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And fighting back how a popular tourist spot is leading the way for the rest of indonesia plastic. Coming up in sports well see whats next for much city as they take their punishment for breaking financial fair play rules to sports courts of appeal. To you a Led Coalition has confirms one of its warplanes has gone down and al jawf government in northeast yemen if you rebels say they shot down the role Saudi Air Force plane on friday with the media also said at least 30 civilians were killed in Coalition Air strikes in the same region lets cross our correspondent mohammed ali in that mohammed tell us more about what we know so far. Yes. As we have received this news that the saudi arabia admitted that the it has downed fighter jet while the. Have a confirmed of they have shut it down where we couldnt confirm but. The reality we have a fighter jet is down and after the fighter jet was. Crushed or downed by the hope these where the saudi or fighters just havent inspired in their areas try and and the region from us law especially in their hey joe fall drove these strikes according to host these sources have claimed the lives of. Civilians many more are injured in these. Kinds of attacks on the civilian areas missed most of the people when there are there is something happening the yemeni people need and usually get together to the place where the seer the world where the. Incident has taken place this is one of the well this is one of the strange things about the minis the this this has resulted to the high mortality death among the civilians and also there are reports that the fight or just have targeted a village near a nearby the records of the war plane the saudi a saudi war plane is now the 1st one to be downed in previous time the whole of his claimed also in 2800 that they have downed another tornado. Thanks very much indeed im happy to take this on we can speak tomorrow and bashara who is out there a senior political analyst joins us from london now and the saudis saying the plane went down saying they shot it down if they did sort of shoot it down how significant is that. Very significant and then of a day if if the hoa fees. If they were to have such a kept the capability of missiles batteries or. Land to air capacity against the Saudi Air Force that would be quite the disability thing to the saudis and that will actually be a game changer in yemen clearly. If all the reports prove correct the saudis are so upset in fact from such an upset by the yemenis that what you saw after that are basically revenge attacks basically losing their minds if you were because of the loss the fear incurred and this is a difficult thing this has been going on for 5 years now and clearly the saudis are not winning and clearly this sort of incident means that they are losing and this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left and now the saudis are in there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in cable for winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war right now is that the game changer in yemen as you say if they do have this ability to shoot down saudi jets and how how might this affect how things pan out as the months in the in the years go. Well certainly things are not biting out wedded for them certainly now and not only on the military and strategic level but also on the political of because the agreement that they reached in the south and it is still less than 100. 00 days and clearly its not holding out and clearly the situation is blowing up imploding in their faces and their prestige even in the south where theyre supposed to have some kind of a stronghold reaching an agreement that cannot be implemented and that the various the yemeni parties now are walking back a lot of the commitments mean that for saudi arabia neither the political nor the military is what cannot that there are lies that basically abandoning then the United States europe on others are putting a lot of pressure on saudi arabia or knowing all too aware that this is becoming one of the huge crimes of the 21st century in fact as we all know the secular general has been repeating the idea that yemen has become one of the greatest humanitarian. Disasters if you will and so on and all of this has been a net loss both in digital mysie in strategy and certainly politically for the saudis in yemen malling thanks very much indeed for that perspective a moment shara the u. S. Defense secretary is calling china the biggest threat to the global order speaking at the Munich Security Conference a short while ago mark esper accuse the Chinese Government of seeking advantage across the world by any means and then cost and he again urged European Countries to stay away from chinese tech giant while away at the being rebuffed by european allies under president shes ruled the Chinese Communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture. It is essential that we as an International Community wake up to the challenges presented by chinas manipulation of the longstanding International Rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades when it turned out from jenna hall who has more from the conference in munich. Well the worlds 2 most powerful nations squared off against one another here in munich 1st the United States secretary of state mike crapo and defense secretary marc esper giving notice firing the starting gun essentially on what could be a new era of u. S. Defense and foreign policy. China as enemy number one the pentagons top priority said mark s. But because of its more aggressive military posturing in the region its trade economic and territorial ambitions further afield he said we do not want a conflict with china we want china to play by the rules abide by International Norms in short we want china to behave and making the point in no Uncertain Terms that the u. S. Expects its allies to view things likewise noting in particular Chinese Telecom giant huawei some european allies the u. K. In particular in talks with huawei to help build their 5 g. Networks where the u. S. Of course sees huawei as a trojan horse for chinese intelligence well it wasnt long before