syria and voice confirmed he will be traveling to those talks in sochi. stephanie decker is an anti care on the turkish syrian border she'll tell us about what's happening on the ground in syria but first to her in vienna where it's the last day of those u.n. sponsored talks on syria's future and as i mentioned the opposition saying hold on they're not going to solve she didn't really explain why. well they said that all they had met here in vienna is actually stubbornness on behalf of the government delegation there was a new working document that was floated around that working document was written by . britain the u.s. france saudi arabia and jordan and the opposition describe it as a documented basically provides new mechanisms to revive these peace talks that seem to be going nowhere i think you know one has to bear in mind that they're not even able to start talking about peace or even start negotiating anything or any of the points of these should be negotiated really to reach anything like constitution elections none of that has happened russia an

first to sochi where russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have just wrapped up in the black sea resort of sochi the conference's final statement said elections should be held to allow syrians to decide their own future but there's been no formal agreements with the talks punctuated with disagreements interruptions and delays the event was boycotted by the leadership of the syrian opposition the us britain and france weren't there either they support a separate un mediated process which itself has failed to get anywhere somebody gets heckled the russian foreign minister when he read a statement from president vladimir putin a ques moscow killing civilians and some opposition delegates refused even to leave sochi airport for the talks because syrian government flags were displayed at the terminal. the one job of. the syrian opposition delegation came to participate in a sort she conference from ankara with hopes to push the peace process forward and achieve serious political transition that will bring syria from tyranny to democracy and the ch

russia is hosting talks aimed at a political solution to nearly seven years of civil war the meeting in sochi is also backed by turkey and iran but doubts loom over the outcome of the talks the main syrian opposition groups are boycotting that meeting the rebels want russia and the syrian government to stop bombing parts of it glib province the strikes have killed sixteen civilians including women and children in the past twenty four hours alone and elsewhere in syria a russian brokered cease fire rebel controlled eastern ghouta near the capital damascus seems to have collapsed and the activists are reporting repeated violations by the assad government killing at least eight people now the kurds who control almost twenty percent of syria are also not there at the talks there the focus of a turkish military operation in northern syria views their fighters as terrorists well joining me on on the program now our correspondent rory challenges in sochi but first let's join stephanie decker from the turkish syrian border near killis steph let's just begin with everybody trying to talk peace in vari

sochi the meeting was delayed by several hours the main opposition groups on the kurds have boycotted the meeting a small section of the opposition groups who are inside she are also refusing to participate they mounted a sit in at the airport after apparently taking offense being by the presence of official syrian slangs in the terminal building where the meeting was finally opened by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syria's history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the u.s. backed mediation. well on the ground in syria the government is continuing to attack the rebel held on plave of eastern guta at least six people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting nearly four hundred thousand people have been living under a government siege for nearly five years well we'll be talking to stephanie deck in a moment to use in the last man on the turkey syria border first let's go to rory chalons in sochi and of course. one o

political solution to the nearly seven year civil war the meeting in sochi is also backed by turkey and iran but the main syrian opposition groups are boycotting the meeting the rebels want russia and the syrian government to stop bombing parts of it. so far monday air strikes have killed twenty civilians including women and children and elsewhere in the syria a russian russian brokered cease fire in eastern guta near the capital damascus seems to collapse activists there are reporting repeated violations by the assad government with at least eight people killed the rebel controlled on klav has been besieged by the government for almost five years now the kurds who control almost twenty percent of syria are also not at the site she talks are the focus of a turkish military operation in northern syria and ankara views their fighters as terrorists while we have reporters in such a rory chalons as they're monitoring those talks will cross to him in just a moment but first let's speak to stephanie decker who joins me now from gold bar on the turkey syria border. stephanie obviously a lot ha

russian sponsored talks on the war in syria wrap up in sochi ending a day of heckling and an opposition protest at the airport. kenya's opposition leader raul or doing the is sworn in as the people's president in a mock you know gratian ceremony. the u.s. awaits president trump state of the union address not least what he has to say about immigration. as the english premier league sits a new january transfer spending record with more than twenty four hours still to go . to yemen where succession his forces say they've taken control of the southern port city of eight and that's where the saudi backed government of president. hadi has been based after hoofy rebels took control of the capital in two thousand and fourteen the reuters news agency says the forces which are backed by the u.a.e. of confine the government of president hadi to the presidential palace suggesting splits in the saudi led coalition so a binge of aid has the latest. the seat of power for yemen's government is no longer under its control this is the sudden port city of aden where secessionist said they are now in charg

