Of abdul killing all seventy one people on board. Iran marks thirty nine years since these limeade revolution president Hassan Rouhani calls for a year of unity. Among to go across the querent bridge project in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. And im far is smiling del pop our top sports story a seventeen year old takes gold on day two of competition at the chung chang Winter Olympics red gerard is the youngest ever bored when. Russias transport prosecutor has confirmed that all seventy one people on board a passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from one of moscows busiest airports have died investigators at the scene say they are looking at all possible causes a spokesman from sorry tell the airline says there were no concerns about the technical condition of the aircraft well the short haul plane took off from yet of the airport on sunday it was just a few minutes into its journey to the city of or sq when it went missing from the radar as the plane is though ought to have crashed near the village of good nova which is near the russian capital moscow witnesses that say they saw a burning aircraft forming from the sky peter shop reports. The answered off one four seven disappeared from radar five minutes after takeoff in difficult weather conditions wreckage was found across snow covered fields near the village of all going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walk to the scene. I saw the explosion on the ground and i called Emergency Services that asked me many questions i told them there was a fire it was very visible the short haul saratoga airlines jet took off from Moscows Domodedovo airport early sunday afternoon it was heading to the city of or skin the urals most of the sixty five passengers on board were from the region with debris scattered over a wide area Emergency Services said there were no survivors russia has suffered several major air crashes in recent years in december two thousand and sixteen a t. V. One five four military aircraft crashed into the black sea with the loss of ninety two people it was blamed on pilot error in october two thousand and fifteen a russian air bus crashed in sinai there were two hundred twenty four people on board eisel said it had placed a bomb on the aircraft at the airport or sgt family and friends of those on board the flight began to gather to wait for news but with little hope that anyone has survived. The Russian Transport Ministry says several causes of the crash are being considered including pilot error and bad weather conditions peter shop al jazeera. Of for this voyage allans joins us live from moscow and the crucial on says to the cause of this crash a lie in the discovery of the black box flight recorders how is the recovery operation going. Well its a tricky one of the moment and i think its tricky for a couple of reasons is tricky because theres been such heavy snow fall in the Moscow Region over the last week or so that its really making life difficult for the crews on the ground trying to find the wreckage sift through its collects bodies and body parts and do a leg room work its also difficult because essentially the sort of the debris has been spread over such a wide area and the plane seems sort of disintegrate to so much that again finding individual pieces the plane finding body parts that sort of thing is made doubly difficult the flight recorder is obviously going to be essential for the investigation and working out why this plane plummeted out of the sky so shortly after takeoff it seems to have been a relatively new plane there of course of being as you said reports that this plane was burning when it came out of the sky. The question has to be why did it do that. The country is basically slipped into a kind of mourning for think now weve got. To putin the president sending his condolences the Prime MinisterDmitri Medvedev has done that as well putin has basically changed his plans for monday he was going to be going down to sochi to meet with the the the Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas that meeting is now going to be taking place in moscow where you can monitor the investigation also rory what about the relatives of the passengers on board this will be a very difficult time for them all they getting the help and support and information that they need. Well it was because it is a small city in a fairly remote part of russia or its down in the southern tip of the ural Mountain Range the year olds basically separates european russia from siberia and i think you know youre going to find that in a place like vats the local Emergency Services and the administration is not particularly well set up to deal with this kind of situation but you know they will be getting through it. Of course i think the what will happen over the coming days will be crucial and of course when its determined are what brought this plane out of the sky that will definitely affect the way the russians perceive this tragedy if it turns out that this was Something Like the bomb that brought down the plane in the Sinai Peninsula then the kremlin is going to have a different difficult messaging job on its hands and its going to be try and see if the trade this to the russian people as a century like it was last time russia under siege russia under attack and russians have to come together all right well thank you very much roid challenge bringing us all the latest from the russian capital all of them again he is an aviation specialist and professor of Mechanical Engineering at Howard University he joins me via skype from lubbock texas thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so the information that we have so far suggests that the plane vanished from radar just shortly after taking off there have also been eyewitness reports describing a burning plane falling out of the sky thats how they say it happened what does that indicate about what might have taken place on board. Well thank you for having me this morning mary and in our speculative conversation based on spec the tip eyewitnesses this point. Mike my take on looking at the debris spread. Makes some concern when you