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Luanda leaks the document trove 14 to show how the daughter of angolas former president siphoned millions of state money into offshore accounts. Making the same flip. The deliberate made a mistake that is one giant leap for space. So that libyas warring sides and World Leaders have agreed to help secure a fragile truce in the hope it will develop into a full ceasefire at a summit in germany they also committed to reinforce you know weapons and. Has more now from. It was the most important gathering to an libyas conflict in many years but from the start german chancellor. Was struggling to narrow differences between libyas rivals Prime Minister of the tripoli based government of National Accord phases with used to sit down with warlords highly for have leaving merkel shuttling back and forth to convince spaceship powers to help secure a permanent cease fire and stop the flow of arms into the war torn country. Here in berlin there. Everyone with an agreement including the regional organizations the arab league to a u. N. Of course the African Union that we need a political solution its become evident in the last few weeks that there is no chance for a military solution which could only increase the suffering of the libyan people the u. N. Chief said the new diplomatic gains made so far boost the chances for a new political process and led by the libyans weirds all the parties to engage in a leave you no longer dialogue under the auspices of the United Nations paving the way for a political solution to the crisis despite the consensus among the participants of the conference there remains a huge disagreement for us president manuel mcraney called for an immediate and to foreign intervention powers has recently expressed concerns over turkey is growing influence but for president of us of. Turkeys role is crucial to and violence and prevent hopped from capturing tripoli. We have been trying on a number of occasions to have a cease fire agreement signed the National Government of accord signed a cease fire agreement yes it wasnt signed by the other party led by hostile if we fail to have a cease fire in place and if we fail to have an agreement signed we will never see how fatahs hostilities coming to an end russia is also expanding its influence in libya. But appears to be willing to team up with turkey to ensure the cease fire holds even though both countries support opposite sides of the conflict. Because. We think both the parties were coming to moscow as they both had heeded our calls and they had both responded to our demands of a ceasefire now we are in berlin we hope for more success in this particular crisis. The us world has significantly diminished in the oil rich country the e. U. Is divided the friends support half the while the italians back. There were hopes the berlin conference will bring all the parties that can and the conflict button is here was shunned from the peace talks after receiving an invitation last minute morocco which hosted the 2015 peace talks and a key supporter of the d. N. A. Were also excluded the bullying conference was essentially about political dialogue libyan rival groups will meet in geneva in the coming weeks to see if they can form a new government or risk turning their country into a permanent playground for foreign intervention. Or yes extra state my palm post says hes glad to see progress towards peace wants to see libyas Oil Pipelines reopened. Theres still a lot of work to do and sing complicated battle bill but you add president era to one present putin jess of more gold paul making a sincere commitment special represented solemn a whose brain the or bro making just circumvent the said were going to do this were going to were news risk are going to conduct this is wired still some questions about of powwow and how effectively can ponder this but im optimistic or a lets head now from up mood up to wall head whos in aaa he says the security situation remains fragile and met some skepticism that a loss in deal can be arranged so for a child to read this ceasefire but it seems that whats going on in berlin is in another. I mean its going on in the another pass because there are so many hardliners here on both sides who do not want to stop the fighting in fact the people here many people here believe that the believe in talks are meant to bridge the gap between the countries involved in libya and not between the libyan arrivals and now here for example the west of the camp led by the recognize the Prime Minister face of raj they say that they cannot trust have to and they cannot make peace with have to camp unless he is tried for what they call the war crimes that have been committed by his forces since april the 4th since the launch of the military campaign. There have been so many question marks they have been addressing these the military the military camp on the ground because many military leaders on the ground they say that they come out hand over their weapons and they cannot stop fighting until i have to the forces pushed out of southern the tripoli meanwhile on the in the east of the country. Military brigade support to get the warlords really for have that and they have taken control of the Oil Terminals they say that they cannot accept any foreign intervention in libya they mean the Turkish Military assistance to the government of national called. Well the conference in berlin has been overshadowed by a blockade of libyas Major Oil Fields by heavy for have to forces which is threatening to choke production in recent months libya has been producing 1200000 Barrels Per Day as the countrys largest export oil is a financial lifeline for the un recognized government in tripoli and have to have shut down for Oil Pipelines forcing the closure of 2 of the countrys Largest Oil Fields closures will slash libyas output by more than 90 percent to just 72000 barrels a day William Lawrence is a visiting professor of Political Science at George Washington universitys Elliott School of International Affairs and he says more commitment is needed before any real change takes place. Is it remains to be seen walk type of International Political muscle will go behind the agreement so far we have