looking leyland years ago i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards facing realities growing up went to do you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activist in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. be a mass president a close confident and political ally of uncertain suchi abruptly steps down.

close to watching all just their arms the whole robin coming up in the next thirty minutes a three way summit south korea's president suggests a joint meeting may be possible with the u.s. and north korea. also saudi arabia's crown prince and donald trump discussed a long delayed arms deal during a meeting at the white house. i'm standing by eyeball in french from london outside the offices of cambridge a company that's in the eye of the storm on the later dates of which scandal. welcome to the program be about as the sun suchi is without her right hand after the abrupt resignation of the country's president in a statement on facebook president to shore said he wanted to take rest from his current duty his role is largely ceremonial but he is a close confidant of his political aisle. suchi the country's

a vice president is expected to fill the void until a new president is selected from a slew is our correspondent followed me and mark very closely joins us now from kuala lumpur is a significant move really in sort of the political dynamics of what's happening in may in bar but how significant is his resignation. well the occupiers as you said a largely ceremonial role that's significant in itself because presidents in myanmar are not supposed to have a ceremonial role but tin chore was really just a figurehead and this is because aung san suu kyi in two thousand and fifteen when her party the national league of democracy won the elections by a landslide and she had campaigned on the grounds that she was going to run the country of her party won but she's barred from becoming president under the military draft constitution because she's a foreign because she's got a foreign spouse and children were foreign citizenship so what she did instead was to create a role called the state counselor which is more powerful than the president and she

made the president a launch the ceremonial role so he really had no hand in running the country and she had always made it very clear right from the start that she will run the country now his resignation the timing comes at a time when myanmar is under a lot of a lot of pressure pressure from the international community it's under heavy criticism for its handling of the crisis the exit this of rangers civilians nearly three quarters of a million who fled into neighboring bangladesh since august two thousand and seventeen because of what the u.n. calls a textbook example of ethnic cleansing and it's been suggested that perhaps he has ruffled some feathers in the military because in a speech on independence day in january of this year he called for constitutional reform of the military draft a constitution having said that however constitutional reform is something that the

national league for democracy the party led by also an suchi has talked about for many years now it has been put on the backburner for a while but it is something that that the the ruling party has no has made no secret of. it has to be said that tin shore has been suffering from ill health for a couple of months now it's no. secret that he does seek medical treatment abroad from time to time there's been times when there have been times when his seeking of medical treatment prevented him from carrying out his state of head duties so the timing in essence isn't largely unexpected because we know he's been ill for quite some time so very briefly close what's the timeline now in terms of the process to find a new replacement well according to the government if they were all perked up a name for replacement within the next seven weeks and the process is that now and

the president the vice president and the one and this is the military appointed vice president has stepped up as acting president but he will only be in that role until parliament chooses a successor to the president and this is expected to take place within a week now there's already speculation that aung san suu kyi has chosen a name the name will be put forward and then parliament vote on that name she is of course very likely to pick someone else who is just as loyal to her as tin chore is that's not surprising because we already know that she is going to pick someone who will listen to her and who understands that this role is largely ceremonial while she continues the day to day running off young man we'll leave it there for now flows come back to other situations all its fronts lou there in kuala lumpur let's bring you some news coming out of kabul at the moment as you can see these are live pictures of security forces that seem to be surrounding the university building an explosion has been heard in the earth capital now that blast took place as we say

near the university in the carter chart area that's in the west of the city. those are the scenes out of the afghan capital at the moment of course we'll bring you more on that story as we get. the president of south korea has hinted at the possibility of a meeting between both careers and the u.s. is expected to meet north korean leader kim jong il next month to discuss pyongyang's nuclear missile program and separately u.s. president all trump has said he'll hold talks with kim by may. on your dime or your so your a north korea u.s. summit would be a historic event in itself fallen into korean summit depending on the location it could be even more dramatic and depending on progress it may lead to a three way summit between the self north and the united states kathy novak has

