And eighteen a Winter Olympics opens and an explosion of fireworks with north and south korea sitting side by side next to america and the extraordinary show of unity and he just emits pyongyang twenty eighteen has been declared open but earlier the court of arbitration for sport rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes and coaches to a bidding to be allowed to compete. Our other top stories egypt launches a sweeping military operation aiming to crush on the groups ahead of a deadline set by president sisi. Played upon the time. Of the hama signals an end to the u. S. Governments latest shutdown the stage is set for a bigger battle the over immigration and ballooning deficit. Also what the mayor government didnt want the world to see evidence of a massacre and the journalists who revealed it have been jailed. I am. Extraordinarily and unexpected show of unity north and south korea have sat side by side under exploding fireworks as the two thousand and eighteen Winter Olympics opened on a peninsula beset by generations of anger and suspicion. The sister of north koreas leader kim jong un shook hands with south korean president jay in also a watch and a lap or a show of light and sound and singing just in front of them as u. S. Vice president mike pence south korea is hoping the games will offer a chance of a news communication after a long period of high tensions lets go and join our correspondent in south korea and sasha cohen joins us from kong none now attach a slightly shorter a low Opening Ceremony was not due to the cold but no less of a spectacle was the message that south korea wanted to send. Well this was already a historic day in south korea so this lavish Opening Ceremony seemed to be a fitting end the message of the Opening Ceremony it was titled peace in motion spectators were transported back in time given a history korean History Lesson if you will and shown how quote koreans have had a relentless pursuit for peace this topic by the way was already settled upon before the North Koreans agreed to participate and send an historic high ranking delegation to the games among that delegation was the leader kim jong un sister kim jong she is a high ranking official in north korea a close and trusted adviser of the leader there and she sat in very close proximity to u. S. President mike pence after days in which the two countries went back and forth pence said that more tougher sanctions were on their way to north korea and north korea saying they had no desire to engage in any kind of dialogue with the United States but at least on the diplomatic front for south korea this has been an opportunity and a day for rebuilding hope and hopefully setting the stage for reconciliation between the two koreas president moon jay in is son of refugee parents he has always pushed for engagement and he is seizing this opportunity he will be meeting with that north korean delegation tomorrow we dont know what theyre going to be talking but the overall mood here in south korea is one of excitement and pride that theyre hosting this event but also many are waiting to see if it will lead to something bigger while there are still a lot of skeptics laura you of course like the sister of. A rival has been dominating the headlines how has she been received by the people in south korea. Well by the south korean media like a rock star wall whole wall coverage all day she was greeted very warmly by president moon and people are tracking her movements very closely theres some speculation in the south korean media that perhaps she will be sending a message and extending an invite for president moon to visit north korea who knows analysts that its unlikely anything major will happen on the diplomatic front critics have said this is just more propaganda and a way for north korea to advance its agenda ok thats ash i will leave it there for the moment many thanks for joining us from. Well well have more olympic Coverage Later this hour early warnings will be telling us about the russian athletes who failed in their last minute attempts to take part in the games plus all the action with peta Egyptian Army has launched what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula on these websites announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles in north sinai hospitals have been put on high alert us in order to prepare extra beds and nursing staff to deal with emergencies a medical evacuations by the. This morning Law Enforcement forces began implementing the plan a comprehensive confrontation against the terrorist and criminal elements and organizations in north and central sinai and other areas in the delta egypt and the desert back in the west of denial dolly this comes in addition to training and other operations on all Strategic Directions in order to tighten control of the ports of view gyptian state. Head of elections next month president. Faces election a deadline for Security Forces to restore stability to northern sinai i did that last november after three hundred eleven worshipers were killed there when attackers hit a mosque it was the deadliest incident in egypts modern history and thats when the deadline sisi declared three days of mourning and said the victims deaths would be avenged dozens of soldiers have also been killed in attacks over the past year twenty six died in a single suicide blast in july last eighteen more were killed during an ambush in september and Coptic Christians are a regular target more than one hundred were killed over the past year in a series of bombings and shootings are sure is a professor of Security Studies at Doha Institute he says there is a political dimension to the new offensive. If you saw the pattern from twenty thirteen on words youll find the scale ations happening with one Major Political events are coming up so when the coup happened in july twenty third dean you had an escalation following in september and the whole idea part of the coup and the result that of the new regime coming is that security and counterterrorism needs to be implemented partly in sinai but also elsewhere the interesting part about the communique of the armed forces is that theyre not talking just about sinai theyre saying that escalation in central delta and there is in this creation in the western deserts which are the two other areas that you saw some kind of Political Violence