these we have a kind of consensus on principle in the International Community but when it comes to actions on the ground each side just simply you know each of the International Players supports one side or the other for the most part and they dont really do much to respect what their side needs to do to respect these International Principles since 2011 and since the 2nd civil war in 2015 weve had. Libyans fighting over access to resources more than anything else control of airports seaports borders and oil and now it seems that the conflict is more and more just over oil so the thing theyre fighting over on the day of the berlin peace conference is control of the oil which the International Community wants to keep flowing for a number of reasons but i have to kind of shooting himself in the foot because he has not been able to sell oil internationally he smuggled a little bit out but up that much and the americans who are quite withdrawn in many ways from many aspects of whats going on libya have proven on 2 occasions theyre willing to intervene militarily to stop oil sales by the east so by blocking oil sales and try and disrupt oil sales as a way to gain ground i dont think have to is really playing a winning card here. Chinas corona Virus Outbreak is spreading beyond the city of will han where the disease is sort of originated 139 new cases have been confirmed over the weekend including 3 in the Capital Beijing and in sions then one more person has died from the risk retrieval this taking the overall death toll to 3 scientists warn the virus could be as lethal as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was saws which killed nearly 800 people back in 2003 lets cross train way to katrina you whose life has a in beijing and katrina how seriously are the authorities taking this. Well theres a very seriously at the moment but theyre also at pains to tell the public that this is this is a control thing they dont want to cause too much panic but they are giving information about as you mentioned these updated cases so we know that now about 200 confirmed cases these cases that are outside of one in beijing in the south of aging indulging in an area called joshing this one in cheyenne jen these 3 people were confirmed to have come from one and they had contact with relatives in before they were found to have the have the virus now were just hearing as well that there are 8 more suspected cases in shen gen which is in the south of a city just close to to hong kong and Southern China and weve also just heard that shenzhen have started stepping up temperature monitoring in their train stations and in their airports and a new one is well weve heard that theres also some temperature monitoring gates but at the same time whats interesting we saw over the weekend some u. S. Airports implement some measures to monitor people coming from han but we dont have the same level of implementation here in china so we dont have a nationwide implementation of of people having to strictly go through these temperature controls to the same level as some of those places so while they are taking this seriously it seems as well im very conscious of not sparking any widespread panic and chaos especially given that its the Chinese New Year period that were just about to get into right exactly that would ensue with the widespread mass travel and i guess some people may be concerned that thats where construction contagion spreads. Thats right so during the Chinese New Year period we see 2 to 3000000000 trips made across china and wu han is a major city its not a small city 11000000 people round about live in and then theyll be traveling all over all over china a lot of people have to pos through hon so there is a lot of concern i think there have been some suggestions by the governments to wash your hands and if youre in a public place to wear face masks and if you have any temperature at all go straight to the hospital. But at the same time theyve also said that you know we were not ruling out human to human transmission but theyve also said at the same time that human to human transmission is unlikely now we have these figures and we know that about 200 people have the had the disease confirmed and there have been 3 deaths but theres also growing skepticism within china about those figures that have been reports by analysts overseas who say well if the virus was able to end up in japan and in thailand how is it that its not more widespread within china so there are some concerns about transparency and the reason for this is that in 20022003 we saw what you mentioned the sars outbreak here in china and that was that was really kind of soffit here in china 8000 people were affected hundreds of people died and the government were not very honest about the severity of that virus when it did break out so definitely here in china as well growing concern coming into the Chinese New Year period about how honest authorities are being about the severity of this virus and the risks involved are truly with the things for most to truly you reported. A plenty more ahead on the news hour including. Why a lebanese protesters have turned their rage on parliament in a 2nd night of violence. Crosses for losses the scourge of gun crime in the u. S. And one mans mission to want to its victims. And back in the cage one immigrated to lights the fans on his return to action peter to detail. For bolivian leader even morales has named the candidates will be running for his socialist party in mays president ial election at a News Conference in bonn his errors morale is said his former economy minister will be the president ial candidate while his former foreign minister will be his running mate run as his living in argentina offer except see an offer of asylum or he resigned in november after a disputed election victory which prompted nationwide protests fed as well as Opposition Leader one quite a has defied a travel ban flying to colombia to meet with u. S. Actress they might compare on monday its the latest show of support from washington which says that white is the rightful leader of venezuela idea has been barred from leaving venezuela since proclaim himself president a year ago and trying to oust the leader Nicolas