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forcing the minister to resign. hello again i'm with al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the first ever papal visit to me and a trip dominated by how pope francis will address the ethnic cleansing of the red muslim minority. the u.n. tries to revive its efforts to end syria's war as skilled thousands more people we'll have reports from syria and geneva also predictions of an imminent major eruption raised bali's volcano alert to the highest level. now protests in pakistan a dispersing from the sit in on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many though

a sitting around for celebrations. they've been demanding zahid hommage step down over the side of the wording of the column entry bill which they describe as blasphemous the demonstrations gradually spread to towns and cities across to his son has more from islamabad. this is the epicenter of a protest start began praying to tour de gaulle where did the board start and by the government security forces deployed to protest that intersection called fred. that changed everything the writing then spread across the country forcing the lawmen are starved or dying but if you know tens of thousands of supporters are now gathering at this point which will be remembered for a long time to come and ignored the law minister already paid the price but did it

no kidding predicted against the country doing a minister who had failed to deliver and called the problem it shows that there dysfunctional government in islamabad that cannot control anything and it all. gets on muslim league now why it's going to take every attrition from what happened here yeah going to lose support and their heart nine were joined up one job. it seems it may be the beginning of the end of the ruling party paid for out says he's beginning a trip to me amal that's true with diplomatic risk and the country's treatment of muslim. the politics a delicate the some of the catholic leaders advises of warned him against using the term. well than six hundred thousand refugees have fled from me in malta bangladesh escaping a military crackdown that francis has previously condemned me and is at the range

of crisis. go hide that has mole from young. pope francis arriving here at the archbishop of young guns compound this is where he's going to spend the next three nights here in myanmar today on monday is a rest day he's going to stay here meet with some of the local clergy and then on tuesday morning tuesday afternoon i should say he's going to head to naples or the capital that's where the bulk of the meetings with the leadership of this nation will take place and that's where we assume a lot of the discussion about the range issue will be brought up but right now on monday rest day he's just arriving to the compound here of the archbishop and then on wednesday here whole come back to yangon and they'll be a large mass in the stadium here that's where all the christians within myanmar are heading to see the pope speak that's going to happen on wednesday then on thursday morning they're going to be some interfaith meetings another meeting with maybe some officials here in myanmar and then he'll take off and go to his second stage of his trip in bangladesh. the funerals have been held in syria for some of the

people killed in russian and government airstrikes over the weekend mourners buried their dead in a province on monday at least fifty five people were killed in russian strikes targeting eisel in the countryside and another twenty five people were killed in airstrikes in the rebel held on flavor of eastern ghouta that's on the outskirts of damascus well the airstrikes have been increasing as mortals are due to get under way in geneva on tuesday the process is run by the un and aims to bring more than six years of war to an end it's led by the u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura he's managed to bring the syrian government and the opposition to the table in the past but has so far failed to get any agreement syrian opposition negotiators say they'll be in geneva and that there are no preconditions this will be the eighth round of talks in geneva previous attempts of stalled because of disagreements mainly over whether president bashar al assad

should stay in power we can go live to james frey's now our diplomatic editor who is in geneva the scene for those talks to get under way tomorrow that's tuesday so round eight james can we have any optimism that they will yield anything that will end fighting on the ground in syria. i don't think we can be too optimistic knowing the grim history of all this we're going to get some more details you mentioned stefan de mistura who's convening this process he'll be speaking to the u.n. security council in about an hour's time but the word is that this is probably not going to start on time in the past we've had the opposition of taken days to get here to get to geneva because it had last minute negotiations among themselves this time the opposition some of them already here others of lying in the next few hours it's actually the syrian government's side that is not it seems going to be here at the start of talks on tuesday here in geneva they say they perspire own their

