coming up in the next sixty minutes. the u.s. accuses the syrian government of continuing to use chemical weapons on its own people. three kenyan t.v. channels remain off the air despite a court order allowing them to reopen. poland senate passes a controversial law that would regulate holocaust speech outraging israel. passing new shipping routes in the arctic is paving the way for environmental and safety has of. the united states is accuse the syrian government of continuing to use chemical weapons against its own people and seeking new ways to deliver them now this follows a suspected chlorine gas attack very close to damascus on thursday in which at least three people were injured our correspondent ruslan children has more now from the state department. the civil war in syria has not been at the top of the news agenda here in washington for at least several weeks but on thursday the trumpet ministration made known a couple of a serious concerns about the conduct of the war on the part of the government of president bashar al assad first reporters were told in a briefing off camera that they do believe that the syrian government still has a chemical weapons arsenal and did not come clean about the extent of their chemical weapons holdings back during the obama administration when they gave up their weapons in order to not face any sort of u.s. military action for targeting people with chemical weapons during the syrian civil war then here at the state department new allegations about the use of a weapon that technically isn't a weapon but still has very dangerous effects when used against people we are watching very carefully and the united states is an extremely concerned about yet another report of the use of chlorine gas by syria the syrian regime to terrorize innocent civilians in the east good of syria outside of damascus if confirmed the attack is the third reported instance in the past thirty days in east ghouta we take the allegations of chemical weapons use very seriously and are working with our partners on the ground to investigate the reports so beyond raising public awareness about the security situation inside syria the trumpet ministration is trying to see if they can somehow come up with a new way of verifying that the syrian government still does possess chemical weapons there had been an organization known as the joint investigative mechanism which should have been renewed according to the u.s. at the end of december so that it could continue its work trying to verify what syria is doing and what it's not doing in terms of using chemical weapons russia which is serious close down. like took action and said no we don't want to reauthorize this body so now u.s. officials are trying to figure out if there's a new way of standing up a group that can try to not only gather the evidence of what syria is doing against its own people but use that evidence as a foundation for possibly lobbying potential sanctions against the assad government charles is a chemical weapons expert and he says it seems little can be done to deter president assad's use of chemical weapons. the united nations had an investigation which was continuing on after that early spring attack and they identified syria as one of the agents and they identified the government as being the person responsible for however that that organization has since ended in the russians have vetoed the continued operation of that order so it's a difficult position you know in from postural thoughts perspective i mean he's going to be attentive to what's going on in north korea and also what's going on in the launch he will of notice that saddam hussein was removed from power after he got rid of his weapons of mass destruction he will have noticed the cut off he is removed from power after he got rid of his weapons of mass destruction so the the dynamic is extremely dangerous right now even if you're most successful in getting rid of the weapons has the united nations inspectors were trying to do you can't erase people's memories that you can't you know cause the bottom is to be taken by the people involved and so these engineers and scientists have been continuing apparently to develop the you know the the munitions of this the artillery shells or the rockets that deliver the chemical agent so you know that is apparently what the united states is claiming they are continuing to pursue presumably with the objective of making it harder to attribute the origin of these of these weapons to the to the regime itself you know as as the you know the syrians have been trying to make the case that well you don't know that we did it it could have been isis the russians have also made that case so the ability to diffuse responsibility maybe their objective well meanwhile government has said killed at least twenty eight people across the southern countryside of italy a province that's according to the syrian observatory for human rights the government is trying to retake the whole province which is under the control of. that the greatest dominated by this group formerly known as. the u.n. says the syrian government is being even more uncooperative than before when it comes to delivering aid to besieged areas the humanitarian advise of assyria young egeland also criticize the rebels for putting up of sickles humanitarian diplomacy seems to be totally impotent we're getting nowhere and i'm on the last convoy to a besieged area was at the end of november the twenty eighth of november to a place called national beer and it was only for seven thousand two hundred people so through december and through general ri hasn't been a single convoy of lifesaving relief medical supplies food to in me besieged area the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is set to deliver a rare address at the un security council later this month but the israeli un ambassador says such a move would put an end to any possibility of future peace talks is a diplomatic editor jane spays. with relations