year's election despite his corruption conviction being up held. i don't want to be part of a whitewash a top u.s. diplomat quits me and miles advisory panel on the ranger crisis. save the children suspends its operations in afghanistan after an attack that killed three of its staff. i just find you orange one hundred seventy five years in jail for the u.s. gymnastics doctor who sexually abused more than a hundred fifty girls and women in his care. i'm andrew symonds in the occupied west bank and i'll be explaining why palestinians are getting excited about the introduction of three jeep all their smartphones it's a ten year old knowledge. according brazil has held a conviction against the former president louis enough to silver the corruption the money laundering this is a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insisted he will seek reelection in october so there is a bow report from the southern city of porto alegre. but. these people are standing by. they're convinced he will be brazil's next president despite a court's ruling that makes it almost impossible for him to run. the risk distance will never die we lost the battle but not the war precedents twenty eighteen. maybe. even equivalent. in the country. it was and you might run t.v. . again on wednesday an appeals court upheld his conviction for corruption and money laundering even increased the sentence to twelve years and one month one of the judges said there is no doubt that the former president was involved in a corruption scheme. i looked at these questions one by one reaffirming specifically that the issue of culpability is the largest vector for the sentence and i consider culpability to be extremely high in this case. it happened in the city of port city where extreme security measures were taken to prevent clashes between supporters and those who backed the court's decision. in sao paolo brazil's economic capital many celebrated. thinks he shouldn't be investigated because he's god all his companions are behind bars and are incriminating him we want justice should be arrested he must be convicted. is now seventy two he was prisons first working class president and is credited with lifting millions out of poverty. the court's judgment complicate his chances of making it to this year's presidential race but lula remains defiant. it isn't. for me the school ruling is an opportunity to travel through brazil and have a dialogue with the brazilian people now i can see that everything that they're doing is to close the door to my candidacy as provocation is so shameful but now i want to be counted for the presidency of the republic brazilian law bans candidates who have been convicted from running for office. there are two legal moves you like and make to avoid prison and to fight to be allowed to run in october's election. but for many that will now be tougher than his supporters would like to what makes . the case that will. lead to. a top u.s. diplomat has quit an international advisory panel which was set up to tackle the ranger crisis calling it a whitewash bill richardson was once considered a close friend of unfun through cheney but is now dismissing the panel as a cheerleading operation for me amal's leader and accuses her of lacking moral leadership mia mass as it was saddened by his departure many on a honda has more. he's one of america's most experienced diplomats a former u.s. politician and reportedly a friend of the suci but bill richardson sudden departure from an advisory panel on the hinge of crisis shows just how much that relationship may have soured i don't want to be part of a white war. and i felt as best that i resign immediately richardson said he didn't want to be a part of what he described as a cheerleading operation for suchi aimed at validating hiromi range of policies rather than honestly investigation the actions of me and miles military richardson was an international heavyweight on the team member panel chosen he says by suchi herself he quit before the panel made its first visit to western rakhine state dismissing that as just a photo opportunity the u.n. estimates more than six hundred eighty thousand range of muslims fled a military crackdown from late august last year survive a spike of atrocities including mess murder rape entire villages raised me and maintains it was responding to attacks from mom groups suchi one celebrated as a champion of human rights is heavily criticized over the crisis richardson is now adding his voice to that criticism accusing her of reflecting moral leadership she believes there's a concerted international effort against me amar and i believe she is wrong blames all the problems that we have mars having on the international media. on human rights groups. on other governments. richardson city was also alarmed by her response when he raised the issue of two reuters journalists wristed in yangon in december that been investigating the written job crisis i was very happy and distressed right downtown for the reaction to my point that this issue of reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly. brought almost an explosion on her part a former top diplomat richardson is nonfinite goshi a team with some of the world's most formidable regimes including saddam hussein and the government of north korea but this time he's chosen to walk away a decidedly undiplomatic departure media on one hand here in our let's go live now to our correspondent scott haile he's in bangkok but scott you've been covering the issue of of me amar and the range of people in the the crisis that has been unfolding for the last six months or so. how much of a setback then is bill richardson's departure and indeed his words of criticism of the panel. martin i think right now the way you can look at it the only way you can really look at it is this new commission the just really went into action this week has fallen on its face out of the gate because he was