five countries. four days. three thousand konami tents. to generations. one by. syrian refugees on assume real jannie to see me. on the bright side. a witness documentary at this time on how dizzying. this is al-jazeera. and i'm adrian for the get this is that live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the eleven calls for an immediate end to the targeting of

civilians in syria as more people die in rebel held eastern groups plus. we are not abandoning our commitment to the peace process and when you do that then you really have to find a new international alliance palestinian seek a new global partner to help mediate peace with israel also. these are known me to begin by seeing who is so. i don't want to. a machine and oxfam bosses faced tough questions from british politicians about the charges sexual misconduct scandal in haiti and an alarming new study says that there are plastic particles and other pollutants in the stomachs of seventy five percent of all the rain life in the atlantic ocean. and far and small will have all the latest from the winter olympics n.p.r. chuang as canadian ice dancers tatham virtue and scott moir when there is fact a gold medal at the games. but

a record setting. more than seventy five people have been killed on tuesday in the syrian rebel held on klav of eastern ghouta in some of the heaviest fighting there in years hundreds of others have been injured in the intense bombardment by russia and the syrian government that brings the death toll to more than one hundred eighty people since sunday local observers believe the attacks are the beginning of a major offensive on the area on the outskirts of the capital damascus the united nations wants an end to the targeting of civilians it says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control according to the union of medical care and relief the bombings have destroyed five medical facilities nearly four hundred thousand people remain trapped in eastern guta which has been under siege since twenty thirty al-jazeera saying the harder reports now from beirut.

panic in the streets. is even to. fear in people's faces. neighborhoods flattened the airstrikes are almost continuous no towns across eastern who are coming under intense fire was survivors emerge in shock children traumatized. was was on the road some four hundred thousand people are trapped in this besieged syrian opposition enclave nowhere is safe. the sound of fighter jets in the skies frightens the population. and muhammad and her son the same say they can only

hope the walls in their home will save them if a shell or an airstrike hits nearby i didn't we have no choice but to stay in our hearts despite the in strikes and shelling building and those in the street that i don't have underground shelter. in the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control because of what it calls an extreme escalation of hostilities scores of civilians have been killed since sunday and the number continues to rise. there are hundreds of injuries as well doctors are appealing to the international community to force the government to allow supplies in several cars full of we have shortages in medicine and medical supplies because the regime has been hitting this area for weeks we've had to deal with many injuries imagine longer have blood bags to be. the un is demanding an end to the targeting of civilians but for the syrian government and its allies this is a military tactic. they hope that by inflicting suffering on the

population they will turn against the rebels and force them to surrender. eastern as the last remaining opposition stronghold around damascus comments made by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov about what he calls using the experience if . you. are causing for the syrian government regain focus for all of these. thousands of after months and a full blown military assault that. the main opposition body the syrian national coalition is calling the latest wave of violence a war of extermination it is also condemning what it calls the international silence. this is not the first bombing campaign in eastern. hundreds of civilians were killed in weeks of bombardment earlier this year many

believe the renewed bombardment could be the final assault senator. the u.n. says that the world is witnessing some of the worst fighting in the syrian conflict which completely deplore the the systematic use of violence against the civilian populations and the hospitals and schools. extreme violations of humanitarian law and all parties you know the un is calling on all parties to deescalate the violence in syria the children's agency unicef is his house of the bombardment of peace and it says no words will do justice to the children killed mothers the fathers and their loved ones left the rest of it safe and blank explaining we no longer have the words to describe children suffering and outrage. meanwhile turkey's president recha top birder one has told his parliament that his forces would soon capture syrians northern region of africa in syria and pro-government

militia are reported to be heading there where turkey is involved in a military operation against kurdish fighters ankara has said that it will confront the syrian forces if they help the kurdish y p g which it considers to be a terrorist group. so at the same time it takes to make certain perp reagent in the field the seeding of the effort city will start rapidly in the coming days. lived out to go on the turkey syria border or near the border i was there as a summer binge of it is there so we're turkey's president says that turkey has halted the deployment of syrian forces to the african region what's the latest you're hearing us on. absolutely adrian this is what they have and the gun has been telling reporters after this meeting with his cabinet ministers he's been saying that it was after his phone conversations of it with the iranian president and the russian president that this advance by the

