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hello and welcome my name is peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha sixty minutes of news and comment today another official from donald trump's administration is out the u.s. president has tweeted his new pick for national security adviser will replace a charm master. police in south korea arrest the former president lee myung bak over charges of corruption plus. speak to the families of some of the freed schoolgirls abducted by boko haram in nigeria. also this hour a potential breakthrough in the treatment of a severe form of multiple sclerosis. there we are going a breaking story for us we go on air with the news of the u.s. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster has. zein from the trump administration now he will be replaced by john

bolton who also advised george w. bush on foreign policy issues mcmaster replaced michael flynn fourteen months ago bolton is a so-called hawk who has previously advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea trump made the announcement on twitter this is what he said i'm pleased to announce that effective april the ninth john bolton will be my new national security adviser i am very thankful for the service of general h.r. mcmaster who's done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend kimberly hellcat has more now on masters time with the trumpet ministration. general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security adviser he arrived at a tumultuous time just a month into his presidency trump had fired national security advisor michael flynn for lying to the vice president over his conversations with the russians it is both

diplomacy and sanctions working together but it wasn't long before make master was enveloped in his own controversy within months of his hiring many trump supporters wanted mcmaster out after reports surfaced who were new to the security clearance of president barack obama's national security advisor susan rice they also blamed him for leaked white house conversations with world leaders even starting a hash tag fire mcmaster. although trump stood by his national security adviser publicly privately he reportedly clashed with the army general who didn't like trump's and disciplined style of governing but it was a comment at a security summit in germany in february that many believe was the beginning of the end following a department of justice indictment of thirteen russian nationals accused of interfering in the twenty sixteen u.s.

election macmaster said this and as you can see with the f.b.i. indictment the evidence is now really incontrovertibly and available in the public domain was reportedly livid tweeting that mcmaster forgot to add the results of the two thousand and sixteen election were not impacted or changed by the russians when secretary of state rex tillerson was fired and social media speculation began that mcmaster would be the next to go i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having a cabinet other thing that i was twenty years ago a charming master wrote a book call. dereliction of duty about how military generals failed to stand up to presidents during the vietnam war many believe it is this approach that cost raster his job after futile efforts to constrain the president can really help get al-jazeera washington. to washington correspondent heidi joe castro

castro i mean did he jump or was he pushed. well peter it appears by the white house statement that this was a mutually agreed upon action that trump and the master had discussed although we have heard in the last week that this was a widely expected move because of trump's displeasure with make master this was supposed to take a few more weeks however the white house says it was expedited because both men agree that it was important for the president to have a solidified new national security team that's ready to go especially with his expectations of meeting face to face with north korea's president kim jong un in may as you know just last week rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state was fired his replacement is expected to be hawkish as well my pompei of the current cia chief now the white house in announcing make masters

resignation impending resignation said that this was not due to any specific incident that just happened there is a lot of speculation though that trump was angry at what he saw as a classified a leak of classified materials on tuesday when it was widely reported that trump congratulated me or putin russia's president on his reelection his his briefing materials had cautioned him against doing so make masters have cautioned him against doing so the president went ahead anyway and that added to the drama in the white house but going back to the year that mcmaster served on the national security council there was it was widely reported that the two men simply did not get along there was a lack of chemistry and there was a notable difference in policy opinion as well mcmaster had cautioned against leaving the iranian nuclear deal which the president says he will indeed leave in

may and mcmaster was known for purging the national security council of hardliners like steve bannon he was seen as a tempering force on the president who will be there no longer peter john bolton who is he. he as you mention is the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations under president bush since leaving public office though he has been more on the margins of the national security debate he's appeared as a pundit on a cable news and he's known as one of the more hawkish voices he has said in the past that the us should declare war on iran and on north korea and he has been advising trump on and on and off on the sidelines during this presidency his appointment beginning april ninth has very widespread implications and has many

