Turkeys military begins firing into syrias african region that target kurdish fighters. Is the gulf crisis a pretext to seize castros wealth thats the claim of a country royal who was seen as a saudi ally. The egyptian president sisi announces he will run for a second term in office. Time is running out in the u. S. As the government hospitals towards a shutdown over a key funding. In Australian Open organizers defend the decision not to just. Why is our phones to the limits of the use first grand slam tournament. A low welcome to the news our top story turkey has fired artillery into a kodesh controlled northwest syria across border bombardment of freedom comes after days of threats by president. Against the Syrian Kurdish fighters known as the white peachy and griffey is the establishment of a kurdish corridor along its border and has been deploying troops and tanks there in preparation for a ground assault Stephanie Deca has more from antakya. The situation around the fifteen is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand Free Syrian Army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards the east of africa and then this is all in line with the political rhetoric thats been coming out of anger over the last week or so the last voice added to that the Defense Ministry on friday saying that the operation would happen that there should be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to rid of what they call terrorists along this border all of this very significant player is russia and this is why weve seen the chief of staff and also the target head of intelligence in moscow on thursday also told continuing on friday to try and see whether russia gives the green light why is that will russia control the airspace over a free and also has troops on the ground in that area its all about politics its incredibly complicated and youre seeing different players now carving up trying to carve up different areas of syria expanding their spheres of influence it is a very very complicated situation we have talks coming up in vienna and in sochi and certainly it doesnt look like anyone can seem to agree on anything at the moment. The spokesman for u. N. Secretary general antonio terra says there must be no increase in military activity in the region weve seen the reports of shelling in africa and we reiterate our call on all concerned parties to avoid further escalation in any acts that could deepen the suffering of the Syrian People all parties must ensure protection of civilians at all times under any circumstances. The Lebanese Army says it has found the bodies of nine Syrian Refugees who froze to death trying to cross the border into lebanon they were found by Army Officers after a snowstorm near the mountainous area of the us not Border Crossing six others was saved but one related died in hospital patrols are still looking for other refugees caught in the snow storm and arrested want to syrians on smuggling charges. Nearly a million Syrian Refugees who managed to make it into lebanon vo are suffering through a base a winter in flimsy tents that flood easily and with no protection from the freezing temperatures the u. N. H. C. R. Says its received less than sixty percent of the funding it needs to help the refugees through winter and is desperate for donations saying holder has more from the bekaa valley in lebanon. Heavy winds snow lower temperatures lebanon is being hit by a storm making the lives of the nearly one million Syrian Refugees even more miserable they face many challenges during the winter months among them the lack of proper shelter they live in tents that are made for plastic sheeting which does little to protect from the cold and the rain on monday martin and we couldnt sleep all night the tent was flooded we stayed up and moved all our belongings outside the conditions of our tents a bad. Its the shepley familys sevens winter in displacement since fleeing the conflict in neighboring syria in winter the refugees require more help they need fuel for heating thermal blankets and warm clothes. With nothing in the hygiene and we are dead we are living in misery we have nothing but pain sickness and suffering we are deprived of everything a good. Families like the abdullah habits cant survive without assistance the father is half blind the youngest child sabrine is mentally challenged the eldest has a Heart Disease and their mother suffers from asthma and eczema one low as it was even though here i need medicine and i need help we all cannot work we dont have water and field to keep warm we are living only by gods mercy i may be kicked out of ten soon because they didnt pay the rent for a long time the United Nations does provide some assistance but a shortfall in funding means not everyone is reached. The United Nations doesnt just help the more than five million Syrian Refugees in neighboring countries it says that thirteen Million People need help in syria six million of them are internally displaced and that this placement continues in recent weeks more than two hundred thousand people were forced to leave their homes the war is not over. It may be a while before these refugees can go home the lebanese government doesnt want them to stay that is why it has prevented the United Nations from building permanent camps it also doesnt allow any concrete construction but this may not be their last harsh winter in exile. Because valley living on. A country royal it was formerly a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured and explosive audiobook ording obtained by aljazeera chef ben ali a funny can be heard accusing both saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Of fabricating the rift with cattle as a way to seize their neighbors wealth he also says he was under pressure so so much so that he wanted to end his life as more. The man saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Were presenting as an alternative to leadership stepped up his attacks on the blockade in countries in a new