the most high profile diplomat on this ten member commission and obviously he was kind of going to be used to to show you know international legitimacy to the investigations the implementation this commission was more focused on the implementation of a previous commission led by kofi annan the former secretary general the united nations so this commission was supposed to implement those recommendations and obviously you know kind of in this very dramatic resignation that we just saw that stumbled right out of the gates how do they recover from this that's going to be very difficult it's pretty ironic i would say that you know i would imagine on song suchi hand-picked bill richardson to come on to this commission to be part of this commission for international legitimacy and he's leaving just for one of the main reasons he said because she believes that there is this international conspiracy against me and mar so right now i would say obviously there's going to be some some rethinking of how this commission can gain any legitimacy and move forward with their their mandate and that is to start to implement these recommendations from the kofi anon were kind commission it's pretty interesting is that from what bill richardson is saying the point of real contention between the two of them was over the fate of the treatment of the two russia's gentleness. absolutely and when he went into that a little bit more that's when what i was talking about when she felt as though that there's an international almost conspiracy against her and her government and me anymore because of what's been coming out in the media and that's obviously why these two warders journalists are are going through the situation of going through and being charged with what they're being charged with taking secret documents from an official in recounts they were investigating what was going on in rakhine state and they could face up to fifteen years that trial is ongoing their next hearing is probably going to be in about two weeks time so again i would imagine that's and as bill richardson himself said it became a very fiery conversation that was a hard line for her and obviously that was a hard line for him because he feels as though going forward for this to to be handled the best way possible there needs to be transparency and right now there is not so he felt as though that the the situation with the reuters journalists should be brought up should be discussed she was hard line about that she felt as though this is part of international conspiracy against her government and that's why you know i would imagine probably either the beginning of the end for bill richardson or right then and there he said ok that's it i need to leave but but obviously moving forward the myanmar government unsung suchi really needs to figure out how this commission can regain any type of religious didn't see after what happened even without his first trip to work on state martine scott who live in bangkok thank you. now the global child she thinks that children suspended its operations in afghanistan a deadly attack on its jalalabad office forty six people in the building. a soldier and three members of self-will killed several others wounded i feel has claimed responsibility for glass reports from the capital kabul. the attack began with a car bomb at the door of the state of the children office in jalalabad in eastern afghanistan the gunman stormed the building for more than eight hours they battled afghan security forces while dozens of save the children staff were trapped inside the building was set on fire eventually afghan police and soldiers killed the attackers and rescued the staff afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for children to be born following decades of war insecurity and poverty for twelve years save the children has worked with afghan communities to help kids arrive but the attack on the agency's office in jalalabad suggest it's becoming increasingly difficult for staff to help afghans without becoming victims of the conflict themselves it's quite possible to save the children that would leave afghanistan and the onus is on the afghan government to provide security for the latest to to stick on aid worker security show that over the last fifteen years their jobs have become much more dangerous in two thousand and sixteen there were one hundred fifty eight attacks on aid organizations around the world in which one hundred to one hundred workers were killed ninety eight wounded and eighty nine kidnapped that's almost triple the number of attacks in two thousand and three south sudan is the most dangerous country for aid workers followed by afghanistan and syria the u.n. humanitarian coordinator calls afghanistan one of the most challenging and dangerous environments for humanitarians in two thousand and seventeen seventeen aid workers were killed and thirty two injured doctors without borders withdrew from the northern afghan city of could use in two thousand and fifteen after the medical charities hospital was mistakenly destroyed by a u.s. airstrike and last year the international red cross which is operated in afghanistan for more than thirty years close to clinics and limited his operations nationwide after seven staff members were killed and others abducted now we're in a very. explosive situation i think where we note the community says communities can no longer guarantee all safety and all roxas and that's now where it's becoming extremely difficult. to know. who we can rely on and that's that's the challenge today more so than in the last thirty years afghanistan is dependent on eight organizations here gunmen were to drive them out the afghan government can't support the social services programs on which millions of afghans depend save the children says it helps one point four million children in afghanistan and it's committed to its work here the organization would like to restart