A warm welcome in the cell phones athletes from the two countries march under a unified flag. And colombias former rebel group the fark suspends Political Campaigning amid security concerns following days of angry protests. Also egypt launches a sweeping a military operation against what it calls terrorists and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula plus. Were in brazil but not in rio for the countrys most traditional carnival. Welcome to the new images of the two koreas marching together in the opening of the Winter Olympics have grabbed the spotlight. Despite repeated warnings from the u. S. Vice. President mike pence that pyongyang was trying to hijack the show in the end south koreas leader moved in grabbed all the headlines by breaking the ice and shaking hands with north Korean Leader kim jong uns sister kim jong the tasher going to report from ghana knowing. A step towards reconciliation for the First Time Since the korean war more than half a century ago a member of north koreas ruling family is welcomed in the south the arrival of leader kim jong sr is fascinating Many South Koreans kim jiang has quickly become a power broker in another historic moment south korean president in greeted her at the Opening Ceremony before she sat near u. S. Vice president mike pence the two didnt appear to Exchange Greetings then the moment many had been waiting for the. North and south korean athletes marched under a unified flag as a celebration of ethnic nationalism its the first time theyve done that at an International Sporting event in eleven years moon said the pyong chang Winter Olympics offer a meaningful opportunity for world divided by conflicts to unite critics say the north korean Charm Offensive is only intended to advance its agenda and mosconi it was decided to look nice for a vial of this option if you would use chance chances that president krom veal authorizing me to take a ration bought as a program of ease that made fundamentals have not changed. A deterrent to hef end of miss i. C. B. M. Into continental but he stick missiles capable of delivering a Nuclear Strike as a continuum for the United States in the run up to the games the North Koreans have absorbed much of the spotlight first by agreeing to participate and then by sending a high level delegation to the south this week american diplomat said they would soon unveil the toughest economic sanctions against north korea yet while also saying a diplomatic solution was the focus. For now this is a moment for South Koreans to show the world what a dynamic country they live in during the Opening Ceremony spectators were taken back in time to show the history of the Korean People and what were going to users called their relentless pursuit of peace. I hope that with north korean athletes participation this could be peace lympics and i hope we can achieve reunification between the south and the north. The mood here is good south korea is hosting the olympics and athletes are coming from around the world a Good Opportunity to promote south korea. And the hope is this will set the stage down only for a sporting spectacular but historic breakthrough with their northern neighbors. Aljazeera south korea. The attention lovers dog kim jong un sr over the past twenty four hours and lied how little is known about north koreas most powerful woman kim jo jo is widely thought to be her brothers close just confidant off to the perry alongside him Public Events though she has a meteoric rise through the ranks of the ruling party and is a Deputy Director of his propaganda and Agitation Department its thought shes played a central role in shaping our brothers public image but despite her influence as a woman she can never become a leader herself under the patriarchal traditions that underpin the north Korean Society very powerful is the director of the bread show craft center of International Security i was a former National Security council official under president george w. Bush and Barack Obama Joins me now from washington d. C. Good to have you with us on the program sir. How much of a domestic success so far has president. Overtures to north korea been in the light of the sort of joint team and the sister of the north Korean Leader arriving for the olympics. Well i think this strengthens him and his based a mess to clean i mean he was elected as far as i understand it on a platform of a more balanced policy toward north korea his predecessor was more on the deterrence and containment side and sanctions side and so while i think he has partnered enthusiastically with the un and certainly the United States on a very significant increase in sanctions this year as north korea itself increased its missile testing i think his initial overtures to north korea earlier in twenty seventeen were rebuffed and i think the what you just described the engagement around the olympics serves a couple of purposes for him number one its a major success that he is engaging with his neighbor maybe reduce tensions but also number two its an insurance policy for the olympics if there were no North Koreans present at the olympics the chances of an attack of some sort of some sort maybe cyber maybe real would have been much higher now i think its a much more secure a limpet venue well with north korea about the games so this is really a sign that north korea is potentially serious about improving political ties in the future was this all sort of smoke and mirrors for the time being. We dont know yet and if you look at the at the broader time frame here i think in two thousand and seventeen it looks like north korea strategy was to really increase missile testing to really increase increased bluster to really increase threats partly in response to the u. S. Increases in such things and i think