flight to geneva because they're angry that the opposition is still saying that assad must go there are some who believe that's not made the main reason why they perspire on their trip it's also being suggested that you mentioned it that onslaught in eastern guta that maybe they want to continue that bombardment for a little longer before they come to the negotiating table potentially with the strength and hand well let's look at the opposition groups i mean how do they feel given that it was just one of week i'll say again that you had president putin and president assad congratulating each other pretty much on on ending effectively the war on the ground and talking about a political solution. the opposition if you speak to them privately they are not happy with the way things played out clearly not militarily because assad definitely has the upper hand because of the help of the russians and the iranians but also diplomatically and we as a result of that have

a different grouping coming here they calling themselves the syrian negotiation commission remember that was the high negotiations committee before well at high negotiations committee some of them have said no we don't want any more to do with this this is not going anywhere and we don't like the way this process is being run others are coming here as part of this new group but they're joined by other opposition group ings the so-called karo group which is really opposition people who've been based in egypt and the moscow group and there is a lot of skepticism about the moscow group in the past opposition members of told me that i believe there are real opposition at all and some of the describe them as assad stooges all right james bays there live in geneva so what is being made of all of this then on the ground you've got those thoughts starting on tuesday and you've also got an increase in strikes actually in syria itself our correspondent asama binge of aid reports now from. northern syria.

people inside syria have been telling us that they are afraid of another round of talks because every time negotiations happen both sides try to accelerate. their attacks on people and the suffering of people actually. in the last twenty four hours we've had multiple attacks in the eastern suburbs of damascus a hooter where more than four hundred thousand people are believed to be besieged united nations have been calling on all parties to allow unhindered access and it's been waiting for the government to try and get aid to these people but haven't been able to which we at the hospitals are very ill equipped and one airstrike an artillery strike happened in the areas they're not able to provide help to the people who have been injured elsewhere in syria in there are the or the death toll from the strike that happened twenty four hours earlier when russia attacked a group of people which was believed to be and i think in fact ended up killing

many many civilians. and medical there and local sources there. that that is also going to mount. the first commercial ship carrying food has arrived at the yemeni port of a data after three weeks of a blockade millions of people are at risk from starvation and disease in the country that's ravaged by war the saudi led coalition says the blockade was assault weapons reaching the rebels that they're fighting pizza shop for. the saudis who promised to lift the blockade of the yemen port of her died four days ago that it was only on sunday for the first desperately needed food supplies were unloaded. now the ship has reached the port of entered carrying flour and relief material swaying five thousand five hundred tons this is not enough people need but we hope this is a good sign to open the port of the data and lift the siege many provinces. unicef

says. child dies every ten minutes from preventable diseases that would equate to more than five hundred children dead in those last four days alone five thousand tons of flowers unloaded on saturday but it's just a trickle to little and far far too late for the most vulnerable today it is fair to say that yemen is one of the worst places on earth to be a child more than eleven million. yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl unicef says the war in yemen is sadly a war on children close to five thousand children have been killed or seriously injured in the last two and

a half years and it welcomes the opening of the airport at santa it allowed us to send in a first humanitarian convoy one point nine million doses of vaccines vaccines that are urgently needed to vaccinate six hundred thousand children across yemen since the saudi led coalition began fighting the who tees in two thousand and fifteen the country's basic infrastructure no longer exists. the blockade began on november sixth after hooty rebels fired a ballistic missile into saudi arabia the saudi military said the pull ok was imposed to stop weapons being smuggled into yemen but the un is warning that commercial imports of food and fuel must also resume the world food program says continuing to choke off those supplies could have a disastrous effect on fourteen million people living in the remote regions of

northern yemen completely unable to cope for themselves peter shop al jazeera. coming up in just a little while here at al-jazeera defense minister faces tough questions about a multimillion dollar saudi. how the cloud is gathering across southern parts of china we're seeing more in the way of cloud coming in here over the next couple days not so bad for tuesday last fall. i am dr hong kong at around twenty six ounces but this area cloud and writing that we have across central pa will intensify will see some rather heavy downpours pushing a little further north was notice some snow on the northern edge there weather coming a little further south there as well hong kong should actually stay dry temperatures here at around twenty six celsius so