people worried that now with this hard liner on the national security council he may push toward more extreme positions especially regarding the iran nuclear deal coming up as well as the meeting with kim jong un many thanks will stay with this developing story for you and going to talk to richard goodstein he's a political commentator and a formally an advisor to president bill clinton and the vice president al gore he joins us from washington which is good steen he was cold john bolton has been called a new call on steroids so what does that do to the center of gravity of the trumpet ministration. well you know it used to be said six months or a year ago that within the foreign policy community there was a certain sense of relief yes donald trump really didn't know which end was up but between maddest the secretary of defense tillerson at state and mcmaster especially as national security advisor it was kind of a sense of gravitas among those three well tillerson is gone replaced by somewhat

of a hothead pump a zero. john bolton is indeed. he's not just a neo conservative he's a hardcore i actually work for the same law firm with him back in the seventy's he's gone from one controversial position in government to another when he was. at the united nations as a representative in the bush administration he was about to be confirmed but the democrats wouldn't go for it and he ultimately had to step aside you know he was an advisor he was a goldwater supporter you know back in the day i mean he is if there's a hard line position on cuba on north korea you you name it. he's taken it and then the risk of course as regards the iranian deal is here donald trump is thumping his chest about what may or may not happen as regards north korea but let's assume he does the best case there and north korea decides to freeze its program or more. if

the iranian deal is torn up. we know the iranians are within months of being able to have the capacity in a very sensitive region of the world so do i have somebody like john bolton had at the president's side in that case just reinforcing his worst tendencies i hate to say it's a scary proposition ok let's talk about specifics here to do with foreign policy let's talk about iran let's talk about say another of our headlining stories today china north korea trade the north korean peace process if you will john bolton's critics basically say that he's hell bent this is a direct quote i think from rand paul he's hell bent on repeating every foreign policy mistake that consecutive u.s. administrations have made for the last fourteen or fifteen years is that an accurate take on who he is or is that just a different way of saying actually he wants to make america great again.

no as regards america great again as you can imagine i take issue with that notion somehow i think you for donald trump came along every president was pushing america's greatness. look every policy he has been associated with when he was at the u.n. with bush when he was in the bush administration before that around the time that. nine eleven happened and there were these words this encourage men to go to war. with in afghanistan in iraq every bad tendency john bolton has reinforced i don't think there's been kind of a moderating voice that he's ever expressed around these real concerns even as regards north korea again i think that his bias is going to be less towards talk and more toward action and i think everybody believes no matter where you come from that action in north korea which is to say something that's kind of kinetic and and

. involves arms has to have a devastating consequence that's bad for everybody involved so again let's hope and pray that somehow or other he's seen the light and can in be an informed even smart guy. summa cum laude from the university top of his class that yellow school and really has been somebody who's been highly esteemed in right wing circles but it's only in right wing circles that he's been held in high regard and that's why fox news loves him donald trump you know does very little other than watch fox news with his spare time so of course he loves john bolton which a good scene in washington many thanks. will staying in the states mr trump sign new trade measures against china a direct shot in a growing trade war between the world's two biggest economies trump says the u.s. deficit with beijing is quote out of control and that china is

a friend and he does want reciprocal trade agreements the measures will affect sixty billion dollars worth of beijing's exports and it makes good on a campaign promise to crack down on his country's staggering trade deficit with china he also accused china of stealing american intellectual property. some people call it a mirror tariff or a mere attacks just use the word reciprocal if they charge us we charge them the same thing that's so it's got to be that's not the way it is for many many years for many decades it has not been that way and i will say the people we're negotiating with smilingly they really agree with us i really believe they cannot believe they've gotten away with this for so long let's talk now to some job he's the director of the center for china u.s. cooperation with the university of denver he joins us from denver colorado. to

donald trump's a think as he does the arithmetic makes sense in that same news conference that we just played that clip from he was basically saying nobody knows how much the trade deficit is in the next breath he was saying well it's five hundred four billion actually it may be three hundred seventy billion which is it. i think three hundred buildings are pretty much the right number and these has been quite why all. these deficit has come from a lot of the trade from american manufacturers in china and also the transit from hong kong and some other areas so if taken those out the track deficit is not as much as charm talks about so there is about balance for sure that banner should be there out of with but the way now is doing by putting high tariffs that you would naturally i think is a something and not quite to the after the roles that you actually do ok