china had the opposite opportunity here to respond when ye the foreign minister saying china will not follow the western model and seek a germany in the world but rather choose a policy of Peaceful Development working for shared prosperity and he had this very pointed response to those u. S. Comments. Before i came here my colleagues told me about what the 2 american senior officials said and they have been once again repeating their smears and criticism of china it has become a common scenario they basically say the same thing wherever they go about china and i dont want to waste our time responding to each and everything theyve said what i want to say is that all of these accusations against china are lies they are not based on facts so china emerging here presenting itself certainly as an unlikely standard bearer for multilateralism the very policy plank and pillar upon which western diplomacy has been built and practiced for decades and the very thing that many here and elsewhere would say that the trumpet ministration has abandoned. Well also in munich ending the violence in afghanistan has been high on the agenda a provisional agreement between the United States and the taliban aims to reduce violence for one week u. S. Officials say if its a success it could lead to interest and peace talks and the eventual withdrawal of troops speaking out here at the conference nato secretary general and stoltenberg insisted there will never be a hasty withdrawal of forces from afghanistan 16000 nato troops are training the Afghan Forces so they can fight terrorism and create the conditions for peace we are not leaving afghanistan but we are prepared to adjust our force level if the taliban demonstrate their will and the ability to deduce violence and make a real compromises that could pave the way for negotiations among afghans sustainable peace and ensuring the country is never again a safe haven for terrorists well lets go to our tip of my after editor james bates whose immune it james. Well i think what youve just heard from the nato secretary general talking about that deal is being done between the u. S. And the taliban i think interesting reaction to come in the next couple of hours because for the 1st time were going to hear from ash afghani the president of afghanistan about this deal remember those talks have been going on for over a year and the Afghan Government to be cutouts of the talks theyve not been involved in these negotiations president johnny got the details from the u. S. Secretary of state and secretary of defense 24 hours ago here in munich not only saving cuts out it will list the states a lot of his Political Capital saying if youre going to do a deal like this you have to have a ceasefire 1st of course that doing a deal theres no ceasefire and said theres just a reduction of violence remember afghanistan had a president ial election in september but still no final results from that so still a decision of whos actually won so afghanistan difficult with that backdrop even to come up with a Negotiation Team when as under this plan is supposed to happen the afghans are supposed to sit down themselves with the taliban lets discuss this on the other issues here at munich in burma from the racial group joins me on afghanistan in present ghani in a very difficult place well sure i mean in part because the unite america and people are truly done with being the global policeman we see in syria we see it in iraq we see it in afghanistan and President Trump has tried very hard to put an end to this war he wants deals and those arent wars those are you know sort of the ability to show the American People he can move on whether its china whether its iran whether its north korea whether its afghanistan and you know it failed on the 911. 00 anniversary coming commemoration this last year this time around hes got a pretty significant push as you say the u. S. Giving up its glow. Policeman role is giving up and i think its the big question of this conference its Global Leadership role and hes china taking the place china is not becoming of the worlds leader at something not being the worlds policeman its a Regional Military power but but the west listening this that they that they using is the theme here is really about a United States and a europe that not only is much more conflicted about leading but also has populations that increasingly dont believe that their own Political Institutions are fit for purpose so how could they possibly want to spend time telling other people what to do or trying to fix or change those countries systems and i think thats part of the malays and the existential angst that you get for an organisation like the minister to convert is all about nato all about the west actually is polar north for people to align with very few are around the world d including in our own countries feel that way right now one of the things that President Trump has done is made his allies his natural allies feel a little uncomfortable hes not perhaps into annoyances in the way the previous american president saw when you speak to people from around the world here i guess one of the questions youre hearing is what hes going to happen in november. Assuming for now that trump will be reelected they are i would say its certainly very far from you know in the can they will mostly most American Allies would prefer if trump actually were to lose and i think that theres a presumption that somehow the next american president will go back to us leading multilateral institutions and a u. S. Led multilateral order and actually the reasons for american unilateralist in which we started to see under obama we see more of under trump have a much more structural i mean they have to do in part with the fact that a lot of americans just arent into it but also because america has an awful lot more power viz a viz its allies the u. S. And the chinese are the big. Powers the allies are no where the americans are the big Energy Producer middle east is less important the americans have a geo political buffer from all of this instability in places like syria and libya and trump and others are saying why do we have to deal with that plus you