its programs but it can only do so when it's short staffed can work safely jennifer glass al-jazeera kabul. we have a lot more to come in this al-jazeera news hour including. i'm james bay. where president trump is expected in the coming hours will be set by the global elite to gather here. a scientific breakthrough in china as monk is a closed for the first time. and installed for the first time will be a career player the last fall but tennis grand slam tatiana will have the details from the australian and. now former u.s. gymnastics team doctor has been sentenced for sexually assaulting female athletes and patients for decades under the guise of medical treatment the president of michigan state university who was in charge at the time has just resigned larry nasser was given a prison term of up to one hundred seventy five years for molesting girls and young women that was after a seven day hearing in which more than one hundred fifty victims spoke out about the abuse that they had suffered at his hands. and now among them were the u.s. olympian gymnasts ali raisman mckayla maroney jordan and simone by now many of them spoke at their relief at the outcome but said others needed to be held accountable for letting nothing as campaign of abuse continue john hendren report. this staggering sentence mattered less than the statement it made oh wow. mr. whitehead to. dr larry nasser was already handed a sixty year prison term for related child pornography last month that will keep the fifty four year old away from children for life perhaps you have figured it out by now but little girls don't see little forever they grow into strong women that we turn to destroy your world he pleaded guilty to molesting seven girls in usa gymnastics in michigan state university through intimate treatments that he told them had therapeutic value two thousand and. six took her own life. because it couldn't do with things anymore but he was accused by more than one hundred fifty women and how dare you say sorry about everything you've done and all the lives you've destroyed we all see right through your bull now you're a pathetic monster and it's only sorry you got caught the accusers included gold medalists some own byelaws alley reisman gabby douglas in mckayla maroney who statement was read by a prosecutor dr nasser was not a doctor. he in fact was in forever shot of the a child molester a monster of a human being and a story. he abused my trust he abused my body and he left scars and my psyche that may never go away the victim's anger went beyond nasser this monster was also the architect of policies and procedures that are supposed to protect athletes from sexual abuse for both usa gymnastics and the u.s. embassy abuser's your time is up the survivors are here standing toe and we are not going anywhere on monday three leaders of usa gymnastics the national governing body for the olympic sport resigned under pressure among nasser's latest accuser is byles one of the most decorated gymnast in olympic history on twitter she said she dreaded returning to the training center where she was abused this week usa olympics announced it will close the texas center that haunts or whether the organization can regain the trust of dozens of women who say it failed to protect them remains an open question john hendren al-jazeera. the u.s. president says he's willing to be interviewed by investigators looking into alleged collusion between his presidential campaign and russia donald trump told reporters he was looking forward to speaking to special counsel robert mueller under oath subject to his lawyers approval or is leading the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election castro has the latest from washington. a sense of confidence and optimism is what trump projected at least publicly he spoke to a group of reporters informally while at the white house. you know you certainly hear that if you don't believe what. is not struck you are. looking for you i believe you have a reason to look like you. and you know you are in of course you heard that important call vs that trump inserted there subject to the advice of his lawyers and the fear among. legal team is the president's penchant for hyperbole and for half truths and even lying to the american public and to the news media for which he's paid little consequence politically but in a room before investigators and is under oath it is a different matter altogether and there is a fear that trump may perjure himself and he does not stick to the straight and narrow facts and the truth the fact though that this investigation has left at this point bringing the president himself face to face with investigators is an indication of the the circular motion of investigators first doing their homework with documents and then interviewing top officials and now reaching the apex of the president of the united states himself donald trump who said he has no idea when this interview will occur although it could happen in the next two to three weeks and president trump has just left for the world economic forum in davos switzerland where hill address business leaders and other dignitaries senior u.s. officials have hit back at suggestions that don't trump america first agenda is hurting globalization and trade many of the forms say there is a certain skepticism of what he brings to the table james phase reports now from davus. high in the swiss alps this is the ultimate annual gathering of the global elite captains of industry business commas and finance how fair talk fest every year here in davos see you might think the u.s. is first a businessman president in decades would fit right in these are powerful people but they mostly do business in a sober and polite manner unlike trump they are the richest people and represent the most wealthy companies on earth but they tend to take a global view unlike trump the motto of the world economic forum is working