a little disappointing i think. 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 fearless bomb disposal unit are determined to counter the horrors of a relentless taliban onslaught. armed with faith a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. zero.

allow i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up. it is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world it's out of control. stocks plunge as president trump fires a new shot in his trade war with china. syrian rebels leave eastern ghouta after surrendering the town of harassed to the government. and nigeria closes old boring schools in a book are on hot spot over fears of more mass kidnapping. and disruption in france as teachers rail workers in ad traffic controllers walk off the job in anger a president not grounds reforms. and schools zimbabwe is set to miss elssler place in next year's cricket world cup a shock to feet against the united arab emirates means their hopes of qualification are all put over.

welcome to the program our top story stocks are ponging of affairs of an all out trade war between the united states and china as follows u.s. president donald trump's decision to impose tariffs of up to sixty billion dollars on chinese imports saying the u.s. deficit with beijing was out of control china says it's now preparing a range of responses to the tariffs and will stand up to protectionism though it still holds out hope some sort of dialogue our white house correspondent can really help it reports. chinese president xi jinping welcomed u.s. president donald trump to china in november with an elaborate ceremony. within hours the two had signed more than a dozen business deals to showcase their economic partnership i view them as a friend i have tremendous respect. for president xi so tribes targeted china on

thursday with economic terrorists has left many the wilderness trumps delivering on a campaign promise to rectify what he says is an unequal trade deficit favoring china more than three hundred seventy five billion dollars it is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world it's out of control the list of chinese imports the white house is targeting has not been made public it's expected dozens of chinese high tech electronics and consumer goods including apparel will be affected for years republicans and democrats have been concerned about chinese trade practices and theft of intellectual property but there is division about truck solution to the problem is anybody reading the trade policy news on the business pages now probably suffered from

a nasty case of whiplash trying to decipher all that news it is hard to identify a coherent strategy that will help american workers businesses and farmers when the dust settles china says it will retaliate with economic penalties for u.s. products china is one of the world's largest consumers of american soybeans and pork products chinese tariffs could hurt the very people truck vowed to protect farmers and manufacturing workers as part of his announcement on tariffs donald trump says he will renegotiate other trade deals he believes are harming the united states including with the european union canada and mexico still his focus remains on china the latest round of tariffs set to take effect in sixty days kimberly held at al-jazeera at the white house. well son is the director of the china program at

the stimson center she joins me now from washington thanks very much for speaking to us so we're already seeing reaction in the stock markets to the prospect of these announce measures coming into effect how could it potentially impact the economic relationship between the u.s. and china well we know that the chinese government has vowed to to retaliate against united staes if these tariffs are you post in the in the coming future so if this if that is indeed to happen is going to affect the u.s. economy in several ways first of all china decides to for example you post punitive tariffs on american exports to china such as products is going to hurt american farmers and also america exporters of products here in the in the country so like you pointed out to that is going to hurt the people as a chump vowed to to protect to begin with and this are also going to affect the some of the industrial producers here in the united states because the when the

price of the imported products from china increase is going to directly affect the price at the u.s. producers by the manufacturers will have to pay to the chinese producers the end all of this are going to be reflected in the prize but also we could see china affected as well as the u.s. china's economy has faced challenges around increasing internal debt pull the t. an aging population can present she a full trade tensions with the u.s. when he has his own economic challenges before hand. which is why i've seen the chinese would charge to figure out a way to negotiate a solution which is trump administration before all of these tariffs are you posed we know there is a public consultation period before these tariffs are going to come into effect and then we also know the chinese are very eager to figure out a solution that is mutually acceptable for washington and beijing before that this

era is eventually made to do you think that negotiations are more likely than retaliatory moves by china at this point i assume we're going to say see fifty fifty we're going to see some of the tire of because chop trump made that the main promise of to punish china for is for his unfair trade practices during his campaign and after he won the election and sings using operation so i think that trump is going to implement some. piece promises and make make sure that the american voters see that he is seen to delivering what he promised during his campaign but on the other hand we also saying that there is going to be a negotiation between washington and beijing and they're going to figure out a solution to a least to some of the problems. we're going to see actions but not the whole scale of actions has announced a kind of difficult is it going to be for the chinese to negotiate with donald trump. well is always always difficult to