have a plane falling out of the sky which playing student not do and if there is a plane fall out of the sky with a firearm board that means some cut some type of catastrophic event occurred on board that could be associated with the engines or it could be associated with pilot error as your report has just said or it could be to some other type of foreign object on board and god forbid to the families that that has occurred again my condolences go to the families for. The loss of life that has taken place today this plane is basically a ninety five foot plane ninety five foot weighing spread. And it basically carries about ninety five thousand pounds a payload and then you have the engine which is that the four three deep four thirty six which really has a thrust to weight ratio about five point six so its a pretty consistent turbofan engine conventional high bypassed her profession engine they just run normally and usually theres really not too much of a trip problem the plane basically has about three thirty eight hundred miles to twenty six hundred miles and range so its a short haul aircraft so this is supposed to be a nonet then full flight but something went wrong here planes again do not just fall out of the sky suddenly so the black box by the russian investigators who have have at least one of the black recorders will be able to reveal just to the rest of world some Additional Information what was happening when. This flight was climbing to without two of about eleven thousand feet in the around seven thousand feet is just dropped out of the sky is so thats what the black box will be able to tell us a little bit further and im hoping that the russians opened up to the world and let the frenchie be a inside to take a look and also the National Transportation safety board of america to take a look at this situation because there are some great investigators in those two agencies that to help at further insight because most importantly when plane fall of the sky and people die the first thing that people want to know in the first twenty four to Seventy Eight hours stepped its up to two hours is what happened what happened in this particular case yes it. Was information that we have so far would suggest that it all happened very suddenly quickly and unexpectedly and i know we have to exercise some caution as to what caused this crash but just from. What the facts that we know so far do you think an engineering or a technical fault is more likely than pilot aero ole the foreign object you mention. Well ninety percent of all crashes according to the f. A. A. Is due to Human Factors errors but when playing fall out of the sky and then im concerned about this is a very large one kilometer. Greece spirit that says that something happened in exploding the aircraft and spread it out is that when you think about an airplane crash theres usually a fire when it hits the ground or hits a certain small spot but when you have such a wrought grease bridge then theres a concern about something breaking apart the aircraft when it was falling out of the sky and then more important to have planes disappearing from radar screen than from air Traffic Control thats a concern too because you dont have the pilots on board speaking to air Traffic Control and thats a concern so right now we have questions lots everything is speculative into the black boxes is basically told over and allies very very carefully i do so again suggests multiple Safety Agencies looking at this so you have different perspectives to provide insights and then as we get that data unfold the next seventy two hours we will know. All right well thank you very much appreciate you sharing your analysis with us nikky joining us from texas thank you very much for having me marion our other top story this hour irans president has called for a year of unity is his country celebrated that he nine years since the Islamic Revolution in the wake of violent protests last year half an iranian cold on all Political Parties to put their differences aside and look to the future with a united front famous ravi has moved from toronto. In a state of the union style speech irans president listed the governments successes rouhani focused mostly on domestic issues speaking about things like Economic Growth what iran is doing to address the impact of Climate Change and irans ability to manufacture military hardware like tanks and antiaircraft Missile Defense systems all part of a successful effort he said to have security independence and a larger role in the region saudi give those out just. In the course of the last year we overcame terrorism we achieved great victories over i saw in the region. Help to the people of iraq and syria through had good results and the people of the region got rid of evil terrorists indirectly addressing recent protests by opposition groups rouhani acknowledged shortcomings saying the government must do more to resolve what he described as a backlog of Economic Issues show ya gotta buy on of all the government needs to be more transparent and we need to resolve banking issues address taxation and budgeting and correct the economic structure of the country. For the hundreds of thousands of iranians who joined a celebratory rallies thirty nine years later the Islamic Revolution is a continuing way of life honey told the crowd that they were the most important part of ensuring the success of the islamic form of government in iran about oh yeah and again our are here. Elections are the biggest part of protecting the Islamic Revolution people voting in their leaders in parliamentary and president ial elections that when someone is elected the opposition and they used to lead should respect the choice of the people in syria chanting slogans go to the ballot box. As he often does the iranian president extolled the virtues of dialogue over conflict he said the lasting solution to region wide problems is political settlement and as far as internal conflict ronnie said iranians should not hold grudges rouhani said victory in the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution was like a train with many passengers some stayed on some