in syria citizens are collecting evidence and i want a little bit guilty as charged of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria and there are both six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human face syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera.

hello i'm adrian for getting this is that he was out live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes box like a book finally speaks up but is it enough to rebuild trust lost in facebook over the cambridge analytical control to see. china will not sit idly by while just about rights and interests are hurt tough talk from china as donald trump prepares to slap beijing with billions of dollars worth of tariffs. on. an emotional prison for one nigerian father as he desperately waits for his daughter while dozens of other schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram go free. and on fire a small have all the day's sporting including serena williams is coming back to tennis hence and now they're heard on the first round of the miami.

facebook's process promised to safeguard the information of its two billion uses after a major data breach it's the first time that mark zuckerberg has publicly addressed accusations that fifty million users had their data harvested by a third party app and passed on to a political consultancy that cambridge analytical is accused of improperly accessing the information to manipulate u.s. voters during the twenty sixteen election zuckerberg says that it's a breach of trust he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections including upcoming votes in brazil india and the u.s. but and the facebook chief executive says that he be happy to testify in front of the u.s. congress if he was deemed the right person to appear more now from kathy lopez for the oil. mark zuckerberg doesn't like giving interviews but the pressure on the camera shy founder and c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he was

sorry about the security breach the compromise of private data of fifty million facebook users in a statement he had knowledge there were failures in facebook's protection of data i started facebook he writes and at the end of the day i am responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while this specific issue in bobby cambridge analytic i should no longer have been with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward those steps include a review of all apps that had similar brought access to user data further data restrictions and making it easier for users to recent permissions suckers carefully choreographed response of the cambridge analytical scandal is not what do u.s. lawmakers are asking for they were rather have him testify in person before congress minnesota senator amy klobuchar has formally asked her to distill hearing

suburb says he's happy to testify before congress if it's the right thing to do he also says he's sure someone's trying to disrupt this year's midterm elections underlined be uproar the allegation that data harvested from facebook servers was used by cambridge analytical to support the trunk campaign in two thousand and sixteen interference in the electoral process confirmed in this undercover interview with the company's event c o alexander nix any mechanism that he signs. the data with use to talk to. a television. set of a cheerful. facebook stocks lost sixty billion dollars in value in the last five days and a delayed facebook hashtag has been trending but even if the bad publicity blows over other two. problems for the social networking giant are just beginning the federal trade commission has opened an investigation into facebook so to have at

least three u.s. states patsy lopez with a young al-jazeera al-jazeera is that he is at the lot and headquarters of cambridge analytic and he joins us now live saturday and what's been the reaction there in the u.k. to mark zuckerberg comments. well adrian i think people generally have reacted with relief he spoke after some delay but with many reservations listen to this from damian collins who's the politician who heads parliament. culture and media select committee they've been looking into the issue of big data and fake news he said mark zuckerberg hasn't addressed why facebook didn't deal with concerns about the exposure of user data at the time and the risks now now that committee has been hearing from facebook representatives recently but they've asked for mark zuckerberg himself to appear before them as politicians have

done in washington d c because it has consistently said i'm prepared to appear before these committees if i'm the right person to do so or they've said you are the only person that we want to hear from and quickly so that's adding to the kind of the. frustration amongst politicians here as well as in the us financially people are starting to ask questions as well the organization nonprofit organization mozilla which is behind the web browser firefox has said its whole thing its advertising on facebook the first organization to do so and facebook strengthened its protection of user data they say we found its current default settings leave access open to a lot of data particularly with respect to settings for third party apps such as that which was used allegedly by cambridge i know it occurred during the us

election campaign they say they're encouraged by mark zuckerberg promises to improve privacy settings but they're really not satisfied right now there are other investment funds including in germany who say that they're considering moving shares in facebook out of their ethical funds for the time being at least they want to see action far more quickly than has been promised so far adrian all right the u.k.'s information commission wants to take a look at cambridge analytics and its business what's the latest on that. that's right she actually said she was going to apply for a warrant to search warrant to get into the building behind me cambridge analytical london headquarters on monday now in the last hour and a half we've heard from her office the high court judge dealing with the request has adjourned that process until friday the information commissioner's office say they are still going to be pushing in court to get into the offices to search for

