well that's the story that all the journalists in tokyo are pursuing right now and the answers have not become clear he was as far as we knew under house arrest including cameras monitoring his movements inside the house so how did he suddenly show up in lebanon this is something nobody expected and nobody has been able to explain yet this is this is the big question how did he get out and who helped him get out because it's impossible to believe that he did this all as one individual obviously he either paid people or people from outside came into to help him escape he says he's escaped justice and political persecution in japan what's likely to be the reaction to that. well probably if the past is any guide the japanese government will just dismiss those allegations and and try to ignore them to as much as they can it is a view that many observers will sympathize with because there are deep flaws in the japanese legal system and the way that go in was being handled was very much a kind of a railroad job but on the other hand there is also a large stream of thought that even if the jap

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he's joining us now from tokyo to tell us about what exactly prime minister shinzo army has said. when we got so much information about that position. that was they could be going to go to a meeting but it's very clear that. it is that i need to. give you the. help that they had over from the. get on certain measures to reduce its obligations. to one so. like. the one thing. the one other thing. that i've been discussing with the money just behind me in that i. didn't. is it runs it like that the but i think if the sending. some of its naval hospital with the gun for. that we should put surveillance for making guns. if so. but i'm starbase explaining the details of the nature of this mission as you know you've been specific to the situation for the beats you up on from sending. forces to go but missions to japan so it's very good if you go and did it for instance at the mission japan would like to be sure one of the percent that. would not be there would not be caught in the middle then you go for the station between us sort of union troops if something happens here one more thing

did nations to lift sanctions on pla want to help break the deadlock but it's unclear whether so or tokyo worth u.s. allies would support that routes. on monday one day and she met separately the chinese president xi jinping in beijing. china the summit is an opportunity to expand its regional influence but the 3 countries have currently embroiled in territorial disputes miss south china sea. south korea and japan are allies with the u.s. so if china can develop and improve the relations with these 2 countries crees u.s. influence in this region and the weakened china's pressure from the u.s. the leaders have signed a 10 year corporation plan which includes tackling shared challenges such as climate change and aging populations. but the biggest challenge perhaps his political future they would trust rather than risk threats. at least 8 people have been killed after a syrian government test trying to target a school province tens of thousands of civilians have been fleeing towards the border with turkey to escape the escalation in violence there government forces and their russian allies a

being sent to the gulf to protect japanese oil imports the deployment from his last week's visit to tokyo by iran's president 90 percent of japan's crude oil comes from gulf arab countries and iran denies links to several recent attacks on oil tankers well alan i spoke to jeff kingston who's a professor of asian studies at temple university in tokyo and he says japan's prime minister shinzo abbay is trying to balance various interests. he said in an awkward position he's trying to thread the needle he's got basically 3 audiences he's dressy one is a trump administration that asked to join the coalition the other is president rouhani of iran is key to maintain good relations and the 3rd audience is domestic keen to revise the constitution and remove the pacifist article so. calling this intelligence gathering not joining the u.s. coalition is meant to placate trump you know to avoid the accusation of being a free rider but not undermine iranian relations and not cause a domestic backlash because there's deep money at the security alliance with the united states and only about 3537 percent

impose harsh sanctions and try to work diplomatically to resolve the issues and i clearly you know tokyo they want a revival the nuclear agreement that trump has pulled the plug on but the he only goes so far and he doesn't want to further alienate trump because trump is making noises about getting japan to pay a lot more for the safety of u.s. troops and for bases in japan so it's a delicate situation a very delicate balance indeed jeff kingston there professor of studies at temple university and take care thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. thank you. in breaking news a passenger plane with 100 people on board has crashed in kazakstan the royces news agency says it happened now almaty airport and the country's south well bring you more on this as soon as we have those how the united nations has condemned an artillery attack on a market in northern yemen near the border with saudi arabia 17 people were killed including 12 ethiopian migrants who the rebels say the market inside a province has been targeted 3 times and just a month while the war in yemen has created what the u.n. call

