And i mean this is. Also coming up in the program the north and south korea agreed to. Get the Winter Olympics and field a joint. Decision to slash the region amid warnings to regional stability. In mexico discover whats believed to be the largest underwater cave. So. Free the leading opposition figure as part of a mass release of prisoners jailed more than a year ago for their part in protests there are good dina is one of more than one hundred prisoners freed from a prison in the capital addis ababa three hundred sixty one more prisoners were also released in the south of the country between always denied violating the law and his release is part of a government drive to Foster National reconciliation as more. America dina is a hero to his supporters and thousands of excited well wishes formed a guard of honor to score his convoy the nine miles from the Detention Center on the outskirts of paris ababa to his home in the nearby town of braille the. Leader of the aroma Federalist Party had been arrested after returning from a visit to brussels a year ago was accused of collusion with outlawed groups a charge she always denied residents have their violated while it is their no owes a former member of parliament and has a construction in their no. I have been always noras big things that. Any way its got that them out. His freedom came as part of government efforts to stem a spreading wave of violence and unrest which flared up in twenty fifteen has claimed hundreds of lives and threatens the stability of one of africas Fastest Growing economies in general the third in a moving to diffusing the tension ethiopias Prime Minister announced he would release many prominent dissident politicians the government is saying they want to. Be able to have a ground for a national consensus. For national because in asia this is what they had for all my them government and media but Amnesty International and other observers were on that a few high profile releases will not be enough thousands of prisoners of conscience are still in jail accused all prosecuted for protesting against the government in a statement the us embassy said it was encouraged by the latest releases paul brennan aljazeera. Has and hussein is an ethiopian writer and a professor and a St Marys University in minnesota and he says the release will do little to calm protests and that thousands of activists still remain in prison. The lows that are used to put morale and the others in jail are still in force. The country still has a. Place of low civil little liberties on. Humanitarian and Civic Organization is still there in tatters unloads stated that the electoral system is still in shambles the judiciary is a mockery of Justice Without this reforms. I dont think the country. Will be able to contain the protest the regime has to do more to this rescind this kanellos us to institute judicial reform this Security Sector reform a complete overhaul of the electoral system without this i dont think the people will be really fired with a real release of a mere one hundred eleven Political Prisoners out of tens of thousands. Marching under one flag and playing together in a joint womens Ice Hockey Team the often south korea have announced a Historic Partnership for this years Winter Olympics delegates from both countries announced the decision. Talks in the border village of. The north will also send a two hundred thirty member strong Cheerleading Team south koreas president has voiced his support for bringing the ice hockey players together saying it would move the hearts of people around the world to its anger at south korean athletes and the public more than one hundred petitions have been launched opposing the move well the in the meetings may have thought relations between north and south korea but they had an icy reception from Japan Foreign minister tata kono has warned delegates at a meeting in canada not to be fooled by kim jong uns government and to consider its true intentions at the summit twenty countries agreed to stop ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to north korea in response to its Nuclear Weapons program joannes allies russia and china did not attend the meeting. Because more from the south korean capital of seoul. This is a significant agreement between the two koreas especially considering that the four high level talks last week there had been no official communication between the countries in more than two years now they have agreed to march together at the Opening Ceremony under a Korean Peninsula flag theyve agreed to form a joint womens Ice Hockey Team and interesting lee theyre planning to stage events inside north korea theyve agreed to hold training event out of ski resort that is a pet project of the leader kim jong un theyre also planning to hold a joint cultural event at Mount Kumgang now a south korean tourists have not visited there since the south korean was shot by a Security Guard ten years ago and north korea has tried to bring up restarting that Tourism Program in the past there have been displays of unity at sporting events before for example the two koreas marched together at the Opening Ceremony of the two thousand sydney olympics but this agreement follows a period of heightened tensions and increasingly threatening north Korean Nuclear and missile tests south korean president monday and says he hopes this year will mark a turning point in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula but others are skeptical of the Japanese Foreign minister