on the financial rewards are very liberal too unaccommodating business community south africa corruption inc. and the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to from a dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the rule . another resignation at the white house national security adviser a charming master will be replaced by john bolton.

and michelle kerry this is al jazeera life and also coming up prosecutors and fruit basket judge to stop president. from leaving the country after he announced his resignation. former french president nicolas sarkozy goes on the offensive are validations everything campaign funding. struggling to stay on track only ask if there's a future for iraq's creaking neglected railway system. u.s. national security adviser a master has resigned from the trump administration will be replaced by john bolton who also advised george w. bush on foreign policy issues but master replaced michael flynn who was fired fourteen months ago alton is a so-called hawk who was previously advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea now. become almost customary for times of major personnel and

policy decisions he made the announcement on twitter this is what he tweeted i am pleased to announce that effective ninth of april john bolton will be my new national security advisor i'm very thankful for the service of general master was that an outstanding job i'm always remain my friend. has more now on a master's time with the top administration general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security advisor 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 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. ad the

results of the two thousand and sixteen election were not impacted or changed by the russians was 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. others that are wrong twenty years ago h.r. make master wrote a book called 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 me raster his job after futile efforts to constrain the president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington john bolton has served under several republican administrations gaining a reputation as a hawk he has regularly appeared on television advocating hardline right wing policies bolton's argue for military action against a number of u.s. adversaries including north korea and he wants the white house to take a strong stand against russia and in two thousand and fifteen york times opinion

column a call for air strikes against nuclear facilities in iran is also written four words for books by noted anti muslim american authors and while working in the second bush administration he was accused of manipulating intelligence reports he said saddam hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction in iraq a claim later proven to be untrue because fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general he says foreign diplomacy will be at the bottom of john bolton's agenda. mr bolton was supporting airstrikes against iran well before two thousand and fifteen you know in the administration of george bush and mr bolton didn't see a war they didn't like it when he was at the united nations as an acting ambassador there because he couldn't get confirmed by the senate he said you know diplomacy is useless it could might as well float out into the sea and sink i think what we can see is an escalation of tensions we have in the near future a decision by mr trump as to whether or not to continue to comply with the

agreement with iran and other countries with restricting its nuclear ambitions and with mr bolton there it's likely that will be capsized i remember that earlier on mr bolton interviewed mr trump for being deputy secretary of state under mr tillerson and mr tillotson said no and mr bannon who was the last voice in the trump administration who had any sense of restraint on our military projection of force is now gone and he was the one who killed the bolton nomination to be deputy secretary of state and i think that with mr bolton now taking the national security adviser we're just going to have one policy which is going to be confronted everywhere at all places and all times and diplomacy is going to take a backseat tell us from says he's open to testifying before u.s. special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the comments come just hours

after president's personal lawyer also announced his resignation john dowd had reportedly clash with trump over his handling of mahler's probe patika hayne isolated from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump's lawyers have reportedly warned him not to talk to special counsel robert mueller apparently feels differently. to testify. you can hear 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 president's absolutely right this investigation never should have begun 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. so 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 al-jazeera washington. beijing a setback of the u.s. president's order to impose sixty billion dollars with the tariffs on chinese imports it's planning tariffs on three billion dollars worth of american products

including pork and steele. said on thursday the deficit with a shameless out of control and call for reciprocal trade agreements trading in us an asian stocks has been volatile because of fears of an all out trade war some people call it america tariff or a mirror tax just use the word reciprocal if they charge us we charge them the same thing 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. has the latest from shanghai kind of a measured response if you will when you look at what the tariff number is that is being imposed by the united states sixty billion china has responded by saying

three billion dollars worth of tariffs will be levied against american products coming into china focused mainly on food products you wine fresh nuts and. fruit so it's really not is as heavy as you would think kind of being described as a measured response maybe the opening salvo of this trade war that is brewing right now this is something that china has said right along that they wanted to try to avoid there was a big meeting the last couple of weeks the national people's congress that's the biggest legislative session for the government here in china throughout that there was the message that they wanted to avoid a trade war but if they if it came to that they said that they would stand their ground and they would fight back and that's what they're doing now again when you look at the numbers you know they're entering the battle if you will but they're really not meeting you know number for number with the united states. up to fifteen hundred fighters some. rebel group in serious eastern ghouta and at least six thousand of their family members have agreed to leave the enclave that follows an