ban or not russian olympic gym that are training for gold their target the olympics in tokyo next year among them silver medalist and the 2016 olympics in rio de janeiro events threat of which he also won the world title in stuttgart 2 months ago. too strong as a country therefore there will always be talks of some sort because we are strong competitors let them say whatever they want we will move forward and keep preparing . the world anti-doping agency wada recommended imposing a ban on russia after the sas the results of athletes blood and you read samples found in a moscow laboratory were incomplete or fabricated the scandal follows the international outrage after the sochi olympics in 2014 when a government sponsored doping scheme was revealed russian athletes continue to be banned from international track and field competitions because the world athletics body sass russia hasn't done enough to tackle doping but government and sports administrators in russia reject the latest findings as being politically motivated they continue to count the days towards the tokyo olympics. what i

our undercover team had met the fisheries minister in tokyo now they were. back in namibia our neighbor sakic adela is on the phone to johnny sack he had just met the minister bernard a sour. taste are you. think you're. going to mislead is that a meeting we discussed that. expressed should be. ok we were good at one to the 75 thought. ok so for the donation the minister need to be definitely full because it we know where this is this is the framework for the future business of the 2 all of the real. absolutely. with the bank relationship with him in the business and. experience of you this. is what it is with. us. with the $200000.00 figure agreed on the cover of automate sakhi to finalize details. exactly i want to ask you about the payments and it must stop. there. sakhi explains how they intend to keep the transfer didn't. they ask for the money to be placed in a trust account managed by the president's personal lawyer see sentiment. you would take it from the south. and then you want to give it to the minister occasion and the minister or felicity. we w

oil tankers in the region well jeff kingston is a professor of asian studies at temple university in tokyo he says japan's prime minister shinzo is trying to balance various interests. he's in an awkward position he's trying to thread the needle he's got basically 3 audiences he's dressy one is the trump administration that asked to join the coalition the other is president rouhani and iran abbie's keen to maintain good relations and the 3rd audience is domestic abbie's keen to revise the constitution and remove the pacifist article so. calling this intelligence gathering not joining the u.s. coalition is meant to placate trump you know to avoid the accusation of being a free rider but not undermine iranian relations and not cause domestic backlash because there's deep money about the security alliance with united states and only about 3537 percent of people support the dispatch vessels to the mid east clearly about japan and skin in the game last june when are they was just being tehran the recent attack on a japanese owned vessel so there is clearly japanese interests involved but they d

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cooperate with north korea they've gathered summit in chengdu it's a rare agreement between seoul and tokyo after months of worsening relations. india's main opposition congress party is accusing the prime minister narendra modi of silencing the voice of the people their anger is growing against a controversial new citizenship law now it grant citizenship to religious minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims at least 25 people have been killed in protests elizabeth iran is in new delhi. thank you and now the crackdown in the heart of the capitol hill. police detaining protesters outside the federal headquarters of alter pradesh state. that the people condemned the killing of 1000 demonstrators there in the past few days the delhi protesters said they wanted to give a voice to people. where the internet remains cut off in many parts and large gatherings a bag i else where in the capital a similar outcry was. the and a defiant mood on display at jamia millia islamia university the university is a muslim institution the demonstrations are attracting people from all walks of

looks like we've lost our connection to a generic apologies for that let's bring in steve saying in tokyo via skype he is the director of the china institute at so as university of london thanks very much for being with us let me ask you that question then if they are they hoping are the chinese authorities in beijing simply hoping that that these protests will that the momentum will eventually die away yes i think beijing is very much hoping for that and it is actually a bit more then just hoping they are actively trying to root in morocco or. they ringback are also trying to law allow hong kong economies to get into difficulties which you are that people's livelihood in hong kong and all these unmanned. and to bring people in hong kong to stop the protests so what do you think the i mean as far as front from the protesters point of view there doesn't seem to me i mean they they got it they made a huge accomplishment in in getting that extradition or put aside permanently and that was that was seen as a huge success from that but since then they they haven't really achieved much tangible

