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Restrictions on doing business with the government. Developing news this wednesday has come out of libya where the internationally recognized government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva after warlord Khalifa Haftar forces attacked the port in the capital tripoli at least 3 people were killed in the assault on the port which is a major entry point for supplies food fuel all of these things coming into libya and there are warnings of major disruptions to schools hospitals and power stations his forces say the target of the shelling specifically was and he has repeatedly launched these assaults on tripoli going back to april the tripoli based government insists the u. N. Mediated talks cannot continue until the worlds takes a quote clear stand on what it calls after violations lets start with this report james bays our diplomatic editor is at the talks in geneva. The port in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general half his forces carried out the rocket strikes about the same time the talks were resuming in geneva and immediately put the fate of the peace efforts in jeopardy its now 10 months since general haftar appended the International Communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorists who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary generals envoy was determined to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left that that it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i bet there have a cease fire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition but hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire is issued this statement. There were renewed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripoli seaport which is the life of archery for many libyan cities where they get basic medical and Food Supplies in this context we announce the suspension of ongoing talks in geneva the president ial Council Reaffirms that without a permanent ceasefire there is no point in any negotiations the u. N. Is now left struggling to see if it can save the geneva process wider talks involving all political factions in libya would you take place next week once again or day shifts military action by general haftar has derailed peace efforts james bays out 0 geneva will top diplomats who have been involved in these talks have reacted with dismay at the sudden turn of events i only saw on this a i hope of course said these talks we checked she will resume and says its because he is possible to send i mean the what is just started to engage the military committee which is the most important thing for the ceasefire and there are some positive for the political to look to to stop the sometime in the near future to serve the there was the hope that step in the will be done but duty. Has an update from ahmed up the one had a correspondent in tripoli who says these port attacks have now forced people to leave. Poor 2 which is the government describes as the lifeline not only for the people in the capital city but all libyans because this is the main and major port in the capital city and then you see that this state oil further has declared that it has just moved and evacuated all tankers that are loaded with fuel and gas in the port in order to prevent humanitarian and invented environmental disaster due to the multiple attacks by have to do forces on the port on tuesday joining us now for the senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Foreign policy institute is on skype from mclean virginia nice to have you with us. What are they for haftar is doing here is well its true to form isnt it weve seen in the past the railing process is just when its looked like there might be in fact i think once that happened just after hed met the head of the United Nations secretary general of the United Nations is this just almost what to expect from a man who is a military man and. Its pretty much i mean there has been. Proving all were in order again over the years and especially over the last few months that hes not interested in any political process sort of a new political solution. That he insists on a military solution hes just speaking sometimes. Directly about politics and so on but he keeps on proving that he doesnt believe it i mean today he had just finished a meeting with their merican ambassador who came to visit him and spoke about the need for a political process and. Ceasefire and then immediately after that he decided to bomb tripoli airport trying to. Expand his economic sort of stranglehold on the capital so then have it how do you have a political process we so often hear with libya and its true for for for for syria and yemen and all these other places where they say has to be a political solution how can you have a political solution with someone who has been trying to take over the capital by force for nearly a year. Excellent question i mean basically as long as the International Community. Is not willing to take a really hard stand and implementing some very specific sanctions program against up to and hes willing to just simply be content with issuing statements general statements about political solution and all of that meanwhile willing to tolerate him violating the cease fire bombing indiscriminately in tripoli or regular bases the United Nation today employee has declared that since january 12th the u. N. Had observed over 150. 