from doha everyone i'm come all santamaria welcome to the news are from al-jazeera european governments are accused of being complicit in the abuse of thousands of refugees trapped in libyan detention centers also leave the country or go to prison the choice now facing thousands of asylum seekers this is israel turkey says it will buy an advanced air defense system from russia or in a deal which could strain relations with nato and world leaders come together for a climate change summit in paris we will be live in the french town. so amnesty international is accusing european governments of being complicit in the abuse of thousands of refugees as they try to curb migration into the continent in a report the human rights group says the e.u. . policy of containment shows little care for the consequences for those trapped in libya one example given is the funding by the e.u. of the libyan coast guard to intercept migrants that see these refugees have been sent to detention centers where they suffer abuse and exploitation we're talking at least twenty thousand of them crowded into these buildings and the report also says the e.u. is aware of alleged corruption within libya's coast guard and accuses of working with the human smugglers so let's talk to somebody else shares a secretary general from esteemed national joining us from london nice to have you with us these are very strong accusations to say there is complicity adds a whole new dimension to this it's not an accusation international's report is based on testimony after testimony interviews we've conducted with refugees and migrants you know over several months now and what we have in libya is really a whole you know. it's a lawless country to start with and if we do that migrants are treated like a commodity we heard about the slave auction just a week or two ago and here we are so essentially any migrant a refugee is pretty much criminalized thrown into these overcrowded detention centers case after case we heard was about extortion using torture to get money out of these people and it's from all sides from the top of these from militias from traffickers often acting and collusion so are you saying then the e.u. is doing this to keep the situation at bay rather than deal with it on their own shores and expand refugee centers there or take in more people change the rules or anything they're just trying to push it back on to the other side of the made. i mean this is been going on for a long time now and you know it's everybody understands that the european union and the european governments have a right to protect their borders and but on the other hand you know all of these countries signatories to the refugee convention they are constantly championing human rights but in order to push people away from their own borders this containment policy which they have launched it means that they have cooperation agreements with the libyan coast we don't know how many thousands of people are being drowned in sea just last month we have footage of the libyan coast guard active involvement in the drownings of at least about fifty people so there is absolutely i mean no italian government official no european government official can claim to be unaware of what the libyan authorities are doing the kind of torture the kind of horrific suffering that people are facing inside libya so i think the approach of the european union is in order to protect their own borders they're ready to push people back at any cost and not expect even the basic rights of human beings as part of putting together a report about this do you go and talk to the e.u. players themselves or do you collect your information and then send it to them and say write with your response. he's been working on this issue for years now we're in close contact with the officials you know we're raising this all the time but i think this is a detail piece of research and i call this very clear to the european governments they have to stop financing and assisting these militias these detention authorities there's at least twenty thousand people in our estimation in official detention centers so a lot of these are being supported by european governments financially etc but secondly the immigration officials are kind of cooperation agreement that they have with the libyan coast guard those are to be reset the focus has to be on the protection of the rights of the refugees and the libyan government which is of course libya as you know is like the wild west it's a free for all that but the libyan authorities have to absolutely release these twenty thousand people on lawfully detained they have a lot of the u.n. system you need do you know function with their full mandate these basic things need to be in place and to be it can't wait anymore so literally from amnesty international we thank you for your time speaking about this report let's go to tripoli and talk to a chorus one of the one head is there any response from the libyans to this. murderous canal here and then how can you hear me. i'm going to yes i call there we go ok tell us about libyan response then. will libyan authorities have been trying to refute old lease league asians say that first of all libya's coast guard. says that it's its job to do to risk you and apprehend migrants as long as they are they are in libyan territory waters and they have been they have been killed into libyan soil they have been saved off libyan shores and now they say that it's their job to do to bring them back to libya and put them in detention centers now as you know that the libyan. italian navy ships and navy individuals have been helping and assisting libya's coast guard trying to curb this migration crisis in the mediterranean and the result is a huge traffic of migrants in detention centers in central and north of libya now in detention centers authorities there say that they don't commit violations against migrants inside detention centers but in fact they provide them with health care and food and they they say that migrants. a heavy burden on them because of the financial crisis in libya they have to provide for these migrants on the other hand they say that violations might have been committed by people smugglers or might have been committed against migrants on the way on the transit way via the desert and as you know kimo the migrants they take advantage of their unmonitored unmonitored specious open