syrian government was stopped and he saying that this advance is no longer in place and all that we heard in the last forty eight hours was by the by p.z. the kurdish fighters who are now who are now stranded in this enclave off are free and city have been saying that they were going to get help from the syrian government according to the turkish government that is no longer going to come out of the ground has also said that it will happen in a matter of days that his forces. besieged this area so all this prospect of syrian aid coming in is going to be just a prospect but it is easier said than done military sources on the ground have been telling us about how difficult this terrain is and how cautious the turkish forces have been in advance towards the city of a free and it's a mountainous region and the fighters who are the kurdish fighters often by p.d. know this area well but having said that the free syrian army out of fighters which

are backed by turkey have been claiming that they have continued to get make gains in villages around the city of offering they now control almost ninety points around the city of a free man they say they are close to this position where they will be able to sit around the city completely until all of the supplies coming in all fighters and weapons into this if you are free and so then they will have no other choice but to surrender to the turkish government but the white b.g. on its its nonsense that it will not surrender and its forces will continue to fight so twenty four hours ago we were reporting that these syrian allied militia just hours away from the african region where are they what's happened to them. when these if you look at the. the geography of this area this area is divided between of various factions in syria some of it's controlled by the by p.g. that is the kurdish militia some of it is controlled by out of fighters called the

free syrian army while some areas are under the control of the syrian government and the syrian government made it clear that it is not going to be its regular forces who are going to go in it is going to deploy its fighters in the area in the surrounding areas in aleppo countryside in hama and push them through words the area some sources on the ground told us that there was at least one bought off fighters belonging to the y.p. the kurdish militia who went from the city of aleppo to our free so it is like everything in syria is divided into areas which are into pockets which are under control by a number of groups so it is not going to be simple for any one site to control it but for now the turks seem adamant that their advance is successful and we haven't heard from the syrian government after these comments by the tickets president that whether this advantage has been halted postponed or they are not going to going at all some of many things. in just

a few hours the palestinian president is expected to address the united nations and seek a new international alliance to mediate peace with israel it marks a step away from a longstanding policy of accepting the u.s. as the main intermediary it follows president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital let's go live now to a serious bone at smith who's in ramallah in the occupied west bank so why is about going to the u.n. . well aging out is really twenty five years that the palestinians have accepted the u.s. as the main intermediary the main mediator in talks between the palestinians and the israelis and that recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel by donald trump really ended that as far as the palestinians are concerned but they need they want to carry on with mediation they want a solution they want a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital so this speech is the first

excuse me since donald trump's announcement we part of this diplomatic push for the palestinian is proper listening in president is making to try and create some sort of new form perhaps under u.n. auspices the catch to wall of this though is persuading the israelis to take part in whatever new form the might be because of the moment israelis are more than happy with the americans. donald trump's promise of the deal of the century turned into what the palestinian president called the slap of the century it's forced mahmoud abbas and his team back to the drawing board. has been involved in palestinian policy making for decades he now believes the u.s. is losing its dominant role in the world in a world that is changing i mean the calculation is not only on our wishes it's also on our and that is is what's going on in the world including what israel now practices israel is seeking very much better relations with the russians was the

chinese was the indians with the japanese israel itself knows that the world is changing and it cannot ignore these other important forces abbas has been telling leaders from europe russia china and elsewhere that he wants them to have a role in mediation with the israelis while retaining u.s. involvement. for any new form to work though the israelis would have to be willing to take part with trump at his back there seems little incentive for now the prime minister binyamin netanyahu to change tack i doubt it. can be and the renewal of the peace process especially that the alternative sponsorship will be refused by israel we will witness a period of no process no solution what's a period i mean probably the coming one to two years at least

a massive fairly bleak outlook isn't it that's right but this is less harmful to the palestinians from continuing with a process in which the sponsor of the united states might come up with a proposal. that can be even more harmful than the continuity of the current difficult and political reality that we're living angle with donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital came with criticism of the palestinian leadership for depending on u.s. mediation for the last twenty five years it's felt the pressure to come up with an alternative we have no other option we don't want to go back to violence we are not abandoning our commitment to the peace process and when you do that then you really have to find a new international alliance a new legal methods and ways and means of really saving our country from being totally overtaken by the israeli colonial project as the palestinians cast around

