winning the win of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is going to win saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the polling the media opinion the listening post but based on al-jazeera the strength of al jazeera is that because we have such a expansive network people would come to watch and actually share the information with the al-jazeera team into their. peru's president has resigned hours before congress was set to impeach him over corruption allegations.

and more in taylor this is al jazeera live from london also coming up pressure mounts on facebook as a former employee tells members of the u.k. parliament the company had a wild west attitude to protect users data. releases more than a hundred girls kidnapped last month from a school in nigeria. the suspect in a string of bombings in texas lose himself up as police move in to arrest him. and i peruse president. has just presented his resignation to congress will make his had been expected to vote on thursday on whether to oust ski over corruption allegations several of his allies were filmed allegedly trying to gain the support of a lawmaker so that he would block the leaders impeachment

a war this summer and assumptions joins us on the phone from lima so was it a surprise that he resigned in the end. well lauren it's not really a surprise because the president has been in this political crisis and for for mars now and he was about to go to congress tomorrow first face to face i mean peach spent the process of having links with all the rich receive in construction company that made the largest corruption case in the history of love to the american the recent future if not then there are a couple. just what do you do hours before a down that's happened some videos surface of the press event our wives are mainly came before him already the fun of on there but if you morty who was admittedly ligo clinton votes with congress men so they would save people looking the president say well this was

a tough call. debacle hearing through not only among the homeless men who are wanted to talk a famous clock out with them among members of his own party who said this was unacceptable and that his was a quite a let's get to that that they would even both the table of peach it would be impeachment impeachment off there are looking to folks have a gauge you see resignation. is childish with the facial leather this morning in the media i'm in merging key cabinet meetings and this automation that i will go to congress for congressmen as a part of if you protest to a debate whether they accept or not a huge which is nation in terms of what happens next that is what the big criminal proceedings alone. yesterday this is this is there is something that is frankly a lot under debate is a constitutional lawyer say that is a president who wants

a new piece for people to permit to get five years after to use the presidency it was only. probably missy for quine's committed your when she's president she finds a the allegations that casey committed crimes during. when he was a fine one to minister more than a decade ago happened way before he fights against you so constitutional lawyers say that he could be taken to trial very soon and that he does not have a military for the job so we could see the president is a former president there are probably two feet of very soon facing a judge if you get to marry an essential thank you very much indeed. most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted a month ago in northeast nigeria have been reunited with their families one hundred one girls were released to their hometown of by boko haram fighters handful are still missing nigerian government says it agreed a temporary poor's in fighting with the group to secure their release asylum in

debate is the latest. it's difficult to hold back their tears after what these girls have been through these are some of the hundred in ten children who were kidnapped last month boko haram fighters took them from their school inductee town in northeastern nigeria the girls say five of their fellow students died. when they took us from the school we've been sitting thinking about what we might eat then we heard a gunshot everybody was confused they asked us to come to the school gate we were in the area they picked us into the vehicle and asked who were the people fasting that then gave us a drink so cake this was on the way after when they took us food there under a tree and gave us food to cook we cooked and asian proceeded further we continued going we entered one river then we boarded a canoe and crossed the river into a village they took us away from the village in the night we boarded another canoe to another place and remained in their place until today when they brought us back

we didn't go to any other places they didn't mistreat us the dust in the distance are the vehicles which dropped off the children parents and relatives have been anxiously waiting for reeks to find out what happened to their children. i saw with my own eyes live a book of her own vehicles they were with the children they drop the children at one corner they told us to give space for people to recognize their children and i got my child. it's a government really clear that it would negotiate with the kidnappers rather than use military force would not use any rules of competition i don't forget the last of the children are much more important to us than you know you can get there's an even silence at the girls' school and men dressed in military fatigues entered the school and took the girls away in their truck. this isn't the first