audiotape shake of the lebanon early earth any a member of. Your family says the gulfs biggest diplomatic where it was triggered by saudi and princes whom he accuses of plotting to take qatars wealth by force. As. Well. In the old youre recording the she says he was under so much pressure from saudi arabia and the u. A. E. That he considered taking his own life he also appeared in a video posted online on sunday where he says he was detained against his will in the u. A. E. A claim which the night but two days later. He left the u. A. E. This is the only picture taken of him when he arrived in kuwait his family said his health deteriorated during his alleged detention in the u. A. E. He was told that he can leave to saudi arabia but not to. The end of the day he was allowed. To leave. And he has two daughters with him and it was about twelve oclock at night that. They told him that they have to go to the airport and then the information changed that they are not allowed to go to the u. K. The u. K. Refuses and that is false. And that your daughters can live and you must. Stay in the. The little known she became a central figure during the Gulf Cooperation Council or g. C. C. Crisis when he was first received by king solomon bit of that as ease of saudi arabia media affiliated with saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Portrayed him as the head of the opposition to the qatari government but soon the shade was nowhere to be seen except for tweets attributed to him the recent statements of the shape shed more light on the g. C. C. Crisis that started in june when saadi arabia the u. A. E. And egypt cut off diplomatic ties and imposed a sea land and embargo on qatar the post from shekau the lebanon early support qatar stands for the west is public ated and politically motivated has zero. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Sisi has in the last hour announced he will run for a second term in the much election he came to power in two thousand and fourteen after leading the military announcing former president morsi after mass protests against his rule mama jump jim reports. The announcement was widely expected now egyptian president has sisi has made it official. Analysts are hardly surprised or hes staying in power this way or that way i think of the elections as one source of energy to mysie or a facade of this committee that would say that he won the elections fair and square and he has significant popular support. C. C. Who swept to power in two thousand and thirteen after a military coup against former president Mohammed Morsi obtained ninety seven percent of the vote in the two thousand and fourteen Election International observers question the credibility of the results saying the election fell short of international standards. Campaign promises included rebuilding egypt reviving the countrys economy and raising living conditions. But almost four years into his presidency many egyptians are disillusioned with his rule concern has grown that it has brought with it a return to the authoritarian Security State that prevailed under former president Hosni Mubarak rendering the hero square revolution only a brief experiment in democracy. Real opposition to sisi in the march election is likely to be thin on the ground potential candidates have either already withdrawn or seen their candidacy blocked some have blamed an atmosphere of fear observers say ccs tactic is a recognizable one in the region of the mubarak and his message and saddams of the agent has used it for they would tell the International Individual community that they won with ninety percent or ninety nine percent whatever the percentage of the same time there are no consequences for that so on one end it to bolster that eames that intimacy of the genes on one and and the other and you know there are no consequences for that actions. Ccs rule has been marked by a brutal crackdown on freedom of expression and Civil Liberties economic turbulence and increasing attacks by armed groups human Rights Groups have been placed under severe restrictions and many critics in the media have been silenced. His allies however dismissed accusations of abuses saying his tactics are needed for security in the face of an insurgency in the north sinai region that has expanded to include civilian targets mohammed does either. Joining me now via skype from each as is dahlia fanny shes an associate professor of Political Science at Long Island University thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so as youre hearing and mohammeds report that there has been a wave of repression in egypt to clamp down on freedom of expression and freedom of speech what does all this mean for the credibility of the much election so march election of this and so none of this is to rise. President sisi has been systematic saudi power around him we see a Parliament Today thats been returning to be nothing more than a stamp it was just eleven days ago where the Election Commission announced in the fall the marched right off and able then what we know is that thats just eight weeks away and with kennedys having to announce by january twenty ninth it needs just a couple of weeks to announce can the sleeve submit paperwork assemble a Campaign Team campaign for president and actually get election monitors in place and so in many ways this is just the kind of window he trappings of the kind of somali moments of democracy which are lections will they be free and fair or no because theres no real contest season weve seen viable candidates and what were viable candidates jar wow you have to right now theyre very meek in the chair but really have him dumbo legwork in terms of what it is to campaign whiten one might be disqualified and so were looking at is exactly almost seventy years after the initial arab spring in two thousand and eleven that when youre returning to a time where early actions are nothing more than window things of the best years of democracy but not really institutions of me to me