This is. From our headquarters. Coming up in the next sixty minutes more people are killed on the ground in syria. Trying to end the conflict plus. Girls fall prey to human traffickers with some of the refugee. Dollars we have an exclusive report from a can. Also. Draw a drought in cape town reaches a critical stage also. On the scottish island of. Should it belong to the local community or a. Top story in. And land title project editor and now the plan to defend the Australian Open trophy next year. Welcome to the news hour syrian president Bashar Al Assads top ally russia is hosting talks aimed at a political solution to nearly seven years of civil war the meeting in sochi is also backed by turkey and iran but doubts loom over the outcome of the talks the main Syrian Opposition groups are boycotting that meeting the rebels want russia and the Syrian Government to stop bombing parts of it glib province the strikes have killed sixteen civilians including women and children in the past twenty four hours alone and elsewhere in syria a russian brokered cease fire rebel controlled Eastern Ghouta near the capital damascus seems to have collapsed and the activists are reporting repeated violations by the Assad Government killing at least eight people now the kurds who control almost twenty percent of syria are also not there at the talks there the focus of a Turkish Military operation in Northern Syria views their fighters as terrorists well joining me on on the program now our correspondent rory challenges in sochi but first lets join Stephanie Decker from the turkish Syrian Border near killis steph lets just begin with everybody trying to talk peace in various forms that different global locations but the fighting continues near to you as far as the turkish offensive is concerned. It does it is relatively more quiet than what we saw yesterday because that strategic killed point behind me a mountain has been taken we have heard airstrikes in the distance but it does seem a sort of regrouping day to day from the turkish side at least of course it is a very different situation for civilians in those areas that have been bombarded in and a lot of shelling also going on and as you mentioned as those talks go ahead yes we have this offensive we have air strikes in provinces just supposed to be deescalation zone we have violate cease fire violations at least and water which is also supposed to be a deescalation zone so if you look at syria as a whole there is really no change the war simply changes its form as the years go on we do have talks in sochi today i think expectations are very low as to what theyre going to decide if its going to make any difference as to the conflict going on inside syria. Well for the moment so full leave it there of course keep updated with you through the day lets cross over to rory chalons who is in sochi in russia and of course the opposition are adamant as weve just mentioned they were not going to attend the talks where you are while offenses in steph just mentioned do continue and those civilian deaths mount up. Here the news in the last few hours that a nother baksh of opposition figures has pulled out of the Sochi Congress highlights the problem that this whole meeting has really which is an imbalance of representation russia has been trying over the last few months to get as many different groups as it can to come here so there are. There are alawite stare us sunnis there are christians there are up artists there are opposition platforms here in the form of the moscow platform and we asked on our platform parts there are serious emissions here significance of mission is the s. N. C. The Syrian Negotiations Committee says that it is not going to come here because of the fact that it does not want any negotiations really to take part out of the auspices of the geneva process and also there is the emission of the kurds the y p g affiliated groups in the northeast and autonomous regions a of syria they have decided not to come and actually they were not going to be welcome anyway because ankara said that they didnt want to negotiate with them here in sochi so we have a problem that there are various groups here represented but some of the Key Stakeholders in the syrian conflict or decided not to come to detroit is going to make the final communique very interesting if indeed it does focus hold serious sovereignty and future political destiny which really is under the umbrella meeting that could really assist and support the way the acid thinking is at the moment in moscow. Exactly were in the talk here is the final communique when it appears is is going to lean heavily towards the interpretation of events held by moscow and damascus and that is essentially going to sideline the issue of acids fetes its not going to put any preconditions on. His future certainly not going to state that he has to leave at the beginning of any transition process and also the belief here is that were going to see some sort of Constitutional Commission set up now this is likely to involve of course representatives of the government in damascus and representatives from the opposition movements but as i was saying earlier if were not having the main opposition groups represented here they are not going to be in that commission unless they join at a later stage now that will benefit the Syrian Governments and it will increase their leverage on power and it will also allow them to say that the groups that have decided to stay away from sochi and maybe stay away out of that commission are essentially saboteurs to the Peace Process the big question of course is what the u. N. Is going to make of of all of this is staff and of a store whos coming here later is he going to sign up to this commission the leaks coming out of russia suggest that he is indorsing this process will have to wait to see whether that is the case or not it will come back to you through the day as we get more news out of such as the moment very thank you. What are the days of the news now and i still says it was behind an attack on a military academy in afghanistans capital kabul now five soldiers were killed and ten others wounded in the gun