time school girls have been abducted there was an international outcry in two thousand and fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from she broke many have still not been found nigerian forces have not declared the details of the deal under which these latest girls were released. just a theory and its allies have been fighting boko haram in the lake chad region for years but brazen kidnapping and drop off of victims indicates that the group is far from being defeated solomon job aid are there. pressure continues to grow on facebook over revelations that personal data from the social media site was misused by a u.k. analytics company facebook shares have rallied slightly of a volatile few days which cost it fifty billion dollars in market value but a us president is saying it and the u.k. for cambridge analytical for obtaining data without their uses permission well could be the first of many nor suit our correspondent mike hanna is in washington

for so why what concerns are there in the u.s. over this. well massive concerns not only with facebook but of course that company rich analytical which used data it had harvested from facebook allegedly to influence the twenty sixteen election well a senate committee on intelligence has been looking at election security in the course of the day but other lawmakers as well are demanding that facebook give some reasons for its actions explain how the stater got to be misused by an analytical company there is talk now of a judiciary commission being established that the facebook founder mark zuckerberg must give evidence before such a committee so certainly pressure is mounting on facebook both suck a bird and his chief operating officer sheriff samberg have been silent since the scandal erupted even tuesday during an internal facebook meeting we understand they

did not attend that either that was addressed by senior legal executives so pressure mounting on facebook from lawmakers and indeed also from those who were once a faithful facebook user the hash track delete of facebook is trending on social media in the u.s. and certainly the company facing a lot of pressure both from lawmakers and from the public and in terms of the kind of public reaction are people wanting to leave facebook as a result of these kind of stories and other. issues to do with social media and the privacy settings on then. yes it is on many levels the law makers in particular are looking at the impact that the data had on election results on election processes but you also have the wired public who are concerned about their private data being given willy nilly it would appear to outside companies the trust that they felt or

may have felt in the social media body such as facebook continuously eroded by this type of event you have for example as well the founder of the what sepp company who in fact sold that to facebook a while back he is now part of the movement to delete facebook so certainly there are layers upon layers of resistance to facebook both among the public and as i said among lawmakers in washington mike hanna thank you very much in the u.k. opposition party said they were concerned cambridge anaemic ticker had struck deals with the ruling conservative party and the mother has more from outside the company's headquarters in london. well here in london we've heard precious little from cambridge analytical since tuesday when they said they were suspending chief executive alexander nix following the airing on britain's channel four news of undercover filming of nixon colleagues claiming that they'd influence elections in

various countries well on wednesday there were accusations in parliament by opposition parties. that term senior figures in cambridge analytical parent company had given major amounts to the conservative party of prime minister to resume eight those were concerns that reason may be responded to directly as far as i'm aware the government has no current contracts with cambridge and in this account with the with the s.c.l. group what we have seen in cambridge on alyssa car and the allegations are clearly very concerning as is absolutely right that they should be properly investigated it's right that the information commissioner is doing exactly that because people need to have confidence in how their personal data is being used and i would expect facebook cambridge analytical and organizations involved to comply fully with the

investigation that's taking place now britain's information commissioner has actually applied for a warrant to get into cambridge analytical headquarters here and to start a data audit now that's something that has already taken a couple of days facebook representatives reportedly got into the building on monday evening and then were told to leave lots of lots of expectation about what the information commissioner might be looking for people are raising an eyebrow at how long it's taken to get access but of course cambridge analytical say they've done nothing wrong facebook say they've done nothing wrong but a parliamentary committee on wednesday heard from. a former. officer at facebook who said that he'd warned facebook years ago that. attitude towards data protection could lead to a major breach and that the company really took very little action so more and more

pressure piling on both of those companies still ahead on the program. at least thirty three people in. the persian new year. free trade deal can't work without the. honorees. hell i was just as cold as it was in northern europe there is still cloud coming down from the north which you'd expect to be particularly cold but this is actually on a warm front now is producing some snow is cold enough not in northern germany i think in poland in the next day or so but the real actions down here this is the remains surprisingly of the last siberian prosecute move away from student across the british isles and down through space which is now enjoying the sunshine but is that

