tuckey deploys troops and tanks to syria's last rebel stronghold as pro-government forces claim a crucial town. and brazil's government moves to cut back a key antipoverty programs even some families struggling to survive. now the ukraine experts who testified that donald trump's actions were improper has been ousted from his white house job just 2 days after trump was acquitted in his impeachment trial utena connell alexander van when had told the u.s. house that trump put pressure on his ukrainian counterparts to investigate political rival joe biden in bins lawyer is calling his removal an act of revenge by the president hours early a trumpet said he wanted been and gone. well i'm not happy with their customers are they happy with the i'm not they'll make that decision you'll be hearing they'll make a decision while the top democratic senator chuck schumer was quick to respond to the news on to us a he said the pentagon assured me that patriots and whistleblowers like to tell it kind of and then will be protected any reprisals against him while others who came forward to tell the truth are wrong and should be seen for what they are an extension of president trump's cover up well here's a reminder of what the tenant can of been been told the u.s. house last november i was concerned by the call what i heard was inappropriate and i reported my concerns to mr eisenberg it was improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent i was also clear that if you crane pursued an investigation it was also clear that if you create pursued an investigation into the 2016 elections the bidens and it would be interpreted as a partisan play this would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing bipartisan support undermining u.s. national security and inventing russia's strategic objectives in the region let's get more on this from ross and jordan who joins me now from washington d.c. given president tom's tone over the last few days does this come as a surprise. it does not come as a surprise that really the big question was not stasia was it going to happen sooner rather than later there is this reaction of course from lieutenant colonel benjamin's lawyer david process and i'm quoting from part of his statement there is no question in the mind of any american why this man's job is over why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the white house lieutenant colonel vandeman was asked to leave for telling the truth his on or his commitment to write frightened the powerful of course we have all now souls also learned that the lieutenant colonels when brother who is also a lieutenant colonel in the u.s. army and who was working on the national security council as one of its lawyers was also fired on friday afternoon and was escorted at the same time from the white house alongside his brother we understand further that both men will be going back to the pentagon for a short time the brother yevgeny benjamin is going to join the legal team at the pentagon while lieutenant colonel vandeman will spend a couple of months there before he moves on to the u.s. army college in pennsylvania for more education and more research something that is typically done for officers who are considered general officer material roles what kind of reaction have we seen more broadly in d.c. from politicians and from the pentagon. well before this came out the question was raised to the defense secretary marc esper on friday morning and he said that it was the pentagon's policy it was his personal commitment that no reprisals could be taken or would be executed against any member of the military in particular against lieutenant colonel vend been the course there are those in the military community who are now questioning why he was not reassigned from the white house back to the pentagon or to another military installation before this actually happened why there wasn't some sort of emergency plan as you might expect those who support the president are chairing the dismissal of both vent and brothers while top democrats are decrying this action saying that this is simply the president acting in anger and basically that we could expect more of this type of behavior from the u.s. president. there for us in washington d.c. thank you are. staying with u.s. policy and democrats in the united states are trying to move on from the tales and delay surrounding the iowa caucus results with the new hampshire primary coming up on tuesday now the 7 leading candidates will go head to head in a debate just in the coming hours opinion polls in new hampshire people just as closing in on bunny sound is 38 year old bush is as has been bolted from being america small cities apparently finishing marginally ahead of sunday's in the iowa caucus the military that where the centrist platform is the fast openly gay candidate to start off on a high note in the primaries it has been an extraordinary week and we are absolutely electrified by the energy that we are coming here with and by the extraordinary validation of this campaign vision that we had in iowa on monday i'm also mindful and humbled. by the fact that new hampshire is new hampshire. and new hampshire is not the kind of place to let iowa or anybody else tell you what to do. bernie sanders was only 0 point one percent behind in iowa the 78 year old has strong grassroots support from the left and he's attacked rivals from taking support from wealthy donors and i'm reading some headlines from newspapers about the. most exclusive billionaire donors of any democrat let's let was from forbes the hill. tops billionaire donor list well elizabeth warren who is also from the left of the party finished 3rd in iowa she's been struggling to shake off criticism about how to fund her medicare for all plan and also seeking to recover from the slump is former vice president joe biden who finished 4th in iowa but he's seen by many senior democrats as the person who could beat donald trump in november well let's speak now to john netanya he's a democratic strategist and a former communications director at the democratic national committee and he now joins us live from washington d.c. john thanks for joining us this evening you were just to shape messaging florida here the d.n.c. talk us through what kind of tone and dynamics we could see on stage tonight especially after the debacle that was iowa. yeah it's a it's a great