borders southern borders of libya was other african countries we have been hearing about human trafficking and so many violations against migrants in the desert specially in the southern desert of libya and that's because. that's especially after after after the third force that is the security force that was assigned by the you and bad government of national court to protect the cells of libya this force this force was that all from the south last may after forces. loyal to engage in will have to have recaptured. military bases and strategic locations in the in the south from tripoli thank you for that and other news related thousands of african asylum seekers and refugees facing deportation from israel after parliament approved a bill they're allowing the government to force them out of the country those who refuse to go will be imprisoned a detention center which has a some of them will also be closed within months sorry for that but this from tel aviv salaam says she doesn't want to live in israel any more but leaving would be worse the neighbors have screened off the common entrance to her television apartment keeping her and other african residents out of sight this year a new government policy saw her and her husband lose twenty percent of their salaries only to be returned if they leave israel they've both been imprisoned in the need to very true returning there they say would be impossible the alternative rwanda unsafe i don't have any choice again i can go to war and because i have small kids sorry i want to be in care whether he kill me. i don't want to go back to africa that choice jail or a third country widely thought to be rwanda is precisely the one israel's prime minister is now presenting his government policy benjamin netanyahu recently told cabinet colleagues that he'd secured an international deal allowing for in force deportations of more than thirty five thousand africans. it would also speed the closure of the isolated hole at the tension center in the southern negev desert thousands of african migrants have been sent here in what campaign groups call a deliberate policy of making their lives as miserable as possible even running at maximum capacity how it could only house about ten percent of the african asylum seekers in this country this policy these announcements are much more targeted at those who live in communities like this part of israel's open policy of trying to force them to leave salaam says she was brought to israel against her will by people smugglers extorting her family she's found work as a translator and advocacy group assaf asylum application has she says gone unanswered since it was filed two years ago and it's not the only one they slowly shift as holt israel has the right and a duty to say who is a refugee and or is not however israel still hasn't done so we definitely say that not every sudanese or it deserves the status of refugees but the issue here is that out of forty thousand of them only ten have been recognized as refugees israel's prime minister defines the rest as illegal infiltrators his reported deal with the rwandan president would see israel pay five thousand u.s. dollars to rwanda for every deportee accepted and of course game we are here on a mission and the mission is to give southern tell of the back to the citizens of israel israeli government itself delivered the migrants to this already deprived neighborhood but now it remains their precarious home where the message only gets louder with every repetition they aren't welcome here are a force that i'll just tell of it and joining us from tel aviv now is mccurdy who is the executive director of the hotline for refugees and migrants tell me about the kind of calls the kind of approaches you're getting now as we hear about this new parliamentary law. well i think it's important to say that love has nothing to do with the deportation and maybe that's the main thing is really government is using the never see the old days since the two greatest fear i have to fear and to make asylum seekers and refugees even easier of panic and leave the country although the migration routes which is suggest that the words africa is very very dangerous so the community is confused what they're trying to do really come and provide moral core and down from thirty thousand formation you say it's designed to create or it is creating creating fear amongst people are you getting a response to the sort of thing what are people worried about people are worried about being detained for long periods people average standard even intro to reality and one that is not the solution from testimony that we collected in europe we know that people who left to rwanda over gaza or people who have to run don't have to cross the border my will to gondor afterwards has to leave those two countries because they were not able to leave the receive working they're made to have their assigned plain recognize so people continue to flee and move to leave the as you just discussed the situation after all the sources in the media they had to cross the mediterranean to europe so we don't reality is really reporting the refugees from israel to europe and not taking it chevron was being the international refugee crisis so this is something that the refugee community needs are a lot of so what is the hope for them because the bill allows the government to force them out of i go to prison is there any hope that this could be reversed or they could be a change of heart or anything like that. well the bill is not forcing. people out. extending the. pension which is that is already so the only solution does people in the movement is. saying. if it is that there are. them outside but i think it national unity and human rights organisations have big ation to coal while di understand to operate with these three men and then who says that israel needs to implement the refugee convention. joining us from tel aviv today i thank you so much for your time thank you. now turkey is expected to finalize a two billion dollars deal with russia to buy the s. four hundred surface to air missile system this announcement made at a joint news conference between president vladimir putin and reject type only one of his ties with russia have become stronger in the past year and many see this new defense deal as a sign of perhaps weakening relations with nato the deal was announced after persian made a whistle stop