happening in there i think it has to do a lot with the forthcoming president ial elections i think these escalations and the level of. Men and the ship the sinai is not new. You know suspending the Internet Communications blocking roads this is all not new been happening since twenty fifteen and probably before twenty thirty years ago so im not sure if theres something new or theres a measured saying that you know the strongman is back hes trying to secure the region and therefore mobilize for him in the next president ial elections which is happening next month. U. S. House of representatives has joined the senate in approving budget legislation and overnight federal shutdown measure which will now be signed off by President Donald Trump will extend government funding until march twenty third significant battles over ballooning deficit and emigration are far from over White House Correspondent joins us live now from washington d. C. As you can do we saw a brief second shutdown there in less than a month over funding the u. S. Government but now have we finally got men to americas budget in crisis. I think there is a temporary halt to some of this battle thats been going on back and forth there wont be these sort of short term kind of bandaid measures that weve seen recently you point out the one that happened just last month the latest word from the white house is that this legislation that was passed in the senate with quite a bit of drama and then in the house of representatives according to the white house the president about to sign this legislation sometime in the next few hours this is significant because it does have a bipartisan plan in place for a country that is deeply divided along political lines and particularly a congress divided along political lines but whats significant right now is that this is a party that rather a congress thats controlled by republicans so republicans got a lot of what they wanted in here namely big increases for military spending but democrats got what they wanted as well for the most part they got a lot of increases when it comes to some of that entitlement spending that typically republicans try to control what about protections for the dreamers can be the children of Illegal Immigrants when that was a kid the democrats rules and why are we not saying that part of the deal. Right so bad is what democrats didnt get and that is what looked like it could threaten this from going through it and essentially preventing government workers from heading to work friday morning in the end it was democrats who caved on this to the disappointment of many because this still now has to be worked out and will be a focus of debate in the coming weeks given the fact that donald trump ended those obama era protections for socalled dreamers or doctor recipients essentially these are children who have now grown up here in the United States now are adults but were brought here illegally by their parents no no other country than the United States facing potential deportation of the white house says the chief of staff john kelly says no thats not going to happen will give congress and time to work this out but this is a subject of deep debate its an issue that congress hasnt been able to resolve not for years but decades so this is now in the forefront and this is certainly a concern not only for those doc up recipients who are looking at those protections ending but the democrats who in an Election Year promise to resolve this and it remains unresolved so a big issue still to be addressed by the u. S. Congress absolutely ok kimberly well leave it there thanks so much joining us from washington d. C. Syria is accusing the u. S. Of committing a war crime by bombing feisal to president Bashar Al Assad and the province u. S. Led Coalition Says one hundred faces loyal to the Syrian Government died in the strikes and says they were in response to what it called an unprovoked attack on the headquarters of its ally the Syrian Democratic forces but russia which backs assad says the strikes a part of an effort by washington to control key economic assets in the region pentagon correspondent. I said at a briefing with secretary of defense jim met a c. Was off camera but on the record and he called what happened in syria a quote perplexing situation and he said because for years the Euphrates River has been a kind of do not cross line that if the u. S. Or u. S. Backed forces or russian or russian backed forces were going to cross it they talk about it before and he said that didnt happen this time he said u. S. Forces were embedded along with the s. D. F. And they saw tanks and artillery start rolling in and say that one shell got within five hundred meters of the s. D. F. Headquarters he says that is when they picked up the phone they called their russian counterparts and he says he doesnt think that the group that moved in is actually controlled by russia he called this a Great Success story because in his words two great powers did not fight each other still the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations was less than pleased i asked him to remember that the. Syria illegally in fact. They would look like the. They claim. The fight the International Terrorism but we see that it goes beyond that. To confront. The. Decided say is is given secretary mabus didnt speculate on how many casualties were caused by the firing from u. S. Jets and heavy artillery positions but he did say that they took out two of the incoming tanks and the heavy artillery positions the u. S. Is calling this selfdefense and warning that that happens again the left again for a fifth consecutive day bombs have been targeting rebel held eastern goose her on the edge of the capital damascus a days as he said government and russian asterix have killed at least two hundred thirty people Rights Groups say hospitals have been enough the targets of strikes including the bombing of a red crescent. A five year government sees the enclave is running desperately not on food medicine and medical equipment. Theres a number of those being killed and he rises by the hour the war is taking its toll on the survivors. And they. All say. Thank you. But will increase shelling and destruction every time the plane turns there are twenty five explosions there demolishing the entire country people dont dare to leave the shelters can leave in