question i think pete and bernie came out of iowa essentially tied and so now it's there's there's all sorts of incentives for them to be attacking one another i think what the the party in the country would like to see or at least not all the country but democrats would like to see is them making their case to be the one to take on donald trump and what you've seen is that the democratic primary electorate the voters aren't sure who is the person who can take on donald trump even as he becomes administrator becomes more and more menacing in the wake of the impeachment acquittal so john has this conversation then shifted from policy and ideology to electability and if that is the case then is it is it such a biden finishing 4th because that's his whole campaign platform it's not over for joe biden i think by a long shot i think this is still anyone's race at least among the top 4 or so contenders we haven't yet seen a state vote that has a large african-american population that goes for both iowa and new hampshire are predominantly white which is not what the democratic party or the general election electorate looks like in the u.s. and we know that joe biden for instance has a lot of strength in that community too so it's still a very wide open race whether it will be less about ideology i don't know i think there's a there's a lot of reason for these candidates to throw some elbows i'm just hoping they don't forget to throw some of donald trump well talk us through the different styles of campaigning we've been seeing so if i see that song doesn't warren have been focusing on some of the biggest cities but people this is has been going everywhere shaking hands is that why he's ahead. you know he has camped out in iowa he made a decision early on that that was going to be where he was going to make his move and make his mark and it worked out beautifully for him coming in you know again tied or winning depending on how you do the count there the question is how long does that momentum last so now he goes to new hampshire he is getting a boost from iowa despite what he said in the clip there that you know new hampshire people don't let iowans make their decisions for them that sort of flattery will get him places in new hampshire and i expect that he'll do well there the question is when he then runs into the 2 following states which are more diverse 1st south carolina and nevada as well whether he's going to be able to sustain this momentum and whether it will carry over at that point john there's been so much talk of iowa or new hampshire can you explain trans national audience just how significant they are and how much damage has this now said i would actually for the democratic party itself. it's a great question usually the night of the iowa caucus caucuses there is one clear victor and they give a great inspiring speech i think back to barack obama in 2008 and it really sends the message across the country that we have our candidate or where we were not sure yet we have at least one very strong candidate that you should seriously think about as your possible next president and we didn't really have that in iowa because there were some glitches and delays and so there was no big iconic speech coming out of iowa so we'll see what happens what happens next the way this works is you do iowa and the new hampshire which have traditionally for a long time been the 1st 2 states to go what happened a few years ago in response to complaints about how overwhelmingly white those states were with too few for their states were added just afterwards south carolina with a large black population nevada with a diverse population including more latino voters and then you have these 4 states and then there's what's called super tuesday where lots of states vote including a very large states i imagine the penny on what we see over the next couple of states i think super tuesday and victory night on super tuesday if someone has a clear lead by then that's when we'll begin to get a sense of who's going to be running against john correct me if i'm wrong had that it's my understanding that no candidates has ever well if you win iowa and if you win new hampshire you then become the nominee you know not necessarily and that or that that no one has won but if the not become the nominee is that right. i believe that is correct i also believe though that all bets are off that there are there are lots of streaks like that have been broken over the last couple of cycles and i would not be surprised to see some new rules written this time around either well speaking of unpredictable how has thomas impeachment affected this race and several of the candidates particularly in iowa spending time sitting in the senate and off the campaign trail has that changed things yeah yeah yeah that certainly did change the dynamic to have them so front and center in that impeachment process i think for the most part democrats are going to be glad to have the impeachment process behind them because talking about phone calls to ukraine doesn't really change anybody's opinion doll trump and it doesn't really change anybody's vote preference for the fall it doesn't tell people what democrats can do for people should they be put back into power back into the white house so i think democrats are happy to have this behind them to some degree but what we've seen from donald trump this week as we were saying just a couple of minutes ago he is now he's been behaving lawlessly arguably for quite some time but i think we are likely to see a whole different level of the addictiveness cheating i'm not even sure i want to imagine what comes next after united states senate basically votes him a license to commit to break the law and so i think this is going to be an election year potentially unlike any we've seen this country for a long time well speaking of unlike anything we've seen in this country i i do also want to ask you about someone who won't be on stage this evening michael bring him back as he has now doubled his campaign's ending he's even got trump's former naval secretary out stumping for him what are the chances that he get a nomination. i think they're rising i don't i'd i would not count him out at all i think again that a number one thing that people want to see there are all kinds of reasons that all kinds of constituencies within the democratic party would object to mike