tour off the middle east has more from getting. a warm welcome for russian president vladimir putin in the tuckers cup it's all on kind of its final destination in these whistle stop tour he has been to city and egypt to only one day. the kremlin says the trip is meant to strengthen russian ties with these nations in ankara president putin an add on what you've got to showcase improving relations between their countries they both criticized president all trumps decision on which it was stolen but you want me to assure you. should both russia and turkey think that the decision of the us to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is not helping to solve the situation in the middle east it is destabilizing it and it can wipe out the prospect of peace or maybe kirby this utilitarian to tune in. the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel has caused outrage in the whole world it has caused disappointment and it is an irresponsible step to take it as a result the heightened tensions are obvious putting an ad on also discussed bilateral issues including trade tourism and joint energy projects relations between uncrowned will score have come a long way since november two thousand and fifteen when turkey doand a russian fighter jet the two didn't see eye to eye on most issues regarding syria but still have differences on the future role of president bashar al assad and the issue of syrian kurdish fighters the wife e.g. put in began his wall when chip in syria the fust time the russian president visited the country since the start of the war the early seven years ago he was greeted by senior officers and warmly embraced by president. potence forces have been helping his troops is two thousand and fifteen when the syrian government was on the brink of collapse in a speech put in declared victory over what he described as terrorists and amounts to a partial pullout of his soldiers from city. to the general command i give this order russia's military presence in syria has come to an end the motherland awaits you friends safe journey i thank you for your service put in also pledged to continue to support syria militarily by keeping some of his forces on the ground he then departed for the egyptian capital there he met president of the fatah cissie the leaders have been strengthening ties in recent years putting n.c.c. also signed a deal on nuclear power the growing ties between russia and the second largest recipient of u.s. military aid after israel egypt could potentially strained relations between cairo and washington and yet another sign of putting attempts to expand russia's influence across the middle east mohammed at all just uncover the thoughts now of meth and got chan who is a security analyst and a columnist at a monitor who told us the deal shows the strengthening of turkey turkey russia relationship. the prime of character for his visit to anchorage and meeting with president are going to vote to celebrate moskos the opening ties with uncorrupt particularly in the fields of foreign policy and regional security ended giving the message that turkey will be the primary actor russia will continue cooperating inside syria and in the region and also i have to emphasize this fact that this was their target meeting in a moment and eight one in the past year meaning that we see very very close cooperation of course. nato stronger or course of this say i'm claiming that it's comparable a bit it's into a greater air defense system and that turkey will use this systems tend to loan systems spot at the end of the day the purchase of this as for honduras will be a big blow for turkey. tysabri to nato and particularly turkey starts with the west are secured to block in general ok here's what's coming up for you on this new song. i'm catching so i am kenya's capital nairobi i'll be telling you why after fifty four years of independent people i'm still deeply divided along ethnic lines. because of a different theory our breaking on three injured refugees living in camps in bangladesh more than a hundred suspected cases reported. on the spot one of the greats of surfing is back on the way to the animal and story of alex later. well that is meeting in paris for a special climate summit convened by the french president emanuel mccrone hopes the gathering will spark from badly needed funding to accelerate efforts to combat global warming more from the clock. it is two years to the day that nearly two hundred nations signed the paris agreement in a bid to limit global warming to below two degrees celcius now at the one planet summit in paris the french president emmanuel macro the well bank chief jim yong kim and the u.n. secretary general and tony good tears want to mobilize the finest to make it happen this in defiance of president donald trump's promise to pull out of the accord macro believes that europe can lead the way indeed the french president took a dig at trump by telling him to make up planet great again well at the moment developed nations are not on track to pay a promised one hundred billion dollars a year by two thousand and twenty to help developing countries among other things switch from fossil fuels to green energy and because of the u.s. pullout there's now a two billion dollar hole in the green climate fund which also helps developing nations deal with climate change and in a year of wildfires in extreme storms the one planet summit want to try and balance those books and so instill commitment and trust in the parents agreement from all the nations of the world except the united states. here's natasha butler who's at the summit in paris natasha this is not so much about the idea of climate change but the financing to fix it. that's right it's all about finance you know back in twenty fifteen when you had those two hundred leaders a promising to limit global warming to under two degrees celcius right here in paris everybody thought well that was a news story except it was but two years on it's quite apparent that that cannot happen without some major money and some action now that is why the french president to mount all my call along with the united nations and the world bank of decided to conceive this summit to really try and focus on the financing in the battle for climate change they want to make sure that leaders here commit to those promises that would make back then for green funding especially for developed nations