the cold is given to us theres nothing in the shelters the people who believe in peace talks and so she vienna in geneva dont see whats happening here on the ground. Bombing raids over the northern syrian enclave of aframe after a five day break kurdish media posted this video showing turkish air strikes on the outskirts of the area so he began an ground operation last month to oust the. Guards the wife as terrorists. Still ahead here on the news hour what israel is demanding from the family of a palestinian man who was crushed to death under a military vehicle. Outside mediators help bring an end to months of political strife. And. On pouring in sweden where five hundred years of history could be on the side of the story as they continue their battle against nor why the Winter Olympics. Prices News Agency Says it has evidence that ranger men were massacred in manama last september its the first time such an account has been backed up by witness statements from buddhist villages and Security Forces themselves the two journalists behind the investigation have been detained him in law and denied bail and wanting jobs silvas report contains images that some viewers may find disturbing. Its a chilling and detailed account of what can only be described as a premeditated massacre the photographs provided to reuters by a buddhist village elder dont lie the first the News Agency Says was taken on september first and shows the ten ruhi captives lined up in a row the second taken the day after shows their slain bodies in a mass grave their ages range from seventeen to forty five among them were students fishermen farmers shop owners fathers they were all part of the same community from the village of indian in myanmars northern Rakhine State but a little bit about the building when they were taken them away they said do not worry we will send your sons back soon taken them for me till i die hard on all that you know of indian six thousand rocking chair remained in the village as of october and surprisingly their relatives are reluctant to move back. I would not go back there how can i go and they killed our husbands we have all listened babies how will they survive myanmars military says the ten men belong to a group of two hundred terrorists that had attacked them earlier but accounts given to the news agency by both ranger and buddhist witnesses deny such large scale attack ever happens in the village the writer story draws for the first time on interviews with buddhist villagers who confessed to torching rohingya homes bury bodies and killing muslims it also marks the first time soldiers and Paramilitary Police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves the two reporters behind the story wallow in your story who are both myanmar nationals and were detained on december twelfth for allegedly obtaining confidential documents a Statement Released by the military on january tenth confirms what they were preparing to report ten right in demand had been massacred in that village their release coincided with a judicial request by prosecutors to charge the two journalists under the official secrets act they have been denied bail and the convicted face up to forty years in prison on the silver aljazeera. There is Refugee Agency is raising the alarm about surging violence in yemen which it pains for a spike in the number of people being forced from their homes its december the u. N. H. C. R. Estimates more than eighty five thousand people have been displaced right across yemen most sixty one thousand on the run from regions near the west coast in the who data and governance yemen is the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis twenty two Million People are in need of aid the civil war intensified in early twenty fifteen when a saudi Led Military Coalition intervened in support of the government which is fighting against rebels. To is u. N. H. C. R. Yemen spokeswoman she joins us via skype from sam so most of these people latest wave of people one running from the western regions what exactly is happening. Where were seeing displacement across yemen from various different alliance but the majority of the eighty five thousand people that are arms are in fact still use that are ongoing. Now our students have been continuing quite some time in these governorates so were not surprised to see this displacement but were really concerned because more than eighty five thousand people lived in the last two weeks martin thats about five hundred people out of their homes in yemen where are they going anywhere thats safe for them to flee to well this is the big dilemma because in yemen theres ongoing conflict and every single governor at mainland of them has been affected by who so what were finding is that from doing and are instance people being trapped with governor so there may be some just trick to districts and most others are trying to make the journey by the east we also see a large amount of people fleeing and so on beyond which is not used to those governorates but its a very dire situation when you have people who are remaining within the governor and moving from next to no use on multiple times because. All guys ations like they were able to get aid to these people. Well we arent actually reaching people who are being displaced by the complex were going to and were going on the regions where they lead but it is difficult theres an ongoing conflict thats happening search arculus always to ensure that we have access to people in need we are reaching people but we also need to make sure that access is maintained and that sustained and we can continue to respond. Consistently reporting for some time now that yemen is the worlds worst humanitarian disaster but it doesnt seem as if anyone is listing all or even cares when the un is still waiting for its funds to trickle in why is this. We really puzzled as to why the situation in yemen is allowed to continue the way that is now the population of yemen is twenty nine million and yet were seeing a situation in two thousand and eighteen which twenty two Million People in the country and now thinks i complex and in need of monetary assistance and this is absolutely a woman and the situation is absolutely dire youre on the ground and were finding out that response is really not supported enough i mean with something you know trying to respond to the needs of people