most analysts agree and they say the same thing if we look back see over the last thirty years or so there are very good reasons why we've got the european union it's a trading bloc we've got the world trade organization because when you have a trade war nobody wins just somebody loses less than somebody else so where will the real impacts of this be felt if this does indeed evolve into being a trade war between the u.s. and china. i think you're right nobody will wing it wall in fact has talk about us the world when the issue here is that if it's not what the us when are china will we win in this war at what price this would be a damage to both the us and china maybe the damage to china at this point will be

bigger than the us but the us economy with ours will suffer hugely if the trade a ball started in fact from what i heard the china side has to has done everything try to avoid the trade war as i mentioned earlier because china's economy is in a process of transformation from the end of major factor to high end. and does have a production so china still has a running trade imbalance in favor of china so china has tried to avoid a war trauma has opposed those sanctions and those high pag products air space are those kind of products those are not primarily china manufacture challenge x. parts to the us china x. part of us has most being on those manufacturing know and part of the exports so if us put some trees on those products increase the prices of for consumers in this

country and also china would hold. against in ny state us exports to china so all winning on some products and bring some jobs back to us and also. a man who manufactures but in the meantime some other sectors will suffer in the us consumers will suffer from us so these type of war is not working for end it will be looser for every size ok mr joe we'll have to leave it there many thanks. the former south korean president lee myung bak has been arrested jailed and placed in solitary confinement the seventy six year old is facing a number of corruption charges and the authorities are fearful he would have destroyed evidence mean backs of arrest is the latest in a series of scandals involving former south korean leaders kathy novak joins us

live from seoul kathy what's the significance of the timing here why now. while there is huge public interest in this arrest president moon julian has promised to root out corruption of the highest levels of power and now we see the most recent two former presidents both behind bars the most recent former president of course parkin hey was impeached almost exactly a year ago because of allegations of corruption and she is due to receive a sentence or a verdict in her case in about two weeks and now we see the former president lee myung bak who is in power from two thousand and eight to two thousand and thirteen arrested and wait awaiting a formal indictment on these corruption charges he denies all of the allegations but he still posted a written statement on facebook shortly after his arrest saying that he has a guilty conscience talking about the pain he has suffered and also the pain of his family and aides saying he bears full responsibility and other people are not to

blame prosecutors are still deciding whether they will investigate his wife in connection with these charges. 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. when i stand before you with a tragic i offer my deepest apology to the people for 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 leaves 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 seoul won 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 pocket in hey 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 lea 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. a shared understanding is

being creative among the public and politicians the mechanisms should be built to check the absolute power. reason the police and officially 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. while lee and park both come from the conservative side of politics here in south korea and of course the current president and his form from the more liberal side of politics lean young buck has suggested that this arrest is politically motivated but as i mentioned monday and did come to power following those mass protests against the former president park that hey promising to root out corruption and we heard from professor kim they're talking about what he says is a system designed to give the president here absolute power and monday and has proposed constitutional reform to take some of that power out of the hands of the president peter kim thank you. plenty more still to come here on the

news hour including the e.u. backs britain's assessment that russia was likely behind the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. in the sports news with and the zimbabwe is set to miss cricket world cup for the first time in decades plus. it's saying the right note pakistan's first ever music and arts festival gets underway in lahore. after a month in captivity one hundred five nigerian schoolgirls abducted in the north east of the country are undergoing treatment and counseling in the capital city of they were released by their captors on whedon's day with a warning to parents not to send their children back to school but address the first international journalist to travel to that chief following their release census this report. into family home is happy again after

an anxious my way to. go to asia was kidnapped by a book brought on from two girls school has been released she is still in government custody been checked by doctors and receiving counseling but i family can afford to laugh and smile again. banana luke and i thought of that and i laid out what i wanted to try simply when my daughter called to say she and others are dropped off by boko haram fighters and she said they were all well and one time and i felt it into my joy you know these new boundaries. the sentiment isn't shared by everyone affected by the abduction of one hundred ten female students from their school the fighters thought to be allied to islamic state for west africa province passed through this dirt road to drop some one hundred and four girls some two hundred meters away from where i am standing now on the left is a house belonging to the father of the only. school girl in the hands of those