a fair amount of sunshine into central and northern parts of india over the coming days of course we do still have the fog and smoke problems up to was northern plays out with new delhi but the shadow cloud remains across southern most passengers from a more heavy downpours here as we go through the next day or two to seeing the the wettest of the weather all the way down into a good part of a little circulation just making its way across the by a big old continues to feed those showers across the southern tip as we go on through what is there not just by then let's move more cloud up the west and gas but i think it should stay dry there but a cloud to into the arabian peninsula over the next dials on end of the southern and central parts of the red sea could see a little more cloud coming through just have some showers too as a funnel. africa . changes country stands out because it's considered so

successful why is the. president of ghana. talked to all just. telling. me. travers take a look at the top stories here protest leaders in pakistan have now called off their three weeks weeks if in the capital after a government minister resigned it was a victory for the demonstrators have been demanding that he'd hunted step down over

the wording of a parliamentary bill they accuse him of blasphemy. pope francis the head of the catholic church is a write in young going on the first stop of his six day tour of meum are in bangladesh it's a politically sensitive time as mere miles military is accused of committing crimes against the range a muslim minority. of funerals have been held in syria for some of the people killed in russian and government airstrikes over the weekend at least fifty five people were killed in russian strikes targeting eisold in the countryside another twenty five people were killed in a strike in the rebel held on klav of. that turkey is calling for the case in the us against a turkish gold trader to be dropped saying he's being pressured to make accusations against his homeland risen and eight other people have been charged with engaging in transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars which evaded u.s.

sanctions against iran between the years twenty ten and twenty fifteen the turkish deputy minister prime minister has described the case as an indisputable plot against turkey and that the accusations have no legal basis the turkish government has previously suggested that the case is politically motivated or may have been instigated by fit to laguna and who lives in the u.s. turkey blames glen's movement for losses failed coup against president at a one. well jury selection has started in the trial so let's go live now to share of our times here correspondent in washington d.c. why is this trial setting the turkish authorities say much. as you say they contend that this is all part of a malicious prosecution part of a political plot against the turkish government but what is so significant at the moment is there's a great deal of speculation that one of the two men currently facing trial as you

said several people have been accused of this money laundering scheme but only two are in u.s. custody and one of them it's widely speculated has flipped he's now become a cooperating prosecution witness so the question is what will he have to say about the turkish government present members of his personal ones family's connections to this alleged conspiracy to launder money and evade iranian sanctions the prosecutors in files that they have in other documents they filed in court say that they will show through evidence that turkish government officials were involved at the highest level in this scheme and this is why it's so fascinating if indeed this particular defendant has indeed flipped and what about within the united states itself could this trial have wider implications. so this is another one of these amazing strands in the story we know that the special counsel who's looking into

alleged alleged meddling in the presidential election by russia is looking at various other avenues of inquiry as well notably former and briefly lived national security adviser general michael flynn is connections with turkey there's been many many reports alleging that michael flynn was offered large sums of money in order the very least to try and lobby the trumpet ministration to get for too little and extradited to turkey if not fifteen million dollars to actually kidnapping himself and take him to ankara so this is another line of inquiry where we're wondering whether this witness if he has indeed flipped for the prosecution may have borne information about what turkey and other key members of the troubled ministration were up to during the transition period in regards to this islamic cleric all right she had this is going to be a fascinating trial thank you very much now greece's defense minister is facing questions over a controversial seventy nine million dollars deal with saudi arabia is now being put on hold the dispute may pose

a threat to the government of prime minister alexis tsipras don'ts are up less has more from athens. the government is fighting for its political life because if the defense minister is found to be leaving questions unanswered regarding his conduct conduct if there should be something like a vote of confidence in the government then the entire ruling coalition comprising the left wing cities and the minority coalition partner led by the defense minister the independent greeks party would have to rally and bring all of their votes to bear in order to. get mr come through any censure motion or the government through any no confidence motion and that is because only together can they form a mij majority in the three hundred seat legislature and remain in power but the fact is that the defense minister has left gaps in his responses to the accusations