battle live the martial theme National Defense university five of the attackers were also killed the same side was the target of a suicide bombing in october in which fifteen officers died and this comes two days after a suicide bombing also in kabul killed at least one hundred three people and afghans are blaming the government for failing to improve security which stark rahim is a Regional Security specialist and joins me now live from the capital kabul good to have you with us live on aljazeera lets just begin with the ferocity of the attacks by the taliban that i saw the jury in this period both within the capital and beyond it i mean in a winter offensive weve never seen these armed groups attack so ferociously why. Well talking about the attacks in afghanistan and particularly in kabul one has to differentiate between taliban and isis. Isis has mainly been trying to impose themselves to attacking the largest cities because they have been under pressure from the Security Forces throughout last two years and particularly during last six months and they have been trying to break the pressure and come out and attack the major cities so you have to see it separately from what taliban are doing the attacks from taliban have two or three particularly dimensions and why they have the day i didnt see one government first and foremost they have been under military pressure to our two thousand and seventeen who had it they have been pushed back by the Afghan Military forces win support support from the International Forces secondly they have been under political pressure since the announcement of the u. S. Administrations. Strategy as well as u. N. Security councils mission to afghanistan and thirdly there has been a consensus being built around within the Afghan Government and the general public that there should be peace negotiations with the taliban so there has been a lot of pressure on taliban and with these sort of attacks theyre trying to first of all. Talk about particularly those elements who believe in military effort in afghanistan theyre trying to derail the Peace Process secondly theyre trying to turn the people against the government theyre trying to give a message to get to the people that the government is not able to secure them ok still have to look at both from a different dimension mystery let me just come in that and because i think we for our International Viewers want to try and clarify whether i sell and taliban even though they try and describe themselves as two very distinct groups of one of the same all very different entities are they just tribal groups led by tribal leaders using the names to get the headlines why or how do we know these are two very different entities. Look for first and foremost they have been fighting each other on the battlefield they have been facing off more often against each other instead of the government particularly in eastern afghanistan we have experienced a lot of fear or she is fighting between the two groups. As late as two months back there they faced each other in who get a district of eastern afghanistan where they fart and release c. D. s back to us against each other and they have been trying to challenge each other in terms of captured in the territory are trying to send a message in terms of who holds a part of being the afghan context and then you object gives our different fallible look at the effort to dig or the out of one government where is the isis believe in logic of this killer fata. Sort of governance attaching themselves to the middle east and isis and the a bit they tried to and i was themselves as a wing as a programs as a state of that big isis. Governance structure so there are two different different in terms of the interviews in terms of the object is and the way they are put it right for the moment well leave it that thanks very much for your insight human Rights Groups are warning ring of refugees are being increasingly targeted by human traffickers at camps in bangladesh they say the problem has been made worse by the influx of refugees fleeing me and bar than six hundred fifty thousand people have left since the military crackdown began the Rakhine State in august last year bangladesh is hosting about a million refugees and its comes many of them are in dire conditions the u. N. Warms that in the chaos trafficking is often overlooked because other urgent needs like food and shelter come first and the u. N. Says refugees are often exploited sometimes recruited with false office of paid work. From cook the blog refugee camp in southern bangladesh child strife it has this exclusive report. Oh my darling daughter she cries. She asks me when we talk oh mother what shall i do now how can i come back to you how will you get me out of india to be with you again my own accounts and says her daughter yasmeen was thirteen years old when she was snatched by a man in the refugee camp and smuggled to india. Was three years ago no iona and the as mean fled a military crackdown in myanmar in two thousand and twelve. Says the traffic was arrested in india and yasmin was rescued her daughter is living at a safe house for other trafficking victims in kolkata meon maastricht their hinduism of citizenship in one thousand nine hundred two the denali oh no or yes mean have passports so they cant be reunited million a says every month she saves a little money to chat to the daughter for a few minutes on the phone. Only gold knows the pain i experience every day she says i dont have money to go to india my daughter warns me to try and cross into india without a passport. My own story is not uncommon in the Ricky Refugio camps Rights Groups say that trafficking gangs have thrived in the ranger refugee camps here in bangladesh for years but the recent arrival of more than six hundred fifty thousand new refugees means the situation is getting even worse and we met a trafficker and he told us that men come from outside the camps they pay range of families for their daughters promising them work for the girls often never seen again. We sit by the road in the men come to us the man tells me they also because if we can get the helpless type of people families are