more now from seoul. it's been about a two weeks since the us president donald trump said he would be willing to meet with the leader of north korea kim jong un and for the first time north korean state news media has referred to a sign of change in u.s. north korean relations and the article in the state news agency case c.n.a. did not mention directly the possibility of meetings between kim jong un and either south korean president monday and or donald trump but it did talk about this shift in the atmosphere and credited what it said was north korea's proactive measures the art article said that it was not because of a campaign of sanctions and pressure led by the united states that brought about the possibility of this meeting while here in south korea there is an atmosphere of cautious optimism in the lead up to the planned summit between the president leading in and kim jong un president moon spoke to a meeting of the preparatory committee today and said that there is

a possibility of a sri way summit between the united states north korea and south korea if the two other meetings go well he also laid out some of his goals for his meeting with kim jong un including of course denuclearization on the korean peninsula as well as peace but he also brought up the possibility of the normalization of relations between the united states and north korea which is interesting because of course there have been no diplomatic relations between those two countries and president moon also suggested there could be more economic cooperation between not only north and south korea but north korea south korea and the united states. now in syria at least sixty civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern guta they died in attacks by the syrian military and its allies another thirty five were killed in a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market in government controlled damascus now it happened in the school area close to the front line in the fighting between government and rebel forces our

correspondent saying that holder joins me now from beirut in neighboring lebanon to say it's quiet in syria is not a word we often use a jury in this conflict over the past eight years saying there but there is a reason in some parts today. yes relative call what we understand is that there is some sort of a deal between one of the rebel factions and the russian military there are three main rebel factions in eastern. one of them controls now that is the pocket in the west of the enclave the enclave has now been divided into three pockets which are besieged and surrounded by syrian government forces so these reports reaching a deal with the russian military it involves laying down their arms agreeing to go to other rebel controlled territories in the north clearly a surrender but there has been no official announcement as of yet we are expecting

an announcement that there is a cease fire and then we're going to see civilians who are wounded or sick evacuated and then those green buses arriving at you know taking the rebels to the north of the country now this is going to put a lot of pressure on the other the two other rebel factions one of them. was involved in talks with the russian military and those talks collapsed yesterday and that is why we saw this renewed escalation heavy heavy airstrikes targeting the area which controls with the syrian military source saying we're going to step up this military campaign in order for the rebels to surrender so reports of a possible surrender from one of the pockets in eastern of course told to you surrender doesn't mean much for those people who are trying to find an escape route i mean. who was trying to find a way out. well there are humanitarian corridors that the russian military designate in the past few weeks according to the united nations forty five thousand people use those core doors to leave to move into government controlled territories

thousands of other people just found themselves in government controlled territories as frontlines were shifting but there are a lot of people who will not use these humanitarian corridors because they are afraid they fear arrest they fear that if they're to. by the government they will be forced to join the army especially the young men and that is why people inside are demanding safe passage passage that is monitored by the united nations international monitors there are a lot of people who are still trapped and in the besieged areas who are wanted by the government simply because they belong to the opposition media activists as well as civil defense volunteers are these people have been sending open letters to the united nations demanding safe passage but as of yet there is no humanitarian corridor that is monitored by international observers for the moment so they will leave it there come back to you as that situation develops in a hotel there in beirut israeli military censors have lifted a decade old order that had barred it from discussing its bombing of a suspected nuclear reactor in the south of syria in two thousand and seven but

israel announced the bombing after it released declassified videos said to show the moment it destroyed the coober the silicon. it's intelligence minister says the bomb was a message to iran that israel would not allow it to obtain nuclear weaponry. saudi crown prince mohammed bin sole man has met the u.s. president at the white house with donald trump using the encounter for an unusual photo opportunity he displayed large cards to illustrate the benefits of arms being sold to riyadh but rights groups say those sales shouldn't be made to saudi arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against the who thing rebels ellen fisher reports now from washington d.c. . it was a looky arrival for such a high profile visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon found himself in the oval office and the u.s. president donald trump addressing merely a domestic audience took the opportunity to outline the financial importance of the