for a new mediation the reality on the ground is that illegal settlements are expanding day by day eating up more and more occupied land time is not on the palestinian side but it's with al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. here are the news out from out zero still to come on the program crowds gather in zimbabwe to bid a final farewell to form opposition leader morgan china plus. i'm wayne hay with a rare look at the second day being constructed on the lower mekong river as laos pushes ahead with its goal of becoming the battery of southeast asia. and in sport we'll hear from the football manager who says his team need to get ready to suffer in the european champions league. oxfam says that it's investigating twenty six new cases of sexual abuse by stuff

the new details came out as bosses were questioned in the u.k.'s parliament about sexual misconduct in haiti in two thousand and eleven charities already apologized to haiti's government but the british politicians want more answers some of oxfam staff are accused of using prostitutes during an aid mission in haiti following an earthquake. i repeat oxfam's brooder apology and my personal apology i am sorry we are sorry for the damage that oxfam has done both to the people of haiti but also to wider efforts for aid and development by possibly undermining public support so i wholeheartedly apologize for those comments and commit to work in that greater public interest so they can make a powerful role role in the work that we all believe in life not a london al-jazeera spot to be for that says that bob you've been listening to all of this what else has bach goldring had to say. well he came under

a real grilling his defense adrian in fairness was that he joined oxfam in twenty thirteen when he did he was told about the investigation that had taken place around events in haiti two years earlier in twenty eleven and he was given every assurance that the matter had been dealt with appropriately and was now closed despite that the m.p.'s in that development committee really were putting him under fire they want to know in particular why oxfam had not reported the perpetrators to the police in haiti at the time and you can you could sense that he was in a very awkward position he wasn't the only one who is coming under fire as well there was a panel of senior oxfam membership including a woman we need down huma she's the executive director of oxfam she originally came from uganda she came to united kingdom as

a refugee and this is what she said. these are loaned me to begin by seeing how slowly our young of on twenty something a machine i've spent my life trying to stand up for women's rights and to fight for people living in poverty this is painful for me so probably what happens next what are the wider consequences for both oxfam and the aid community in general. well i mean not oxfam are facing enormous crisis mark goldring admitted during the evidence that seven thousand people in the united kingdom individual donors the general public if you like had cut off their subscriptions to that charity over the past two weeks and of course there's no government money coming for the time being but this is an issue that is bigger than oxfam in the last half hour we've been listening to kevin watkins he's the c.e.o. of save the children another big british charity and certainly there's no

complacency in other charities at all he's saying that this isn't just a matter of a few bad apples it is a systemic problem but he also reiterated the belief that a lot of people have in the aid sector in this country that attacks on aid at the moment perhaps can be opportunistic those who are saying britain gives too much a point seven percent of gross national income for gross national income that needs to be reduced he's trying to break that link between that line of attack and the very real moral and ethical crisis which the british aid agency for british aid world faces at the moment or about the many thanks probably phillips live in london . zimbabwe's formal opposition leader has been laid to rest in his hometown of who . died of cancer last week politicians from the ruling zanu p.f. party attended the service alongside thousands of opposition supporters shanghai founded the main opposition movement for democratic change which challenged former

president robert mugabe and his party let's take you live now to. this funeral today how drew huge crowds. it did and this was the final farewell lots of people were very sad when the cost was open briefly a few family and friends got to see morgan tsvangirai one more time and in the car it was taken down to the family homestead just behind those trees and it was his first wife susan there was a little bit of drama early on to get a senior opposition party official making their way to the venue and they are not happy but nothing to meet the acting president so some opposition supporters who don't like those two leaders were hurling insults a pen telling them to leave you trying to destroy the party a clear indication that they are problems with the anything other morgan tsvangirai has gone city members of the zanu p.f.

were there at the funeral now there for the m.d.c. given the the risks that exist within it that you were talking about just a. well first of all the members on the people who were here they didn't really get a welcome reception a lot of the opposition supporters did you the reason why morgan tsvangirai and many times in jail was beaten or the salted and they actually weren't happy that they were here but nevertheless dollars the fact that you did come maybe to find the country is moving forward in terms of the opposition when you actually need a nelson chamisa that he's going through things teens across the country you speak to ordinary supporters in our if they are happy that he has been told by the national council to leave that party he joined up or to say that they want a special kong withheld then he will do so but rather he thing you the legitimate leader there now is of course those. who are almost turned away and