00 violations of the cease fire agreement as long as nobody is willing to take a really hard stand against him and hes going to continue to do that so its difficult to take the credibility sorry to interrupt but its difficult to take a hard stand or a united stand when Different Countries have allied themselves with the 2 sides in libya they cant really be i mean the United Nations can condemn but they stiffle to have some sort of consensus. Correct exactly i mean thats thats precisely the problem i mean over the last 10 months youve got a general a rogue general whos been bombing indiscriminately capital of a recognized. Government without any stand by the International Community only a few days ago they issued this general statement without attaching any real teeth to it calling for a ceasefire and all of that i mean the whole thing is as the general secretary himself declared last week that moving is a real scandal and it undermines the International Credibility not only libya but worldwide when youve got. Somebody like willing to thumb his nose at the International Community in get away with it and what happens to libya in the meantime not the libyan side but the people there i mean you hit the ports back and have a huge knock on effect for a country that is already limited in how it can. Import food and fuel and supplies. Precisely i mean he had moved on the fields only a few weeks ago cut off the oil now the oral went down the production went down from about 1200000 a day to less than 100000 barrels and now he is getting the port and basically hes trying to to move the whole war into a war of strangling the capital economically and depriving the. Civilians with you which is the largest concentration of civilians in libya is over 2000000 people from from having any access to the rest of the world commercially after he had managed to displace over 200000 people in tripoli killing thousands were injuring more i mean the whole thing is really quite detrimental not only to well what is happening in libya and the libyan people but also to the credibility of the International Order as a whole after that well joining us scott from virginia thank you excellent to get your thoughts thank you for thank you sir. Lets have a look at what else is coming up on this news hour we will look at how the corona Virus Outbreak is exposing the risks and lack of protection for people working on cruise ships. Also afghanistan finally declares a winner in its president ial election 5 months after holding it but the opposition is calling it a coup against democracy. And in sports the champion loses her 1st w. T. A tour match up to her big triumph in melbourne. Lets get an update on corona virus 1st the outbreak which is now killed more than 2000 people all but 5 of those deaths in Mainland China the number of new cases though in china has fallen again one 1749. 00 new infections reported on tuesday compared to the nearly 1100. 00 the day before which is actually the lowest since the end of january despite signs the outbreak might be slowing down russia has decided to temporarily banned chinese citizens from entering the country that comes into effect on thursday and in japan the course of the diamond princess cruise ship is ending for some passengers and crew there are about 3700 people on board and as of tuesday at least 542 cases were identified among those people so were going to get the latest on that with rob mcbride in a moment because he is right there in front of the diamond princess weve also got katrina you in beijing will come to you both in a moment before we do though want to have a look at the Johns Hopkins university virus tracking map which weve been showing you quite a lot over the past 2 days it gives us a good snapshot of where we are at the moment so the headline number there is the 2009 deaths and the confirmed cases of 75000 over 75000 the concentration obviously of course in asia but do you think about where it spreads out from there far away you can see cases in india down to singapore and of course japan where the ship is. Also take note of that number up in the corner there the green number 14 and a half 1000 people who have recovered from corona virus from varying levels of the strains that its important to remember about the amount of people who are still alive even after contracting the disease ok correspondents lets talk to them katrina you 1st of all in beijing anything we can read into these numbers i know we go through the numbers every day katrina but i think everyone is always looking for some sort of trend that this might be slowing down. Thats right well today we had 136. 00 deaths in the last 24 hours reported of the krona virus and thats a bit of a little bit of a spike because in previous days we had the number under 100 but its not the highest we had last week of some 140 people on some days lose their lives so it does tell us that this is continuing to be a very serious serious situation but there is some good news we had for the 1st time today the number of cured people according to official figures is higher than the number of new confirmed cases you mentioned we had about 1700 also new confirmed cases according to official figures we have 1824 people have recovered so that is good news were also getting some more information about the corona virus itself weve had the largest Study Released of the illness by Chinas Center for Disease Control which tell us some very interesting informations are so far what we know is about 80 percent of people who catch 19 have no symptoms and they do invariably recover good news so that leaves us with 20 percent 20 percent of people who develop severe pneumonia like symptoms and that brings us to the mortality rate according to Chinas Center for Disease Control its about 2. 3 percent which is lower than other coronaviruses such as salzman as but it is much more infectious other information that weve learned is that 64 percent of the people who have died from the new current virus are male and also about the ages of these people so so far 30 percent of those in the fatality rate in the sixtys 30 percent are in the seventys and 20 percent are in the eightys so this is definitely a new list which is affecting many it seems to affect you also older people ok so thank you katrina you in beijing this. Lets move over to your comma and here is right mcbride is the save the diamond princes ship behind you rob whos staying on whos getting off. Thats right this is the day that everybody has been waiting for the official end of this 14 days of quarantine but of course not everybody will be getting off on this day those around 500. 