got off now he said was the time to bring everyone back on the train again. Well in all the developments of prominent iranian canadian professor has died in prison in iran sixty three year old environmental activists say ed and mommy was arrested last month on the allegations he was part of Aspiring Police say he committed suicide in custody but his family say they dont believe that human Rights Groups say detainees in iran are routinely tortured and killed. Youre watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you looking at the scandal surrounding a leading British Charity oxfam with revelations staff prostitutes in chad as well as haiti. Israels Prime Minister vows to continue operations in syria a day off to one of its fighter jets was downed on its way back from a mission their. Boss alone and to stay on beaten in the Spanish League will have that story and much more later in school. Full screen as an impact delegation has left south korea after a world when three days which ended in a diplomatic offer that aims to end seventy years of hostility the group which included the powerful sister of north koreas leader kim jong un left on a private plane on sunday they wrapped up their visit by joining south koreas president lungi in at a concert given by a north korean troops on saturday kim yong extended a rare invitation to president and jai in to visit pyongyang and going to him has more from seoul. Even as computed on the snow and ice diplomatic developments continue to steal at least some of the spotlight during whats being called the peace olympics the last three days have been historic and a high point in interest in relations north Korean Leader kim jong il sister kim jong became the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war she came with an invitation kim jong un is asking the south korean president in to visit pyongyang at a convenient time soon if this meeting transpires it would be the first time that kim jong il has met with the south korean president since taking office in twenty eleven president moon says it will begin a range. In the conditions to make that visit happen but he stresses that any rebuilding of if your korean relations must involve dialogue between the United States and north korea u. S. Vice president mike pence sat very close to the north korean delegation during the Opening Ceremony he m. A North Koreans rebuffed president moons attempts to facilitate a midi skeptics say that this north korean Charm Offensive is heavy on the symbolism but they doubt that it will result in anything substantive they say this is an attempt by the North Koreans to drive a wedge between the United States and the South Koreans into an advance their own agenda but for now president moon and Many South Koreans are encouraged by the prospect that what weve been seeing could be the beginning of a reboot of it or korean relations the u. K. Is threatening to withdraw funding from oxfam the charity is facing growing criticism over the way and the allegations of Sexual Misconduct by its workers in haiti where they were working in the aftermath of the twenty ten earthquake its an investigation into the allegations that to four people being sacked and three others resigning the charity is also facing fresh allegations that it staff used prostitutes in chad in two thousand and six it doesnt matter how good the safeguarding practice is all in an organization if the organization does not have the moral leadership to do the right thing and where in particular they have evidence of criminal activity to pulse that information to the relevant all sources including prosecuting authorities thats thats an absolute absence of leadership at least six civilians have been killed in government as strikes near the syrian capital damascus two children are among the dead in tax targeted several towns in the rebel held suburb of Eastern Ghouta it falls within deescalation zones endorsed by Turkey Russia and iran. Well the United Nations is calling for an immediate the escalation of fighting in syria to address a worsening humanitarian crisis according to its food agency nine Million People need food assistance. And is the country director for syria for the World Food Program he says any truce needs to last for at least a month at the moment thought keeps us from going to these places to ease called out to eat live to flee in the fighting the security of our staff of course is of utmost importance but all saw the ends its dangerous to to come out in and collect for example food if there is fighting going on so we need a pause in the fighting and what we have asked for the months. We already have their houses are full we have a big or gram developed food program is supporting slee really and people every day we salute assistance in the country and we can easily shift resources around if we have an opening to these areas that we havent reached for as i say two months now israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue military operations inside syria a day after israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes there netanyahu says israel is determined not to allow iran to entrench itself militarily in syria on saturday israel targeted areas in syrian territory after intercepting an iranian drone and its as space and israeli fighter jet was then shot down which led israel to carry out further raids netanyahu says the operation dealt a serious blow to iran more. Time of course. Yesterday we learned it hard blows in the forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot we will continue to hit back for every attempt to harm us for any blown flicked on us this is been our policy and this remain a policy. There is harry force that has more now from west jerusalem. Well his weekly Cabinet Meeting the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu was talking about severe blows being struck by israel against both iranian and Syrian Forces inside syrian territory in response to this downing of an israeli fighter plane the first such incident since one nine hundred eighty two meriting as far as israel israel is concerned a very serious response targeting twelve separate