data and information that will help them in their investigation into in cambridge analytical and its parent company s c l now some people have expressed alarm at the delay the several days of time like between the application for a search warrant and now in the meantime i mean for example on tuesday people were filmed carrying boxes out of the building we do not know what were in those boxes but it is suggested the company had been given time to holley whatever they do not want to get into the hands of the information commissioner. on the same day that the warrant was upright for facebook actually got him briefly before being ordered out so there's a lot of confusion right now the latest in the british prices allegations that people in cambridge analytical expressed their unhappiness at being asked to deal with allegedly hacked e-mails from politicians including president of nigeria

e-mails including his. personal health details which were supposed to be supposed to have been obtained by s.c.l. to help his rival in the presidential election campaign now this is not been corroborated but these are serious allegations which further do home the reputation of become pretty. today many thanks they didn't bother them live in london. syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern good so the first stage of the russian brokered deal with hamas to involved a prisoner swap thousands of rebels and civilians are leaving and heading out to live province in syria to other areas in the east and coos of the remain on the rebel control let's get the latest on that from seeing a whole who's in beirut so this deal's been announced has it started to be implemented yet. yes it has a few hundred people already evacuated from that town of harasta on their way to

the rebel controlled province of idlib in northwest syria a few thousand people will be evacuated more than seven thousand in fact fighters their family members as well as civilians who do not want to stay and live under government rule or who cannot they're afraid because they could be arrested and some are even worried about possible execution because they were involved in opposition activities clearly the opposition had little choice they were surrounded and they were being bombed into submission or out a sham the rebel faction involved in this deal saying that it did so it agreed to this deal because it was under pressure from the civilians. defeat and displacement that is what these buses have come to symbolize up to one thousand five hundred fighters from the one hundred ish rebel faction and at least six thousand of their family members are leaving their homes in harassed or they have agreed to lay down their arms and go to the opposition controlled province of idlib in syria's north west the russian guaranteed evacuation deal is being seen as

amounting to a surrender the first to leave was anyone needing medical assistance harassed or like the rest of the rebel enclave of the eastern has been relentlessly bombarded for more than a month the suffering of the people is immense some civilians also left media activists even civil defense volunteers syrians who are considered to be terrorists by the government had no other choice the deal also involves a prisoner exchange and is reported to include guarantees by the syrian government and the russian military that no harm will come to the civilians who chose to stay harassed is just one town in eastern with which is now divided into three pockets because of the government offensive the other two rebel factions which controls duma and fire which controls the southern pockets have been engaged in separate negotiations with the russian military so far there has been no progress so pro-government forces continue to target what is left of the rebel held area

they're seizing more territory in the southern pocket and air strikes continue to kill the united nations says people are trapped by fierce fighting and are in dire need of aid the choice they have been given is to starve die or leave. because. we are fighting to stay in our land and prevent displacement the international community is silent and powerless or perhaps it's conspiring against us all they do is lie to us the un security council was not able to save east. and displaced a whole country. years of. a strategy the pro-government alliance used previously to force the surrender of rebels the united nations human rights groups condemned the strategy as forced displacement this is the first deal of its kind in eastern huta and pressure is only increasing on the other rebel groups to also agree to the only offer on the table so pro-government forces really applying

more military pressure on the remaining rebels to surrender in the meantime you have thousands of people trapped in a war zone sami thank status there is a lot of that live in beirut. russia's ambassador to the u.k. has suggested that britain has stores of the nerve agent that was used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter moscow and london continue to argue over the attack in southern england earlier this month russia says that britain's foreign minister forrest johnson is poisoned with hatred for comparing the country to not see him to hitler's nazi germany let's go live to london can tell us more this particular tactic sponsors that we've seen have now become a tit for tat war of words it seems to be the u.k. and russia russia's ambassador pretty scathing about the u.k. was. he certainly was and you're right the last couple of weeks we have seen

tit for tat expulsions an escalating war of words and now what appears to be came vs counterclaim evidence versus evidence the british government maintains that script power poisoned using a russian made nerve agent of the north variety down in solsbury just over two weeks ago under the orders of the russian state that's something the kremlin hotly denies and now the russian ambassador to the u.k. is called into question the u.k.'s. understanding of exactly what happened there the u.k.'s theory surrounding this alleged poisoning by suggesting that the u.k. may have had in its possession some of this nerve agent prior to the poisoning it follows of course the suggestion earlier that was made by russia's ambassador to the e.u. bloody near cheers off who suggested that some of this nova chalk nerve agent may have actually been deliberately planted at the scene of the alleged poisoning by