bloomberg but the a number one overriding issue is someone who can be donald trump and not too far down the list is somebody who would be able to tackle climate change and i think that both of those potentially there's a case for mike bloomberg to be made to make there so i would expect to see him in the mix for the next for the next few states at least and john leslie i do want to take on our top story this evening the firing of alexander then then and the house to continue investigating trying to say things are going to be completely unpredictable that how might all of that play out in this election. i i think the house feels obligated because they couldn't call witnesses because they couldn't make their case to continue to hold accountable both around the ukraine story which donald trump never really stops rudy giuliani is still over in ukraine trying to dig up dirt over there so i think that will be an ongoing thing i think with the senate vote in the rearview mirror i think that becomes less of a page one story and more of an ongoing kind of kind of issue but the thing again that concerns me most is i don't think it's just going to be a couple of firings here and there a spiteful move i expect to see some serious policy changes and some really worrisome things from this this president i think democracy here is in some serious peril john messenger there a democratic strategist who is joining us live from d.c. thank you very much for being with us on out there. now plenty more ahead here on this news hour including why botswana is lifting a ban on the home to elephants. and then sport the former pakistan cricket a who's been sentenced to jail for spot fixing things as that story. now china's government is struggling to stop the spread of the coronavirus with one more people reported dead and a province of lies now across china at least $717.00 people have now died and the world health organization is warning of a severe disruption to global medical supplies there's also widespread anger over the death of a doctor who fast sounded the alarm on the outbreak back in december a general reports from hong kong these are some of the last poignant images of li one a doctor who was punished for daring to tell the truth now he's died from the virus very 1st warned colleagues about late last year. to maybe he'll be remembered as a chinese here. or there should return the soldier i deeply regrets is due you can feel sincerely sorry for him we need to see if the influence of his death can wake up anything and i hope he did not die in flying your heard you hear he left us when we needed him to fight the virus and he was a victim of the virus too he was unfairly criticized because of his work so we feel very sad and regretful. assault action for he showed a responsible attitude toward society and he is honest and faithful so i think the whole society should reflect on those. on social media the grief and outrage is more profound is it that hard for the government to admit it's wrong a doctor had to die twice that's a national humiliation and the eyes of the people are clear his death is the top trending topic on china's micro-blogging site way though one of the most popular hashtags before being deleted was we want freedom of speech lee had been in the front line of this crisis falling sick from the virus while treating patients his death was confirmed on the website of one hospital on friday morning leader after all rescue efforts said the statement we express our deep condolence as did an official from china's national health commission and now he's in the national your national health commission extends our sincere condolences and respect to the family and wife of dr lee when young we know that for medical workers on the frontline they sacrifice their own family life to contribute to this battle against a virus the society needs to care more about our medical workers. in december leader had sought to share information about his concerns only to be investigated by police who accused him of spreading rumors lee's passing highlights the huge risks taken by front line doctors and nurses to treat patients a situation made worse by overcrowded hospitals and an acute shortage of beds the government appears to be listening it's dispatched a team of anticorruption investigators to its words listen to the concerns of the public and in china today there's no shortage of people with opinions about the doctor and the way he was treated. the virus is spread across china with cases also emerging in 2 dozen countries 2 cruise ships carrying thousands of holidaymakers have been placed under quarantine in hong kong and japan as doctors test all on board for infection and another ship currently in the south china sea has been refused entry by japan south korea and the philippines. in china the growing public outrage will worry their leadership as it threatens to create what they fear most social unrest adrian brown al jazeera hong kong all foreign ministers from the asking him have been missing for a 2nd day to discuss their response to the crown a virus hundreds of suspected infections have now been reported across the continent and as mohammed reports from the ethiopian capital there are also concerns of the people trapped in china. adonis is a mother in distress her 21 year old son is stuck in the chinese city. along with 200 other ethiopian students there they've been confined to their halls of residence under the current team for weeks emergency measures aimed at preventing further infections of the coronavirus that are. well i'm very worried about his situation right now it's not only the disease but also access to food it's very difficult they're sharing a bottle of water for 2 they're in a very difficult situation she is having a hard time communicating with her son when he did get in contact he sounded tired and dejectedly. the families of the stranded students are appealing to the ethiopian government to repatriate them as soon as possible if you open government hasn't banned flights from china but has stepped up prevention measures at airports and medical centers up to 50000 chinese live and work in ethiopia and if you open lines operates daily and weekly flights to 5 destinations in china fellas just us are at we found 40 suspected cases of corona virus based on the criteria of the w.h.o. 8 of them were found negative we're still waiting for test