fighters the family said their daughter leah shareable can only be released on one condition and the medal to be a muslim and she says she will never be a means of them that way she says she made them and she as safety to be there neighbors and friends continue to pour into the family home to lend support to people in depth she cheered the fighters when they brought the girls and when they were leaving. during the thirty minute stop the whole quote amen explaining what happened to the other girls still unaccounted for hiding in doesn't it appear they said that four schoolgirls died from exhaustion and the stampede when boko haram fighters came to take them away they were then buried and the nigerian government says norden sum was paid a prisoner swap for the girls it's also promising to work towards the release of all other captives including dr schoolgirl leah sharable something her father hopes

will be soon for now he's having second thought about keeping his other son and daughter in school and them are supported to simple girls you would just my boy have been my boy in college and parent would do anything now. a victory for boko haram the group fighting against western education and civilization. northeast nigeria. now at least fourteen people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the somali 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 other people are thought to have been injured in the explosion the group says it carried out the attack. still to come here on al-jazeera the congress in peru debates whether to accept the president's resignation. and in sports the reigning formula one champion gets ready to face his toughest challenge of the season opening.

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welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news headquarters here and a quick recap of our top stories the us national security advisor h. mcmaster has resigned from the trump administration he's being replaced by john bolton who also advised george w. bush on foreign policy issues bolton's a hawk he has previously advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea. the us president has signed an order imposing sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports he says the move is needed to stop unfair competition from china's state led economy. former south korean president lee myung bak has been arrested jailed and has been placed in solitary confinement the seventy six year old is facing a number of corruption charges and the authorities feared he would destroy evidence in packs arrest is the latest in a series of scandals involving the former south korean leaders. a new batch of

leaked documents appear to show saudi arabia's attempts to influence decisions by the trumpet ministration they've emerged as the country's crown prince continues his high profile visit to the u.s. a new york times is reporting that mohammed bin salma worked with lobbyists to push president trump into positions favoring a saudi arabia and the united arab emirates from washington. the latest high profile meeting for saudis crown prince sitting down with u.s. defense secretary james mattis at the pentagon are not unique and going on one in the room if you count the crown prince was received at the white house at the start of his trip five hundred twenty five million dollars that's peanuts for you here but nearly 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 neither is said to have offered broady 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 broad you denies the claims his spokesman accused hackers working for qatar for leaking the documents accusations qatar's government has described as baseless a fear look at the blockade and the crisis the gulf a 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 is alliances and led to all of this. it suggests the 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. 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. 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 trump campaign and administration the report in the new york times comes as the crown prince continues his three week public relations blitz in the united states academics and 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. the us defense secretary james mattis is urging crown prince to help find a political solution to the war in yemen has been hosting the moment been selman at

the pentagon saudi arabia has led a bombing campaign against iranian backed rebels in yemen since twenty fifteen. we've already rabia is part of the solution here good vibe you need to recognize government and we're going to end this war bottom line and we're going to end it on to the firm to the people of yemen and all for security of the nation. up to fifteen hundred fighters from the. rebel group in syria's eastern ghouta and at least six thousand of their family members have agreed to leave the enclave that follows an evacuation deal brokered by the russians and the fighters in the town of harasta are expected to lay down their arms and relocate to opposition controlled province meanwhile in problems so for the evacuation buses are heading at least forty two people were killed after airstrikes hit a market near the border with turkey many women and children activists say russian