Maduro remains in power despite a Major Economic crisis. Hes really like a leader but a spell of help joins us now with more damning meeting with him are our mission a bit as well as a james. We are convinced that the members will be preserved better 2020 than they had in 2001000 euros but he stuck to the bet millions of people have to leave the country to the American People but if you want to be an. Ambitious set is to continue to work through all the diplomatic channels to achieve the outcome to present from point out now about 18 months ago. Hundreds of Central Americans they gathered on guatemalas border with mexico which they plan to cross on monday morning theyve been waiting in the new month for more people to arrive say the chance of getting past mexican guards on the other side of the border the better if they cross in one large group because money is government says 4000 people have come in from honduras since wednesday trying to make their way to make and the United States home and has more now from mexico border. What youre seeing here is one of the overflow areas that shelters here in the coombe and have set up to try and cope with the amount of people that are arriving from honduras hoping to pass into mexico a mini of them eventually into the United States you can see that here people have been sleeping out in the open theres about 2000 people arrived here on the border between guatemala and mexico and more than 4000 people in total that have set out from honduras now theyre trying to get further north but there is a problem and mexico has said that its not going to allow them to transit is not going to allow them to get to the United States where the Mexican Government has said is it will allow them to work in the south of the country will give them work visas in certain cases it will give them asylum but whats been happening is it makes going to have only been letting people in in groups of 20 smaller groups and thats given rise to suspicions from these people that theyre actually just being deported straight back to hasnt helped the mexican migration authorities havent told them and havent told us exactly whats happening to those people so theres a state of uncertainty here theres going to be more people arriving from this caravan probably in the next day or so so on monday theyre saying that theyre going to take to the border bridge you know its gotten a mess code and theyre going to turn out all mass and demand to be let through so it remains to be seen how the mexican authorities are going to respond to that. Now leaked documents suggest that africas Richest Woman siphon hundreds of millions of dollars van gogh and government money to offshore accounts the International Consortium of investigative journalists obtained hundreds of thousands of papers about isabella the sentences Business Empire shes the daughter of angolas former president had wanted to sentence and last month prosecutors froze have Bank Accounts and assets of corruption shes dismissed the allegations as a ground the critical vendetta well you can speak to ben holeman whos the chief reporter at the International Consortium of investigative journalists he joins us now from washington d. C. Mr holden welcome to the program this is really a story isnt it about how a small elite got rich at the expense of a nation and its people yeah thats right our investigation which took 8 months and more than a 100 journalists to complete found dos santos aided by her sort of qadri of western advisors funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into offshore Shell Companies and from there into all kinds of assets including luxury homes and big businesses from a Portuguese Oil giant to a sort of dish swiss jeweler that caters to the one percent and i should say theres about to send us denies all wrongdoing says that the government is on a witch hunt politically motivated this whole thing is and its a political persecution is what she says right i mean i think our reporting is pretty unambiguous and in fact we can say with authority that her fortune is almost entirely to her father who gave her a big chunks of some of his most valuable resources including. Oil and diamonds and in one case thousands of families were. Forcibly evicted from their homes tell us about the. Sure so you know part of in part of our reporting and this was revealed in part of the documents but also on on the ground reporting a little while and you know we discovered that as part of this grand scheme to redevelop wanda which is you know this giant african city thats growing by leaps and bounds. A plan that went to dos Santos Santos is Development Companies led to the eviction of thousands of families from an area called area of rock a little neighborhood right on the coast and so the people who live there without any warning at all or forcibly and they say violently a victim from their homes this was a few years ago the project was subsequent canceled by the current and going government so today that that that part of land they got kicked out of is just of basically bacon and empty and then he allegations have been are. Short i was going to say that the allegations show the length and breadth of all this is not just across borders but across continents across the will there must be no end of other people who are implicated in facilitating this well that was a key focus of our investigation and to be honest one of the things that we focused on really early was the role that these facilitators which is a good word played and they include big name western firms like p w c formerly known as Pricewaterhouse Coopers and consulting firms like Boston Consulting Group and we found you know in this points to more than a decade of reporting back to more than a decade of reporting by i c i j and how offshore the offshore whole entire offshore Financial System really is made possible by the efforts of accountants and the lawyers who really give who set up companies and audit their books and also give a veneer of respectability to people like Isabel Dos Santos so. Some Bank Accounts have been frozen now what happens next. Well you know well see weve already seen as you mentioned that reaction the. Large Dutch Company called van orden which