whove been displaced across the country there are two Million People displaced all across europe and now we have eighty five thousand the biggest most in this month and yet whats not in your is your niche now if you were jewish and she was just three percent of this huge mismatch between the humanitarian needs on the ground and support with her small sense of. What is it that these people need most. Well im just struggling to meet basic needs theres nothing literally just the cliff so many backs of need shelter do you need more than i do need. The curtains. And the situation yours is a willingness or lack of basic services so were talking about primary needs are really struggling to find. Many thanks for joining us from santa. Now in saudi arabia a female activist has been detained for seventeen days in what human Rights Groups are calling a quiet government crackdown on Campaigners Police and to book accused. Of advocating womens rights on social media she faces five years in prison if found guilty journalists he was also sentenced to five years in prison on thursday for insulting the royal Court Israeli army is sowing the family of a Young Palestinian man who was crushed to death by one of the armys vehicles they say the twenty one year old damaged the jeep before the incident which happened three years ago and one can reports. The israeli army killed a name in june two thousand and fifteen and now it wants twenty eight thousand dollars for damages to this jeep the crush of the twenty one year old after his death ability family filed a lawsuit against the israeli state the case continues then in january this year the army build the family. This is a copy of the lawsuit given to us by the family lawyer. They reopened there so shameless that they are demanding compensation not because they want the money because they want to make it impossible for us palestinians its not about the money they want us to give in but we say we have the right you wont break because. In june two thousand and fifteen there was a raid by the army. Leader mullah that turned violent the israelis say ability through a fireball of the jeep which then swerved into him for over three hours the family says the army wouldnt allow medics to treat of the law as he lay beneath the jeep he eventually played to death the entire village turned out the funeral. Lawyers say asking for compensation is part of a new strategy to penalize palestinians for any kind of resistance in slow motion. Honestly were not used to seeing this sort of claim but if you take it in context where israel is going when it comes to killings fines and bills of votes in the knesset i think theyre heading to a level where anyone who is the word occupation can be harassed arrested and possibly find that he might be considered to insult the state and its inhabitants. Aljazeera reached out to the Israeli Ministry of defense for comment it says it has submitted a statement of defense to the court stating that the event in which the plaintiffs was killed constitutes wartime activity as defined by the law and therefore the state is immune from prosecution in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the i. D. F. Jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail through my the plaintiffs the ministry has filed a countersuit. Remembered very fondly here anything as a martyr to the palestinian cause graffiti of his face adorns the walls of the village and people here say theyll never forget about him. The family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and theyve named the new after him they say they would rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imran khan maalik occupied west bank right place in the maldives have been deployed to a protest outside their quarters of the Ruling Party Opposition supporters continue to demonstrate against an ongoing political crackdown by president. This week he ordered the arrest of two Supreme Court judges off they overturned criminal convictions against government opponents also declared a state of emergency accusing the court of supporting a. Bess here operations are winding down in taiwan after a devastating six point four magnitude earthquake aftershocks have been hampering the search for survivors with five people still missing in the port city of holly and tuesdays quake killed at least twelve people and injured hundreds of others well because the demolishing Dangerous Buildings left badly damaged by the quake but pride has more from holly in. The rescue teams are now working down into more inaccessible parts of this building basically the lower floors especially at the front of the building that were crushed when this building toppled over and in particular concentrating on an area where they have found these signs of life now the rescuers are not being overly optimistic they say the signals the signs of life of very weak but they are in that area where they believe that one of the people who is unaccounted for could have been so while theres a possibility of someone being alive they have to continue the search it is a factor in their Decision Making about how they deal with this site in other buildings around this city that have been badly damaged heavy equipment is now being brought in to demolish those structures to make the area safe again clearly while theres a possibility at least of someone being found alive they have to put off that decision and the search continues all time now for the weather and his evidence of the way some flooding in bolivia yes far lower well a couple days ago president to declare a state of Emergency Rooms much of the country we have seen the flooding since that time so that a couple days of very heavy rain more where that came from you can see the area cloud this has been swirling away across and that has brought some terroristic downpours in and we had a really awful situation here adding so what was a pretty nasty case of severe flooding anyway some of the houses a slit down the hillside crashing into houses below and a set of his for the for. Adding in the forecast as we go on through the next few days we will see the cloud and rain still lingering there just around much of. It is an area of low pressure the air is known as the bluefin low you get big and fundraise showers developing very close to the mountain in the shelter of the mountain so warm weather to come here