know the democracy project exported its kind of failed in a lot of places right and we see that most particularly across the middle east so for all of those reasons i actually think the next american president whether trump or someone else is likely to continue with a level of unilateralist and thats going to make a lot of allies very uncomfortable always good to have your thoughts thank you very much worth telling you finally nick the as im speaking the foreign minister of iran mohammed jobs the reef is speaking in the conference world see watching that closely and well bring you any developments right yes james have plenty more to discuss to go on thanks very much indeed time baiting. Plenty more still ahead on the news including why the busiest migration path in the world is also the most dangerous and desperate of journeys plus. Were on patrol with the Congolese Army as soldiers struggle to stop rebel attacks and. We sure wish he were here today. Right. 3 weeks after the lakers star kobe bryant was announced as a candidate for Basketball Hall of fame joe will have more. Now than an elderly chinese tourist in france has died of the coronavirus to become the 1st fatality in europe egypts recorded africas 1st case on friday and the World Health Organization says the chinese scientists carrying out trials on more than 30 treatments of the virus some results are expected within 3 weeks 6. Different trials underway in china right now everything from Traditional Medicine all the way through. And thats running in collaboration with trying to extend scientists would be best to interest. Thats an incredible and fanshen just basic knowledge over the next 2 to 3 weeks for these trials will have been 2 to 3 weeks and 67 new infections have been reported on a cruise ship quarantine in Japan Bringing the total number of patients on board to nearly 300 hundreds of american passengers are due to be flown home on sunday and in china at least 1500 people have died and 65000 are infected president xi jinping says that china is determined to defeat the virus and it limits the high cost of the crisis well the head of the World Health Organization says Global Leaders arent doing enough to prepare for deadly virus outbreak. We throw money at an outbreak and when its all over and we forget about it and do nothing to prevent the next 1. 00 the world spends billions of dollars preparing for a terrorist attack but relatively little preparing for the attack of a virus which could be fired more deadly and far more damaging economy clearly politically and socially this is frankly difficult to understand and dangerously short sighted while chinas foreign minister thats when ye secu some countries of overreacting causing panic over the outbreak he says that china is confident and determined to defeat the virus this interim brown reports there are growing concerns over the shortage of protective gear for frontline medical workers medical workers in china are fighting a battle for the world in some cases without adequate protection more than 700. 00 nurses and doctors have so far been infected several have died many of them look so exhausted in front of the camera and when you are exhausted you will get infected because you just lost your alex you cannot follow the guidelines well. Last week the Chinese Government conceded there was a shortage of essential medical equipment including protective clothing but state t. V. Says thats changing now its been showing pictures of Army Medical Teams arriving at the epi center with specialist gear further proof says china of its intensifying efforts to control the virus a virus that the countrys foreign minister says has created excessive alarm among some governments really good winter will pass and the spring is sure to come chinas vigorous and thorough measures are paying off the epidemic has posed a severe challenge to chinas economic and social Development None the less the difficulties will be temporary and short lived the latest official figures from Chinas National Health Commission offer a crumb of comfort these latest figures dont show a significant drop in the death rate but the number of new infections in who by province is falling they were half what they were on thursday but experts outside china urged caution saying these figures can be independently verified analysts say its become a Pivotal Moment for chinas leader xi jinping if this works and it looks like this thing is contained and they get thumbs up from the World Health Organization and other you know epidemiologist its going to look like theyve done the right thing and he could come out of this looking well but at the moment its such a go on saturday chinas government extended its quarantine restrictions to the Capital Beijing anyone returning to the city following the extended Lunar New Year holiday miss now isolate themselves at home for 14 days state media says those who dont will be punished without specifying what that will mean in hong kong the infection rate is under 60 with one dead now the chief executive kerry lamb says the government has to spend more than 4000000000. 00 of taxpayers money helping workers affected by the virus she says around. 200000. 00 low income families will be given a one off grant of more than 600. 00 each but theres no help yet for many small to medium sized businesses which are reeling from the effects of this Public Health emergency adrian brown aljazeera hong kong. South sudans president says hes agreed to a painful compromise aimed at meeting the deadline to form a unity government here is cutting the number of states from 32 to 10 and that is a major demand of the opposition to formally end the civil war and rivalry have 8 days left to agree on a joint government for the worlds youngest country after 2 failed attempts. Rebels are continuing their attacks in the democratic republic of congo despite an army of soldiers and un peacekeepers trying to stop them the threats of further attacks on villages in the Eastern Region of benny is forcing many to seek safety placed 1000. 