others in the party who are unhappy that he was appointed what are they going to do next we're hearing that they may if they don't resolve their differences if that happens seriously weaken the main opposition party just months before elections are held her many things. somalia's biggest market has been closed for the past two days business and is the. protest against a five percent tax hike imposed by the government in an effort to pay back some of the country's international debt to see reports. these streets are usually buzzing with customers but for the past two days shops in somalia's busiest market have been closed. and business owners in but car market have vowed to keep it that way until new taxes imposed by the government are lifted so i want to have it out today the market has not been closed by the business people but by the government because they do not recognise the needs of business people we request the government to

analyze our needs and give us respect and reduce the tax so we can work smoothly in the market. the central government imposed a five percent tax earlier this month as part of its efforts to win billions of dollars in international debt relief. and in your shop and the value of the shelf in the market is twenty dollars to one dollar. i think there's so many people are ready to do that they're ready to do that. they are ready to who would be able to contribute. to the effort to rebuild the country. and therefore i don't see any value in any problem but traders say the new taxes stalled business trade union representatives attempted to negotiate the increase with the finance minister but he insisted it was not optional oh i know because. the government ordered us to pay on affordable taxes which other markets around the country do not

pay we met the finance minister and he told us in english pay the tax or go to kiss my oh you will no longer be a minister to watch if he does not respect our complaints well you must know that other somalis are reluctant to pay more money to a government many consider corrupt and inefficient especially when they see little being done to improve their country that has been ravaged by war for decades. many of those battles fought in the heart of book or a market one of the largest in east africa and an economic powerhouse for somali business owners are hoping that closing their shops will pressure the government to come to the negotiating table the middle. parts of new zealand have declared states of emergency as former cyclon gator makes landfall tens of thousands of homes are without power some towns on the west coast of the south island cut off by flooding the military was deployed to areas expected to be hit hardest the storm caused serious damage to the pacific island nations and fiji last

week it was the early hours of the morning it is ill and at the moment good morning if you're watching the latest on is meteorologist as in folks have well places say the worst of the storm does seem to be over now adrian we're looking at the what was the eye of the storm now making its way across the northwest tip of the south island if that's not too many a compass points for you have a look closer then this pushing across central areas of new zealand in short just pushing through the quickstrike and easing further southwards and east with so having made landfall it's sapping some of the energy out of the store mr. some damaging winds to come when the strongest winds are found this hundred fifty kilometers per hour big waves still in place and then you go over those tens of thousands of people who are still without power as the heavy rain there when heavy rain will be with us for quite some time over one hundred millimeters of rain across many of the central areas over the past few hours and we are going to see

the heavy rain continuing for maybe another day or so actually and look at this for rainfall total two hundred fifty six millimeters of rain in just eighteen hours new zealand has had its wettest one hour period on record fifty four millimeters of rain coming down in just one hour sirocco breaking rainfall as we go through wednesday there you go we still got a legacy of showers coming in behind the worst of the system that's going to continue pulling away so we'll see that easing on as we go on through our way to stay as we go on into thursday things do start to dry up to brighten up mostly things pretty quiet and down quite nicely as we head towards the weekend to be fine and dry by the nature and with plenty of sunshine. many thanks to the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program the city destroyed by i sold it's being rebuilt with love we need the volunteers taking matters into their own. failing the most vulnerable unicef voice is over the worst thing in football tell us he raised

in some of the world's poorest countries take a look at this. it rains tennis balls find out why german football fans turned a monday night game into a tennis match. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators aap propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems challenging systems and shaping. creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera.

the free. well again good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha but the news hour from al-jazeera our top stories this hour more than seventy people have been killed in the syrian rebel held on play the eastern goods and some of the heaviest fighting there in years it brings the death toll now to more than one hundred

eighty people since sunday and an intense bombardment by russia on the syrian government. the palestinian president will tell the u.n. later on tuesday that he wants to set up a new international alliance to mediate with the israelis but what about us is abandoning a twenty five year policy of accepting the u.s. as the main intermediary at oxfam says that it's investigating twenty six new cases of sexual abuse by its staff but new details came out as its bosses were questioned in the u.k. parliament about sexual misconduct in haiti in two thousand and eleven the charity has already apologized to haiti's government. a group of young iraqis say that they won't wait for the government to rebuild the country billions of dollars have been promised but has to go see actions go back and forth they're taking matters into their own hands kathy lopez reports. it will take years to undo the damage in mosul neighborhoods. volunteers like omar aren't