together in a fractured world in and so he is he's not really a representative of that philosophy the idea of america first is is the antithesis of that it's the idea of you know raising one nation one community above those of all others and i think that's really what's. challenging to this community about about donald trump i think if you read between the lines of what it takes to bring everybody together diversity of thought and all of the turn that it creates is part of the process and i hope that that he takes the new accountants here this week trump will be the first president to address stabb boss since bill clinton eighteen years ago those who wish to roll back the forces of globalization because they ferrets disruptive consequences i believe are plainly wrong fifty years of experience shows that greater economic integration and political cooperation. or positive forces. that message was counted in time by repeated protests around the world by antiglobalization congress now nearly two decades on the voice questioning spiritual global trade is the president himself from this day forward it's going to be only america first president made his name and his money signing people up to his golf clubs. he is the almost guest here at davos but he remains a guest and not a member of this club james days al-jazeera davos switzerland turkish media has questioned the u.s. version of a telephone conversation between the turkish president and president trump the pair spoke on the phone about syria but turkey denies that the u.s. commander in chief raised his concerns about escalating violence in northern syria turkey has launched an air and ground operation in the city of a freend due to the y.p. g. presence there the turkish government considers the y. p g a terrorist group but the u.s. sees the kurdish fighters as allies helping it in its fight against eisel on wednesday president trump want turkey to cattail its military operation in the northern syria or risk conflict with us forces. the syrians who have survived a deadly snowstorm along the country's mountainous border and now calling on the lebanese government to open its doors to refugees last week seven seventeen people furries to death whilst illegally crossing into lebanon along a well known people smuggling route then the harder has more from the bekaa valley . but she watched her father in law and sister in law freeze to death syrian refugees were caught in a fear snowstorm as people smugglers tracked them across mountains to reach seventeen people died including children said they asked the smugglers for help but instead they abandoned. we asked the smuggler to help us go back he wanted money he kept threatening us with guns we had no choice but to comply my father in law was old and needed to go back and my children needed and i had to go back the smuggling route is an eight hour journey through difficult terrain and on that particular day weather conditions were very bad the rescue and search effort lasted for days. from the city of rekha she went back to syria because she couldn't afford to treat her sick child in lebanon's bekaa valley her one month old girl died in syria and had to return to her family in lebanon syrians like her can't use government run border crossings if they don't want to lose their status with the united nations it's not just that. the lebanese authorities to open the border. money to those who want to cross illegally. and that costs hundreds of. hundred dollars we go to the government. lebanon just like syria's other neighbors jordan and turkey no longer accept refugees at the start of the syrian conflict more than one of million syrian refugees entered soon after the lebanese government said it was unable to cope with the vast numbers in two thousand and fifteen it imposed new restrictions ending its open door policy. some lebanese politicians have been calling for refugees to return at least to areas where the war has ended and calm has returned but the u.n. and the international committee of the red cross don't consider syria safe yet for many refugees safety is not their only concern. if we go back to syria we can survive our homes are destroyed and so are our livelihoods there are no jobs so how do we live at least here we got some help from the. father died in the snowstorm and his nieces. lost their mother. the girls need to go back to syria to be raised by their grandmother but because they entered lebanon legally the only way back is through the mountains. because lebannon. the united nations has expressed a lot of reports of summary executions in libya demanding the every senior libyan military command allied to the renegade general. is also wanted by the international criminal court in the hague it's in response to pictures that have emerged on social media reportedly showing mahmoud. carrying out some ameri killings in the city of benghazi it appears to have happened outside a mosque where more than thirty people were killed in bombings on tuesday. palestinians in the occupied west bank and finally gained access to three g. cell service after israel lifted a ban on the technology but the infrastructure upgrade wasn't allowed in gaza where users are still on much slower networks andrew simmons has more now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. it speed a long haul for everyone in the cell phone business here but now the big switch on has happened intense competition between two palestinian companies while and what an ear to give their customers are three g. service old technology maybe but it's a first here it's a good for the past in the economy finally or customers have a choice to get data services to get connectivity. they've rolled out the promotions the marketing campaigns and t.v. adverts until now the internet in palestine has only been available from wife i hope spots or at home to everyone's frustration their ten years behind the rest of the world whatever