also look at ways that point it up like money could be better used in the flight fight against climate change it's about changing mindsets we're told is about changing the way that governments companies businesses people do business spend money so that each time sustainability is really a priority and that's something that the you know u.n. climate change chief told us here in paris. it decent about changing their financial structure the way they financial structure works making sure that every decision that relates to financing. towards supporting. projects and supporting actions that are oriented towards a no carbon development. there is a an obvious absent from the summit donald trump the united states calls pulling out of the paris climate accords is that a concern for president does it just carry on without. well for most we have to stand on. trump was always the most invited to his decision to pull the u.s. out of the climate accord and in fact that is one of the main reasons for this summit today because it was the french president who decided after that announcement by trying to call a summit to show that ok look the u.s. is out of place but that doesn't mean that the fight against climate change is over anything boss and he wants europe and problems to really take the lead to it and there are many americans say there are we so choose there are experts there are things very interested in continuing this battle there are big things like sports make up and in order to caprio but there is no doubt that there is also a lot of concern over the fact about us putting out means as a brochure for work in funds for environmental projects for this battle against climate change and in some way today talking about financing there is a hope that there will be some ideas about how to make up that shortfall untouched about the climate summit in paris thank you the palestinian president is seeking to rally middle eastern countries against the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital damascus met the egyptian leader of the father of sisi they agreed to consult with other countries including jordan and saudi arabia a spokesman for a basset action would be taken soon to preserve the rights of the palestinian people the leader of the lebanese armed group hezbollah has promised to return its focus to the palestinian cause or was addressing thousands of supporters who marched in beirut chanting death to america was rather called on his allies to unite and confront israel he also accused some arab nations of supporting the united states. palestinians have criticized back train as well for allowing a delegation to visit israel remains that the interfaith group was coming to gaza sparked angry protest as an official reports from occupied east jerusalem. that zoe behind the bahraini delegation has kept a relatively low profile since arriving at the weekend the turn down interview requests for twenty five people who say they want to build peace and corporations visit was organized by a jewish group the simon wiesenthal center in los angeles but one expert says the timing sends a terrible message as that ali is they were trying to do a big bust out of this. in the media that them in this group coming from bahrain and all kind of relation you know with the with the arab world is. usual there been protests across jerusalem in the occupied west bank says donald trump and i used his unilateral decision that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel there's been widespread condemnation across the world to the group says its trip had been planned for months it was reported locally that the bahraini delegation wanted to visit a mosque while they were here a senior official at the mosque said that given the trip was facilitated by the israelis they would not be welcomed i love this of course on social media suggested the group was heading to gaza it sparked protests at the crossing with israel with locals determined to block them there's no confirmation the group ever planned to visit gaza one palestinian political analyst believes the bahraini visit is part of a bigger global picture than in the un but and maybe a moderate also will they begin to be many here because this is something wanted to go in there one to two new tools to make in their relation with israel and america against iran because that they. began to be notoriously ill that's difficult for us the bahraini delegation include sunni and shia muslims christians or hindu and the sikh they will leave on wednesday alan fischer al jazeera in occupied east jerusalem. richard and once here here we'll have a look at the world weather in just a moment send then when we come back. but this is all down to world than are you going to vote one alleged pedophile are you going to vote for a democrat just too close to call in america's deep south a senate election and a test donald trump simple ends and it begins in just a few hours also a story of a shattered by north korea's nuclear arms race the u.n. takes a look at the country's mounting human rights violations and sport russian olympic officials are meeting in moscow after their athletes were banned from competing at next year's winter olympics. in east ping skylines by the taj mahal. or is the sunsets in the city of angels. well where to start in europe the so much severe weather going on at the moment there starting croatia we've had some very very strong winds the local when they normally get is the burra which comes in from the northeast but this one was a very warm wind coming in from the southwest ahead of a cold front and i'll come back to that particular cold front in minutes meanwhile further towards the west we've got clear skies across the u.k. now when you've got snow on the ground to insulates a ground stops the heat coming out and under those snowy covers you get a clear skies and then the temperature just radiates away and as a result we have seen temperatures dropping away down to minus thirteen degrees in the county of shropshire de cold there is no it's across much of europe now this weather front which is been pushing through honestly a messy affair on the satellite imagery let me draw some lines in there took in the cape what's happening that cold front has been a really active affair we've seen some extremely heavy rain in the south of france fifty one millimeters in nice which looks very much like this and meanwhile we've also had some severe weather affecting the island of corsica causing boats we washed up on to the shore itself this is a frontal system at the moment still some snow over the alps still some thawing going on some high temperatures across parts of austria berlin getting up to six but a moment with the wind chill it feels more like minus six and plenty more snow to come. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. if you're in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess somehow timeless aiming to replace america and around the world all the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time just see it when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullies my life when people need to be heard a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just have fled ethnic cleansing in me maher for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. with the news hour al-jazeera these are our top stories amnesty international is accusing the european union of being complicit in the abuse of refugees in libya in a report the rights group says the e.u. turns a blind eye to alleged brutal tactics of libya's coast guard and detention facilities and also claims the e.u. is aware of corruption within that coast guard accusing it of working with human smuggling turkey's expected to finalize a two billion dollar arms deal with russia to buy the s. four hundred surface to air missiles and. turkey's times with russia have become stronger in the past year and many see the new defense deal as a sign of weakening relations with mace hope. and world leaders are meeting in paris for a special climate summit convened by the french president emmanuel mccrone it's hoped to be gathering willing courage much needed funding to accelerate efforts to combat global warming remember this is after the us decided to pull out of the twenty fifteen paris climate accord so here's michael dorsey joining us from the summit in paris co-founder of the solar developer e.c. the university energy north america is also a former member of the e.p.a. national advisory committee under president obama so well placed to talk to us about these sorts of things how do you feel the idea of the u.s. not being in a big summit there is being received there is it a case of as i said to our correspondent earlier everyone just carries on without. them all thank you so much for having me and really what we have here in france in paris at this moment is indeed just that the world moving forward leaving behind wayward leaders lackluster leaders like president trump and getting on with the business that it needs to to get out ahead of the unfolding climate crisis and really this summit here in paris is not you know it's no longer just about france in paris and and president it's really about world leaders coming together to make the strides and increase ambition that we really need to get out ahead of the unfolding climate crisis and it's about them putting their hands in their pockets and that is the absolute key in the end of this we can all agree to the idea of of trying to fix climate change but are people willing to stump up. people are absolutely standing up and really standing up in huge ways we seeing institutional investors make large commitments to get out ahead of this problem and to back the investments around the world we're seeing developers like my company moving forward to embrace the renewable revolution the renewable price of falling making renewables increasing. competitive not just a parody any longer but really fully fully on possible against fossil fuels the old dying fossil fuel sector of the twentieth century this collapse in the way as the noble energies when solar and wind are getting built out so you see real true opportunities for businesses but at the same time this movement is really being led i think and driven in catalyzed by civil society actors increasing ambition in government as well as putting in bishan and keeping pressure on companies to do better and to increase ambition to really get out ahead of the unfolding climate crisis so it's really all hands on here in paris and really bolstered by the multilateral community by business and by civil society and social movements around the world even with renewables becoming cheaper and more inverted you've got the fact that fossil fuel is still very much one of the top energy sources and the more that say the united states returns to drilling or shale oil shale gas these sorts of things it prompts changes from the other oil producing nations elsewhere in the world that i mean that's hard to combat. well you know on some level there is a difficulty in combat in this but the reality is that we've seen three decades of collapsing prices of coal coal is basically got one foot in the graveyard another one on the banana peel fossil fuels are a thing of the past and fully on a thing of the twentieth century no surprise on just foad they're actually competing fossil fuels and in a variety of ways around the world they're competitive in the global south are competitive in the north of competitive in big states like california united states really things are changing in a way that we see renewables coming online fully because it's competitive but it also contributes to things like protecting people from air pollution that contributes to things like making our children safe and making our communities safer in the future and that's really the rub here we've got to win for communities we've got to win for the economy we've got a big win for the environment that's really the future michael it's also joining us from the climate summit in paris a pleasure talking to you thank you. thank you for more. now a massive vaccination campaign is about to begin to stop diff diptheria from spreading among strangers refugees living in cults is bizarre in bangladesh the world health organization says more than one hundred suspected cases including six deaths have been reported just since december the sixth many of these refugees of course live in crowded on hygiene conditions it is a respiratory tract virus which spreads through air droplets and coughs and sneezes over six hundred forty six thousand ranger have fled me and ma since a miniature crackdown in rakhine state began in august more on this from child strength and he's at the polling colley refugee camp in bangladesh. the latest figures supplied by unicef they