to come all the sports news including why the tokyo power lines won't be on the. the foreign ministry. welcome back to china now where the desired to have a brand new home is being partly blamed for an increase in air pollution steel and cement factories are producing smaug as they meet demand for new infrastructure and housing rob matheson has a story from beijing. china produces about 20 percent of the world's carbon emissions coal makes up around 59 percent of china's energy consumption and thick smog can still hang over beijing in winter as people light relatively cheaper coal fires to ward off the bitter chill. but in recent years coal mines have been closed and the building of new power plants has been restricted near heavily polluted areas to our natures real in the last couple of years you see smog almost every day in winter the pollution was very serious but since last year it's getting much better the number of electric vehicles in china has been booming the amount of investment that china's been making over the last 7 years in renewable energy has been

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referendum next year and in sport a 1st look at the venue that will take center stage at next year's tokyo olympics. hello again or welcome back to your international weather forecast what we are going to be seeing a mix of weather coming into play here across much of the levant we have a system that has made its way in from the mediterranean now on monday that system pushes in towards the southeast so we're going to see a mix of rain and in the higher elevations it will be snow baghdad in $1000.00 coat city it is going to be rain and thunderstorms potentially and you notice that line of snow right there along the higher elevations of parts of iraq and well as into iran for tehran though it is going to be a mix of weather a few of the next few days we do expect to see monday a cloudy day for you by the time we get towards tuesday temps has come down to about 10 a lot of rain in the forecast but by the time we get towards wednesday things are improving with attempt a few of about 11 degrees here across the gulf expect much of the same we're going to be seeing widespread rain across the regi

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has a talk radio group are joining us from tokyo talking about shinzo are both thank you so much thank you. ok let's talk climate change now the general consensus is that to say about planet from overheating we need to cut our fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions but what do we do with the emissions that already exist and will inevitably continue to be created well some scientists in california are working on for this genetically modifying plants so that they soak up greenhouse gases more effectively sounds like a plan doesn't it our reynolds want to find out. for planet earth and for dr joe ensure it's a race against time jury is a multiple award winning plant biologist at the salt institute in california she's also been battling parkinson's disease for more than a decade her old idea is to genetically modify existing crop plants to reduce the planet warming chemical carbon dioxide we knew that plants really were good at sucking up c o 2 from the air they've had 450000000 years or more. evolution and that makes the plant really efficient plants can get that c o 2 out of the at

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was arrested in tokyo in 2018 over allegations of financial misconduct which he denies he was released from custody under strict conditions including not being allowed to leave the country in a state. trapped in a rigged japanese justice system to escape. we're going to weather update next here on out 0 then could north korea be shifting strategy overstored nuclearization talks speculation grows out of kim jong il in the new year address the growing violence in the central african republic where m.-bone the where 40 people have been killed in days of unrest. hello there some pretty good clear conditions across much of iran and east was across into afghanistan is a bit of but no real weather with that cat instead it is still reserved for the eastern end of the med and in particular across much of turkey and northern sections of syria now as we go through tuesday it does tend to read the weekend but we have still got want to cools the snow should clear by chews day it's a little bit milder 11 celsius aleppo 16 in beirut but again there is a chance of those showers but as we go into wedne

trial over allegations of financial misconduct carlos ghosn has a lebanese passport he was arrested in tokyo in 2018 but released under strict bail conditions he said he didn't flee justice in fact he escaped injustice and political persecution his lawyer said his legal team held 3 of guns passports and called his behavior inexcusable. right we're about 15 minutes into the new year in hong kong the new year's celebrations on the way. an american flag right in the middle there actually the government has reduced its big traditional fireworks display due to security concerns though we did still see plenty of part technics a little bit earlier. there are protests going on as well to disrupt the festivities many of these anti-government demonstrators now into this 6 month of protests never go back as what that one said to the pollen happy new year to you tell us about what it's like there this evening. that's right happy new year and this is happy new year hong kong style here i am at the waterfront usually this place is teeming with sure is to revelers watching those yearly fireworks says there

rested in tokyo in 2018 on charges of misconduct but his strict bail conditions meant he couldn't leave japan well those were the headlines coming up next how they benefit the people of brazil's favelas. has been addressed by we listen. we meet with global news makers. stories that. everyone's benefit. from around the world.