results regarding the other 6 including one chinese national. similar measures are being taken in other countries too we've set up what we called it a few. clothes food clothing not very very stupendous and response which brings old member states together and we called it dead loosely we do we're going to solution in several areas of words in the areas of. india in homes airport surveillance and control in the areas of infection control and even as a kid and she'd been for. with the continent considered from mobile to the spread of the epidemic doctors are racing to raise the level of readiness to cope and disease i disavow. all medical stuff and the net has been striking to demand more government support during the outbreak the sus deaths from the virus outside of china was in the philippines and there are now also at least 3 more confound cases to melinda and has been speaking to protesters we're outside one of the government hospitals here in manila where health workers are picketing demanding better transparency from the philippine government they say they have been frustrated with the government's response towards this outbreak and they're hoping for a better compensation and better protection slashing of the national budget of many health research and monitoring facilities and services actually is worsening the situation they hope that the government will react fast because time is of the essence they also remain committed to their cause and they will continue their work a call on the government for more support for better protection compensation and better equipment in many government facilities across the country. moving on now and turkish vehicles and tanks have entered the province in northwestern syria the last rebel held region it's in response to an advance by syrian government forces and could pave the way for them to stage an offensive on the province as capital but as that and also earlier reports turkey is determined to stop the. syrian government forces in the suburbs of surat camp hours before distributed town well after fierce fighting with the syrian rebel defenders. so rocket sits at the junction of 2 major highways and was seen as a major obstacle in regaining control of the province one 3rd of which is now under syrian government control. turkey has warned prague the mask has forces to backoff . unfortunately the syrian regime does not believe in political process and thinks peace can only be possible by a military solution and i have to say they are wrong about this they have stepped up their aggression turkey has 12 military observation posts positioned around the globe the escalation zone agreed with russia and iran in 2017 but 9 of them have been surrounded by advancing syrian government forces to protect and stop the advance troop yes stablished for more post which ended up in direct clashes between the turkish and syrian army's solve it a little issue with our focus on the missed you know cultural get tax responded to within the scope of such offense from now on any kind of attack will be responded to appropriately and our observation post will continue their duties. the syrian government has intensified its attacks since last november and backed by russia has targeted civilians this triggered a new wave of migration with hundreds of thousands of people flee the violence in the 9 year long civil war in syria that was where the displaced could find refuge but it looks at the center is now under threat as the syrian government forces captured ceroc and just 7 kilometers away. al-jazeera bubble howa northwestern syria. israeli forces have shot another palestinian dead in the occupied west bank the sis in 48 hours a funeral procession has been held for one of the victims a palestinian policeman killed in jenin on thursday he was in uniform at the station when he was killed during raids by israeli forces they were seizing c.c.t.v. footage related to a car ramming. cinesias president has fired his country's ambassador to the united nations the removal of the career diplomat came as a surprise to some within the security council and it appears that the palestinian issue is the reason for his dismissal diplomatic editor james days has more from the u.n. . mon's surf barty came out of retirement to take up the job of u.n. ambassador to coincide with his country's 2 year term on the security council but now he's been fired on the orders of the country's president. and the reason is the issue of palestine which perhaps seems odd because it's one of the country's main stated priorities as ambassador but he himself made clear the beginning of the year going to start to who will be the voice of the arab world in the african continent and will push for the settlement of just causes particularly the palestinian cause when the trump plan for the middle east was made public just over a week ago the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. riyadh man saw told reporters that president mahmoud abbas was becoming to new york as ambassador barty stood by his side he explained that tunisia as the arab member of the security council would draw up a resolution rejecting the trump plan i'm told ambassador bartie was told news of his firing shortly before jared cushion i held a lunch with members of the security council the tunisians were represented by their deputy ambassador other council members including the current president were taken by surprise by the news and say oh it's quite shocked to hear that you know i don't know all the details. and the reasons behind this but the eva is a very good colleague and really very much regret to see him leaving. so why has this veteran diplomat been fired the foreign ministry in chu news says he has been dismissed for purely professional reasons concerning his weak performance and lack of coordination with the ministry all important matters under discussion at the u.n. but that might not be the whole story i've spoken to diplomats from a number of security council countries who told me they've heard that jared pushed the himself coltrane is u.s. president before the ambassador was dismissed one source says the question the call was to the prime minister not the president the white house is not confirming there was a call at all one u.s. official says the tunisians told them that the ambassador was dismissed because he'd gone road james pays out jazeera at the united