with kim jong uns new years beach which had some new elements of engagement and now this new factor i think there is this is a promising step but i think we have to be very careful what comes next will there be more missile testing will he further increase his potential i. C. B. M. Capabilities that are not there yet but theyre moving there or is this simply a way to try to drive a wedge between the United States and south korea which is very very well may be interesting to us all because a few months it would have been the matchable lot of Senior Member of the north korean regime would be sitting so close in proximity to the u. S. Vice president so what sort of north korea right now in terms of playing ball considering the sanctions of the you might see a lingering cloud over pyongyang i think its more the lingering cloud i mean these are get these sanctions have got to be biting a little bit more than they used to at least and one could also imagine that this in gaijin is partly in response to the beginning of those sanctions biting it will take much more time to have more effect the ultimate goal is to bring north korea to the bargaining table about denuclearizing their military capabilities thats a tall and very ambitious order were a long way from there but in the meantime i think we should be relatively happy its a safer olympics and well see what comes after the olympics are over we shall see for the mood in washington d. C. Thanks so much for joining us. Colombias a former rebel group the fark has temporarily suspended its campaign for Upcoming Elections because of demonstrations and threats to its candidates the group became a Political Party last year after it made a peace deal with the colombian government and it bore the fifty two years of conflict but many colombians are still angry at the farka believe its members should be in prison or in the end though we have decided to suspend Campaign Activities until we have sufficient guarantees we call on all parties and political movements without exception to make a statement rejecting this type of aggression we invite all to meet us to the forum to agree of a game of clean rules well earlier i spoke to jorge of spreta director of the conflict Analysis Research center in bachata a think tank and i started by asking him if fox concerns about the safety of their activists was justified its a very risky situation difficult transition from home fleet to political. Now partly. Because there is strong need for a shoot for revenge even in the general population specially in urban areas there. Decision by far to go can they. Are going to do. This is very risky but indeed under any normal election process anywhere in the world we would expect opposition parties to be able to have the accessibility and the knowledge that they are secure when they are campaigning what seems to make the public so angry at the moment with the fark is that as a as a former you might say terror group to come into the political spectrum is just too soon for the public and theyre not sure whether this party means what it says. The key word in the procedure will be just that. They are starting to convene it was a dream and we now have in the process by the perception of the Justice System the general feeling in the population is that they have not. Subject themselves to the new system of justice. But of the special justice for the transfusion system and that is what makes people really angry against the fire they feel the as a very scared situation of course what they fire need to luis to recognize and address these very strong sense of sentiment in the population against Political Party nation with the public then looking for an apology is this what youre trying to say are they looking for an apology are they looking for the thought to be contrite in terms of the history that they have attached to them definitely they need not only their know only looking for a contrition act but also for some sort of punishment and that violent between recognition truth provision and punishment is what is not right or not felt right general population in this moment that is was creating the situation of greece although a group a Political Force that could have been elected they will have guaranteed seats will they not in some part of the legislature. Yes there will have five seats in the average every senate and five seats in the Lower Chamber the representatives for a total of a guarantee without regard to the number of votes in general i believe the fires are going to get more votes than what we in general population inspect that they will get but less than what they actually expect that they were going to get in the general in terms of the president some toss dial fox suspending their Election Campaign what is actually at stake in terms of the perception of long term peace within colombia they were a huge terror group that were brought into the fold president s son tells us what the dobelle prize for his actions are bringing the form of peace to colombia there is it surely still a great deal at stake it is a great deal of state but you see people here in colombia do not recognize that that is the. Violent reaction general increase in security to the degree has brought forward in general i will say that we are illegally while i am grateful to the government. To britain and france we need to be real reconciliation to be real be although we have been able to see these agreement which is very significantly. Provide i. Prove to the well for conditions of the population. Well plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news our including mexico deploys stars of extra police to fight a rising tide of drug related crime in tallest hotspots. Also breaking barriers in sri lanka as a Record Number of Women Candidates