allegations of financial misconducts carlos ghosn who holds a lebanese possible it was arrested in tokyo last year but released on strict fail to sions he said he to skate in justice and political persecution his lawyer said 3 of guns passports are held by his legal team and called his behavior an excusable when michael penn is the president of the should get cs agency he says despite its deep flaws within japan's legal system should have states to fights if the past is any guide the japanese government will just dismiss those allegations and and try to ignore them to as much as they can it is a view that many observers will sympathize with because there are deep flaws in the japanese legal system and the way that go in was being handled was very much a kind of a railroad job but on the other hand there's also a large stream of thought that even if the japanese system is is deeply flawed that it's just a system it would have been much better for him to stay and fight and and suffer the punishment if it came because that would be better for those who he's kind of left behind here you know

this system is working its way eastward so it'll be clear about cold in tokyo on thursday with the high the a 10 celsius. after years of overgrazing the damage caused to the precious grasslands of chile is being reversed with one of the world's biggest ever conservation projects. they're pretty emblematic of the patagonia if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is then you know that the system is going back and that they feel no threat works and that's what you're going for. patagonia on al-jazeera. come back and look at the headlines this hour now donald trump has written a strongly worded letter to house speaker nancy pelosi describing the impeachment process as a crusade and an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power trump says the house democrats declaring open war on american democracy. is a nice foreign minister in which he is in libya why he's been meeting with the wall in the eastern city of rajma but he also met with the leader of libya's un backed government in tripoli is visit coincides with a surge in fighting on the outskirts of tripoli between governm

in fact well normally when we are still getting some snow across the haida northern parts of honshu tokyo should be dry and temps just as she did say badly 15 degrees celsius here on friday comsats that does cool off a little crisp sunshine coming in 10 celsius for tokyo they start but it should be lousy dry largely dry to across the korean peninsula though the parts of china temperature in beijing of around 2 degrees celsius as some cold but sunny weather coming through if i'm out of sunshine meanwhile it's in central and southern parts of china at least for the time being $21.00 celsius there in hong kong still as shallow as running across the philippines to cost more than areas of the philippines this typhoon pamphile makes its way over towards central parts of vietnam shall as well make their way into central as a vietnam as the system does weak and then over the next couple of days further north has lost the dry across southern pass in china. children born into a city of trash discovered the beauty of music and ugliest of places. when a chance to play for the world moment 10 then rea

over allegations of financial misconducts carlos colon who holds a lebanese passport was arrested in tokyo last year but released under strict bail conditions he said in a statements he had not fled justice but escaped injustice and political persecution one of his lawyers said 3 of go in passports so held by his legal team and called his behavior xcuse of them well michael pan is president of the she gets news agency he says despite deep flaws within the japanese legal system go in should have say to fights instead of fleeing to favorites if the past is any guide the japanese government will just dismiss those allegations and and try to ignore them to as much as they can it is a view that many observers will sympathize with because there are deep flaws in the japanese legal system and the way that go in was being handled was very much a kind of a railroad job but on the other hand there's also a large stream of thought that even if the japanese system is is deeply flawed that it's just a system it would have been much better for him to stay and fight and and suffer the punishment if it ca

from japan where he faces a trial over allegations of financial misconduct last go and was arrested in tokyo in 28 saying but released under strict bio conditions he has a live in his passport and said he'd escaped injustice and political persecution his lawyer said his legal team held 3 of going to passports and called his behavior inexcusable 1st take a look at why carrasco more of the world's most high profile company bosses faces charges in japan or in brazil rise in beirut he was appointed chief operating officer at nissan then his chair many fortune alliance with mitsubishi creating the world's 2nd largest tom and the fact that he is now being investigated in japan for understating his own income from the sun and hiding compensation payments over 4 years he was arrested in tokyo last year accused of funneling $5000000.00 out of this sons' money for his own benefit cohen has fled to lebanon but faces a trial in japan on charges of financial misconduct. it is president of the sue news agency he says despite deep flaws within the japanese legal system go and should have stayed to fight in