00 civilians have been killed in the 4 month military offensive to root out the i. D. F. Or Democratic Forces. Exclusive report. Patrolled by congolese soldiers and un peacekeepers in the region and no one to be seen in several villages. People say theyre facing and has a dent at attacks by the Democratic Forces the a. D. F. Originated in western uganda in the 1990 s. To fight for the creation of an Islamic State their rebellion was crushed by ugandan forces. Fighters then crossed the border into the neighboring. Where theyve remained for nearly 20. Human rights campaign. Than 400. 00 have been killed in the last one month alone hundreds have fled their homes. You know theres no one here because of the attack that happened last week people are afraid to come back only soldiers are patrolling. Security forces have increased patrols in remote areas where the attacks have been happening 64 people were killed in this village of more than last week. That talks are happening at the same time as a government offensive against the a. D. F. Security forces says since their campaign started last october theyve killed dozens of a. D. F. Fighters including top commanders they say ah the fighters have been captured and their bases destroyed will be here at the new transit we must defeat the air they are terrorists to call upon our people to support us so we can neutralize the enemy and help civilians return to their homes. Thousands in beni protested against the u. N. Force known as. Accusing peacekeepers of not doing enough to protect them a un base was banned down and peacekeeping operations in the city but paralyzed for nearly 2 weeks when the commanders say troops are now working even more closely with cali soldiers to target the a. D. F. Says the prices we have it has our activities. Ourselves doing the trolls but also with us. She continues. As we just worked with continuing violence its increasingly dangerous for Health Workers to reach people possibly affected by the ebola virus bennys the epicenter of the latest outbreak in the d. R. C its also where many of the rebel attacks have happened recently making it even more difficult footballer respond is to do their job safely catherine saw. What we just heard from. We just saw in that film and hes the bureau chief of the u. N. Peacekeeping mission in the democrats Republican Congress and he explained to us why its hearts have continued despite efforts against the idea of rebels. We know that every time we put pressure on the a. T. F. Ourselves with our partners they tend to move quickly out of their areas and adopt even more pessimistic warfare and by doing that they start moving around in a very mobile very agile way in small groups and taxi civilian population this is for 2 reasons one to retaliate against our at attacks in order to pressure us to stop things of operations but also to do resupply of food medical that material and so on so this does not come to us as a surprise and thats what we have doubled our efforts both in the jungle and on the other side of the jungle where now they are more appearing to be active in order to stop them and make sure that we neutralize the threat and protect the civilians in that area. All right still ahead here on the our very new pitching for a political comeback lebanons former pm we cusins the new government of pushing the country generic. Coming of an end as in not center show lanka where farmers and elephants are fighting for survival. And the teenager who just cannot stop scoring goals in the generally jail yeah its been. A hell of the wintry weather has not left syria nor indeed iraq is this massive cloud here the coldest is on the high ground in Northern Syria and in turkey maybe a bit more snow or even occasionally freezing rain which is quite a surprise but the blue is typically just ordinary right and thats sporadic through iraq running into northern saudi talking back into the far northeast of egypt jerusalem lebanon as well the picture the tension factor plus for means this is no long. A snowy regime in the whole system is moving east was getting snow in iran come monday leaving still only brightening skies from the old syria but it still looks mostly katty was occasional right could be better not quite as cold as it was there where that same system extends into northeastern parts of africa it was not the temperature back we got 17 is a bax in benghazi 99 this is quite a breeze so i think it picked the dust up in chad and mali for example and even the warms it is best is on the western side of north africa as it has been for a while we got significant rain on the way to the coast all for tons and the at the moment curiously i dont see a good finish as elsewhere the concentration might be seen to be further west somewhere in someone. From. The plundering of armenias natural riches has uprooted residence and desecrated the habitat of some of europes most endangered species. But a Remarkable Campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the countrys investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected Prime Minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. On a jersey when the news breaks. When people who need to be heard of general situation of course is affecting both revenues and im here indefinitely and this story needs to be told with exclusive interviews as a country that is used to being polarized and indepth reports movie screens have i felt quite good ill just be around as teams on the ground there saying that theyre against the united deplaning more Award Winning documentary and life needs. And again you want to remind of our top stories this hour and the a saudi u. A. E. Led coalition has confirmed one of its warplanes has gone down and how the draft government in northeast yemen the rebels say they shot down the Saudi Air Force plane on friday. The u. S. Defense secretary is calling china the biggest threat to the global order esper accuse the Chinese Government of seeking advantage across the well by any means Chinese Foreign minister when he has called the accusations light. And elderly Chinese Tourists in france has died at the coronavirus to become the 1st fatality in europe this comes as the World Health Organization says the chinese scientists are carrying out a trials on more than 80 treatments of the fires results are expected within 3 weeks. Ok the u. N. Is reporting for the 2nd year running the busiest migration path in the world is from north africa to yemen the u. N. Migration Agency Reports more than 138000. 