Come on peter dhabi youre watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up talks on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics south koreas leader is invited to visit the north. Breaking barriers in sri lanka a Record Number of women campaigning to be elected. Thousands march against racism in the italian city where african migrants were shot. Ok your top story the downing of an israeli fighter jet by Syrian Forces has raised tensions across the region the israeli f. Sixteen was on a mission inside syria targeting what israel says are iranian bases there the aircraft wreckage and pilots landed in israeli territory it all began when israel says it intercepted an iranian drone flying in its airspace israel says the drone came down from syria it responded with a major air raid inside syrian territory targeting what it claims are iranian bases on the way back from that mission israeli jets came under syrian antiaircraft fire and thats when the f. Sixteen was hit israeli
Second official logos were revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. Now theres a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a 2 million payment. Translator i dont believe there were any illegitimate payments. Translator i was involved in the bid myself, but im not aware of the entire bid process. Translator we will hear from the tokyo government and the Japanese Olympic Committee to understand whats going on. Reporter the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. They suspect the money was transferred from a Japanese Bank to a Singaporean Firm in two installments, one before the international Olympic Committee chose tokyo. And the second after. The company was located inside a governmentrun condominium. But according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. The firm is linked to the family of nowdisgraced lamin diak. Who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. The head of the global governing body for track and field. He was arrested on
Missiles from the east coast on wednesday. They were likely a new time of the intermediate range known as the musadan. People in japans southwestern prefecture of members scheduled a closed door meeting in new york after request by japan, the United States and south korea. People in japans southwestern prefecture of okinawa are marking the 71st anniversary of the end of a fierce ground battle in the closing days of world war ii. The island prefecture will hold an annual remembrance ceremony on thursday at Peace Memorial park. It was the final front in the battle of okinawa. June 23, 1945 is considered to be the last day of combat against u. S. Forces in okinawa. The fighting lasted more than three months and left more than 200,000 people dead, one in every four local civilians was killed. During the ceremony, okinawa governor Takeshi Onaga plans to call for reducing the heavy burden okinawa bears from hosting u. S. Bases. Around 75 of u. S. Military facilities in japan are concentrated
Missiles from the east coast on wednesday. They were likely a new time of the intermediate range known as the musadan. People in japans southwestern prefecture of members scheduled a closed door meeting in new york after request by japan, the United States and south korea. People in japans southwestern prefecture of okinawa are marking the 71st anniversary of the end of a fierce ground battle in the closing days of world war ii. The island prefecture will hold an annual remembrance ceremony on thursday at Peace Memorial park. It was the final front in the battle of okinawa. June 23, 1945 is considered to be the last day of combat against u. S. Forces in okinawa. The fighting lasted more than three months and left more than 200,000 people dead, one in every four local civilians was killed. During the ceremony, okinawa governor Takeshi Onaga plans to call for reducing the heavy burden okinawa bears from hosting u. S. Bases. Around 75 of u. S. Military facilities in japan are concentrated
Revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. Now theres a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a 2 million payment. Translator i dont believe there were any illegitimate payments. Translator i was involved in the bid myself, but im not aware of the entire bid process. Translator we will hear from the tokyo government and the Japanese Olympic Committee to understand whats going on. Reporter the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. They suspect the money was transferred from a Japanese Bank to a Singaporean Firm in two installments, one before the international Olympic Committee chose tokyo. And the second after. The company was located inside a governmentrun condominium. But according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. The firm is linked to the family of nowdisgraced lamin diak. Who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. The head of the global governing body for track and field. He was arrested on suspicion of receiving mon