Campaign for seats in Upcoming Elections plus. Im pouring in sweden where five hundred years of history could be on the side of the swedes as they continue their battle against norway at the Winter Olympics. Now the Egyptian Army has launched what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula and a televised statement nabil spokesman said it involves loud see it after forces covering central sinai areas of the nile delta the Western Desert hospitals have been put on high alert and ordered to prepare extra beds and staff to deal with emergencies and medical evacuations well earlier we spoke to shoes a professor of Security Studies at the Doha Institute he says theres 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 miscreation following in september and the whole idea part of the coup and that is all 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 collation 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 you know the ship the sinai is not new cutting the you know suspending the Internet Communications blocking roads this is all not new has been happening since twenty fifteen and probably before twenty thirteen as well 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. Old person has been killed at least one hundred twenty two injured after two bobs were detonated during friday prayers at a basket at the libyan city of baghdad Officials Say both devices were planted in separate rooms. Two weeks ago around thirty five people were killed by trade barbs out of ask the same city. Now the Turkish Military is establishing a new position in syrias profits as part of efforts to expand this socalled a deescalation zone theyve deployed it occurred according to turkeys state News Agency Russian forces are expected to position themselves six kilometers outside the town now the objective is to create a lie dividing Syria Government forces and opposition fighters to provide called typed it has be the scientific support barbar to the Ground Fighting it Research Weeks also the white helmet Civil Defense volunteers say one of their said. That it was targeted by Government Air strikes the u. N. Has renewed its appeal for about flogging about a terry a truce to allow aid to be delivered to east of ghouta and it lip a feeble activists to be detained did saudi arabia for seventy days of what Rights Groups are calling a quiet government crackdown on human rights curb pavers. We has been held in a book after a big question by police who accused her of advocating for weeds rights on social media if found guilty she faces five years in prison. The uns Refugee Agency is raise a good service about growing violence and gabbled which it blames for the increase of the number of people forced from their homes since december the u. N. H. C. R. Estimates about eighty five thousand people have been displaced across the country more than sixty thousand have fled regions to the west coast in the data and theres governance yet it is the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis twenty two billion people are ready to aid a civil war intensified early twenty fifty what it started at military coalition had to feed its support of the government which is fighting against whos the rebels. Shabbier but the is a you would hate to see our Spokes Person she says displaced people often have their with a choice that to move into of a conflict zones this is the big dilemma because in yemen theres ongoing conflict and every single governor at mainland of them has been affected by the welsh so what were finding is that from holding and or instance people are being trapped with my governor s. So they maybe think im district to district whilst others are trying to make the journey through the east we also see a large amount of people sneaking in and so ill be on which is not used to those governorates but its a very dire situation when you have people who are remaining with my governor and moving from next to other multiple times because. We are really puzzled as to why the situation in yemen in somalia continue the way that it 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 affected by conflicts and in need of monetary assistance and this is absolutely appalling and the situation is absolutely dire here on the ground and were finding out that this also is really not good enough i mean when suddenly you know trying to respond to the needs of people who have been displaced across the country there are two Million People displaced all across yemen and now we have eighty five thousand have been displaced in this month and yet were starting the year as is your niche now the one hundred g. Agency with just three percent of funding search this huge mismatch between the humanitarian needs on the ground and support of the miners the yemenis the others there are continues to call for the Immediate Release of its journalist whos been in jail in egypt for bolt of a year but the save was a president was fourteen months ago accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos but if he had to die the allegations last week a un human rights body said his a prisoner but violates International Law they say has repeatedly complained of mistreatment while the jail. Now u. S. President tried per side off on a sped big bill officially a dig the latest Government Shutdown after just a few hours the stopgap measure will extend government for bigger till bofs the twenty third the budget deal is set to spread to god to feds and domestic programs by three hundred billion dollars and president trouble has come to the defense of a white house aide whos quit after being accused of Domestic Violence rob porter reside earlier this week after two full wives made separate allegations a verbal and physical abuse as you probably know he says hes innocent and i