through the remainder of friday similar pictures to go on through saturday and the up more heavy showers to come as we go on through sunday if anything sunday could be even wetter still so big problems coming in across much of bolivia for the simple future meanwhile we see is a very heavy snow moving across a good part of the u. S. Just spilling out of the mountain states through the Northern Plains into the midwest and easing towards that northeastern corner of the snow will continue to drive its way further north east which over the next few days and then were going to look at some very big and heavy downpours right across the southeast lower ok thanks very much still ahead here on this news hour writing rubbish in colombia why workers decided to strike leaving thousands of tons of trash on the streets. And philadelphia comes out to salute the super bowl champions peyser well have that story in sports later in the program. The scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. For the nomadic jacka tribe survival is about reaching their destination goal if we dont hurry will never be able to get the top up in the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration find a place dangerous to the ice and then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life a little bit longer sometimes luser cattle to get there without a cold or because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on aljazeera. Hello again youre watching out is there has a reminder of our top stories this hour north and south korea have lost an extraordinary show of unity as the twenty eighteen Winter Olympics opened and china sister of north koreas leader kim jong un shook hands with south korean president moon j n at the Opening Ceremony u. S. Vice president mike pence is also attending the winter games. And here is amazing but just from a pure on china limb pick torched handing a proudly lit marking the official start of the two thousand and eighteen winter olympic games. Egyptian army has lords what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula the on these websites announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles in north sinai. And both chambers of the u. S. Congress have approved a spending bill ending the Government Shutdown represents its narrative past and new federal budget which now must be signed by President Trump to become the law of the senate missed a midnight deadline to pos legislation which resulted in the second shutdown in three weeks. Iraqi forces say theyre making advances in the operation to secure Northern Areas near the border with iran. Mainly Kurdish Group called the white flags who are believed to have ties with eisel the area is a proposed truck route for oil to the phrase between iran and iraq also have been reports. Just before sunrise iraqi soldiers prepare for their latest offensive after pushing out isis from the rock theyre securing the border from their own groups and smugglers. Destroying the aim to defeat the remnants of ice in the goodish. Who called themselves the white banners or white flags all sections of iraq Security Forces are involved. We are here in co on camp in the fifth brigade of the federal Police Operations have started by the army Popular Mobilization forces and federal police to clean up all of the region and clean up all of as well as the participation of the Rapid Response forces. Soldiers say they made steady gains despite booby traps left for them. We found so many improvised explosive devices or i. E. D. On the main road supplanted by the enemy before their withdrawal to hinder our advance. How many mountains and how he did region with the smuggling route even before i still captured the area iraqi forces have talked since last year about controlling the border town of those carmack to after seizing areas in province from goodish where the fighters discriminate who is in a strategic position because it straddles the oil rich border between iran and iraq as well as the iraqi province of salaheddine. The area is a proposed Transit Route for trucks carrying oil iraqs government agreed in december to transport crude oil from crude coupe to can munch a refinery in iran in return up to sixty thousand Barrels Per Day of any an oil will be trucked to sit in iraq government leaders in baghdad have been reluctant to use the Oil Infrastructure of northern rocks Kurdish Regional government. In the last few days the iraqi troops say their operation help secure some villages despite losing control of the area the Kurdish RegionalGovernment Supports the offensive and says iranian not iraqi kurds and members of the white flags want to know what i can safely say that come out who is now safe and we will continue helping the displaced to return to their areas there is good coordination with the peshmerga thats why thank god the operations have got a very smooth. Shia militias who are now part of the Iraqi Security force have been accused of causing demographic shifts and of stopping people from returning home and in the rare ias Iraqi Army Commanders say to scream out who is being secured to allow displaced people to return critics however say the well being of the people of iraq seems to be a lower priority than the focus on oil and its profits some of the job others there. International mediators are expected in tokyo next week following months of protests against the government the president and the familys been in charge for fifty one years and many are demanding change and a whole has more. In togo protests and Public Sector strikes have been going on for months the west african country has been ruled by a Single Family for half a century in the nursing bay dinnerstein son president for nursing bay has followed father without president ial term limits and benito goalies have had enough i pressure from the streets has brought a commitment by the president to enter constitutional reform talks to go expect concrete results well who is a teacher whos drawing destructors or not i have a professional degree and my salary is one hundred twenty five u. S. Dollars per month so the cost of living is high and were overwhelmed by debt so its very difficult. As a french teacher i handle four classes of more than one hundred students each with two different subjects at the end of a semester i have more than a thousand papers tomorrow without any support we