soda to lucian ship some of the things that have been approved and are currently under construction and will be delivered. so the review very soon this is mohammed bin soundman second visit to the white house in a year and he was keen to point out this was the continuation of an old alliance the oldest ally first of america in the middle east right now more than eighty years but there was a warning from the president to saudi arabia and others in the region whether it's on arabia or other countries as we know there will be no funding it is we have a zero tolerance for the funding of terrorists among the things to be covered in the talks the iran nuclear deal security across the middle east. and the war in yemen which was also being discussed across time with some u.s. senators expressing concern about america's continued support of the saudi led operation in the country u.s. forces have been actively engaged in support of the saudi coalition in this war

providing intelligence an aerial refueling of planes whose bombs have killed thousands of people and made this humanitarian crisis far worse crime princes visit here to the white house marks the start of a three week trip to the united states he'll meet business leaders oil executives academics representatives from silicon valley's high tech companies and the movie industry all in good reshaping his kingdom's image here in the united states but one analyst says there are bigger issues to deal with closer to home for saudi arabia of course saudi arabia has transformed itself as a from a status quo power to it but to an activist party in the region which has put it directly at a coalition course with iran and this sets the stage for a very dangerous and unpredictable environment there was no mention of the ongoing gulf crisis in the oval office a saudi led treated bargo against qatar has no been in place for ten months and donald trump has moved away from his offer to host talks for everyone at camp david

mohammed bin salman has a long list of things to be discussed debated and agree during this u.s. trip and he does so believe in his with relationship. the president is deep strong and mutually beneficial alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house well still ahead here on al-jazeera police in texas believe they're looking for a serial bomber after another package explodes at a fed ex building. from cool brisk nose and fuel it's. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now spring may have started officially but it's still looking pretty snowy in parts of europe the shots come from around berlin in germany there's still plenty of cold air in evidence indeed still plenty of weather systems in evidence we look at the satellite imagery this

one coming up from the south is giving attention to some really heavy snow and some strong winds too certainly across croatia and these twenty four hours you could be seeing wind gust from the bora of between seventy five or one hundred fifty kilometers per hour further towards the east we've got heavy snowfall across romania in particular pushing on towards moldova further snow across russia as you can see and then us move the forecast through into service day this southeastern areas where we will see some research here weather conditions snow further towards the north and berlin may get another taste the white stuff during the course of thursday milder conditions further west with double figures expected in london into north africa you see along the coast is pretty chilly winds coming from the north just ten degrees in all cheers unfortunately only up to fourteen degrees to get further towards the east mine and that's the desert flows so we're looking at highs of thirty six in car central parts of africa plenty of showers here now as you would expect to malays see some showers affecting lagos in nigeria there with

sponsored by qatar. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one can use or if you join a sunset there are people there are choosing between buying medication. this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on how does iraq. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm so her rob

a reminder of our top news stories president ensure has announced that he's stepping down in a statement on facebook george said he wanted to take a rest from his work rumors of his poor health or been circulating for months short of office in twenty sixty nine is a close friend of the leader and sang suchi. at least sixty civilians have been killed in syrian regime as strikes in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern cooter another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market in government controlled damascus. and users coming out of afghanistan that at least two people have been killed an explosion in the afghan capital kabul local media report the blast took place very close to kabul university in the garters char area these are live pictures coming out of afghanistan and that is in the west of the city will bring you more on that as we get it let's also bring you news now that we're hearing as many as one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted in

northeastern nigeria last month have been returned to witnesses say the girls were returned by people they thought were members of the armed group boko haram our correspondent evan dress is live for us on the phone from the eastern city of yala in the area. please tell us what you think has happened because we've always heard of reports of girls being returned how much trust can we place in this statement from the all for a tease. well basically he tried contacting the authorities to speak on this matter all they can say is i can i will call you back and which hasn't happened yet however i spoke to a father whose child was abducted when this incident happened that he confirmed to me that yes he spoke to us this morning and that people was calling from

his well that they can see the goals what is not certain at the moment is the to cooperate whether it's book water that's returned this goes over whether there is an intermediary or it would because the work of nigerian security services but he wants to more than. each point scorched probably the ball quite arm because from the evidence is from the. statements we hear from people around that area is that these girls are returned not by security forces but probably by i think a media responsible fighters a broken arm however some people of course to the ability of book want to expose themselves and bring back these guns into a community we could now lead to and i leave it right after the abduction of the ghost so that's what we're hearing yes we haven't confirmed but some of that which is something which on while they're waiting for news on the confirmation obviously