think you have to remember that he said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent so youll have to talk to him about that but we absolutely wish him well did a very good job while he was at the White House Well artificial has the latest from washington d. C. Well this fits into a pattern for donald trump standing by people that he perceives to be loyal you remember that one might flynn resigned as the National Security advisor just a few days later donald trump was calling him a very good man saying that he didnt need to resign he stood by roy moore who was running for the Republican Party in the senate in alabama he was accused of molesting young women a number of them under age dont trump didnt disavow his candidacy in fact he said that people should go out and vote for roy moore that he should be listened to when he said he was innocent and you remember that donald trump himself before the election was accused of sexually assaulting a number of women he even boasted about it on tape but he said that all the women were liars and that he should be believed when he said he was innocent no what really annoys some people is that there were no warrants for porters exwives who are the victims in this who came forward with these allegations and weve had very recently to the white house has put out a statement that john kelly the chief of staff has not offered his resignation to donald trump because of the scandal which suggests that there are reports circulating that john kelly had indeed offered his resignation because of the way hes handled this theres also another problem too for all porter when he got the job at the white house he would have filled in a form a declaration form one of those questions are you currently under a restraining order which apparently he was at the time though if he takes that new hes in the trouble because he lied on a federal form and that is a felony if he took to yes then people are saying why didnt the white house do something about this situation before it got to the stage why werent they more proactive in finding out what this was all about and perhaps doing something about it at that point so more trouble for all porter perhaps in store but certainly a bad friday for donald trump. Police officers of the us out here baltimore have been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars selling drugs and guns robbing houses i dont wresting innocent people its been described as they boast startling Police Corruption scandal in a generation jurors are now considering a verdict after a three week trial and she have returned see reports of a Baltimore Police officer planting drugs to implicate an innocent man its the sort of Police Corruption story weve become accustomed to along with those of racial profiling and unprovoked violence and when these stories emerge authorities are quick to blame a few bad apples and promise further training of individual officers but the testimony of four former detectives here at the Baltimore District court over the last few weeks has revealed not only the depths Police Corruption can reach but also the framework in which it flourishes at least one officer charged was promoted even as complaints about his conduct racked up and the city paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements for violent misconduct these men were part of baltimores Gun Trace Task force described as an elite Crime Fighting unit but in fact four of these men have testified that not only were they stealing and selling guns they dont bank on a criminal rampage against the citys africanamerican community. And it wasnt just guns they stole but drugs cash and valuables some they sold some they kept they would rob houses sometimes they would supply their militarized Police Equipment to members of the public so that they could rob houses while the officers kept watch they attempted to terrorize africanamerican men driving their cars at high speed towards people and then chasing and arresting anyone who ran they would have toyed guns handy in order to plant them on suspects if they were quote in a jam they shot an innocent person some three thousand of their arrests and now under review none of this has come as any surprise to those in black neighborhoods like sam town whove long complained about Police Corruption this was the home of freddy grey who died in Police Custody in twenty fifteen their answer is clear Law Enforcement has to be transformed and i just feel like you have to be Occupying Force in order to be a Police Officer but this was the mayor of baltimore as a response to a question about whether she was even following the trial no i have no evidence. She and the Police Commissioner sticking to the few bad apples argument which is we can further after an instructor at the Baltimore Police academy said this about almost a third of the new batch of Police Officers who graduated last week were giving them a badge and a gun tomorrow the right to take someones liberty ultimately the right to take someones life if it calls for it and they have not demonstrated they can meet constitutional and legal standards meanwhile the baltimore officers who testified in court say there are many others throughout the criminal Justice System from internal affairs to the state Attorneys Office who help them cover up their alleged crimes she ever towns the aljazeera baltimore. All still had hailed the aljazeera news hour friday pressed her to anchor it but. As protests continue after the jailing of the former Prime Minister. A space x. Rocket sahad fancy russia that its legacy could beat up the threat. All the climate specialists take center stage all day four of the two body toll find out what happened with tells you. How i will say some rather nasty weather pushing across the eastern side