between the u.s. and the palestinians already at their lowest point for years the palestinian leader is taking the dramatic step of flying to the united nations this month it means a showdown with the americans and the israelis on the floor of the un security council every month for council meets to discuss the conflict normally ambassadors of israel and of palestine attend but in a deeply unusual move mahmoud abbas will himself be there he's angered by the trumpet ministrations decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and to cut a large chunk of its funding to the u.n. agency that provides humanitarian aid to palestinians the last straw was president trumps attack on him last week at davos he said he disrespected vice president mike pence declined to give an audience to when he visited the middle east the decision of the palestinian leader to come to the u.n. it was announced by the incoming president of the security council what do you hope it will achieve having him here in the council chamber. president abbas will come it will be a good thing and it will be a good thing for the members of the security council to listen to the president himself it will be beneficial for everyone this really ambassador to the united nations danny down on has issued a statement saying that president abbas is completely misreading the situation and harming the prospects for his own people it's not clear at this stage who will attend the security council meeting for israel or the united states jamesburg out zero of the united nations more than nine hundred fifty miners in south africa a stuck underground after a storm knocked out power the beer trix gold mine is near the city of vulcan that in central freestate sixty five people have been rescued the mining companies are. the workers are being supplied with food and water and are not in media danger. three kenyan television stations remain off the air despite a court ordering they reopen the government close to say sions on choose a after they try to broadcast a mock inauguration ceremony staged by the opposition leader. catherine story from the kenyan capital nairobi lunchtime news at n.t.v. one of three t.v. stations switched off by the communications of of kenya on tuesday the news bulletin was only available online cutting off millions of iranians nationwide who can't afford the internet. here's why opposition leader right loading or taking an informal oath swearing to be as he called himself the people's president tens of thousands of his supporters rather more gratian a tuesday government wants t.v. stations against providing live coverage because of security reasons the directive was ignored by some the government allowed the event to take place so i don't get the sense of what is illegal but is allowed to take place. and then it will be an offense i don't i don't understand the ministers. on why they allowed the event but cannot allow coverage the high court has now ordered the resumption of t.v. services until a challenge to the government ban is had in two weeks the cabinet secretary in charge of security to sit in this office of the president says that tuesday's symbolic swearing in of rye loading was an attempt to overthrow the government and a threat to national security he say the t.v. stations that were taken off air while facilitating that illegality. police have also arrested the lawyer who presided over the whole thing and have declared the national resistance movement an organized criminal group the opposition coalition started the movement last year to push for electoral reforms through peaceful resistance these opposition leaders say plans to intimidate them won't work really for for a long time to leave this country a new constitution in twenty terms. the new constitution really with all the freedoms that it entails is under serious turk know the says he doesn't recognize who are looking at as president because he won the presidential election last august the result was invalidated by the supreme court it remains unclear what his next steps will be or even what he will people's president really means catherine sorry al-jazeera nairobi kenya. mourners in the democratic republic of congo are calling for the body of a veteran opposition leader to be repatriated from belgium a year after his death they packed the catholic cathedral in kinshasa to remember at the end she's a kennedy many accuse officials of failing to have his body returned to avoid a funeral service that could turn into a mass rally against the president there's been violence and death and demonstrations calling for president kabila to step down. at least five previously unreported mass graves have been uncovered in miramar by the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur turner has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites and the u.s. is fake and out the state department saying it's deeply troubled by the news scott hyla reports now from younger on. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies of half buried men. its investigation suggest at least five previously unreported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. wherever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by the military which they burnt down using launchers. it's not the massacre took place in dar pin rakhine state and a few weeks ago for the first time the military here said that soldiers were involved in civilian deaths it acknowledged one mass grave containing the bodies of ten rangers it's called terrorists the u.n. says reports of more mass graves warrants further investigation. i do not have the details of this particular site or the village. but it is. it is. you can see a pattern that we said earlier. you know we had to i told. india where the mass graves were discovered. but when i was talking to some of the refugees amounted to me he had he had four hundred in thirty plus body before he escaped his town. and i. grow names of people. i let you kill for missing so this is