has told the meaning of his counterparts that they should not be naive about north koreas intent nor should they be blinded by what he called its Charm Offensive saying that even now north korea continues to develop its Nuclear Weapons program. Now then palestinians have denounced Donald Trumps decision to hold back money needed for aid that would have helped millions of people at the head of the United Nations relief and works agency all has appealed for well donations to make up the shortfall the u. S. Says its withholding sixty five Million Dollars of the one hundred twenty five Million Dollars it was going to give on or which provides a lifeline for some five million palestinians in gaza or in the west bank jordan lebanon and in syria well the u. S. Is its biggest donor giving nearly thirty percent of its budget the e. U. U. K. Saudi arabia and germany and the other main donor countries the u. S. Had already drastically cut its contribution down from a three hundred fifty Million Dollars donation last year iran contra points now whats the impact will be. It will be camps like these jalazone in the occupied west bank that will be affected most by the us decision to cut a refugee funding to the United Nations relief and works agency otherwise known as. There isnt a household here that doesnt rely on whether its Health Education all Waste Collection fifteen thousand refugees live here yeah it would be a big problem with. The agency wasnt here for just two days you would see thrashed by leg up. In places like gaza residents fear they will be left destitute because of the u. S. Decision the israeli siege of gaza already creates acute shortages of food electricity and other essentials as well as causing high unemployment and infrastructure to crumble. I think you should have mercy on the people and belittling my husband isnt his and i cant buy only eleven on syria jordan and elsewhere five million Palestinian Refugees are reliant on. The agency has a deficit and says this new cut further harms its operations we are going to be working relentlessly to extend the donor base to find other donors to come in to fill this gap because our sincere hope is that we will be able to maintain services to some of the most marginal and fragile communities Vulnerable People in the middle east we hope that Regional Security regional stability will not be threatened but that has to remain a risk in light of the us would auction politically the palestinians say the u. S. Is no longer a part of the peace this is another way sure does the heart of been the thinking over there but as the leadership and it shows that we are quite acct. It shows the reading over the political process of where the president and his administration would have come from to this issue it proves every day because of your rules and because of that another one u. S. President donald trump has already caused controversy internationally with the announcement that the u. S. Embassy will move from tel aviv to jerusalem and thats angered a palestinian president mahmoud abbas. This sins of donald trump when he wrongly claimed that jerusalem is the capital of israel is a challenge to millions of muslims and christians this is favoritism for the sake of the Israeli Occupation for these really crimes for the israeli attacks on our Palestinian People this means that the us has chosen to violate International Law how can we trust has it been astray how can we trust this superpower we will never trust them again we will never accept them as mediators between us and the israelis the u. S. Cut the funding has cemented the feeling here that the u. S. Is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side the u. S. President donald trump said he was looking for the deal of the century between the israelis and the palestinians or palestinians say that that deal is now history imraan khan aljazeera jealousy in refugee camp in the occupied west bank and a military court has ruled that a palestinian teenager who was filmed slapping an israeli soldier must be kept in custody until her trial and she was arrested amid unrest following the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital a video of the incident went viral on social media again International Attention to me has been hailed a hero and their actions are seen as a sign of resistance by many palestinians the altercation caused outrage in israel. At least twelve people have been killed in twin suicide attacks in nigeria these suicide bombers targeted a market on the outskirts of the city of my degree at least forty eight people were left injured Group Boko Haram is known for attacks in the area. The United Nations says that more than half of somalis population is in need of emergency aid due to a major drought and worsening conflict millions have been forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands of children have been left well nourished the u. N. Says the situation will worsen unless it receives one point six billion dollars in extra funds and its myth has this report. Most somalis are finding it hard just to survive day to day after more than four years of drought and the continuing war with alshabaab fighters the u. N. Says it just managed to stave off famine in somalia last year but with poor rains forecast again this year more intensive aid will be needed to help the one in every two somalis who are displaced by widespread fighting. Together over the smaller than two million a fifth of the population were. Displaced away from their home