of the u. S. Over the next couple of days or the moment were looking at snow sliding for the plains through the midwest with that northeastern core as we go through a sas day that wintry mix will feed its way up through new england so that east the side of canada ahead of that there is the model weather around new york around nine degrees celsius heavy rain though see thats setting in there across that eastern side of texas into really Louisiana Mississippi alabama all making its way further east was the model there winds out d. C. Gets up to around eighteen celsius because see how its getting into double figures for new york really heavy rain here possibility some localized flooding just around the middle attics days and little further north was snow on the northern flank very heavy right towards the south and further west theres generally fine and dry still warm in ally temperatures here i say around twenty four degrees celsius in the sunshine the amount of sunshine across the caribbean over the next few days is looking pretty good actually its the dry season so it should be just one or two into the day showers bring up the sun maybe into jamaica maybe also into cuba over the next day or so but essentially it doesnt last the settled and sunny thirty celsius there having thinks that in the sunshine wanted to shallows for nicaragua and panama. While the worlds rich take what they want the worlds poor must beg to survive from the streets of manila to the roads of mon people and power investigates the injustices of a globalized economy. And how Different Countries responds to those at the very bottom of society. Begging for life. At this time on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Where every. Welcome back to the aljazeera news hour im so hold rather abida our top stories this hour athletes from north and south korea have marched today unified careers flag for the opening of the Winter Olympics appealing south koreas president jacob used the ceremony to reach out to pyongyang shaking heads with the north Korean Leaders sister. Libyas former rebel group the farm has temporarily suspended its Political Campaign because of demonstrations and threats to its candidates the group became a Political Party last year after a peace deal with the colombian government and big bore the fifty two years of conflict. Also the Egyptian Army has launched what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula hospitals have been put on high alert to deal with emergencies and better called evacuations. The charity also has denied allegations it tried to cover up its aide workers who paid for sex during admission to haiti oxford was part of a bass of International Relief effort it haiti after the devastating earthquake in twenty ted the Times Newspaper the u. K. Alleges that the charity was tipped off by a whistleblower about some of it see the a staff there using prostitutes some of whom could have been a drage the charity allowed three bed to reside and sacked for for gross misconduct. Well it is stable talks for absurd its pro bridge was to always route to taking action against those involved it says we publicly and outs to including to the media both the investigation and the action we took as a result there goes a should set for bobus of staff were dismissed as a result of the investigation and three including the country director resign before the end of the investigation it says allegations that a drage girls may have been evolved would not proven donors accounts worked as a journalist for the Associated Press it haiti after the earthquake its a question of poverty its a question of differences in power i mean basically foreigners can come into a country like haiti and do essentially whatever they want without any kind of accountability and sometimes that involves running it projects badly and sometimes that involves actual predatory behavior i mean for you know individual haitians who are just trying to do everything they can to survive its not surprising that some people would find themselves women in some cases possibly obviously we dont know specifically in this case but in other cases underage women in a position where they have to they feel like they have to do these kinds of things to survive i mean the thing thats most important in haiti is to help people build their own lives to help people get money and build their own incomes and then help create a state thats capable of Holding People accountable when they commit crimes like this to a should go were supporters of bud leather shoes former Prime Minister zia are continuing to protest after she was jailed for five years old corruption charges the seventy two year old who was a prison thursday on charges of the best legal road two hundred fifty thousand dollars in dont they should spread to photo orphanage her eldest son for aids would give a ten year sentence is demonstrators say the verdict is politically motivated toward the child as our correspondent reports from the capital dhaka. Thousands of people came out of the citys biggest mosque by the muck around to protest again from a Prime Minister calling. The heavy presence of riot police on the straight a lot of this protest are gathered near the Party Central office but theyve been dispersed since because of the police all eyes are on the high court now Bangladesh Nationalist Party wants to appeal her body. Courts are heavily influenced by the government critics and opposition are saying the Barnabus Court is nowhere neutral specially in the lord called their influence by the government and about it was politically motivated we have yet to see what the high court right will be towards our case never the last one with us nationalist party saying it will still run for the election even if their leader is behind