voice of the people to be heard an election to rubber stamp the existing reality ccs rule how people likely to respond the egyptian people how they feel about this. But we knew that we do know that in other places when this happens at. States where people were galvanized when it seems that there is a return to authoritarianism or oppression people will not necessarily his ists the election but will we very low turnout and the turnout will be resulting in. Reporting of no ninety percent are in favor of the presidency and i think this leads to a deeper concern is that people are no longer convinced of the democratic apparatus or c. V. It we didnt see in this process now and if we didnt see comes in democracy from the population when you do not have viable opposition you start to mistrust the process and what it seems is happening in this case of the case of this election is that theyre putting the wheels in place and have a rubber stamp election rather than having a contested election with independent election monitors so were going to see in march and april that we are not discussing whether the elections are monitored and what they found because we already know them as well. Thank you very much for sharing your analysis with us thank you. Your ching the news hour live from london still to come for you a change of headgear for pope francis on his arrival in the city seen as the gateway to the peruvian amazon. The u. S. Says its withholding more aid earmarked for palestinians this time a forty five Million Dollars payment for food. And iraq final exit from the olympic skiing champion speeding off into retirement. Politicians in the u. S. Are trying to prevent a possible Government Shutdown on the anniversary of Donald Trumps first year in office if a funding or isnt passed key agencies begin shutting down at midnight local time on friday democrats say they will not support a funding bill unless there are guarantees that children of myrons who enter the u. S. Illegally will be protected. Reports from washington d. C. A planned trip to florida to mark Donald TrumpsFirst Anniversary in office has been canceled at least for now instead americas republican president is reaching out to his democratic rival in the senate with an invitation to the white house to try and avert a Government Shutdown we made some progress but we still have good numbers to support the discussions will continue Republicans Control Congress but its a crisis the white house blames on democrats it appears unfortunately that Senate Democrats are entrenched in forcing a shutdown unlike five years ago when the government shut down for sixteen days this time all u. S. National parks and post offices will remain open but employees will not get paid and just like five years ago the military Border Patrol and federal firefighters among others will remain on the job but theyll also not be paid right away is it a thirty nine one hundred seven the most is going on thursday lawmakers in the u. S. House of representatives passed a short term funding bill to keep the government open but it must also pass in the senate and Democratic Senators are refusing to approve any funding legislation without protections from deportation for thousands of Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States as children with the president come up here democrats believe they have few options given trump announced obama era protections for the Illegal Immigrants known as dr recipients runs out in march based on what we have seen in terms of how the republicans have responded in the past i believe democrats simply do not trust that the republicans will actually to address the issue. Despite claims to the contrary given twenty eighteen is a Congressional Election year it appears trump sees political advantage in a Government Shutdown if the Public Places blame on democrats. On friday morning he tweeted shutdown coming we need more republican victories in twenty eight team as donald trump prepares to mark his first year in office unless a deal is reached the anniversary of trumps inauguration is set to be celebrated much like the year started amid controversy kimberly health at aljazeera Washington Well for more on this lets speak to ryan graham he is a political journalist and washington d. C. Bureau chief at the intercept joins us live from washington of course thanks very much for speaking to us so as we have the clock is very much ticking as president met with Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer at the white house for last minute talks do you think that an agreement can be reached at this point or is a shutdown looking inevitable. Id never say inevitable there is theres still a possibility that schumer could sit down with mcconnell and they could come up with some type of a three or four day extension to buy themselves a few days to work out the details of a longer extension like that is certainly still a possibility its its looking much more difficult at this point back in two thousand and thirteen when they last had a shutdown there were they went to the brink a bunch of different times before they finally went over it and this is starting to feel like the moment where everybody collectively just has to get it out of their system and go over the brink so that they can sort of reset and get back to negotiating so it it is it is definitely tending toward a shutdown the republicans concerned about the schumer trump meeting. Oh they were panicked now the meeting is over and schumer emerged from it saying that they had made some progress but that there were still a good number of agreements and republicans. Many of them on capitol hill breathed a huge sigh of relief because their nightmare scenario is Chuck Schumer sitting down with his old new york buddy and his former donor donald trump and telling him all of these people who are advising you are idiots and theyre sending you off a cliff heres what will give you right now take it its on the table give us give us the you know extension