ready to provide girls because they dont have enough food. The man says men often specifically want girls of a certain age he says they pay the families around five thousand talking about sixty dollars for each go. For the girls around twelve to fourteen years old he says they tell me they have difficulty with the Domestic Work at their homes and they say they need someone to cook for them. The man tells me he has stopped providing the men with girls now and only trafficked a few young women. When the parents come to find me that i have to highlight he explains they want information on that delicious but i have no information. The uns Refugee Agency is trying to help to be reunited with her daughter but he says only the bangladesh all sorts hes to make a decision. Leona says yes me never met her father because he died before she was bored and she is afraid she herself may die without ever seeing me again. I want nothing more than like daughter she says it would be so kind if you if you could get my daughter back why yes mean is a piece of my heart. Chance strafford aljazeera to prolong refugee camp under theres. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including refugees are sleeping rough on the streets of northern greece as growing numbers across the turkish border. Also why a fitness tracking back could be putting the lives of u. S. Soldiers at risk. And in sport tiger woods had said you milestone in his comeback to golf tatiana will have those details a simple. Refugee support agencies are reporting a surge in homelessness in northern greece the regions main city thessalonica has apparently run out of space to house new arrivals refugee numbers are increasing as many an hour voiding the greek islands well instead theyre crossing over the land border from turkey nearly every last river which flows from more than one hundred fifty kilometers from bulgaria to the Mediterranean Sea laurence li reports now from northern greece many people believe pakistanis or iranians arent refugees and so they cannot know whats happening in the border province of blocky stand where these people come from they spoke out against tribal leaders there who want independence and they were threatened with death so they ran for it. Across the ever us river from turkey into greece walked for five days and added up sleeping here in the salon icky for months the men had to take it in turns to stay awake to protect their wife and sister. I felt like committing suicide i was going mad i thought i should have stayed in my country and let the tribespeople kill me i just wasnt expecting this to toll the bill got frostbite in thick snow on the river border he can no longer bend his fingers but the blame for. Any wash from me i cant even go to the total of almost self my brother has to help me theres no way i can work its really stressful. Where they took us to where theyve been sleeping we realised wed been here before in november two thousand and sixteen then it was different people all suffering the same things that winter turned out to be the coldest for decades water froze in the refugee camps greeces lack of preparation was exposed the full year on nothing has changed its due to the fog that their fundamental rights are being violently those people dont have a house dont have access to medical care. They say absolutely nothing. The belloc family got shelter three months ago through the Norwegian Refugee Council saima is now pregnant but their only guaranteed accommodation for three months more so they could end up back here again before she gives birth. While the greek authorities and charities try to prioritise families single men have no chance one meal a day provided by young european volunteers working off to nations and thats it. Theres no doubt the big increase in people crossing the every river into northern greece is simply compounded the homeless problem here in thessaloniki were told is now completely full there is simply nowhere to put all these people the only bit of good news is that the winds are so far hasnt been anything like as cold as its terrible conditions this time last year but if it does get worse greece could have a full blown crisis on its hands. They showed us where they sleep underneath an abandoned half built concrete block if the police catch them here they can go to jail so they dare not even light a fire itself presumably when they sleep they dream of nothing because that is exactly what they have for the problem Lawrence Leigh aljazeera facility. The uns food and Agriculture Organization has released its latest Food Security and nutrition report on somalia it says the risk of stabbing has declined two point seven Million People are still facing Food Shortages the u. N. Agency blames Security Issues and a continued trials now the f. A. A. Says last years rainy season from october to december was below average in most parts of somalia this years rains from april to june are also forecast to fall below the average the report says humanitarian assistance must be sustained to prevent a further deterioration of food sources. Now egyptian authorities have extended the detention of aljazeera journalist mahmoud is saying for the eleventh time hell be held for an extra forty five days without trial its not been more than the since he was arrested and jailed in egypt hussein is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny hes repeatedly complained of mistreatment while in prison. Now yemens Prime Minister is accusing separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates of an attempted coup fighters have taken over the governments headquarters in the port city of aden at least ten people are being killed and one hundred others have been wounded in battles between sudden succession ists and yemens government. There is no difference between the who these and anyone else who rebels against a legitimate government no matter who they are if hes not with the legitimate government in these rebel against it and considered an enemy to the entire country. Of our company the founder of the ikea furniture chain has died at the age of ninety one he started the company in sweden in one nine hundred forty