it's been measured by intelligence agencies are they are tasked to do things in secret that are unlawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from the n.s.a. leaker could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera. the to understand a very different way where there. is and we don't leave. is a state we are dealing with. the largest mass shooting in the state's history at least twenty six people killed when a gunman walked into a texas church and opened fire.

on cell raman you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes a mountain of leaked documents reveals how the super wealthy and big companies hide their money in tax havens. hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah accuses saudi arabia how forcing the lebanese prime minister to resign. and ousted catalan leader and four x. ministers freed under strict conditions and belgium spain seeks that extradition. welcome to the program we begin with a mass shooting at a church in the texan town of sutherland springs at least twenty six people have now been confirmed dead police say the shooter walked into the church during a service and opened fire at least seventeen others were injured in the attack

including children the gunman is dead now the governor of texas greg abbott has issued a statement about the shooting. as a state we are dealing with. the largest mass shooting in our state's history. there are so many families who lost family members. fathers mothers sons and daughters. the tragedy of course is worsened by the fact that it occurred in a church a place of worship for these people were innocently gunned down. and we mourn their loss. well john hendren is all correspondent following events for us from washington d.c. at. that press conference just what within the last hour it's inevitable that the authorities really don't want to say too much while as an ongoing investigation the sheriff's office spoke as did the district attorney. that's right so whatever

information the police have about the motive of the gunman they didn't deliver anything in that news conference just a few minutes ago we have learned more details about who he is he's identified as a white male in his twenty's the authorities did not identify who he was but a number of news organizations have identified him as devon kelly twenty six years old of new brown voles texas that again is not been confirmed by police but it is being widely reported and here's what they say happened at about eleven twenty in the morning local time in this small texas town east of san antonio a man dressed in all black drove into the parking lot wall that church was having a service so maximum number of people were inside he began firing from outside changed position once and continued to fire from outside and then went into the church and continued to fire you know according to police someone from inside that

congregation was able to locate a rifle and began engaging the gunman who dropped his weapon and then drove off in the car police say that he was later found dead in his vehicle and they're not sure whether he died because of a crash or whether he had been i'm sorry they were not sure whether he had been killed by a self-inflicted gunshot or whether someone else had shot him that is still part of the investigation that is going on right now we know that multiple weapons according to police were found in that vehicle they say some twenty people were wounded those people were ranging in age from five to seventy two and among them was the daughter of the pastor of that church that pastor. frank pomeroy and his wife cherie happened to be out of town in oklahoma at the time of their fourteen year old daughter was in that church and we are told that she. is among the dead

but the motive is the big question and to that we don't know the answer right now so we'll just stay with us for a moment john as we give our viewers more details because of obviously the neighboring clergy very concerned about what's happened in the last few hours this is what they had to say when we got a call that there was and that if you were going to actually shooting going on down to her first baptist church those people first responders immediately that guard church to come down to help our church immediately went into what we do and we started praying for everyone that was involved in it. the people of this church and the first responders that are going out here it's just here pakistan has a family or a family so just. to stop we're doing hard to pray and see how we can serve and that's what you're seeing right here in this community rallying around these folks and so we're just going to try to do our best to comfort and and

minister how we can. of course join in that press conference that was hosted by the texas governor greg abbott he thanked a great many people first responders local community members but also the president he said he said he was certainly in touch with that over the situation keeping an eye on it very closely it will reignite the debate will it not around gun control and even once more details of how this young man had guns if it is a man. how this actually plays into again the whole debate around the country about the use of guns and where it lies within the american constitution. that's right so this will definitely reignite that debate but unlike so many of these other mass shootings this one is likely to reignite the debate on both sides and the reason for that is that someone in that congregation apparently had their own weapon and was able to engage the gunman that is exactly the kind of argument that gun rights