wasting any time he drives to the iraqi cities nero's streets clearing out what's left of destroyed structures or with rocks there's a lot of rubble you see large pieces all over the streets and alleys we're doing our best with what we have we've been doing this for about two weeks now of the price of every truck ever does about to two. it's part of a campaign called lifting the debris an initiative launched by a local young woman tears who've lost hope in the government's ability to rebuild the city rather be a teacher of addicted to well thought what's left of own mechanics home is a constant reminder of the nearly four year fight with eisel she's surrounded by shadows of war air strikes and loss we are already in the destroyed old area of mosul there are no services no electricity no water it's miserable the country needs money lots of it to rebuild its towns and cities last week donors pledged

thirty billion dollars in loans and investments the iraqi government says it needs more than eighty eight billion a lack of trust is a major concern last year the country ranked one hundred sixty six out of one hundred seventy six nations that were found to be corrupt you have high rates of all. those areas because they are neglected by the iraqi government by the local government because of corruption central grooved he says accountability within the private sector could be part of the solution reactivate the private sector. and how we can use private sector to make confidence to make trust with the international community these young volunteers don't want to rely solely on the government's plans they say they want to start now and revitalize their city was an analogy doubted that as volunteer painters were trying to show the civilized face of a model we drew monuments that were blown up by ice all to show that the negative effects of the war will eventually fade rebuilding could take decades now the

process has a head start. so the young al-jazeera and egyptian company has agreed to buy fifteen billion dollars worth of israeli natural gas operators of israel's tama leviathan offshore fields will supply a private a gyptian with around sixty four billion cubic meters of gas over a decade israel hopes the deal with strengthened diplomatic ties the club uses it is million we need to understand that this will put billions into the state treasury to benefit the education health and social welfare of israel citizen many people did not believe in the gas outline we lit it knowing that it would strengthen our security economy and regional relations with something called us is known resident fellow at the taria institute for middle east policy he says that the deal could allow egypt to become an importer of gas within the next five years . egypt currently or time towards it no substitution since gas production with

a new field coming online that that prospect and. actually quite realistic that sector if consumption continues its current pace will eventually returns even importer of the next five or six years. we supply reliable supply of gas coming from israel to be useful for business since. a weapon cut off the possibility for instance that the opportunity to be an export or yeah sometimes it's hard for ukrainians some simplified i guess that it's europe. is something that it's in such as way of comfort about problems for actual gas in her it's very . the un's children's agency says the world is failing newborn babies with seven thousand dying every day most from preventable causes a report by unicef has found that infants born in the poorest countries are fifteen times more likely to die than those in rich ones you borns in pakistan have the

least chance of survival with one in twenty two dying within the first month of life while in central african republic somalia listen to afghanistan twenty seven babies die in every thousand the agency blames poverty conflict and weak institutions babies with the best chance of survival of born in japan iceland and singapore where doctors in central african republic say they're facing a crisis because of a shortage of medical staff and equipment catherine sawyer reports a. new life in the second worst country in the wild for a child to be born in the only pediatric hospital in central african republic nass is ensure that babies little hearts keep beating of the roughly thirty children born each day in this hospital in the capital bangui an average of two die it's a free government hospital taking in hundreds of patients daily but medical

supplies are hard to come by the hospital is understaffed and badly needs more specialist doctors. dr gaddy chrysostom is one of just five pediatricians in the whole country he says they try the best they can to keep mothers and their children alive. see central african republic in regions in the or depend on this issue raised again we are in a crisis we. know the centers because this attrition is no sustainable. cradles her son in a human incubation care system called kangaroo it helps premature babies when there is no incubator baby man doris tween brother died when they were born arlie. zambia has been assured that man dara will be fine but she worries about him and how for the children back home only a third of it where. my has been doesn't work i do casual work my children fall

that means all the money goes to hospital bills then what. the children here are lucky to get some help the farther you get away from bondi the more desperate the health care situation medical aid agencies are helping but even can be everywhere doctors without borders and the international medical corps support this hospital in bria in the north east after months of fighting between rival armed groups the hospital is now not just taking in patients but has also offered more dated families that have fled from their homes there are places where the. groups continue to stand in the way of accessing people but we also have. funding issues we don't have all the resources that we need. for example for the area of maternal natal health back in the bungie children

