i really felt liberated as a journalist but i was getting to the truth as i would that's that's what this job . more than seven decades ago a country was split into really big break but did any and now the time come. to being myopic all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. kenya's high court orders the government to reopen t.v. stations are blocked for broadcasting writer i think it's more integration.

this is out zero live from london also coming up in the purge evidence of more mass graves the million mile the un says the violence against range of muslims as all the hallmarks of genocide. the memo that's the talk of washington the f.b.i. says it documents suggesting abuse of power within its ranks for living not curacy . people fish in the sea dog according to research as in hong kong who say overfishing of reefs is driving some species to extinction. kenya's high court has ordered the government to reopen several t.v. stations it shut down on choose day the country's top three t.v. networks are taken off the air and if they try to broadcast the moment can all ration ceremony held by the opposition leader rather it being a declared himself the people's president claiming the president has election win

last year was rigged catherine soy has the details now from. katie in a nation millions of kenyans depend on them and their free to air platforms for formation for the news and programs as well and many of them cannot really afford the internet or cannot access the internet or afford pay t.v. so we also talked to the managing editor of the nation media group who told us that this is something that has been building up days before this. airing in. some. of the media stations while called by very senior government officials and basically given a dressing down they were instructed not to provide any live coverage of that event fadia to reach them. their licenses are going to be withdrawn or they're going to be switched off like we've seen and nick. caught the high court ordered for resumption of this service is the resumption of transmission basically and teale

a petition that was filed by a human rights activist is hard and determined in the next two weeks at but i've been watching our screens and these channels are not back on at least five previously unreported most graves have been uncovered in min well according to the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites when contacted by al-jazeera the government to claim to comment on the latest reports of mass graves more than six hundred ninety thousand ranger fled me and most since a military crackdown was launched in august last year scott hardly reports from young on. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies are buried may. its investigation

suggest at least five previously unreported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. wherever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by the military which they burnt down using launchers. it's not the massacre took place in rakhine state. a few weeks ago for the first time the military here said that soldiers were involved in civilian deaths it acknowledged one mass grave containing the bodies of ten it's called terrorists the u.n. says reports of more mass graves warrants further investigation. i do not have the details of this particular site or the village. but it is. it is. you can see

a pattern that we said earlier. you know we had that tonight to leave massa but india is where the mass graves were discovered. but when i was talking to some of the refugees amounted to me he had he had buried four hundred in thirty plus body before he escaped his town. and i received growing names of people who. let you kill or missing so this is something that needs to be investigated and this is why we've called for a fact finding mission and human rights watch says there's growing evidence of genocide in rakhine state what is most worrisome about this report beyond obviously the killings is now the effort to cover this up that they discovered. in some instances acid is being used to burn off the features of the people killed or

burned off the fingerprints to try to obstruct any accountability and that shows a degree of pre-planning that will really i think impact the international community's decisions about whether this is constitutes genocide or not you know mars government has previously denied any reports of a massacre it has now cut off access to good up in other than tightly controlled government trip to the area in northern with kind state where there was violence has been closed off to the u.n. humanitarian groups and journalists it's got harder al jazeera young gone well earlier we spoke to the associated press gen this foster clue who told us how his team verified the footage. we found a guy named mohammed. who worked at a kiosk in one of the camps and he had the original cell phone memory card that he had taken in myanmar and he wrapped it up with plastic and tied it to his thigh you know and walked through these checkpoints and into bangladesh without it getting

taken so we had the original footage of these graves now to verify and we asked him numerable questions about what was in these videos how he knew what was in the videos where he was when he took them and then we went to nearly two dozen other people from the village separately to ask them similar questions about those videos and you know pretty much everyone agreed it was good up here and everyone recognized you know things as granular as the placement of banana trees or you know where rice paddies were in relation to you know trees the background of various hills so we felt pretty confident that these videos were authentic we have the actual memory card with the time stamp showing the date that it was taken at the time and then we have the corroborating evidence from the people there

lots of videos including of a good option but without the time stamp they just have much less weight. now than the f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo that claims law enforcement tools were used for political purposes in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the memo written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee suggests the f.b.i. and justice department misused their powers while investigating the trump campaign republicans voted on monday to publicly release the document a move imposed by democrats in the department of justice they say is part of a wider effort to undermine the probe by special counsel robert mueller he's investigating claims of russian election meddling and potential collusion with the trump campaign as a top white house correspondent kimberly how could two joins us live from the white house and kimberly said they voted to release this memo any sign of it yet.