negotiate any trade deals words trip concessions between for china was it was the united states but it also depends on the political will of the china is willing to put into the negotiation if president xi jinping is king having a deal with was president trump then i believe that the chinese government will make it happen. thanks very much appreciate your thoughts and analysis on this story and director of the china program distance incentive thank you. well now donald trump's tariff is one of the issues topping the agenda in brussels where european union leaders have gathered for a summit it is also discussing trade jobs competitiveness breaks it and the nerve agent attack on a russian former spy in britain u.k. prime minister to resign may need is to unite and condemn russia after accusing the

kremlin of targeting sagesse cripple and his dossier junia earlier this month on a b phillips has more from the summit in brussels there is some relief here that those proposed american tariffs on steel and aluminum are not going to be introduced for the time being at least the news not entirely unexpected because the european union trade commission a zillion miles from has been in washington negotiating hard the europeans hard having said that i think there is also disquiet from the europeans point of view that this rao ever happened with the united states which has been a trusted partner of course for decades another big issue here in brussels of course is russia and the souls real time and it's one which britain would like to be very much at the top of the agenda they're not pushing for more sanctions now against russia but they do want a strong expression of solidarity from the other twenty seven e.u. countries their hand perhaps we could of course by the fact that we are halfway

through the brics that process britain wants solidarity from an organization which it is determined to leave and that is potentially or could and i think just generally britain is much more hawkish on russian matters has been historically than e.u. countries like greece like italy like hungary which have been more sympathetic to moscow's point of view we do see this as part of a pattern of russian aggression against europe and its neighbors as i said from the western balkans to the middle east this is a subject we have to stress to fore and i look forward to further discuss. with my european colleagues. i'm grateful for the support that they've shown the united kingdom and on friday it will be brics it itself which is discussed here at the european council but a reason may and britain don't take part in those discussions or wants i don't think it will be terribly contentious here that has already been an agreement

reached on the transitional arrangements between britain and the e.u. that will cover a period of almost two years off britain leaves the e.u. formally and that is due to happen in march of twenty nineteen. it with the news out from london much more still ahead yemen central bank runs out of money after a deposit promised by saudi arabia is seized by its coalition partner the u.a.e. . i'll tell you why tunisia's revised inheritance laws is causing concern for women's rights activists. and then later in sport russian authorities stress that english football fans will be safe choose world cup. syrian opposition fighters have surrounded one of the last rebel enclaves near the capital damascus in an evacuation deal with the government thousands of fighters

and civilians are now living the town of harasta an east and good government forces have been bombing the area heavily for more than a month but other rebel factions are still holding on to two separate pockets of territory including duma the largest town any some guta one of them is just agree to a cease fire those leaving harassed a fleeing north to adlib province which is being bombarded by syrian and russian warplanes rescue workers there say at least thirty seven people were killed in an asse strike on thursday saying hodder has this report. defeat and displacement that is what these buses have come to symbolize up to one thousand five hundred fighters from the rebel faction and at least six thousand of their family members are leaving their homes in harvester 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 huta 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 . 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 airstrikes 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. 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 displays a whole country of. years of c to have been a strategy the pro-government alliance used previously to force the surrender of rebels the united nations and 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 the other rebel groups to also agree to the only offer on the table so to. boot the suspect behind a bomb attack targeting the palestinian prime yet last week has been killed in a firefight with a mass forces the interior ministry in gaza says the suspect refused to surrender when he massacure as he surrounded his hideout two of the hamas security members were killed in the incident and another suspect later died of his wounds in hospital on monday palestinian president mahmoud abbas accused to massive carrying

out what he calls an assassination attempt against romney. there's been a big shakeup on the u.s. president donald trump's legal team is lead lawyer john dowd has quit this could be a sign that the president is going to take a much more confrontational approach. has the latest from washington. u.s. president donald trump's lawyers have reportedly warned him not to talk to special counsel robert mueller trump apparently feels differently. to testify. thank. you i mean what he said i'd like to but if he does and he lies that is a serious crime possibly an impeachable offense as the investigation begins focusing directly on the president he started for the first time directly targeted on twitter at the same time his lead lawyer john dowd called to the investigation

to be shut down at first saying he spoke for the president then saying he didn't now he won't be speaking form any longer john dowd has quit the president clearly taking the lead of lawyers he's watching on t.v. often quoting alan dershowitz presidents actually write this investigation never should it be done and the question is now how does he deal with it and i think what he's doing is he's playing good cop bad cop b.s. some of his lawyers cooperate with mark and some of his lawyers attacking a mole or with doug on one of the so-called good cops has quit he urged the president to cooperate with the special counsel added to the team joe digenova who believes the exact opposite that make no mistake about it a group of f.b.i. and d.o.j. people were trying to frame donald trump of a falsely created crime as the investigation gets closer to the president he's going on the attack trying to discredit the investigators now he has a legal team much more likely to go along with that strategy pedicle him al-jazeera