installations within syrian territory he said that it demonstrated that israel retain the right to act and strike back in any way it sees fit this is despite the message coming from the russians which is that israel needs to be careful not to escalate tensions further israel not really talking about russia and its language very much targeting its are at iran and syria but israel has been trying very hard to improve relations with the russian government especially trying to coordinate on exactly how it can and intends to act inside syria in response to what Benjamin Netanyahu is talking about as a growing threat from iran as the Syrian Security situation remains so unstable we are also getting reports through the israeli media via eyewitnesses that the border area in the Golan Heights is being reinforced by convoys of anti missile batteries there is no confirmation from that from the Israeli Military it tends not to confirm such matters. Ahead of south africas Ruling African NationalCongress SaysParty Leaders are preparing to finalize a deal that will result in president jacob zuma quitting office simmers under increasing pressure to leave over a number of corruption allegations and feel it is still rather post that says officials meeting on monday will decide on a swift transition of power i believe this is. We are not however intrigued and eight hundred. Eight just caution im in the transition to a new level then this is the ration and specifically to resolve the issues of the position of the president opt out in public but so far. Is not serious for a solution of this midtown. Significant consequences for that country and for the our future in this our congress. Forests across the wild are under threat according to the Wild Wildlife Fund the equivalent of twenty seven football fields a minute of being lost to logging agriculture and development but in costa rica forests are being replanted and recrossing and gallacher reports now from the cowboy in southern costa rica. Few places in the world can boast the kind of biodiversity found in costa ricas forests youll find unique species and unique climates but deforestation is taking its toll over the last seventy years about eighty percent of costa ricas forest has been lost. To clough bridge nature reserve researches and volunteers of fighting back weve got to remember that in just a few short years theyve replanted and re grown large parts of this rain forest and the result a promising when we finally captured a jaguar on the camera trap he was very big cat that was a huge step for us when we walked through the areas that weve planted in and you see the tree is large enough to make it on its own in the forest is changing. Thats a huge step easy. To say theyre like biologists from around the world now come here to study what this kind of regeneration can achieve the return of species once lost to agriculture and logging is for many i dont forget a bill experience im sure theres you know Success Stories in other countries and other places but having you know what i experience it firsthand here for so long for sure its going to be something that i look back on tell people about you know it works i the tower bridge reserve is now an example of what simple techniques patience and preservation can achieve a country wide shoot to progress is being be its astounding to see what fifteen years of regrowth can look like and according to the United Nations reforestation is the best way to combine Climate Change and its something costa ricas done very effectively through the. Its incentives and Government Programs theyve managed to reclaim almost a quarter of what was more. Costa ricas rich Natural Heritage has long been a draw for students and tourists alike but this nations reforestation if its stand is a testament to what can be achieved at a time when the environment faces its greatest challenges and to go look at aljazeera at the clown bridge reserve in costa rica. Here at the news hour still ahead for you seven years after popular protests began in yemen away ask what it will take to end the civil war. An epidemic of loneliness how the u. K. Is trying to fight a phenomenon that affects thousands of Vulnerable People also. Are very worrying very long john and i were talking to the people here the spectators the volunteers about how theyre fighting off a cold about these winds really picked a big success. Hello there things are turning a lot wetter now for us across the middle east you can see the cloud thats already tumbling its way in from parts of the mediterranean thats giving some of us some rather gray weather and that cloud is still thickening up and its going to turn increasingly wet as we head through the next few days so a few outbreaks of rain are likely during the day on monday and then on choose day the rains turning heavier and for some of us will see some snow as well so a good deal wetter for many of us come tuesday further east were also seeing that cloud and its edging its way eastwards could also bring some wintery weather over parts of afghanistan including force in kabul now some of the cloud is making its way a bit further south as well were seeing it over parts of saudi arabia also seeing that a bit more cloud around us here in doha but still despite that because of the wind direction the temperatures are actually. Climbing and theyre getting a little bit higher so twenty eight degrees will be our maximum temperature their own choose day thats eighty two in fahrenheit further south there around twenty eight or twenty nine and no problems for us down towards the southern parts of africa lots of wet weather here at the moment you can see plenty over parts of south africa not for cape town though at the moment and you see plenty more wet weather stretching down across into madagascar very heavy downpours out of this for monday and tuesday. It was auriol upon which modern day venezuela was a stop. For over a century this lucrative resource has divided the people both less than those with the Worlds Largest reserves. Charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its common with leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time. When