right so they were voted to release it it was sent to the white house the white house having five days to review as of monday we have known for a few days now that it was being put under the microscope by the white house legal counsel and legal team and the latest that we're hearing in just the last hour it's been widely reported here in the united states that in fact some of the memo has now been redacted potentially declassified and will be sent back to that house intelligence committee for release potentially on friday now all of this is certainly speculation and also is certainly been confirmed as well by multiple sources that are using this to report at the same time what i can tell you is that there's a lot of uncertainty about what this will mean and certainly there are both political sides weighing in both democrat and republican concerned about what this could mean

in terms of undermining the public institutions such as the f.b.i. and the partment of justice and also what this could do in terms of the outcome of the russia probe had by the special counsel robert mueller so if if it's true that some elements of this memo have been redacted why might that be and what could be the implications of. it's really hard to understand what may or may not have been redacted what i can tell you though is that there is high anxiety over this memo here in washington there are the members of the f.b.i. including the director appointed by president trump has said that this is not a good idea the department of justice has said this is not a good idea democrats on the house intelligence committee have said this is not a good idea yet we are hearing from the president as recently as the state of the union and as well by his chief of staff john kelly that they believe this needs to be released because there is this strongly held view by the president that there

are subversive elements of both the department of justice and the f.b.i. that have been working not just to undermine his presidential campaign but also his presidency but again given the fact that democrats are accusing republicans of sort of cherry picking the information that has gone into this memo the fact that the republicans have allowed for this republican member to be released but not one that was authored by democrats is certainly casting concerns of credibility on what this memo contains as well given the fact that it was a classified document that we believe has been declassified or set to be declassified there are certainly national security concerns and implications that could result from this being made public sounds like this is going to a long way to run yet complete thanks very much for the committee her reporting there from the white house. israel says it's adamantly opposed to a polish bill that would make it illegal to suggest it was complicit in the nazi

holocaust poland's upper house back the draft legislation despite objections from israel and from the united states how the foresaid has more on how the move is being perceived in israel. in the early hours of thursday morning polish senators voted to pass a bill that israel says is designed to hide the truth about poland's role in the holocaust nazi occupied poland was the second world war site of some of the worst horrors of the holocaust the concentration camp at auschwitz birkenau has become its most potent symbol but poland objects to terms such as polish death camps instead of nazi ones pointing out poles were victims of invasion then occupation as motivation it will grow we are very sad and surprised our fight for the truth for the dignity of poles is perceived and interpreted in this way. the bill would punish without the three years' imprisonment anyone accusing the polish nation of complicity in the extermination of the jews the domestic opponents of the proposed law its terms to groove this. sort of public discussion should take place without

any obstacles it cannot take place under the supervision of the prosecutor after poland's lower house voted the bill through last friday israel's prime minister called it an attempt to rewrite history demanding the proposed legislation be amended israeli government says it adamantly opposed to this second vote adding that no law can change historical truth and there is support in the israeli parliament the knesset for a bill here to challenge the polish one by offering protection legally to anyone prosecuted for their views on the holocaust overseas and making it illegal to deny complicity in the holocaust as well as the event itself opposition leader did was great grandmother was killed in poland is one of the law's sponsors if you see the kind of protests anderson it is and that was for our share of the last couple of weeks important to do this you understand why is it so important for us to be able to maintain the memory of the holocaust isn't what really happened during the years