is set to release its decision on monday on whether russian athletes should be banned from the 2020 tokyo olympics the international body has accused russian administrators of manipulating doping breck orts russian athletes were barred from competing in recent games. those the headlines the news continues off the inside story. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of all the lives. of the stories. provided tips into someone else's work out that is why do they all. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. the leaders of ukraine and russia meet for the 1st time they'll be in paris for a summit that insufficient ends of a conflict in eastern ukraine so will the 2 leaders find a solution and charts a way forward and what's at stake this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hala.

fled to lebanon from japan to escape justice and political persecution carlos ghosn was arrested in tokyo in 2018 on charges of financial misconduct but released under strict conditions including a ban on leaving japan his lawyer said his legal team held 3 of those passports of called his behavior inexcusable goan holds a lebanese french and brazilian citizenship al-jazeera as mohammed germ jhoom is outside one of those residences in beirut he explains what the government had to say about his departure. we now have confirmation from the lebanese government that mr going is indeed in lebanon there was a statement that was issued by a lebanese general security it's a very brief statement it reads carlos go in has entered beirut in a legitimate way and there is no need to pursue him legally i guess that really puts to bed the question as to if the lebanese authorities are going to be cooperating with any request by the japanese to perhaps extradite mr goh and of course you know now because you know there is no extradition treaty between japan and lebanon so that adds to the murkiness around

and old eyes as the tokyo 2020 olympics are feeling the heat off to more events. over health and safety concerns that with the 2 in sport later . hello we didn't have any 24 hours ago discernible circulation in the sky just the east coast of china is falling apart but what it produced which was thunderstorms all spread out now under the sector which looks fairly benign not very bright spent here rain is there on the east coast of china it might just reach shanghai is more likely just to come inland further south the heart of it's off shore but it will hit taiwan quite hard you have a wet day in store on friday as well as probably edging away from hong kong everywhere else it's fine and sunny it's not particularly cold it's down to near frost levels at night and by saturday that rains edged away even from taiwan but still you got the briefing showers to the northern philippines which no big surprise really but the cycle has gone for the philippines it's it's here more or less you call it isn't anymore one bit of good news there i think i think is good news because

banned or not russian olympic gym that's training for gold their target the olympics in tokyo next year among them silver medalist at least 2016 olympics in rio de janeiro event status which he also won the world title in stuttgart 2 months ago. too strong as a country therefore there will always be talks of some sort because we are strong competitors let them say whatever they want we will move forward and keep preparing . the world anti-doping agency wada recommended imposing a ban on russia after the sas the results of athletes blood and you read samples found in a moscow laboratory were incomplete or fabricated the scandal follows the international outrage after the saatchi olympics in 2014 when a government sponsored doping scheme was revealed russian athletes continue to be banned from international track and field competitions because the world athletics body sas russia hasn't done enough to tackle doping but government and sports administrators in russia reject the latest findings as being politically motivated they continue to count the days towards the tokyo olympics. water is

banned or not russian olympic gym that's training for gold their target the olympics in tokyo next year among them silver medalist at least 2016 olympics in rio de janeiro events threat of which he also won the world title in stuttgart 2 months ago. too strong as a country therefore there will always be talks of some sort because we are strong competitors let them say whatever they want we will move forward and keep preparing . the world anti-doping agency wada recommended imposing a ban on russia after the sas the results of athletes blood and you read samples found in a moscow laboratory were incomplete or fabricated the scandal follows the international outrage after such an olympics in 2014 when a government sponsored doping scheme was revealed russian athletes continue to be banned from international track and field competitions because the world athletics body sas russia hasn't done enough to tackle doping but government and sports administrators in russia reject the latest findings as being politically motivated they continue to count the days towards the tokyo olympics. is just