three transforming it from a small local business to a global empire famous for its affordable flat pack furniture peter shop takes a look back at his life. His work ethic was simple to create a better everyday life for the many people involved comprende founded ikea when he was just seventeen that was seventy four years ago and sticking strictly to those principles he turned a small scale mail order business into a global furniture empire in ma was a little boy in a hurry he started selling matches to neighbors at the age of five some kids are interest from the beginning to be an entrepreneur and that was one of them and i actually when he was a little boy he started to sell postcards to his grandmother. And eventually he loaned a bike and they started to fish and he was selling the fish around and the little box they could find now is one thing one thing on this so the fish box is actually the first little box that has money in to get the fish box this company now pulls in a staggering sixty two billion dollars a year and this is where it all began in sweden where his first shop opened in one nine hundred fifty eight its simplicity remains at the heart of the enterprise the revolutionary flatpack found a following around the world even as far as west in yemen but it didnt escape scrutiny over its taxes last year the European Commission announced it had launched an investigation into the companys tax affairs in the netherlands i kin involved come proud died on saturday aged ninety one he stepped down from the board in two thousand and thirteen at the age of eighty seven peter shop aljazeera. The few members will have the weather with us dying with but also had all the. Protests in gaza or the planned job cuts the u. N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees. And in sport the fate of russian paralympians has been decided. By the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. To the first snowfall on a winters day. Well it may not be one of most famous ski areas but certainly in lebanon weve seen the snow falling in recent days been a slow start to the season this year unlike the Alpine Regions of europe but you can see people taking full advantage of fairly decent snow cover over the last few days in fact its not just lebanon weve seen snow falling in jordan for instance from my colleague has come back from petra reported snow there now meanwhile over in iran weve also seen some heavy snowfall over the last couple of days an area of low pressure which has been such across the sore Southern Side of the caspian sea giving quite a bit of snow in places as you can see you know to run actually can be quite chilly at times is no stranger to snow but we are seeing it improve in general weather conditions through monday temperatures only just three degrees the snow transferring further towards the east across afghanistan up into the hindu kush up into some of the stands and then as we head on through into choose day when state will see the temperatures slowly rising across this region the cold air also pushed away across parts of the arabian clinches sorry but a little bit cooler here than it has been this system pushed temperatures just seventeen by the nighttime temperatures down into the Single Digits but it should become a war. 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Welcome back to the i was there and use our arms a whole romney a reminder of our top stories russian jets continue to pound rebel held areas of as moscow holds its version of political talks on syrias future its one of the backers of president Bashar Al Assad but the main opposition groups and the kurds are not attending the talks in sochi. I still says its behind an attack on a military academy in the Afghan Capital that killed five soldiers five of the attackers were also killed in the fight. Rights groups are warning that wrecking a refugee is particularly girls are being increasingly targeted by human traffickers at camps in bangladesh more than six hundred fifty thousand people have left the bar since the military crackdown began in august. Thousands of Union Workers from the u. N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees are protesting in garters gaza against planned budget cuts now this follows the u. S. Decision to cut billions of dollars worth of funding to the aid agency iran card joins me now live from gaza and of course iran the areas where continue there were demonstrations last week were going to see more of the same again today. Well we did we saw one of the largest demonstrations actually to ever take place since the announcement was made to cut funding for the u. N. United nations Relief Works Agency now last week the americans an ounce and they were cutting sixty five billion dollars in funding to the Refugee Agency and then a further forty five Million Dollars in Food Distribution now about half of gazas population a Million People rely on in some way or another and is actually in crisis mode right now what its saying is that theyre having to introduce all stairs he measures now what does that mean what theyre doing is there there is a hiring freeze been put into place for Health Workers for teaches people that really a part of the fabric of the psyche and put money into the economy also graduate employment programs are already been cut and theres a real fear from un rather that if something isnt done soon theyre going to run out of money completely in two months time theyre also saying that is not a Political Agency the americans are playing politics with the agencies actually a United Nations agency you know all of that has massive concerns for the palestinians and thats why weve seen this large number of people come out onto the streets them seen this kind of number for a very long time it was called by the unions a very organized so they were able to get these people out on the street but whether anybody in the International Greens hes listening whether the americans are listening is a whole other question also palestinians have feel that theyre simply being abandoned in gaza were under pressure anyway and its not just the palestinians that say that israeli Security Forces and