of chip funding lets just do this and be done with it and they were were panicked that donald trump was going to agree to that it sounds like he did his his staff has done a much better job at stiffening his spine hes going to pay a political price for it so his staff is ultimately not doing many favors but he was able to resist whatever charms Chuck Schumer was able to throw on him ryan do you think he understands that this comes at a political cost its unclear. He is always shocked at the things that he is blamed for he has always done it at the way the media and the public respond to things that he thinks he should be celebrated for to him it is quite apparent that the democrats are stalling this in the senate and they are going to pay the political price for doing that he he seems to have there seems to no question in his mind about that. Thats totally counterintuitive given the fact that he is in the white house and republicans troll controlled congress its also counter to two polls that have come out today that show that by a very wide margin the public is prepared to blame surprise the party in power for something that goes wrong all the party is in power he follows polls very closely so it will eventually dawn on him that he was wrong he will forget that he was ever wrong and he will blame his staff who kind of led him astray but then hell have to figure out how to climb down without losing face can you brian can you explain how President Trump is complicated efforts at finding a solution. Well Mitch Mcconnell the Senate Majority leader even had to go on to the Senate Floor Today and ignalina judge it is unclear where the president stands on a spending bill and a deal and it would be helpful if he would articulate where he stands just as the House Republicans were getting ready to pass their thirty day extension which included a six year extension of Childrens Health insurance it was already on the floor bill written and getting voted on Donald Trump Tweets out Childrens Health insurance shouldnt be a part of any deal like this. What are you doing then he calls into a special meeting of the far right Freedom Caucus and starts negotiating with the with the far right the fringe of the house weighing saying that he will he wont sign anything that mark meadows and the french the french senator and tom cotton both agree to which means that he cant get to a deal that everybody agrees to because these are fringe characters who are unable to find a governing majority so every time he inserts him self it becomes more difficult for republicans on capitol hill to get closer to a deal looks like a dramatic few hours ahead thank you very much ryan grimm in washington d. C. Now pope francis is in peru where hes been visiting communities affected by illegal gold mining in the amazon the leader of the Catholic Church spent time in the city of puerto the nanda with Indigenous Leaders the eighty one year old announced Human Trafficking and hailed the importance of protecting the environment in a speech before returning to the capital lima well of course the pope traveled to through from chile where he had to deal with allegations surrounding shalane bishop one badass just before he left the country he denied covering up the abuse of teenage boys by another priest yet you think you have to be the day that they bring me proof against bishop paris then i will speak there is not one bit of proof against him we believe it is slow and its not clear. Father tom rees is a Senior Analyst at the Religion News service and joins me now from washington d. C. Were you surprised that told by the popes remarks. Well miriam when the pope went to chile he knew he had to deal with this terrible situation of abuse that was going on by the clergy there and you know at first he did all the right things he met privately with victims of abuse he listened to their stories and the report is that he wept with them because of the what they had experience and then when he was in public he condemned the abuse he apologized he asked for forgiveness he said that this can Never Never Never happen again. That was all good but then towards the end you know he was asked a question by a journalist about the issue of borrow sent here the pope. Is is in a situation where he just doesnt believe that Bishop Barroso is a is guilty of what hes been accused of that hes guilty of this coverup and hes asking for evidence to show its the classic he said she said situation where youve got two different people saying Different Things and frankly the Catholic Church doesnt know how to deal with this especially when its a bishop whos being accused of cover up we need a better way of handling it but of course to obtain evidence in these situations can be very difficult we know about the psychological mental emotional and packed on Abuse Victims just when it comes to speaking out about these crimes often takes place many years later have for these comments to have been said on a trip that was about healing and we ching out to Abuse Victims how how much of a counterproductive move this really. Yeah i mean if i had been advising the pope i would have told him to dodge the question you know Bishop Barros has not been accused of abuse hes been accused of being part of the cover up. And you know this is a problem there were lots of bishops who didnt understand you know how terrible this abuse situation was they thought that they could keep it quiet and deal with internally and they were wrong. You know these bishops need to be called to account and the Catholic Church is not very good at doing that and what we need is some kind of a process some kind of process thats open transparent that looks at the accusations of cover up does a public hearing public evidence public discussion and. Makes you know a public recommendation to the pope on what should be done. We dont were not there yet sadly we are dealing with the abuse done by priests the pope is very clear on that there is zero tolerance for that abuse but you