the news breaks when people need to be heard. Lucky to good to. Be good. And the story needs to be to be just largest half the country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy aljazeera has teams on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. And live news on air and on. Welcome back youre watching the news out live from london and update of our top stories seventy one people have been killed in a plane crash just outside the russian capital moscow. Irans president has called for a year of unity as his country celebrates its thirty nine years since the Islamic Revolution. And the u. K. Struggling to withdraw funding from the Charity Oxfam in the wake of Sexual Misconduct allegations. Well the stories were covering this is the seventh anniversary of mass protests in yemen which ultimately led to a devastating civil war almost three years into the conflict huge numbers of people continue to be forced from their homes and there are no signs of the war ending our ports. Anti us slogans are almost everywhere in yemens capital sanaa healthy fighters tens gaunt next to a banner that reads death to the u. S. Death to israel. Securitys taunts because of fighting on the outskirts of the capital forces backed by Saudi Led Coalition on the offensive the houthi after taking no chances the shia rebels capture the capital in two thousand and fourteen if they lose it their control over northern yemen will come to an a and. The war waged against us by the Saudi Led Coalition is absurd its a barbaric aggression on the people of yemen and they talk about human rights and they bomb children and women. But in other parts of the country yemenis blame the healthiest for committing atrocities against civilians in the city of ties has become the focal point of the fighting between troops loyal to present a bunch so hardy and the whole thing after three years of intense fighting no one has the upper hand. The reason why we couldnt defeat them with the. I dont have mortars having trained soldiers we cannot afford because the whole area is mine and we dont have the mining to. War has weakened the government and created a power vacuum secessionist in the southern part of the country has stepped in they say they want to have a state of own. Over the last few weeks the separatists most a series of attacks that occupied government buildings in the city of aden they are mainly backed by the United Arab Emirates you know we thought in one thousand nine hundred union would be a great thing by Security Forces in the north. Down our people killing activists in this warring Southern Province unity for us is that were getting closer to establishing our Independence Day the crisis is deepening the United Nations top envoy to german stepped down after failing to convince the feuding. To set aside differences and to go to deal fighting. Lets get more on this now if sami hamdi he is the editor in chief of the Current AffairsMagazine International interest thanks very much for coming in to speak to us so as we saw from passions report there in yemen we see a country that has been shattered by this war we see people who have been through immense suffering. And also a war that has caused a great deal of regional instability yet there are no signs of it ending why. I think the problem is because there is no clear cut definition of what exactly we want in yemen do we want to restore the National Dialogue agreement that brought in a government that all Political Parties agreed upon do we want to end the war and end the suffering and were willing to allow these coups to succeed and sun are and allow the separatists to take in the south do we want a mixture of both somehow in which Political Parties all get together we allow it to be supreme but we allow some of the other Political Parties and make up so this sort of picture of a functioning government nobody really knows what they want what does the u. S. What does the u. S. Believe that who can be a viable partner john kerry suggested in the beginning of the conflict against terrorism do we want just some sort of yemen just to be off the books in the way that the u. N. Suggested want to burn but omar the representative cording to suggestions he told the truth is if you can clear up this mess quickly you would recognize any government that you put. You raise many different questions there in many different scenarios but i suppose you know if you were to begin to structure some kind of framework for talks how do you i mean how do you even do that in a conflict where you have local tribal groups in one area you have the who sees elsewhere recently weve seen in a process session ist group the Southern Transitional council s. T. C. In aden how difficult is it to secure the buy in ifs. So many different parties i think the problem is because everybody has a different interest and i know that sounds cliche the problem is because if everybody was united behind this prospect of restoring some sort of Democratic Institution in yemen that by nature means. It means the International Community getting together pushing out of ruining his power and he comes to the table he disarms because its a matter of survival for him but that doesnt seem to be the interest of the International Community because the reason why i say this is because the International Community seems to have other priorities whether its terrorism whether its the like if were talking about a Building Block for peace the Building Blocks for peace should be one that is founded on a basis that there will not be any future conflicts in other words one that does not allow one party that has weapons to overthrow other particular parties because you can have an agreement today between the separatists and we would have a united yemen but what happens tomorrow if its light decides to a dr who style process take up arms conquer joe phenomenon from the horses take saga and take some again doing a good again a new negotiating process and make them the main party what are the masters to earth and the u. A. E. Will back the masters and nasser say you know what we have a few weapons let us go and repeat this process again