the syrian that negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the y. p.g. then not here either they are considered persona non grata by turkey and of essentially being shut out of the thing they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers towards the moscow and damascus perspective on the syrian conflict the upshot of this congress is likely to be the endorsement of the new what they're calling a constitutional committee made up supposedly all of the syrian government on one side and opposition representatives on the other but if the main groups of the opposition are not here then this allows damascus to essentially say that the opposition groups boycotting sochi boycotting this process are saboteurs of peace the big question of course is where the u.n. stands on the of this and whether stefan de mistura will approve of these measures and not allow this to filter in to the geneva process the russians believe that he is on board the lef

turkey syria border city because two new is in istanbul but first let's go over to rory chalons in sochi and some very concerned calls from the russian foreign minister before he even spoke i mean one has to wonder how that speech has gone down despite the interruptions aurore. while they were interruptions both pro russia and anti russia i think we heard the the anti russian ones there but. was preceded on the stage by a syrian government representative who said that hands off syria essentially foreign interference should back off that the progress has been made to lead to such easy put it had been won by the victorious syrian army on the battlefield he then said long live syria and thanks to russia following that there were there was a lot of raw of people standing up and saying you know glory to russia thank you russia so yes there are people from the opposition who have turned up here who are still very very critical of what russia has been doing in syria but there are a good many syrians who come here who see things along a more damascus aligned position and they of course think tha

because they are not part of a un process or a challenge has more now on the discussions in sochi on monday. well the news earlier on monday the another group of opposition figures was going to be staying away from such a really exposes i think the short comings of this congress russia has tries to make this as inclusive as possible inviting people and groups from across the syrian cultural religious and political spectrum so the robot is here that really gives the these there are sunnis and shias alawite various different political platforms including the moscow platform the rest on a platform but there are a few notable exceptions now those are the s.n.c. the syrian that negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the why p.g. they're not here really that they consider it to start. grata by turkey of essentially being shut out but i think they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers sort she towards the moscow and damascus per

has taken the decision not to go to sochi there might be some members of the s.n.c. that will indeed go but they will be heading there on an individual basis now joining me here is dr hugh hill he is the spokesman of the s.n.c. and he will explain us more there was a lot of talk before do this meeting in vienna that this was a critical time and we heard that from the fundamental to russia and also from the head of the s.n.c. personal headed what happened now. exactly this rome in vienna was meant to be test for the commitment to the implementation of you once you could go solution to to fight for what. unfortunately this thirst has been. the theme that both the regime and those who are supporting the regime to continue surviving no based on the results of. the thought that there could be commitment the sit ins could have been made regarding what russia is proposing unfortunately the test was free and the decision was taken by the s. and c. not to go to sochi or as you say well russia is proposing what exactly it was the west says answer to that working document on kn

also our it's the delegation going to sochi that this decision has not been taken the u.n. still has not indoors those talks in sochi those decisions should be and your own today even though we are hearing that we can't confirm it that the talks might be extended by another day here in vienna i had to live for us and vienna hota thank you. president donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children but that's only if democrats agree to funding a mexico border wall it would mean one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation to the country of their birth the white house says the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate. plans a twenty five billion dollars fund to build the wall which he pledged to do during his election campaign he also said at the time that he would have mexico pay for it and return trump says around two million immigrants who entered the u.s. without documents when they were children will be eligible for citizenship but that process w

this is an important development but not a breakthrough you just need to look at the fact that at sochi the opposition weren't even represented so it's not clear whether they will take part in this new constitutional committee that's being set up it's also worth remembering that all the previous rounds of peace talks over the last four years the government side is never properly engaged on issues like the constitution so it's not clear with they'll do that now that they'll be part of a committee rather than part of full peace talks the other problem facing the special envoy stefan de mistura is that he faces a really difficult job of choosing who's going to be part of this committee he says he'll choose about forty five members that represent the opposition that represent the government and that represent independent figures from civil society in syria there's criticism of the way the un is handling this process they are supposed to be interpreted in the will of the un security council and resolution twenty two fifty four but they seem to ignore part of that resolution that talks about