the british authorities themselves something that the u.k. has dismissed as absurd but here is what the russian ambassador to the u.k. said about the whole alleged poisoning a little bit earlier on here the russian embassy. is a decoy incident that this chemical weapons facility is only eight miles from the start of the incident. how did doctors decide what antidote to administer to the victims russian experts or puzzle how quickly the british authorities managed to does it need the nerve agent illegitimately used. and how these correlates with scruton to yours official statements there and i'm quoting investigation is highly likely to take weeks or even months to conclusions. so as we heard there alexander yakka vanco the russian

ambassador to the u.k. causing an error of doubts over the whole investigation led by the british authorities he was alluding to the proximity between portland down britain's main research military laboratory and the town of solsbury only a matter of kilometers it is i think important to the o.p.c. w.v. organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that are currently looking at the british evidence are only expected to determine what kind of nerve agent if it is indeed a nerve agent was used to allegedly poison this cripples not to say exactly who was responsible for it so at the moment it is a case of evidence of versus evidence ahead of what will be the findings of the o.p.c. w. probably in a couple of weeks time we will establish exactly what this substance is as opposed to who may have been responsible for putting it there and poisoning the script files leave the u.k. is accused russia of

a campaign of disinformation and misinformation of the script on poisoning the u.k. foreign minister boris johnson pulling no punches once again one has to wonder about the wisdom at least diplomatically of taking aim at the kremlin the way that he has. boris johnson is leading appears to be a one man charge against the kremlin a moment there is of course an awful lot of mudslinging between moscow and london at the moment of boris johnson is very much of the helm of it all of course we've heard his comparisons between lattimer putin's hosting of the world cup this summer and i don't fit liz hosting of the olympic games in one hundred thirty six that's undoubtedly going to be very deeply offensive for russia and we heard from the russian ambassador a little bit earlier on saying that that was an insult to the russian people who had defeated nazi germany of course many people in russia regards the second world war the great patriotic war and very very serious terms russia lost a tremendous number of people during that war so that comment would have really hit

the russian or thought season indeed the russian people quite harshly i think boris johnson's attitude towards moscow has deferred somewhat to his boss the reason may the prime minister who's been a little bit more careful to assemble her allies. u.s. germany france in backing the evidence that the u.k. has come up with as to what exactly how it installs braeburn boris johnson has very much going at it alone he's pointing the finger directly of lot of a putin who he says was the likely person to have ordered this poisoning the question is whether or not this current stage while we're waiting for the o.p.c. w. to come back with their findings whether or not it might be a little bit too early to point the finger quite so critically and harshly at russia i think is going to be easier for moscow to deal with the u.k. independently as opposed to dealing with the u.k. in partnership with us our allies backed by important evidence need many thanks

steve back to live in london with a new sound from al-jazeera still to come on the program widespread disruption in france public workers begin some of the biggest strikes in recent years we'll tell you why as the saudi crown prince visits washington u.s. media reveals the extent of what they say is lobbying. to influence the trumpet ministration and later in sport milwaukee look like they'll be facing an uphill challenge in the n.b.a. playoffs. donald trump supposed to be about to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on products made in china the white house has repeatedly accused china of unfair trade practices of stealing intellectual property china's ministry of commerce says that it resolutely opposes american protectionism and will act to defend its interests in a moment we'll speak with scott tipler who's in beijing but first let's get the

latest from white house correspondent kelly hellcat in washington d.c. so kimberly what's the president about to announce. well we believe that this is going to target a number of chinese imports that come into the u.s. market valued somewhere in the range of about sixty billion dollars specifically what we expect is the president will target the high tech sector but also there could be sectors like apparel and other consumer goods that could be affected now the white house says this is really to target what they say is china's state lead market distorting efforts to force pressure and steal u.s. technology as an intellectual property so these actions would be an effort to combat that we expect that the president will do this through presidential memorandum sometime around sixteen thirty g.m.t. and the argument being made that this is really a long standing problem that has potentially cost american consumers in the range of somewhere is six hundred billion dollars decimated the manufacturing industry

this will be an effort to combat those actions that the top administration says china is directly responsible for has been identified promised reform but it's failed to do so for not just recent years but decades but many thanks to let's go to shanghai you know which is where i was it was called hide is monitoring reaction in china how china reacted then to this threat of tariffs by the u.s. school. a general as you said you know this is something they resolutely say should not be the path there shouldn't be a trade war they say that they need to protect their interests at all costs now it's interesting because you know in the past they have said that you know the requirement of there to be a balance in trade between the united states and china is unrealistic that's something they said in the past but here's how the spokeswoman for the foreign ministry put it earlier on thursday. we resolutely opposed this type of any lateral and protectionist action by the us china will not sit idly by while it legitimate