security agencies have also very concerned about the gazan economy according to local media reports very concerned that if the economy collapses that poses a very significant security problem for israel as well well enough in our role of course follow you what happens in gaza as the day progresses thank you. Now the South African city of cape town is facing its worst water crisis in a century and protesters say the government is to blame the tanks are expected to run dry on april twelfth victoria gay can be as more. The whole. Sorry about the slights are probably having on that report but lets clarify more of exactly whats happening in the south africas cape region with me is kevin winter hes a lecturer in the department of environmental and Geographical Sciences at the university of cape town he joins me now on skype from there good to have you with us mr winter the minister says that theres nothing to worry about of the government have got it all in hand. Well this isnt a very optimistic and as the National News do we speak in about here and yesterday gave a very upbeat talk and used the phrase we can and must eat days do serious for us when chaps and bells will be turned north and east an upbeat speech provides hope theres still a lot of work to do in terms of getting water in time before we get to zero. How with your thought is going to deal with this scenario of rationing water because its relatively new is it to that to the cape to experience this this sort of scenario. Well weve seen it before in previous struts and now what is happening was planet change and the next an aria is that the intervals between charts are smaller and smaller and last one was in two thousand and five two thousand and four two thousand and five in fact when we had very low levels of energy and oranges all in the eastern cape and now weve hit three successive. Below average rainfall and so this is New Territory to all of us and most technically and also the governments which are what sort of criticism if i can say that or what sort of justification has there been of all from the government about the way that theyve managed Water Resources the building of reservoirs perhaps or all the way to conserve water or desalination plants what what tangible Infrastructure Projects have there been to deal with this regardless of Climate Change. Yes well i think theres two very important. Issues that i think in terms of contributions that he has made im not a politician not in which we need government but the reality and figures have to acknowledge one is that the city of cape Town Together with the National Debt are just want to inspect taishan books a storage dam recently large storage down in commission in two thousand and four and the route in construction was finished in two thousand and eight its called are down and there is literally saving the day right now so to say nothing has been built and no dams to be built in. Is simply untrue and then the other thing which is in fact irene part of where the failure is that the city of cape town has been really successful with a water to manage program which began around about nine hundred ninety and the remarkable thing about this program is that it has many line the demand on water despite it grow a city with growing Economic Development and population in the city that flatlining of the world demand is there a market will story and the city has been acknowledged internationally for that of course its all very well to work on and water to monitor the program but when you dont have you read out whats going on and it doesnt help you because youre stuck at forty such a low it stands and we did three successive years of doing stories that we want to capture so to say that its been poorly managed i dont actually know the city has got the lowest unique great across the country its fifteen percent in the its well it was some of the key cities like singapore three instance which is really the international was out there around about nine percent so were not far off it and so i think there is a do not to absolve the city entirely because governance is really really good there are certainly a number of things that are very significant in that it did or will continue to monitor whats happening. In cape town the surrounding areas certainly over the next seventy two hours for the moment kevin thanks so much for joining us from cape town of course and lets go back to that report from victoria kay can be all the issues that south africa and certainly cape town has in terms of a lack of water. Out anger on the streets of cape town over a water crisis these protesters say the government should have prevented the city is completely mismanaging the water in optics in the weeks cannot be using the placing of the pipes are they holding out what the management devices that they know are defective and that but no plan this brings theyre not allowing people access to so they are strangling the water supply reservoirs have been full for more than three years because the hasnt been enough rain. The city is limiting each household to fifty liters of water a day thats equivalent to one full bath the with eight people in the house up till now weve managed to bring up with the consumption from one thousand kilometers per month we put all that out now last month it was a killer leaders and we are doing a little bit more in order to bring that further down to get it in line with the six p. That will come when the first of feeble woody south africas water minister says Climate Change is to blame for the crisis shes urging everyone to cut back their water he says it is therefore important that all use as played a part in reducing or to consumption the cultural sector has made a commitment to make sure that they explore enough of solutions so that then there is that the patient to the realities of Climate Change city officials who already people who were days there over the date when taps are expected to run dry. That day is now april the twelfth nine days earlier than previously expected it appears that Desperate Measures to conserve water are having little effect victoria gating be algis they are now remote Scottish Highlands is