the bar that other leaders to give them guidelines including khalid as the son who is in london but the protest across the country is continuing critics annexed by their saying this is a major concern for instability in the country unless the Major National party takes pride in the election otherwise the country will go into Political Uncertainty down the road the Prime Minister has announced election to be somewhere around december of this year and we have yet to see how the political fallout is down the road. To get elected to the voters all choosing representatives of bulls and three hundred local elections on saturday a change in the law requires would to fill a quarter of all seats but this ripples of. Thanksgiving the latest political race with a bang through the senate night full of aces diplomats and t. V. An evening to become good news of a number shes the first woman to even try i strongly believe that we cannot have democracy do not interest the needs of the me the population may go to the population sri lanka. Avi mayne shes one of more than seventy thousand women contesting local Government Elections a Record Number of women are standing for positions in three hundred forty institutions a recent change of the law has made it mandatory to have twenty five percent of women in local government than twelve times the number but now some only good i know of the marxist Peoples Liberation front says the changes will give more deserving women a chance in our country in some ministers daughter or siblings or those from political families and politics. But we think honest women should come into politics where laws are made this election can do that. Its a view that this vote in colombo endorsed you does hype time that you learn comes the politicians because at least there are so many women there should give a list of the beeman its the first time in decades that elections to all local bodies around the country are being held on a single day the stakes are high for all but to go going into this local Government Election with the president my policy recently and Prime Minister become a singer whose parties are contesting separately its a battle to keep it. Three years ago which is the reason why local issues such as roads street lights and Garbage Disposal are taking on the intensity of a national fight. The Coalition Government of the president and Prime Minister is struggling to maintain its popularity following a series of scandals and failure to deliver on its Campaign Promise to root out corruption both leaders have travelled around the country to support their candidates their main threat is former president rajapaksa despite being voted out of his bid for a third president ial term rajapaksa still commands the loyalty of a large voter base a base hes trying to mobilize for a new political front despite the fact that hes not a member of it and remains a member of his successors party saw the power struggle or are the way forward for the Upcoming National elections will be starting from this particular point it is for the president for the Prime Minister was coming from that would be put on Political Parties and in the other hand the former president s campaign will have a place and they hope to shore they are power whatever the larger political stakes local election voters will be hoping for competent candidates both male and female to ensure the smooth running of institutions in their finance aljazeera colombo. To the americas now where bricks can the rains have arrested a tory as a Drug Cartel Leader with a five Million Dollar bounty on his head. Is the leader of the losses that us carto stoat chaos across much of back soko with its Drug Trafficking operations it comes as the government is deploying thousands of federal Police Officers to combat a surge in violence both the twenty five thousand people were murdered in back soko last year thats the highest the but in decades it judge jury five thousand additional Police Officers were said to several tory cities where violence linked to drug cartels and organized crime had been high most of them have be deployed to the water which borders diego and california the Restaurant Bar california a log of the tourist areas of. Lost car bus cooed should a perfect go as well as the state. Of the cleaver. Aljazeera as might well repel oh is it could mexico with the details. Police and military forces or holding a routine check point in going in response to a homicide rate that has risen three hundred percent in the last fourteen months this driver was detained after officers found a half dozen mobile phones and a handgun in his vehicle but even with the cooperation military state and local police Law Enforcement agencies are struggling to fight crime by your boss and they can also related to organized crime committed by criminal groups competing for control over other criminal groups all of it is related to the sale of drugs. We rode along with the division of federal Police Officers patrolling a popular beach mexicos peak tourism season is fast approaching and the government is dispatching some five thousand federal agents across the country for tourists looking for white sand in turquoise waters however the violence seems far away. I feel very safe i walked around late yesterday and it was very often noticed a lot of bad things happening or anything. Can cool draws in billions of dollars from tourism every year once the sun sets bars and nightclubs are packed with party goers but just a short drive away there is another more dangerous side to the city. Were in a residential neighborhood near the center of town and police have blocked off this road behind me after the shooting took place only about one hour ago police tell us that two people were shot in the gunmen fled sadly this is