advocates bring up they say if more people had guns then they would be able to defend against shooters like that of course that is the opposite argument that you will hear from people who are on the gun control side of this debate but they have had they've made very little ground over the years president ronald reagan back in the eighty's signed an assault weapon ban that expired since then it has been very difficult for american lawmakers to agree on really any restrictions and you had the shooting in los vegas recently in october fifty eight people killed over five hundred wounded congress has done nothing about that and president trump has offered his thoughts and prayers but he is very unlikely to offer new restrictions on guns unless he dramatically changes his position here self thank you for the mobile leave it the call so we'll follow developments from sutherland springs as the day progresses thank you. will stay with donald trump has come a secretary well an aide to the canadian prime minister as well justin trudeau as

well as queen elizabeth the second all three united kingdom that just some of the people revealed so far in a huge week of financial documents showing how some of the world's richest people have been using secret offshore accounts in tax havens well this is a mountain of material more than thirteen million files called the power dies papers and leaks from the offshore applebee an estimated ten trillion dollars is held in these offshore tax havens in most cases it's perfectly legal but critics argue that enabling the mega rich to hide from the tax man is a sad and the issue governments have been slow to address but more importantly here the all. sure financial system is also incredibly secretive arguably opening the way for companies and individuals to commit wrongdoing the law firm applebee says it's called for the papers will show no evidence of wrongdoing and next week's disclosures will reveal the truth of that quote true sullivan is the editor of

organized crime and corruption reporting project he says the leaks highlight the imbalance of how societies wealth is managed there's a new global industry that caters to money that moves around the world and this money moves through tax havens and it used to evade taxes to hide after that to steal money if you are going to prime it used by large businesses and what this is really doing it it allowing globalizing money are allowed to move your money legally into places where you don't have to pay taxes and the problem is is that the countries which were getting taxes when a yacht was bought or a plane with the larger issue is you know whether it's text mitigation or tax evasion the problem is not it's not fair because you all we can really do this if you have a large amount of money there's a criminal services industry there that kind of cater to this market and allows

people to do this and regular people are just not allowed to do that. or of saudi arabia's prince is being killed in a helicopter crash near the border with yemen to saudi officials also died in the crash prince mazower been more than all solid was the son of the former crown prince these videos were posted on his twitter page hours before his death showing him carrying out an inspection of defense and environmental projects and he was appointed as the deputy governor this year of the osier region which borders yemen it's not yet clear what caused the crash. more than a dozen saudi princes and ministers have been detained in a sweeping corruption crackdown the kingdom restricted flights and rounded up the officials just hours after the establishment of the anti corruption committee of the world's richest man is amongst those being held and this happened and saudi arabia announced a major cabinet overhaul widely seen as consolidating the power of the crown prince

mohammed bin so man that hash is going to reports call it a surprise saturday night shake up saudi state t.v. reported that eleven princes three current and dozens of former ministers have been detained as part of an inch i corruption probe only hours after the formation of an investigative committee was announced it's difficult to relate this to corruption since they didn't have enough time to make a prosecution or to make investigations about that if there was something or some information collected previously why did the and with. the case by case in different be with before about the not doing this overnight all these people together which is rather a quick question specious. the saudi cabinet overhaul is viewed as a power play by king solomon analysts say it's designed to ensure his son and heir to the throne crown prince mohammed bin salomon consolidates power and does so

among their branch of the royal family he's making this public relations sense to get more public support and also a little bit of the way his popularity one of the most high profile figures pushed out is the minister of the national guard prince metabo been a ball up he was the son of former king of dollar and once thought to be next in line to the throne he was the remaining member of the abdullah family in such a high level position. also detained is prince will lead bin tell out he's one of the wealthiest men in the world and given his widespread investments is detainment could have an impact on global business. this shake up sends a message there's a new political order not only do we have a new chapter opening up in saudi arabia we have a whole new book a whole new political i submit if you will accept i mean with one exception but