00 or so people this wednesday are scheduled to leave this is the 1st of the some 3000 people who are still on this ship we understand theres a lot of activity is happening in the terminal Building People have been seen Walking Around with suitcases and there are a number of buses all waiting on the quay side the media has been moved back from there in the previous days weve been allowed to be right on the quay side beside the ship the media have all been moved back and these buses are now waiting to take the 1st hundreds of people 2 away there understand that the elderly have priority these are all people of course who have proved negative for this coronavirus many japanese citizens amongst them and its understood that some of these buses will be going to large terminals like yokohama way station for people to proceed with their journeys go home to their families and so on we dont have too many details about exactly whats going to happen to them because of course the authorities here want to try to dampen. From chasing these people understandably theyve been through quite a lot but i think also there is a sense here that these people may still have the possibility that they could pass on any affection so the advice from the author of these is although theyve gone through this quarantine that they should stay at home for the next couple of weeks and self quarantine themselves which does beg questions about whats your thora to have the confidence of the author ities in this quarantine practice because of course we do know that from the latest figures of all of the passengers and crew on here weve now had a total of 542. 00 infections a lot of them in the past couple of weeks of course when this vessel was locked down in priority ok were told to get later than rope as we wait to hear what happens to the people on board the diamond princess. Not just passengers of course have been stuck on board that ship cruise ship workers from around the world have also been caught up in the coronavirus quarantine with many left stranded thousands of kilometers from their families. In manila and spoke to the family of one filipino worker who has been held up in japan. And the message that for victoria jo and her father every phone call lately feels as if it may be their last victoria is in the philippines her father works abroad now stranded in the diane one princess cruise ship in japan where the corona virus has infected hundreds of passengers. The danger her father continues his work as is to or she says her family is being kept in the dark about what the shipping company and the Philippine Government planned to do with those stranded on the ship the job he loved so much when the lawyer who 1st saw. Giving birth earning the same love that. Inside the cruise ship her father gives a tour of his work please. We keep working we still keep serving thats why its really hard because we are still exposed to passengers and that is that they are very stressed. In this whole way passengers post their requests and comments outside their door which Service Workers to attend to. Weve already about our immunity many of us are tired and believe that we feel that they are not safe here anymore. Its a sentiment shared by many here in downtown manila filipino seafarers look for jobs abroad to despite the risks around 400000 of them more than 1600000 people who work on ships globally are filipino they send back hundreds of. Millions of dollars in remittances back to the country every year for years filipinos the bears have been calling on the government 8 to help them lobby for better protection and compensation abroad now they say the Current Crisis has exposed the Philippine Government in the bill its a respond quick enough to the growing challenges of the Global Shipping industry. Defeat the war in the ships anyway and they have their war by h. Job security so we are not certain about the buy. They say they simply dont have a choice for them its more important to adjust the uncertainty about whether they will be able to provide for their families back home. Dugan al jazeera. Lets look at syria now the United Nations says nearly 300. 00 civilians have been killed in the northwest just since the beginning of this year as the government tries to capture the last rebel strongholds. Of the. United nations says schools hospitals and camps for the internally displaced have been hit because the russian backed government offensive cruel beyond belief and its called for the immediate creation of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. Would suggest they cant all be accidental. And i dont minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of course no necessity of caution and so on. All of which can contribute to something going on a trip if theres a war crime its cruel beyond belief that civilians mostly women and children living under scraps of plastic sheeting in freezing conditions are being bombed. This report now from hashem a whole bar on the plight of those displaced by these attacks hes on the turkish syrian border. Patrolmen how bad is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a bull murky in the east of when it was taken over by Government Forces the building is unfinished and the family has little for nature cannot afford to buy a stove to heat the place. And we pray someone will defend us please help us they kill our children they targets cause schools we cannot send our children to schools anymore they are bombing the area nonstop its insane as Government Forces close in football has already backed the tractor outside hes ready if the situation gets worse. I have seen hopeless faces crying out of fear and humiliation i am asking the arabs and the muslims where are you why are you silent come here and see the women and children living in the open people are on the run believe it live hoping for a better place. And his family have just arrived from mata norman the rebel stronghold south of. The city was recaptured by the syrian army 2 weeks ago a shelling and flared many civilians escaped. On one day we counted 400. 