this is fuelling suffering it is fairly the levels of humanitarian aid and they do not have neighborhoods or ways to survive for more than a decade fighters who are linked to al qaeda have been trying to take over somalia bombings in the capital mogadishu and conflict nationwide makes it hard for aid groups to introduce projects that will help the economy grow long term and reduce dependence on a war. Has to be a long war on how to. Get the support. For that we are not in the name of. Responding this morning the rise of. The threat from al shabaab gunmen remained significant despite being forced from much of the territory they controlled by forces from the somali army and the African Union reduced funding means twenty one thousand troops are due to leave somalia by the end of twenty twenty Somali Government leaders say they dont have the resources to plug the gap those troops will leave that risks more instability and rather than a groups helping somalia become selfsufficient aid workers are struggling to keep the population from starving to death Bernard Smith al jazeera. So to come here on the program pope francis makes an appeal to indigenous groups as he continues his controversial to chile. The art of diplomacy before more macro meets tourism a fraud says it will britain the tapestry. Hello wednesday was characterized in scotland northern our Northern England with snow showers frequent ones lots of snow to be honest thats the coldest push right down through france and this mass of whiteys clouds will bring stone overnight quite a lot of snow to the alps once more then theres a final push through the us position we sit out thursday start of thursday would start forming in geneva behind temps has risen because weve got a storm system go through wednesday night thursday winds in excess of hundred twenty Kilometers Per Hour by this time on the coast of holland most likely the dutch coast all the noland countries could see something of a surge weve got high tides the same time not a good position to be that a storm will blow itself out but it does mean it will be a pretty poor start to the day and it takes all the energy away from further south or weve got going on throughout the middle trainees quite weather until you get to cyprus and eastwards and look at turkey even covered in massive rain and then snows thats certainly an active system on its way through and then the breeze comes back out of the still warm sarra so tripolis up to nineteen by the time we get to friday and tunis as a team where all the crowd here about still maintain seventeen. It is the stuff of fairy tales rain band snow a wonderful migration and generations of huldas good large winds altering the landscape from is the stuff of mine mansoul im a stunning portrayal of. Them and one woman is determination to save the community. Rushes the tundra tale at this time down to zero. I dont. Support. His release from a prison in the. Joint. At this years Winter Olympics the decision was a. Million dollars from the. Palestinian refugees. In neighboring countries. In chile three helicopters and a Roman Catholic church was nearby and these ten catholic churches have been bombed in the past week. Stop in the. Center of a centuries old conflict with local indigenous groups. People to reject pushing their cause in america and its. As more from to. Pope francis has left. The capital of. Crimea region and Security Forces are certainly breathing a sigh of relief in fact there were police under practically every tree as the pope made his way to one mass on an air force base which once as he recognized himself a place where blood was shed after centuries of injustices against them. And there was the center of his homily here he called on to recognize their rights to recognize. As equals but perhaps the most important thing he had to say was directed at those who are committing acts of violence increasingly in this region he said that violence only breeds violence and that with time it makes even the most just cause a lie he called for unity in this area and then finally he left what he said was what most people who attended the mass wanted to hear but the big question is how much will this really make a difference now that he is gone the French Police have raided the headquarters of the Dairy Company like over a salmonella scandal that seen dozens of babies full sick the firm has recalled milk powder from eighty three countries after it was revealed that factories were contaminated with the bacteria and the companys own tests made the discovery but its products stayed on sale for months french ford officials and Health Authorities are looking into what happened in the new and returning members of the Regional Parliaments have met for the First Time Since not elections in december but still uncertainty over the new president of the parliament separatist parties one former leader. But hes in selfimposed exile in belgium. The move would be illegal and all its. But the first vote in a new session of the cattle and parliament and the separatist members of the new assembly the next chapter in their campaign for catalonia to split from the rest of spain. Were not going to back down were going to work to build up the grassroots and turn our goal of an independent republic into reality. Yellow ribbons marked the seats of elected members of parliament who are in jail or on the run judges accuse them of rebellion for leading the campaign to create a breakaway republic when spanish Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy