold rush. is a. public support on the first day of competition who. the gunman. in the men's. shorts. and.

a nation is already gripped by television footage for those in the olympic parks it's a memory for life. i'm very proud that south korea managed to hold the olympics again after thirty years i came here to make good memories for my daughter. i'm very happy to see the olympics in the flourish. despite the omnipresent marketing flavor the games have with. korean charm amazing people the games makers these guys. and the people. at the climate. barcelona house stumbled for a second straight week in spain they were held to a draw by taffy a late effort by luis suarez failed to get through the keeper while barsa star player leon massey was. it was only the fifth time this season allowed legal

leaders fail to score. they remain unbeaten though with that result barcelona as leader of the top sits at seven points with athletico madrid in second defending champions around madrid are seventeen points behind manchester united suffered a surprise to fade away at newcastle in the english premier league matt richie scoring the only goal in the game to lift newcastle out of the relegation zone united states second in the table sixteen points behind leaders city. yes they were yes they were but. sometimes you will track the lucky we just state the months. after the one you assume because today is the fourth for their lives and i think that's a beautiful thing in football liverpool are third in the standings after to know when over southampton roberta from a new and most worthy scores both in the first half and that's all your sport for

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