of the forty five jews were murdered and poles were helping israel's holocaust memorial yad vashem pays tribute to nearly seven thousand poles who didn't save their jewish neighbors at the height of the holocaust but one of israel's leading scholars on the period says many more poles were complicit in corinth research shows us that many of those jews were killed not because of the german something they were handed to the germans but by poorly citizens by paul who found them to polish government this bill is an effort to stop a defeated occupied nation from being defamed as a partner in the nazi genocide to israelis it seems like an attempt to shield thousands of polish citizens from blame for said al-jazeera west jerusalem so they come here. in the program today russia's leads have a lot of time to limp the day people and save a ton but they're not invited to be on training games plus. i have a son to see no good as what thousands of migrants continue to try to reach the

united states but at this arrival point for deportees in some people tell us the routes have become much more dangerous. and over the weather's all come down across the middle east now our weather system is moving away from afghanistan behind it there's just this rather feeble one making its way across the caspian sea there's not really a great deal of this though so just a few lighter outbreaks of snow we're likely on friday for most of us it will be dry and fine tear on while the temperatures will be getting to around eight degrees but it's still cool for us in kuwait i think we'll stick around nineteen as we head through the next day or say here in doha it's definitely been quite fresh recently and that's thanks to the when there will be working down from the northwest bringing in that cooler twenty two degrees of our maximum at the moment dropping

down to around thirteen at night that's in the city but we will see the winds pick up on saturday so saturday will feel like a cool day if you are out in that wind it will feel quite cool down towards the southern parts of africa and we've certainly got some lively weather here in this area of thunderstorms has been working its way eastwards giving us some very very heavy downpours but we haven't seen the last of it just yet it forms a once more as we head through friday and still giving us some shop showers there showers really get going as we head through into saturday and then it's a little bit further towards the north it's here working its way across joburg here will likely see some very lively thunderstorms.

i don't get a reminder of the top stories here and in kenya the government has been ordered to reopen several t.v. stations which were shut down on choose day after they try to broadcast the most inauguration ceremony for the opposition leader riley. previously unreported mass graves of revenge of muslims have been uncovered in me and that's according to

the press news agency israel and the united states have criticized poland's decision to approve a bill that would impose jail terms for suggestions it was complicit in the holocaust. a man who drove his van into a crowd outside a london mosque last year has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder one person was killed nine people were injured when they rammed his van into worship as in finsbury park prosecutors said that oswald was influenced by a far right ideology and motivated by hatred of muslims u.k. correspondent bobby phillips as this. daryl's born in a pub in wales days before the attack the police call him a hate filled with a history of violence drug and alcohol abuse in the pub he wrote a letter which was found in the van he used for the attack a letter so full of hatred for muslims say the police that it's too offensive to release he rents the van to drive to london police say to find muslim targets he

says he wanted to kill opposition labor leader jeremy corbin he drove all over london arriving at the muslim welfare house in finsbury park after midnight where people were leaving after ramadan prayers and one man back alley happened to fall ill on the street c.c.t.v. footage shows the van moments before it drove into the crowd on the left of the screen. down all scorned drove down this road the seven sisters road into this little cul de sac where a crowd of people were trying to help mark riley who by coincidence had fallen ill just a few moments before he plowed into the crowd as he got out of his van i wouldn't think court said that he was smiling the local him and protected him from the crowd until the police arrived moments later the crew say that this was an attack on all londoners why do you know why the police have released a call from someone who asks for help is he conscious.