a scene that plays out on a near daily basis here in cannes coon the District Attorney says there are one to two murders on average every day Civil Society groups argue that the recent increase in police hasnt served everyone equally. For their government to protect. Hotel industry but what about the ones that work in that industry and then return to the areas where crime. And violence prevail. Walking along the Hotel District the two sides of the city become apparent the nightly patrol by federal police makes Foreign Tourists feel safe but it also keeps the nearby violence out of sight and out of mind and ended up on oh i just see to cancun mexico. And in part to apologize there is investigations of violence on the streets of banks which of the acapulco of the countrys Pacific Coast where doctors all see an epidemic of bad illness colds by colds to gangland killings today here. That time of the year ago the card of all his getting underway in brazil for those people that leads the sub parades of Rio De Janeiro but the most traditional carnival of all is in the Northeastern State of perl a book called latin america editor lucy do but is that. Im in a sea for the capital of penumbra states where carnival is a multicultural multi music affair that lasts for five days behind me on the ball nickels these are the giant dolls for which this state is famous they began in the early one nine hundred step pay homage to different personalities past and as you can see present more than eighty will be parading next week and the longtime coordinator of the event was kind enough to give us a sneak preview. Here and to see for the festivities got underway overnight. This is called monica to approve caution based music with strong african roots brought here to the seafront by slades eighteenth century. And there was also the foot able and Nineteenth Century rhythm that penumbra is famous for its a fusion of martial music a kind of brazilian tango and some african rhythms. Carnival is a time for celebration but also for excesses especially of alcohol which is increasingly leading to sex abuses out here on the streets for the second year in a row activist karaoke is taking part in a campaign for women to speak out and to monitor places where abuses are most likely to happen. During carnival theres a culture of permissiveness people think its normal to grope you to force you to kiss them to have sex with women specially. But even with that millions of brazilians and foreigners have come here to celebrate the preparations are underway for what will be the main event on saturday called the rooster of the dog and thats when this gigantic rooster will lead the Worlds Largest street parade more than a Million People taking part and it begins at the early hours of the morning when it ends no one knows. Was finally resolved on the sports. At the back there the soviet union put the first satellite the first bad and the first will build its space the russian seven rockets that launched the first satellites are still servicing the International Space station but with this weeks space x. Launch russia fares losing its commercial edge in the botton space race chalons has more from moscow. The pitches and the achievement amazed millions of people who are around the world but space x. Is falcon heavy rocket launch with its gracefully landing boosters didnt seem to impress russias state space agency roscoes most they dismissed it as little more than a p. R. Stunt for either on mosques tesla electric cars if you have noticed ross cosmos said on a russian Radio Station this launch went up not with some empty dummy or a load which he wouldnt regret losing in a failure but with one specific car. Theres some truth in what ross cosmo says ilan musk is among other things a master of promoting his various products but thrust kosmos also seems to be covering its eyes to the main point space x. Is a Space Technology game changer and its a game some russians fear theyre likely to lose the world. Reveal his success is in fact that he made the process less expensive hes workers are to be used multiple times therefore he doesnt have to build a new rocket every time and the price is lot he can take a satellite into orbit cheaper and well lose it in this competition because our rockets can be used only once igor corage and go is one of a number of deeply concerned Russian Defense and space analysts hes concerned for russias share of the space market and concerned space x. Will benefit the u. S. Military the workhorses of russias state Space Program like this so you see i suddenly feel like aging remnants from a different era which they are really so used first launched in one thousand nine hundred sixty six a new cosmodrome called rostock germany and russias far east has brought some modernization but millions of dollars have gone missing from the accounts because my dreams corruption scandals highlight the countrys problem with self sabotage even on projects of national priority. Russias illustrious history of Space Exploration is still a few thoughts of National Pride but as the dawn breaks on a new era one of commercial space travel russia will have to match innovative nimble relatively cheap operators like space x. If its to stay competitive thats a huge political and technological challenge and one the country is only just waking up to rory chalons aljazeera moscow. I. Dont think it is. Well its sort of a sport and all of the olympic news here is the other thank you very much as theyve seen earlier the twenty third winter Olympic Games in pyongyang have been declared officially open the Opening Ceremony took place at young trungpa lympics stadium on friday setting the scene for three thousand athletes to compete in fifteen sports over the next seventeen days russian athletes