and the opposition will go to sochi or not thank you very much and i'm the honeyed indiana. the u.n. says at least thirty refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of yemen this week the overcrowded boat sank shortly after leading edge and smugglers are reported to have fired on the passengers it was carrying people from somalia and ethiopia back to africa heading for djibouti. is head of communications for the un's international organization for migration joins us now from dallas thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us there we don't often hear about immigrants drowning off the coast of yemen but it's very interesting in this case the refugees who drowned off the coast of aden how unusual is it for them to have emerged from this departure point well i think tragically this is happening more and more as we're just not hearing about it it's not getting on to the media well enough it's very unusual in this case what we're seeing is it seems like a deportation on the seems to be all sorts of abuses going on in which margaret's are being put

the sochi conference he's also trying to put maximum pressure on and on turkey in order to lean on the opposition not just to convince them people to at in sochi everything there is happening right now in syria is related to the suci conference in one way or another and of course that the escalation of these attacks used to be perhaps in directly related to an attack on a russian base which our viewers might not have heard about that in itself is seeing these retaliatory actions on deescalation says what sort of facts can we take out of that particular incident this is i think another factor that is forcing or in fact. pushing the russians to do all that we have on the eve of the newly. the russians. newspaper communists and. uncovered that there was an attack on the i mean air base which seven russian war plane has been destroyed on the ground by its launched by the syrian opposition we have been hearing also in the recent weeks about another attack that was actually targeted at that russian in me so i think the russians are playing taking this as a retaliatory action against syria wh

may from the sochi conference and basically the last. place for this union force fifty the un has declared that front civilians face a complete catastrophe because the assad government has paid deliveries in besieged areas. and as the guarantors of the deescalation deal get ready to meet in the russian city of softly later this month syrian civilians continue to suffer. all right let's move on kabul and now he is director of policy analysis is it you and mo on these scenes that we're witnessing particularly in italy province over reminder that the war the fighting is far from over in syria. absolutely right. i think right now what the russians are trying to do actually is to put maximum pressure on the opposition and be of almost last stronghold in italy in order to. force them to participate in the sushi in the sushi conference this is on one hand on the other hand we have been seeing escalation over the past few days actually in different regions are around different parts of syria fact and one of them was actually on the eve of the ne

or cancel the kurdish autonomy in the future and in the north of syria there are upcoming talks in sochi at the end of the month russia has invited the kurds much to the annoyance of turkey it will let you know after him has been there for quite a long time as never through like you know was it a serious issue to threats or turkey but they are going to probably need to these kind of nationalistic. you know rhetoric and potentially use its military in order to be able to gain more. with the upcoming elections in turkey so i think that comes the doctor cannot be. set aside when it comes to the attention of interaction and into a frame tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the us announcement of a so-called border force which will be based east of the euphrates along the border with turkey and iraq and the y.p. g. will form its backbone not. the united states and nato supports a terrorist organization that threatens turkey can this be acceptable it's unacceptable and inexplicable. but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force the u.s. role has been mr

upcoming games here in the parallel joint slalom the thirty one year old a silver medalist from the sochi games holding off its edwin karate to win the final women's event was won by reigning parallel solomon of the champion julie does motss of austria her opponent ramona hoffmeister fell in sight of the line will cut leader a still of that skate came fifth the first time this season she hasn't won a race she started in. march so her share is looking like the man to beat in the giant slalom the austrian who broke his ankle in the off season claimed the fifty three fifty fifth world cup race win of his career at this event in germany the twenty eight year old leading the world cup standing that is now aiming for a first olympic title in italy russia china soft was a winner in the seventy kilometers across country events he's one of the russian athletes who's been cleared to compete in pyongyang under a neutral flag finished third in sochi but was later upgraded to gold when his two russian teammates were stripped of their medals cheated dumping. and sebastian r.j. has got the defense of hi

there from the sochi conference and basically the last. place where this you know. the u.n. has declared that crap civilians face a complete catastrophe because the assad government has got a deliveries in besieged areas. and as the guarantors of the deescalation deal get ready to meet in the russian city of sochi later this month syrian civilians continue to suffer some injuries there. now french president manuel back or has arrived in china for his first state visit comes at a time of uncertainty over the nuclear crisis on the korean peninsula and tensions in relations between china europe and the u.s. well fall on this let's join rob pride in beijing. causes riding the crest of a wave back home in terms of popularity rob what's he hoping to achieve in china. this is hugely important for macro but beautifully important also for china a chance to get to know this relatively new and young world leader the visit is starting in the ancient city of ceann we understand this aircraft has just touched down there it is symbolically important as one of the departure points for the s