lack infrastructure no library to do research in some classes theres no space for all the children. Hills workers are also on strike. Says the decision to walk out of his hospital job was not taken lightly the Health Service he says is no longer fit for purpose. We have given an oath to serve and save life but when you take a decision to go on strike you should understand that the situation is appalling and were not going to be complicit with it. The police. Department said function without personnel that night like ophthalmology and the pediatric nurse serving in the Recovery Room is the same no us who has to rush to attend the babies and other. International mediators for. Say talks between the government and the opposition. Group the fifty. Eight cans that have been officially named for this years president ial election in russia president Vladimir Putin is hoping to win a fourth term in Office Opinion polls give him a lead of more than sixty percent Opposition Leader electing a volley has organized mass protests against corruption has been barred from running the election is due to be held on the eighteenth of march. Theres also a president ial election coming up in venezuela in april but says theres no guarantee itll be free or fir the opposition called for the election to be held in june because it wanted more time to to survival to present a majority of the opposition is question whether to field anyone because two of their leaders are bald from running. His Vice President of the council of the americas he says the election is a setback for the opposition. Well i think its a huge problem they were involved in negotiations in the Dominican Republic to try to find guarantees that the election itself would be free and fair and in fact without those guarantees the opposition has no real comfort that they can actually contest the election in the fairway and so they face a dilemma the government has clearly positions this so that the ruling party and the president Nicolas Maduro will win and the opposition can either contest a flawed election or they can boycott thats not a very appetizing choice and the government has been very effective in dividing the opposition by jailing some of its leaders and by negotiating with some but by but not with others and so i think this is going to have a unifying effect for the opposition its very clear that the United States and other countries in latin america and elsewhere in the region are clearly supportive of a decision not to contest the elections as well this is clearly a set up by the government to try to predetermine result and i think everybody recognizes that for what it is its not going to be a democratic election in any sense ok lets get back to us have a big job paid story iraqi forces battling white flags great in the kurdish area of. The political analyst joining us from baghdad thanks for being with us they are Good Government stuff in saying much about this group the white flags what do we know about his. What. It looks like that it is a new group laura. Its some sort of militant maybe maybe we are now facing some sort of organized crimes maff your work and so on in a way that it showed us a short all iraqis that the security plan the Security Strategies that happen by the Iraqi Government is not sufi shante enough to ensure that all these areas are now secured maybe we are facing now a new face of the is that instead of being a terrorist being an organized crime or a organized group or a mafia or Something Like that but at the same time its show us that the Iraqi Government must work fast. Toward solving the urgent problems like i. D. P. s like financial crisis like some sort of reactivate of the private sector and some sort of small jobs to Small Businesses and so on because all these things like white flags or or any other group that it can hold up a flower it will be a new purpose for iraqi young men to join them because of the financial crisis and because of jobless and unemployment and so many problems that its supposed to be the priority of the Iraqi Government government also push us to the elections in may which maybe it will we will face the same problems in me so its got an awful lot in its place also got a lot of reconstruction of mosul of getting the support the Iraqi Government getting the support it needs. Well the problem is that its not the reconstruction itself its how to make a strategy to to make people ensure that the Iraqi Government is not. Margining margining anyone and also a chore to the people is that its a balanced government and push money toward the urgent areas like the right side of mosul like. The cities of the villages that its already liberated by the pm or from the iraqi forces which was that all these villages suffer from poverty you thats why those gangs not organized crimes actually implanted there because of the need for the money the need for the Financial Support and so on so also we hope we the Iraqi Government must know that i think the give iraq a government needs to show their priorities also in the donation conference that its supposed to be happen in kuwait because all these problems going to face the Iraqi Government and the International Community will say to the Iraqi Government ok you have so many problems what are your solutions ok thank you very much for joining us there joining us from baghdad. Is in breaking news out of libya where were hearing of at least two people being killed and seventeen others injured in an explosion at a mosque in the eastern city of benghazi and the bomb was hidden in a car thirty five people were killed by a double bombing at a mosque in the same city two weeks ago. Colombians are holding their noses in the capsule bogota where collectors are strike thousands of tons of garbage of lossing in the streets who has walked out because they fair mass redundancies where new contracts are awarded. Yes he has more. For a week now more than half of colombias capital has been inundated by uncle elected the garbage left to rot on street corners and parks the crisis started when more than three thousand employees of a Public Service called i was the answer to strike let me. Be clear the only environmental emergency allowing private sanitation workers to help with the collection the residents say the situation keeps getting in fear health consequences. Its a disaster such neglect and disregard