know how much tolerance is there for bishops who dont do a good job dealing with it thats the problem we have in the church today and this certainly has been outrage in chile because they feel as the. You know quite right say that the ship one virus was complicit in covering up sex crimes but for such a long time nothing was done and the culture of cover up was allowed to remain in place we have heard pope francis really striking striking a much more apologetic tone in the past but there have been pressure from other parts of the establishment for him to. Be a bit more defensive this time. Well its pretty clear that the chilean bishops are very defensive on this issue and. Have taken bishops are osis side in this controversy this is the problem i mean no organizations very good at judging and it and police seen its own leadership you know whether its the police of the medical profession or teachers or anybody even journalists were not good at police seen ourselves thats why we need someone to come in from the outside you know there should be a law. Group that is in charge of doing the investigation of this bishop and and making a recommendation and how it should be held because the sad thing is the pope was doing so many good things in chile defending migrants expressing concern about the environment condemning the human rights abuses that occurred on pena shae an honor in a bishop who defended human rights under the military regime then so you know and i think he was well received by most people and in chile but this. This is an area where i think he just wasnt on message all right well thanks very much father tom rees fish sharing your thoughts on this with us we appreciate it. Watching the news hour still ahead the u. N. Warns hundreds of thousands of south sudanese children may starve to death unless Emergency Action is taken to boost Food Security. And paul brennan of the institute for Cancer Research looking at the possibility of a blood test which could be a breakthrough in cancer diagnosis. And goals well number one hits at the abu dhabi championship and he is here with that story and much more in the sport. The storm has gone now i dont blurt out completely its been a windy last few hours in better roasts on the Baltic States need still see the curl of cloud thats indeed where it is the cold front energy from it is just lead to yet more snow in the alps and its position we find ourselves in on saturday snow on the outs in the tirol and more coming here on the next system running through east and from such a telling off rather than the western side of the french alps rain behind that and a fair old breeze still whipping up the seas in Northern Spain everywhere to the east its certainly cooler in significant snow i would have formed overnight in hungary and theres more to come the next system coming through sunday looks a particularly wintry scene here the winds fairly stiff once again but was temps up in double figures for london paris is come sunday with rain and yet more snow ahead of it so this is all happening over the land mass of europe for all the quieter really over the water the mediterranean but theres still a potential for some rain in western libya all the saturday sixteen degrees into this is a result the opposite breeze means its much warmer further east is actually twenty carter on the skies a loss to clear in turkey is the breeze picks up in the southerly here so also should be dry in tunisia on sunday. Rio has big plans to turn its largest favelas into spectacles. But inside the favelas become. Big plans of the. Building since the age of twelve this untrained yet skilled architect has as good a chance as any at seeing his vision come to light. The bedroom and the master plan and the concluding part of rebel architecture at this time on aljazeera. Now. Its the School Election and the candidates are pulling out all the stops. I mean you have a lame. Gift. In this telling me ok this is. A good solid vote this time on al jazeera. Come back quick recap the top stories this hour turkey has fired artillery across the border into the kurdish controlled enclave of a freend in northwest syria. A country royal who was formerly a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in an audiobook boarding obtained by al jazeera. On egypt president abdel fatah sisi has announced hell run for a second term in the march election. On other stories were following the u. S. Says it will withhold another payment to the u. S. Relief agency for Palestinian Refugees the forty five Million Dollars was promised last month for food aid it comes off the back of tuesdays announcement that washington was going to withhold more than half of the one hundred twenty five Million Dollars aid package as Andrew Simmons reports from the occupied west bank its another blow to people already struggling to survive. Its not the most needy case but use of sharia speaks for millions when he questions why Palestinian Refugees should face more hardship because of politics his familys forty three dollars a month food allowance has already been lost in general cuts he worries about his childrens education because some teachers are now having to be laid off in schools and hes unemployed because his place on the agencys jobs program has ended and wont be renewed. How do you feel if we hadnt been kicked out of our homes in the first place there wouldnt have been the need for you an agency to give a services theyre not doing us any favors we lost our land and everything it would be under if there were no Palestinian Refugees. Covers every aspect of life refugees in need yet its already facing a deficit estimated to be between one hundred twenty and one hundred seventy Million Dollars the Palestinian Authority says donald trump is trying to pressurize it by hurting those most in need. This u. N. Agency with its role in helping deprived and Vulnerable People is nothing to do with any attempt to get talks going again between the israelis and the palestinians yet it says the