response to the invitation to attend sochi it appears a potential cease fire deal has been agreed in the besieged damascus suburb of eastern guta a spokesman for the second largest opposition faction and go to says they've received an offer from russia but the details remain unclear russian jets and the syrian army have been intensifying their bombardment of the rebel enclave over the past two months four hundred thousand people live in the area and they're suffering from acute food and medicine shortages. u.s. president donald trump has taken his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos it occurred the u.s. open for business but he warned that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices he also attacked the media our diplomatic editor james bass has more from davos. as the band played president trump stood somewhat could leave aside the man who founded the world economic forum klaus schwab his vision for almost half a century open world trade is not at all with the president's america first policy taking the ro

opposition in vienna just days before syria's close ally russia is due to host its own negotiations in sochi but turkey's latest military assault is expected to complicate the talks further for the past six days turkish forces have been attacking kurdish y.p. g. fighters in the northern syrian region of a freend kurdish authorities in the area have appealed to the syrian government for help turkey wants to push the y.p. g. out of a free and create a buffer zone along its border with syria well as diplomatic efforts struggle to make any real progress syrian government forces backed by russia and iran have continued to gain ground for years recovering huge swathes of the country from rebel fighters for more now on who controls what has priyanka gupta the bottom up of the syrian civil war has changed dramatically over the past year seemingly shifting the balance of power this is what syria looked like a year ago fractured between various sides syrian government areas are marked in red their opposition areas in queens the kurds in yellow at the top and i saw in brown there what's forward to now

comfort congress and national dialogue in sochi would basically get more syrian groups involved in the pro. says groups that are russian being left out he said of the geneva process and he thinks that that this so she conference would actually give impetus to the geneva process of course let's not forget that the geneva process which also meant me is trying to reach some kind of grimes political solution for the syrian conflict and lavrov says that the sufi conference is going to give fresh impetus that give the un essentially a kick up the backside but i've already many thanks story child's life in moscow there is another development that's playing into all of this turkey is planning a big offensive against kurdish forces in the both of syria as many as a honda explains. the turkish president today chip tayyip erdogan and using a party address to look staunch in the face of a u.s. backed could use force on his southern border he promised to respond with a show of force saying tikki will launch its own military operation and the northern syrian city of buffeting not so soon the lot of

and they all come together under one umbrella and will they be in sochi or we talking about two different negotiating teams i mean. you can see that the people who are going to be invited are many more than those actually while attending in geneva in geneva we are having mainly the syrian regime on the one hand we are having the high and high commission of negotiation on the other hand but the high commission of negotiation includes in fact people from from what is called the we are the group. we have so many groups anyway but they are they presented in this begin talks anyway but why we are not expecting much to come out of this talks actually because we don't have the major powers actually putting bush i was on their clients in order to give something special we're talking here about the russians and the iranians i don't think that russians and the iranians want to see progress in in vienna or in geneva they want to see it in fact in a stand in so this is where despite the fact that the russians are denying what the opposition is actually charging that the russians are trying to create

talks in sochi. germany has put on hold the decision to upgrade its time being used by the turkish military and current or future conflicts the german made lapid tanks will not see an upgrade until both countries agree on a new agreement over by berland ankara turkey has been using the tanks in their current offensive in northern syria in the african region against kurdish fighters people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo reporting a surge in killings rapes and abductions by armed groups the u.n. says violence has pushed more than ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of december welcome were reports from. the refugee transit camp in uganda rebecca salama says many of her neighbors have been killed in recent weeks the groups keep attacking her village in the democratic republic of congo that's why she's walked here to neighboring uganda with her family met by ugandan soldiers near the border. when you go to pick your crops or go to the forest for firewood if y

spheres of influence it is a very very complicated situation we have talks coming up in vienna and in sochi and certainly it doesn't look like anyone can seem to agree on anything at the moment. the spokesman for u.n. secretary general antonio terra says there must be no increase in military activity in the region we've seen the reports of shelling in africa and we reiterate our call on all concerned parties to avoid further escalation in any acts that could deepen the suffering of the syrian people all parties must ensure protection of civilians at all times under any circumstances. the lebanese army says it has found the bodies of nine syrian refugees who froze to death trying to cross the border into lebanon they were found by army officers after a snowstorm near the mountainous area of the us not border crossing six others was saved but one related died in hospital patrols are still looking for other refugees caught in the snow storm and arrested want to syrians on smuggling charges. nearly a million syrian refugees who managed to make it into lebanon vo are suffering through a base a w