because of the contrast in thames has become a reactive system the borers been going down through crozier over one hundred twenty kilometers per hour in snow still falling it will fall i think for the next thirty six hours or thereabouts possibly longer than that so the balkan nations dried out three remaining towards something you create anything up to sixty centimeters maybe a metre emplacement is huge amount of snow for this time of the year and it's adding to the danger of later flooding is already flooding on the ground in croatia serbia and albania well that's not going to help in the least is it still fighting further west and if i think warming up it's no good rate at least coming into spain to cover the existing snow on the ground that if you've been in algeria the last two days should be set up by now and ten degrees doesn't help you told thursday but i can promise you better weather on friday is warm and sunny. another day another explosion. from one of the thousands of

i.e.d. strewn through the landscape of this lawless tribal region in pakistan with only the most basic equipment a phyllis bomb disposal unit are determined to counter the horrors of a relentless taliban onslaught. armed with faith but witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. going on one of the top stories on our. president. has presented his resignation to congress after coming under pressure to step down over corruption allegations. most

of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted in northeastern nigeria last month have been reunited with their families the girls were returned to their hometown by what appeared to be a convoy of boko haram fighters. and facebook and the british consulting firm are being sued in the u.s. for obtaining the personal data of fifty million social media users without permission. at least twenty two people most of them children have been killed by russian air strike in syria is in a province the white helmet say the children died while leaving a school in village for the south and east in ghouta a syrian rebel group has struck a deal with the government to evacuate the town of her us to nearly two thousand people have died in the besieged jane clave since the government intensified its attacks a month ago so has more from beirut. one of the rebel factions in eastern a good hour has decided to surrender out of a sham they control the town of house the eastern huta this besieged enclave of

eastern widows now divided into three pockets three pockets that are surrounded by pro-government forces now one of those pockets. pro syria government media reporting that up to one thousand five hundred fighters and six thousand members of their families will be leaving early thursday they will be bussed to the north western province of idlib which is under the control of the opposition this will be the first deal of its kind in eastern huta because there are two other rebel factions list them and find that they recommend they have also been involved in negotiations with the russian military but so far those the negotiations did not make any progress but undoubtedly the decision by the to sham to lay down its arms will pile more pressure on these two other rebel factions now the pro-government alliances military campaign has entered its second month really relentless bombardment that put a lot of pressure not just on the rebels but the thousands and thousands of people who are trapped inside according to the united nations hundreds of thousands remain

in these rebel controlled besieged pockets of territory and that the situation is catastrophic many of them want to leave but they are requesting safe passage what they mean by safe passage is that these humanitarian corridor should be monitored by international observers they're too scared to cross into government controlled territory in fear of arrest and even some will tell you we could be executed simply because we belong to the execution so one rebel faction surrendering the pro-government alliance making this clear in its actions and its in its words really since the start of this campaign that they will not stop until the rebel factions lay down their arms and any agreement short of that will not end the military onslaught. israeli military has confirmed for the first time that it a suspected nuclear reactor in syria eleven years ago its release previously classified video of the attack in two halves of the seven israel's intelligence minister says the video should warn iran against developing nuclear weapons or

a force reports western. it's hardly a secret that israel destroyed what is intelligence services said was a syrian nuclear reactor almost eleven years ago but now it's officially acknowledging that fact and detailing the operation for the first time israel's military on wednesday released cockpit videos of the airstrike in the early hours of september the sixth two thousand and seven the isolated building next to the euphrates river entirely obliterated and like a similar strike on an iraqi reactor in one hundred eighty one which sparked international condemnation the celebrations took place in secret the official policy was silence until now a message the message from the two thousand and seven attack on the reactor is that israel will not tolerate construction that could pose an existential threat to the state of israel this was the message in one thousand nine hundred one this was the message in two thousand and seven and this is the future missed it for our enemies