took part in the ceremony with out Team Uniforms all the russian flag one hundred sixty eight second painting as a specially named olympic athlete from russia team as a result of doping functions just hours before they walked into the Olympic Stadium the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the appeal of a further forty seven the wanted to compete at the games lee wellings as. The russian doping scandal is arguably the most murky sob story in the history of sport and yes i spent years covering the faith for scandal but this involves the public being completely cheated medals being involved a nation seem to be boys and from the top down how did we get to this position well four years ago putins grand plan for sports a succeed in russia around their home olympics the very expensive sachi Winter Olympics im off the allegations it was shown by investigation but thered been systematic dont bring in washing for 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 say theyre not clearing the dopers completely but theres not enough evidence for lifetime bonds 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 to the guy you know goings on actually begin today the division of the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the application filed by thirty two russian athletes against the International Olympic committee it does also dismissed the applications filed yesterday by fifteen actually its and coaches against the use so the cast this isnt 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 scandal. Afterwards and 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 speed skating there were plenty of korean interest in art but most interest of course in the unified womens hockey team from korea by mike has to be their first guy against switzerland another athlete who wont be taking part in the the olympics theres twenty fourteen snowboard halfpipe champion ilo report logic of the russian born swiss suffered a bad fall and broke his nose while competing at the x. Games last month the twenty nine year old whose nickname is i pod to travel to pyong tran and trained on friday after announcing he wasnt fit enough to defend his title. When the first medal event start on saturday you can expect to see plenty of golds around the necks of swedens athletes the country is traditionally one of the best performers in the Winter Olympics the more than half of them medals have come in crosscountry skiing pool race for ports on the culture behind their success. Go down to the woods today in sweden county and you may well meet a crosscountry skier. For thousands of years skis were how you traveled 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. Crosscountry skis are very good for the body. For their knees but their 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 the because of this next door now for sweden at the olympics crosscountry skiing is all about my 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 voss a lump it. You know told the gun 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 go star vasa but the race name for the king has become more a part of swedish d. N. A. Than the royal history even if norwegians sometimes when it and 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 and its just really i mean i get really psyched up and i want to do it so great and its just really amazing the pull of the race for swedes leads many to high official vos a lot but coaches glorious for this very swedish rite of passage the olympics are like fifty k. The longest distance in the olympics and its i think also perceives the race by their own and its a really good engine for the 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 poorest aljazeera followed sweden for more information on everything to do with the winter games if you go to our website you can find a dedicated section on the p. R. Lympics head to aljazeera dot com for slashed twenty eighteen. Football now in chelsea manager Antonio Conti has insisted he is committed to the club despite speculation surrounding his future as off the chelsea lost four one to one fit in the English Premier League on monday theyve won just two of the last ten games in all competitions. The only place is totally for disc lab we are trying to do our best but as you know very well because we are talking about football you know that. There is a lot of time i dont agree but a lot of the time. The manager the coach and several of them sat in this case or got a result and the fact is that its all we have to pay great attention contains side next play against west brom on monday but there are six games to look forward to in the English Premier League on saturday tottenham and off well kick things off in the london dobby while League LeadersManchester City are at home. Finally it is italys any of yani will take the lead into the final day of the to buy tour as fridays penultimate stage was won by another italian that was funny called but i lay off to three stages favoring sprint final it specialists it was the climbers who took center stage on day four bronze in mcnulty made it for home with twelve of the one hundred seventy two kilometer course remaining but the american was eventually caught in the fight of the lineout it was called belly who got the win that the army or tamed a two second lead at the top of the overall funding. For the sport for now more later thanks very much tess the other youve been watching the aljazeera news with me sell raw but ill have another full half hour of news on the other side of the break until and thats your type company. To. Meet. The crisis manager. The way we communicate is what defines us. You dont always has been. As innovation in technology continues to shape our lives. 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