me against accusations genocide of the international court of justice and a sport of paper why the tokyo paralympic maddened won't be on the move. underway in the u.k.'s general election the 3rd in 5 years for more let's go to bob or sara and i european broadcast center barbara. elizabeth thank you yes party leaders have cast their votes on what's being described as the most important election in a generation breck said and the future of the country's national health service have dominated the debate reports now from london. on a dismal december day democracy is in action is of breaks it deadlock has brought british voters back to the ballot box for the 3rd general election in 5 years. leaving a polling station in london conservative leader boris johnson and one of his close associates. called the election to try and secure a parliamentary majority so he can press ahead with bricks it on a post or is this far in london from the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn after he voted. the party for this election on the future of public services including the country's steamed national health

plus all the eyes is of the tokyo 2020 a limb takes off feeling the heat after more events over health and safety concerns peta has that later in sport. hello the thanksgiving storm has gone still plenty of snow on the ground but the back edge of the cloud the snow and did to depression is now up in eastern canada much of the u.s. is born less devoid of until you get to the west coast. certainly the chance of more showers this is friday's forecast in the southern states the still that area contrasting temperatures produce a thunderstorm or 2 but the heaviest rain is more likely to be reproduced on the california coast currently the remains of the cloud which is the sheriff here around l.a. the city has been suffice flooding in the area but this much bigger system the pacific coast from the screen would tend to wind up and then run in land so stone of course for the mountains but it's right rather than for san francisco probably reach down to l.a. on sunday the rest cold but quiet the showers are died out 3 degrees in new york after oversea cold night. for the sas there's been a rejuven

being sent to the gulf to protect japanese oil imports the deployment follows last week's visit to tokyo by iran's president 90 percent of japan's crude oil imports from gulf arab countries iran denies links to several recent attacks on oil tankers well those are the headlines the news continues here off to al-jazeera wild day stay with us. and the. field. of you just goes to doing. all that you've got to be able to bring a lot of relatives in to go to the just anybody they met of june the last of days. but all i'm going to do well for those who don't come to the door for the lovable smuggler to do the gentle this is don't just want to sit. down this is. just close but this is this is this and this is just the. elastic. illusion. yeah oh my goodness we're lucky i didn't have to that didn't help his number me the last time i see him there working out little something to me it's i mean you're me you're near i mean had i mean i must know what you would lose. if you live in nice really mentally now as. you believe me to the muslims you have but you will enter my new religion is it going to w

being sent to the gulf to protect japanese oil imports the deployment follows last week's visit to tokyo by iran's president 90 percent of japan's crude oil imports are from the gulf arab countries. antigovernment protests all set to continue in iraq on friday after the president pledged to resign over the candidate for prime minister the demonstrations erupted on thursday as president submitted his resignation letter to parliament instead of naming. danny as prime minister l. a daddy was nominated by iraq's largest parliamentary bloc which is backed by iran protesters are demanding an independent candidate bolivia's the foreign minister says mexico is making a mistake by taking its espionage complaint to the international court of justice bolivia denies spying on the mexican embassy and powers and intimidating diplomats the falling out follows mexico giving asylum to the former president evo morales after he resigned in the event. a former ivory coast rebel leader and presidential candidate turned his plane around with a band that is homecoming after being accused of planning a coup int

celsius but a very mixed picture generally through much of southern and central japan 10 celsius in tokyo so just making into double figures and just a degree above freezing into pyongyang but once that france lies through much colder at minus 7 then minus 4 in seoul but good kids skies and actually a little bit milder in tokyo again that france lies through and some mild in place with a high of 15 degrees now what we have further to the south is a front mixed in with the remnants of what was a recent a typhoon so fairly unsubtle across and behind and also into these eastern and southern sections of china's a maybe a shower or 2 in to hong kong certainly a very wet day into taiwan on choose day so if you showers in the forecast and look at the temperature in shanghai much cooler on tuesday 5 degrees celsius and then to the south of there we have got the usual particularly widespread across much of borneo and across into. what happens when plans for a new life uproot idea railed by committing serious crimes from drug trafficking to robbery. would be i don't remember how many times it start