00 rockets fired at the city in addition to airstrikes many were killed we fled under the cover of darkness it was so chaotic many were looking for loved ones whom theyd lost track of during the escape this is how northern italy and the outskirts of aleppo look like. Long lines of syrians on tracks their destination is the border with turkey they join hundreds of thousands of people who have gathered in small areas an empty field. Hoping to cross into turkey if Syrian Government troops continue their advance the battle for it live might turn into the worst confrontations is the start of the conflict 9 years ago the syrian army is determined there are burbles must surrender but they are defiant civilians have nowhere to go and if it falls into the hands of the government theyre likely to pay a price the millions who live in the province who are stranded near the border with turkey will have to abandon the dream theyve carried for many years a syria without bashar assad has a much better aljazeera jill bergers a Turkish Border with syria with us now on skype from washington as wired hes the c. E. O. Of engage but was previously syria Outreach Coordinator for the u. S. State department and senior syrian visor to the former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Samantha power so well placed to take us through this well i mean whats going on in syria but the International Reaction to it i mean if this is being described as cruel beyond belief and we have had 9 years of this war what is going on there is it just a case of the Syrian Government or the russians saying well the end is in sight were just going to push through. Thank you this Syrian Regime and. The russians and other allies have always pursued a military solution. Thats been their response to the prodemocracy movement in syria last 9 years and they are pursuing it with vigor and are fortunately the this scene that were seeing now and it look was all too predictable particularly once the russians entered this this war on behalf of the Syrian Regime the regime has intentionally been funneling all the displaced people people from towns there has allowed to escape into italy so could one day like today focus all of its attention and military might on on on not only just killing them but ending the sooner of who shouldnt at all and so in the face of that has the quote unquote International Community just given up on any political solution and just said well thats effectively nothing we can do because there was a parade there been multiple processes for many years now and then come to anything i think most honest observers and and and. Governments there are generally interested in a solution in syria have recognized that absent credible deterrence against the regime and its allies a process could never really succeed. Imagine trying to end. That threat of you know airstrikes probably that conflict with and very differently and now fortunately thats what happened in syria most people do not think that. Process has any chance of succeeding specially when the military option keeps getting rewarded as were seeing so what happens in the interim there and the United Nations talks about humanitarian corridors weve heard about those before but i mean the urgency this time its extraordinary just because the sheer number of people who have been displaced this time. Absolutely i mean you have 3500000 people in this in the small province and now about a 1000000 of them by the way most of these people have already been displaced before and now we have about a 1000000 who are displaced yes yet again with no options to go into turkey because turkey is already has to close a quarter 1000000 people the viewers really need to to to remember that in 2016 we saw the same exact episode when aleppo was being bombarded by the Syrian Regime and the russians and a 1000000 people were displaced back then and ended up not only in turkey but many of them moved on to europe with catastrophic consequences for european politics for european unity for nato unity and some would even say that the vote in favor of braggs it was in part motivated by those who what now is the syrian refugee crisis and scared british voters into opting out of the european project some would even say that doll truck you know have been elected president United States have enough capitalize on the fear of muslim particularly Syrian Refugees coming to the United States and we are seeing same exact scenario playing out all over again and if if if it looks falls you have 3000000. 00 people are going to be looking for home and many of them will have no option but to look to europe while thank you for joining us to talk the latest on syria we do appreciate it thank you. Still ahead for you on this news hour the escalating protests against a pipeline in canada including a rail blockade which is causing a nationwide disruption. On the most intense recent fighting in ukraine if you look at the bank could derail the Peace Process there and in sport the brazilian forward making himself the toast of tokyo the Asian Champions League action coming up at about 10 to the. Hello again its good to be back well here across parts of japan things are going to be Getting Better over the next few days the big storm system that caused all the problems with the snow as well as the rain is now making its way out here into the pacific and as we go towards wednesday much better conditions across much of the area a few lingering scattered showers across the north but for tokyo it is going to be quite nice at about 13 degrees there a sock at 11 down towards shanghai though expect to see attempters coming up from 12 on wednesday 1215 degrees as we go towards thursday no doubt across southeastern asia plenty of rain across much of the south and that will continue over the next couple of days but up here towards the north for men it is going to be quite nice plenty of sun in the forecast and your 3 day forecast does look like this started here on thursday temperatures are on the rise starting at about 34 degrees and into the weekend we do expect to see a nice day in a warm day at about 36. 00 to be there well across india there is not going to be much talk about in terms of the rain or the clouds it is going to be those temperatures we are rising across much of the region into the thirtys across many areas kolkata at 31. 