sporting bonanza barely lasted beyond the closing ceremony two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi were tarnished first by russia's military involvement in ukraine and then a widespread doping scandal so providing everything goes well this summer the world cup is an opportunity to mend russia's reputations and it happens to be a presidential election year two persons extremely tremendously important for russian people for russia as empire of. military force. to lesser extent economic force political force. sports means. war for for the salutes national pride masses hugely in russia particularly with many people left poor up by the recent recession in a wintry central moscow they dare to hope. of course we believe in our football team we believe in our victory so you know we will aim for the finals we are supporting them we believe in them this is our russia summer can't come soon enough reach islands al-jazeera moscow with tennis his first grand slam of the year the australian open less than two weeks away many of the top players are struggling to be fit and that includes former wo

last month from pyongyang over state sponsored doping allegations at the twenty fourteen olympics in sochi but said clean athletes could compete under in neutral flag over russian officials say their top athletes have been excluded by the i.o.c. list even though they had not doped and they say they're now planning to organize alternative competitions for athletes excluded from the games photos have been released of north and south korean female hockey players holding their first joint olympics training session twelve players have been added to the existing south korean squad of twenty three at least three north korean players will be selected for each match meanwhile over in aspen colorado athletes are continuing their preparations for kyung chang at the x. games the annual extreme sports events olympic gold medalist at matty bowman won the women's super pipe for the fifth time while defending men's champion aaron blanks unfortunate run landed him in eighth place. one of the biggest flops in u.s. sports history is set to make a return the access which was an off season alternative to the n

confirmed with but potatoes yet to be identified somehow coincides with the meetings of both parties on sochi. when russia doesn't like the facts they try and distract the conversation that's because the facts come back over and over again to the truth russia wants to hide that the assad regime continues to use chemical weapons against its own people and is it likely the council will take up the russian proposal. well we heard from the united kingdom for example that they are happy that this meeting was called and they welcome any opportunity to return to the table and discuss the issue of investigating chemical weapons in syria but we've been down this road many times before russia's vetoed three past chemical weapons resolutions that were put forward by the west they talked about putting forward their own proposal in the past and that went nowhere and the american response today i think is telling nikki haley said that the united states when accept any russian proposal that undermines the ability to get to the truth there politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation s

the more russia is due to host the syrian national dialogue congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meaningful dialogue to end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. puppa new guinea's logging industry is booming it's just overtaken malaysia as the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardware but it's coming at a cost environmental groups are accusing the pacific nations government of sitting back and doing nothing while it's rain forests are systematically destroyed and thomas has been to one of the main logging areas to look at the impact firsthand. the extremely remote location of this rainforest used to offer its protection but recently that changed. the forests around palmy zero are disappearing fast as they have been right around papua new guinea we have lost everything. we've been here two years ago we were just a new year and a new go to be true or maybe looking at the birds flown out all the troops but no look at this so we would have been in the middle of the forest yes we would

minutes that the syrian opposition has said that it will not attend those talks being held by russia in sochi and that's the situation for now of course as that moves on we'll bring the news when we have it. now is going to be sworn in as honduras president on saturday for a second four year term he now only won the election in november but its opponents accuse him of vote fraud and continue to protest against him when john holeman is reporting from the capital. in honduras the top twenty percent own more than half the country's wealth many of the rest live like neftali and you hania just about surviving in a shack. inequality is an age old problem poverty is on the rise the majority of hondurans don't have a steady job despite a college education neftali can only find work selling ices he makes three cents on each one without with a comment much everything sometimes we eat sometimes we don't that's literally how it is the situation with employment is really difficult there are no opportunities . these are the issues that president juan hernandez couldn't resolve in his first term and will no

winter games in pyongyang chang thirty nine of the forty three athletes disqualified for doping at the sochi games have begun appealing at the court of arbitration for sport the decision is due at the end of the month just nine days before the start of the olympics the i.o.c. has banned russia from these games over allegations of a systematic doping program but those who prove they are clean will be able to compete as neutrals and the russian issue has overshadowed the upcoming olympics but last week's announcement of a joint north and south korean women's hockey team was seen as a big step towards peace between the hosts and their neighbors still not everyone is happy with the arrangement south korea's coach suggested it's something of a compromise. it is a tough situation to have our our team be used for political reasons but you know it's kind of something that's bigger than ourselves right now and and we're dealing with it is best we can and we know that we have no control of soul you know why stress about it why worry about it and even like we even talk to our players like don't complai