00 people cross the gulf of aden last year in the hope of reaching saudi arabia thats 28000 more than those who cross the Mediterranean Sea to europe about 9 out of 10 people traveling through yemen were from ethiopia they all cross the gulf of aden from djibouti and somalia in boats operated by smugglers the u. N. Says they face serious dangers including war kidnapping torture for ransom exploitation and trafficking if they do manage to reach saudi arabia many of those are deported we speak not even one dog whos the Spokes Person for the eastern horn of africa or the International Organization for migration joins us by skype from nairobi avon welcome to the program we hear a great deal about the mediterranean roots for migrants but not so much this one. Well thats right nikken planked around their hind sight seeing this slow burning crisis going on in the east and on of africa like you already said it means there is a lot of reporting about the 10s of thousands crossing the mediterranean trying to get europe but in this part of the continent there have been an exponential rise in the number of migrants trying to get to the gulf countries normally as you said in the intro toughing through the small country of djibouti in the whole of africa crossing the goal of agents taking the dangerous shit purposely the goal and trying to solve to yemen and into saudi arabia many of the people our young people from countries like egypt looking for opportunity many of them spent a week or came to the mountains and said this sometimes without food sometimes about also like you rightly said sometimes they are confronted by smugglers and. Some do guy along the way and altogether in pursuit of this 2nd life or this to steve back to life and in the last year or so there has been this exponential rise we estimate anywhere between 13568000 but to place one of the in the horn of africa just lost it we also snake around every single month around 11500. 00 trying to make the crossing its extraordinary figures isnt it and it seems that if youre a pure provides most what is it 9 out of 10 of them or me if you know if you. Nic thats right the vast majority of the migrants we see trying to move along this eastern route we call it a salute because its their way out of this part of africa like you they are young here in ethiopia has an enormous population of over around a 100000000. 00 people and every single year theyre lost tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of young people graduating from university and if you do all these such a job all is that you opportunities now sometimes those young people are exploited by people promising them that if they get to places like saudi arabia like have their rights that they will be given jobs they will be given opportunities but of course they have to go to yemen and that Everybody Knows yemen is in crisis is a very dangerous situation the people i myself was very crossing just a few days ago in djibouti and i spoke to young if you can my self and not just you can say were from across the region and i also while i was making this journey do you know the dangers and yet they admit they do know the dangers but that desire for a better life that belief that if they can get to a better place they will find opportunities and be able to send money but that family is deeply ingrained now what i. O. M. Has been doing to get Migration Agency has been working extremely hard with all the countries in the region to try and come up with a coherent response to this like i say this low burning crisis that sometimes gets get very big media traction. Sun is a very troubling situation even appreciate that is from the internationalization for migration thanks a lot libyan fighters loyal to the warlord highly for have to are again showing tripoli latest from bob minton have to 10 Month Campaign to capture the capital civilians are constantly in the firing line of Charles Strong foot reports. This is one of the southern neighborhoods of tripoli an area that has seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent months weve heard in the last few minutes or so sounds like outgoing and incoming shelling weve also heard what sounds like small arms fire despite this push for a cease fire there is ongoing fighting here we heard last night one civilian was killed very close to here the majority of this area now is completely clear of civilians they have left of the what the u. N. Says around 160000 people that have this being displaced by this conflict many of them staying in schools in other areas of tripoli the been a number of schools that have been hit by shells as well according to the u. N. Around half a 1000000 children have been affected by this conflict now we spoke to one of the field commanders operating in this area and this is what he had to say this but. The situation is that we are maintaining our positions on these sporadic shelling from have to post his denting in residential areas and killing civilians in a neighborhood we are steadfast on the front lines we had gone to the last couple of days in a number of areas for now we are awaiting orders to advance again. So despite those efforts by members of the International Community to try and get both sides to sit down and agree on a last things things far those efforts of thus far failed the commander was also telling us reminding is that many of the 4 inches here all volunteers theyre not being paid any money by the u. N. Backed government in tripoli the United Nations is very concerned about what it describes as on registered or uncontrolled weapons in libya trying to hold that supply of weapons they say that there could be up to 200000 tons of on controlled munitions in libya. Meanwhile yesterday friday general huffed despite these efforts to try and forge a last thing ceasefire valve say his forces would continue until in his words he took control of of tripoli. Syrias military offensive on the last rebel held region is causing the largest single displacement of