was involved in the redevelopment project we talked about with the evictions theyve already are apologizing and are promising reparations so well see what happens there as well the portuguese authorities are possibly investigating and other governments around the globe are likely to take a closer look at some of the money thats flowing through their Financial Systems well it is an extraordinary investigation they have been home and we appreciate time thanks a lot ok thank you for having me frank prosecutors have launched an inquiry after a Police Officer was seen punching a protest a juror in a yellow vests run in paris this comes a day after a video showing the alleged beating went viral a man whose head appears to be bleeding was held down by an officer he hit his face police have been accused of using Excessive Force during antigovernment protests back in 2018 as well as recent demonstrations against pension reforms. At least 30 people have been injured in a 2nd night of violence in beirut Security Forces to gas and water cannon the protesters who are throwing rocks at the Lebanese Parliament all inside today nearly 400 people were injured in similar protests that descended into rocks and frustration is growing over a financial crisis and the failure of politicians to form a new government so to hold it has more now from beirut. Its the 4th night of violence since tuesday we are outside Parliament Square but the Security Forces the antiriot police have managed to push the antiestablishment protesters away from Parliament Building this was the security cordon that was protecting Parliament Building it was really the frontline behind the steel barricades the riot police they were using Water Cannons they were using tear gas they were using rubber bullets the Lebanese Red Cross issuing a statement saying that they have taken at least 30 people to hospital people who suffered injuries as a result of the confrontation hundreds of people were converged outside the. Parliament building hoping to try to storm the building its really a show of protest against the ruling elite they believe that the legislature is illegitimate they need to resign people want to early elections they want the ruling elites has been governing this country for 30 years to leave office and to make way for a new government a government of independent experts who will be able to deal with the dire Economic Situation in the country so another night of violence in the streets of the lebanese capital you can see behind us here at this field barricades are the riot police who were really engaged in clashes with the protesters who were throwing stones sticks Water Bottles and firecrackers anything really that they could find. To try to breach the security barrier. The United Nations has warned that a missile attack on a Government Military camp in yemen could derail political efforts to deescalate the countrys 5 year long conflict the government is blaming hooty rebels for the attack on america that killed at least 111 people more now from nick clegg age and a warning viewers may find some images in this report disturbing. After nearly 5 years of violence the war in yemen is showing no signs of ending this hospital is filled with government soldiers and civilians injured in saturdays attack on a military camp in the region of memory of more than 100 who killed. Who it was around sunset prayers were praise and then we said down and the missiles hit it was around 630 and for 10 minutes or so i couldnt feel anything around me so many of my friends were killed. This is all thats left of the mosque that was targeted blown apart by a Ballistic Missile how yemens government backed by a saudi u. A. E. Led military coalition has blamed the iranian backed rebels and his that to retaliate. We would like to offer our condolences to our nation our armed forces and the families of the fallen those who were killed in a heinous attack by the iranian backed hooty militias the fallen were true heroes soldiers in our armed forces among the dead are also civilians but. The war has created what the un has labeled the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. Since the start of the conflict its estimated more than 91000 yemenis have been killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting weekly gauge aljazeera. Muslims in the indian state of a pradesh say theyre being singled out by the government which is asking hundreds to pay for damages caused during demonstrations last month at least 20. 00 people were killed and more than a 1000 arrested in the state during protests against new citizenship law which many say is discriminatory and anti muslim the actual ver ports as some of those who were shot and arrested facing demands for money they call. So man have left his house on the 20th of december to go and buy milk for his daughter on the streets if not or people were protesting at the controversial new citizenship law that many say discriminates against muslims suddenly he says he fell to the ground hed been shot in the stomach and. I saw the policeman fire me with my own eyes he was wearing a helmet in a Police Uniform the protesters were far away but the police were near me and so mans name has appeared on a government notice demanding payment for damage caused to public property. Hundreds more have received similar notices in other towns and villages and it was often when they saw that ok we had never imagined such a tragedy would happen in our lives the only early member of our family is bedridden so how can we pay them our earnings were already meager about 200 to 300 rupees a day we dont even have electricity in our house. Oh yeah got to pay them goosen is 4 months pregnant and desperately wants her husband home she says on december 20th police broke down the door of their house while they were saying their prayers her husband saw there was arrested them i was. Everyones giving me different deadlines its been a month but no ones listening to me you know helping me im in a lot of trouble please bring back my husband. Got to get above her. Husband is also one of the 9 people in the town to have received a notice to pay damages. Political analysts say the governing into nationalist party that was quick to penalize