up for sale and the governments deciding whether to give the local community the right to buy it instead of it being sold on the open market the Land Ownership in scotland is a sensitive issue with very few wealthy people owning half of all private land and as Bobby Philips reports from all over the government wants to change that. Sorry about the slight sound problem we have in the. Story talk about twit later lets move on to an interactive that tracks the location of people using fitness devices like fitbit and thats raise concerns about security u. S. Military bases around the world the pentagon is concerned that soldiers using these devices may be accidently revealing Top Secret Military locations estabrook explains. Well fitness tracking devices have become very popular around the world in fact about twenty seven Million People globally have these things including people in the u. S. Military well its starting to become a concern now for the u. S. Military because this global heat map that went online last fall lets anybody go onto the internet and see where people that have these tracking devices are located and if you look at this map you see it places like the United States in north america and in europe are lit up because a lot of people in those areas of course have them but also now you can see areas where potentially u. S. Military personnel have them the pentagon a few years ago gave out about twenty five hundred of these devices to some personnel in an effort to fight obesity so now there is concern that people can go onto this map and they can zoom in and they can see places where a military personnel are active places like the c. Hill region of africa and an area south of mosul in iraq now the pentagon is taking a look at this it issued a statement late this evening saying that the d. O. D. Is taking this very seriously its reviewing the situation to see of training and policy should be developed in order to keep personnel safe so this device that was given out to the military in an effort to keep them fit now could potentially be a security risk. Well john mark rich clears head of global risk at the Geneva Center for Security Policy joins me now on skype from geneva good to have you with us again on the program this scenario does pose a question as we often hear about and see that innocent civilian technology can have a military implication and that would worry the manufacturer as much as the consumer whos either bought or been given the device. Here definitely we are entering where we are in the digital era and what people need to understand is that the data are that are generated on the daily basis are not neutral he has a very good example where data that are devil up for tracking your fitness activities can be used to map where you are and define in first some pattern these. Days the that this is just an example in the future we should definitely be careful because as internet of things grow so connected devices more and more of these the thats will be generated and that will pose Security Problems for sure because it seemed like a good idea at the time perhaps not for the u. S. Military because its exposing secret base is an operative and therefore we now see perhaps a security lapse for the u. S. Something they need to investigate. Well i think its just the the us i mean its any military in the world there is this case where we can can identify a very clearly a taiwanese missing come and center and you have two types of data that you can infer from aggregate data that will define where the bases are located but then for people who are not who have not said they can see then shall we see a requirement Strong Enough you can actually define where a specific person was when shopping for instance and that creates huge problems because if you can crossreference this information with data leaks for instance about personal in the United States then you can identify potential. Individuals that are in the secret services and you can identify where they are and these expose these. Covert operations indeed as you say it exposes locations certainly as well where military operatives wouldnt normally be so that poses embarrassing questions really for regional governments like those may be in north africa and the sahal where operations against militant groups as i would describe the are ongoing. Exactly i think its beyond this whole north africa thing its its its globally as soon as hugh conducting covert operation and some of you majorly personal are using that kind of devices they can be tracked not real time but afterwards i mean there is a way to prove that you had troops underground and it would be very difficult to unite for the moment well leave it there john but really its been a pleasure speaking to you as always a lot of their thanks for your time thank you. Now catalonia as former leader. Is quick to ask a spanish judge for permission to attend a regional parliamentary session on tuesday spains a Constitutional Court ruled that he must be present to be chosen as the regions president allowing him to form a government has been in brussels since october hes wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion for spearheading catalonia as the session movement. Can talk a bit of the intellectually that we have to swear in president podium and thats what we have to do now and its a complicated and difficult situation we have seen the last chapter of a process of demolition of the rule of law in spain the attitude of spains government pushing all kinds of powers while the powers of the separatists a constantly being affected in violated there are hundreds of protesters gathered outside hong kongs government headquarters after a prodemocracy activists was banned from standing for election. Time. The Electoral Commission says agnes chan not be a candidate because of her partys political platform violates electoral laws the twenty one year old is a member of the Hong Kong Group that wants more autonomy for china. The governments move to disqualify me is telling us telling the world that the people of hong kong are not allowed to vote according to our free will we can only choose candidates that