saying that up until december the eighth at least four hundred twenty four people clinically diagnosed with a highly infectious risperidone disease diphtheria they also say that at least six people have died now the more than six hundred forty thousand range or living in these camps are highly vulnerable to catching this disease because they are living so close to one another and also because they haven't had the vaccinations inside myanmar this is also due with them not having citizenship and not having access to the kind of health care that other people in myanmar have had for years we understand that this campaign that started today is going to be focusing on children up to the age of six years old they being highly susceptible to it today in the camps we've seen men with loudspeakers calling families to bring their children to inoculation centers like this one. the u.n. and the government are describing this crisis and this vaccination program as being a top priority the health situation for the region refugees is already in crisis and this diptheria outbreak is making it even worse united nations says north korea's human rights violations are on the rise while the country focuses on its nuclear and missile tests the security council discussed reports that around thirteen million people have been hit by severe food shortages this report from mike hanna. this was the fourth annual discussion of human rights abuses in north korea and as on previous occasions china attempted to move the talks behind closed doors arguing that public discussion could undermined any attempts to renew dialogue but it failed to get the nine votes necessary and the talks went ahead in public among those who addressed the council was the un's political chief who warned often under reported looming humanitarian disaster the d.p. r. k. is a forgotten crises on the global humanitarian agenda an estimated eighteen million people that is seventy percent of the population are suffering from food insecurity and then and a half million people representing forty one percent of the population are undernourished a number of victims of human rights also addressed the council as did the high commissioner for human rights who spoke of a prison system that could only be described as horrific torture is widespread in detention centers overseen by the ministry of state security and the ministry of people security detainees who work in mines or infrastructure projects in conditions of severe deprivation people held in these camps have told mine star for being beaten by prison guards or other inmates and being fed so little they barely survive there will be a ministerial level discussion in the security council on the issue of north korean disarmament on friday and the u.n. envoy who's recently visited north korea will also be briefing the security council in the days ahead. al-jazeera continues to demand the release of our journalist mark hussein has been an addiction prison for more than eleven months and then is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he strongly deny his son has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail as well he was arrested on the twentieth of december while visiting family in egypt kenyans had to controversial often violent presidential elections in recent months baser campaigns and court battles that followed of the many divided along ethnic lines. from nairobi. twenty four years old but she says she's seen the worst of ethnic divisions and often during kenya's an election she's been raped beaten half family forced to flee from their home twice and after the two thousand and seven disputed election grandmother was banned alive inside her house. she could not run because of her knee problems i hid behind a banana plantation and saw them ban our house she says. and she blames politicians for inciting communities against each other for political gains and to stop inciting us. why is it that in every election politicians bring any maty they want to show us how the other community is so bad yet when president kenyatta an opposition leader urging privately they hug and call each other brother while the ethnic divide here has existed the political uncertainty around recent elections has worsened those divisions in poor areas like this one guns from different communities turn on each other and on presidents this stream is a boundary between two ethnic communities. and. on this side they're normally peaceful but when elections near suspicion and mistrust in fact some to cause violence. this was a war zone frederico ginga lives in one of the most dangerous areas and has watched tensions quickly escalated to battles between communities he have a says that such divisions also play out when people feel disenfranchised whoever is in there should be that you critter bush you know resources where they do take us so that you have the ability and it is everything. this analyst says that healing ethnic wounds can only start by addressing old grievances we need to have a national dialogue national conversations that is inclusive it must be about all the. communities what is this that is ailing this country it is plundering of the public resources and it is bad governance even poor governance more than any who comes from the president's community and from the opposition leaders ethnic group both hope they will see a future where they can celebrate political diversity without fear of violence catherine sorry. nairobi kenya the european union will restore political contact with thailand for the first time since a military coup in twenty fourteen that statement was issued by the e.u.'s foreign affairs council which says it's the first step towards resuming full relations with bangkok more from when i. the statement from the european union comes after comments from the military government in thailand that it plans to return the country to democracy by holding an election in november next year domestically here in thailand though there is still a lot of skepticism about that given that the government has made several similar statements since the coup in two thousand and fourteen only to follow those statements up with postponements to an election date the government here in the capital bangkok will see the statement from the e.u. though as something of a seal of approval for its roadmap to democracy but in the statement from the e.u. there are still plenty of