and government planes carried out the attack ad lib is the last remaining province in syria under opposition control. brazil's supreme court has failed to reach a final agreement on whether the former president luis in the theory lula da silva should go straight to jail if he loses next week's corruption appeal the eleven judges will no vote on april fourth more than a week after his appeal hearing the supreme court will also decide if he'll grant an injunction preventing move from being arrested before their decision in july he was found guilty of receiving a luxury flat as a bribe from a brazilian construction company in return for contracts with states' oil giant petrobras the debate has begun in peru's congress over whether to accept the president's resignation peder a popular christian ski announced he was stepping down on whedon's day ahead of an impeachment vote over corruption allegations prosecutors have asked a judge to prevent him from leaving the country he is guaranteed presidential immunity from prosecution until the congress formally accepts that resignation and

the vice president as martin vizcaya is sworn in to replace him maria sanchez joins us live now from lima he's always said he's innocent so if he's innocent why is he saying i'll step down. sorry can you repeat the question there's a lot of noise here understood he says he's innocent but he still decided to go how come. oh yes he decided to go because there was a lot of pressure and some videos of a members of. a party and political allies that were framed recording in secret recordings offering contracts and favors in exchange for both so he could play his presidency in the impeachment process that did not happen so there was a lot of pressure with members of his own party even. very close

allies even his cabinet chief cabinet asking him to resign he has always maintained he's innocent he also said he was innocent in his last message to the nation that he said he was an honest person however everything pointed. feeling that he had in the pot money that he was in the pot for advisory services when he was a finance minister and he hasn't been able to prove that he didn't that he didn't know his company was making deals with the government when he was a government minister he has been through the whole impeachment saying that one time before does this occasion feel different to advance occasion. well he was a he was going to be impeached but he decided to resign now what is happening now

is that home with hasn't yet accepted formally his resignation they are debating however we know that to get they are going to act kept his resignation and. vice president martin got out is arriving from canada later on today what is happening in the streets of peru and here especially in the center of li my people are protesting because what many say is that they are fed up with the political class they say that everyone is corrupt and forty nine percent of peruvians in this last opinion poll say that they want all in all the political class to leave and the only way for this to happen is if vice president martin be cut out does not accept the presidency and in that case the congress president has to take over and call for general elections that's not going to happen i think he's got to have said

that he's ready to serve the country and he is to be sworn in on friday morning brianna thanks very much. one of the top stories in europe this hour the french former president nicolas sarkozy has defended himself after being put under formal investigation for receiving illegal campaign funding he's accused of receiving tens of millions of dollars from libya's lately to colonel gadhafi it's not because he denies the allegations paul brennan reports from paris. six of one of his nicknames is speedy sako and just twenty four hours after being placed under formal investigation nicolas sarkozy has come out fighting for us having failed to convince a paris judge to drop the corruption charges on national television sarkozy put his case before the court of french public opinion devotion of a deal a political deal to mourn and dean yes hugh i want to express the depth of my indignation i owe it to a french people only to tell them the truth i did not betray their trust. and he

lashed out at his libyan accusers c. genre those people who are assassins criminals delinquents have not come up with any evidence the libyan witnesses have said the bottom out of money could not come out of about leaving a trace of gadhafi used to i don't everything photograph everything he was crazy and surely taking drugs. what's alleged is that when he won the two thousand and seven presidential race nicolas sarkozy's campaign received as much as sixty million dollars from the libyan dictator colonel gadhafi. the current libyan government is watching the sarkozy case with keen interest all of the sarkozy is being brought to court even though the case is old this is the type of democracy desired by everyone that rejects dictatorship. duffy and his sons used to abuse libyan funds with no accountability and intervene in other countries domestic affairs. sacco's insists he's being falsely accused by gadhafi his plan as

a revenge for toppling the former dictator in twenty eleven but investigative journalists from the paris news website media part have been at the forefront of gathering documentary evidence to corroborate the corruption charges. the libyan affair in a spectacular way shows are nicolas sarkozy and his clan are in the middle of what can be called i'm afeared style affair in the heart of politics. there is a suspicion that a democratic state france might have been bought by a dictatorship in the coming weeks and months we'll see that the case is a solid case book a pretty good remission nonetheless sarkozy is refusing to yield insisting he will not give even a centimeter of ground to those who would attack him he denies all the allegations paul brennan al-jazeera paris or the e readers meeting in brussels have backed the u.k.'s assessment that moscow was likely behind the poisoning of a former russian and his daughter earlier this month the former russian spy using