washington. as audi arabia's crown prince continues his high profile visit to the u.s. a new batch of leaked documents appeared to show his attempt to influence decisions by the trump of ministration the new york times reports that mohamed bin selman worked with lobbyists to push president donald trump into positions favoring saudi arabia and the u.a.e. alan fischer reports from washington. the latest high profile meeting for sony's crown prince sitting down with u.s. defense secretary james mattis at the pentagon aren't you need continuing on one day and you're wrong if you count the crown prince was received at the white house at the start of his trip i've hundred twenty five million dollars that's peanuts for you here but you leaked documents suggest he's been trying to influence president donald trump long before his visit began the new york times says a lebanese american businessman george nida who's a political advisor to the effect of ruler of the u.a.e.

what for more than a year to influence eliot brody a powerful member of the republican national committee nader is said to have offered broadly business deals on behalf of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to try to exert influence over white house policy policies which advocated confrontational approaches towards iran and qatar brody denies the claims his spokesman accused hackers working for qatar for leaking the documents accusations qatar's government has the scribed as baseless a fear look at the blockade and the prices the gulf the crisis started last year there is a context for this and it seems that those preparations produce this kind of a crisis because it was a trend that is a consistent a plan. you know supported by the top government to governments financially supported by i know that in washington and this is alliances and led to all of this . it's suggested leader as broadly to push for the removal of secretary of state rex tillerson seen as too even handed in the coming g.c.c.

dispute influencing a person like donald trump is a unique challenge to the people within the administration to members of congress to you know to his friends and advisers and also to foreign governments nobody really knows exactly you know how to how to get their way with this guy neither is currently assisting special counsel robert miller's investigation into possible foreign influence on the tram campaign and administration. report in the new york times comes as the crown prince continues his three week public relations blitz in the united states demick some business leaders as well as top level executives from the tech and movie industries but there are no plans to face the media to answer allegations that the saudis and the united arab emirates use money and business deals to influence white house policy alan fischer al-jazeera washington. oh yes defense secretary james mattis has also a saudi arabia's crown prince to help find a political solution to the war in yemen meanwhile inside the country and central

bank has closed its doors because it's run out of money saudi arabia had promised to deposit two billion dollars but more than a quarter of that was seized by u.a.e. forces the saudis allies and hawks as more. what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian disaster has become even worse yemen has officially run out of money the shortage of funds has forced the central bike to close saudi arabia had agreed to transfer money to help alleviate the effects of its 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 getting in the shipment of cash was meant to pay the salaries a public could perrie's 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 three 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 of the state and siad 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 some i'm not here to mete out while you i hope we will deal with yemen as a country that has a great seven thousand year 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 country's legitimacy and its institutions it is a must to deal with yemen with all respect. he's angry 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 a corner and diptheria epidemic with this latest cash crisis the suffering of yemenis looks no closer to ending. there at least fourteen people have been killed in a car bomb attack in somalia's capital mogadishu the blast took place near a hotel on a busy road which has been the target of similar attacks in the past ten others are thought to have been injured in the blast. while school children in nigeria's northeastern borno state are being kept at home because of fears of more mass kidnappings by boko haram the government closed all boarding schools in rural areas indefinitely last week it follows a series of attacks by the armed group and the kidnapping of an missings otel out his areas of interest that she's being forced to come and listen.

to. forced to change how to leave john and she refused. and what what are they saying i think going to release are they saved she. is hot do you think she's going to do that i don't think she will do that i'm going to address brings us more now from dutch in northeast nigeria. this is the rule boko haram fighters drove through with one hundred and four goals initially they dropped one of them in a village on their way here and then they dropped them of the one hundred and four right over there some two hundred meters away from this place and we were told by residents that one of their vehicle developed a puncture or other they have had a flat tire they change the tires here and then they drove back they spent nearly