something that needs to be investigated and this is why we've called for a fact finding mission and human rights watch says there's growing evidence of genocide in rakhine state what is most worrisome about this report beyond obviously the killings is now the effort to cover this up that they discovered. in some instances acid is being used to burn off the features of the people killed or burned off the fingerprints to try to obstruct any accountability and that shows a degree of pre-planning that will really i think impact the international community's decisions about whether this is constitutes genocide or not you know mars government has previously denied any reports of a massacre it has now cut off access to good up in other than tightly controlled government trips to the area north and with kind state where there was violence has been closed off to the u.n. humanitarian groups and journalists it's got harder al-jazeera yangon but we've been speaking to the associated press janice foster clue can tell just how his team verified the footage. we found a guy named mohammed. who worked at the kiosk in one of the camps and he had the original cell phone memory card that he had taken in myanmar and he had wrapped it up with plastic and tied it to his thigh you know and walked through these checkpoints and into bangladesh without it getting taken so we had the original footage of these graves now to verify and we asked him questions about what was in these videos how he knew what was in the videos where he was when he took them and then we went to a nearly two dozen other people from the village separately to ask them similar questions about those videos and you know pretty much everyone agreed it was good up here and everyone recognized you know things as granular as the placement of banana trees or you know where rice paddies were in relation to you know trees the background of various hills so we felt pretty confident that these videos were authentic we have the actual memory card with the time stamp showing the date that it was taken at the time and then we have the corroborating evidence from the people there lots of videos including of a good option but without the time stamp it does have much less weight the u.n. secretary general antonio tatar says cool for the release of the two john this is being detained in me in ma the two men who work for reuters were arrested in yangon in december while covering the range of crisis they're accused of violating the official secrets act and face up to fourteen years in prison they've been refused bail. we've got a lot more to come on this news hour including twenty eight russian athletes have their lifetime bans for dating lifted mechanic compete in the upcoming winter games plus. the innocent is in a little sweat thousands of migrants continue to try to reach the united states but at this arrival point for deportation some people tell us the routes have become much more dangerous and. a setback still has plenty of fight in him will explain all install. of the white house is expected to release a controversial memo about the way the f.b.i. and the justice department went about the investigation into alleged russian interferes in the twenty sixteen presidential election the document apparently claims there was anti trump bias in both department official has the details from washington i remember has dominated talk in washington for days donald trump was even asked about it as he left his state of the union speech something. that was going to happen that in fact the four page memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee it alleges a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration while investigating the trump campaign during the u.s. election the f.b.i. issued a real statement arguing that there were important details left out which would fundamentally impact the memos accuracy and the justice department says releasing the document would be extraordinarily reckless it's the president who must make the ultimate decision to declassify and release but note after a national security review the white house is blanked out some parts of the document and sent it back to the committee it can no be published at any time at a gathering of republicans in west virginia the president made no fresh mention of the memo but after. speaking to the media republican leadership defended the idea of its release this memo is not an indictment of the f.b.i. of the department of justice it does not impugn the moeller investigation or the deputy attorney general what it is is the congress's legitimate function of oversight democrats have argued the release of the memo over their own objections are all part of a campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the presidential election in fact the leading democrat in the house has called on the republican chairman of the intelligence committee devon is to be removed in a letter to speaker paul ryan nancy pelosi says congressman is has abused his position to launch a highly unethical and dangerous cover up campaign for the white house congressman nunez deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as chairman and he must be removed immediately from this position the leading democrat on the committee says the row doesn't serve the american people the memo is seriously misleading because it omits very material information and has deep factual and accuracies knew this was part of the trump transition team unless you recused himself from leaving the russian vest a geisha no he will decide if he will release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington. poland has fallen to diplomatic rile with israel after its senate approved a bill making it illegal to suggest it was complicit in the holocaust the upper house back the draft legislation despite objections from israel and the us harry force it has more now on how the development is being received in israel. in the early hours of thursday morning polish senators voted to pass