concerns that it has expressed it says that there are ongoing concerns about human rights about things like freedom of expression in thailand and the e.u. also says that talks on an easy to thailand free trade agreement will only resume after a democratically elected civilian government is in power u.s. president all trump is used in an attack on a new york subway station on monday to call for immigration reform a man was arrested after he misfired a pipe bomb strapped in a subway near times square the bangladeshi national who's been identified as twenty seven year old a coyote although was injured in the blast three other people suffered minor injuries let's be clear as new yorkers our lives revolve around the subways when we hear of an attack on the subway is incredibly unsettling. and let's be also clear this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not achieve is ultimate goals. thank god our first responders were there so quickly to address the situation to make sure people were safe. but isn't the u.s. state of alabama will choose a new senator later on tuesday to fill the seat left vacant by attorney general jeff sessions the republican candidate roy moore appears to have lost support to his democratic rival after he was accused of sexual misconduct democratic candidates doug jones has been actively courting the black vote which could be a deciding factor the latest opinion poll that put jones ahead by ten points. you might three women accusing the u.s. president of sexual misconduct calling for a congressional inquiry into his behavior they say given widespread investigations into the actions of other politicians it's only right to trump be investigated as well as more from our white house correspondent kimberly how has. it's not the first time americans are hearing from jessica leads samantha holby and rachel cooks and their allegations against donald trump of sexual misconduct are new but they say each of their interactions with trump was violating and similar i was forcibly kissed by mr trump during our first introduction as he walked around looking at us like we were his property he jumped all over me the women first publicized their claims of trump's sexual aggression during the twenty sixteen us presidential election campaign and were dismissed by trump as false even after the two thousand and five video emerged of him publicly bragging about groping women grandmothers but much has changed since trump selection victory triggered by the resignation of hollywood mogul harvey weinstein a series of celebrities businessmen and politicians have been forced to step down facing similar allegations the white house has once again responded calling the claims against the president politically motivated disputed by eyewitness accounts and even false the people of this country i did decisive election supported president truong and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process but on sunday another member of the trump administration said trump's accusers deserve a platform i think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way they have every right to speak up good very hard my wife must know the women are speaking up in advance of a critical senate vote on tuesday trump is campaigning for republican roy moore who's been accused of similar conduct it's yet another reason three congressional democrats are calling for the president to step down and trump's accusers are calling for an investigation but this analyst says that's unlikely given the. current political climate trump has a base he has a constituency it's about a third of americans who have deep faith in him who see them who see him as representing their views of defiance of the political establishment and they're going to stand by him no matter what that's why these women and others say they'll continue to speak out until they say trump is investigated and they hope forced to resign kimberly helped get al jazeera washington venezuela's main opposition parties that is siding just what to do after president nicolas maduro said they should be banned from running in any future elections that's up to sunday's municipal elections which the opposition which the boycotted so the ruling socialist party won at least ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five minute ships up for grabs in the capital caracas. the president nicolas maduro is saying that candidates that support his government over one in more than three hundred of the three hundred thirty five districts being contested in municipal elections he's also said that those opposition candidates who boycotted the vote on the longer part of the political landscape which implies that they will not be able to stand in presidential elections scheduled for next october many here are asking how is it now after eighteen years of chile's mole first of all this and for the last four years nicolas more google with the economy in a perilous state inflation rampant food and medicine scarce the governing party candidates in the so convincingly across the country one of the reasons being that the opposition is fragmented the country is polarized many tens of thousands of venezuelans predominantly those who oppose president nicolas maduro have left the country to escape this economic its economic difficulties the opposition now trying to work out how to respond to this what appears to be a convincing victory administered by the elections for the government and the apparent by all of its biggest candidates on the political map so venice. now looking as though. nicolas maduro has consolidating his hold on the power with many asking just how has he done now. there's been violence between spanish police and catalan separatists protesting against the removal of medieval works about from the region the court has ruled that forty four religious artifacts were illegally built by catalonia nineteen eighties and have to be returned to a monastery in neighboring iraq on several hundred people attended the demonstration outside a museum in the capital town of late the spanish government took control of that city autonomy's catalonia region in october remember for succession in an on official referendum. still ahead for you can you guess which legend of football. talking out of here to talk sport or if you got for us thank you very much well of russia's olympic committee are currently meeting in moscow to respond to the decision