doors of the deescalation get ready to meet in the russian city of sochi later this month syrian civilians continue to suffer. there. well as get more on this now with a policy analyst at the arab center in washington d.c. joins me via skype good to have you with us kind of get your initial thoughts on this and initial assault on it that way we're seeing at the moment. i mean it was expected. that agreement. russia and. iran recently to be. completing zone in. recently. before the such a conference and basically and the last. police. force. and. we are we are seeing now the from the first result of this you know well if the agreement also talks about the escalations those which i'll talk about at a moment but if you are a civilian stuck in it now areas like it labe which is supposed to be a deescalation zone where other civilians have gone to from other parts of syria to look for a safe haven where do you go now if you're attacked. i mean that's a tough choice i mean there are there i don't know if you can still ration because there are basically between the syrian regime forces and the an

of russia and hence we have been seeing this escalation in violence on the ground and we have those sochi talks as you mentioned coming up in january geneva of course have not been successful so far if the main success of the talks was the deescalation then they are not working out what are the prospects i think is especially because the russians want you know they want to stay in power which is a nonstarter for the opposition is very true i mean the russians they have started actually the process from the very beginning for the opposition they believe the russians started that is the. we need our process the russians tried in fact actually to have some sort of political discussions in that satanic process the talked about the new constitution they talked about the new elections presidential and parliamentary but i think now everything is in danger right now everything seems to be if if the russian. the turks and the iranians they don't come together again and try to deescalate the situation right now and even so she is not serious now because the opposition or huge part of the opposition

at the end of january putin will be hosting in sochi. a meeting with iran in turkey so it shows that russia can negotiate even behind the united states back and now probably it is united states that needs russia also russia warranted at the beginning to show its military power that its spec as a military power after the soviet union and this intervention in syria affairs has been the first russian military operation outside of the post soviet union in eurasia since the fall of soviet union and the fear was that it made my start. if not the third world war. but at least russia could stuck in syria the same way as soviet union strike in. afghanistan and that didn't happen and russia was able to balance and now put in an announced recently that russia is withdrawing from the region. also put in show. so that his support for assad was more sustainable then for example the support of the united states for a kurdish separatists or support of the united states for the. government position forces so in that sense also put in achieved actually mo

russian athletes who's been cleared to compete in pyongyang under a neutral flag he finished third at the sochi olympics in twenty fourteen but was later upgraded to gold when his two russian teammates it finished ahead of him were stripped of their medals due to doping. out of the ski jumping world cup event in poland slovenia's and face in many each one his first ever individual world cup title the twenty four year old will be taking part in his first olympic games. in just a few days time next. sebastian as he has got the defense of his world rally championship title off to a winning start with victory in the monte carlo rally it was a forty first career race win for the frenchman who led from start to finish is aiming for a six straight world title the next leg of the championship will be taking place in sweden next. time ok there is a sport it's looking for now let's get back to see you in london. many thanks on day one this is conical season has kicked off with a waltz a parade on the ground canal one hundred twenty boats took part a con of all is held every year in the wakes running up t

who has part of the olympic team that will compete under a neutral flag in pyongyang one bronze in sochi is compassionate that won gold and silver have their medals stripped away to doping. olympic medal favorite seventeen year old chloe kim to gold in the final contest before pong young child at the x. games in aspen colorado the american edged out aerial gold to clinch the title by just a point yung chang will be kim's first olympic. or serie singh now and favorite gun runner has won the richest event in horse racing the pegasus world cup invitational in florida the american horse was making his final career appearance before being retired. gun runner led through to end power to a comfortable wind to claim the record sixteen million dollar prize money. and that's all you support for now more later. for this show i'm back in a couple of minutes though with another. problem with. the rich and famous discussed making the world a better place but who moves are afoot. the link between seafood. at this time. paint the scene for us where on line what is american sign in your mind that peace i