the commercial rights but. call reality about most things that go on in the occupied west bank that's because israel has a handle of whatever comes in whatever goes out even the technology inside the palestinians smartphone. the green spot smog thousands of cellphone mosques but the bad patches show areas see as sprawl of land in the occupied west bank where israel imposes tougher restrictions the companies do their best to improve the cell phone range but they're also up against israeli signals available in some places and these services are thirty percent cheaper nevertheless some people believe there will be loyalty to the palestinian companies until this moment they choose sometimes to choose some products over the israeli products even that the israeli products and maybe better quality because they still try to make that conscious decision of not supporting the israeli occupation but what the cell phone users think. that the world stopped using three g. and we have just started i just hope we can catch up to the technology. i think it was only through international pressure that give us. it was outside political pressure some of it from the united states that got cell phone companies this fall and they just want to be on a level playing field sooner rather than later and so slow progress maybe but palestinians aren't giving up with their demands for human rights and it's time rights under simmons al-jazeera ramallah in the occupied west bank still to come on the al-jazeera news. egypt mocks seven years since the fall of president hosni mubarak. and in sports le bron james hits the scoring milestone in the n.b.a. he thing youngest person to do it tatiana will have more. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. at long last winter is showing itself in the middle of china you can't really mistake that can your full cost of a lot of snow that may what extent as far as shanghai where the maximum temperature on thursday is no more than three is still fifteen infusion is still twenty two in hong kong but that's ok been it's not surprising this is where winter should have been for the last week or so it is drifting slowly south and that's your precious snow in the forecast for fries at long last the season's show self south this we're into wet season here and there the malays are should be drying off now in tonga should be dry so indonesia is the place where the which is where there has been has been flooding in bali and some in java but these clouds interesting it suggests has been sharing stuff in some time including in bangkok not a usual thing for late january or indeed february but that's in the forecast for the next day or possibly two days so the heaviest is for the sas makes a difference to you there's been some action around delhi from the point of view where that we've had showers rolling through thunderstorms disappear into nepal it has stood at the air the air quality has improved to some degree it'll probably go back down again because nothing much else is moving in the next two days. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. this is the most dangerous most vicious where the slightest error means a one way ticket over the real values that may not come there to morrow holds we may not reach children braving tough conditions facing death at every turn. it's a very serious here. the gamble with their lives just to run in the. risking it all on al-jazeera. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs much better marks the troop build up is going to reinvent stuff all the old made software what it is to change the world to high tech visionaries breakthroughs inspired the digital revolution jobs and gates face to face at this time on al-jazeera. the civil to the headlines and here in the al-jazeera news a brazilian court has upheld a conviction against the former president louis enough fionnula the silver for corruption and money laundering speaking to supporters he insisted he will seek reelection in october. a veteran u.s. diplomat has quit an international advisory panel tackling the ranger crisis calling it a whitewash bill richardson quit the group as it was making its first trip to me a month rakhine state seven hundred thousand ranger have fled. the region for bangladesh is the start of a military crackdown last year. a former u.s. gymnastics doctor has been sentenced to sexually assaulting athletes and patients for decades under the guise of medical treatments larry nasser pleaded guilty after being accused by more than one hundred fifty women including several u.s. a limbic gold medalists the president of michigan state university who was in charge of the time has just resigned. we can speak now to. us in new york city she's the women's reporter at huff post and a lot to you but she interviewed many of these women those just wondering what has been the impact of this these series of powerful testimony being heard in court so many women more than one hundred fifty yeah there's been so many impact statements and i think that really this case allowed for as for survivors voices to be heard and it really sends a message that predators like this will not be enabled any longer and larger institutions like usa gymnastics and michigan state university i think the victim impact statements were very cathartic and emotional and powerful and allowed some of the survivors to heal and it sounds almost from a distance as if it's created a kind of a movement and all me i think at one point the judge referred to and they must be pretty happy to hear of the latest resignation from michigan state university. yes definitely i think a lot of the women were really happy recently with that resignation i think a lot of them are very happy with the sentencing as well when the courtroom ended and certainly sentencing was handed down the women clap some cried people were hugging it was a really joyous moment and the big question really is how much