a bill that israel says is designed to hide the truth about poland's role in the holocaust nazi occupied poland was the second world war site of some of the worst horrors of the holocaust the concentration camp at auschwitz birkenau has become its most potent symbol but poland objects to terms such as polish death camps instead of nazi ones pointing out poles were victims of invasion then occupation is what it is move. we are very sad and surprised our fight for the truth for the dignity of poles is perceived and interpreted in this way. the bill would punish with up to three years' imprisonment anyone accusing the polish nation of complicity in the extermination of the jews the domestic opponents of the proposed law its terms to group this. sort of public discussion should take place without any obstacles it cannot take place under the supervision of the prosecutor after poland's lower house voted the bill through last friday israel's prime minister called it an attempt to rewrite history demanding the proposed legislation be amended israeli government says it adamantly opposed to this second vote adding that no law can change historical truth and there is support in the israeli parliament the knesset for a bill here to challenge the polish one by offering protection legally to anyone prosecuted for their views on the holocaust overseas and making it illegal to deny complicity in the holocaust as well as the event itself opposition leader ya appeared his great grandmother was killed in poland is one of the law's sponsors if you see the kind of it does this and it is the priority in a costco weeks important to do this you understand why is it so important for us to be able to maintain the memory of the holocaust is that what really happened during the years of the forty five jews who murdered and poles were helping israel's holocaust memorial yad vashem pays tribute to nearly seven thousand poles who didn't save their jewish neighbors at the height of the holocaust but one of israel's leading scholars on the period says many more poles were complicit and corinth research shows us that many of those jews were killed not because of the german something they were handed to the germans but by poorly citizens by paul found them to polish government this bill is an effort to stop a defeated occupied nation from being defamed as a partner in the nazi genocide to israelis it seems like an attempt to shield thousands of polish citizens from blame or a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem the friend. dairy giant like calluses admitted it may have been producing some anality aint it baby milk for more than a decade more than twelve million baby milk products were recalled last month after it was revealed that thirty eight babies were made ill by for me their produce at the lack tallis factory in western france same strain of salmonella was responsible for another outbreak in two thousand and five the company's chief executive has told a french newspaper the factory may have been the source of those cases and others since the turkish foreign minister is in speaking to al jazeera about his country's cause cross border offensive in northern syria an operation was launched almost two weeks ago in africa to target syrian kurdish y p g militia which the turkish government considers terrorists medlock kava so lou says his country has no interest in an exciting parts of syria if there is a threat other side of the border and international law and the un charters and solutions security council resolution actually give a right to that country to eliminate that threat so this is what we are doing we are there to eliminate the terrorist organization we are not targeting the kurds not serious i mean any syrians not our ups not took months and we have no interest in serious territory in circuit or properties this is our in our aim is to defeat this terrorist organization and actually through defeating a terrorist organization or cleaning this area from the terrorists we're supporting . the countries territory injected. and you can see that interview in full with the turkish foreign minister and two charges there at these time saturday four thirty going to mean time and sunday at eight thirty and nineteen thirty saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are attempting to end a standoff between government forces and secessionists fighters in yemen's port city of aden the southern city was overrun by the u.a.e. back secessionists who took control of the government headquarters on sunday the assault opened up a new front in yemen's war and prevented much needed aid from reaching civilians saudi and amorality envoys have met both sides urging them to abide by a ceasefire. cathles foreign minister says the on going blockade against his country is undermining the fight against terrorism mohammad bin abdul rahman elf on e bay speaking to the american enterprise institute in washington illegal to block it started last year again a state that is one of many instruments of sabotage intended to really my country into submission the world is discovering that the blockading states will stop at nothing illegal market manipulation different kind of going to sions humanitarian assaults so i don't sing the centers weaponize in public and and undermining the global fight against aids. still to come on this al-jazeera news hour fueled by hatred of muslims the man who drove into a crowd of worshipers outside a mosque is found guilty of murder and countdown today zero in cape town where tensions are running high as new water restrictions are introduced. in sports the new england patriots and philadelphia eagles hit the training ground as the countdown to super bowl continues. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. holloway is starting to see some slightly warmer weather slightly model weather coming in across central southern parts of china over the next six hours is the high in shanghai that could for a way to twelve celsius there for hong kong on friday it will be a. similar values fifteen as we go on through saturday hope through the window easing off a touch and feeding on quite as nippy one celsius same shanghai so sunny on the cool side show also some showers there into the philippines as we go on through the next couple of days also a possibility of some showers just around central and southern parts of vietnam the usual scattering of downpours heat of the day down pulls across much of southeast asia i suspect the more organized ones will be across indonesia but even the western parts of borneo because the some shop showers long spells are fine for type as is the case to just around singapore kuala lumpur will see some showers thirty one thirty two degrees celsius so temperatures about where they should be we'll see similar temperatures to went to us over the next day still a possibility of wanted to showers just sliding their way in across southern parts of the by a bengals a possibility of a little bit of wet weather coming through here fun and dry for a good part of south asia though still a high than twenty three new delhi. the weather sponsored by cat time release. we have here is if data we know the product from buying everything that you're doing that's really where the power of the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and the threat you believe that any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game after change there are no precedents people in power investigates this information and democracy at this time on a jersey's. it's . with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. about it. sued in world news. trying to take a look at the top stories here about is there of the united states has accused the syrian government of continuing to use chemical weapons against its people and of making new kinds of weapons to deliver them it follows continued as strikes by government forces near damascus on thursday. the white house is expected to release a controversial memo on russia's involvement in the twenty six thousand presidential election despite objections from the f.b.i. the memo was prepared by republicans on the house intelligence committee the f.b.i. says it's misleading and reveal sensitive intelligence information the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is due to deliver a rare address at the u.n. security council later this month the israeli u.n. ambassador says such a move would put an end to any possibility of future peace talks this comes amid tensions over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. the man who drove his van into a crowd outside a london mosque last year has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder one person was killed nine others were injured in the attack prosecutors said aaron bourne was motivated by hatred of muslims his or u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips. born in a pub in wales days before the attack the police call him a hate filled with a history of violence drug and alcohol abuse in the pub he wrote a letter which was found in the van he used for the attack a letter so full of hatred for muslims say the police that it's too offensive to release he rents the van to drive to london police say to find muslim targets he says he wanted to kill opposition labor leader jeremy corbin he drove all over london arriving at the muslim welfare house in finsbury park after midnight where people were leaving after ramadan prayers and what. happened to fall ill on the street c.c.t.v. footage shows the van moments before it drove into the crowd on the left of the screen. drove down this road the seven sisters road into this little cul de sac where a crowd of people were trying to help mark riley who by coincidence had fallen ill just a few moments before he plowed into the crowd as he got out of his violin i wouldn't think court said that he was smiling the local eman protected him from the crowd until the police arrived moments later the police say that this was an attack on all londoners no. no one the police have released a call from someone who asks for help is he conscious. then specifics we hear the attack. are already come out of people are going oh oh. the police told me darren osborne acted alone but right wing extremism is a growing threat in britain we have arrested more individuals than we've ever done in relation to domestic extremism related activity. we've seen three groups described by the government the government was also appointed a new extremist commission which is welcomed. and we are pushing more people through our prevent and channel program relevant to again this category of people this diverse community has suffered i spoke to the who protected daryl's born from the angry crowd they're all lost in scores and. those immediately affected and then there is a last thing fear. and concern in the. what's to say the van or the coming speeding in our direction is in the next down on. the troubled individual who turned into a politically motivated killer barnaby phillips al-jazeera finsbury park in north london. full refugees have been shot in the french forces here kalai after a fight broke out over a meal distribution the fight was returning eritrean and afghan refugees police moved in to break up the fight is not immediately clear how the four was shot several other people were injured in the also cation german politicians a voted to allow refugees to start bringing their closest relatives into the country later this share a decision it's hoped that will end the nation's political deadlock a two year suspension on family reunifications will be extended but then lifted from august the issue has been a major hurdle in the ongoing talks between angela merkel's christian democrats and the opposition social democrats in forming a new government's twelve thousand libyans are being prevented from returning to their homes after being displaced for the past seven years armed men forced them to turn around as they tried to