And then. We. Welcome back all now thousands of gathering in kuala lumpur to discuss how to improve city life will than four billion people so hof of the worlds population current live in an area is the United Nations says that that will jump to six billion by two thousand and fifty about one hundred thousand cities a home to one billion people who live in slums and informal settlements that number is expected to triple by the year twenty the worlds poor in dire need of clean Water Energy Food and Health Services its whats making twenty thousand delegates at the World Urban Forum push for a global agreement on the Sustainable Development of cities in kuala lumpur starting by rejuvenating old neighborhoods as for its louis explains. The confluence of to reverse this is where quanah began more than one hundred and sixty years ago the name means muddy estuary in the middle a language but as the city expanded what used to be the administrative and commercial hub soon lost its importance to new or shiny a buildings parts of the old downtown area fell into disuse but there are plans to revive this part of the city as more people move in cities theres a growing demand for spaces in cities and the challenges to the regenerate existing urban areas as opposed to extending and eventually resulted. In. A negative. Lesion extracted we think city and urban regeneration body owned by malaysias Sovereign Wealth Fund believes one way to revitalize the city is by making existing spaces more inclusive that includes turning parking spots into small gardens some temporary Office Permanent any of them but there are many places around here where one can stop to reste so this is great when youre tired you can sit down here for a break. Theres also a plan to introduce the concept of micro housing and communal living this house is a prototype built as part of a showcase for the ninth world open Forum Taking Place in. Actually a lack of housing choice in the city for young people who want to be here by using this sort of. Communal living last record housing model and hopefully the young people want to come back built on the space measuring five by five need to the footprint of each house is just the size of two parking spots clear the designs and just space is not wasted these shelves double up the steps. And once youre in the bedroom. And it becomes part of the flow of the house lacks a dining room because thats meant to be a shared area over the next few weeks those behind this project will gauge public reaction to this type of housing model but whats clear is the drive to inject new life into the city has begun florent slowly aljazeera. Is only a sport now a tatiana thanks very much mary and tara days out from the start of the Winter Olympics forty seven russians a still fighting for the right to compete herring started on wednesday at the court of arbitration for sport in chang an additional fifteen athletes joined the list of thirty two who appealed a day earlier offered to being barred by the i. O. C. Due to doping times last week the court today overturned the lifetime elim pick bands of twenty eight russians bought the i. O. C. Still wouldnt allow them to take part. The privilege to be invited requires. Then just the absence of a sage. So we have not been right. In this way. We want to do justice to any of these regardless of their past. The right to believe russian assamese the ambassadors of it. They can be the remove those for a change of culture in russians. This all started in two thousand and fourteen when russia hosted in top the medal tally at the sochi winter games the following year a report commissioned by the wild Anti Doping Agency detailed a state sponsored doping program in russia in twenty sixteen a second report was released detailing an extensive doping manipulation program that was in place during those winter games in sochi over one hundred russians with then barred from competing at the rio summer Olympic Games and twenty seventeen the i. O. C. Banned dozens of russians from the olympics for life and wiped out olympic results and medals off their own doping investigations by then ruled the russians would only be allowed to compete as neutral athletes in pyongyang without russian uniforms flags or the national anthem. Meanwhile a north korean delegation has crossed the land border with the south ahead of the start of the games the group included two hundred twenty nine members of a state trained chairing group as well as officials journalists and a Taekwondo Demonstration Team north and south korean athletes will walk together under the unification flag of fridays Opening Ceremony a joint team also compete in womens hockey. The Winter Olympics is an event that pits countries with warm climates at a distinct disadvantage this includes australia but one on likely pair getting ready to make their debut n. P. R. Homan reports. Its one of the boys picture rest sports at a Winter Olympics yet this is a rare sight and a strongly in figure skating job getting ready for the gave. The catarina alexandrescu and Holly Windsor make an unlikely pairing russian born alexandra was granted a strongly in citizenship just four months ago while wins are from western sydney is set to become the countrys first indigenous winter olympian that has really completely sunk in yet i feel like im sinking a bit more want to being at the games and actually represented but you know i can i can wear like a badge of honor you know and i hope that i can sort of a role model for other Indigenous People move towards winter sports. While many countries hold beastly competitive olympic trials to select the figure skating teams just having an aussie pair on the ice is an achievement of the twelve winter olympic medals ever won by australia only two of them have come on ice and boyd in speedskating there are only two dozen established rinks nationwide making for a difficult path to success i didnt figure skating purely by accident my mum and i were driving. On saturday but years old and. We took a wrong turn and i saw back to an ice rink so i asked if i could go in and just i went in to get around the Public Session and i really like that so i go back the next week and the next week everything kind of took off and the. Winds are hard little luck finding the right pairing in australia so unlike twenty fifteen travel to moscow in search of a partner thats where he found ben fifteen year old katia carly come to brock to us and there was this tall guy. And. Hes tall hes slys. The Russian Skating Federation officially released her and thats been a peasants twenty six day though crown junior world champions last season securing their place in chang and with russian athletes banned from the games county has even more reason to embrace her new nation through a result of stroller because my partner from australia. To pyong chang via moscow and sydney a pair proving that theres many ways to the top elites homan aljazeera. During previous Winter Olympics the National Hockey league would usually be suspended to allow players to take part but League Officials refused a similar agreement for the n. H. L. Continues as normal and thats not a bad thing if youre a fan of Minnesota Wild off the falling behind early against the st louis blues the wild part of six straight goals six different wild players are on the scoresheet for resoundingly six two when. The debiting continued on wednesday with italys ellie have jani claiming victory in stage two stage one when a dillon get in of a can carry to for second overall lead in to stage two which saw riders travel one hundred eighty kilometers outside of dubai but despite a late surge from the dutchman physiology powered to the front inside the final half a kilometer to seal the win on what was his twenty nine. Right now moves into second place in the standings just two seconds behind going on. Four time olympic champion laura kenny is to make her return to the track at the World Championships in february just six months after giving about to have a child hell also be competing her husband in the netherlands the six time limpid Gold Medalist for vast his decision to retire off to sun up it was born. And the samarium end lambton wildly thank you very much tatiana well thats it for myself and for this news hour but my colleague Lauren Taylor will be with you in just a few moments time with much more of todays news so stay with aljazeera. The scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is bad but because no one cares or if you join a sunset there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist whos close to the story joined the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. In archaeology graduate from iraq hes also a part time going to Pergamon Museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people hes showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called Meeting Point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. Because ive been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is its not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life its culture news has never been more available its a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have brain good logical rational person crazy amounts and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narratives at this time on aljazeera. At least a hundred eighty two People Killed since monday most of them civilians as syrian and russian planes pound rebel held areas of eastern and. I dont tell you this is out