u. S. Action is making its situation almost impossible some predicting the possibility of actually collapsing this is not of charity from the u. S. Or any other tool or this is born this these funds are borne from a responsibility that the United Nations and the International Community as a whole has took upon itself following the adoption of a solution one which resulted in the ethnic cleansing of more than half of the palestinian population lived in historical palestine only three days before this decision to hold back forty five Million Dollars towards an Emergency Food Aid Program the u. S. Withdrew sixty five Million Dollars from the agencys general funding the state Department Says the latest action relates to a pledge it had withdraw its not a cut and so it could be reversed at some point those words are lost on this family in poverty and struggling to make ends meet. Andrew simmons out zerah jennas own refugee camp in the occupied west bank. Now u. S. Defense secretary says the focus for his Nations National security has moved away from terrorism and on to the competition between the great powers jim mattis also accused china and russia of being revisionist as he laid out plans for defense policy so for more on this lets beat in washington d. C. How significant a shift or a turning point is this in u. S. Strategy shall. Well the troubled business regime is making a great deal of it but its not as if the Obama Administration wasnt also thinking about russia and china while it was attempting to combat what it cools terrorism what we had today was the release of an eleven page summary of a much larger classified report required by congress as to what the pentagon is up to what it plans to do it was just this big Mission Statement really and said look were going to be invincible will smite all of our enemies will anyone who threatens us we will have superiority well also be stewards of good stewards of taxpayer money which is quite interesting given how the pentagon uses its money and how most of what its suggested waste billions and billions of dollars it also said that needs more money because they theres a danger of the u. S. Losing its quality of edge in weaponry against china and russia which is again interesting given that the u. S. Spends more on weaponry than russia and china than another eight countries its estimated all put together the u. S. Spends the most on weaponry than any other country in the world house but it was also an extension of what we had last month from the white house the white house six National Security strategy which gets shifted that emphasis so general mattis as he listed through the threats that the pentagon feels the u. S. Faces he began with that idea that now its about competitive great power as we face growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and russia are from each other nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models pursuing Veto Authority over to other nations economic diplomatic and security decision rogue regimes like north korea and iran persist in taking outlaw actions that threaten regional and even global stability. Now whats significant about all of this is dont trouble the campaign trail he did say hes going to spend a fortune on the military and thats what general mattis wanted and also a quote from congress in this in this this white paper but trouble also said that the u. S. Was going to take an America First approach was going to withdraw from being the worlds policeman the the all these sort of different foreign entanglements were going to be reduced about clearly from vis this document the white house policy document released last month his National Security adviser and his defense secretary dont agree this is very different from what trump promised on the campaign trail the u. S. Will stay engaged and potentially violently engaged around the world thank you very much you have a chance in washington germany says it will no longer export arms to countries involved in the war in yemen the move will impact on the sale of military equipment to the Saudi Led Coalition that has been fighting hoofy rebels in the country since twenty fifteen conflict has left over ten thousand people dead and millions on the brink of famine. Or germanys chancellor merkel and shes optimistic that the social democrats will give the go ahead for Coalition Talks to take place she was speaking on a trip to paris for talks with frances president emanuel she has been unable to form a new Coalition Since germanys election back in september. When i understand why especially in france people are waiting for us to form a new government in the negotiations we have put europe high on the agenda to make clear once again the specially in terms of being able to take action in europe its very important for germany to have a stable government. A hundreds of thousands of children in south sudan may die if Emergency Action isnt taken to boost Food Security this is according to the new executive director of the uns childrens Agency Unicef who is visiting the country millions have been displaced by fighting between forces loyal to president salva kiir and followers of his former deputy react machar a ceasefire was agreed last month but its been violated repeatedly. We unicef says two point four million children have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in two thousand and thirteen will than two thousand children have been killed nineteen thousand have been recruited into armed groups with at least one in three schools damaged or close more than seventy percent of children are not getting an education. The islands has meant that many of the farmers have run away from their fields their trade to do the farming and as a result there is just not food in the markets we just ended the harvest season and were now into the dry period and the lean period and it means that there is just less food less water to be found we are very worried that a quarter of a million children are going to be facing