used Emergency Powers to call snap elections to the cattle and parliament his clear aim was to try and realign the balance of power but that gamble has not paid off because once again separatist parties have been able to build a majority and the ruling coalition. Of the process session coalition was elected parliamentary speaker at wednesdays inaugural session but i learned that institutional necessary or parliamentary speaker is an important job he will effectively control the political agenda within the next two weeks he must organize a vote to choose the new head of the cancelling government the separatist parties want to reinstate ousted leader and who fled to belgium when the Spanish Government declared emergency rule in october that we i think that everybody is that will have that president with him on back in their presidency of the. Spanish police say theyll arrest bustamante if he returns unity politicians who favor remaining part of spain also reject the proposal this increase in their voice the new first minister to be hearing catalonia not abroad we will not accept the savior the moccasin virtual politicians are holograms was i. Separatist m. P. s ended the opening session with the capital an anthem a rebel song about breaking the chains of spanish oppression while outside several thousand rallied to support the separatist cause they sense the stage is now set for a new showdown with Spanish Government leaders in madrid. Zero. Police in pakistan say that a five Year Old Girl has been raped and strangled to death in northwest pakistan offices say had body was discovered in a field on sunday close to the city of modern follows outrage over the rape murder of eight year old sari whose body was found last thursday cases cause widespread protests with authorities being accused of negligence well pakistans opposition groups have gathered in a show of force in the hole to demand the chief minister of punjab step down tens of thousands of demonstrators say that they want to Shahbaz Sharif dont because of his alleged role in the killing of fourteen supporters of a rival party in two thousand and fourteen at least one hundred others were injured when police fired on activists from the pakistan awami turning party and the opposition groups a little stronghold the protests a being led by party leader rule qaddafi. In todays it has deployed military paramedics to combat a Health Crisis in a remote part of papper province at least sixty one babies have died from malnutrition and diseases such as measles there will last for months the government admits its response has been slow and is delivering thousands of packages of food or medicine stedfast reports now from jakarta. Three year old three c. A b. Were died weighing only six kilograms less than half the healthy body weight a child her age like other malnourished and seriously ill children of the tribe and she traveled with her mother many hours to get to a clinic trying to save her life but there are only nine doctors who are available for more than two hundred villages in this one covered area in the south all of them are based in the districts capital hours away from their patients the outbreak of measles started in september and spread quickly because only a few children have been immunized many died because their undernourished bodies were not Strong Enough to fight the disease the government admits its response has been too late. Yes what we have done is not enough but lets not focus on who is in the wrong lets focus on how to solve it because we are dealing with this reality right now we thought our colleagues in pop were could handle it but it turns out they need help and to be pushed more thats what were doing now. Since poplar became part of indonesia in the one nine hundred sixty s. Pop ones have often criticized the government from a collector in the far Eastern Province a small Army Movement has been fighting for independence and many have died because of military filings over the years to bring peace to government autonomy and improved its infrastructure. To what is happening to be as much as it jakarta does not care enough about papa despite building roads in the development we have seen since we got more autonomy poppins dont feel their lives have been proved. The government has called the Measles Outbreak an extraordinary situation and send food and medical teams to the area also flying doctors and the military have been called in to help but due to the remoteness of the affected villages many fear for some help will be too late children dying of hunger and disease are a huge blow to president. Vowed to stop military violence and bring welfare to the despite his frequent visits to this restive province this tragedy painfully shows that a lot more needs to be done to reach the traditional inhabitants of step fasten aljazeera. The Time Military court has dismissed the case against a historian who is being prosecuted for insulting the sixteenth century king eighty five year old of iraqs question the official account of the kings role in the battle more than four hundred years ago thailands laws to protect the molecule are some of the strictest in the world but the case was dropped for lack of evidence a scholar has welcomed the courts decision but he refuses to apologize. I stand by the fact i stand by the truth. I dont stand by. And what i said. Yeah just a pass i didnt ask you to believe me i read it. As. Historian as a scholar thats all i. Know and that britains Prime Minister