thirty minutes in depth to this particular road they came through it's the same road they used to go back to where they came from but on incidentally right over there is the home of the only girl still in captivity the home of leah sherry boone natan the family still grieving and still expecting the child now the other goes one hundred and five of them and now in abuja meeting the nigerian president and also going through psychological counseling and other medical checkups now what we are hearing from the people abducted they said they are keeping near because of her faith they want her to renounce her faith and embrace a new one now we were told by residents but this is yet to be confirmed by the nigerian government which is also yet to say what about the five remaining goals that were taken one month ago the resident said the fighters when they drove to town and dropped the one hundred and four in this town and one before the stone they told them that five of them or four or five of them actually died because of

exhaustion on the day they were taken from their school induction well now to france where police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters taking part in a public sector walkout trains in flights have been canceled across the country many schools have been closed unions are angry at plans by present an annual macron to cut hundred twenty thousand public sector jobs by the year two thousand twenty two from paris to ash about reports. thousands of public sector workers protested in paris united in anger at the french government's plans to reform public services and cut jobs it was a similar picture across the country in the city of nod there was some violence. workers from france's national railway or s.n.c.f. led the demonstrations the government wants to scrap their special privileges including early retirement for train drivers but rail staff say the benefits of

compensation for long unsociable hours and low pay it's important that we must show that rail workers like all french people have to defend themselves we want to show the power of the streets and that they are real people behind these jobs so we are against michael's plans that. we are certainly not better paid than orders look at but it is shins and all the advantages but they want to single us out we don't agree with the changes so we say no to the yes and there has been in financial difficulty for years as if the million dollars of debt in the problem says that it lost sales to remain competitive especially because of the rules in twenty twenty a company will lose its monopoly on. foreign rail companies will be able to run trains on the french network the prime minister says essence if must be prepared. the world is changing gears and surf must change was it faith was comforted as

a sense of cannot remain unlit company to recruit re wreckers and a special status. created in one hundred thirty eight s.n.c.f. is owned by the french state it employs one hundred forty thousand staff past presidents have tried and failed to reform it forced to back down in the face of opposition from france's powerful trade unions emanuel mcconnell wants to be the one to succeed. merkel may have more new way because of a more general favorable public opinion in terms of reforming a sense here i think people now are more ready to see something different the government says it will reform s.n.c.f. by decree that's put union leaders on the warpath thursday's demonstrations was smaller than expected something likely to please president micro but with rail workers promising three months of rolling strikes he still faces

a test of strength natasha butler al-jazeera paris or in other developments france's former president nicolas sarkozy has been speaking on french t.v. the day after being put under formal investigation for saving illegal campaign funding is accused of receiving tens of millions of dollars from libya's daffy sarkozy said the allegations were completely untrue and circle do. i don't let. on exam the document setting up a reason for putting me on the formal investigation says i was bribed it's written here to favor the libyan regime it's a monstrous idea i was the only head of state to receive gadhafi opponents who fall to the un to get a mandate to ensure that one of the twentieth century's bloodiest dictators could not continue to terrorize his people is what was on get a few still ahead this hour we'll tell you why south korean police have detained a former president. aide workers scramble to protect thousands of rango refugees from flooding out of the monsoon season. and then later in sport the reigning f one

champion gets ready to face his toughest challenger season opening malbon a grand prix. alegate is still cold enough in germany southern germany for this caddie you see for indefinite to produce snow but that's just a minor irritation this is a different matter altogether this is really quite active with the lows spinning out bringing dust out from the so hard to crease knots or the the white cloud despite the fact is a warm front is producing a lot of stuff as well as rain on the i was about the top which means it's been particularly when you know the whole thing is moving slowly in that direction so the picture overnight and during. friday morning will be a massive snow slowly easing towards rumania and leaving behind snow on the ground

and not falling from the sky novick north western europe western europe it looking cloudy fairly mild and breezy but it's all the land to spring type weather this by contrast is very wintry and it will carry on that way the corsi influence isn't just middle of the mediterranean it spreads further south we're drawing a lot of warms ahead of it from different africa attention caro's up to about thirty. degree's was benghazi's at seventeen for run j. for friday into saturday you know there's this whole system moves eastwards temps will change as a result of that at the same time another storm system is developing further west that's going to eat out syria harmed. lost and a man. found and saved. one when he's reveals how one charity is giving pakistan's lost children a new chance at life on al-jazeera. where