00 degrees here on wednesday dr at 33. 00 and then as we go towards parts of thursday were going to see tonight with clouds in the forecast at 32 and bigloo at about 33. 00. Join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 Hour Television news channel morning talkers and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the states misleads the public to still be here reflects the same thing as Climate Change hold very tall show you take a giant believe they have anything to apologize for listening post on aljazeera. Here on the news on here at aljazeera and these are the top stories libyas internationally recognized government has pulled out of the ceasefire talks in geneva after tripolis port was attacked by forces loyal to war Khalifa Haftar at least 3 civilians were killed in the attack. A number of people have died due to corona virus and china has exceeded 2000 but the number of new infections has fallen but so is the 1st passengers stranded on this cruise ship the dun princess in yokohama in japan have started to leave. And the u. N. Says nearly 300. 00 civilians have been killed in northwest syria since the beginning of the year almost all of them in attacks by the government and russia has denounced the offensive as cruel beyond belief. In afghanistan ashraf ghani has won another term as president after being declared the winner of last septembers disputed Election Results have been delayed for months because of attacks at polling stations allegations of rigging and technical problems or challenges as a report. Since september afghanistans Election Commission has been sifting complaints and contested votes trying to work out whether ashraf ghani has the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff he does its finally announced but only just but that she has said i had to open it according to the constitution we declared mr ashraf ghani who recovered 923592 votes which is equal to 50. 64 percent of the countrys total vote in the election as the president elect of the government of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan. The incumbent is naturally celebrating. The matter. But im dedicating this victory of the people to the people and as the 1st servants with our united seem we will always safeguard the rights of the Afghan People but although the decision puts months of electoral uncertainty to rest it opens a new chapter of danger just like when gandhi was ruled the winner in 2014 his main rival Abdullah Abdullah is calling the result illegitimate thats. The result they announced today was the result of election law a coup against democracy the betrayal of the will of the people and we considered it to be illegal. In 2014 the u. S. Brokered a power sharing agreement with garni president and of diller chief executive. This time around the u. S. Is doing deals with the taliban there near an agreement in doha which could be announced soon if an initial reduction in violence is successfully observed 1st the u. S. Wants to bring its troops home. With the taliban also says gone these reelection is illegal and contravenes the Peace Process will reach alans aljazeera. Perus government has declared a Health Emergency in parts of the country after an outbreak of Dengue Fever Health Authorities Say 12 people have died this year already and more than 5400 cases have been reported eastern jungle areas near the brazil and bolivia borders have been hardest hit outbreaks been partly blamed on an increase in the number of ski toes a u. S. Federal judge is thrown out of chinese tech giant huawei is lawsuit challenging a low restricting its business the case relates to the law which bonds why away from doing business with u. S. Federal Government Agencies and contractors many in the usa while we could use its networks to spy on behalf of the Chinese Government weiwei which is one of the worlds Biggest Smartphone makers and Telecommunications Companies denies all of this of course want to hijack our stresses this is just one example of the tension playing out between way and the u. S. Government. Well this certainly is a win for the American Government and its campaign against while way which weve seen unfold since President Trump took office his administration as you said believes that huawei may allow the Chinese Government to essentially use its infrastructure and equipment to spy on american users which is something that huawei adamantly denies and todays a ruling from a judge who essentially threw out while ways argument that a law passed last year which had for him a good while way from doing business directly with the federal government or with contractors while we sue saying that was unconstitutional but the judge today ruled that the federal government has a right to spend money however it wants to and huawei has expressed its disappointment and it very likely will appeal this Court Decision this lawsuit alone is only one of many fronts that huawei is facing in its conflict with the u. S. Government we know that just last month the u. S. Justice department indicted while way for conspiring to steal trade secrets from american firms which weiwei denies and theres also another lawsuit pending the federal Communications Commission has also banned American Telecommunications firms from buying while way equipment using federal subsidies and while waves of that law is unconstitutional as well now the u. S. Justice department is locked in another dispute with an association of judges over the handling of the trial of President Trumps former advisor roger stone he was among several former aides who were caught up in the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election now white house correspondent. Less than 2 weeks after being acquitted by the u. S. Senate of abusing his president ial powers donald trump is once again facing similar accusations as he fights his own department of justice somebody has to speak up for the people trump is being criticized for intervening in a case involving close friend and political ally roger stone convicted last year of lying to a Congressional Committee investigating