nations iraq's most powerful shia cleric has called for security forces to protect anti-government protesters grand ayatollah ali al sistani is intervention follows weeks of violence in baghdad and southern iraq iraq's human rights commission says nearly 550 iraqis have been killed since the protests began in october well still ahead on al-jazeera the british one and former i saw member facing an uncertain future after a decision by british courts. i'll tell you about the biggest issue for irish faces unfastening snap election. and a big upset and i am here soccer and japan's fed cup tie with spain he said as they stepped out. ok so far as another worst is now over this is a very active nasty frontal system on its way out in the western atlantic it caused a lot of damage is just one example in north carolina of what looks like on the straight line more straight line wind or toileted i was probably straight line wind but this happened all the way from tennessee down towards texas so the full cost $2.00 shows residual showers now but the weather's an awful lot quieter it's not warm to under that minus 6 in the opposite minus 6 in the still snow coming in from washington through into wyoming in idaho static stream but it's still the proper winter really for the size and things are slowly warming up atlanta 12 new orleans but 19 degrees now that was saturday this is sunday that's creepy cross the plain states towards chicago you'll notice temperatures stray but there we stay folding once again let's jump south now that frontal system of course the damage in the southeast corner of the u.s. is this one here as it goes through its tail end will have some effect in the bahamas it will bring a few showers also drop the temperatures it goes ahead violence down to 24 degrees and the blue the showers reach cancun as well but a chance to try and rise on sunday in havana but not so you'll notice has dropped by this time to only 23. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wiping out the politics of climate change informed opinion the economy i think is actually what's keeping damo trouble float right now critical debate sequel on those 2 schoolchildren don't want the noise on 'd the boat aside human is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens west henri's of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stark reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evict and on al-jazeera. rule already. again. a reminder of our top stories this hour a key witness and president on a thompson pietschmann trial has been ousted from his white house job 10 camel alexander vin men have told the u.s. house to trump put pressure on his ukrainian counterpart to investigate political rival joe biden. and u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls will soon go head to head in a debate ahead of the next critical test the new hampshire primary on tuesday opinion polls closing in on that it's. in china's government is struggling to stop the spread of the coronavirus with $81.00 more people reported dead and a province overnight that takes the death toll across china to at least $770.00. now a 20 year old british woman who joined by still has lost the fest stage of her appeal against the u.k. government to discuss the u.k. government's decision to strip her of citizenship sima bag and was found in a syrian refugee camp last year she was 15 when she left the u.k. 5 years ago international norm makes it illegal to take away citizenship if it leaves a person stateless but a tribunal ruled that vegans bangladeshi heritage means she can time there for citizenship and the heywood has more on the case and what the next move could be. it's 5 years ago this month since mima begum along with 2 of her friends disappeared from east london police appealed for their safe return but the girls had travelled from london into turkey and then into racker in northern syria where they lived under eisel rule now nothing was heard of shamima begum until she was spotted inside a refugee camp early last year now within weeks the then home secretary sajid javid 100 boat citizenship now her lawyers argue that that was unlawful because it rendered her state less but a decision today by a special tribunal set up to look into the shimmy my begum case said that was simply not true because she is a citizen of bangladesh by descent through her mother welsh mima bacon's lawyers have said they will appeal against this decision and this is really just the 1st stage of the process it could even end up in the supreme court the u.k.'s highest court and this case really does shine a light on the difficulties governments now are facing and dealing with those individuals who left the country to travel to syria to support i saw who now want to return. taciturn is regional leader wants the spanish government to agree on a date for independence referendum jim torah says the polls towards the reasons the session is absolute air of us a bill and catalonia will be independent he met spanish prime minister petra sanchez on thursday sanchez rejects any push for independence but has agreed to hold talks with catalonia leaders to determine the future of the region. i believe that the people of catalonia never felt bad they have realised this process has been a foul and a sacrifice is needed in order to preach independence and this is not about pressing a button it's persistence willingness to sacrifice we have had enormous evidence of people and their families sacrifices to achieve this goal of freedom i believe that peace has really wise in the pro independent sector and therefore i trust that the independence of catalonia is absolutely. now polls open in the republic of ireland's general election in a matter of hours and was more than wholesome 1000000 people waiting for medical services access to public health care has been a top concern many viruses the reports from. around kook city political posters gazed down from the lampposts but it's islands health care crisis which the voters want the politicians to look at you know when. a woman had to bring in pillows but during apollo. if you have private insurance if it's point it's no problem for the ordinary man in the street it's not good to see people waiting on trolleys proracing hours dr sarah fitz given has worked in a deprived area of north korea for the past 15 years her dedication is self-evident and so are her