for the community the smell is unbearable people are getting see the garbage tax like everybody else so what is the maid doing the workers of or afraid theyll lose their job due to changes in the way garbage contracts are awarded in past days they clashed with the police and damaged a number of garbage trucks on tuesday residents of one of the worst affected neighborhoods garbage and blocked main roads with rubbish bags the mayor is blaming his predecessor. Who changed the rubbish Collection System and was temporarily suspended for allegedly beating this man to do good. But it will be difficult for the mayor to avoid responsibility hes now being investigated by control tory he even as hes promising to end the crisis in the next three days something the people have definitely are hoping for. People visit museums mostly to see great art sculpture and artifacts but how about a big lump of fat from a sofa in london. That perked up close visitors have second thoughts about what they flushed down the loo if barca went for. Historians often say that you can judge a civilization not from what it builds before it gets rid of which is why the museum of london has a brand new exhibit on display an extremely strange brace yourself. A latin name cumulus some of called it the beast of white chapel after it was found blocking up an east london sewer to us though its a funny burg and this is just the tip of it in its entirety it was two hundred fifty meters long the length of two football pitches and weighed one hundred thirty tons sixteen african elephants. So what is it made of well as you can probably imagine a vast amount of fat to that sprinkling of human excrement and then all the citys indigestible things like some of your wifes cotton buds things that can easily be broken up on the ground and it smells apparently like the rotting meat of the dirtiest toilet you can imagine its also highly toxic to this Case Scenario if you handle that theyve been correctly its down through Something Like barrels disease we thought about whether we should pick lids or freeze it put in freeze out but instead what weve decided is to air dry and that has reduced some of the risks are the same. But its not all over for the beast of one chappal although most of it has been carefully destroyed some of it was so rich in fact that it was also rich in energy its been transferred into bio fuel to power londons number twenty four bus but like all good stories this is a cautionary warm because thames water that looks after the drain spends more than a million and a half dollars every month to keep it strains of blocked most of the budgets going on shifting this mother of all blockages so if theres a lesson to learn from all of this is be careful what you pour down the drain be careful what you flush because it could really appear to haunt you and you parker aljazeera london. Less offensive exhibition independent artists taken over and abandoned leather factory in the indian capital delhi creating an alternative space to show their work is designed to challenge stereotypes well we spoke to the organizers of the show dubbed delhis anti art fair. My name isnt on the loser im the to give you the brits to do is and the phone of the regulars on this is a guest post and be on its own and the odd and the fab if you dont want to be representing them or not already are the big brands people are buying their work anyway you want to get it out of the white boxes we wanted to have a proper representation of the independent artists and the contemporary art scene and thus we create a economy for these artists. This place was actually. A good stacked product. And we got the opportunity to make this place up as a venue and be transformed into an office space and it was about this age in general is actually an extension of the Village Village and when people see these kind of things happening around them they want to know more theyre excited about the fact that there is something happening in their surroundings and not in a fancy reality where you know theyd be shy about. Entering. Even think about going there in the first place and is to move into the city then not just metropolitan cities where there is called for so much addition i. Did this in delhi because the horn down the hall door it was easy for us to find a venue to get things rolling but i think the next step is the next six months to figure out a big good and a better plan for. The city. All sport is coming up including of course the olympics. And the wedding simply the participation of so motion athletes was finally resolved and the sport is properly. I mean. We live. And i still keep is a problem because its with me is thank you know has you did see the twenty eighteen Winter Olympics on now officially on the way the Opening Ceremony has just wrapped up at the Olympic Stadium in pyung chang the stage is now set for three thousand athletes to compete in fifteen sports over the next seventeen days. Someone be there though the code of all the tradition for sport dismissed the appeal of forty seven russian athletes and coaches who wanted to participate and they were banned by the International OlympicCommittee Due to doping claims the winnings has more. The russian doping scandal is arguably the most murky sad story in the history of sport and yes i spent years covering the fee for scandal but this involves the public being completely cheated metals being involved im not seem to be poisoned from the top down how did we get to this position well four years ago putins grand plan for sports to succeed in russia around the home olympics the very expensive saatchi Winter Olympics i know of the allegations it was shown by investigation that thered been systematic doping in wash so the International Olympic committee banned forty three russian competitors for life fast forward a couple of years of politics and then we get into a situation where the ultimate coach in sport a court of arbitration for sport overturned those lifetime bans by sight but not clearing the door opens completely but theres not enough evidence for a lifetime balance so the russians want to compete here twenty eight of them supposedly allowed to compete in the International OlympicCommittee Say no were still not inviting them so the russians appeal again and it goes back to the court of arbitration for sport bystander in pyongyang and it