it's still all done in secrecy. it's also a reminder that four months after the crown prince was named heir to the throne there can be no mistake mohammed bin selman is the future for saudi arabia natasha going to zero. well in yemen as strikes targeting the u.t. run defense ministry and a square used for mass rallies have been hit in sanaa that follows the firing of a ballistic missile into neighboring saudi arabia on saturday there were these released this footage which they say shows the launch into riyadh it was aimed at the international airport or near the saudi capital but was intercepted and shot down before it reached its target. saudi arabia has pointed the finger at iran for arming the who these with such missiles and expertise saudi here is leading a coalition of countries which are fighting the who tease in yemen's war constantly bombarding the country with as strikes the spokesman for the military operations as

saudi arabia has evidence of iran's involvement with the rebel group that i might tell you you would would you know you these militant who are supported by iranian experts iran provides the who is military experts on the planet in collaboration in cooperation with a terrorist organization of his in lebanon that they are trying to control the strait in a dangerous challenge to regional peace and stability and to the movement of ships through the strait international trade now iran and hezbollah have accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to fuel tension in the middle east by pushing lebanon's prime minister to resign saad hariri and now he was leaving his post on saturday has plans that secretary general society rabia is behind this sudden resignation and this is the statement written by his so if you want to discuss it we need to discuss the. the way. it is it's not the way of sound that really

it's not the way of. block and what has been written and that is ignatius statement is completely different even since they are that harry. came to power the way he thinks the way he deals with matters the way here sort out problems doesn't go. with the content of the nation statement. harry made the resignation announcement in a television broadcast from the saudi capital riyadh saying there was an assassination plot against him and he criticized hezbollah and iran for their actions in lebanon israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says iran is trying to dominate the whole region but i think this is a wake up call for everyone it says what the middle east is really experiencing it's experiencing the attempt of iran to conquer the middle east to dominate in

subjugated and i think when israelis and arabs and it's all the arms and the israel i want to agree on one thing. people should pay attention we should stop this rainy and take oh well iran's government says he is using the resignation of hariri to cover up its own internal political crisis there is a mess ravi has been speaking to a member of parliament for the iranian national security and foreign policy commission. not having hussein is a member of the iranian parliament he's also the spokesman for the parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy he gave us his perspective on the events unfolding in saudi arabia over the last few days regarding the resignation of the lebanese prime minister he said there's no doubt in the iranian government's mind that saad hariri was pressured by the saudi government to step down and it was a cord needed effort to distract from saudi arabia's own internal political problems here's what he had to say. in the government of saudi arabia there has

been a coup and saudi arabia tried to use the resignation of saad hariri to hide tunnel movements and thought the saudi government but the first headline is the resignation of saad hariri not incidents happening inside the government of saudi arabia so we believe that this is coordinated now he also said that iran's government has information to suggest that hardline political groups are taking over saudi affairs but he took the opportunity to reach out to the saudi government a lot and we believe if there is cooperation between saudi arabia and iran it is beneficial for the rage and it could bring calm to the region but they rely on america they rely on israel they think that with american weapons they can be a power in the region this is a wrong theory the government before the revolution in iran the shah's regime with totally saving america but americans abandoned him during the islamic revolution so instead of relying on american powers and foreign powers pay attention to the countries of the bridge and finally hussein he said that attacks by yemen's hooty

fighters on targets inside saudi arabia are in evitable he said that hundreds of yemenis are dying every day in saudi bombardment and that the people that they're fighting can't be expected to do nothing i say he said that yemen had become a quagmire for saudi arabia in the same way that vietnam had become a quagmire for the americans and he said that it was time for saudi arabia to stop the violence and negotiate their way out of the. conflict because as he said the era of empires is over well still ahead here on al-jazeera life after i saw we explore what happens to the people who are returning to british soil after fighting for the armed group plus. with two months to go why twenty seventeen in his own home course to be mexico's deadliest year on record.