whether trust Political Campaign colluded with Russia Federal prosecutors recommended stone go to jail for at least 7 years trump tweeted the recommendation was a miscarriage of justice that same day his attorney general william barr downgraded the recommendation prompting for federal lawyers to quit the case complicating things further bar took the unusual step of admitting publicly the trumps tweets dont help if i do make his job harder i do agree with that i think thats true now as Trump Defends bar and lashes out at federal judges and prosecutors a Group Representing the judges is accusing trump of overstepping the legal boundaries of the presidency with unprecedented involvement in politically sensitive judicial cases their actions Trump Defense im allowed to be totally and im actually i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country but ive chosen not to be involved in reality it is the attorney general that is the chief Law Enforcement officer in the u. S. Not the president but that hasnt stopped trump from undoing other sentences through a series of pardons for high profile individuals including convicted Financier Michael Milken former new York City Police commissioner Bernard Kerik and even former democratic illinois governor Rod Blagojevich convicted for trying to sell former president Barack Obamas Vacant Senate seat once Obama Took Office and pres. Trump says he may continue to try and influence the legal case involving his friend roger stone stone sentencing is set for thursday and trump hasnt ruled out pardoning kim kimberly help at aljazeera the white house huge parts of canadas rail network of ground to a halt as mass protests continue against the construction of a natural gas pipeline the planned route runs through traditional Indigenous Lands to carry natural gas from dawson creek and the canadian province of British Columbia to a coastal refinery now kitimat from there it gets shipped on to asian markets alan fisher has a report from ontario. In the chilling call the small protest camp stands alone throughout the day local people have been bringing supplies showing their support in the most practical of ways theyve brought hot food didnt vegetables and even firewood what they see is a vision thats bigger than us and the vision i think that they see bigger than us is protection of the environment for too long weve allowed corporations in for example big oil is just one of them but to on weve allowed those of those folks to run the show i was driving through. It seeing as im driving by i have to. Show my support canadas mean real roots of been virtually shut down for 2 weeks protests near the tracks forced the countrys biggest rail Company Canadian National Real week to suspend most operations those protests sprung up key locations after Police Forcibly cleared camps near the route of the proposed coastal gas link pipeline it crossed the line of canadas Indigenous People known here as 1st nations the demonstrators were trying to block access to construction sites the windy moving the new protesters will create an even bigger reaction essentially freezing canada is realigned has a greater impact than the 100000 passengers that may have been affected food isnt getting to Distribution Centers that may lead to shortages export of light farmers cant get their goods to port and there is a shortage of gas getting to consumers with weeks of winter still to go in the countrys capital ottawa the 1st nations leaders say theyre willing to discuss an end to the protest but years of being ignored has to be addressed when governments ignore 1st nations rights title jurisdiction it creates conflict and court cases when governments respect 1st nations rights entitle. Its a path to peace progress and prosperity Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to find a solution he insists hes no power to direct Police Operations but says talks are the way forward it is time. Time for this situation to be resolved but what we are facing was not created overnight it was not created because we have them barked upon a path of reconciliation recently in our history it is because for too long in our history for too many years we failed to do so several groups are seeing the real blockade is creating a real crisis across canada and the longer it goes on the longer it will take to recover. Pine do not go on to you one of the largest youth organizations in the United States has filed for bankruptcy this is the 1st step by the boy scouts of america towards creating a Compensation Fund for potentially thousands of victims of sexual abuse last year it was revealed more than 12000 children had been largely abused while taking part in boy scouts activities the boy scouts of america was founded back in 1910 it has chapters in every us state has close ties to churches and civic groups at its peak in the 1970 s. The scouts and more than 4000000 members between the ages of 5 and 21 but those numbers have dwindled approximately 2200000 today the thoughts now jason amaro who is an attorney and a partner at the law firm representing more than 300 of the alleged sex Abuse Victims he says the scouts bankruptcy is bittersweet. Its a win because the boy scouts are finally on some level acknowledging responsibility for thousands of children being sexually abused over the past almost century now so on some level to a victory for our clients. But on the other hand most of our clients they want fair compensation for what they went through but more importantly they they want to know what happened they want the truth to come out and they want to know who knew what when did they know it and how did this happen to them so the boy scouts making you know general statements now that they made some mistakes. Really for individual clients is not enough you know they want the boy scouts to acknowledge that in their particular case they made a big mistake and that big mistake is what led to their abuse so its bittersweet for our clients i dont think that bankruptcy is going to be what causes the boy scouts to shut down the catholic bankruptcys theres been about 20 bankruptcies in