israel may have been publicly silent at the time but behind the scenes it was working to convince the international community of its assessment that the reactor was a virtual replica of north korea's yongbyon facility built with extensive help from north korea its purpose to produce weapons grade plutonium. and after the operation intelligence offices presented to the heads of state of your ip the united states russia and the arab states intelligence information that substantiated the justification for this attack in order to help them support us and convince asset not to react. the decision to go public comes ahead of the publication of the memoirs of the man who ordered the attack then prime minister olmert more significantly it forms a clear it's to iran at a time when israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is repeatedly warning the israeli public and foreign leaders about iran's military activity inside syria and its nuclear program at home netanyahu has been urging donald trump to pull the us

out of the multilateral iran nuclear deal trump asserted may the twelfth deadline for a decision just last month israel carried out extensive air strikes inside syria after one of its fighters was shot down an incident triggered by what israel said was an incursion into its territory by an iranian drone there were fears them of a wider escalation fears which haven't gone away perry force it out west jerusalem a palestinian teenage girl on trial for slapping an israeli soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison after accepting a plea deal seventeen year old i had to me was accused of assault after hitting an israeli soldier in the face last year in the occupied west bank the conversation took place after what israel says was a stone throwing assault on its troops case is meant to me a symbol for the palestinian struggle and has drawn international attention. a suicide bomb attack by. at least thirty three people in afghanistan it happened

just a day after the head of the u.s. military. it's in the capital kabul most of the dead were reportedly young people celebrating the. chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a birgitte see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghans celebrating no ruse the persian new year. when a suicide bomb went off just stood behind us nothing but terror. it was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this suit said bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was this who said able to get access to this area that this suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations the blast is

the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks. unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations for nauru's but he's attacked them here far away from their chosen targets which is an important trying. on saturday a car bomb explosion claimed by the taliban killed at least two civilians several others were wounded in the morning rush hour suicide blast in an industrial area the city government said a private british security company was the target it was the four suicide attack in the afghan capital in the past three weeks a u.s. general in afghanistan has said protecting the capital is the americans main effort but the attacks continue increasing pressure on president musharraf ghani he offered peace talks to the taliban last month as part of efforts to end this sixteen year war but any sort of negotiated settlement appears

a long way off but all of on has continued to grow in strength since the withdrawal of the u.s. led nato combat troops four years ago and most security analysts predict its annual so-called spring offensive will be more intense this year as taliban fighters respond to repeated u.s. and afghan airstrikes as well as ground assault of wednesday's attack is any indication of what's to come many more lives will likely be lost as time al-jazeera police in the u.s. state of texas say the suspect in a series of possible bombings has killed himself has been named by u.s. media as moch anthony condit offices or texas residents to remain on alert and case . still out there two hundred reports from austin. the confrontation with the main suspect ended as dramatically as it began police then firing on him in a hotel car park as he tried to drive away then

a deadly detonation police say the man set off killing himself as members of the austin police department swat team approached the vehicle the suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle knocking one of our swat officers back and one of our swat officers fired at the suspect as well he had been a person of interest seen on video and mention by witnesses police knew his car the bombs had no set patterns some were random some were targeted five hundred federal state and local police are still scrambling to unravel three mysteries are there other bombers other other bombs waiting to explode and why he did it for weeks austin has been a city on edge the mysterious bombs in the state capital city killed two people and injured four others. you will be too. you know random packages explosives. for no reason. on tuesday another package exploded

at a courier distribution center in the city of shirts near san antonio f.b.i. agents say a sixth package was sent to a separate fed ex depot police say the eventual destination of that package was an address in austin brian jaime's and sixty other employers of the courier company were evacuated after an unexploded bomb was found here giving police potentially valuable clues to get me thinking about that package in the senate down and explode then i go in sort of the truck goes and then that truck exposed the other trucks full of gas and diesel and the whole fabric facilities are destroyed and everybody is trapped in there you scared now not scared not since the attacks by the so-called unabomber ted kaczynski in one nine hundred ninety five have police faced a spree like it now police will continue to search for any other devices he may have left behind and try to find out what his motive was john hendren al-jazeera