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with the northeast breeze the more dominant one now we've got this part of india particular branch where the rain could be potentially heavy but it has been there's been flooding around chennai in fact this whole southeast of india and sri lanka have had some fairly heavy rain and there is more to come this is monday's forecast and it's almost all green tuesday's similar. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. sixty seven words that spelled promise for one people but ended up a disaster for another. that led to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians one hundred years on al-jazeera world tells the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east for seeds of discord at this time.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera ives a whole robin a reminder of our top stories a mass shooting at a church in the texan town of sutherland springs has left at least twenty six people dead police say the shooter walked into the church during a service an opened fire at least twenty other people were injured in the attack the gunman fled the scene and was killed during a confrontation with police. more than a dozen sidey princes and ministers have been detained in a sweeping corruption crackdown including one of the world's richest men they were rounded up just hours after the establishment of the anti corruption committee

headed by the crown prince mohammed bin some are. also iran and hezbollah have accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to fuel tension in the middle east accusing riyadh the forcing lebanon's prime minister to resign israel however claims that saad hariri quit due to pressure from iran here he said he feared there was an assassination plot to kill him. to go to europe now where ousted catalan leader. and a fall for catalan ministers have been released under strict conditions in belgium spain seeks their extradition turn themselves in following the arrest warrant from madrid over the holding of catalonia secession referendum let's just cross over to japan we're going to join the american president here he is. we were going to go to the president i don't think we've got those pictures right now we will try to get back to. donald trump but let's just go back to that

story from brussels. and his bid for making sure he doesn't go back to spain here's david chaytor. tomorrow and four of his deposed cabinet ministers surrendered themselves at this police station in central brussels and were officially placed under arrest at nine seventeen sunday morning they were then transferred in a police van to the office of the brussels prosecutor but they were not put in handcuffs. an investigative judge has been appointed will now examine the case laid against them by the court in madrid who issued the warrants their investigative judge. refusal to execute the european arest arresting the people involved freezing in their nations. has exercised his right under belgian law to have the hearing conducted in flemish the belgian

region of flanders has long shared catalonia bishan for independence some analysts say it's an attempt to politicize the whole process the legal procedures surrounding the european arrest warrant have been streamlined and reformed but it still could take up to sixty days before any extradition is carried out on in special circumstances up to ninety days but legal experts now say there are a limited grounds to resist the arrest warrants so there is for instance no grandfather for refusal based on the political nature of the old fence anymore so this has been abolished and here are two different grounds for refusal could be used one on the basis of a serious risk of infringement after mr president. human rights and a second once on the basis of double criminality pushed him on his ministers are charged

by madrid with rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds and of facing a maximum sentence of thirty years in jail the double criminality clause examines if those charges mean the same in both belgium and spain if the appeal on any of the grounds allowed under the european arrest warrant they will go before yet another judge in a bid to fight extradition traitor al jazeera brussels. a car bomb has killed at least one hundred civilians including children who were trying to escape the syrian city of the resort at least one hundred forty others were wounded in the attack i saw has claimed responsibility government forces announced on friday the group had been pushed out of the city which was their last major stronghold. i saw is on retreat in syria and iraq so what will happen to the thousands of foreign fighters who traveled to short lived caliphate to find top support the groups cause often boasted of its involvement in attacks on british soil but it

raises questions as to how those who do return home should be treated well u.k. correspondent barbie phillips has more. raca lies in ruins i still fighters once triumphant are on the run they flock to the caliphate those that came from britain says a government minister can expect no mercy on the battlefield i'm afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are serious danger. and unfortunately anywhere they will be in almost every case to kill those remarks by rory stewart have created a big debate here in westminster over how far britain should go to protect itself without undermining its democratic values jack lets a middle class english boy from oxford he converted to islam and when he was eighteen ran away to isolate territory in syria but his parents say he was not