people since the war began 9 years ago 800000 have fled the fighting since the start of december most are stranded in freezing temperatures near the border with turkey. Is the. Is burning her own clothes to try and keep family members warm they recently arrived in this freezing makeshift camp in the town of atma in province. We fled our homes in aleppo we couldnt live anymore under constant bombardment and airstrikes are children dying in front of us we came here its tough im sick i have leukemia and the smoke from the heater is suffocating her. And her family are just some of the many war refugees suffering cold overcrowding and fear of what might happen next in the last 4 days alone around 150000 syrians fled their villages as Government Forces close in to capture rebel held. The military campaign that started in april has seen more than a 1000000 refugees stranded on the border with turkey they are feeling increasingly betrayed and abandoned by the world. Has 10 children but only to live with her the others are dispersed across province where is its very cold i have no place to serve my kids meals theres no furniture snow is everywhere im hopeless and theres nothing i can do i pray god will help us. As a humanitarian crisis. Aid agencies are overwhelmed with growing demands for tans blankets stoves want clothes and for the internally displaced have often been forced to move many times over the last few months and each time they were hoping this would be their last that they would for. Finally settle and start and you live but the 9 year war grinds on and the rebels are losing ground and for almost 4000000. 00 people in it lib and on the outskirts of aleppo its probably just a matter of time before they pack and run away seeking another shelter in a safe area but there may be no more safe areas in italy province Government Troops and their russian our allies are determined to defeat the opposition civilians who are trapped may have little option but return to government held territory but fearing retaliation many prefer to stay near the border with turkey hoping tomorrow might be a better day has about aljazeera went to his border with syria. To lebanon now where the former Prime Minister saad hariri has accused his successors government of pushing the country to make a lot in his 1st speech since becoming part of the opposition because doubts on whether the government would be able to win foreign support and how to reports now from beirut. Lebanon 3 time Prime Minister appears to be planning a political comeback sad how d. D. Invited supporters to his home to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his fathers assassination former Prime Minister rafik heidi. It coincides with lebanons deepening financial and political crisis how do you use the event to reposition himself in the opposition camp blaming his one time Political Partners for failing to implement reforms that he says would have prevented lebanons near economic collapse i never strike my house i am not going anywhere i am staying in my country in my home and i promise you regardless of my political position i will not leave any stone unturned and i will tour the world to defend. Formally announced the end of his alliance with the governing Coalition Led by hezbollah had it is calling for early elections a core demand of antiestablishment protesters who have been demanding change for months how do they began this but earlier by confronting has a lot he was eventually forced to leave the country to the premiership in 2016 but the result of a political deal with. President michel calculation cost him some. Allies. The presence of high ranking members of one time allies at the ceremony could be a sign that had a pro western alliance known as the march 14th coalition could be reborn probably probably what you need is to form a new coalition a new form of. Local and international. To support the lebanese in order to rebuild their country was out there. How did he enjoys International Standing but hes not as influential as his father and in recent years a shaky relationship with longtime backer saudi arabia weakened him. Today when it comes to. Our very. Near future and. How did his resignation in october touring nationwide protests was seen as an attempt to gain Political Capital he did try to return as Prime Minister of a government he would be able to control he failed is now promising a new pass that could change his political fortunes there are. Protesters in mexico have marched to the president ial palace to condemn violence against women marchers were outraged at the Newspaper Publishing photographs of the body of a murder victim 25 year old ingrid. Was killed early this month Mexican Government says 10 women were killed every day last year in gender based. But not to sri lanka and the increasing confrontation between people hungry elephants 121 sri lankans and more than 400 elephants were killed last year as Mel Fernandes reports animal conservationists are criticizing the government for distributing shotguns to help protect farms. And on the production is struggling to cope with the loss of her husband the 31 year old special task force policeman was killed by elephants here in aid whoever just over a year ago. That it was his last day of a 5 day break at home we were both getting work done around the house in the evening he went to buy provisions as he would only be coming back in a month it was while returning home that he ran into a herd of elephants. Last year was the worst year for conflict between people and elephants 121 tree lankans and 405 elephants were killed sri lanka is home to around 6000 Wild Elephants 70 percent of them live outside protected areas which means they share their habitat with People Pharmacy they are vulnerable when travelling to their fears to work or when protecting their crops from night raids this family was rushing to harvest their paddy before the elephants got to it but the elephants are threatened with 500 shotguns handed out by the government the minister of wildlife has given the guns to Civil Security personnel to protect farmers and their crops he told aljazeera the weapons will be used under Wildlife Department