frustrations. so a child presenting today with mental health issues that i feel require a specialist intervention if i put them on a waiting list they might be seen in 4 years time which is just that's not a service in 2014 only 359000 patients were on the public waiting list to see a consultant by 2017 the number had risen above half a 1000000 for the 1st time and in 2019 it had grown to more than 553000. it's time to tackle those relentless increases in the waiting lists the irish government is throwing millions every year of public money into buying private health care in 2019 it was the equivalent of 82000000 dollars and this year it's going to be closer to $110000000.00 and still the waiting lists go up having private health insurance meant that when john wall was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2017 prompt treatment helped extend his life in the time he has left he's advocating urgent reform frontline staff to their absolute to do whatever they can given the resources that they have but that's the problem they don't have enough resources they don't have enough beds they don't have enough staff and the resources that are being allocated is basically telling good money after bad a universal health proposal called slow has been suggested but the different political parties have very different ideas of what to prioritize and how to implement it so really what's important here is the population they're going to poach in the next on saturday are really looking for change and it's a change in culture to actually be citizen centered and to put the politics aside to ensure that everybody can have safe timely access to health care it was the threat of a no confidence vote in health minister simon harris which forced the irish tea should be over at good to call this election faced with a combination of public anger and the sense that no one was accepting responsibility on saturday in the polling booths the voters will hold the politicians to account for brennan al-jazeera limerick. french president among your background has called on his european counterparts to discuss the role that france's nuclear arsenal could play in the continent's security seeking a surge in european defense spending and says that french nuclear weapons as a deterrent against enemy attacks has previously called on his european allies to stop relying on nato and the united states for defense or malawi's electoral commission has asked a court to suspend its an element of last year's presidential election results now that's all for president peace and an appeal against the constitutional court ruling saying that the findings were grossly biased against him earlier in the week the court had ordered new elections within $150.00 days sizing widespread voting irregularities. in the capital a long way with more on why the electoral commission and the constitutional court are at odds malawi's electoral commission wants the supreme court to overturn a ruling made by the constitutional court to a now last year's election and they've cited a number of reasons they say 1st of all a prominent banker has been accused of allegedly trying to bribe some of the judges they also say that the constitutional court cannot tell parliament to make sure that in the next election the winner must get more than 50 percent of the vote they say that's a case of the judiciary trying to interfere with the legislature an issue of separation of powers president peter garrett is also going to appeal he says the judge made by the constitutional court is a miscarriage of justice they are fears that all these appeals in the courts could delay the fees that could be violence if that happens authorization parties and human rights activists say they're planning protests if elections are delayed they also want the head of the commission to an answer to resign or to be removed and this day they've given until friday next week to step down or there will be nationwide demonstrations. now brazil's right wing government has been slowing down the flagship anti-poverty program bolsa familia known spy former president lula da silva the number of beneficiaries and family is a message that if it has been drastically cut and that's meant a huge waiting list and a struggle to survive start home has more from rio de janeiro. at the end of the road outside of real degeneres. gaging in a weary daily struggle to make up for a laugh today we had nothing to eat i had to go away to ask a women to help us we had no fit yesterday a pastor and my husband asked some fishermen nearby to get him something from their catch until 3 months ago they received cash from the government the program's coo bolsa for media the family bag it was only about $40.00 a month but it helped keep them afloat now for them and about a 1000000 other brazilians that benefits been stopped the number of families newly admitted to the program has plummeted to a fraction of those accepted before it's meant ballooning waiting list of hof a 1000000 people sell it 58 an unemployed is among them she says she's been given the runaround since she tried to join up last to guest no thank you they say the authorities don't care they push me from one place to another like a pingpong ball. both of them is help millions of brazilians it's the government's flagship anti-poverty program but it's been having problems 35 years now and this is just the latest setback it started when the leftist thing government stopped adjusting payouts to keep up with inflation now the current administration has again hit what was a successful and cheap and the poverty to their very important at the same time you know reached about what one quarter of the of the brazilian population the very very poor is very well parg and the money goes to women go through children with conditionalities and costs very little so the cost of going to point 4 percent of the g.d.p. so you basically brazil did a sort of fiscal adjustment on the poor fritz recipients not just present survival but futures and now one whole. book amish feel my children have big dreams the eldest wants to join the army he was training and trying it for a football club but we had to throw him we couldn't afford his transport. the government says it's just real denies him to improve the program million's a way to join home and out to see the real degenerate of our peers he came as a seeing a fellow at the into