reach to work at a small town near the coastal city of misrata the family is originally fled their homes during the twenty eleven uprising against colonel gadhafi human rights watch says thousands of people have also been prevented from returning to benghazi by groups linked to the so-called libyan national army. thousands of all durance are risking their lives every year leaving the country in the hope of finding a better future in the united states andras is one of the most violent countries in the world and those who attempt the journey face many difficulties but as many on a sanchez reports from el progresso the route north is only getting more dangerous . and says he felt strong enough to catch a moving train in mexico it's to train the take so many young central americans towards the united states to flee the violence and achieve the american dream of a better life but many like alexis full or die. i grabbed onto the train wouldn't move so much i hit my head and fell i woke up four days later to realize i was like this my life is so sad it's a beauty injury he was deported from mexico like thousands of central americans who failed to reach the united states the government says more than twenty seven thousand in gooden's percent back home this year. who's assisted deportees for fourteen years says more and more are returning traumatised from the trip. but the migrants route is much more dangerous in the train there are corrupt police gangs drug traffickers they use children as drug mules women and men are raped before the migrant would be safe not anymore well many of the deportees that have arrived here and some tell us that they are healthy enough to try the route again but for many others who have accidents on the way the dream is over. at least two planeloads land here every week with more than one hundred deportees from the u.s. and mexico despite the dangers many don't loose hope. alexis's accident happened a decade ago he says he still can dream to have a job. he's a beggar and relies on his family for shelter latapy. to have a job would be the most important thing for me but it's very hard for people who are handicapped so i don't even have a chance to. play good organizations who help deportees say most don't receive government help. these people are living in the crudest reality in a country that doesn't offer any options for an honest dignified life they are physically and mentally affected. and in a country where more than sixty percent of them didn't are poor and nearly forty percent live under the poverty line victims like alexi say they have no home money and a son just to see the progress of this the son of cuba's former leader fidel castro has been found dead cuban say media is reporting that sixty eight year old fidel castro diaz balart died on thursday he'd been suffering from depression diaz balart and the nickname for the lead or little fidel because of his resemblance to his father the moodies top court has ordered the release of key imprisoned politicians including the country's exiled former president mohammed nasheed was the moodies first democratically elected leader he was jailed on terrorism charges after allegedly flawed trials and has been living in exile in the u.k. following the twenty fifteen conviction that she's released may pave the way for him to join the presidential race into the share. tensions are rising in south africa's drought hit city cape town where residents are in the middle of a severe water shortage one person was arrested after a fight broke out at a natural spring where residents have been collecting water new restrictions were introduced on thursday in an effort to avoid days arrow that's the day in april when they may have to turn the taps off the with been coming here for the past five years the only now having a plane been here for more than ten years he's since been helping the drought has been happening for so long the only planting now. this is my first experience with these new laws that we put into place it's tough but what can you do we all need the water it's the live shows and we just go with the flow as rising temperatures in the arctic melt ice that used to cover the regional year ships are beginning to make their way through waters which were once far too dangerous so impossible but now there are calls for tougher shipping rules as trafficking creases as part of our series on global trade routes daniel lak looks at north america's northwest passage. it was. immortalized in folk songs poetry and popular history the northwest passage was fascinated canadians for centuries once explorers and adventurers now shipping lines and cruise ship passengers all have sought the northwest passage until two thousand and seven canada's arctic was ice bound all year but rising temperatures are melting sea ice at an alarming rate leaving open water for at least part of each year since then cargo and passenger ships from europe the u.s. canada even china have sailed through here traffic is expected to double by two thousand and twenty the arctic is an incredibly large remote and extreme region it's a hazardous place to navigate at the best of times and the remoteness means that there's no search and rescue capacity located anywhere close to the northwest passage other concerns are environmental and oil spill in these now pristine waters would be devastating to fish and wildlife the local people need for survival the rules governing shipping have to change say experts putting the rules in place that benefit communities and protect wildlife it includes regulations on the discharge of pollutants like grey water and sewage includes phasing out or banning some of the most toxic fuels like heavy fuel oil it it also includes restraints on emissions and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping for thousands of years the indigenous people of the north the in wheat have roamed the ice water and land thanks to land claims agreements they now have a real say in how the northwest