spheres of influence it is a very very complicated situation we have talks coming up in vienna and in sochi and certainly it doesn't look like anyone can seem to agree on anything at the moment. pope francis has met peru's president petro publicans inskeep as part of his south american tour earlier he called for the protection of indigenous people while visiting the heart of forest condemned the exploitation of timber gas and gold he said native peruvians have never been more threatened and urged the government to recognize their culture money on sanchez is live for us and that limo the pope's first stop in peru was the amazon it's a remote place not many people live there why did he choose to go there. that's right rob the pope went to this area of the amazon where well actually in the amazon not even one hundred thousand people live there it's a huge area with very little people but the pope has gone to lease which is one of the most devastated areas on the planet in the area. by where the gold rush with the legal gold miners. devastating that area the pope is of course a champion of the

he will brush that is due to host the syrian national congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meaningful dialogue to end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. is there a charity group linked to the main suspect you need two thousand and eight mumbai bombing is holding a rally in the pakistani city of. a series of protests sponsored by the us decision to recognize charles lim as israel's capital the demonstrators are also angry at violence in the disputed kashmir region. is in faisalabad forest joins us now live on the news hour so come on it's not just one issue that people are protesting about tell us about who is behind this movement and what they're demanding. well the rally has just concluded as you can see the people have already left the ground however there's a grouping of about forty religious as well as right wing political parties of banded together to call what they have named focused on defense council and of course the main focus of their attention as the u.s. moves to

for some reasons converges with the meeting in paris in the forthcoming syrian national dialogue in sochi when russia does not like the facts they try and distract the conversation that's because the facts come back over and over again to the truth russia wants to hide that the assad regime continues to use chemical weapons against its own people russia also announced it's putting forward a new proposal to address chemical weapons used in syria but the united kingdom pointed out in its remarks that past proposals undermine the council's attend to hold the government of syria accountable and said focusing on non-state actors like i saw clearly this will be a problem going forward something that will have to be negotiated the united states for its part said that it would not accept any proposal that undermines its ability to get at the truth bunch more ahead in the news hour including venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ready to seek reelection in april. plus we're at the world economic forum in davos where threats to the global economy and climate change are dominating the agend

of tension in the relationship between turkey and russia on two things number one is the sushi the sochi conference which the russians are this desperately seeking to have by the end of this month they want the syrian opposition to attend the suci conference of president putin wants this very much because he wants to translate his military gains on the ground in syria into something political this is exactly what president putin is trying to do put maximum pressure on the civilian. community of those fighters in order to force them to agree to a. compromise. a spokesman for turkey's president says an american operation to help syrian kurdish fighters set up a new border force is unacceptable under the u.s. plan thirty thousand troops will man the borders of territory carved out of northern syria by the syrian democratic forces which are mainly composed of kurdish why p.g. fighters turkey has condemned the move as it fights kurdish separatists within its own borders kurdish turkish forces have repeatedly threatened to capture areas under kurdish control and are warning of an imminent atta

the winter games in pyongyang thirty nine of the forty three fleets disqualified for doping at the sochi games have been making their case a decision is due at the end of the month just nine days before the start of the olympics the i.o.c. has banned russia from these games over allegations of systematic doping but those who proved they are clean will be allowed to compete as neutrals there are most because yes they listened to us perfectly gave us time to think they asked a simple income questions and we did well a lawyer said we did well for sure to be allowed in the olympics this would be a perfect ending for every one. of the russians who are allowed to go to the winter olympics they've been unveiling new uniforms for the occasion although much like the men's outfits the design and what is allowed to go on them is something of a grey area they cannot have the flag but as they're competing under the banner of a limb pick athlete from russia they do have the name of their country sewn into the detail by contrast the usa have gone for red white and blue american designer ralph lauren ha

progress once again the syrian opposition says it will not attend the russian backed summit to be held in sochi next week. bill hamid is in vienna she spoke to a member of the opposition delegation and he explained their position. this round in vienna was meant to be a real test for the commitment to the implementation of us are good to go so the solution to two five four and what the details in it unfortunately this test has been plain they failed the test both the regime and those who are supporting that he deemed to continue surviving now based on that is all of the thought that there could be commitment decisions could have been made regarding what russia's proposing unfortunately the test was where is this going to go i mean how many times are you guys going to attend talks with the indian name geneva or anywhere else and each and every time there's no outcome absolutely all right but you have to think of the person who is trying to obstruct the political process from the very beginning of the g.m. has selected the military solution to be the strategy for just silencing people however the