how many more heads need to roll in order for those who have survived this abuse and perhaps those who may be going through similar sorts of distress how much how many people need to go in order to give them confidence that it can't happen again yeah that's a great question i think that a lot of the survivors of mass are asking for usa gymnastics and michigan state university representatives to be held accountable some of the women spoke in their impact statements and said you know we got to nasser first and next we're coming for these other institutions so i do think more people have to fall before these survivors feel like the people who enabled this abuse are held accountable and this is of kools a retaining to gymnastics has there been any indication these any suggestion that the sports within the u.s. will now be open to investigation. you know actually a lot of the women who were abused by nasser weren't actually gymnast's they were ice skaters softball players runners they were athletes of all kinds so i think that while this will shake the gymnastics community to its very core i think that a lot of parents and a lot of other young athletes are going to be looking at the different relationships with coaches and trainers in sports across the country alone thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us live from new york. no ages last main opposition candidate for an upcoming presidential election has withdrawn from the race. made the announcement just as president after fattah el-sisi filed his nomination papers it comes a day after former army chief of staff left tenant general sami and then was detained after he said that he would contest the race human rights lawyer was the first to announce in the vendor that he would run against the incumbent president after further l.c.c. . all this indicators were pointing towards planned intentions to poison and grab the entire operation and to evacuated from its presumed democratic meaning and to push us into spaces which we are not able to handle we are honored to not participate. now today january the twenty fifth marks the seventh anniversary of the egyptian revolution that brought down president hosni mubarak and response downtown cairo is in lockdown the security forces seal off all entrances to to where square the so-called ground zero of the uprising ben smith has been speaking to some of the people who were there. i i chance of down with mubarak who wants have been enough to earn a beating from egypt's feared security services that on january twenty fifth twenty eleven the police made only a half hearted attempts to stop hundreds of thousands of egyptians packing tahrir square in cairo to demand the resignation of president hosni mubarak i don't rahman ferrous and ali have joined those protests seven years ago for what. we used to say that the revolution is coming that it was our dring to change the regime through revolution we've been protesting for years but it was only ever a few dozen one hundred people so the right team considered us a bunch of children. for three weeks mubarak clung to power he fired cabinet ministers and promised reforms but he refused to meet the main demand that the now millions of protesters nationwide were not moving they have to move on we need democracy needs a change of these police. amnesty international says more than eight hundred forty people were killed during the revolution as once friendly governments from the u.s. and europe abandon the barack the eighty two year old autocrat was isolated. was finally on february eleventh twenty eleven resigned and handed over power to the military. that. you know with and the would have feeling i lost my voice i kept saying the people have overthrown the regime that it was a jew. the came true i felt we had something like a mini democracy i felt competition between parties then ceasing came egypt's post revolution euphoria didn't last long its first democratically elected leader lasted just twelve months i the muslim brotherhood's mohamed morsi was overthrown in a military coup led by fattah el-sisi. cc's now president standing for reelection for a second term in march just like mubarak has cracked down on the sand silenced rivals and on the anniversary of that revolution tahrir square has been sealed off just in case bernard smith al-jazeera. the chinese scientists have managed to clone two monkeys in a lab they're cold and quark wa and they are identical twins created in the same process and that created dolly the sheep that was about twenty years ago it's called somatic cell nuclear transfer now it's the first time that primates have been cloned using this technique and it's as i say the same way that was used twenty years ago by scientists in scotland when they claimed dolly the sheep scientists have cloned twenty three other mammal species including rats dogs horses and rabbits but the breakthrough in cloning the first ever primate raises ethical concerns about what could come next and so we can now talk to dr arthur caplan who is in ridgefield connecticut in the united states he's director of the division of medical ethics at new york university's langan medical center thank you for joining us i'm just wondering first what's your reaction to this medical first the cloning of monkeys. well my keen it's a major step people have been trying to clone primates ever since dolly was created and that's twenty years ago and they're all so it's been a difficult process to make it work in primates what was a little different here is that the new cells basically forms fetal monkeys to do the dolly stuff cloning not from adult cells so the younger cell seemed to have been the key to the breakthrough the other interesting fact is it took place in china china has been moving aggressively to. establish itself in genetic engineering and biotechnology this paper appears in a very prestigious journal i have no doubt that the experiment has now