evacuation deal brokered by russia the fighters in the town of harasta are expected to lay down their arms or relocate to opposition controlled it live province now and live province where those evacuation buses are headed at least forty two people have been killed after airstrikes at a market near the border with turkey many were women and children activists say russian government planes carried out the attack it is the last remaining province in syria under opposition control former south korean president lee myung bok has been arrested jailed and placed in solitary confinement the seventy six year old is facing corruption charges and has been detained because of fears he may destroy evidence it's the latest in a series of scandals involving a former leader's kathy novak reports from seoul. he's yet another former south korean president accused of abusing power prosecutors arrived at lee myung buck's house in the middle of the night to arrest him over corruption allegations he

denies the charges but in a written statement says he feels a guilty conscience and that responsibility lies with him not others he apologized to the south korean public as he faced 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 samsung 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 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 that mechanisms should be built to check the prices of gasoline powered reasonal police official 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 soul. at least thirteen people have died twenty seven more injured are going to apartment fire and . city hundreds of firefighters are needed to get that fire under control after a pro count early friday morning a court say most people died from suffocation or from jumping out of windows still ahead on al-jazeera. when the tribes were right but the relentless push for change in u.s. convoy was led by florida high school students. at a potential breakthrough in the treatment of a severe form of multiple sclerosis. from cool brisk knows in few weeks. to the warm tranquil to his of southeast asia.

hello i think the seasons change when spring of course and still plenty of clouds the service dropping snow see much the end of winter that's true for some parts of the caucasus where of course are quite high above sea level but on the whole it's a cloudy picture temperatures are quite high test kent is a twenty one now and thirty similar story in back here for the south is a bit warm couple might have some with a boxer remaining showers in afghanistan iraq it would in couple of nineteen degrees and up to thirty two in baghdad that hundred usd heat is because of activity the middle the mediterranean and that's true right back to egypt as well but the wind direction does change the cloud picks up from beirut is down to about twenty five so a six degree drop by saturday still thirty three in baghdad the breeze is still in that direction of course is going to be a bit like that through the arabian peninsula we start off with something ocean mile still thirty two in die hard asses friday come saturday and that's more or

less been cut off and it's a breeze coming up from the south this attempt from mecca to forty degrees down about twenty nine by this time indoors about right where it should be to be quite honest. the still raging showers in fact they've built up in the last few days throughout southern africa so alarmed laura's from namibia through botswana done to it's worked there with sponsored by qatar and release. the scene for us when they're on line which is a very nice time in yemen that peace is possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that choosing between buying medication and eating base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera at the top stories for you right now u.s. national security advisor a chartered master has resigned from the trump administration the president's second security adviser in a place michael playing who was fired fourteen months ago will be replaced by john bolton who advised several republican presidents has advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea and while u.n. ambassador at the george w. bush administration bolton said iraq had weapons of mass destruction a claim later proven untrue china's responding to the us presidential order imposing sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports says the move is needed to stop unfair competition from china's state led economy and now announced

three billion dollars worth of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including pork and steel. on saturday. ends of thousands of students from across the u.s. will converge on washington d.c. to demand gun reform organizers say the march for our lives demonstration which will also be held in cities across the country could be one of the largest of its kind as any gallagher reports it will be led by students from the school in florida for seventeen people were killed last month. i don't think you're not in rehab if you're in the weeks since this community lost seventeen lives to one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history the push for change has been relentless the march for our lives demonstration will be the biggest protest to get a one led by the students from marjorie stillman douglas high school you guys are the change that is going to be the tipping point to help that happen as they make their way to washington to demand gun reform many are excited about the global