he hasn't fully addressed why the government was trying to sell three hundred thousand tank shells to the saudis through a middleman because the saudis apparently were only interested in one hundred thousand tank shells and he hasn't addressed why a middleman was being used at all given that greek law prohibits this the implication as far as the conservative opposition is concerned is that mr commandos was intending to offload the difference of two hundred thousand shells through the middleman to buy on the black market with a value of approximately one hundred fifty million dollars and that implies that he himself or his party or the government may have stood to gain from kickbacks or bribes from such a sale one opposition m.p. called the entire affair a sad dark and disgraceful matter for the government and for greece. now ethiopia is pushing on with construction of its massive new dad and that despite growing

objections from egypt the project is strange relations between the two countries because egypt which. eyes downstream sees it as a risk to its water supply from the blue nile mohammed val has been to the site of the five billion dollar project which will one day be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam. work at the ground if you open it in a sas continues through the night flood lights help workers connect iraq it's a beehive atmosphere on top of the central section of the one point seven kilometer down concrete slabs suspended from giant cranes for the next layer of the world the project's chief engineer says work is so advanced that some of the sixteen pilot or binds already place. within this hydropower scheme we have two powerhouses one is on the right side and the other on is on the left side the right is a cure for the with ten units and the left is

a cure for the with six units in total we have sixteen units with this we can generate up to a maximum of five hundred megawatts of electricity. the final capacity of the dam however will exceed six thousand megawatt it will allow you to open not only to satisfy its domestic needs an electric power but also to become a major exporter of electricity to regions as far away south africa and west. with sixty three percent of the construction achieved according to engineers here the dam is beginning to take its final shape if you see this part of it it represents the highest level beyond it that's the beginning of the reservoir of the lake on the upstream side it is going to be able to hold up to seventy four billion cubic meters of water. a five kilometer long supplementary dam is being built to world this side of the reservoir that will cover an area of one thousand eight hundred

and seventy four square kilometers despite the cost of the dam nearing five billion dollars and the controversy around it joe perry cysts on completing it so its own means its next door neighbor sudan says it's happy with the project saying it will preserve its share of the water that used to go to egypt but egypt the major downstream benefit of the nile water is concerned that down would affect its share of this vital resource it's open officials say egypt wants construction to stop and pending the completion of technical studies and the final agreement over the issues but if your peer is infusing it to comply it. was you madam said god bless bunch trucks and has never stopped and will never stop until the project is completed during the technical committee meetings the work continued in the dam we are not concerned by what he did things he did to benefit them as water sources without causing harm to anyone if you're pure hasn't made clear how long it will take to

fill the down or how it plans to fulfill its promise of not harming downstream countries like egypt as a rhetorical over the project heats up sources have told us security around the dam with an undeclared no fly zone and anti-aircraft defenses there have been rumors on social media here in ethiopia about possible air strikes by egypt to destroy them all to getting fears of what could be africa's most ambitious hydroelectric project could perhaps provoke a destructive conflict one hundred five or dizzy or at the ground or in a north western ethiopia. the first official numbers released after the honduras presidential election show the opposition leader salvador nasrallah has a surprise lead over the incumbent won the land-o. amandas both of them declared victory before any official numbers had come in with more than half the ballots counted the electoral tribunal says the opposition

leader. has a five point lead to. a volcano in the indian easy an island of bali is rumbling and spewing smoke up to three thousand meters into the sky officials have ordered more evacuations from the media to areas june reports it could lead to a major eruption at any moment that's what indonesian officials are saying about the volcano on the island of bali now a gong has been rumbling and spewing ash into the atmosphere since the weekend on monday a mass evacuation was ordered and the danger zone was expanded on the possibility of a large eruption is very high some indications show they will indeed be an eruption since yesterday the eruption that happened has been accompanied by the sound of explosions and vibrations that can be heard and felt within a distance of twelve kilometers. indonesian officials say they will continue to search all the villages in the area and force residents to evacuate if need be.