because theres a war we want to end the war we want to end the suffering yes lets negotiate when and these are all i mean these are all legitimate questions but as we have seen that current military approach towards the these isnt working we are just continuing to see a humanitarian crisis that is getting worse with each month with each year so you know fresh thinking then is needed where does the responsibility for that lie doesnt need to be theres any to be a new framework under the auspices of the United Nations or some other body who needs to lead this process i think what needs to happen first and foremost and the reason why i say that it sounds like i am betting the horses but the problem is the issue with the who is this their gambling when you look at human rights organizations and they cover the different atrocities taking place in the war this feeds into water. The ones who believe that as long as it stays and the pressure be on the saudis the saudis will sit with the horses when they sit with the horses it will be on their terms it create doesnt create a viable solution to yemen and i know perhaps its not the best thing to say on t. V. But the problem is unless there is a dynamic change in the war there is no genuine viable political solution the power balance is heavily in favor of a militia that committed a coup now we have to decide if we are talking about solution today we have to decide which is more important to end the war no matter the cost forget the democratic principles and forget what not or the lives of children the lies of the yemen the yemeni people its a difficult decision and life is never easy as and when you and when youre analyzing its always very easy because we dont make the difficult decisions but in my personal opinion if you want to last in yemen the war must continue until lives if you want a quick fix solution put a cell a tape on it that will blow up later then we go shoot with who today were telling you can keep an eye out which other separate you can keep adding make an autonomous region let yemen operate somewhat for it sammy is i mean and the editor in chief of the International Interest thank you very much thank you or the British Government has appointed its first ever minister for loneliness in a bid to help Vulnerable People who feel isolated charities estimate that around two hundred thousand older people in britain have not had a conversation with a friend or relative and more than a month more than half of all people have a seventy five years old live alone and u. K. Correspondent Barnaby Phillips has the story. My wife died about two and a half years ago and i. Read. The history of almost love john who is ninety had felt increasingly isolated the death of his wife left a void weve been married for sixty five years so obviously companionship and friendship important to me. The solution arranged by a charity was for john to give a room to poppy a twenty one year old student she helps with shopping cooking going for walks its mutually beneficial most importantly they like each other in simplest terms i probably wont be able to afford to live where i am if i wasnt working and living with john as a young person all the conversations we have i come out learning something new hes had such an interesting life. Loneliness is subjective individuals and societies feel it in different ways but says this expert its impact on health can be measured having predisposes Health Conditions so theres been a matter that looked at showed that it was bad for your health. Today people that are more likely to get Heart Disease and start. Their early onset of dementia. Many Mental Health issues and so depression suicide. Cocktails in care an unlikely mixture but another simple idea bringing young people into care homes for the elderly in britain three quarters of older people say they feel lonely almost half say t. V. Is their main companion these evenings everyone reaches out to everyone else. And. Make. Light loneliness itself the benefits of a scheme like this are very hard to quantify but engaging in conversation between generations makes almost all of us feel good it creates understanding it strengthens the ties which holds society together. Often comes with feelings of shame but it is part of the human condition and on evenings like these some people discover that they have more in common than the thought of the phillips aljazeera london. At the news hour much more still to come how this elim pain went from fighting for his life to winning a medal in less than a yeah. Record on the Berkeley Campus the military has funded a new program that could insert information into the mine ill have that story in a moment. On different sides of the civil war they never wanted to fight i joined a party just because it was the closest one to my house the mark even the dog for the balcony scania but united now on the roads of lebannon to see the show from on a motorcycle we see things with off the train the world is open. I love it love it love it so much fighters two bikers on aljazeera worlds at this time. And monday put it well on. U. S. And British Companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped Natural Resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the work. By the u. S. Military has announced more than sixty Million Dollars in grants to build hardware that would read and write thoughts in the brain the team working on the project is hoping to do it all with a device as small as a sugar cube jacob or visited the team in california at the light of. A lighter concrete or thumb something ten years ago dean lloyd a lawyer in Palo Alto California received the worlds first artificial retina it allowed him to see it was a low quality video image but it was something that im getting from fighters right about thirty. Yards from the dirt or grass or whatever is america foliage and youre going to know if its between one surface and other them thats correct contrasts point yet really think about that to make it useful but that technology is ancient compared to whats coming next a new military Grant Program is funding projects that seek to not just read the information