a military grade nerve agent in a tweet to the e.u. president to ask so the blocks twenty eight leaders agreed with the u.k. that it was highly likely russia was responsible and the quotes there's no other plausible explanation. well that show of solidarity came after the u.k. prime minister to resign may appealed to the leaders saying that russia posed a long term threat to world security the statement was much tougher than one indorsed by e.u. foreign ministers earlier this week. the british police officer injured in the souls attack has been discharged from hospital detective sergeant nick bailey was exposed to the novacek nerve agent that poisoned the script so i guess repellant his daughter yulia earlier this month they both remain in critical but stable condition in hospital they are unconscious tension has been growing which in the u.k. and russia over who is responsible for the attack researchers have discovered

a new drug they say is the first to slow the progress of a severe form of multiple sclerosis m.s. is a condition of unknown origin which attacks the lining around nerves in the brain in the spinal cord causing a range of symptoms including poor vision spasms and memory loss the condition affects individuals differently but after years of relapses patients will go on to a secondary stage and the disability gets progressively worse it's at this stage that research to see the new drug called sip uninvolved has shown results now the results of the trial which involve more than one thousand six hundred patients from thirty one countries was published in the medical journal the lancet dot saloon metz is the lead author of the report and the director of the m.s. program at the university of calgary in canada she joins us now on skype from calgary welcome to the news hour how does this drug do what it does. so i meant i'm an author of

a comment on the article i wasn't actually involved in the trial itself dr dre kapleau says the lead author on the on this study. by so that details the ground exactly how the treatment works i'm going to leave mostly in his hands but it does lock in in zine. called this one pete and this dr is very similar to the currently available to have called him golem on it but it is meant to be a little bit secret and when golem on reviews that are out in people that have relapsing remitting novels the emphasis what does this mean to the people who are at this pacific stage of dealing with m.s. and what does it mean for people who have been diagnosed as having the early stages of m.s. . so it doesn't have any. impact on people that have early multiple sclerosis in people that have secondary progressive multiple

sclerosis this drug is is. has fortunately been very very well designed and completed clinical trial. i feel of many of my colleagues that were somewhat disappointed in their results in that there was possibly a twenty one percent relative delay in in people having contrary disability progression but relative delay in the you're comparing their percentage of people that worsen. up to the percentage of people that don't if you look at the actual difference it's approximately five percent fewer people and if you look at the graphs change in disability it looks like things are

slowed by about three months which is actually a very small delay or therapy to which. is that when we do clinical trials we want to parents more than one way of measuring benefit and we always look at m.r.i. outcomes because m.r.i. is very important in multiple sclerosis and in this trial they did shown that it reduced m.r.i. changes in a number different ways but in that measure called a twenty by walk test which is very valid in terms that demonstrating a person's ability to walk on able to show that that changed that walking ability patients with this secondary progressive multiple sclerosis ok don't so much we must leave it. in calgary. thank you aid agencies are

warning that thousands of wrinkle refugees in bangladesh could die in the forthcoming monsoon season workers of the could along pam sandbagging digging trenches and relocating up to half a million people before the early summer rains get them aid workers say the camp has been built in areas prone to landslides and flooding actress cate blanchett visited the camp to offer support to refugee families the refugees themselves have been working incredibly hard to build channels so that there's not a senate and huge sanitation issues and so that water can flow safely through through the camps but even with the sandbagging it's still a very dangerous situation that they're i think. organizers of pakistan's first. festival hope the colorful musical exhibition will help boost tourism in the country also want the two week a vent to revive the horse reputation as a cultural capital has come a height. of

always ford's been jali if they were their favorite whore for their emperor didn't rule from a bygone era now you. can are influenced by a guy called third headed kate browning hundreds of beer. flanked on one side by the by try. on the odd. ball the festival provides the perfect opportunity for. to enjoy the performances and take in the city's 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 on the whole has produced musical greats including sagan and rafi today the audience is treated to the sound of spiritual

music inspired by boyd's right from bombay in the heart was the center for music attached with the film making sense of pakistan through him gradually with the eighty's and ninety's that lot but then revival of the music industry i hope will unveil that the music culture of the mohawk is again a lie. alrighty of instruments revealed pakistan's musical fost influenced by different faith 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 law a civil activist photographer in our case he also has a passion for music and it's making its own instrument called a short. descending instrument.