beijing favors we can only choose people that building except this is not an election bacons political persecution does not only affect me and demo sisto they are also persecuting the entire younger generation. The us has delivered the final shipment of blackhawk helicopters to jordan to help secure its borders with syria and iraq jordan has received twelve of the aircraft over the past nine months is being among the most active members of the u. S. Led campaign against i saw jordans been stepping up security over concerns eisel fighters could try to infiltrate as theyre pushed out of syria. Still ahead here on the aljazeera news our. Using problems trump as far as im concerned. Building bridges through music performers hall but eyes relations between cuba and the United States. Crunches have less than two weeks out from the winter olympics. Welcome back relations between the u. S. And cuba have deteriorated since Donald Trump Took Office hes put limits on trade and made it harder for americans to visit the island but some musician musicians and artists are determined to show the two countries can get along. Really are the reports from havana. Sharing a stage comes naturally to these cuban and us musicians if you miss best known pianist chucho this playing alongside american jazz legend. The saxophone player is among the u. S. Artists who headline this years have been a jazz festival. Musicians turned cultural ambassadors at a time of renewed hostilities between their governments its now more important than ever music is a common language connects this two countries again the politics and politics but the art form is a common language and that will help strengthen perhaps some of the other areas the broader international relationship. And that relationship has deteriorated significantly since its high point two years ago today the state department is actively advising americans to stay away from cuba but not all of them are listening even under tighter travel restrictions reimposed by the trumpet ministration and then president of number of americans visited and performed at this years just festival here in havana and when asked why theyre here they generally gave the same basic answer music trumps tropfest current time constraint. This cuban pianist couldnt agree more playing for a tour of american jazz lovers had respect check all things musical overtures can have just as much power as diplomatic ones. With cuban music and culture is an explosion its fire and that is what we transmit to the audiences beyond all the problems that exist i try to express what i am not as a musician but as a culture. And the cultural efforts extend beyond music this statue of cuban independence year ago cimetidine was a gift from new yorks bronx b. C. M. Of the arts to the people of cuba veiling attended by architect. And other artists from both countries hope you are the start of other joint projects its always been the artists and the cultural organizations that have really kept the conversation going they were responsible for initiating the conversation in the doors for Relationship Building greater connections between cuba and the United States role castro attended the inaugural ceremony in what is expected to be one of his last Public Events as cuban president perhaps not of support to those trying to get the relationship with the u. S. Back on track. Aljazeera have been a close time to support of his tatyana thanks very much the hell Roger Federer has announced his intention to return to melbourne to defend his Australian Open title next year the swiss has been showing off his twentieth a grand slam trophy a day off the claiming a five set victory ive occur in chile as a thirty six years out federer says hell be continuing to manage his west side carefully this year and is in discussions to next compete in dubai at the end of february but would take some time to enjoy his stick the melbourne title fast its just a lot you know its a lot trying to take it in last year it was more straightforward you know it was just disbelief going to believe it happened. There i was waking up with a trophy but this year seems more surreal i cant believe i was able to defend my title you know after all this after all these years i could do it again. What tiger woods has finished in the top twenty five outs a competitive goal with them for the first time in three years the fourteen time major champion has been battling back a nail injuries but he produced a final round of seventy two at the p. G. A. Event on torrey pines and seven astroids off the pace and in a tie for twenty third on three on the pod this was only his second event on the p. G. A. Tour since august fifteenth. Got a lot of my rounds and. The sorkin wasnt something i was worried about going coming into this week i knew what what i could do what ive been doing at home that was going to be the issue it was going to be can i shoot low scores. I didnt but i grind out some good rounds the action will continue on monday though off the bad light forced an early end to play jason day and alex noren will resume a playoff for the title at torrey pines after finishing tied at ten on the path theyd played five extra holes before deciding conditions one adequate so monday will decide the winner of the longest a playoff in the sixty seven year history of the event. The International Paralympic committee have barred russian athletes from representing their countries at marches winter games in pyongyang this mare is the decision made by the i. O. C. A squad of thirty to thirty five power athletes will however be permitted to compete as neutrals this means that the russian flag anthem and Team Uniforms wont be permitted the Russian Federation remain banned from the i. P. C. Following accusations of state sponsored dont ping. We often said during our deliberations last saturday can we look in the eyes of the flutes all of them and say that we are doing everything that we can to guarantee a level playing field. And yes so yes so we are not rewarding russia but we are allowing we believe a clean to compete under a neutral flag while we speak now to our Sports Correspondent lee wellings who will be traveling