austin texas. francis former president who has just finished a second day of questioning and relegations that he took illegal campaign donations from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi but he said looking into claims that gadhafi gave as much as sixty million dollars when he was running for office in two thousand and seven. has denied any wrongdoing though position in kosovo has used tear gas in parliament to try to disrupt a vote on a board a deal with want to know. nation movement to the block a twenty fifteen do it was a precondition for being able to travel in the without visas. eight thousand hectares of land despite the destruction went ahead and ratified they remained for the necessary two thirds majority. forty four african countries have signed a free trade deal the biggest since the world trade organization was established like the e.u. it will allow the unrestricted movement of people goods and capital among the

countries who haven't signed up for south africa and nigeria the continent's biggest economy wanted to hand out a report. one by one they signed up to an agreement decades in the making it's estimated the african continent will free trade area could see business between african nations increased by more than fifty percent within four years the idea is to bring together countries with a combined population of one point two billion people and gross domestic product or g.d.p. of more than two trillion dollars into one market africa. are together now we are creating africa. area so we are realizing that we asked when we have a larger market. solf awful to fall of the african union's have to five member states have signed the protocol but these one multiple absentee nigeria africa's

biggest economy present muhammadu buhari did not attend the signing ceremony to allow time for more consultations nigeria's led by unions had cautioned him against signing what they called an extremely dangerous initiative african union officials admit everyone is such a fight that individual countries would be better off under the deal look at the opening from the treaty of rome. so must see. if we projects of integration of any live in focus the argument commits countries to moving targets online to pull sense of goods and lifting all body has to trade with in the continent eventually the free movement of people and even a single currency could become part of the free trade area but before the tuppence banks are looking to fill the void what we have. to make sure that the chorus problem that. we are working on

will launch with a. tougher than. we have been set to with. that platform possible. to try to get out of the loop for this one off because most advanced economies often advantaged with them they develop an affection capabilities some of them remain opposed to the agreements that trade unions are already raising that flex arguing unfettered access by foreign workers to their labor markets could cause problems as people move to the continent stronger economies is such a jobs mohamed atta was has either got. tens more stories for you any time on our website the address matches our there dot com. top stories of peru's president pad republican has presented his resignation to

congress lawmakers had been expected to vote on thursday on whether to oust vision skee over corruption allegations several of his allies were filmed an agenda trying to gain the support of a lawmaker so that he would block the leaders impeachment. has more people have their aides be gauged the resignation of let her how did was he thank you letter this morning in the media and the merging of the leading party later on that it will go to congress for congress and then as a part of the if you've got the strong believe whether they accept or not it has with the nation most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted in northeast nigeria last month have been reunited with their families the girls were returned to their hometown of duchy by what appeared to be a convoy of boko haram fighters nigeria's information minister says one hundred one goals were freed at least five reportedly died in custody and

a handful remain missing a u.s. resident is suing facebook and the u.k. firm cambridge analytic are protesting data without their permission cambridge analytical allegedly exploited data from fifty million users to help donald trump's presidential campaign facebook is coming under increasing pressure over the relevant revelations its c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is expected to make a statement within the next twenty four hours. a russian air strike in syria it provinces killed at least twenty two people rescue workers say most of the victims are children who died while leaving a school in village further south in eastern guta a syrian rebel group has struck a deal with the government to evacuate the town of harasta nearly two thousand people have died in the besieged enclave since the government intensified its attacks a month ago a palestinian teenage girl on trial for strapping an israeli soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison after accepting a plea deal seventeen year old

a head to music used of assault after hitting an israeli soldier in the face last year in the occupied west bank the case has made to me a symbol of the palestinian struggle and drawn international attention that you have done is to say respect stop its stream more if you have to that. journalists would be intercepted. i have a me ok and you are in the stream today it will the killing of a black female politician spur change in brazil will discuss the impact the rio de janeiro councilwoman franco and the issues she championed.