it and i think it reminds us that china's going to be a player in the economics of biotechnology in the years to come and that tell us what are the practical benefits that that can accrue full human beings as a consequence if this claiming technique. well i think a lot of people are thinking if they didn't monkeys maybe people but remember it took him thirty pregnancies to produce the two monkeys and they had problems with some other monkeys on the way it's still not ready for use or application in human beings we're not going to see human cloning and shouldn't anytime soon you have to replicate this and show that you can do it without having stillborns without having to use basically dozens of embryos to get these two months but there are still practical applications one is monkeys are used for research to find answers to human diseases and you can certainly study them but they're scarce they're rare they're expensive cloning them would give you a new tool to try and have more of this kind of monkey available for medical research which would benefit humans the other use is you know many primates are on the border of extinction gorillas chimpanzees many other primates species are under pressure cloning may give you a way to maintain the species not ideal because everybody is as you said a twin a genetic copy and that's not ideal for breeding the healthiest species but maybe it's a way to hang in there until we can figure out how to genetically end it these animals and then get more diversity back delta alpha kappa and interesting to talk to thank you very much indeed my pleasure. now the british film the death of stalin was supposed to open in russian cinemas on thursday but the controversial black comedy about fullness soviet leader joseph stalin has effectively been banned from release across the country rory chalons reports that the death of stalin is unsurprisingly considering its source material the blackest of black comedies the profane british satire mocks the panic of talks a view to vishal is following the murderous tyrant stroke in one nine hundred fifty three. or you get a spike it's been acclaimed by western critics but in russia the film is no laughing matter though he denies censorship this week the culture ministry revoked the film's distribution license citing extremist content. got an early viewing as a member of the ministry's public council he wasn't impressed. with marshals of the great but to logic war covered in medals when the entire least of the state's leaders get portrayed in pathetic and vulgar images at this point art turns into keach a lesson cern's insert insult and the line is crossed for the state and individual russians for sometime similar sometimes different reasons the stalin years are a highly sensitive subject at a moscow exhibition on the great terror of nine hundred thirty seven you can view execution quotas for thousands of people at a time many living russians lost parents or grandparents the wounds are still raw or for some to rauf a cinematic comedy others would like a chance to see it. everyone should decide for themselves to watch it or not it should be a personal choice. you can't loftus it you should think about it and correct your mistakes but it's not even slightly funny. all morning is good. than most but i don't think you can laugh at it it's hard to story to laugh at it means to laugh at yourself late last year a somber monument to soviet repressions was unveiled in the capital by vladimir putin but the careful language he used reveals how little he feels there is to be gained from investigating historical abuses of state power too closely. national. we under our descendants should remember the tragedy of repression about the causes which lead to it but it doesn't mean demanding that accounts be settled we must never again push society to the dangerous precipice of division now it is important for all of us to rely on the values of trust and stability. starlin may be the bloodiest of a long line of desk rulers but his brutal legacy also comes tightly bundled with the defeat of fascism the modern russian state totem of unity against hostile outsiders for russians or for a sees the death of stalin is a foreign trespass on hallowed ground in a particularly vulgar one that in mocking the terrifying of surtees stalin ism the film also threatens the country's carefully sanctified narrative of world war two glory and that has proven unacceptable rory talons al-jazeera moscow. thank you very much roger federer may be no stranger to an australian open semifinal he has reached it for a fourteenth time but his opponent is something of a surprise and least homan reports federer is excited to be in among some exciting up and coming players in the last four spaces it was list semifinal but no one would have predicted the world number fifty eight he couldn't show them both as the ninety seventh ranked tennis said grinned the latter an american from tennessee had never won a grand slam much before this tournament but he's unlikely run appeared destined to end. chongjin basin novak djokovic john he's white of the quarterfinals of a twenty one year old looked composed as he went on first straight sets victory he's the first korean to reach the last four of a grad slam. with this approach because i really don't know i make sammy's i've been such a no vote. good player and they were playing second to getting grants then i was surprised. so i'm going couldn't escape control the sea in defeat he had wiped his twitter account after a number of tweets suggesting far right u.s. political views were highlighted and he had a message to read to the media who seek to put people in these little boxes so that you can order the world in your already assumed preconceived ideas you strip away any individual ality for the sake of demonizing by way of the collective. with a handful of followers and some likes on twitter my fate has been sealed in your