many muslims for the protests and also blame them for any damages caused and that it is using financial pressure and the police to try and silence them we asked the police to comment on these claims but they were unavailable many people in this neighborhood who holds a month ago. Violence with those in state say young men are being randomly arrested for no apparent reason in this town as in many other. Muslims fear the police are taking orders from the top government at least 20 people died on that one day in december. State police have admitted causing 2 of the deaths but say officers acted in self defense and that police were deployed only to maintain law and order. India. So they had. A solemn homecoming for ukrainians who died when their plane. Ill tell you whats causing the largest africa in 25 years. Come up to a slip up for the title and its repeats it will have the action. Hello there not bad conditions generally throughout much of asia as they wanted to. Know is what the way face mili across central areas of japan but to the north into russia my goodness is it cold this is what happens look when you have burst pipes and really no heating while temperatures by day minus 16 by night dipping down to minus 23 degrees so with all this water that is what happens to the north and makes these temperatures elsewhere seem fairly mild celsius in beijing some nice sunshine 3 degrees in seoul maybe going to scott chiles pushing their way across into central honshu working their way east with st choose day 11 celsius in tokyo and dry down to the south coast of china 22 celsius in hong kong scattered showers and thunderstorms widely scattered really across much of indonesia becoming a little bit heavier monday late in the day into central areas of borneo a similar story really on tuesday show was fairly well scattered across much of somalia and also java much of the way across into india what we have got this time of year of course we have this dome of High Pressure we have the cloak clouds and we also have the folks that this is come pole up into utah pradesh some cold air still stays in place new delhi just 17 on monday maybe want to shout down to the colombo but again a cool day in new delhi at best with a shout out 80. A searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. And the news that were put in place to control it in this country is not good right so if you restrict the rights of licensed gun orders youre not solving the problem of criminality of the piece because these are not the people who are committing the crime. Who are your customers a lot of that has the violence actually. Rewind stray bullets on aljazeera. The 21st century began with extraordinary Economic Growth across much of latin america. But since this halted in 2008 has been a political shift to the right on a continent where socialism on strive to. Achieve land politician goes on a journey to meet leading leftwing ficus to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. Latin america a giant in time oil on aljazeera. Tell you what she had 0 a reminder the top stories this libyas war inside its for greed to help secure a truce in the hoop it will develop into a full cease fire libyan rival groups will next meets in geneva by the end gendron. Chinas corona Virus Outbreak is spreading beyond the city would haunt with the diseases taught to the region exit 139 new cases have been confronted computer 3 in the Capital Beijing and shes in a 3rd person has died from the far east. Africas Richest Woman is facing corruption allegations sneak documents suggest it is about the son tells the daughter of rangoon his former president siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars in government money she says the accusations are groundless. Anger among iraqi use over the lack of reform by their government has again erupted into mass protests in the capital baghdad and the Southern City of najaf protests as blocks major roads setting up barricades and burning ties the demonstrations began in october of a widespread corruption the lack of Public Services well demonstrators are now threatening to step up their protests and cut off large areas in southern iraq unless the government acts such as there is imran khan reports now from. Oh preparations begin for what protesters say will cripple iraqs roads they may be small in number at the moment but these protesters say they will cut off the south of iraq from the rest of the country by blocking all the main roads the reason is simple they say their demands for a new Prime Minister a new elections have been met and if theyre not met by sunday night they will make good on that threat all across the south and the shot or so out of ostend we block the roads and are demanding our rights the rights of young people to get jobs we want rapid elections an independent candidate who doesnt belong to the old parties are going to demand the Central Government go to early elections and nominate a new pm independent and accepted by protesters if not we will escalate and block the highway and all the entrances of the city and kick out the corrupt officials so far iraqs Security Forces are letting the protesters make a stand. And thats in babylon we allow the demonstrators to express their Constitutional Rights but not affect or harm other residents when demonstrators block the roads the Security Forces negotiate with the protesters to find solutions and we become mediators between babylons local governments and the demonstrators. Throughout the south of iraq protesters gather every day in large number but they concerned that theyre not being listened to Prime Minister id love to muddy has said he will step down and hes currently in a caretaker role but so far none of the alternative names put forward for the top job are acceptable to either parliament all the protest movement and thats frustrating the protesters the protest movement faces a decisive moment in the coming days they need to put enough pressure on the government so it meets their demands by threatening to cut off the south or off from the rest of the country is a bold move whether it works remains to be say iraq on aljazeera bob dylan. The bodies of 11 ukrainians who died when irans military shot down a