the United States involving kept the catholic church. All of those entities emerged and continue to operate so i think the bigger issue is for the boy scouts is what it means for their reputation i mean boy scouts that the name is equivalent to american pie right it is it is an american icon. Now what youre seeing is people are finally understanding with this bankruptcy that not every scout leader was was a good guy ukraines president says heavy fighting in the east and done best region one to hamper efforts to end the conflict with russian backed separatists the flare ups left one ukrainian soldier dead and several others wounded some of the worst fighting seen in the region since peace talks were held in december and both sides are blaming each other. What does not mean we have a powerful army provocations happen but the army responded firmly the situation is completely under control because of the shah we are confident that this provocation will not change the course towards ending the conflict as one can only sit at the negotiation table with a strong army. Because forward is to go ahead and stop the war and reach peace well the new clashes happened at ukrainian positions near 2 villages northwest of the city of little hunts can the east and they are on the 500 kilometer long front line between the russian backed separatists and the ukrainians which was agreed as part of the myths protocol of 2015 they also like 10 kilometers inside one of 3 pilot zones as theyre known which both sides agreed to withdraw from late last year more than 13000 people have been killed since the fighting began 6 years ago there had been recent hopes of deescalation after both the russian and ukrainian president s met in paris in december back then they agreed on prisoner swaps and a phased troop withdrawal but a 2nd round of talks is now expected in berlin in the coming months but despite the optimism from ukraine renewed tensions could stall the whole Peace Process step dance and explains from moscow. Parties both the Ukrainian Army and the separatists backed by russia are blaming each other for this attack as usual the official confirmation is one soldier died but the unofficial reports say that more people have died and the president alinsky was so worried that he has convened this Emergency Security Council Meeting hes sad afterwards that he wont be deterred from proceeding with the Peace Process change immediately dismounting off to the attacks took place in the kremlin spokesman said that they were unsure what was going on didnt they needed more details but of course russia couldnt be blamed because obviously russia is not involved and this is of course the line they have been maintaining since the invasion in Eastern Ukraine and the backing of the discipline. Rebels there that thats always been the line but of course theres an overwhelming evidence of that the chose the contrary its also important to note that this Peace Process has been going very slowly from the beginning because russia is insisting that ukraine organizes elections in Eastern Ukraine and also give a special status to dumbass and thats something very difficult because ukraine says we can only hold elections when theres no forces there in that area and also when we have control over that border which is basically still controlled by these russian backed separatists and so this is a major point and a major debt block to this whole process which is today gone back again very far and it doesnt look very optimistic right now. Now the best places in the world to hide and launder money and avoid taxes been revealed the Tax Justice Network has released its annual list of the worst offenders and it is the Cayman Islands with the number one spot for the 1st time coming in 2nd is the United States for enabling financial secrecy some american politicians are pushing for reforms to tackle such a problem and switzerland is in 3rd place of the top 2 nations include Hong Kong Singapore luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates Alex Koppelman is the chief executive of the Tax Justice Network and told us globally countries have become better at tackling financial secrecy but some like the u. S. Behind. What were talking about here is the secrecy that extends to things like the ownership of companies and weve seen that anonymously and companies appear in really all of the big scandals from the loo and the leaks to the locks leaks the Panama Papers but also its about the opacity of Corporate Accounts and that features a lot in the looks leaks thats about multinational and tax avoiding and about the unwillingness of jurisdictions to Exchange Financial information with each other so its about whether people and companies can basically go off shore and hide hide from regulation and hide from tax so what we see is that you know corruption isnt a problem of poor countries that sometimes its presented its actually a global problem thats driven by what are typically high income jurisdictions like the Cayman Islands but also of course the United States itself which is the the biggest provider of Financial Services to normal residence so these countries are basically making money at the expense of everyone else and as they undermine the system we have seen for the 1st time Real Progress clue believe this year Something Like a 7 percent reduction in Global Financial secrecy as we count collated but whats needed now is for some of the big gaps and that really means the European Union i think is the only actor that big enough to stand up to the United States and say its not ok for you to be going in the wrong direction to be driving a race to the bottom when everyone else is really focused on making progress. Still ahead here on this news hour the sports news and were going to hear from the Baseball Players who come out swinging and response to the sports cheating scandal. Or. This war as far. Thanks very much Champions League holders liverpool have a tough task ahead of them if they were to avoid elimination from this years competition they were beaten one nil away by Athletico Madrid in their last 16 1st leg time the