american dialogue that's a think tank focusing on western hemisphere and he says the program is a successful one that doesn't really cost much. the government is. facing a terrible economic problem now they're struggling to recover from one of the worst periods in brazilian history in terms of economic advance and they're cutting spending. and of course this is a place that. the people are not very powerful they don't have powerful lobbies and it's easy to get away with here it's a big mistake it's almost i would call something of a criminal act to take away the small amount of support these people have and frankly it doesn't say very much but it's sort of an easy branch to cut this terrible lack of i mean people who depended on you know $50.00 a month 100 dollars a month to sort of fill out their budget. now or sort of. just cut off with no good reason for doing so except save a very modest amount of money this is really a flagship program that has had tremendous success and it's been imitated in countries around the world and it seems to work not only provides money that essential for these families but also gives an opportunity for them to get their kids into schools gives them an opportunity to get. adequate health services pakistan's parliament has passed a resolution calling for the public hanging as convicted child killers and rapists and there's a follows a space of high profile child sex abuse cases that have put spot widespread protests human rights groups have been quick to condemn the non-binding law but as kamal hyder explains it has a loss of domestic support. buggers guns polymer and proved a barrier which will carry their death penalty for child rape is and. will be carried out publicly there has been a stronger mind from people across bargain stand that there should be exemplary punishments for such heinous crimes there has been a rightly number of cases in this country last year alone there were all 4 tolerant cases that were reported and that means almost 11 children per day the pakistani parliament supporting guard bellbird a majority ward because of the growing demand from the people here their day should be very strong sententious against such crimes in order to curtail day however their city international may be critical but people across bloggers don't say that this is the only way forward india's prime minister says his government will continue to press for peace and the country's northeast render modi addressed crowds in the state of it's his 1st trip to that area since his government passed a controversial citizenship law which sparked widespread protests people in a somewhat shares a border with bangladesh say the measure would open the region to a flood of foreign migrants but modi has sought to allay those fast yet he found that. there are forces which are using the full energy and spreading rumors into some of the northeast region they say that with the citizenship have been built right people from outside the country will come and settle in the states i assure the people of the that nothing of the sort will happen. india correspondent elizabeth purana has monitoring that visit from the capital new delhi. he spoke for a long time and he was there in a place called border land and autonomous territory off to signing a peace accord with the tribal group the bodos now critics have said that this was a hastily signed accord because the government needs the political support of the borders as it faces opposition elsewhere in ass over the citizenship door and whereas protests around the country elsewhere and india have been by people who say that the rule discriminates against muslims the protests from the movies to states like a for a different reason the northeastern states have the largest number of migrants. they share a border and people there who are an ethnic minority in india feel that they will become a minority in their own state so the prime minister was talking celebration this peace accord signed with the borders and the only thing that he said very briefly about the citizenship law was that the people of need don't worry it's not going to lead to an influx of what he called outsiders but he's talking to people on the border of people who aren't affected by the northern territories that they live in the tribal territories protected and he is not planning on going to any of the parts of. that have seen protests now but has held an auction for the rights to hunt elephants for the 1st time since lifting a ban last year 7 hunting packages were auctioned in the capital gaborone each package into the right to hunt and kill 10 elephants the government says commercial hunting will bring in income but conservationists say it could encourage perching audrey del sink is the wildlife director of humane society international africa and she says there are multiple measures that could be taken other than trophy hunting . there's so much. stigma attached to elephant carrying capacity which is which is an absolute number and as we know ecosystems do not with lack that they have they would have been a balance of apes and flows so they are natural processes such as drops that will reduce elephant population numbers and we certainly seen that in some parts of africa. they are other nations. you know reducing our official water holes by forcing elephants to new to different areas and just affecting the way in which they utilise the landscape so those are more effective long 2 measures. trophy hunting will certainly not make again in the overall numbers what it will do is make a dent in the number of breeding material bulls and certainly in those pools and of trophy quality of which i must point out the lost so so if you lift across africa and this will actually cause much more of a significant impact we know that if the numbers are estimated to be about $115000.00 which seems to sound like a fair number but thinking that they were more than a 1000000 in the early 1970 so i think suffice to say that if i'm poaching is taking about 25 to 30000 elephants a year already population and the sox are in significant decline and so we need to move away from the regional approach and look at look at a continental level. well still ahead on al-jazeera islands look to their caps and inspiration and rugby's 6 nations has more on that crash wales. announce times of sport. thank you very much former pakistan cricket. has been