passenger plane this month have been flown to kiev or 176 people on board the Ukrainian Airlines flight were killed in what tehran has called a disastrous mistake catherine stansell has this report. The solemn occasion at airport 11 coffins arrived with the bodies of the ukrainians who died when their flight was shot down by irans military shortly after takeoff the coffins were carried by a time to 18 curses ukraines president flood amused alinsky and other government officials were in attendance relatives of those who died as well as airport staff also paid their respects to build them up on a government that in a book called good loser the captain was a very kind and simple man and he was so easy to be around the flight attendants were very kind and i had a great sense of humor there was nothing bad to say about anyone who died arnie good things. On january the 8th 2 missiles hit the plane moments after it left to irans International Airport the strike came just hours after iran carried out a missile attack on a rocky base housing u. S. Troops in retaliation for the americans assassinating irans top military commander custom salaam. After 3 days of denials and mounting intelligence chatter and finally admitted it had unintentionally shot down the aircraft mistaking it for a hostile plane iran is refusing to send the planes black boxes to kiev denying reports that they had previously agreed to send them to ukraine for analysis the decision has outraged some World Leaders who say iran doesnt have the Necessary Technology to conduct its own proper analysis of the recorders this disaster and that delay in admitting responsibility has led to protests in iran and added to International Pressure on the country to take part in an independent transparent investigation catherine stansell al jazeera. Hundreds of people ignore them instantly have rallied against far right politics ahead of Regional Elections next week the socalled saw dean movement is named after the crowded protests and city squares and their aging voters in the media remind the region to vote against the right Northern League leader match yourself when he is trying to make gains in the area which has traditionally been a stronghold for that. Reason hong kong have arrested a number of people taking part of the prodemocracy protests thousands of people took part in sundays rally which was cut short by violence between protesters and police take us at the crowds the protests have now been going on for 8 months authorities had approved sundays rally on the condition it stayed in one place for protesters to fight that ruling. A china is increasing restrictions on the production and sale of Single Use Plastics plastic carrier bags will be banned in all of chinas major cities by the end of the year and smaller towns by 2022 other items such as plastic utensils will be gradually phased out a new rules are being introduced for the recycling of Plastic Products the United Nations has identified as Single Use Plastics as one of the worlds biggest environmental challenges. An enormous dust storm has swept through parts of the australian state of New South Wales the town of not i mean with more than 400 which which is more than 400 Homes Northwest of sydney was envelops by the huge cloud powerful winds carried the storm at least 100 kilometers swamping towns in its path of thousands of people in the canadian province of newfound lindahl without power off from a massive blizzard hit the region the storm dumped more than 76 centimeters of snow on the provincial capitals and john burying cars and trapping people in their homes local authorities have declared a state of emergency and say the priority is snow removal and clearing the roads to the main hospital every time theres been a mass shooting in the United States a retired a carpenter has traveled to the scene and built a memorial for each victim hes done the same for other victims of gun crime but now greg zionists is drawing a line under a voluntary project thats lasted more than 20 is john hendren has a story from aurora in the state of illinois. Greggs in his traveled one step behind tragedy a harbinger of hope bringing crosses and comfort to americas afflicted. The retired carpenter built his 1st cross after the 1906 murder of his father in law i found him in a pool of blood shot in the head. As a wide make up for anyone anywhere any time and deliberate free and thats how it is. You know a bunch got out then came columbine in a long list of names now synonymous with tragedy the Boston Marathon Virginia Tech newtown parklane El Paso Orlando i went to orlando and everybody was upset why you got to go to the gay nightclub and the churches you mean to say for 50 years ive been going to church and this is where the hate comes from for the suburban chicago cross maker now it all blurs into one an ending wave of rising violence at dayton he collapsed i barely hit midnight you know in there and im hearing about there than others. And. Theres another shooting in. Ohio his nonprofit was called crosses for losses but he also crafted memorials for muslims jews hindus and others he got volunteers and the occasional donation would be but several 1000. 00 in debt. Because how can i not be there for you he made more than 27021000 of the murder victims lost in shootings across the u. S. And in the daily human toll of the streets of chicago here in englewood one of chicagos most dangerous neighborhoods greg xanthus has built a memorial with a cross for each victim of murder in the current year there are hundreds of them and every weekend he brings more for survivors like pam bhansali whose son. Was gunned down outside a Chicago Church in 2006 janice brought a modicum of comfort and made grief that lasts a lifetime for a sail into our life was taken. To take my life twice because the pain is open is happiness so often that. Is becoming common and i think that a lot of people in the community in the back im proud to move became this is a test to me because i think this is the way we suppose in there but its not not normal perhaps but more frequent. Is getting more our nation hair seems like its an adoption in contests you know lets see who can do the most or who were going to brag or going to do