hospitals kangaroo ward as they call it the new mothers continue to bond with their little ones and hope they'll get to see all the milestones catherine saw al-jazeera bria central african republic. the white house says that u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting better background checks on people buying guns the move follows last week's school shooting in florida and which seventeen people died trying to meet survivors on wednesday he's been speaking to leaders in congress about a bipartisan bill to improve checks on people purchasing weapons activists staged a protest outside the white house on monday helen fisher reports. it started as a social media conversation on friday afternoon and became a mass protest in front of the white house dozens of students from around the washington area backed by the families gathered to mark this piece of school shootings in america and demanded argent action to stop them i don't see this as a republican or democrat issue it's more life or death really shootings happen

every day and weapons don't belong on the streets they don't belong in school or as they belong in war the current hot topic we read out the names of the victims of school shootings in america since one thousand nine hundred ninety s. and when you were caught up in their own thoughts seeing their own emotions. shootings in america in the past there have been protests in the past but this type of people think something is different but this time change can be achieved. then came the mass die and students in the grown sending a message that the politicians in action was no longer an option it's about the fact that kids are dying american kids are dying and that they're sitting in classrooms in the crowed a school psychologist who trained at the school in parklane florida where the mass shooting took place struggling to contain her emotions and her anger like holiness are providing crazed his intervention at this time in over fifteen twenty years

that they've been practicing they've never seen such heartache typically we train to provide enter vention support for death of a teacher or a student and the stories that they're hearing it's like a war zone the flag above the white house still flies at half staff in memory of the florida victims the young people here know that many of them are too young to vote. but the insist the voices will be haired and they will not be ignored. al jazeera washington a u.s. department store is facing a backlash for selling clothes marketed towards muslim women macy's is the first big department store to sell his jabs or head coverings the collection is called verona and is the brainchild of a fashion photographer who says that she struggled to find modest fashionable clothing after converting to islam the company says the brand stands for women's empowerment and taking pride in muslim identity but the decisions caused

controversy online some twitter users are using using the hash tag boycott maisie's macy's rather this user tweets that you're the first major u.s. department store to sell the hejab the ultimate symbol of oppression of women what next another user tweets don't accept the slow normalization of the hit job in america ever it's not our culture and it never will be that it has been some approval people like sarra say they support macy's move to be more inclusive she says she loves her job adding i used to purchase them before macy's label this gaffe as a job they have choudhry from the council on american islamic relations says that head scarves a big business for macy's. you know it's a manufactured controversy i think for the vast majority of particularly muslim women but just you know ordinary americans this is just a move by macy's to be more inclusive and to be more more diverse and embracing of diversity but more importantly more than that it's more it's a business decision

a sound business decision made by b.c.s. to tap into a growing market that is very lucrative financially and you know by all accounts and purposes muslim fashion is a multibillion dollar industry that has generated you know an amazing amount of revenues and macy's has decided that they want to piece of the pie there's a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about islam and about woman and islam and just the his job in general is one of the most politicized articles of clothing in the world and for many in the west they see the hit job as a form of oppression until they meet many muslim women and they hear our side of the story and they realize that you know it's actually couldn't be further from the truth personally i decided to wear the hijab when i was nineteen years old i became the first muslim woman in my family to wear the hijab and it was really a form of liberation for myself or a way for me to express my identity and i think many muslim women who wear the

hijab also feel the same way and i think a lot of it is just it comes down to dismantling a lot of the misconceptions and zero times that exists about islam and muslim women particularly and just educating the broader public on what the head job is and why it's not something that people should be afraid of. new research has revealed the extent of plastic in the world oceans the study published in front is in marine science found seventy five percent of marine life in the atlantic ocean contain plastic particles in their stomachs it says that fish living up to a thousand meters below the surface are absorbing toxic pollutants such as flame retardants paints and ship sealants so this isn't the first study to raise the alarm more than eight million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year that's adding to the estimated eleven billion pieces already trapped in coral reefs the research group little base estimates that they least seventy percent of all marine litter is plastic based the problem is so widespread that earlier this

month the research vessel found micro plastics polluting the most remote of uncharted areas of the ocean and it's not just sea water that's affected one of best a geisha revealed that eighty three percent of tap water samples from around the world were contaminated with micro plastics dorothy danko is a researcher at the university of bergen and board member of the nordic marine think tank she joins us now via skype from bergen in the way good to have you with us dorothy i tell you these findings certainly caused some raised eyebrows here at al-jazeera today are you surprised by the well unfortunately we're not so surprised this is just another example of scientists finding micro plastics another human induced pollutants in the ocean so unfortunately it's not news to us but we want to get this message out to the public that the ocean is absorbing all of our plastics and how much of this plastic waste makes its way up the food chain to us humans.