thats in your brain but actually write information into it basically wed be putting synthetic versions of things like sight into the brain the university of california at berkeley is home to one of the six teams hoping to create within four years a device that can read and control one million neurons right now we can only watch one hundred at a time our goal is to be able to see that many neurons every one of them individually and not only to be able to watch what they do as you do an m. R. I. But to be able to play back to them the patterns of activity in space and in time so that you could actually reconstitute and synthesize the experience of the real world and thereby replace something that is missing because of an injury this military funded program could replace lost senses in Wounded Soldiers but could also put entirely new senses into healthy soldiers if it works the project will be a world changing leap for example while we are developing this proposal we had a few meetings sort of saying we cant do this this is physically impossible will never get there our goal is to take like a microscope Something Like this and squash it down really tiny so it can fit on the head of a mouse while its running around that this is one. Of our first prototype where koa nick and t. Are working on math that can turn a low grade two d. Picture of the brain into a lot useful three d. Images so they can take think of ruffo its like this. And process it into our lives even though we can create custom patterns and should light exactly where we want and the right moment for that and postdoctoral researcher nicol up the guy is building the system that will convert real world experiences into math the directs lasers to light up individual neurons so here is a movie casablanca and this is what you have to turn that into for it to then be shown on the brain and not out there wow unified on a pattern you tell me which neurons you want to activate and we will at the exact time give the exact amount of light thats required to activate in your own the project could rebuild soldiers or eventually give them enhanced abilities on the battlefield by the way if it works we will have crossed into a new ethical and medical world a world where we can read human thoughts and implant new ones jake aboard aljazeera berkeley california. Time follow the action from the games with. Marion thank you so much a seventeen year old has become the youngest american Gold Medalist at a Winter Olympics since one nine hundred twenty eight red gerard claimed an unexpected victory in the mens slopestyle snowboarding at least homan reports. If you would have known the name great to run before these Olympic Games but the teenage jump reduced the run of his life in the mens slopestyle snowboarding event and at seventeen he became the youngest olympics nor boarding champion ever was it was strange it was really wild that first place those. Jogging canadas Mark Mcmorris won the bronze medal less than a year after he almost died during a training accident the twenty four year old fractured his jaw pelvis and left ruptured his spleen and suffered a collapsed lung all the emotions are definitely positive today just being here at the olympics is a huge feat for me and being healthy is feel so good once again. Dutch speedskating great Sven Cromwell became the first man to win three golds in the same speed skating event at an olympics the thirty one year old climbing the mens five thousand aces yet again. Fans of biathlon was stunned when french dumb martin for cut the world number one missed three of these opening five shots and would finish in the mens ten kilometer sprint no one more stunned than germanys pesah who took home the gold. Drummer of the day came in the mens thirty kilometer askia line seaman headstart kruger was lost in the early stages up to pink floyd in a collision oh but the norwegian recovered to take the lead on the penultimate lap and when gold lace home and just era. One of the most high profile events at these games had to be both bone due to high winds on sunday gusts in excess of seventy kilometers an hour prompted the decision to move the mans downhill to thursday qualifying for the womens snowboarding slopestyle was also called off. Its not unusual to for it to be change it is or it is a challenge. But we are clearly prepared for it is there is there is no sign that we or this is take us on the way as we prepare beforehand for the eventuality which nearly always happens in the world cup event or the olympic winter games germany are top of the medal table after two days of competition with three golds the netherlands are in second france and Australia Join the list of gold medal winning countries after victory in the womens moguls and mens thing goals respectively eleven gold medals are up for grabs in the biathlon at these games heres peter stomach to take you through the events history and the technicality. Skiing and shooting seems like an unlikely combination for the Winter Olympics the roots of biathlon or in hunting techniques used by scandinavian countries and was contested between swedish and norwegian militaries in the eighteenth century in one nine hundred sixty it debuted as an official a limb pick event so how does it work well with a rifle strapped to their back the competitor will do leps around a Cross Country ski course these laps to vary from two and a half to four kilometers and at the end of each loop they stop take that rifle off their back and shoot a targets that are fifty meters away there are two types of required shooting one is standing with targets that are four and a half metres wide all lying on their stomachs shooting at targets that are not as big now if you miss a single target you are paralyzed in some event so that means you have to do a one hundred fifty metre penalty loop before continuing on the race in other events its a one minute punishment overall race distances in individual events vary from ten to twenty kilometers in duration and depending on the distance that means racing from twenty minutes to over an hour there are five separate mens and womens events in pyongyang and naturally the first