every year. the consequence of war. ventures and russia will be served in the marine corps for one thousand nine hundred ninety five that just doesn't go away. for a living out of his truck for the last couple years. he's homeless. follows a group of u.s. army veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back shelter at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you with the news hour a recap of the top stories stocks have plunged following u.s. president donald trump's decision to impose tariffs on up to sixty billion dollars of chinese imports china says it's preparing a range of responses to the plant tariffs will stand up to protectionism. meanwhile trump seal in our opinion tariffs are on the agenda at an e.u. summit in brussels been revealed the e.u. and other u.s. allies will be exempt from them. and the syrian opposition fighters have surrounded one of the last rebel enclaves near the capital damascus in an evacuation deal with the government. now and other stories we're following facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says he's happy to testify before the u.s. congress if asked over revelations that a u.k. political consultancy firm misused information from fifty million uses in

a television interview also promised stronger privacy measures for facebook users he admits his site made mistakes after accusations that cambridge analytical improperly accessed user data in an attempt to influence the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election a former bosnian serb commander has appealed against his convictions for genocide and war crimes law to treat sentenced to life imprisonment in november by a un backed international tribunal in the hague the judges found him guilty for his role in the war in the former yugoslavia including the massacre and. prosecutors have also filed an appeal asking that nitish be found guilty of a second charge of genocide of which he was acquitted by the court. police in south korea have detained the former president of south korea after a court issued an arrest warrant for him he's facing charges of corruption this is the latest in

a series of scandals involving formally does kathy novak explains from seoul he's yet another former south korean president accused of abusing power lee myung bak denies that but did apologize as he arrived to face prosecutors last week with a witness stand before you with a tragic i offer my deepest apology to the people who are causing worry amid times when the economy is in hardship and the security situation on the korean peninsula is serious the charges against him include among other things bribery embezzle meant and tax evasion please accused of improperly receiving about ten million dollars from people and institutions including the country's spy agency as well as same song south korea's largest conglomerate corruption allegations were first made during the two thousand and seven election campaign despite that the popular former mayor of solve one and became president the following year he faced challenges almost immediately with protests over american beef imports and later the killing

of south koreans which was blamed on north korea after least served his five year term as president fellow conservative puck in hay was elected she was impeached and jailed last year a verdict in her corruption trial is expected next month. all of the seven former presidents who led south korea since one thousand nine hundred eighty have faced some form of corruption scandal either directly or because of allegations against their family members five including li and park have had to personally face prosecutors mass protests that led to parks impeachment seem to demonstrate support for powerful politicians to be held to account and a recent public opinion poll taken before least ends trial found almost eighty percent of south koreans want to stern punishment to. a shared understanding is being created among the public and politicians the mechanisms should be built to

check the purposes of power to reason to believe and. i think it will improve one by one lee myung bak says he hopes to be the last south korean president to face this kind of prosecution kathy novak al-jazeera saw. a texas man who carried out a three we left a twenty five minute video confession on his phone twenty three year old mark condit from the austin suburb of pflugerville blew himself up on wednesday as police closed in on him police say in the video called it details the differences between the bombs he built but the video itself does not shed light on a possible motive since the start of the year have already been twenty school shootings across the u.s. the worst was in pompton florida last month which left seventeen people dead but the rest have received barely any attention gabriel elizondo went to frankfort kentucky where one such shooting took place to find out why. another school

shooting in america and more frantic scenes of kids running for their lives this one happened in a small town in kentucky in january two teenage students killed fourteen wounded by a classmate who opened fire seventeen year old leighton solomon had just arrived to school as the shots rang out it wasn't till later that day after i had left and watched the news that it really said then like no one did this accidentally someone really brought a gun to school and saw his classmates like someone really did this and i meant to do and i meant to hurt people despite it being the first fatal school shooting in america this year it garnered very little media attention most people outside kentucky never even heard about it. that wasn't the case a couple weeks later when another school shooting this time parklane florida

garnered worldwide attention fueled by shocking images posted by students seventeen people were killed there not all school shootings and even mass shootings more broadly receive the same attention we know that there are certain factors from the research that show that some of these cases are perceived to be more newsworthy than others and have a little bit more staying power over other events that are quite similar. to a right. apart from the number of people killed another key factor that kept the florida shooting in the news is that the students formed a movement immediately afterwards to bring about better school safety and gun control that movement has gone national and in turn come back here to kentucky where a feeling of being forgotten has been transformed into empowerment and demonstrations like this it's something keaton connor is one of the leaders of the movement in kentucky and says they've been inspired by the activism of the florida students.