it is encouraging news even if some of them have been returned back but there are still as many go still abducted of course we can go back to those girls from chibok in twenty four team many of those still missing. absolutely. about two hundred of them must be missing and this is a question that poo poo one of the. things to the rest of the goals what happened to the rest of the people and double quote i'm skeptical he said well some of these incidents happen while the one monkey ball however they are trying old me can't remember there is this mythical species that would use up. more than one hundred goes like no one taken from chibok but he said of the crisis was. long and that's the reason why if you call to bring all of them at the same time but the government is trying to negotiate the return of all people abducted by boko haram

a lot of nigerians are questioning the methods of negotiating a book while i'm believing that they will return and take the girl isn't going to happen the deputy's purely a cycle of violence the ending of kidnappings and abductions the movies get in other parts of the country well we shall see what does happen then we'll come back to us and when we get more updates in the moment to edit interest in the yellow thank you. northeast bosses are coming under mounting pressure from politicians in the u.s. and europe to answer questions over a major data breach the company at the center of it all cambridge analytical is accused of gaining an authorized access to fifty million facebook users cambridge analytic it is political consultancy based in london but morality and it's worked on political campaigns in the u.s. u.k. kenya on social media campaigns to discredit cattle in the gulf crisis its chief executive alexander nix has been suspended he's been secretly recorded boasting

about the company's ability to sway elections investigations have been opened into facebook and cambridge and a little in the u.s. and the u.k. and facebook representatives are expected to brief u.s. senate and white house aides on wednesday so we're going to go reports. a virtual world with a very real money making data trail users of social media platforms unaware how profitable the information they have is for those willing to access it the scandal involving facebook may make many of us reconsider that. cambridge analytic is accused of misusing the data of millions of facebook users we've had quite a few with a whistleblower who worked for the british based data mining firm says the information was used to build a system which may have influenced voters in the u.s. presidential election as well as all the votes and how a company even had dealings with russian interests we made it pretty damn clear

through a lot of people in russia that we had this giant. and that it was all sort of prepackaged with you know predictions about what's going to influence people and their political you know orientation. and that that can like plug right into you know like online display networks and advertising networks. and and that that data was being modeled by somebody who was also working in russia on russian projects that were very similar to some politicians the advantage of using information harvested from social media be used as a try and get into the minds of potential voters but there's been little questioning of the consequences which is now why the information commissioner wants that search warrant to get into the opera. and to get an audit of.

the details of millions of facebook users were reportedly gathered by a university professor using a personality testing out he created called this is your digital life well uses gave that information to be used by him it's alleged the data was then sold to a third party cambridge i listen in via. nation of facebook's own policies but cambridge analytic denies doing anything wrong and says it deleted all records when it discovered how the data had been attained from facebook not only is britain's data protection watchdog after proof the data was wiped facebook says it wants that proof to the social media giant has since hired a digital forensics to find out how the data was leaked and assurances but it was destroyed but its response may have come too late facebook share price fell almost seven percent wiping nearly forty billion dollars of its value the company's chief of security alex thomas is reportedly to leave because of internal disagreements of

how facebook should deal with its role in spreading disinformation politicians in britain and the u.s. are now pushing for facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg to appear before them to answer questions of a massive data breach meanwhile the accusations against cambridge analytic are rapidly growing since. an undercover investigation by britain's channel four secretly taped a cambridge analytical executive appearing to boast about the firm's ability to sway elections by entrapping politicians in compromising situations. and conducting fake news campaigns something facebook's accused of enabling and failing to tackle effectively sunny day ago our jazeera london. head to the u.s. now or a bomb containing a package exploded at a fed ex building near the u.s. city of san antonio on tuesday now the latest in

