more than seven decades ago a country was split into. only took was upin a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled seven to the never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. north korea's accused of earning two hundred million dollars from banned exports including selling weapons to syria and. get i'm adrian finighan this is al jazeera live from also coming up i think i think

it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace controversial republican member of accuses the f.b.i. of abusing its powers raising questions about the russia investigation into the latest from washington. where we live in corsica in france where calls for more autonomy a growing louder. and change in the f a kenyan education system but teachers there feel the new plan is just don't add up. a confidential u.n. report has found north korea violated sanctions last year by earning around two hundred million dollars from exporting band materials such as coal i added steel reports also found pyongyang sold weapons to the governments of syria and me and bob just a warning you may find some of the images in times report disturbing. using what's

been described as a combination of multiple evasion techniques brute and deceptive tactics north korea shipped coal to ports in russia china south korea malaysia and vietnam so says the report to the un security council sanctions committee that also says pyongyang urged nearly two hundred million dollars from the sale of banned exports last year it's not actually surprised in the north korean gauges and sanctions busting china has allowed poor sanctions to sort of go on they tolerated ports sanctions now for several decades the u.n. says evidence of north korean military cooperation with syria and me and mark was also uncovered as well as providing ballistic missiles to the myanmar government just a gator say north korea help syrian president bashar al assad to develop chemical weapons between two thousand and twelve and last year it's believed more than forty north korean shipments were sent to companies acting for the research center overseeing syria's chemical weapons program it's five years since the syrian

government announced it would destroy its chemical weapons program and stockpile following the deaths of more than two hundred eighty people in what experts believe was a sarin gas attack since that attack in ghouta syrian government forces have been accused of carrying repeated chemical weapons attacks syrian government leaders dismissed the allegations that said visiting north korean experts were only involved in sports related activities will be on mars and bassett or to the u.n. has said it has no weapons deals with north korea we know that north koreans have connections with organized crime like the accuser for example in japan on throughout asia and possibly the middle east or the north koreans again have been grooming these connections since at least the one nine hundred seventy s. kids u.s. u.n. and e.u. sanctions were imposed because of north korea's nuclear and ballistic missiles program a late his u.n. sanctions announced in december were estimated to reduce petrol imports by up to ninety percent however investigators say so. several unnamed multinational oil

companies continue to help supply petroleum products to the north and accuse the number of countries including china russia and malaysia but failing to start deal legal exports whatever the case the united states continues to lead the push for more economic sanctions following the north's six to clear bomb test last year and more than twenty ballistic missile launch is raising u.s. fears that the mainland could soon be within reach india's i'll just. keep calm and tackle hard that's the advice of the head of the f.b.i. to his staff after the u.s. congress released a memo accusing the bureau of being biased against the president the republican document criticizes the f.b.i. and department of justice it says that they abused their power while examining alleged ties between donald trump's campaign and russia the f.b.i. argued against its release saying that it had grave concerns the document contained what it called material admissions of fact democrats say the memo is aimed at

derailing special counsel robert miller's investigation into the trunk campaign's alleged links to russia following the release the white house says that no changes will be made at the justice department one hour from tom ackerman in washington. democrats in congress say that now that the republican memo has been released it's time for their version of events to be released for the president to allow its declassification and so that the public can see just how selective arbitrary the republican version of events was but ultimately their question here is how this will affect the moeller investigation the president was asked point blank whether in fact he will now ask for the firing of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who the republicans accuse of having authorized this continuation of this surveillance under a court order and the president said cryptically you figure that one out

subsequently white house officials said no the president is not looking for any changes at the highest levels of the justice department but nevertheless that cloud still hangs over the justice department with the president's continuing tweets against both the f.b.i. and his own officials in the justice department six people have been wounded in a drive by shooting in the central italian city of misurata one is believed to be a life threatening condition the suspect gave a fascist salute when he was detained by police all the victims are black. catalyze defense minister says that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates had intentions to invade doha the beginning of a diplomatic crisis that erupted last year khalid bin muhammad alethea told the washington post that catalyze gulf neighbors have tried everything to destabilize the country in june twenty seventh seen saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with cassava and imposed