an instrument through smokes. and his sound which has a meaning for the listener sonic meaning. if not from the did dictionary is the emotional effect of the sound. rather wants to produce a musical shot rich connection a very pushy 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 meaning. if you are emotionally.

lost and abandoned. found and see. one of the nice reveals how one charity is giving pakistan's lost children a new chance at life. time for sports news here's andy. thank you very much for zimbabwe is set to miss out on

a place at next year's cricket world cup a shock defeat against the united arab emirates means their hopes of qualification are all 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.s. passing first tee they scored two hundred thirty five to seven was in bad boy i've been it 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 save them or two places at the tournament in england next year were up for grabs at this final round of qualifying the west indies they're 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 last was interesting many

said they felt that they could not believe that the bobbies national side lost against a united arab emirates the mummy in the past used to play against some of the world's most elite cricket teams something. and 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 pretty much see ourselves as a great tribute to the 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 old peers year after year after year they did their best and a currency that if they were a store they could do better but i don't know maybe they would do better with time in itself it was a difficult game. the rain didn't hold personally i think it's. to

try and analyze the game now people will be very disappointed i think from now on it's just a real rebuilding process same with football and rugby just look to rebuilds. from grass roots to talk the reason why some zimbabweans are so disappointed because this is the first time to one nine hundred eighty three that zimbabwe has failed to qualify for the cricket world cup which will be held in england next sums of obvious disappointed but others say perhaps 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 the team could one day qualify again for the world cup so mixed emotions in zimbabwe right now but again the crowd 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 pattern throughout day one of the search has taken still stray algo finishing on pace in one hundred twenty one wopat cummins took four wickets for australia south africa sixty six for eight at the close in cape town before to a series poised i don't want war. manchester united have confirmed that it's latin abraham if it she's a contract has been terminated with immediate effect the thirty six year old's sweet school twenty nine goals from fifty three appearances but has only made it on to the pitch seven times since injuring his knee last year it became a bitch tipped to be joining the l.a. galaxy in the united states russia's ambassador to the u.k. stressing it is safe for english football fans to travel to the world cup in june has been political tension between the two countries after british prime minister series a may 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 new psni. old behaviors in the order they will be. in russia all the necessary measures being taken. the british special to reduce. with the russian special to reduce to provide the security of the vans all the bridges will be in the jury through russia or russia's football team will get to focus on matters on the field on friday they're hosting brazil a match taking place at the newly refurbished luiz nikki 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 the thief 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 while portugal take on egypt the new full on

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 his 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 you go 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 workers the most of any other driver at 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 our cars great stuff to come so plenty to look forward to but usually around this point you don't know what where the others are so that's why it's a bit pointless to come here and say that employer went away on a bit of a hits and misses starts the new career a former n.f.l. quarterback tony romo picks up three birdies on the front nine of his top in the

dominican republic but the former dallas cowboys' player forty wants to finish on five of. that is always fall for now. more news on the web site of course al jazeera dot com when we come back top of the hour we'll get to live updates for you out of washington as we continue our coverage of john bolton getting a job at the white house sees. right

. outside that western senate tricks fair of influence where i want to bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away the lists of cove the military and the financial dog and you see the people in those words and those policies are affecting see the emotion on their faces the situation they're living in that's when all the us can identify with the story.

as the u.s. has withdrawn from the trans-pacific partnership deal others has stayed committed to it but first small countries countries with small populations such as yours is this actually a better deal without divided states signatories of the world's newest trade block talks al-jazeera. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. and other resignation of the white house the national security adviser h.r. buckmaster is to be replaced by john bolton.