across the line takes gold extreme cold weather at the olympics has been a talking point of the games for athletes back taters and thousands of volunteers are also acted wellings reports on what goes into making the games run smoothly. If a good a lympics is based on the infusion of the hosts then the Winter Olympics in pyongyang can already be judged a success the tone is set by the fifteen thousand volunteers relentlessly cheerful in extreme conditions approaching minus twenty degrees working long hours eight out of ten of them are in their twentys and simply wanted to be part of peeling changs big fortnight are you enjoying being a volunteer yeah sure because you know if the weather is a little bit colder it is a really Good Opportunity to participate in this special sports event hours of standing in the cold means the uniform logistics need to be perfect theyre not a many have politely registered their complaints to the games organizers the hours that we wait its a little bit long its nine hours for a person and. There were a lot of problems with the transportation another issue to hit the games is an outbreak of the norovirus there were over one hundred cases around the olympic site mainly affecting security guards but now sport is finally starting to take the spotlight after the extraordinary Political Developments between south and north korea to define the opening of these twenty third winter games and korea can dream of a gold rush. Is a. Public support on the first day of competition who. The gunman. In the mens. Short. Straw and. A nation is already gripped by television footage for those in the Olympic Parks its a memory for life. Im very proud that south korea managed to hold the ring because again after thirty years i came here to make good memories for my daughter. Im very happy to see the olympics in the flourish. Despite the omnipresent a little marketing flavor the games have with. Korean charm amazing people the games makers these guys. And the people. To chill at the climate. Barcelona have stumbled for a second straight week in spain they were held to a draw by taffy a late effort by luis suarez failed to get through a goalkeeper while barsa star player lean on the scene was below his best it was only the fifth time this season the Legal Leaders failed to score but they remain unbeaten with the result barcelona lead at the top at seven point lead a ko madrid are in fact in defending champions around madrid are seventeen points behind their great rivals in third. Manchester united suffered a surprise to fade away at newcastle in the English Premier League matt richie scoring the only goal in the game to lift newcastle out of the relegation zone United States second in the table sixteen points behind leaders man city. Liverpool are third in the standings after a two no when over southampton roberta for me no in mosul where the score is both in the first half and thats all your sport for now its now back to mary and london thank you very much for well now a new hospital in the Country Capital has the ambitious plan to map the genetic makeup of the gulf states entire population talk to say it will provide an important insight into middle east and ethnicities so a good job date has been to take a look. Her mom has a heart condition but shes now able to walk around easily thanks to a Clinical Trial a new valve allows her heart to pump blood properly. Get them i know that i am i was not able to sleep at night i was frail and couldnt even climb the stairs now after the operation i can sleep comfortably i can now carry things and walk normally the heart valve trial is that sidra the first of its kind medical and Research Center for women and children and other what sets apart is not just Clinical Trials but also the use of Smart Technology this is the three d. Print out of a human heart where doctors have been able to plant valves in not just one but seven patients and this particular trial is being carried out in five countries doctors here want to expand research into new techniques of therapy besides the new valve doctors the other jersey wants to test absorbable implants called stents hopefully to reduce the number of operations for children with Heart Disease its made from polymers and Synthetic Materials that you can put initially in the blood vessel it does the job by opening the blood vessel but within about a year and a half it dissolves it disappears and the area where the distant was it remodels the citrus Specialized Hospital is also innovating prevention of diabetes which affects seventeen percent of properties theres been no real studies looking at. Childhood diabetes want to be analyzed the data and once we know the exact cause of the diabetes well be able to tailor make Personalized Therapy for each child for example is that in some trouble in my room to stop the injections of insulin they have and i forgive them or medications genetic disorders and birth defects are relatively high because about half of all marriages across the gulf nations are between cousins but theyre small population is giving researchers a unique chance to map the genetics of the whole population if ambitions are realized it will create a genetic reference not only. Useful for but theres population but for all similar ethnic populations are white right now all the resources that exist around the world come from you know highly studied populations mostly europeans caucasians some africans and some east asians theres very little representation from our part of the middle eastern populations and so what weve started to do here over the last decade is to basically work towards building a representation because people here often travel abroad for diagnostics and therapy doctors report a patient dream from the middle east theyre hoping to reverse that trend with their Scientific Research some of the job either aljazeera. Well thats it for myself for this news hour but it will be back in just a couple of minutes with a full bullish news trading of course all the latest on that russian plane crash at a bring you all the latest from moscow stay with us. 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