a blockade after accusing it of supporting terrorism as strongly denied the allegations a un human rights body is calling for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist from jail in egypt saying that his imprisonment violates international law mahmoud hussein was jailed almost fourteen months ago for what prosecutors say was broadcasting false news to spread chaos of zero deny the accusations hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment while in prison. nationalist demonstrators are rallying on the mediterranean island of corsica to call for more ptolemy from mainland france it comes out of a visit by france's president about this week and nationalist coalition controls the island after winning regional elections in december from the capital projects here david chaytor reports. the full independence may still be a distant dream but nationalism has found

a renewed force on this island the full year. not so long ago just singing the course can national anthem was enough to get beaten up by the french police here now the islanders are demanding official status for their language. expression of course you can roots was rapidly merge with the expression of political demands so the singing became hard for the political authorities to accept and not only the french but also some corsicans were supporters of great affronts the confrontation then became violent extremely violent very external. the brutal struggle for corsican independence lasted for four decades before weapons were finally surrendered three years ago the political fight to the ballot box is proving much more successful. a coalition of nationalists now commands forty

one out of the sixty three seats in the corsican assembly one of their key demands is for the return an amnesty of what they call their political prisoners held in jails across france to proceed to some say. what happened in the election last december was an earthquake it wasn't just the usual renewal of they are simply the corsican people voted today an absolute in my you're ready for corsica nationality that's the fact there are thirty some parties have to think about you but the nationalists have already served notice on president macron warning him that unless he starts listening to them then hard and conflicting times lie ahead for paris and corsica corsica was the birthplace of napoleon the man macrorie is most often measured against in terms of his youth and grand visions the french president is due on the island next week will he choose a compromise will he defend the integrity of france and its language and david

joins us now live from a taxi oh so david three days ahead of president micron's visit one of the people behind you there demanding. well that will well. damping spirits behind me it is extraordinary that the the the atmosphere here is one that the nationalists wanted to show president mcgraw that corsica is a country a nation and the people and they must be listened to now that the ultra nationalists have a coalition that's an absolute has not to majority and of course birth family they say it's time paris most are this thing and one of their first demands is that the course good language should have an official status here on the island now that sounds like a simple enough request but under the constitution of the republic article two says there's only one language in the republic and that is french and they'll need three

first majority in the national assembly and then in the senate before that could pass so something. has a macro and we'll have to think hard about also the other demand of course in another very emotional demand is that over that forty years of the armed struggle to gain independence from france many people tens of thousands of incidents shootings arson attacks and bombings many people now are still in prisons across france and what they want to hear is for them to be amnesty and for those who still got some of their senses to serve they should be moved back on to the island of corsica another difficult question for president macro and perhaps the most controversial of all is that the people on this island they want new residency rules because they feel that too much of the island is being bought up by french border was rich in paris and elsewhere and these homes are just summer homes and

it's creating real pressure on the prices of houses for the ordinary people for all of the all of these amendments all of these changes will be very hard to press them across to actually implement but it will be very clear up. for him when he arrives next week to begin at least a dialogue to make sure that the threat of violence which you seen so clearly here in course fades forever from this political scene so david can we compare the situation there to what happened in catalonia or corsicans looking to looking for independence. i think you can but of course there are huge differences in catalonia they have a very powerful economy they also have a much better autonomy within the spanish constitution than than corsica does so yes it is a similar sort of feeling a similar sort of spirit but as far as this region is concerned it doesn't have the

economy doesn't have the strength it's in the shadows of france is a commie as the nationalists here say one in five people who live below the poverty line this is the one region of france which has the oldest population the young are moving in an exodus away from the islands trying to find jobs trying to find education and they're not returning so that means that any idea of full independence would be impossible for a full corsica and many of the latest polls show the majority of people don't want full independence although it still remains part of the national history in the extreme national history and they want more autonomy and they want more help for their economy which is just depended on tourism at the moment from the french state that is their most important tomorrow right david many thanks to david schaper live in a checks in corsica. we're going to weather update next i was there then argentina's