sentenced to 17 months in prison by a u.k. court for his policy in a spot fixing scandal. the 30 year old added method along with 2 other defendants to conspiring to bribe fellow players in a t 20 match in dubai in february 27th seen batsmen were asked to avoid scoring runs from susan balls in return for money jumpsuit has already been banned from cricket for 10 years by the pakistan cricket board. it was a good day on the field for pakistan's current cricket team on the opening day of one of test and roll pindi bangladesh were bowled out for $233.00 shaheen afridi with a 5 wicket haul for the hosts muhammad was the only man to go past the half century for the tourists he contributed a knock of 63. but also known as coach k. city and insists they are heading in the right direction despite a shock exit in the spanish cup and a cloud over the future of star player in the n.l. messi the build up to thursday's defeat at athletic bilbao was preceded by a public spat between messi and boss of sporting director eric b. dull mrs contract does allow him to leave at the end of the season for free but one of his former coaches pep guardiola does not think he will move away from the no cap player commercial no humanist. that is my wish. same person and i'm not going to talk about the players for the club. but as someone knows him well not been asked about signing him i'm going to ask you where you think he might play for another european side ever or whether that's just past alone i think he's going to finish his career. israel folau is controversial return to rugby league has been delayed he has been left out of the catalan dragons squad for sunday's season opening match at wakefield the french club did not say why but flowers fitness was in question it has been 8 months since he was sacked by australia's rugby union for posting homophobic comments on social media defending 6 nations champions wales face a student taste of their title credentials in the 2nd round of matches the grand slam wins take on ireland in dublin on saturday coming in who's it's a great place to complain. play rugby in a tournament game in particular when we had a. mixed bag over recent years a few friendlies will match whatever we call them but tonight here it's louis who to trust you know in the international stage so you know hopefully will be on the front foot or as for ireland well they labored it's a victory against scotland in their opening match of the championship last weekend the team were hoping to give their fans a more inspiring performance this time around at the of the stadium we would have big moments in the game they get the crowd up for it and get them in on us. the way the game started last week scott in the probably on the ascendancy from from the 1st sort of 56 minutes. so if you can flip better on this weekend and get up this figure and scotland welcome their old rivals england some murrayfield in edinburgh on saturday in their 1st home game of the tournaments they are looking to retain the cull cuts a cup for a 3rd season in a row we can't stand back and admire england for too long they have got some cracking individual players call it say it. or not and i will cup final 4 for mufon . world class team is going to take us to be our best but if you lay him out to come over there is i want. as for england who they are still smarting from their opening day defeat of france in paris and the team are all ready for the reception they'll receive from the scottish crowd booed off the bus and stuff and seeing the reaction of the scottish players when they won and seeing the crowd and how much it means that one appears. is definitely something to acknowledge and it's definitely you can't really ignore the pressure on us as loud as murrayfield is one of tennis's greatest rivalries produced a record breaking occasion in south africa on friday roger federer and rafael nadal took part in a one off charity event in cape town watched 550000 fans phèdre one in 3 sets elsewhere in the faded cup there was an embarrassing defeat for naomi a shocker on friday former world number one ross toward number 78 song or so readers told mo in japan's qualifying time with spain losing 663 spain lead the tie to no after the opening day singles ok more sports news later we'll see you ben . hello reminded too that you can find lots more on our website including all the latest on the cried a virus outbreak that's al-jazeera dot com. well it's also it for me in the stars you have listeners out that i'll be back in just a minute don't go away. please. from passion into transformative science that brings about change cultures here it goes on a journey with 5 scientists who are determined to use scientific knowledge to serve the humankind and we have dolphins in our sanctuary we can monitor them and before their mobile the photos and behavior were able to figure out how they're adapting to their new environment women make science coming soon on al-jazeera. big storms generated thousands of headlines maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things going to really bring relief. and money in the war to even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the judgments and the set was clear and sounds to me and here people just think that we've the listening post on al-jazeera. talk to al-jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption around the current what we listen so if you really put place china's enemy a couple more years and that's really bad we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter although just 0 there is no child coverage worldviews like we just live in now because like nothing ever. comes up but we want to know how the things that people do read it places and stay even when there are no national headlines. al-jazeera really invest the fact that a privilege as a journalist. 2 days after his acquittal and donald trump fires 2 officials who testified against him in the impeachment hearings. and i guess i missed the a tale and this is al jazeera live from also coming out people closes in on bernie sanders as 7 democratic contenders face off in a debate in new hampshire ahead of tuesday's primary. china struggles to contain the coronavirus of the number of people dying continues to climb and almost 3000 more cases on the person's. turkey deploys troops and tanks to syria's last rebel stronghold as pro-government forces claim a concealed.