death that its year before the next harvest in july so it is a serious mel nutrition problem yesterday we were up in some of the camps where the mothers and children are coming to see if theres malnutrition and the acute beer malnutrition is its growing stronger so its a continuing crisis and its one the world needs to think about and to do something about its its serious here in south sudan scientists in the u. S. Have developed a universal blood test capable of detecting eight different types of cancer the aim of the test which is called can assess seek is to catch the disease early and save lives on experts around the world to hany it as an Exciting Development they say more such still needs to be carried out pull brennan reports. The scientists here at John Hopkins University in baltimore analyzed more than a thousand patients who chose symptoms of cancer to see whether this new test would accurately confirm the diagnosis and they were excited to discover that for certain tumors the counsel to seek test was up to ninety eight percent accuracy and the same test was effective for eight different types of cancer including five which no early screening currently exists heres how it works as a chuma forms and grows the cancerous cells within it change reproduce and die sometimes cierra shed cells that can get into the bloodstream and when cancer cells die they can also release d. N. A. And other fragments that also get into the blood cancer seek is described as a liquid biopsy and analyzes a patients blood sample for traces of that cancer d. N. A. And identifying which genes in mutations are most active can identify the type of cancer and the best treatment the importance of early diagnosis of cancer cant be understated for example in the case of brow counts Ovarian Cancer and Breast Cancer ninety percent of those diagnosed early will continue to live for more than five years but the survival rate if its caught at an advanced stage is much lower in the case of a variant cancer is just five percent in the u. K. Cancer specialists are giving a cautious welcome to the findings this is a very exciting first step along the way to such a blood test theyve shown that you can pick up toys any traces of the cancer in the blood. But potentially has the ability to pick up cancers early on and identify patients for surgery but it is a first step another specialist though wants to see the test accuracy improved stage one when we want to diagnose these cancers this is. They do it is quite low its just about forty foot so that is something. That might this test back. When we tried to think about it meant to get the baltimore study worked with patients who had already shown symptoms of cancer the true breakthrough will happen if this test can identify cancer before the symptoms emerge that could really make a massive impact on survival rates this test is one step closer to the. Paul brennan aljazeera london silicon. Im in london for the new media festival which promises to transform the city into a nocturnal. Childhood hero it. Was the hour. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Well now london is getting a bright make over landmarks in the city have been adorned with lights and installations as part of the four day lumia festival the works of dozens of persuasion International Artists are also being put on display in some of the capitals best known buildings. Reports. A tunnel of triangles lighting up londons dark when tonight. A line of. Weaving through the streets this is londons lumiere festival a chance to see the city in a different light for four nights only with the capital as there canvas some of the fifty artists have transformed it by conic buildings with large scale projections Westminster Abbey with its martyrs painted in glorious technicolor that the original architects could only have dreamed of audiences have to wrap up warm but organizers say its a chance to change into something other than a screen ill check the company that i run that produced the event its really dedicated to creating moments in peoples lives that are away from screens you know whether thats a phone or tablet or a computer or a tele you with all of those things you can be anywhere you can meet anyone you like but actually its still not real the free festival hopes to more than a million visitors at a time of year when most stay at home some of the works into active and addictive like this sculpture called control trolls. The more playful ones like impulse get adults a chance to play in a public street like children once did Leicester Square is overrun with Nocturnal Animals a reminder that we share this city with others that we dont always see we tend to be very self centered and actually were part of a much broader picture and everything is connected artists and scientists collaborated for this piece cosmic scope a chance for viewers to contemplate our universe to be quite a kind of holistic total statement about the history of our understanding of the cosmos and the cosmos itself and our place importantly within it and what it means to think about the universe in general but ones own individual existence some of the pieces do pose a question like this one was by a dutch artist the idea is that we are underwater after the effects of choir. Change and rising sea levels have taken their toll and it is eerily surreal to see yourself even further you can take out your phone download the soundtrack that goes with it and plug in your headphones. Illuminating spaces that people would normally pass by without a thought is a rare chance to see london in a new light aljazeera. And hes here now with this. Thank you so much marion well Australian Open organizers have been defending their decision not to suspend play after a second straight day of extreme heat in melbourne Top Players Including say conditions are right on the limits with on Court Surface temperatures of close to seventy degrees being recorded so how mark reports. When does hot weather become dangerous for