to ball that team from next year's winter olympic games in south korea the international olympic committee announced last week the russian athletes would only be permitted to compete as neutrals in china in february it follows accusations of state sponsored doping that see nineteen russian olympians punished a case of competing as unusual means that athletes won't be able to wear the russian uniform and the national anthem will be replaced by a generic olympic anthem at any medal ceremonies they'll need to postulate eligibility checks as well based on that doping record and on the medal table athletes wouldn't be recognized as russia but rather a limb pick athletes from russia russian president vladimir putin said he wanted to stop russian ati's from taking part. in the n.f.l. the new england patriots thought that a game winning streak ended by them and miami dolphins patriots star tom brady was uncharacteristically into septa twice as the dolphins pulled off quite a shock when monday night football they beat the reigning super bowl champions twenty seven to twenty. a contrast in result in the n.b.a. where the houston rockets have extended their winning streak to ten games they beat the new orleans pelicans on monday it was the pelicans who led by the end of the first quarter of bots houston stormed back to take the lead thanks to james harden cappella propellor got a career high twenty eight points in the game while hard and trying to fix one thirty to one twenty three it wasn't the final score. the new york yankees have pulled off one of the biggest trades in recent baseball history the national league most valuable player john carlos stanton has arrived at the front part of a trade with the miami marlins the twenty eight year old led baseball in harm run and abhi eyes and twenty seventeen the yankees are set to pay stanton almost three hundred million dollars over the next ten years. i've always wanted to work. you know you always want to be in competitive games where they mean something then your performance means something to the team and the city so. it's going to be a fun challenge and i'm looking forward to the first of the fee for a club wild cup semifinals is being played on tuesday with brazilian side gremio taking on mexico's but totem and david toms gremio were crowned. champions just two weeks ago while this is the first time the champions but chuka have made it to this i mean of this tournament the winner will face a great or algis there of the united arab emirates in the final. but. we can play against them and inflict some damage i hope we can show all qualities and i hope we can minimize all the errors i trust our strengths and if there is something our players have it's that they're competitive animals they always want to fight and the higher the level the better they perform on the streets of canada's largest city were packed with chairing fans as they celebrated the city's first major league soccer title to run to f.c.p. seattle to nail in the final they became the first canadian champions in the league's history to run to also the best team during the regular season with a record sixty nine points. goal fuels will no longer be allowed to report rule violations as part of changes announced by sports lawmakers the issue came to light earlier this year after american golf alexy thompson was given a four stroke penalty while leading a women's major in california t.v. viewer had spotted an era she made and told officials and she went on to lose the twenty min well from january first the phone lines will go silent and instead one or more officials will be assigned to monitoring the video broadcast to spot violations they falsely removed a two stroke penalty for filling in an incorrect school call provide the player doesn't know that they've been penalized throughout the round was part of a succession of rule changes being assigned to golf with the intention of modernizing the sport. australian rugby has named its first ever female chief executive new zealand really in casa was unveiled in sydney on tuesday as for placement for outgoing c.e.o. bill pulver she was previously in charge of new zealand netball under strain rugby league club the country bulldogs. the reality is is in his genes and equally in it was this people from. bars really delivering to create grassroots level so i don't think it's an enormous step to him if he were chief executive of exxon. one of stuffing the greatest ever back in competitive action for the fast time in five months kelly slater finished top of the opening hate at the. masters in hawaii on cheese day the eleven time while champion is making his comeback from a severe fit injury sustained in south africa in july i mean i missed it but it's been you know after after so many years of just like nonstop day in day out week in week out it's been kind of nice of you know a few months off i surfed a little bit i tried in september then worked out great had a circle load in october and i've served maybe three times in the past month. but it's nice to get back you know it but it's nice to be away from something that you love and. get back and appreciate it i'm finally deana camera donna had maybe one of the most recognizable faces on the planet but that didn't seem to translate into success for a sculptor in india the argentine football legend is in the country at the moment and the city of culture unveiled this statue that will soon become a permanent fixture. for the luck of the thank you to c.n.n. we're back with another new down a couple of hours on the clock is up next but. in. the cards for. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged sutton's some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanish it's a big business smuggling these firms when they will take the city on their own fill the sand is our affair and here you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so profound tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls at this time on al-jazeera. is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year the more than thirty minute is in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships and cape town children sometimes get caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walk to try to take them from gang violence i lost my. violin go i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. queues to being complicit in the abuse of thousands of a.