the most and i dont have any answers in the days before he prepared to lay down his hammer for good americas cross makers said responding in violence is wake it never been busier John Hendren Al Jazeera aurora illinois. Space x. Has completed the last big test of its crew capsule before it can launch nasa astronauts from u. S. Soil. And there you just saw the trunk just in again. Really loud cheers here in hot springs california this stuff is looking great so far yes the American Aerospace manufacturer mimicked a you dont failure off the florida coast it was testing whether the capsule could separate from a rocket and carry the crew home if something went wrong space that found out you know musk says it was a picture Perfect Mission. And im super fired up this is great you know its really great here anyone who has an adventurous part of the body is going to be very excited about this and i think it will help create a great interest in space well in my wallet as a senior space writer at space dot com and he explains what space x. Will do after this a capsule test. There are only a few more things that what they need to do. That they want to go through all of the data from this test flight just to make sure that it that it was that that things did go according to plan which it certainly seems to get did you know it looked like a picture Perfect Mission but that theyre going to like examine that spacecraft and just make sure nothing weird happened and then that theyre going to do a couple more parachute tests because its its like a nearly revamp that net that parachute system on the crew dragon so that its going to make sure that everything works just just the way it seems to be working well and that were pretty much there the way thats thats why people think i mean sometime this spring is is what nasa said and then also what like you know i must said thats thats for the 1st replied is probably going to take place nasa keeps on saying they dont want to be the only customer for the spacecraft they want to you want to like a bunch of different customers who will take advantage of this service to get up to space and get back down again and its sort of hopes to be that like anchor tenant basically or like the driving force that kind of shows other companies what they can do with this and sort of say well yeah thats lets like start a whole new commercialisation kind of opportunity in space and so yeah i mean maybe were going to see the these sorts of serious craft mean crew dragon and also boeings maybe theyre going to be taking private space tourists up and down i mean maybe theyre going to be doing a lot of other things in the university as well will sort of pay them to like take payloads up there to do experiments and all that mean thats thats the long term vision nasa wants to kind of jumpstart so theyre just hoping that this is the 1st step mullen 70 inmates including members of brazils most powerful guying have escaped from prison in power going through a tunnel the government says prison officials must be aware of the operation as hundreds of bags of earth were uncovered in some cells the prison started to his father along with 6 other prison officials argue as interior minister says the tunnel may just be a ruse to make sure no officials involved the held accountable as many of the inmates want out through the main gate. A plague of locusts has been devastating crops and pastures in the horn of africa threatening Food Security in a region already struggling as warms that has been growing in ethiopia and somalia for 3 months of now crossed into kenya welcome where reports from sumburgh and. Secondly lennys attempts to scare off this womans locusts and almost completely futile hes the chief of a community of herders here in eastern kenya. Throbs until it is finished you are going to want it because once the small small tribes. Kind of come tormes crossed from neighboring somalia and ethiopia in recent weeks its the worst plague of locusts to fact the region in 70 years one locust by itself looks harmless but it can eat its body mass in thailand matter every day if there were swarm of tens or even hundreds of millions can eat tons of food each day and thats devastating for the farmers and herders who live here its dry for most of the year people depend on their animals to survive the animals depend on the plant and the plant being devoured the government started spraying insecticides which it says are harmless to people and livestock. Its released 2000000. 00 to fund the fight against the locusts the uns also contributed. Rym any farms in the neighboring province there the locusts could devastate Food Supplies and the economy the response is meant to stop that but it hasnt been working well we found this warm the day after it had been sprayed this village administrator told us the actions taken so far havent been effective and more must be done weve seen that the big number didnt come to kill very low numbers so i dont think that it will deal with these and it is what doesnt work. And so the locusts keep eating and their population keeps growing but the agriculture minister told us the insecticide is now working and the swarms will soon be stopped he can because im told one or 3 you are wrong i think is the mixing intensity of the. Ingredients thats kewl but that was a problem that has been corrected government is the good. Times of the suppression Scientists Say it was on seasonal rains across the region last month that caused the locust population to boom he watered the plants they eat and theyll soon start to threaten peoples Food Security if their feasting isnt stopped malcolm web aljazeera county kenya. The u. K. s prince harry says hes sad to be cutting most of his royal ties but was left with no other option he was speaking for the 1st time about the decision he made with his wife megan to step away from their role as senior royals the prince says hes hoping for a more peaceful life. Was to consider serving the queen the commonwealth and my military service stations but without public funding unfortunately that wasnt possible id expected this knowing that it doesnt change who i am or how committed i. But i heard that helps you understand what it comes to when i would step my