passage will be developed as well as tough environmental standards the people of the north are demanding a share of economic benefits and jobs. that may come when international shipping begins using the passage regularly because we don't have or along our coastline. we need. to get that they're evil we are in that kind of industry and i think that there's an opportunity there that knowledge and the land. temperatures in the north are rising faster than anywhere else now even recreational sailors from faraway can come here and find an ice free northwest passage that is eluded so many for so long daniel lack al-jazeera cambridge bay in canada's north. for the next. the government is investing billions of dollars in high speed rail. with the rest of asia europe and beyond. find out. to find new recruits. and. african football fans. twenty eight russians have had their lifetime a limb big bans overturned by the court of arbitration for sport but the international olympic committee says it doesn't necessarily mean there is a fleet can compete at the winter olympics in south korea next week challenge reports sochi gold medalist alexander led cough silver medalist. gold medalist alexander tretiak of just three of the twenty eight russian athletes who have their olympic doping bans overturned and their results at the last winter olympics in russia four years ago reinstated after their appeals were held by the court of arbitration for sport the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that's an anti-doping rule violation it was committed by concerned this does not mean that these twenty that leads are declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appeal so held it's a setback for the case built against russia by the international olympic committee and wells anti-doping agency. putin has often said it's the anti doping allegations against russia are politically motivated even that they are designs to interfere in the upcoming presidential elections well that voice is less than two months away now and so for the kremlin cass's decision is a timely gift. it fits neatly into a picture often painted here certainly one regularly offered by the government and state media of russia as a besieged fortress righteously defending itself against a largely hostile world and russia is now pushing for its previously disgraced sports men and women to be readmitted to the winter olympics starting next week in south korea because just put it in the court of arbitration for sport confirmed athletes are clean and earned the right to take part in the olympics so the russian olympic committee will send a letter to the international olympic committee suggesting they allow athletes to compete in the olympic games despite what russia's sports minister says the international olympic committee notes cass's point a lack of evidence doesn't prove the innocence of those athletes for now the i.o.c. seems reluctant to readmit them to compete in pyongyang the result of the caste decision does not mean that athletes from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games not being sanctioned does not automatically confer the privilege of an invitation still provided it's not overturned on appeal the caste decision means russia has the legal momentum in a country where sport and politics often march together that's a boon for its athletes and the kremlin will reach allan's how does iran moscow right its time for sport profit now his peter thank you very much with the pyong chang winter games less than a week away russia has received a huge boost the court of arbitration for sport has overturned a decision to ban twenty eight russian athletes from a limp explode for life due to accusations of doping. the court ruled there was not sufficient evidence to penalize the athletes the decision also sees their results from the saatchi twenty fourteen games reinstated meaning russia return to the top of the medals table for those games and additional eleven will be allowed to compete again after the games but russian lawyers are now looking to get these partial bans fully lifted this does not mean that these twenty that leads are declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appears held the sanctions and notes and their individual results achieved in sochi reinstituted hours before their decision russian their fleets who will compete as neutrals arrived in south korea the nation was also banned from kyung chen due to accusations of states doping but the international olympic committee has allowed one hundred sixty nine athletes to take part in wearing white uniforms that specify a limb pick an athlete from russia the national anthem and flag will also not be allowed though they received a sendoff from russia's president vladimir putin our sports correspondent leigh willing says there the way the matter between the international olympic committee and court of arbitration for sport and the russian olympic committee has transpired is rather shambolic. it is such a mess twenty eight of them up including you can see that the international olympic committee doesn't think they came and doesn't want them there they really resisting it they said look we haven't invited them they are not invited to these games now russia hasn't come out yet and said well you really need to have these twenty athletes there are further eleven of course you are not even able to via the cast this isn't to try and get to them but we're talking about being a nine days away from competition and the i.o.c. are trying to sort out a terrible mess and of course the situation with the reputation of the olympics and where the public is i keep talking about to the public trust in who's winning gold silver and bronze because nobody's saying that because of they will claim that's not what they're saying there wasn't enough evidence for a lifetime ban from and then pick news to football now and english team west ham united have suspended their director of player recruitment following lidgerwood