defeat comes at the very ground they won last years tournament liverpool had been on a 14 game undefeated run in all competitions early harlan put in a match winning performance for dortmund in their 1st leg tie against p. S. G. The norwegian striker scored twice for the been to sleep aside as they ran out to one winners at home a late goal from leandro game f. C. Tokyo their 1st win in the Asian Champions League this season the brazilian scoring in the 82nd minute to give the Japanese Team a one mil victory over australian side perth glory with the win the last years j League Runners up moved to the top of the group. See so began their campaign with a 10 win over melbourne victory former arsenal striker to young with the only goal of back to the south korean team are back in the group stages for the 1st time in 3 seasons. Well the goalkeeper of captors all do hell wont want to see replays of this again i mean come to greek block opening the door for all twang to score to hail saudi opponents going on to win the match to nil to go top of group c. That are choppy and sadder looking in good form they hammered around supper had an f. C. 3 nil to go top of group d. While saturday on the cattery side to ever win the competition having won it twice before. As car driver ryan newman is awake and speaking with family and doctors it comes a day after he suffered a huge crash at the ditto to 500 in florida newman was in the lead on the final lap of the event known as the Great American race when he was bombed by fellow for driver Ryan Blaney Blaney said afterwards he was trying to help push newman to victory a 42 year old won this race back in 2008 Dale Earnhardts death 19 years ago was the last time a driver was killed in nascars top series you know him crossing the track there was a bad scenario in the 1st place but yeah it just. Its a weird balance of you know excitement and happiness for yourself but obviously someones health and their families you know bigger than any win any sport so you know were just hoping for the best. Nearly crowned Australian Open champion sophia cannon suffered a shock defeat in the 1st round of the dubai championships playing and her 1st tour match since clinching the title in melbourne american was eliminated by unseated alaina ribbeck you know the 21 year old won the 1st set on a tie break but then lost the next 2 kazakstan has already reached 3 finals on the tour this season leader the 3 set victory in 2 hours. Also eliminated defending champion Belinda Bennett church the swiss clearly are unhappy with her performance at times in this match was being by anastasia probably trying to cover up a russian came from a set down to beat Bennett Church 166161 close at the victory in 90 minutes although followed over the Houston Astros cheating scandal is dominating the build up to the new baseball season as teams return to spring training 2 of the sports biggest stars have accused the games governing body of being too lenient and as punishment they would stokes reports sanchez 6 years ago so do you. Think this was the moment the Houston Astros played the biggest prize in baseball the world series and 2017 but since then theyve admitted they cheated to win it using a camera to steal pitching signs to get their batters in that vantage Major League Baseball for the 5000000000. 00 the teams manager and general manager both lost their jobs but the players were given immunity for cooperating with the investigation and many in the game want tougher sanctions including stripping the franchise of the Trophy League boss rob mumford disagrees the idea of you know an asterisk or asking for a piece of metal back are seen as you know sort of a futile act those comments specifically about the trophy have not gone down well at the l. A. Dodgers the team the astros big to the title 3 years ago back. In spring training for the new season 3rd baseman Justin Thomas has played more than a 1000 korea games still without a championship to his name i mean i dont know if the commissioners ever won anything as life maybe but the reason every guys in this room the reason every guy is you know working out all offseason and showing up to camp early and putting in all the time and effort is specifically for that trophy you know we understand how difficult it is to win pretty evident to me that it wasnt and its not something that you know a banner should be hung in their stadium a trophy should be put up wherever there is trophies go sorry world series championship is and its it defines careers. Its not just the dodgers he feel agree l. A. s other team the angels are also back in training and their biggest star mike trout believes the astros players should be held accountable from the structure in which he was. Just to. See so much. To talk things along and theyre always going to be called champions for now the Houston Astros keep their 2017 trophy but with anger growing within the sport major league bosses may well have to reconsider their punishment and take away that piece of metal after all david stokes aljazeera. And that tell us what for now war later. Thank you farai coming up over 300 hours g. M. T. Were going to get an update from japan shortly thats the diamond princess the cruise ship on the right hand side of your shot as the corn chain ends for some of the people on board robert broad as our correspondent and he will be telling us more about who is staying and who is coming up so stick around for that there in jordan with you in a moment and come on santa maria see you again soon. 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Libyas un to recognize government pulls out of ceasefire talks in geneva after warlord any for have task forces attacked the tripoli port. Down and all this is out of there alive in doha also coming up free at last the coronavirus quarantine is lifted for some on board a cruise ship in japan the number of dead in Mainland China surges past 2000. A 2nd term for ashraf ghani as afghan president but the opposition is calling his election win a coup against democracy. Thus a u. S. Court rejects chinese telecoms giant his appeal to easiest