that's a good question and something that in bergen in norway we're really concerned about looking at so the fish and seafood is routinely sampled all the time and we have found plastic in stomachs. we don't know what this means for for example for a human physiology or what this is going to do to lessen you have a project ongoing now to try to understand that little bit better people so if you're facebook may have seen ads for a company called for ocean which is trying to do something about plastic waste and make money out of it want to compete done to clear up this mess. well the first thing is that people have to realize that this is an issue this is happening one big wake up call for us in norway where we don't have a high population density but we had a whale that beach last year and there are thirty plastic bags found in it something that was a wake up call for consumers and also other places in the world in the u.s. and other places like france are putting more taxes on plastic bags for example

they're using for shopping so slowly but surely this is making its way more in the mainstream that consumers understand that there have a role in this to ok so we can stop using plastic bags that's that's one thing that we all can do but i mean there's very little we can do about the packaging the the rest of our groceries come in is that well if the consumers would bring this up. with the industrial packaging packing industry for example something that we're focusing on is responsible in research and innovation that we can innovate new products with science to tackle some of these big polluting societal problems so to what extent do we need to vote with our feet. well you would like to see this kind of bottom up effect that in democratic countries people can say ok this is a problem we want regulations we want polluters to pay the price but we also have to look at our own daily aspects i just went to the store today to buy

a yogurt you can't buy yogurt here what that's not in plastic packaging why can't i buy and you're going to this in glass and probably have to pay more but consumers have to understand that they do have a role in this and they can talk to regulators as a set raised eyebrows here at al-jazeera. is there any good news in the story at all. the good news is that the scientific approach used in this study was very good so using this f.d.a. are spectrometry sometimes plastic that's reported in the water is that the fiber is there is actually just cotton fibers they haven't done the actual analysis to say that this is a stick so the science now is catching up and with our project right now they know project or understanding for example how it can be a canary in the coal mine or. really bring plastics and other pollutants to it like a magnet so what we need to understand how this is affecting the fish oil impacts the sea life and how it can be transferred to humans what effect it has on us has

to clean the oceans many thanks indeed dorothy good to talk to dorothy jekyl thank you. archaeologists say that pollution is threatening the world's largest underwater cave system the second act and caves are home to some of the oldest human remains in the americas dating back more than twelve thousand years but there are concerns that runoff from a nearby dump could be damaging skeletal remains more than one hundred sites of my own era pottery and bones have been discovered in the caves on the yucatan peninsula. it's very unlikely that there's another site like this in the world with these characteristics but the amount of archaeological artifacts found there and the level of preserve ation that they have. a first. may start generating electricity earlier than expected the controversial saya brewery dam is in laos and the communist government there says that it needs the project to improve the country's economy when hey was given rare access to the site. this is

one of the most unique places on the mekong river just before it flows from laos into cambodia it disperses becoming eleven kilometers wide and creating thousands of channels and islands in the mekong was the largest inland fishery in the world but in this part of the river those who rely on it for food an income say something is changing it could have been a number of fish is decreasing each year it seems like they might be staying deep or for some reason i think there is too much noise in the reef or. something part of the answer could lie a short distance from where fish is in one of the channels a dam is being built as the lao government works towards its goal of becoming the battery of southeast asia while china operates six dams on the upper make on the dawn so hong is just the second being built on the lower reaches both are in laos and the government has plans for at least seven more this is

a relatively small project but is attracted some of the strongest criticism downstream from laos cambodia and v. both of which had been calling for a moratorium on the construction of dams on the main stream of the mekong river will seeing what laos is doing cambodia has given up on that now and is forging ahead with its own plans to build at least two dams on the mekong one of which will be in the province just across the border from here. neighboring countries had criticized last for not being transparent enough about dawn song and the potential trends boundary impacts it's being built on one of the only channels in the area that fish can migrate up and down stream year round seventy. longest then make their terrific sell abstracting my question now would mean. and depletion of the fish stuck in the whole region. the developers and the government say they're widely and deepening other channels to allow fish to swim through they're also

conducting daily surveys of fish stocks in the area which they say are being adversely affected. in international because you put a book company to study and. it's. to slow it down. great pictures to show you before the end of the. all.