rights and interests are hurt we must take all necessary measures to firmly defend our rights and interests we hope the u.s. can see clearly that the nature of china and u.s. trade relations is to mutual benefit and a win win situation and we know that you know moving forward you know we don't know exactly what the details are of what's going to come out of washington we know that there might even be some suits involved because when it comes to intellectual property that's something that the united states has been very focused on but with that as well as the tariffs we're not exactly sure what that's going to look like coming out of washington in the next couple of hours but how china will react to you know there's been reporting that they're going to react obviously with terrorists but we don't know exactly to what extent they said that they might be a bit metered about that and see how it goes with exactly those tariffs and possibly lawsuits coming from the united states adrian what more does what products would would china look to target coming from the u.s. . well what we've been hearing is that particularly on the agricultural

sector you know in a couple of specific areas and that's soybeans and live hogs being exported here into china this is something that we know that china can look elsewhere in the region but it's something that's been very important to the united states in its trade with china but then again it's even more important to donald trump because a lot of these states in the united states that export a lot of those products agricultural products are states that voted for him so politically this could be a challenge for donald trump moving forward if china hits back at those sectors where he has that voter base that elected him in office all right scott many thanks scott i live their lives in shanghai. saudi arabia's crown prince's tutor meet the u.s. secretary of defense later on thursday but haven't been solomon's visit coincides with leaked documents that are said to show lobbying efforts by the u.a.e. and saudi arabia to influence the trumpet ministration in test lab reports. the

saudi crown prince started his u.s. visit with talks at the white house president donald trump showing recent saudi weapons purchases from american manufacturers both showered each other with praise for their country's close ties we really have a great friendship a great relationship i would really have to say the relationship was to put it mildly very very strained during the obama administration and the relationship now is probably as good as it's really ever been thank you mr president actually the relation to saudi arabia message america it's all the relation we have all the first america and the middle east right now more than eighty five and big interest politically economically and security but mohammed bin some months trip which includes several cities and meetings with u.s. cabinet members coincides with leaked documents said to show a lot being efforts by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. aimed at influencing the trumpet ministration the new york times says

a lebanese american businessman george notter who was a political advisor to the effect of ruler of the u.a.e. worked for more than a year to influence elliott brody a powerful member of the republican national committee neither is said to have offered broadly business deals on behalf of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in order to exert influence over white house policy policies which advocated confrontational approaches towards iran and gutter brodie denies the claims and his spokesman accuses hackers working for cutter for leaking the documents their accusations guterres government has described as baseless a fear look at the blockade and the prices the gulf a crisis started last year there is a context for this. it seems that those preparations produce this kind of a crisis because it was a trend that is a consistent to plan. you know supported by the two government two governments financially supported by there in washington and this is alliances and led to all

of this. that is they became prominent recently as a witness in the investigation into foreign influence on the trumpet ministration by special prosecutor robert mueller the media reports threaten to complicate been someone's tour of the united states the trip has been described as a public relations blitz for the crown prince but could expose him to increasingly awkward questions about how saudi arabia and the u.a.e. use money and business deals to influence white house policy in al-jazeera police in the u.s. state of texas a warning that there may be more possible bombs after the suspect in a series of explosions this month killed himself he's been named as unemployed college dropout mark anthony condit police say that although they found a twenty five minute video confession on the suspects phone he did not explain his motive five possible bombs have exploded in texas in recent weeks killing two and injuring several. a lot of weather on the east and the west coast of the u.s.

a little quieter in the middle here to tell us more is this richard language richard i'm not quite sure which kosar rather be to be honest a term we've got some pretty severe weather right across the country at the moment so across western parts of california there are a bunch of evacuations in force after a really heavy rain is pushed into what they call upon our police press this motion which has traces source all the way back to the hawaiian islands meanwhile on the east coast the snow situation is getting better i'm pleased to say but you see from a snowy washington d.c. and new york that the situation is looking pretty bad times but that is now beginning to improve as we look at the forecast or at the current situation you can see that low pressure beginning to move away is still quite a complex frontal system as a as you see here on the map for a take that off and put on the jet stream it just gives indication that we've got this warm air pushing up from the southwest and then

a dick of cold air towards the eastern seaboard low circulation is still there as you can see across into eastern parts of canada musser all the strong winds are mr pretty cold in places pittsburgh down at minus six and elsewhere you're looking at temperatures close to freezing of course many places a long line and i've got quite a covering of snow in places up to forty five centimeters of snow here but it does with time gradually improve and get warmer across the region. or to many thanks for the news for most zero still to come on the program not so simple as turning on the tap we'll tell you why millions in mexico city spent hours trying to find clean drinking water plus. tradition with a modern twist we'll look at an artistic revival that's drawing thousands of visitors to pakistan. and its sport a rock and a three decade long battle hosting international matches with fans in the capital

a feeling shot out of the action far will be here to tell you why. the scene for us there on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an ounce of it is close to the story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera .

the closer. well again a very unfair to get here in doha with the news out from out of syria the top stories this hour facebook's chief executive has promised tougher steps to protect the information of its two billion users box like a book admits that the social media site made mistakes after accusations that a u.k. from misused information from some fifty million facebook users. syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern guta thousands of fighters and civilians leaving how aster are

leaving harasta traveling to it live profits to other areas of east ghouta remain under rebel control donald trump is reported to be about to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on products made in china the white house has repeatedly accused china of unfair trade practices china's ministry of commerce says that it will act to defend its interests the former president of france nicolas sarkozy has reportedly denied accepting millions of dollars from libya's late leader moammar gadhafi a french newspaper published his statements to investigating judges who were looking at whether his two thousand and seven presidential campaign was partly funded by libyan money police questioned him for twenty four hours on wednesday psycho's he said that he was being accused without evidence he could face charges of corruption and misuse of funds. well because a demonstration in france against president obama plans to trim the public sector

thousands of teachers railway hospital and air transport workers some marching across the country they're angry at proposed changes to working conditions and benefits the strike will see train of flight cancellations of the closure of some schools to school life out of paris offices the trash buffet is then attention was this all about. well as you said there are workers from across the public sector the hospital staff of teachers transport workers and many behind me in the section of the protests where i'm standing here in paris a railway workers they will have their own concerns over pay and conditions but what has united them and what has brought them all out here today is this collective sense of frustration and anger at the government because the government is trying to push through reforms in the public sector streamline public services and these are jobs that are traditionally really looked after in france the very cherished and valued and they come with several privileges but the government is

saying that it's no longer in a position to be able to fund those kind of jobs at the railway workers which are some of the biggest in terms of numbers at this protest or vowing that they are going to spend the next three months disrupting the transport rolling strikes they are saying some thirty six days of strikes are due to hit the country between april and june they say they will not back down and what that particularly angry about is the fact that the government wants to scrap some of their special privileges and one of those privileges allows strange reivers to retire about ten years earlier than most of the rest of the population but the president plans to make these cuts were essentially what got him voted into office in the first place how much why the public support to these these public sector workers have. well your rights are in many ways these protests are being. seen as perhaps one off the biggest test for president emmanuel mccall because he did come to power

promising to transform faults he said he was going to make reforms and ever since he's been in office he has pushed through with a very ambitious a reform plan now many all physical forms have been controversial but he has pushed them through parts of koreans to phone is managed to get a so-so mount of support of the population but opinion polls recent opinion polls are showing that some of that is supposed to starting to wane now whether or not he will have public opinion on side over the next three months as the transport workers decide to try and disrupt transport across the country remains to be seen but there is no doubt that this is a great test of this president he says the reforms are necessary to bring down tends to bring down unemployment and to create more opportunities for. potential many thanks. live in. yemen's central bank has closed its doors because it's run out of money saudi arabia promised a deposit two billion dollars but money never arrived meanwhile to yemeni ministers

have resigned accused saudi arabia of holding their president under house arrest as more. what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian disaster that has become even worse yemen has officially run out of money the shortage of funds has forced the central bank to close saudi arabia had agreed to transfer money to help alleviate the effects this three year war and yemen yemeni bank chief say six hundred eighty million dollars was seized in the port of aden by u.a.e. forces the u.a.e. is part of the saudi coalition fighting in yemen the latest repercussions of the hoofy missile aimed at saudi arabia that provoked a blockade on ports and airports injuring vital aid and imports get in the shipment of cash was meant to pay the salaries a public employees yemen has been ravaged by the civil war between the internationally recognized government based in the south which is backed by the saudis and their allies and the who think movement which controls the north and is

backed by iran as well as the cash crisis to government ministers have resigned after calling for the president's return from saudi arabia the minister the state and saeed he tweeted that the saudis are preventing abu rebel mansour hadi and his sons returning from their self-imposed exile in riyadh the deputy prime minister also stepped down he is hoping the new century yemen bank in aden last year as some are not here to mete out my hope they will deal with yemen as a country that has a great seven thousand years civilization yemen is not on the margin yemen is not a banana republic yemen is a big brotherly country the coalition came to support the countries legitimacy and its institutions it is a must to deal with yemen with all respect. he's angling accusing the kingdom of going back on their promises yemeni's more respect but their focus is on survival schools and hospitals are the latest targets of this conflict famine in addition to