response to their cause just to see the unity of our our country and our world because the march is now on seven hundred all seven continents and i think is awesome so i'm just glad to see that our at. the national debate these children started has led to good reform in florida but students say they won't stop until assault weapons a band is an ambitious goal but want to organize a say isn't beyond this generation and someone under estimate two you can come in from a position of power that they're not expecting and that's really what's happening sell i'm just you know riding the tide and watching and it's awesome the fight for what campaigners call common sense gun reform will be long and difficult parents say the march for our lives protest is just the beginning they're very aware of what's happening in their surroundings what has happened the way they're all proud of them speaking up and really. hurting in the hours before the march the message from these students is simple i hope that this gets to every single person as much

as we can so we can finally get make a change in this country for the students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school getting here is taken weeks of planning and dogged determination many of the students are still dealing with the grief of losing friends and teachers with their eloquence and the determination has brought them this far and on saturday their voices will be joined by countless others their message will resonate like never before and gallacher all desire of washington. demonstrators in the u.s. city of sacramento have delayed the start of an n.b.a. basketball game they have been protesting at the police shooting of an unarmed twenty two year old black man hundreds of protesters block the entrance to the stadium where the sacramento kings were due to play the atlanta hawks earlier they blocked traffic after marching onto a freeway at rush hour police shot stefan clark at least twenty times on sunday and his grandmother's backyard police claim they fear he had a gun when they confronted him it was

a cell phone debate as to get imposed congress over whether to accept the president's resignation letter public and ski announced he was stepping down on wednesday i had an impeachment vote over corruption allegations prosecutors have asked a judge to prevent him from leaving the country is guaranteed presidential immunity from prosecution until congress formally accept his resignation and the vice president martin it is carr is sworn in to replace him out of sanchez as the latest from lima. are you a realist at the way that the president sees game and lives they say it's a shameful thing for the country a president that has promised to look at this very little they're also furious that congressman they say that the political class is all corrupt and they want all congressmen to leave the most in the nuts we are angry at so much corruption in the country we don't agree with the president's resignation because now there is

instability so if there's no president congressmen should also have to leave all the corrupt congressmen should go get them or said we're fed up we're tired it's about time the people rise to make a new constitution to have new leaders. well forty nine percent say they would like for both sides resolutely fine so the president would have to take over the presidency and called for the general election and that is unlikely that will happen because the buy space to get these guys on his way to be a tool and he will be. running friday morning. thousands of protesters have rallied to call for new elections that follows the resignation of the president over a corruption scandal. france's former president nicolas sarkozy has defended himself after being put under formal investigation for receiving illegal campaign

funding he denies receiving tens of thousands of dollars from libya's late leader more market paul bryden reports from paris. six of one of his nicknames is speedy sarcoma and just twenty four hours after being placed under formal investigation nicolas sarkozy has come out fighting for 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 the bush of a dealer pulls on do more than dean yes hugh i want to express the depth of my indignation i owe it to a french people to tell them the truth i did not betray their trust and he lashed out at his libyan accusers c. genre are 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 there about leaving a trace for deputies 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 of all of the so-called z. 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. psychos he insists he's being falsely accused by gadhafi his clan 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 to be endelman yonks the libyan affair in a spectacular way shows are nicolas sarkozy and his clan are in the middle of what can be called a matthew a 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. nonetheless he 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 the whole brennan al-jazeera. aid agencies are warning that thousands of french of refugees in bangladesh could die in the upcoming monsoon season or they could have a long camp are sandbagging digging ditches and relocating up to half a million people before the early summer rain arrives a workers say the camp has been built in areas prone to landslides and flooding ranjoor refugees are living in temporary structures having fled ethnic violence in neighboring me and maher 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 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 facing. researchers have tested a new drug they say is the first to slow the progression of a severe form of multiple sclerosis m.s. is a condition of unknown origin which attacks the lining around nerves in the brain and spinal cord it causes a range of symptoms including poor vision spasms and memory loss that condition affects individuals differently but after years of relapses patients will go on to a secondary stage of the disability gets progressively worse it's at this stage that researchers say this new drug call support a model has shown results the findings of the trial which involve more than six hundred patients from thirty one countries were published in the medical journal the lancet dr alan metz is director of the multiple sclerosis program at the