athletes is the question again being asked by players than organizers that the Australian Open. Temperatures have been hitting forty degrees centigrade in melbourne croatias petra markets there she had to take painkillers after the reflected heat from the playing surface gave her blisters. Corney had her Blood Pressure checked during her loss against marty the french player wants the events extreme weather rule to be reviewed playing in this condition is of course very dangerous for the health of the players and the limits of not playing the matches really high its like it needs to be a five degrees in and. I think this should be a little bit lower torment officials admit the conditions are tough they came close to suspending play button fist safeguards in place are appropriate tournament director craig tiley thing these are professional athletes we are at the end of the day an outdoor event we want to stay in outdoor event as long as possible but at the same time ensuring that the health and well being of players is taken care of. Britains lead and had to endure three and a half hour match in the heat of the day i know he one is much against nick especially ashley and dealing with the conditions its part of being an elite athlete i mean if people do start to become ill then it wont be a concern was from. Just getting through. The weather has a knock the world number one out of his stride rafael nadal that opted to play in the lead with t. Shirt throughout the tournament a smart move he then to the last sixteen playing tennis every bit as hot as the weather so aljazeera. Local favorites senate kerry also all sides through to the fourth round after beating his childhood hero frenchman joe wilford song of the seventeenth seed defeating song in four sets his best performance in melbourne is reaching for a far as it was back in twenty fifty two just hoping to become the First Australian mens champion in full season years. I knew it was over incredibly tough match very nervous going. Through there in the Fourth Quarter of getting ready for a few mentally. Is how you know youve got a couple of you know i mean it was it was surreal. Twenty fourteen u. S. Open champion mansion which also i threw to the fourth round. Work hard to beat american Ryan Harrison seven six six three seven six the crowd will play ten seed public or an impostor next. And the womens draw number two seed Caroline Wozniak e is safely through to the last sixteen after almost being knocked out in the second round the dane had a easier time of it in this match against katie persons of the netherlands the former world number one winning in straight sets was not easy yet to win a grand slam title. Was close to being out and yes there was a mainstay still feeling like im still alive and still have you know an opportunity and today i walked out and i thought i started better in my matches so playing on better and she played well today served i think well and. Yeah im just happy to be through. Reigning french open champion in your lane auster panko is outs. Eliminated by and thats consequence of a stone here on survivor taking it in three sets she will play. Navarro in the last. Manchester united manager joe is a marine has confirmed the club are in source with arsenal about signing strike alexy sanchez the chilean will be out of contract at the end of the season not confident but also not. What your political. Unconfident think you. Just. Relaxed and. We defeated the north slope there with a feeling that. It can stay. But also with the feeling that. It can move in the few moves as a good over chose theo walcott is hoping to kickstart his club and International Career following a twenty eight Million Dollar move from asked the forward hasnt represented his country could see he is and is joining up with their former england manager sam our dice. I felt that with the manager seemed to get the purpose of close especially when first coming in and just the plans for the future of the club and i felt like i wont be part of that fantastic history and i want to make that history present i want this club to push on and you know try to reach the levels that enough to like it can with the players particularly coming in belgiums Thomas Peters has a one shot lead at the Halfway Point in the abu dhabi championship agency want to record four points on his ryder cup debut in twenty six the seven birdies to reach twelve on the park and there are still some big names on the shoulders are up for a poor first round wellman born Dustin Johnson right back in contention after a round of sixty four. Only macro is just three shots off the pace the four time major winner is back from injury after three months out of the game. Year very satisfying you know ive done quite a bit of work on the art you know over the offseason and worked a little bit on my swing and a couple little tweaks here and there and you know they seem to have paid off already you know a couple little swing thoughts that i still have but its its nice to see that the work that ive put in on the range can translate on the golf course and you know thats been a great thing to see for me over the last two days full time overall world cup champion lindsey vonn just missed out on another race when the american losing her men summit this world cup event in italy when one of her skis kicked up in the air but still managed to finish second after missing the twenty fourteen olympics because of injury the twenty ten downhill champion is set to return to the winter games next month another skiing great sign of her career in some style about events four time olympic medalist Julia Mancuso completing her final progress as wonder woman the thirty three year old missed out some qualifying for next months winter games ok thats just for lets get back to mary and theyre going to thank you very much and while thats it for this news hour i will be back in just a couple of minutes with much more news so just stay with us. 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