connor and diptheria epidemic with this latest cash crisis the suffering of yemenis looks no closer to ending. their nigeria's government says that most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now freed just a few remain missing they've been brought the girls that is to a butcher to beat the president and ministers have to go see if they release the girls than expected to return to their hometown duck chief has government says that it agreed to a temporary pause in fighting with the armed groups to secure the girls' freedom one hour from us here is on that idris whose induction in northeastern nigeria. the mood in the town is generally that of gratitude and happiness that most of the girls are back but also your fine people who are actually still waiting for news of their daughters right now i'm standing inside the home of shaariibuu

matron who is the only girl now. known to be held alive by the boko haram fighters by the way it's suspected that this is a group to the islamic state for west africa province she's only goal who is still in captivity and when we came into town we spoke to a lot of people here and the reason they said what people tell us here is that the fighters who brought them back in said they are not releasing har because she refused to renounce every now and. and now here to talk with me about the mood inside the house and their expectations is a part of our nation i mr. what's the feeling like in the house and a stand that the mother was unconscious when the news came in that her daughter is not among the one hundred five that were brought back to duchy what's her condition

right now condition nobody knows about her condition only those who come from that . is doing fine was there any message from leah when the girls were being brought back to that was there any message she sent with them yes yes and there must be more that she's green friend pray for her and what's the condition of the mother right now the mother was just discharged from hospital last year said she didn't and now she's a bit better can you tell our audience the international audience what you your wife your family and others have been going on what's going on in your mind for the last thirty two days when these girls were taken from their school induction we did just take you to very very sad news very very moment now we are. pleading to do government assist and greenpeace. there was

a lot of expectations here that the girl was among the one hundred five eventually it turned out she was not meanwhile the one hundred five actually like you said in about your meeting the nigerian government officials for debriefing as well and medical checkups the president of the maldives has listed the seven week long state of emergency which was imposed protests demonstrations began when judges ordered the government to release jailed opponents of president of the law you mean his half brother the supreme court chief justice were arrested and accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. a bus crash in northeastern thailand has killed at least eighteen passengers and injured thirty others the driver reportedly lost control of the tour bus while going downhill un figures show that thailand has the world's second highest rate of road deaths after libya pope francis has reportedly telephoned the mother of a murdered brazilian politician mariel franco was shot dead last week the murder

set off protests with thousands demanding the police find her killers franco was known for activism against police brutality. thursday is world water day the united nations is warning that more people could be facing water shortages water scarcity affects some seven hundred million people in forty three countries the u.n. says that around two billion people live in areas with inadequate water supply at almost a quarter of the world's population doesn't have the right facilities or don't have the right facilities to make water drinkable by twenty twenty five one point eight billion people are expected to have access to no water asshole but over the next twelve years up to seven hundred million people in arid and semi arid areas could be forced from their homes the water crisis is keenly felt it one of the world's largest capitals mexico city which is home to twenty two million people their homes are built over a vast lake that was drained by a spanish settlers shortage is getting worse experts say that water is being lost

within the system john heilemann reports. it needs to pull up a district on the outskirts of mexico city the queues for wood to truck start it poor in the morning for some residents nothing's come out of the taps for years this is the only way to get water paolo regularly waits i always feel one it's so supping full time job with the way. i have to leave work and bring one of my sons so he didn't go to school we can't have breakfast or even go to the toilet so as not to miss our time makes crew cities water problems are due to many factors but a major one is the captain's crumbling system incredibly about a third of the water is lost as it goes through cracked pipes by the time it gets to places like his to pull up or pressure has slowed to a drip for the city's overwhelmed repair teams it's a never ending job as soon as they've got one leak another springs up as it were

that they must but. we need more people more vehicles to check where the pressure is going down and where there are possible leaks it takes a lot of time and resources. why do the pipes break apart the h. many a more than sixty years old and disturbances like earthquakes but in the main it's this makes her city is sinking they've even had to at fourteen extra steps to this national monument because the ground around it has been going down so much and the reason for that sinking is that water is being subtle the aquifers below the city to satisfy an ever growing and thirsty population. different areas of subsiding at different speeds and that's causing the pipes beneath them to bend and snap at the pressure points as they break the leaks increase for experts there's only one solution for the gas and it does say this is a really sad we need to stabilize the aqua first the the ground stop sinking we