university of calgary in canada this is the findings are not as optimistic as they appear. 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 achieve the issue is that when we do clinical trials we want to go there aren't more than one way of measuring benefit and we always look at. his him or i is very important in multiple sclerosis and in this trial he did shown that it reduces him or i changes in the number different ways but in the measure called a twenty by walk test which is very valid in terms that demonstrating a person's ability to walk we were unable to show that that scene just the walking

ability of patients with this secondary progressive multiple sclerosis iraq is trying to get its antiquated rail system back on track established in the early one nine hundred fifteen as it was one of the most prominent trained in the middle east but warneke lacked have taken a heavy toll on connor parts from back to that. this was once the pride of iraq but that central station. home to the realm that what the once reached far and wide across iraq to syria and connecting on to turkey as recently as two thousand and two iraqi railways began in one thousand twelve taking over a small local weren't built eight hundred sixty nine. the invasion by u.s. troops in two thousand and three and then the occupation and the war against eisel since have all taken a toll. a touch of faded glamour remains but we just two services a week to the southern iraqi city of it's

a shadow of its former self. in two thousand and ten foreign investors came in the iraqis bought twelve new chinese trains but i still is a tax put paid to that reinvestment and rebuilding plan. that what happened after i still took control over the three major sunni provinces in iraq back then is the deliberate sabotage against the vital railways in the neveh salaheddine and the size destroying the trains and freight trains including the stations and associated workshops and buildings we are aiming to rebuild what was destroyed by terrorism in collaboration with the ministry of finance and planning and i.m.f. . critics say it's an optimistic assessment so far nowhere near enough money has been allocated for the rail revival a deal with the i.m.f. to provide five billion dollars for reconstruction has yet to be finalized passengers a few and even then the complaints are many. well we filmed

a train broke down and the service was cancelled. by the moment they usually got it to try things not even move and then they told us it's broken down and they told us there were no services we only take the trying to avoid car accidents on the road as we believe it's safe for now the operating staff keep relocating us to. there's a lot of missed out when it comes to iraq he wrote was the old remember them fondly on the young as part of iraq's history book where the road and air travel crucially more convenient and it's unlikely they rock throwaways will ever match their international heyday. the best rail firms and government leaders can hope for is a regular and well maintained domestic service that might be able to make a profit on al jazeera baghdad.

and we shall carry the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. national security adviser a master has resigned from the trump administration he was the president's second security adviser in a place michael flan who was fired fourteen months ago so he'll be replaced by well known hawk john bolton who advised several republican presidents he's advocated the use of military force against iran in north korea and while u.n. ambassador at the george w. bush administration bolton said iraq had weapons of mass destruction a claim later proven true. ski personal lawyer is also resigning john dowd had reportedly clashed with the president over his handling of a probe underway by u.s. special counsel robert muller who is investigating possible russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. china's responding to the u.s. president's order imposing sixty billion dollars at the tariffs on chinese imports says the news is needed to stop unfair competition from china's state let economy

china now announced if moves forward with this plan they will implement three billion dollars worth there for talent tariffs on u.s. products including pork and steel. former south korean president lee myung bok has been arrested jailed and placed in solitary confinement the seventy six year old that is facing a number of corruption charges and authorities feared he would destroy evidence. at least thirteen people have died twenty seven more injured during an apartment fire in vietnam city it took hundreds of firefighters to get the fire under control after it broke out early friday morning demonstrators in the u.s. city of sacramento have delayed the start of an n.b.a. basketball game testing the police shooting of an unarmed twenty two year old black man hundreds of protesters block the entrance to the stadium where the sacramento kings were due to play the atlanta hawks earlier their traffic after marching into a freeway and rush hour are upset because police shot at least twenty times on

sunday and his grandmother's backyard police say they had a gun when they confronted him he had a cell phone. so the headlines news continue on al-jazeera the stream is next. as the u.s. has withdrawn from the trans-pacific partnership. committed to its first small countries countries with small populations such as yours is this actually a better deal without tonight it states signatories of the world's newest trade block. hi i'm ali could be here in this stream now live on due to the united nations estimates that by twenty twenty five two thirds of the world's population will face water stress conditions.