then specifics we hear the attack. are already come out of people are going oh yeah the police told me darren osborn acted alone but right wing extremism is a growing threat in britain we have arrested more individuals than we've ever done in relation to domestic extremism related activity. we've seen three groups described by the government the government has also appointed a new extremist commissioner which is welcome. and we are pushing more people through our prevent and channel program relevant to again this category of people down those boards attack was a shock to a very diverse community in this part of london a troubled individual who turned into a politically motivated killer barnaby phillips al-jazeera finsbury park in north london. german politicians have voted to allow refugees to start bringing their closest relatives into the country later this year in

a decision that will end the nation's political deadlock initially it two years suspension on family reunifications will be extended but will then be lifted from oldest the issue's been a major hurdle in ongoing talks to form a new government between the chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats and the opposition social democrats. thousands of hondurans risked their lives every year and leaving the country in the hope of a better future in the united states under its is one of the most violent countries in the world in the route is dangerous for getting more say we're going to sanchez reports now from honduras on the difficulties facing those attempting to join. and. he felt strong enough to catch a moving train in mexico it's to train the take so many young central americans towards the united states to flee the violence human do this and achieve the american dream of a better life but many like alexis full or die. i

grabbed onto the train but it moves so much i hit my head and fell i woke up four days later to realize i was like this my life is so sad. it's a beauty in georgia he was deported from mexico like thousands of central americans who failed to reach the united states the government says more than twenty seven thousand in good hands were sent back home this year sister. who's assisted deportees for fourteen years says more and more are returning traumatised from the trip. but the migrant route is much more dangerous in the train there are corrupt police gangs drug traffickers they use children as drug mules women and men are raped before the migrant would be safe not anymore while many of the deportees that have arrived here in tell us that they are healthy enough to try the route again but for many others who had accidents on the way the dream is over. for

these two planeloads land here every week with more than one hundred deportees from the u.s. and mexico despite the dangers many don't lose hope. alexis's accident happened a decade ago he says he still can dream to have a job. he's a beggar and relies so his family for shelter and i don't. have a job would be the most important thing for me but it's very hard for people who are handicapped so i don't even have a chance somebody is in the. private organizations who held the parties say most don't receive government help you're going to get some pressure on us as one of us but it. you know these people are the expression of the crudest reality in a country that doesn't offer any options for an honest dignified life they are physically and mentally affected. and in a country where more than sixty percent of them didn't are poor and nearly forty percent live under the poverty line victims like alexi say they have no home and i

guess i'm just sad to see that they're going to so on to the us nine hundred fifty south african mine is a stock on the ground after a storm knocked out power the big trips goldmine is near the city of welcome in the central free state the mining company says that the workers are being supplied with food and water and are not in immediate danger sixty five people have already been rescued. and staying in south africa tensions are high in the drought hit city of cape town where residents are facing a severe water shortage one person was arrested after a fight broke out at a natural spring where incidents have been collecting water new restrictions were introduced on thursday in an attempt to avoid days that's the day in april when they might have to turn off those taps. twenty eight russian athletes have had their lifetime bans from lympics sport overturned just over a week before the winter olympic games in pune chang international olympic committee says its campaign against doping has been shaken by the decision or

a challenge reports from moscow on the implications of such a gold medalist alexander led cough silver medalist. gold medalist alexander tretiak of just three of the twenty eight russian athletes who've have their limpid doping bans overturned and their results at the last winter olympics in russia four years ago reinstated after their appeals were held by the court of arbitration for sport the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that's an anti-doping rule violation it was committed. concerned. this does not mean that these twenty eight athletes are declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appeals are held the sanctions and the old and their individual results achieved in such reinstated. it's a setback for the case built against russia by the international olympic committee

and world anti-doping agency. even putin has often said it's the anti doping allegations against russia are politically motivated even though they are designed to interfere in the upcoming presidential elections well that voice is less than two months away now and so for the kremlin cass's decision is a timely gift it fits neatly into a picture often painted here certainly one regularly offered by the government and state media of russia as a besieged fortress righteously defending itself against a largely hostile world and russia is now pushing for its previously disgraced sports men and women to be readmitted to the winter olympics starting next week in south korea because just put it in the court of arbitration for sport confirmed athletes are clean and the vite take part in the olympics so the russian olympic committee will send a letter to the international olympic committee suggesting they allow athletes to