need to capture rainwater and directed towards the aqua firs at the moment that water goes straight to the drains i would have thought all along with. the other thing we need to do is to treat sewage right now we only treat ten percent of our waste water and even that not thoroughly enough for it to be reinjected in the awkward for. you when you believes those two courses of action would not only stop the city sinking but also go a long way to making up its will to short fall but political will and funds are lacking for now the vicious cycle continues with those light power caught up in it for today the truck has arrived and she finally has bolted to wish a week's worth of the dishes tomorrow the struggle begins again joan home and i'll just get a city just ahead in the sport with another milestone to ice hockey his biggest star will be right back.

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education is struggling to keep pace often failing to prepare children for today's woes. but some schools are changing the rules that i did to help out the day in sunny and how baby. with astonishing results. if it but our. rebel education early known in mexico at this time on al-jazeera. and again when giudice as president proposed last year that inheritance laws should

be revised women's rights activists applauded the move but the issue remains controversial from tunis to have a jump from reports on the difficult task of achieving equality between women and men. a march for equality tunisian women demanding parity with men in matters related to life and death for these activists the time has come for the country's inheritance law to change and the country said in our opinion this is quite simply one of the last bastiaan off the patriarchy because we're made to believe that these are issues regarding religion but in fact there are issues of the heart of patriarchy that a matter of courtesy that last year president as you call this said she announced a review of a law that says a woman should receive only half the share of an inheritance that a man does. even in a country known in the region for being progressive when it comes to women's rights the proposal was controversial bush about how tricky that is

a member of parliament who heads up the commission of individual freedoms and equality a group that strapping the revised rules and recommendations while she's optimistic future generations will be granted more opportunities and liberties she also explains how the subject of inheritance is a contentious one and that the upcoming municipal elections in may could further complicate things. this report was supposed to be issued to the president on february twentieth but we tried to avoid the election campaigns and wanted to keep the issue outside the realm of politics and any political tensions last year parliament passed landmark laws criminalizing domestic violence and harassment in public spaces while tunisia's current legal system is a mixture of both civil and religious laws conservatives are far from happy with the proposals on inheritance law they say any and all matters related to inheritance are already enshrined in islam ik law and therefore should not be allowed to be challenged. according to members of a local women's rights group things are improving but more needs to be done in the

minimum doma the neo between the legal system and the reality even if by women there is a gap and for us this is our mission today how to make the laws and the reality closer to each other. they say equality in inheritance is another important step in the right direction one that will ultimately insure society provides liberties and human dignity to men and women alike. to miss tunisia. thomas forced his father adrian thank you so much to reno williams appears to have some way to go as she continues her return to tennis the twenty three time grand slam champion was beaten in the opening round of miami open twenty year old naomi osaka was fresh from winning the indian wells title last week put on a brilliant display in her first career meeting against williams who is her childhood hero

a soccer going on to defeat the thirty six year old american in straight sets six three six two while u.s. is playing in just her fourth match since giving birth in september she refused to attend the press conference but osaka was happy to speak. i've never really seen her up close like i just see her on the t.v. and still. kind of like there. and i was shaking her hands. when those playing except for like the first three games then i was able to think she was just another. trying to play well. le bron james made more history on wednesday he became the first player in n.b.a. to record at least thirty five points seventeen a says and have no turnovers as cleveland beat the top team in the east the toronto raptors one hundred and thirty two to one hundred and twenty nine. and he says one point better but i was born in this georgia season. eleven games live we want to continue just

a beautiful in the last couple games and if we do that we put ourselves in a good position to to go into the polls. it was a bad night in comparison for milwaukee the boks went down one hundred and twenty to one hundred and twenty seven against the l.a. clippers the last meeting their eighth in the eastern conference standings if they finish there they'll qualified for the playoffs but will have to face the highest see the team in the first round. iraq has celebrated its return to hosting competitive international football the team played a friendly on wednesday days after she fell lifted a three decade long ban iraq played catarrh in the southern city of basra in front of a packed crowd the match finished three two to count are it's one of a series of friendlies with iraq set to play syria next week but as our correspondent imran khan reports from baghdad fans in the capital are feeling shut out from the action. taking place