a fighter he's now being held by the kurdish authorities in northern syria on suspicion of belonging to eisele his parents say each case must be treated individually. bring them back put them on trial investigate them bring up the evidence. against the british state of course of course. we just want justice for ourselves. surely that's not too much to ask they were encouraged by remarks by a government advisor who spoke of the need to reintegrate young naive people who return disillusioned they put their son the in that category this senior m.p. from the governing conservative party says the authorities have to prepare for more return. we need to give them a route to be subject to the law to get investigated to. cope with what they've done and to face the rigor of the law in that regard. but then there is

a joint effort a rehabilitation in the long run back into u.k. society the british authorities believe that about half of the roughly eight hundred fifty british people who travel to isolate territory already come home they think that more than one hundred have been killed in iraq or syria but that still leaves hundreds more on account to. be phillip's al jazeera. well u.s. president donald trump is addressing u.s. and japanese business leaders at the american embassy in japan. trump met with privatisations r.b.a. for lunch in the round of golf to start to kick starting this twelve day tour of asia another two are expected to hold talks on monday aimed at countering north korea's nuclear threat trumps all the longest in the region by a u.s. president in twenty five years includes south korea china vietnam and the

philippines. with more than eighteen thousand people murdered in mexico this year so far twenty seventeen is set to become the country's deadliest the situation now is worse than it was in twenty eleven when the government declared a war on drug cartels. more from mexico city. he would have turned twenty one today instead his family and friends gathered at their local church to remember him he was stabbed to death three months ago at a friend's party following an argument several men arrived and killed him in front of dozens of witnesses no one has been arrested get this through. they must pay for what they've done because they destroyed our family they destroyed all of us he had his whole life ahead of him so many plans. and these kids just show up and kill each other that's so rough imagine reaching that extreme where these youths are killing each other there's

a total lack of security. mexico's latest wave of violence is expected to claim over twenty four thousand lives by the end of twenty seventeen worse than at the height of the drug war a few years ago the main reason for the unprecedented numbers say crime tracking n.g.o.s is the splintering of drug cartels into smaller more violent groups that have disrupted areas previously considered safe you look at can you look at extortions when you look at garth have any of the high profile impact. mexico. and his state of the union address last month mexican president and we get said security continues to be his government's main priority but many here disagree arguing that his administration has persisted with failing policies of prior governments ever since the beginning of the drug war in two thousand and six mexico has made headlines both nationally and beyond in

a conflict that continues to unravel but increasingly neither the government nor the private sector is speaking publicly about the worsening security situation or how to tackle it. something that worries analysts as mexico heads into an election year crime rates tend to go up when elections come along. and another thing many mexicans might be distracted and thinking that they can change something by electing another party or another candidate or whatever and this doesn't work this way we have to change our strategy. parents say they won't rest until those responsible for their son's death are found and tried but ninety eight percent of such murders here go unpunished so like thousands of other mexicans they may never get the justice they seek. you go last may become another statistic in mexico's year a relentless bloodshed. al-jazeera lexical city. you're

watching al-jazeera i'm so ho robin these are all top stories a mash using at a church in texas at sutherland springs has left at least twenty six people dead police say the gunman walked into the church during a service and opened fire at least twenty others have been injured in the attack the gunman fled the scene and was killed during a confrontation with police one of saddam ideas princes has been killed in a helicopter crash near the border with yemen eight saudi officials also died in the crash prince moon's orbit morgan all sound was the son of the former crown prince mogul and these videos were posted on his twitter page hours before his death it's not clear what caused the crash. more than a dozen zuhdi princes and ministers have been detained in a sweeping corruption crackdown including one of the world's richest men they were

rounded up just hours after the establishment of the anti corruption committee you can catch more of those stories on al-jazeera dot com inside story follows to stay with us. on the brink of turmoil lebanon's prime minister quits varying he'd be a fascinating is a power struggle intensified between saudi arabia and so will lebanon again become the battleground for other peoples was it inside story.