until now based on incoming reports that eruptions and trim is continuous and the love is filling the crater the lava will flow down the slopes after the crater is full. bali's international airport was closed hundreds of flights were canceled and tens of thousands of travelers were stranded after tests indicated ash had reached its airspace. and we cannot get the flight makes. bali is the top tourist destination in indonesia and plays host to millions of visitors each year the volcano last erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when more than one thousand people were killed mohamed does either. online retailing giant amazon is at the center of a ferris bidding war between u.s. cities they all want to be home to the company's new headquarters banking on big

economic benefits under reports from one of the hopefuls newark in new jersey. and old abandoned baseball stadium what's become a symbol of a city in decline but in the city of newark there are signs that things are changing what is this going to be. this is going to be a very large for me broader we'll have a. housing unit. in newark a revival with the development boom in recent years we believe that the north's time has come and we wanted to be part of it but now the city located just fifteen kilometers from new york is thought to be a top contender for the second headquarters of the retail giant amazon the city is treating it like it was beating to host the olympics we are that match we had the

infrastructure you know we have the people we have the diversity newark is not alone in wanting to become the host city for amazon second headquarters more than two hundred thirty cities are making beards they are all over the country and range from big cities like boston chicago denver and los angeles to small cities like wilmington delaware population seventy one thousand amazon has promised to invest five billion dollars in the local economy to the winning city and i said the second headquarters could bring fifty thousand new jobs in its bid to moue or amazon here to newark the city and state are offering the company huge financial incentives primarily between five and seven billion dollars in tax breaks critics say the plan is be. on a flawed theory called trickle down economics that reducing taxes on business will stimulate economic growth and the poor trickle down doesn't really trickle down to

the working class or to low income people so i think people in newark to be really concerned and some people are why we had to pay taxes. that's not good but others see opportunity. because a lot of people need jobs just one city like so many others in north america looking for amazon to make another delivery a boost to their local economy gabriel zonda al-jazeera in newark new jersey. the british royal family has announce a prince harry is engaged to be married to the u.s. actress meghan markle the official announcement comes a year and a half after they're believed her first met the american actress is one of the stars of the hit t.v. show suits their wedding is set for early next year harry is fifth in line for the crown and is the youngest son of prince charles and the late princess diana.

these are the start top stories here at al-jazeera protests in pakistan are dispersing from the city and on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many there are sticking around to celebrate. they've been demanding it step down or be sacked over the wording of a parliamentary bill which they described as blasphemous the demonstrations gradually spread to towns and cities across the country but francis has become the first roman catholic leader to visit me i'm on the trip comes as the government is accused of ethnic cleansing against its minority muslim or hindu population the pontiff is meeting leader aung san suu kyi and the head of the military is not yet known how he'll deal with the sensitive issue of the ring with the government

insisting he doesn't even mention them by name but he's been a vocal advocate of their rights in the past more than six hundred thousand ranger have fled led by the military and are now in bangladesh. the funerals have been held in syria for some of the people killed in russian and government airstrikes over the weekend mourners buried the dead in their province some monday at least fifty five people were killed in russian strikes targeting eisel in the countryside another twenty five people were killed in airstrikes in the rebel held on klav of eastern goods are on the outskirts of the capital. damascus turkey's deputy prime minister has accused the us of exploiting the trial of an iranian turkish gold trader jury selection for reza is underway in a new york court he's accused of helping turkey to evade sanctions against iran charges have also been brought against a turkish banker and a former turkish minister. a volcano on the end of the z.

and island of bali is rumbling and spewing smoke officials say it could lead to a major eruption at any moment they've ordered more people to leave nearby areas with around one hundred thousand residents affected mt agel has been hurling clouds of ash about three kilometers into the sky ever since the weekend. there is next. on counting the cost crocodile economics what emerson mom and dad won't have to transform zimbabwe's finances modern day slave trade in libya and how china's internet giant ten cent over took facebook. counting the cost at this time and i just you. see. typically associated in international.