tip young trying next week is this what we expected. From the noises weve been hearing from the International Paralympic committee over the last few weeks this was the most likely course of action and what it does is it brings them in line with the International Olympic committee and have been neutral updates remember the paralympic bosses took a much tougher stance over rio and they said there will not be any russian competitors there and they havent just done this to fall back in line with the i. O. C. Theyre very much made it clear its their own decision that they are really optimistic actually about how things are now going with the russians some of the language is no longer are the russians corrupted and compromised theyve got greater confidence things are much better but what happened is that the russians have not progress in time to have their entire team there and it does actually feel a bit better all round to have the olympic bosses in the power limping bosses in line together their biggest was possible as they can be with russian athletes who they perceive to be clean russia has announced one hundred sixty nine of their athletes vulcan paid under the special olympic athlete from russia category at next weeks games to some that seemed a lot for a nation that banned. Always first the importance of points out that russia has announced that were very keen to announce that because it just shows its a show of strength isnt it that sounds like a lot of people could be sick it is a lot of people competing i think a few things that need to be ratified of course by the court of arbitration for sport they need to decide on some of the russians even such you dont have lifetime bans so theres still a bit to go before we know exactly competing but that announcement of confidence from russia and there will be people looking at this from the outside thinking. It was discouraged it was poisoned theres very little disputing what went on there so how can we have a situation where just four years on there is such a sizable washing say where they can place it under their own flag on its thank you very much. Some of the most extreme athletes who will compete in p. R. Have been fine tuning their skills at the x. Games in athens this was the final stop for most competitive before heading to korea and japanese teenager a you may hear on it made a big statement the twenty fourteen olympic silver medalist scored ninety nine from the judges almost perfect to claim the snowboard halfpipe competition. But that event was marred somewhat by a serious injury to defending olympic Gold Medalist siri also known as the i pod the swiss crashed heavily during his second run and was taken to hospital that scans have confirmed he has a nasal fracture. Leader messi has surpassed christiana right now though for the most goals scored from a free kick in the league of the argentine not his twenty first barcelona in their victory over al of us on sunday but Philip Catania is First League Start for the club didnt go quite according to plan the clubs record signing was subbed off midway through the second half of the game that was with his team trailing one nil overturn the deficit though winning two one and stay undefeated in the league this season. One of the most. You always try to change the match or hold the match if you are doing well in this case we wanted to change it we were pressing them a lot but today very ready for us we needed to play quicker in those attacking positions in the end i thought hardy and said you could bring guys death and back go said fortunately we came back because all the squad worked hard not to just decides so boss alone are eleven points clear at the top of the table ahead of second place at lesser crime madrid who beat last powers three nil earlier on sunday valencia are third round madrid that fourth nineteen points behind bars but with a game in hand. And severe complete the top six in the n. B. A. The Cleveland Cavaliers of one consecutive games for the First Time Since early December Lebron james racked up twenty five points they beat the Detroit Pistons one hundred twenty one to one hundred four. Well besides the Fourth Quarter last game i think it was taken a couple steps forward and i dont like our Second Quarter tonight. We allowed a couple of open looks and no contest so we got to continue to work on happens on net but you know for the most part through our forty eight minutes i think this is a one of the best days that weve had you know obviously as of late we followed the game play was on time on target offensively not many turnovers in the Fourth Quarter like we had last game or so that was upon us meanwhile the l. A. Lakers four game winning streak was stopped by the Toronto Raptors part played scored a career high twenty five during the game for toronto and to moderates and has nineteen one twenty three to one hundred eleven the score the raptors have now got the better of l. A. And that cost seven meeting. One of the most dominant and well known figures in mixed martial law has announced a career switch for me yes the champion ronda rousey of quit the sport in order to compete full time in w w a wild wrestling entertainment been one of the highest paid female athletes in the wild in recent is both of us both now back to the house thanks very much to see on it you have been watching the aljazeera news hour with the cell robbo news follows with Richelle Carey after the break until im touchy on the me and all of the news on tape thanks very much for your time and your company. Clannish. With bureaus spawning Six Continents across the globe. To. Aljazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. Us about it. Was iraq fluent in world news. Hitchhiking has never been this risky. But nothing can stop them in their tracks chasing the American Dream escaping poverty but the illegal routes is their only option and their hope for a better life can lead them into trouble braving tough conditions generally the more theyll put their lives in danger just to earn a living risking it all the destroyed when i go to syria. Or people are killed on the ground and serious talks get underway in russia to try