there is no way that we can ensure that this never happens again you know there are always the evil in this world. but we can make sure that it's going to be as hard as possible and i think that's what we're trying to do there now trying to remind the country that old school shootings no matter how many people are killed should get the attention and urgency of the crisis that has become gabriels on doe al-jazeera frankfurt kentucky. and tunisia as president proposes making inheritance rules more equal when men's rights activists opposed to the move but the issue is still a controversial one jim explains from tunis. 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 past the patriarchy because we're made to believe that these are issues regarding religion but in fact there are issues of the heart of patriarch that. last year president. 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 bushehr but 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 them up on 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. tunis

tunisia. now the world is facing a major water crisis as the un marks world water day campaign as a governments must act now to tackle the challenges ahead or to scarcity and back seven hundred million people in forty three countries the un says around two billion people live in areas with inadequate water supply and almost a quarter of the world's population doesn't have the right facilities to make water drinkable by two thousand and twenty five one point eight million people are expected to have no water at all and over the next twelve years up to seven hundred million people in our region semi arid areas could be forced from their homes well it was a crisis is being keenly felt in one of the world's largest capitals mexico city is home to twenty two million people many houses have built over a vast lake that was drained by spanish settlers shortages are getting was an expert say water is being lost within the system john homan explains. it needs to

pull up a district on the outskirts of mexico city the queues for wool 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 a hour was for one it's a soul sucking full time job with the we're going to have a that are hard 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 tour . 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 step after 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 to one leak another springs up as it were that there was 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 about him us. why do the pipes break the h. many a more than sixty years old and disturbances like earthquakes but in the main it's this mexico city is sinking they've even had to add 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 are subsiding at different speeds and that's causing the pipes beneath them to bend and snap at the pressure points as a brake 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 arc refers to the ground stop sinking we need

to capture rainwater and directed towards the aqua firs at the moment that water goes straight. the drains out it up 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 like powell are caught up in it for the day the truck has arrived and she finally has water to wash a week's worth of the dishes tomorrow the struggle begins ago john homan how does it a mix crew city. so i had. the right no. music and on the way the hall.

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. i'd workers are scrambling to protect more than half a million refugees at a bangladeshi camp from the upcoming monsoon weather workers at the could have sandbagging digging trenches and relocating families before the early summer rains arrive there are expected to cause flooding and landslides in the camp the rangar refugees are living in temporary structures having fled ethnic violence in

neighboring myanmar it's really a race against time to try to mitigate the risks that are there and if we don't do that we'll be facing what we call an emergency with an emergency more than one hundred thousand people potentially could be impacted by heavy floods and monsoon rains which will cause landslides so there is a risk an extreme risk to them pakistan's first ever be a festival is in full swing organizers hope the two week event will boost tourism and help revive the horse reputation as a cultural capital and as commodified reports the country's art scene is thriving. voice for the first they were the framers low whore for. their ruler from a bygone. no huge. influence by a cultural heritage burning hundreds. flanked on one side by the by

try a marsh on the. ball a festival provides the perfect opportunity for which. to enjoy the performance shade and take in the shit is famous sights i think. what i mean when i think there should be more music and art related festivals across pakistan we think for such events to take place and even the foreigners are looking for these kinds of opportunities to visit they help the tray a very positive image of pakistan the whole world has produced musical greats including sag and rafi today the audience is treated to the sound of spiritual music inspired by points right from the center for music attached with the film making sense of pakistan through and got to do with the eighty's and ninety's that lot but then revival of the music industry i hope will fail that the music

culture of the heart is again alive in law horridge museum all right you have instruments to be. influenced by different faiths in religion throughout the ages music has played an important role in the performing arts and the rich heritage and culture history of this region why did a healer wall vary with new instruments being introduced all the time rather call them in the lawyer a civil activist photographer in our case he also has a passion for music and it's making its own instrument called a shortish. descendant. an instrument to smokes. and has a meaning for the. sonic meaning. if not for the did. is the emotional effect of the sound. rather

wanted to produce a musical sound rich going next on a very push and 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 process as well which is meaningful to any of your emotional areas. it is do we long for their will really hit the right note with brigadier then provide the industry with. the whole pakistan. areas and he has all this for now thank you so much manuel zimbabwe are set to miss out on a place in next year's cricket world cup a shock defeat against the united arab emirates means their hopes of qualification are all but over. the u.a.e.