in iraq but the ones that have been lifted in three cities are built where that game is taking place. the bow doesn't extend to baghdad and that's left a lot of very disappointed. praise god it's a big joy that the ban for these three major cities basra of karbala and erbil has been lifted we look forward to the ban being lifted in baghdad but as we know it's there are security reasons but when iraq plays it lifts your spirits like it's going to look like as you know iraq just came out of war the cities are the safest baghdad is the capital we all know security here is an issue that we hope for the future the security gets better and the pain gets lifted now despite that disappointment whoever wins this tournament wins in iraq and that's possibly the most crucial things fans a very international football it's an. international football maybe able to return

to iraq in the very. big heroes people like most people like name. so bob we have a chance to secure qualification to the twenty one thousand cricket world cup if they be the way the be guaranteed a spot at the spectacle in anyone the amorality scored two hundred and thirty five for seven from a rain produced innings that means zimbabwe need two hundred and thirty from forty overs for victory there currently fifty three three for. golf world number one dustin johnson and warren mcelroy both lost their opening matches at the match play tournaments mcelroy was beaten too and won in his first game by former u.s. amateur champion peter we lined the four time winner has a lot to do to reach the last sixteen as says defending champion johnson the american lost three and one to burned. the new formula one season gets underway in australia with practice scheduled for friday quadruple champions lewis hamilton and

sebastian vettel are the favorites to claim a fifth title this season hamilton as his mercedes beat out vettel ferrari to claim their championship title last season the two drivers seem friendly ahead of the melbourne grand prix and the ultimate goal is to be. to be the best of the hugo have to go up against the best so it's great it's been a great experience for me to be able to rest of us you know some of the four world titles the most of any other driver of the time and i think this is an exciting year for for for one fans. i think we have all the reasons to be confident i think will cause great stuff to come so plenty to look forward to but usually around this point you don't know what where the others are. that's why it's a bit pointless to come here and say that employer went away and hockey star sidney crosby had a milestone as he helped his side of pittsburgh penguins to victory over the montreal canadiens in the n.h.l. along with scoring the game tying goal in the second period crosby also made his

seven hundred career assist as he led the penguins to a five three victory. and that's all your sport for now more later back to you many thanks indeed pakistan's first of a ben ali festival is in full swing organizers hope that the two week events will boost tourism and help to revive the horse reputation as a cultural capital that has come all high to reports the country's obscene is thriving. horse ford's been nearly if they were the famous no horse for emperor then ruler from a bygone. now used to promote. influenced by a dye was called first headed kate spending hundreds of. flanked on one side by the by try. on the. festival provide the opportunity for we. do enjoy the performances and take in the city's famous.

i. want to be one i think there should be more music and art related festivals across pakistan we wait for such events to take place and even the foreigners are looking for these kinds of opportunities to visit they help a tray a very positive image of pakistan the war has produced great including. spiritual music inspired by boy right from won't be a hard one to send for you. attached with the film making sense that of pakistan the student got video of the eighty's and ninety's that the lot but then the bible of the music industry i hope will unveil that the music culture of the heart is again like a love orange museum all right you have instruments to beat pakistan's musical fost influenced by different faith and religion throughout the ages music has played an

important role in the performing arts and the rich heritage and culture history of this region by data hiller wall very with new instruments being introduced all the time rather call them in the lawyer civil activist photographer an architect he also has a passion for music and it's making its own instrument called a short. this is the only instrument that. an instrument through smokes bitches is a hole in sound and his sound which has a meaning for the listener sonic meaning is not from the did. it's the emotional effect of the sound. rather wants to produce a musical sound which connect on a very pushing eleven. the music if it is produced through this instrument is

a musical sound which is meaningful to one's emotions which is meaning to work meaningful to one's intellectual processes as well. which is meaningful and you know if you are emotionally areas. it is full there do we long for there will really hit the right note with really didn't provide the industry with the food. the whole pocket on. that day is top story straight ahead here on al-jazeera i'll see you again in just a moment. education is struggling to keep pace often failing to prepare children for today's world. but some schools are changing the rules i can see how hot the day you can eat and how the day to meet. with the still missing results i am. i am a little different but our. rebel education early known in mexico

at this time on al jazeera. al-jazeera for me is different because there's a maturity about its newsgathering in their lives really genuinely over also this channel but the pats take the risk of a story i will cut to kill all the time i'm not going anywhere else is doing is setting out to give thanks to the reality on the ground that all the reality on the ground can only come from the job and that's all the people and that's what we do and i think that's what we do well. in syria citizens are collecting evidence you know what about it bill has shot of crimes committed against civilians we've moved out of syria now those six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a she will face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's

a huge interest syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. g of china will not sit idly by while it legitimate rights and interests are hurt tough talk from china that as president donald trump prepares to slap beijing with billions of.