family doc from all i have ever known to stay just stay just step forward is what i heard can be a more peaceful life so ahead in sports. Jumping for gold peter has the action from the wind to use in the bigs and so its a. War room more. Or lets get straight on to the sport his people. Thank you very much a new era at barcelona under coach t. K. City and began with the winning start on sunday the spanish champions going top of league d as well above rivals real madrid city and took charge in the boss the dugout for the 1st time in a home game against granada the no camp a 2nd half goal from the n. L. Messi giving them a one no victory lowballs lost to a 1st title in the English Premier League continues then a 16 points clear at the top there were 2 no winners of a Manchester United at Anfield Virgil van dykes 1st off header and a goal with the final play of the match from. Clinched the victory the liverpool fans believe their 30 year wait to be champions is over but the manager is not celebrating yet. Of course they are allowed to dream to sing whatever they want as long as they do their job as well in a moment when we play out of mind we will not be part of that party yet. But its no problem you know. You ventus of opened up a 4 point lead at the top of it so he said they are 2 goals from christiane or an elder as the champions 121 home to paula you very closest rivals in some 11 slipped up on a visit to make chili on sunday into labor but it finished one movie thanks to this girl the marco man troops. Caught a mcgregor made an emphatic return to the ultimate fighting championship securing his 1st win in more than 3 years then has proven to work for ports it sets up the prospect of a dream rematch for the sport i preparing to enter the octagon it is his biggest ever fighting weight colonel macgregor had promised to put on a show in his 1st fight in 15 months. The former 2 Division Champion moved up to welterweight for the 1st time in his career and wasted no time against american donaldson running i immediately after the 42nd technical knockout when u. Of c. Boss dana white suggested mcgregors next fight should be a rematch against russias lightweight champion hope the new mega medal of call very personal about man and then his team and look it is what it is i make no promises than i was i am who i am and its its not its it is what it is so how babes name is demanding 100000000. 00 before they consider what could well be the biggest pay per view in the u. F. C. As history the 1st fight was marred by controversy before it even began. I hate that mcgregor was arrested in 2018 after throwing a hand caught into a bus full of fighters including the man from dagestan then immediately after the beating the 31 year old have jumped out of the cage seeking retribution for a number of racial and religious slurs in the build up to the fight both fighters were fined and suspended. Im more russian than that and i would love to go to moscow and compete there. It would be like something out of a rocky movie and so id be very eager to do it at this time outside the octagon hasnt gone so well he was fined for punching an elderly man and has denied allegations of sexual assault. After becoming the 1st man to secure knockouts in 3 weight divisions theres little sign there is actions outside the cage or reducing the u. F. C. Is wish to get the most bang for their buck out of the irishman paul vander werth aljazeera Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic goes in search of his 8th melbourne title over the next fortnight as the years 1st in us grand slam event gets underway the warm up to has been boyda by leading serbia to victory at the inaugural a. T. P. Cup shock of each believes hes arriving in a better place for the big tournaments as he enters the letter years of his career. Have completely different life today than i had 5 years ago and and you know on the father of 2 children obviously things are not the way they were 5 or 10 years ago and i am i know that but that doesnt necessarily mean its better or its worse its just different. Former world number one lee westwood secured a rig golfing fees on sunday he won the championship by 2. 00 shots giving the englishman European Tour victories in each of the last 4 decades it was only the 2nd trophy in 6 years and 44th korea tied. Up englands cricketers heading to the final day of the 3rd test in south africa needing just 4 more wickets to take the lead in the series the bowling of captain joe root doing some unlikely damage as the proteas were made to follow on their Port Elizabeth route is very much a part time spinner but she took 4 wickets at south africa close on 102. 00 for 6 in the 2nd innings. 8 gold medals were up for grabs on sunday at the winter youth olympics in less than both the individual titles were decided in the ski jumping austrias marker verger claimed a narrow win the mens event with russian and naver taking gold in the womens competition. And romania have their 1st gold medal of the games that came from 17 year old georgette a pop a school in the womens mana bob they go shaping the famous track at st moritz this discipline is being added to the full Olympic Program at the next winter games in beijing in 2022. Ok more sports news coming up again later well see you then. Thanks very much thats it for the news hour from a night club my colleagues will be right here with more the days news. On a new toy highway to india girls as young as 10 because prostitutes. One of monies travels to the villages where parents underwrites doing the things. On aljazeera. You leave this place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in Central African republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence 10 year olds his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of 23000 people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. 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World powers back a cease fire in libya at the summit in berlin but more shelling out an oil blockade to raise doubts about its credibility. Towards a robin youre watching out 0 life headquarters here in doha also coming up from a virus cases confirmed in the most cities in china including the capital sparking concerns about