a series of five attacks in the state of texas police say they've identified several people of interest but no suspects two hundred has the story. police in texas say they are hunting for a serial bomber we are working under the belief that this is related to the other bombing incidents that have occurred in our community over the past week and a half package bombs in the state capital austin killed two people injured four others people are scared you will be too. you know random packages explosives people dying for no reason i'd be scared to on tuesday a fifth package exploded at a courier distribution center in the city of shirts near san antonio police say the eventual destination of that package was an address in austin and would have come here next brian himes in sixty other employees of a courier company were evacuated after another suspicious package was found here it gives me. that packet in soon as i set it down and explode then i go in sort of the

truck goes and then that truck is full of the other drugs the gas and diesel and the whole fedex the senate is all destroyed and everybody strapped in there you scared now not scared the fed explosion was the fifth in a series apparently detonating early the first three packages were left on doorsteps like deliveries then the pattern went from specific to random a fourth bomb on sunday injured two pedestrians who stepped on a roadside tripwire you can hear the blast in this surveillance video. not since the attacks by so-called unabomber ted kaczynski in one nine hundred ninety five police faced a bombing spree like it the bombers progressing he's feeling extremely powerful now he's got the city yardage and he's reveling in the fear that he's producing five hundred federal state and local law enforcement officers are trying to find the bomber the triggers on the bombs are sophisticated but police say there is no set pattern to them now they're asking everyone in this city of one million to consider

every package suspicious until they find the bomber and stop the explosions police addressed the bomber directly we want to understand what brought you to this point and we want to listen to you a plea for the start to talks in an end to the bombings john hendren al-jazeera austin texas while staying in the country a police officer in the u.s. state of minnesota has been charged with the shooting an unarmed australian woman last july mohammed shot forty year old justin demond while responding to a nine one one call about a possible sexual assault near her house prosecutors say he abused his authority to use deadly force. in the short time between when ms damon approached the squad car and the time that officer noor fired the fatal shot there is no evidence there are certain nur encountered a threat appreciated a threat investigated

a threat or confirmed a threat that justified his decision to use deadly force instead officer nur recklessly and intentionally fired a stand gun from the passenger seat in disregard for human life france's former president nicolas sarkozy has arrived at the investigator's office for a second day of questioning over allegations his two thousand and seven election campaign was illegally financed police are looking into claims that the he or that the libyan leader at the time mama daffy gave sarkozy as much as sixty million dollars when he was running for office sarkozy has denied any wrongdoing. you're watching out of their homes the whole robin these are all top news stories reuters is reporting the deputy interior ministry spokesman says that at least

twenty six people are being killed an explosion in the afghan capital kabul local media are reporting the blast took place near kabul university in the carter char area in the west of the city. we're also hearing that one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted in northeastern nigeria last month have been returned to witnesses say the girls were returned by people they thought were members of the armed group baka harrar the kidnapping in the patchy has revived memories of the twenty fourteen abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls from chibok. also president tin shore has announced that he's stepping down in a statement on facebook also he wanted to take a rest from his work rumors of his poor health have been circulating for months not sure took office in twenty sixteen and is a close friend of the leader and son suchi. the president of south korea has hinted at the possibility of a meeting between both careers and the u.s.

is expected to meet north korean leader kim jong un next month to discuss pyongyang's nuclear missile program separately the us president told trump or said that he'll meet kim by the month of may. you're dumber you are so you're a north korea u.s. summit would be historic event in itself fallen into korean summit depending on the location it could be even more dramatic and depending on progress it may lead to a three way summit between the self north and the united states in syria at least sixty civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern guta they were killed in attacks by the syrian military and its allies another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market in government controlled damascus and israeli military censors have lifted a decade old order that had barred from discussing its bombing of a suspected nuclear reactor in the south of syria in two thousand and seven that israel announced the bombing after its release to declassified videos said to show

the moment it destroyed the al khobar facility the. those were the headlines and back with more news in thirty minutes next hour al-jazeera is the stream to stay with us. just. saying. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for our own in the media listening to at this time on al jazeera. hi emily could be your in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today what does the future hold for ethnic russian non-citizens in the baltic states amid tensions with moscow. the presidents of its stony alot spea and lithuania.