supervision only to scare the enemies of coral morning sunday. We have issued bird shot you cant shoot and kill elephants with the stable fire up into the yeah elephants are scared of guns because theyve been used by villages for many years these guns will be used in a disciplined way. Conservationists say the guns are a bad idea and will only make things worse for the pointers to any point in the. Bill if one turns against you youre going to run. A bird really reinforces our vision an elephant and the next time the elephant comes in contact with somebody who doesnt know that that person doesnt have a gun and is not going to shoot or to hear probably kill that person 4000 kilometers of electric fences have been built to deal with the elephant problem but the battery is mostly in the jungle and are no obstacle for hungry and determined elephants instead he says fences must be used to protect villages and crops. These farmers are doing just that. Theyre going to cut under the you know make it this middle post will have electricity running through it like the base and other wires the elephants can pull it out at any point now we can get some rest at night earlier we had to stay up. Deaths on both sides of this battle are rising every year and a National Policy to conserve Wild Elephants is yet to be fully implemented 14 years after it was introduced but protecting these farmers and their crops is the biggest challenge for the government one that carries important votes in a finance as aljazeera area of a North Central sri lanka. And i know the cleanup of beaches in bali is underway 1st since the island became the 1st province in indonesia to ban plastic bags and other throwaway items environmental campaigners say the bodies beaches all getting cleaner but more progress these be made just to washington as a store. Its only morning but these volunteers are braving the heat and spending their weekend picking up plastic for years balis beaches have attracted millions of tourists that plastic pollution has spoiled the natural beauty. To chain age sistas up behind the push to cut down the islands waste its the 4th year theyve organized this annual mass clean out this is to say the beaches are clean assumes a ban on many Single Use Plastics began but theres more work to do we saw a definite overnight shift change in modern retailers in bigger businesses but when it comes to you know smaller family owned businesses or you know the traditional markets its definitely a longer process the ban applies to plastic bags straws and some packaging but theres no penalty for businesses that preach it food wrapping and bottles make up most of these Plastic Waste at this market try to start their day early selling fruit vegetables and traditional sweets all of it is still covered in plastic oh my mum sometimes people forget to bring bags so we have to give them out we also need plastic to repost. A lot myself i think thats it but ive noticed bali is cleaner since the ban started but sometimes i differ get to bring a bag but its still new here. Away from the tourist hot spots locals come to this speech on the islands south east coast to fish and cool off the situation on the beaches can change from day to day when theres heavy rain the incoming tide often washes in a deluge of Plastic Waste the local government here has set an ambitious target of reducing Marine Plastic by 70 percent. By the end of the year but not all of balis plastic comes from bali itself a large proportion comes from other internation islands indonesia is one of the worlds worst marine pollution is one recent study found around 15 percent of Marine Plastic around the world is thrown away in indonesia bali is the 1st province in indonesia to introduce anti plastic regulations but environmentalist here hope it wont be the last bali was definitely i think the Pioneer Island in egypt going back 3 but we did see commitments crap from jakarta you know wanting to go plastic bag free as well in the next 6 months in other places as well and we definitely see a ripple chain effect its a message even balis youngest on getting behind just to washington aljazeera. Is still ahead here on aljazeera well show you how the states and cyclists on finelli suits and during its recent thats come up with. Progress. Or a serious mistake. Intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. But very few of us really understand its capabilities for better or worse. In a new documentary all just 0 explores the impact of accessing vast amounts of our personal data data. Coming soon. A unique yet endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of ecuadors tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about a city i knew most of we have here and now is becoming boss other self conservation and their communities out there are journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist im tired teams are fight to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuadors Hidden Treasure on aljazeera. Times borne out joe standing by nic thank you well english football giants match city say they will appeal the 2 season banned from the European Champions League for breaking financial fair play rules european governing body wafer said on friday that the premier League Champions committed serious breaches of its regulations on overspending the club profuse acclaims provender worth reports. 29000 was a case of another year another title for Manchester City but 6 weeks into 2020 and the big spending in the quest for trophies could have left them even further away from the one they really want on friday european footballs governing body uy for banned pip quite the oldest team from the Champions League for 2 years for a breach of financial fair play rules a 32000000. 00 fine on top of that just the tip of the iceberg for what they stand to lose most of the city will lose up by around 100000000. 