has welcomed the news that the french president to meddle macro wants to lend the bay a tapestry to the United Kingdom it comes on the eve of his visit to britain where hes expected to push for more money to boost security at the port of cali to stop migrants or to raise amazed said it was very significant that people would be able to see the tapestry in the u. K. It was made more than nine centuries ago and shows the norman invasion of england in ten sixty six the curator responsible for the tapestry says it will be about five years before it can travel because restoration work needs to be carried out. The work is very fragile its not been properly stored since the Nineteenth Century and those little work has been done to the mounting so today you can see marks of where monod to to ration which might even date for the seventeenth way two centuries in some cases and which need to be stabilized before any transportation could be a visit to mexico and the discovery of whats to be the Worlds Largest underwater cave the network of flooded tunnels and chambers is around three hundred fifty kilometers long a team of archaeologists divers found human bones and pottery and hoping to use them to gain a better understanding of the mine civilization. Its report. Deep underneath the state of kentucky no row in eastern mexico new the sandy beaches of can coom the tourist resort on the caribbean coast scuba divers explore what they say is the worlds longest and largest underwater camera on the beach with stretching for three hundred forty seven kilometers the freshwater caves are known as sea not dead dust also hosts the maze of underwater channels is not only extensive but also deep up to one hundred meters in some spots on the sea and the sea nor is muscle mean of the sea and there are about two hundred underwater caves in the secretary system which we thought could be connected but we were not sure of that so now we know about the collection and the flows of water while the city comport them in put it away. Scientists think the kids were used as a source of fresh water during the ancient maya civilization divers began exploring the mayan aqua firs in the one nine hundred eighty s. Mayans considered the cave sacred the portal to talk with the gods of the north down a northern me a mother yourself it gives us a wonderful perspective a new understanding of how the leaders of the ancient settlements and how the ancient mayans developed it allows us to understand more clearly the rituals and the pilgrimage sites and finally the great previous panic settlements that we know of which run along this cave system. At the peak of their civilizations in the six to ten centuries mayans master agriculture mouths and the straw namie as well as building hospitals and sporting arenas and theyre credited with creating calendars and discovering chocolate. Mayans abandoned their cities around one thousand years ago when spanish explorers arrived hundreds of years later they found most cities overgrown. This discovery by divers deep underwater may shed more light on what happened above so long ago. Aljazeera and the fantastic pictures you find much more of all the stories were covering on our website the address for which is aljazeera dot com all the stories as a safe plus lots of comment and analysis to. Remember the made headlines here in aljazeera and ethiopia has freed a leading opposition figure as part of a mass release of prisoners jailed more than a year ago for their politan antigovernment protests. Thousands of his supporters greeted. One of one hundred sixteen prison is freed from a prison in the capital addis ababa three hundred sixty one more prisoners were freed in the south of the country hundreds of people were killed in a two thousand and sixteen crackdown on months of protests by the countrys or remove people the government is so far politan more than five hundred of the protesters arrested. By that is there no. Footman a member of parliament you know as it couldnt. Have been. Anywhere. North and south korea have announced a Historic Partnership for this years Winter Olympics delegates from both countries announced the decision after a third round of talks in the border village of. North and south korea will be under the same flag and field a joint womens Ice Hockey Team. Palestinians have denounced Donald Trumps decision to hold back money needed for aid it would have helped millions of people the u. S. Says its withholding sixty five Million Dollars of one hundred twenty five Million Dollars it was going to give the United Nations relief and works agency order while at the agency provides a lifeline for some five million palestinians in gaza or in the west bank jordan lebanon and syria and the u. S. Is its biggest donor at least twelve people are now known to have died and forty eight were injured by two suicide bombs in the city of my degree in Northern Nigeria an official suspect but of carrying out the tax cut elaine is Regional Parliament has met for the First Time Since not elections in december deputies chose successor supporter succession supporter raja toro as the new speaker but its uncertainty remains who will be the catalan leader. Just hours after three helicopters and a Roman Catholic church was settled by the region is at the center of a centuries old conflict involving local students groups are up to date with all the headlines next stop it is inside story. If you. Even just talk politics with your friends you cant escape but what does it mean to hate