compete in the olympic games. despite what russia sports minister says the international olympic committee notes cass's points a lack of evidence doesn't prove the innocence of those athletes for now the i.o.c. seems reluctant to readmit them to compete in pyongyang the result of the cast decision does not mean that athletes from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games not being sanctioned does not automatically confer the privilege of an invitation still provided it's not overturned on appeal the cast decision means russia has the legal momentum in a country where sport and politics often march together that's a boon for its athletes and the kremlin will reach alan's how does iraq moscow. reports on hong kong's billion dollar fresh seafood industry paints a dismal picture of the trade future it warns that lax regulations and overfishing

brings some species close to extinction because pollen has this report. at the aberdeen fish market mornings are busy seventy percent of the seafood consumed in hong kong pasta through here among the crates and tanks carrying fish from all over the world you can easily spot the endangered or threatened species there in the category of my brief food fish transported and kept alive until they are to be in the so much illegal trade. and the so little control and oversight by the hong kong government in this case was a very ill equipped to control the trade as it's practiced today. yvonne's adobe's the co-author of a report entitled going going gone it reveals how a lack of regulation current fishing practices and consumer demand are bringing many species to the brink of extinction we train more there and then take the spaces but they're only one species

a poll tax they are the live refinish food trade involves about twenty species most of them groupers and most from southeast asia due to their colorful appearance and high prices there is says heated with luxury in economic status which is why weiland says there's a growing demand for the rarer reef fish but they're getting harder to source. in recent years the product of life with fish have gone up around twenty percent every year it is due to demand from the mainland chinese market especially after china's economic brutal people one high in sea floor and the supply is not recent hong kong is a major transit hub for both the legal and illegal fish trade. people in hong kong have a major appetite for fish on the average each person routes about sixty five kilograms a year according to the u.n. that's three times the global average unless has decimated first stocks in hong kong waters so now my two percent of the city's precious imported this grandmother

tells us she doesn't know where the fish she buys comes from but it's getting harder to find reasonably priced seafood what it thinks is a signal that we are fair share every day but it's getting really expensive. so i have to find cheaper places like this market to top this latest report says traders expect hong kong to continue to be a global hub for live refuelled fish for the next five years a conservationist one unless practices change and soon that could be too long for many species to survive the bigger pollen al-jazeera hong kong. a plenty more websites and all the stories that we're covering the address to which is al-jazeera dot com. so that a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and kenya's high court has ordered

the government to reopen several t.v. stations the top three t.v. networks were taken off air on choose day after they try to broadcast a mote in old ration ceremony held by the opposition leader rather and into the danger and his supporters believe that a president who are kenyatta selection when last year was right. furthermore and that this is going to turn. over it don't. go on different we're. going to go differently in this. drama government the government does serve the brunt of this of. its own laws and accounts. at least five previously on reported revenge a muslim asked graves have been uncovered him in mark quoting to the associated press the u.n. special report has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites more than six hundred ninety thousand for him to have fled meanwhile since a military crackdown was launched in august last year. around nine hundred fifty

minus in south africa are stuck underground after a storm knocked out power to bigotries gold mine is near the city of welcome in central freestate the company says the mine is a not in danger and that sixty four people have already been rescued. yes the eyes questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo which cues it of abusing its surveillance pounds to target the trump campaign which during the two thousand and sixteen presidential elections the memo was written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee who voted to partially release it on monday democrats fear the documents may be an attempt to undermine a probe into russian invasion to. polish lawmakers have caused outrage in israel by approving a bill that would impose jail terms for suggesting that poland was complicit in the holocaust israel has called it an attempt to challenge historical truth the bill has also drawn concern from the united states twenty eight russian athletes have

had their lifetime ban from limping sport overturned because of insufficient evidence the decision was made by the court of arbitration for sport after an appeal last month that comes just over a week away from the winter olympic games in pyongyang china i say without got more coming up inside story is next. presenter with. dozens of political and free speech activists held calls to suspend the kingdom from the human rights council has only happened once before with libya well the un. this story.