discriminatory remarks about african players the club which has only one african player in its first team squad according to its website punished tony hey mary saying it does not accept any type of discrimination henry reportedly told the newspaper that african players cause mayhem and can have a bad attitude after they approached him following an email they opt in in which chain retold an agent he did not want any more africans at his club the english f.a. are investigating the incident and according to one of africa's most the sting glitched football journalists gary else must they taking the matter seriously enough to not impact the african fanbase i think that if started in the right way because these books. is. also been suspended henry. i think that. everybody taking it seriously like you said west ham issued a statement saying the discrimination. they put into training people in equality and diversity and so on is so forth so i think that any african class would look at some isolated one person and not the club in general because i mean you have to be quite really to take our african story when it comes to the english community will be no english premier league and their success without the african think that this is a problem at all for murphy for president sepp blatter is considering legal action against the governing body of world football in a bid to clear his name the eighty one year old is currently serving a six year ban for ethics violations which was prompted by the fee for corruption scandal that erupted in twenty fifteen the swiss confirm these legal team are working on a potential case he has already lost an appeal against the ban at the court of arbitration for sport that's ahead feet first from nine hundred ninety eight until twenty fifteen. the new england patriots san philadelphia eagles have hit the training pad out the head of sunday's super bowl in minneapolis the patriots are looking for their third time in four years and six the overall while the eagles are yet to to lend the vince lombardi trophy but the n.f.l. commissioner roger goodell has still been answering questions about us president donald trump he's been critical of players who have knelt throughout the season to protest racial injustice. will there be any consideration to keeping the teams in the locker room while the anthem is played and also as a follow up have you spoken at all to president trump about his frequent criticism of players who do protest during the anthem the answer to your second question is no the answer to your first question is i don't know however what will consider in the offseason i am still trying to get to the super bowl its advantage in india after a victory in durban in the first of six one day internationals against south africa as a captain one hundred twenty to help east team post two hundred sixty nine for eight in the fifty overs that was never going to be enough is indian skip of it out kohli hit one hundred twelve he was assisted by seventy nine from jean carroll honey as the tourists won by six wickets with more than four overs to spain now and that's all the sport for me for now we'll have another update for you again later peter thank you now after nineteen years in business hong kong's oldest hand painted porcelain factory is struggling to find new recruits so a club cripple. spice is a rarity in this paulson factory shelves are crammed with ginger jars vases crockery and plates but each piece tells a story all a hand painted with traditional cantonese designs. traditionally the painting should be orderly such as using straight lines but over time develop my own style by incorporating the ling then school of chinese painting into my work must attend she home is one of the last four craftsman at hong kong's first and last decorative paulson factories their work is highly sought after with places commissioned by royal families hollywood celebrities and five star hotels in hong kong but the craftsman are all over seventy and at retirement age and despite the factories reputation it's struggling to find new recruits. as a porcelain artist of course i want more people to learn the craft mean ship and ensured survival but in reality not many people are interested because it takes time and you can't really make ends meet with this job just of china is a third generation owner of the business his grandfather started the factory in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight but his son and grandson i'm not keen to learn the technique and take up the reins the first generation we are always in a factory and so on laura there was a lot of preparing and family dinners in her last such. a patience her interest that brought this to the floor got worse in its heyday there about three hundred workers in this factory in fact it was one of the largest in hong kong but high rent and cost of labor has my production expensive and all but one of these factories has now moved to the mainland it's a move that joseph cha is not yet ready to embrace after ninety years in hong kong he's done hosting workshops showcasing their collection in an effort to convince others to pick up the brush as we have in the world now all i have ever gets i mean that's right yes. yes it's really tells a good story of china is that just like every idea the family behind the business types that adoration will translate to others tidy up the croft so the factory can stay open and the last film os's can put down the brush and retire sera cock al-jazeera hong kong. that's all for me martine dennis we don't go anywhere deborah will be in the chair in just a minute or two. i don't want to live in the world where everything is designed in california made. the counting is in the hands of the corporation the only way to be subversive is to be able to control the technology to let my single bonzi has built a chip that anyone can. build and nothing but it'll make a change in the cost like a pizza 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