were already out of contention for a place at next year's tournament this final qualifying event is being hosted by zimbabwe and they were expected to get the win they needed to make it through the u.a.e. passing firstly they scored two hundred thirty five to seven was in bad boys been at every world cup since nineteen eighty three but fell three runs short in their running affected run chase only a low scoring draw in friday's final game between island and afghanistan can now say from. well two places at the top mentioning that next year were up for grabs at this final round of qualifying the west indies they already assured of their place friday's game between island and afghanistan now becomes a winner takes all much i was there in harare to witness that shot last for zimbabwe. watching zimbabwean cricket fans react to the loss was interesting many said they felt that they could not believe that zimbabwe's national side lost against a united arab emirates

a mummy in the past used to play against some of the world's most elite cricket teams some fans say that they were gutted some say that they are disappointed and there's mixed reaction to the loss against u.a.e. zimbabwe we didn't see ourselves as a great cricketing nation but off late in the current years we have declined and it's all because i think we have terrible structures from the top to the bottom we don't know how to handle all cricketing squad and even selection wise we just keep on bringing back all peers year after year after year they did their best a currency they did they were a store they could do better but i don't know maybe they do better with time it was a difficult game and the rain didn't hold personally i think. to try and analyze the game now people be very does. i think from now on it's just

a rebuilding process. greggory just look to rebuild. from grassroots she took the reason why some zimbabweans are so disappointed because this is the first time this nine hundred eighty three that zimbabwe has failed to qualify for the cricket world cup which will be held in england next year sums of audience are disappointed but other say perhaps that maybe this is a chance for zimbabwe to build on its weakness find out what's going wrong and come out from that they saying that maybe after some introspection after some talking after more practice their team could one day qualify again for the world cup so mixed emotions in zimbabwe right now but again the crowds who are watching the game e.g. disappointed that the team the national side didn't qualify for next year's world cup south africa's dean elgar batted throughout day one of the third test against

australia finishing on base in one hundred twenty one was pat cummins took four wickets for australia south africa sixty six for eight at the close in cape town before to a series poised at one one. manchester united have confirmed that as latin abraham riches contract has been terminated with immediate effect the thirty six year old scored twenty nine goals from fifty three appearances but has only made it on to the pitch seven times since injuring his knee last year which tipped to be joining the l.a. galaxy in the united states. russia's ambassador to the u.k. is stressing it is safe for english football fans to travel to the world cup in june this being political tension between the two countries after british prime minister series of blamed russia for a nerve agent attack on a former spy earlier this month in england due to play matches in the russian cities of volgograd. i'll be happy to be all defense there will be. in russia all the necessary measures

being taken and the british special to reduce. the russian special to reduce to provide the security of the fans and all the british war will be in the jury through russia or russia's football samal gets a focus on matters on the failed on friday they're hosting brazil a match taking place at the newly refurbished luiz nicky stadium in moscow that will host the opening and closing world cup games russia ranked sixty three in the world compared to brazil who are second in that if it's able. that's one of dozens of friendly internationals that take place across the globe other nights will games include argentina they're taking on italy in manchester france will face colombia in paris germany how spain or portugal take on egypt the new forty one season getting underway on sunday in australia with practice set for friday four time

champions lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel again expected to lead the way in melbourne hamilton and is must say these team beat battles for ariza claimed the championship last season and the ultimate goal is to be. to be the best in the ego 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 the for workers the most of any other driver at the time and i think this is inside and year for form and fans i think we have all the reasons to be confident i think our cars great stuff to come so plenty to look forward to but usually around this point you don't know what with the others are so that's why it's a bit pointless to come here and say that you blow it all away. on a bit of a hits and misses start to the new career a former n.f.l. quarterback tony romo picks up three birdies on the front nine of his page a top deb you in the dominican republic but the former dallas cowboys' player came

home in forty one's a finish on far over. that is life force looking for now let's get back to mary and london lanny thanks very much that's it for me for this news hour but i will be back in just a moment with much more of the day's news in meeting of course a full round up of the day's top stories see in a couple minutes. in syria citizens are collecting evidence not an awful lot of it bill has shot of crimes committed against civilians we've moved out of syria and there are bold six

hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a she will face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human truce syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. conservation ease helping kids to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international beast of a threatened species. when the winning the win if the people hinges on the mass

media state machine is going to overdrive. but just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn to come in said i want to talk to. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access to. the listening post base time on al-jazeera. it is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world it's out of control.