biodiesel industry in decline as it feels the impact of donald trump's america first policy plus. i'm wayne hay in the town of the one providing where we'll tell you about a chinese mega project that's causing through here that the lao government hopes will help open this landlocked country out. there is being quite. for some of us in the southeastern parts of china recently that cool weather though is beginning to lose its grip so fishing high then three degrees will be our maximum temperature on sunday but as we head into monday will get a bit higher up to around five degrees will also get a little bit warmer for us in hong kong some of this time at fourteen hanoi they're hovering at around seventeen out towards the west and there's plenty of dry fine

weather at the moment over many parts of india it's so cross sri lanka we've more in the way of trout and that's giving us some fairly heavy rains it has caused a few problems here looks like we'll see more wet weather as we head through the day on monday monday we'll also see more cloud over many other places as well look at all this gray weather across there many parts of it is not a great deal of wet weather around of this there just a little bit of snow around the foothills of the himalayas out towards the west and here in doha it's rather windy and it feels quite cold in the wind now fortunately the wind will ease as we head through the next few days so that will allow the temperatures to get a little bit higher so from about twenty two on sunday to about twenty three on monday but twenty three certainly feeling warm on monday thanks to less wind this area of cloud over a month is moving its way away so no problems for the south coast of oman for monday muscat at twenty three. what makes this movie this period we're living through so you need to know this is

really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion is that of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important we have a right to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoked or whatever it is people did setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera a confidential united nations report says that north korea heard around two hundred million dollars last year by violating u.n.

sanctions the report says that north korea supplied weapons to syria and me and mom and shipped coal to countries including russia and china. the head of the f.b.i. is urging stuff to keep calm and tackle hard following accusations of bias against the president the u.s. congress released a memo de classified by donald trump alleging abuse of power while investigating russian meddling in his election. live pictures from corsica nationalist demonstrators a rally there to call for more autonomy from mainland france it comes out of a visit by france's president emmanuel macro this week. russian warplanes have renewed airstrikes on rebel held areas of a province in syria at least seven people were killed when a car was his in aleppo the opposition and it lip of been bombarded for weeks now by syrian government forces the russian allies jets also targeted the rebel on clay the eastern good serbia the capital damascus government forces have seats the area

for five years four hundred thousand people trapped. well a bombing by russian jets in italy province is supporting a major offensive by syrian government forces aimed at recapturing a strategically important road between the cities of aleppo and damascus troops have been facing opposition groups for weeks now moving northwest trying to cause an awful rebel supply line the road between aleppo and damascus connects some of the few remaining opposition held areas of syria but at least two people have been killed nineteen others injured in attacks on turkish towns near the border with syria. says the rockets were fired from a kurdish enclave inside syria it's been more than two weeks of intense fighting in the area turkey launched an offensive to clear the region of syrian kurdish forces known as the y. p.g. which it says is a terrorist group and the free syrian army says that it will investigate

allegations that its fighters mutilated the corpse of a female member of the y.p. g. that include body is understood to have been a member of the all female kurdish women's protection unit video seen by al-jazeera appears to show free syrian army fighters standing over her body in a village near the turkish border more now from al-jazeera stephanie deca. turkey's been focusing on pushing the y. p.g. away from its border areas with footy and there's been heavy outgoing artillery not just now as you can hear but really throughout the two week period that this offensive is now carrying on its nor any easy flight the f.s.a. those the free syrian army fighters they've been pushing along these borders as well along with turkish soldiers they've taken some areas but there are still certainly pockets of why p.g. along these border areas and just briefly also particular when it comes to the civilians inside these areas we understand that from those villages most of them

have fled farther inside to syria to seek safety but very very difficult for them because no aid can get in to are freed and as you can hear along these villages along the border it is a very ongoing campaign a judge in brazil has ordered the return of former president lula da silva this passport was taken last week after a court upheld his conviction for corruption that increased his jail term to twelve years he's likely to be barred from running in october selection his party insists that he will be its candidate at emails popular in the country u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is heading to watch and tina on the next leg of his five nation tour of latin america on friday he met mexico's president in an effort to ease worries of a president donald trump's comments on immigration and trade to listeners using his tool to soothe relations between the u.s. and its allies he's also looking to drum up support for washington's tough stance on the government of venezuela's president nicolas maduro. well the u.s.