trial over allegations of financial misconduct carlos ghosn has a lebanese passport and was arrested in tokyo in 2018 but released under strict bail conditions he said he didn't flee justice but in fact escaped injustice and political persecution his lawyer said his legal team held 3 of guns passports and called his behavior inexcusable. as outside guns residents in beirut explains now what the government had to say about the escape. we now have confirmation from the lebanese government that mr bowen is indeed in lebanon there was a statement that was issued by a lebanese general security it's a very brief statement it reads carlos cohen has entered beirut in a legitimate way and there is no need to pursue him legally i guess that really puts to bed the question as to if the lebanese authorities are going to be cooperating with any request by the japanese to perhaps extradite mr go and of course you know in our political unit there is no extradition treaty between japan and lebanon so that adds to the murkiness around this case we are indeed right now in eastern beirut it's a rainy day where

greenpeace in japan says radiation hotspots have been found where the tokyo 2020 and pick torch relay will begin in march the refurbished j village sports complex was used as an operational base to deal with the fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011 it reopened earlier this year and the argentinian rugby team stayed there during the world cup. contender not to the top stories on out as their legal experts called by us democrats say president trump has committed impeachable offenses they were testifying on the 1st day of evidence on the constitutional standards for impeachment but a law professor selected by the republicans on the panel said there was no evidence of a clear criminal act the president is accused of bribing ukraine's leader for an investigation into a political rival the house of representatives judiciary committee will decide whether to bring charges against trump the abuse of power occurs when the president uses his office for personal advantage or game that matters fundamentally to the american people because if we cannot impeach a president who would use his off

allies i think china is very much hoping that as it increases in its influence with tokyo and with seoul it will help to decrease the influence of the of the u.s. and then show china to be really the major not only economic power but diplomatic leader in this region country thanks very much. thailand's main opposition party says it will arrange mass protests in the new year even as it comes under increasing pressure from the courts the more than $6000000.00 people voted for the future forward party in march but the election commission once the party dissolved and its leaders banned from politics is in bangkok. thailand politics is again being played out in the courts and on the streets in its 1st election in march the future forward party won 81 seats in parliament and was almost able to form a government since then it's been hit with a series of legal challenges which it says are part of a deliberate coordinated attack designed to destroy its 90 percent of them came off the actual result was 7 hours so it was obvious that before the election. might be a little bit nervous but they didn'

world anti-doping agency hands russia a 4 year ban of from all major sporting events including the tokyo lympics and football world cup in qatar. paulo we begin in syria where russian and syrian government forces are escalating their assault on the last rebel held province and strikes have caused a mass exodus in observers say 18000 people have been displaced by the ongoing bombardment in just 24 hours dozens of civilians have been killed with mostly small villages in the countryside targeted so far this is all happening despite a truce being in place since august it was announced by russia but it has been continually violated in recent weeks but to smith begins our coverage now with this report on a live look there was a market here in the southern italy village when the strikes began. did you know they were russian jet. it's according to the syrian observatory for human rights. volunteer white helmet how medics are there within minutes to do what they've done thousands of times during the civil war trying to save the lives of civilians there are scrubbing through the dirt by hand when

sports like climbing and skateboarding are also being added to the games in time for tokyo and then at paris in 2024 we can expect to see break dancing lovers of this typical street performance hope adding that to the games will not hurt the culture of the dance hall rees has a story from mama. is firmly established on the bright to succeed a veteran at the age of 12. he and his 6 year old brother a part of a generation that could see break dancing breaking. complete the journey to the olympics with final approval for the 2024 summer games expected in a year's time. do you think you could be. yeah my age is going to move 16 around so i would be on the books. grading medals this week. the president this. is hosting the undisputed masters unofficial and of you world championships competitive breaking is run by different from across the globe but the license for the olympics has been applied for by the world sports federation which usually organizes. this is always been a culture not a sports meeting our ruling body such but with the boring dancing federation taking its until impacts many