minds. roger federer a is one man who knows how to charm the media and the thirty six year old made light work of his quarterfinal opponent with this wispy thomas bet it came straight sets as he paid for twenty eight grand slam but he's also celebrating the rise of hewn schoen and fellow quarter finalist kyle let me and so i like it when we don't know the guys i don't hardly know chung to be honest i've hardly spoken to him. i had one like your parents once was over in london and that's about it and otherwise of maybe shaking his hand twice and spoken a few words to him so i don't know these guys in a way i like it because it's really something totally new to me in the women's draw well the one similar to how a party they came a slow start to evolve to the last four she trailed six they'd caroline a place called the three love in the first set the rate of the first six three six two six three. halep will face german and julie covering the semifinals coba crushed american medicine keys in just fifty one minutes as she looks to add to her twenty sixteen title in melbourne i can lease home an al-jazeera well bad game between young chang and tennis sangram with actually delayed for a short time by the stadiums pay system take a listen. i suspect this may be only your sister show that you wait back to me to not say seventy times so what does that mean. he's a gentleman we're just finding out from my internal one of this one that message me just i. ladies and gentlemen thanks for your patience love was all serina williams says she's ready to step back into competitive tennis five months off to having her daughter the twenty three time grand slam winner has been named in the united states fed cup squad for the last round tie against the netherlands in february williams withdrew from the australian open saying she wasn't get ready to compete. the bron james has become the youngest possible player to reach thirty thousand points in the n.b.a. james became the seventh member of the thirty k. club as he scored twenty eight points for the cleveland cavaliers against the fan ontario spurs on monday his mall sign wasn't sufficient to stop the calf from dropping the temp game out of tane the spurs a one hundred fourteen to one hundred to win a space to lots of fluff a liberal while never fully appreciate what i do any time our conversation about a persuader loss you know i've always told you jason told our guys back home looking forward to the moment when i'm. very sick and be done with the game and i can sit back with my family and my friends we can sit back drink some wine talk about all the companies that i had in fees that i'll be able to accomplish upon the path kobe bryant to become the youngest to reach thirty thousand points but brian how does own reason to celebrate on this you say the five time n.b.a. champion has been nominated for an oscar for the best animated short film he helped produce titled day of basketball it's based on a poem he wrote upon his retirement from basketball in two thousand and fifty five says close. friends. former world number one tiger woods has been practicing at torrey pines in san diego ahead of his first page of a tour parents in almost a year the fourteen time major champion has been making his final preparations on wednesday before he takes part in the farmers insurance open that begins on thursday woods has dealt with several issues over the last few years including a back and knee injury and some personal problems as well but he is ready to make his comeback the forty two year old is a seven time champion at this very event that's a record in itself. i have to rely on my own feels and play around my body can and cannot do. it's not to look like it used to make that oh how the mobility that i do not like i used to and this is the reality and now it's just a matter of what can i do and i says you know practicing getting my feels and trusting me experimenting a lot to try and figure out what can this body do an explosive can it be you know how i'm going to control shots with different shapes and i can have different feels and some of that stuff is yes some of the stuff is different. and absolute learning it was a day to forget for india as the test against south africa started on wednesday the indians won the toss and bought it could never really get going captain for at caerleon to test what pajaro scored fifty years but other than that it was south africa's day in johannesburg india all out a one hundred eighty seven the highest for six for one of the close of play. i think we did have a good day i think it's a good market and i think if it's on the field really good. you mistakes in there and i think when eighty six is really good think the guys put the right use and we would. we had to work hard to score runs but amount of total we have think it is as good as quoting two hundred on any record so as as we thought we got over it and if we board well i think of we'll get them out. i would say it was a good day for us now the oldest motor really kick starts the new world really championship season both the month akala race that was first staged in nineteen eleven and it formally starts on thursday and ahead of it belgian terry newville finished quit his day when say its first shakedown otherwise known as a test before the race to be done he saw to it he was second quickest with the tonic surprisingly reigning world champion sebastian came in seventh but the french missed still the man to look out for he's looking for a sick consecutive championship this year. the spot for now monitor. and that's all for mayhem and this al-jazeera news jane is in the see things. for the benefit of saddam. so bad they see the importance of guys. with. documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. with bureaus spawning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera is correspondents live in 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