decision to impose a seventy two percent tariff on imports of biofuels is causing argentina's once booming industry to suffer serious to risible reports now from rezai zero on the arjun tides who say they're victims of donald trump's america first policy. six years ago this factory was producing sixteen thousand tonnes of bio diesel fuel a month now it's down to about six thousand and. the industry won't grow there's no investment it worries us that the united states will stop importing or bio diesel the interest it was created to export not only to fulfill internal needs. some say factories located in the province of santa fe argentina's first victims of donald trump's america first approach to foreign trade the u.s. announced a seventy two percent tariff on imports of its biodiesel american officials accuse

argentina of fairly subsidizing the country's biodiesel industry at the expense of u.s. producers. the decision is arbitrary unjustified and illegal they discarded all the arguments presented by argentina argentina has an export tax on the story of being in a different one for bio diesel it is not a subsidy this is one of mr trump's protectionist policies. almost ninety percent of argentina's biodiesel is directed to the united states cutting that flow has impacted almost thirty companies here and jobs at risk argentina is one of the world's top soybean producers and biodiesel here is also produced with this crop it is a crucial source of income for argentina because it provides the u.s. dollars kaname desperately needs dollars that help keep the trade balance in check since taking office president has been trying to open up argentina's economy in the

not that argentina is trying to open its economy in bio diesel is one of the products that exports the most by losing its main means we will have to look elsewhere argentina cannot afford to lose markets if it wants to get its economy back on track environmentalist have long questioned the cost of argentina's reliance on the. entire areas of the country's forest have been destroyed to grow what is known here as green gold experts say bio diesel is different in. the united states and europe request a sustainability test so that the story of being used for bio diesel can be checked argentina has been certified and credited for this. argentina says it will file a complaint against the united states at the world trade organization in the meantime factories here will have to find new overseas markets either there to save the industry and precious jobs or. argentina. a

worldwide push to ensure that all children receive basic education has been given a boost by an international conference in senegal doctors donors rather pledged more than two billion dollars over the next three years towards efforts to get primary school aged children into the classroom the un a set a goal of having all children in full time education by the year twenty thirty the world bank estimates that two hundred sixty million kids are not going to school well in kenya teachers are getting a new curriculum for the first time in thirty two years but critics there say the government also needs to build more schools buy more books and employ more teachers catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. there's a new way of teaching in this public school classroom. class to children on the outskirts of the capital are part of a pilot program for the new curriculum to be rolled out next year it will cost is

more in life skills technology nattering talent and less on final exams many parents and teachers say it's a welcome change from the old one called eight for four but also ambitious and expensive for its not to feel the government a need to consult even the donors because as you have seen. the. lancets and this in with it for four started with the horrors of a good system because we had walked ships students who had to be trained on home science on things that they can do with their own hands of any difficulty because of lack of funds primary and secondary education in public schools is free but they are crowded and there's not enough teachers or books so many parents who cannot find space in government schools or afford expensive private ones bring their children to even more crowded cheap community schools like this one in one of nairobi slums rescale or oh it is. because this. whatever we get to be

our school fees is not enough to cut off for the teachers and maybe i would say we begin by telling them that we only talk in here. that is just about a hundred and fifty dollars a month at the highest the teachers here are more fortunate than in their the schools which pay much less for more work this is one of the men with the need to do. more i think in the face of them to decide to leave the room. with them. right so they. expand. this direct of a child education rights group shows us findings of research done middle school pupils in dozens of government schools nationwide were tested on literacy and comprehension most well below average. where you have maybe fifty children twenty of them. there are many thirty not