the only. time place is as we say in wales his final sport. ajor in thank you so much it's day eleven of the winter olympics and young chang canadian ice dancers tessa virtue and scott moir put on a record setting performance to claim their second gold medal at these games skating last to milan rouge in their short dance program the pair won with a total score of two hundred and six point zero seven breaking the world record that was set just moments before by france's gabriel papa d.s.

and beyond this is sorrow but four time olympic medalist have only been beaten once since coming out of retirement in twenty six to. future gold quite yet but. it definitely feels like where you include me in the back here and we're just proud of accomplishments this in these games that the goal was to win to go. to another gold for canada in the women's ski halfpipe twenty five year old cathy sharpe had the two best runs in the final to beat france's marring martino who claimed silver usas greta sigourney took the bronze. you know we're still top of the medal table france's martin for car has further cemented his status as an all time olympic great he helped his country win gold in the biathlon mixed relay it says third gold of these games and fifth overall making him france's most successful olympian of all time. russian olympic bosses have confirmed

a second sample from their bronze medal winning curler has tested positive for a banned substance alexander crucial netsky won the medal with his wife in mixed doubles curling he tested positive for mel dhoni i'm a drug about increases blood flow and improves exercise capacity russia sports minister claims the curler didn't take the substance deliberately. sylvania men's ice hockey player is eager to yell it's has also tested positive for a banned substance the court of arbitration for sport has ordered him to leave the games scored the winning goal against slovakia on saturday german football fans briefly turned their monday night game into a tennis match frankfurt supporters are unhappy that t.v. schedules have resulted in games being moved from their traditional saturdays lot to tennis ball protests delayed the start of both halves of the match against rb light sic. we spoke to but its leader writer paddy higgs earlier who explained to

us just why monday night football is such a big issue in germany. football fans in germany are certainly a very traditional bunch particularly in fact frankfurt and they are very much against the globalization of the monetize asian football as they see it as it's happening in germany at the moment so i think we're going to see quite a bit of this in the bundesliga very much have a push to globalize the brand to bring the gang to places where it hasn't necessarily been popular before german football certainly is itself on the tradition of the of the game and of the clubs and we look at saturdays when they have you know up to five games on simultaneously which you can argue is not the best use of t.v. sports and that being said i think this move to monday night is at least its hole in the water to see the reaction reaction from inside of germany and potentially the reaction from around the world in the end this is the decision between the d. of p. and the d.f.l. d. of course represent the top clubs in germany and they in some way sanction this

move they represent the clubs so in essence they represent this decision in some way to such despite the fact that we're going to see i think quite a few more protests particularly from some of the more traditional clubs dortmund shug up on track frankfurt as we saw last night and i do believe that this is going to change things in a hurry and i think we saw last night with the with the scenes that happened and what happened with the frankfurt fans everyone's union and in the end it was a i guess at least from a out from a view as you point to deal with access to the london article. barcelona will continue their bid for a trophy trouble against chelsea in the european champions league the teams meet in london in the first leg of their last sixteen tie five english teams have made it through to this round barcelona's coach says this is a matchup he would rather have avoided the. english teams the playing well in the tournament so far that makes sense because of the strength of the premier league we have already seen of the english teams produce good results we were

hoping chelsea would finish top of the group so we wouldn't have to play that. byron munich are aiming for their seventh straight quarter final the germans are at home to turkish champions push who top their qualifying group biron have won their last thirteen games in all competitions. and that's all your sport for now more later but for now back to you many thanks indeed. ready for this the world's only panda trip but treated to a special chinese new year buffet have a look it was bamboo shoots for starters at the going to the main meal for the three and a half year old pandas was steamed cornbread in the shape of gold ingots and the dessert special cakes for the two males and a female the stronger retreat charging them up for a good old fashioned play fight hundreds of people in greece pelted each other with flowers to mark the end of the carnival season the so-called flower wars held at the seaside town of aleck's city every year locals and tourists are encouraged to

quote lose their civility as carnival sort of rationed and at the orthodox christian observance of planets begins the customers believe originated in eighteen zero one a defiance of the town's awesome buildings i'll be back with the day's top stories in just a few by the son of syria see if. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way. our impeccable service remain. but now comes breaking news. it is. the ultimate proof of. the three stooges. whether conducting business sharing

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