goes through the day the goings on actually begin today the division of the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the application filed by russian athletes against the International Olympic committee it does also dismissed. Yesterday by fifty actually its in coaches against the u. S. So the cast decision is very good news for the International Olympic committee who have been fighting the legal and political battles for months even years over the russian diapering scandal. Afterwards he said we welcome this decision which supports the fight against doping and brings clarity for all athletes like all of us i just want to get on with the sport now. And that sport is in full flow throughout saturday with the first medals of the guns being decided in five events one of the events is plenty of korean interest in not but most interest of course in the unified womens hockey team from korea by mike has to be their first guy against switzerland when the first middle even starts on saturday you can expect to see plenty of golds around the mix of swedes countries traditionally one of the best performers in Winter Olympics and more than half of their medals have come in Cross Country skiing. Culture behind the success. Go down to the woods today in swedens dollar county and you may well meet a crosscountry skier. For thousands of years skis were how you travelled traded and survived in this part of the world now Cross Country is a national pursuit that is also responsible for most of sweden success at the winter games its. Been crosscountry skiing is very good for the body its soft for the knees but back like a symbol to see him that we are all going to count very swedens twenty nine Cross Country olympic gold medals second in the world only to their cousins next door now for sweden at the olympics Cross Country skiing is all about their rivalry with norway but it means much more than that back home where they have skiing partially to thank for swedish independence that revolutionary king. This region on skis in the sixteenth century drumming up support for his rebellion led to victory against the danes in fallen and four hundred years later it led to vasa lump it. You know all told begun in one thousand nine hundred twenty two vasa law puts all the vasa race is the biggest in the world ninety kilometers long and with sixteen thousand competitors the route is based on one supposedly taken by costar vasa but the race name for the king has become more a part of swedish d. N. A. Than there royal history even if norwegians sometimes when it i did seven hours and twenty minutes and i think thats a really good time for the first first try i think credible i cant really imagine that theres ten thousand people lining up to to do this crazy thing i mean its just really i mean i get really psyched up and i want to do it so ground its just really amazing the pull of the race for swedes leads many to high official vos a lot but coaches to be glorious for this very swedish rite of passage the olympics id like fifty k. The longest distance in the olympics and its i think also pretty so race by their own and its a really good engine for crosscountry skiing in sweden or also in the world twelve years have gone by since sweden last topped the olympic crosscountry table now hope the time until the next coronation isnt measured in centuries. Followed sweden an Australian Olympic champion thrower has been found dead in the netherlands Jared Bannister finished sixth at the beijing olympics in two thousand and eight and one gold at the twenty ten Commonwealth Games the thirty three year old has been living and training in holland it is believed he took his own life. But also know the runaway leaders in the Spanish League and now they have also reached the final of the spanish couple capa del rey on thursday philip continuos scored his first goal for the club since these one hundred ninety eight Million Dollar move from liverpool even rocketed sholto scored in a tuna win over the bar so will meet severe in the final. I dont know where you are we have done a very good job in the cockpit already we have beaten big teams like spend yell and now building one of our main rivals im very happy for myself and filibuster alona who have been to a lot of finals is my second final as a coach and i hope that this time ill be luckier than the first on Philadelphia Eagles fans lined the streets of their city on thursday to celebrate the teams super bowl triumph over the new England Patriots it was the first time the eagles won the Vince Lombardi trophy schools and government offices were shut down for the celebrations and so was the citys zoo the eight kilometer route finished with a rally on the steps of the art museum which you might recognize from the rocky. I dont think words can really describe what is going on here today. Americium so many people in one spot so bring in unity one thing to do for the Philadelphia Eagles youre part of these guys when the greatest things ive ever done in my life is honor for us to bring you all the super bowl we finally did or were super bowl champs ok thats all the sport for me for now and they will be more later laura great thanks very much. And thats it for this news that i will be back in just a moment with another full roundup i think hes. What makes this moment this era were living for so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding. The distortion is that of what free speech is supposed to be about the context its hugely important level what to publish if you have a duty to be offensive overall its all about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on aljazeera. News has never been more available its a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is a simplistic you have the frame good logical rational person crazy monstrous and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narratives of this time on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Where every your. Well if we cannot have palestinian my government was certainly not allowed britain to control french press time would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for more than a century to come and so. Now we can durham a. Psych speak oh lines in the sand at this time on aljazeera. An explosion of fireworks amid a show of togetherness amongst korean athletes and leaders as the Winter Olympics begin