so you keep getting the twenty every day you're moving one room and twenty there i guess there's going to be. there left way behind them. and there is a problem. back at work when your primary students prepare for their final exam at the end of this. their teacher they're all trying their best with a little katherine sorry al-jazeera narrow became your. last is investing billions of dollars on a high speed rail line that's being built by a chinese company it'll run from you not in southern china the laotian capital before eventually connecting with another line being built in thailand in the third of our reports on global trade routes where the hay reports from. these normally quiet previously untouched hills of northern laos and they are filled with the

sights and sounds of heavy construction around the turn of the one problem rapid progress is being made on a chinese built high speed train line it will cut through here and cross the mekong river on its way from southern china to the lao capital vienna. the communist government of law says it wants the landlocked country to become land linking beijing sees this project as a key part of its belt and road infrastructure plan linking china with the rest of asia europe and beyond when this line is completed it will run for more than four hundred kilometers more than sixty percent of which will consist of bridges and tunnels that makes it a very expensive project one that some say laos can't afford experts worry it will add to the government's already heavy debt loads the cost of the project is six billion dollars with most of the money coming from chinese grants and loans this is significant because. it is only. for been

period for close to fifty percent of g.d.p. in this project we would be in five years time so that in we can expect. of public investment just for this process. one of the stops will be just outside long providing which is a unesco listed talent for its unique lao and french architecture there is concern the new project will attract too many tourists putting a strain on the town's facilities and infrastructure. that many people and small businesses here survive off the tourism industry so the prospect of more visitors pending money is welcomed. about three years ago there were more tourists but now there aren't as many so we are earning less money so we're looking forward to the trade. happening. some studies have found that china will

receive most of the economic benefits from the large project it's involved in around the region laos is one of asia's poorest countries so when the railway is finished by late two thousand and twenty one it will be hoping its big investment will start paying off straight away wayne hay al jazeera long laos and in our final report on global trade routes will take a look at the planned trans african railway line which is going to connect west africa with the east and you can see that throughout the day on sunday here on al-jazeera archaeologists in egypt of announced the discovery of an ancient too near the pyramids of giza they say the four thousand year old vault was made for his he bet a prominent priestess who lived during ancients agent egypt's fifth dinnis. it is good to have you with us adrian for the get here in doha the top stories this

hour a confidential united nations report says that north korea has two hundred million dollars last year by violating u.n. sanctions the report says north korea supplied weapons to syria and beer and shipped coal to countries including russia and china the head of the f.b.i. is urging staff to keep calm and tackle hard following accusations of bias against the president the u.s. congress released a memo declassified by donald trump alleging abuse of power while investigating russian meddling in his election a drive by shooting in italy has injured six african migrants one is in a critically one is critically wounded in hospital a suspect gave a fascist salute as police detained him in the central city of mosul out of. nationalist demonstrators in corsica are calling for more autonomy from france president evo macron is to use a visit the mediterranean island next week the nationalist coalition controls corsica after winning regional elections there in december david chaytor reports from objects. the atmosphere here is one that the nationalists wanted to show

president mike wrong that corsica is a country a nation and a people and they must be listened to now that the ultra nationalists have a coalition that in absolute has nothing majority in the course of the assembly they say it's time parents must start listening on the one of their first demand is that the court's going language should have an official status here on the island at least two people have been killed nineteen others injured in attacks on turkish towns near the border with syria turkey says the rockets were fired from a kurdish enclave inside syria it's been more than two weeks of intense fighting in the area the judge in brazil has ordered the return of former president lula da silva us passport it was taken last week after a court upheld his conviction for corruption that increased his jail term to twelve years he's likely to be barred from running in october this election but his party insists that he will be its candidates but he remains popular in brazil has come

out with a nice grid on al-jazeera a little over twenty five but it's right off the up front next. but the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera it's one of the places on earth but just how democratic is the democratic republic of congo given its president was supposed to have left office back in twenty sixteen the country's controversial minister of communications and will also debate the future of germany's angela merkel.