00 euros a year alone in prize money that theyd be getting for reaching the Champions League and hitting the quarterfinals last season as all the Television Revenue from that is the gate receipts as well from going to games and also the reputational damage from our club its an unprecedented ban of this level a 2 season ban the Champions League for one of the richest clubs in World Football and the world sport. This all began in 2018 when the allegations were 1st raised in german sports magazine der spiegel at that time manager pip 20 ola city had full trust in the clubs actions and of course want to follow the rules while the way for the future all this team is in the premier league. They do what they wanted to do so believe me. They know what happened because. The 1st prospect of a ban was raised last month when you weigh 4 opened an investigation city welcomed the investigation into what it called the illegal hacking and out of context publication of its emails and that the accusations were entirely false and i trust a lot with the club has done that i know them that hopefully hopefully they can they can solve it as soon as possible and start to you know for a moment in may city were referred to you wafers financial watchdog where there were reports that its members were pushing for at least the one year Champions League ban the clubs chairman how do in elma barrack hit back at the criticism claiming rivals were jealous of this success i will not accept for this club to be used as a diversionary tactic on poor investment history and some other cause weve managed ourselves well. And we do we will be touched by facts Manchester City filed an appeal to halt the investigation but the court of arbitration for sport last june but that was thrown out in november with cast saying the appeal was inadmissible their latest appeal could be crucial of quality ols mission to one of the 1st Champions League title for the club is to end in success paul venter with aljazeera well our Sports Correspondent lee wellings says that citys appeal could cause problems for Champions League qualification in the english premier league. English clubs get 4 positions much of the city would inevitably qualify for one of those 4 if its not my interest the city then we start looking about whether the 5th place team can qualify now this is extremely problematic because lawyers of course will be getting involved theres no guarantee of whats going to happen so the premier league cant make any promises you wait for cant make any promises with which car finishes 5th so it could get very messy but its also bear in mind that Manchester City of a position where their lawyers will be confident of getting something out of this that are being prepared up about it for over a year by feel that the way its been how does one theyve called it a kind group called when it goes to the court of arbitration for sport can i get the 2 years removed or reduced if you change into a fine that will suit them they wont supply Champions League football so the other clubs like with those Manchester United tottenham and chelsea are wharves who fill unless the that theyre in a position now a better position to get one of the spots in the Champions League theyll be encouraged by this but theres a long way to go on well much as citys Champions League future is in doubt the son of one of their former players could well set the tournament alight in the coming weeks thats certainly the case if erling hollands form in the german bund as the ego is anything to go by the teenage son of norwegian alfie no holland has just scored his 9th goal in 6 games since joining dormant final score against frankfurt for no to the team that is now 2nd in that league that Champions League resume on cheese day when they face paris as a man in the 1st match of the night. After retiring in 2016 this year was the 1st set that kobe bryant was eligible to be a candidate for the Basketball Hall of fame and the lakers great was julie confirmed on the shortlist on friday. We sure wish you were here today. Right. Brian sort this place comes just a few weeks after he was killed in a Helicopter Crash alongside his daughter jenna the hall of fame is will be announced on april the 4th thought so in the running bryants fellow all stars Kevin Garnett and tim duncan and womens olympic legend to me catchings. Also we get under way in the n. B. A. The u. S. Took on the rest of the world in the rising stars game on friday rest of the world having the best of the 1st half but the u. S. Powered back and it was purely an exhibition by the time miles bridges windmill this one in the homegrown players winning by 20 points. Now this was common duplantis last week when he broke the pole vault world record well hes just done it again the 20 year old was competing at the glasgow indoor grand prix and he did just the one attempt to vault 6. 18 meters with room to spare beating his previous record by a centimeter. Cyclists have been taking part in an insurance rice on top of the worlds deepest freshwater lake baikal in siberian russia freezes over every winter with temperatures dropping below 14 degrees celsius but those saw the perfect conditions for the 205 kilometer rice the record for completing the ice storm marathon is just under 8 i was but for most just finishing is a major accomplishment self that is like a school for now i have more later nick see you later thats it for the news ill be back with more news just coming. 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The controversial leader of the Islamic Jihad has cut he is one of the most one internists street of israel you cant turn aside and his alleged extra judicial killings by Israeli Television and assad says being caught in the past was the outcome is only this if someone tried to fight to the media the Syrian Intelligence was shut down the borders to go kill him in damascus aljazeera. Holding the powerful to account as we examine the u. S. Role in the world on aljazeera. A saudi tornado Fighter Jet Crashes over yemen the rebels say they shot it down. At my clock this is out there live from doha also coming up i want to focus on the pentagons top concern. The peoples republic of china the United States describes china as the biggest threat to the global order that steps up efforts to persuade European Countries to bartek joc while waiting. For the 1st death from corona virus is confirmed outside a zoo is chinas foreign minister accusing some countries of causing panic. Plus